Word of Mouth Has Changed, Sort Of

June 17th, 2010 by admin


“You have to see this!”
Well before computers were making our lives easier by making them harder, people reacted to content. Word of mouth was simply that: people spread the word to each other by talking (talking was an ancient method of communication where two or more people stood in the same room, and then by [...]

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Great New Internet Marketing Resource Site

June 17th, 2010 by admin


I just bookmarked this internet marketing resource page and I wanted to share it with you.   It’s called Pagellan (like Magellan with an “P”) and it’s designed to help you navigate the web pages you need to help build an online business.

==> Click here to visit Pagellan

It’s basically a portal of the most popular links used by internet marketers and would even make a nice homepage.

There’s no cost to use the site and resources, but if you decide to purchase a membership you get access to loads of additional content, tutorials and downloads.

All for less than $10 per month.

If you’re looking to..

*Save Time and Money
*Find IM Resources Quickly
*Generate More Traffic and Sales

Then you should really visit and bookmark this site today.

==> Click here to visit Pagellan

(P.S. I’m an affiliate for this site)

50,000 Tweets and All I Got Was Everything

June 8th, 2010 by admin


Recently I surpassed the 50,000 tweet mark.
Holy monkeynuts.
That’s roughly 5,000,000 characters of typing, assuming an average of 100 characters a tweet.
And it’s been worth every one of them.
So the question is why? I’ve practically written enough on Twitter for five books, am a member of the 50/50 club (50k tweets, 50k followers) (I totally just [...]

My affiliate sales were getting stolen by link hijackers!

May 26th, 2010 by admin


computer_thiefA couple weeks ago I noticed I was suddenly making a lot less sales than I was used to.  I wasn’t quite sure what was causing this – especially since this is normally one of the best times for selling. I went ahead and remade my opt-in pages and rewrote my entire sales funnel and split tested. The results? Absolutely no difference, it was converting at under 5%… that’s atrocious!

After spending some time talking to others and trying to get to the bottom of this I realized why I wasn’t making sales – or rather, why I wasn’t getting credit for the sales that I actually WAS making. Apparently there is a new problem called link hijacking that is becoming more and more prevalent with affiliate marketing. Basically this means that no matter how good my sales funnel was, or how many people it convinced to buy a product, I wouldn’t get any sales.

I guess I should quickly explain how link hijacking works. There are two different ways with the second being more common and more easily avoidable – if you know how.

The first way is that when you direct someone to a product, they change the affiliate ID to their own to credit themselves with the sale. This is hard to stop because they know what they’re doing and are most likely an affiliate themselves. This is just something you have to get used to, but this shouldn’t affect your sales nearly as much as the next way.

Click Here To Download Your Free Cloak and Dagger Affiliate Secrets Report

The other thing that can cause you to not get credit for a sale is spyware. More notably a new type of spyware that is now invading the internet that will automatically change affiliate ID’s to those of the spyware’s creators. That means that the more work you put into making sales, the more sales you are making – for the creator of that spyware!

One way to mostly fix the first problem and completely fix the second problem is through the process of link cloaking. This means that you hide the URL to the website with your own redirect cloak so that spyware can’t change the affiliate ID and users can’t find it to change it themselves.

You may have heard of services such as TinyURL or Bit.LY, these are great services for shortening URLs, but they shouldn’t be used for link cloaking because they often break affiliate cookies (which means you won’t get credit for sales). Instead you should find one of the link cloaks available specifically for affiliate marketing.

I recommend you download this report, ‘Cloak & Dagger Affiliate Secrets’. It covers link cloaking, how to do it, and the best services for affiliate marketing. If you’re sick of missing out on sales that you should be making, or you just don’t want it to happen to you, you should at least read through this report. I’m offering it to you for FREE – so there’s no risk at all.

Click Here To Download Your Free Cloak and Dagger Affiliate Secrets Report

Paying to Speak? No Thanks C.A.P.S.

May 18th, 2010 by admin


I received an email a few minutes ago from a great friend, that I’ll leave out of this because I’m about to rant… he forwarded me a “Request for Speakers” email he received from the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers about their upcoming annual conference. He thought the theme suited my style (one of the [...]