If you are struggling to find out how to upload video, then check out easy video player!  It has revolutionized how you can

upload video.  I have personally bought this software myself.  The problem with trying to uplaod video is gettin the right code for you html.  A real nightmare sometimes, I for some reason have struggle to remember how to do it all the time.  When I moved to CS4 dreamweaver I found it was harder to use.  So for me I know how hard it is to insert an flv file and player onto a webiste and upload it online.  So the reason I am writing this post is that there is new software that has been released just today called easy video player.  It does exactly what it says on the tin, uploads video easily!   But it does a host of functions with regards to uploading vidoes too.  There is just to much to write about.  I have made this demo video I was that impressed.  The reason it is not on this page is part of the features that the software does.  It creates video page on the fly!  So go check out how professional it looks!

easy video player demo

For any  internet marketer that is serious about growing their income and business, you will at some point have to contemplate the idea of hiring staff that can do the labour intensive work for you.  yes you can get to some good online income, but real wealth comes from you being the entrpreneur and having a team of people working for you, a team that can for example do all the backlinking for you, the seo, the website creation, graphics etc.  You basically can have some one doing every aspect of your business instead of you, and most likely they will do it faster and better than you, if they are not you got the wrong people!

So here is what I know people are thinking, employees cost a lot of money, so you think the next option is to outsource.  Now you may or may not know of various sites that specialize in this such as; elance, get a freelancer, script lance and craigs list which are some of the most famous ones.  These sites are good places to start, in fact I have tried elance a few times, some great results, some ok,  some bad,  but these sites are really better for one of projects not for consistent repetitive and custom work which really you want to call the shots for.  For this you really should be thinking of outsourcing permanent staff on an independent contractor relationship. You will find that this is extremely cost effective and building a loyal team underneath you is essential.

Jeff Mills  is the outsource expert right now

So the question where is the best place to get great outsourced staff? Well it’s not india!  I have been burned there before, I have  to say it but it’s happening too many times to too many people.  Sure you will find some good people,but it’s not the most cost effective place anymore either. If you really want to know where to get the best people at very competitive prices just click here , my buddy jeff mills is an expert in this feild and he helps people understand exactly how to set up your outsource team in next to no time, Jeff answers the most common and frequenstly asked questions about outsourcing, so I’m not going to even try to attmept it, he  covers it in great detail check out the outseourcesecrets.com, You wil be stunned at how easy and economical  it is!

This week I am off to rub shoulders with other internet marketers over the course of a week in Las Vegas, I’m spending over 5 days networking and attending the PPC classroom seminars and also attending the first ever butterfly workshop with Mike Filsaime.  It’s going to be a heavy 5 days of content , and I’m really excited about it.  I’ll be posting the low down of what goes on here so stay tuned.  No doubt I’m going to have even more resources to use when I come back.

In Las Vegas I will be aiming to strengthen  my knowledge and network by listening to people like Mike Filsaime and key note speakers like Howie Schwartz, Anik Singal, and Micheal Morgan amongst others.

One thing I learnt a long time ago, is you must try to surround yourself  around other people who share the same passion and desire for success.

Hot news!  I am very shortly about to launch my new product ‘Backend Income Secrets’.  My 7 years plus as a pharmaceutical sales executive and e-detailing role combined with interent marketing is going to be hot.  It will go through all the various tools and concepts of growing and exponential business from ground zero.  Setting your Sales up to grow geometrically from the the inception is often where people go wrong.  I call it ‘overting the avoidable mistakes’. The product is going to be a home study course in high quality downloadable format, it will come with a transcribed  manual with extra information and resources.  It really will be a fantastic product packed full of high quality information and resources.

Read more about the concept of the backend income secrets and where I got the ide and experience from in my previous career selling phamaceutical drugs and the importance of this key concept to high sales growth and market share penetration.

I go through the fundamental of building a brand, creating a customer relationship and buidling unique value propositions not only for your products but right across your whole business.

Inside the Backend Income secrets you learn:

The most important thing to do before yo plan to sell anything online
How you can improve your lead generation through front end selling tactics
Three more ways to increase revenues at the point of sale
Increase conversion in lost slaes when people turn down your offer!
Sales flow process charts in full video explanatation so that you really get it
Designing and implementing your own products and backend to expolde your sales
An so much more including the pyschology of selling, insights into how you can use
3 killer words in your copy that can create a compelling value propostion to buy
I even have a unique tool called the value proposition tool which can creat a dynamite sales
copy for any product and feature!

Plus so much more…..

PPC Classroom live may 2009

PPC live event las Vegas 2009

So after an intense week in Vegas at the PPC classroom event where I got to bounce ideas of other marketers and get some of the latest insights to PPc and quality scoring for adwords from people like Howie schwartz, Simon Leung, and mark Ling, I can say I have pickde up some real gems in how to stay on the right side of google, I will be revealing all in short posts soon so watch this space!

Some interesting ways that google can be used to change the way you do keyword research.  Google actually gives you much of the information you need straight upfront.  Stay tuned for my blog posts to find out more.

PPC tips and tricks with Mark Ling

PPC classroom event las vegas

From my recent time in Vegas networking with some of the ineternet’s  top affilaites and marketer’s I found some great insight into looking at affiliate marketing from mark Ling a top super affilaite from New Zealand.

Here’s a synopsis of what mark recommends:

Look at products in click bank with a gravity over 30 to find realtive profitability. Also look at what mark calls blue ocean stratgies, that means don’t go for where all the sharks are competing for the same fish.  Look for where you have clear waters, less crowded marketplaces with good amounts of products that you can backend sales with ionce you drive traffic for a certain campaign.

One way to do this is to look outside of you own geographic country.  The US is the biggest market and also the most competitice.  Look at other english speaking countries not that it matters that much but it shouyd still prevent any issues around translations.  the UK, – (stay away!)  – just kidding and Australia and canada are ways of tapping into good markets and also the cost for PPC will be less inthese countres.

Look also at advertisng on other search engines such as Yahoo and MSN in other countries.  There will be less competition and more ROI per click.

One final tip is if you run ads spend some time making clickable banner style ads they are visually much moe appealing than just a plain boring text ad.

It is evident still that business’s are not completely embracing the major social media networking sites to really drastically change the way they can attract business online. Sure we are seeing a larger percentage of business owners starting up blogs and bringing video content into their ‘web real estate’ but still when you go to network meetings and ask around business owners are still behind in the power of really tapping into social media.

the four major social media networs to focus on for business

I was at the London networking event for ecadamy on recently and one of the presenters was talking about the very same thing as in how many people are actually twittering, how many people are leveraging of all the contacts they no on facebook? MySpace and linked in?

We all have hundreds of people that we can potentially network with, in fact if you think the average person is surrounded by an a community of hundreds right from primary school the potential is enormous.

You are only 2 degrees away from millions never mind the 6 degrees of separation. Think also of university as the thousands of people that are associated with an institution and you really can find new business very quickly.

So you really want to set up the 4 major traffic pulling and networking sites in my opinion that will have the most profound effect on your business they are:
1. facebook
2. my space
3. LinkedIn
4. twitter

Now it’s important to remember there is an etticate and way to go about social networking and you can’t use it as blatant pitch it’s another form of reciprocation that you need to do. You have to give value all the way that’s what the internet is all about!

In every blog post, every article every video you submit for content provide as much value as possible and not only will you enjoy doing it more, but you will also get a lot more satisfied people.

Over the next few weeks I’m going to look at how you best tackle these socail media platforms and how to leverage of it. I suggest you concentrate on one or two at the ost to start of with, I started with twitter and as you can see it’s growing at a very fast pace.

Set Up Twitter for Business Growth-  A guide – Web2.0 Social Media Series

Using Twitter for Business part 1 setup

Twitter – http://www.twitter.com

If CNN and major radio stations and TV shows are using twitter, something must be right?!

Ok I was at a recent networking event in London for Ecademy and the question was raised – How many people are using twitter for business, and other web2.0 social media platforms?

A ripple of hands go up in a room full of around 200-300 business people.  The light bulb moment hasn’t happened just yet.

So twitter in a nutshell is a micro blogging application limited to just 140 characters.  It’s a way to connect and update your thoughts or status of what you’re doing to the internet world.

It’s great because anyone can ‘follow’ your ‘tweets’ i.e. your comments. It’s really exploded recently with the advent of many twitter management tools which you must have to stay on top of twitter and to make it work for you in business which I’m going to go through soon.

Also because of the smart phone revolution especially the etc its super easy to stay on top of twitter and to keep everyone updated in real time.

Follow my blog posts to get the full low down on how to get your head around twitter, how to set it up and how we can all use twitters viral power to connect with the world and create more traffic, prospect and adding a customer relationship element to exciting customers.

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Setting up twitter

Go to http://www.twitter.com

Set  up your account using your preferred email. I am another advocate of Gmail it’s just is simply the best for managing large amounts of email traffic as you can filet, label and organize email like no other email system.  I also like to star people that follow me with a nice direct message wanting more interaction.

Your Bio

160 characters to make yourself sound interesting and stand out so that people can connect with you.  Give an informal approachable bio mention what you do your passion and maybe how you can help and some other interests- remember we want to create a connection and liking! Giving up stuff about you as a person makes people like and connect with you!

• Make sure you add a link to your business or blog or URL
• Make sure people know your location
• Make sure you have protect your updates turned OFF – if it’s on people won’t see your tweets!
• Direct messages – are private messages from other twitterer’s they enter your inbox so choose to accept or disable
• You also get inbox messages of who’s following , it’s good to scan through as you may pick up some key figures that you want to follow you etc. But certainly filter them away from your inbox and delete once you have read them

Make your twitter profile customized

I suggest you get a custom twitter background from: http://www.twitbacks.com/ or http://www.customtwitterbackground.com/ you can also get people to design them for you for around $20-$30 I have been sent a tweet on twitter  to get a custom twitter background for $27 other places can charge $30-$100.  . This can really be like a landing page for you with links and images for you to show off about your business or personality.

Get  a good picture of you in your profile so that people can see how you are and connect.

Ok that’s the basics in terms of setting up your account.  In my next post we are going to look at some important twitter tools to manage your twitter account and automate some procesess.

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Twitter for Business Growth- A guide prt2 – Web2.0 Social Media Series

part 2 Making sense of all the terminology

 Ok you have you account set up and you have hopefully spent some time customizing your profile albeit even with some basic colour changes etc. Now we need to know how to use it and what the terms mean.

 So here we go:

• Tweet – This is basically your content that you have posted in the 140 character limit.

• Handle – that’s your twitter name @yourname – balance short with descriptive and no matter what your business handle is get your personal name if you can even if you don’t plan to use it right now. – It’s like your URL and will have value some day.

• Follow – As it sounds when you choose to follow someone you receive their updates or ‘tweets’ on your homepage in twitter, and vice versa
• Replies – this is what it is called when someone writes a tweet directly at your handle – @yourname – it’s a way of connecting with a follower in a more personal way that engages them more.
• Retweet – this is a tactic of republishing someone else’s tweet – the original tweet along with author stays intact, but you are basically showing someone’s tweet to your followers – many people find this a great way to add content and acknowledge good stuff from the folks they follow.
• Hashtag #– this is a way people categorize tweets so that others might use the same tag and effectively create a way for people to view related tweets – it will something like #marketing – more on this in search.
• DM – This stands for a direct message and is more personal and can only be sent by people following each other. It’s a good way to Grab the other person attention and start a personal 2 way conversation, I like to filter my direct messages in my gmail account as well for ease of reference

 Ok that’s the terminology sorted, so you know what it all stands for , let’s start thinking of how we can utilise the power of twitter for you business: Think of twitter in these ways:

1. Twitter can allow you to connect with others in your market and network to start sharing your opinions and views – priceless for establishing your authority and getting your name and brand out there as point of expertise

2. Think of using twitter as an immediate live platform of what is being said about you, your organization, products feedback, surveys etc, the extent is truly unlimited. You can almost throw out some content or a product and ask for immediate feedback, how cool is that?

3. Gives you great insight into market research for products and services on what is being said in the twitter interface, again priceless information that would have cost you much more money doing it traditionally through follow up phone calls and snail mail etc.

4. A way of extending your reach from your own content blogs and websites to a community on twitter

5. You can also promote update and offers to your target audience through your tweets, although this is subjectively successful, as many people using twitter overuse this for plugging their offers especially for direct messages.

So get your priorities under your belt and figure out why and how you are going to use twitter. This will give you a great consistency in what you are doing and when you reach out to people they can have a level of expectancy.

 If you have a business that needs a support application think of using twitter!

With advent of customers who bought product tweeting issues to other customers the obvious was about to happened. Companies simply had to have a presence on twitter and be a support desk directly answering the issues arising. So if you fit that bill here’s what you should be doing:

Create a company support account and give it a company branded avatar. It’s worth creating your company avatar to show transparency and that you are that you are the real deal. Also make sure that you name says something like support@yourcompany. This way different people on support can use the account or if more dedicated support you can use their first names, but knowing the high turnover rate in support it may be better to stick to a generic name.

For the complete guide on twitter for business go get it from my newsletter and a whole load of other free guides just enter your mail address and start getting great info straight to your in box. Next blog post is going to cover how we can use searches in twitter and some important tool that you need to use to make twitter more efficient.

The essential tools for monitoring your brand, products and company using twitter:

 Here is where twitter for business really opens your eyes. Use a combination of these tools below and you Will start leveraging the power of twitter to gain important insight into your company and products or services:

Tweetdeck – Tweetdeck can operate a bit like your desktop dashboard to help you set-up searches for key terms and respond directly. It also lets you monitor more updates and a much more visible interface than the twitter homepage

 HootSuite – Hootsuite does a number of things, but for support one of the biggest tools is the ability to manage multiple accounts so you can easily jump back and forth from your personal account to the brand support account.

 Splitweet - Splitweet, Another pretty cool multiple twitter account manager that also allows you to monitor your brand mentions and has a mac desktop client.

CoTweet – CoTweet is built for the company or brand that wants to both serve and engage new prospects. Used by organizations that needs to have multiple people responding on the same account. But for now in private beta, so you’ll have to request invite. Some big companies are using the beta version such as Ford, Starbucks and Pepsi amongst others Yammer and

GroupTweet – These two aren’t really customer service tools per set, but that both have the nice function of allowing you send a tweet to a group of people you designate, so they are nice company twitter tools and could certainly be employed as a way to send information to an entire customer community. Alright these are the tools there are new ones creeping up all the time so keep an eye out for them. So we can have a way of searching for relevant tweets on your company and product but also a way of managing those relationships using the above tools. These are all free by the way so you really need to be thinking of using these twitter tools in your business. It’s worth maybe getting a social media support team that looks after your companies needs and get them trained in all these applications. Now we need to start using Twitter and get some messages out there so people can start taking notice. Remember you have only 140 characters or less to say something worthwhile.

Looking at how you want to use twitter will define what you tweet about. You can start conversations of about topics to get a feel for a market you can also throw in a product or service of yours and start some feedback for market research purposes and get a sense check of how your company or services are perceived in the real world.

For me twitter is outstanding for intelligence of this kind.

Some other ways to use twitter:

Have your employees of your company twitter about good content for moral and newsletters or if you are online publishing firm or SEO firm looking for great content to SEO clients web pages you have instant content creation from as many people as you want. Bookmarking Bookmarking good content and sites for others to look at is a another great way of using twitter a tool called fleckite can create tweets based on a page they have visited and then direct it back to your twitter account Bookmark great content. The possibilities are truly endless you know can have an interaction based bookmark as I call it sparking conversation and thoughts of a topic that you may have for your blog, so instead of just getting a link to go back to you can get the interaction from the visitors there and then saves them posting a comment on your blog!

Here are some more tools to add to your management of twitter for business purposes

 Wordpress plugins- http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress (if you add the Twitter Facebook application your tweets will automatically show up as status changes on Facebook)

Twitterrific – http://iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific/

Twhirl – http://www.twhirl.org/

 Twittermania – http://mashable.com/2008/05/24/14-more-twitter-tools/

Twitterfeed – http://twitterfeed.com/ - this application allows you to feed any RSS feed into a twitter account – use wisely, you can send too much content that turns followers off with this tool. I personally use just one update per day as it just ads some real quality target content on top of my own tweets a nice way to mix up your content and add value.

So we have covered a real load on twitter you should be thinking of different ways to use twitter as a real resource for your business and company profile. How can you use twitter for lead generation?- easy just use the advanced twitter search! Twitter Advanced Search – Advanced search allows you to filter everything that’s being said for your keyword phases in your town, for example. Think that might be useful?

Let’s say you are a tradesman such as plumber who specializes in old boiler systems in rundown apartment blocks in a certain area. If you really took this to the nth level you could find out issues around certain real estate and the complaints that are happening in real time and you can dive straight in there and start offering advice and positioning yourself as a solution. You get the idea the niche and situation is completely bespoke to your market and needs. Advanced searching can give you the keywords, geographic location in distance and dates of the posts etc. Really powerful!

Could you develop some hot leads? – http://search.twitter.com/advanced

The hashtag use Basically the hashtag # can be used to categorize tweets and in this way they can be easily searched using the twitter search facility. It works well for grouped workshops where they have labelled a particular tweet say #workgroup and then everyone can easily tap into these tweets and add or comment as and when they need to. Again implications are diverse a great way for building ad hoc quasi communities in times of need or trouble such as a search and rescue operation. Use the hashtag anyway you want it’s just a labelling and monitoring tool for tweet so the posabilities are endless.

There you have it hopefully now you can see how a free tool like twitter can open up new avenues and cultures within organizations and that can lead to more resourcefulness, less time being lost , and more creativity and productivity in the ways we have looked at above and in previous posts. You can download all this content in a convenient pdf just by signing up for my newsletter where I also look at how you can use facebook , myspace for business as well.

Well I can’t resist, As I am a recent convert to social media for business purposes I might as well share my experiences with you all.  Yes I have used facebook and have known about social media and the hundreds of sites that can do wanders for you, if you havn’t seen this ‘directory’ of web2.0 sites then check it out and choose and you will see what I mean! goweb2.0

There are hundreds to choose from and you can really build a great following and corner some of the newer sites.  However facebook is holding true as a real gold standard for networking, because really no one needs any introduction to facebook it’s a no brainer when people log on and start adding people as friends.  Might be a different story finding people to connect to in the newer web2.0 sites.

All I do is simply look for mutual friends that have friends that may be interested in my profile and add them as a friend, a simple comment addressing their first name such as ‘ Hi tony I saw that you are mutual friends with mike, I would like to add you to my network’   9 times out of 10 they will be happy to be added to your network.  So if you are positioning your profile and contacts within a business or marketing concept around your vocation you should have similar or like minded friends in your network they may be prospects or affiliates or just contemporaries that can help you in any way you can think of.  It’s also so easy to see what everyone is upto just by posting a message on your wall or updating your status.  You will find people just add comments and this brings about rapport so easily! 

 I have added 200 fantastic friends and contacts in just 3 weeks!  

I suggest you go create  an account now or set up a new one for your business name and really start positioning yourself to be able to take action when you have an offer or an opportunity!  You just need to send out one post and you can touch thousands of people!  

I’m here to tell you that it works and I am getting great contacts on a daily basis.  It will only take you about 30 mins  a day to search for some good friends or act on the suggestions facebook gives you. 

p.s you can also integrate your twitter account with your facebook page! 

By the way there are many facebook applications that you can use to help you. check out the directory here:

http://www.facebook.com/apps/directory.php

Be careful how many you use, as the more you have the slower your page loads and some may be conflicting, remember build your network first then add the fancy stuff!

Building Value and a customer relationship is key to online success

I highly recommend anyone who is involved in sellling either online or offline to go buy the book by Robert Cialdini:  ‘Influence – The Psychology of persuassion’  there are some fundamental elements that human beings respond to.  It has got dozens of examples of how we act and behave in certain situations.  One of the precepts that is essential to selling is that of Reciprocation.

Reciprocation is where a relationship can start, it is simply the act of  receiving something for nothig and returning a favor or act we are in fact  hard wired 9 times out of 10 to  subconsiously to return favors.  This is for the good of the species.  Interestingly enough the retrun act does not have to be proportional to the first act.

For example someone gives you a free can of Coke, then that person who gave asks the receiver to drive them to an event in their car on the weekend, the person being asked who received the Coke is more likley to say yes because of the reciprocation factor

So applying this is essential to building value, you may have seen it before you are given a free gift or free sample to enjoy and the quality of the gift has been high enough to give you value by you spending your time to read or use the gift.  This has started a relationship as you now are happy to receive more info or are in more of an open mind to purchase a product knowing that if a free gift has validated the quality then a paid product can only be just as valuable if not more

This is just touching the surface and is part of the whole sale flow process to maximizing your revenue online.  You can learn much more by downloading my free Video tutorial home study course the backend income secrets.com

Can there be magic words that get people to do things?

Consciously maybe subconsciously definitely.  We all look for value in any which way we can.  Value comes in different forms to different people.  It is by no means a one size fits all factor.  However there are certain words that transcend value to almost anyone.

One such word is the word FREE

People use the internet in two stages, the first is for FREE information, and the second is them to make a more specific search query to perhaps make a purchase.  The mere fact that people are wanting free info from the start should be like a light bulb turning on!  What if you could be the site that gives the free info with a view to build that all important relationship?  You would build trust and a following.  This means that you can be sure that people will be more likely to buy something of you if you can show them the free value that they were looking for in the first place, see my post on the reciprocation factor which is why this is so important.

There is more way to use free, I’m talking about real sales value propositions at the point of sale.  This is critical in offline sales and online sales.  For example if you can show the prospect that there purchase can be free in a time frame that is like music to their ears, or if they are getting bonus items that are free it again adds a compelling reason to buy there and then.

Here’s an example:

You want to sell a high priced solar panel system which costs over $12,000.  Well that’s a big capital outlay, but by using the solar system in 18 months you not only pay back your investment but you then have the system paid for and essentially get free electricity! And it’s paid for itself, also being free!

When you have an offer give away free bonus items it can completely change the propostion to the prospect. Remember we are always looking for a logical rationilzation to what usually is an emotional reason to buy.  How many times have you wanted to buy something and were on the edge and you shop around and then find an offer with what your looking for except this offer has something thrown in for free?  Everytime for me, sometimes it’s as simple as offering free delivery or free insurance!

Now the proposition is much more attractive! For more information in greater depth and a full video explaining this in more detail get my free video course the backend-income-secrets. I go through this in great detail and also show you how to use two more powerful sales propsotion elements to make your offer so much more powerful along with a whole compendium of knowledge and tools to really build a great business online

Incidently this giving things away for free is agreat lead generation tactic, in fact you can aqcuire prospects much more easily becuase of the reciprocation element that we have already discussed.  Its powerful! Go use it

Exciting times as me and 20 or so other web 2.0 consultants are getting our heads together to really captivate the growing opportunity for building web2.0 social media profiles for business’s to grow their profits and lead generation strategies at a fraction of the cost to traditional methods.  Facebook will be the primary business social media tool also looking at twitter and how to integrate the two together in your facebook profiles using applications.

There are some neat and needed tool for many social media sites that accelerate the process and I will be giving you guys the heads up in due course.

For now you can get my free guides to social media just by signing upto my newsletter

I did this video just to show everyone how you all can create ultra cool videos using your own pics, using animoto.com you can even pull your pics from facebook! Just upload, pick a soundtrack and render the video and you have it done in around 7 minutes to share with everyone – creating video has never been so easy go do it now and add some marketing genius to your campaigns!

Here’s a dynamite way to grab targeted leads and make your lead generation tactics leap frog into another level using google alerts.

I have to give credit to Ross Goldberg for this article, but felt compelled to share theis great strategy:

1. Choose your keywords that you are looking to target in your niche or markert

2. Turn your keywords into questions that would be posed into the search engines from prospects so for example; “Back Pain”, is your key word,
now turn it into a questionthat peopl looking for the solution to that problem would ask, eg. ‘how to cure back pain?’ or ‘best pack pain treatments?’
You get the idea.

Generate a healthy dozen or so questions around these keywords using the full quotation marks and question mark symbol.

3. Open a Gmail account if you don’t have one already, if not create an account associated wit the keyword you are focusing on, for ease of remembering.

4. Creat google alerts, this is where the magic begins, create an individual google alert for each question on your list, make your new Gmail account as the email destination for the alerts.

Now as soon as the alerts have had a chnace to work 10-20 mins, you will have brand new places of interets where peole are posting these relevent questions. you will have the sites and the address’s of the webistes that are getting these queries, this is why using the quatation marls and questionmarls is essential, as it ensures you only get these exact phrases inside the quotations.

So you can go to sites like blogs, forum and yahoo answers and there yu have a way of finding the needs of people presenting the solution in a non spamming way, pass your authority and then over time turn people listening to your answers into customers!

Remember post answers and build a relationship, and use your link in resource boxes or after you have given a sries of answers that shows integrity and trust

Here’s a cool video on bloging for those who have been asking!

A chnce to learn from 12 Internet Gur’s for FREE, Jeff Mills has put together this great line up:

Jv giveaway have been going since the start of the internet,  at first they were red hot to get a flurry of subscribers and build your list, in more recent times they are more ‘luke warm’ in terms of their affect to build giant email lists.  In fact part of the reason is that they have been done so many times and that there are so many ways to list build now, twitter and face book and social bookmarking comes to mind as the most recent advances to list building.  However I have participated in some recent giveaway events and I still think they have some worth especially to get a  bump for new subscribers to your list and a quick and easy way to get exposure to your new products, after all you will be seeing other professional internet marketer’s seeing your product listed amongst theirs that where I see a real hidden value, you get to see other jv partners and they get to see your product you can see who has the quality product and the right sales funnel etc.
Jv giveaway’s work by you as contributor uploading a free gift for non contributor’s i.e. the general public who are looking for info marketing products, they then get to access a market place full of hundreds of contributors products and they can then optin for your products.  This works two ways you get a free subscriber and build your optin list and the JV giveaway creators also get to build their lists and often they have front end offers build into the script so they make money from sheer traffic of members signing up.  You also can upgrade your status as a premium or elite contributor and they basically ensure your products are at the front of the picking order this getting more traffic and subscribers.

You will have to promote and get members to come to the giveaway event otherwise your ranking slides down and your product gets less exposure.  But to be honest It’s a great way to get a minimum of 50-100 subscribers for free, in fact you can probably get 200 if your good and that’s not bad for a few days work! Here is a typical high quality jv giveaway that running for the next 10 days, you need a free gift to start your sales funnel of to capitalize

Twitter is a cool and ultra popular microblogging application that is growing like crazy.  This video shows you exactly what twitter is and how it can be used as a marketing tool.  You can get “total twitter training” a series of 7 full videos just like this one for FREE. Get your free twitter tutorials and become an expert in just 75 minutes and even learn how to create your own twitter backgrounds.

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If you are into photoshop, fireworks or the whole CS suite of programs from Adobe, you will be like me looking for high quality informative tutoroials that help cut the learning curve for various skills that you will need to master in these applications.

For excellent photoshop tutorial check out tutvid.com. It not only goes through some of the basics that you need to know, but really cool techniques to enhance your images very easily.  I also recommend checking out their site for anything to do with web design using dreamweaver or cs4, I used them a while back to get to speed to with the changes in  CS4.

Mike filsaime has just launched his new twitter tool he has been working on throug the summer.  Its built on Adobe Air and resembles tweeddeck in terms of its look and feel. However it has built in promotional tool that creates a sepearate coloumn for sponsored ads.  This is great for anyone who buys add credits and also who refers people to use tweetglide.  The ads are contained in a seperate pane/column which means that your actual feed is not cluttered with promo posts and spam.  A neat idea which rewards all people that post more than 5 posts to bank one free ad credit.  It also creates a very powerful downline where you receive commissions for refering new users to use tweetglide.   You may be asking what you get the commissions on?  Good question although tweetglide is a free application it has an upgrade offer to buy presold sponsorship ad credits, whcih can amount to a significant commission rate.

Reasons to like tweetglide

• Similar look and feel to twedeck

• Color coded columns makes it easier to see ehat is going on

• Seperate colomn for sponsored ads, therefore marketer’s can beaggressive and know that the ads are being distributed to thousands of twitter users but not in their feeds,

• Commission and referal system can make good income just for promoting the upgrade of tweetglide

• Looks like making money on twitter got a whol load easier.  Check out tweetglide for yourself.

• All in all it promises to be a good application, there is plans for a iphone applcation for tweetglide following all popular twitter tools and applications.

• Built in url shortening

• Incidently it is cross platform being adobe air so mac users can enjoy as well!

Building Opt-In List is an essential part of Web Marketing. Every successful marketer on-line incorporates a personal list of subscribers and is using it to profit online. Building personal list might sound straightforward – you simply purchase an autoresponder service, produce some messages, place subscription kind on your web site and drive visitors to your subscription form.

Though these steps are very true and simple, unfortunately building list isn’t that easy. Someone inexperienced in web promotion will have difficulties in driving traffic necessary for building an opt-in list. Traffic can sometimes be a drawback even for a a lot of experienced people.

Obtaining enough traffic for list building is not the sole problem. Several individuals overlook the importance of keeping constant contact with all members of your list. People are forgetful and if you don’t contact them often, they’ll simply forget that they even subscribed to your list!

So, to unravel downside with traffic many people decide to easily obtain leads. Shopping for leads will save a heap of time necessary for list building. They can also avoid the second drawback by making enough pre-written messages to keep up with their leads for a extended time, or they will use broadcast option often. The idea of shopping for leads is nice and many marketers are using this methodology, but there’s a catch.

Several folks don’t like the thought of their e-mail, or other contact info being sold. And once once they subscribed, there most likely was a privacy statement saying that their contact info is safe and will never be rented, sold, or used for any purpose whatsoever. It is potential though that they were lied to, or tricked. Subscription forms without privacy statement have a ton lower conversion rates and terribly often these subscribers are not terribly responsive.

Different very vital reason why leads shouldn’t be bought is as a result of you’ll be able to never be really sure if you are purchasing a safelist. People willing to profit quickly can simply sell blacklists. They use spam robots to collect as several e-mails as they will online, however rather than sending spam, they decide to earn some cash by selling those e-mails. This is even worse because marketer who purchased this list will be accused of spam! Though this most likely won’t happen since leads are not simply e-mail addresses but conjointly names and different contact data, it’s possible!

A successful Internet marketer knows a real price of responsive leads and can not sell them. He has worked exhausting in building his list and making a certain relationship with all members of that list. It isn’t doubtless that he can risk his name and trust by selling a responsive list. It’s additional seemingly that you’ll get a non responsive list of leads.

On the other hand it is potential that these leads are totally tuned in to selling which they agree with it. In that case shopping for leads is ok, however you never very know…

If you are inquisitive about shopping for leads, invariably use your due diligence whenever you come across some lead selling offer. Create positive you are shopping for opt-in leads (double opt-ins are even higher) and that each one of them are alert to a new list owner. If you are not positive of the latter, approach your new leads carefully and even think about asking them to substantiate their subscription again. You’ll be able to lose some leads this way, however it’s a lot of higher than to risk spam accusations.

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The web world may lead you into terms like domain names, web hosting and secure certificates. These words may be quite confusing to you if you are new to getting a website running. What are the main ingredients a web site absolutely needs to be up and running. Two items exist that are essential for any web site to be up and running – a domain name and web site hosting. Your name would be something like google.com and your files would be hosted online for people to see.

Domain names are just an easy way for visitors to remember your site and type it into their browser. What about the web hosting aspect of it? Well let’s explain what you are doing when you purchase web hosting. Your web site files need to be stored in a public place, a container, that will display your files. Files for your web site could be code or multimedia files, such as HTML, CSS or Flash. Your web site requires a web hosting server, that is basically a computer configured to show your web pages. Basically a web hosting package is a service provided by a Company that allows anybody with access to the internet the ability to view your web site files.

Now that we have defined web hosting, what do all these features mean when I am looking to buy website hosting packages? For beginner sites, you will be mainly looking at two main features – disk space and bandwidth. Disk space is the file size you can store on the actual web server. The latter indicates the amount of data your server is allowed to transfer when web site visitors visit your web page. When your web site grows and needs more advanced features like a Content Management System, your next steps are to check into features for language support and database support. Language support means the Server language the code was written in, while the storage container for your web data is placed in a database.

In conclusion, web site hosting is a server that displays your code and visual files to users of your site. The needs and requirements of your site will then determine what you need to look for in terms of disk space, bandwith, language support and database support.

For a fact, there’s a right way to get all the things we need and want out of life. We first of all have to understand that we have to address getting the things we need and then address getting the things we might want. If we can keep that goal in mind and work with some smarts there’s almost nothing that we want that we can’t get as long as it’s reasonable in nature to get in the first place.

Nowadays, there are many more people running about like blind mice looking for a golden opportunity in the form of some sort of ‘make me money‘ program or plan. In truth, there are actually a number of such programs that really work but the people that find them end up failing in many cases because they also fail to do the homework necessary to make those programs work to their optimum ability.

Still, even in the face of a widespread number of failures due to not doing the right kind of homework, there are a number of ways of getting needs and wants addressed, as long as one keeps in mind that going deep into debt is a big no-no. For example, looking to set up some passive income online opportunities that take advantage of the power the Internet is probably a great example to examine.

As a way of generating money from a business that pretty much runs on its own, it might almost seem too good to be true, though plenty of experts on the Internet say that such an income does exist as long as people are willing to do the hard work necessary to get it up and running. Remember, more people fail on the Internet than succeed, so make sure preparation is under way far in advance.

One smart way of looking at the above is to consider the example of the digital book reader. This little piece of electronic wizardry is becoming more and more common, but the companies selling it understood that growing the appreciation for the reader wasn’t going to happen overnight. They prepared the buying public for it far in advance of its initial appearance.

This is a good way of looking at things; consider the book reader and then consider that just about any website that hopes to make some sort of active or passive income, no matter how small, does so only when the people running the website have done their homework. The Internet is full of stories of people who went blindly into some sort of online business and failed because of no homework, to be honest.

The bottom line to all of this is that there’s a right way to get all the things we need and want and that way never succeeds when we just run around without a plan. Jumping into the latest Internet offer might work for one out of every 10,000 people but the better way to generate money from that offer is to be thoughtful and thorough about preparing for it ahead of time.

There are two important things to do when you want to create a website, choose a domain name for the website, and choose a hosting that your website can go online and other people can see the site through the Internet. And whenever you want to choose domain and hosting you should be careful because you only waste your money if you just buy wrong hosting and domain.

Keep your domain name is simple and easy to remember while you select a domain name, so that clients still remember your domain name, if they drop off the link to your site. You should also select for domain name that contains keywords related to your website e.g. your internet site is about furniture, thus, it is good if your domain is called www.furniture-online.com, this can increase the score of your website on several search engines.

Domain price is quite cheap for about $ 10/year, so try to use the paid domain name, and don’t use free domain name especially if you want to create a website for your business, because it looks more professional by not using a free sub-domain that many domain company offer free sub domain in the market where the main domain still use their company name.

Use paid hosting, do not use the free hosting if you want to create a website for your business, because usually hosting that provides free facilities that will put a sponsor banner on your website, it is certainly not a professional looking for a business website. You’ll get better customer service and technical help on paid hosting. Otherwise with paid hosting, you can manage and control your website to your liking

Good domains and hosting can help you to get a good score on search engine, and that means helping to bring traffic to your website, so if you are planning to create a website, then do research and comparisons to choose the best domain name and hosting for you

Advertising is an investment in your business and is kind of like other investments that are designed to enhance and expand your business. The return you receive depends on the design and thought that precede the actual commitment and expenditure of advertising dollars. By 1st developing a good advertising plan, you increase the chance of a positive come on your advertising investment, no matter the number of money you spend.

Four Basic Questions

The essential premise of an advertising set up needs you to completely analyze the answers to key queries before you can make effective advertising decisions. There are four key queries to ask:

1.  What do I need my advertising to accomplish?
2.  Who should my advertising speak to?
3.  What ought to my advertising say?
4.  What advertising medium should I take advantage of?

In an exceedingly specific business situation, every query has any variety of potential answers. As you’re thinking that concerning every question , do not accept any answer till you’ve got considered and explored the total vary of possibilities.

What Do I Wish My Advertising To Accomplish?

The primary step in developing your advertising arrange is to specify your advertising goals. Be as precise as you can on why you are advertising and what you would like to achieve. Everybody desires advertising to increase business, but for your advertising plan to work, it requires you to be a lot of precise. Some attainable goals for your advertising are:

•    To increase awareness of your business.
•    To attract competitors’ customers.
•    To increase the probability of keeping current customers and developing their loyalty.
•    To generate immediate sales or sales leads.

It’s doable that you may need your advertising to attain all of those goals and some others. What’s necessary is that you just prioritize your goals. Advertising works best when it’s developed to satisfy one specific goal at a time.

Who Ought to My Advertising Speak To?

Once you determine your advertising goals, you’ll then select the target market for your message. Keep in mind that advertising that tries to succeed in “everyone” rarely succeeds. Successful advertising is written with a selected client in mind. Strive to picture the person you want to reach so as to realize your advertising goals. Strive to explain your target shoppers in each of the subsequent:

•    Demographics: like gender, age, income, location of residence or business, etc.
•    Behaviors: such as current awareness of your business; the products, services or vendors they currently use; loyalty to either you or your competitor’s business, etc.
•    Wants or wishes: such as what advantages consumers explore for, the premise on which they can decide whether or not to use your product or service, how your business will fulfill those wants, etc.

What Ought to My Advertising Say?

Once you know who your audience is and what they are looking for in terms of the product or service you offer, you’ll decide what your advertising can say. Advertising should invariably be written to speak a message that will be seen as necessary by your target customer. Your advertising should clearly and convincingly “speak” to your audience, explaining the vital edges your product or service offers. Choose how to debate the main benefits of your product or service in your advertising, keep “AIDA” in mind: attract Attention, hold Interest, arouse Need and motivate Action.

Where Should I Place My Advertising?

Every month, new advertising choices become available. Beyond “ancient” media you’ll be able to place ads in airports, on ski lifts and on tv monitors within the front of grocery carts. Where you place your advertising ought to be guided by a straightforward principle: Go where your target market will have the best likelihood of seeing or hearing it. Many advertising media work well to reach a diverse vary of target consumers. There’s no single medium that is inherently smart or bad. In fact, a sensible medium for one product or service could be a poor medium for another. As you think about media decisions, explore for one that fits your advertising goals, reaches your target efficiently and price effectively and is among your advertising budget.

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If you have never heard of blogging before, then you must be somewhat new to the internet. Blogs today are scattered all over the internet. In case you didn’t know what a blog is, it is a sort of internet notebook, where you can keep your collection of thoughts and show them to all the world. The full expression of the writer’s thoughts and theories is what you are going to find in them. Blogs allow people to share their ideas and interest with other people around the globe.

Blogs have become popular nowadays for a number of reasons. First, they are search engine friendly. The key factor here is in the frequency. Posts are updated often with fresh content and search engine spiders like that. Search engines enjoy sites that have frequent updates and new refreshings, and so they enjoy blogs as well. The next reason is because setting up a website for yourself through a blog is very simple. The best solution for people who have no idea about things like coding and setting up an HTML web site can easily create a blog in a matter of moments. You do not really need to create websites or any programming language. And last but not least, using a blog improves both your visibility and interactivity with your target audience tremendously.

You can blog anytime, regardless of how good or skilled you are at writing. Just even immersing yourself in the realm of blogging for a small moment will cause you to understand the immensity of the art, thus why it is so frequently used in the endeavors of online marketing. However, I would advise you not to mistakenly think that just setting up a blog will allow you to explode your income right away.

The ways in which most major bloggers earn a strong income are as follows:

1. Selling space for people to put their ads on. There are various forms of ads that you can consider. This can be done with great results if you own or are in possession of a blog with a good level of PR.

2. Offer affiliate ads. Let your visitors have some great affiliate product recommendations that they would be interested in and you might be able to earn yourself some sales.

3. A quick way to start earning some income from your blog traffic is to incorporate some blocks of Adsense. Once people click on these ads, that is the time you make money.

Not having a blog will be devastating for you if your competitors are using some in their campaigns. Don’t lose out to your competitors who are productively and simply reaching their clients by blogging. Having a blog will enable you to get info out to your clients and customers, and at the same time help you to keep up with the growing competition.

Communicating and interacting with your audience is the primary function of a blog. The needs of customers today has changed a lot from how it was a while ago. People nowadays want to feel connected to, to be able to form a long-term business relationship. One of the ways that this can be done through blogging is through the use of comments. You will need to start blogging now if you haven’t already, because it has already become a very strong trend. If you would love to realize how you may set up a blog and online business empire at zero cost, then you simply have to check out about the Zero Cost Profits right now together with the Zero Cost Profits!

The function of a logo, no matter what sector it is intended for, is to create an impression to anyone who is thinking of doing business with the company.The logo is the very heart of your company’s corporate identity and one of the key ways that you establish yourself as unique in the world.Logos are often inseparable from the concept of branding and brand values and often logos can represent the entire brand image in themselves, without any additional or supporting information or material.The professional logo designer must remember that, although the job of a logo is to mark your business and brand out as unique, that expression should not be overly complex as it’s equally important your logo is easily identifiable.

Generally speaking, there are four types of company logo design to consider:Textual logos are devices that use text, i.e. recognisable word and letterforms that may be slightly modified, but are still recognisable as text and letterforms, in a logo format. The font type can appear in various shapes and sizes to put your message out there to the public. A thick font conveys the businesses’ power or strength while a more script-based font could show some style and elegance.  For many years, any product that was Scottish or Irish in origin or had vague Scots or Irish connections used a typeface called American Uncial to reinforce the “Celtic” connection.A good example of a long lived and powerful textual logo is that for Walt Disney.

Illustrated logos are pretty much what they say on the tin – illustrations that are used for logo purposes. These illustrations can be as simple or as complicated as you like but it is better to keep the illustrations simple as it is likely to attract the attention of the intended audience.   A good example of an illustrated logo is that of Pepsi which features the red, white and blue textual rendition as well as the bottle cap illustration.  This is a significant development from the 1940’s, when the Pepsi-Cola logo was entirely textual and mirrored the rival coke’s symbol almost exactly.

Symbolic logos have become very popular over the years and have lots of advantages.  Using a symbol to portray an abstract representation of the company can work well across many international markets but a great deal of collateral and marketing or advertising budget has to be spent to successfully get that symbol associated with the company.When it works, it can work very well and a good example of a symbolic logo is the DC logo.Combination logos can be a mixture of any or all of the past things discussed. A nice example of a combination logo is America Online which features a symbolic device in the triangle and the textual device AOL underneath.Both of these are actually registered independtly so they can be used in separation if you needed.  Whatever design approach you select for your company logo, remember that it will have to be carried through into all aspects of your brand communication, including custom stationery, advertising, packaging and online marketing.

Everyone with an online business will do just about anything to get more traffic right, and thats when things can start to go wrong for us!

If you think that some new software product will do all the work for you then think again, as soon as the search engines find out and they will. Then you have just wasted your time and money.

There is no easy way to getting website traffic that just grows and grows year after year!

So how do you set the process in motion, roll up your sleeves and get busy, articles are by far the best way to get backlinks to your site and increase your web site traffic and your page rank.

Let me give you an example of how this works, and trust me it works a treat to get more web site traffic

Let’s say you write an article called “getting web site traffic” just like this one, don’t worry how long it takes you to write the article just do it!

Next I will upload the article to my web site, then submit the article to the top article directories where people will be looking for new unique content for their sites. This is where it starts to get interesting, my site has say a page rank 2 but the article directories that I have submitted the article to may have a page rank 4-5 maybe even 6 and that’s the whole point of this.

Now 3 things start to happen!

1) When the search engines index the directories say 20 to 50 of them depending on how many you submitted your article to, you now have 20 to 50 back links to your site from a site with a page rank 4 or better that’s enough to take your site from a PR2 to PR3 which will move all your pages of your web site up in the rankings.

2) An Article that you did might not do well on your site, But that’s because your site does not have a good page rank.

In the past I have had articles rank in the top listings above the fold for weeks at a time, this sends me loads of traffic gets me a ton of backlinks to my site and I make even more sales!

This same article on my site was down around page 5 or 6 with the search engines, that’s because my site only had a page rank of 2.

3) This is the bit I really like, if you produce a good article thats interesting to other people these people will use your article for content on their site.

When people use your article that they have found on a article directory they must leave your link in tact, this means that you can quickly gain lots of backlinks to your site and improve your page rank all this from 1 article.

One article that I had put on an article directory.com that got me 87 backlinks to my site in just 2 weeks, how long would it take you to get this amount of “relevant” links to your site and how much work would you need to do!

Do yourself and your online business a favour, this is the quickest method I know to getting more web site traffic to help your online business, do yourself a favour and get writing now 1 article per week will do more for your business than all the other things put together trust me if your looking to increase your web site traffic there is no better way to go.

All the top marketeers get great results and web site traffic from marketing with articles you can too , start marketing with your articles with free article directory.