If you’re using Twitter to follow lots of people, there’s no way you want to visit each of their status pages to get the latest updates. What you need is a desktop application that automatically grabs the updates and displays them for you.
At the moment, I’m using TweetDeck, a cross-platform application that not only shows the updates, but also allows you to group them in multiple ways. Search through and filter the updates, then respond right in the main screen
Don’t you hate it when you’ve worked for hours on an article or sales page and you’re surfing the net when…WHAM! There’s your hard work on someone else’s site! You may have even paid for the work and some joker has just up and stolen it.
I can’t help you put the beat down on the thief, but I can show you how to find out sooner when this happens. Using Copyscape, you can search for website plagiarism and duplicate content that matches your web page.
As an affiliate marketer, it’s hard to stand out in a crowd of “me too!” promotions for the latest products. You’re questioning, “How do I get noticed with all of the ‘noise’ from other marketers?”
Calvin Woon and company feel your pain and have made it possible for you to unleash the power of video in your affiliate promotions. Each month they develop 5 videos for the latest, hot-selling products—and you have access to them with your free membership.
SearchStatus is a great way to show the Google PageRank, Alexa rank and Compete ranking of websites you visit anywhere in your browser, along with a fast keyword density analyser, keyword/nofollow highlighting, backward/related links, Alexa info and more.
Add in SeoQuake to show similar data in search engine listings and SEOpen for additional tools and you’ll have a powerful trio of SEO plug-ins for research and optimization.
Using a rebrander to allow affiliates to insert their links into your e-book can be a painful process. Your affiliate has to download your PDF and a branding application, then run the program, fill in all the blanks, and generate a new PDF. And the branding application is Windows-only, leaving your Mac-using affiliates out in the cold.
However, Ultimate Rebrander eliminates all of the hassle of a branding application. You set up a web page for your affiliates to fill out a form, then Ultimate Rebrander creates a new PDF on-the-fly. Follow this link, then scroll down the page for the free Ultimate Rebrander.
Do you know how many visitors your website got from your latest e-mail campaign? Or how many leads you sent to that affiliate offer? If you’re not tracking your marketing, you’re wasting time and money.
HyperTracker’s offering a free, 14-day trial of their service, but after expiration of the trial you can convert your account to a limited free version that will work well for users with a single product or who only need to track affiliate referrals.
I was recently looking for a WordPress template for one of my sites, so I Googled “free wordpress theme”—boy, there are a lot of options out there. Many of them aren’t all that good looking, though.
After what seemed like hours of searching, however, I was able to find several sources (here, here, and here) with dozens or even hundreds of great designs, all free for the taking. You’ll surely find a theme that will set you apart from the other “me, too!” sites out there.
With the passing of Michel Fortin’s copywriting forum, a new bulletin board for copywriters has come on the scene: The Copywriting Board. Less than two weeks old, the place is abuzz with activity as new and experienced marketers flock to it.
You’ll find chatter about copywriting in general; discussions on layout and design; and even a section where you can get a critique of your sales copy.
Where do you see information marketing going in 2009—and beyond? That’s the question asked of dozens of highly-successful marketers in this captivating audio series.
I myself was interviewed for the series and answered this question and offered my #1 success tip to one and all. As my subscriber, I want to give you the entire series—with master resale rights (normally $397)—completely free, because your listening to the series will help you follow my #1 success tip.
One of my favorite weekly pastimes is to curl up next to the fire, turn on the ol’ Internet radio, and listen to Markus Allen tell grand stories about the Web. Seriously, Markus Allen’s weekly Stump Markus “talkcast” is something I rarely miss. And even when I do, he keeps the episodes around for a while so I can catch up.
I’m not just recommending that you listen weekly; no, you should click over right now to listen to last week’s episode (#35), because it’s got a great section on how to pick a Clickbank product to promote and another informative website makeover session you won’t want to miss.