As an internet entrepreneur we constantly face new challenges each and everyday.

Google changing their algorithms….

fighting to stay focused on our goals…

or some other challenge in front of us…

With this in mind, despite all the challenges we face daily, there is perhaps no bigger distraction or production time stealer than that of email.

Yup….. You read that right. Email!

Email is the number one distraction for most internet marketers today. We have alerts going off in the background while trying to get something done.

Everybody is looking to get our attention. However, even though there is nothing wrong with getting email, it can severely hamper your business productivity if you don’t get it under control.

Without having your email under control you can get to the end of the day and realize that you haven’t gotten a thing done in your business.

With every alert you get, that is a temptation to go and check your email!

I just read a recent article that said with every distraction you have during production time, it can take several minutes to get your mind back on track. If for every 1 minute you spend checking emails, takes you 2 to get refocused on what you should be doing, you have just wasted 3 minutes.

Think about this for a minute, how often have you been trying to accomplish something, and you get an email alert? What do you do?

As soon as you get that alert your off to go check it. After you read it, you read another and another, and soon you find you have wasted 10-15 minutes.

Now it will take you time to get back into your groove and get going again. Once you get going in your groove…..BAM….another alert!

This really is a vicious cycle that most get lured into every day, including myself at times. Before you know it, you have wasted several hours a day checking email.

Now I don’t know about you, but I have had that feeling at the end of the day that I didn’t accomplish anything and was all over the place. Email is usually the culprit.

Now there are some emails that we do need to be alerted to very fast. This is the beauty of a system like Viralinbox, as it lets you sort and be notified of only the emails that are essential to read right away.

So what I want to do is give you some tips on how you can be more productive in your business day in, and day out specifically with email.

1. Set specific times during the day to check email. – This is very critical to your success. Each and every day online there is a war going on for your attention. You have to decide when you will give them that time. Set a schedule for yourself, turn off your email during your productivity times, and avoid any temptations to go check it while working.
2. If checking email throughout the day is essential for your business, than do it deliberately during down non-production time. – So basically what I am saying here is, maybe you need to be in contact regularly and you need to check email consistently throughout the day. This is still a matter of scheduling the time to do it. You can take 5-10 minutes per hour and still make this happen. I recently started using a free software program called “The cool timer” and it allows you set times and when an alarm will go off. You can go for 45-50 minute bursts of productivity and when the alarm goes off, check your email. This works great, and will increase your overall productivity also. You can find the cool timer by just doing a Google search, and its free.
3. With each email make a decision what to do with it. – If an email will take less than 2 minutes to respond, do it! If it will take longer than that, move it to the “do-later” folder and get to it later. This is essential also, because when your inbox is all cluttered regularly you will constantly be scatter-brained. Its the equivalent to having a messy desk, just in your email box. In other wards, keep it nice an tidy in your inbox, and you will get more done, with less confusion in your brain.
4. Keep your email program closed during productive time. – It is essential to your success that you practice this discipline if you want to get control of your success and time. If its essential to respond to emails right away, than only set up those that you need to respond to right away in a special “do-now” box.
5. Use Viralinbox to get organized with your email. – Ok I know, this is a shameless plug….lol, but I know for me personally, this has been the best tool ever for joining lists and staying organized with those lists. With the ability at the Diamond level membership to have unlimited emails, this tool has proven for me to be essential in my business. You can even benefit from a free account, so I suggest you head on over and get it set up today.

There are many other distractions that are pure time and productions stealers, like the phone, internet surfing, Skype and slew of other things, but getting on top of email is by far the biggest.

If you focus on getting yourself organized and focus on good solid productive time, you will see an increase in your business and your profits.

Remember, you are a business owner, your business will succeed or fail based on your leadership and skills. Your ability to take the initiative will make all the difference in the world, and will contribute greatly to your overall success.

Lack of production is a killer for any business including an internet business. Make the decision today that lack of productivity is done in your business, and you will do something to change it, and it starts with getting your email under control.

To your success,

Mark Harbert
ViralURL & Viralinbox Team Member
http://markharbert.com/

So you have heard this probably a thousand times right….

The money is in the list!

While it is essential to build a list in internet marketing, what if you are new and you don’t have a list?

What about some basic ways to increase your knowledge and build a list while you learn?

These are a lot of the troubles that I see with people in the online marketing world.

I remember when I first started in internet marketing and I got my first subscriber I was jumping off the ceiling excited. But as soon as I got that subscriber,  I realized the work that it took to get them.

Now it wasn’t that it was that difficult, but I thought to myself, how can I get to where I am getting more subscribers each day and do it consistently. I also was thinking of ways that I could get big bursts of email subscribers quickly.

This blog post is dedicated to the ones that need a little extra training on how to build an email list and to give you some ideas on how to do that quickly. Maybe you have considered some of these before, maybe you haven’t, but I am sure you will find something you can implement here to help you build a list fast.

List building strategies #1 – List builders

Without question this is by far what I believe to be the best, most efficient, and cheapest way to build a personal list. List builders allow you to have access to a shared email list of subscribers and allow you to send offers regularly usually every couple of days. There really is some major advantages to this because starting from day one you can have a list to email your offers too.

Some email list builders are better than others, but the truth is, they are all great to join. The cost is usually very low to join for a year, and the benefits are enormous because they work.

The thing I love about list builders is the ability to test my email copy every couple of days. There is benefit to this, because email is all about testing, testing, testing. Some emails get better open rates than others, but being able to test your subject lines and email body copy regularly is essential to email marketing success.

Just getting a 1% increase in your open to conversion rate can make a big difference in your list building. If you would like to learn more about copy writing and how you can improve, I put together a great training for ViralURL called “Copy writing 101” and this training is chalked full of great gold nuggets that will help you in your business. It is free to watch and I am sure you will get something from it.

If you are looking for some great list builders to join, here are what I feel are the best (and maybe I am biased…..lol) ViralURL, ViralHosts, and Viralinbox. Without question in my humble but biased (lol) opinion our list builders are the most responsive and I have consistently generated subscribers on almost every email I send.

As a matter of fact, every time I send an email via these list builders and I don’t get an opt in, I make tweaks to my copy and the optins start flowing again. I love them, and I am sure you will too, so go on over and sign up, you won’t regret it.

List Building Strategies #2 – Joint Ventures

This is also a very powerful and underused strategy by most internet marketers today. I literally once watched a woman do joint ventures and build an email list of over 50,000 subscribers in less than 2 months. She worked her butt off, and had some great valuable stuff to offer her joint venture partners so its not surprising. But, my jaw literally dropped as that was an average of about 833 new subscribers everyday.

The essence of joint ventures is having something of value to offer in return for the ability to send an email blast to someone else’s list. In other words you help each other and leverage each others work to build your own. This can be a very powerful and a great list building strategy but the key is having something to offer the other for access to their list or following.

There are some great list sharing sites on the internet and you can pull some up with Google. But just make sure that if you go down this route that you have something of value to offer in return.

List Building Strategies #3 – Solo Ads

This is a very powerful strategy that can literally put hundreds if not thousands of subscribers on your list daily. The only draw back to this strategy is that solo ads typically have a cost associated with them and its typically on a per solo ad basis, and if your on a tight budget, this might not be an option.

A great resource to find solo ad opportunities is “The Directory Of Ezines“. I have personally been a member of this for many years now and have been able to find excellent opportunities for ezines because of it. There is a one time membership cost associated with it but well worth the investment in your business if you plan on looking at solo ads as a lead generation source.

Solo ads typically range from $20 up to $150 and more for a single email blast. Obviously the less expensive ones will have more ads taken out due to the fact that they are cheaper, but some of the more expensive ones tend to weed out people who are just looking to blast non valuable ads to lists. Because of this, the quality and response tends to be better. However, you can still have success with the lesser as well.

I know a gentleman in this industry that does solo ads and usually gets about 2000-4000 subscribers per email solo ad he sends. Of course the lists he buys these ads with are expensive, but the pay off is big because he now has an asset email list that he can build a relationship with and market to regularly.

The marketing takeaway…

These three ways to build an email list can really help you come out of the gate running with your internet marketing business. If you take the time to learn and apply some of these strategies, you can have a list in now time at all.

I would love to read your comments below. Please feel free to post some of your successes or ideas.

To your success,

Mark Harbert
ViralURL Team Member
http://markharbert.com/

In taking some time to reflect and think about what causes me to pull out my credit card and buy a product, I started to really focus on what was the main ingredient to getting your list and subscribers to purchase from you especially in this day where more and more skepticism is taking place online than ever before.

In today’s internet based world, its sometimes easy to forget that we are humans that like the human touch at times. I actually like to feel like I know someone when I purchase from them. Now this isn’t always the case, but for the most part, if I am going to pay big bucks for a product, I want to know who that person is that is selling it and have some type of connection.

I am a lot less hesitant to spend money when I have seen videos of the person, or interacted with them in some way. For me, it makes a difference because I want to know that if there is a problem or some type of support I can get it if I need it.

Lets consider this for a minute. All the top successful internet marketers preach that “The money is in the list” and while I believe that is true, I also believe that is only half the story.

It’s not just having a list that will make you successful. Its the relationship you build with your list that will get you sales. Its your personal touch that will really help you be successful.

With high touch marketing you don’t have to have a big list to convert sales, by constantly providing value and communicating with your list regularly not just with sales pitch emails.

So we are going to compare what high touch marketing is vs. low touch marketing. We will also look at some of the ways that you can implement strategies that will help your list get to know, like, and trust you, so they will be willing to pull out their credit cards and purchase.

First lets look at low touch marketing….

Low touch marketing is also what I consider to be low value marketing.

It is simply where you blast emails off with the hope of a purchase. You don’t really show to much of your human side, and do very little to connect with the recipient of your emails.

Low touch marketing only has one thing in mind and its to get a sale. It is not focused on what the problems are of the person who is reading, but only on the fact that getting a sale will satisfy your craving to make money.

Low touch marketing really is where I believe spam and other forms of unwanted, un-asked for advertisements come from. I personally don’t really get upset anymore when I get spam because I always try to look at it like an opportunity for me to stand out from the crowd. To stand out from the low touch, low value marketing that really plagues our industry.

Low value marketing is when you take the opportunity to send an email to someone that didn’t ask to receive it from you, and have gotten no value from you at all.

Now, let me just say that you can build a list and blast to them this way, but the responsiveness will be low, and that means you will need to grow a much bigger list than those that spend the time to update regularly and connect.

I believe people now days are seeking more high touch when they purchase. Why do I believe this? Because that what I am looking for also?

For instance, even when I am out and about in town, in the stores I am looking for good friendly, and quick service. That doesn’t change for me when I come online, as a matter of fact, I carry that same attitude online.

High touch, great attitude and high value motivational based selling gets me to buy almost every time.

I always look at what motivates me to buy, and then turn right around and implement that into my strategy because if I have thought about, more than likely my subscribers have too.

People have been there done that and pitched over and over again and they want something different.

The good news is, there are several things you can do to connect with your list on a regular basis. There are several ways that they can connect with you.

Now if your don’t have a list, the best place for you to start of course would be listbuilders like ViralURL, Viralinbox, and Viralhosts. From these list builders you can begin to use a shared list and build your personal list.

Some ways to practice high touch marketing…

Send out an email survey to your list and ask them what their biggest struggles are in their business or in whatever niche you are in some questions that pertain to that niche. With the answers they provide you can taylor your message and products to what they need. A good place for surveys is: http://www.surveymonkey.com/

In an attempt to connect with your subscribers on a personal level, you can also implement video emails into your marketing. Their are several video email providers nowadays that a simple search on Google will bring up a few for you. If you don’t want to invest in a video email system, a simple YouTube video will work just fine as well.

By making a video and talking directly to your subscribers you can make a big touch impact on the them where they will feel like they actually know you on personal level sometimes. I personally make myself available to my list via Skype, and via Facebook.

I just recently sent out an email blast on ViralURL with my Elite membership and got two people that connected with me on Skype. I can now chat with them, find out what they need, and give them a product or service that meets that need.

That is another great way for you to connect with your list is on Facebook. At the time of this blog post, there is currently over 800 million users on Facebook alone and growing daily. More than likely your subscribers are on facebook which means you can connect and interact. Send out a blast and tell them to request your friendship as you would love to connect with them.

If you have a Facebook fan page, invite your subscribers over to the page “like” it and ask questions or to interact with you so you can help them.

Facebook also has a video update feature that you can use to post video status updates on your wall.  You simply have your webcam connected, turn it on, and start talking. This is a great way to get your face in front of your friends and followers. The human touch goes a long way in marketing.

Through this strategy, you will begin to build value and trust with your prospects so that when you send out those offers via email they will be more apt to purchase from your recommendation.

Remember, connect with your list, and I believe you will be surprised with the results you get. Push yourself to go implement one thing on this and then blast it to your list and see what happens, I think you will surprised.

To your success,

Mark Harbert

Personal Blog: http://markharbert.com
Skype: markharbert

PS. Also, I would love for you to come on over to facebook and connect with me. Please come over and request my friendship. http://www.facebook.com/markharbert

In the past few years that I have been involved with internet marketing, I have come to realize that there really are only a few key skills that contribute to the success of someone when it comes to succeeding in email marketing.

With that being said, I am convinced that the number one skill aside from a few others that is key in email marketing is….. COPY WRITING!

What is copy writing? In short, it is salesmanship in written form. When you are driving down the street and you see a billboard that catches your attention and it gets you to look into a certain product or service, that is copy writing that is designed to grab your attention.

Here is an example off the top of my head:

Car need maintenance? At Jiffy Lube, get your $19.95 oil change now. Free 15 point inspection included. All in 30 minutes or less or its FREE. Only through March 31st, Stop in NOW!

This is kind of a silly example, but you get the point. The idea of copy writing is to get the reader to take action on what you are wanting them to do.

In this case what do they want them to do? The answer is simple, get into Jiffy Lube and get there oil changed at a low price so they can then try to up-sell you on more services. Don’t we do that same thing in internet marketing?

Some of your best places to study the art of advertising is just to look around at the advertisement signs on the street. The big corporations that advertise everywhere you go have literally invested millions upon millions of dollars into advertising campaigns and know what works.

Take their best stuff and mesh it with your product of service.

If you have attended some of my webinars lately on copy writing you will see that I refer to the “5 point formula for persuasion”

What is the “5 point formula for persuasion”?

1. Identify the big problem – This is were you hit hot buttons. This is literally where you hit right at the heart of what the overwhelming statistics show. For instance, if you are in network marketing you would see that the statistics show that a majority of people struggle with lead generation. This is a hot button that will get people to take action on what you are asking them to do as long as you can provide the solution.
2. Unique benefit or promise – So going inline with identifying the big problem in point one, how is it that your product or service will fix the problem they are facing? For example: “If you lack leads, join our system and learn how to generate 10-20 laser targeted leads everyday for your business”. You see? This shows them what is capable with your system or product. This is where they can picture themselves attaining the results you’re referring too.
3. Provide Factual Proof – This is your opportunity to show results from people or yourself where you have gotten results with your product or service. This can be very powerful and very persuasive to the reader. There is one thing that I caution you against though, and that is making up fake testimonials. DON’T DO IT! It’s important to be truthful with your message, and not break the law. But providing proof of results is very, very persuasive and can convert optins and sales.
4. Risk Free Offer – This is where you basically take away their apprehension in taking action. For instance, someone might hesitate to take action because the don’t want to be on another email list. This is where you assure them that you will only send them value based information that will help them in their business. It can also include things such as a “30 day money back guarantee” if your selling a product or “7 day free trial for $1″ or something of that sort. This is designed to remove the apprehension from the reader, and help them to make a fear free decision to take action.
5. The take away – Ahh yeah, this is my favorite…..lol. The good old move now or forever hold your peace call to action…..lol. This works so well because the greatest thing most people fear is not getting a good deal. Or missing out on that awesome training program that will take their business to the next level. You can use language such as “Limited time only” or “Only available to the next 20 buyers“. The key here also, is don’t say it unless you MEAN IT! Don’t make it up. If you are only making it available to 20 people, make it 20 people and be done. Don’t just say that to get people to move. You loose credibility when you do that and you hurt your reputation, so be honest in your take away.

By integrating this into your email marketing, you will get much better results, and it will cause you to have more fun in your business.

I don’t know about you, but I like to have fun and get results with what I do. If I am not getting results, I stop, re-evaluate and then make a change. Good copy writing will get you results all the time.

There are two things I want to recommend to you if you want to improve your copy writing skills.

1. Copy Writing 101 webinar – I just recently did a webinar training for ViralURL solely on this topic alone. It is 78 minutes long and is jammed packed with good information that is really going to help you get results. This webinar is full on content rich value for your business. You can attend this webinar free of charge and take advantage of the training.
2. Copy writers guild course – This is for those that really want to take their business to a whole new level. This is for the person that is not messing around with their business and really wants to step up their game in not only their email writing skills, but their copy writing skills in general. This course is not free, but in my opinion the best information never is free. If you want to invest in yourself and your business, go pick up this course right now as you will not regret it one bit. Once I went through this course and applied what I learned I saw an immediate response in my marketing, so much so that I would venture to say it was the best money that ever spent. Remember, the best investment you can ever make is in yourself. I recently did a blog post about this, and you can check that out here….

Why Investing In Your Skills Will Make You Money

Focus on your skills, and your copy writing for emails, and you will see results.

To your total success,

Mark Harbert
Skype: markharbert
Blog: http://markharbert.com/

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Email downline once every:	7 days	7 days	5 days	5 days	5 days	5 days
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Save templates of the last mailings:			5 mailings	10 mailings	20 mailings	50 mailings
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Make Viralbar ads bold, italic, underlined and / or colored:
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Receive Viralbar ad credits every month:		2,000	100	2,100	1,000	5,000
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Earn credits for Viralbar text ads shown on your site:	0.2	0.2	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4
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Earn credits for Banner ads shown on our site:	0.4	0.4	0.8	0.8	0.8	0.8
Credits used to display your Banner ad on our site:	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0	1.0
Earn credits for Banner ads shown on your site:	0.2	0.2	0.4	0.4	0.4	0.4
Credits used to display your Banner ad on another members site:	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5	0.5
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Today we want to share with you Brenda Mohammed’s ViralURL case study.

Brenda joined ViralURL on the 19th of October 2011 and currently has a Free membership account. She also joined ViralHosts on the 24th of October 2011.

Check out her case study below…

I am a retired banker and former Insurance Professional.

I am a Life Member of the Million Dollar Round Table which comprises of the top 1% of sales people in the world. Membership is determined by quantum of sales.

I started Internet Marketing two months ago after my second retirement…. from the Insurance Industry. Internet Marketing was an entirely new field for me.

I had a Website when I was in the Insurance business.

It was named Wealth Services and is located at: http://www.wealthservices.us

I decided to use the same Website but change the content because I intended to go into Affiliate Marketing. I struggled for the first couple of weeks not knowing how to deal with this new vocation.

Online marketing is different from face to face marketing. You have to word your ads to suit online consumers and get your site noticed.I did not know how to get traffic to my site.

I was checking out some sites on TrafficAdbar.com and I saw an ad for Instant Blog Subscribers. I signed up for that blog. I have never regretted it because that blog is like a second website. I can upload banners and text ads to that blog and send emails to my list every seven days.

That blog certainly helped in building my list.

Through my contacts at Instant blog Subscribers, I learned about other programs which drive traffic to my website. Viral Url is one such program. What is great about that program is that you can cloak ugly links , and shorten long links. Since I cloaked some of my affiliate links, my site improved dramatically in Alexa’s ranks.

Another program which has given much exposure is Viral Networks.

I can log in every day and post comments to the Buzz section or the forum, and best of all I got a free WordPress blog at http://iblog.at/greens. My blog has been getting great reviews by visitors and I am proud to be the owner of that blog.

Then I discovered Viral Hosts where I got a Squeeze Page christo.viralhosts.com

Colin and Frank kept sending me emails and suggestions and I joined Viral Traffic Outbreak where I also get to send out emails every seven days.

How can I forget Power List Marketing, Advertise Free for Life, Totally Tweetable? I joined those programs along with Instant Blog Subscribers earlier on, and I can also send emails to my lists from those programs every seven days.

I have had loads of traffic to my website over the past month and my ranking with Google increased from 0 to 3, which is not bad for a Newbie.

I am certain that my earnings will improve rapidly if I continue to take all the help and advice offered to me by Frank and Colin.

Brenda Mohammed
http://www.wealthservices.us

Do you have a case study you like to share?

Here is what you need to do…

1. Visit our helpdesk at: http://Reply2Frank.com

2. Log into your helpdesk account or signup for a new helpdesk account if you don’t have one.
(Note: The helpdesk requires a separate account, you can’t login with your ViralURL details!)

3. Open a new helpdesk ticket in the ViralURL.com department.

4. Call the subject: Here Is My Case Study

Then simply write it all down into the ticket.

Don’t forget to mention your full name and a URL that goes with it, e.g.:

Frank Bauer, Founder of Add2it.com

or

Frank Bauer, Member of http://members.audiogenerator.com/specialinfo.asp?x=161641

Also, if you like us the add a picture of you to the case study, please attach it to the ticket or mention a URL where we can find it.

Please remember that we can only publish a limited number of case studies within a certain time period.

All case studies will be evaluated in the order we have received them and we can’t guarantee that every single case study will be used.

We are looking forward to receive and publish your case study and to send you tons of targeted traffic.

Warm regards,

Colin Klinkert CEO, ViralKing.com	&	Frank Bauer CEO, Add2it.com

The notion that one can build a thriving and successful internet marketing business without the need to invest in their own personal education, is not a sound business principle in my opinion.

There is simply no greater place to spend your money than on learning a new skill set, or something that can transform your way of thinking that brings more value to the marketplace.

I remember when I first got into internet marketing one of my first things to do was to go out and buy a new piece of software that promised to deliver all the results I was looking for in my business.

I bought it up as fast as I could, set it up and implemented. I soon found out that it was a lot more work than I thought it would be, and it wasn’t giving me the results I wanted, and all of this after one day of using it……lol!!!

It wasn’t that the software didn’t do its job, it was that I didn’t have the right mindset behind using it the way it was supposed to be used, and because of that my results suffered.

My mindset was that of looking for a magic trick in my business. I soon realized that if I wanted results, I needed to put some money into my understanding, and my way of thinking.

I see a lot of people online that are looking for the same exact magic trick that will bring them results and they are suffering in their business because of it.

I strongly believe that investing in yourself is perhaps the most important investment you could ever make.

Once you learn a new skill, or transform your mind in a way that helps you overcome a challenge you are different because you have added more value to yourself.

When you add more value to yourself, you bring more value to the marketplace.

Jim Rohn, one of my favorite mentors of all time said it this way….

“You get paid in direct proportion to the value that you bring to the marketplace”

My question to you is, what value do you bring to the marketplace?

Do you have the skills and knowledge that someone in the marketplace is willing to pay you for?

If so than find a way to market it and get it out to the masses, because if you have a skill that people will pay money for, you can write your own paycheck my friend….

Investing in your skills is the best place to put your money every month without fail.

Wishing you success in business and life,

Mark Harbert

ViralURL & Viralinbox Team Member

Personal blog: http://markharbert.com
Skype: markharbert

P.S. Have you signed up for Viralinbox yet? http://ViralInbox.com/

We had some people ask us how they can install the free ViralURL Plugin in their FireFox browsers.

Here is a quick 2 minute video that shows how to get that easily done…

Click here to view the embedded video.

Click here to download the free plugin

To Your Success in Business & Life,

Frank Bauer CEO, Add2it.com	&	Colin Klinkert CEO, ColinKlinkert.com

We have just added two new features to ViralURL. This video will go through and show you how to utilize them.

Click here to view the embedded video.

If you have not signed up for your ViralURL account, you can do so here!

Hello all my friends and loyal readers at the Viral King blog. I wanted to take this opportunity and introduce myself with my very first post.

I just recently became part of the team at ViralURL and Viralinbox and my goal is to really help take these sites and services to the next level and do what I can to assist you in your business.

I would also like to take the opportunity to thank Colin Klinkert and Frank Bauer for being an inspiration on what can be achieved when you love what you do and do it with passion.

You guys have created some amazing stuff over the years and have incredible insight and vision as to what is needed in the marketplace today and for me it’s an honor to work with you guys.

With that being said, for my first post I wanted to really take a minute and talk about something that I believe to be the most important aspect to you business success, and it has to do with your mindset.

Many people in the home business/affiliate marketing industry are constantly looking for the “how’s” of what to do to build their business.

In other words they mostly take the attitude of “Just tell me how to do it, and I will do it”

If building our business was only about a specific set of techniques than there would be more people that were successful at it.

There would be way more millionaires than there currently is…but the truth is….the true power to attain success is not in the “How’s”, it’s in our attitude behind the “How’s”!

One of the things you will learn about me as we get to know each other over the weeks, months and years ahead is that I love personal development.

You see there is nothing that I believe to be as important as the mindset you carry as you build your business.

Your personal philosophy has everything to do with whether you will succeed or fail.

You personal philosophy is what you know, how you hold it, and how it affects what you do.

The philosophy that we hold in our brains affects every action we make, every day, all the time.

If you study the successful in business, you will see that the majority of them love personal development of some sort, and believe in bettering their skills and attitudes.

There simply is no better investment you could make on a daily or monthly basis that than of your own personal and professional development.

Some people think that they need to invest in the latest and greatest software to take their business to the next level.

I don’t believe for one second that this is the case and I will tell you why.

One of my favorite quotes ever is…

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein.

Our level of thinking must go up a notch before the success will follow.

The truth is, if you want to get better and make more money in 2012 than you made in 2011, you must look in the mirror and look to improve your skills and improve your mindset….in other words, YOUR ATTITUDE!

In the world of internet marketing, it takes constantly being on top of what is working, and staying sharp mentally.

Never think for one moment that you can stay at the same level of thinking and attain greater heights of success simply by getting a new tool or trinket. They can certainly help, but they are not the end all be all of your success.

Thinking this way will only keep you from reaching your true potential and keep you from reaching your desired goal.

Over the coming weeks and months you will see many articles on here from me pertaining to mindset and attitude.

I urge you to begin to take action to improve your thinking and philosophies and with that your bank account will improve as well.

If you have never looked at personal development or read a book on the subject, there are some time tested classics you can start with like…

• Think and grow rich by Napoleon Hill
• The science of getting rich by Wallace D. Wattles
• As a man thinketh by James Allen

These are great places to start. I promise that as you begin to shape your mindset, things will begin to change for you.

Our brains are a computer, the data we put in, will eventually come out, so let’s make sure you put in the good data, and not a bunch of viruses.

I am excited to take this journey with you, and hope that I have the opportunity to play a little role in your success through these blog posts and articles.

Please take a moment and leave a comment below as I would love to know your thoughts, and what you think contributes to a person’s success!

Also, if you got something out of this post share it with your Facebook friends and your followers on Twitter.

See you on the next article!

To your success,

Mark Harbert

PS. Come over and say hi at my personal blog: MarkHarbert.com

The brand new ViralinBox Notifier Gadget for Gmail users is now ready for you.

This gadget keeps you updated and notifies you of unread messages in your ViralinBox DoNow box and allows you to earn advertising credits simply by using it.

Here is a quick video that shows how easy it is to add to your Gmail account…

Click here to view the embedded video.

Here are the FAQ’s…

How do I to add the ViralinBox Notifier Gadget to my Gmail account?

1. If you don’t already see the Gadgets option in the Settings section of Gmail, go to Labs, and enable “Add Any Gadget by URL”.
2. In the Settings section of Gmail, go to Gadgets, enter http://viralinbox.com/notifier.xml and click on “Add”.

I don’t seem to have Labs in my Gmail account. How do I enable it?

1. Google has some more information about Gmail Labs available.
2. If Gmail Labs doesn’t appear in your Gmail account, please try updating to the latest version of your browser. For the best experience with the gadget, we recommend Firefox 3.0+, Internet Explorer 7, or Safari 3.
3. If you’re using Gmail in a language other than US English, it may also be worth trying to switch your Gmail language setting to US English, and see if Labs is enabled.

Can I change the position of the gadget?

1. With another Gmail Labs feature, you can re-order any of the boxes on Gmail’s left hand side (including the ViralinBox Notifier gadget).
2. To enable this feature, go to Settings then Labs, and enable “Navbar drag and drop”.

How do I remove the gadget?

1. To remove this feature from Gmail:
2. In Gmail, click on Settings then Gadgets.
3. Click the Remove button next to “ViralinBox Notifier”.

To Your Success in Business & Life,

Frank Bauer CEO, Add2it.com	&	Colin Klinkert CEO, ColinKlinkert.com

Yes, even 3 1/2 years after our launch, ViralURL.com is still going strong!

Listen to the testimonial one of our ViralURL.com members very recently left…

Dear Colin and Frank,

Over the weekend it was time for me to send my email to 6,000 members. Now this past weekend was a holiday weekend here in the US for July 4th Independence Day. So, I thought my response rate would not be great over a holiday weekend, and actually considered NOT sending it.

I’m so glad I sent it anyway. I generated over 30 leads, made several sales, and added THREE new team members.

I am so thankful. ViralURL has an extremely responsive list. It has become one of my favorite List Builders out there.

Susanna F. Fera
InternetIncomeIsEasy.info

Question: Would you be interested for us to add a system where members can give feedback on what they liked and didn’t like about other members mailings so we can all learn from each other to write better email ad copy and get even better results over time?

Let us know in the comments below!

To Your Success in Business & Health in Life,

Frank Bauer CEO, Add2it.com	&	Colin Klinkert CEO, ColinKlinkert.com

Great news! Our brand new ViralinBox Notifier Toolbar is now freely available online by clicking here!

Let me quickly introduce the 3 main benefits of using it to you…

• You are always informed of how many messages are in your ViralinBox DoNow email box… and how many new ones got added!
• You earn text and banner ad credits simply by using the toolbar!
• You are just one click away from your emails and our mailer system!

Also, it works with all the major browsers like FireFox, Chrome, Internet Explorer & Safari… on Windows, Mac & Linux based systems.

Click here to view a video on how to personalize your toolbar and speed up load times (especially in Chrome).

As I announced in my video on the “A Personal Challenge” blog post, Colin & I are now both taking part in a personal health & fitness challenge to break free from the beer gut causing lifestyle that seem to have been part of being an Internet Marketer lifestyle package.

Now… how did it all happen and why should you join us?

How it happened is quiet straight forward… Joel Therien, a successful Internet Marketer that I personally met at the WIME seminar and know online even longer, is as I write this in the Pre-Launch for his brand new 7 Minute Workout program. He contacted me a few days ago and asked if I would be interested to become an early beta tester and help him spread the word… if I like it.

Originally I thought it’s just another “Here is a bunch of workout videos” type program and even though I like Joel and was attracted to the 7 Minute part of his program as that’s about as much as I can see myself spend on exercise time with all the work that constantly needs to get done… I was originally skeptical.

The second objection about me “spreading the word” was, that I am working in the Internet Marketing niche… and not at all in the personal health & fitness niche.

What made me change my mind? And why should you consider the 7 Minute Workout program as well?

There are two parts to my answer…

• The first part is that there is so much more then just a bunch of fitness videos to Joel’s program!

  Let me show you…

The first thing you will find once you log into the members area is that you are not alone, you are part of a very active community with two common goals…

…to become fit & make money while doing so! That’s right, and that’s the second reason…

• There is a money making aspect connected to Joel’s program and to be totally transparent, that attracted me to it as well.

  Joel explains how it works in detail in the second video that you see after you opt-in at 7MinuteWorkout.com on day 3 after joining the free pre-launch… oh, and while you are at the opt-in page, make sure you watch the video, it’s really funny.

You can take these 2 steps now, or after you finished reading the rest of my 7 Minute Workout program review.

What also positively impressed me was that it’s easy to adjust the program to your personal level by answering 18 quick & easy questions…

… it took me just 2 minutes to answer all questions and it even takes into consideration if you have equipment or not… I like that it isn’t a requirement and gives you custom exercise workout routine videos…

I personally learned already how to get into proper eating habits while being in Jenny Craig, but if you don’t know about that yet, Joel explains that as well and his program provides a Food Tracker, healthy and delicious recipes & a recipe and menu builder…

And to help us start on track, a Weight & More tracker is build right in as well…

As you can see, I like it and joined already Colin’s challenge as mentioned in my “A Personal Challenge“post… now I would like you to do the two steps mentioned before…

Step #1: Watch the funny video at 7 Minute Workout… because laughing keep us all young & healthy! And then…

Step #2: Enter your name and email into the form at 7 Minute Workout to see the first out of 3 videos that will give you all the details.

I am looking forward to see you in the members area & in the best shape of your life the next time we meet at an offline event.

To Your Success in Business & Health in Life,

Frank Bauer CEO, Add2it.com	&	Colin Klinkert CEO, ColinKlinkert.com

P.S. – Have you done Step #1 & watched the funny video at 7 Minute Workout? Do that now.

On March 1st 2009 I hit the deepest point… or maybe I should say the widest?

After seeing that picture my wife took of me at the beach, I knew something had to happen. I joined Jenny Craig just a few weeks later and after 6 months of weight loss and 12 months of maintainance, I reached a weight that I haven’t been at since I was a teenager…

Now, I could say “Happy End”… but something was missing. Even though I reached my goal weight, I still had more belly fat left then I wanted, no muscle whatsoever and the way they tried to teach me to exercise at Jenny Craig for a minimum of 3 times a week for at least 20 minutes by taking walks around the block was simply something I didn’t really enjoy to do. It wasn’t that bad… but I constantly found myself saying, “I have no time to do that now, maybe later”. Of course later never came.

Now, let’s track back to September 2007, I met the guy in person that would eventually release the solution to my problem… Joel Therien and his 7 Minute Workout!

Joel is about to release his 7 Minute Workout Program and he released today a video that explains exactly how it works. Click here to watch his video on how to get in the best shape of your life training only 7 minutes a day 3 times per week!

After watching my business partner, Colin Klinkert’s great video on challenging himself and his subscribers, I feel it’s time to get out of the closet as well.

Check out Colin & my video challenge below…

Now, do yourself a favor… and click here to watch Joel’s video right now.

Colin & I are starting today and we are looking forward to you joining our challenge in the next days to a healthier body, 7 Minutes at the time and keeping us updated with your blog comments below.

To Your Success in Business & Health in Life,

Frank Bauer CEO, Add2it.com	&	Colin Klinkert CEO, ColinKlinkert.com

Check out this 2nd list building video interview in which Sterling Valentine interviews Frank Bauer…

This interview is part of Sterlings 30 Days Listbuilding Challenge at ListLaser.com.

To Your Success in Business & Life,

Frank Bauer CEO, Add2it.com	&	Colin Klinkert CEO, ColinKlinkert.com

Sean Supplee from ListaBlaze just released today his brand new list building site and asked me if I could check it out.

And that’s exactly what I did, check out what I found in this video review I recorded for you…

Click here to view the embedded video.

Once you watched the video above, you can click here to get to the free signup page of ListaBlaze!

Let us know what you think about ListaBlaze and what you like to see next on this blog.

To Your Success in Business & Life,

Colin Klinkert CEO, ColinKlinkert.com	&	Frank Bauer CEO, Add2it.com

Check out this list building video interview in which Sterling Valentine interviews Colin Klinkert…

This interview is part of Sterlings 30 Days Listbuilding Challenge at ListLaser.com.

To Your Success in Business & Life,

Frank Bauer CEO, Add2it.com	&	Colin Klinkert CEO, ColinKlinkert.com

Video 1: Site Overview
Video 2: First Steps
Video 3: Select, Filter & Search Functions
Video 4: How to Import Contacts
Video 5: Setup Your Own Domain
Video 6: How To Earn Mail Credits
Video 7: How to Forward Gmail Mails to ViralinBox

Site Overview

In this tutorial we give you a site overview and help you getting started using your account.

First Steps

In this tutorial we teach you how to kick off using ViralinBox, and how to make boxes when you join new lists.

Select, Filter & Search Functions

In this tutorial we show you, how to select, filter and search for email messages in one or multiple boxes.

How to Import Contacts

In this tutorial we show you, how to import contact from e.g. Gmail, Yahoo Mail or Hotmail into ViralinBox using vCard export and import.

Setup Your Own Domain

In this tutorial we show you, how Gold, Platinum and Diamond Members can add their own domains and additional secondary email addresses to your account.

How To Earn Mail Credits

In this tutorial we show you, how you can can earn additional mailing credits by clicking on links in Reward Box emails.

How to Forward Gmail Mails to ViralinBox

In this tutorial we show you, how you can can forward email that arrive at your old Gmail account to a designated box in your new ViralinBox account.

If you have any questions about ViralinBox, feel free to leave a comment below. For support, visit the ‘Help’ section inside the members area or contact our friendly support team at Reply2Colin.com

Finally… weeks after Clay Montgomery & Ben Davis asked us to keep most of the details about their pre-launch secret, they finally gave us the permission the pass more details on to you and unravel the mystery about their newest product.

Please take a close look at this 5 minute and 10 seconds video that reveals what it is all about before you check into our bonus offer below…

Click here to view the embedded video.

		Download PLB Overview Document (Updated 5/9/2011)
		Download Product & Membership Overview Document (Updated 5/15/2011)

We even have a bonus for you!

Once you join this free pre-launch through our special link, we will give you 1,000 Advertising Credits on ViralinBox!

Step 1: Join the pre-launch through this link

Step 2: Click here to go to our help desk (direct link with the subject filled)

Step 3: Tell us the username you chose for this pre-launch as well as your ViralinBox email address, and we will add the bonus to your ViralinBox account!

To Your Success in Business & Life,

Colin Klinkert CEO, ColinKlinkert.com	&	Frank Bauer CEO, Add2it.com

Frank Bauer & Ewen Chia at the WIS Seminar in Sydney

Ewen Chia, aka the Super Affiliate and a good friend of ours, just let us take an early look behind his latest creation: Perpetual 20

In Perpetual 20, Ewen shows how you can make a 4 or 5 figures every month in residual income by offering a ‘sells itself’ $29.95 product. With Perpetual 20 you will get tons of great products you can learn from and sell for 100% profits!

With Perpetual 20 you can make income from:

- $20 instant payments direct from your referrals
- The powerful reverse 2-up matrix system
- Instant products you can sell every month & more!

This is a Perpetual 20 review, and if you read it you will see that we offer you a cool bonus if you join through our special link! More information on the bonus at the bottom of this page… For now, let us go over the main aspects of Perpetual 20:

Training – Ideal For Those Who Don’t Have a List

What we really like about Perpetual 20 besides the monthly products you will get and compensation plan (more on both topics below) is the training that comes with this program. If you don’t have a list, successfully promoting a program can be challenging, but Ewen knows that, and that’s why he created a training section jam-packed with step-by-step instructions, videos, articles… everything you need to promote Perpetual 20.

Step-by-Step Instructions to Make Money With Perpetual 20

Monthly Products – With Master Resell Rights

Every month Ewen will provide you with new products that you can both learn from and sell for 100% profits. Whether you already have an online business or are starting from scratch, this is massive value for money: new products delivered to you every month, all included! There are also a few videos on the basic skills that you need to make a residual income with these products. There are plenty of ‘business in a box’ solutions out there, but we haven’t found any with as much value as Perpetual 20 yet.

New Products Every Month, With Master Resell Rights!

Compensation Plan – Reverse 2-Up Matrix Plan

Perpetual 20 only costs $29.95 per month, which is very low considering what you get, but if you refer 3 people, not only will you break even, but you will also be in profit! With all the training provided in the members area, referring 3 people to Perpetual 20 should be a piece of cake, even if you don’t have a list or not much money to spend on traffic.

Perpetual 20 comes with a reverse 2-up matrix plan: the 1st, the 3rd and every person you refer starting from the 5th go into your downline. You earn $20 on every member you refer, and the payments are sent directly to your AlertPay account.

The 2nd and 4th persons are passed onto your referrer, and of course the 2nd and 4th persons your referrals refer go into your downline. Let’s sat you refer a person, and this person makes 4 referrals. That’s already $40 of monthly income for you from that referral alone! Technically you could break even and be in profit by referring a single person, but you should look at the bigger picture… What if you refer 10 people? 20 people? 100 people?

This really is a fair program, as opposed to all these forced matrix programs that you can find on the web these days. If you already have a list, this is an instant winner! If you don’t have a list, know that with Perpetual 20 you are not left alone in the cold! The training provided with the program is more that what you need to get started, and make a 4 or 5 figures every month in residual income.

Here is a short (5min) video review we made:

Whether you are into matrix programs or not, we highly recommend that you join Perpetual 20. We did, and we love it! The mere fact that we get new products that we can learn from and sell every month… That’s gold! Ewen Chia is leader in our industry, and with this program it is clear that he lives up to his reputation!

…BUT WAIT! We have a bonus for you

If you join Perpetual 20 through our special link, we will send you Law of Attraction Marketing for the Internet (90-Page eBook, $97 Value),  and give you 10,000 Advertising Credits on ViralUrl ($30 Value) and 10,000 Advertising Credits on ViralinBox ($30 Value)! That’s over $150 worth of bonuses just for joining Perpetual 20 through our link!

Step 1: Join Perpetual 20 through this link

Step 2: Click here to go to our help desk (direct link with the subject filled)

Step 3: Tell us what the email address you used to join Perpetual 20 is, and we will send you the bonus!

To Your Success in Business & Life,

Colin Klinkert CEO, ColinKlinkert.com	&	Frank Bauer CEO, Add2it.com

Step #1 – How to Earn Mailing Credits

As most of you already know, ViralinBox comes with a built-in System Mailer. If you’re a Platinum or Diamond Member, you will receive respectively 1,000 and 2,000 Mailing Credits every day. As a Silver or Gold Member you won’t receive any Mailing Credits on a daily basis but you can earn some by reading Reward Mails and visiting advertised pages. This means that you will get FREE exposure by simply using ViralinBox!

As a Silver Member you will receive 1 Mailing Credit every time you watch an advertised page in your Reward Mailbox for 10 seconds, as a Gold Member 2, as a Platinum Member 3 and as a Diamond Member 4, which means that even if you are a Platinum or Diamond, it is really worth reading your Reward Mails as you can receive up to 4 Mailing Credits every time you watch an advertised page for 10 seconds.

You can also earn Mailing Credits for watching a recommended members page for 30 seconds. As a Silver Member you will earn 3 Mailing Credits, as a Gold Member 6, as a Platinum Member 9 and as a Diamond Member 12. Just for viewing an advertised page and recommended page (40 seconds of your time), you can earn 4 Mailing Credits as a Silver Member, and all the way up to 16 as a Diamond Member. So imagine being able to send your offer to 4 unique people for less than one minute of your time! If you’re a Silver Member this is a fantastic way for you to get FREE exposure for your offers, and if you want to earn even more Mailing Credits make sure you upgrade to Platinum or Diamond! To upgrade simply log into your account and go to the ‘Upgrade’ Section (in the ViB Menu on the right of your dashboard).

In this short video we show you exactly how you can earn Mailing Credits with ViralinBox:

Step #2 – How to Use Your Mailing Credits

As you earn Mailing Credits, you can email random members using the ViralinBox System Mailer. Imagine you just read your Reward Mails and visited a few advertised pages… You earned 50 Mailing Credits, and can immediately use them to email your own offer to other ViralinBox Members.

To use the ViralinBox System Mailer, simply log into your account and go to the ‘Mailer’ Section (in the ViB Menu on the right of your dashboard). This will direct you to the System Mailer page. At the top you will be able to see how many members you can email at once. As a Silver Member you can email up to 250 members as a time, as a Gold Member 500, as a Platinum Member 2,000 and as a Diamond Member 4,000 plus the number of people in your downline.

Make sure you read the on-screen instructions BEFORE you hit the ‘Send Email’ button. A scheduled email CANNOT be canceled. You can choose to send the email using a generic ViralinBox email address or a personal one. You can also choose to send the email to your downline members only or to random members. In the second case if you want to send the email to additional random members, you MUST enter a number in the ‘Randomly Selected ViralinBox.com Members’ field.

Remember: If you want to earn Mailing Credits, make sure you check out your Reward Mailbox every day! This is a fantastic deal even if you’re a Silver Member! However if you want to earn even more Mailing Credits, then make sure upgrade to Platinum or Diamond! To upgrade simply log into your account and go to the ‘Upgrade’ Section (in the ViB Menu on the right of your dashboard).

If you have any questions, please visit the ‘Help’ Section inside the Members Area. If you need support, please contact our friendly support team at Reply2Colin.com

To Your Success in Business & Life,

Colin Klinkert CEO, ColinKlinkert.com	&	Frank Bauer CEO, Add2it.com

Did you just sign up to ViralinBox and would like to get started quickly? Follow this 5-step plan and you will get started in no time! If you don’t have a ViralinBox account yet, click here to sign up now. Make sure you take the time to read the one-time offer because if you take it you will be able to email your offers to other ViralinBox members right away!

Step 1 – Overview & Getting Started Video

First, here is a video that will help you understand how the program works and how to get started easily. The video is about 20 minutes long but is definitely worth watching in full! You will learn about the main features of ViralinBox, and how you can navigate throughout your account.

Step 2 – Search, Select & Filter Functions

Now let’s take a closer look at some of the mailbox features. With this video, you will learn how to use the Search, Select and Filter functions. This video is only 5 minutes long but it will help you master some of the basics of the ViralinBox mailbox so make sure you watch it in full.

Step 3 – Affiliate Program & Promotional Tools

If you want to promote and make money with ViralinBox, then you should check out this blog post: ViralinBox Affiliate Program & Promotional Tools, which covers pretty much everything you need to know to get started as a ViralinBox affiliate. As a reminder, Silver (Free) Members earn up to 40% commissions, Platinum Members up to 50% commissions, and Diamond Members up to 55% commissions.

Step 4 – Start Reading Reward Mails & Earn Credits!

You should also start reading Reward mails (in your ‘Reward’ box) to earn credits that you can then use to email other ViralinBox members. The more Reward mails you read, the more credits you receive! To use the mailer, click the ‘Mailer’ link in the ViB Menu on the right side on your dashboard. As a Silver (Free) Member, you can send up to 250 emails at a time, as a Platinum Member up to 2,000 at a time, and as a Diamond Member up to 4,000 at a time! Remember, if you upgrade to Platinum you will receive 1,000 Mailing Credits every day, and if you upgrade to Diamond 2,000 Mailing Credits every day!

Step 5 – Start Using ViralinBox as Your Main Solution!

Now you’re all set up you can start using ViralinBox as your main email and marketing solution! For example next time you join a list, make sure you use a ViralinBox email address… Using ViralinBox every day will make you earn credits that you can then use to send and show your offers to other ViralinBox members! That’s free exposure for you and your business, for doing something you already do every day (like reading your emails, etc.)!

Final Tip: Before you close this window, make sure you save the ViralinBox login page (http://viralinbox.com/login.php) as your default browser homepage and/or save it in your Bookmarks Toolbar for quick and easy access!

To save the ViralinBox login page as your default browser homepage, in Firefox click ‘Tools’ and ‘Options’. In the ‘General’ tab, enter http://viralinbox.com/login.php in the ‘Home Page’ field and click ‘OK’.

Saving ViralinBox as your default browser homepage

To add ViralinBox to your Bookmarks Toolbar, visit http://viralinbox.com/login.php and simply drag the tab to your Bookmarks Toolbar. If your Bookmarks Toolbar is turned off, you may turn it on by right clicking the Firefox menu and clicking ‘Bookmarks Toolbar’.

Adding ViralinBox to your Bookmarks Toolbar

If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment below!

To Your Success in Business & Life,

Colin Klinkert CEO, ColinKlinkert.com	&	Frank Bauer CEO, Add2it.com

ViralinBox is one of the HOTTEST products on the digital market right now… and  this is YOUR chance to promote a unique, revolutionary email solution and make high commissions on every upgraded referral you make! Even as a Silver (Free) Member of ViralinBox, you can make some nice commissions, but if you’re serious about making money with this affiliate program, then you MUST upgrade to Platinum or Diamond!

Remember, as a Silver (Free) Member, you earn up to 40% commissions, as a Platinum Member, you can earn up to 50% commissions, and as a Diamond Member you can earn up to 55% commissions! Imagine you’re a Platinum, and you refer a couple of Platinum Members who took the one-time offer at sign up. That’s $197 in YOUR pocket! Now imagine you make a few of these referrals every few days… How much money could you make over a week or month?

We provide you with a huge range of promotional tools to help you promote ViralinBox (if you don’t have a ViralinBox account yet, click here to join now) and make the most out of our affiliate program. To access them, please log into your account and click the ‘Affiliate Section’ link in the ViB Menu on the right side of your dashboard. This will open a pop-up window. In this window, click the ‘Click here to get all kinds of promotion tools’ link. This is where you will find all the promotional tools you need to promote ViralinBox like a pro: email copies, blog post copies, banner ads…

For example if you want to send an email to your list to tell your subscribers about ViralinBox, click ‘Email Copy’ in the list of promotional tools. You will find plenty of email copies that you can use and even resources so you can send emails to other lists and reach even more potential leads! Feel free to edit the email copies as much as you want but remember that your affiliate link is already integrated. If you don’t have a list but want to send a few emails to lock in referrals, we highly recommend that you sign up to ViralUrl, ViralHosts, State-of-The-Art Mailer, ListJoe and TheListAuction. Make sure you also check out all other sites listed in the ‘Affiliate Section’.

If you want to add a banner ad to your site or blog, click ‘Banners’ in the list of promotional tools. You will find a lot of ready-to-use banner ads (in a lot of different formats). Like with email copies, your affiliate link is already built in, which means that you don’t need to add it yourself. All you need to do is to copy the banner ad code and paste it in the code of your site or blog. For example in WordPress if you want to add a banner ad in your sidebar, create a new ‘Text’ widget (under ‘Appearance’, ‘Widgets’), paste the banner ad code, click ‘Save’ and… that’s it!

ViralinBox Banners

If you have suggestions, feel free to leave a comment below!

To Your Success in Business & Life,

Colin Klinkert CEO, ColinKlinkert.com	&	Frank Bauer CEO, Add2it.com

ViralinBox – General FAQs

Where can I change my account details?

To change your account details, log into your account and click the ‘Settings’ link in the ViB Menu on the right of your dashboard. Click the ‘Account Settings’ link to open the settings section. You may change your password, your affiliate ID, first and last names, PayPal or AlertPay email address, address, city, state, etc. Remember that some fields are required to receive commissions.

How can I create a new box?

To create a new box, log into your account and click the ‘Add New Box’ link below the Boxes Menu on the left your dashboard. Enter a Box Name and Box Display Name and click ‘Create’.  The Box Name is the name given to the box address while the Box Display Name is the name given to the box in the Boxes menu. Your new box will be automatically approved. The box details (box address and disk usage) will appear below the ViB Menu on the right on your dashboard.

How can I approve a pending box?

If someone sends an email to a box that hasn’t been created yet, the system will add the email to a pending box. To approve a pending box, log into your account and click the pending box in the Boxes Menu on the left your dashboard. Click on the email you received and either click the ‘Approve this mailbox’ button in the menu bar or ‘Approve the mailbox’ link in the middle of the page.

Additional Resources: ViralinBox Video Tutorials

Setting up an online business takes as much hard work as any other business in the real world. There is a lot to learn and constant effort is the key to all the success stories. Making money online is not child’s play. Many would-be internet marketers often assume that it’s very easy to run an internet-based business.

All you need to do is put up a website, place some text or banner ads, write some content and voila, money in the bank! However if you’ve done some research or already done business online, you probably know that it’s not a matter of a few clicks to millions.

The problem is that a lot of people are lured into buying over-hyped products that promise the sky, and deliver nothing but dirt. The plethora of information products teaching you how to make money doing this and make money doing that add to the already confused mind.

As hard as it is, setting up an online business can be made a lot more simpler if only you could get your hands upon a step-by-step system to help you along. If you’ve been praying to come across something that takes the hard work away and gives you everything in a do-this, do-that fashion, you can call yourself lucky!

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His step-by-step approach is easy to follow and in our opinion, just the videos in the different modules are worth their weight in gold. Now before you say we’re exaggerating, picture this: there are over 10 modules in this course, each of which helps you make money and takes you one step closer to setting up a successful business online.

All of the modules contain a video guide, a quick start report and a number of free resources to get you going in no time. You are going to be witness to a whole lot of proven strategies that will help you setup your very own successful online business, in just an hour or two per day.

You have probably read that many times before, but as valuable a course as this is, you should never judge a book by its cover. And so, you don’t have to take our word for it. Justin has gone all the way to put together the first module detailing the ‘Quick Cash Strategies’ which will help you make money – right off the mark.

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To Your Success in Business & Life,

Colin Klinkert CEO, ColinKlinkert.com	&	Frank Bauer CEO, Add2it.com

Checkout this short video on how to earn 100% commission with Viral Widgets…

Click here to view the embedded video.

Then click here to login your ViralURL account or click here to signup for a free ViralURL account!

To Your Success in Business & Life,

Frank Bauer CEO, Add2it.com	&	Colin Klinkert CEO, ColinKlinkert.com

Hi, Colin & Frank here. We hope you’re having a great year so far! As you know we are constantly improving ViralURL and this time we came up with a great social feature for the ViralBar. All ViralURL members can now add a ‘Contact Me’ button to their ViralBars, making it easier for the people you share the links with to get in touch with you.

In this fast changing landscape, imagine how powerful it will be to allow visitors to get in touch with you when they visit your site. The internet is fast getting very social in EVERY aspect, and you and your business need to as well, or else you are leaving money on the table.

The ‘Contact Me’ button does NOT directly link to your email address but to your ViralNetworks profile, so people can contact you via this business social networking platform. The best part is… if someone joins ViralNetworks after clicking your profile link, he/she goes into your downline, and you get a commission if he/she upgrades! This also allows you to build another downline, and open yet ANOTHER income stream… without any extra effort!

‘Contact Me’ Button

As you can see, there’s your ViralURL affiliate link on the left, and your link to your ViralNetworks profile on the right (which is also an affiliate link). This is only the right side of the ViralBar; there’s more on the left side and middle section, including the ViralUrl logo and a NEW Facebook Like button! The ViralBar now allows you to build TWO downlines, opens TWO streams of income, gets YOU a lot of exposure, makes your sites more social, as well as the normal credit earning, affiliate link cloaking and link protection! Can you say “POWER”?

To add a ‘Contact Me’ button to all your ViralBars, log into your ViralURL account, click ‘Downline Builder‘ and enter your ViralNetworks ID in the dedicated field. Then make sure you click ‘Save’ button to save the details. The ‘Contact Me’ button will show on all of your already existing and future links cloaked with ViralURL.

If you don’t have a ViralNetworks account yet, SIGN UP HERE! ViralNetworks is jam packed with powerful networking and marketing feature. It’s often considered as a business social network, but it’s actually much more than that. It’s also a content distribution platform, for you to publish and distribute your content with ease.

For more information, visit ViralNetworks NOW! Add your ViralNetworks ID to your ViralURL account now, to lock in as many referrals as possible! If you have any questions about this feature, feel free to ask them here, on the ViralURL network!

To Your Success in Business & Life,

Frank Bauer CEO, Add2it.com	&	Colin Klinkert CEO, ColinKlinkert.com

P.S – If you are smart, you will be cloaking EVERY link (even direct, non-affiliate links) you share with anyone (on Facebook, Twitter, via email, chat, on blog posts, etc.) with your ViralURL cloaker to gain ALL the power of the ViralBar!

Did you know we have made it so fast and easy (as fast as copy and paste) to do this? Check out our awesome FireFox plugin at our site: ViralPlugin or, you can just go straight to FireFox Downloads and get it from there. Simply Click Here to Get Our FireFox Plugin

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Three days ago in Fiji I recorded this quick video for you.

I was back then on a family vacation, but wanted to share with you why I believe that Butterfly Open Source Code makes so much sense.

BTW… watch out for the funny fish that pops in from the right at 3:55!

Click here to view the embedded video.

To claim the bonuses mentioned in the video, please send me a personal message through the Butterfly Open Source Code Development Community to my username: add2it

Thank for watching the video and I am looking forward to not only hear from you through the Butterfly Open Source Code Development Community, but also to possibly do a Joint Venture with you once your own the Butterfly Open Source Code based membership site becomes a huge success.

To Your Success in Business & Life,

Frank Bauer CEO, Add2it.com	&	Colin Klinkert CEO, ColinKlinkert.com

Earlier this week Frank made a video to tell you about Mike Filsaime’s Butterfly Open Source Code. We don’t want you to miss out on this great opportunity so I (Colin) made a new video for you. I reveal some of our secrets and how much we have made thanks to this software so make sure you watch it! As a reminder, you can download the Butterfly Software Code entirely FREE.

Want to know much we’ve made and you can as well, thanks to Butterfly Marketing? Watch the video now!

Click here to view the embedded video.

This is great news for every internet business owner because this piece of software is worth a fair bit of money… Butterfly Marketing had and still has a great impact on our business. We currently use it for two of our sites (ViralURL and ViralHosts), and will use it for two more sites that will be launched later this year.

By signing up, you not only get the open source license for the software code but also have the opportunity to join the developer community (you don’t need to be a developer though), and this comes with a range of great related products that are worth over ,000! You can get all of this for a ridiculously low price. Watch the video for more info!

Butterfly Marketing is responsible for millions of dollars made on the internet, but there are still millions more to be made… So don’t miss out, and register your open source license to Butterfly Marketing today! After you signed up, make sure you watch Mike’s video and read the offer page because what you get by joining the developer community is HUGE!

To Your Success in Business & Life,

Frank Bauer CEO, Add2it.com	&	Colin Klinkert CEO, ColinKlinkert.com

I am right now outside the country, but I took a few minutes this afternoon at the pool to record this video for you…

Click here to view the embedded video.

Hope it sounds as exciting to you as it does to me. Today you can get Private Label Rights to the membership site system that is not only responsible for our US .3 Million in sales and many, many times more then that over the whole Internet Marketing scene. I highly recommend that you get the Butterfly Open Source Code right now!

To Your Success in Business & Life,

Frank Bauer CEO, Add2it.com	&	Colin Klinkert CEO, ColinKlinkert.com

Just a little over a year ago, Mike Filsaime was giving away ButterflyMarketing 2.0 in physical form for just s/h…

… starting today at 1 pm EDT and for just a few days it get’s even better and you can get your hands on the software script that helped Colin & me to generate over US .3 Million in sales with just 2 of our membership sites.

And not only can you get free access to the complete membership site system, but also private label rights to that exact software script that our sites are based upon. But that’s not all…

… you also get optional access to a community of like minded people through which further enhancements and bug fixes will be released and shared with each other.

And if you take advantage of that offer and get yourself lifetime access at a very reasonable one-time cost through our Butterfly Open Source Code affiliate link, then Colin and I will not only give you a ViralURL coupon code for Viralbar & Banner advertising valued at .00, but also (through that community) give you access to our custom accounting module that makes it super easy to keep on top of your sales stats, but also makes it very easy to share profits with your site business partners (something I can’t recommend highly enough!).

Sounds exciting, doesn’t it? Get Private Label Rights to the membership site system that is not only responsible for our US .3 Million in sales… but hundreds of times more then that over the whole Internet Marketing scene today… get the Butterfly Open Source Code!

To Your Success in Business & Life,

Frank Bauer CEO, Add2it.com	&	Colin Klinkert CEO, ColinKlinkert.com

ViralURL has always been trying to stay ahead of the curve, setting the trends in the industry and thanks to your support we have been able to keep working on adding in even more useful features.

Saved Mailing Templates:

Does it annoy you copying and pasting, reformatting and editing email copy every time you want to send out mails with ViralURL? If so, we have a solution… You can save your last sent emails allowing you to simply select them in future and hit send!

Gold members can save 5 mailings, Platinum members can save 10, Diamond can save 20 and Elite can save a whopping 50 mailings! – If you are not one of these levels, or want to save more…. simply login to your ViralURL account and Click on the ‘upgrade’ tab on the right menu.

Advanced Tracking Stats:

Mailing templates are great, but how do you know what links are getting clicked in your email, who is clicking them and how many times? Well now you can see with a simple click of the mouse! Advanced Tracking Stats have arrived!

Due to the huge load put on our servers, Advanced Tracking Stats are available for Diamond and Elite members to view, for Diamond you can see stats on up to your last 20 mailings, and Elite members can see stats on up to their last 50 emails!

If you were waiting for another reason to upgrade to Diamond or Elite, other than the ability to mail 6,000 members every 3 days as well as all the other amazing benefits provided to those members, maybe this is now enough to seal the deal? At the very least login to your account now and read the upgrade offer and see what you get if you take action and upgrade your account with ViralURL.

We plan to continue developing, improving and keeping ViralURL ahead of the curve for many years to come. With your help and support this has been possible, so we want to take this chance to thank you for being a member of ViralURL

To Your Success in Business & Life,

Frank Bauer CEO, Add2it.com	&	Colin Klinkert CEO, ColinKlinkert.com

P.S. – We are also still looking for 6 more entries to our cool competition. All you need to do is make a short video and you get backlinks to your URL, and can win cash prizes! Click here to check it out!

Hey folks!

The ViralHosts referral contest has now ended, and the #1 winner are… Todd Gross & Mark Lareau with more than 750 referrals!

Congratulations to them! They win 0 in cash and a Lifetime Gold membership. But hold on, we have other winners…

1. Todd Gross & Mark Lareau (0 + Lifetime Gold)
2. Brian Dew (0 + Lifetime Gold)
3. none (500 referrals needed)
4. Dim Vasen (0 + Lifetime Gold)
5. none (300 referrals needed)
6. none (300 referrals needed)
7. none (250 referrals needed)
8 Michael Hamm ( + Annual Gold)
9. Jonah Klimack ( + Annual Gold)
10. Kenneth Kraakstad ( + Annual Gold)
11. Frank Salinas ( + Annual Silver)
12. John Denton ( + Annual Silver)
13. Michael Purvis ( + Annual Silver)
14. You Lee ( + Annual Silver)
15. Brandon Fly ( + Annual Silver)

Congratulations to all of them! The winnings have been handed out already. Unfortunately no one was able to make enough referrals to fill in all the places (#3, 5, 6 & 7) before Todd and Mark put an end to this contest. Find more details on the contest inside the members area (in the ‘Earnings Section’).

As you may know, everyone had a chance to win, even with only one referral! Here are the randomly picked winners:

16. Bob Jenkins ()
17. David Allinson ()
18. Justyna Lam ()
19. John Powell () – John! We need your PayPal email address!
20. Sraar van den Bosch ()

Thanks to all of those who have promoted ViralHosts since launch or even after. Some of the contest winners have managed to make quite a lot of referrals in a short period of time and this is very encouraging for the future! Remember that you can find all the promotional tools you need inside the members area (in the ‘Promotional Tools’ section).

Thanks for continuing promoting ViralHosts! Make sure you susbcribe to our RSS feed as we may announce a new referral contest very soon!

For support, feel free to submit a ticket to our help desk. Make sure you select the appropriate section so our team can reply to you as quickly as possible.

To Your Success in Business & Life,

Frank Bauer CEO, Add2it.com	&	Colin Klinkert CEO, ColinKlinkert.com

Just wanted to let you know that besides ViralURL.com, ViralHosts.com is now also integrated into Traffic Zipper!

If you haven’t checked out Traffic Zipper yet, I recommend you do so now. Like I described in detail in our review video …it’s a great time saver.

Warm regards,

Frank Bauer CEO, Add2it.com	&	Colin Klinkert CEO, ColinKlinkert.com

Want to Help Us Out & Win Cash?

As you may know, we’ve created a new home page and would like you to send us your video testimonials so we can add it to our new page.

And to make this more rewarding for you, we’re giving away 0+ in a contest that will end once we get 10 video submissions. We’ll choose 3 winners so you stand a HUGE chance of winning! #1 gets 0, #2 0 and #3 0! There are even prizes just for voting. 

Submit a Video Testimonial Today!

Here is what you need to do:

1. If you don’t have this already, get a free video recording software like e.g. CamStudio (PC) or Screenflow (Mac) or simply a web-cam or digital video camera.

2. Make a video about why you love ViralURL. Do a case study with numbers and results if you want. The video should be between 30 seconds and 3 minutes long.

3. Upload it to YouTube.com (for best HD quality, upload in 1280×720 resolution)

4. Paste the link to the video and your affiliate link for ViralURL into the comments section of our earlier blog post and Boom! You’re Done!

By submitting a video you not only get a huge chance to win cash but also several other benefits. If you’re selected, WE will promote YOUR affiliate link to the main video and bookmarking sites. You will also get FREE exposure on the new home page!

For more information about the contest, please go to:
New Years Video Contest

Thank you and good luck!

To Your Success in Business & Life,

Frank Bauer CEO, Add2it.com	&	Colin Klinkert CEO, ColinKlinkert.com

P.S. – ViralHosts is still growing strong and has now more than 11,000 active members. If you haven’t joined yet, make sure you do join now before you realize what you’re missing out on!

Haven’t heard of it yet? It’s a cPanel-based hosting system with a script auto-installer and site builders. You can now build a strong online presence in no time! Like ViralURL, it has a built-in list builder and mailer and traffic generation tools.

However, the real value is in the upgrade! ViralHosts also has a system mailer for you to email 3,000 to 6,000 random members every 3 days. Explode your leads and take your marketing to the next level! Time to take action!

Lol… Anything to get you to click on a headline, don’t think that even makes sense

This is a general update to let you know that I have been very busy working on some new projects, ViralNetworks and also a couple of new things with Frank Bauer. You can read about them here:

Colin Klinkert Dot Com

That is my new blog, I might start using ViralKing again, but for the moment, only time for the one, so please join that RSS to get news updates and info about posting contests and other prizes you can win. Thank you so much for your support.

This Promo Video for ViralNetworks has my ID built into the bouncing logo when the video loads, you can click this link and it will open my referral id to ViralNetworks in a new window. Thus helping me get referrals:

To celebrate the launch of my new main blog: Colin Klinkert Dot Com

I am running a top commentator contest, this will likely be every month, and also I will be adding in more cool contests and hopefully lots of good content:

Read about the Contest HERE

Or Here: http://www.colinklinkert.com/commentating-contest/

Please Join my RSS feed there too, so that you can stay up to date with new posts.

To all my readers. Whilst ViralKing is a good concept, I feel I can post better on my own domain name as I can share much more related to all niches.

Please Visit and subscribe to my RSS Feed there as that is where I will make most of my posts now: http://www.colinklinkert.com/

Niche Vs Internet Marketing? Which One Is Best For Me?

There is a lot of marketing going on the Internet. With so much going on, it can be extremely difficult to distinguish the differences in the two. I am going to make it a little clearer for you, I will review some of the differences between Internet marketing and niche marketing.

Internet marketing and niche marketing are apples and oranges, they are both fruit, but yet have their unique differences. Internet marketing is the apple, where niche marketing is the orange.

What is Niche Marketing?

Niche marketing is when you are selling a specific product to customers looking for that particular product. There are some niches that are extremely competitive, and some that have little or no competition. You can also take a niche market and create a microniche market. The key is for you to find the niche with little or no competition.

There are so many of the larger niche markets that are open to the latest and greatest marketing strategies, whereas the smaller niches are much easier to break into because they aren’t swamped with all the big-time Internet gurus posing as your competition. By going with your own niche market, you get to promote it yourself, or promote a niche affiliate product.

How To Find A Niche Market?

You can find a niche market for anything! If you can imagine it, you can sell it. All you need is a great idea, great product (whether you create it or not), some advertising, and a strong will and intention to succeed.

What Is The Internet Marketing Niche?

This is where you are promoting your own Internet marketing product. There is a lot of competition in this market and much harder to break into and see quick results.

You are competing with a lot of very wise men and women who are the best of the best when it comes to Internet marketing, also known as Internet Gurus. Does this mean it is impossible? NO…you CAN DO IT!

You are in a world that works with supply and demand, meaning if you have a product that can go up against the big guys, and if you have an iron will to win, then by all means, you will succeed in the big league. Remember however, there are easier ways to get started than jumping right into the ball field with the hard hitters.

There are innumerable niches that are still untouched, just waiting for you to jump in and take over. Go with something that you are familiar with, a hobby, a talent, something you are passionate about. Not only will this give you an edge in the market, but you can have fun with it too.

Niche Marketing Tips

1. Make your niche very appealing for anyone to sell or resell your product. By making your product appealing, you make it easier and more cost effective to advertise in a specialized market.

2. Focus on the specific needs of your target audience and create your product to meet those needs.

3. Maybe you have written an Ebook on beating insomnia, giving proven methods to overcome this safely and easily, and can virtually apply to everyone. You will be sought out by those who suffer insomnia, searching for the information you have to offer.

4. If you have a website, blog or product that focuses on writing the perfect resume’, you will not be attracting the market looking to start an online business. Focus on your market, your targeted audience.

Summary…Remember, Apples and Oranges…

By using your creativity, a little elbow grease, some committed action, and niche marketing will become a very effective and cost efficient way to sell your products and services, advertise to a specific audience, and bring in buyers of your product or service.

WOW – Sorry to everyone who reads my posts here, I guess I need to focus more on the ‘blogging’ side of life!

Just got back from a 2 week cruise around Northen Europe and had a great time, visited many places that I hadn’t been to before and met a few really cool people too, so all in all a trip well worth it.

Before that I was very focused on  my main business and have to give a shout out to Frank Bauer – Superman – for holding down the fort whilst I was done. We have some VERY exciting things planed in the coming months, so stay tuned… Oh, and I promise I will put up a nice, content filled post early next week

Hope you had a great month too… Onward and Upward

What can you do to become a pro-blogger?

Well, you need to get a lot of traffic to your blog.

And now you thinking….’I already know that, but HOW am I going to do it? I have some trade secrets to let you in on. By using these trade secrets, you too, can become a pro blogger.

Today, you are going to learn some great tricks of the trade to grab the attention of StumbleUpon, and use their platform to set your blog on fire. These tips and tricks will get you anywhere from the hundreds up to the thousands of StumbleUpon visitors each day.

StumbleUpon does lean toward some niches more than others, and you need to use this to work for your advantage. You will find that StumbleUpon can be one of the greatest viral marketing tool out there. So here are some tips:

• If you do have a niche that is lacking in the mass appeal, StumbleUpon will be a great boost for you where the others won’t. Digg uses a broad forum which keeps their power from weakening in traffic. StumbleUpon works a bit differently by creating more specific categories, providing a more targeted audience.

• Write posts that appeal to the particular social media, if you go for the general appeal, you are going to lose your followers. For instance, Del.icio.us likes anything that their users prefer, Digg likes the appeal of the masses. You have to have content that is going to get thousands of hits, or you won’t become a pro-blogger.

• When you are writing for StumbleUpon, you don’t need to worry about pleasing the masses, matter of fact, you benefit more by sticking with your niche, yes, even your small ones, and this will bring you some highly targeted traffic.

• So, write your content for your niche, not for the general public. By doing this, you will increase your chances to your post will be submitted to receive more traffic in a more specific category.

In another blog, I will go into the types of posts you should and should not be making. I will go into the types of content and the things you can do to make your blog more appealing to StumbleUpon.

You Know About SEO, But, Do You Know About SMO?

SEO is Search Engine Optimization, which is known to most Internet marketers throughout the world. But there are many who are not totally aware of SMO, which is a new term than SEO. SMO is a branch off the SEO tree, but there are many who are in the Internet marketing business that are not aware of this wonderful tool to increase their popularity in the search engines.

What is SMO? It is Social Media Optimization

As you would use SEO on the search engines, SMO will work on the social media sites. As you may well know, the Social Media sites to not focus on the business aspect of the Internet, but they do focus on social interaction such as the blogs, forums, communities, video websites, music sites, etc…

Search Engine Optimization is great in providing long term ranking to your websites, whereas, SMO’s are great at creating a viral marketing buzz to your business. You can look at this as a great gossip columnist spreading the buzz or news about your site, and watching the buzz take off like fire. You will be creating not only a buzz, but bringing in visitors just out of sheer curiosity.

Are There Any Disadvantages of SMO I Should Be Aware Of?

Yes, there is a drawback and that is the speed of which it takes off then fades. This works like the news, it comes out, hits the papers, then becomes old news. SEO, however, is very effective and permanent, giving it a higher ranking among Internet marketers.

But what happens when you combine the two, SMO and SEO? You then create a great partnership linking your website to some high quality content, while the website is named on the social media sites. You will be creating a win/win situation, using great content which is essential to both the SEO as well as the SMO techniques.

There are a number of websites that are social media sites which include rich content. One of these sites is Yahoo! Answers. This site answers queries while promoting their own websites indirectly.

It is important to have search engine optimization in promoting your website and making it visible to the viewers, however, coupled with social media optimization, you will reap the rewards of higher results than SEO techniques alone.

How To Get SMO Going For You

I am going to recommend you using Google Gadgets, which are tiny bits of code that can be downloaded for free right from Google. You can apply these Google gadgets as your own signature as you post on blogs or forums, attracting interest to your website, all at no cost to you.

Another option is to visit a few of the social media network sites and create your own page. This is simple to do and won’t take up a lot of your time. You may find that there are more people on the Internet that share your same interests. Send them a note with your cute Google gadget in your signature.

Social marketing is an ideal way to get a target market. If you want to direct people to your website, you need only visit some of the different social network sites on the Internet and make a page. This can be done in a matter of minutes. Then find others who share your interests and send them a note with your own personal signature, complete with a cute little Gadget. Gadgets can be customized and make a fun signature at the end of your post. They can be used to link others to your website.

Visit relevant websites and forums, creating your own ‘buzz’ just by using SMO. And as you search out relevant blogs and forums, don’t limit yourself, take a chance on the .org, .gov., .edu and so on…there is more out there than just the dot.coms. As for the .edu sites, these are a great market as they are typically the colleges and Universities.

CONTENT IS KEY!

Create excellent and keyword rich content which will help you with search engine optimization, which will also help you in your brand marketing. You want to use the Google Gadgets, providing ample exposure to your website, creating your own ‘buzz’ and increasing your ranks on the search engines. You will create your Google Gadget for your product or website, use it as your post to the relevant forums and blogs. You will soon be the hot topic on the web.