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Ros Gardner has posted an instructional video showing an affiliate link tactic that you need to use one day. The purpose of the "bypass tactic" is to bypass a poorly written sales page and still get credited for the sale.

There are plenty of great products with rotten sales pages so this is a very useful video.

Alex

Well it does not look like I will be able to persuade a WordPress blog to perform a good enough biz directory.

Good enough for whom? Good enough to suit www.masalamosaic.com which is going to be at least in part a business listing and community site. WordPress has some directory plugins but they don't give all the functionality we need.

Shucks!

I was hoping to avoid going the coding route but it seems that we'll need either an off the peg directory package or at least a customised directory package.

Whoever would have thought that WordPress was imperfect?

Alex

This affiliate trick is from Super Affiliate Ros Gardner

Thanks ros

Alex

Yeah, list building is the reason I have not been writing much here lately - or rather my obsession along with my business partner Kathy Baker with our product "ExpertListBuilding". Now I know why people avoid product creation and are really keen to outsource it.

Yes it really is very hard work especially if you are recovering perfectionists!

However we're trucking along and pulling the million threads of the project together and that matters to you.

Because the only reason you are not making as much as you would like from Internet Business is because you don't have a list. Well that reason is about to disappear

Expert ListBuilding will be published on 12 th November. Is there still a mountain of work to do?

Yes

Am I cetain that we will meet all our deadlines?

er, no!

"Don't sweat the small stuff",to quote, er,  Neale Walsch.

Instead, focus on building assets and the biggest asset of a business online or offline is it's database or list of customers and subscribers. All or nearly all of your activity should go there. and yes in the spirit of complete truth - it is possible to make a healthy income without building a list - there are very special Adsense techniques and very special ebay techniques too.

But nearly everybody who makes a good living on the Net will tell you the same thing - "The money is in the list.

A couple of years ago I went to a focus seminar in the UK. The
speaker really irritated me by claiming that success is not
about what you know but who you know.

Reason I was so peeved is that I am a smart Alex! That means I
know a lot. Also true is that success was doing a damn fine job
of eluding me and I was really not open to his claims.

The speaker was Robert Puddy and he succeeded in pounding some
sense in to me during that seminar.

A Focus seminar is approaching and you need to be there.Just
imagine if you hung out with Bill Gates, David Drummond, Jeff
Bezos,Meg Whitman, and Steve Jobs, do you think you might be
exposed to some opportunities the average Joe would never hear
about?

And if he did, it would be too late… Those are the head movers
and shakers at Microsoft, Google, Amazon, eBay and Apple.

The simple fact is that who you know makes a huge difference to
your bottom line. What happens if you are friends with an
entrepreneur who has a 300,000 strong mailing list that is super
responsive and you have a great product for his market?

Chances are you'll both be happy and wealthy.

Don't know him and it's a much harder job.

That's a major reason why for events like the

Internet Business Building Seminar in London, England, October 17 to 19, 2008.

You can meet the movers and shakers of the Internet Marketing world, become friends, interact, and most of all make more money.But it never happens 'remotely'. You have to show up.

Come out from behind your computer and speak to someone.At the Event in London, you will meet people like Glenn Dietzel, Raymond Aaron, and ( gasp!) Alan Forrest Smith who are known for teaching people how to find and obtain all the knowledge they
need to write great copy, buy Real Estate, start or expand their Businesses or
even propel that book of yours into the best seller list!

You cannot succeed alone - you must get out from behind that
computer and meet the people who will do you favours when you
need them and will perhaps even beat some sense into you!

Sorry to be so blunt!  You may not be as dumb as I was!

Alex

Adwords is a method of driving traffic that newbies should approach with caution strengthened with education! I took quite a long while even though I knew that I wanted to use it.

The point of PPC traffic is being in charge of it to some extent and having a degree of control so that you can test what is working and do more of it and find what is not working and do none of it!

Which is a recipe for success!

After 3 years in Internet marketing I still don't feel comfortable with Adwords and maybe that's how it should be. perhaps if you feel comfortable you make mistakes…big ones!

Anyway my education proceeds smoothly. Recently I bought Commission Blueprint which is designed so that an Adwords user can get the best out of Clickbank products.

All good and will be properly reviewed here when I have battle tested it. One of the tools mentioned in passing is Speed PPC. This is a gorgeous product - anyone who has used Adwords and knows what Google wants these days just drools when looking at the Speed PPC sales page and then nearly chokes on spotting the price.

 Yikes!

Just spotted an email from Tim and Steve the Commission Blueprint guys and one of my fellow CB users has created a tool which seems to rival or beat Speed PPC.

And its affordable too.

So this is a news flash and not yet a review - you can see this brand new Adwords tool for yourself.

 If you buy it before I do please post your comments here

Alex

A couple of interesting tidbits of information came my way this morning. Both to do with privacy and pulling in opposite directions.

Firstly you will notice that most domain sellers have a Private Registration option where you can withold your address from the public. This is much valued by those of us who like, er, privacy but does it make business sense and does it incur a penalty by Google?

There are certainly some people who will check your contact details before they buy from you and will not buy if they see an anonymous website with no name, address etc.

You could call that the price you pay for privacy…

But there has been a worry by some that there would be penalties imposed by search engines simply because many "black hat" webmasters use private registration for their spam sites.

"No worries!" is the comment from John Mueller. "Who he?" you ask well just pop over to Google Groups (where else?) and see for yourself.

Look down the page and you will see a comment by "JohnMu". then click on the profile to check him out.

The other privacy concern is about Google maps. You may just think of this as an oddity or a help when you want to get somewhere but just look at these images

And there others with more detail I could call on here. Not only are Google spying on everybody (and yes the corporate knucklehead in the video gives you a form to fill in to be removed ) but Google have launched their own satellite to make their images even better or should that be worse?

I think there is an important issue of privacy here. I may or may not have an issue with a Government having detailed images of me ( I do, I do ) but I am outraged that a multi billion advertising agency ( i.e. Google) has those images and even has its own satellite! or at least access to the images

 I find it richly ironic that Google gives your landing page a higher quality score for having a published "Privacy Policy" but takes detailed images from space and publishes them without our permission.

enough from me, what's your take on all this?

Alex

I made my weary way through the so called "comic" that Google prepared to explain their new browser - Chrome. Meanwhile here is video they released - a long video, this is Google

Feel free to share your experience of Chrome and misgivings too!

Alex

Yikes it that the date? We whizzed through August without even mentioning the major Internet activity of the month - namely the 30 Day Challenge, which this year was not only the best ever but seriously innovative and now…

Now StomperNet are coming!

And you don't have to hide from the blizzard of frenzied emails promoting the event / launch because it is free!

I have to repeat that with all due apologies  - Stomping the Search Engines 2 is free as in "no charge". If like me you realise that there must be some money involved somewhere - well yes, StomperNet are launching their magazine, Net Effect,  and using a relaunch of a huge upgrade to "Stomping" as a bonus.

The magazine is $40 a month ( $39.99) and you pay from the second month onwards for as long as you don't cancel. And cancellation is very easy - one phone call does it and I believe there will be an online way to cancel too.

So for the cost of the postage we can get what is probably the best SEO course on sale anywhere at no charge - all they ask is for us to give their magazine a go. And if you decide to cancel you still have the course and the first issue. You can see the contents and quality of the first issue on their video and frankly it has more content than most courses on Search Engine Opimisation costing hundreds of dollars

Check out the video and the contents of the free course here 

 It is not on sale at the time of this posting but it will be later today and I'll be there to subscribe to the magazine. Stompernet members have had tremendous success using the methods taught in their $800 a month membership. This looks like a chance to get a big chunk of that knowledge and a big chunk of that success for almost no cost.

Alex

For some reason it took me a long time to get round to reading Cialdini. People from different fields of knowledge and different professions gave me the advice and I ignored it.

Finally I ignored ignoring Cialdini and I now join the chorus telling you to read this guy.

Also, listen to him!

Rich Schefren interviews Robert Cialdini and you can download the interview with no optin.

Thank you Rich

And the short version of why you need to read Cialdini is that Marketing relies on an understanding of human psychology and behaviour and that is what Cialdini researches - and this is often startling stuff and a good read!

Alex

I have avoided using Google Analytics for far too long. Frankly it just sounded way too complicated and mixed up with Adwords and …well it's Google and I rather distrust Google knowing too much…yada yada.

But it's time for me to come out with my hands up and face the music! 

Ed Dale is describing what to do in this video. Please be more sensible than I have been and pay attention to this stuff.

Alex