John Reese is at it again, and this time he's got his eye on the sky. John's opening the doors to Income.com soon, and he's offering you a free membership.
We're hard at work creating the ultimate resource for entrepreneurs and business owners. We're building an exciting community and online 'mastermind' application as well as powerful tools, research, and a wide-range of training 'shows' and programs.
We'll be covering everything from Web 2.0, opportunity analysis, search engine optimization, affiliate marketing, pay-per-click advertising, eBay, market research, domain name investing, copywriting, testing & tracking, ecommerce stores, software, information products, blogging, podcasts, and much, much more.
If you're interested in starting your own successful Internet business then you've come to the right place.
If you have an existing business that you'd like to grow online then you've also come to the right place.
John's also looking for a little link love for his new venture, so if you've got a little PR to spare … add him to your blogroll. Then, get yourself over to Income.com and get on the list to be notified when this site opens.
What I love about Darren Rowse, ProBlogger, is the down to earth advice he gives to other bloggers looking to monetize their blogs to earn an income doing waht they love … blogging.
Darren's posted a nice advice series on How To Drive Traffice to Your Affiliate Programs that's well worth the read, if for no other reason than pure review to make sure you're doing the basics.
You also might want to go back and review the post I, Affiliate Bogger, posted for you about creating content to further help you prepare your affiliate websites and blogs for monetization Content for Affiliate Websites.
You can read Darren's next blog post contining this series by looking at his next post on Search Engine Optimization in the overall series of 31 Days to Building a Better Blog.
Jude Wright might be on of the most unorganized affiliate marketers, but not anymore. Jude's been working in Internet Marketing for a lot of years. Don't worry Jude, I won't say how many!
As a basically unorganized person, Jude admits, "I was losing everything! I needed a solution to help me find the information that I wrote on slips of paper, kept in notebooks and saved in emails. I wanted to find that information fast!"
An old hand at creating databases for the construction industry, Jude turned her attentions to making one for Internet Marketing too.
The result is a MUST have application for Affiliate Marketers called i-MarketingOrganizer.
The Version 1 software application is the result of Jude's real world experiences in Affiliate Internet Marketing, lots of research, and hard work. i-MarketingOrganizerworks beautifully!
Personally, I can't even begin to tell you how valuable a little application this is. Imagine having all your affiliate program account information at your fingertips 24/7 … imagine having all you passwords and usernames waiting for you on your desktop every time you need them … and most importantly, imagine finding any of them in seconds.
No more scraps of paper or notebooks filled with scribbles. Welcome to the enlightened age of Affiliate Marketing … welcome to the world of i-MarketingOrganizer.
Tomorrow, Nielsen/NetRatings will announce that they are no longer judging the popularity of web sites based on the number of page views. Instead, Nielsen will use a different metric, rating popularity by how much time visitors spend at a site.
You, the web user, drove this change, through the software you prefer and the way you use the web. And most importantly . . . with your interest in watching online video.
One of the biggest trends is the movement towards more use of interactive video.
I've found an awesome tool called Screen Show Pro and it's an inexpensive screen capture tool similar to Camista. I'm using Screen Show Pro to build my interactive videos for my various Internet businesses.
After I made my videos, I joined the new interactive video community sitecalled FreeIQ. It's free to join and gives both a venue to distribute your videos, as well as your products, services and affiliate links.
FreeIQ is full of helpful and informative educational materials and products … many of which are for free.
Visit my FreeIQ website … http://freeiq.com/bobbiegrennier to learn more as the Internet is quickly moving towards a video rich world and you need to be a part of it to be successful.
The use of sites like FreeIQ, are changing the media landscape. Your propensity to spend time interacting with the web via video and other new forms of media makes the time you spend a much more authoritative judge of a website's popularity than the number of pages you view.
With eBay holding a sweepstakes that encourages its PowerSellers to become affiliate-merchants, one has to wonder if eBay is getting into the affiliate network game. Sure looks like it to me.
eBay has expanded its affiliate program to allow their merchants/sellers to get rewarded for driving traffic to their own eBay.com listings.
The eBay Promote It Sweepstakes gives Powersellers registered as an eBay Affiliate, the chance to win any one of 25 cash prizes for using their off-eBay website, blog or online store to drive traffic to their own listings.
I just got this compelling email from Anik Singal and thought I'd pass on the information to you:
Hi Bobbie,
I just got an email about Mike
Filsaime's Free Report called
"The Death of Internet Marketing"
I will admit, like you may be
feeling now, that I thought it was
some hyped up offer to get me to
join for free and get some offer…
…Turns out I was wrong. Way wrong.
The bottom line is, this report
really opened my eyes to what really
is the death of Internet marketing.
The good news is, the report also
shows you what you need to know to
succeed in the near future.
The times are changing and I it would
be a shame for anyone to not read this
report and fail like many will.
I read it, and I wanted to share it
with you ASAP.
I recommend you take a break from
what ever it is you are doing if you
can and get access to this report now.
Brad Fallon says, StomperNet has exceeded my wildest expectations. At $800 a month to join the StomperNet, that has got to be some nice return on investment for Brad Fallon and Andy Jenkins.
The recent release of the StomperNet program was heavily monitored by the SEO and Affiliate Marketing communities … and apparently by Google as well.
In the early releases of their promotional videos for StomperNet, Brad Fallon used his own business website … myweddingfavors.com … as an example of how successful the StomperNet methods can be if followed. Brad brought a lot of traffic and attention to his business website for sure, but he might have also captured the attention of Google.
Google recently updated their Page Rank algorythms and shook up the internet business world yet again, and guess what?! Brad Fallon's myweddingfavors.com is no longer in the top 10 for its keywords wedding favors … not sure it's even in the top 50!
Now Brad and Andy say they don't use black hat techniques at all, and myweddingfavors.com had a ton of backlinks which Google should like as much as a flea likes dogs. So, if myweddingfavors.com followed all the Google rules … why did it get the G-boot?
Google punishes websites for no apparent reasons and of course, they will never tell you why they do what they do. I noticed they pulled all my PR on my blogs, but I've chalked that up to the price I have to pay for switching servers because I only use white hat techniques with my blogs.
Just like Brad and Andy, I'll never know for sure because Google is just a steamroller in the world of search. You know, they say affiliate marketing will be a bigger player than search in the next few years … the question is, do we take Google along for that ride too?
Well, it seems that Google does one thing really well and only one thing. The search engine company tried their hand at competing with other startup ventures and according to Ben Charny of MarketWatch, Google failed miserably.
What's troubling for Google, analysts say, is how far behind it has fallen in markets considered key to its future. The impact won't be felt now, but years from now when Google can no longer rely on its search engine for the bulk of its revenues.
"Google hasn't succeeded in most things it has tried outside of search," said Nate Elliott, an analyst with Jupiter Research. "They just don't seem to have done a lot of other things right."
Bottomline is that Google needs to diversify if it's going to enjoy a long life span. That's why we're seeing Google offer us free email, mapping, blogs, etc. We've also seen Google jump into the Affiliate Marketing space with their new CPA ads.
My guess is that Google will keep doing what they do well, and just buy what they want eventually. I mean, every startup has it's purchase price.
