Unless you’re a politician, you probably think we’re in a recession: gas prices are through the roof, food prices are on the up, energy prices have risen, everything seems to cost more.
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Recession Rescue System Review
Saturday, August 16th, 2008Wordtracker Review – Keyword Research with Wordtracker
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008If you read almost any book on internet marketing, you’ll be told to research your keywords.
OK, but where to start and which keyword tools should you believe?
If the book you’re reading is old (or at least old in internet marketing terms), you’ll likely see a reference to Overture. This used to be Yahoo’s keyword tool but it is no longer around.
So you can use a free tool like Google’s keyword tool. Or you can use a paid-for service like Wordtracker.
Rising Dawn Marketing Review
Thursday, January 3rd, 2008Note: based on lack of product delivery for stuff I’ve ordered, I’d suggest that you avoid Richard Earl aka Danny Wall aka lots of other people.
Read more at the Warrior Forum. Take care!
Trev
$1k in 10 Days Review
Sunday, November 11th, 2007Note: based on lack of product delivery for stuff I’ve ordered, I’d suggest that you avoid Richard Earl aka Danny Wall aka lots of other people.
Read more at the Warrior Forum. Take care!
Trev
20/20 Challenge Review
Friday, October 5th, 2007The 20/20 Challenge is no longer available.
Take a look at my Affiliate Phenom review instead for a cheaper, more up to date idea.
Viral Sneakiness Review
Sunday, September 9th, 2007You’ve probably heard about viral marketing: you produce something that spreads around the internet so fast, it’s like a virus.
You may even have produced a viral “something”. Articles are a good example of viral marketing. So are videos on places like YouTube. But they don’t always spread as fast as you’d like.
Viral Sneakiness is an ebook that shows you how to create a viral report. Nothing too heavy – they suggest that it should be around 10 pages, which if you write at a couple of pages an hour will take you about 5 hours to write. Plus research time on top of that.
All in all, you can follow the techniques shown and have your first free viral report live and getting downloads in a few days. Maybe less – my first viral report following this method took me just over a day to produce, start to finish.
The book is an easy read and totally practical. It teaches you how to research your topic so that the report you write will be above average, even if you knew nothing about the topic before you started. Quality is important. If your report is rubbish, you won’t get any sales from it. And sales are the whole point of giving your report away for free.
Viral Sneakiness shows you how to weave affiliate links into your free report without them appearing spammy. They liken it to product placement in movies and that’s a good analogy.
They also give you a bunch of places to submit your finished report (like any list of this sort, not all these links are still live, but enough of them are) and other ideas for promoting your free report.
The promotion of my first report took less than an hour. I got my first download for it within a day. That’s pretty fast.
Once created and “promoted” like this, your report will gradually work its way round the internet. If you follow the advice in Viral Sneakiness, it should end up in free ebook collections and may well be given away on websites.
Overall, I think that Viral Sneakiness is one of the easiest ideas I’ve come across in a long time. The most difficult bit is writing the content but 10 pages or so really isn’t that hard and could be outsourced if you wanted to.
They miss out a couple of things that I’d include but to find out my thoughts on that, drop me an email here (this is an autoresponder email, so you’ll need to reply to the confirmation message that gets sent back to you).
Overall, so long as you’re prepared to actually do something (!), I recommend Viral Sneakiness.
Building An Ebook Empire Review
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007Building an Ebook Empire is a book by a writer called Tiffany Dow.
Until recently, Tiffany has been a ghost writer for many internet gurus. Until she decided that there was more money available by not being a writer who got paid once.
The book is no-nonsense and full of lots of tips and tricks. It doesn’t concentrate too much on how to write – the bonus book takes care of that. But then (relatively speaking) writing the product is the easy part. Especially if you hire in a ghost writer.
The biggest challenge with ebooks is promoting them. Go to Clickbank or eBay and you’ll see how many ebooks are in the market.
Tiffany covers promotion of your ebook, as well as the original keyword selection, in depth. Get either of these wrong and you’ve pretty much wasted your time. Get them right and you’ve got commissions flowing to you.
You could apply the tips and tricks in Building an Ebook Empire to your own work or to one of the many private label ebooks out there. Tiffany goes through the sales letter in depth – applying this to a PLR ebook could easily be the difference between making next to zero sales and selling a steady stream.
All in all, this is a good ebook. It’s practical, informative and, given Tiffany’s background, very close to having a private audience with some of the better known internet gurus as well.
Check out Building an Ebook Empire here.
Lazy Git Marketing Review
Thursday, May 10th, 2007Lazy Git marketing – what is it? OK, if you’re not from the UK then before you read on, you might want to know what “lazy git” means. Essentially it’s someone who does as little effort as possible for the (usually monetary) return they get back.
In this case, we’re talking about setting up basic web sites quickly and making money out of them whether or not they get traffic.
Which sounds too good to be true. After all, surely a site needs traffic before it can use methods like Adsense to earn money from visitors?
Not if you follow the methods described in this report…
Lazy Git Marketing is simple. You could set up a site from scratch using one of several different methods shown in about an hour.
But it’s not overnight riches. Once you’ve set the site up, you need to leave it alone. In much the same way as you wouldn’t expect a bottle of wine to be ready to drink the moment the grapes had been pressed.
That’s fine. It’s less than $10 a year to register a domain, so it’s unlikely to break the bank if you have to hold onto it for a few months until it can earn you money. Heck, if you’re like me, you’ve probably got several domains that have been gathering digital dust for longer than you’d care to admit, so having a few domains with content that stand to make you cash in the not too distant future is a bonus anyway.
If you’re impatient, the report will give you a couple of ways of getting sites that will start earning you money sooner. Or you may already have some domains lurking in your portfolio that this method could be applied to.
Lazy Git Marketing comes with a series of videos that explain each of the steps visually, which I found to be a help in a couple of instances.
There’s also a forum which is reasonably active and the author of the report responds quickly and helpfully to questions.
Check out Lazy Git Marketing. It makes a pleasant change from the “earn a fortune in the next 24 hours” kind of reports. This method is real world and is likely to remain so for some time to come.
Click here to find out more about Lazy Git Marketing.
Absolute Covers Review
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007I’ve used various different sources for ebook covers.
If I’m looking for a quick cover, then I’ll use Rentacoder. I’ve often had quite good ebook covers turned round in a few hours.
But if I’m looking for something that’s higher quality, then it’s time to use a full time graphic designer.
The last few ebook cover graphics I’ve had designed have been by Absolute Covers.
Check my Healthy Eating for Kids site to see the quality that’s delivered.
Absolute Covers aren’t the cheapest on the market. But the quality is high and the turnaround times are fast.
You get a choice of what’s included in your ebook cover package. This can be as simple as just the cover graphic or it can be more complicated, so you can go for a website header graphic, footer graphic, order button, etc.
Absolute Covers require you to set up an account before you can place an order, but once you’ve done that it’s plain sailing.
Choose the cover style – you can see on the Healthy Eating for Kids site I chose one that looks like a book. But there are plenty of other styles to choose from, including ones that look as though they’ve been ring bound and so on. If your product is software or audio, they also do CD and DVD covers with the CD or DVD poking out of the box if you want.
Pricing is quite reasonable and the interactive pricing system means that you will know what effect your various design decisions will have on the price before you commit to ordering.
Check out Absolute Covers now. Your site will look better for it.
Ad Box Pro Review
Saturday, April 28th, 2007Ad Box Professional sets out to make replacing Adsense adverts a simple process.
Cutting Google out of the advertising equation makes sense for your wallet – after all, why pay them to display adverts on your site when you can get their margin and the advertiser’s profit for yourself?
Installing Ad Box Pro is easy so long as you can cope with uploading a few files to your website and changing the “permission” on a few of those files. Any decent FTP program will do that.
You then set up the configuration for your adverts. This is a simple, fill in the boxes, process. You tell Ad Box Pro the password you want to use, where it’s installed (it’s not clever enough to work this out, but it’s a simple cut & paste operation from the address bar of your browser), and the default colors for your adverts. If you want to, you can also put a “Powered by Ad Box Pro” link at the end of each ad block, complete with your affiliate link.
After that, you need to create at least 6 adverts before you can create the ad boxes that will be displayed on your site.
Each ad is assigned a category of your choice, so you could install Ad Box Pro on just one domain and then point to it using a different category for each site.
You then need to enter a title, advert description, the link the advert will go to (called a “sell link”) and the URL that will be displayed (called “link text” rather than something obvious like “display URL”). There’s a box above where you enter the text, so you can see what each item is. Unlike Google’s system, the box doesn’t update as you change your advert.
That’s it. Your advert is complete. Repeat the process at least 6 times and you’re ready to display an advert.
Ad Box Pro has all the standard Google advert sizes to choose from. You can use the default colors you set in your configuration or you can change them before you generate the links to copy and paste into your web site.
Each advert size has it’s own small chunk of code that you simply copy and paste into your pages.
Once you’ve done that, any new adverts in the same category are automatically placed into the advertising rotation.
The process works seamlessly.
It took me about 30 minutes to get Ad Box Pro up and running. Most of that was getting the code from Clickbank and Commission Junction.
I especially like the way that you’re not as limited as you are with, say, Google Adwords. The title can be longer than 25 characters (it looks like the maximum is 40) and the text below it doesn’t have to fit into two rows. Ad Box Pro takes care of the text wrapping. It also cuts off your advert text if you get too carried away with what you’re writing, but that doesn’t take long to get used to.
If you’re looking for a quick, simple, profitable alternative to Adsense then I can recommend Ad Box Pro. I’ll be using it instead of Adsense on any new sites I develop and will gradually be changing over my older sites.