This is typical of Jon. He creates a great application but never stops working on it and never stops taking notice of the feedback from his users.

You may well buy an application from him but it’s not what you’ll end up with! It will change over time getting better and better and with more features as he thinks of them or they are suggested to him by users.

Anyway, back to today’s update. Jon has just put up a new video of Instant Article Factory showing the latest features the main one of which is integration with another product of his The Best Spinner.

If you’re not familiar with The Best Spinner you really should check it out. Article spinners have been a hotch potch over the years and whilst there have been some pretty good ones of late, I own a couple of them, bought before TBS came out and now abandoned, TBS takes it all to a new level entirely.

It’s impossible to tell you how good it is without sounding hypie! I would urge you to check out the video on it here. TBS gives you the ability of really capitalising on all the hard work you put into writing articles whilst the Instant Article Factory takes away the hard work.

Imagine writing a 350 word review in under 5 minutes! No need to imagine it any more, it’s now a reality! Check out my previous post for a sample.

OK, integration with TBS is just one of the new features and rather than try and tell you about all of the others just go to the Instant Article Factory and watch the video you’ll be glad you did, honest!

Instant Article Factory isn’t available until until next Monday 12th July 2010 and at that time it’s available at a 45% discount for just 5 days. If you need to write articles or produce any kind of content for blogs or websites then you need to at least look at Instant Article Factory.

Article writing software has come of age!

So, forgive me if you know this already. It occurred to me that this might be a useful tip for you if you are selling things as an affiliate.

We’ve all heard, I’m sure, about link cloaking and software packages that are available to cloak links, truth is you don’t need them.

There are many ways of cloaking your links for free.

The first one, which I have used often is to enclose your affiliate link in a php file and place it on your website. Here’s the code you need

<?php $URL=”https://paydotcom.com/r/80713/scraggz/22695654/“;
header (“Location: $URL”);
exit();
?>

All you need do is paste your affiliate link between the ” “, save it with a recognisable name and upload it to your website.

My preferred method is to create a folder for whatever the offer is on my website, put the php file in there and rename it to index.php. Then I can advertise a link like this http://stancraigie.com/answer/

This hides your affiliate link in the first place but when someone clicks on it, it will show in the address bar of the site to which it takes them and 9 times out of 10 will reveal your affiliate link.

So if you want to hide it at that stage as well here’s a free method that I’ve been using for quite some time. Sign up at http://offto.net it’s totally free. There you can cloak your link for free. Not only that but it also tracks the clicks for you and by assigning a nickname you can create several versions of the link, each to track a different campaign. Something like this http://offto.net/scraggz_5164/

The only drawback I’ve found with this service is that you can’t use the links in Aweber or probably any email or email service as, thanks to some of the jugheads who decided this was a great way to spam people, the site is on several blacklists. Offto works at preventing this but as you can imagine it’s a huge task. So, I only use it in the php example or in the background on websites, purely for the tracking statistics that it offers.

Personally I don’t like the look of that link particularly, so I combine the two methods and put the offto link into a php file where the affiliate link goes. When they arrive at the merchants site they will see the offto link which just looks like one of those url shrinkers no hint of what the affiliate link is. A lot of people will still guess that it is an affiliate link though.

Now I could get started here on why people object to buying things through an affiliate link, it’s a weird bit of psychology and I could rant on about it for ages but I won’t. Unfortunately it’s a fact of life, well a fact of the internet that we have to hide the fact that we are an affiliate. With the FTC’s new rules we now have to declare the fact that we may possibly make some money out of it before people click on the link anyway. So they know we’re an affiliate which leaves me totally confused and wondering, sometimes, if it’s all worth it! Yes, it is!

So do we still need to hide the affiliate links? I believe so, for one they look better and more professional and people will still try and change the link to theirs and steal your commissions which is harder to do if they can’t see them.

I have yet another method which I think is really neat and for this one you don’t even need a website! I only found out about this one recently and it’s so good that you can appear to have as many websites as you want. I know of one person who appears to have 3,000 of them!

The site is cjb.net. On the initial screen just enter your affiliate link into the box and it will create a standard type shortened url like http://abk8o.cjb.net. Why you would want to use that when on the next screen it gives you the option to create a custom url like this http://bloghatter.cjb.net. The extra added bonus of this is when anyone clicks on that link, this is the address that appears in the address bar on the merchant’s site. It appears like it’s your site. Click it and see, it’s brilliant.

Although you don’t need a website for this you do need an email address but then who doesn’t have one of those and if you don’t, just go to Yahoo, Gmail, Hotmail or any one of the hundreds of free email services out there.

Just imagine how many virtual sites you could have all linking to affiliate products.

So , to cloak your links there’s three easy free methods which work really well. I hope you’ve found these tips useful.

Feel free to comment on them or, even better, if you have some good ones of your own I’d love to hear about them.

Watch out for my next post in which I list some of my favourite tools.

I’m not taking anything away from Kim’s IPD, it’s still a great product but this new one is something else!

It’s the Niche Profit Classroom by Alen Sultanic and Adam Short and I’ve not seen anything like it in the last two to three years.

I signed up a few days ago and have spent most of the time since watching their videos. There is so much great information in there that it’s hard to tear yourself away.

I thought I knew a lot about niche marketing, I know a helluva lot more now and I’ve only scratched the surface of the information in there.

I’m finding it really difficult to describe this because anything I say is going to sound like hype BUT it really is amazing.

If you’ve ever struggled to pick a niche and great keywords for it or struggled to create a highly optimised site and get highly targeted FREE traffic to it then, seriously, you need to look at this.

AND for another couple of more days you can check it all out for just $1, yes ONE DOLLAR!

You can check out a couple of videos here Niche Profit Classroom Video

It’s not just the 400+ videos of pure, nothing-held-back, step by step instruction on how to generate income online, or the 5 amazing pieces of software you instantly get access to, or the buzzing community with like-minded people who are there for you when you need them.

It’s all this plus

- The MoneyWord Matrix Keyword Tool – Yep, better than about 99% of the keyword tools out there, automatically pinpoints the sweetspot keywords, high search volume low competition.

- Market Scorecard – Tells you if a market and product is going to be profitable, before you even consider going into the market. Let your competitors burn dollars on losing markets while you cherry pick the profit pulling markets.

- Market Profiler – Let’s you *Profile* a market and know exactly who’s doing what. You get a bird’s eye view of the entire market in a single snapshot.

- Market Checklist – Lets you milk every single dollar out of the market (you don’t miss a beat when it comes to generating profits online with this tool).

- 15 Minute Sales Letter Wizard – Let’s you create a converting sales letter in minutes…yes minutes…and it’s better than what most *professional* copywriters would charge you an arm and a leg for.

- How to to create a whole profit producing info-product line for pennies on the dollar (70% less than anyone else is paying). Plus these products are such high quality that your customers will be practically begging to buy more stuff from you. This gives you a HUGE advantage over every single one of your competitors.

- How to cherry pick the most profitable markets out there (using information that other companies spend millions of dollars to collect – that you can use for FREE). You just have to know where to get it..

- How to tap into an unlimited source of FREE traffic from the search engines and slip right under the radar so that *NO ONE* has a clue as to how much you’re really raking in.

- How to set all this on autopilot so that that the *ONLY* thing you have to do is check sales and collect profits (you don’t even have to spend a single minute on customer service).  Plus, a little place to ‘outsource’ your customer service that all the gurus use, yet none talk about…

If you’ve been struggling at any level, if you’re only just getting started or wanting to get started this is the one product that will get you there. If this doesn’t do it then nothing will.

There are a lot of great products out there but they all leave you, in the end, to do it on your own. This one holds your hand every step of the way. I know that I’m going to be successful with it.

Niche Profit Classroom

As we all know the single most important factor in getting your site ranked is backlinks. However, we also know there are backlinks and then there are backlinks. Some are worth a lot more than others!

That really translates to the higher the page rank of the site linking to your site then the more valuable that link is in Google’s eyes.

To get to the point, Chris Rempel ‘The Lazy Marketer’ has just brought out a piece of software that gives you the ability to locate those sites and place your links on them.

This is the most powerful – and simple – linking software and it’s just gone LIVE…

It’s phenomenal.

It lets you place your link on thousands of MAJOR authority sites, who would otherwise NEVER do so without this “exploit”…

Check it out here: The Authority Loophole

Oh – and I think you’ll like the price

Short post but that’s it, all the info you need is on the link page you’d be mad not to check this one out!

Why I never made a post about it, I don’t know! Too many things on the go I guess.

Anyway, it was leading up to the launch of his latest project which, as the title suggests is called Resell Rights Fortune. I know what you’re thinking, so what, there’s tons of resell rights products and sites out there, yeah?

Well, honestly not like this one. Socrates has built a database of just about every resell rights and PLR product out there so that you can search for what you want by title, subject whatever. This means you can find the product you’re looking for in seconds and be on your way.

That’s great on it’s own but Socrates has included tons of extras all aimed at you maximising your use of the products.

If you didn’t get to see the first two videos, both of which exposed incredibly easy ways to build your list and make money in the process. Then go to this page which has a sneak peak tour of Resell Rights Fortune and you can access those early videos in the right hand sidebar.

These first two videos could easily be sold for a substantial price, they really do contain great, usable information from which you can easily profit.

Now, the thing is, Resell Rights Fortune is still in pre-launch until 16th June and is discounted until then.

So, if you are ever considering using resell rights or PLR products in the future now is the time to get in or pay more in a few days time.

If you’ve seen the videos or just want to see the whole package then head over to Resell Rights Fortune before it’s too late.

Why I Love Affiliate Marketing – Part 2

By Jimmy D. Brown of “Affiliatenaire”

Pop quiz time. What does “HTML” stand for? Don’t know that one? How about this – what does “FTP” stand for? OK, one more chance. Do you know how to work with either?

That brings me to the second reason why I love affiliate marketing…

** You don’t need to build a website **

What scares people more than creating a product is building a website!

•  What in the world is HTML? Or FTP?
•  How much does the software cost? And hosting?
•  How do I upload files?
•  Why isn’t it formatted correctly?
•  Why don’t my graphics look like the ones the pros have?

If you are a complete beginner, it can be very difficult (even using templates) to get an attractive website in place.  And hiring a professional to do it fo ryou is out of the budget for most people.

But, with affiliate marketing, you don’t need to build a website. You simply send visitors to someone else’s professionally designed site through your affiliate link.

SIDEBAR: Just in case you’re interested, HTML stands for “hypertext markup language” and is the coding used to build webpages. FTP stands for “file transfer protocol” and is the process used for moving files from your computer to a website, or vice versa.

Really, in a manner of looking at it, you get to take advantage of the time and money invested by someone else to develop the site. Think about it: when you promote an
affiliate link, it reflects firstly upon YOU. You are the one who is advertising the link, recommending the product, sending people who have interacted with YOU to the website.

The professional site of someone else really represents you as the promoter, in the eye of those who have clicked through your link.

You get the benefits without the bother.

That’s why I love affiliate marketing.

You don’t need to build a website.

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Jimmy D. Brown is the author of “Affiliatenaire”, teaching you how to create big-time affiliate commission checks in only 1-3 hours each week. Discover how you can get cash in
the bank without a website, experience or even an idea!

For more information visit http://freeinfo-zone.com/affpay/

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Why I Love Affiliate Marketing – Part 1

By Jimmy D. Brown of “Affiliate Payraise”

Do you find yourself “starting” to create your own product to sell online, but never finishing” it?

One of the things I love about affiliate marketing is –

** You don’t need to create your own products **

Many people find the idea of creating their own products to be an overwhelming and even paralyzing task.

•  I don’t have any good ideas!
•  I’m not a writer!
•  There’s too much competition!
•  I don’t know how to set everything up!
•  I can’t figure out where to start!
•  It’s too hard!

These are just a few of the valid reasons many people give when it comes to not creating their own products to sell. I’m sure with a few minutes of brainstorming, we could come
up with a list of many more.

With affiliate marketing, you don’t need your own products. You simply promote someone else’s already proven successful offer for a commission.

And, truth be told, even if you ARE a writer and you DO have lots of ideas and you CAN figure it all out…

** Nobody wants to create new products all the time **

As good as you may be, you don’t know everything!  Why try to create a product on every topic imaginable in your market when you can earn just as much money by simply
promoting someone else’s really good offer as one of your profit streams?

That’s why I love affiliate marketing.

You don’t need to create your own products.
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Jimmy D. Brown is the author of “Affiliate Payraise”, teaching you a whopping 27 ways to increase your affiliate commissions! Tired of “tiny” commission checks?  Grab your copy today at… http://freeinfo-zone.com/affpay/
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Oh yeah! I was talking about stolen commissions and affiliates in the first half of this post.

Do you like sneaky? I like sneaky! Not black hat or anything nasty, just sneaky.

I’m referring to the use of iframes to link to other peoples products. Using iframes totally hides where the link has come from. It does way more than just that though.

With an iframe you basically display the target site within your page this means that you can put your own page title with keywords of course. Talking of keywords you can also put your own keywords into the page and therefore go after your own ranking in the SERPs.

See why I say this is way more than just simple cloaking. There’s no way you could hope to rank for a normal cloaked link and with an iframe no one would even guess that it was an affiliate link.

I’m now going to contradict myself and tell you about another free service for cloaking your links! Why would I do that when I’ve just pointed you to a better way?

Well, this one has a couple of useful advantages that don’t relate to affiliate type links. It’s similar to the old tinyurl in that it shortens your links. It’s also reputed to help with backlinks, never a bad thing.

Where I use it mostly is in emails to my list and in Twitter posts. You need to keep things short in Twitter.

So what is it? It’s a new service from Jonathan Leger. How does he keep coming up with stuff? Offto.net is his latest brainchild. Here’s an example of a link http://offto.net/rufolx/  which just happens to take you to offto.net to find out more, all totally free!

Just drifting off subject for a minute with the mention of Twitter. I have been on Twitter for a while but I’m still not sure that I get it!

I’ve read a few books. listened to a few people so I guess I’ve covered it all but I still don’t quite get it. It seems a bit like a free for all. Like the traffic exchanges where you have to look at everyone else’s links and everyone else looks at your links and you hope  someone clicks on them.

Everyone’s putting links in Twitter with the same hope. Apart from a few people with big reputations and big lists already I don’t think it happens. Still, I suppose, you’ve got to be in it!

On the subject of getting ranked in the SERPs, it’s a well known fact that Wordpress blogs get ranked a lot easier than normal sites, Google likes ‘em.

It therefore makes sense to use Wordpress to create your sites instead of standard HTML. I’ve been doing this for a while with some good results but in keeping with not wanting to re-invent the wheel and tell you how I do it, last week I found a really handy little guide to doing just that. Caroline Middlebrook has produced this free guide and you can get it from her site at http://www.caroline-middlebrook.com/blog/.

While we’re on Wordpress I just found a salespage theme for it. It’s template driven and you can create a very professional looking salespage in minutes at $5 it’s cheap as chips.

Without ANY knowledge of HTML you can quickly get one of the 8 styles of the salesletter on your blog. The theme is done very professionally and has lots of nice, neat design elements. You can see it here: http://offto.net/09jiak

Well, this half of the post has gone on a bit as well! I’m sure I’ve given you lots to look at and be going on with. I’ve got a few more but I’ll leave those for next time.

If you have any useful tips or tools you found I’d be glad to hear about them so feel free to post a comment. It’ll get you a backlink and every little helps.

I can’t say that it was the most productive ever but it came pretty close. What it was exceptionally good for was the discovery of tons of free tools that are going to take my business to the next level. And, I want to share them with you! So, grab a drink and sit back there’s quite a bit.

First up. We’re all aware that one of the most critical factors in getting you’re site ranked is backlinks. Generally it’s not easy. It needs you to contact, basically, your competitors in your market and request that they link to you’re site. Very time consuming and frustrating ‘cos you’ll not get replies and you’ll get knock backs.

You can join a service like Linkvana which is excellent but expensive, $147 a month I believe.

What if you could get Linkvana for free? Well, you can’t but you can get something which is practically the same, for free. I’ve never used Linkvana so I can’t say this is identical but I’m told it’s very similar.

The Free Traffic System. Totally free, no hidden costs, no OTOs. It works like an article directory except that your articles are posted on relevant co-operating blogs with your links in your keyword anchor text. There are two links per article and this can get you up to 60 backlinks for each article and no limit on how many articles you submit. Pretty cool, huh?

There’s a lot more to it than that but that gives you the basic idea. Go here and get into it!

Next. Even if you are not into article marketing and you should be, we all have to produce content. Now the duplicate content debate will go on forever, whichever side of it you’re on it can’t hurt to vary your content. I have two tools that will help you with this one free and I’m afraid the other one will cost you a bit, not a lot.

To easily compare content there is a fantastic free tool – Dupefree Pro – I can’t believe this is free, it’s a very classy piece of software.

It’s all for free, get it here Dupefree Pro.com.

Now here’s the one you are going to want to get your wallet out for. Magic Article Re-Writer. As the name suggests it helps you re-write articles, duh! I know, most of them are crap and I’ve shied away from them in the past also, despite having paid over $100 in some cases. I refunded them. One would have been good but it would have taken about a year before it was useful as you had to build your own thesaurus over time!

This one you can use straight out of the box and intelligently re-write/spin content in minutes, up to a 1000 copies! I’m not sure about that, it could be more but who cares, would you want that many copies? It produces good English no more crappy grammar.

I said I was busy last week, this piece of software is one of the reasons, I’ve been re-writing content and spinning articles like crazy. It really is brilliant and not expensive.

There’s the usual money back guarantee so there’s no risk. Seriously, you have to try it, – Magic Article Re-Writer.

This post is going on a bit and I’ve still got more, quite a bit in fact, so I’m going to take a break, grab a coffee, go to the can, too much information? OK, delete that bit. I’ll be back a bit later and carry on in the next post.

You will not want to miss it. If you operate as an affiliate the next tool will knock your socks off! Ever had commissions stolen? Yeah sure, you’ve heard of cloakers etc. but not like this. This one can also help your ranking in the search engines!

Tune in later, you won’t be disappointed!

OK, it wasn’t a huge list to start with but never the less you’ve got to be happy with that. I am!

So how did it happen, bearing in mind that it didn’t cost me a cent?

No big secret really, it was a giveaway. I signed up, contributed a gift and the optins followed.

At the moment there are a ton of giveaways on the go. Ordinarily you’d think that they’d be full of the same old stuff. It’s true that some of the same products pop up in all of them, mine will.

I’m going to make the most of this while I can because as everyone knows if you want to really make it on the internet, business wise, you need a list! Although everyone kept saying that, it took a long time for it sink in with me but the last couple of months have proved it’s true beyond any doubt. You need a list!

It goes a little further than that though, in that having a list is how you reach the people you are trying to help.

This is really the subject for another post but briefly your list is the group of people you are trying to help, not just bleed money out of. You make money when you help others with what they want or need. No deep philosophy there, it’s just the way the World works.

So back to the giveaways. As I said there are a lot on the go and I really recommend you get into them. I’ve listed a few that I have checked out and they have a good variety of good products on offer. There’s software, ebooks, templates, graphics, videos….all sorts of stuff.

I want you to be able to take part as a contributor. For that you need a product. It doesn’t have to be your own, anything that you have giveaway rights for can be used.

It’s better if you have your own for obvious reasons. You won’t be competing with someone else with the same product. It’s not hard to do that, rework a PLR product it’s really not that hard and shouldn’t take that long. Open Office is free and you can open word documents in it and output them as PDF’s.

Turn a PLR PDF into a slide show, make the slide show into a video and give that away. It will definitely be yours and unique. Again Open Office has a Powerpoint type app that creates slideshows. You can get a free copy of Camtasia 3 here. It’s not the latest version but it works fine. In fact it’s the version I’m still using.

Anyway, here are the giveaways:

Back To Basics Giveaway

I really like this one. It’s being run by Scott Case and Scott has stipulated that all products for the giveaway have to be less than six months old. So no chance of it being full of old rehashed stuff. Last I heard there were over 200 products. It starts on the 6th April.

100% Giveaway

Another great givaway. This one runs until 20th April. The link above will take you to the contributors signup if you just want to join to get free stuff go here.

Easter Giveaway

Some really good packages in here too. This is open until the 21st April. Again if you want to sign up as a contributor use the link above, otherwise you can just join here.

I’ll leave it at those for now. Try and join as a contributor, with a unique product if you can. It really is a great way to increase your subscribers.

I bought this product a couple of days ago because I’m always open to new ways of market research. In the past I’ve bought tons of information on this subject most of which has been the same old stuff with the odd extra little bit.

In truth I’ve spent a small fortune on it. Being the perpetual optimist I keep believing and looking for that product that will give me more. I always knew there had to be more to it than I’d already seen. This time I believe I’ve struck gold!

Kim Roach, a lady from Kentucky has come up with the most complete method of getting going on line from start to finish, especially if you’re just starting out. I wish I’d had this a couple of years ago!

Now, I only mentioned market research but that’s just the start of it, throw in Squeeze pages, Traffic, Link Building and Email Marketing. 30 Videos and a 182 page instruction manual.

I’ll let Kim explain it to you, she can do it a whole lot better than I, just press play

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So far I’ve only watched the first 2 videos on market research and I’ve already learned a heap of new techniques. I’ve also watched the first traffic video and ditto, picked up so many new great ideas.

This is either stuff, the so called gooroo’s have been keeping quiet or Kim is just brilliant. ‘Course I may just be a bit slow and some of you may have figured some of this stuff out but I now know a helluva lot more than I did after just 10% of the content.

There is one drawback to this. There is so much stuff that you will have to watch the videos over and over to get it all to sink in.

Now I didn’t tell you this but if you exit the sales page you’ll pick up a discount, shhhsh! I had heard that the discount was to finish a few days ago but when I just checked it’s still there. Kim also offers her 8 week ‘Love It Or Shove It!’ money back guarantee, you cannot lose! You owe it to yourself to try this, really, it’s the best thing I’ve seen, ever!

I’m off to watch some more videos.

Trouble is, there’s so much else to do! Checking stats, tweaking sites, planning new videos, keyword research, product research, finding content, creating content, checking emails! Then there’s actually putting it all together.

On top of all that, you/we/I have planned, are new things that you/we/I come across. When I say new I don’t necessarily mean new, new, just something I haven’t seen before.

Anyway, I came across this ‘new’ thing the other day, it’s actually, probably been sitting on my hard drive for a year or more. It’s a set of videos about making money through Google Trends. I might be preaching to the educated here but I’d never looked at Google Trends from this perspective before.

It’s actually quite a fun thing to do, very quick, on average takes about 20 minutes.

The seven videos take you through what Google Trends is, creating a quick blog, creating/getting content, monetizing it, getting traffic, move on to the next one.

As I say it’s a bit of fun as well, as it’s so quick. You can go from just surfing the net to surfing the waves of the search trends! If you’d like to try it you can check it out here:

Profiting From Daily Trends

I was going to write some more here about ‘Can You Really Make Money on the Internet?’ But, as I will probably go on about that for a while and it’s important enough to be on it’s own, I’ll post about that later, separately.

Hence the long collection title of this post.

 First thing. I just posted a new video to the member’s area at http://gimpvideos.com. It’s not an epic just a quick guide to where the disappearing menus from the toolbox in Gimp 2.6 went. Now when you move up to 2.6 you should be able find everything.

Next – Brad Callen (of Keyword Elite), is offering at *NO-COST* one of the most powerful pieces of software imaginable to find out what “keywords” Adwords users are bidding on. (I explain why further down)

You can do the following with this free tool:

1. You’ll be able to quickly and easily uncover any Google Adwords advertiser’s keywords in only a few seconds

2. You’ll be able to see critical Adwords data relating to each keyword:

- The actual Adwords ads your competitors have written for each keyword

- The Cost Per Click

- Your competitor’s Adwords rank

- The total daily amount your competition is spending on Google Adwords

3. You can use PPC Web Spy to generate your own huge list of keywords based upon any of the individual keywords your competition is using.

4. You can also generate a giant, targeted keyword list by inputting your competitor’s domain name, allowing you to build an even larger, more targeted keyword list!

5. You’ll be able to immediately see which Adwords advertisers are people promoting products from CB, PDC, and Amazon.com.

6. You’ll even be able to see the landing pages.

7. This all happens seamlessly while you are in Google search!

http://learn-graphics.net/PPCWebSpy

Why is this no-cost?

I’ll tell you the reason Brad did this.  He has the most amazing *viral* upgrade I think I’ve ever seen.

Apparently, those that upgrade for only $47, will always have THEIR AFFILIATE LINKS for Amazon, Clickbank, and PayDotCom products pop up at the top of Google Search. This happens whenever the person who downloaded the software from you does a search for ANYTHING.

(Bottom line, if the person you give the free software to (or someone else in the downline) buys a Clickbank, Amazon, or Paydotcom product, you may very likely get the sale.. leaving you with huge passive income potential)

I can also confirm that this does work on a Mac – OSX 10.4.11 + Firefox 3.0.5

I bought the $47 upgrade on the spot.. BUT the free tool is worth $97 or more in itself!

Watch the video explainers (both for the free product and for the viral upgrade)

http://learn-graphics.net/PPCWebSpy

Thirdly, if you really can’t be bothered mastering graphics software to create your own graphics but still want to or need to, there is an easier FREE option.

It’s Instant Banner Creator. You can create banners, buttons, headers, footers, animated GIF’s and Peel away ad graphics. There are some OTO’s, the last one is pretty good value and gives you access to a lot more. The free version is adequate for most circumstances and you can upload your own designs ie. free graphics that most of us seem to accumulate, to add effects to, so it’s quite flexible.

You can grab a copy here http://banner.freeinfo-site.com

Finally I’ve put together a free ebook showing how to create a curved ebook cover using Gimp. Which, as you must all know is the free graphics software that rivals Photoshop. It’s not like the action scripts in Photoshop you have to actually do it but once you have your design in place it only takes about 10 minutes to turn it into a great looking curved cover with reflections and shadow. Yep, I show you how to do that too.

If you think about it there are techniques there that you can apply to all sorts of graphics projects as well. So feel free to grab the book, sign up at the link below for your free copy and you will be amazed and more than a little bit pleased with yourself when you see what you can produce.

http://gimpvideos.com/sub.html

Well, that’s all for this time. My New Year resolution is to try and be more regular with this blog and bring you more good stuff for 2009. Please don’t grade me on it but I will do my best.

Here’s wishing that 2009 is as good a year for you and yours as I wish it is going to be for me and mine.

Join a few lists, as we all must do and you inevitably get bombarded with lotsa emails.

Some of the people who were complaining about the scourge of email are now guilty of, as are others, of making the situation worse.

You may now receive an email referring you to their latest blog post which is at least a 500 word article, about 5 emails, or worse, referred to a video which is usually 15 to 18 minutes long!

Some blog posts are worth the reading and provide useful information, such as this one from Frank Haywood but you need to know the author or you could waste a few emails worth of time.

It woudn’t be so bad if the videos actually provided valuable content, which they all claim to do but very few deliver. They’re usually filled with 17 minutes of waffle, fluff and BS to get to the sales message at the end.

A sales message which could have been delivered in the email in about half a dozen lines without all the crap.

Video, in particular has been touted as the latest and greatest and it is when it’s used to impart real information, like tutorials, a quick product demonstration on a sales page or even a short, to the point sales video.

As you probably know I produce videos myself but I like to think they provide useful, valuable content on how to get up to speed with Gimp.

Just in case there is the slimmest chance that those responsible for these time wasting productions might see this, hey guys, you’re ruining video and annoying your lists, well, some of us anyway!

9 times out of 10 now, if I’m told there’s a video to watch I delete the email. They have to do a pretty good job in the email to get me to look at it.

Because of that I’ve missed out in the last couple of weeks of the opportunity to throw $1497, $1997 and $1997 at the latest big boys offerings! Tut tut, boo hoo!

They’ll say that’s my loss, is it? I wonder how many copies of that stuff will actually work for the buyers who get it? It would be interesting if it was at all possible to find out.

Anyway, got that off my chest, grumpy old bugger signing off!

I feel sick already!

We know it as a sickness where people are concerned or a really annoying and sometimes worse, disruption of computers that spreads like wildfire.

It’s that aspect of a virus that’s been turned to good use, the viral aspect, the ability to spread like wildfire. I’m sure you’ve of heard of the viral nature of ebooks and other products on the internet but it hasn’t always been that easy to get started. Well now it is!
Mike Filsaime and Rod Beckwith have designed a free programme around that concept called Butterfly Reports and I have a free report, One Into A Million, that you can download right now.

So, the answer to the question is ‘when it’s a free report from Butterfly Reports’.

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Well here’s the wake up! If you seriously want to build an internet business you are going to have to invest something. That includes, time, effort and I’m afraid money.

Now that’s not entirely true.

Confusing ain’t it?

Sure is. It all depends on how you want to approach it.

I initially told you that you could do it for free with Bum Marketing and Article Marketing and you can. But, Travis himself talks about sending visitors to a landing page for those article directories that won’t let you put in affiliate links.

If you are going to have landing pages you need web hosting, domain name(s), pages built or at least domain name forwarding.

If you are going to produce your own products from Private Label Right products you will need a source of those, usually a PLR membership site.

If you are going to get really serious you will need an auto-responder to service your list. Having a list is crucial to making an income on the net.

I could go on but this post would get very long.

For a long time I refused to accept that I had to commit to ongoing expenses but then realised what I was spending on each next best thing!

A few months ago I was introduced to a membership site which offers all of the above and more for less than $50 a month. It’s one of the best things I’ve ever found. Previously I had been spending way more than that a month buying things which are included in the membership at My Marketing Goldmine.

Here’s a list of some of the benefits.

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The amount of stuff in there is mind boggling, truly. It really is The One Stop Shop for marketing on the Internet. There’s a link to their site in the sidebar. They sometimes offer a behind the scenes tour for seven days so you can check it out without any obligation. In any event they offer the usual money back guarantee for the life of the membership. It will not only save you $100’s, maybe $1000’s it will also save you time and effort.