No nonsense Internet Tips

James Ray Trial

Bruce Hopkins — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:50:00 +0000

Well I was watching CNN at lunch and saw mention of the James Ray trial and how he broken down crying so hard that the judge had to dismiss the jury and give him time to compose himself. I don’t know if you’ve heard of this but this was a guy selling a self help [...]

The ShoeMoney System Review

Bruce Hopkins — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:15:18 +0000

I’ve been checking out ShoeMoney’s System the past few days and this thing rocks. You would have to be an idiot to not utilize the same system that has generated Shoemoney so much cash. Check it out http://brucehopkins.net/shoemoney

The ever going saga of how much weight links carry

Bruce Hopkins — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 13:33:03 +0000

One of the main items anyone can do to improve the rankings in the search engines is to build up incoming links. There has always been a discussion on how different links are counted. One of the main items that most people talk about is getting links on .edu or .gov sites as the holy [...]

Blog Income – Trend Blogging

Bruce Hopkins — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 17:09:25 +0000

One way that many people are earning a decent blog income is by trend blogging. Trend Blogging is a relativity new trend where you attempt to jump on hot trending topics from Google or other locations on the web. I’ve done quite a good bit of it and it works. The only downside is that [...]

Here’s Why Using Camtasia Can Increase Your Affiliate Checks

Bruce Hopkins — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 17:32:00 +0000

Since there are already lots of people getting into affiliate marketing, it is no wonder that the competition is getting stiff. The challenge is to try and outdo other affiliates and think of ways to be able to attain this. There are also many tips and techniques being taught to these affiliate in order to [...]

Have you Heard About Mobile Marketing with StomperMoblie

Bruce Hopkins — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:16:15 +0000

I’ve been working at StomperNet for about six months now and during that time I’ve seen some cool marketing stuff, but nothing like is coming up with StomperMobile. We have been talking about it for a while and its going to change the way people marketing their businesses. Whether they are marketing online or offline, [...]

Will Google’s new ranking mean the end of Trend Blogging

Bruce Hopkins — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:05:11 +0000

Well its a new year in Internet land. The past year has produced a lot of items that IMers need to be thinking about especially in the area of how Google ranks websites. There has been a lot of talk about Google Caffeine and many people are already seeing the results of the combined search [...]

Making money during the Holidays

Bruce Hopkins — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:23:04 +0000

I was just over at DatMoney where my good friend Jay posted about making money during the holidays. Its actually a pretty good post, but I’m going to have to disagree with Jay on one point. Now Jay recommends using sites such as shopping.com to find a hot niche or product that people are searching [...]

What have I been up to lately

Bruce Hopkins — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 00:31:06 +0000

What have I been doing lately? Well even though I said I would never do it again I took a job. Its not an average job, but one which puts me closest to some of the best minds in Internet Marketing. I was looking around Craigslist and saw an add that peaked my interest. The [...]

What is Social Media

Bruce Hopkins — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:34:56 +0000

This is one question that many people think they know, but the sad thing is the vast majority of marketers do not know how to effectively use Social Media in their business. Most Internet Marketers get on various social sites and try to start selling stuff right away. This is the wrong mentality to take [...]

Fired to Free

Bruce Hopkins — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 18:39:04 +0000

One thing I’ve been doing a lot of lately is CPA marketing. This is a very lucrative market if you do it correctly. One thing that almost everyone will tell you that in order to earn any serious money from CPA networks you must spend money on PPC campaigns. Well I did not believe that [...]

Improving Efficiency

Bruce Hopkins — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:21:09 +0000

One issue I’ve had since going fulltime with IM is with efficiency. Seems like sense I now have more time to work on my Internet Business, I’m not as effective as I was when I had less time since I had to spend 70 hours a week at my day job. This is very strange, [...]

Go Big or Stay Small

Bruce Hopkins — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:00:06 +0000

Go big or stay small is a question which has been on my mind for a while. I could not verbalize it until yesterday but this pretty much sums up a lot of things with Internet Marketing. Its really a question we all should be asking ourselves in this life. We all have choices in [...]

50 tips to be a better tweeter

Bruce Hopkins — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 01:43:10 +0000

I just attended a stompernet webinar on Twitter and there was some great information shared. I came out with 50 tips that are great for social media in general. Most for the tips are for twitter thus the title, but there are some for other social media sites such as facebook. Of course you can [...]

Generating Traffic to Blogs

Bruce Hopkins — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 20:25:09 +0000

I have not written about traffic generation in quite a while. I read the posts I made on this a couple of years ago and realized how much my views how changed over the past couple of years. While the post is still relevant, my techniques for generating traffic have evolved over the years. The [...]

Understanding Trend Blogging

Bruce Hopkins — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:41:47 +0000

Long term readers of this blog know I have a bunch of blogs besides this one and on several of those I practice trend blogging. I’ve thought several times of writing about trend blogging, but I always thought I should probably create a product on this topic. I’ve seen a couple of products on how [...]

Keyword Elite 2 Review

Bruce Hopkins — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:22:42 +0000

I’m not sure if you have been watching the upcoming launch of the new version of Keyword Elite 2.0, but this program is really impressing me. I for one will be one of the first to pick up a copy when the doors open tomorrow. I don’t normally jump on any product like this. I [...]

Do attractive women sell better online?

Bruce Hopkins — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:57:06 +0000

This is a warning some people may think the following as sexist, but really its all about marketing. I know a lot of people as they are selling online will use images of attractive females to hopefully entice a response and get a sell, but does this really work? The reason I ask is because [...]

My views on Internet Marketing Conferences

Bruce Hopkins — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:37:51 +0000

Since I started working fulltime online, I’ve been to several Internet Marketing conferences. If I had written this post a year ago, I would have said these where a waste of time. Of course I had never been to one so I would not have been talking about actual experience. Well I’ve been to two [...]

Maxblog Ninja Affiliate Review

Bruce Hopkins — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:20:41 +0000

I don’t know if any of you have heard of the Max Blog Press Ninja Affiliate plugin, but its very cool and a must have plugin for anyone who runs a WordPress site and wants to sell affiliate products from your site. This plugin allows you to easily change any of the text in your [...]

Clickbank Pirate Review

Bruce Hopkins — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 17:21:13 +0000

Its no secret that a lot of people make a killing promoting Clickbank products on the internet. Clickbank is so powerful because of the digital nature of its products. I was recently given a copy of a new product my two friends Soren Jordansen and Cindy Battye are getting ready to release. If you are [...]

Building Backlinks

Bruce Hopkins — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 18:04:36 +0000

Many people consider building backlinks to a site one of the most important things you can do to help increase search engine rankings. I would say after creating interesting and unique content that this is true. Well really if you build backlinks you don’t have to worry as much about creating unique content. With enough [...]

100 Dollar a Day Challenge

Bruce Hopkins — Mon, 18 May 2009 04:28:54 +0000

I was cruising over at the Warrior Forum yesterday and came across this interesting post about Steve Crooks who started a challenge to see if he could take a brand new blog and have it earning 100 dollars a day with Adsense within 3 months. I love to see these types of challenges as they [...]

Do you Twitter

Bruce Hopkins — Wed, 06 May 2009 02:24:47 +0000

I have to admit that I’ve pretty much resisted this entire twitter craze going around, but I think I may have been missing out. Every time I went on twitter I was bombarded with people selling this or selling that and I did not see a lot of sense in it. I see people with [...]

$2049.43 with Adsense in a single day

Bruce Hopkins — Mon, 04 May 2009 17:51:49 +0000

Is it possible to still earn money with Adsense? A lot of the Gurus will say no, but I disagree. I’ve been trend blogging for a little over a year and I’ve learned a few things about this technique and it pays off for me. Now those of you who know me know I don’t [...]