A Powerful Marketing Campaign – And How to Enhance It with Facebook Invites

I am usually not one to be enticed by offers, and consider myself somewhat immune since I am in the marketing business myself.  But I couldn’t ignore the following little item that turned up in my inbox last week:
 
“RECRUIT YOUR FRIENDS TO THE Blank REVOLUTION!
Earn 2 months of free phone service for each person you get to sign up.

EVERY 6 PEOPLE YOUR REFER MEANS A FULL YEAR OF FREE SERVICE!
(They will each get a free month too.)

POWER TO THE PEOPLE!”

Free phone service?  My friends get free phone service too?  Who wouldn’t be interested, especially since this is coming from the phone company that I have already signed up with!

I recently decided to look at my productivity and find out what was slowing me down. I found out actually how much time I waste by doing various unproductive things which I was not going to benefit from. Here is a short video about a recent story.

I can remember when I first started online, there was so much information and so many things to do. Not to mention how many distractions there are on the net. I still feel overwhelmed sometimes now, especially when I think about my goals, targets and projects.

But… I take a step back, write things down and plan them out into small steps. As the old saying goes "Rome wasn't built in a day!" - So if you are feeling overwhelmed, watch this short video I made. Although I talk about Mlm and Network Marketing again, it is really for anyone who is marketing their business online.

If you can consisently take small steps each day, you will end up achieving a lot of things at the end of the year!

Yesterday I was playing around with Blip.tv after watching an excellent video by Sherman Hu and I started integrating blip.tv with several of my other accounts. The process for me now is below the video.

1/ Record a video
2/ Upload it using TubeMogul or Traffic Geyser
3/ The Video then gets uploaded to Blip.tv which then distributes it to my Facebook, Flickr, iTunes, MySpace, Delicious and various other accounts and it then gets syndicated around the web.

This saves me a huge amount of time and ensures maximum exposure for my work. The best type of work you can do is something you can do once and have it populate around the web automatically.

There are a few more steps I need to integrate into this process, but Im having fun learning it in the meantime and I'm generating much more traffic as a result.

This video blog is my attraction marketing plan. I just got a new camera after having sold my high def camera because it was too difficult to edit! This video is similar to my last post, but is in video format. Please let me know your thoughts and suggestions about the video quality.

I am always looking to find new ways of generating an income, and in the past I have tried lots of different ways to make money, both online and offline. Some have been successful and others haven't. One thing I have learned is to give things a trial period of 3-6 months, if they don't earn you money, then drop it and move on to the next thing.

The biggest problem online is there are so many 'ways to make money' - many of these ways are legitimate, but others you will be banging your head against a brick wall for a long time so giving yourself 3-6 months to learn something new and implement it is a great way to make sure you don't wasting too much time!

In this video I show you me opening my latest Clickbank checks. Im not doing this to show off, but rather to inspire you and to show that with a little hard work, focus, effort and by being consistant, it is possible to make money as an affiliate.

Much has been said about what not to do to a website from the 1.0 perspective – hopefully you will enjoy my upgrade.

1. No Interactivity

We have progressed so far beyond static websites that if you do not have something on your site that is guaranteed to engage the reader through interactivity, you will inevitably lose that reader.  If you have a blog, “widgets” are often available that will add some form of interactivity to your page.  While the content should be attractive enough to keep them, your site is more likely to be bookmarked if it has something that your audience can “click on” to keep them interested. 

In this video blog I talk a little about how I make between $100-$400 per day with Clickbank. I also invite you to leave comments and ask me some questions about exactly what I do and what you would like to know, so I can answer them in the next video blog post. 

This list was inspired by the excellent post http://www.45n5.com/top100/ - It just thought I would elaborate on the sites a little more so people can find out more about the blogs without having to visit each one first. You may notice a few blogs missing… when we compiled this list, unfortunately those sites were down.

#1    http://www.problogger.net/
The Problogger website is a great resource for advice articles on how to make money blogging, how to tap niche networks, how to make money off of blog book deals, and more.  Included are free templates, Adsense tips, a list of current job openings for bloggers, a weekly video post, a blogger forum, and hot links to other blogging resources.

#2   http://www.shoemoney.com/
Shoemoney has a good bloggers forum and a list of blogs for sale, as well as tips on how to reduce spam comments, a Search Engines Results Tool, a page for posting member photos, and an explanation of how advertising on Shoemoney can increase blog traffic. Shoemoney t-shirts are available.