Organic or a bunch of chemical?
Lye soap or made from potassium hydroxide, sodium hydroxide etc?
Vegetable oil or animal fat?
Hot or cold process?
Mixed with titanium, nickel, aluminium or silver?
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A number of internet marketers are now using Ustream extensively for training.
Another guy who has always been extremely forward thinking with video for affiliate marketing is Russell Brunson. He must have spent a fortune creating his “Zoobie” internet marketing videos. I am not sure whether it was a big success, but I am sure he learned a lot from the experience.
Ken McArthur has pulled out all the stops for the launch of his new book now selling on Barnes & Noble. That isn’t an affiliate link, I am not a B&N affiliate so I just pulled that link from Ken’s blog (one of many).
What I can refer you to is the free stuff, a ton of great audio recordings
There are 2 featured recordings available as you log into the main site
Matt Mullenweg, the WordPress founder needs little introduction
Playtime: 22:54 mins
Chris Anderson in his post today on Wired in the run up to his launch of "Free" and freeconomics provided a great discussion point because bloggers face a frequent dilemma.
That revenue stream in my opinion doesn't have to be current, though it is beneficial to at least have long-term plans for revenue.
To quote Fred Wilson:-
If you are building a media oriented business, particularly one that has low marginal costs, meaning you build it once and the cost to serve an additional customer is negligible, then you have the unique opportunity to focus first
Firesales are a form of marketing that Mike Filsaime is probably best noted for, where you make an offer so compelling, it is pretty hard to refuse.
Normally it is also very important to add something special to the sales message, a compelling reason why you are offering a special offer on the products. There are all kinds of psychological why you would do this, which I am not going to delve into, but if you Google for Mike's free guide "FireSale Secrets" you will pick up some good tips.
Meet Timothy
For the last couple of weeks I have been visiting him
Over the last year I have given a fair amount of coverage to PayPerPost, who now house the service along with other endeavours under the name Izea.
There are multiple reasons why I have supported PayPerPost and similar programs so strongly, and yet at the same time have never reviewed a link buying / selling service.
I have mentioned link buying and selling in passing, and also a couple of Wordpress plugins, but those plugins generally allow you to sell links which have a nofollow.
My emphasis both in editorial about services and in the few reviews I have myself written is to encourage the writing of quality content with editorial links. Compensation in whatever form should be based upon the time involved, expertise, and possibly the size and influence of the audience, and not based upon any SEO benefit to a site or service being reviewed.
Sometimes I really hate timezones, especially when a company I closely follow (and even take a couple of punches for) makes an announcement.
PayPerPost and now Izea
Fittingly I think Colleen should have the first link, she has been a postie for a long time, is a top earner, and has been taking an equal amount of punches being on the firing line.
Colleen highlights the fact that PayPerPost have been planning to have a new domain for their Argus platform for some time, and it is only logical that Argus is not housed under the PayPerPost moniker, because PayPerPost will only be one of many services provided.
People who actually monitor the PayPerPost blog of course knew this was coming a month ago.
Dan, and investor in PayPerPost… well now the parent company Izea, seems happy about how money is being spent.
That is important, I am sure the Izea.com domain name cost a lot more than $9 from GoDaddy.
Here is a link to the official Izea Press release on the new corporate entity.
As always with anything related to PayPerPost, there is a lot of controversy, and mixed reaction. I have covered the more positive stuff so far, so what follows is the more neutral or negative opinion.
The guys from PayPerPost might cause a lot of controversy, but there is one thing that I doubt anyone could deny, even their most harsh critics… they are smart.
They bring out interesting, useful, sometimes controversial or disruptive products, but they are certainly market leaders not the following pack.
In the case of RSSBrief, they are taking on an existing market, RSS Readers, and in many ways it seems they might also step into reputation management and RSS Search.
I have a feeling even Jason Calacanis is going to like RSSBrief because it will help him with reputation management for Mahalo… but
How can you profit from spending $200 more for your Iphone than the new retail price and at the same time learn a valuable marketing lesson?
Thousands of people were willing to pay $600 to own a fancy new gadget
Lots of people are coming down very hard on Apple, posting about how you might be able to get a rebate
