To me, Twitter has become more than just a way to promote my blogs & biz: it has proven to be an excellent resource for valuable info & sites, a great way to build relationships with other marketers ánd - last but not least - a channel to get a quick  answer to any questions I have. I found many of my fellow tweeters to be very friendly and always willing to help.

I’m still far from being a Twitter pro: there are millions of things about Twitter and how to optimize my tweets I still need to discover, but I’m learning new stuff every day.

Below, I listed some tools and resources that have been - and still are - very useful to me:

Reports:

• Make Your Twitter Life Easier
• Mastering Twitter In 10 Minutes Or Less
• Build Your Email List On Twitter

All three reports are part of the free Twitter infopack you can get here

Tools

Twhirl - desktop client for Twitter that allows you to tweet without having to log into the Twitter site. Can also display a  small popup message whenever one of the people you follow posts a new message.

TweetMyBlog- WP plugin to post your new blog posts to Twitter automatically

Tweetlater - free service that allows you to send a welcome message to your new followers automatically, to send out scheduled Tweets. Tweetlater can even send you a note whenever one of your keywords has been tweeted.
(Read ‘Build your email list with Twitter’ to find out more about the value of this service)

Twittersplit - auto- frame your outbound twitter links, so you can profit double. (Example)

Twitter Counter  - show off you number of Twitter followers on your blog

Be A Magpie - Twitter ad network. You can earn money by displaying an ad every x tweets, or you can become an advertiser and have your ad on thousands of related Twitter boards.

Twitstamp - TwitStamp allows you to use your current Twitter status in the form of an image. This means you can post your status on blogs, forums, websites… wherever you want!

Twitter Karma - see a list of all people you follow and/or are following you and do bulk actions (such as follow everyone that follows you)

Cool free set of ‘Follow-Me-On-Twitter’ buttons

Another amazing set can be found here.

For more info on Twitter, check out Twittin’ Secrets - The Ultimate "Twitter How To" Guide

I hope you’ll enjoy exploring the above sites as much as I did

Yesterday morning, when I visited my JV giveaways site, I found a couple of big, scary eyes on a black background staring at me. Above them, a piece of text telling me the site had been hacked…

Since I never had experienced a hack before, I didn’t really know what to do. To be honest, I always considered hacks to be something that only happened to other people. I instantly realized this was the price to pay for being so shortsighted.

Fortunately, it wasn’t that bad. It appeared someone had renamed my index-files in several folders and put his own index.htm file in place. I was able to solve the problem by deleting all new files and re-uploading my original files. You can’t imagine how happy I was that I had learned my lesson from all those previous server problems, and kept a backup of all my online files on my hard drive…

TIP: How To Backup Your Sites

From the thread I posted at the Warrior forum, I learned that the hacker probably gained access to my site through one of my WP installs. It appears WP is not secure at all and that there is nothing wordpress.org can do to stop the hacks.
The only way to secure your WordPress installation is to do it yourself or hire a WordPress Security Expert, which will easily cost you over $100.

Fortunately, I had a Wordpress security tool sitting on my hard drive somewhere. Wordpress Secure Pro was released a couple of months ago and protects your WP installation by blocking access to the admin area for every IP, except yours. I remembered I had installed it for one blog, but hadn’t bothered to set it up for all my blogs. After all, I was convinced I wasn’t going to need it…

I did a hard drive search and quickly found the zip-file. Then, I put everything aside and installed it on all my blogs. While doing this, I wondered why I hadn’t done that in the first place, considering it takes only 5 minutes to set up the entire protection system…

I hope I will remember this lesson the next time I decide not to take precautions, because I think something will never happen to me anyway…

For all you WP bloggers out there: don’t make the same mistake I made. I was lucky… things could have been a lot worse - I don’t want to think about what could have happened if this hacker really wanted to do harm. Protect your sites, specifically your Wordpress Blogs, with all means possible.

To make sure money is not an issue, I decided to make WP Security Pro available to you for only $5. Believe me, your piece of mind is worth a lot more than that. To grab your discount, you need to visit the page through the link below*. (*Please note the sales page will say $10 - You’ll see your discounted price when you click the order button)

Get ‘Wordpress Secure Pro’ For Only $5

Every so often, I receive a message with a question like

- How do I add a PayPal button to my site?
- How do I create a PDF- or a zip-file?
- How do I use Facebook?
- How do I register for a Clickbank account?
- …

These messages remind me of the fact that some things that I take for granted, are not obvious to those who are new to the Internet Marketing game.

After all, it hasn’t been that long since I was a so called ‘newbie’ too. When I just started online, I didn’t know about things like PayPal, or databases, or how to register a domain name… To learn the ropes, I kept my eyes open, and taught myself new stuff with every new action I took.

It’s a common problem that when people talk about something they know, they tend to forget to cover the basics. I’m no different…

Knowing this, I didn’t hesitate for a sec when my friend Amar Mehta showed me his new site.
You see, Quick Profit Videos really takes care of the little man.

Inside the member area, there are 70 videos that cover topics like
* How to add a meta description tag to your html code
* How to get and register a Google email account
* How to embed a YouTube video into your web page
* Turning your headline into a cool image
* Creating a Download/Thank You page
and much more…

Next to this amazing set, they will be adding 10(!) new videos to the vault each month. It goes without saying this is a collection like no other, and extremely valuable.

Like the enourmous amount of info isn’t enough, Amar has set up a system that allows you to RESELL access to the site, and put 100% of the profits into your own pocket. At the same time, you will also brand yourself as an authority, and your subscribers will stand in line, begging you to let them pay you to join the membership site…

As of now the site is in pre-launch, so Reseller Licenses are offered at a VERY low price. This is open only till 15-Nov, so if you want your piece of the pie, you gotta act fast. (After November 15th, the price for the Reseller License will be doubled.)

When you’re ready to transform yourself into what your subscribers see as a superhero and to start building a monthly income with very little effort, take my advice and join Quick Profit Videos now!

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Michael Rasmussen’s ‘Get More Buyers’-ecourse has just gone live.
I was one of the fortunate few  who has been able to check out the entire video course while it was in pre-launch, and I must say: I was impressed.

While I generally skip anything video-like (personally I think most videos are boring and take up too much of my precious time), I took some time off to watch M.R.’s video course - mostly because I’ve only just started to build a list buyers myself, and I can use all the tips I can get to make this list profitable.

I must admit I was pleasantly surprised

The videos are extremely easy-to-follow, even  if you are new to the listbuilding game, and - maybe even more important - they’re fun to watch. No guru telling you why he (or she) is so important and warning you that if you don’t follow the guidelines in the video, you’ll never be successful, but straight to the point info, spiced up with cool graphics and text effects. Nice one, Michael!

What’s so great about Michael’s course is that he hands you 10 practical strategies for attracting eager buyers. Actually, he’s showing you the way he built his own list, which is pretty much legendary as a JV profit powerhouse.

He starts with a brief introduction to the common list-building mistakes people make when they’re just starting out online. This certainly explained some of my own struggles—it’s not just "fluff" material. For example, he tells you how to create your own profit-pulling marketing "funnel", even if you’re starting from scratch. He also tells you the root cause of the two major challenges most people face…but then he goes one better. He tells you specifically how to crush those challenges…

List-building books and courses are a dime a dozen, but Michael’s course is one of the best I’ve ever seen. There’s no tired old advice that doesn’t work today. He’s giving you real strategies that he uses himself, and that helped him create a list that
routinely brings in five and six figures when he sends an email.

If you want results like that for yourself (and who DOESN’T, right?) then you check out Michael’s "Get More Buyers" course.

Check Out The Course Yourself Here

Your business profits will be very happy you did!

Included are 10 brand new products with full Private Label Rights. They’re ready for you to grab, slap your name on and sell for big profits.

If you’ve been looking for a way to get started online and start raking in the cash, this is certainly your ticket to doing so. 

Why?

Because in this first ever SourceCodeGoldMine Stimulus Package, JB is helping all of us being affected by the down economy by putting cash money back in our pockets: he came up with a sure fire way to counteract the recession while giving you 10 ways to generate lifetime income in the process!

JB is giving away  $100 bills!

He’s is only doing this for the first 200 people who get through the doors on opening day. That means you get the entire Source Code Gold Mine v.7 package at $100 off - which is the cheapest price in history!
Once 200 packages are sold, the price will increase to $197…

Drop by the site, check out the products (this will make you a believer alone) and meet me in the profit zone…

Visit Source Code Goldmine Here

Generally, I get the creeps whenever I hear the word ‘guru’, but this little game is the exception to the rule!
Check it out, it’s hilarious! (Not to mention a very cool marketing tool!)

I must warn you… it’s pretty addictive 

How many Guru’s can you kill?

My top score:32 - Can You Beat It?
(Post a comment to let me know)

They have gathered up 100 of the top marketers online and convinced them to put their ORIGINAL PAID products — products which they are still selling — into an enormous and valuable firesale package!

This firesale will go not go live until  November 18th, but you can already register yourself for a chance to win the entire firesale package - ánd some other extra stuff worth $1,500 (or more!) - by guessing its total value!

The 10 closest guess will win the entire package and a link of their choice in the BiggestFiresale.com customer area, which will be seeing a LOT of traffic and by itself is worth over $1,500!

Of course I’ve already put in my guess

Guess & Win

If you are one of those marketers, you’re probably aware of the fact that the major part of the people who signed up for your affiliate program, will never refer any sales… To keep this group of non-productive affiliates as small as possible, it is important to motivate them any way you can.

Here are some tips:

• Lead the way
  Many affiliates never bring in any sales, simply because they don’t have the knowledge to set up a successful promo campaign. Tell them what to do and show them where to go to maximize their results. You could write ashort,  easy-to-follow marketing ecourse, and allow your affiliates to download this at no cost.
   
• Give them everything they need!
  Giving your affiliates nothing but their affiliate link isn’t exactly the best way to motivate them. Make it easy for them and provide a wide variation of promo tools: pre-written email ads, reviews, banners of different shapes and sizes,  and anything else that you can think of.

• Interact!
  The key to motivation is interaction. Remind your affiliates of their usernames and passwords, and tell them where to log in to the affiliate center to grab their link and promo tools.
   
• Rewards and bonuses
  Offer bonuses or extra commissions to the top affiliates every month, or attach a bonus to a certain number of referred sales.
   
• Offer multiple payout options and pay out fast
  Don’t limit yourself and your affiliates to just 1 payment processor. A tool like SmartButtonPro allows your affiliates to choose how they want to be paid their commissions…
  And I assume it goes without saying that the sooner your affiliates can enjoy the results of their efforts, the more motivated they will be.

Basically, it all comes down to this:
If you want your affiliates to succeed, you need to make sure you do everything you can to help them make money from promoting your product. If they make money - you make money!
In reality - their success is your success.

Question:
How do you keep your affiliates motivated?
Leave a comment to share your trick(s)!
(Comment = get free backlink)

Suggested tools:

• PromoPageGenerator - Create professional promo tools pages fast and easy
   
• AdFactoryPro- Create professional ads with ease
   
• Clickbank Affiliate Reward System - Reward your Clickbank affiliates with extra bonuses
   
• SmartButtonPro - Offer multiple payment processors & while securing affiliate commissions

I really like the idea Brad Smith and Dave Canham have come up with. On October 10th, these guys will be putting on a massive firesale. But it won’t be just another firesale…

They’ve set up the N°1 Firesale using the Giveaway Manager 2 script and are inviting people to contribute a product to the sale.
They are only accepting quality products that have NO giveaway rights, so although this event might look like a giveaway when you first visit the site, it isn’t!

People will actually have to BUY access to the download pages of all the listed products.
And when they do, it’s the referring partner that will earn commissions.

Here are some of the benefits you’ll enjoy when you become a contributing partner:

• Earn commissions for every paid member you refer. Since the firesale will include a huge number of quality products (not the same old, recycled products you see in giveaway events), conversions are expected to be high.
   
• Build your list. You can’t use a squeeze page, but you are allowed to add a subscription form to your download page, so you can still collect signups.
   
• Earn money on the side. You can easily add a BONUS OFFER to your download page - something to compliment your main product. Chances are that if your site strikes up a chord of trust with your customer, you should easily sell your own products from the download page.
   
• Earn even more money. If you upgrade your contributor account, you can also add special offers to the site rotator for everyone to see.

For the  N°1 FireSale, JV Partners can add UNLIMITED PRODUCTS and UNLIMITED ONE TIME OFFERS.This will make this a MEGA site, and it’s going to be so big that even Eric Rockefeller will shake in his boots at the amount of products that are being released through this firesale.

You can find out all you need to know at the site - just click the banner below to visit.

I’m almost ready to launch SmartButtonPro. The sales page still needs work (I’m a terrible copywriter, but right now I can’t afford $200 (or more) to hire someone to do it for me), and I haven’t finished the user guide yet, but the script generator itself is as good to go.

To run one more test, and to gather results and user comments to use on my sales page, I’ve decided to run a special sale and implement the script I generated with SBP in the affiliate program.

(Now that I think of it, I didn’t reveal the main purpose of SmartButtonPro yet, did I? - Well, SBP generates a script code that allows you to use 2 payment processors on your sales page, while your affiliates are being credited for their referred sales - every time.
For a more detailed explanation, you’ll need to wait just a little longer. )

To make this test a success, I need to find a large number of people who are willing to promote the special sale as I can find.

Here’s the message I sent out:

Hi

This is a personal invitation to become a
JV Partner for the brand new Private Label
Rights package I compiled.

The package is UNIQUE, insanely under-priced
and since I’ve limited the sale to 75 copies,
people will be standing in line to
get their hands on it.

The package includes 13 hot products
with Private Label Rights and is being sold for
‘$13 - that’s only 1 buck a piece!

As a JV partner, you’ll be earning 75%
commissions for every sale you refer. But
that’s not all…
Once you’ve referred 2 sales, I’ll give you
f’ree access to the down-load page!
How’s that for a deal?

The affiliate program has another little twist
in it: to make your life a little easier,
you can choose to earn (instant) commissions
through Clickbank or PayPal.

Want to know more?
To find all the info you need to start
earning some easy m-oney visit
http://got2c.net/affiliatedetails/

Greetz!
Mieke

Feel free to join the affiliate program and promote the sale. You would really help me out a great deal!

 You can read all about it here:
http://theonlinesellinggame.com/amazingplrpack/affiliates.php