Well if you do any kind of advertising online at all I would have to say yes, yes you do need this online banner graphics maker.
I crossed out banner becuase the name can be misleading. You can make so much more than just a banner with this thing.
I made a quick video to show you what I mean:
Im sure you can see there could be a million uses for this so head over to Instant Banner Creator Now to get your account.
Not long ago I added a cool little tool here that allows readers to ask any questions they have.
Well it seems as if one inquiring reader would like to know:
The major differences between Dr Pepper and Mr Pibb, and why DP is better.
Now I must admit its not realy the type of question I had in mind but I did say you could ask anything, so it’s only fair that I do respond.
First of all the big difference between the two is age, as the doctor was first introduced in 1885 and the young Mr. wasn’t concocted until 1972.
So the doctor does have some years over the young pib but how long can one carry on with all those flavors before fizzling out?
So it would seem that the Dr is not only better educated ( all though I have yet to see any evidence that he truly is a doctor) but has gained more trust with the elders that remember him from back in the day.
I wouldn’t count out the youngest one yet, it seems as if she has added a few more flavors and is now going by her gang given name Pibb Xtra. I beleive the old doc may be a bit too old to learn any new tricks and the younger of the two is just starting to get some momentum along with a strong backing of a newer generation.
Fans of the doctor may wish to hold on to these glorious days of glory as they may not last forever.
I hope that this answers our readers question and if you have anything you would like to know feel free to Ask William
I have written before about integration marketing , but today I wanted to show you one of the best examples I have seen recently.
Soren Jordanson and the rest of the super surf exchanges are now integrated with Jeff Dedrick’s Viral Ebook Explosion.
To see what I am talking about take a look at this page. There are also ones for the other super surf sites that are available to the Viral Ebook Explosion members.
In case you don’t see what is happening here let me explain. Jeff Dedrick wants new members to his site, so he wants to provide good affiliate tools.
Soren and others want fresh new members joining their exchanges.
So by providing some great exchange specific splash pages like the above they have completed both tasks.
Jeff has some affiliate tools that he can give to his members, and the super surf team have new members coming in from Jeff’s site.
Whats even better though is that these new members are being introduced to good exchanges and provided with good tools, so guess what? They are going to get results and are going to tell others that they have been getting results using traffic exchanges. They are also going to say they are getting results promoting Jeff’s site.
So its good for Jeff and his site, and its great for the traffic exchanges involved and traffic exchanges as a whole.
Once other marketers see how well this is working out for Jeff, don’t you think they might want to do something similar?
So my hats off to Mr. Dedrick, Soren and team for this great lesson on how to effectively use integration marketing.
There was a big re-launch this past week. Affiliate Funnel relaunched with some new tools and the biggest news in TE land has been the new ranker.
The ranker is great and I love to not only see what people think of my exchanges but what they think of others too.
But one thing that has seemed to get lost this past week is how great Affiliate Funnel is as a program by itself.
At it’s base it is a downline builder, but it goes far beyond that.
It is a complete affiliate training and tool set site.
They have have integrated all the tools you need to promote your self and build your own funnel, this is the only program I know that tells you not to promote them.
Instead they show you step by step how to promote yourself first, they also give you the tools to do it, and if you have any questions at all there are three different weekly conferences were you can ask the experts any questions you may have.
If you use traffic exchanges, want to build your own business, get bigger affiliate checks or any combination of these, than you need to add Affiliate Funnel to your arsenal of tools.
I know every one is buzzing about Michael Rasmussen’s new list building course, but I wanted to let you know about a fee list building software.
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I was in the affiliate funnel seminar earlier today where we were discussing list building.
The first question was “ How do I go about building a list?”
It was a great question and got everyone telling how they go about building their own lists.
Some great tips and tricks were exposed and everyone seemed happy.
I then asked what most thought was a silly question. “ Why should I be building a list?”
If you have read 13deadly where I explain my whys, you would see where that would seem like a silly question coming from me.
But I wasn’t asking for me, I was asking for the benefit of those in the room that may not have known.
Like I said there was some great information put out about how to build a list, but for someone that doesn’t know why, it is kind of pointless.
I could talk to you all day about how to fix helicopters, but unless you had a reason to know how to fix them, there would be no reason for you to sit and listen to me.
The IM niche is full of how to guides, how to build a list, how to promote an affiliate product, how to do pretty much anything you can imagine.
The next time you are presented with an offer ask your self, “why do I need to know that?”
If you can find a reason that fits into your current business plan then grab the opportunity to learn as much as you can, but don’t go out learning how to do everything with out first asking why.
I have heard it talked about it, I have seen it in action, but it seems the term integration marketing has not been widely accepted outside of the marketing world.
I just did a search for the layman’s definition, but did not find one.
But according to Wikipedia the definition of integration is
“integration is a process of combining or accumulating. It may specifically refer to:
• The bringing together of two or more economies, cultures, religions”
I believe you already know what marketing is so I wont go into the details of it here.
To try and sum it up in simple terms Integration Marketing is combining two or more products together.
This can be done several ways, One way is internally. Companies like Amazon have gotten this down to a tee. If you have ever bought anything from them you know what I mean.
You buy a book , they show you other books that are popular with others that have bought the same book. They then show you other books by that author; they then show you related products. It’s all done smoothly, integrated into the sales process and brings them in huge amounts of extra income.
What if you don’t have a huge library of related products to what you are selling?
You could look to external integration.
Just think of all the JV launches you have seen, or all the follow up series you have seen promoting some one else’s product. What about a membership site that recommends another product?
Those are other , and very powerful, examples, but that is just starting to scratch the surface.
Many marketers feel that an upsell, or a link to a JV partners site means they have mastered the art of integration.
But there is much more that can be done, more seamless non intrusive and effective ways.
That is why best-selling author Mark Joyner has written a new book about it.
The book has not been released in stores yet but you can get a free digital download of it now.
Along with the book comes access to a members area were you can meet other marketers and work together to integrate your products.
I am sure you already know that anything with Mark Joyner’s name on it is going to be a huge success and this is your chance to get in to his integration marketing site, and read the book for no cost, before it even hits the stores.
Chances are it is, and you don’t even realize it. Let me clarify before I continue. Firefox is not the problem it’s a great browser and I find myself using it more than IE anymore.
It’s a favorite amongst Internet marketers and my stats show almost 75% of my te members are using it to surf.
No the issue is not with Firefox, another great feature of the browser is all the add ons that are available for it.
Unfortunately this feature is also the problem, one add-on in particular is killing your sales and opt-in numbers.
The no-script add-on.
It’s a great add on to help you protect your computer, there are a lot of surfers that use it to kill any scripts running on the pages they are viewing so it doesn’t slow down their computer.
Sounds good so far doesn’t it?
Turn your thinking for a moment to your own pages.
Have you spent time tweaking a video for your site so it would improve conversions?
Well it was pointless, if everyone seeing your page is using no-script, than your video is not being seen.
Do you have a killer squeeze page? You may never know because if someone gets to it using no-script they won’t be able to opt in to your list.
How about your join now button? It may be taking potential members to an error page instead of your sign up page, if they are using no-script.
Take a minute to think of the pages you are promoting. How many could be effected by no-script? How many sales or opt-ins have you missed out on because of it?
Do yourself a favor and get this free guide, that shows how to properly use the no script add-on and pass it on to all of your potential customers anyway you can.
I just got around to downloading Tweet My Blog, and realized that my blog has been neglected for too long.
This has been a great week and there has been plenty to write about too, so I will try to get caught up.
First of all as I mentioned earlier I just downloaded Tweet My Blog Another creation by John Merick and Soren Jordanson.
So what is it? Well the name pretty much says it all. If you use wordpress and you use Twitter then you need Tweet my blog.
It is a word press plugin ( word on the street is that they are working on making it compatible with other blog formats ) that will update Twitter any time you make a post. It also adsd your recent twitter posts to your blog.
It’s simple to use, and saves you time from having to go in and update both.
It was launched yesterday, but I just now got to downloading it and installing it, since I was busy yesterday with PromoLotto.
PromoLotto was also launched yesterday and it is one of the most innovative new exchanges I have seen in a while.
The site is based off of the lj script but aside from the registration page everything else is custom.
They have integrate list building with traffic and have presented a fun and effective way of growing both.
Building a traffic exchange and list builder into the same program is not new though Advertising Know How has been doing it for years. AKH is one of those must have programs in your marketing arsenal, and since Monday Robert Puddy has been giving away free money.
He is paying members $1 for each new referral, alng with free textlink and banner credits.
If you need more traffic and a bigger list ( who doesn’t? ) then make sure to add AKH to your battle plan.
As blogging and in particular blogging for profit becomes ever more popular amongst online entrepreneurs, we’re seeing new tools developed to assist in this process being released, what seems like every week.
In this post I’m going to talk about one such tool, Firepow Blogging Software,because I believe it might just be a cut above the rest in terms of it’s flexibility of use, and overall effectiveness in accomplishing the three primary aims of blogging - creating a blog, managing it or maintaining it, and getting traffic to it.
It was hard to know where to start with this post because there are so many individual features of this software that could be mentioned.
To give you a brief overview of how it works…
Firepow is based on the Wordpres platform, and allows a user to install a fully customized and functioning wordpress blog with a few clicks of the mouse.
If you’ve used Wordpress before, you’ll know that one of the best things about it is it’s ability to be enhanced by third party plugins. You’ll also know that it’s not hard to get LOST in all the plugins and potential feature additions that CAN be made.
The first thing great about Firepow from my point of view is that they have done the plugin work for you. The best 50 or so plugins from around the web have been programmed into the software so as to be automatically installed when your blog is.
That’s a good feature, but it’s even better when you consider that while these plugins normally require manual fiddling to get installed, tweaks made to your theme CSS code and more - the software actually does that part for you too - so you click the button, and you have the function of that plugin added - VERY time saving!
The “Create” part of the process is also helped by the ability to create your own custom wordpress theme completely from scratch, with more functionality than we’ve seen from free theme generators EVER before - not to mention the ability to create your own categories from scratch, automatically create the perfect permalink
structure for SEO, and more.
Before even getting into the Wordpress panel of the site Firepow creates you’ve also got a site management tab where all your blogs can be managed from one place, an SEO tracking tool to monitor the search rankings of all your sites, and a task manager
that tells you what needs to be done to maintain your blog/s and when.
I dare say though that the best things happen once you’re actually IN the blog.
Here you have crazy abilities to make your post content better, easily being able to add relevant images, videos, or trackbacks (automatically building backlinks to your site) to your posts… and even that’s leaving alot out.
OR the crazy abilities to monitor your blogs success, like being able to split test the results of different posts, monitor your traffic through in depth reporting (utilizing Google analytics), monitoring your search spider activity, the popularity of your posts, the terms people are searching on your site, and more still.
I feel like I’m getting too salesy in this post to you but I can assure even with everything you’ve read here, I haven’t even really touched the surface of what’s going on inside this thing called Firepow - heck we didn’t even get to the promotional tools.
The best thing I can probably do is tell you go to look at the darn thing yourself:
Oh and I could also tell you that if your into blogging and you don’t, you’ll probably regret it big time.
I hope you’ve found the information here valuable, and don’t hesitate to leave your comments on Firepow here to share with others.