If you have even ONE negative thought about Twitter…you need to watch this video:

http://marketingmix.me/otp

• If you don’t like Twitter, you need to watch this video

• If you aren’t making money on Twitter, you need to watch this video

• If you think Twitter doesn’t work, you need to watch this video

• If you are “semi-successful” on Twitter, you need to watch this video

Look, I have over 45,000 followers combined over several Twitter accounts.  I have over 20,000 followers on my main personal account:

Take a look at my personal account:

http://twitter.com/jasonanderson

Here are some “niche” Twitter accounts I have:

twitter.com/instantpay
twitter.com/samfranklin1
twitter.com/iflashvideo
twitter.com/odellmarek

…and a bunch more…

Even with over 45,000 combined follower I’ve had to struggle to get there.  It didn’t pay off in the beginning and it was a time drain but I KNEW that it would pay off in the long run…and it has.

Now, I generally add about 40-90 subscribers to my Aweber list just from twitter alone. It’s taken a while to get there but it’s reallyworking for me now.  Think about that for a minute.  In just ONE year from now, my personal subscriber list will be about 15,000 subscribers MORE than it is today…from Twitter alone…not to mention all the other list building activities I’m doing.

Kevin Riley just released a very good step-by-step guide about how to do what I’ve been doing all along but with a LOT of tips on exactly WHAT to do.  Twitter actually took me about a year to really get to the point where it was effective for me…but you don’t have to wait that long.  Kevin’s new guide walks you step by step on what to do and when to do it.

There is a bunch of information and CRAP PLR products out there about twitter.  I’ve downloaded and purchased (and asked for refunds) on almost all of them.  Most of the stuff out there is just garbage.

Not this guide.

Kevin Riley always pumps out some of the best quality “how to” and “step by step” guides on the subject of internet marketing.  I buy just about everything he pumps out.  I even bought THIS Twitter guide even though I know what I’m doing on Twitter…and I learned a couple new tricks (always do with Kevin’s how to guides)

If you want a true blueprint…a true “step by step”…If you are one of those people who have anything negative to say about twitter, then you really need this guide.

If you’re semi-successful with Twitter you really need this guide.

If you’re a marketer…or want to be a marketer…get this guide.

http://marketingmix.me/otp

Any questions?  Just ask.

Okay, that sounds a little contradictory, right?  You’re probably reading this article to find out how to sell your next Ebook, and I’m telling you to give it away!

But if you’ll keep reading for a minute, you’ll find out why this could be one of the best Internet Marketing ideas you’ll ever try.

Here are 5 tips that will help you to make the biggest ROI (Return on Investment) from giving away a free Ebook.

1. Write a short Ebook about how to get the most out of an affiliate product that you’re promoting.  Or choose another subject that fits a particular product. Put the link to the product inside the Ebook.  Make sure that the information in your Ebook is both interesting and valuable to the reader.

2. Contact the person whose affiliate product you’re going to be promoting and offer it to him/her to give away to his list.

3. Contact newsletter publishers and offer to let them give the Ebook away to members of their lists. (Of course, you’re going to send everyone to your squeeze page, right?)

4. Put the link to your squeeze page at the bottom of your email signature and on your signature at forums, blogs you post on, etc.

5. Set up JV partnerships with other people who are promoting similar – but not competing products or services and give them the chance to give away your Ebook.

Here are some other ideas to keep in mind when writing your Ebook so that it is perceived as valuable by your target audience and your JV partners.

• Use screenshots, graphics or photos so you’re not only telling your readers “what” to do, but they can see “how” to do it also.

• If you’re not a writer, you can hire someone else to ghostwrite it for you. (Just a hint, don’t only go for the cheapest price – otherwise you may as well write it yourself, because the quality will probably be about the same.)

• Have someone go through it to check for grammar and spelling mistakes.

• Read it out loud to check that it makes sense and flows smoothly.

• If you’re handy with graphics editing software, create a cover for your Ebook.  People will see it as more valuable if it looks like a “real” book.  If you’re not handy, you can always outsource that.

• People don’t want to read 50 or 60 page reports – everyone is pressed for time. Keep your Ebook short – between 13 and 18 pages is just about ideal. Get rid of the fluff and cut right to the heart of the information that you’re giving away.

• Put the link to your affiliate product in a several different places throughout the book. You never know what one idea is going to spark someone’s interest or overcome their last objection and be the deciding factor in them buying your affiliate product.

• Because your Ebook may go viral (which is the idea) and get passed around in ways you never imagined, put a signup box or link to your squeeze page in the book, to grab new subscribers.

As you can see, sometimes giving something of value away for free is one of the best ways for you to make money.  This is one of the best-kept secrets of successful affiliate marketers.  Follow it, and you’ll soon see your success on the rise as well.

Here’s a resource you may want to consider especially if you don’t want to write your own ebooks to give away:

Viral Ebook Membership

Ken Reno, along with Scott & Sharlene Raven, have just released a Brand New Graphics Package that is not only a Great Deal, but also offers Instant Commission for affiliates.

Internet Marketing Graphics

I know, I know…you are thinking…”hmmm, I already have some graphics.”

BUT…These are NOT just your ordinary run of the mill graphics!

This is a Brand New Collection of over 2,500 Premium Quality Internet Marketing Graphics!

All graphics come in either Transparent PNG format or Animated GIF format.

Internet Marketing Graphics

Transparent PNG means that you can use the graphics element on any color background, not just white, and it will still look nice. So this gives you great flexibility with your color schemes.

Animated GIF means that these are simple animations on some of these graphics, to make them stand out further. When used sparingly these simple animated graphics make a big impact, and make certain areas of a site (like the call to action button) really POP, and increase conversions.

I Love Animated!  

So we decided to try out Quick Video Optin. It’s a new website from Joe Jablonski, and Carson Rathi. These two are a couple of self-proclaimed gurus or guru wannabees. We haven’t really decided which. Anyway, the features of Quick Video Optin were perfect for some of our current projects.

They said, “Put adsense ads right in your videos.”

“Put a squeeze page right in your video too.”

But, when they said it could place Amazon, Clickbank, Ebay, and other widgets right in the videos, that’s when we got really excited. That’s a lot of ways to make money with work that’s already been done.

So we dove in, and despite our initial doubts – Carson and Joe delivered pretty much exactly what they said they would. This is a membership site, and it’s really affordable to join for your first month. Once you see how easy it is to implement Quick Video Optin, and how versatile it is you’ll wonder how your online lead generation efforts ever survived without it.

In case you’re wondering what criteria we use when evaluating products, we basically ask 3 really relevant questions:

1. Can we use this as indicated by the creators to generate sustainable income?
2. Were any promises made that were not honored?
3. How easy is the system to use, and generate income, and leads?

The answers to all those questions were very favorable for Quick Video Optin (QVO). So, if you’re trying to figure out if Quick Video Optin (QVO) is for you, just think about how many times you see the same old crappy video squeeze templates.

Wouldn’t something new and different incite you to be curious, and opt-in?

Couple that with the thousands of other potential monetization vehicles, and it’s clear that Quick Video Optin (QVO) is exactly what you need to breathe some new life into your business, and crank up the revenue production.

When you develop a blog or website, you want to be certain that you will soon rank in the search engines.

SEO Blog Optimization, written by Steve Wiideman, shows you how to optimize your content in your blog to get the listings you need…to get traffic to your websites.

SEO Blog Optimization walks you through the step by step process of selecting only the best search terms, setting up Wordpress (the right way), adding our “secret recipe” setup and plugin list, and submitting your website to search engines and to websites that will display your content via RSS.

Once you are all setup, you need only write new content to get more traffic to your website from Google, and SEO Blog Optimization will help you create and manage your content list.

Get more info here:

Wordpress SEO Blog Optimization

Essentially, he capitalized on the knowledge he learned from his Traffic Geyser membership and applied it to helping local small businesses get listed on page on of the search engines like Google, Yahoo, and Bing.

Here’s his story:

Traffic Geyser Firepower System

The Worpress Clickbank Affiliate Plugin has finally been released for general download

I’ve been lucky enough to have a sneak peak at the plugin before it’s official release.  In fact, I already have the affiliate plugin installed on this very blog.

See the links at the top and bottom of this post?

Those are all Clickbank affiliate links…and they have my affiliate ID attached to every single link.

I didn’t go out and search for related products and manually insert them.  The plugin did it for me.  Can you imagine how much time and work it would take to find relevant Clickbank products and include them with each and every blog post you make?

Well, this plugin does all the work for you.  It’s super simple to use.  In fact,  here’s a short walk-through video I created to demonstrate how easy it is to use:

As you can see it’s super easy to implement.

Notice the “Related Recommendations” at the beginning and end of this post.  That’s the plugin working it’s magic on this site.  Of course, as demonstrated in the video, with the WP Clickbank Affiliate Plugin, you can control the heading.  Instead of “Related Recommendations”, you could easily make this “Check These Resources” … “I recommend these products” …. or anything you want really.

Here’s what I like most about the plugin:

It displays totally relevant Clickbank products based on the topic of your post.

This really makes it effective because the Clickbank affiliate products are related to what you are writing about in your post.  You’re not going to get listings about “stamp collecting” if you are writing about “coffee”.  The plugin pulls only relevant product offers based on the content of your blog.

After you download the WP Clickbank Affiliate Plugin you can literally have your ads up and running in about 7 minutes or less.

Obviously, I use the plugin on this blog and I highly recommend that you use it on yours as well.

Have fun with the plugin!

Competition fuels innovation in the marketplace and inspires companies to develop better products.

In the internet marketing realm, there has always been fierce competition between various email auto-responder systems.  As a result,  email auto-responder systems keep getting better and more effective for folks like you and me.

For the sake of this article, I’m going to assume you already understand what a sequential auto-responder is and how essential it is for your business.

Let’s also assume that you are already using one (or multiple services) for your business.

I’m looking for reasons to choose a particular service over another and I’m going to give you some compelling reasons to join in on the conversation…

First,

I WILL ALLOW AFFILIATE LINKS IN YOUR COMMENTS BELOW

But…

Here are a couple ground rules.

1. Contribute.  No posts with a simple “link” will be approved
2. Make it a discussion.  Explain WHY you recommend the autoresponder that you mention in your comment
3. Add value to the conversation
4. Make a compelling arguement for your autoresponder of choice.
5. If someone else has already listed their affiliate link to the autoresponder you want to recommend…don’t feel like you can’t submit your recommendation.  Who knows?  If your comment is more compelling, maybe visitors will click YOUR link.

I will approve all legitimate comments.

Frankly, the aim of this article is to inspire some conversation in the form of comments below this post.  So stick with me here…and let the best auto-responder win.

I’ve tried several auto-responder services in the past but I keep coming back to Aweber.  It’s my personal favorite.

One thing to consider when you are choosing your auto-responder service is the fact that once you build a large database of names for your email marketing efforts, it’s going to be REALLY hard to “switch” companies.  Most companies require double opt-in and if they allow you to import a list from a company you were using before…it’s likely that they will require ALL of your subscribers to opt-in again.

Because of this…

I actually have several auto-responder accounts with different providers.  It’s just to darn hard to convert the names over to Aweber.  So…now I have several accounts.

One company in particular, ImnicaMail, works extremely hard at getting your business by offering list imports WITHOUT verification (within reason).  If you already have a double opt-in list from an Imnica competitor, they will consider your list and help with the import.

So…

Now it’s YOUR turn.

Please leave a comment below to discuss your favorite auto-responder service.

Let the best auto-responder win!

Remember, you may include your affiliate link (if you have one) in the comment below.

All comments will be moderated.

Download 77 Ways To Get Traffic

This no cost report, written by Allan Gardyne, CEO of AssociatePrograms.com rivals many products I’ve purchased for over $50.00 online.

Here is a look at the table of contents:

Download 77 Ways To Get Traffic

Today, you can download one of Doug’s newest reports for free. It’s called…

Targeted Traffic Tune-Up

“Targeted Traffic Tune-up” is a collection of over 100 traffic generation ideas for your website or blog.

Now, before you rush off to download the free report, take a couple things into consideration.

First…

Think about what you are going to do with the information.  Consider how many times have you downloaded something just because it’s free.  I know I’ve done it about a gazillion times.  How big is your “gonna get to it” list? If you’re like me, you probably don’t even have a “gonna get to it” list…you just have a bunch of digital downloads on a folder somewhere on your computer that you promise to yourself that you’ll come back to someday and give it a good read.

Well, I’m here to tell you….that day rarely appears. Life and business has a funny way of just getting in the way.  Think about it.  When’s the last time you actually had any “free time” just to carouse through your hard drive so you can find all the killer reports you’ve been meaning to read?

If you plan on downloading the information, take my advise…

As soon as you get it, print it out.  Put the physical copy smack dab in the middle of your desk right where it’s in the way of everything.  Promise yourself that you will read it before you file it away.  Better yet, promise yourself that you will read it and take five of the 100 tips and immediately put it into action within the next 24 hours.  You don’t have to commit yourself to a huge project…just commit to 5 simple tips in the report (you can do more later).

Point is…if you do nothing with these tips today…you probably won’t get to it at all…anytime.  The odds are stacked against you.  You will forget.

Just to give you an example of what’s in the report, here are the five tips that I’ve committed to implement right away

Tip Number:

Tip # 8

“Use Alt imaging -A picture is worth a thousand words, especially on the net.  Putting alt attributes on your images can allow you to place relevant text around your image, better for search engine indexing.  Keep in mind that images are searched for just as much as content is.

(Did I know this information??  Yes.  Was I emplementing it all the time?? …NO.  That’s why I highlighted this tip for myself so that I actually do this)

Tip # 12

“Take advantage of free ads.  GumTree is a great place to get your new website noticed.  GumTree is a free advertisement space where you can make an advertisement for free.  It doesn’t get any better than that!”

Tip # 18

“Search for relevant websites – there are social websites out there for literally everyone and everything.  For baby boomers, for music lovers, for avid photographers, for gamers, for George Lucas fans, for Twilight lovers, and for just about every other topic known to man.  Take advantage of this by joining social networking sites that relate to your website.  This is where your prospects will be.

Tip # 21

“Write something actually worth reading – perhaps you have not browsed through the net lately.  Unfortunately, there’s a lot of hogwash out there.  Many people attempt to use article marketing and simply write about anything and everything.  Not a good idea. Write something entertaining, write something  informative and write something worth reading”

Tip # 103

Make your website user friendly.  Perhaps Granny isn’t isn’t going to be your main niche market; however, consider the fact that not everyone grew up in the cyber-savvy world.  Some of your customers may not be familiar with browsing, YouTube, Facebook, and other internet technicalities.  That’s why you need to ensure your website is as simple and easy to use as possible.  If it’s not, no one, not even the technically savvy will put in the effort to find what they are looking for.   They will simply click on the next search option on their list.

These are just five of the 110 tips in “Targeted Traffic Tune-UP” that I took out and will focus on.  Again, these are examples of things I’m going to concentrate on.  You may find other things.

In fact, here’s a screen shot of the actual table of contents so you know what you’re getting before you download the report.

Again, lots of good stuff in this report….and it could EASILY be sold as a premium product.  However, you can get it for FREE today!

Download Targeted Traffic Tune Up

Enjoy your report.

I do hope you take my advise of printing it out and highlighting your five favorite ideas…then committing to take action on them.

Sincerely,

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