Web 2.0 Marketing

If you are familiar with Clickbank.com (R), or even if you are not but you want to make profits online, then you will want to check this out ASAP …

While I like Clickbank, and they are a great marketplace… they are limited to many restrictions to sell products or earn affiliate commissions…

Well, there is a GREAT NEW SERVICE  now…

It is a new FREE marketplace where you can sell any product you want.

Your OWN product… - OR - (the best part) You can become an INSTANT Affiliate for ANY item in their HUGE marketplace.

It is called PayDotCom.com!  Did I mention it is 100% FREE to Join!

This site is going to KILL all other marketplaces and I by now, almost EVERY SINGLE SERIOUS online marketer has an account with PayDotCom.com

So get yours now and see how much they offer…

OH! - Also, they have their won affiliate program now that pays you COLD HARD cash just for sharing the site with people like I am doing with you…

They give you cool tools like BLOG WIDGETS, and they even have an advertising program to help you get traffic to your site.

If you want an ARMY of affiliates to sell your products for you, they also allow you to have Free placement in their marketplace!

Even better… If your product becomes one of the Top 25 products in its category in the marketplace (not that hard to do)……then you will get Free advertising on the Blog Widget which is syndicated on THOUSANDS of sites World Wide and get Millions of impressions per month.

So, what are you waiting for… PayDotCom.com ROCKS! Get your FREE account now..

Kevin Byrd

“What Are You Waiting For!”

Rated #1 in my opinion. Out of the hundreds of online business programs that came across my desk this year the Black Business Builders Club (BBB)  wins hands down. It had all 4 of the requirements that I look for when evaluating a new business opportunity. A low entry fee, is it duplicatable, does it have a residual income and is it a product or service that most people need.  Plus the main ingredient in the program is the training. It does not matter what level of experience you have, from newbie to guru their is something for you to learn, repackage and sale or use to promote your primary business, even if you have a brick and mortar business.

If you are tired of struggling along with your ‘Paid or Freebie Biz Opp of the Month’, AdSense sites or empty blogs that aren’t making you any money, take action now and be a part of the latest trends in Black Business Networking no matter what the color of your skin is, the results are green.

We know that being an Internet Marketer is hard, and it takes a lot of time. So, when they designed Black Business Builders Club (BBB) they made sure that it was easy and fast to use, and that it gave you as much control as you need.

To help you succeed, the BBB Tool Kit that comes with your membership is packed with a ton of features to make your life easier, and to give you more control over your empire of viral memberships. Plus our “Black Folks Guide to Making Big Money on the Internet” newsletter series will keep it real for you and get you paid! Everything you need to run the Black Business Builders program can be done using just a few mouse clicks.

The potential uses for BBB  almost endless. For example, you can use it to virally grow a huge email list to introduce others to your primary business, or you could build a large set of members to kickstart a new business opportunity, or even create new products in the same niche and refer members between them!

“If You Could Choose Between a ‘Biz Opp’ Or Ongoing Viral Income…. Which Would It Be?”

 I know which I’d choose!

Click Here If You Are you ready to take your business to the next level

Most people spend all their money and time calling over-priced leads, only to end up talking to some guy named “Bubba” who’s really looking for a J-O-B.

Others jump from company to company hoping “this one” will be the one that really works out.

But the richest and savviest distributors don’t do ANY of those things.

We do not cold-call leads.

We do not show the plan to everyone with a pulse.

And we do not bother our friends, family and neighbors.

Instead, we use what I call magnetic sponsoring.

This is the secret I discovered that quickly gave me (and thousands of people I’ve taught it to) complete financial freedom.

Here’s how it works:

1. The old school sales routine of cold-calling leads, holding meetings, knocking on doors and trying to “convince” people to look at your opportunity is DEAD.

2: The fastest and easiest way to make money in MLM today is simply to “position” yourself so only the hottest, most qualified prospects come to you (and ONLY you).

That’s it.

And no matter what all the other MLM “gurus” say about contacting your family, friends and neighbors… attending every meeting… or cold-calling leads — these are really the only truths you can absolutely count on in network marketing today.

And guess what?

You can learn how to do the same thing — no matter what network marketing company you’re in or if you just signed up in your first MLM business yesterday.

In fact, when you use “magnetic sponsoring“… you can immediately start attracting an unlimited number of leads TO YOU, and…

They Will Actually Pay You To Show Them The Plan!

This strategy is the “missing link” that six and seven figure network marketers know that everyone else doesn’t.

And the funny thing is, getting people to come to you and then pay you to show them the plan… is a LOT easier than you think.

WAY easier than banging on doors, getting laughed at by your warm market and dropping your life savings on leads who will slam the phone down on you or end up joining some other guy’s MLM business later.

And my friend, when you know the secret of magnetic sponsoring… you’ll go from being a “prospector” who chases people down… to being an “order taker”, with people chasing YOU down — and even paying you for the “privilege” of showing them the plan.

Kevin Byrd

How to become the Hunted instead of the Hunter

Even in a down economy, most people can make far more money working for themselves.

Foundations for a strong entrepreneurial business:

• Start with your passion. If you start with an occupation or vocation that drives your passion, then you’ll never have to worry about losing interest.
• Have a vision, including what you want to do, how you’ll do it, how you’ll market it and how you’ll appeal to your customers and clients. Most new businesses fail quickly not because of a lack of market opportunity, but because of a lack of vision.
• Be creative. One of the main secrets to success in business is being able to package and promote what you do in unique and creative ways. Think three-dimensionally, and approach how to market yourself in ways that separate you from your competition and emphasize your unique selling proposition.
• Have no fear. There isn’t a single decision you can make in your personal or professional life that is based on fear and anxiety. If you plan well, do what you love, and market yourself creatively, there is no reason you shouldn’t believe in yourself. Make decisions based on strategy and accentuating the positive.

“The most important thing an entrepreneur can do is give themselves permission to do their dream and realize that success is possible for anyone. “You need to know how to live an enlightened life and break though any limiting beliefs that get in the way.”

Kevin Byrd

Earn While You Learn

hatever your question, the answer probably is available online. The challenge is finding it. Typing a key word into a major search engine, such as Google.com, often does the trick. Unfortunately, a simple key word search might not turn up the Web page you need… or it might turn up so many pages that the one you need is hopelessly buried. Here are smart strategies for better Internet searching…

PHRASE SEARCH

Group several words together in quotes to find Web pages where these words appear as a phrase. This should greatly focus your results. Rather than search the words Green and Mountains to find out about the Vermont mountain range, search the phrase “Green Mountains” in quotes.

If you can’t recall one of the words in a phrase, some search engines, including Google and Yahoo!, will allow you to substitute an asterisk.

Example: You can’t recall the full name of a golf club where you once played, but you are sure that it starts with the word “Winter.” Type “Winter * Golf Club” into Google to find Web sites that use this phrase with various terms in place of the asterisk, including Winter Pines Golf Club and Winter Creek Golf Club.

MULTIPLE SEARCH ENGINES

Google.com is the most popular search engine, but it is not the only option. If the first 20 sites returned by Google are not useful to you, repeat your search on Yahoo.com, Microsoft (http://search.live.com) or Ask.com. Each of these search engines has its own ranking algorithm, so different Web pages could appear near the top of the listings. This is more time effective than pouring through pages of inappropriate listings on a single site.

ADVANCED SEARCH

Most major search engines offer a wide range of “advanced search” features, but few users ever bother to explore them. Click the link reading “advanced search” or “advanced” on a search engine’s home page to access these options. You can…

Restrict your search to Web pages where your key words appear in the title of the page. These are likely to be particularly relevant to your subject.

Restrict your search to pages written in English… or located in a particular country.

Exclude certain terms. For instance, if you are interested in animals, not athletes, use advanced search to exclude Web pages containing the word “Detroit” from your search of the key word “tigers.”

Limit your search to a particular Web site. For instance, type “long term care” into the search box, but restrict the “domain” to AARP.org to find only what that organization has published on the subject.

Specify a “Numeric Range.” Google.com’s advanced search lets users restrict their search results to Web pages containing numbers within a given range. This is particularly useful for historical research.

Example: If you search the terms “England” and “Civil War,” most of your results will be about England’s Civil War. If you are after information on England’s role in the American Civil War, use Google advanced search to restrict the results to Web pages containing numbers from 1861 through 1865, the years of the American Civil War.

Search for Web pages that include a specified word near another specified word within the text on a particular page. A less well-known search engine called Exalead.com is the only one to offer this useful feature.

POPULAR SEARCHES

Smart search strategies for finding…

People. Enclose both first and last names in quotes and search it as a phrase, rather than search the names as separate key words.

Example: Search “Laurence Houseman” rather than Laurence and Houseman.

In subsequent searches, try common nicknames instead of this person’s formal first name. If you know this person’s middle name, search yet again with this inserted between the first and last name… then change the middle name to a middle initial and search one more time. If you do not know the middle name or initial, use Google and insert an asterisk between the first and last name as in “Laurence * Houseman.”

If the name is common, add this person’s state of residence, job title or spouse’s name (but not in the quotation marks) to your search to better focus the list of results.

Example: Searching “Bob Smith” yields an unmanageable one million-plus results on Google… but searching “Bob Smith” together with the word “Arkansas” reduces this by 95%.

Several specialized people-finding search engines might be worth a try as well…

Pipl (www.pipl.com) provides basic facts and contact information, plus links to search companies such as USSearch and Intellius, that will scan public records to locate the person you are after. These sites typically charge $10 to $50 to access an individual’s complete records, but they often provide basic information, such as hometown and spouse’s name, for free. Return to Google and search the name again in combination with these new details, as described above… or to search the spouse’s name.

Zoominfo (www.zoominfo.com) can track people down for free through their professional history, because it identifies job titles and current and former employers.

Pandia People (www.pandia.com/people) provides a useful collection of links to other sites for finding people.

Articles. Google News (http://news.google.com) is a great place to search for articles published in the past month. Google News has an “archive” search feature for older articles, but older articles usually aren’t available free.

Web site Kidon Media-Link (www.kidon.com/media-link) features links to the home pages of 19,000 newspapers, magazines and other news sources worldwide… Web site MagPortal.com (www.magportal.com) also lets users search for articles from a wide range of publications that are available for free online.

If your article search comes up empty, contact your local library’s reference desk. Many libraries have databases that access a broader range of articles than are available online. In some regions, library cardholders can search these databases from home on their own computers.

Directions and maps. Video clips and pictures. Google Images (http://images.google.com) is a great search tool for still images of people, places and things. Search engine Blinkx (www.blinkx.com) is the best place to find online video clips. It searches transcripts of Web videos to find those containing your key words.

Health information. Search tools that are likely to steer you toward health information you can trust include Healthline (www.healthline.com) and WebMD (www.webmd.com), which search on their own sites and on other health sites believed to be reliable. Government sites MedlinePlus (www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus) and Healthfinder.gov (www.healthfinder.gov) can locate trustworthy medical information on government Web sites or other health-care sites.

Financial information. Yahoo! Finance (http://finance.yahoo.com) is one of the most trustworthy search tools for money matters, because it does an excellent job of weeding out scams and advertising that poses as news. This specialized Web portal searches only carefully selected sites that provide useful articles or information.

Directions and maps. Google Maps (http://maps.google.com), MapQuest (www.mapquest.com) and Yahoo! Maps (http://maps.yahoo.com) are the best places to find maps and driving directions. If you are planning to drive in Europe, try Maporama (http://world.maporama.com) and ViaMichelin (www.viamichelin.com).

Taken from interview with Randolph Hock, PhD, a former reference librarian at the University of Pennsylvania who currently operates Online Strategies, a Vienna, Virginia-based Internet seminar and workshop provider

What is the difference between “passive” marketing, and “aggressive” marketing…? Time, and results.

Placing ads, writing safelist emails, placing blogs, pay per click campaigns, community websites - these are forms of passive advertising… you place the ad and you wait to see what comes in. You are then at the mercy of many things, targeting and reaching your desired “niche” are where this form of marketing meets problems. In passive marketing, you want to be able to reach your desired targeted niche with what you place online… if you are not targeting the people who need what you have, you will make scarce sales, especially with passive marketing resources. The biggest benefit for your business that passive marketing offers are these… You can reach masses of people with your promotions, and you can save time. Many of the resources in marketing the A.I.M. Wealth Strategy are already specifically targeted niche areas for entrepreneurs.

This is also what makes distributing the A.I.M. Newsletter so powerful as a marketing tool - it is passive marketing, that specifically targets entrepreneurs with it’s content. Also, the marketing resources offered in the A.I.M. Wealth Strategy are “asset income” marketing resources, specifically targeted towards home marketing entrepreneurs and their needs. Specifically targeting a “niche” market, with services they need, while developing asset income marketing resources for the A.I.M. Wealth Strategy distributor. Your advertising pays you - before you use it.

Passive marketing will bring you the leads if done properly, and some sales can occur, but it is aggressive marketing methods where you make most sales…  

Aggresive Marketing - sending personalized email, and making personal phone calls. Following up with your leads is where aggresive marketing comes into play. Personally inviting contacts is aggressive marketing also. The greatest benefit for your aggressive marketing is that you can generate many more sales aggressively than passively… the greatest burden that aggressive marketing brings you is time consumption…

It takes time to get on the phone and talk with people, it takes time to send personalized emails and invite your contact list… you make much more in sales, but it takes much more time to perform aggressive marketing methods.

Here’s the thing - you need both. You need good resources of large groups of people for lead generation, and you need to follow up with interested people aggressively in order to make the maximum possible sales…

Notice I used the term “interested people”… this is a significant point…

The last thing you want to do - because it wastes time, and drains you of positive energy - is to “chase” people… I don’t care what your current upline is telling you to do, NEVER chase people, it is a waste of your time. If you do manage to get that 1 sign-up in 1,000 “cold calls”… the person that enrolled usually doesn’t stay for long, because of several possible reasons - but the main reason is this… they weren’t interested to begin with. Any enrollments you gain from chasing people is setting yourself up for needing to constantly replace people lost due to drop out.

If a person does not answer your emails, or voicemail messages that you leave them - they are not interested and they are wasting your time… Scratch them off of your list.

Only call people that display an interest in what you have, these people don’t always join or buy, but they are the people that are most likely to join or buy - and they stay longer and build stronger - because they were interested in what you have to begin with.

“Cost Marketing” In cost marketing - you have no way of making your money back without sales being produced, and you have no “bearings” on what will be returned from your marketing… pay-per-click is the biggest culprit of cost marketing, depending on keywords - that the highest bidder owns - without any reference to where you get placed in rankings, and usually being displayed to “tire kicking” people that don’t have a great amount of interest…

Most of the search engine crowd is “just looking”… but you can make sales there with minimum damage done to your credit card - with the right methods - more on that can be found in the A.I.M. Newsletter…

“Investment Marketing” In investment marketing, you know the numbers… If I send out 100 emails, and 3% of the people that receive the emails will buy or join, then I know what is coming back from my effort… If I have a service that offers me “displays” of my sign-up page, and the sign-up rate is 10% from viewers of this page - I buy 1,000 displays from the service… then the average return would be 100 sales or sign-ups from buying the displays… If the displays cost $100. and I am selling something that costs $50. - then I can figure on an average return of $500. for the investment of $100. - which makes my profit margin $400. after paying for the display service…

This type of marketing isn’t cost - it is investment. The averages may vary from time to time, but if you know what numbers you are dealing with, then you’ll have a pretty good idea of what the “round figure” profit margin will be from the marketing investment.

“Asset Income Marketing” Hands down - the best that you can have. In asset marketing, you are making money before placing an ad from the service because you represent the service, and you have gained enough enrollments into the service that the income generated is above the expense of the cost - before you advertise a single thing using the service. It is this form of marketing that the A.I.M. Wealth Strategy is based on. You create income from your marketing resources - which not only pays for the service you use to advertise, but generates profits well into asset income amounts.

Every component of the A.I.M. Wealth Strategy is an asset income generator, as well as a marketing resource for your business building - and the A.I.M. Newsletter is the delivery vehicle for your promotions of these asset income generating advertising resources.

Last, but certainly not the least consideration you should make in any form of marketing you do, is this…

Everyone’s schedule is different, and you must market around your life’s schedule. Being consistent on a daily basis is crucial, and there are many marketing systems available in many companies - but you have to provide the routine of daily consistency - or your business will suffer no matter what system you are using.

Trust the “Law of Averages”…

The law of averages states “If you do a certain thing, “x” amount of times, then “x” will be the average of return.”

Some days you will get average returns, some days below average, and some days above average - but over a certain period of time, the averages always show up if you are consistent. The way I learned of how the law of averages work was this…

In my first company, the average rate of return was 1 sale for every 100 people contacted… So I go out and contact 100 people - no sales happened… I called my coach and said, “Hey, I contacted 100 people, but made no sales…” He said to me - go out and contact 100 more people. So I go out and contact 100 more people - no sales happened… I called my coach again and said, “Hey, I contacted 100 more people but made no sales…” He then said to me, “Trust the Law of Averages, stay consistent and go contact 100 more people.” So I go out and contact 100 more people… I made 3 sales from that last group of people contacted, and the law of averages came back to me…

300 people contacted, 3 sales made… 1 sale for every 100 people contacted.

If there is any sentiment or advice I could give to wrap up this report on Marketing, it is this…
Be consistent in your daily marketing efforts - and trust the law of averages to come back to you.

You can find one of the best resources available online today for Marketing Skills in the A.I.M. Wealth Strategy, and in the Free Marketing Training Video course offered as one of the 9 recommended resources. Click  Here  for the A.I.M. Newsletter. 

1. Write a personal email to a deserving recipient. If a person or business makes an impression on you, let them know about it with a quick, thoughtful email.”

2. Comment on a blog or website. “Let the blogger or site owner know you came, you read, and you enjoyed the experience”.

3. Blog. Design a blog around the business, or the owner’s passion or expertise. In the best case scenario, these are the same things.

4. Write useful articles. “Assist, inspire, answer, inform, educate, debunk, entertain your target audience,” Lani suggests. “Then send your article out to ezine publishers, magazines, article directories, and more.” (I uses and recommends AhaArticles.com.)

5. Submit a news release. If there’s an upcoming event, new hire, seasonal tips, a new product or service, or some other noteworthy occasion, sanctify it with a press release to the local media, and with online services like PR.com, PRWeb.com, or MarketWire.com.

6. Create a social networking page for the business and/or its owners. “Seems like there’s a new social networking website cropping up everyday,”  “But for now, just concentrate on the biggest and best, such as LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace, Squidoo, and Twitter.”

7. Teach about topics related to the business or industry. Whether it’s a speaking engagement, class, workshop, seminar, webinar, or teleclass, get in front of an audience and let loose on the things people need and want to know most.

8. Serialize knowledge. “Create a series around a theme, process, set of steps, bag of tricks and tips, crazy shtick, you name it,” Don’t just stop at the written word, either. Try out audio - we use and recommend AhaAudio.com - or have fun directing a few YouTube videos.”

9. Send out ezines, newsletters, or autoresponders. “Build an opt-in list and start sending them regular doses of user-friendly, info-rich content relevant to their lives. Then repeat regularly.

10. Last but not least, get a website. “Preferably a real website with a dedicated domain, and matching email addresses. That means no you@gmail.com, @hotmail.com, @yahoo.com, @aol.com, etc Make it easy to read, engaging, and make each page its own relationship-building experience. And don’t forget one clear call to action on each page.”

In this new world of marketing, opportunity comes knocking from the strangest places, on the most unlikely of doors. The more business owners increase their visibility and active involvement on the Web, the more they welcome new connections, customers, clients, and serendipitous possibilities.

It seems like everyone these days is downloading, watching, and sharing videos from video-sharing sites like YouTube, Google Video, MetaCafe, DailyMotion, Veoh, Break, and a ton of other similar sites. Whether you want to watch the video on your iPod while working out, insert it into a PowerPoint presentation to add some spice, or simply download a video before it’s removed, it’s quite essential to know how to download, convert, and play these videos.

There are basically two ways to download videos off the Internet and that’s how I’ll split up this post: either via a web app or via a desktop application. Personally, I like the web applications better simply because you don’t have to clutter up and slow down your computer with all kinds of software!

Free Web services for downloading videos from video-sharing sites

	ClipNabber allows you to download videos from YouTube, Metacafe, etc by simply copying and pasting the URL. You’ll then get a link whereby you can download the file to your computer, iPod, iPhone, or any other media player. You’ll need to have an FLV player for the YouTube videos. Quick and very easy to use!
	Zamzar is a free onilne file conversion web application that can not only convert videos off the Internet to AVI, MPEG, 3GP, MP4, MOV, etc, but also converts between audio, image, and document formats. Paste the URL into Step 1 and then convert the file to your favorite format.
	VideoDownloader is a Firefox extension, but also allows you to paste in any URL from many sites such as Blip.TV, iFilm, and even social networking sites like MySpace. You can also download a free FLV player from their site to play the videos.
	Vixy.net is another site that not only download online videos, but will also convert them AVI, MOV, MP4, 3GP, or MP3 (if you want to extract the audio from the file). Using this site, you don’t have to worry about downloading a FLV player as you can convert it to Windows format. (Same as Zamzar)
	KeepVid also supports just about any video sharing site out there and the only difference about this site is that it also has a Top Videos section, so you can quickly download the most watched videos around the web.
	Media Converter is similar to ZamZar and vixy.net, but requires you to create an account and log in. Also, it seems like it only supports downloading and converting videos from YouTube. You can also download their video download program, but it only supports 5 sites.
	Hey! Watch is an online video encoding web service that encodes video into different formats including HD very quickly. The graphical interface is very nice and there are lots of features and options, such as the ability to transfer any video from the web directly to an FTP server or to online storage.
	YoutubeX, as the name suggests, allows you to download videos from YouTube. Obviously, it only supports YouTube, but it has a couple of other features, such as the ability to play your video on the site and find popular videos quickly.
	VideoRonk searches across multiple video-sharing sites such as Google Video, YouTube, MetaCafe and DailyMotion to find the most popular videos on each of them. You can either watch them on VideoRonk or download them to your computer in FLV format
	VidDownloader supports about 10 sites including the major ones and can download the videos in DivX AIV format. It’s very easy to use and can also extract only the audio from a video by choosing “Just Audio” on the download page. You don’t have to worry about having an FLV player since it converts the files to Windows format.
	According to their web site, they support more than 98 video sites including MySpace, CollegeHumor, iFilm, etc. You’ll have to rename the files you download from YouTube with the .FLV extension at the end.
	This site is a foreign site, but is easy to use and supports most of the major sites. You can also download a free FLV player off their site to play videos from YouTube.
	DownThisVideo has a nice tag cloud at the top that you can click on to find videos quickly. From what I could tell, this site is mostly used by Japanese because the popular videos are mostly Anime, etc. However, you can still use it to download any YouTube video.

Video Downloaders for your Desktop

If you prefer to have a desktop application that can download videos for you, check out the following list:

1. Orbit Downloader - This is by far the best desktop application I have seen for downloading any type of social media off the Internet. It can download videos and music from MySpace, YouTube, Pandora, Rapidshare, and lots more. It has a great interface and carries a very small foot print.

2. VDownloader - A small little application that can download videos from many sites and converts them to AVI or MPG format.

3. VideoDownloader - A useful FireFox add-on that supports more than 60 video sharing sites. It can also download other objects on a web page, such as movies, MP3s, flash files and Quicktime movies directly.

4. Ares Tube - Another popular video download application that is very small and very easy to use. You can download videos in batches by entering URLs into a queue and Ares Tube can convert them into different formats such as iPod, MP4, MPG, etc.

4. YouTubeGrabber - Not a very fancy program, it simply takes your URL and downloads the file. No conversion is done and you’ll need to install an FLV player to watch the videos.

5. KeepV - Downloads videos from YouTube, MySpace, and Google and converts them to either MOV, 3GP, AVI, iPod, or PSP format.

Hopefully, using one of the tools above, you can download the video you want! I’m sure the arsenal of web services and desktop apps will grow, so this list will be updated as needed.

Kevin W Byrd
Earn While You Learn