I guarantee you're going to love this...
Today I'm going to reveal how you can have your
own web-site up and running and ready to profit
in just 30-60 minutes from this very moment!
Here's a sample of a site recently created using
the incredibly simple formula I'm about to show
you...
ultimate-body.blogspot.com
Pretty nice, 'ey?
The site doesn't cost a DIME to run, and the
profit potential is unlimited!
--------------------------------------------
Follow these simple steps to get your OWN site
up and running in just minutes from now:
Step 1.
The type of web-site you'll be creating (similar
to the sample above) is called a "BLOG". A BLOG
is a "content-based" site in an online journal
format. Like most web-sites, the heart of a
successful BLOG is its "content". Without some
sort of content, people would have no reason
to visit your site.
So the first step is to secure unlimited content
for your BLOG -- content in the form of interesting,
educational articles (exactly like the articles
shown on the sample BLOG above)...
InfoGoRound (IGR) is a brand new service that will
provide you with unlimited *private label* article
content that is absolutely PERFECT for your BLOG.
(The content on the BLOG above came from IGR!)
...You can utilize the content that IGR provides in
an endless variety of ways just as if you'd written
it yourself. You never have to credit the original
article authors in any manner, and you can modify
or add to IGR content in any way you desire!!
Another reason to get excited about IGR is that
you have access to INSTANT content. Normally it would
take you days or even weeks to write the amount of
content found in the sample BLOG above. But with
IGR, all the content you see there was added in
just 10 minutes! Amazing, isn't it?
And because IGR's article database is growing on
a DAILY basis, you'll have fresh new content that
you can add to your BLOG/site on a regular basis!
So to complete Step 1, click here to join IGR
right now:
infogoround.com
I almost forgot the best part! ...Thanks to
IGR's *optional* Cash for Content program, your
(IGR) membership doesn't have to cost you a dime!
By writing and submitting just ONE brief article
to IGR each month, you'll get a 100% rebate on
your membership fee! Or, you simply pay the normal
$24.95 membership dues. Trust me, either way is
an incredible deal when you consider that IGR
*guarantees* its members will receive at LEAST
100 fresh new articles per month. Here's the
link again:
infogoround.com
After joining IGR, come back and continue on
with the next step here...
Step 2.
Before proceeding with this next step, you will
need to decide on a topic for your BLOG. I
recommend that you login to the IGR members'
area and take a look at the various content
categories. Simply choose a category/topic that
interests you.
Here are a few possibilities, just to get your
juices flowing:
-Health and Fitness
-Pet Care
-Real Estate
-Marketing
-Home Improvement
-Music
-Gardening
-Travel
Once you have decided on a topic you are ready
to continue...
"Blogger.com" is a totally free service that
will provide you with everything needed to start
and run your BLOG (besides the content).
To set up your BLOG, visit blogger.com
and follow the 3 steps provided to open your BLOG
account.
Give some consideration to your BLOG title. Since
the sample BLOG above is about health and fitness,
the name "ultimate-body" was chosen as the title.
Once you have your account set up, login to what
Blogger calls your "Dashboard". Think of this
as the "control panel" for your BLOG. This is
where you add content to your BLOG, edit your
profile, etc.
Really the only two things you need to concern
yourself with to get things rolling are the
"Edit Profile" section and then the "Posting"
section. (Note: To get to the "Posting" section
you need to click on your BLOG title found on
the Dashboard main page.)
On the Edit Profile page I recommend that you
scroll down and fill out the "About Me" section.
Visit the sample BLOG above to get an idea of
what you might want to enter. Make sure to
Save your changes. You can always modify this
later.
Next, click on your BLOG title, go to the "Posting"
section, and click on "Create". Now you're ready
to grab relevant articles from IGR to "fill" your
BLOG with content!...
4-5 articles should be plenty to start. You'll want
to post a new article or two each week (which will
only take a couple minutes thanks to IGR!). But right
now you just need some starter content. Inside the
*IGR* members area, simply search or browse to find
articles related to your BLOG topic. I recommend
using the "Format Article" link found near the bottom
of IGR's "View Article" pages, to instantly format
each article to your liking. Very cool feature.
...Then, simply Copy and Paste each of your
selected IGR articles into the text box provided
in the Post/Create section of your *Blogger*
account! Make sure to click "Publish Your
Post" as you enter each article. At any
point, you can use the "View Blog" link to
make sure your site is coming along as planned.
Note: Blogger's "Help" menu is EXCELLENT. If
you have questions or want to modify your site
in additional ways, consult the Help menu and
you won't be disappointed.
This is FUN stuff, isn't it?!
Step 3.
The final step is to "monetize" your site.
There are two very easy ways to do this.
One way is by inserting affiliate links
to products and services related to your
BLOG topic. You can find thousands of
FR/EE affiliate products and opportunities
at places such as:
-ClickBank.com
-AssociatePrograms.com
-CommissionJunction.com
-Web-Sites related to your topic
You can insert affiliate links (and related
ads) right within the articles you obtain
from IGR and post to your BLOG! You can
also add affiliate links in your BLOG's
"Link list" if you'd like. To learn how
to modify your Link list, go to Blogger's
Help menu and Search on "links". Click on
"How do I edit my link list?" to proceed.
You'll also be invited to participate in
Google's popular "Adsense" program inside
your Blogger account (on the Dashboard
home page). Some people make THOUSANDS
in commissions every month with Adsense
alone! This is one of THE most effective
ways to monetize your new BLOG. Google
provides you with instructions on how to
easily incorporate Adsense listings into
your BLOG. It's a snap.
If you ask me, IGR and Blogger.com are a
match made in heaven! Every profitable
BLOG demands quality content -- content
that is FLEXIBLE by nature so that you're
able to modify it to suit your needs
by inserting affiliate links, attaching
your resource box, signing your name
as author, etc.
IGR + Blogger = Instant Web-Sites (that
don't have to cost you a dime, and that
can GENERATE unlimited profit with very
little time and effort invested)!
Monday, September 26, 2005
Monday, September 19, 2005
Know Your Cookies - A Marketing Tool
Cookies are perhaps the most intensely debated internet marketing tool today. Chances are you do not trust cookies and are wary of them, or you’re not sure what they are.
Lou Montulli a former Netscape Communications employee developed cookies. Netscape referred to this process as “State Management” since they introduce a state to the stateless HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer protocol). The name Cookie was derived from UNIX objects called Magic Cookies.
Cookies are ID’s assigned to your browser by a server and stored in a text file on your hard drive. Whenever you visit a web site your browser requests the sites pages from the server where the site is hosted. This server then assigns a unique ID to your browser, which can be used to collect information and store for later use.
Companies are now able to target users and segment them on the basis of their browsing habits. Not only commercial firms find this information very useful, but federal web sites are tracking their users too. There are more than 60 federal sites currently using cookies.
Your age, occupation, lifestyle, income level, marital status, and buying preferences can be gathered using cookies. How this information is used, depends on the individual companies collecting the information. They can use cookies to better design their products and services thereby reducing the gap between your expectations and the value their product delivers.
Cookies also allow customization of the site you are visiting, say you prefer a particular type of music or have a specific interest that is recognized by the sites marketer. Your next visit to the site can be customized playing that particular music or maybe by showing you stories related to your interest. Special discounts or custom buying options can be offered to you, making your experience unique and more enjoyable at this site.
There is a huge debate as to whether cookies are an infringement on your privacy. There are a lot of companies that have misused this information collection tool. Hence, sometimes it appears that cookies are an evil built into the internet. This is however not the complete picture.
Every time you are asked whether you want to accept or reject a cookie, try to read the policy of that site only then decide whether to reject or accept their cookie. The web site is responsible for conveying their policies and to make it clear as to whether the company will share or sell their database to other companies etc.
Cookies can definitely enhance your viewer experience and so they must be allowed while browsing. However, certain caution may help you ward off any unpleasant experience. You must pay attention as to how the information you convey will be used by the site.
Lou Montulli a former Netscape Communications employee developed cookies. Netscape referred to this process as “State Management” since they introduce a state to the stateless HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer protocol). The name Cookie was derived from UNIX objects called Magic Cookies.
Cookies are ID’s assigned to your browser by a server and stored in a text file on your hard drive. Whenever you visit a web site your browser requests the sites pages from the server where the site is hosted. This server then assigns a unique ID to your browser, which can be used to collect information and store for later use.
Companies are now able to target users and segment them on the basis of their browsing habits. Not only commercial firms find this information very useful, but federal web sites are tracking their users too. There are more than 60 federal sites currently using cookies.
Your age, occupation, lifestyle, income level, marital status, and buying preferences can be gathered using cookies. How this information is used, depends on the individual companies collecting the information. They can use cookies to better design their products and services thereby reducing the gap between your expectations and the value their product delivers.
Cookies also allow customization of the site you are visiting, say you prefer a particular type of music or have a specific interest that is recognized by the sites marketer. Your next visit to the site can be customized playing that particular music or maybe by showing you stories related to your interest. Special discounts or custom buying options can be offered to you, making your experience unique and more enjoyable at this site.
There is a huge debate as to whether cookies are an infringement on your privacy. There are a lot of companies that have misused this information collection tool. Hence, sometimes it appears that cookies are an evil built into the internet. This is however not the complete picture.
Every time you are asked whether you want to accept or reject a cookie, try to read the policy of that site only then decide whether to reject or accept their cookie. The web site is responsible for conveying their policies and to make it clear as to whether the company will share or sell their database to other companies etc.
Cookies can definitely enhance your viewer experience and so they must be allowed while browsing. However, certain caution may help you ward off any unpleasant experience. You must pay attention as to how the information you convey will be used by the site.
Saturday, September 10, 2005
How To Use Public Domain & Private Label Content
There's so much public domain content available all over the internet, with Master Resale Rights available and sites springing up left and right with Private Label articles you can use to create your own products, but what do you need to bear in mind, what is the best way to use all this content and what can you create with it?
What to Look Out For:
Copyright - you absolutely must check on this - violating someone's copyright is not clever and can be a really expensive mistake not to mention seriously damaging your reputation. Is it really public domain? All those lawyers fees can really mount up when checking into all this but believe me, you really don't want to end up in court over it.
Public Domain Content - If you have the money to have a lawyer look at copyright for you then fine, go ahead and get started. Where can you find this type of content? It can be difficult to find content that is free to use but here are a few links to get you started:
http://www.gutenberg.org/
http://www.wikimedia.org/
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html
Master Resale Rights - If you can't afford expensive lawyers what else can you do? One rather less pricey way is to buy Master Resale Rights to a product - this gives you the opportunity to name yourself as the author, use the content in another product, rewrite the whole thing - the possibilities are endless. Just be aware with this that you will need to look at the terms and conditions of what you are allowed to do with the product before you buy.
On a budget? - not to worry, there are still many ways you can find great content without spending a fortune or worrying about whether you can legally use it. Sites such as infogoround.com and thelostfiles.com provide guaranteed public domain or private label content for a monthly fee. You could also sign up to some of the well known internet marketer's newsletters. Why? Well if you're serious about internet marketing you should be checking out all the latest happenings anyway, but a lot of newsletter owners will have free ebooks, giveaways and articles to download - some of which you will be able to use as your own.
So you've got your content ready to go and you've checked your rights and permissions but there is one more thing to think about - sites such as copyscape.com check for duplicate content on the internet and of course so can the search engines. This could mean anything from the search engines deciding they won't rate your site as highly because the exact same content is available elsewhere to some smarty pants asking you if you really did write that incredibly good article because they've seen someone else claiming that they wrote it too, so you do need to be aware of this when looking to use content you haven't personally created, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't go ahead and make the most of all that wonderful information.
What Can You Do?
You could just read the information to learn from it yourself; you could read it to get ideas for businesses, more articles, content, the list is limited only by your imagination.
How about:
Ebooks
Print Books
Presentations
Membership Sites
Face to face courses
Mini courses
Teleclass content
Webcast content
Podcast content
Blog content
Content for your Autoresponder
Ezine content
Articles for your site to build AdSense income pages
Viral Reports
Tips Lists
When it comes to using all the content you have gathered, you need to look through it all and decide what you want to produce. If you plan to use content from more than one source, such as 2 or 3 articles by different authors to be combined into a report, you will need to go through and change the content into a similar style, check that it is all written in the same tense, make sure the formatting is the same throughout, check for spelling and grammar (for example - spelling for some words is different in the US than the UK) and look through all the articles to see if any of the points made are duplicated.
Once you've done this, make a list of points you want to make in your report, read the articles through again and start combining them together to fit what you want to say - cut and paste to copy sections into the right place.
Next, look at the way your draft reads now and see if it fits your style of writing, your personality and your business. Reword it to fit with this - there's no point in producing a very formally written, stiff sounding report for a hobby site.
At this point you could just tweak it, proof read it, and then go ahead and publish it but to take it a step further and make it really unique, why not look at how you might rewrite it so that all of the content is yours - now you've got the basic idea down and laid out, it shouldn't take you long to reword things, add in some of your own ideas and keywords that fit your site, and maybe a few quotes and suddenly you're looking at something that no-one else has got, that the search engines will love and that no-one can claim you copied.
Time to start creating!
What to Look Out For:
Copyright - you absolutely must check on this - violating someone's copyright is not clever and can be a really expensive mistake not to mention seriously damaging your reputation. Is it really public domain? All those lawyers fees can really mount up when checking into all this but believe me, you really don't want to end up in court over it.
Public Domain Content - If you have the money to have a lawyer look at copyright for you then fine, go ahead and get started. Where can you find this type of content? It can be difficult to find content that is free to use but here are a few links to get you started:
http://www.gutenberg.org/
http://www.wikimedia.org/
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html
Master Resale Rights - If you can't afford expensive lawyers what else can you do? One rather less pricey way is to buy Master Resale Rights to a product - this gives you the opportunity to name yourself as the author, use the content in another product, rewrite the whole thing - the possibilities are endless. Just be aware with this that you will need to look at the terms and conditions of what you are allowed to do with the product before you buy.
On a budget? - not to worry, there are still many ways you can find great content without spending a fortune or worrying about whether you can legally use it. Sites such as infogoround.com and thelostfiles.com provide guaranteed public domain or private label content for a monthly fee. You could also sign up to some of the well known internet marketer's newsletters. Why? Well if you're serious about internet marketing you should be checking out all the latest happenings anyway, but a lot of newsletter owners will have free ebooks, giveaways and articles to download - some of which you will be able to use as your own.
So you've got your content ready to go and you've checked your rights and permissions but there is one more thing to think about - sites such as copyscape.com check for duplicate content on the internet and of course so can the search engines. This could mean anything from the search engines deciding they won't rate your site as highly because the exact same content is available elsewhere to some smarty pants asking you if you really did write that incredibly good article because they've seen someone else claiming that they wrote it too, so you do need to be aware of this when looking to use content you haven't personally created, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't go ahead and make the most of all that wonderful information.
What Can You Do?
You could just read the information to learn from it yourself; you could read it to get ideas for businesses, more articles, content, the list is limited only by your imagination.
How about:
Ebooks
Print Books
Presentations
Membership Sites
Face to face courses
Mini courses
Teleclass content
Webcast content
Podcast content
Blog content
Content for your Autoresponder
Ezine content
Articles for your site to build AdSense income pages
Viral Reports
Tips Lists
When it comes to using all the content you have gathered, you need to look through it all and decide what you want to produce. If you plan to use content from more than one source, such as 2 or 3 articles by different authors to be combined into a report, you will need to go through and change the content into a similar style, check that it is all written in the same tense, make sure the formatting is the same throughout, check for spelling and grammar (for example - spelling for some words is different in the US than the UK) and look through all the articles to see if any of the points made are duplicated.
Once you've done this, make a list of points you want to make in your report, read the articles through again and start combining them together to fit what you want to say - cut and paste to copy sections into the right place.
Next, look at the way your draft reads now and see if it fits your style of writing, your personality and your business. Reword it to fit with this - there's no point in producing a very formally written, stiff sounding report for a hobby site.
At this point you could just tweak it, proof read it, and then go ahead and publish it but to take it a step further and make it really unique, why not look at how you might rewrite it so that all of the content is yours - now you've got the basic idea down and laid out, it shouldn't take you long to reword things, add in some of your own ideas and keywords that fit your site, and maybe a few quotes and suddenly you're looking at something that no-one else has got, that the search engines will love and that no-one can claim you copied.
Time to start creating!
Thursday, September 01, 2005
The Buzz about Blogs
The “blogosphere” is continuing to grow at an amazing pace. In fact, the number of published blogs is expected to double about every five months.
Right now, there is a new blog published every second, according to Technorati, the search engine that keeps track of Weblogs. In March there were over 7 million blogs, that number is now over 14 million.
Weblogs have become the homepages of the 21st century and are used for everything from sharing recipes, personal opinions and travel adventures, to the latest in political and economic news.
Blogs are also facing their share of controversy and praise. Reporters Without Borders recently published their “short list” of the seven best blogs out of 60, which won the “Freedom Blog Awards” for defending freedom of expression.
Winners (who are chosen by the public who vote for their favorite blogs) included “Shared Pains” which describes life in Afghan, and Mojtaba Saminejad, an Iranian whose blog is published in the Farsi language. (He received a two-year prison sentence in 2005 because of his blog). Another winner, Jeff Ooi, publishes the Malaysian blog “Screenshots” which is in English. Because he allowed a comment on his blog back in 2004 which reportedly “insulted Islam” according to authorities, he was also threatened with imprisonment.
This award marks the first year for the event, but Reporters Without Borders hopes to make it an annual one. The organization follows and reports on freedom of the press around the world.
In oppressive countries, such as Iran (which shut down almost all independent newspapers in 2000), blogs have provided a way for journalists and others to express themselves and share the latest news and happenings. But speaking up in such places often has serious consequences, such as one blogger in Iraq who was jailed by authorities after speaking up about what was simply a local problem.
China is another repressive area. Recently Chinese authorities declared that all bloggers had to register their blogs with them, or risk being shut down.
To help combat these and similar problems around the world, organizations are being set up to provide global support among bloggers for those who are being repressed.
One of the biggest controversies right now, is whether bloggers should receive “journalistic” status. Some people see blogs and bloggers as a kind of counterbalance to what they see as media arrogance, while others call them vigilantes. Recent events with Newsweek, CBS News and others have caused a division between the main stream media (MSM) and bloggers who feel the “truth is out there” and they want it told.
One thing both bloggers and the mainstream media agree on, is that things have been forever changed. The tools of mass media are no longer the property of the press alone, they’re also freely available to the people. What that means to us in the future, or what changes blogs will bring about to the way we receive and act on the news we get, no one really knows.
Not as controversial, blogs have also become a mainstream tool of large and small businesses everywhere.
Blogging provides a simple and low-cost method for businesses to stay in touch with their customers, get free publicity and build a business brand.
As technology continues to evolve, and the number of blogs continues to rise, it remains to be seen whether blogging will remain an effective business and marketing tool. But one thing is for certain – blogs are here to stay.
Right now, there is a new blog published every second, according to Technorati, the search engine that keeps track of Weblogs. In March there were over 7 million blogs, that number is now over 14 million.
Weblogs have become the homepages of the 21st century and are used for everything from sharing recipes, personal opinions and travel adventures, to the latest in political and economic news.
Blogs are also facing their share of controversy and praise. Reporters Without Borders recently published their “short list” of the seven best blogs out of 60, which won the “Freedom Blog Awards” for defending freedom of expression.
Winners (who are chosen by the public who vote for their favorite blogs) included “Shared Pains” which describes life in Afghan, and Mojtaba Saminejad, an Iranian whose blog is published in the Farsi language. (He received a two-year prison sentence in 2005 because of his blog). Another winner, Jeff Ooi, publishes the Malaysian blog “Screenshots” which is in English. Because he allowed a comment on his blog back in 2004 which reportedly “insulted Islam” according to authorities, he was also threatened with imprisonment.
This award marks the first year for the event, but Reporters Without Borders hopes to make it an annual one. The organization follows and reports on freedom of the press around the world.
In oppressive countries, such as Iran (which shut down almost all independent newspapers in 2000), blogs have provided a way for journalists and others to express themselves and share the latest news and happenings. But speaking up in such places often has serious consequences, such as one blogger in Iraq who was jailed by authorities after speaking up about what was simply a local problem.
China is another repressive area. Recently Chinese authorities declared that all bloggers had to register their blogs with them, or risk being shut down.
To help combat these and similar problems around the world, organizations are being set up to provide global support among bloggers for those who are being repressed.
One of the biggest controversies right now, is whether bloggers should receive “journalistic” status. Some people see blogs and bloggers as a kind of counterbalance to what they see as media arrogance, while others call them vigilantes. Recent events with Newsweek, CBS News and others have caused a division between the main stream media (MSM) and bloggers who feel the “truth is out there” and they want it told.
One thing both bloggers and the mainstream media agree on, is that things have been forever changed. The tools of mass media are no longer the property of the press alone, they’re also freely available to the people. What that means to us in the future, or what changes blogs will bring about to the way we receive and act on the news we get, no one really knows.
Not as controversial, blogs have also become a mainstream tool of large and small businesses everywhere.
Blogging provides a simple and low-cost method for businesses to stay in touch with their customers, get free publicity and build a business brand.
As technology continues to evolve, and the number of blogs continues to rise, it remains to be seen whether blogging will remain an effective business and marketing tool. But one thing is for certain – blogs are here to stay.
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