Amazingly as well, was that, as I finished posting that, the membership program (for 1,000 lucky members) was closed.
Today, as I am typing this, Jimmy D Brown’s Membernaire Program has re-opened after 6 months (Affilicore is 6 months old as well). The rate of joining or the rate of shrinking available membership is even faster as compared to the first launch.
If you have any intention to set up your own membership site, let Jimmy D Brown show you the way.
Do you have anything to lose? I guess absolutely not, because of the money-back guarantee!
Entrecard.com is implementing a spring cleaning of its network by the 1st July.
Those who are dangerously affected will be those who are using “Quick Drop” aka “Power Drop” pages.
If you do not know what that is, simply put, a blank page with an Entrecard widget, sometimes with some extra junk like an ad in there too.
This move is crucial as Entrecard is preventing the users to make use of these techniques to earn quick and huge amount of credits.
Do not worry, if you are operating a blog and using the widgets in the blog, this is perfectly safe - they just do not wish to see users creating a blank page with only the Entrecard Widgets in it.
Other than making money, do you know that SocialSpark can help you to keep track of the visitors stats of your site. Simply take a look into this link:
From that page, you can note roughly your Alexa Rank and RealRank (this is part of SocialSpark technology of ranking your site with them)
That page also features your latest blog post - good for your readers.
More to it, click on the “view demographics”, you can see which search engine is sending you the most traffic, the most clickable links in your site (to help you monitor which style of writing suits your visitors) and how about Demographics values like Percentage of Male or Female visiting your site and the age group.
From the values there, I can safely say that most of you, my valued readers,
So, if you are a blogger and will like to improve on your blog, get into SocialSpark.com and utilize their technology to provide you with the necessary information on your efforts.
If you are on some of the mailing sites of online newsroom, you may be getting some bad press on Twitter… and…
If you are in your Twitter’s account, you’ll notice this:
Twitter will be short some features while we recover from a database crash. See our blog post for the whole story.
And as you read further on in the Twitter’s Blog, more signs of dark clouds hovering, like:
A popular blogger accuses Twitter of refusing to enforce their Terms of Service
An errant API project overloading their main database, resulting in the error pages and slowness most people are now encountering.
Are more bad things to come, let’s really keep our fingers crossed…
My two-cents worth of view and suggestion for Twitter:
Twitter is something unique that I have ever came across after blogging and RSS Feed. Why? Blogging invites the updating of the latest happenings anytime, anywhere… RSS Feed makes every blog portable and easy to access…
Twitter is the combination of both (blogging and RSS Feed) in congested form - easy to access, straight-to-point, updated information.
At this juncture, what I am seeing is that Twitter is growing at a rate that’s way too fast. (it’s a free service and many popular bloggers are heavily promoting the use of Twitter - because of them, I have some people following me now…Wow!)
Secondly, may I know who is supporting Twitter in its expansion? Where are the revenues coming in from? There are no banners, no Google Adsense and no donation box in sight.
For such a good service, I do not mind seeing some banners or some advertisement sponsorship. Do you all agree?
There are more people requesting to drop their “Name Cards” to my Entrecard. (My principle, you drop - I approve!) Thank you! Thank you!
You can also see more new handsome-looking, pretty, and trendy profile faces in MyBlogLog Widgets.
If you are having a blog and like to attract more traffic -> readership, more participation - add Entrecard and MyBlogLog Widget to your online marketing resources today!
They are all free and what do you have to lose?
Another good feature to mention for MyBlogLog is that this free service will help to update your personal page with the latest post and link all your tags to the whole community. Good right?
Have been observing some of the Gurus - Ed Dale and Alvin Phang for instance, on my twitter account…
Seems like they are using a few evil-in-making tools to help spice up their twittering experience.
Let me be your spy… and see what they are using. It’s time to bookmark them if need be. Are you ready?
http://twitterfeed.com - Provide them with the URL for your blog’s RSS feed, and how often they should post to twitter. Seems good if you are promoting an affiliate link. (a standalone service)
http://www.alertthingy.com - as claimed. It’s a desktop app for FriendFeed.com (what’s that?). Seems to work well with Twitter and Flickr with FriendFeed.com as the main core of attention. (could this be a new plot for world domination? - Ed Dale is using a lot of this to post to Twitter…)
http://www.seesmic.com - as claimed, it’s a so-called dashboard for your videos. Still in alpha stage. Another evil plot in the making…
http://www.twittergram.com - designed to work like a telegram service but Twitter style. Comes with MP3 uploading service. Will somebody sing me a “sexy nurse voice” birthday song?
Twitter Tools - a wordpress plugin designed by Alexking. As explained… This plugin creates an integration between your WordPress blog and your Twitter account. Pull your tweets into your blog and create new tweets on blog posts and from within WordPress.
One of the free advertising tool that I have added in every of my blogs - Entrecard - has been upgraded and you, as an online marketer, has everything to gain.
If you are still new to Entrecard… What is it all about?
Most of the famous internet marketers will call Entrecard their Business Name Card Service (using the very famous 125×125 ad size) or traffic generation resource.
If you are still contemplating whether to use this on your blogs - my words of advice - if these Money Makers are using it… use it, it has to be good!
How to start using Entrecard?
Sign up for an account.
Enter your particulars for yourself and your blog.
Use your own 125×125 template design or use the ones provided.
Get the code and install into your blog template and you’re done!
Bloggers who visit your site, and are also using the Entrecard, can “drop” their Ad into yours. If you are okay with their Ads, you can approve or decline - make you the Controller and the Master of Destiny!
You expose their ads and in return you gain Credits that can be used to expose your “Name Card” on other blogs. The concept is that simple!
Other Features to note are that, you are only able to charge higher pricing when there is a long queue for advertisements to be shown. My suggestion is to approve the majority.
Also, if you have a high traffic blog and high click-thru ration for your Entrecard Advertisements, you may sell off your credits as well! This is where you can make good money out of your traffic.
The Old Entrecard and The New Entrecard
The old entrecard allows you to advertise only one blog. The new Entrecard allows you to advertise more than one!
This is a very good feature and should have been released very early because, just imagine, if you show a Pet advertisement on a Weight Loss Blog… Does it make sense? What does it say about you as well as a marketer?
Another good feature that’s been released is the revamped Home Page for Entrecard, that may help to expose your blog to many others >> Everytime you update your blog, it will be reflected on the Home Page. (do note though good but if there is a lot of updates of blogs, your updated blog post will only be exposed for that short moment.)
There are other good features that are worth exploring, how best to get all the information you ever need through the ebook provided:
If you’re new to Entrecard, and wondering what to do first, this E-Book will guide you along the way. And if you’re an intermediate or advanced user, it’s packed full of strategies you can use to get the absolute most from our service. Download from the link above.
The latest craze or “in-thing” on the internet would be “What are you twittering today?”
Just to share a bit of my twittering background, was that I learn about Twitter from Ed Dale in the Thirty Day Challenge.
I, and many others should, must really give credit to Ed Dale because if many do not know… way before Twitter is spreading like wild fire - he was already promoting the idea of twittering in the famous 30-Day Challenge and has made a claim that this would be the next thing. So look what has happened now.
Watch the video Ed Dale has created back in September’07 entitled “The Tao of Twitter”
Give you a joke of what happened to me, when I first created my Twitter account - I do not know what to put on it… but the site gave a brief description - “twitter anything about you…” I created my first post of “Having very bad tummy ache, in the toilet now” - that very post got my account banned…
I have managed to get my twitter account back and before getting serious into it, I am currently following a few Gurus on their daily venture - Joe “Mr. Fire” Vitale, Ed Dale, and Mike Filsaime.
If you go to http://www.twitter.com and log in or create an account, you can follow me around in real time in an acceptable, polite, educational, non-stalker sorta way.
In short, I will “Twitter” what I am doing throughout my day — often right from my mobile phone as I’m doing it — and you can follow my path.
And if you poke around twitter.com, you’ll find more interesting people you can follow, too.
Some of the notables you’ll find there may surprise you.
Why care?
Several reasons, but here’s a good one –
You can learn what people you admire (or are just curious about) are doing, reading, writing, learning, promoting, discovering, eating, watching, etc.
Obviously, this can be a priceless education.
One good thing that I should add on top of Joe Vitale’s sharing is that, this can be one good gauge of your expertise (or your position as a expert in your niche) - if more people are following you, you are slowly becoming an expert - making money online is becoming simpler.
Join YouPublish Today for free and get your _________ (fill in a choice of yours - book, music, audios, videos, photographs, spreadsheets, computer graphics, seminar packages, software, whatever) published today and you can share your works either for free (publicity) or for a price (make money with your expertise!)
YouPublish is a site headed by the ever-famous Mega-Selling Author Mark Victor Hansen and has just gone live on May 7, 2008. And this site is as-claimed a Revolution in Instant, Online Publishing Integrating aspects of YouTube, Facebook and Amazon with unique, new thinking and technology in an ultra easy-to-use online environment. (by Lisa Steadman, a.k.a. The Relationship Journalist’s Amazon Blog in her blog)
Many of the world’s most famous authors and creators have already joined, and you can too. Dead simple, and wicked fast! All you do is enter your name and e-mail address to sign up, and you can start uploading your files. It’s as simple as that.
In a nutshell… YouPublish is a one site that’s YouTube, Amazon, I-tunes, MySpace,
and Google combined…
Which you can:
Publish any file type or any media
Sell your works, or offer them for free
Publish individual files or entire folders (just select the files together when you upload)
Talk with your users and fans
Absolutely free
And anyone can do it!
YouPublish is so important that Mark Victor Hansen and his partners have created a live seminar event to show you how to take advantage of all of the YouPublish functionality at the highest level. Meet them in person and find out how to generate and publish digital content faster and more effectively than you ever thought possible. http://www.megabusinessempire.com/youpublish/
I’ll like to share a marketing tip that one Super Affiliate is doing to help get more people to join Butterfly Reports through his affiliate link, which you can do so for other membership programs that will pay you.
I will try to narrate the situation to you through my “imaginary friend - Mr. Cake”
Hi everybody, I’m Mr. Cake! A little brief introduction about myself before I tell you the story of how I still get duped to joining Butterfly Reports and you can have the last laugh!
An introduction about me is that - I know all of you marketers out there are always hungry for many innocent people like me to join or buy through many of your affiliate links. I MUST tell you - I am not a no-brainer! If I am to buy something - I’ll rather buy the stuff directly from the main site and not through any of those “cloaked”, “disguised”, “Your website recommends” link… Yucks! I know all the tricks up your sleeve! And yes, I also do know about the cookie being stuck in my computer system!
Despite my haughtiness, I must admit there are still many good internet marketers who know this trade inside out and have many mysterious tricks in store - and that’s how I manage to get duped into joining Butterfly Reports system through an affiliated link.
My good friend and buddy here, Dexter, has posted many good posts promoting his link for Butterfly Reports. I stick to my principles and refuse to join through his link. (He hates for me that!) I know this system is good and never too late to get in! So I decided to do a search for “Butterfly Reports” on Google and this is what I got:
You can see that the first link is the actual link to the Main Site. I have clicked before Dexter’s Link and somehow I know his affiliate cookie is in my system. So no-no! Squidoo… It’s just another promotion page with an affiliate link. So a big No! Ok… How about the third link? Butterfly.org? Hmmm… and there is a blog linking to this domain name. Could be Mike Filsaime protecting his product trademark and have gotten a new domain extension to promote, together with his blog. Worth clicking… (high chances of no cookie as well!)
This is the new site I’ve clicked.
Looks the same as per the actual main site. No affiliate links in sight. How about clicking the tabs to learn more…? What, No access! Mike is good and evil! Fine with me! I’ve read enough to know what is Butterfly Reports all about. I am ready to join! Ok, one last test to go. Any affiliate links within the “Register Here” link? Nope… Seems normal to me! So here goes… I am clicking the link!
So here I am, the link is different from before (which looks like “http://www.butterflyreports.com/axz/”). I am at the main site but deeper inside. Ready Information and a link for me to sign up! Which I did!
So this is the boo-boo which you can start laughing off because when I click on”Register Here” link from Butterfly.org, that link contains the Super Affiliate’s link! I end my story and will leave Dexter to explain what has happened!
Thanks, Buddy Cake! So what has happened is simple:
The Super Affiliate has actually cloned (getting a .org and copying the source code) and make it 30% different to the actual site - same header graphics and layout but a bit more information.
As mentioned, this site is still in Beta. Mike Filsaime could be split-testing his site for results or this site belongs to Rod Beckwith.
The other links are not working because the sign-up and marketing system is at the main .com site and repeating the same information may just affect your SEO ranking.
When you click on the Register Here, the affiliate link is masked well within, not the usual cloaking or “website recommends”
Also the existence of a blog can sometimes justify that this site is being updated constantly.
Lastly, promotions are everywhere. Any individuals can simply gather enough information through the emails to know what is Butterfly Reports all about. Joining is a matter of time but a matter of “whose link to join” so in this case of disillusion wins!
If you like this special marketing tip of cloning your money making affiliate programs, you can give me a simple reward of joining through by clicking on the banner or my link.
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