Beginning in the year 2002, blogs molded the online marketing world. While most people at that time started with various blogging systems, eventually most of them shifted to WordPress.  WordPress has become so much more than a powerful website CMS, it's literally a game changer that emerged from the need for a better blogging systems.

If you've read any popular blogging tips online, WordPress is often positioned as a tool that simply creates a blog. But an increasing number of marketers are finding Continue Reading

Powerful new WordPress theme has just been released, and by giving you a little background, you can realize how important this action is.  Whether or not you use this theme,  you HAVE to create a list to be able to monetize your web  efforts.  In the past, creating a squeeze page meant hand coding and tweaking, something I'm not so happy to do.   Now with Squeeze Theme, any wordpress site can be changed to a squeeze page style site, giving you complete freedom to focus on content.  Take a look at the sales page and see whether it can be the solution for you.

I'll be purchasing this for several sites and offer a full review for our readers.

So more and more people are realizing the power of being an "Affiliate". In my humble opinion, affilates will be as common as any retail store, any newspaper ad or any of the other traditional methods of selling now.

An "affiliate" is an online representative of a company, individual product or service who gets a commission ranging from 1% to sometimes 100% of a products price.

Usually, affiliates have very little if any interaction with a particular product as far as delivery. On the internet, many of these types of products are digital and require only driving traffic to a link that directs the person clicking the link to a place either describing or directly to purchase said product. When the product or service is purchased, the affiliate is paid a commission through paypal or direct with a check. The product is delivered by the company, serviced by the company, and any returns are handled by company. Usually, in the event of a return, commissions are reversed, but in my experience, this is not too common.

In the end, affiliate marketing has serious upside potential. Some of the best methods are to have a blog focused on a particular niche. Then going to sites such as CLICKBANK or others that are basically a marketplace for all types of digital download products.

• Reverse Phone Lookup
• Energy Product
• World of Warcraft Guides

All these represent products that can be represented online by you, for free on  your virtual real estate (web pages, emails, etc) and you earn a very respectable commission!  Many sales can result in $30 - 50 each sale, and you can make these sales while you sleep, work or play.  It's a truly powerful method to earn online.  At the same time, the top earning affiliates understand the power of website traffic, and what it means to truly PROMOTE an offer and drive sales.  Imagine you had a high profit item in  your retail store, but you sat in the office, reading comics instead of promoting?  Would you make sales? Possibly...but the difference is DRIVING sales to  your site using combinations of social media, expert blogging, PPC advertising, or other methods and making substantial commissions.

I have really turned on to Russel Brunsons content, here is just a quick newscast he was on...

I've been discovering the writings and video with an expert marketer in the internet space named Joel Comm. I first discovered him through his many TV appearances, and a friend and myself quoted from his recent book, Twitter Power at our last seminar entitled "Mastering Virtual and Reality Networking" that we did in early 2009.

While Joel has made a fortune online, Continue Reading

I'm a huge fan of Yaro Starak...he's an Australian Blogger who makes a very FULL TIME income by blogging and coaching.  He literally a few minutes ago, launched his new coaching program that I'm joining in five minutes.  Watching his launch strategy, he uses great home made videos to drive traffic to his pre-launch pages, and obviously gets you to know him.

Take a look here...

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The Internet Business Mastery Academy helps you escape the 9-to-5 and design the lifestyle of your dreams by giving you step-by-step tutorials for turning your life’s passion into an extremely profitable Internet business.

The first step in the Academy is to help you design your ultimate Internet lifestyle. Then, through a series of online, step by step courses, you'll discover how to use social media and other proven Internet marketing strategies to maximize your business success. Plus, our innovative "multimedia Rolodex" is another breakthrough designed to help you find the best services and vendors to help you reach your business goals as quickly as possible -- and achieve your ideal lifestyle.

Now, the above text is straight from their site...but I have to tell you, I'm a student, and I pay the monthly fee happily.  Yes, there is "free" information everywhere, but I find that free is not always the way to go, and in the end, everyone wants to sell you something.  These guys, Sterling and Jay are heads and tails above the rest.  They give you detailed tips and game plans to not only make money, but more importantly, design your lifestyle to fit how YOU want it.   Take it from me, even owning a brick and mortar business is not anything near the internet lifestyle.  For me, my long term goal is to take my knowledge on many topics and create various information products around it.  After all, why do we pay for books? or school? or magazines?  To gain KNOWLEDGE about something we don't know much about, right?

I'm happy to pay for intelligent information that helps me move my ideas ahead.  At the end of the day, we want to get to our goals, and become a "success", whatever that means to us.

Listen to their Audio Recording here, and send me any feedback to cheftony at cheftony dot me, I'd love to hear what you think!

If you need to know the basics of Twitter, please read my "Twitter 101" post and we can start at ground zero.

No offense, but if Twitter is new, don't read this post.

On the other hand..if you have dabbled in Twitter, and realized the potential..and want to explode your twitter exposure, you need to read on.

Liken this to when Ebay started... you had your homebodies, scouring their attic for old trinkets, putting grainy pics of them on their ebay page and selling a few for an extra $73 dollars a month. Whoopee.. Then you had your "Power Sellers" who realized the true massive opportunity of Ebay, and got Third Party software to autoload auctions, auto bid at last moment, and incredible design programs to make thier auctions stand out, and many, many people have been making substantial incomes on Ebay since.

Nothing wrong with either scenario (remember..I said, if Twitter is new, don't bother with this post...at least NOW).

CARRYING ON...I've found a software program that I'll liken to the Ebay days..it's called Hummingbird ~ Twitter Pro Tools by Mesiab Labs. All I can say, this is like Twitter Search, Massive Follow/unfollow, auto timed actions, and management of your followers and ones you follow, all from one interface.

Let me be clear, this software costs a fair penny, but realize this...what is Twitter great for? You have an online presence, you build your "list" of followers who like what you do, and you can (if you choose) market to them, duhh? So if you are looking for a 1-4% "opt in" rate...how many followers will you need to do damage? Now again, this is aimed at marketing people, twitter users that have an agenda. People, this is not spamming, but if you're posting up links to products that you promote along with all the great content that you are providing (yes, this is very important, remember that Twitter is a community), and you have 10,000 followers, what can that conversion rate mean to you in income?

I've attached a few screenshots that have sold me on the product...look at what this thing does??

Just click on these pics if you need to read more detail..

I cannot imagine where my followers will be when I implement this and can track on TwitterCounter

Get back to me in the comments section below if you decide to buy and try out, I'm very curious about your results.

Ok, perhaps I'll shoot a video in a few weeks and show you my increases and results, and then we'll truly see if the price is worth it?

By the way, here is the main site to review, videos and pricing are there..

Here's to your online success!

Tony

Reality has it that we all have too many things to do, not enough time, and especially with the internets creation of ADD, I have found it all to easy to get distracted and off task while we are building our internet business. Blogging and content creation for sites obviously can involve article creation. Building your sites content with articles and blog posts relevant to your core topics or sub topics is key to drive Google traffic, readership and sell your affiliate products.

So knowing this, I've recently been investigating some content creation "assistants" and discovering how various products work. Now please don't take my post here as a review, because I have not used many of these tools, but looking at the power of what they are doing, I certainly can see their value. Basically, what happens is that you have a topic in mind, you input various key words and more importantly, key word combinations, and these various software tools do extensive searches on whatever platforms you specify, and in a matter of moments, return relevant content from blog posts, news articles, video titles, and other media sources.

Take a look at this video, explaining what the process is...(if you don't automatically go to the video, scroll down if you don't mind).

Now from there, you can choose to quote the sources, or combine the information into your own writing, saving substantial fact gathering and research, sine the tools are doing it for you.

I'd like to subscribe to one of these services and take a look. IF any of my readers do so, please comment below and let us know what you find out.

Here's to your online success,
Tony

p.s. In case you missed the link above, here you go...best of luck!

I spent a lot of time figuring out Wordpress (look for my upcoming video course on Mastering Wordpress in 14 days or less) and one thing I've learned...themes DO MATTER!

Whether you are blogging for fun or profits, the right theme can be the perfect wrapper around your content (most important) and can keep viewers on your site much longer.  Think of it as meeting your new contacts or friends with the most perfect smile.  They will be happier to get to know you, make friends, and stay in contact with  you.  Unfortunately (or not?) todays web surfers have extreme ADD (attention deficit disorder) and even an ugly site with great content just may not make the grade.

A recent product that has come out that is great for affiliate marketers is the WordPress theme called "Affiliate Theme" from Unique Blog Designs.  I have had very good luck with their designs in the past, and have tried this theme out on many blogs I run.  Being preloaded to customize almost everything, colors, affiliate links, headers, footers,etc... makes it so much easier and faster to get a niche site up and running...and most importantly making money!
There are several options for buying, a single site liscence, mulitple sites, and a Super Affiliate Option for right around $197.  Take  a look below, feel free to email me any comments.