Marketing tools I have profited from

There's a lot of hype out there. Especially around marketing tools. And most of it is based on fear: fear you won't buy with a "mere" quiet recommendation.

This is a hype-free list of marketing tools. I have personally used them all and found them effective. Some I continue to use. Others met a need at the time. A few of them I am reselling. Others are free.

All of them come with my warm (hype-free) recommendation. And the first one is free.

1. A 90-page book that shows you exactly how to get on page one of the search engines
2. Here's a tool that will let you push your site to the top of the search engines
3. The fast and easy way to take maximum advantage of the Blog explosion
4. See exactly how a search engine professional turned his wife's web site into a roaring business — and then copy him on your site
5. Get jaw-dropping headlines
6. Revolutionize your newsletter — fast
7. How to build a solid web business that runs on autopilot
8. Persuade hesitant buyers & keep contact with customers — on auto
9. Using Yahoo to build a business
10. Blueprints for building 'Net businesses in 30 days
11. Another way to build a business on autopilot
12. How to write an ebook quickly
13. Tickling income out of eBay in partnership with sellers

This book is worth $90 ... but you can get it for free

I have found that anyone can take almost any site onto page one of Google.

One of the people who has helped me learn how to do this is Brad Callen, and he's just written a free, 90-page ebook that shows you how you can do the same. Right click on the book cover now and download a free copy.

Two things I like about Brad's give-away. One, it gets right to the main point. Brad covers all the main bases in detail, with examples, and summarizes what you need to know (and do!). Two, it's beautifully designed and laid out. Brad's software is like this also. He produces well-crafted, and nicely-finished stuff.

Parts of the book are a quiet sales pitch for the software he sells. But he does this modestly in the "no-hype" tradition and it won't put you off. Right click to get a copy now.

I am getting my sites to the top of the search engines with this program.
And you can to. (There's a FREE trial copy available.)

If you've been reading my blog you'll know that I am now regularly getting sites onto the first page of Google and the other major search engines, yahoo! and MSN.

How'd I do it?

Simple, I just let my competitors show me the way. Confused? Let me explain ...

Beleive it or not, my COMPETITION is the one main reason my sites do so well today.

Thanks to this program (which is the one I mentioned above) I can now see EXACTLY what my competition is doing to rank so well for a specific keyword. Then, all I have to do is follow a step by step process and just copy. And eventually overtake my competitor.

Did I say 'simple'? It is. Easy and effective.

But there's more. I also use the program to stop search engines from penalizing me!

How?

You get hurt by linking to websites that have been penalized by search engines. But how are you supposed to keep track of EACH site you link out to? Well, thanks to this program, I no longer have to. The program does it for me.

Right now, this program has made it so simple for me to build ANY website I want to and just use years of my competition's expertise to out-do them. I highly recommend it to you.

This may just be the one thing your site needs to get your site right to the top of the search engines. Go now and pick up a free trial copy. Give it a run yourself and see what you think.

Harnessing the massive power of a Blog. How to take an unfair advantage of these pioneering days of Blogging

Blog. During 2004 it became the most rapidly learned new word in the English language!

Blogs are now everywhere, and new ones are launched every minute.

They can become powerful marketing tools for anyone selling on the web. All of us who sell should take advantage of this erupting phenomenon. And Brandon Hong's video ebook is the best way I know to learn how to do that. Quickly.

A Blog, or journal, is an easy concept. But how your web site can benefit from one is difficult. This is where Brandon shines.

He shows you where to set up a blog for free. Gives you some ideas on how to fill it with material that will help your Internet marketing. And then uses crystal clear videos to walk you through setting up an RSS feed from your blog to your market.

Most other places that try to teach this technical stuff are, well ... too technical for most of us. Myself included. Brandon has reduced this complex job to series of easy, easy steps. And he's explained and illustrated every step with a video tutorial!

I have not seen a more clear explanation of how to set up RSS feeds. This is definitely the resource to get.

He uses short video tutorials built into his ebook so you see right on your screen exactly what you need to do to set up your own blog and RSS feed. His careful, simple steps are easy to follow.

Blogs are quickly becoming a major force in marketing. Brandon's video tutorials are the quick and easy, one-stop-shop to knowing how to catch this wave. I highly recommend his video ebook. Click here and read more about it.

$11,142 in his first month! And that was just the beginning. See how a Professional Search Engine Consultant dominates the search engines using simple, common sense techniques!

At the beginning of the year a modest young search engine professional with an impressive track record, helped his wife open up a web site selling wedding favors.

He got the site ready for the search engines.

In July, their site did over $162,000 in business. It will do nearly a million dollars worth of business by the end of October.

Not bad eh?

Well, this was not a fluke. There were no arcane tricks. And any web site could be successful in the same proportion. Because the key to the wedding favors site was knowing how the search engines work.

It was that simple!

Now you can do it to. Because the so-called "secrets" of getting high rankings on the search engines can be explained in half a day. And this guy and an associate of mine just did exactly that!

The search engine consultant and a business associate of his, who I have been in contact with for the last year or so, as it happens, got together in a recording studio and described exactly what was done to make the wedding favors site such a roaring success.

You can read about this search engine seminar here.

They put the recording on a set of CDs and offered them for sale. In the first weeks of July they sold out four times! In fact my associate told me today, "At one point last week, we had more traffic in one day than our server could handle!"

I have my own set of these refreshing, practical discs. They've got hours of just these two guys talking about what any web site can do to get good rankings in the search engines.

In plain, easy-to-follow English. No jargon. No posing. No wild claims. And in an under-stated, calm, no-hype manner that I really warm to.

The market has been missing this kind of practical search engine advice for a long time, and people are buying the CD set in record numbers, my associate told me.

I'm not surprised. They've taught me heaps. If I was to buy just one produce this year it would be this one. It covers both the 'content' side of getting lots of visitors to your site, and the 'links' side of things.

But you don't have to take my word for it. You can listen to these two guys first. Click to get a free download of teleseminar they did recently. Hear them discussing how to get sites ranked on the search engines — with no pitch for the product!

But there's even more free stuff!

Click here and sign up to listen to the story of how the wedding favor site got to Number One on Google, and pick up a free report on the Seven Mistakes people commonly make when they try to get up on the search engines.

Quality advice. From a guy who is doing it. Free.

Some products come and go. This one will be working for you for a long time. It gets my thumbs up and a five star rating.

At last! You can write jaw-dropping headlines, modelled on the masters of this critical art

The next visitor to your web site (and they could be opening up your home page as you read this) has just one question in mind — 'Will this web site give me what I want?'

And they ask the same question when they scan your latest newsletter, glance at your e-mail subject line, open up your sales letter.

How are you going to convince them that is IS — before they click away?

A good headline will do most of that work for you.

For over 100 years of Western commerce this has been true. It still holds today.

But if you're like me you need expert help to write a reader-stopping headline — and preferably the kind of help that will actually generate the thing for you rather than giving you 'golden rules for writing headlines that work'.

I've lost count of the number of times I've written a headline and wished I had more time (or know-how) to go back and make it headline that draws readers down the page into my text.

It's frustrating.

Not any longer. Suddenly there's some simple software that lets me generate a long list of outstanding headlines to pick and choose from — in seconds.

All I do is brainstorm about my customer, plug that into the 'generator' and — bingo — I've got 100 headlines to choose from.

I can select 4 or 5 of the best and confidently get on with the web page, or newsletter, or sales copy, or whatever.

Ahead, for once! A good feeling that.

Notice how it's locked into the market? I have to THINK about my customers and my product before I press the 'generate' button.

I like starting from that perspective.

And there's more. This generator isn't just generating the smart ideas of one person, or something that rocks in 2003. It builds headlines based on some of the best headlines of the last 100 years.

I like THAT a lot.

I contacted the developer over something last week and can assure you he's got integrity a mile high. I recommend his headline generator as a time-saver that's hot-wired into the market.

Have a look here and tell me what you think.

The quick and easy way to making your newsletter readers think you're wonderful. (I know. You are anyway. But ...)

Stories.

True stories about people who have figured out how to make money. And not just make money anywhere. But in the segment of the market that your newsletter readers are trying to succeed in.

Put these stories into your newsletter each week and two things happen:

• First, more subscribers begin to actually read your newsletter. (Yes, it's an embarrassing fact of online-newsletter-life that most people don't read what you write!)
• Second, they give your value-rating a HUGE boost. Because you're giving them something that almost everyone of us is interested in ... real life stories. (Just think about what articles you stopped at in today's newspaper. Chances are it was a story about someone. Right? We ALL stop and read stories.)

And another thing can happen if you use these stories the right way. You can add another stream of income to your newsletter. One that would be impossible to contrive without interviews and stories.

There's an easy way to start adding stories about successful people to your newsletter. I wrote the only book on the subject. Click now to read about it here.

Business on auto-pilot? Yes. It's possible. But first there's the hard work

There is a simple, easy-to-follow way of getting your share of Internet money on auto-pilot, in a sector that is still in it's infancy.

Actually there are THREE ways. And the first two are free. I recommend all three.

1) Listen for free to an interview with a seller.

You'll find his interview about a third of the way from the top of the long, main page. Past a short 3-minute video presentation about another seller, Colin. (The first page is a promo. Click through to the main page. You'll see the link to a 'live' telephone conversation about the 8-step process.)

He talks for half an hour about the success he is having re-selling from simple, information-rich web sites he and his wife built. What I found valuable is that he names 11 traditional products they are making good money from at their automated, no-hype, affiliate web sites.

That's 11 product ideas YOU can use.

They're proven ideas. These things sell. There's PLENTY of room on the Internet and this guy is naming the products he's found do sell — completely unconcerned about you taking market share from him.

No theory in this free audio. Product ideas you can follow. And a list of the steps he takes to find products and set up web sites.

Even if you focus on your own product, listen to this interview and consider setting up as an affiliate for other people's products as a sideline using his guidelines.

Click and listen for free.

2) Read stories about it

I've got a growing collection of stories of people who are doing this. Read them here now.

3) Buy his eBook

It's got an 'ouch!' price, but I would go ahead and buy it anyway, because he lays out all the steps he takes — the simple, baby- sized steps.

He's written nothing remarkably new in his eBook. (Who has?) But what he DOES show you is a step-by-step programme you can follow. He explains everything clearly and quickly. That's what makes his book stand out from most of the others.

Also he demonstrates that the search engines like his growing number of sites — 90 at the last count — in spite of hic-up he had with Google in mid-August that saw the PR value of many of his sites plunge. (That drop is going to be temporary, in my opinion. He is building by the search engine rules, not using tricks, and his "empire" of sites will rise again like a great whale.)

One thing. This approach is based on building sites with lots of content. That means lots of writing. Personally, I thrive on this. I am seeing my own large content sites get pushed up the search engines. But I can see smaller sites and other strategies, like link swapping with good quality sites, appealing to some people.

You can get the first 34 pages as a free download.

I would say this eBook is definitely one of the best summaries I've seen of the profitable art of finding in-demand affiliate products, setting up to sell them, and launching your own reselling business that actually makes money.

And I'm not the only person to think this. Read a book review.

Hear the interview, read the stories, then buy the book. Do all three.

Now you can keep in touch with the visitor who didn't buy at your site. And with your customers who need to be reminded to buy again.

It's simple. You just use autoresponders.

These are remarkable little scripts that keep you in touch with prospects or customers by email — automatically.

Here's how they work.

Someone is on your web site considering buying your product, but hesitating. That's OK, because you are also offering some free information that's related to the product and also of interest to your visitor. They give you their name and email, and the free information drops into their inbox. And the following day they get another email from you, addressed to them personally, with some soft selling for your product. And so on at as many days apart as is appropriate.

Same with your buyers. You can sign them up for sequences of pre-written emails that remind the buyer about you, suggest further purchases, and offer discounts.

And you can write a set of (say) 12 newsletters and send them out at monthly intervals using an autoresponder.

All personalized. All automated. You set it up, and then never lift a finger again.

There are free autoresponder scripts out there, that come with ads (either to you or to the person who receives your emails) or are technically shaky. I've used them.

There are also scripts that cost you $20 a month.

But you don't need to pay that much. Because the best autoresponder I've found you can purchase outright — for just $100 — and use for as many follow up campaigns as you need!

I can't speak highly enough of this autoresponder. Its easier and has more features than any free autoresponder. And does everything the expensive ones do with slick simplicity and style, at a fraction of the price.

In fact I would call it virtually flawless. So do the clients I have set it up for. You need an autoresponder, and this is the one to get.

Get yours now and be smoothly looking after your prospects and customers (did I also say, 'professionally'?) week by week on automatic.

A free course by a couple selling swords and shields from Yahoo!

The 3 outrageously simple things that clever people do to quickly make lots of honest money on the web — and how you can copy their success.

They're in this brand new, three-part mini-course ... which I collaborated on, and recommend to you.

You'll definitely find it worthwhile, because it's adapted from a total Internet business system developed by a couple who are making over $3,400 a month selling Medieval weapons from a simple web site on Yahoo! Stores. They know what to sell, where to find it, how to build web sites that present it, and how to market. (And how to ifnd the way to the bank.)

Clever people — who know what they're talking about.

You can learn from them. Just sign up right here ... then check your e-mail in-box. You'll be reading Part One in less than two minutes.

As I say, I highly recommended this course and their book that's promoted in the course. (See, I told you this page was hype-free.)

Develop a 'Net business in 30 days

Who Else Wants To Set Up A Profitable Internet Business In Only 30 Days?

You can be next.

This is not fanciful. People have arranged to show you how to do it.

Just over two weeks ago, I spent $97 and bought a bulky book. (We CAN call it thick: 530 pages is more than a ream of paper!)

At the time I ordered, was sure it would become my Best Buy of the Year. Now I'm even more sure. It's proved to be a very rich source of ideas and motivation, and it's going to produce for me for many months to come.

The book is a set of 30 step-by-step business plans, developed by 30 people who are each running successful businesses. Each plan spells out how to go from nothing to an income in a month. Using the Internet.

It's like a diary to income.

Need to know what to do today? Just turn the page!

Your current strategy needs to work better? Find a 30-day plan that's close to your own and quickly see where you can improve and refine what you're doing. (That's what I have done with the plan on page 75.)

Or, what you're doing now isn't working? Pick up another strategy and have the money coming in in less than 30 days.

These are plans that work. They are brimming with ideas. Many of them have detailed resources and strategies.

Some of them repeat other plans. The one starting on page 318, for example, is the same as the one on page 124. But one is much more detailed. And each have different resources and approaches for each step they plan.

So the repetition isn't a problem.

It's called synergy, isn't it?

You can use the ideas in these plans to get on the 'Net and sell either eBooks or 'real' products that sell on the High Street. Or both!

The possibilities stretch out a long way. This is a book that will keep you focused and excited. I recommend it highly.

Have a look now.

Mini sites can usefully extend your business — by focusing on part of it

Some of the easiest money on the Internet comes from mini-sites.

I have a number of them, and one pulled in a welcome $748.00 for me recently — in one day, with zero marketing.

Get all the help you need to set up as many of these mini-site money-spinners as you want to right here.

Writing ebooks

You can quickly put together a must-have eBook, and sell it in a steady stream using free marketing that runs on auto-pilot.

The EXACT way to do that is in a small, hype-free eBook I bought a few weeks ago.

It's remarkably original, and it's showed me a simple, true-to-life way of finding eBook topics in commercially viable niche markets and locating ready-made sales outlets in those same markets.

That would be enough on its own. But there's more.

It comes with an ideas-generator bonus, which I think is EASILY worth the price of the eBook itself!

Read more about it here.

As you know, I endorse very few products in this newsletter. Well, this is one I have complete confidence in -- for my own business and for yours. It's an eBook that's going to be an Internet classic. (Is that an oxymoron?)

I recommend it to you.

Before I bought it I knew a lot about eBooks. After all I've written and sold a few. But I've always had trouble with the marketing. Not any more.

This eBook has opened up a whole new way of finding outlets for my eBooks, and has turned a number of my eBook ideas on their head.

It's good.

If you're toying with an eBook idea then I would say you need to STOP right now and buy this. I am absolutely confident you won't regret it.

It will show you how to quickly put together a must-have eBook, and sell it in a steady stream using free marketing that runs on auto-pilot.

Read more about it now.

Sell on ebay without having anything to sell

I have a young friend who traded his way to almost a full time living on eBay, dealing in old Cambodian currency notes.

He did it from New Zealand, selling to Vietnam vets in the US.

When he told me this at the start of the year I realized for the first that with eBay anything is possible. That all the talk about eBay was not just hype.

Now I know how even someone like me -- who knows nothing about eBay -- can do it on auto pilot.

Get your credit card out, and take a look at this eBook.

The book's got four benefits that appeal to me.

(1) It's cheap. Less than $20.00. I can't lose.

(2) It shows me how to sell INFORMATION on eBay, and this is something that I deal in best.

(3) It explains a simple system that will run on automatic. This is important, because it leaves you free to work your day job, until the eBay income picks up and you can start to be independent on the Internet.

(4) It is for eBay beginners, like me. Even I can follow the simple, straightforward strategy in this eBook and make money on eBay. Certainly more than $20.00!

I completely recommend this as an extra arm to your information sales tactics. Have a look now.

Buy the thing and do what it says. You will not regret it.