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I have just received information about the firesale from Jason James. If you are looking for a lot of great Internet marketing products and you don’t want to pay hardly anything, then you might want to take a closer look at his firesale.
Jason James Presents… One Crazy Firesale!
I have been looking at the sales page and how he is presenting it. I must admit that I really don’t understand why he is saying that the reason for the firesale is due to his moving expenses (he moved from Massachussets to Virginia Beach a few years ago) and the expenses for the house.
I thought Jason James was raking in millions of dollars from Internet marketing?
(maybe not millions)
Anyways.
The firesale is only available for 7 days, and there are some really cool products that you can get your hands on.
Jason James Presents… One Crazy Firesale!
It looks like a really good deal.
I am not a good copywriter. I am reading and I am practicing and someday I might be whole lot better than I am today.
My quest to be a better copywriter usually starts at YouTube. There are so many educational videos on any topic, and copywriting is no exception.
Today, I am going to present to you a video from Ted Nicholas regarding Copywriting tips for beginners.
It’s really interesting, and it’s only 4 minutes and 29 seconds of your time. You will learn some of the most interesting words that you should be using when you are writing.
The words are: yes, love, only, sale and free.
If I would hire someone to create a Firefox add-on, I would create something that I think almost all Internet marketers would want.
When I think about it, I just can’t believe that nobody has created this add-on for Firefox yet. I have been looking everywhere, well, I have only been looking at the Firefox add-on page, but that’s where everything is (so it’s almost like I have been looking everywhere).
What I am talking about is a Firefox add-on that will help you cloak links. I would want a free add-on, that will cloak my links with just a few clicks.
I am not sure, but I don’t think that it can’t be that hard to create, and think about how many people that would download it and use it.
I am talking about a software like Ninja Link Cloaker (that would probably be hard, but it doesn’t have to have all the features).
If you could create something like that, or get a programmer to create one for you; my guess is that you could get thousands of people on your optin-list (if they have to submit their e-mail address in order to download the add-on) or if you could somehow use the add-on to promote yourself and your blog/business, my guess is that your name would be on most Internet marketers lips within a few days.
I am a firm believer in giving away really cool stuff for free in order to gain trust.
And trust is what marketing is all about…
If you are loooking for a programmer, like if you are thinking about creating this Firefox Add-on (or something else), you could hire a freelancer at any of these sites:
The only problem I can see with creating an add-on like the link cloaker for Firefox is that it has to be compatible with new releases like Firefox 3 (coming soon).
You have the regular sales pages; some are very long, but they all contain text and images. To make them even more interesting, more and more sales pages got audio and video. Now, if you start using PowerEffects, you can grab even more attention with your text. To me, this is different.
This is like animated gifs, and from what I can see, it looks rather cool.
I am sure that if you start using PowerEffects, you will grab more attention with your text (and images), but I am not sure if it will convert more of your prospects into buyers or not.
Who knows, maybe PowerEffects is something that can help you?
It’s cheap, and you can get the Master Resale Rights as well.
The past week was an interesting week. I recieved a lot of new Internet marketing stuff and I have five really interesting Internet marketing systems to tell you about, and one of them I find more interesting than the others. One of the “systems” is actually a new Internet marketing book.
Here are the five most interesting marketing systems of week 19:
I am not an affiliate of any of the above, and so far, I haven’t tried any of them either. I am thinking about buying the Street Smart Internet Marketing book, and I will probably buy it somtime soon.
Slackerprofits is more of a system to earn money than an Internet marketing system, but I had to give you the link (it looks interesting). WP Traffic looks great if you have a blog and you are using wordpress, if not, you might want to consider starting one. Dave’s Online Videos looks awesome, it’s a lot of videos on how to promote and how to use various Internet marketing techniques and how to earn money online. The guy behind it is Dave Guindon. Mark Vurnum has released something similiar, but it’s a video series about how to get leads, it’t Lead Generation Video’s II.
All five of them looks really interesting, but my favorite for the past week is Dave’s Online Videos. The price is cheap and the topics looks really interesting.
Remember, I haven’t tried any of the products and I haven’t seen any of the videos, I have only viewed the sales pages.
Don’t take my advice, decide yourself.
If you are looking for a course on how to write killer e-mails; e-mails that people will open, e-mails that people will read and e-mails that will make people click or even better, e-mails that will make people buy. Then, you should sign up for the Autoresponder Copy Made Easy course by Jay White.
It’s completely free.
I just signed up myself, so I don’t really know how good it is. But from what I have heard, it’s a really comprehensive step-by-step guide on how to write killer e-mails.
It’s a four-part video series, and the guy behind it, Jay White, is a real professional copywriter.
Are you going to do what I just did and sign up for Autoresponder Copy Made Easy?
I am reading Gravitational Marketing: The Science of Attracting Customers all over again. It’s a very inspiring book, and today, I am going to use the chapter “Attraction Through The Internet” as an example of what you can do in order to attract new customers using the Internet as your tool.
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The chaper includes many ways that you should consider when using attraction through the Internet:
In this post, I am just going to focus on two of the above, and that’s how you should be using blogs to attract customers and how you should gain attraction by advertising in E-Zines. And I am going to tell you what the authors of Gravitational Marketing are saying that you should be doing. The reason for just focusing on two of the attraction techniques, is that I can’t possibly do all of them in one post. I’ll do more of them later on.
Blogs
When you are writing content for your blog, remember that you should provide a mix of three things:
1. One-third should be personal content
2. One-third should be technical content
3. One-third should be emotional content
Your blog is really a relationship builder, and you are holding the microphone and you are the one telling the stories. You should use your blog to build relationships with potential customers and with current customers. Yes, it’s really that easy. Just focus on building relationships and stick to the “one-third rule”.
E-Zines
An E-Zine is an online or e-mail newsletter. You can either create your own E-Zine for your niche or you can find a popular E-Zine for your niche and advertise in it.
You can buy advertising as a link in the E-Zine, a listing, banners, or sometimes you can buy article space.
E-Zines are great when it comes to finding targetted prospects, because the E-Zines are sent to groups of people by specific topics.
Take a look at this directory of general Internet marketing E-Zines
If you want to create your own E-Zine, I recommend that you use AWeber.
Maybe it’s all about followers?
With a blog you want to attract your own followers, people who trust you and people who want to keep reading what you are writing. When you are advertising in an E-Zine, you are reaching out to the followers of other people. You are trying to convince them to start following you.
You can drive a lot of traffic to your website or blog if you start using images and if you start optimizing your images for Google Image Search.
A lot of people are using Google Image Search and you can get a lot of free traffic if you just start doing some minor changes.
There are many ways to get traffic from Google Image Search; you could insert keywords into your Alt text and name your images with descriptive titles and of course you could use relevant text around your images.
I am going to concentrate on five creative ways. The reason that I am only focusing on five techniques, is that I believe that you probably already know the basic ways to get traffic to your images; like inserting keywords into your Alt text, and if you don’t know, you can always find a great article about how to get traffic from Google Image Search.
My first creative way to drive traffic to your website using Google Image Search is to use images about really hot topics. My best example is probably about Britney Spears. She is still a really hot topic, but a few months back, she was probably the hottest topic in the world. You didn’t need to write a blog post about Britney Spears, but you could have used her as an example and used an image of her in your blog post, and finally, you could have used an Alt text with a really hot keyword about Britney Spears.
My second creative way is using Google Image Labeler. If you haven’t heard of Google Image Labeler, I will do a short introduction for you (well, I have borrowed the introduction from Google):
You’ll be randomly paired with a partner who’s online and using the feature. Over a two-minute period, you and your partner will:
- View the same set of images.
- Provide as many labels as possible to describe each image you see.
- Receive points when your label matches your partner’s label. The number of points will depend on how specific your label is.
- See more images until time runs out.
After time expires, you can explore the images you’ve seen and the websites where those images were found. And we’ll show you the points you’ve earned throughout the session.
My third creative way is to include more than one keyword in your image title. It’s easy, just use hyphen in the name. For instance, if I wanted to use an image of google image search, I would have at least used the name google-image-search.jpg, but I could have also put another important keyword in there, maybe google-image-search-traffic.jpg?
My fourth creative way is to create an image site map. Create a page where you link to all your images. Site maps are great for SEO in general, maybe they are just as great when it comes to images?
My fifth creative way to drive traffic to your website using Google Image Search is to use images from topics/categories with few images, but many searches. Just do a search using Google Image Search and see if you can find a lot of images for your keywords, if you can’t, then great. You won’t have much competition then. You might have to guess when it comes to the amount of people who are actually searching for images with your keywords, because I don’t really know how to find out how many searches people do for images. Anyways. You are looking for keywords or categories with very few images, but with a lot of searches.
Finally.
Even though it might not help you at Google Image Search, you should always think about the best way to present your images. Remember that small images loads faster and unusual images are always the most interesting.
You have probably noticed that I am using a popover myself, and that’s because it’s a great way to grab attention and in my case, to get people to subscribe to my “Internet Marketing Tips Newsletter”. I am using the lightbox popover script from AWeber.
Anyway. I have found an example of another interesting way to use a popover. I am not sure where I found it, but I had to take a screen capture just so I could show you the example.
Usually, people are using a popover in order to get people to sign up for something (like a newsletter) or to get people to click on an interesting offer (just one offer).
This popover, actually it’s an exit popover (only shows when people are trying to leave the website), gives you three options.
It tries to cover every reason why a person was visiting the website in the first place; and when the person is leaving, this popover asks the question which option is the best for the prospect:
1. I’d like to discover how to easily make serious money with affiliate programs using powerful underground techniques
2. I’d like to learn some truly advanced Internet marketing tactics
3. I’d like to learn how to make “autopilot income” using the Internet
Depending on the option you choose, you will be sent to an affiliate program (one for each option).
I am not sure if this is a great way to use a popover or not.
But I am sure that I think it’s a creative way to use it and I do like it 
This is a guest post by Mark Schumann, the developer of The Publicity Wheel.
The Publicity Wheel is a new web service that can provide a large boost in traffic and exposure for any website. The concept works by featuring one website (per category) at a time through banner/text links on participating members’ sites. Unlike a traditional banner/link exchange program there are no impression figures or ratios to worry about, and by having your website promoted by hundreds of other websites on a permanent basis for several days, the benefits can be huge. Instead of impressions and ratios, The Publicity Wheel works through a kind of ticketing system known as “publicity points”. This is explained in further detail below.
Getting Started
After creating an account and selecting a category that best suits your site, it is recommended that you upload your own banner images in sizes of 125×125, 200×200 and 468×60 pixels. These will be used when your site is featured and displayed on members’ sites. If you don’t upload any banner images, generic “Publicity Wheel” banners will be used instead, but still forward all clicks to your site.
The next step is to begin earning publicity points so that you have a greater chance of being featured at the next “spin”. Each point earned is effectively one ticket (or chance) at winning the next spin, so the more you have the better your chances. If you don’t win, you don’t lose your tickets, so you have a greater chance of winning as you accumulate points over time. Winners’ points are also reset to zero to allow lower-traffic sites increase their chances over time.
Ensure you are logged in, and open up the Earn Publicity Points tab to select the category of websites you would like to promote on your own site (generally the same as yours). Choose the most appropriate banner or text link, and copy the code into the section of your site to have it displayed.
That’s basically it! Each time one of your visitors clicks on these banners/links, you will earn a number of publicity points, which are then used to select the winner of the next spin.
The Publicity Wheel is not for everyone, but it does provide a more unique and enjoyable method for promoting your website.
