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October 10, 2008

Nitro Blueprint Review

Nitro Blueprint is a step-by-step system that teaches you the fundamentals of building an online business.

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What is the Nitro Blueprint

The Nitro Blueprint home study course gets shipped to your door. Inside the box are the following items:

- The Nitro Blueprint System DVD
- Massive Wall Planner Chart
- The 4 reasons people fail ans 3 simple exercises to permanently eliminate them CD
- The 99% solution: How to be ahead of 99% of every other internet entrepreneur CD
- Advanced email marketing: The Mr "potato head" 4-part email success formula CD
- Predictable profits program: How to have a highly lucrative paid continuity program CD
- The 10 step system Audio training CD's
- The Nitro Blueprint System Master Manual 332 Page Workbook

Contents of the Nitro Blueprint System Workbook

In the book you will be able to start at the beginning and work your way through each chapter. It starts out with developing your mindset. Next you move into the starting and launching your internet business information. Market research, technical aspects and product creation are covered in detail. Sales Letter techniques are covered as is split testing and launching your website. Each sub chapter has a matching CD so you can get multiple learning formats.

The second part deals with growing your succesful online business. They cover PPC traffic, SEO traffic and affiliate traffic. Email marketing and back end offers are detailed for you so you can just read and then apply. The continuity section is excellent because it shows you how to have a predictable recurring income element to your system.

The final section deals with what to next. By the time you get to that one you will be ready to make a big leap in your income!


Who needs this?

Any internet marketer who is in the new to intermediate stage. Unless you are raking in six figures a month you will get huge value from this program. It is step-by-step. The information is very good. The Nitro people are really good at this business and they have broken the whole system into small easy to understand chunks. They do what they teach.

Opinion

I bought Nitro Blueprint to review it and I was impressed with the step-by-step nature of it. It is the same type of system I have been using for my own product websites and with students. You can start on page one and fill out the workbook and end up with a great system! The main point about this program is that it is logical and teaches the core skills you need for most internet marketing business models.

Win prizes and FREE training!

At the time of posting the Nitro blueprint blog has a competition running in line with the 2009 Blueprint update. They are offering free training videos. I recommend you stop by the site and see how they do things - they are the real deal.

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October 9, 2008

Bum Marketing Stupid?

This might shock or offend some people. Sorry, you need to know the truth. Are you ready for some new article marketing ideas? I expect I will get some furious comments from hardworking 'bums' who want to protect their craft - even if it means working three times harder than they need to….which is ironic for a method for 'bums' ;).

Have you read the posts from people who write ten articles a day, submit them to third party websites with direct affiliate links and make peanuts? They could be doing SO much more. You don't need to submit thousands of articles to make hundreds or even thousands off each one! Read this article to discover why you are losing money if you don't move beyond being a bum…

Massive Bum Marketing Mistake number 1: No website needed

Dont be an idiot and make some other site owner rich. That is the real bummer in 'Bum Marketing'. Why work on someone else s business when you can build yours? A mentor of mine once told me it is better to own the race course than the race horse. That means you should OWN your content assets. Some crazy people submit all their hard work to a third party site and give it away.

Massive Bum Marketing Method Method Mistake number 2: No money required

What kind of business are you running here? The best way to get profits is to leverage up. Do you want to make your wealth fast or slow? You have been indoctrinated into the mindset that wealth must come slow. This is BS. Wealth can come fast if you can identify what is stopping you from moving forward. The whole Bum mindset is that you can do things cheap. Bum marketing leaves off the most powerful methods because it focuses on being cheap. The cheapest option is hardly ever the best.

Massive Bum Marketing Method Method Mistake number 3: Write the articles yourself

How are you supposed to be a marketer if you are also a writer? Outsource article writing so that you can concentrate more on the one job you can't outsource - the marketing. I accept you will want to write your own stuff at the start - I suggest you do. Then you should outsource as soon as you can. many Bums get stuck writing their own articles because they are leaving thousands of dollars for other people to get while they are busy writing articles! It is a vicious cycle. They don't call it the 'workhorse' method for nothing.

Articles are relatively easy to get done at a fair price. You may still want to write your premium marketing content, but outsource your other stuff ASAP! You get a better yield if you focus on higher value options such as list building, market research, product development, SEO strategy, copywriting, learning and joint ventures

Massive Bum Marketing Method Method Mistake numbers 4 and 5: Direct linking and No list

Many bum marketers direct link from articles to affiliate programs. You are better off in most cases to build a list of subscribers if possible. At the very least you MUST use a re-direct. What happens when your affiliate program gets shut off? You lose your clicks unless you can re-divert the clicks. I suggest you buy one domain to use as your adserver and then you can rotate, track and re-direct links as you see fit. Are you ready to turn up the heat on your article marketing results?

The Super Fast method of article marketing?

Here is an alternative article marketing method - I don't have a name for it yet but I figured this system out for myself. I guess it is the SuperFastArticles method since I own a lot of SuperFast websites. I like speed - don't you?

If you are an article bum marketer you are probably submitting articles to ezinearticles (or using a submission service like Submit Your Article). There are things you can do right now to leverage more results from your article marketing.

Keyword Research Twist

When you do your keyword research you will usually dig up competitors. The competition does not have to be a product - it could be anything that represents an alternative choice for the buyer - even the buyers choice to do nothing. For example you might be promoting a product called ABC. When you are researching you may discover that another brand is XYZ. You make a note of the keywords for both products and put together an article that has a headline: ABC Versus XYZ, Which One Is Better? Broad keywords work better than deep keywords. Go wide first. Controversy and "battles' also attract attention.

Article writing persuasion techniques

In the article, you do a gentle pre-sell and then lead the buyer towards your product by creating dots for the buyer to join in their own mind. If you cram benefits too strongly you will be less persuasive and also make your article look like a sales letter. It will be rejected. Make a well formed logical argument that the reader can see merit in. If your buyers feel as though they are making the decisions they will sell themselves!.

Leverage the Bio box

In the Bio box or resource box you are allowed to put up to three links. Try using a dual track. One link could be to a newsletter or report page on your site so your pre-sales sequence can continue if your prospect is not ready to buy yet. The other link can be direct to your compelling bonus offer with keyword related words (anchor text) for your site. This is for the the 'buy right now' prospects.

Before you submit to a directory!!!!!

Sumbit your article to your own wordpress blog first. If you do not own your own domain or wordpress blog do it right now.

Get a Domain name
Get Hosting

FAQ:

Q: Wont I get duplicate content penalty?
A: No. Make a unique headline for each submission

Q: I can't afford a $8 domain name and $6 a month hosting…
A: How serious are you?

Q: Won't I get better rankings from high powered article sites than my own new site?
A: Why not take both - You found this blog right?

If you want a long term asset then get a wordpress blog going right now and optimize it for search engines or build yourself a fast easy SEO ready website. You will find either will rank really well if you make the required seo changes.

Q: I don't know how to make a wordpress blog
A: Pay someone $25 - $50 to install it. (Or get the FULL works version)

Try and collect names from your blog using an autoresponder form or lightbox script (that black shadow effect). Building a list is essential to protect your investment. You pay once for the name and then build a relationship. You own a list and you have an asset.

Get an Autoresponder

Now submit your article with real leverage

I use SYA to submit multiple headlines, body text and bio box variations of the same core article, and also automate the multi-site distribution sequence. Once you submit your article you should bookmark the article also submit the article RSS feed to your blog on a related theme and RSS syndication sites like www.feedage.com. if you want to call in the army then also submit your article to this network. My articles have been published hundreds of times each week.

Add some serious power to your article

I use the keyword + site targeting option with Google Ad words to place a PPC text or Banner advertisement on the content network to sit next to my articles. That way I occupy a paid and free listing on the content page. This results in very high CTR for the content network. You are essentially placing the content there and then harvesting it with both free and paid links to your site and you only pay per click! You will see Bum Marketers brag about having no PPC costs - but they are missing out on profits too….

Turn up the traffic

Now go and do the same thing with a squidoo lens. Why stop at EZA when you can repeat this over and over again. Place your content on Squidoo then site target it! This is a great way to block out competition and keep control of your content on third party websites.

Want even more traffic?

Plug your URL and your competitions full URL's into Google Alerts and sit an ad on top of all of yours and their articles too! It makes sense. You are dangling a hook with bait on it right where the fish are. These sites usually take a first page ranking and you will get traffic.

Getting serious now?

Now start your PPC search network campaign and deepen your content network campaign with banners. If you track your traffic you should be getting profitable keywords. You will be able to see what words people are using to find your site because YOU own the site and you can bid on broad match for a short period to get ideas.

Take it all the way

When you get ready for the next stage you will be looking beyond PPC and articles. Perhaps I will reveal that method in the next post. (I will cover CPV marketing and other underground code methods). In the meantime I suggest you go and make some viral videos to point back to your page with this free video traffic tutorial. Bum Video marketing?

Summary

You will get a lot more targetted traffic if you pick a comparison style article, research the keywords, craft a persuasive pre-sell main body and dual lane bio box. Then you traffic the article with bookmarking and RSS. You squat a paid ad on top of your own article and then target other articles too. Ramp up PPC and build a list. Track your stats and look for more traffic like videos and paid versions. Stop being a Bum and start doing more with less.

Happy article marketing. (If you like this post then you will love the article lesson in Traffic Secrets Monthly).

Filed under Affiliate, Article Marketing, Blog, Conversions, How To, Ideas, List Building, PPC, RSS, SEO, Traffic, Video by James

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How To Leverage all Those PLR Articles Sitting On Your Computer

Step-by-step video shows you how to spin and automatically distribute Articles

-Do you have a bunch of articles sitting on your hard drive that you can't publish to directories?
-Have you already published them to your blog?
-Have you re-written them and already submitted to Directories?

Super Charge Your Article Marketing

What you can do right now is submit UNIQUE versions of those articles with embedded youtube videos to thousands of category specific websites and blogs using article automation. Get them out there building one way back links to your squeeze pages, category pages, domains and affiliate programs. It is insanely easy to take advantage of this new service.

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Filed under Affiliate, Article Marketing, Case Study, How To, Ideas, List Building, Resource, Review, SEO, Tool, Traffic, Video by James

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October 7, 2008

Work From Home

Internet Marketing Life

I'm sharing some pictures I took since I quit work. Life is very different when you spend so much time with your family doing the things that are important. Having fun and being healthy are an added bonus.

Inspiration

I know how hard it is when you are stuck on the rat wheel of employment especially when the economy dips. Even though your job may not be secure, you cling to the safety of a stable income. It is not your fault, society grooms us to believe that a job is a good thing….

Take action today for a better tomorrow

If you really want to be free, you need to start acting like an entrepreneur and decide that you can step out for yourself. Once you make that choice, (and it is YOUR choice), you can start doing the right things to move you in that direction.

True power

Is not a paycheck. You are only ever a few weeks away from financial burden should the pay check stop. True power comes from controlling your own money earning rather than being controlled. If you really want to call the shots, start now and you will never look back.

Need a hand?

Working from home is a choice. Download my free report and tell me what you think. I will answer comments.

Filed under Blog, How To, SEO, Social, Video by James

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October 5, 2008

Video Traffic Tutorial

I made a video today for you as an example of how you can easily make videos for your website. The step-by-step process is something you can do over and over again to bring links and pre-qualified visits to your website - enjoy. This is an example of the style of training video in my products.

The video traffic project

I asked my friend Kerry Finch if I could use her new ebook as the example and she agreed. I made up a project folder to get the video project up and running fast.

Here is the end result - a video about Internet Marketing in China

(Check out the China Guide in this video - It is on a special deal right now at this link)

1. project outline
-website
-timing
-usp
(AIDA)
-problems
-solutions
-facts

2.pictures
-stock
-website
-camera
-royaltyfree

3.title slides
-snagit

4.seo results
-keywords

5. music
-match pictures

6. produce
-animoto

7. convert
-media-convert.com (MP4 - > AVI)

8.modify
-movie maker / camtasia

9.publish
-tubemogul

10.publicize
-blog

11.traffic
-rss
-bookmark

The Video Tutorial Part 1

The Video Tutorial Part 2

Please Comment (full follow links!)

Filed under Blog, Case Study, How To, Product creation, Resource, Traffic, Video, Web 2.0 by James

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October 4, 2008

Niche Inspector Review

Niche Inspector by Myleena Phan is the must have niche tool I have been using for a long time to do my niche research, and it is incredible. Using this tool has reduced my detailed keyword research phase down to just minutes rather than hours.

Niche Inspector

How Niche Inspector Works

It checks for competition & search volume and offers related terms, all in one desktop application. It gives me the data and I build a new website, a keyword list for PPC or I add a new page using the low competition key phrases in my niche.

Not only that I can set "dig" levels. Once I find my niches I can export the data into Pay-Per-Click ready format to run campaigns. So the data is able to be sorted the way you need. Download your keyword lists easily. Import keyword lists for competition checking. It is all there.

My Niche Experiment

I did a case study test and plugged an obscure word into Niche Inspector and it brought me back a whole list of highy searched for words with little or no competition. I had ten articles written for $50 using those keywords. A few months later, that site now has free traffic from search engines (88.84%) due to the desirability of the content.

Proof!

The revenue from the site each month is growing, and I have done nothing to promote it or link it or anything at all since the day it was published. (Naturally I used the SEO on-page optimization techniques in my XSP Cheat Sheet). This site will make four figures per year in profits, or I could Flip it right now for cash.

Niche Inspector is the niche tool I use all the time because it is so easy and effective. There is a FREE guide explaining the strategy for niche research available for download at this site:

>> Niche Inspector

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Aweber Autoresponder Review

Aweber provides an outstanding autoresponder service.

What is an autoresponder?

An autoresponder is an automated emailing list mechanism that allows you to automate much of your marketing process. You can pre-load a sequence of emails to be delivered over time automatically. Think of how powerful this is for delivering educational newsletters, product information, support and sales messages.

How does it work?

Once you join Aweber you create a mail-list by topic. You get a web form or code you can place on your website which allows people to join your list by themselves. Once they join they will be in line to receive your automated sequence. The only real effort involved is setting up the list in the first place. You can add messages to the sequence and do individual broadcasts at any time.

Why Aweber?

Aweber negotiate with ISP (internet service providers) to achieve outstanding delivery rates for your email broadcasts. Your clients are required to confirm their opt-in when they sign up which virtually eliminates any possible complaint of spam. Aweber really understand email marketing and have put the tools together to allow you to track your email response and refine your process over time. This results in more profits for you.

Most successful marketers have an email list

The reason successful marketers have a list is because they can offer backend services and products after the initial sale. In the case of a free email or tutorial list your prospects are able to get to know you before purchasing. This is the most powerful marketing tool you could invest in. You truly can automate your online business.

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RSS Footer Power Linking

RSS Footer is a plugin for Wordpress by yoast.

What is does

RSS footer allows you to add in your own link to the RSS feed from your website. So if people use your feed they will also be feeding your link. See my feed here and you will see the backlink to my site.

Submit Your RSS Feed

If you go to Feedage you can submit your RSS feed to get it syndicated and others may pick your feed up. This is the fastest way to get your site visited.

How much does RSS Footer cost?

Nothing. Grab it here and install it onto your Wordpress blogs asap! You simply import it into the Plugins folder using ftp software.

If you like the plugin make a donation to yoast - I did.

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404 Page Error

Make sure your pages have a 404 page error re-direct or advertising, This is one of the best places on your site to monetize since it is a wasted visit otherwise.

For blogs using semilogic you can add a widget or two like the adspace widget and the search widget. That way you can place a report, an ad and then help people find what they were looking for.

How to monetize your 404 page

For standard websites you log into your C Panel here:

Next you select 404:

Then you add your code in here:

Click on this image to see the code you can use:

You can insert an affiliate link, a sales page, a re-direct or whatever suits you. Have fun monetizing your strays!

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Simplify

I just made some changes to this blog to keep it even easier for me to update it with information. Like most things I have found that by refining systems to make them easier to use - you get better results because you use it more.

This blog started out mainly as a link generator for my own sites but has turned into my Internet Marketing 'hub'. Last week I strated getting goog Alexa rankings so I guess I'll put more into it from this point. The main goal now is to have one central place to communicate my thoughts, upcoming product releases and offer valuable free and paid training information for internet marketers.

The sections I removed

- Training
I removed this because the Training section was designed to gather surveys for my upcoming resource centre. I have now reached a valid number of survey results providing me enough information to build SuperFastResults.com.

This is private members forum and is a very powerful information resource. I have added training videos and blueprints for many of my best most proven business strategies and tactics. Membership is currently invitation only and I may open up a few spots later on… people who were on the training announcement list will be notified first. I don't really want my killer profit systems out there at this stage.

- Recommended Products
The Recommended products section was too bulky and difficult to maintain. I use a lot of great tools and resources and fully intended making a page per product and linking to that page however it is slowing me down when a simple blog post will allow me to add ten times more content.

The future

From now on I will make a blog post with the product name in the post. You can use the search tool to find it or the category menu to pick from the topics that interest you the most. I have a lot more posts to make in the future with free videos and real reviews - I get a copy of most new product releases and I am doing real reviews not some fake 'stars' rating just to make affiliate sales. I will still use my affiliate link and offer a bonus from time to time. (That's what I do remember!).

NOTE: Product owners can submit product login and affiliate details for new products for review here. I make no guarantees that my review will done or that it will be positive. There is no fee - I will not be compromised.

Research

I am making the changes based on the heatmap I got from crazyegg. It shows me people are clicking on the RSS feed, post categories, Free report and mentoring. As a marketer it even tells me what people are clearly most interested in. This is like doing a survey without doing a survey!

Many people have commented to me they like the simplistic layout of this blog and the semiologic features that assist it like the widget at the end of each post that suggests related posts. So between organic SEO listings, categories, search box and related posts - everything is easy to find.

Still the same

I have left my twitter link because people like to get into the microblogging atmosphere. I have avoided the temptaion to integrate the twitter widget ot RSS feed because I want to keep this blog simple. Simple works.

Mentoring stays. I have enough clinets at the moment and I plan on keeping it light. If I get overloaded I will remove it.

Contact stays because some people need more than just a comment. I read all emails so keep them coming if you have ideas, proposals or suggestions that you can't post publically use the contact link.

The IMS Free report is going great. There are now thousands of subscribers getting a few extra emails with training videos on things such as "how to recognize time pressure tricks", "split testing results", "making viral videos" and other stuff. There is plenty more going to that list and there is no charge.

Comments

I moderate all comments on this blog because they are full follow links and I want to keep the quality high. Got something to say? Hit the comments section and let me know while you earn yourself a juicy backlink. Use your anchor text if you like as long as it is G Rated :D

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One place to get the best keywords

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