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Adword Videos Prelaunch Registration

Friday, June 2nd, 2006

Do you use Google Adwords for your business?

Perry Marshall may indeed be the crowned king of Adwords but there are others who know a thing or two ;-)
Perhaps you recently purchased a copy of the excellent Adsense Videos series?

Well, later on this year I hope to launch a series of Adword Videos, much in the same manner.

If you would like to pre-register and get access to pre-launch material as and when it is created/released, hop on over to:

Adword Videos

All the best,

Tom

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I Got Off My Assets Blog Upgrade

Friday, June 2nd, 2006

For those of you with eagle eyes - the blog has undergone a small change!

Wordpress has a new stable release (2.0.3) I have upgraded to (mostly from a security conscious perspective.

If you are using Wordpress as your blogging platform of choice, you’d be well advised to do likewise.

I’ll get around to upgrading the look and feel in due course, but will stick for the out of the box feel for now (KISS after all!).

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Full Ping List - For Your Blog

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

Distributing your blog posts across the blogosphere is an essential part of “getting noticed”. I have collated what is a pretty comprehensive list of ping services you should look to include in your ping list.

True you can ping an aggregated source (like pingomatic) and your posts should be picked up far and wide eventually.

But why wait?

Wouldn’ t you rather have your posts streak across the Internet sooner rather than later?

I know I would.

This blog is driven by Wordpress and I have just found out automatic pinging doesn’t necessarily take place using the update services facility. The Wordpress forums show an old bug (allegedly fixed) where ping URLs must end in a trailing slash.

So, I’ve added the slash to the list below and fingers crossed, this post should be pinged across the net very quickly indeed.

The “Full Ping List”:
http://rpc.pingomatic.com/
http://1470.net/api/ping/
http://api.feedster.com/ping/
http://api.feedster.com/ping.php/
http://api.moreover.com/ping/
http://api.moreover.com/RPC2/
http://api.my.yahoo.com/RPC2/
http://api.my.yahoo.com/rss/ping/
http://bblog.com/ping.php/
http://bitacoras.net/ping/
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc/
http://blog.goo.ne.jp/XMLRPC/
http://blogdb.jp/xmlrpc/
http://blogmatcher.com/u.php/
http://bulkfeeds.net/rpc/
http://coreblog.org/ping/
http://mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatt/
https://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZFinance.woa/wa/pingPodcast/
http://ping.amagle.com/
http://ping.bitacoras.com/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.blogmura.jp/rpc/
http://ping.blo.gs/
http://ping.bloggers.jp/rpc/
http://ping.cocolog-nifty.com/xmlrpc/
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc/
http://ping.exblog.jp/xmlrpc/
http://ping.feedburner.com/
http://ping.syndic8.com/xmlrpc.php/
http://ping.myblog.jp/
http://pingqueue.com/rpc/
http://ping.blogg.de/
http://ping.rootblog.com/rpc.php/
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php/
http://pinger.blogflux.com/rpc/
http://ping.weblogalot.com/rpc.php/
http://ping.weblogs.se/
http://rcs.datashed.net/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogbuzzmachine.com/RPC2/
http://rpc.blogrolling.com/pinger/
http://rpc.britblog.com/
http://rpc.icerocket.com:10080/
http://rpc.newsgator.com/
http://rpc.tailrank.com/feedburner/RPC2/
http://rpc.technorati.com/rpc/ping/
http://rpc.weblogs.com/RPC2/
http://rpc.wpkeys.com/
http://services.newsgator.com/ngws/xmlrpcping.aspx/
http://signup.alerts.msn.com/alerts-PREP/submitPingExtended.doz/
http://topicexchange.com/RPC2/
http://trackback.bakeinu.jp/bakeping.php/
http://www.a2b.cc/setloc/bp.a2b/
http://www.bitacoles.net/ping.php/
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2/
http://www.blogdigger.com/RPC2/
http://www.blogoole.com/ping/
http://www.blogoon.net/ping/
http://www.blogpeople.net/servlet/weblogUpdates/
http://www.blogroots.com/tb_populi.blog?id=1/
http://www.blogshares.com/rpc.php/
http://www.blogsnow.com/ping/
http://www.blogstreet.com/xrbin/xmlrpc.cgi/
http://www.holycowdude.com/rpc/ping/
http://www.lasermemory.com/lsrpc/
http://www.imblogs.net/ping/
http://www.mod-pubsub.org/kn_apps/blogchatter/ping.php/
http://www.newsisfree.com/RPCCloud/
http://www.newsisfree.com/xmlrpctest.php/
http://www.popdex.com/addsite.php/
http://www.rssfwd.com/xmlrpc/api/
http://www.snipsnap.org/RPC2/
http://www.weblogues.com/RPC/
http://xmlrpc.blogg.de/
http://xping.pubsub.com/ping/

All the best,
Tom


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Tag And Ping - The Next Big Thing

Tuesday, May 30th, 2006

Is “Tag and Ping” the next big thing?

I first got the heads up a couple of days ago from Jack Humphrey (of Powerlinking fame) on “Tag And Ping” (not to be confused with Tagged.com btw).

If you remember blog and ping and all the hype surrounding it last year, this seems to be the 2006 equivalent. The Internet Marketing community still seems largely unaware of the method (other than a select few) but given Sean Wu is about to unleash Tag And Ping - The Next Generation of Blog and Ping on the general public in a few short days, it will no doubt be a matter of months before the new system spreads like wildfire across the internet marketing community.

Like Blog and Ping, Tag and Ping will in all likelihood suffer from abuse but given folksonomies and social bookmarking are firmly establishing themselves on the internet with they myriad of services springing up, it is highly likely this technique is here to stay.

I have already updated this blog to reflect much of the advice dispensed by Sean (see the Technorati Tags, Directory Tags and Social Bookmarks at the end of each post) and look forward to seeing what happens with this - the internet’s next big thing.

All the best,
Tom
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“www-” Million Dollar Domain Names?

Friday, May 19th, 2006

Would you like a domain name which could potentially be worth thousands, maybe millions of dollars (all for the price of registration @ $8.95?)

I’ve been scanning blogs, forums the news and article directories for 2 months now and yesterday I found what I was looking for…

The news went public.

You may think all the great dot com domain names have been long since gone - and you’d be right - kind of…

On March 7th, Perry Marshall, Jonathan Mizel & Glenn Livingston released some information on a new technique to improve your advertising effectiveness. They witnessed stellar results.

They also asked their customers to refrain from telling all and sundry for obvious reasons. Well, the cat’s out of the bag now (I saw an article with the info published yesterda) and I have had this step-by-step eBook explaining what you need to do to get yourself a great domain name.

Waste time now and you can be sure your competitors will not - Get over to GrabACoffee.com for more info.

Happy domain name hunting ;-)

All the best,
Tom

Advertising that SCREAMS!

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006

A little while back I was researching some affiliate programs for the term “success”.

Using my old friend Google, the way I was researching in this particular instance was to
use the following search phrase:

success affiliate program

This is quite a broad approach but it does get results. Anyway I looked through some of
the natural search listing results but my eye was caught by one advert in particular that SCREAMED at me.

Even though the advert was ranked about 5 or 6 on the listings, this advert has an excellent Click Through Rate (CTR).

The techniques employed by the advertiser are timeless, but not very many people
are adopting them.

Although this is a Google Adwords specific example, the same principles can be employed in all other forms of advertising to increase your response rates…

Full Review Available In The PDQArchives

All the best,
Tom
Self Help Tips
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Viral Inspiration

Sunday, April 30th, 2006

This post is double-edged.

It is applicable to anyone looking for inspiration and anyone interested in viral marketing examples.

Pretty much about anyone and everyone is covered by the above ;-)

Here it is:
The Interview With God

All the best,
Tom
Self Help Tips

Link Management Assistant

Sunday, April 30th, 2006

A very quick FYI.

I have used the excellent Link Management Assistant from Duncan Carver for some time now but what I was not aware of was the following:

If you enable the facility to display Google PageRank - this is against Google’s TOS and could get you into hot water.

Fortunately I wasn’t using it but was ignorant of the above until just now. If you have a site using LMA, make sure you switch the PageRank display feature off. It doesn’t pay to get on the wrong side of the big ‘G’.

All the best,
Tom
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Coregistration - Increase Web Site Traffic for FREE

Friday, April 28th, 2006

How can you use this tool for zero cost & zero risk?

In some circles co registration is equivalent to a four letter word.

Everyone seems to have an opinion although many are divided on whether it’s a good or bad idea.

The truth?

Well from my perspective at least, co-registration is nothing more than a tool. Like a hammer or a spanner, it can be used to do great or dastardly deeds.

If you’re like most, you get signups from one place only:

Your site.

To get to the kind of list numbers you hear others bandy about, you need to use the power of leverage and get others to work with/for you.

Get other webmasters to get people to signup to your list - the more you enlist to help (and it’s a 2 way street as you will feed them with subscribers too), the faster your list grows.

That is all co registration is: Advertising for your list on other people’s websites.

The idea is, when visitors become subscribers on someone else’s site, they get the opportunity
at the same time (or soon after) to sign up for yours!

How is this done?

There are 3 basic ways:
1. Pay someone to collect signups for you.
2. Coreg exchange
3. Personal coregistration (My favourite)

1. Pay someone to collect sign ups.

This is the most prevalent.

You will have to contact a lead house, pay them an agreed upon fee (dependant on numbers you want) and they then put up advertising links for your list around the net.

They collect sign ups and provide them to you as a “lead list”.

A lead list usual comprises:
-Name
-email address
-the ip address (where the person in question signed up from)
-a timestamp (when the person signed up)

You then plug the details into your autoresponder and start sending them emails.

This is hands off as far as you’re concerned (apart from the import into your autoresponder).

Disadvantages are numerous:

*As there is a latency from lead registration to delivery, the person may have totally forgotten they agreed to signup to your list.

When you do email them, they cry foul and accuse you of spamming.

So make sure your leads are ALWAYS less than 30 days old if you use this route - the fresher the better.

*The next disadvantage is one of uniqueness. Often the lead you have paid for is shared with another list owner.

You can have exclusive “ownership” but for a premium.

The more times a lead is shared, the more likely they will cry SPAM.

*False emails are a fact of life. People signup to lists just to see what’s on the Thank You page. With lead houses, the info is not verified using double optin, so you get a lot of false leads.

You can get around this by paying for double optin leads - again at a premium.

2. The second popular method is to use is a coregistration exchange.

Similar to a banner exchange, except instead of rotating banners, they show a sign up form and rotate sign up forms for related websites - yours included.

This is a simple way to start with zero cost.

Now for the downsides:

*Some exchanges are not very well targeted. Your signup could be on a page totally unrelated to the kind of site you are trying to promote - result: very few signups.

*Like traffic and banner exchanges, you normally get a ratio of signups returned to you. Look for exchanges that give you a better rate of return for every signup you provide, get as many back from the exchange you can.

3. Personal co registration - my favourite.

Personal co registration is a co reg network you build personally.

You create joint ventures and exchange sign ups with other websites owners. It can take a little time to start but once it does, hold on!!!…

It can be hard to buid up if you are new. There are no limits on how big you can grow - NO LIMITS.

There are no “exchange ratios” and there is no time lapse between a coreg signup and addition to your list!

Plus - no sharing - you get exclusive leads.

Recommended Resource:

Floyd Fisher’s Coreg Master - this is the script I use, I highly recommend you purchase one yourself.

But…

Should you not want to dip your toe into purchasing right at this moment, how about I help build your list instead for FREE?

Interested?

Thought you might be ;-)

Now, I’ve got to put a couple of caveats up front:
1. I will do my best to add all requests to the coreg process I have setup. If you’re not added as quickly as you’d like, bear in mind you are in a queue and I will get to you in time ;-)
2. Your site must be “related” to one of the following subjects:
A. Internet Marketing/Business Building
B. Self Improvement
C. Astrology/New Age
D. eBooks / Publishing

As, the co-registration systems will be for the following websites:
www.pdqprospects.com
www.selfhelptips.com
www.fengshuiastrology.com
www.grabacoffee.com

3. No spamming - if you are found to spam at any point, you will be removed from the system.

4. Double optin - This is not mandatory but is preferred. You will have higher quality leads and
face less spam complaints.

So, all you need do for now is register your interest by signing up (double optin naturally)
to the following list - I’ll work through the signups on a first come, first served basis.


Click Here To Build Your List

Conclusion

No matter which co-reg option you choose, you need to drive traffic to your sites in multiple ways:

  • Articles
  • Blogs
  • Joint Ventures

And most importantly, you need to concentrate on CONVERSION at every step - signup, follow up, back end.

There is no point filling a bucket with water if it gushes out of massive holes in the bottom after all.

All the best,
Tom

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Time Management Tip

Tuesday, April 25th, 2006

It doesn’t matter whether you have right brain time management or left brain time management skills (is there such a thing?), the following resouces - both by Derek Franklin of Search Automator fame are a must bookmark:

The first is a general search site called WhoNu.com.

The second is specifically aimed at those in the Internet Marketinng community looking to earn money at a site called: MoneyLaunchPad.com.

Why would you want another search tool - isn’t Google good enough? Well, no Google is a shotgun, these resources are online rifles.

Check them out, they’re free and well worth bookmarking - but only if you want to save yourself serious time online and indeed make some money.

All the best,
Tom
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Latest ECommerce Info

Tuesday, April 18th, 2006

MarketingSherpa have just released an excerpt from their ECommerce Benchmark guide. It makes for very interesting reading:
Benchmark Summary - Click Here

You can get an insight into the winning strategies you need for web ecommerce.

In the first graph alone you can see PPC is the biggest traffic source for high growth internet companies, the other biggie (although a reiteration of fundamentals rather than anything else) is how closely the leaders monitor (i.e. test and track) their own performance.

More to come…

All the best,
Tom
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