What is the secret behind creating insanely great business presentations? In this excellent presentation by Businessweek’s Carmine Gallo, some of Stve Jobs’ secrets are revealed.
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Facebook is currently the second most popular website in the world, after Google. 50% of the 400 million account holders log in every day. Whatever business you’re in, many of your customers and potential customers are using Facebook, and it would be short-sighted to ignore it.
Here’s a short slide presententation I presented at a local Inner Circle meeting earlier [...] Continue Reading…
If you’re just getting started in the affiliate marketing business, you might want to check out what Tiffany Dow is doing. She’s written a free report and created some videos which explain a simple, workable plan to build a passive income stream over the course of this year. If you follow the plan diligently, there is very little chance [...] Continue Reading…
One of the strengths of WordPress is that it can be easily adapted to meet a wide range of different needs. As I write this, there are over 7800 plugs available in the WordPress Plugin Directory.
This is the “official” plugin repository, and there are probably another couple of thousand plugins available which are not listed here.
The plugins which are [...] Continue Reading…
Writing product reviews is a popular way to make money online. The process is straight forward:
1. Choose a product you feel comfortable promoting. There is a lot of rubbish out there, so it’s always best for choose something you’ve actually used yourself, and that you would be happy to recommend to your friends.
2. Create a web page or a [...] Continue Reading…
If you haven’t heard that ‘the money’s in the list’, you’ve led a very sheltered life.
The very first Internet marketing course I bought told me to “Get their first name, last name and email address”. Of course, if I’d done that from day one, I’d be in the pound seats today!
From the very beginning, you should be getting [...] Continue Reading…
Now that you have your WordPress blog installed, you’ll want to change the theme to one that’s a bit less bland than the default Kubrick theme.
Kubrick is not that bad, but it screams out, “Golly, I just didn’t have time to do any work on my site”.
For affiliate sites, you really want a theme that doesn’t get in [...] Continue Reading…
Now that you’ve sorted out your domain name and hosting, and you’ve chosen a product to promote, you’ll need to create a website.
Actually, that’s not strictly true. You can sell affiliate products without having your own website. One way to do this is with (free or paid) online advertising. You would simply use your affiliate link in your advertisements, [...] Continue Reading…
Choosing a web hosting company is one of the more important things you’ll have to do when you’re setting up an online business.
Not all hosting companies are created equal – there are vast differences in the areas that count, like service, performance, responsiveness and so on.
There are ways to make sure that you choose the right hosting company from [...] Continue Reading…
Make Money From Your Email Marketing Service
I’m not a great fan of multi-level marketing. Most of my exposure has been to American ‘biz-ops’ which sell expensive physical products – cosmetics, toothpaste, milkshakes and so on – at ridiculously inflated prices. The business opportunity often seems to be much more important than the product itself, and it always seems to me that you’re building someone else’s business rather than your own.
So I was a bit leery when I was approached about an email service provider called TrafficWave. The company has been around for 10 years, and they have an affiliate program which uses a network marketing strategy. The product is basically an autoresponder – a service which is needed by pretty much every business on the planet (even if they don’t know it yet.)
What makes TrafficWave different is that it’s competitively priced. The basic monthly cost is the same as the autoresponder services I’ve been using up to now – the ones that are recommended by all the Internet Marketing ‘gurus’ until they can afford one of the $500 a month CRM products. What what makes TrafficWave really stand out is that they charge that same flat rate – regardless of how many subscribers you add to your list.
This is what TrafficWave says about the number of subscribers you can have: “Each AutoResponder will hold and manage an unlimited number of contacts. Whether your list is just a few dozen subscribers, hundreds, thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, your TrafficWave.net AutoResponder can handle it!”
The company has been around since 2000, and they offer a 30-day free trial (no credit card required.) Their affiliate program works on a tiered matrix basis, and once you sign up three active members, the autoresponder service is effectively free.
I found the autoresponder system very easy to use. It doesn’t have all the ‘bells and whistles’ of some of the other services, but if you need a basic, inexpensive autoresponder, it’ll do the job.
If you’re interested in the ‘business opportunity’ side of things, you can get free training and support from Insomnia Marketing Group (IMG.) These guys do daily webinars on every aspect of the TrafficWave system, and on the system they’ve developed to promote it on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube and MySpace. They also have a 24/7 Skype channel where you can ask questions and interact with other team members. What’s most interesting about IMG is that everything they do is free – as long as you’re an active member of TrafficWave.
Even if you’re not interested in the TrafficWave business opportunity, the IMG training will help you to promote any business on the social media sites, because what it’s really about is making friends and engaging with them. After all, what use are 2000 friends if you never interact with them? IMG shows you how to do this and how to promote your product without ever selling them anything.
Find out more about IMG and TrafficWave