Internet Marketing Trip

Hey guys, I got an email from Chris Rempel yesterday, and the day before about a little launch he’s currently doing for 10 affiliate video reviews you can put on affiliate sites and get insane conversions. Videos convert better, it’s ben proven and that’s why you now see almost all new internet marketing products sales page with videos.

Now I always loved Chris stuff and you can see the quality of these video reviews at this 72 hours offer on Affiliate Armory. Chris was able to get $400 a month with only one website… and that was with just 7 visitors per day!!!

The link above is not an affiliate link, maybe I missed the affiliate area , but anyway it may interest you. It’s currently $197 for the 10 videos, or less than $20 per video which will individually sell for $69 soon. So if you think there is a lot of value there you will want to have a look to this.

Also, by setting up this sales page, Chris is also sharing 10 niches that are profitable. So even if you don’t buy you will want to check out those and may do your own videos or niche sites around these products. These are all on ClickBank and health related, this should get you thinking

These videos will be very effective as a page on your website, though of course you can upload them to YouTube I don’t think this is the ideal thing to do. I would use them as a featured product review, something that stands out on my site, top of the fold. You just need to copy and paste a bit of code in a post or page and voilà.

Happy conversions!

Well that’s it for now, it was just a quick post. I thought it may interest some of you and that’s a great deal, so why not share it?

Have a great day!

Tom

My last posts have all been focused around outsourcing and automation. And that one is just a kind of recap of what it can do for you. We have seen that automating your business either with softwares, outsourcing, or outsourcing the use of automation softwares is really:

• how you can work smarter, not harder
• how you accelerate your success
• how you can profit faster
• how to reinvest in your business for even faster progress
• how to ACT like a BOSS, managing people instead of being the employee
• enjoying free time

… and certainly few other things I don’t remember right now but outsourcing and automating your business is the smart way to reach your goals faster.

You made your first $100?

• Invest these in article writing and submission (can be a software).
• So now you have more backlinks, better SERPs, thus more traffic, and more money.
• Rinse and repeat
• Outsource more tasks more

Remember that “investing” in your business suppose there is a “return on investment”, or ROI. So you need to figure what should be the ROI for the products your promote or sell if you have your own products. Yes, you can outsource product creation for niche markets, have an expert write a little report for you that you will sell for $7, or a bigger product for much more money.

I don’t like to brag about what I do, but my previous post is really full of great free resources to automate your internet marketing and for videos, photos, audios, blogging, micro blogging… you don’t need much more apart from creating the accounts, I mean outsource the accounts creations.

But as for article marketing, if you have some money, this can be a good thing to have some weapons in your arsenal. At least one good submitter.

Article Marketing Robot

This tool is great, everyone who is using it talks about the best article submitter out there. We’re talking pure submission, not spinning or other features, though it includes it. One of the most interesting one is the automated registration and confirmation. You know how it sucks to have to manually sign up to each site and then click on each confirmation link.

Another thing you will like is scheduling article submission. So backlinks are spread over time and it appears more natural.

It also submits to over 1000 directories, kewl! Now I know you think this sounds great but you may want to try before you buy, and that’s exactly what you can do! You can try it for 5 days, now a little downside is that it leaves a link “Submission with Article Marketing Robot” but it’s not a big deal. If you like it, you should buy it, it’s $77, ONE TIME.

It’s been recommended to me by a top article marketer, I may give you my review soon though I know there are already many you can find out there. But if you want me to make a commission for the superb posts I’m publishing these days…

Download free trial version or buy Article Marketing Robot.

Okay, outsource and automate your business and grow bigger!

This is a follow up of my last post, I’ve been talking of automation and outsourcing recently for a few reasons and because your success may really depend on it. Actually, faster success because you can get more things done in a shorter time frame, or even in the same time frame.

In the last post I told you I’ll provide you with some great resources to automate internet marketing tasks for FREE. That’s right. Let’s start right away.

Sharing online medias, text, links at multiple social networking, web 2.0 sites can bring you some great exposure, so you may want to centralize everything from one place, with the following sites. Of course you need to have an account to the sites they publish to, I’ll give you some resources for that too, but check that out:

Social Marketing

• PixelPipe – Just amazing, you could pay like $97 or more every month for this kind of service. It publishes your content to video sites, photo sites, blogs, doc sharing sites, audios, file upload sites, and social networks. Just create your account there and you’ll understand how powerful your social marketing campaign can be, and how fast you can do it! There’s about 90 sites supported I think. They have some great tools too to integrate with some of your softwares, like a firefox plugin to upload your medias automatically, or applications for your mobile phone. You must check that site out!

• Ping.fm – This one is know by many marketers, it will allow you to ping, notify, update status on multiple sites at the same time.

• HelloTXT – a bit like Ping.fm, HelloTXT defines themselves as a social life organizer and you can get access from web, Iphone, Ipad, Android. From this place you can manage multiple social networks, blogging and microblogging platforms, and even some more.

• SocialADR – Automating social bookmarking to 19 sites at the moment. But what’s really cool is that you can get your sites bookmarked too by other SocialADR users. There is a paid version, this is a recurring fee for some massive amount of backlinks, and no account creation needed!

• IMAutomator – A free and paid version. I’m not sure you should go for the pro version as for social bookmarking there are some software that will do it too. But the free version gives you 10 daily submission to 15 bookmarking sites. Also, the account creation to these sites is automated.

• Tarpipe – The little brother of PixelPipe, though I think they are not directly connected they are doing about same stuff. You should have a look to them too, they’re free!

• Onlywire – a free and paid version to get social bookmarks, it’s certainly the one that has been out there for the longest time.

Most of these sites make tools available to be easier to use from your desktop, and developpers can certainly play with their API to develop plugins or automation softwares.

Don’t hesitate to join all sites and see how they perform and the one you like the most. Now of course you need to create accounts at various web 2.0 sites these web tools posts and publish content to. Well, I don’t have a free solution for you, but you can outsource some cheap account creations.

I’ve found 2 services at WickedFire and the guys seem to have good reviews. I’m going to try them:

• BestWorks001 thread – accounts for Ping.fm and PixelPipe supported sites.
• SeoWorks09 thread – accounts for PixelPipe, Ping.fm, SocialADR, HelloTXT, Onlywire supported sites.

With the resources above you can have social bookmarking, videos, photos, audios, links, tweets, documents, blog posts… a bit everywhere online and that’s a lot of exposure, backlinks you can create once you set up accounts.

Now another source of backlinks that you certainly like is, drum roll…

Article Marketing

A free article submission software? Here is Article Submission Helper. It submits to 126 article directories, may not include all the ones you want but hey, that’s still some nice backlinking possibilities.

An article writing, rewriting, spinning and blending software? Check Article Tool Chest, it does stuff a paid tool would do and even more. You can customize many things to your likes and you will find it very useful I’m sure.

Did you like this post?

Tell me what you think, and share with everyone if you have some free stuff that can accelerate your success. I may need to update this post then,  I will search for more resources. I also want to discuss with you about some very low priced services. Of course I want to test them first and see how it goes, but I can tell you I already have found some very promising

In the meantime, have a great time whatever you do.

Tom

That title is a little funny, make outsourcing one of your daily goal. If you outsource you’re not really working yourself, someone else will, and will help you achieve goals for you. But actually what I mean is that outsourcing should really be a goal that you set every day, if you don’t have that habit.

So everyday, it would be great if you start selecting tasks to give to someone. With clear instructions and the right person, you can have little plans here and there and when you start seeing how powerful it is and how much of free time you get back, you will want to outsource even more.

This is all about getting the BOSS mindset. You run an online business, right? You are the boss, the guy who manages the stuff not the guy who does every task. Be the guy at the top of your company who decide who does what, for how much money and time.

So as any goal it needs to be specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, time-oriented. That should be taken into account for your instructions to the writer, but also if the outsourcer clearly states how he works, his turnaround time it should fit your plan.

So what I suggest you is to decide on a project and on a budget.

• How much of the work can you have done for the money you have?
• What tasks do you want to outsource?

If you want to outsource article writing, I’ve written a little post about 3 places I’ve used to have articles for cheap. You pay per article, and can customize your order (number of words, quality). Of course you can find someone to write per the hour, or work day, for any task.

You may want to go visit some freelance jobs websites, or internet marketing forums and look for offers, so you can see what are the average costs and see if the service provider got reviews. You can also post a job yourself, asking for help.

Now there are tons of things that are super boring to do, or that you really don’t like to do. Like account creation, that sucks. Really, it sucks your time too.I don’t like to do that, of course when I first started I did this myself, then there are either softwares that can do it for you or you can outsource this.

So you may decide that you want to have account created at top article directories, social bookmarking sites, video sites, etc.

That may be your first outsourcing project. Then your second will be to have the content created, the third to have it submitted. You may find all in one solutions, outsourced or software automated.

So as an example here’s something you could get for $100

• Accounts created to 80 web 2.0 sites : $20
• 20 articles, 300 words each : $60
• Articles submitted to top article directories: $20 (or less depending on how many articles you want to submit)

That’s a little plan and I will expand on it later with some AWESOME resources you don’t know. Well actually you may know some. These will be about automating some tasks, for FREE!

Now there is another place where you can get cheap marketing and advertising for just $5, and that’s Fiverr. You certainly have heard about it, just go there, check the video, social marketing, advertising categories to see what people can do for your business for only $5.

Your website advertised to 50,000 followers on twitter, there is someone who can do that. A video testimonial for your product or website, no problem. Have 5000 facebook users to be invited to your fan page, just $5. Or you can ask post what you want done for that price, some people are asking for one, or even two articles.

Okay, have a great time whatever you do.

You certainly have heard the expression “Work smarter, not harder“, and often this is about outsourcing. They (internet marketers) are genuinely meaning it. Outsourcing is really working smarter, and you already know most of the benefits of it.

Outsourcing allows you to leverage other people work and TIME. You can not do everything yourself. Well, you can, but not at the same time. You can’t write article and at the same time, make a video, create backlinks, design a website all at the same time. Multi-tasking is very counter productive and is the ennemy of focus.

If you have automation tools then great, it’s a very nice help, I use them and it’s truly the other way to get more done in less time.

Automation + Outsourcing= Super Lazy Way To Work Smarter.

But here’s how to go to the ultimate outsourcing solution.

You outsource articles (work done by a writer) and submit the articles with a software (automation, done from your computer)

or…

You outsource articles and the submission. If you give an article submission software to your writer then he can do some more job

Outsource the automation… That’s really lazy, and certainly something you should think about. Of course you may have to purchase the software license for your assistant but it’s certainly worth YOUR TIME. This program is going to work for you for all your projects.

Now of course some freelancers already have their softwares and post their services with everything you need so you may not  to purchases license, it is valid though if you train your assistant and want him/her to use specific tools.

If you know the 20/80 rule (or 80/20?), you fully understand that outsourcing can bring you so much better results than if you try to do everything yourself. It may even become a 10/90 principle for some.

So create systems. Systems that can run by themselves and are result oriented.

• Visualize your goal, the end reslt, and now, what are the steps to achieve it.
• Can these steps be explained with clear instructions? Certainly, so your assistant now has a plan.
• Can these steps, at least some, be automated too? Definitely.

If you build a team of great workers, experts in their fields, you will work smarter with smart people who know how to also work smarter and faster with great tools.

If you’re just starting on outsourcing then, you can start with some little projects and you will see the power of leveraging other people’s work, and time.

Decide on a taks that you do most of the time and that you don’t particularly enjoy, or that takes your time thus preventing you from doing other important stuff, some you actually enjoy.

It can be content creation, or account creation, backlink building. How much of your time would this take you? More importantly, how much is worth your time?

An example would be $50 an hour. Do you really earn that amount of money when you’re writing content yourself? Especially if this is not something you enjoy. This can take you a lot of time. While professional writers can spit out  5 basic articles an hour, or 2 exceptional quality ones.

Hey everyone, I recently blogged about some daily goals and one of mine was “outsource something” and particularly content. I outsourced 6 articles yesterday, and actually go them the same day. I have used 3 sites that I am very satisfied with, you can customize your order for quality (from basic to excellent/expert level), number of words and most important any topic, with your instructions.

Now I know some people will tell me you can outsource on freelance sites like elance, odesk, guru.com, rent-a-coder, and others. That you can even get better rates if you do some proper job interview and pay by the hour instead of per article. Well that’s true, but I’ve never done it so I won’t say anything about that, just my experience.

However for some articles to be written cheap and fast and even to save time, I’d suggest these 3 sites that are super easy to use. You’ll see for yourself, you can join them all free, and then fund your account.

1. The Content Authority – It became my favorite lately, their turnaround is quite fast. Even if they say that curently the time to get basic quality articles is about 3-4 days I got mine the same day. And quality is really great, you can also order some rewrites of articles, and submission to EzineArticles and other sites for a little fee. Start at 0.01 per words upto 0.05 for the highest quality. You can also place direct orders to a writer that you liked. Try them!
2. Articlez – It’s cerainly the one I used the most, always been pleased with the service. An article will be of a minimum of 300 words for $6, though you can also order blog posts of 200 words, blurbs of 100 words too. I still used them today, may be more expensive than The Content Authority, you can still customize your ordersin any way you want, and if I remember well all their writers are native English speakers.
3. TextBroker – I used them once, they’re really great, they have some fees for each article but nothing too expensive. You can select from low to expert quality articles, and what’s cool is that a very talented writer can choose to write an article at a lower rate.

These article sites can really help you and provide you with quality content that you can use to submit to eZineArticles for example, I never got something rejected. Another important thing that you should do is give clear instructions in the description of your project so you are sure to get everything the way you want.

Also they all allow revisions if the article was not what you asked for, and this is precisely why you want to give clear instructions. If you didn’t precise that you wanted the content to be written a certain way and include these keywords or these other elements then the writer will do his/her best with what he got.

Just don’t give a keyword to the writer and tell him to “write about that keyword”. It can be okay for simply backlinking purpose but if it’s for content to put on your site and the writer use negative tone about what you actually wanted to promote it’s going to be hard to make money from this.

Okay so I hope you enjoyed this little article and wil take advantage of these cool resources to outsource articles for cheap!

Tom

When you have multiple things to do in the day, you may get confused, and setting daily goals can really help you know what to do. I say KNOWING what to do because with time, with multiple niche sites you have many tasks to accomplish, and it’s important to set some priorities.

You certainly have heard that you should start with the most important thing first, or the one that ask you the most effort. Only you can know that.

You may also have repetitive tasks that you may have to do every day. For example if you have created new sites this can be writing content, sumitting articles, building backlinks, etc.

Today, my goals were to

• write 3 articles for one of my website,
• social bookmarking for 3 blog posts (3 different blogs),
• outsource something (I chose content again, 6 articles for article marketing purpose).

These were the things I needed and wanted to do TODAY. And I did.

You should do it again because you may really don’t know where to start. You spend few minutes to figure what tasks should be done and start analysing potential results instead of actually taking action and then track results once you have something done.

Hesitation leads to procrastination, some stuff will even look harder than they really are, because of your looooooong analysis. When you have goals set for your day (which should be steps towards bigger goals), you can go through these and move on. Once your main goals for the day are accomplished, you may set some more goals, always ask yourself if this is part of your plan.

Also make your goals SMART, though for little daily goals like this I mostly focus on time. For example I know these goals have to be done in the day, but I can actually do these much faster.

So an article can be searched and written in 30 minutes MAX. For social bookmarking I use a software so this is actually quite fast. For outsourcing 6 articles, I decided to search keywords (volume, competition) to be included and give to writers, and set time for this to 30 minutes, then submitting instructions.

Well, I gave you a little plan or ideas to make money for Christmas, and earlier a list of buyer keywords. So because content is part of the plan, you will want of course to target buyer keywords, and add either your content on your website or for article marketing.

So if you were hesitating on how to get started, simply take your main and secondary keywords and add the modifiers to make these buyer keywords. Then check the competition but don’t get discouraged if this looks tough. If you market at the right places you can still get traffic there.

Now even with no offers to promote, buyer keywords are generally great for AdSense. Advertisers target buyer keywords, and those get some nice amount per click due to their competitiveness. So people looking to may be inclined to click on ads if these are actually showing what they’re looking for and if you don’t have other links.

So start with your keywords. That’s what I’ve done, I compiled a list of 10 buyer keywords around my main keyword for one of my niche website. These will be outsourced, I’ll submit them to top article directories and create few web 2.0 pages that will link to my money site.

I’ll repeat this for as much websites as I can, and may create new ones too. When time is short outsourcing is really a great help and can push your business beyond your expectations.

Well in my previous post I gave you few reasons to market products for Christmas, which is mainly to make money but please read it I think it was a nice little post. Now here’s how I intend to make money for this season.

• There will be tons of deals, promos, discount and coupon codes for products that I promote or websites these products are featured on. So of course, I will add these coupons regularly, each time they are released by the merchant.
• I have many niche websites for multiple products, so I need to boost them in the SERPs to get decent traffic. I will write articles for all of these, I mean I will do some myself and outsource some more.
• Building more backlinks from a variety of source is also on my list. Social bookmarking new posts, blog comments, Press Releases, web 2.0 properties, doc sharing sites. I’ll also throw some videos out there. This may sound a lot of work but I know I can do it and you can too.

Basically I could sum up my plan to “Drive traffic to websites that get the click“. To get the click from your website to the merchant, your copy must be good, but you can also have some featured offers in prominent position, and state a big benefit (free shipping, discount…)

Amazon is great because they know everything about conversion.

If you are super focus you will be amazed at how much you can accomplish in a day. Challenge yourself for Christmas too and you’ll get motivated. Why not something like “I will create a 10 pages website and write 10 other articles to market it withing 48 hours”. Looks cool right? 20 articles in 2 days. The articles you submit of course should not be submitted all at once. But once they’re written, the hard work is done!

In a week you can have 3 built and marketed, or even 10 websites marketed if you already have some websites that just need some boost. Check what websites performed well in the past for you but that you let die a bit. If they are still ranking well then you might just want to add more content targeting buyer keywords (<- I gave a nice list there).

That’s it.

A nice little challenge that can make you some nice profit if you really focus on it. Go kick some ass (or something of the like), be a money action taker maniac and become a rockstar!

Stay focus!

Tom

Chirstmas is coming very soon and if you haven’t thought about having an action plan for this special time of the year you really need to take the time to elaborate one.

Christmas is a “money spending event” that occurs every year. You can’t miss this opportunity. If you have physical products websites it’s time to boost them a bit. You can even start building some websites from scratch and then arket them all way around.

Actually there are so many products you can think of that there are certainly stuff you can promote and make money since there are not too much competition.

But there is something really interesting that you should take into account:

If people go shopping online at Christmas, this is not only just for one product only. So you may promote even low priced items you see on Amazon and it gets you a low commission on this product, but as a buyer you and I know we prefer getting all our product delivered in one shot. So your visitors may end up becoming buyers of 1, 3, 10 products and commissions will really add up then.

This is why it is so important to drive traffic now to your website, no matter if it is for low priced items. Now of course you can just promote high end electronics too. Also since we speak (okay I speak) of Amazon, you know you can check the Bestsellers for each category and sub category, but you can also check the “Most Wished For” and “Most Gifted” tabs for more ideas that people would really want to have for Christmas or will be offering.

You find these two tabs when you check the bestsellers in a category. At the time I’m writing  several products in the Bestsellers, Most Wished For and Most Gifted are the same. So… well, you know what this means for you.

Now select few products and go add some reviews somewhere, build links, outsource content if you can, drive traffic rinse and repeat until Christmas. I’ll share with you my plan tomorrow.

Now go take some kind of action that makes an income.

Stay focus!

Tom