Monday, September 14, 2009
James Al-Oboudi's NEW Program
He's A Massively Talented Marketer From GDI With A Mission To Make YOU Money And Fast!
Most people will fail at an online business before they succeed and that's a fact.
The Main reason being that most matrices are rather large, needing thousands sometimes even 20,000 people to fill just 1 matrix. The amount of people needed becomes so huge that spillover becomes unreasonable and new referrals will drop out due to impatience because the matrix is just too large to fill.
Another reason being that most people don't have the proper training, the proper materials, or even the proper people to work with and go to for help and guidance. Think about it, when you start a job, you will get some kind of training, either your prior education or training the company gives you. Works the same way with an online business. You NEED training and guidance.
Introducing The TeamWork Revolution Power System!
This system has been specifically designed to NOT ONLY help you put money in your pocket and fast, but also to give you all the resources you need to become an expert at this business!
James Al-Oboudi was one of the top Marketers in GDI and he's put all of his knowledge into his very own ebook for you to use all of his marketing strategies. Not to mention the massive amount of resources that he is going to make sure YOU have access too.
So, you have resources, you're making money, now you need the support of your coworkers and others that can help you. Well, you are in luck, because you will get that too. We have hundreds of talented marketers that have been brought into this program for the sole purpose of teaching YOU!
Plus, remember how those rather large matrices are hard to keep new referrals in? Well not in this program, here James has created a program with a very low amount of referrals needed to fill your matrix, but with a HUGE Profit!
Check it out...
http://twrpowersystem.us
Monday, May 11, 2009
What You Get From TeamWork Revolution
- Low And Affordable $10 Monthly Membership Fee
- 5x6 Systematic Cooperative Compensation Program
- 80% Direct Payout Compensation Plan
- $2 Payout Per Person on First and Sixth Levels
- Systematic Even Spread of Spillover
- Dynamic Company Profit Distribution Plan
- Monthly Bonuses
- Free Rotator
- Full and Free Access to Co-founder James Al-Oboudi's Marketing Strategies
- See All Paid And Unpaid Downline Members
- Ability to View your Sponsor's Information
- Active Support Forum
Company Products
- Quality Web Hosting including:
700MB of Space
Unlimited Bandwidth
Unlimited FTP Accounts
Unlimited Email Accounts
Unlimited SQL Databases
Unlimited Subdomains
Up to 100 Parked Domains
Up to 100 Addon Domains
...and a Company provided Site Builder
Company Benefits
- Online Conference Rooms:
You'll be granted access to TWR's Online Conference rooms and receive training on how to use them to help your business thrive.
- Live Training Sessions:
TWR provides live training (webinars) in their online conference rooms on marketing, website design, computer basics, and many other business related subjects. These are live and interactive conferences hosted by one of their co-owners, Cheryl-Ann Porter, who is also a top, well known and respected affiliate marketer with many years experience in training, supporting, and mentoring others. In her previous company, Cheryl-Ann built an impressive $7000 per month personal income in just 7 weeks and taught many other affiliates how to achieve similar success. A range of topics will be covered in these sessions to greatly enhance your productivity as an affiliate marketer.
- Digital Products:
TWR offers a wide variety of digital products, such as, but not limited to: Ebooks on various subjects, including marketing, to help your business prosper. Software - Including templates, bulk mailers, and much more. This list will be continually added upon.
- Marketing Tools:
TRW provides you with powerful marketing tools, which includes, but are not limited to, the exact same marketing strategies used by James Al-Oboudi to be continually ranked as one of GDI's top sponsors without spending any money on marketing. TWR will also be continually adding more marketing strategies for you to use as soon as they discover something of use.
Fantastic! What more could you ask - for only $10 per month?
Join now: http://TeamWorkRevolution.com
Why Do They Call It TeamWork Revolution?
Why do they call it "TeamWork Revolution?" Because it is indeed a revolutionary system founded on the selfless mentality of true teamwork, that will completely out-perform any online affiliate marketing system available - not only through the amazing compensation plan offered, but also through the even more incredible service and support provided by the TeamWork Revolution or TWR family.
I'm sure you've heard all the big talk from other programs out there, but when you come to learn who has created this program, and why it's been created, you'll start to see why it's different from anything else and is indeed a breakthrough in the industry. At TWR, they have developed every single aspect of their program to serve you first and them last. They've gone out of their way to make this program as supportive as possible while continually putting the interests of their members first. They have done everything they can to dramatically slash their profits to pay you as much as possible through an 80% direct payout, 10% indirect payout through support positions they place in your downline for you, a bonus program for personal referrals, and their free rotator. They pride themselves on being selfless servants of their members, and they always look out for the little guy, because they themselves were once the little guys, and they know what it's like to be lost in a sea of endless affiliate programs and money making systems that are all saying the same thing - or even worse, lying to rip people off through a system that only serves it's founders, creators, and owners.
TeamWork Revolution's co-owner and co-founder is James Al-Oboudi, formerly one of the top performing sponsors worldwide for Global Domains International (GDI) until he decided he no longer wished to promote their company, as he longed to create a system that truly, selflessly served its members by generously rewarding them for all of their hard work. In less than three months with GDI, James was already ranked second in the entire world, and he got there without spending a dime on marketing. Much of his success came from exposing very fraudulent programs that were built up on a great deal of hype from clever marketing but left their members struggling to make money, leaving the vast majority of them with less money than they began with, while the creators of the system became extremely wealthy. There are few things in life that give him more pleasure than exposing those who prey upon the weakened state of others who are simply seeking a helping hand.
If there is one thing James wants you to be sure of, it is that he is adamantly opposed to deception, which is why he's so insistent on exposing corruption among various affiliate programs, or even among individual sponsors who promote them. He has even taken this so far as to expose the corrupt behavior of those who he has personally worked with and stood to gain a great deal of money from, as doing right onto others will ALWAYS be more important to him than making money. He says his brain just isn't wired in a way that allows him to deceive people, and he honestly can't comprehend how people who are lying to, cheating, and robbing others can live with themselves. He says he will never understand it, and quite frankly, he never wants to understand it, so you can be certain that TeamWork Revolution is founded on nothing other than pure truth, and truth is all you will ever receive from them, as they are committed to operating with the highest of ethical standards.
Because of his desire to only work with a reliable and trustworthy company, James chose GDI, which is indeed a reputable company. However, despite his enormous and very rapid success with GDI, he soon began to wonder if something else could be created to serve it's members better, which lead him and his partners to create TeamWork Revolution.
One concept James was certain he wished to utilize was a forced matrix. For those of you who are not familiar with what a forced matrix is, here is a brief explanation: A forced matrix allows you to only have a certain number of people in your first level. With TeamWork Revolution, that number is five. After 5 people have been placed in your first level, whether through your own efforts, through spillover, through the company support positions, or through the free rotator, every person who enters your downline is placed under those people in your first level. The same rule applies to everyone in your downline. After each of them have gained five people in their first level, everyone who enters their downline after that, is placed under those in their first level. This process continues until the entire six level downline is full, so, as you can see, everyone is working together to force the downline to fill up; hence the term "forced matrix."
This is a brilliant system that not only keeps everyone motivated to continually market the business, but also dramatically increases the retention rate (less people quit). Motivation and retention rates are two major problems with programs that don't offer forced matrices. As successful as James personally was with GDI, he couldn't help but notice that most people struggled to promote it and sign up people. Because of this, it was very hard for people to stay motivated, and while he personally had a very high retention rate for his downline, he was repeatedly informed by other GDI sponsors that their retention rate was very low. Actually, the overwhelming vast majority of affiliate marketing programs have very low retention rates, but this is a problem that can be dramatically improved throughout the wonderful team effort effect that a forced matrix creates. However, forced matrices are by no means the Holy Grail of affiliate marketing. Without many other support factors, forced matrices still offer very low retention rates. This is proven everyday, and many of you can attest to this.
While you can find plenty of forced matrix programs out there, you can't find any other companies that dramatically cut into their own profits with an 80% direct payout, 10% indirect payout through company support positions, for a total 90% payout compensation plan that also offers a generous bonus program and a free rotator like TeamWork Revolution does, which allows for a program that brings their members into profit faster than any other company while providing a $35,000 monthly income once the matrix is full.
Furthermore, because of TWR's desire to create a system that eliminates competition and the inevitable malicious behavior that comes with it, TWR's partners were insistent upon creating a forced matrix system that allows everyone to create as many accounts as they'd like under whomever they'd like, whenever they'd like. They are totally committed to creating a competition-free zone where everyone is working together to reach financial freedom for life. You see, in programs that only allow you to create one account, if you want to create another account under someone else, you have to completely give up your downline to do so. Basically, unless you're willing to give up your downline, you're stuck where you are and can't receive the help of any other sponsor.
What this does is create an incredibly competitive environment, which inevitably gives rise to malicious acts among sponsors who are all trying to destroy each other to preserve their own ability to sign up people. James is sad to say that he saw a great deal of this in his time at the top of GDI's leader board. If GDI utilized a forced matrix and allowed their members to create multiple accounts under anyone they want, whenever they want, there would be no need for competition, nor would there be a need to try to destroy anyone's business. If you saw someone rapidly becoming successful with the business, you could simply create a new account under that person and not only benefit from having him or her as a sponsor and learning all you can from that person (while at the same time helping his or her downline grow), but because of the "spillover" effect created by the forced matrix, you could also receive free sign-ups from your sponsor's ability to recruit people. However, with many companies, this is not the case, and malicious competition for sign ups is always the result.
James has said that there are many things in this life that he is willing to fight for, but getting rich will never be one of them, which is why he's so happy to share this supportive, selfless, and team-oriented system with you. Are you aware that if all the world's wealth was evenly distributed among every person in the human race, we would all have about $13,000,000? There is plenty of money for all of us to make, so there is simply no need for greed and competition. Those at TeamWork Revolution believe in supporting each other and sharing the wealth.
Now, you can definitely find other forced matrix systems that allow you to create multiple accounts under whomever you wish, but again, you can't find any with an 80% direct payout, 10% indirect payout through company support positions for a total 90% payout compensation plan that also offers a generous bonus program and a free rotator like TeamWork Revolution does, which allows all members to enter into profit faster than any other company while ultimately achieving a $35,000 monthly income from one full matrix.
Because of all these features, TWR feels completely confident in describing themselves as TeamWork Revolution, as they believe they have truly raised the bar for selflessness in the business world, and they are trying very hard to revolutionize the world of affiliate marketing by creating a completely team-oriented system, free of malicious competition, that is totally dedicated to paying its members as much as possible while not only offering extremely powerful marketing techniques for free, but also drastically cutting into their own profits to pay you as much as possible, help build your business for you through company support positions and their free rotator, and reward your hard work through their bonus program. If you know anything about the affiliate marketing world, you can clearly see that this is indeed something very special.
I hope you can now see why TeamWork Revolution is indeed a breakthrough new program designed to help all participants liberate themselves financially for the rest of their lives through this system of selfless devotion to members and a team-oriented environment that eliminates competition to help everyone equally prosper.
While tirelessly working around the clock to serve others, the TeamWork Revolution partners were magnetically drawn together by a common bond. That bond is the sincere desire to help others. It is their passion to help people in need, to help people who face the same challenges they face, that has inspired the creation of TeamWork Revolution. Therefore, TWR will always be a place where people from all walks of life, with any level of experience, can come to find all the help they could ever hope for and the most generous financial compensation plan and even distribution of wealth found throughout the business world.
If you've had enough of slaving away to earn even the smallest profit, if you're sick and tired of working like an animal to make someone else rich, if you're fed up with the competitive, and often times malicious, nature of the affiliate marketing and MLM world, feel free to join the TeamWork Revolution family and allow them to embrace you with open arms and do everything in their power to help you reach your financial goals.
Sunday, May 10, 2009
The Power of Friend Referral - Tell a Friend
One of the methods that spawned much success in driving traffic to websites is viral marketing. Viral marketing makes use of the tendency of people to share something they find informative, entertaining or amazing.
Companies bank on this behavior to spread their products and increase the popularity of their company or their website. Viral marketing makes use of different mediums in enticing this behavior. It might be in the form of an interesting story, an addicting flash game, an amusing video or many other things that could catch a persons interest.
This incredible type of marketing is typically low cost and is a wonderful tool for any company to utilize. The benefit greatly overshadows the cost or efforts to initialize this marketing scheme. Any website would greatly benefit from viral marketing.
Tell A Friend Script
Probably the easiest method in viral marketing is using a tell a friend script. This is a script that you can attach to the programming of your website. Generally, tell a friends script are installed in pages where a media is placed so that a person can easily send the media to any of their friends.
The basic concept of a tell a friend script is: a script wherein a person may input his name, e-mail address, the recipients e-mail address and send the media to the intended recipient much like an e-mail with an attachment. As the recipient receives the e-mail he wouldnt think of the mail as spam mail because he would see the senders name as someone he or she knows and trust.
Using a tell a friend script eliminates greatly the chances of being blocked because they use the information inputted by the sender. This allows for wider spreading of this marketing method. It can be quite sneaky but it is very effective.
When the email is opened by the recipient, the media will either be read, viewed or played. Along with the mail would be a brief description of the company or site that sponsors the media sent. This allows for the introduction of either the site, company name or its products. There is another tell a friend script with this product.
As more people use the tell a friend script, more and more people will know of the existence of the sponsoring company or site. People who read the ads inside the mail and like what they see will click on the link and visit the site. This drives traffic into the site resulting in potential customers.
Tell A Friend Script Availability
A tell a friend script is very simple and does not require a complicated method of programming. In fact, you can copy paste a script and simply put it on an intended page. Finding one is even simpler. All you have to do is go to a search engine and type in the search box tell a friend script then press enter or click go.
In the search results page you will see many links that direct you to a site where you can get a tell a friend script. It would just be a simple matter of looking and searching for the script and copying it to your intended web page.
With a tell a friend script viral marketing strategy, you can drive traffic into your site which could potentially spell profits. This is a simple harmless script that offers great benefits for low cost paired with great creativity and foresight.
It is imperative that you have patience in using a tell a friend script. If your chosen media doesn't get the mileage that is expected of it, it may take some time before it gets spread or shared. But surely many people will see your ads and there is great probability that they will visit your site increasing your traffic flow.
Going Crazy Choosing An Opportunity?
Haven’t you noticed that almost every opportunity on the internet boasts that they’re the best option, with the best products and the best compensation plans? Well, with everyone saying they’re the best, how do you make an informed decision?
When you do your own research about some of these companies or opportunities, you may find a lot of videos of people who have joined, and have made a lot of money. You might find videos of some members of the companies showing proof that they have made it.
Naturally you would believe it, and you join yourself. A few months later, you notice that you’re not even doing half as good as they are. In fact, a majority of people don’t make money at all.
Have you ever asked yourself the question as to why this is?
The fact is, the people making the money are heavy hitters who’ve been in the industry for a long time. They have established their own network of people who follow them into each new opportunity they promote.
What’s left is a huge number of unfortunate, inexperienced people spending money instead of making money at the mercy of these heavy hitters.
What you really need to do is learn from normal people who’ve made it, and willingly share how they actually did it.
You need to find ordinary single parents, work at home moms, people who have lost their jobs and finding their way out by making an income online.
I was fortunate enough to meet such a person.
After losing his job, and needing to take care of his son as a single parent, he was desperately finding a way to earn an income from home.
He didn’t wake up one day wanting to become an online business owner. He had to do it out of necessity due to his circumstances.
The person I mean is James Al-Oboudi, who became the number 2 top recruiter in the world from a reputable online company in only 3 months after losing his job.
This is the type of person you should be following. This is the type of person you should be learning from.
James had the realization that there are many people, perhaps even including you, that are struggling to make money.
This realization brought him to form a company called TeamWork Revolution. This company was formed with the mindset to help the majority of people who have been lied to when it comes to making money online.
In fact, James is even sharing a comprehensive report of all the things he did to become one of the top income earners on the Internet.
TeamWork Revolution even gives away free money to random members of the company by the use of free affiliate link rotators, and spillover.
If you’re serious enough to start clean and make money online, I would highly recommend to do a little bit of research on James, and TeamWork Revolution.
Find out the mentality and the driving factor behind this company. I’m sure you’ll be satisifed with your results.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
New Kid on the Block

TeamWork Revolution recently launched the newest and perhaps the best multi-level marketing system available on the Internet. It's a 5X6 Forced Matrix where they pay out an amazing 90% back to members. Do yourself a favor and check it out...
TeamWorkRevolution.com
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Email Marketing Don'ts
2. Poor Content. If you have a lot of ads in your e-mails, people will delete. If you send e-mails frequently, but have nothing new to share, people will unsubscribe. You want your messages to hold interesting, relevant and topical information.
3. Poor Editing. Bad grammar, incorrect spelling, dead links ... you probably hate getting messages with such errors as much as the next person. So make sure you're marketing material has NONE.
4. Too Much Work. Don't make your readers work hard to get anything done. If they have to fill out lots of forms, provide too much information, do a lot of click-through ... yeah, just think of what you would do: Close the window and not bother to subscribe.
5. "From" Who? If you're "from" line is not that of the exact company or newsletter your subscribers signed up for, they will instantly think it's more spam. You should make sure the "subject" line relates to the newsletter or service you're providing as well.
6. Rough Landing. You don't want customers to go straight to a shopping cart when they click on a link in your e-mail. Nor do you want them going straight to the home page. Make sure the landing page your readers go to relates to whatever your e-mail message is about. Don't make them search; make sure the link lands them exactly where you want them to be.
The power is in the list if you are not already building a list of your own, get started TODAY!!!
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Attracting Leads to Your Blog
In fact, most print media advertising is a waste. If for every $1 you spend you don’t get more than $1 back into your business over the long term then it is a waste. If your current advertising campaign does not have a way to track the number of leads, or sales volume that is being generated for your business, then it is worse than a waste, it could actually be doing real damage to your business.
As entrepreneurs, we get conditioned into doing things that are established practices. We follow traditional methods, like Yellow Page ads, trade journals, perhaps an ad in a coupon book, or an ad in the local newspapers. What we forget as business owners is the viewpoint of the customer, what it is like to be bombarded with these messages. There is so much junk in the marketplace, so many sales messages, and so much interruption to our lives that we are blanking it out more and more from our collective consciousness in order to just get through the day.
The solution is to change our approach from selling to attracting.
Instead of using old traditional sales methods of getting in your leads’ faces, find ways to have them come to you, happy, pre-sold and credit card in hand.
Consider how people find products and services online. They turn to Google, they search for what they are hunting for, they do their research, make a decision, and either make a call or put in their credit card number.
Creative content answers your customers’ questions, and solves their problems. It gives them what they want and need using the words and language they want to hear. By listening to your prospective leads intently, you will be well placed to attract more leads that are looking for exactly what you have to offer.
Providing Content and Value
As entrepreneurs, we are not looking for just a one-time sale. We want a long-term relationship filled with happy, loyal customers. All too often we don’t get the sale on the first visit. Prospective leads need some warming up. They need to trust and believe that we can deliver on our promises, and perhaps they have been burned in the past.
This is a key reason why blogs provide an ideal business platform for building relationships with potential leads. Rather than plugging away at your prospective leads with sales pitches, you can offer them valuable tips, news, and information. Instead of hitting delete or hanging up the phone, they begin to look forward to hearing from you! The relationship changes and you demonstrate expertise and grow trust through regular, useful communication.
If you master the technique of attracting leads to your business, not only will you convert more sales, you will have ongoing sales and keep them loyal for a long time.
Be Real With Your Message
Your approach to blogging has to be natural and real. Your message has to come from the heart and not from the hype. Everything involved in posting a blog is not a walk in the park. If your followers believe in what you are preaching, you will attract more followers, and they will expect to see a continuous flow of information and content from you.
The web is littered with blogs that were started in a rush of enthusiasm and then abandoned. People forget that it takes consistent effort and sustained creativity to keep a blog going. This is why businesses often hire freelance bloggers or coaches to keep the momentum going and share some of the load. A successful blog doesn’t happen overnight, but then neither does a successful business.
Another aspect to be aware of is that anyone who puts his or her thoughts out onto the Internet is going to attract criticism. The Internet will increasingly be talking about any content you post to your blog. Make sure you can always back up the information that is posted to your blog with facts and solid content that you have collected over the years. It’s always best to be prepared to answer criticism early and effectively rather than let tempers and emotions take over.
Blog Checklist for Success
Here are some tips for establishing a better business blog:
· Put your customer first. Do not focus on the sale or what you want or need, what’s more important is what does your customers want and need. Do keyword research, talk to prospective leads, and answer their questions.
· Prioritize value and content over hype. People often say to me that they can’t blog because they are not brilliant writers. It doesn’t matter! What counts is offering something of value. People will forgive small writing issues if you do not waste their time, plus writing gets better with practice.
· Do not provide too much content. Blogging can get addictive or turn into a big time suck. Provide content on the subject matter that will cover approximately 5 to 6 paragraphs, and is of value to the customer.
· Find the social network sites where your prospective leads hang out. Discover where your leads and peers hang out, meet them there and bring them home to your blog.
· Internet Marketing experts that you follow will have a profound impact on your success, from their links, advice, and products and/or services they sell.
· Get your leads to subscribe. You want to keep hold of as many leads as possible, so get them to subscribe to your email list or blog feed! Give them good reasons why they should, perhaps with a freebie incentive, special offer, discount, or other goodies.
· Write your blogs with value and full of content Engage your readers with attractive headlines, draw them further in with introductions, be yourself and brand yourself, leave them with inspiration, with new knowledge and fresh ideas.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
What's With Twitter?
Twitter is like blogging but accelerated and concentrated. Rather than links, comments and trackbacks, we discover new people to follow through replies, both to you and to others. If someone replies to me with an interesting comment, or if someone I am following has an interesting conversation with someone I haven’t discovered, I am more likely to follow them. People who would otherwise go unnoticed in the blogosphere have found attention far more efficiently in the Twittersphere.
This is even more pronounced when you get noticed by the Twitter movers and shakers. As in the blog world where an A-List link can boost your subscriber count, this happens much more often on Twitter. Tweets are cheap, it isn’t a big deal to fire off a message, compared to writing up a blog post, so a conversation with a big named Tweeter can drive hundreds of follows with little effort or risk on either side.

There is also the “reciprocal follow” where someone follows you so you follow them back. It doesn’t happen all the time but it is virtually unheard of in blogging.
In the case of personal blogging, Twitter has mostly taken a big chunk of the action. Before we would subscribe to the feed of people we wanted to stay in touch with. Family, friends, or just people who we found interesting. Twitter now provides the same role, with the bonus of immediacy of updates and instant interaction.
Friday, January 9, 2009
Is Your Business Giving You Panic Attacks?

You can’t face the future until you control your fears, and that’s the NUMBER ONE problem most entrepreneurs have that holds them back from the success they deserve.
Fear of not growing. Fear of missing out. Fear of failure. And yes, even the seemingly silly (yet ever-so-present) fear of success! (And that’s really a fear of the unknown, or a fear of things not staying the same… a fear of leaving the comfort zone.)
Now, IF you struggle with fear, anxiety, panic, or worry, I found a site that will really help you out. Banish your fears by clicking here.
Whether it be passing fears that force you not to act, or full-blown panic attacks, this site has some valuable advice (at least sign up for the free e-course. I just read the first lesson and the tips are something you can use for the rest of your life!)
Most of us do have fears on some level that we deal with on a daily basis.
So fears are normal, but if they hold you back, you need to face them and overcome them…
Still, that might not be the case for you. If you do NOT struggle with those things at all, then congratulations… and you DO NOT need to go to that site. It’s only for people with fear, anxiety, worry, or panic issues.
This topic is one of the most fascinating things that rules our lives.
So, if this is something you are experiencing in your life; here's the link again: http://panicaway.com.
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
More Ways To Get Traffic To Your Website

In order to do either we need website visitors. And not all website visitors are equal. It's best if a high percentage of your website visitors are people interested in the subject of your site, not people who wind up there by accident.
And, it's better still if your traffic is free...if it comes as a result of places like;
- Yahoo Answers
- Myspace.com
- Yahoo Groups
- Stumbleupon.com
- Forums
- Craigslist.org
- Site maps
- E-Book Giveaway
- Website Design
- Submit To Directories
- Tell a Friend
- Search Engine Optimization
- Squidoo.com
- Social bookmarking sites
- Article Promotion
- Site Explorer
- Epinion.com
- Alexa.com
- Newsletter Box
- Pay per Click search engines
- Get Links from Relevant Websites
- Increase the Size of Your Site
- Send out Press Releases
- Advertise On Online classified Ad Sites
- Use Firefox Plug-in
- Add a Forum to Your Site
- Add a Blog to Your Site
- Optimize Your Blog for The Search Engines
- Comment on Other Peoples Blogs
- MySpace News
- Digg
- Banner Exchanges
- Traffic Exchanges
- Pop Unders
- Technorati and ping it when your blog content changes
- Use a ping service like pingomatic to ping RSS aggregators
- Submit your blog to all of the RSS directories
- Link to other blogs in your posts
- Use Stumbleupon to stumble your posts
- Ask your readers to submit your posts to social bookmarking sites
- Start a group blog
- Join SpicyPage and promote your blog
- Join a webring
- Sign up for BlogWoods and promote your blog
- Exchange Ads (not blogroll links) with complementary blogs
- Use Twitter
- Publish videos on YouTube
- Search for Wikis related to your page
- Join Hub pages and post links to your blog from articles you write
- Pray
- Create a MySpace Page. Put your blog on it, and get some friends
- Tell people you will link back to them if they review your blog
- Review relevant products on Amazon.com
- Create product lists on Amazon.com
- Review related sites on Alexa
- Review products and services on shopping search engines
- Swap some links
- Try to get links from within the content of relevant content pages
- Sell items on eBay and leave your link
- Target niche social news sites like DZone, Sphinn or Hugg
- Always add your website url as a signature when you email
- Do email signature swaps
- Tag blog posts at social bookmarking sites
- Add photos to your blog with appropriate keywords - Google Images generates traffic too
- Tag blog photos at Flicker
- Make a custom 404-error page for your website. You can provide a link back to your main website or even try to monetize it by offering a related affiliate program within your niche
- Outsource grunt work
- After someone orders from you offer a one-time offer that compliments your product
- Participate in Blog Carnivals
- Create a network of blogs in different niches, and then link them together
- Give away stock images with a wee watermark of your URL
- Find and discuss memes.
- Create a Yahoo Group in the niche your site sits
- Bookmark your site on Del.icio.us and if you're really keen, add a Del.icio.us button to your homepage
- Place a free ad for your company on Gumtree
- Syndicate your site's content by using an RSS feeds
- Submit your RSS feeds to aggregator sites
- Get a custom t-shirt made with your website URL on it, and wear it often.
- Send out a newsletter
- Giving away an eBook is an excellent way to generate word-of-mouth about your site
- Ask bloggers and other Web site owners to review your site and/or products
- Add a "Tell a Friend" function to your site, so people can easily recommend you to their friends
- Share your banners on banner exchange sites
- Create a "lense" for your site on Squidoo
- Slashdot will bring you a mass of traffic if you have hot content that geeks love
- Upload a favicon.gif file so that your users have a nice icon when they bookmark your site
- Set up a feed on MyYahoo.com so your site gets regularly spidered by the Yahoo search
- Use Ping-0-matic to ping blog directories. Do this every time you publish
- Print your blog URL on your business cards, brochures and flyers
- Use Trackback links when you quote or refer to other blog posts
- Increase the list you ping
- Use Facebook
- Social Networking
- Micro
- Email Marketing
- RSS Feeds
- Get outside links to internal pages
- Use free hosting and build sites and link them back to your main site
Now you know how... Just DO IT!
Monday, January 5, 2009
More on Blogging

There are basically two types of bloggers in the world - reporters and experts - and some people perform both roles (usually the experts, it’s hard for reporters to become experts, but it’s easy for experts to report).
If you have ever taken an Internet marketing course or attended a seminar specifically for beginners, you have probably heard about the two different methodologies. Whenever the business model is based on content, and if you blog for money then the model is based on content, people are taught to either start as reporters, or if possible step up as experts.
I’ll be frank; you want to be the expert.
Reporters leverage the content of the experts and in most cases people start off as reporters because they haven’t established expertise. Experts enjoy the perks of preeminence, higher conversion rates because of perceived value, it’s easier to get publicity, people are more likely to seek you out rather than you having to seek others out, joint ventures come easier, etc… experts in most cases simply make more money and attract more attention.
Most Bloggers Are Reporters
The thing with expertise is that it requires something - experience. No person becomes an expert without doing things and learning. Bloggers usually start out without expertise and as a result begin their blogging journey by talking about everything going on in their niche (reporting) and by interviewing and talking about other experts (reporting again).
There’s nothing wrong with reporting of course and for many people it’s a necessity at first until you build up some expertise. Unfortunately the ratios are pretty skewed when it comes to reporters and experts - there are a lot more reporters than there are experts, hence reporters tend to struggle to gain attention and when they do, they often just enhance the reputation of the expert they are reporting on.
Don’t Replicate Your Teacher
If you have ever spent some time browsing products in the learn Internet marketing niche you will notice a pattern. Many people first study Internet marketing from a “guru” (for lack of a better term). The guru teaches how he or she is able to make money online, and very often the view that the student gleams is that in order to make money online you have to teach others how to make money online.
The end result of this process is a huge army of amateurs attempting to replicate what their teacher does in the same industry - the Internet marketing industry - not realizing that without expert status based on a proven record and all the perks that come with it, it’s next to impossible to succeed.
Even people, who enjoy marginal success, say for example growing an email list of 1,000 people, then go out and launch a product about how to grow an email list of 1,000 people. Now I have no problems with that, I think it’s fine to teach beginners and leverage whatever achievements you have, the problem is that people gravitate to the same niche - Internet marketing - and rarely have any key points of differentiation.
How many products out there do you know of that all claim to teach the same things - email marketing, SEO, pay per click, affiliate marketing, and all the sub-niches that fall under the category of Internet marketing. It’s a saturated market, yet when you see your teachers and other gurus making money teaching others how to make money (and let’s face it - making money as a subject is one of the most compelling) - your natural inclination is to follow in their footsteps.
If the key is to become an expert and you haven’t spent the last 5-10 years making money online, I suggest you look for another niche to establish expertise in.
Report on Your Process, Not Others
The secret to progress from reporter to expert is not to focus on other experts and instead report on your own journey. When you are learning how to do something and implementing things day by day, or studying other people’s work, you need to take your process and what you do as a result of what you learn, and use it as content for your blog.
It’s okay to talk about experts when you learn something from them, but always relate it to what you are doing. If you learn a technique from an expert it’s fine to state you learned it from them (and affiliate link to their product too!) but you should then take that technique, apply it to what you are doing and then report back YOUR results, not there’s. Frame things using your opinion - your stories - and don’t regurgitate what the expert said. The key is differentiation and personality, not replication.
Expertise comes from doing things most people don’t do and then talking about it. If you do this often enough you wake up one day as an expert, possibly without even realizing how it happened, simply because you were so good at reporting what you did.
You Are Already An Expert
Most people fail to become experts (or perceived as experts) because they don’t leverage what they already know. Every person who lives a life learns things as they go, takes action every day and knows something about something. The reason why they never become an expert is because they choose not to (which is fine for some, not everyone wants to be an expert), but if your goal is to blog your way to expertise and leave the world of reporting behind you have to start teaching and doing so by leveraging real experience.
Experience can come from what you do today and what you have done previously; you just need to take enough steps to demonstrate what you already know and what you are presently learning along your journey. I know so many people in my life, who are experts simply by virtue of the life they have lived, yet they are so insecure about what they know, they never commit their knowledge to words for fear of…well fear.
Blogs and the Web in general, are amazing resources when you leverage them as a communication tool to spread your expertise because of the sheer scope of people they can reach. If all you ever do is talk to people in person and share your experience using limited communication mediums, you haven’t much hope of becoming an expert. Take what you know and show other people through blogging, and you might be surprised how people change their perception of you in time.
Reporting Is A Stepping Stone
If your previous experience and expertise is from an area you want to leave behind or you are starting from “scratch”, then reporting is the path you must walk, at least for the short term.
Reporting is a lot of fun. Interviewing experts, talking about what other people are doing and just being part of a community is not a bad way to blog. In many cases people make a career of reporting (journalism is about just that), but if you truly want success and exponential results, at some point you will have to stand up and proclaim yourself as someone unusually good at something and then proceed to demonstrate it over and over again.
Have patience and focus on what you do to learn and then translate that experience into lessons for others, and remember, it’s okay to be a big fish in a small pond, that’s all most experts really are.
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Sunday, January 4, 2009
Three Categories of Internet Marketing to Consider
And as 2009 dawns, the prospects for making money online through Internet marketing have never been brighter. While much of the offline world languishes through the Great Recession, those doing business online will still see growth this year with more people making money online through Internet marketing than ever before!
In terms of starting a business online, your first choice has to be what area of Internet marketing you want to begin with. For all intents and purposes, their are three different main categories to consider…
The easiest, and usually quickest way to start making money online is Affiliate Marketing.
This is usually the first step for Internet marketing since you don’t need your own products, can get started with a very low investment, and can often start bringing in the first profits in a relatively short time. To start affiliate marketing, a blog, an autoresponder and a method to collect opt-in subscribers is usually all that’s required at first.Next up is Mainstream Internet Marketing, which is best described as teaching people to market online, and selling them the tools and resources to accomplish this.
But be warned - this is probably the most competitive area of doing business online, and you’re competing directly with people who are expert marketers both online and offline.Starting an Internet marketing business requires expertise - either your own or some purchased - such as products with resell rights or materials you outsource (have ghostwritten for you). And again, you’ll need a blog, an autoresponder to send out your e-zine and e-courses, and at least one, though probably many, websites.
The third option, Niche Marketing, is usually the next step for those starting out with affiliate marketing, but you can choose to start off with it too.
Niche marketing refers to specializing in products - tangible goods or digital downloads - that appeal to people in one specific niche, or area of interest. Popular niches to market to include travel, pets, health & fitness, kids, music, sports, etc.If you have a hobby or passtime you love, chances are you’ll stay more interested and motivated with your niche marketing than if you pick a field you know little about or have no great interest in. Again you can create or purchase your products to sell online, and the main tools to start out with are the same - your blog and autoresponder, plus a site or salespage and lead-capture pages.
Take a bit of time to research each of the three areas, then decide on your initial area of focus and jump right in. There are a great number of us earning a comfortable living online through Internet marketing, and our ranks are growing daily… Shouldn’t YOU be pursuing your dreams and working toward YOUR dream lifestyle too?
More On Affiliate Marketing
Cost Per Sale (CPA)
A visitor referred by the Affiliate purchases goods and services from the Merchant. This payment structure is referred to as - cost-per-sale or cost per acquisition (CPA).
Cost Per Lead (CPL)
A visitor referred by the Affiliate completes a form on the Merchants website. This payment structure is referred to as - cost per lead (CPL).
Cost Per Click (CPC)
A visitor to the Affiliates website clicks on a Merchant's banner and visits the Merchant's website. This payment structure is referred to as - cost per click (CPC).
It's important to choose wisely. In some cases, an ad can be placed on an affiliate's website for months before a potential customer "clicks" or purchases something. If the commission is only pennies, this can lead to a frustrating relationship. Both the affiliate and the merchant are well advised to ensure the relationship will be mutually beneficial.
Affiliate marketing is considered one of the best ways to earn money online. If this is an avenue you wish to pursue, you'd be well advised to research each merchant thoroughly. After that, there's not much else to do except wait for the profits to roll in!