Internet Marketing For All

"Internet Marketing"

2011-09-03T10:05:00.000+01:00

For those involved in it, "internet marketing" usually refers to 2 main things: setting up a website to sell stuff; and/or sending emails to sell stuff. In practice, there are many different ways to accomplish these two things, but also the area of "marketing on the internet" covers a wide range of things. Many people market themselves and their businesses on the internet, but the phrase "internet marketers" has come to refer to those who make their main income selling products and services online.

There seem to be as many methods to make money on the internet as days in the year, or maybe days in the decade! One of the most popular things to do is to sell information products; these help people solve a problem, or teach them something new. The product itself is simply a digital file - in effect, an electronic book, or "ebook". This can be delivered to purchasers by download or email, and read on their computers - and on some ebook readers. So basically, creating your own product and advertising with websites and email is one way to make money on the internet.

Another popular method is to work on commission selling other peoples' products. Even a huge company like Amazon allows anybody to copy Amazon adverts onto their own site, and Amazon will pay a small percentage for each sale that results. Other publishers and product suppliers offer quite large commissions, either as flat fees or percentages. In information products, it not unusual to have commissions over 50%. In these cases, the publishers are also relying on getting customers to sign up to an email newsletter, in which they will obviously do more advertising.

....to be continued....

Ever Heard Of Affiliate Programs?

2011-06-19T15:44:00.000+01:00

Affiliate Marketing: Why is it One of the Most Cost-Effective Ways to Advertise your Business

Ever heard of affiliate programs? These are forms of Internet advertising that rewards the affiliates for driving traffic to the advertiser or for other transactions. The advertiser pays the affiliate to place a link on their website, and the affiliate sends traffic to the advertiser in return. Simply put, it's about paying commissions to people who help you make sales. It's that easy. NOT.

Affiliate marketing has its ups and downs. It could be draining if you are not armed with updated information and the technical "how-to"s. But this article's sole objective is to reach out to you and not to badmouth affiliate marketing.

Here are the following reasons on why so many web marketers go gaga over affiliate marketing as a form of Internet advertisement:

1. Low cost

Many people are scared to start a home-based business because of the capital required. In affiliate marketing, you don't have to spend much to start raking in moolah.

2. Inventories not included

Product management can be very stressing, but as an Affiliate, you do no need to deal with an inventory. The merchant does the maintenance required.

3. Unlimited income through leverage

When you have a paid job, your monthly income mainly relies on whether you go to work or not. With affiliate marketing, your affiliates can lead traffic to your site without you having to lift a finger after providing them your ad copy and links. Though not every web marketer makes unlimited earnings, there is still a real possibility of very high income.

4. Go worldwide

With affiliate marketing, you are dealing with a global market place. All you have to do is choose a niche product and prepare all the necessary tools for your affiliates to lead traffic from just about anywhere to your website.

5. Low risk

The very main reason for Internet marketers' enthusiasm with affiliate marketing is its having a low risk factor. Especially for those with low budget set aside for advertising, affiliate marketing is just the way to do it.

6. No closing time

With affiliate marketing, your business works every single second of the day while targeting a worldwide market! What could be better than that?

Free Amazon Apps For Android

2011-06-12T11:19:00.000+01:00

As I've got an HTC phone which uses the Android operating system, I was interested to see Amazon have a handful of free applications available. I knew about the Kindle version already, but there are a couple of other useful ones too.

You can see more details here:

Free Amazon Apps

- but basically there is the Amazon Mobile app - which is just a version of the store, then the MP3 store and library. Also there is "Audible" which is for downloading audiobooks, and lastly a useful feature for film-lovers, the IMDB app. This can show you local film and TV listings, as well as search their online database and see trailers too.

Boost Your Income By Paying For Web Traffic

2011-06-11T22:22:00.000+01:00

While there are many people who have made a great success of doing business on the internet, they are still only a tiny minority of all those people who are looking for success online.

Few people reach their goals just through luck; they need determination, a willingness to learn and enormous persistence. While there may be shortcuts at times, there is usually no substitute for good old hard work!

To begin with the basics - Traffic is King. Web traffic means customers and sales. Getting a visitor to a website is like getting someone to walk into a shop - not a sale yet, but a good prospect perhaps. It's a numbers game - the more browsers you get, the more sales you make; so increasing the general traffic flow is the main thing to concentrate on.

How to actually get good quantities of traffic is the big question. Often it involves paying to advertise on other sites; and on many sites if you use something like Google Adwords. Advertising is the key, and the paid options often work more quickly than free options. Free advertising also takes a long time to build up to producing large quantities of visitors.

Advertising on the search engines is one of the most popular methods of getting your site known and producing huge numbers of visitors. Search engines like Yahoo, Bing and Google offer their own paid adverts (Pay Per Click, often referred to as PPC). Many people also use free methods to get their sites listed high on the normal ("organic") search listings on these sites.

Search engines provide information to the millions of users that they have each day. They provide links to many sites that a user may be looking for. If your sites link pop up in the high ranks of the search results page, you get a great chance that they will go to your site. While search engine optimization is a cheaper and low cost way to get your site a high rank, paying for advertisements will ensure that you will be on the top ranks.

When you pay for your advertisements, it is like paying for your traffic. This may sound like not such a good idea, but the payoff tells a different story. When you pay for your traffic, you are guaranteed of a consistent traffic flow to your site, and you will most lilkely have a steady flow of sales.

With PPC you will be charged with the number of hits a link gets when your ad is clicked, hence "pay per click". A variation of this is being charged with the number of times your ad shows up when a certain keyword or keyword phrase is searched. It is very important that you have good keyword content in your ad. Keyword research can get quite complicated, but there are many courses, software tools, and websites to help out.

Paid traffic is used by many people and companies. Obviously, you need to check that a minimum number of your visitors are buying something to make the system worthwhile. Once your numbers look good with sales conversions producing more than you're paying for the adverts, then the system is working at a profit. You just need to keep refining things to improve profit margins, and always keep an eye out for new keywords/phrases to use.

How I Got 170,000+ Twitter Followers In 1 Year

2011-06-11T16:40:00.000+01:00

Image via CrunchBaseHow I Got 170,000+ Twitter Followers In 1 Year
By Larry Wentz

One of the most common questions I get is “How did you get so many followers and how do I get them?” Well I’m going to show you exactly the methods I used to grow for what I believe to be the “fastest growing non-celebrity” account on Twitter for my 1st year. If one of your goals is to establish many new "relationships" on Twitter then please utilize the advice I give you here. I joined Twitter on Feb. 24th, 2009 & started to really implement my strategies the following month. Go ahead - peek at my current numbers & make sure you follow me on Twitter @LarryWentz .

If you don't really care about getting more followers then that is OK as well - please realize that everyone has different goals, reasons & techniques on using Twitter. I personally have found that with larger follower numbers - you will attract more quality Twitter users to you. I’ve met & done business with people I never would have got to know if it wasn’t for my large follower #s. I know all will find some of my information helpful. RT @LarryWentz Twitter Tip - "There is only one way to use Twitter... except for all the other ways". Some of my favorite Twitterers have different Twitter philosophies than I do.... and that is AOK! Respect everyone's point of view on how they choose to utilize Twitter. At the moment - I also am changing my methods on how I use & grow my Twitter account (primarily due to changes/experiences with Twitter). RT @LarryWentz How should you use Twitter? Use it how "YOU" want to - be yourself! Don't submit to peer pressure or so-claimed guru advice.

Learn How To Get More Twitter Followers By Using "Manual-Pilot"

"Cherry Pick" your way to massive amounts of "quality" followers to "build relationships". Learn the techniques to gain the most Twitter followers you can & always be "on the grow". I'm a total social networking newbie & have a lot to learn... but I must be doing some things right. Twitter is my first baby step. What set my growth apart from others is that I was consistent, I targeted, I experimented, I perfected & I was willing to spend the time. I truly am an average schmuck & not any Internet guru of any type. What I did…worked! RT @LarryWentz Twitter Tip - "The Best Tools To Get More Followers - Your Head & Fingers!"

When somebody is trying to sell you some type of "Get Followers" system - Please go to "both" Twittercounter.com & Twitaholic.com to get a fairly good approximation of exactly how many followers they really are getting over time. Their day by day stats are not accurate as these services do stats check-up at different time periods in the day or even skip days.

There are some things you should do before you start following new people on Twitter to help ensure that they follow you back as well as attract new followers to yourself.

- Add your picture to your Twitter profile & your real name - people want to see who you are and not just some fake account set up by a bot. I'm almost at the point of never following back people that haven't bothered to put a picture up in their profile - 90%+ aren't serious about Twitter (except maybe newbies.... PLEASE put up a photo ASAP). I personally like to see screen names being actual person's names but if it is a business Twitter account than using the business name or business niche category as part of the name is OK. I am pretty convinced that more people will follow you back if you use your real name. I also don't recommend using numbers in your screen name as often people associate those screen names to spam accounts. Change your screen name if you need to in your settings.

- Add a description in your profile talking about whom you are and/or what your business is about. For example - mine says "Owner of WeightlossProgram.com, Anti-Viruses.com, 100s of domains, Internet Marketing, Cat Lover, Lake Bum, Pool Player, Happily Un-Employed". Another good example would be "Stay at Home Mom with 2 Kids, 1 Hubby, 1 Dog - Looking to Learn, Connect and Have Fun". People are "many times" more likely to follow you if they can see a little more about you - "attract people to you by being a real person". Your description also will attract followers who search for keywords in profiles to find like-minded people. Add your location of where you live.

- Add your URL to your website or blog in your profile. Your profile is kind of like your business card on Twitter & is how many people decide to follow you or not though recent "backwards" changes at Twitter make it harder to see people's profiles in the following process. Now people see your latest tweet when searching for new people to follow when going through follower lists (I wish it was both profile & latest tweet).

- It's also a good idea to change your Twitter background away from the default one - "many resources" also can be found by just doing searches for "twitter backgrounds" out on the web.

- Post a few tweets - maybe a brief introduction to yourself or mentioning you are on Twitter to learn, connect & have fun, maybe you just got back from dinner with friends at a new restaurant (not "having soup", "taking nap" or similar two word phrases), mention some recent business activities you were involved in or about to be involved in, etc... . Engage conversations with fellow tweeple either by responding to comments or questions that interest you or maybe asking sensible & sincere questions that people will respond back to you. Remember to use the reply "curly" arrow that appears to the right of someone's tweet (when your mouse arrow is there) - I often see newbies replying to a comment by just posting an tweet and people don't have a clue to who they are responding to. Retweet (RT) info that you enjoy or have found useful that others have tweeted. Post tweets on a regular basis & don't skip many days at a time. I highly recommend you don't constantly spam your business links as you will likely get people un-following you (nothin' wrong with an occasional one IMO if done properly). Many people post links to their latest blog posts or utilize Twitpic.com to post "interesting" pictures which often will help you engage in conversations with others responding to the pic. You are able to delete your tweets if you posted something that you wished you hadn't. I also feel it is critical that you are posting tweets and communicating with others when you are actively growing large #s of followers because "I think" that Twitter may have an algorithm that "red flags" accounts & you may risk suspension - ********Click Here for "The Twitter Rules" ********. Note - some Twitter accounts are specifically set up to only promote their business offers & generally are up front about it so remember that when you follow them.

- Don't be a fake & always be yourself! Be helpful to others - be personal (not bot-like) - post "mostly" useful information and above all ......HAVE FUN & BUILD RELATIONSHIPS!

Now you are almost ready to start following people but first consider using the next few tools.

- If you end up following many people & don't want to miss the tweets of some of your favorite people then I recommend you use a tool like Tweetdeck to organize people into groups... it also has many other benefits & is extremely popular.

- Seesmic Desktop is another app that is very popular & also has the ability to organize people into groups as well as many other features.

- WooHoo! Twitter came out with "lists" to help organize your tweeps. Share in public or keep your lists private. I LOVE IT! Use Twitter lists you create (public & private) to clear out a lot of the clutter in your Twitter stream while still being social & following people back who follow you.

- I also recommend SocialOomph (formerly TweetLater) which has many features including auto-direct messaging (I don't use that & you shouldn't either), auto-posting, auto-follow (I like to manually follow people but when on vacation I auto-follow… ok now I have it set permanently to save time). I generally follow back "almost" everyone within 48 hours... trying to do it within 24 hours or less so I don't lose followers (now use auto-follow). SocialOomph's auto-follow does not work if you have reached daily Twitter follow limits and those new followers are ignored. My favorite feature “was” their "auto-un-follow". If someone followed you and later un-followed you... you then could automatically un-follow them as well. There are some extremely annoying people who play the un-follow game after you follow them back. I thought Twitter was suspending these accounts whom make it a practice of the un-follow game but have seen it happen frequently to me lately. Unfortunately – SocialOomph and other companies that had un-follow services were forced to remove them by Twitter. Twitter often doesn’t understand Twitter itself & makes it difficult for users to efficiently handle their accounts (#TwitterFail). SocialOomph also have now added a new grouping feature in their professional version which looks like a very good idea. SocialOomph's direct message optout service became a necessity for me to use as it blocked a giant chunk of automated DMs so now I actually can more rapidly go thru & reply to my DMs (still a pain in the a**). Their professional version has "many" benefits & features compared to the free version.

- SocialToo is another popular tool for Auto Follow, Auto Un-follow (no longer available), Blocking Automatic DMs, Social Surveys & More. Note - I am aware of glitches that have occurred with SocialToo un-following people in accounts that were improperly classified as auto-DMers. Example - I was having a regular DM conversation (I don't auto-DM) with a friend who was using SocialToo.... all of a sudden I was un-followed... 2 nights in a row. He has since stop using the un-follow auto-DMers feature as it wasn't accurate & a number of his friends were un-followed in addition to me. Very likely these were just some early glitches with the new un-follow/filter auto-DMers service from SocialToo. I also should point out that many Twitterers use "irresponsible" Twitter applications that DM or post tweets without their knowledge... they don't even realize they have been sending auto-DMs. I personally recommend to just delete the auto-DMs & not use the unfollow auto-DMers feature. I did now end up trying their auto-DM block service based by keyword. SocialToo is used by many people and is highly respected. (I wish Twitter had a DM filter!)

- I also highly recommend you visit your "notices" tab in your Twitter account settings at http://twitter.com/account/notifications and turn off auto-emails for when you get new followers/direct messages so your inbox doesn't get flooded with notification emails.

Here is a golden rule for you to realize - People are more likely to follow you if they have "recently" been following new people.

If someone hasn't logged on to Twitter in a month nor has followed anybody in a month - what chance do you think they will follow you back if you follow them? With that said - you need to be following people who are actively following people themselves. Where do you find these people? You find them on the "followers" list of Twitter users. That is where your main efforts should be in gathering new followers yourself. I now only follow people on the first few pages of the latest followers on people's lists. Some people add several hundred new followers a day. If they added 300 new followers in a day .... that means that the first 15 pages of their followers list (20 people per page) were the last 300 people they added - search that list for new people to follow (Use sites like WeFollow.com, Twittercounter.com & Twitaholic.com to get "semi-accurate" account growth numbers because they don't update exactly every 24 hours). Often I will have literally 20-30 window tabs open with Twitter users I have "cherry-picked" for whom I want to tap into their followers list. Sometimes I will just do the first page or two to follow new people and I will "cherry pick" people to follow. Often those people are still online with Twitter & follow me back within a few minutes because they are twittering at the moment. What do I mean by "cherry picking"? I specifically follow people who are entrepreneurial-minded, motivational-minded, businesses, animal/cat lovers, those with similar interests & people that I feel generally are good "real" people. Stay at home moms, students with good attitudes, musicians/artists, fun-lovin average joes/marys (you get the point) - I luv em' all because they are real! It's harder to identify these people as we no longer can instantly see their profiles without opening up their Twitter page & you have to judge by their latest tweets/avatar. When I am in a hurry, I often won't do quite as good of job doing my cherry picking. Hey... how about following people who follow @MrMilestone or similar "follower counter" services... they tend to follow you back if you view their following/follower ratio and are generally pretty good quality tweeps. Over time you will learn to smell out the bots and people who set up multiple accounts promoting the same thing - I generally don't bother trying to follow them back but "sometimes" will follow them (I do often go thru their followers list & ironically find some good people who also are fairly likely to follow me back). The "adult-oriented" Twitter accounts I stay away from following for obvious reasons. That is one major disadvantage of using automated following systems - you end up following people you probably wouldn't follow if you did it manually.

OK - I prefer going thru followers lists to do my "cherry picking" but I need to mention a site I recently came about that does profile searching to target your market by utilizing searches of people's bios - Tweepsearch. Results can be provided according to their last recent update time (not completely accurate but accurate enough so at least you know the people are actively using Twitter), friends count, followers count or alphabetically. Tweepsearch also allows an authentication process so you can follow people directly via their interface.

There is a major time benefit for using automation and there is a "very very very slight" chance I may eventually use systems like Hummingbird Twitter Software or TweetAdder (most popular & the best choice for software IMO) for days I don't feel like manually following people... though I have major concerns because I have seen account suspensions occur with automated tools which is why I choose not to use them for following people. With that said - it appears the majority of users don't have a problem at all using this automation. I have seen these systems in action and "many" of the top Twitter users with massive numbers use the tools every day... they do a fairly good job at targeting using follower lists and search terms from http://search.twitter.com/. Twitter search is another great way to find targeted people to follow who may be discussing things that you are interested in personal-wise or business-wise ....... it is also now available on our home pages finally (except for advanced search). #FollowFriday referrals also are a great place to find new Tweeple to follow - they also tend to converse with people much more often.

Before you start following people - let's talk more about the "un-follow process" & Twitter limits.

Twitter will limit you to following 2000 people until your "followers" list starts coming in more balance with your "following" amount (you will likely need to un-follow non-followers to break past that 2000 mark.... read on). Once that starts happening - you can start following more people up to 10% more than your amount of followers. For example if you have 2500 people following you - you then can follow 2750 people (2500 + 250). Twitter also limits you to following 1000 people a day which really comes into play when you have thousands of followers like I have. This often slows down people following you back & often it will take me up to 72 hours to follow-back my new followers though I generally do it every 24 hours (especially now that I just have auto-follow set). I feel this is true with many others so it is probably a good idea to allow a minimum of 72 hours (maybe more) before you un-follow someone because they haven't followed you back. Twitter also seems to be clamping down on people who un-follow people too quickly after following them. For me, because of the large number of followers, it is often weeks before I do any un-follow process.

Over the last year - I actually have had to do total rewrites of how I recommend doing the un-follow process because of Twitter's constant changes. They eliminated page #s in the following/followers lists so I could no longer go to a certain page & unfollow a set amount of people as I used to do. I used to only have to un-follow 100-300 people a day due to my large account numbers & high amount of new daily followers. This is no longer possible so I am forced to use an un-follow service.
I want to give as many people as long as possible to follow me back before I remove them from my following list. So I choose not to un-follow anyone until I start bouncing up next to the "10% level" as already mentioned. I was going to mention Twitter Karma, Huitter as unfollow services but Twitter’s changes killed these businesses. FriendOrFollow.com is a site that shows you who you are following that isn't following you back but it isn't an automated service & you need to manually click to un-follow people. Buzzom.com also has an un-follow service which does now 20 un-follows only at a time because of Twitter rule changes. With my numbers, this is "very time consuming" but Buzzom is the current service I use for unfollowing people. I also like to wait 24 hours or more before I start following people again after I've done an unfollow process. Twitter had required them and others to shut down the mass unfollow services by the end on Jan. 2010.... sigh. Did I mention how Twitter sucks in failing to realize the importance that many people view social networking as a 2-way street and choose to not follow non-followers?

Some of the automated softwares have an un-follow process which finds the oldest user it auto-followed who has not following you back. Again - I choose not to use them but that is your decision.

Ok - let's get to following new people who likely will follow you back.

RT @LarryWentz Twitter Tip - "If you want more followers... reach out & shake their hand by following them first."

RT @LarryWentz Twitter is like a high school dance. Are you going to ask someone to dance by following them or sit in the bleachers?

I’ve put a couple lists of people together for your use at http://twitter.com/LarryWentz/topfollowings & http://twitter.com/LarryWentz/top-followings of the top “Follow Friendly” twitter users with large follower counts (generally 40,000+ followers with similar following count – follow history shows they generally follow back). Start following them & you will likely see them rapidly pop up as one of your new followers usually within 24-48 hours. In fact… you will notice that you may actually be getting many more followers than the # of people you followed because people go through these top user’s followers lists to follow new people. It’s interesting to see someone brand new follow me & then I watch “their” new followers list pop up familiar faces as I know people go through my follower list to follow people. That’s right… you can follow certain people & rapidly get 10+ new followers from that single following (even more over time). In addition to these people on those lists I created - consider going through their recent "followers" list as those people likely are looking for new followers & also will likely follow you back (get the point?). Yep… even go through their followers list & so on. "Cherry pick" the people you want to follow as best as you can. Yes - some days you may not be as picky to save time.
Depending on what you do yourself & what type of new followers you are looking for - bookmark those Twitterers (or group them in your Tweetdeck, Seismic or SocialOomph account) that match your target market, that are actively growing their follower counts and that have good quality followers that you would like to continuously tap on a regular basis (your regular "fishing holes"). I think you will find that many of the fast growing Twitter accounts are entrepreneur-oriented and that the majority of their followers also are as well. If that's your target market... then target it - "cherry pick"! I am using the term "target market" but in reality it is "target relationships"... sure potentially I may conduct business of some type with people I follow (which I have) but quite frankly I just enjoy hangin' around a bunch of good people to learn & have fun. Everyone has a different motivation and sometimes that motivation for using Twitter will change in people's minds over time... it has in mine. We all may have different reasons for wanting more followers... or not to have more followers. We often hear people say I prefer "quality over quantity". I prefer "quality & quantity"... I know for a fact that by having quantity that you will attract even more quality users that likely never would have followed you otherwise.

Get yourself listed at the Twitter directories like WeFollow.com, www.Twellow.com , www.Twitr.org & www.JustTweetIt.com - also use these to find people to follow. I personalize use WeFollow.com the most often as I like to see which people are actively growing their followers list though the daily growth numbers are not completely accurate. I then go through their list of followers to find new people to follow..... & so on. www.Twibes.com is a fast growing community type directory where you connect with others that have similar interests as yourself - check it out! "Twitter Lists" also will help you pinpoint your target market & find interesting tweeps to follow as well go through their follower lists.

Do you need to find Twitterers by location? Twitter's Advanced Search allows you to find people tweeting near cities based on info their Twitter profile info. Nearbytweets automatically determines where you are when you visit their site & gives you similar results. Twellow.com's "Twellowhood" will help you locate tweeps that are listed in their directory which is really a large & growing amount (Currently just for US & Canada). You could also use http://www.twellow.com/search and enter a city or country to search profiles of those in their directory. For example for the term "Australia" currently has over 133,000 matches - http://www.twellow.com/search?q=Australia&search_cat . Twellow is great because you can actually follow people directly from their site if you log in. You really can't determine if the users have a "follow-back" friendly attitude unless you look at their numbers and following/followers ratio is similar. If you go to http://twittercounter.com/pages/friends & enter your time zone area - for example ... http://twittercounter.com/pages/friends&time_zone=Sydney you are able to see at least the top 100 people's friends/follower count ratio. Twitaholic.com seems to be a better place to see "follow-back" friendly tweeps by location - http://twitaholic.com/top100/friends/bylocation/Australia/ . Tweepsearch.com seems to a pretty good job when I entered locations and popped up results based on results from bio / location. Following people via location is obviously a much more time consuming matter compared to going thru someone's follower list & clicking follow.

Add your Twitter link everywhere you can. Add it to your signature in forums, emails, ezine articles, blog posts, etc.... And of course - add your Twitter links to your own websites & blogs. Add links to your business cards, offline ads ... maybe even a car decal? A tattoo? (Hmmm.... maybe too extreme)

Besides Hummingbird... there is TweetAdder (most popular?) and many more automated follow systems out there. You will not get as good of quality targeted people (nor quantity) with automated systems as compared to when you "cherry pick" people to follow but there is time advantages to using them. I truly prefer the "manual-pilot" following method. When I see people using/promoting these automated systems - I admit I will often go thru their latest follower’s lists to follow people as I know they are fairly likely to follow me back. I have had good results doing this and I often "cherry-pick" from these lists. I also don't think Twitter is overly fond of automated systems so personally I choose not to use them. I also may try some other services that aid in the effort of getting more followers or are Twitter related products but I just can't nor want to do everything as I know my methods work pretty dang good. I also choose to use Twitter differently than some products recommend.

RT @LarryWentz Twitter Tip - "If you want more followers... make sure you don't treat people like numbers."

RT @LarryWentz 2 ways to lose followers - 1. Don't say anything 2. Say something (same strategy works to gain followers)

I recommend only following 300-400 people a day if you are just getting started so you don't set off any "red flags' with Twitter due to severe out-of-balance following/followers ratio. It shouldn't be any problem to follow more people if you already have several hundred followers…. make sure you have a good followback ratio though.

The Twitter Suspension… Oh No!!! What am I doing now?

In early 2010, I started to notice “many” large accounts get suspended (a few permanently). Were they using automated software? Did they get suspended for aggressive following because they followed/unfollowed people to quickly? Was it because they had low followback ratios & it sent up a red flag? Only Twitter really knows why (or do they?). I find it rather funny/unusual that Twitter has daily follow limits but will actually suspend people because they want to grow a larger Twitter following & consistently follow people within the limits. That’s right – Twitter follow limits actually aren’t the follow limits… at least if you don’t get a high followback ratio IMO. I base that on personal experience.

You see - I consistently used to get 500-600 new followers a day (one day 800+). I decided to do some experimenting on my follow process & chose to follow a targeted group of SEO specialists/super affiliates by using people’s Twitter lists they created. I had changed my pattern. For a 2-3 day period I was only getting about 200-300 new followers (half of usual amount). I also was able to much more rapidly do my following process because the list of people I was following was not already following me. It’s slower if a page has the majority of people already following me… it takes long because you have to visit more pages. Anyhow - literally on the date of my 1 year anniversary… I got suspended for a week. IMO it was either the rapid follow process, the low followback ratio I had for a 2-3 day period (more than likely that) or even possibly Twitter sent me a special 1 year anniversary gift – a suspension.

So what am I doing now? Well I admit I am totally gun-shy in following the maximum Twitters daily limit. In fact, at the moment (July 2010), I currently am just auto-following people back & growing my account that way (been that way for a few months). I am in the slow process of unfollowing non-followers (including new ones playing the unfollow game) by using Buzzom. Eventually my Following/Follower #s will be in balance. I will likely start doing my following processes again but on a more limited basis. I am also exploring additional methods of growing my follower count. Don’t let my suspension scare you from using my “manual” methods of growing your account… they work. It was when I changed my pattern that something stood out.

Remember - It may feel good to have a lot of followers but there is little point to it if you don't start making connections & building relationships.

Check out Grader.com's Top Users & learn how some of Twitter's best tweeple communicate, offer value, help others & build relationships. It isn't a perfect grading system IMO but pretty gosh darn good. Also learn from other’s advice you get on the blogs we have listed at Followers.biz.

Well there you are – these are the major details on how exactly I have grown such a large following… manually and not automated. Twitter will constantly be evolving & methods you use on Twitter will need to evolve as well. I hope my experiences/advice will aid you now & in the future. Tweet On Everyone!!!

Million Dollar Pips

2011-06-11T16:21:00.001+01:00

Image via WikipediaI know.. you've seen it all. Every forex robot and system claiming to make you 5-6 digit revenues in a matter of months. It's incredible. The truth is, it's difficult to make a system that is profitable, let alone a system that can generate hundreds of thousands of dollars with reasonable investments.

This truly inspired the author to create a real system, but not a simple system, not one that makes a little money, one that grows an account. One that explodes an account into profits while trying to maintain a low drawdown, without using martingale, high stop loss, or anything with crazy risk.

It seems he has created something special - a trading robot with only a few pips for a stop loss.. one that truly back tests without curve fitting and generates huge numbers - we're talking $250 to over $1,000,000. This is not paper trading or demo-account trading - it trades on a live account and works on live accounts!

This is real software with real support. Customers are getting a real product backed by real people. Plus free updates with a programmer who truly cares about his product and wants it to succeed and continues to create updates to improve the product for the better.

Thoughts For Friday

2011-06-10T20:22:00.001+01:00

Image via Wikipedia"End of the week at last!" How many of you think like that - and are even counting off the days of the week almost every day from Monday onwards - "Ah Wednesday - half way there...!". If this kind of thing is regularly popping into your brain, it's a pretty good sign that you're not entirely committed to your job :) - and it may be an idea to start looking out for something else to do.

If the thought of leaving your current job seems daunting, then don't forget that there are very many opportunities to start other businesses on a part-time basis. Using your computer and the internet is an excellent example of this, as you can get started for practically no cost, and spend just an hour a day, or even just a few hours at the weekend, if that's all you can manage.

When starting your part-time business, try and envisage where you want to end up with it - is it something to just add a little extra cash to your income every month? Or is it going to be job-replacing income? Then decide how long you are going to take to achieve your outcome - if it's an extra thousand dollars per month, you might give it six months, but it you're planning to leave your job, then you might aim for a couple of years. Once you have a goal in mind, you can start to break it down into smaller steps; so in the first example, you might work backwards, and think of making 500 dollars in 3 months, 300 in 2 months, and 150 by the end of the first month. Then you can think, "Well 150 per month is only 5 dollars a day - I'm sure I can do that!" With the many money-making opportunities around, it is easy enough to scale up once you have a system that starts off making you 5 dollars per day.

Tweeter - Are You Making These Common Mistakes?

2011-06-08T21:57:00.000+01:00

Image via CrunchBaseWe all know Twitter is an exciting, cool, and extremely profitable social network. Millions of people are now using Twitter to talk about all sorts of things. You might say it's a site for those who can't stop talking! But there are also common mistakes that many new users make on Twitter. Try and watch out for these in your early days of Twitterdom, so that you don't fall into bad habits.....

First thing to check: Is it your own picture on your account? Most new users don't post their real picture. They often use cartoon pictures, company logos, or their pet's pictures. Although the pictures are quite cute, most Twitter users will appreciate a real picture of you. When you post your true picture on Avatar, others will think that you're real and that you're confident enough to let others see you. If you're going to upload a photo, choose the ones where you give a beautiful smile. A smile can easily brighten the day of others.

Sending direct messages automatically through the AutoDM; direct messages are often impersonal and pushy. If you send this type of messages, you can lose your followers. SocialOomph is another tool that sends automatic messages. When you use these tools, messages are automatically sent to those who follow you. A message saying "thanks for following me" is fine but sending automated messages promoting your business or product is not a good idea and most people will just frown at them.

Do you have any followers? If you want to have followers, you need to follow people or you can at least create an interesting profile page. You can get followers by regularly posting updates. If you keep on following people and yet you don't make updates on your page, you can't get enough followers.

The 140-character tweets should be used to answer the Twitter question. Answering that question once a day may be enough to let others know that you're interested in the community. You can post what you're doing for the day or where you plan to go for the night. Tweets are great for starting conversations. You can also re-tweet other users or send them comments.

Check your numbers regularly. It's not good to follow many people when you have very few individuals following you. Try to achieve balance. Make sure that the one you follow will also follow you back and you should also appreciate the ones who follow you. This is the easiest way to make friends on Twitter.

Use tools like Tweetdeck so that you don't need to stay online all the time. Through this application, you can divide your followers into groups. Now, you can easily track them especially when they send direct messages and replies.

If you keep on promoting your business all the time, everyone will "unfollow" you. No one likes a person who talks about his business or product most of the time. You must learn to respect others. As you may have forgotten, Twitter is a social network.

You must learn how to communicate and build good relationships before you start bombarding them with promotions. Even if you already have a god list of leads, it is still not a good idea to barrage them with promotions. Promotional tweets should be sent in limited numbers only.

These are the common mistakes committed by new and old tweeters. Take note of them and don't commit the same mistakes.

Be a Better Tweeter in Twitter

2011-06-08T21:36:00.001+01:00

Tweeters from all over the world want to learn how to become a better tweeter in Twitter. Find out how right now!

Firstly, you need to learn how to "re-tweet". You can definitely improve your standing in Twitter if you re-tweet. When one of your followers posts an appealing article, you can re-tweet it. If you do this, most of your followers will also do the same. Just imagine all your followers re-tweeting. When they add your username to their updates, you will be exposed to many users. Be careful in re-tweeting because you might not be posting interesting or helpful topics. Make sure that you re-tweet only the good ones. How can you re-tweet? You need to copy the original tweet and write the prefix RT together with the name of the originator.

Many users use Twitter to post tweets that no one is interested about. Who cares about what you ate for dinner or what you did last night. Perhaps your closest friends will appreciate that but what about the rest of the social community? It would be better if you send out informative tweets, no nonsense. By doing so, people will think of you differently. They will know and feel that you care one way or another. If you're addressing your tweets to one person, try to indicate it so that others will know who you are referring to.

Send replies often. Talking all day long is possible through Twitter. If you want to talk, you'd better sign up to this social site. Followers like a person who knows how to listen. You will probably find yourself laughing at dumb tweets but you must restrain yourself. Twitter is an application that allows people to communicate; so matter how funny some tweets sound, try to appreciate them and reply courteously. Most of Twitter users want to be heard on the web and if they find individuals who know how to listen, they are more interested in making friends.

In order to tweet better, you must be proactive. Find some neat articles and helpful info online; when you find one, post it. Some might re-tweet it or you can find other users that are interested in meeting you.

You don't need to say something all the time. Try to be careful in using your automatic messages and updates because you might be pestering others with uninteresting info. You can also try using hashtags. The keywords are preceded by # and in the past months, hashtags are really hot.

Use the tool Twitpic to upload pictures to your profile page. Try to upload as many pictures as you can but choose your pics well. Your pictures can tell a lot about you and other users will appreciate. Through the pics, your followers can get to know you better. According to expert tweeters, pictures can tell a lot about you as compared to the posts to send.

Follow these tips and be a better tweeter. Why not? You have nothing to lose. If you're in new in Twitter, these tips can be very helpful. Don't waste time anymore. Share neat stuff to your followers and your friends. Find interesting information or perhaps post promotional materials.

It's up to you to use Twitter to the fullest. The site offers endless possibilities. Take advantage of them and have a great Twitter experience.

Gnome 3

2011-05-25T01:21:00.000+01:00

Gnome 3 looks promising - I'm running Ubuntu on a Samsung netbook. I installed G3, but the mouse click via the touch pad would not work, though the rest of the interface looks pretty good. I did miss the one-click access to programs from the top Panel though. Some of the reasoning behind the new layout of Gnome 3 seems to be to create more room on your desktop, and make things easier to get at. I find that setting the Panels to Autohide, and using Alt+Tab to switch between applications does the trick nicely for me. So, I'm sticking with Ubuntu Classic for now.....

JJ.

Get the rss feed of a Google search

2011-05-22T15:44:00.000+01:00

Written by Paul Anthony // May 17, 2009

Ever wondered how you might get an RSS feed of a Google search? Well, its pretty simple to be honest – and enables a whole plethora of options for reputation management – especially when combined with a Google search. So how do you get the data? Well it is a relatively underused feature of Google alerts. Instead of sending the alert to an email address, you can now send it to a feed. 1) Login to Google alerts
Select delivery to a feed for your terms:

2). Select the feed icon to send to your feed reader.

You can see from this alert that I’m setting up a feed for the people who favourite my Tweets. See Justin Park’s post on what terms you need to punch into Google to do that, although this may take a bit of time to come through, it adds another string in the bow to my DIY reputation monitor – as i’ll be able to see which tweets people favourite around my brand / name. If you want to do the same – simply change the name of Twitter account to your own rather than @webireland.

live more, need less

2011-03-14T21:54:00.001Z

» live more, need less :mnmlist

live more, need less

The more I focus on living, the less it seems I need.

What does it mean to focus on living? It’s a shift from caring about possessions and status and goals and beautiful things … to caring about actual life. Life includes: taking long walks, creating things, having conversations with friends, snuggling with my wife, playing with my kids, eating simple food, going outside and getting active.

That’s living. Not shopping, or watching TV, or eating loads of greasy and sweet food not for sustenance but pleasure, or being on the Internet, or ordering things online, or trying to get popular. Those things aren’t living – they’re consumerist pastimes that tend to get us caught up in overconsumption and mindlessness.

When I focus on living, all those other fake needs become less important. Why do I need television when I can go outside and explore, or get active, or take a walk with a friend? Why do I need to shop when I already have everything I need – I can spend time with someone or create, and I need very little to do that.

These things I do now — they require almost nothing. I can live, and need little.

And needing little but getting lots of satisfaction … that’s immensely rewarding. It’s an economy of resources that I’ve never experienced before.

These days, I need nothing but my loved ones, a text editor, a way to post what I create, a good book, simple plant-based food, a few clothes for warmth, and the outdoors.

The Little Habits

2011-03-14T21:50:00.001Z

The Little Habits | zen habits

The Little Habits

‘Powerful indeed is the empire of habit.’ ~Publilius Syrus

Post written by Leo Babauta.

It’s amazing how big a difference a little thing can make. Starting your day mindfully with some tea, for example, can change your entire day. Clearing your desk will make your work day amazing. A smile from a loved one can mean the world.

And when these little things are repeated daily, and formed into habits, their benefits increase not just by multiples but by exponents.

The little habits can be life-changing.

Everyone’s world-changing little habits will be different, but I’ll share a few of mine, and then some tips for forming them.

My Little Habits

I have lots of little habits, but these are a handful of my favorites:

Get-in-the-door ritual. Whenever I get home, the first thing I do is put my stuff away. I have a designated spot for my keys, cash/cards (I don’t use a wallet), phone, and coins. Everything else either gets tossed or put wherever it belongs. If we brought something home like groceries or library books, those get put away, right away. This is an important little ritual because even people who have simplified their homes notice that possessions and junk can build up over time — and that starts with what you bring in. It’s no use simplifying and organizing if it just gets cluttered and disorganized every time you come home.
Put clothes away. It’s so simple, but when I take clothes off, they either go in the hamper or I fold them & put them in my drawer or hang them in the closet. Others drape them over chairs or throw them on the floor or bed, and sorting through them later becomes a major chore. By doing it right away, things stay organized and I don’t have to worry about cleaning up later.
Wash my bowl. When I finish eating, I wash my dishes by hand, mindfully. No mess to clean up later. Read more.
Prepare meals in advance. This is important when I’m trying to stick to an eating plan. Cooking your own meals is the healthiest (and most frugal) choice, but if you have to cook three to six times a day, it’ll get too cumbersome and you’re likely to give up. So I prepare my food in bulk (for 3-6 days in advance), and eat the same meals all week. It’s no harder than cooking smaller meals. I only make food that I adore, so I don’t get bored. It’s super easy to stay on a meal plan this way.
Just step out the door. My motto for exercise. Most people have a hard time with motivation to do workouts, but not me. First of all, I only do workouts I love, so I actually look forward to them. But second, I never think about how I don’t feel like doing a workout — because I tell myself that all I have to do is get on my shoes and get out the door. The rest flows naturally.
Clear distractions. When I’m ready to do a task, I clear all distractions. Small action, huge difference.
Take a walk & reflect. Taking a short walk is such a simple thing to do — you can do it during your lunch break, or take a break when you’ve been working for a couple hours straight. It only needs to be 10-20 minutes. But oh boy, what a world of difference. Not only does the walk relieve stress and clear your head, it gives you an opportunity to reflect on what you’ve been doing, and reflection is one of the most important tools for changing your life.
Breathe. When I get stressed, I simply breathe.

How to Form Them

I’ve written about habits numerous times before, but here’s an easy guide to forming a little habit:

Do one habit at a time.
Make it easy to do.
Do it consciously, very consciously at first.
Don’t allow any exceptions.
Post your progress publicly.
Keep doing it, every single day.
Enjoy the habit.

Forming a habit can be easy, if you enjoy it, take it slowly, and do it mindfully.

My Secret To Making Money Fast By Doing Things a "Certain Way" - by Matthew Olson

2011-03-12T11:02:00.001Z

My Secret To Making Money Fast By Doing Things a "Certain Way"

In my opinion, the biggest mistake most new marketers make is jumping from one "shiny new" method to the next. They never give themselves enough time to go through the proper experimentation and learning curve to master any one method. They are too easily distracted and impatient.

Pick ONE proven method and stick with it. Become passionate and obsessed with it. Only focus on that method until you've gained some level of mastery over it. Ignore all other methods until you're making money with the first one.

If you see other methods that catch your attention, make a note of them, bookmark the info and put it on the backburner for later. Stay the course.

This is what I did in beginning. I focused exclusively on one proven method and turned a blind eye to everything else. I read every course and forum thread I could on the subject, asked a ton of questions and most importantly... I TOOK ACTION right away. Because of this approach I was able to get into profit very quickly. I was able to make a profit within my first week or two as a newbie and went full time shortly after that.

So which method do you choose? It should be a method that you resonate with, that excites you. Don’t worry if you don’t have all the skills to do it – if there is a step involved that you’re unfamiliar with, you can learn it. We have a massive amount of info on the Warrior Forum and you can easily learn new skills if you’re determined.

Make sure the method is a tried and true method, not a brand new one that may get saturated in a few months.There are a ton of new methods coming out every day that have not stood the test of time. No doubt many of them are effective but others are not. As a newbie you should choose a method that has a proven track record of success. That’s why I chose the method I did – I knew for a fact that many people were making a solid income with my chosen method because of all the forum posts and courses on this subject. Sure, there were a lot of other methods that looked more exciting and promised “$1000 per day for doing nothing starting today” – but those types of methods didn’t have the stability I was looking for. I wanted to have as close to 100% confidence as possible in whatever I was going to commit to.

Once you’ve achieved some success in IM then you have more freedom to take some risks and experiment with newer methods. However, I still apply this “choose one method and stick with it” approach when learning new methods. I look around and see what excites me, I choose ONE method and totally commit to it until I’ve achieved some mastery over it. Rinse and repeat. Before you know it you’ll have 3-4 methods under your belt that you can rely on with confidence.

Naturally there will be times when you commit to a method and it just doesn’t work out for you. You’ll minimize the likelihood of this happening if you stick with ones that are tried and true. However, occasionally I’ve dumped a method. Here’s how I know its time to throw in the towel: When I lose ALL enthusiasm for it. I’ll take a break and come back to it and if I still feel totally uninspired to continue then I know its time to move on. There is no sense in continuing to do something that drains your energy. Just don’t be too eager to quit too soon. Challenges and set backs may come your way, that can be a natural part of the learning curve and you should learn to work through them. But when every day becomes a struggle, then you know its time to reconsider your path. Either make some adjustments or let it go. Don’t beat yourself up.

I believe the approach I’ve outlined here is the “secret” to fast success. It worked for me and I’ve seen it work for many others. This approach is responsible for me making consistent profits almost immediately as a newbie and allowing me to go full time shortly afterward.

I encourage you to choose ONE method TODAY that excites you. Make a commitment to it. Become obsessed with it. Have enthusiasm for it. Live, sleep and breathe this one method. And most importantly… TAKE ACTION ASAP!

To your success,

Matthew Olson

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2011-03-06T21:30:00.002Z

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Success & Winning Streaks by Brendon Burchard

2010-11-21T11:22:00.000Z

How I Became Liz Tomey Part 1 :LizTomey.com

2010-10-03T22:45:00.001+01:00

How I Became Liz Tomey Part 1 :LizTomey.com

Many have asked me what viral marketing is, and there are a ton of terms for it. I define viral marketing in this way…

Viral marketing is any action that you do for your business that will be duplicated by others.

So for example, when I give you a free report. That free report probably has my name and website name in it along with my affiliate links. When I give it to you, I tell
you that you can give it away too. So you send it out to your list, and a few people from your list send it out to their list, and on and on.

That’s viral marketing, and there are several techniques that you can use, but there’s one technique that has built my business faster than you would believe.

Resell rights products…

So many people think these little jems are dead, but they are sadly mistaking. This July (2010) marks my 6th anniversary in Internet marketing. Most people think that
I’ve been online for years and years, and that’s why my name is well known, but that’s not true.

The way that my name got all over the place, the way that my career took off, and the way that I immediately started making $1000’s of dollars a month in affiliate
commissions was by creating my own resell rights products, and anyone can do the exact same thing that I have done.

I know that everyone isn’t a writer so I’m going to give a plan for the “do it yourselfer” and a plan for those who could outsource the whole thing.

Okay, for you do it yourself people. Here is your step-by-step to creating your own resell rights product.

1. Find a topic to write your product on. Internet marketing forums are the best place for this.

Note: If it’s a video or audio product, you’ll still need to pick a topic.

2. Write an outline for your product.

3. Take your outline and fill it in with content. Make sure and put your affiliate links in where you can.

4. Have graphics made for your product.

5. Polish your product up. If it’s an ebook put your ebook graphic in it, and make the formatting look nice. You can even use one of my products as an example if you
would like.

6. Create your sales letter for your product, and make it into a web page.

7. Create a resellers package for your product. Again, you could use one of mine as an example. You can get my resell products from www.MyOriginalEProducts.com

8. Upload your product and contact people who you know sell resell rights products, and give them your product to get it out there.

Yes, this sounds like a lot of work and it is, but by doing most of the work yourself, you can save a lot of money. However, this is SO powerful. If you do this at least
once a month in no time, you’ll see an increase in money, and in your name recognition.

Now if you don’t know how to do any of the above, you have two choices. Learn to do it or hire someone to do it. So let’s look at this step-by-step and by price if you
were to outsource doing this. I totally outsource resell rights product creation now, so it is do-able.

1. Find a topic to write your product on. Internet marketing forums are the best place for this.

2. Write an outline for your product.

Note: You’ll probably want to do this yourself also. All you need to do is find 10-15 points about your topic and put them in an understandable order. If it’s an audio
product the person you outsource this to can just write it like an ebook and then read it. If its a video product, you may want to be a bit more specific about what you
want.

3. Take your outline and fill it in with content. Make sure and put your affiliate links in where you can.

Note: Now this you can outsource at places like Guru.com, Elance.com, RentACoder.com and the like. Tell them what you want, how many pages you need it to be if it’s an
ebook. Audio and video products are going to be different.

Price: $100-$300

You can get ebooks done for about $5 a page on the sites I listed above. Just because it’s a resell rights product doesn’t mean it can be a crappy product, so make sure
you give all the info about the topic that you can. Audio products are going to cost you a bit more, and video products even more.

4. Have graphics made for your product.

Note: In order for your product to compete with all the other resell rights products out there, you’re going to have to have graphics done. These graphics will consist
of a header and footer for your sales page, and a graphic image of your product.

Price: $100

You can also find someone at the freelance sites I listed above to do your graphics, or you can just search the search engines.

5. Polish your product up. If it’s an ebook put your ebook graphic in it, and make the formatting look nice. You can even use one of my products as an example if you
would like.

Note: Is what you could do here is hire someone to take your product, and polish it up. Send them over one of my resell rights packages and tell them you’re looking for
your product to look similar to this. I really recommend you doing this though, so you can put your affiliate links in, and really give it your personal touch.

6. Create your sales letter for your product, and make it into a web page.

Note: I actually should have put this as two steps, because you’ll need to have someone write your copy for you, and then take that copy and make it into a sales page.

Having sales copy written is VERY expensive, so you may want to buy a course on writing copy once you see the prices people charge for copy. If you’re looking for someone to set your sales page up, I recommend the people over at www.rentawebmaster.ca

Price for copy: $500-$2000 Price for sales page setup: $50-$100

7. Create a resellers package for your product. Again, you could use one of mine as an example. Note: You could outsource this too. Just send your product, sales page, and graphics to someone, along with one of my packages and tell them you want it put together like I put mine together.

However, you could easily do this yourself.

Price: $50

8. Upload your product and contact people who you know sell resell rights products, and give them your product to get it out there.

Note: Your same person that did your sales page could create a download page for you, and get everything uploaded to your server for you.

Once you have this done, give your product away to those who can sell it for you, and tell them they can have it under the condition that they will direct people to your download page to download the product. Why? Well, if you make your name a squeeze page, and tell them they have to give their email address to get the download link, you could also start building a list. Do this a few times, and you wont have to give your product to people. You’ll have your own list to market it to.

So with this technique, you could…

1. Make money off the affiliate links in your product.
2. Make a name for yourself.
3. Build a list

What more could you possibly ask for?

Resell rights products are the way that I have built my business so quickly and so profitably.

If this sounds like something you would want to do, I actually provide a service where we create resell rights products for you over at www.wecreateyourbusiness.com/index-resellrights.htm The prices I charge are going to blow you away I’m sure!

Okay, we’ve had a REALLY long talk about viral marketing today, and to end today’s conversation, I’d like to give you two free resources that will help you with viral marketing….

1. Mike Filsaime’s – Virology >>>>> www.tomeymarketing.com/free/virology.pdf

2. Tim Brocklehurst – The Viral Spiral Secret >>>> liztomey.com/blog/the-secret-to-viral-marketing-is-here/

Okay, tomorrow we’re going to be talking more about viral marketing and I’ll be teaching you how to build your list with viral marketing so stay tuned….

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Access All Your Google Accounts at the Same Time With Multiple Sign-in

2010-08-10T22:17:00.000+01:00

Access All Your Google Accounts at the Same Time With Multiple Sign-in: "

Would you like to easily access all of your Google accounts without using multiple browsers or special addons? Here’s how you can use the new Google Multiple Sign-in feature to quickly access all your accounts.

Google services permeate most of our online lives, and many of us end up using multiple Google accounts for different projects. You may have a personal Gmail account, a specialized one for your website, and another for using on public forums and comments. Before, the only way to access all the accounts would be to use multiple browsers or to use special extensions to sign in to multiple accounts at the same time. Now Google has made it easy to link all of your Google accounts so you can access them directly in the same browser.

Add Multiple Sign-in to Your Google Account

When you access any Google service, such as Docs or Gmail, you’ll see your Gmail address in the top right corner. To add multiple accounts, we’ll need to edit our Google account.

Head over to Google.com/accounts (link below), and sign in with your main, standard Google account. Make sure you use your primary account, as this will stay the main one you’ll see when you access Google services.

Click Edit beside Multiple sign-in under the Personal Settings section.

Select the On – Use Multiple Google Accounts in the same browser, and check each box to show you understand the limitations and features of Multiple Sign-in. Not all of the Google apps currently support it, but most of the main ones such as Gmail and Docs work great with it. Click Save at the bottom when you’re done.

You’ll now see a confirmation in the top of the page. Click the Back link to go back to your Accounts settings page.

You should now see a down arrow beside your Google account. Click it, and then click Sign in to another account to add another account.

Now you’ll see your second Google account when you click the down arrow beside your email address. Your first, main account will be listed in bold as Default. Click the other email address to switch to that account.

If you’d like to add another Google account, simply click the Sign in to another account link again to add it.

Remove a Linked Account

Would you like to remove the extra accounts you added? Unfortunately there isn’t currently a way to remove just one linked account, so you’ll need to turn off Multiple sign-in to remove the accounts. To do that, login to your Google Accounts page as before, and click Edit beside Multiple sign-in.

Click the Off bullet near the bottom, and click Save.

Once you’ve saved the changes, you’ll only have access to your main Google account. If you ever decide you’d like to add the second account again, repeat the steps above. Note that this fully removes the data about your second account from the first account, which is great if you accidently added your account to the wrong Google login.

Conclusion

Whether you have multiple personal Gmail accounts or use one for business and one for personal use, this is a great way to keep your accounts together. Unfortunately you cannot access your Google Apps accounts this way, though you can already be logged in to a Google Apps account and a standard Gmail account at the same time. Google Apps account support will be added to this eventually, but for now, it’s a great solution for accessing any of your standard Google accounts without logging off and on or using workarounds.

If you’d like to send and receive email from other email accounts, including Hotmail accounts, inside Gmail, here’s an article on How to Add Pop3 Email Accounts to Gmail.

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Add Google Friend Connect to a WordPress Blog

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Add Google Friend Connect to a WordPress Blog: "

Lots of mis-information surrounds how to add Google Friend Connect to a WordPress blog. Here is how to do it the right way

You can see in the beginning of this Google Friend Connect video, how Larry Brauner was having lots of problems using the HTML widget in WordPress. Do Not use the widget system in WordPress if you can avoid it. Here’s how to easily add these gadgets to WordPress code directly.

It’s easy, just watch this short video….. (Best in HD, click full screen)

Also if you are using an older version of WordPress your Google Friend Connect may not work. Use this fix by adding the code Google supplied me with just above the Google Friend Connect gadget code.

However since I upgraded my WordPress version to 2.9 I am having no problems with Google Friend Connect now.

Official Google Blog: Update on Google Wave

2010-08-05T19:24:00.001+01:00

Official Google Blog: Update on Google Wave

We have always pursued innovative projects because we want to drive breakthroughs in computer science that dramatically improve our users’ lives. Last year at Google I/O, when we launched our developer preview of Google Wave, a web app for real time communication and collaboration, it set a high bar for what was possible in a web browser. We showed character-by-character live typing, and the ability to drag-and-drop files from the desktop, even “playback” the history of changes—all within a browser. Developers in the audience stood and cheered. Some even waved their laptops.

We were equally jazzed about Google Wave internally, even though we weren’t quite sure how users would respond to this radically different kind of communication. The use cases we’ve seen show the power of this technology: sharing images and other media in real time; improving spell-checking by understanding not just an individual word, but also the context of each word; and enabling third-party developers to build new tools like consumer gadgets for travel, or robots to check code.

But despite these wins, and numerous loyal fans, Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don’t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the year and extend the technology for use in other Google projects. The central parts of the code, as well as the protocols that have driven many of Wave’s innovations, like drag-and-drop and character-by-character live typing, are already available as open source, so customers and partners can continue the innovation we began. In addition, we will work on tools so that users can easily “liberate” their content from Wave.

Wave has taught us a lot, and we are proud of the team for the ways in which they have pushed the boundaries of computer science. We are excited about what they will develop next as we continue to create innovations with the potential to advance technology and the wider web.

Posted by Urs Hölzle, Senior Vice President, Operations & Google Fellow

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My 28 Day Rinse and Repeat Plan To Huge Amounts of Laser Targeted Traffic

2010-07-28T22:37:00.001+01:00

My 28 Day Rinse and Repeat Plan To Huge Amounts of Laser Targeted Traffic

Oh the warrior forum...so many new internet marketers looking for the right path to take to reach millions of dollars and some just trying to make rent next week. I was there. I know the feeling most of you are going through not seeing any success.

I thought today I would share my 30 day strategy that I have used on every single one of my authority niche sites. I've also been teaching my friends this strategy and now 3 of them are full time internet marketers. So, I know this works. There is no secret to any of this. It's simple stuff.

The main thing you must realize before you read anymore is that it's all about consistency. Search engine rankings, traffic generation, etc are all about consistency. In the beginning, if you want to see results sooner then later then you MUST do your required work everyday. If you follow the exact steps I am about to show you, then you will make money.

This guide is about traffic generation. If you want to make money from the traffic, then you better have some sort of sales funnel set up. Either create a product or be an affiliate. It doesn't matter because you will make money either way. I like to start with an affiliate product in a niche until I have some good traffic coming, then I create a product. In a matter of how long it takes you to create the product, you just doubled/tripled your income.

On to the guide.

Day 1

* Write 7 Articles (have them automatically posted 1 a day using wordpress)
* Create accounts for social media sites Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Foursquare (whatever else you like...I only use these)
* Create 30 days of social media messages (5 messages per day)
* Sign up to hootsuite.com and upload all 30 days of messages to be sent to those social media sites automatically.
* Add 50-100 followers, friends, etc on all social media sites (from now on when I say SM duties, you know this is what I'm referring to)

Day 2

* Record 7 Podcasts (just read what you wrote for the 7 articles the day before as material...this takes maybe 30 minutes)
* SM duties
* Find 5-10 popular forums in your niche...make accounts...pretty up accounts with info, pictures, links, etc.
* Find 5-10 other bloggers in your niche and contact them about link swaps/guest post swaps

Day 3

* Create 7 Videos (use the exact podcast recording with a screen capture of a slideshow for each video)
* SM Duties

Day 4

* Turn 7 articles into PDFs
* SM Duties
* Backlink Duties (From now on when I say BL duties you know it's referring to the list below)
o Post 1 article to directories (I use ArticleBot, manual submit to EZA and GoArticles, spin twice and post to Buzzle and iSnare)
o 5-10 relevant blog comments on related blogs
o 1-10 forum posts per forum you found
o Submit 1 video with TUbeModul
o Submit 1 podcasts to radio websites (I usually make an iTunes channel for each niche...there is a WSO on it somewhere I think)
o submit 1 PDF to scribd
o Optional : 5-10 backlinks from high PR sites (I used to use angela's backlinks...but rarely do this anymore...it's been unnecessary for results)
o Social Bookmark everything with OnlyWire

Day 5

* Write 3 press releases (1 about your website, 1 about something you are giving away, 1 about your product you're selling)
* BL duties
* SM Duties

Day 6

* Submit 1 press release to as many free or paid sources as you like
* BL Duties
* SM Duties

Day 7

* BL duties
* SM Duties
* Find 5-10 sites to link swap or guest post
* interact with people who have contacted you on SM sites

Day 8

* Write 7 Articles
* SM duties
* BL duties

Day 9

* Record 7 Podcasts
* SM duties
* BL duties
* Find 5-10 other bloggers in your niche and contact them about link swaps/guest post swaps

Day 10

* Create 7 Videos
* SM Duties
* BL duties

Day 11

* Turn 7 articles into PDFs
* SM Duties
* BL Duties

Day 12

* BL duties
* SM Duties

Day 13

* BL Duties
* SM Duties
* interact with people who have contacted you on SM sites

Day 14

* BL duties
* SM Duties
* Find 5-10 sites to link swap or guest post

Day 15

* Write 7 Articles
* SM duties
* BL duties

Day 16

* Record 7 Podcasts
* submit 1 press release
* SM duties
* BL duties
* Find 5-10 other bloggers in your niche and contact them about link swaps/guest post swaps

Day 17

* Create 7 Videos
* SM Duties
* BL duties

Day 18

* Turn 7 articles into PDFs
* SM Duties
* BL Duties

Day 19

* BL duties
* SM Duties

Day 20

* BL Duties
* SM Duties
* interact with people who have contacted you on SM sites

Day 21

* BL duties
* SM Duties
* Find 5-10 sites to link swap or guest post

Day 22

* Write 7 Articles
* SM duties
* BL duties

Day 23

* Record 7 Podcasts
* submit 1 press release
* SM duties
* BL duties
* Find 5-10 other bloggers in your niche and contact them about link swaps/guest post swaps

Day 24

* Create 7 Videos
* SM Duties
* BL duties

Day 25

* Turn 7 articles into PDFs
* SM Duties
* BL Duties

Day 26

* BL duties
* SM Duties
* submit press release

Day 27

* BL Duties
* interact with people who have contacted you on SM sites
* SM Duties

Day 28

* BL duties
* SM Duties
* Find 5-10 sites to link swap or guest post

RINSE AND REPEAT

What this does is generate huge amounts of content quickly. It spreads it all across the web so there are so many ways to see your site it's sickening.

After about 3 months, your content is going to be old enough for google to give it some love. You will start to see so many random visitors from keywords in your articles that you didn't target it's ridiculous.

The longest day is about 6 hours of work when you do it all yourself. Your going to average 3-4 hours. Outsource and you could average 20 minutes of work.

Now, the trick to getting big money from this is to perfect your sales funnel, article structure, keyword choice, squeeze page...pretty much your process. Even with a crappy system, you could see good money coming in.

I suggest as soon as you have enough money coming in to outsource. All of the above steps can be outsourced...every single one of them. I suggest making a screen capture video of the exact process you take of submitting and creating everything...then you have something to send your outsourcers and you know they will get it right the first time.

I like to add doing a once a week webinar/teleseminar in there too. It builds authority alot quicker and the viral effect of giving webinars rocks. Only takes an 30 minutes - hour and you can just rehash topics you've written articles on.

As you can see this is all about consistency. My latest niche site has been up for 28 days and I had 320 visitors yesterday...that's without any search engine traffic too. SERPS usually take 3-6 months to kick in then you just have traffic out the ying yang.

Things to help you get better results with this system:

* Learn how to effectively write articles
* Learn how to effectively do keyword research
* Learn how to effectively target keywords in articles, videos, podcast descriptions
* Learn how to use a website to direct your viewer to your sales funnel (good squeeze page, good video presentation, etc)
* Learn how to email market well (All my content sends my viewers to my squeeze page which gets them on my email list...this is the only way I sell things..it might take a week or two longer to get a sale from the visitor but it increases my conversion rate from around 3% to 6%...doubled income)
* Learn how to network (guest posts, link swaps, and social marketing platforms can bring you thousands of visitors a day alone when done correctly)
* Learn how to position yourself as an authority (the articles, videos, podcasts, webinars, press releases, forum posts all help this a lot...don't act like a new guy in your industry though)
* Don't be afraid to take a day off (even though this is a 28 day plan, you don't have to do it in 28 days. You can spread this over 3 months if you want. The results won't come as quickly, but they will come.)

Okay, that's enough for me. I haven't posted about internet marketing in a while. I think I was getting the shakes. I've been working with too many small businesses that aren't even ready to learn this stuff...guess that's why they pay me the big bucks to hire someone else to do it .

You can do this.

Travis

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Being lazy will claim your success....

2010-07-21T22:42:00.001+01:00

"Quick Tip..."

Just a quick reminder… it’s always easier
NOT to achieve your goals than it is to
create your success. "And it has absolutely
nothing to do with the goal itself"!!!

The fact of the matter is that being lazy can
claim your success…it can be the determining
factor in you living your dream versus only
dreaming about living.

In making the choice to succeed, first make the
choice to put in the work required…chose never to
be lazy about your success…make it happen!!!

Article Writing | The Samantha Milner Blog

2010-07-21T22:36:00.001+01:00

Article Writing | The Samantha Milner Blog

Article Writing has become the pinnacle of the success of an online business to create the ultimate level of SEO. I for one could not live without it now and I have discovered how great it really is.

It can create many links back to your Website or Blogs. Creating an instant stream of traffic with very little effort. Even if you do outsource this part of your business you can still do it for an extremely good price. If you shopped around you could even do it for as little as $5 an article.

Away from the Bum Marketing Method that we either love or loathe the use of good quality articles can really make a difference to your business. If you market them correctly it is not difficult to appear in Google in a matter of a few short hours with high regarded keywords.

Through years of practice I have learnt how to market an article just right and most of all how easy it really is. I could take someone off the street who has no experience and teach them in a day how to write, submit then market their article.

The secret to writing good quality articles is to find something that you have a real passion for and write from the heart. At the same time making sure that your very first paragraph includes at least five keywords without making it obvious. Once you have submitted your article and it has been approved wait five days and then re-submit it to at least 10 article directories.

Here are my favourite ones and simply pick ten that you like….

http://www.ezinearticles.com

http://www.goarticles.com

http://www.1888articles.com

http://www.article99.com

http://www.articlealley.com

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http://www.content-articles.com

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http://www.talkinmince.com

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http://www.articledashboard.com

http://www.freearticledirectory.co.uk

http://www.ideamarketers.com

http://www.affsphere.com

http://www.amazines.com

When you do re-submit your article make sure that you use the Bio Box to point it towards the original article adding even more backlinks to it. Some marketers will tell you to point your re-submitted article to your Blog but I disagree. By doing it my way all the traffic will go to the original article which then provides lots of traffic through to the links in your original Bio.

Once you have done this you will need to Bookmark your article to at least 12 Bookmarking sites and this is when the ranking really goes crazy!

If you get into a good routine of sending live two articles a day the results will come a lot sooner than you realise and your traffic levels will be amazing.

To your online success

Samantha

How do you check Keyword ranking from a different IP address?

2010-07-21T21:56:00.001+01:00

How do you check Keyword ranking from a different IP address?

Google Rank Checker:
Google Rank checker Rank Finder Position checker Google Position Checker

Position Checker, Position Finder
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Exactly what will it require to make money online as a beginner?

2010-07-21T21:11:00.001+01:00

Exactly what will it require to make money online as a beginner?

In the event that you are looking to make money online as a beginner you will need to discover an Internet Money making talent 98% of the whole World doesn’t get!

We are speaking about the skill of mastering how to compose an internet venture website that is completed in a way that it provides plenty of no-cost visitors to it.

Almost anybody can construct a impressive looking site on the web today using the existing technology. Nevertheless, very few people recognize how to put together a on-line site that’s optimized to push FREE visitors to it.

Large distinguished corporations with infinite funds continue to make elaborate internet sites which attract zero prospects! They engage degreed computer professionals for hundreds of thousands of $$$ who have proficiency in the right way to pull basically all the computer software programs together and assemble a pretty web page.

The above-mentioned brains employ the high-tech knowledge to do this, though they know and understand clearly nada on how to drive zero cost traffic to these web sites. Without a doubt net traffic equals online profit.

They do not comprehend optimization and these professionals don’t know online marketing.

But a person which invest the time to realize just what the online search engines in fact want on a website will brush aside all these commonly called crackerjack web pages and create a webpage which pulls an abundance of FREE traffic to it. And such a thing may be performed for little or no investment.

The search engines couldn’t give a hoot less towards lavish flashing artwork, colorful banners, and color visuals. The thing they seek is articles!

Simply put, content is INFORMATION. Internet surfers occupy the web for one major reason…to learn INFORMATION.

They type the idea of the material they intend to know better about at the search engines. These people are wanting info about their own endeavors, interests, and line of work.

Companies on the worldwide web and in the real world are different.

Offline business owners win with LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION. Web-based businesses thrive with INFORMATION, INFORMATION, INFORMATION.

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Viral Marketing - A Case Study

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The Challenge � The Challenge

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The Challenge � The Challenge

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The Challenge Forum

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Wednesday the 17th of July 1940

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Wednesday the 17th of July 1940

Day: The I.C.I. Factory at Ardeer, Ayrshire was bombed by a few He 111's of KG 26. Light attacks on the South East coast. Shipping attacks further up east coast and off Scotland.
The first Polish R.A.F. Squadron, No 302 Polish Squadron was formed on this day.
R.A.F. first sights 'Seelöwe' (Sealion) activity taking place in occupied Channel ports.

Night: Light raids in south west. Mine laying in the Thames Estuary and the Bristol Channel by He 115's of Fliegerdivision IX

Losses: Luftwaffe 4: Fighter Command 2.

Weather: Less cloudy with light rain at times.

1940, battle of britain

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"Goodbye To Google!"

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Working Online - Profit Miracle

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When searching for work at home opportunities, try searching for the
magic keywords "Work
from the comfort of your home" and "work online".
Take a look at your computer - Are you aware that this simple and
ordinary gadget where you play computer games or find friends on
FaceBook is like the genie in Aladdin's lamp? Your internet can be your
gateway to a good source of income. Even if you are now gainfully
employed, it is still better to plan another source of income. The
"last in, first out" policy is usually what corporations and a lot of
industries follow in dismissing or in retrenching their employees. The
internet has come to the rescue by providing opportunities during the
economic crisis.

What does working online mean?

- Your only requirements for working at home is being
computer-literate, having a computer and having a internet connection.

What are the advantages in online employment?

- Being a online employee, you are given the choice of working
part-time or full-time as with any commuting jobs. Also, you can choose
to be paid bi-weekly, monthly or get paid on a per project basis with
online job employment.

- By working at home, there is no boss to monitor what you are doing
and you do not need to perform other tasks.

- The advantages of online employment are, you are working from home
and therefore there's no need to commuting, you eliminate the hassle of
dressing up and leaving the house and now you can spend more quality
time with your family.

Which online jobs are available?

- Network marketing - You will be selling products and services and
at the same time. You will also need to organize your own sales force
and for every sales of your member, you get extra commission. This is a
low risk type of occupation and only need your sales charisma.
Telemarketing - Your only activity is to sell a product or service on
line. This is an amazing way to earn and it gives you rich potentials.

- Tutoring online - You will be working for an inter based outlet.
You will be tutoring students of all ages in several subject areas.
Working hours are flexible depending upon the student's schedule. Only
requirements is a college education and teaching experience.

- Freelancing jobs - As a freelancer, you are working for yourself
and you need to promote yourself. You are an independent contractor
offering your services to clients in various fields as in writing,
sales, marketing and promotions.

- Writing/copywriting - There are plenty of writing jobs on line.
You can write eBooks, articles, resumes, for website contents, press
releases and others. The requirement is good English and grammar.

How can you tell if this home job is a scam or legitimate?

- Legitimate work from home jobs also maintain permanent websites.
Check out the job listing. Testimonials and photos are not really
reliable security of a legitimate any more when searching for online
work.

Start an online business.

- By starting your own business, you can create an additional stream
of income which is completely automated. The best part about creating
your own business is that you will be your own boss and you can
determine your own working schedule. Starting an online business can be
easy to begin and you can do it even if you have a full time job.

Fast facts about running an online business:

- Expectation to achieve wealth fast, laziness, procrastination,
over-anxiety, frustration and fear of failure. This type of livelihood
is easy and risk free and its income potentials are great. This is not
a quick-rich opportunity and does not promise an immediate large
income. A detailed plan for execution and how to go about organizing
your business are provided. These positive attitudes are your bridges
to success.

Affiliate Marketing

- With affiliate marketing, you will receive large commissions just
by referring customers to some good quality products or services.
Affiliate marketing is similar to a referral scheme. Affiliate
marketing is a procedure in which a business rewards one or more
affiliates for each visitor or customer that buys a product. Later,
there are also secondary affiliate participants:the affiliate marketing
agency, super affiliate and specialized 3rd parties. Here, you will
refer online surfers to a selection of products or services and in
return, you are rewarded with your affiliate commission. You will
follow this procedure

- The affiliate agrees to promote a merchant's goods on a website.

- Resulting in a commission given to the affiliate.

- A potential new customer looks at the affiliate's website. An
action, such as clicking, results in the viewer entering the website.

Tips:Follow these simple guidelines for successful marketing online.

Be wary of parasites or scums that try to redirect, overwrite and
intercept your visitors. Work at perfecting your system, be persistent
and dedicated to make it work. Your niche must contain from 3 to 4
merchants, not just one. You can make your network the best by the
tools provided to you. Choose a product or service that you know or are
familiar with. Educate yourself by learning as much as you can about
it. Get a top-level domain (TLD), use a name and some cheap but
reliable hosting. There is no specific best network. Content sites are
sites that provide all the information about the product.

What is Profit
Miracle?

Using Profit Miracle, you will have a product that points which
products are money-making niches and from here, you can read about the
product. Profit Miracle is not very hard to pick up and learn and it is
not using simple unneeded products. Profit Miracle contains a generator
which provides unique articles from using your inputted keywords.
Profit miracle is not a rehashed over used method that has been fully
saturated. As soon as the Profit Miracle system is activated, this
machine starts generating income for you. Profit Miracle is the easiest
way to make money that is automated.

Benefits in using this the Profit Miracle system. There are many
advantages you can gain, once you activate the Profit Miracle system:

- You do not need to be an expert in websites because it is very
simple to set up.

- The articles will attract readers who in turn will get them into
the traffic to visit your website with its affiliate link.

- You only need to wait for the activity and the results will start
instantly as you copy the articles.

- In this kind of work, you only search for the things you like.

Where did the system get its name, Profit Miracle?

- The creator of the machine shared his system with the members of
his community because he wanted to help those who are affected by the
recession. Profit Miracle is income generated by traffic resulting from
one article. The creator discovered that many of them strive to improve
the system so it gave better results. Since the Profit Miracle system
simply promotes other people's products, it does not need an inventory.
Now it is fully controllable in terms of generating profits and
handling traffics, thus the codename Profit Miracle. In the Profit
Miracle system, you just choose and then activate. Use Profit Miracle
the machine campaigns by copying exactly the same campaign that insures
the same top dollar results.

The Profit Miracle system is recession proof and it is rather
recession reversing. Profit Miracle helps people come out of their
recession-mentality. The money comes into your bank account on
autopilot.

How does Profit Miracle work.

Profit Miracle further to explains how you can promote the products
without any extra cost and using minimal efforts. As you log into the
Profit Miracle system, you will be copying the campaign that you want
to use and next, promote that product. The function of the Profit
Miracle control panel is to help you make as much money online by
leveraging the power of billions of hit in cyberspace. By using the
Profit Miracle carbon copy, you will never have to work another day job
again, no boss, no financial worry and no more broken promises to pay
your credits. As to the question of where is the catch of the Profit
Miracle system, there is always something you need to do and spend, in
this case, you need to buy the Profit Miracle system in order to start
working. Then you can proceed and find another niche that you think
will make money and set it up with just a few steps and clicks. Profit
miracle takes care of the traffic and provides the articles to be
submitted.

What does Miracle Profit give you?

- It points out which outlets do not work so you can eliminate it
and save your efforts.

- It increases your bank account on demand with no recess.

- It provides the most obscured niche lists, around 60 of them.

- It gives you a unique article generator which performs research
for you.

- This system offers actual and real profiting campaigns which are
in high demand and high traffic niches.

- It gives you the privilege of never working again or for others in
your entire life.

Benefits derived from the Profit Miracle system:

- If you are not satisfied, you are given a 60 days money-back
guarantee.

- You are able to use 50 of their best Free Traffic Campaigns.

- You pay a one-time only fee to access the system and no more
charges will be collected.

- You can easily manipulate the control panel.

- Just by following 9 easy steps, you discover top secret to make
money contained in their online videos.

Good Profit Miracle aspects:

- Its automated traffic and articles submitted are practical since
users do not want to write and submit articles. Control panels are easy
to use and nicely laid out. The Profit Miracle is beneficial for
experienced internet marketers but a challenge for some newbies.

The Profit Miracle system is true to its name, it is a miracle,
indeed, for aside from all its money making benefits, it reverses
failure into success. Profit Miracle is the future of affiliate
marketing wherein you are using all free and at no cost methods.

Want to
discover how an internet newbie made $35,867 in his first 14 days?

Success With SFI

2010-03-07T18:03:00.001Z

If you want to become successful in SFI, there are really just three things you must learn to do:

1 - Refer TripleClicks Members
Why refer TripleClicks members? Because the commissions you'll generate when they make purchases are big (up to 72% of CV). And for the work you do just once of signing up a member, you can keep earning those big commissions for years to come.

2 - Sponsor Affiliates
Like #1, every affiliate you sponsor can represent an ongoing income stream for you, because as their sponsor, you can earn a portion of everything they do (and also on multiple generations of affiliates that develop below them).

3 - Duplicate
Sponsoring an affiliate doesn't stop when you sign them up. The whole point of sponsoring an affiliate is to "duplicate yourself." Indeed, this is THE most important part of your business! Hence, when you sign up a new affiliate, your goal is to see that they learn how to refer TripleClicks members and sponsor affiliates like you (including the duplication part). Do this and there's no limit to what you can earn!
Note, to help you excel at duplication, SFI provides dozens of great resources. These include your Genealogy, Affiliate Manager, SFIM, My Movers, Affiliate Reassignment, TC Credit Reassignment, a recognition forum, and more.

"What else do I need to know?"

Relax (it's not a sprint)!
Don't let yourself get overwhelmed by trying to learn everything in a few days or weeks. The reason SFI is so successful is because it has real substance - with more than 24 years behind it and literally tens of millions of dollars invested into building its system and infrastructure. Rejoice that your business partner is rock solid and you have such ample resources at your disposal!

"But there's so much information here, I don't know where to start!," you may be thinking. Stop. Relax. And remember that anything worthwhile in life takes effort. The KEY is to get started!! But start with what?
Just return to the top of this article. Start with the simple methods provided for referring TripleClicks members and sponsoring affiliates. Then start actively doing these methods! THAT'S ALL YOU NEED NOW.

Everything else -- all that stuff that looks overwhelming to you right now -- is really just tools and resources to help you with referring and sponsoring. So...take your time. Learn a little bit every day. Over time, everything will begin to make sense and you will be delighted that you have so many powerful tools with which to build your business.

The absolute best way to PRE-SELL your product

2010-03-07T17:14:00.000Z

There's a new Ebook I have just come across which I predict will become very popular. It presents a strategy for selling any type of product using methods which will never become obsolete. Plus an ingenious twist which will send your traffic rocketing.

The Ultimate SuperTip, written by Harvey Segal (Mr SuperTips) is neatly set out, easy to follow, written without hype and not littered with annoying links.

And the cost of this book ? It's free ! And it ends with an amazing idea for making you money from the book itself.

I'd rush to get this book now if I were you at http://budurl.com/YourSuperTips,

best wishes,

Jon Jenkins.

Google Sidewiki entry by Jonathan

2010-03-07T07:29:00.001Z

I like the share web page button

in reference to: Google Toolbar Installed (view on Google Sidewiki)

What Climate Change Then???(!)

2010-02-03T16:37:00.000Z

MIT Climatologist Richard Lindzen on the politiciziation of global warming science:
http://reason.tv/video/show/mit-climatologist-richard-lind (Recent videos - all excellent.)
http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv15n2/reg15n2g.html (Early article on the dangers of promoting draconian regulation and policy on the basis of faulty science.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lindzen (As usual, Wiki is not kind to Lindzen – there is a decided slant against him in this entry. As Alex Beam of the Boston Globe stated about Lindzen, “It's easier to call someone a shill and accuse him of corruption than to debate him on the merits.”)
http://eaps.mit.edu/faculty/lindzen/OpEds/LindzenWSJ.pdf (This 2001 WSJ article refers to the politicization of IPCC and NAS reports – away from the actual summaries provided by contributing scientists.)
http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008220 (Another WSJ article on the AGW intimidators.)
http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2006/08/30/mits_inconvenient_scientist/
(Yep, he’s an “Inconvenient Scientist.”)
http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/the_contrarian/
(Interview with Lindzen, in which he states on climate models: “It’s a kind of replacement for theory,” Lindzen said. “We’re finding students taking the model developed by someone else—never tested by them—and just turning knobs and calling that research. That’s akin to using a Ouija board.”)
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0809/0809.3762.pdf (Highly recommended as a meaty treatise on the bulk of Lindzen’s work and views.)

My Most Frequently Asked Questions at Parties (since 2002)

2010-02-02T11:12:00.000Z

My Most Frequently Asked Questions at Parties (since 2002): "

I started blogging in 2002.

Since that time the question I’m most frequently asked by strangers at parties who hear what I do has changed 3 times.

what’s a blog? (2002-2004)

how do you make money blogging? (2005-2008)

you still blog – doesn’t everyone Tweet these days? (2009-2010)

I wonder what’ll be next?

Post from: Blog Tips at ProBlogger.

My Most Frequently Asked Questions at Parties (since 2002)

Fact: The Hundreds Of Facebook Friends You Have Aren’t Real

2010-02-02T10:26:00.000Z

Fact: The Hundreds Of Facebook Friends You Have Aren’t Real:

"While it’s cool to show off that you have hundreds or even thousands of Facebook friends, the fact remains that the number is absolutely meaningless. Robin Dunbar, the Oxford Professor behind the original Dunbar number theory, is working on a new study to see if social networks have increased the size of our personal networks (as we postulated last June). The findings show that despite having numerous Facebook friends, “people maintain the same inner circle of around 150 people that we observe in the real world”.

While the findings aren’t exactly surprising, as it’s pretty well known that individuals don’t have the time to manage hundreds or thousands of friends, that Dunbar is the source of the new findings makes this significant. Another interesting finding was gender related: “There is a big sex difference though … girls are much better at maintaining relationships just by talking to each other. Boys need to do physical stuff together.”

There didn’t appear to be a distinction between age groups, however I’d guess that the soon to be released Dunbar report will have more information about various segments of the population. While Facebook users love to brag about the number of friends they have, or use the number as a source of confidence, the study confirms that the number is pretty much insignificant.

If you find that maintaining numerous relationships can be stressful, it’s not a personal problem. The fact is that your brain simply can’t manage an excessive number of relationships. So when your friend starts bragging to you about how many Facebook friends they have, just tell them that Dunbar (an Oxford professor) says their friend count doesn’t matter at all.

E-Commerce Associates added to SFI

2010-02-01T23:26:00.002Z

We are truly excited today to announce that the ECA (E-Commerce Associates) Program is now live and ready for our affiliates to begin promoting! In case you've missed our updates and "sneak peeks" over the past year that it's been in the making, here's a quick overview of the ECA program:
We will now be allowing commercial sellers and companies of all kinds, from around the world, to market their products side-by-side with our own products at TripleClicks.com. Every product will have both CV (Commission Volume) and VP (VersaPoints). We expect the ECA program, in time, to bring literally MILLIONS of new products into TripleClicks. Not only that, participating companies will be worldwide, meaning you'll be able to patronize businesses from right within your own country, region, or city. In some cases, you'll be even able to pick up the products from the merchants' local retail outlet, eliminating shipping fees altogether. This means you are soon going to have an ENORMOUS selection of products at TripleClicks to promote, sell, and buy. TONS of great products are coming to SFI. And great PRICES too...the same or lower prices offered elsewhere on the Web. And we've made it very easy for companies to plug in their products. Indeed, the ECA theme is "Plug into a world of new customers!" There's no cost for ECAs to upload their products and they can immediately begin taking advantage of the exposure and growing worldwide traffic of TripleClicks.com. It's a "slam dunk" for them, a total win/win.
So how are all these ECAs going to get hooked up with TripleClicks? That's where you, our affiliates, come in! You see, the new ECA program is a major new income opportunity in itself for SFI affiliates. As an affiliate, you can now refer ECAs and earn lifetime royalties on ALL of their sales worldwide generated from TripleClicks...for life! Simply refer companies that sell products to your ECA Gateway, e.g.
www.tripleclicks.com/8229826/ECA

For each company that becomes an approved ECA, you'll earn up to 6% of the CV on all of their sales at TripleClicks each month.
• 2% of CV if you are an Executive Affiliate (min. 1500 VersaPoints)
• 3% of CV if you are a Bronze Team Leader
• 4% of CV if you are a Silver Team Leader
• 5% of CV if you are a Gold Team Leader
• 6% of CV if you are a Platinum Team Leader

Earnings Example: You accumulate 4,200 VersaPoints this month and qualify as a Silver Team Leader. The total CV for all of your referred ECAs is $50,000. You earn $2000 in ECA Royalties this month (4% of $50,000 CV). The ECA referral program is very powerful because all you have to do is introduce an ECA to TripleClicks and you're all set to earn royalties for life! Every time anyone–anywhere in the world–buys something at TripleClicks from one of your referred ECAs, you earn a royalty! Here now are some questions and answers to further clarify some of the details of the new program and how you can get involved:

Q: How do I promote the ECA program?
A: Though there are virtually infinite ways to market the program, the bottom line is you just need to get your prospects to your ECA Gateway (see above).

Q: What happens once I get a prospect to the ECA Gateway?
A: The site provides all the details on the ECA program. If your prospect likes what he or she sees, he/she can click the included link to apply to become an ECA immediately. Applications are reviewed at SFI's corporate offices. Reviews will typically take no more than 1-2 business days. An email is then sent to the prospective ECA notifying them of acceptance or rejection. Provided they are accepted (most will be), they will receive access to a special ECA Admin area at TripleClicks where they can begin uploading products (individually or in bulk via data import). Their products are then added to the TripleClicks site and they're off and running.

Q: How will I know when I've successfully referred an ECA?
A: We will send you an e-mail notification. We'll also be providing, a little later, online reports at the SFI Affiliate Center of your ECAs, their sale activity, etc.

Q: What are the qualifications for acceptance in the program?
A: In short, we're looking for reputable, established companies that sell quality, non-controversial products. Companies must also be responsive to SFI requests, they must process orders promptly, and they must stand behind their products with appropriate return policies.

Q: I'm an SFI affiliate. Can I also be an ECA?
A: If you are a commercial seller of products and meet the qualifications noted in the previous answer, yes, we'd LOVE to have you participate in the program!

Q: How do I sign up for the ECA program?
A: Log in at www.tripleclicks.com with your SFI ID and password.

Q: Who will be credited as the Referrer on current SFI affiliates who become ECAs?
A: SFI will strictly maintain current lines of sponsorship. That is, if you have 20 personally sponsored affiliates, and ten of them apply and become ECAs, you will be the Referrer of these ten ECAs. Conversely, your current SFI sponsor will be recorded as YOUR Referrer.

Q: What if I don't want my current SFI sponsor to be my Referrer in the ECA program?
A: Then you will need to quit (opt out) of SFI for six month and rejoin under the sponsor you want.

Q: Should I promote the ECA program to businesses that are not online and/or that do not currently use the Internet?
A: At the very minimum, ECAs will need to be able to send and receive e-mails and be able to access the ECA administration webpages at TripleClicks.com to enter product information, etc. Frankly, any business that is not yet using the Internet is probably missing out on sales. You may wish to respectfully point this out and show them how easy our program makes it for them to get started doing business online. Indeed, all the heavy lifting is done for them. We're going to provide the eyeballs, take the orders for them, and handle all the payment processing. All they basically have to do is ship the orders that we forward to them to the customer. That's it.

Q: What if they already have a good Website?
A: Being an ECA will simply increase exposure for their products. They are under no obligation whatsoever to use or promote TripleClicks, but why not take advantage of the additional sales opportunities having their products in TripleClicks gives them?

Q: What about local businesses? Can I contact them about the ECA program?
A: Yes, we strongly recommend it. You might be shocked at how many would love to get their products exposed to a greater online audience. The ECA program provides them this (one of the fastest growing e-commerce sites in the world, with millions of visitors annually), the marketing muscle of SFI's tens of thousands of affiliates in over 190 countries worldwide, etc. And it's 100% FREE for them to get started and costs them nothing unless they are making sales!

Q: Can a business participate that does not wish to–or cannot–ship its products? That is, can I refer businesses that only wish to sell directly to local customers?
A: Yes. The ECA program offers a "Will-Call" option for local pickups of orders. When entering their products, the ECA can select this option while "opting out" of any product shipments. Customers will place their orders through TripleClicks. We will then forward the orders to the ECA and they will then prepare the orders for local pickup by the customer.

Q: There are many SFI affiliates in my city. So if I refer local businesses who offer "will-call" product pickups, all these affiliates can order their products at TripleClicks.com and then pick them up right here in my city without any shipping costs?
A: Yes! By doing this, you can completely eliminate shipping fees for yourself and all the SFI affiliates and TripleClicks members who live in your area. And think about this: SFI affiliates win because they can earn all the VersaPoints they need and eliminate shipping charges by buying locally. The ECAs win because they get new customers and sales that may continue month after month (think Standing Orders). And YOU win because you'll earn ECA Royalties on EVERY SALE...for life!

Q: What happens if my PRMs–personally referred (TripleClicks) Members–buy products from an ECA that I've referred to TripleClicks?
A: Something very good! With the combination of Customer Commissions and ECA Royalties, you can earn a whopping 78% of the CV on any sales generated! Similarly, buying from your own referred ECAs will generate "rebates" on your purchases because you'll receive ECA Royalties for these purchases on your next SFI commission payment.

Q: I've noticed from the the ECA Gateway that all ECA's are provided a free "store within a store" Website that features just that ECA's products that they can promote and use as their own company Website. Will I also earn ECA Royalties from sales here?
A: Yes. And keep in mind that millions of businesses still do not have an online presence yet. Or, if they do have a website to sell their products, they don't get much traffic. By participating in the TripleClicks ECA program, they'll have a basic e-commerce Website. And they'll be able to tap into TripleClicks' growing traffic (TripleClicks is already a top 20,000 site in traffic worldwide and is growing rapidly). So, yes, you'll earn commissions from ECA "store within a store" (SWS) sales and we expect many ECAs to actively promote their SWS. In other words, you may have many ECAs you've referred actively advertising their SWS Website–essentially advertising for YOU!

Q: Will you be providing training and/or marketing aids for promoting the ECA program?
A: Absolutely. We have five banners you can start using immediately HERE. And this is just the start. More banners and many other marketing aids are coming soon, including full-color brochures, envelopes, letterhead, fliers, and more. Brochures. letterhead, and envelopes should be available for order next week.

Q: What should be my game plan for signing up a bunch of ECAs?
A: Make a list of companies in your city, state, or country (and/or worldwide) you think would be good prospects for the ECA program. E-mail marketing will likely not be viable so try to get full postal addresses and/or phone numbers so you can mail literature and/or make phone calls if possible. Size-wise, small to mid-sized companies are probably your best bets. You'll have a much easier time getting through to the decision makers and they likely won't have layers and layers of management to stall action.

Q: You say that e-mail marketing will likely not be viable. Why?
A: For starters, SFI exercises a zero tolerance policy on spamming. You will need to be very careful if you are contacting business by e-mail unsolicited. Moreover, most businesses typically trash all unsolicited e-mails, so you'll simply be wasting your time. You will likely be much more effective using the phone, sending out literature (brouchures, postcards, etc.), or even going door to door in business districts. Of course, the other alternative is to advertise the ECA program in places where business owners will see the ad, allowing the BUSINESS OWNER to initiate contact.

Q: Are we limited to signing up only businesses that sell products?
A: For now, yes. However, in the works are additional program components that will allow you to sign up all types of service providers, restaurants, and more! Imagine earning VersaPoints whenever you dine out and earning royalties whenever a local SFI affiliate or TripleClicks member dines at the restaurants you've referred! All this and more is coming in 2010. Yes, a HUGE opportunity is being born before your eyes. Now's the time to get focused on SFI!

www.tripleclicks.com/8229826/ECA

Internet Marketing is Not Difficult.....

2010-01-22T22:14:00.000Z

- by Carrie Wilkerson:

Internet Marketing is not as difficult as some may imagine. I know what you’re thinking, but I’d like to you continue reading so you understand what is meant by that statement. When beginning or continuing any business you must realize that it takes work. Sure, some businesses require more work than others, but we can all agree that you must work for your success. With that said, understand that internet marketing is not any different. If someone tells you that you can make 6 figures in 30 days, run and don’t look back!
Internet marketing is different from an offline business but in some ways it is still the same. It requires hard work, diligence, focus and a vivid imagination. You must be willing to put all and every effort you can imagine to succeed but the results are worth it.

Let’s break down the word, internet marketing and notice that marketing is the main word. Yes, internet is important but marketing is where you will find your success. With an offline business you may market with business cards, advertisements, word of mouth, seminars, workshops and the list can go on. The difference with internet marketing is that you can reach many, many people with your marketing efforts. Some ways to market effectively are the following:
Article marketing – this has to be one of the easiest ways to market and the best part is that it can be ultimately free. Sharing information that is relevant to your business is essential. In order to market effectively with this method you must be consistent and make your articles interesting and useful. Providing information that is relevant to your client or customer base will increase your popularity and will instantly expert status. It is important to have your articles read, so be sure to submit to directories, and share on social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter to name a few.

Video marketing – one of my favorite ways to market to my audience. Your audience can see you, hear you and connect with you instantly when you incorporate videos into your marketing plan. Try to keep your videos short but impactful; you don’t want to bore your audience and that will happen if your videos tend to drag on and on. Just as your articles, your videos must share pertinent information that relates to your market and business.

Once you have mastered the above simple methods you can branch out and add newsletters, teleseminars, webinars and off line meetings. It is important to remember that as in any business, marketing involves your involvement and your persistence. You can not merely set up a website and expect your target market to find you. If by chance they do locate your site, be sure to have information that will attract them and keep them coming. You can be successful at internet marketing with a little sweat and tears, all is possible.

Will Smith on Success

2010-01-22T18:00:00.000Z

Stephen Pierce's 3 Step Internet Selling Process

2010-01-22T15:20:00.001Z

Google Sidewiki entry by Jonathan

2010-01-18T22:53:00.001Z

It really is free for 90 days! And the membership area has lots of great promotional tools.

in reference to: Smart Subscriber (view on Google Sidewiki)

Thought For The Day.....

2010-01-18T22:29:00.000Z

"Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it."

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, Poet and Essayist

Auto Rebilling: A dirty trick to avoid

2010-01-17T22:33:00.001Z

So how many times have you seen someone offer you a
free trial of something or other, but to get started
you need to provide a credit card number, or use your
Paypal account to sign up.

A lot of services or products even ask that you pay
ONLY $1 to start any sort of trial and act as if you
are getting an incredible value.

But what they are really doing is getting your credit
card number or PayPal account locked into their auto
re-billing feature and hiding behind their real motive
simply by telling you that it is for your convenience.

It is a well known fact that many people who offer
products or services are making more money due simply
to people forgetting to cancel these auto re-bills.

Now I'm not in any way speaking for all marketers.
Many do in fact provide great value and are trying to
make things easier, but it is also an overly abused
marketing tactic to make the product or service owner
a lot of extra recurring income.

You see a lot of unethical marketers know that most
of the time you will forget about the trial and a few
months later you will finally notice that you have been
charged XX dollars every month. Guess who makes a pile
of money that way. That's not cool man.

So it is something to watch out for when signing up
to any free trials of anything.

On a total flip side, here's an example of a guy who
has an insanely good free trial offer, but you don't
have to give your credit card or Paypal account up
front. It's just a free trial, because he believe it
works and is not hiding behind anything!

It's a no obligation 90 day Free Trial of what's
called the Smart Subscriber marketing system. His name
is Ian and he's been an online marketer for over a
decade and claims he will make you money through
affiliate commissions just to prove his service is
worth paying for!

With no credit cards or Paypal account stuff upfront,
I'd say that's a pretty rock solid and safe free trial.

Happy New Year, and New Decade!

2010-01-04T19:10:00.000Z

I hope the end of year holiday season has gone well for you. I think for many people, it is a time to reflect on how things are going in life generally, as well as in business. It's a good feeling sometimes to clear away old things and old ways of doing things, and make a fresh start. I've done a little bit of that, and decided to upgrade my marketing efforts with the Veretekk Platinum system. It's a huge step up, and makes you feel like anything is possible - such is the power of the system. One of the major benefits, is that it allows you to configure a Gold system really quickly. The idea with Platinum is that you can control many Gold systems at once, and you get 10 Gold accounts included with it. But also, you can use the Platinum control panel to set up other Gold systems by temporarily taking control of them. So, if you are building a team in a particular marketing company, you can make sure that they are all set up with the correct links and keywords. Being able to deal with the Gold systems more quickly also reminds you how powerful the individual Gold accounts are, when set up and utilised correctly. This truly is "Marketing At The Speed Of Thought"!

best wishes,

Jonathan Jenkins.

Win Friends And Influence People

2009-10-25T19:40:00.003Z

David King Leadership, business growth, Marketing, home business, make money online

Principle #1 – Begin with praise and honest appreciation.

Principle #2 – Call attention to peoples mistakes indirectly.

Principle #3 – Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.

Principle #4 – Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.

Principle #5 – Let the other person Save face.

Principle #6 – Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be “hearty in your approbation and Lavish in your praise.”

Principle #7 – Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.

Principle #8 – Use Encouragement, make the fault seem easy to correct.

Principle #9 – Make the other person happy about doing the thing you suggest.

Accessing Facebook

2009-10-08T21:50:00.001+01:00

I'm starting to use iGoogle more - on the one page I have now got Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, Gmail, as well as feeds of news etc, and I can put them anywhere on the page I like.

in reference to: Facebook Launching Updated Design (view on Google Sidewiki)

MagCloud

2009-10-08T00:53:00.001+01:00

Looks like a great resource - a physical product that can also make a great gift; a collection of photos for Christmas maybe?

in reference to: Welcome | MagCloud (view on Google Sidewiki)

Sidewiki

2009-10-06T20:57:00.004+01:00

Seems very handy - it'll get better as more people get to know about it. Also, for marketing purposes it's useful as I understand Sidewiki content will be indexed by the search engine.
in reference to: Google Sidewiki (view on Google Sidewiki)

Strangely, Sidewiki doesn't work with Google's own browser, Chrome. I expect they're all too busy playing with Google Wave, or Gwave as some people are referring to it now!

VisitorSpy - Watching Your Site's Visitors

2009-10-06T20:08:00.002+01:00

Worth a look - especially as there's a free account option:

http://www.visitorspy.com/?free-download=8530
in reference to: VisitorSpy.com | Free Web Site Tracking and Analytics | Matt Callen (view on Google Sidewiki)

There's a quick little demo on the main page - it basically records the actions of any visitor; and they actually show you a video of it!

Evernote for Windows

2009-10-05T23:44:00.002+01:00

I've just started trying this out:

Evernote for Windows | Evernote Corporation

Capture all of your thoughts, ideas, and inspirations, into a single place. Access everything whenever you need it from your PC, even when offline.

Features:

* Create notes containing text, webclips, snapshots, to-dos, PDFs, and more
* Take photos of everything from whiteboards to wine labels and Evernote will make them searchable
* Premium users can attach any type of file to their notes

Where will you use Evernote?

o Web Clipper
o Mac OS X
o Windows
o iPhone + iPod touch
o Blackberry
o Palm Pre
o Sony Ericsson X1
o Windows Mobile

Create notes using Twitter

How to Become an Early Riser

2009-10-05T21:04:00.003+01:00

from:
10 Benefits of Rising Early, and How to Do It

* Don’t make drastic changes. Start slowly, by waking just 15-30 minutes earlier than usual. Get used to this for a few days. Then cut back another 15 minutes. Do this gradually until you get to your goal time.

* Allow yourself to sleep earlier. You might be used to staying up late, perhaps watching TV or surfing the Internet. But if you continue this habit, while trying to get up earlier, sooner or later one is going to give. And if it is the early rising that gives, then you will crash and sleep late and have to start over. I suggest going to bed earlier, even if you don’t think you’ll sleep, and read while in bed. If you’re really tired, you just might fall asleep much sooner than you think.

* Put your alarm clock far from you bed. If it’s right next to your bed, you’ll shut it off or hit snooze. Never hit snooze. If it’s far from your bed, you have to get up out of bed to shut it off. By then, you’re up. Now you just have to stay up.
* Go out of the bedroom as soon as you shut off the alarm. Don’t allow yourself to rationalize going back to bed. Just force yourself to go out of the room. My habit is to stumble into the bathroom and go pee. By the time I’ve done that, and flushed the toilet and washed my hands and looked at my ugly mug in the mirror, I’m awake enough to face the day.

* Do not rationalize. If you allow your brain to talk you out of getting up early, you’ll never do it. Don’t make getting back in bed an option.

* Have a good reason. Set something to do early in the morning that’s important. This reason will motivate you to get up. I like to write in the morning, so that’s my reason. Also, when I’m done with that, I like to read all of your comments!

* Make waking up early a reward. Yes, it might seem at first that you’re forcing yourself to do something hard, but if you make it pleasurable, soon you will look forward to waking up early. A good reward is to make a hot cup of coffee or tea and read a book. Other rewards might be a tasty treat for breakfast (smoothies! yum!) or watching the sunrise, or meditating. Find something that’s pleasurable for you, and allow yourself to do it as part of your morning routine.

* Take advantage of all that extra time. Don’t wake up an hour or two early just to read your blogs, unless that’s a major goal of yours. Don’t wake up early and waste that extra time. Get a jump start on your day! I like to use that time to get a head start on preparing my kids’ lunches, on planning for the rest of the day (when I set my MITs), on exercising or meditating, and on reading. By the time 6:30 rolls around, I’ve done more than many people do the entire day.

Clocking It

2009-10-05T20:44:00.001+01:00

Just read about this on the Warrior Forum - sounds like it's worth giving a try....

in reference to: Clocking IT (view on Google Sidewiki)

Customising Blogger

2009-10-05T16:21:00.002+01:00

I've been hoping to find this info for a long time - finally I can hide the distracting google Navbar at the top of my Blogger blogs!
in reference to:

"<style type='text/css'>#navbar-iframe {display: none;}</style>"

- How to hide the navbar for New Blogger ~ Blogger Tips and Tricks (view on Google Sidewiki)

Now Is The Time:

2009-09-07T18:20:00.001+01:00

"If we are ever to enjoy life, now is the time, not tomorrow or next year. Today should always be our most wonderful day."

Thomas Dreier
Author

Setting Up A Home Server

2009-09-05T15:11:00.001+01:00

Home server - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A home server is a server located in a private residence providing services to other devices inside and/or outside the household through a home network and/or the internet. Such services may include file and/or printer serving, media center serving, web serving, web caching, account authentication and backup services. Because of the relatively low number of computers on a typical home network, a home server commonly does not require significant computing power. Often, users recycle older systems, and home servers with processors of 1 GHz and 256 MB of RAM are common[citation needed]. Large, preferably fast hard drives (ATA-100 or Serial ATA) and a network interface card are usually all the hardware required for home file serving. An uninterruptible power supply is recommended in case of power outages that can possibly corrupt data.

Stealth Squeeze Pages....

2009-08-30T11:35:00.003+01:00

Turn any WordPress blog into a "stealth squeeze" machine with these free plugins - WarriorForum - Internet Marketing Forums

another great post from Keith Kogane:

OMG - I've tried this on a couple of new blogs this past month, and compared to my previous efforts, I'm getting a HUGE response rate from this technique.

I only tried it in some pretty thin niches traffic-wise, but my opt-in conversions have nearly TRIPLED from the same traffic.

You MUST try this!

First, use this plugin to encourage people to make a comment.

WordPress plugin: What Would Seth Godin Do | Richard K Miller

This is very important - you want to push people MORE to simply COMMENT than to subscribe. This plugin shows a special message to new blog visitors on their first few visits, and then refrains from bugging them. (Note, you can also make a special message for return visitors, but I haven't used that feature yet)

Then, use this plugin, too.

Comment Prompt/Reminder • Tim Nash UK SEO Blog

This plugin will bug return users who have visited a couple of times and remind them to leave a comment if they like your stuff. It was designed based on the above plugin, but obviously behaves differently. I find these make a nice 1-2 combo to really push your visitors to commit to participating.

Next, you want to use this plugin.

Guru Consulting Services Wordpress Aweber Plugin

NOTE: Looks like Guru is updating their site and they lost this download page - the same plugin is still available from the WP repository though - get it there (link below) if the link above is down.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/...dpress-plugin/

That allows you to automatically subscribe your commenters to your aweber list. You can put a little checkbox message so they know they are subscribing or not, but this is the real power of this method. You're getting the reader to MENTALLY COMMIT to leaving a comment, so by the time the get to this point, they're already convinced to agree to this minor step.

Now, I recommend doing a double opt-in here, and offering to give them something good for confirming in your aweber setup. If you do that, you can even mention the freebie in your agreement checkbox I mentioned above.

You'll get more confirms that way, but it's not necessary. Get everything else working before you worry about this part.

Or if you want to go balls out, do a single opt-in list.

Now, here's where you really get the cool stuff happening.

Use this plugin:

Plugin: Thank Me Later | Making the Web

This will send your commenters an email thanking them for their comment a few days after they leave it. Plus, it will invite them back to the blog. If you're doing double opt-in above, this is a great opportunity to remind them to click the link in your confirm email. Or if you are only doing single opt, just remind them about the freebie they earned.

If you are moderating all your comments, you should use this plugin too:

Comment Approved Notifier Plugin v1.1 Yakup Gövler'in Not Defteri

This one is going to send them an email once you've approved their comment. For other stuff you can tell them, see above suggestions.

That's the system as I'm using it now, and it is working FANTASTIC on my niche blogs. I haven't used the below suggestions yet, but I want to include them because I plan to incorporate them as soon as I'm able. I think it will make the method even more powerful.

First, there's this plugin:

Subscribe to Comments 2.1 Tempus Fugit by Mark Jaquith

This will allow visitors to subscribe to email updates JUST to the comments on a particular post. This is an option whenever they fill out the form. Yet another way to hook them in and keep them coming back. Of course, I will remind them of this option everywhere I can.

This is especially useful on the blogs using the method I describe in "Another Automated Blog Tactic (Even Easier Than Before)" thread (linked in my sig) - because that method involves using a plugin that will rotate my old posts on a cyclical basis, this will be sending reminders long into the future and bringing old commenters back to my blog using a context they are familiar with.

EDIT: I removed another plugin I suggested here as apparently it's broken and won't be updated. I intend to look for another plugin that will alert a returning visitor as to what posts and comments are new for them. I don't think there's a single solution (since the plugin I referenced is broken) but there are a couple of possibilities that may work. If I find any, I'll post to this thread.

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Anyway, I hope you wordpress bloggers find that useful. I know it's working great for me, and I'm literally grinning ear-to-ear with the list-building possibilities this presents for my little blog empire!

NOTE: the above method requires aweber, simply because that's what I use for my list building. If you don't have or don't want aweber, there are a number of other plugins that allow you to use WordPress itself as a list manager (though none I've found will do autoresponders - just broadcasts).

Plan B?

2009-08-30T11:12:00.002+01:00

"Plan B" can still make you money when "Plan A" fails - WarriorForum - Internet Marketing Forums

Posted by Keith Kogane:

I wouldn't be anywhere in internet marketing today if it wasn't for my "Plan B".

The big overly-ambitious, ever-changing, never-starting genius million dollar website/product idea that you're always "working" on? That's "Plan A" and LOTS and LOTS of people in internet marketing have a "Plan A". I have one myself.

But the sad fact is, that "Plan A" is probably never going to happen for most (myself included). In this field in particular, it's very easy to have a vision that exceeds your grasp.

The fact is, if you're a newbie (or even a veteran IM hobbyist who has been at it a while but never made any money) you just don't have the experience and resources to pull off a "Plan A" kind of deal.

And I'm talking about these guru-style mega launches where you have JVs out the wazoo and monster-mega lists to mail your offer to. Believe me, all those guys that can clap their hands and make thousands - it's TRUE - but it was a long time coming.

But not ONLY that - it could be that you just have a great idea for a niche e-commerce store, or an awesome idea for a paid newsletter - or even MULTIPLE of these.

Probably hundreds of thousands have had really good ideas that WOULD have worked if they hadn't been attempted by unskilled amateurs. If you're like me, you have a whole graveyard of projects that died on the operating table, simply because I wasn't a good enough surgeon to make the attempt (yet).

This is where many, many people stop. Some give up and quit IM altogether, some just stay at this level forever, always trying the next big thing, but always coming up short, spending more on courses than you ever earn back with the info inside.

But you know what? I'm not ready to give up my "Plan A" yet. Heck, I've got at least FIVE "Plan A" projects in my head right now. They "fight" for my attention and brainpower constantly, and I foolishly flit from one to the other without ever making any real progress. Regardless, that's my DRIVE and I don't want to give it up.

So I'm NOT telling you to give up on your own "Plan A" - certainly not. You NEED to keep it warm. "Plan A" is great, because having that kind of mindset is what makes you a 2%-er. It's a fire in your belly. And ONE DAY it might be a fortune in your bank account. But not YET.

Because you have a whole lot of learning to do to get there, and Internet Marketing (like most things) requires you to learn by DOING. You can read all the ebooks in the world but until you actually TRY things and most likely FAIL, you don't actually learn a thing.

So I encourage you to keep trying at "Plan A" and even though it's going to be tough going, and you're going to probably mess it up royally PLENTY of times. I know I did!

But the fire in my belly for "Plan A" remains and that's because I had a "Plan B" to help prop it up and keep me going and actually STOP me from getting discouraged.

So since we know what "Plan A" is, what's "Plan B"?

"Plan B" is a backup that I created for myself that was the total OPPOSITE of my "Plan A" in every way.

"Plan A" is sexy and cool, "Plan B" is boring.
"Plan A" is clever, "Plan B" is kind of dumb (but it works).
"Plan A" requires lots of resources (brainpower and labor), "Plan B" requires minimal amounts of either and is INCREMENTAL, so it can be worked on a little bit at a time.
"Plan A" had no guarantees of working, "Plan B" had to be a sure thing.
While "Plan A" was to make a ton of money fast, "Plan B" was all about making teensy amounts of money FOREVER in a cumulative way.
"Plan A" needed to be PERFECT or it would never work, while "Plan B" was so simple it couldn't NOT work, even if you did it "wrong".

Every single day that I worked on "Plan A" without ending the day with money in hand from the effort, I FORCED myself to work on stupid old boring "Plan B". At least a little bit, EVERY SINGLE DAY.

I knew when I came up with my "Plan B" I would need to take my own natural weaknesses and make them into advantages. I needed to basically TRICK myself into doing a stupid, mindless, repetitive task that was PROVEN to make money, even though I'd rather spend my time doing something else.

That's why I made it like "homework" or a "punishment" for not being able to pull off "Plan A" yet.

I designed it to be BORING so I wouldn't get distracted and accidentally turn it into a "Plan A".

I designed it to be DUMB so I wouldn't have to think about it, I could just do it, even if I was mentally burned out from working on "Plan A" all day.

I designed it to be made almost completely out of copying and pasting, so that the labor was minimal, and I could do it in between working on other things and the efforts would add up.

I chose an EXTREMELY simple profit model so that no matter what I did, the money-making component was built-in, so it would make a profit regardless.

I'd heard over and over that perfection is the enemy of good enough. I'd heard over and over that all it took is consistent work to succeed. So I created a simple set of tasks that would MAKE me do that, without having to think about it.

But only after I'd indulged myself in my fantasy big-idea "Plan A" project for a while.

I could experiment and try every new technique under the sun for as long as I liked. But before I went to bed, I needed to spend an hour on "Plan B".

Very simple rules. Progress guaranteed.

Here's the "Plan B" that has gotten me where I am today.

Step 1. Find some keywords. I like to use SpyFu and Google's tools so you can estimate the value of those words. But to be honest, all you need to care about is "are people paying for it?" - if Yes, it's good.

Step 2. Search for free articles that contain those keywords. Article directories are numerous.

Step 3. Post those articles to a blog. Blogger suffices. At first I would create a bunch of posts as drafts and then just log in every couple of days and publish one. This allowed me to build many blogs pretty rapidly.

Step 4. Put some ads on them. AdSense is easiest, but I branched out into posting my own affiliate ads quickly and find that to be more profitable most of the time, but I almost always start with AdSense (or YPN, MSN, AdBrite, Azoogle - some AUTOMATED ad system).

Step 5. Build a few backlinks to an article I already published. To do this, go to Google News, Blog, or Forum search. Look for your keyword. Post a comment with a backlink anywhere you can from the results you get.

That's it. That was my whole "Plan B" in a nutshell.

As time went on, it continued to evolve and get refined and I started to make better choices about content and backlinks. Eventually, I was making enough with "Plan B" that I was encouraged to work on it full time.

Which was really cool, because it was EASY. I could daydream and think about "Plan A" while systematically copying, pasting, rinse, repeat.

And it DID take quite a while for things to get that way. I knew "Plan B" would work, but it was going to be slow. It took at least a year, probably slightly more, before I'd say the line was crossed and the work I put in at the beginning became worth it. But "Plan B" worked perfectly. It was consistent effort applied to a proven system.

There was no way that it could NOT be profitable. It took an hour a day, and inside of a year, it was paying my mortgage.

Now, I'm not telling you to copy my own "Plan B" because unless you happen to be a lazy daydreamer who hates to work, it may not be your style.

But I want to encourage you to develop your OWN "Plan B", especially if the size of your "Plan A" graveyard is looking depressing, and you've been at IM for a year and don't have any consistent income to show for it.

Find something foolproof and go at it like a fool (but a CONSISTENT fool) and you'll be amazed at where you find yourself when you were trying to go somewhere else the whole time.

NOTE: If anyone WANTS to try my "Plan B" above, once you make enough money to afford it, start buying domain names and then doing the same thing with WordPress installed on your own sites instead of relying on Blogger forever.

It shouldn't take very long for that to happen. Anyway, that's my story........

Article on Your Site or EZA?

2009-08-29T21:56:00.001+01:00

Article on site or EZA first ? - WarriorForum - Internet Marketing Forums

Here’s what I do with each and every article I create:

Step 1: Publish it on my own website/property first <– this is essential, the content is YOURS.. do NOT give it to a directory first. Putting your content first on a glorified made for adsense site like a directory is marketing suicide, put it on your website first.

Step 2: Tweak it a little and publish it to Ezine Articles. I honestly don’t tweak it that much but I like to anyway just so that it has some added flavour for distribution. Your goal with ezine is to get other directories to re-publish it too.

Step 3: Tweak and expand, using each of the main points for a squidoo module on a lens and build a squidoo lens around it. (hence my hundreds of lenses that turn profit for me). Squidoo lenses can be quick and highly profitable, once you get into the swing of creating them.

Step 4: Mass publish it wherever you like, use iSnare if you wish.. it’s a good service... get that content spread around!!!!

This has served me now for years, and I can’t even write articles that well.

Anything you hear about “duplicate content” rules is complete crap in most cases. The ONLY time duplicate content is an issue is when you have duplicates on the same domain.. like two pages that are mirroring each other on one domain.

5 tips for more cost effective AdWords

2009-08-27T21:25:00.001+01:00

Dear Advertiser,

Today, more than ever, it's hugely important to ensure that your
company's money is well spent.

With this in mind, we at Google have put together a short video
outlining 5 tips on very simple things you can do to help ensure that
your AdWords advertising is cost effective and successful in attracting
users to your website.

Video
<http://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=27339&utm_source=ProactiveEmail&utm_medium=Email1&utm_campaign=OptimizationTips>

Watch the 'Simple Tips for AdWords Success' video

and learn to make the most of your AdWords advertising!

Sincerely,

Mary

AdWords UK and Ireland Team

Enabling multiple ad networks in AdSense

2009-08-27T13:13:00.002+01:00

You'll soon be able to allow multiple ad networks to show on your pages, which means that advertisers from external Google-certified networks will be able to compete with

AdWords advertisers for your ad space.

If you're unfamiliar with what ad networks are, they're companies
that partner with advertisers and publishers to buy and sell ads
on sites that they don't own themselves, similar to AdSense. Ads
from these networks will compete with Google ads to show on
publisher sites, and the ad generating the highest revenue for
publishers will be displayed.

To ensure the quality of the ads appearing on your sites, we're
certifying all participating ad networks for adherence to our
standards for user privacy, ad quality and speed. You'll also have
control over which networks can show ads on your pages - you can
choose to opt out of receiving ads from specific networks, or all
networks completely. This means you can continue to show ads from
only AdWords advertisers if you like.

Finally, some ad networks use tools similar to Google's
interest-based advertising to show more relevant ads to users on
the sites they visit. These ad networks won't be permitted to
collect data from your site for the purpose of subsequent
interest-based advertising, but we'll allow those who comply with
user privacy guidelines to show ads using these tools. You'll have
the ability to opt out of showing ads based on user interests from
these ad networks, and we've changed our requirements for
third-party ad serving to reflect this. More information is
available at
http://adwords.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=94230&hl=en_GB.

These new capabilities will automatically be enabled for your
account, and you'll see a new section in your Ad Review Centre
where you can allow or block specific ad networks. Please note
that we'll gradually be adding new ad networks to AdSense accounts
over the next few months, so you won't see any immediate impact on
your ads or your earnings.

To learn more about this launch and managing the ad networks
appearing on your pages, visit the AdSense Help Centre at
https://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/topic.py?hl=en_GB&topic=13522.

Yours sincerely,

The Google AdSense Team

Google Insights for Search

2009-08-26T18:43:00.001+01:00

See what the world is searching for.

With Google Insights for Search, you can compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, time frames and properties. See examples of how you can use Google Insights for Search.

Categories
Narrow data to specific categories, like finance, health and sports.
Examples: Air travel, England vs. Scotland | Health, last 30 days

Seasonality
Anticipate demand for your business so that you can budget and plan accordingly.
Examples: Glastonbury in 2007, 2008 | Bonfire night in 2007, 2008

Geographic distribution
Know where to find your customers. See how search volume is distributed across regions and cities.
Examples: Ski - UK vs. New Zealand | soccer in Brazil, Italy, Germany, UK","/

Properties
See search patterns in other Google properties.
Examples: Product search UK, last 30 days | Puppies vs. kittens (image search)