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I recently came across the site zemanta.com. Their tag line appears to be
“Zemanta gives you:. Pleasure” whilst this may lead some people’s imaginations to run wild and avoid visiting the site I would strongly recommend a visit.
Zemanta enables your browser to understand what you are blogging about and suggest pictures, links, articles and tags to make your posts more vibrant.
Its concept is simple: It gets the images from Wikimedia Commons, Flickr and various stock photo providers, and lets you pick them out and place them into your post.
They are suggested based on contextual comparison of your text and the image’s title, description and the articles they were used in originally.

Check out the video below to see what Zemanta can do to your blog.

Zemanta Blogger integration from zemanta on Vimeo.

Let me know what you think as always by posting your comments below.

Keep the faith

Damian

The World Internet Summit is currently being held in Sydney Australia. Last year I attended both the World Internet Main Event in San Francisco and the World Internet Summit in London. Both events were well worth attending for a number of reasons but particularly :

The quality and availability of the speakers
and
The networking potential with other attendees

I was fortunate enough to be able to spend quality one to one time with amongst others :

Sean Roach, Armand Morin, Tracy Repchuck, Adam Ginsberg, Simon Leung, Michael Cheney, Keith Wellman, Tim Brocklehurst, Gary Ambrose and Robert Puddy.

As well as to meet and talk with many other attendees about their internet businesses, (successes and failures).

Here’s a video of some of the speakers on day two at the World Internet Summit UK 2007.

Any one else out there with conference or summit experience please let me know whether they were good or bad and why. I am sure that as in most things internet related the quality and value for money will vary enormously. The best indication for me is always the quality and spread of the speakers which you should be able to judge before the event.

I will have a full set of DVDs of the 4 days of WIS London available shortly if anyone is interested in finding out more about these and the bonus package I am putting together to complement the DVDS please leave your details below.

If you have any area of internet marketing that you would like to be covered by part of the bonus then post a comment or send me an email to damian@damiansdomains.com and I will see what I can do.

Keep the faith

Damian

I get pestered every day by messages telling me that friends have invited me to do this that or the other on facebook. I used to waste my time trying to open them only to find that 90 per cent of the time they forced me to invite all my friends before I could even open the message.

Obviously facebook’s owners love this as their advertising revenue goes up exponentially. But do they share that with the real owners of facebook - the users?

If they do my check must still be in the post….

I now only open certain posts from certain applications (less and less) however I recently came across a new social networking site which claimed to be “The Worlds First Social Networking Site Which Pays Its Users”. Intrigued I signed up mid January and as they declare users earnings midway through the following month was keen to see if they lived up to their promise…

Sure enough I logged in and was surprised to see that I had in fact earned money in my first 2 weeks on the site. I admit not enough to pay for a sandwich but I remember my first adsense site earned less in its first month.

This is never going to replace your Day Job but if you are spending time on facebook and not getting paid why not give it a try.

After all the whole business of making money on the internet, whether by affiliate marketing, adsense income, EBay , Amazon or selling your own products is about creating multiple sources of income - why not use Yuwie as another perhaps small but painless addition to your portfolio.

Keep the Faith

Damian

If you believe in a one stop “get rich quick” solution to making money on the internet then stop reading this now and get a Day Job.

If you would just rather believe that the way you are doing things at the moment is not the most efficient way of doing things and are prepared to work at not having a Day Job then read on…..

If you have been online for any length of time, then you have heard the term “Blog”. You may even have a few in your own marketing bag of tricks.

Blogs have been around for a long time now, but it’s really only been within the last few years that online marketers have discovered just how profitable they can be.

Because blogs can help generate a tremendous amount of traffic to your website(s), which means you are getting more eyeballs on your offers and generating more sales.

While a typical website can take hours to update, a site built around a blog can be updated INSTANTLY and search engines quickly take notice, literally ’slurping’ up new content.

So when you create a blog and use a variety of keyword related posts, you can easily profit off of the results, which search engines like Yahoo and Google deliver.

For example, if you build blogs around your own products - or even those of someone else - it won’t be long before hungry buyers looking for that product happen upon your blog.

And that just makes the whole sales process a breeze doesn’t it? Rather than try to convince someone that you have what they need, with blogs you can present hungry buyers with EXACTLY what they want.

There Is No Other Method As Effective Or Powerful As Blogging…

JP Schoeffel’s Blog Matrix Pro will help you quickly and easily build your own empire of niche blogs…entire websites based around any topic or market to just about dominate specific targets within that market!
Here is the link:

Blog Matrix Pro

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Anyone who has been involved in affiliate marketing knows that Clickbank is one of the best sources of affiliate programs. The only problem is how do you choose the best products, set up squeeze pages, get traffic to the squeeze pages, set up an account with Aweber to build your list and than write follow up emails and keyword rich articles in order to drive traffic to your squeeze pages in order to sell enough product to cover the other costs involved in all of the above.

Enough to put anyone off …. and then the market moves and you learn that it is no longer enough just to set up a squeeze page but now it must be a video squeeze page ….

Well don’t give up I have been testing a product which provides you with :

* Professional Video Squeeze Page - to capture your visitor’s name and email

* High-quality Squeeze Video - to grab your visitors’ attention
and get them to opt into your list

* Content Mini-site - to pre-sell your affiliate product and earn you commissions

* 5-part Email Series - to follow up with your prospects and convert more sales for you on the back-end

* 250 Keyword-rich, AdSense article to draw traffic from the
search engines and earn you a little extra on the side!

Whats more they provide all of the above for not just for 1 niche a
month…but for 10! Yes 10 complete turnkey affiliate businesses
waiting for you!

You don’t even need your own domain to use this program:

* No autoresponder required - It’s included!

* No web hosting, domain or website required - Included!

* No special skills necessary - It’s nearly 100% automated!

when I first read the sales letter, I thought it would be a
$497 membership, as I would be ready to pay $67 for 1 single
of these affiliate package. I guessed that for 10, they would
give a discount.

Then after the usual “you won’t pay that, nor even that…”
I guessed it would cost $197…

I was completely wrong, and more than you can imagine.

Usually, to raise the click through rate of this post, I should
not divulge the price of this service. Well, I don’t really care,
this is too good not to share

YOU GET THE WHOLE THING FOR $37 A MONTH!

I truly find this amazing and need you to benefit from this amazing service.

It takes all the hard work out of Affiliate Marketing, imagine you get 10 sales systems each month for $37. Two sales a month from any of the systems will cover the membership price and at the end of 12 months you will have 120 sales systems working on autopilot for you for a total monthly cost of ……$ 37.

Seriously this is the best value product I have seen in the last two years and I cannot believe that they will keep the membership open for much longer at this price

This one works !!!!

Get it now before you regret it Silver Bullet

Keep the Faith

Damian

So you have finally stepped into the world of making money online. Maybe you have decided to start by marketing other peoples products via their affiliate programs. You must have heard that it’s not a big deal to make good money with affiliate marketing, just choose the right programs and do some strategic planning while promoting your affiliate links. So far so good.

Well not necessarily, whether you are promoting other people’s products or promoting your own products - you are trying to build a business. So whichever be your case, I am sure you would not want to leave money on the table and invite others to steal your share of the profits.

Take a close look at the industry, you will see that not every one who gets into affiliate marketing is successful. People who are doing well leave no room for failure and take all security measures and understand its importance.

Yes! Security is one of the key factors in affiliate marketing. If you do not adopt proper security measures, then your business will be at high risk. One of the most important way to restore security is to protect your affiliate links. Do not take them for granted. A bit of carelessness on your part in regards to affiliate links may cost you a lot of dollars.

The long complicated links that you are given by many programs to send to your prospective customers not only look convoluted but they can create a lot of problems too!

If you send such an affiliate link to your customers, then the smart ones will definitely figure out that you are promoting someone else’s product and they would rather visit the parent company cutting you out of the deal.

If your link does not function then your customers have to type a really long URL into the browser, which will definitely put them off.

You could be a victim of even a worse situation. What if some devious Internet pirates steal your affiliate links and replace them with theirs. If they do that, then you get no commission at all.

Don’t let any of this put you off what you need to do is cloak (or hide) your affiliate links to avoid losing your commissions and track your campaigns to monitor which are successful and which are not.

I tried a number of cloaking methods before discovering ViralURL earlier this year.

ViralURL is a link cloaker that protects you in the truest sense. There may be many unethical people lurking around, who might play with your affiliate links by cutting them off or replacing them with their own etc. How much effort do you put in towards building your business and advertising your business, if your links are tampered with, then all your hard work will be rendered useless.

In order to avoid such a rip off, ViralURL gives you full protection and sees to it that your affiliate links never get exposed to others.

This system is not only limited to protecting your links, it is a trully viral system which

* helps us in protecting commission.
* helps in building mailing lists.
* helps in tracking statistics.
* helps in earning extra ad credits.

In short, ViralURL allows us to create massive business leverage.

I don’t see any negative aspect associated with this program. All you have to do is join it for free, then cloak your links, promote them and see your business soaring higher and higher.

You can get all detailed information about the program from the site www.ViralURL.com .

So if you want to protect your business and see your earnings grow, try it NOW. You have nothing to lose.

Keep the faith

Damian

When speaking about viral in relation to computers, you would normally mean those nasty little programmes that destroy information on your computer and pass from user to user. As such, it is a word dreaded by all computer owners- myself included as I know from experience how difficult a major infection can be to deal with. However, when speaking of viral marketing, we are talking about using the power of the internet to do your marketing for you. In the same way that a virus spreads from one person to many eventually becoming an epidemic

That is the very concept of viral marketing- to create an epidemic of demand for your business. The idea is to get everyone to spread your marketing message around because they want to. Think of how quickly a funny video is seen by thousands of people because each person who sees it wants to pass it on to all their friends.

Viral marketing material should contain media or content that you will want to pass on! If you like the content and find it or entertaining or useful or maybe you feel compelled, you will pass it on to your friends and family. It could be an e-book on some subject that will be useful to you or perhaps even a video- the ideas are simply endless!

I have discovered a viral marketing system that will explode your business!

Take a look at Viralized and let me know what you think.

Damian

As anyone setting up on their own in any sort of business knows (or finds out to their cost) keeping timely accounts and balancing the books can make the difference between success and failure.

Another way to ensure success is to turn cost centres into profit centres.

A new report out today Guerrilla Balance Sheet shows you :

“How To Turn Your Marketing Into A Profit Center, Have An Unlimited Marketing Budget, And Never Run Out Of Money Again!”

Whilst this is billed as a $7-report, there are a few key differences:

First, at over 50-pages, the report is more like a $99-ebook.

Next, the ideas are legitimately new and not some watered down rehash.

Last, while the report basically assures there is more to come (probably even more to buy), the promises are fulfilled with “How to do’s” as well as “What to do’s”.

The purpose of this report is to help business owners “Never run out of money again” by turning your cost centres into profit centres. Specifically, it focuses on how to turn your marketing expenses into a profit centre.

The quality is high and noticeable. The authors, who are working with the father of Guerrilla Marketing, Jay Conrad Levinson, claim to have generated over 9 drafts and revisions and it shows.

In addition to be very readable and graphically attractive, the action steps throughout and the supporting links allow for implementation of the ideas immediately.

Summary: The basic premise is classic business advice causes owners to focus on the wrong things, failure or losing money, and that this may be responsible for the high failure rate of most businesses and entrepreneurs.

An alternative approach, where you get paid for everything you do…and specifically for the areas of expense in your business, is offered.

While some of the case for turning expenses into profit centres may at times seem to be more work than they’re worth…

…the main example of turning your marketing into a profit centre is spot-on, solid, and simple.

This is certainly the best $7-report I’ve seen in a very long time if not the best ever.

As a final note, like most $7-reports, you earn a commission when you recommend and promote it to others. However, where other reports are 100% commission, this program pays on two tiers.

Consequently, there’s no 100% commission.

Additionally, when you read the report, you’ll see why it would have been incongruent for the authors to offer a 100% commission.

Don’t waste any time get your copy know at Guerrilla Balance Sheet

As an aside if you find balancing books difficult try this :

Or if juggling jobs is too hard :

Don’t forget get your copy NOW at Guerrilla Balance Sheet

I have been meaning to investigate EBay since as long as I have been online but have still never bought or sold anything on it.

I have however just signed up as an affiliate and have been looking at some of its tools and features.

I have also bought some EBay instructional material and will be posting a more detailed EBay post later this month. In the meantime check out the EBay To Go Feature which I set up in under 5 minutes.

If you are not using EBay check it out!

Keep the faith!

Damian

Whatever you are marketing online you should be tapping into the power of Squidoo to boost your exposure help with your SEO.

Bob “The Teacher” Jenkins launched Squidoo Secrets last year and as a build up to Squidoo Secrets 2 has just posted this article on his blog.

“Squidoo Secrets 2 is coming very soon. Until it’s ready for you, please enjoy the first of 7 Secrets To Success With Squidoo…

Secret #1 To Success With Squidoo: Make Your Lens Useful

Without help from a recognized expert, mastering any Web 2.0 platform can take time and a lot of trial and error. The same is true for Squidoo, a social marketing/blogging service created in 2005 by marketing genius Seth Godin.

To help you skip ahead along your learning curve, let me share the #1 secret to success with Squidoo.

Make Your Lens Useful
If I were writing a college thesis on Squidoo, I would say, “Squidoo was created within the premise that collaboration in a free market exchange of ideas will generate great content.”

In other words: the cream will rise to the top. However, in order for your ideas on Squidoo to gain that larger audience you are seeking, you have to make your lens useful.

To do this, you must determine what it is your customers will appreciate you sharing with them. What is it that you know that they should want to know? Once you answer this question, give your audience the good stuff – don’t hold back.

Next, you must convey your information in a friendly, readable way. Create your lens (your unique page on Squidoo) with short blocks of information. This is accomplished with multiple Text/Write modules. Use the titles of each module as your subheadings to break up longer articles of information.

According to Godin, your job as a lensmaster is to filter the overwhelming amount of information online into one easy to find resource (hence the term “lens”). So another piece of making your lens useful is to direct visitors to the best information that already exists online.

Use Pre-Built Modules To Make Your Lens Useful
To accomplish this, you can use several pre-built modules. The best of these are the Link List, RSS, and YouTube modules. The Link module makes it easy for you to link to the other websites and provide a short description for each site (for long term results, use the Link Plexo instead so your readers can add to this list).

The RSS module gives you the power to bring other people’s blog articles into your lens. The module is made in such away that the first 25 words or so are automatically imported to your lens every day.

The YouTube module makes it easy for you to put the best videos on your topic into your lens. Not only does this provide your readers with more relevant information, it also makes your lens more fun to read. And don’t worry – you don’t have to be the creator of the videos to include them in your lens (but it does help!).

Create How To Lessons With Your Lenses
Another way to make your lens useful is to present your information as “how-to” lessons within your topic. This helps you and your audience in a number of ways.

First, it directs you to write content in a logical way. You may be stumped with what to write about when you start working on a lens. But if you approach your lens as a set of how-to steps, your ideas will come faster. And with the Reorder modules tool, it’s easy to rearrange the steps if you get them out of order initially.

Having a step-by-step guide for your lens also gives your readers the action steps they need to become better in your area of expertise. As they accomplish their own goals of knowledge/skills, they know you were partially responsible. So they will “favorite” your lens, book mark it with Digg, Del.icio.us, or Stumble Upon, rate your lens 4 or 5 stars, perhaps even join your fan club.

In other words, the more useful your lens is, the more your readers will show their appreciation for what you are giving them.

That may seem like an obvious statement. And it is. But it’s important to highlight it because with social marketing, also known as new media marketing, your reputation carries much more weight in your success.

Finally, the more useful your lens, the more likely you can get attention by people in high positions.

You could win a coveted Lens of the Day award by Squidoo. Or perhaps get picked up in a media publication. One of my own lenses was highlighted in the New York Times in early 2006, and the long term effects of that are still being felt in 2008.

So if you want to gain the fame and/or fortune you desire from your favorite pieces of knowledge, be sure to create lenses on Squidoo that are useful – indeed, make them the best single source of information on your topic available anywhere on the internet.

Bob Jenkins is an internet marketing teacher, who specializes in Web 2.0 marketing strategies for business. He is the creator of Squidoo Secrets, a comprehensive audio and video training system to teach you Squidoo fast. Continue your Squidoo education at Squidoo Secrets

Honestly if you are not using squidoo sign up for the free download and then decide if you want to upgrade once version 2 is launched in a few weeks.

Keep the faith

Damian