Remodelling RyanMcKenzie.com

Remodelling RyanMcKenzie.com

So after an extended period of minimal posting I’ve decided to try and make an effort to finally get back to blogging.  I’m not going to set lofty goals where I ramble on three times a week, but instead aim to post one high quality post once a week. Content...
InfoBarrel 2.0 Sneak Peak

InfoBarrel 2.0 Sneak Peak

Over the last few months, I’ve been talking about InfoBarrel 2.0 quite a bit.  We’ve been hard at work trying to take make sure we take every bodies input into consideration. So we’ve been talking a lot about IB 2.0, but not really giving anybody anything to chew on.  As...
InfoBarrel Transparency Project September Update

InfoBarrel Transparency Project September Update

Wow, where did September go? September was an absolutely hectic busy month. A number of things have been going on at our office and they are all great. First of all, we are feverishly working on releasing InfoBarrel Version 2.0. The site is being completely recoded, redesigned, and we are...
IBTP Update #1 - August Earnings

IBTP Update #1 – August Earnings

Why was the site down? So you are probably wondering what happened to my blog over the last week. Well, about six years ago the company I was hosting with held a crazy sale on domains and I snatched up a whole bunch of domains with them. That accompany eventually...
Latest entries

Movie Recommender – Introducing ApeFlix

Who doesn’t like a good movie? I’m sure there is somebody out there who doesn’t enjoy catching a movie here and there, but for the rest of us, it is a great way to unwind and relax. Problem is, there are way too many crappy movies out there. A few months ago, a few of...

InfoBarrel Transparency Project October Update

I know, I know, I keep on complaining about time, and this month will be no different.  Oct/Nov have been pretty busy months as we progress towards the launch of InfoBarrel 2.0 As a result, I was only able to publish three articles in October for the InfoBarrel Transparency project.  To be honest, I have...

The InfoBarrel Transparency Project

Learning to generate a passive income online through writing can seem like a daunting task.  To date, roughly 22,000 people have signed up to InfoBarrel with the intention to start building a passive income through their writing.  Of these 22,000 people roughly 10% of them have tried their hand at writing articles.  Less than 100...

Dominating Local Search Results in 3 Easy Steps

For the average small to medium sized service based business, the majority of the business they receive comes from referrals, the yellow pages and more recently localized search.  While referrals and phone books can be great leads, the Internet has provided these service based business a phenomenal opportunity to get more business through the power...

Where Have I Been?

Sorry for the lack of posts for the last little bit everybody. I have been extremely busy with a number of things. Months end deadlines roll around faster and faster every month as more and more consulting work slaps on to our plate. So what have I been up to lately? BNI Prestige First of...

Setting Aside Time For Twitter & Growing your Presence

I don’t think many people will debate the potential Twitter has for helping promote your product, brand or website. There are two major pitfalls that people run into with Twitter. First of all they only ever post updates that are very commercial in nature and secondly they don’t set aside time daily to interact and...

7 Places To Post Your Press Release For Free

Ask a thousand SEOs what is the best way to develop back links and you will probably be given a thousand different answers. While there are so many different ways to obtain links to your web site, not all of them are considered to be legitimate white hat methods. White hat methods are essentially link...

Pat Flynn Interviews Me

Since I recently spoke about the power of blog interviews and what they can do for your business, I thought I’d give an example of a video interview recently published by Pat Flynn from SmartPassiveIncome.com. Pat was doing a series comparing different revenue sharing web sites where people can earn money writing. Subsequently, I heard...

5 Reasons Why Blog Interviews Are Greater Than Traditional Media

Traditionally, when a person or company wants to get media attention they would find them selves turning to local radio stations and TV stations to try and setup interviews.  While these methods are great to get local attention, once the program is over, so is your exposure.  To make things even more difficult you are...

Social Media Marketing Mistake #1 – Promoting Before You’ve Socialized

A successful social media campaign has a lot of similar characteristics to socializing with friends or colleagues.  You need to be a trusted part of the group before people are going to take your advice. So riddle me this, why do online marketers hop into existing conversations unannounced expecting any body to listen?  Would you...

Introduction to Tracking your Brand Online

In order to effectively manage your Social Media Marketing you 100% need to know whenever somebody talks about you online.  While it is impossible to track every time you or your brand is mentioned, there are a number of tools available that make finding out about any significant conversations involving your brand. If you are...

A Quick Introduction

Welcome to the blog of Ryan McKenzie.  I have been developing web projects for over a decade now and have recently been involved in a relatively large startup called InfoBarrel.com.  On the side I do some consulting for SEO and Social Media Marketing and will be offering some of my services from this very site....