Marketing

12/26/2009

• Blog Disclaimer As Per The New FTC Guidelines

  First of all, there’s a LOT of misinformation about the new FTC guidelines about bloggers, affiliates, and testimonials.
  I’m going to outline the main points (from the link above) and give a couple example disclaimers.
  1. Clearly Disclose Typical Results
  From the FTC page:
  Under the revised Guides, advertisements that feature a consumer and convey his or her experience [...]

11/30/2009

• How I Do Videos For My Blog

  I’ve spent a lot of time figuring out how to do good videos on my blog.
  If you look at some of my earlier videos you’ll see they’re not that good, and they took me 10x longer to do than the ones I do today.
  This is how I currently create the videos for my blog (and [...]

11/23/2009

• Insights Into My Business

  I had a comment on my blog that I thought was worthy of a full answer.

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  As an addition to what I wanted to say in this video, outsourcing to the Philippines isn’t a fad. It’s not one of those “you have to get in at [...]

11/6/2009

• Get Massive Traffic From Adwords (not what you think)

  This week I managed to get Joel Peterson on a webinar to explain how he’s generating billions of impressions and millions of clicks for $0.01 using Google Adwords.
  I’ve known Joel for a few years, and knew that at one point he was spending about $1,000,000 a month on adwords, but I had no idea how [...]

10/27/2009

• Using StatsJunky To Track Online Business

  StatsJunky does what many previous softwares have attempted to do:
  track affiliate accounts/data along with PPC accounts/clicks.
  It does it REALLY well:

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  Go To StatsJunky.com

9/18/2009

• Local Business Internet Marketing…What I would do if…

  The most common question I receive from so many of you out there is, how do I start out with earning money from the internet, what do I do?
  The answer I give people is: Local Business Marketing!
  (just last week I told my MOM! to start doing this)
  Last night Kevin Wilke did an amazing webinar explaining [...]

7/20/2009

• Why I use GoTryThis

  When GoTryThis came out a few years ago I was very skeptical.
  Now, I use it almost every day in my business.
  Here’s a short list of why I use it:

  It keeps all my links in one place
  I never have to find my affiliate links for any product. GoTryThis has it for me
  I get great stats about [...]

7/7/2009

• Website Promotion Plan For Your Outsourcers

  Following is an email I got from one of my GUYS detailing the promotion methods we use for different types of websites. You can use this for your GUYS.
  This is also very instructive for you in terms of what you should be doing for your websites. What my guys do is awesome.
  I added the [...]

4/29/2009

• How I Do Niche Research

  During the years of running my online business I’ve come across a lot of different ways of doing online research.
  Lots of the info out there is pretty dumb.
  Dumb…meaning…it’s just not info that will help you know what’s good and what’s bad.
  Dumb…meaning…what they’re telling you XYZ means, just isn’t true.
  Dumb…meaning…”this does not help me pick a [...]

2/27/2009

• How to make $3 – 700 Times A Day!

  Here’s Joel’s business model (think about how this fits with your guys in the Philippines):

  build a 30-minute mini-site
  ^^^ mini site makes (average) $3/day
  repeat 765 times

  Math
  $3/day (average) * 30 days/month = $90 per site per month (not a lot)
  $90/site/month * 100 sites = $9000/month (getting better)
  $90/site/month * 765 sites (how many Joel has) = $68,850/month (NOW [...]

12/9/2008

• Succeeding In Your Online Business (2 of 4): Adwords

  I’m not the first to say this, neither am I the last.
  But, it’s something people miss over and over again.
  The first place you should look for traffic to your website is Google Adwords.

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  Use adwords because:

  you get immediate traffic
  you get immediate feedback
  you can track what is [...]

8/28/2008

• KISS for Online Marketers

  Over the past few months I’ve started to realize one of the things that keeps people from succeeding online is that they feel like they have to do everything they ever hear of or they’re a failure.
  “You have to have a list”
  “You have to do SEO”
  “You have to do Adwords like this!”
  “You have to be [...]

3/28/2008

• Dealing With Google’s New Rules

  Here’s a podcast of this blog post
  Or you can listen to it here:

  (The audio is different than what I wrote below)
  If you’re using Google Adwords, you’ve probably already seen or heard about the change that’s coming on April 1, 2008:

  Important Change to URL Policy Enforcement Starting in April, display URLs for new ads will [...]

12/18/2007

• Blogging To Sell

  About 5 months ago Keith Baxter gave me an audio course that he and Peter S. had done about how to use blogs to sell things.
  I was totally blown away.
  It wasn’t that it was totally new information. It was how they had put together a bunch of different concepts and used them in such [...]

8/24/2007

• Google Banning Adwords Advertisers

  This morning I had an interesting email conversation with a subscriber of mine who just got banned from Adwords for promoting software that makes MFA (made for adsense) sites.
  Yes, banned from Adwords, not adsense.
  Here’s what happened:
  He is a beginning affiliate. He just promotes other people’s stuff through adwords. Obviously not google’s favorite person, [...]

3/23/2007

• UnderCoverProfits: Affiliate Marketing Will Never Be The Same

  Next Tuesday I’ll be releasing UnderCoverProfits, which is going to change the way a whole bunch of people do affiliate marketing.
  See…in the past, when promoting other people’s products, what most people have done is pick a program to promote, and then go test it on Adwords to see if they can make it profitable. [...]

2/23/2007

• The Secret

  A few weeks ago I saw “The Secret” dvd, a movie put together by Rhonda Byrne with a bunch of successful people in it including Jack Canfield, Bob Proctor, and Joe Vitale.
  When I saw it, I immediatly identified with it because I have seen the “law of attraction” in my life over and over again. [...]

10/25/2006

• Yahoo Has Major Issues

  Since Yahoo sent out the email telling everyone how they’re upgrading search marketing accounts, I thought I’d look into it.
  Holy cow do they have issues.
  First, I was looking at their API. They have all the documentation for their searchmarketing api online, but it doesn’t work. It’s not active for people. There’s a [...]

10/17/2006

• What is internet marketing coming to?

  It is absolutely amazing the lies people will tell to sell something online.
  This is my critique of a sales letter about 19 copywriting secrets.
  The dude is teaching how to write better copy.
  In the first email he sends there is a blatant lie in it.
  No wonder “being honest in your copy” isn’t one of [...]

9/25/2006

• Adsense is Dead! No, Wait…Adsense is Alive! …No Wait…

  Adsense is Dead/Alive MP3
  With the release of Joel Comms rebuttle, Adsense is alive!, I think I need to talk about what is going on.
  I’m doing this for the same reason I do What’s Crap and What’s Not.
  First of all, before I say any more, you need to realize that Joel has a 5 figure monthly [...]