Internet Marketing 101

I felt like I had to post this because I've seen so many sites lately that have nothing to do with commerce or marketing at all. Simply making a brochure site doesn't mean you're doing business on the web.

Jeff Walker's Product Launch Formula

In case you weren't aware of Jeff and his PLF training, he's one of the people behind some of the most successful internet marketing launches in recent history.

His PLF formula has been reputed to have made many people much money and I have to say that I've been impressed with his own product launch... so I'm lining up with the rest of the people crashing his servers :)

You know it's a popular program when the minute the launch goes live, your servers are crashing due to the demand.

Cool... I want my launches to do that.

When Free info is not free

I have to say that lately this is something that's starting to bug me.

The old "FREE REPORT" game.

In this case it was click tracks although they are not the only ones by any means, they're just the ones that I'm focusing my laser beam like rant at.

It's not free info, if I have to give you my full email, mailing, name and SIN number (ok, not the SIN, but everything else).

Let's be honest, my lead info is actually a commodity that they would gladly pay for. Knowing that I am interested in the subject matter alone is enough to place me in the "qualified lead" category.

What's a qualified lead worth in the business intelligence market?

I don't know, but I assure you that it's probably a lot more than $5 per lead... the going "trade show contact" accepted metric.

So in fact, it's not free information if I have to pay with my contact info now is it? Let's be honest.

I think apple's got it right, if you download quicktime or itunes you'll notice they want the lead info, but it won't stop you from downloading it if you don't give it to them - they still want you to have the information / platform / software / mind share... The form looks like you have to mind you, so I'm sure they have a high rate of opt in.. but that's OK, and they're not calling it "FREE INFORMATION" and then harvesting your lead info from you.

(I didn't download the report in case you're wondering - someone post the link to del.icio.us would you?)

XLsuite Engine behind Tradeshow Offerings

The boys have been working hard on furthering the development of the XLsuite product. As with every worthwhile goal, we have our bumps and obstacles on our road to success. This past week, we got to participate in presenting a couple of new Verticals launched with the XLsuite back-end.

StrataXL.com
AgentXL.com
LiveInStrathcona.com
LiveOnCommercialDrive.com
LivinginMountPleasant.com
BlueAgent.ca
SellFM.com

Participating in those events clearly demonstrate interest in the technology, the social values, the ideas, and visions held by the creative force behind IXLD New Media.

Google VS. Everyone

This article is a really good outline of the various "big markets" on the web and where Google fits in the general webosphere.

A good read check it out:

Traffic Secrets the "big boys" use.

Traffic Secrets Revealed:

This is by far the best video I've watched in a long time about how to drive serious traffic to your website.

While I'm pretty involved in the SEO industry and have gotten extremely effective at getting my websites to the top pages of Google's search results for the terms I'm trying to place well for.

This is really the tip of the ice burg. While I wouldn't tell you to abandon your SEO efforts, you should really be focusing on what your sales process looks like and getting it to the maximum conversion rates you can. Once you've perfected your sales process, there is a whole WORLD of traffic out there that will DWARF the traffic you can get from the search engines.

Check this video out to find out more, you'll understand the sales and conversion game much better after investing a little time in watching this husband and wife team explain to you in easy to understand language ... how the big boys do it!

Free Article Submitter Software

While article submission isn't anything shockingly new to the world of SEO, many people STILL don't do it... and for good reason.

It takes so incredibly long to do manually.

I'll admit, I had tried article submission at one point, but after I finally found a few article dircetories to submit my articles to, then after manually copying and pasting my information into the required
textboxes on each submission site, I quickly realized that my time could be better spent doing something else.

Then I came across a free program created by Brad Callen and Bryxen Software, Inc. that allows you to automatically submit your articles to hundreds of article directories with a few mouse clicks. Basically all
I had to do was input my article criteria into the software, ONCE! Then, the program would automatically fill in all of the required data at each of the submission websites. Pretty incredible if you ask me.

The only part I didn't understand was why the program is free... but I can't argue with that I suppose.

The software currently contains around 700 article directories, all free to submit your articles to. It is the most straightforward program that we've come across, in that all you need to do is:

• 1. Input your article details (i.e. title, article body, bio,
  etc.) into the software
  
  
• 2. Click on the directory you want to submit to

Then the program will automatically fill in your article details.

Just click the submit button and your article is instantly submitted to the directory. You can then move to the next directory, go through the list, and by the time you're finished you'll have roughly 700 one way
links pointing to your website.

I can't think of an easier way to get links. Of course, if you're going to get links this quickly, it's important to submit different variations of your articles, to make things look more natural to the search engines.

You can do this very easily via Article Submitter when you create your project in the beginning.

The software is constantly being updated and there is an incredible community of users established that allwork together to make the software better and better, so you know you're getting great value for the money.

To check out the software, go here:

Article Submitter Software

Review my PAY PER POST video

blog marketing

OK, I know that I've posted about these guys before, but I just think the idea is so cool that I made a video showing you how it works.

Have you seen those captasia video's that have the PIP screen and you can see what the person is doing on screen? That's the one. If you can't figure out how to do this after watching my video, then by all means you should probably get a rocking chair and retire to a nice, low tech retirement home, you're just not ready for the internet age.

I'm going to do a whole series of these videos on ways to make some easy money online and of course the first one that I had to review was Pay Per Post. A close second was Rent a coder, I'll tell you more about that in another post.

I've posted it on our main site, it's called "Make Money With Pay Per Post" and it's a screen capture with video.

The URL is : http://ixld.com/training/payperpost/payperpost.html

If you have any questions about how to do things, what sort of posts you need to do, or even what a blog is, don't hesitate to drop me a line in the comments below, or through my site IXLD Media Inc I'll be happy to get you going in this exciting opportunity.

If you're blogging for your business, this is an excellent way to pepper in some extra content for your blog, and of course if you're just blogging for fun, it's time that you start to think about blogging for money instead.

This video will show you how it all works and save you the time of setting up an account and learning how the system works on your own. Once you've seen the site, you can then decide if it's write (ha ha) for you or not.

My only complaint about them is that there are not a lot of opportunities for lower page ranking blogs, if you're not a PR4/5 or more, you've really got only a few options to choose from. But I guess that makes sense, nobody wants to pay for promo on a low ranking site, there's no linking value to it.

Take a look at the video, I know you'll like it soooo much :) that you'll use this link to sign up and make us both a few bucks in cash from posting about ... you know... STUFF!!!