Tony Darrick Baker

June 23, 2009

Press Release: Small Business Confidence in Advertising Effectiveness is Vital to Recession Recovery

I released a new press release today about my new free ebook, The Recession Marketing Guide. The press release is about how Small Businesses and their ability to advertise confidently, is the key to recession recovery. The Recession Marketing Guide shows case studies and modern day examples of how businesses have not only survived, but [...]

May 8, 2009

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Google Docs Can Grade Your Paper!

No I’m not talking about the local grammar teacher placing a bunch of red ink all over your next article or white paper. Google Docs can give you an idea of how difficult your document is to read by age and grade level. First upload your document to your Google Docs account. Once you have [...]

May 5, 2009

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The Ultimate Membership Plugin for WordPress

A few insiders know that I’m about to launch a couple of members-only websites. In fact the sites are quite late. I should have had them done a few months ago. However, there’s quite a learning curve when you’re testing out several membership software packages. I found one for about $300 that claimed to work [...]

April 30, 2009

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Internet Continues to Overtake Print Media

The Newspaper and Yellow Pages industry are reeling. They erroneously assume that their financial problems are due to the recession. The truth of the matter is that less people every day are looking to printed newspapers and yellow pages listings in order to find the information and services that they need. More people are turning [...]

April 18, 2009

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Search Engine Optimized Press Release Writing Guide

I’m often asked how to write a press release to be distributed online. In 2004, Search Engine Optimization of Press Releases was a hot topic. At the time, it was absolutely amazing. We could write a press release and have the top 2 Google Listings for our targeted keyword phrase within about 48 hours. Today, [...]

March 20, 2009

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Day ? of The Tony Diet

Well blogging about my diet has gotten pretty boring. Not because blogging is boring, but rather my diet is boring. 1: Little to no progress on weight loss – but at least I’m not gaining. 2: I’m eating and drinking pretty much the same thing every day, so why mention it over and over right? [...]

March 18, 2009

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7 Marketing Truths American Idol Reveals

American Idol is an amazing reflection of 7 of the most important marketing truths that many of us tend to forget about. Playing it safe isn’t good enough. There’s nothing worse in American Idol than listening to some average song that you’ve already heard someone sing. Likewise, if the contestants do not reach out and [...]

March 17, 2009

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5 More Tips to Incredibly Successful Public Speaking

I love public speaking. I am blessed with the courage and I think a bit of talent to successfully communicate and motivate people through the art of public speaking. But it’s not all blessing and it’s not all art. There are some rules that I’ve picked up along the way. Yesterday, David Meerman Scott, who [...]

March 17, 2009

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Press Release Optimization for Internet Marketing

I’ve been doing press release optimization since before it was cool. A few years ago, nobody had really considered how Press Releases distributed directly to the public could be an amazing way to get news about your company distributed throughout the web. Yahoo was one of the first we noticed that started publishing our Press [...]

March 16, 2009

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Day 7 – This is tough!

Well I’ve got to tell you. This is a tough road. Today I started out great with a V8, a couple vitamins, and my favorite drink.. a diet pepsi. I was bill collecting and dealing with some outstanding issues with clients, so the stress was getting up a little bit. Finally I decided to head [...]

March 14, 2009

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Day 6 – What happened to Days 4 and 5?

I think I’m losing track of days here. Yes, Day 2 was published on Day 3, but it was actually about Day 2. Then we had a couple of off days… Thursday was okay.. I got a little Naked at Starbucks. It was about 8oz. This time I had something that was very green, but [...]

March 12, 2009

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Day 3 – Picture of Tony drinking Naked

If you want to see me drink Naked, then now is the time. I can’t believe I’m actually doing this on the Internet where it will last forever! I’ve always wanted to drink Naked, but I guess I just wasn’t too sure about it. You gotta love this