Traditional Means of Communication

Traditionally, marketing communications were conducted via print, broadcast and such traditional media through disruptive advertising, where advertisements appear in between the content of interest for the customer.

Traditional media does give a large reach to a marketer with its programming of mass appeal. However, the wastage is equally high, since a large portion of the audience would belong to a different segment than the one that is to be targeted by the marketer.

Enter Social Media and the Internet

The revolution stirred by the internet as a medium took place because of the fact that it is highly personalized and provides more content on-demand than any other available medium. Social sites proliferated far and wide in their usage for a few simple reasons:

The power to create and distribute content is equally available to every user, irrespective of him/her being a customer or a marketer. In the earlier forms of media, that power rested with the editorial staff of the channel or the advertiser, but hardly ever with the user.

The medium is completely personalized, and a user can create or join groups and further create content based on what he/she likes.

Opinions are free and fair. This is one reason why social media is of utmost concern to marketers, since buying decisions are no more influenced as much by advertisements. The traditional word-of-mouth marketing approach has grown leaps and bounds on social networks.

Facebook – At the Center of Social Media

With 500 million (and growing) unique users worldwide, Facebook is the number one social networking site in terms of activity and subscriptions. What started as a garage initiative by Mark Zuckerberg has now become the biggest phenomenon on the internet.

A user interface that allows for quick communication and the ability to create fan pages and groups at the click of a mouse button are what make Facebook extremely popular. Another important reason for its immense popularity is the wide variety of social applications that have been developed and made available within the Facebook environment.

These applications can allow users and friends to do joint activities like playing games that run endlessly, sharing photos, videos, and web links, and many more.

How does this help a marketer?

Traditionally, media plans were drawn to include television channels, publications, or any other media that can grab maximum eyeballs and effectively reach a selected target audience. The science of segmentation and targeting has become only more accurate in the case of social media.

Facebook provides a wide variety of avenues to communicate with the audience, which opens up an entirely different world of possibilities to have a fruitful dialogue with customers. Some of these methods used popularly by marketers are:

Advertising: The first opportunity, which is the most obvious one, is advertising on Facebook. The difference, however, is the fact that you can create your own advertisement in a matter of minutes and also specify the details of your target group in terms of demographics and types of discussions where you want your advertisement to appear.

Fan Pages: Facebook allows every brand, as well as individual users, to create fan pages for their favorite celebrities and their own homegrown businesses. Large brands have also created their official pages on Facebook that have a huge, immediate fan following around the world. The fan page has immense utility to convey first hand information about the brand and also to collect immediate and frank feedback from your customers.

Branded applications: One of the most effective ways to engage a user toward your brand is by creating an application; this could be a game or a contest, with your branding coming across subtly through it.

What makes Facebook even more exciting is the way it allows you to target your communication sharply just to the customer segment you want to attract. It also provides analytics and page insights that give good feedback and measurement on the activity done.

The options provided by Facebook can be creatively explored and used judiciously for bringing about maximum benefits to any brand.

However, while doing all this, you need to be aware of the fact that customers have an equal say and have the ability to respond immediately to any of your actions with a thumbs up or a thumbs down. Availing the service of a social media consultant to work out a social media strategy may be required so that your efforts will not be in vain.

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However, it can definitely be said that SEOPressor breaks convention.

The tool is so designed that it helps Internet marketers get the one thing that all of them hanker for—number 1 position on the search engine ranking pages, especially the Google search engine.

Now, if you have a WordPress website—rather, blog—which is constantly updated, you will see that SEOPressor can add immensely to its SEO value.

Are you constantly worried about how your website is faring?

Are you skeptical about what kind of traffic prospects it has?

Then you should consider SEOPressor seriously. This is a tool that contains an assortment of features that any WordPress webmaster would find useful.

With things such as keyword analysis and optimization, tags, calculating SEO scores, testing and rating posts, image analysis and other features, SEOPressor keeps constant tabs on the website and checks how it’s going.

Also, it provides suggestions on how certain tweaks can be made on the website so that its prospects can be further improved. All these things help in building traffic to the website, which is what every webmaster is eventually looking for.

Basically, the following 5 types of online marketers will find SEOPressor the most useful:-

1. People who have niche blogs that they are monetizing. SEOPressor can boost the rankings of these niche blogs, even overcoming a sea of competition, and thus increase the traffic prospects of the blogs.

2. People who outsource their blogging and content needs. It becomes difficult to keep tabs on how the blog does if you are outsourcing content. But SEOPressor has an analytic tool of itself which can instantly tell you how your website is performing. So, you can be in the know about your blog prospects immediately. Also, it gives you suggestions on what you can do to improve any deficiencies.

3. People who are flipping websites. These are people who build websites, make them popular and then sell them for a profit. If you are into this, SEOPressor will tell you exactly how your website is faring and which is a good time to flip your website.

4. People who act as SEO consultants to others. Imagine being in the know, in an instant, about how a particular blog is faring. It can make all the difference to your credibility in the eyes of your clients.

5. People who do SEO for a hobby. Yes, there are these people as well!

It is predicted that SEOPressor will be incorporated as a mandatory plug-in into WordPress. But, until then, the early birds can always visit the website and download this highly beneficial product.

Viral Link Blaster is a new site that says it guarantees more CONVERTING web visitors and online advertising with very little effort or cost. So I decided to put it to the test…

My first impression was the site looks professional and clean, with an attractive look and feel. It is easy to read and understand. Joining the site was easy and painless–they do offer 2 upgrade options but they are not required to gain the benefits.

The Members Area is very well laid out and intuitive–I could figure out what to do after only a few minutes and was able to get up and running in less than 5 minutes. Inside the site, you create links and ads–the links you simply enter any URL links you use into the generator and it transforms them into “Viral Link Blaster” links. You create ads for anything you want to promote using the Viral Link Blaster Ad Generator, which is very easy to use. You can create as many links and as many ads as you like. And they are organized in a logical way–links are displayed in the order you create them but also your 5 most recent links appear on the main page for quick reference. Also, since the link generator is the tool you’ll use most, it is also right at the top of the main page when you login. Very smart!

After you’ve created at least 1 link and 1 ad you can start to generate traffic. Just use and promote the new Viral Link Blaster link instead of the original source link you had. Every time the Viral Link Blaster link is clicked, the page loads followed by a cool slide-up ad window at the bottom. It displays an ad PLUS an image with your affiliate link that goes back to Viral Link Blaster. So if anyone clicks the Viral Link Blaster image they see the site, and if they signup they become your referral. It’s a great viral feature because you can build referrals without even trying to just by using the site.

Now every time the ad window displays (your Viral Link Blaster links get clicked) you earn credits that get YOUR ad displayed in the ad windows when other members’ links get clicked. So the more clicks, the more times your ads get displayed.

And this works virally–meaning as you make referrals into Viral Link Blaster (either by promoting it or just using it and visitors click the Viral Link Blaster image on the ad window to join) you also earn ad credits on THEIR link clicks. And this works up to 5 levels deep. So you can create a massive amount of free ad views and web traffic by referring others to Viral Link Blaster also.

I didn’t get to test the full effect of a big downline yet (I just got the tool) but I can tell you the rest of the site works exactly as stated–my links got clicked, I earned credits, and my ads got displayed. Viral Link Blaster even tracked my results so I know how many clicks and how many ad displays. That was an impressive unadvertised extra feature.

There is one more benefit and feature which might be the best of them all–downline emailing. You can email your downline with offers, promotions, or whatever you like, and here is where Viral Link Blaster really shines. They took time to make the emailing often enough that it’s valuable as a user, but no so often that it’s a burden to your downline. But the best part about this feature (and actually the credit earning too) is that it tells you exactly how long until you can mail again. Now THAT’s cool.

Overall I have to say I am impressed with Viral Link Blaster. It is simple yet powerful, and delivers on its promises. Highly recommended to anyone who wants to increase traffic and advertising.

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It’s obvious that John has done his homework here and truly created what seems to be a truly hands-off PPV affiliate marketing system. Rapid Income Creator combines professionally and PRE-BUILT created landing pages, specifically designed for PPV traffic, plus “copy and paste” demographic research so members don’t have to guess or spend time doing the work to build campaigns. Better yet, the way the program is set up, there’s no need for you to even have a website of your own, as the landing pages are fully hosted.

If that wasn’t enough, John went ahead and added dummy proof PDF reports on PPV and advertising so anyone could understand it. And to top it off, Rapid Income Creator also boasts a traffic resources section that even makes many veteran online marketers blush. There were a ton of new money-making traffic networks and advertising venues I haven’t even heard of.

My honest review of the product was that I was a bit surprised at how simple it was. Every step of the way the program was laid out in a way that anyone could come in and understand. It wasn’t heavy with tons of stuff to read and absorb. The content John Carter gives in Rapid Income Creator is integrated into the program into actionable steps.

So every step of the way, you are learning by doing. Taking specific actions and getting a result. I have to admit that John does throw in a few documents to read though, but they’re super short and easy to understand. The control center user interface inside Rapid Income Creator is truly designed as a dummy proof system. If you can count, then you can use it. No guesswork involved.

On a scale of 1 to 5, 5 being the best I would give Rapid Income Creator a 4.9 for quality. I didn’t give it a 5 because every product can be improved slightly. In fact, I hear that John has some secret improvements coming up that makes Rapid Income Creator even more valuable.

I’m trying to get in on his private list right now and will let you know what I find out when I do. Rapid Income Creator is so far a lot more than I expected, which is a good thing considering all the B.S. programs and systems in the marketplace.

I also gave this program it a 4.5 for its money making potential, because John does not go into how to make a large income with it, but does teach how to make a few hundred a day with it. I give it a 4.9 once again for content because not only are the campaigns set up for you, you also have top shelf resources that even I wish I knew about. Rapid Income Creator is a surefire program that is going to do very well online for a lot of people. How long will these methods work? Well John has plans on making that indefinitely.

John Carter is one smart guy and I won’t be surprised if he soon becomes a regular household internet marketing name! Rapid Income Creator is one of the better products I’ve written about in a long time.

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This is actually pretty cool, so pay attention!

What IS Automated Ads and what can it do?

It’s a site preloaded with banners for the different categories at ClickBank. You simply plug in your ClickBank ID, and the system generates banners all pointing to your affiliate link.

Once you have selected your category, size of banner, and number of banners to rotate, Automated Ads does the rest.

Banners are shown based on their performance which makes your campaigns more and more profitable over time.

Another really cool feature is Automated Ads will automatically test out new popular ClickBank products as they are added to ClickBank for you.

So once you set this up, you never have to worry about which offers are converting for you or not, nor do you have to continually monitor what ClickBank has to offer. Affiliate marketing couldn’t get any easier!

How much does it cost?

Here’s the best part…right now it’s free.

The downside to the free application, however, is that you can’t rotate any of your own banners to your own sites, or banners to sites not currently in the program.

The upside is that you can upgrade your account and have free reign at adding whatever banners you want. Plus, you’ll also get 4 other scripts and software tools that allow you to automate your traffic, and ultimately your sales!

Anyway, you can check it out here!

Looks like a potential “game-changer” to me.

Depending on how this takes off, you may see it down the road costing $37/month, so grab automated ads for free while you can.

Before you break ground on that big mansion on the hill, here are a few mistakes many new affiliate marketers make that you’ll want to avoid.

5. Believing the hype

And yes, I do mean the hype promoted by your own program. Those income projections that every program makes are just that, projections. You can make that much. Will you within your first few months of the program? Probably not. Look at this as a long term investment in your future, not a way to get rich quick. Believe in yourself and your ability to make your dreams come true. But don’t believe the hype.

4. Expecting instant results with little effort

Expect to work your business. And expect to work it daily. If you opened your own neighborhood store, you’d expect to have to go in to work daily, wouldn’t you? You’d expect to have to advertise and get people to come to your store. Well, you just opened your own brand new internet store, what are you going to do to make it work? How are you going to get people to come look at your product?

3. Lack of a plan and specific goals

You’ve probably heard the saying, plan your work and work your plan. You need to have a specific plan and clear, measurable goals. Many people join affiliate programs with the vague goal of wanting to make a lot of money. How much money? How quickly do you want it? (Try to be realistic here, making a million dollars in one month is not realistic.) Okay, you have your clear, specific goal. Now how are you going to get there. Again, think clear, specific steps here.

2. Advertising your affiliate link

Wait a minute, if you don’t advertise your affiliate link, how are you supposed to get sales and downline members? Create your own website that has a link to your affiliate program. Every affiliate for your program gets the same website that you do. You have to be able to make yourself different from everyone else. The way you do that is with your own website.

1. Quitting

You’ve been working your affiliate program for 2, 3, maybe even 4 months now with very little to show for it. You’re getting discouraged and beginning to wonder if this is worth it after all. Pick yourself up, dust yourself off and figure out what it is you need to be doing. Learn more. Bug your sponsor and your upline members until they help you out. Don’t quit. No one ever achieved success by quitting. Neither will you.

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Getting to the top of a search engine is every marketer’s dream, or at least it should be. The insane amount of people that flow to your website will make your wallet quickly expand. Of course, if it were easy to get to the top of search engines, everyone would have a site at the top of some keyword.

Is there a single way that you can get to the top of the search rankings? Not really, but there is one key thing to work on that will skyrocket your ranks faster than anything else: quality backlinks.

There are a bunch of different ways to get backlinks, but none will give you the results that natural backlinks will, that is, links made by a webmaster himself. Articles are also a good source of backlinks but you need to be quite careful with how you do it.

You may be wishing there was a place that you could learn more about backlinking, well luckily there’s a course just for that – but the best part? It’s absolutely free:

Secret Google Backlink Strategies Exposed!

I’m not going to say that this is the perfect course that will teach you everything about gaining traffic from search engines and making backlinks, but it’s a great and free course to get you started.

The benefits of this are

1. You can get started almost immediately because you don’t have to create a product, write the sales page, design the website, develop marketing materials, or set up the ordering, billing & delivery system.
2. You have almost no investment of time because you don’t have to do the customer support or deal with billing or technical issues.
3. You have nearly zero risk because you already know the product sells. So if you send visitors you will get paid.

Looking at these benefits, it’s clear that affiliate marketing is the way to go!

The downside is…

After all your hard work of generating traffic to the sales page, you will never see any of those visitors again. Most of them will not buy on their first visit, which means you’re losing over 90% of the traffic right off the top. And of the 10% or less that do buy, the product owner will be able to sell to them again, but you will not.

What’s the solution?

Simply put, you need to capture the name and email of your visitors *before* sending them to the product sales page. This way you can follow up with them and keep sending them back to the sales page to increase your chances of making the sale. And if you’re really on top of your game, you’ll then send to a pre-sales page in between.

Here’s what these affiliate marketing strategies will do for you:

1. You’ll be building your own list of potential customers that you can market to again and again.
2. You’ll be pre-selling them by providing valuable information and then casually linking to the product sales page in the context of this information.

In order to set a system like this up, you will need the following affiliate marketing tools:

1. A Video Squeeze Page (with video)
2. One or more content-rich Pre-Selling Pages
3. At least a 5-Part Email Followup Series

The video squeeze page is where you’ll direct your traffic instead of directly to the product sales page. It captures the name and email of your visitors and puts them into your autoresponder, which then begins sending out the 5-part email series. Then it redirects them to your pre-selling pages after they subscribe to your email series.

All of this together increases your chances of making the sale by up to 500% so it’s well worth the effort of setting it up. And once it’s set up, it runs automatically – you just keep sending visitors to the squeeze page.

If you don’t have the time or expertise to set it all up yourself, you can use something like Affiliate Silver Bullet. Services like this design the enter system (the video, the video squeeze page, the email series, the content pages, etc). The benefit is that it’s much less expensive then you could do it yourself, and it’s instantly set up. The downside is that other people will be using the same affiliate tools as you. But the internet is pretty big, so this isn’t much of a concern.

The other route you can take is to hire people on Elance to create and implement the various aspects for you. Either way, it’s an important step that you need to take if you’re going to be serious about your business.

They are OWNING Google in the Advertising space right now and they are just warming up…

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Thanks to Ryan Deiss, I have officially FIRED Google for search advertising and switched my entire budget to Facebook (except for Gmail).

Why?

Because…

1. Facebook has way more traffic. Over 39 BILLION page views a month

2. I can TARGET my ads so that only people who really want my stuff see my ads… duh!

3. Facebook is simple to use and fast, you’ll be getting killer traffic in just a few hours

4. Facebook ads are 1/4 – HALF the cost of Google Adwords

5. Facebook loves affiliates and they love their advertiser and marketers…

and about 100 other reasons.

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Imagine making those kind of sums on autopilot.

And imagine doing that without having to spend a dime.

These guys have never officially been in the spotlight. Yet recently they made as much as $400,000 in just a couple of days. They’re most definitely “Inner Circle” marketers, yet just a few years ago one of them didn’t even know what a web browser was…

So who the hell are they? And how did they become so successful?

When you visit the page below, you’ll find out that these are two ordinary guys. Like many out there, they’ve been through some tough times trying to make an income online.

You’ll find out more about them here!

(it’s DEFINITELY worth a visit)

These guys aren’t techhie. They didn’t have a website. They weren’t fiddling around with SEO. They definitely didn’t gamble with Adwords.

In fact their method tapped into an endless source of free traffic. A pool of traffic that’s increased at a rate of 1,300% last year.

What these guys did was simple. They combined two of the most exciting trends in the market to produce a simple but powerful method.

The two trends I’m talking about are Twitter and ClickBank.

Twitter oozes with free and quality traffic. It offers an incredible platform to fire out real-time messages to thousands and thousands of people.

Instant communication = instant profit

ClickBank is simply a gold-mine with a stunning average of 26,000 digital transactions.

Put the two together in the *right way* and you’ve got a lethal profit-churning machine.

And here’s the best bit. The *right way* for most things in life usually involves hours and hours of sweat and toil.

Unless of course you find a way of automating it…

These ordinary guys have spent months commissioning the development of their method into a fantastic tool.

Pushbutton software which makes Twitter almost effortless and the ClickBank marketplace a bank waiting to be looted.

Tweetomatic Profiteer has officially been unveiled only minutes ago. Find out who these guys are, what this software can do, and how you can nail a copy TODAY.

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