Internet Marketing Blog and Review Site

If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!

So Twitter is the next big thing in Internet Marketing these days. Like most of the new wave things I either stayed far from it or tried to jump on the board early. In this case I let Twitter do what it wanted until I found some sort of motivation to jump on. I did find that motivation but not in the marketing sense.

I have 2 Twitter accounts. One for helping me launch a new site and the other is my personal account. I made the personal account AFTER I realized what exactly it is Twitter can do. That probably sounds backwards. As I’m writing this I’m checking Twitter through a FireFox add-on so I’m not required to be there 24/7, which is something that it is really good at. People Twitter from everywhere.

I actually got into Twitter when I discovered some of my favorite celebrities, though mostly unknown and under the radar right now, use it. Some of these celebrities are hard to get news on in any other way. For example, I follow Melissa Schuman(Melissa’s Twitter) and Alexz Johnson(Alexz’s Twitter). These girls are either mostly unknown in the U.S. or completely unknown, but I’ve found I can keep tabs on news about them through Twitter. No Web 2.0 service has really been able to do this since it’s creation. Neither Facebook or Myspace has been as been able to do anything like that in all their time existing. People embraced it, celebs embraced it, and of course, marketers embraced it.

I want to point out here that marketers on Twitter are very obvious and quickly unfollowed and blocked by myself. If I didn’t know better what was going on I’d think all the accounts I’ve found were created by spambots. A few quick tips for those trying to use Twitter to market: First, play the game. Be normal, don’t make every post a link. If it would cause your Yahoo Answers account to be banned or your Digg account to be banned you’re much too obvious. DON’T send that targeted message as soon as you think you see a prospect. You HAVE to be human on this. It’s the best way to do it and it WILL pay off when your followers like you. This is really important since a lot of people use Tweetlater with Follow Those Who Follow You checked, so you’ll get that spammed marketing message real quick from a new follower. If the first thing you send is “SEGA for sale [link]” I’m telling you now, you’re being unfollowed and blocked.

I notice as well these spam marketing accounts often have a lot of followers. I believe this is because everyone is using Tweetlater, which means they’re marketing to other marketers which will never work, certainly not for long periods of time. The most successful people on Twitter with the most followers aren’t usually the marketing accounts, but, you guessed it, the celebrities. People like them, they like what they say, and they like how approachable they are. This kind of marketing is no different than normal marketing and every rule still holds true. John Reese and Frank Kern are two examples of people that understand the relationship side of marketing and Twitter makes it an open book for everyone. If you’re just marketing, you won’t sell. If you utilize Twitter for what it was designed for, you can sell without realizing you’re selling and make a good amount from the occasional message and not a shot in the dark spammed message.

I’m going to continue to use Twitter. It’s more interesting than I thought at first. The money potential is there, but only if you understand some absolute basics of marketing and why it works when it does.

Popularity: 12% [?]

Share This

For those of us marketers who DON’T outsource every written word we create I’m curious if any have ever run into this situation. Some niches has finite space. There’s only so much material out there you can write on, and only so many different ways you can spin it(and I don’t mean the software way) before it feels like you’ve emptied the barrel on words possible or content possible. So what do you do?

Here’s what I just did. I went to my EzineArticles account, looked at one of my old articles I did that was in the format I wanted to do, and wrote it again. It has the same information, the numbered items are probably in a different order, the story and lead-in I know are different, but it actually isn’t new content at all. Websites need information though and they need to be updated. The site can’t sit idly yet as I’m still building the content and I NEED to post something today so it will show up tomorrow.

This must be what it feels like to go full circle. At the start I knew nothing of this niche, so re-wrote other’s articles as I learned, and used those to promote my stuff to test the market. It proved worth it to continue so I kept re-writing and learning. Now, I don’t need any source material to pull an article, and an informative one, out of thin air on the fly, just motivation. Yet, today I went to my old material to find NEW material to post. Rewriting it.

I’m not saying you should do this too, but as a learning tool it’s been invaluable in teaching me a niche I knew nothing about. I think this also proves the lack of content on the internet as well as the overwhelming need for more at the same time. If the material base is finite(especially if you’re trying to sell an affiliate product or something) then there’s only so much writing space. Only so many ways to construct and craft words until everything you do is repeating everything else you’ve done, or resembles what someone else has done so closely, it looks like you copied.

Maybe we should look at this from a different angle. I tried that too. I’ve got a handful of articles in the same niche from a slightly different perspective, which was quite the discovery when I found it, since it meant I could now expand that into many articles. The well has water as long as the source doesn’t run dry. Getting the water out with a bucket or with a bowl can change the approach and result, but ultimately, what you get is still the same water.

Popularity: 25% [?]

Share This

By now everyone has either heard or have received their copy of Traffic Secrets 2.0. John Reese ran an impressive marketing campaign for it though he probably didn’t need to do much after his success with the first edition Traffic Secrets. I haven’t bought my copy yet but reviews would suggest it’s very good if not a few things other top marketers don’t agree with. You also have to be wary of the reviews by affiliates of the product which can easily affect your buying decision in a non-biased way.

Anyone who has it and has gone through it, feel free to leave some comments about it. I own Traffic Secrets 1 and love it. It’s the ONLY high ticket item I’ve ever bought and was very pleased with it. Traffic Secrets 1 was a full blown course, while Traffic Secrets 2 is devoted just to getting traffic. On this specialized nature of the product I’d be curious how in depth it actually goes.

There’s many huge high ticket releases a year in this business and it doesn’t take much to find out just how many there are. The question really is, how does Traffic Secrets stack up to what has come out since we first learned of it and John Reese himself.

Popularity: 40% [?]

Share This

Hey everyone!

For my MoneyWithVideoSecrets.com project I’ve finally finished the first promotional video and put it on Youtube. You can watch it from here:

I’m gonna get busy on Part 2 real soon. Mainly I need some ideas for the background music. So, if you’ve got an idea please free crazy frog ringtonesbox music ringtones sony,100 free music real ringtones,music ringtonespolyphonic ringtones t720sprint cell phone ringtonesdownload free kyocera ringtonesmotorola ringtones softwarehotlink caller ringtones,caller hotlink malaysia maxis ringtones,10 caller hotlink ringtones topfree ringtones tracfoneinfo nextel phone remember ringtones,ringtones for nextel phone,nextel i730 phone ringtonesmp3 ringtones convertercell phone ringtones game wallpaper,cell phone ringtones wallpaperfree motorola ringtones v170,motorola ringtones v170downloadable free metro pcs ringtones,free ringtones for metro pcs carrier,free metro pcs ringtonescomputer download free ringtonescell free phone ringtones wallpaper,cell phone ringtones wallpaper,cell phone ringtones and wallpaperblue tooth free ringtones,download free blue tooth ringtonesfree real music ringtones sprintfree mobile ringtones motorola,free mobile motorola ringtones,free mobile motorola phone ringtonesringtones maker,online ringtones maker,mac maker ringtonescomplimentary godsmack music ringtones,complimentary music ringtonesmp3 bollywood ringtonesmetro pcs phone ringtonesringtones for motorola cell phonefree get ringtonesgo phone ringtonesfree metro pcs phone ringtonesringtones for verizon wireless phone,ringtones for prepaid verizon wireless phonecalgary loan payday,calgary payday loanfast cash payday loan,payday us fast cash loanconsolidate payday loan debtameriloan loan paydaycash advance payday loancalculator loan paydaymoney tree payday loanno checking account payday loanez money payday loan,ez loan paydaygeorgia in loan online payday,georgia loan paydaycash advance payday loan softwarequick cash payday loanbest payday loanadvance america payday loancash fast loan online payday1000 loan payday,1000 advance payday loan,payday loan 1000 dollarpayday loan best rate,best payday loan,best loan paydayaafes loan paydayno teletrack payday loan,check loan no payday teletrack,1000 loan no payday teletrackcash til payday loanaafes payday loaneasy payday loanmilitary payday loan email me at feedback[@]fromhomebusiness.org. You can comment directly to the video of course
I hope you enjoy this. Making video is a lot of fun.

Popularity: 56% [?]

Share This

Marketing using forums is a slowly rising traffic technique used today. The benefits are great and simple to get. They are, at least, if you know what’s expected of you at any given forum. While they’re all different in their own way all forums will follow the same basic rules. Somewhere between the 1990s and now this knowledge seemed to have been lost. This is even more apparent for online marketers, some who have never used a message board before. What also has been lost is forum etiquette. It seems online marketers are the biggest group of people that don’t seem to know about or understand this, as most of it is unwritten, until now.

All the obvious stuff about forums is still true and has not changed. You register, become part of the community, work your way through their hierarchy and become a respected member. Be active. Give it some time and really work the area. In this regard every article you’ve ever read about forum marketing is spot on. All of these suggestions both benefit and help the community you’ve joined as a whole without pointing the mods at you for spamming or being there to sell your stuff. Here’s where most go wrong:

DON’T DOUBLE POST! I can’t stress that one enough. Double posting is when you make a post in reply to yourself. It can be any number of times as well, but ‘double posting’ is the term for it. Online marketers LOVE to double post. I’m telling you now, stop doing it. The Edit button was designed for just this reason. Obviously, you seem to want your signature link to be posted once more and gain another backlink. That’s bad form. And it’s bad form because of the possible consequences. At minimum your post will likely be edited to just a single post like you should have done with the Edit button. At worst BOTH posts will be deleted. The reason why double posting is frowned upon is because, in a typical conversation(the spirit in which message boards try to recreate), people reply back and forth to each other. While is not normally a bannable offense you will make some mods angry from editing your posts so much and they’ll probably stick you on a Watch List. Not good for your marketing.

Another thing that is a constant offense, though not bannable, is having a Signature that breaks the forum’s rules. This will get you quick Private Messages from the moderators as well as annoy them for every day you haven’t fixed it. They’ll also know you DID NOT read their forum rules before creating your signature. This, like double posting, already starts you out working back to point zero with the management. The moderators may also just decide to edit your signature out of every post you have or ban your signature all together if you haven’t changed it to their rules and/or ignored Private Messages to change it.

Another obvious one is don’t jump in advertising something. If your first post to as far as your first ten posts smell like ads you’ll be put on a Watch List quick or even just have your account deleted because you’ll be viewed as a spammer. Spambots do this type of thing all the time, but when they can tell a person is doing it they may be a bit faster on the trigger.

When you think about it, all these rules of forum etiquette exist because it’s so easy to weed out marketers and spammers with them. They’re usually first to double post and first to make lots of small posts to get their backlinks. This is why forums have rules that allow the deletion of posts such as “I agree.”, “Thanks.” and “I sent you a PM.” The rules may be annoying but they were designed with the best interests in mind. It just happened to be exactly what marketers don’t like to have on their boards. In an ideal world no one would market or sell anyone anything on message boards. You probably go to some to relax. If you follow the above you’ll have a much higher chance of marketing successfully and avoiding getting banned.

Robert Kreuk

———————————-

I’m a moderator at a few forums ran by other people. I see this stuff happen constantly. Of all the boards I go to, and I go to a lot of them, internet marketers are by far the most guilty of the above offenses in the article. I don’t know when this knowledge was lost, but it’s time it was found again.

MoneyWithVideoSecrets.com

Popularity: 100% [?]

Share This

Ever had a project you want to do not seem to match your research? Ever had that project actually be something you wanted to create? Well, I’m in this situation.

I’ve found a great place to potentially have something really cool, but I can’t find the interest anywhere. Perhaps all the hype about people wanting to learn how to make money from video is just that, hype.

So I’ve got to see if there really is an interest here. I’ve set up a notification list anyone can sign up for and let me know if they really want to learn this or if there’s no response, that it really is falling on deaf ears. If this is really true, where are all the people?

If you count yourself among the people who want to learn how to make money from video please sign up below.

Popularity: 61% [?]

Share This

Hey guys!

It’s been a long time. I went through this spell where my heart just wasn’t in it anymore. As you can see, it was partially about the Amero, and that’s still true. A lot of things will change if and when the Amero goes into circulation. Like all of our buy links changing…. yeah, that’ll be fun to do.

Anyway, I think I’ve found my muse that got me motivated the first time.  My goal for internet marketing has never been money related. It was a means to an end. Maybe that’s why I’m not quite as good at it as I could be, but whatever the case a non-monetary goal has done for me marketingwise, it would still mean nothing without motivation to do the daily tasks that even bring in a few cents a day. Even those can dry up if you don’t keep them maintained.

Basically, I’m in a lull in my life that again feels like the first hole I escaped that got me here to begin with. Again I had to fight to remember and want what it was that even got me to this place. I’ve always wanted this thing and success, but without motivation, and desire, and intent to get it, it’s just a flowery daydream. It’s been that for so long now I was beginning to accept it as truth. A very bad thing to do.

I’m returning back to the game more motivated than ever. No one but me is going to make these projects happen, and no one but me wants what I want. So, it looks like no one but me can fix this situation.

I’ve already got an idea in mind for my next product. I’m going to jump into market research and take it from there. I can see my light at the end of the tunnel again. It’s always so close, but this time, I’m going to catch it.

Robert Kreuk

Popularity: 58% [?]

Share This

So it’s been awhile since I updated. This is partly due to the holidays coming in two back-to-back months. I’m sure everyone out there has similar things happening.
Anyway, this is about something that you would think would be a hot topic of discussion but is not. It’s in regard to the Amero. At the basic level the Amero would be a combined currency between the US, Mexico, and Canada. It is already happening and there was even an CNBC broadcast where it was discussed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hiPrsc9g98

One radio broadcaster, surely to be future conspiracy theorist and assumed crackpot, has pictures and video of what this coin looks like. Interesting read, even for you types who think the government is honest with you. You can read that here. While it’s more public domain at this point, the Amero isn’t supposed to exist yet, at all.

That’s a side issue though. As I suspect most, if not all of my readers are US resident and marketers themselves an important question needs to be asked. What does this mean and why should I care?

With a coin already being Minted and it’s plans slowly trickling into the mainstream, combined with the decline of the US Dollar it should be clear to some there is at least two points there. While two points do not make a line they should raise an eyebrow. For the Amero to come into existence our Dollar would have to be taken out of circulation. If you run it’s value into the ground no one will argue when this proposed change to the Amero happens.

I’m still undecided if this new Minting is a good or bad idea, but I do know the way the government is going about it is wrong. It’s using the simple outline of creating a problem then offering the solution. We often deal with different parts of this equation in affiliate marketing and our own marketing, but we never create the problem first so that our customers have to come us to fix it. This is my problem with the Amero and the loss of value of the American Dollar.

Obviously, this is neither here nor there in regards to internet marketing, but since it deals exactly with the currency we do business in it should matter to us. With the “official” debut of the Amero many could be bankrupt overnight, just as others will become rich overnight from the currency change.

My heart hasn’t been in Internet Marketing for awhile since I’ve been trying to figure out how to best deal with the soon-to-be inevidable change-over. This post has you in the mind, the marketer, and maybe together we can do something to get out of this the same, or better, than we are now.

Lately, sine it’s not a hot topic yet and I think it should be, let other people know. Show them this, have them Google “Amero”, whatever. We can’t change what we don’t know about.

Additional Links:
Amero vs The Dollar
“Amero Coming Within The Decade”
Amero Videos

Popularity: 67% [?]

Share This

Over at SEO News Tipis and Technology they’ve posed some important and interesting points about this:

“1. Google created the PageRank monster which has spawned a whole industry. They should be the ones fixing it by eliminating Pagerank all together.

2. If websites wish to sell link advertising to gain revenue it has nothing to do with search engines. Website owners should not have to modify their websites using nofollow tags because Google made a mistake creating pagerank.

3. Google created created the nofollow tag to prevent comment spam on blogs, or so they say. Far from being a success, the nofollow tag on blogs has failed miserably.”

As we all know the Google Juggernaut isn’t perfect, just don’t tell Google that. You can read the full article here:

http://ntt.essential-seo.com/news/googles-created-monster-pagerank-debacle/

Popularity: 66% [?]

Share This

An excellent article on using Digg was posted at Earner’s Blog detailing how to make your Digg account weigh in more heavily and land those front page stories more easily. Here’s a copy of his list:

1. Create a Digg Account
2. Choose a memorable name & a good picture (picture is vitally important, notice how the top user supernova17 has a bright image ). Make the name memorable. Bear in mind you’re not trying to deceive here but merely some extra persuasion which will help with initial diggs.
3. Start by digging stories from users in the “upcoming section” make sure & leave a nice comment on each.
4. Add friends & digg their stories regularly. Adding friends is key to making this work.
5. Check for people that have added you as a friend using the “See who befriended you” tab.
6. Start submitting stories from places like reddit & stumbleupon to get an idea of how many initial diggs you are going to get. If you’re getting less that 10 diggs from friends then you need to do more digging & building.
7. Try to comment first on stories you think will hit the front page, this increases your exposure & increases your chances of acquiring friends.
8. You’ll instantly get a feel for what’s working & what’s not working. Now it’s time to tweak things.
9. Don’t submit into the general category. Things scroll off too quickly & don’t linger enough to get that initial “boost.”
10. I added anyone that dugg my stories as a friend. If they check their “befriended” tab they’ll probably add me too. This works well with newer users who have less friends. Make them feel wanted :p
11. Create a huge list of resources to scour for stories. 50-100 is good, tech blogs, apple news all that sort of stuff you want right in your feed reader.
12. I Created google alerts so that I’m getting info on hot topics right to your email inbox.
13. Don’t post your own stories until you’re sure you can get that initial 10-20 diggs to get your story noticed. If you’re posting your own stories you need to make sure they’re professional, not spammy otherwise you’ll get buried & the blog will get banned.
14. I now have a Digg account that will automatically get 15-30 Digg’s from my friends as soon as I submit a story, depending on what the story is about. For example they’ll probably not digg SEO or Affiliate Marketing related stories.
15. Have fun digging, remember it’s a game. It’s not difficult. You just need to network & build relationships then you’ll be rewarded

You can read the full post by clicking here.

Popularity: 67% [?]

Share This