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Make Money with Blogging | Reviews

gmeares — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:21:07 +0000

Make Money with Blogging

Is it really as easy as so many make it out to be? Not likely. It takes a little more work than most really share but making money with blogging is posible and many can do it.

The key is know where to get the help? Basically, Blogging Product Reviews has put together some honest straight to the point reviews of some of the top selling blogging tools.

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More importantly, you will also have access to videos reviews of these same products. How cool is that?

Spending money on blogging tools is a good idea if you know exactly what you are getting and can be assured that your money is well spent.

There is nothing worse than buying something that doesn’t deliver.

In addition, if you interested in finding about additional information on blogging like;

Make sure you don’t get ripped off!

Visit Blogging Product Reviews and stay protected.

Jumpstart Your Promotional Marketing

gmeares — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:38:40 +0000

Do you want to add more people to your mailing list and make more sales?

Really?

Ok, I’m going to share another cool product that Marlon Sander’s just recenty released.

It’s called the Promo Dashboard.

… and it allows you to simply point and click your way to a successful promotion. This is the key to your success online. Well, one of them anyway.

Many people want to make money online and quickly discover that it’s harder than they originally thought. I say this because there is a lot to do to get a successful campaign (website) up and generating sales.

That’s why I own so many of Marlon’s products. They make life easier. The biggest benefit is the momentum that is created using Marlon’s tools.

His success and expertise is widely known, that is why when he reveals a simple way to get to where he is I listen.

Here’s a picture of what the dashboard looks like….

Don’t take my word for it, you really need to learn more about this. Just visit the Promo Dashboard and learn how it can help you make more money.

Thanks!

Traffic, Money or Both with this Service

gmeares — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:43:41 +0000

If your reading this blog most likely you have your own or are thinking about it. Although, it is quite possible you are here because all the buzz about BlueSkyBrothers.com and you understand that we deliver outstanding Niche Blog Marketing content.

I use a service that you mayo r may not know about but in any event you should use them too.

The service is called Text-Link-Ads.com and they are doing two things for me.

1. They make money online for me;

2. They help me get more traffic.

So, your next question should be how?

Basically, Text-Link-Ads.com allows you to buy links on other websites and blogs. This, as you know, helps your site in two ways by improving your ranking and driving natural traffic to your site. But on the flip side you can sell those links on your websites or blogs.

I do both and I enjoy improved traffic performance and I make more money online because of it.

So, if you aren’t currently using this system, you should take a good look at it. It works and it is easy to use.

Thanks!

Make Money Online and Avoid The US Economy Blues

gmeares — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:54:23 +0000

The best protection for you and your family against a negative economic downturn is your ability to make money online with your own business.

Seriously, with a little effort up front and some momentum, you can protect your family and still enjoy life. Let me explain…

For the past six months I’ve been working like a dog. So when my wife said…. "Honey, let’s get out of here for a couple of weeks", I jumped on that idea. So, we loaded up my daughters and went to the Outer Banks in North Carolina (of course I brought my MAC to keep up with everything, lol.)

The point of all of this is simple. We couldn’t have taken this trip if I didn’t have my own busness online.

… because I make money online I am somewhat insulated from the economic issues others face. I recommend you prepare yourself for this as well,

My success online has changed my life and that of my families. When I was younger I wanted to make a lot of money so I could own all kinds of cool things, like a big house and a really cool car. Now that I am older (and hopefully wiser) I know what’s important and that is TIME. Money provides me time. Time with my family and time to do the things I want.

Time to get burried in sand too!

Side Note: I actually fell asleep because the sand was cool and comfortable. My forehead got burned.

My daughter enjoyed burrying me and the time we had is priceless.

To me this is what success online can do for you. These are the things that are important. I recommend that you take action today and start getting yourself in this position.

I apologize if I am coming off as though I am bragging about owning my own business. That is not my intent.

My intent is to paint a picture of what life can be when you set in motion things for you and your family.

That is the key.

So if you’re ready to get started I recommend a couple of systems that may help jumpstart your earning potential.

Both of these programs will help get you going quickly.

Make Money Online Journey

gmeares — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:29:16 +0000

I decided to capture my journey with a new business in trying to make money online.

You can learn all about it at Automatic Money Tools.

Basically, I am documented my steps, tools that I use, my successes and my failure of how I am going about the start of a new business.

This is going to be interesting.

Now, I’ve been online for a little while and I have several systems that are already generating me income, but I decided to provide a complete jounal from scratch so the newbie (or even the veteran0 could see what I was up too.

So I urge you to visit Automatic Money Tools, susbcribe to the feed and the email notifcation.

To your success!

Internet Marketing Software For FREE!

gmeares — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:37:42 +0000

Can this be true?

Internet Marketing Software For FREE!? You must be thinking that, sure, what’s the catch? Well there really isn’t one. This is the real deal, and some of the titles and uses are really beneficial.

The tagline of the blog/site is: Free Software For Internet Marketers

Each month they add a new title and allow you to download it for free. To be honest, I don’t download all the titles but on occassion they have really usesful tools that help with my business.

Here’s the rub; you can bookmark the site or sign up for my feed and when a new title comes available, you can check it out and decide if its worth the download time.

I think this is a cool service and worth the bookmark.

I won’t bore you with the list of titles but instead give you the link to check it out. And again, there is no catch, you don’t even need to give them your name and email address. Now that’s a re-freshing change.

To visit the site just click Free Internet Marketing Software

Generate a Ton Of Backlinks and Trackbacks… Ethically

gmeares — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:02:23 +0000

There’s some new software out for bloggers that has the web buzzing with excitement.

The most common problem with blogging is the time it takes to create great, relevant content. Everyone complains about feeling "tied" to their blog because of the daily posting regimen.

The other pressing and tedious task is getting links. Link building is crucial for getting high search engine rankings and direct traffic from sites that link to you.

If you could solve both of these problems with one piece of software, get your life back and have more time to market your site, would you be interested?

Silly question, I know.

The guys from Authority Site Center have come up with a remarkably easy to use piece of software called TrackBoost.

It is really hard to explain exactly what it does, so I have a quick video for you to check out. Jack goes through the software and shows you all the cool features so
you can see how easy it is to come up with search engine tickling blog posts that also make your readers fall in love with your blog.

Save time. Get high quality links.

That’s what Trackboost is all about.

You can see a demo here: Watch Demo

Niche Blog Marketing and Skitch

gmeares — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:47:42 +0000

Not too long ago I switched back to a MAC. The only problem was that I used some pretty cool software programs on my PC to help me with my online business. One of my favorite tools , SnagIt, allowed me to easily grab a picture and resize it and add some cool effects.

This was a perfect tool for a blogger. I was annoyed that I couldn’t find the equivalent for my new MAC. That is until I discovered this really cool program.

It is called Skitch and wow I quickly forgot about SnagIt.

This program allows you to quickly grab a graphic, web page or anything on a web page and make adjustments to it. You can modify the size, you can add text. It pretty much does it all. In fact words cannot describe it, that is why I put a video together to show you how I add pics to my blogs quickly and effortlessly.

Check out the video…

Want a very cool way to generate income from your blogs? Visit Super Affiliate Blogger and learn more.

Super Affiliate Blogger

gmeares — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:50:44 +0000

As you know I am a huge advocate of using niche blogs to make money through the affiliate business model. About 6 months ago I released Blogging For Riches, which shares, through video content how to make money online with niche wordpress blogs. It has become a huge success.

Anyway, I love learning what others are doing to make money online. I’ve heard good things about Super Affiliate Blogger from a few of my collegues, so I decided to purchase it and give a looky-see and test out the ideas.

This post is going to share the insider look at what is included. And I will share with you the cool plugins that come with this guide. To be perfectly honest, the availability of these plugins motivated me to go ahead and purchase this product to study it further.

The wordpress plugins that are cool are:

1. Cute Links

2. Opt-In Forms Manager

3. Assorted Top Rated Plugins

By-the-way the bonuses are really cool too.

I decided to do a video of all the information instead of doing a bunch of screen shots. I figured it would give you a better idea of what’s included. So check out the video. It is only 13.5 minutes long.

As you can see the Super Affiliate Blogger provides a lot of resources that you need to be successful and the guides are excellent.

Thanks

The secret story behind $90,000 a month from a free ebook

gmeares — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:42:50 +0000

By Marlon Sanders

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When you’re just starting your online business, here is the one key to your success:

With all the high tech and marketing wizardry on the Internet, the basics have been, are and always will be — basic!

Step one: Get people onto your list using a FREE or highly attractive offer.

Step two: Get ‘em to make purchase #1 from you.

Step three: Get ‘em to make purchase #2.

Step four: Go for big ticket sales or recurring monthly billing. You could move this step up to three or even two in some cases.

In the field of Internet marketing , step one has just gotten pummeled over time in terms of what it takes to do it.

Here are the stages opt-ins have gone through:

Stage one: The free report or newsletter

Originally, you could offer a free report or newsletter and get people to join to your email list.

Jonathan Mizel coined and TRADEMARKED the term Name Squeeze. He was smarter than me. I’ve originated and innovated many things in this business but never had the smarts to trademark them.

Then, later on, people deny what you did. If you trademark, you got the PROOF. Mizel? He’s a smart man.

Oh, other people CLAIM they invented the Squeeze Page. Ask them whose coaching club they were IN. And WHO owns the stupid trademark.

Yeah, ask them that. Watch them dance.

Stage two: The ebook

Later, Terry Dean popularized the free ebook in exchange for the opt in. The problem became that everyone started offering low quality, crappy private label rights ebooks for the opt in. (Not that all plr ebooks are low quality.)

So people stopped opting in for those because they figured the value was equal to the information — worth less than nothing.

Some people went to offering a BUNCH of plr. OK. If one piece of crap doesn’t get your attention, I’ll throw in a whole bunch of it.

Again, I don’t want to be overly critical of reprint rights or plr. I’m just explaining the history and psychology of what
has gone done.

Stage three: The seven day ecourse

About the same time, Ken Evoy of Site Sell fame started the whole 7-day ecourse craze. That became watered down into 7-day pitches and low quality information. Plus, the delayed nature of the gratification didn’t make it the ideal system from the outset.

All of these incentives for opt ins were initially effective but lost their punch as everyone and their dog jumped on the
band wagon.

Thus, Marlon’s rule of the band wagon:

When everyone else jumps ON the band wagon, the results will diminish. That doesn’t mean jumping on the band wagon is always bad. For example, some would call video on the Internet a band wagon.

That’s more like a here-to-stay thing. Not a band wagon. Kinda like TV vs. radio. You couldn’t really call TV a "bandwagon" although in the early days I’m sure some did.

Anyway, usually, when everyone starts doing something, the effectiveness goes down. Often, way down.

Kinda like sales letters.

When you see so many, the bar is raised as to what it takes to create a sales letter that works. You can’t use the same formula I used years ago. You have to adapt and improve.

Everyone says you can be lazy in niches. And it’s sort of true. But you know what? I often see the BEST sales letters and marketing being done in niches. I can’t explain why. But that’s what I observe.

Stage four: The 50-page report

Rich Schefren wisely came out with a free report that was 50 or so pages for his first launch. I don’t know if he was the first person to do a lead generator like this.

But his certainly hit big. He repeated his formula with "The Attention Doctrine" manuscript. I think Rich has added in Stomper-type videos to his mix.

Scott Boulch pioneered his List Virus software and method where you pay affiliates .50 to $1.00 per download of the free report. This is typically in the context of a big product launch.

Stage five: The case study videos

Stompernet innovated by putting out extensive in-depth case study videos to get opt ins. Some of them are an hour long. I think they may have added in videos.

You will notice things went from simple free reports to sequences of very elaborate videos and PDF’s. If you’re competing in the Internet marketing niche, and doing big product launches, this is what it takes.

In most other niches, you can be 10X lazier. Although like I say, sometimes the sophistication of what people do in niches is far beyond what you might expect.

So where does that leave YOU?

How do you get people on YOUR list so you can move on with the equation?

1. Test and try different things.

What’s old can be new again. I know of one marketer just killing it with a free ebook offer. Others have gone to offering free video downloads. Others have gone to a free members site structure.

2. Whatever you use as your opt-in incentive, you have to sell your offer.

Don’t assume people will want it because it’s free.

There is no shortage of free information on the Internet today. So sell your offer.

3. Watch your opt ins live!

This is a great idea I picked up today from Jason "video guru" Moffatt. He keeps his aweber open live and watches opt ins as they come in. That’s just to keep opt ins on his mind.

I love that idea.

What you pay attention to grows.

What you don’t, withers.

So now back to my grabber. I love that term. I guess Gary Halbert started it way back when by calling the dollar bill at the top of a direct mail letter a "grabber." More recently, terminology was picked up in an outstanding book called Neuromarketing by Renvoise & Morin.

My grabber to get you to read this article was the $90,000 a month from an ebook.

So I have a new friend/consultant. I paid him for an hour of his time ’cause he’s an Adwords guru and "old school" marketer, which I respect.

Anway, he’s killing it on Adwords with a front-end opt-in incentive of a free ebook. Yeah, that’s it.

A free ebook.

Terry Dean would smile and feel vindicated. Personally, I was shocked.

So what’s his secret formula?

Step one: Offer incentive — free ebook

Step two: Get email address

Step three: Send emails

Step four: Ask for money

How’s that for back to the basics?

The one thing he does is builds a little more credibility for his free ebook vs. what you normally see. Frankly, the campaign in terms of execution is underwhelming.

The graphics are kinda ugly. The content is nothing revolutionary. There isn’t a real USP that screams at you.

It’s just the basics very well executed.

But WHAT you offer doesn’t matter.

Could be videos. Could be a printed book. Matt Bacak is using the free CD. Could be a free membership. Could be about ANYTHING that lights a fire under your customers and gets their tail end off the sofa, as I think John Carlton would say in a little more spicy language.

So my new friend gets 22% to 30% opt ins on the front end. I’m not really sure the exact numbers. He changes the story a bit from time-to-time.

Doesn’t really matter. And he’s in a niche vs. competing in the fast-paced life of intensely competitive, superstar Internet marketing "guru" launches.

My numbers right now are around 15% at my current name squeeze: http://www.pushbuttonletter.com

That’s the page I’m using as my opt in from a Google Adwords campaign.

I’m still an Adwords hack to tell the truth. But I’m learning slowly but surely.

I’ve never been super fast out of the gate. I’m more of a keep at it and keep learning type.

Do you know what your numbers are on your opt-in page? Or if you have a sales letter with an opt in somewhere within the page, do you know your numbers?

Do you track them?

Have you tried a different incentive lately?

My new objective is 25% opt ins. If you get 1000 clicks from Google organic or paid search and you get 250 opt ins, then convert a decent amount of those into customers (2% to 10%), you have something you can make bank with.

It’s all numbers.

My friend spends $1.00 a click. 25% opt in. So out of 1,000 clicks that’s $1,000 spent and 250 opt ins. 10% buy at around $40.00. That is $1,000. So basically he breaks even on the front end or first sale and makes money on the back end or follow up sales.

That’s pretty much the formula that makes any business successful.

Now, most people only get 5% to 15% opt-ins from Adwords from what I hear. Like I said, to date my best is 15%. And converting 10% of opt-ins is a challenge. 2% to 5% would probably be average, although I haven’t looked at the numbers lately.

Conversions depend on the offer — what is the price and what do you get for your money?

You test and try different things.

Oh, I’m NOT telling you WHO my friend is or what his business is.

Why? ‘Cause I don’t want people copying my friends ads and trying to destroy his business.

The point of this article is: If you aren’t getting enough people into your marketing funnel, increase the attractiveness of your incentive.

If you compete in the arena of Internet, using flanking and guerrilla moves to avoid the need for Stomper style content videos to generate leads.

If you’re unfamiliar with flanking and guerrilla moves, you really need to get my Red Factor training. I can’t even remember if it’s still available or not. I think we took the offer off the market.

Oh well. You snooze, you lose.

I hope this article has given you insight. To reiterate, there’s a simple formula that works online. It IS the basis of what I first wrote about years ago in "The Amazing Formula." And it still works today and will always work.

Step one: Generate a lead by offering a very attractive low cost or free offer

Step two: Follow up

Step three: Ask for money

Step four: Build customer relationships and provide good service

Step four: Ask for money again and again

Step five: Treat your customers well. They are the goose that lays the golden egg

Step six: Smell the roses. None of us are here long enough.

Marlon

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Marlon Sanders is the author of "The Info Product Dashboard." If you want to create your own info products, go to: http://www.blueskybrothers.com/ProductDashboard

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