Branding

You need to establish yourself as an authority in your market, because people trust authority figures.

Do people know your name?

They trust your recommendations, they trust that your products will be of good quality, and they trust that you have integrity. It also lends credence to the buyer that you’re a real person – not just some nameless, faceless entity trying to sell them something on a static, automated website.

You should put your name on everything you create. Whether it’s a membership site, an eBook, or something as small as a PLR article pack for sale – you should put your name on it.

Getting your name out there is so essential to your ongoing success. 

Think about all of the marketing gurus you’ve heard of. Some of them you may not have heard of yet, especially if you’re new, but chances are you’ve heard of at least a few of these.

Have you heard of Jeremy Gislason, Simon Hodgkinson, Matt Callen, Tim Godfrey, Paul Ponna, Dave Guindon, or Jeremy Schoemaker?

If you’ve been in marketing long at all you’ve surely heard of at least one of these people. People know and remember the names of these people because they put their names on everything they put out.

Their names are all over the marketing forums, their eCovers, their headers, and everything else they do. They work very hard to brand their names, because their names become the brands. People buy their products simply because their name is on it.

Buyers think that the product must be good, because the person is so well-known. You should do the same thing with your name. Always use the same name on everything you do within a particular niche.

You may not want to use your real name for whatever reason, but your name needs to be a “real name.” A nickname usually won’t cut it in most markets, but sometimes it works – like in the case of Jeremy “Shoemoney”  Schoemaker or Jennifer Ledbetter the “Pot Pie Girl.”

If you’ve signed up for forums under a nickname, ask the moderators if they can change your name to your real name or pen name. You might not want to tell the moderator’s it’s a pen name. That’s up to you.

Keep getting your name out there any way you can. Host teleseminars, JV with well-known people if possible, and offer to help create content for well-known people in your niche in exchange for a Bio Box that hosts your name and link to your website.

Offer to be an interview subject for someone. Be a “guest author” for popular websites and blogs in your niche, and create 100% original content for them. Never stop branding your name. Even when you’re as famous as Donald Trump, the king of name branding, don’t stop.

Donald still puts his name on everything he does. His name appears in huge, bold letters on his books. He names buildings after himself. Think of Trump Tower, Trump Taj Mahal, and Trump Plaza. His name is all over everything.

Not only is it a matter of pride, but it keeps his name everywhere. You may never be as famous as the Donald, or even as famous as Andy Jenkins, but you might become known as the king or queen of your own little niche or for a particular slant that grows in popularity.

Go ahead, make that decree, your name is important!

Why, indeed! Remember the year ends early December 21st!

So that takes a few days profits away right there!

Even when we get close everybody will be either stealing or hoarding…

OK, OK, I am not a believer in the Doomsday prophecy.

So what will 2012 really bring?

Going by the “gifts” being doled out during the Christmas Season, there will be no bargains!

I was really surprised this year by the “big” internet players, the “giving” was just not there.

Had to opt-in, only get get a so-called discount, jump through numberless hoops, just to get a Christmas gift!

Evidently everyone must be hurting for sales… imagine that, not in 2011! No! It just cannot be!

Does that show you what 2012 will bring?

I believe many of the 2011 product launches were less than stellar!

People are getting wiser, and will not now spend their hard earned dollars on junk!

Noticed too that webinars are now the “thing” in internet marketing…

But so many do not have any idea how to conduct a real customer-getting seminar, just a bunch of blah-blah-blah!

So now my original question, will 2012 be profitable? Only in the niches!

To Anyone That Listens, Have A Nice Holiday!

PS: Good things coming after first of the year, be looking!

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Innovative ideas, action equals wealth!

Doesn’t look like ‘PLAN A” worked out too well did it?

The reality is that society’s “PLAN A” that’s been shoved down most of our throats our whole lives is a massive systematic, evil scheme to enslave 99% of us, while the ’1%’ at the top eat cake and laugh in our faces…

There is a way to fight back, a “PLAN B” if you will. That promises to get you back what’s rightfully your’s…

Seems like I can’t turn the news on anymore without hearing about how easy it is to make money online…

Like this clip for example:
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WOW! I made a mistake, that is under $40! Bear in mind the domain is for one year and the hosting is for one month.

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All the affiliates who are filling your inbox with mail after mail about this revolutionary new product or…

All the blog reviews spouting the inevitable… buy and make money hand over fist…

Then the dreaded one week delay.

Is this just a marketing ploy to build up the hype?

Or could there really be something wrong with the formula… the software…

Money was paid out to many affiliates for leads in the first week, much money… then…

Second week money launch another load of money for leads…

The bomb exploded…

Now no launch until further notice…

Watch for part two of this unfolding perplexity!

What does MR have up his sleeve…

Most people won’t go that far, so cloaking your links will prevent most commission loss. How do people steal affiliate commissions? Have you ever hovered over a link and noticed that the link was an obvious affiliate link?

Some people type in the parent domain instead of clicking the link as a way of making sure the owner of the site gets paid 100% for the sale. Some people falsely believe that if they buy from an affiliate link, they’ll have to pay more for a commission mark-up.

Some people actually do it for a different reason. If you’re promoting a ClickBank product, especially to other marketers, many of them know they can insert their own ClickBank ID and get what’s usually a 50% or more discount on the product.

This is a different type of affiliate commission theft, because the person doing it gets the affiliate commission themselves, rather than just making sure you don’t get it. Most people don’t do that, of course.

Most people are pretty honest, and don’t mind giving you a little affiliate commission in exchange for recommending a good product to them. But it’s enough of a concern that you should take steps to prevent it.

You can easily set up your own link cloaking system. What you would do is set up a directory on one of your domains. Most marketers use the domain of their own name, as in bobsmith.com. They typically have a subdirectory called /recommends/.

Then in that directory, they create a new subdirectory for each product. It would look something like this: http://www.bobsmith.com/recommends/awesomeproductname. In that directory, they place a very simple PHP redirect called index.php.

Whenever they send someone to the above link, the script will redirect to your affiliate link. All you have to do is create a file in Notepad or your favorite HTML editor and name is index.php. Then paste the following information into the file and upload it to your directory:

< ?php
header(“location:http://affiliates.programhere.com/5555″);
?>

There are a number of link cloaking scripts available. Most of them are relatively easy to install and use. There’s a big benefit to using a script rather than doing it yourself. Using your simple redirect, there isn’t an easy way to check how much traffic you’ve sent to your link.

Most link cloaking scripts allow you to add new links very easily within an administrative area, and then each link is tracked so that you can see how much traffic is going through the link. If you use your own file, the only way to tell how much traffic you’ve sent is through your affiliate stats, which may be inaccurate, or through your web server’s stats, which may be clunky to use or hard to understand.

Another way you can do it is to use a link cloaking tool, such as Go Try This. This lets you enter the raw affiliate link and name your link whatever you want as an extension of your domain. Then you can log in and check stats to see how the top 10 links are performing using a diagram and bar graph.

To me the premiere link cloaking software available is the Phantom Link Cloaker 2.0!

Using Phantom Link Cloaker your edge over the scumbags:

1. Your links will be fully cloaked, and they will never see the affiliate link behind the “scenes”
2. You can set your own custom page title, removing any remaining trace of the affiliate link and potentially boosting your conversion rate even further.
   
3. And you can drop an extra stealth cookie when someone clicks your links. More on this powerful feature in a bit – But the thieves won’t know what hit them
4. Phantom Link Cloaker Will Let You Add Your Own Lead Capture To ANY Link!

Every time you create a link you get the option to add a “lightbox” popup to it (and you can change/edit them as often as you like). This light box will load on top of ANY link!

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Why you ask? Aren’t internet marketers, website owners, even offline business owners smart enough to figure this out?

Getting my site ranked, that is so easy… yeah!

Most people do not even have a single clue, they live on hopes that just maybe Google and the rest of the search engines will by some stroke of magic, will rank their sites on the first page… not!

There is no magic formula, there is however a complete road map to your site ranking high and getting the traffic you deserve and more cash in your pocket!

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