Social media? Yeah, right. It’s called anti-social media. From Stickam to youtube, from downloadable movies to instant messaging… we’ve lost that lovin’ feeling… www.stickam.com Here’s our example from today (Saturday). Thanks to themightythor1212 for cooking dinner while I edited this like a nice youtube wife. Tune: www.youtube.com Cast: www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com Off Camera: www.youtube.com www.youtube.com And the woman formerly known as Positive Sue.

One of the most valuable tools you have at your disposal is your autoresponder. However, an autoresponder is of little value without a large list. You see, if your list only has 6 people in it, you can email them directly, and you wouldn’t need the autoresponder. And, your list is useless without a method of attracting people to join. So you develop an Internet marketing book to entice subscribers. And on, and on…

You see, regardless of whether you have an online business or a brick and mortar store, there are many moving parts that are critical to your success. Skimp on just one of them and the whole thing collapses. Many people fail at the stage of attracting subscribers to their list. I have found that it is most effective to use a free Internet marketing book to get people to join my list. People love freebies.

Some Internet marketers complain about freebie seekers, but not me. Today’s freebie seekers are tomorrow’s buyers. And even if they never buy from me, it doesn’t really matter. My autoresponder will keep churning out good material to my list regardless of whether there are 100 people on it or 100,000 people on it. So I encourage freebie seekers by continuing to offer quality Internet marketing books to entice subscribers.

And, I try to include a few links for my own products in the freebies I offer. I’m not going to retire on that source of income but it brings in a few extra dollars each month. Add a few dollars here and a few dollars there, and before you know it, you are making some real money.

I also include a number of inexpensive mini Internet marketing books on my site. Freebie seekers are also interested in these items because they are priced under five dollars each. Each mini ebook contains between ten and thirty pages and they are quite popular. They are among the highest converting items on my site. Again, I’m not going to retire on that source of income but it brings in a few extra dollars each month. Add a few dollars here and a few dollars there and before you know it, you are making some real money.

I also have a number of holiday sites where I offer a number of low priced products. And again, I’m not going to retire on that source of income but it brings in a few extra dollars each month. Add a few dollars here and a few dollars there and before you know it, you are making some real money…

You get the point. So get started, develop a few good Internet marketing books and get started making money. Don’t think that you have to sell that premium priced, mammoth sized ebook to make money. Encourage the freebie seekers and make a little bit here and a little bit there. Before you know it, you are making some real money.

Do you want to learn more about how I make money? I have just completed a Free Internet marketing book entitled, How To Make Money Every Day!

More bad news for an already bullet-riddled MySpace: three key employees have left the company to join Gravity, a cross-town startup founded by former MySpace COO Amit Kapur, SVP Steve Pearman and SVP Jim Benedetto.

We covered Gravity’s launch in December 2009.

The three MySpacer’s are Chief Software Architect Chris Bissell (we previously reported Bissell’s resignation), Chief Systems Architect Dan Farino and Development Manager Robbie Coleman.

All of these employees approached Gravity on their own, says our source. But MySpace’s somewhat zealous legal department isn’t shy about engaging in the occasionally ridiculous turf war. We’ve also heard that the best MySpace employees continue to head for the door, and companies that know which employees actually get things done aren’t going to turn away good people.

MySpace declined to comment on this story, other than to confirm that the three employees are no longer with the company. Gravity also declined to comment.

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Jasmin O’Meara, Bass Player for Internationally Renown Band Zoot Woman, Endorses CarbonCopyPRO
Successful musician and seasoned Internet marketer teams up with CarbonCopyPRO to launch new online business.

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For most of the businesses, online promotion has emerged as an important and integral technique that has the capability of attracting the biggest sector of clients. Nowadays, every individual prefers to browse through the World Wide Web, if he has to search for some information. Nobody has time to flip through the pages of books, or other available resources for acquiring information about any particular topic. Hence, even if you have an online website that promotes your products, services or concepts, then it is important to make your target audience aware of its existence. However, this task is not as easy as it seems. Only expert professionals who have the required expertise in the online medium can do wonders for your website. Hence, in this situation, you can gain the maximum benefit by hiring the very competent New York search engine optimization firms.

Let us now focus on some of the elementary objectives of proper New York search engine optimization. The first and foremost aspect of this entire procedure is the creation of informative content that incorporates all popular and most sought after keywords, so that whenever an individual tries to search for some information through a keyword, your website should immediately respond. Secondly, your website should also be well categorized with good, valid Meta tags. Moreover, ensure that the content you are providing on your site is written in easy communicative language, so that all visitors can easily understand it. Also try to make your website quite creative in nature, so a visitor gets attracted towards it and will give time to find new aspects in it. In addition to this, the presentation of your website should be interesting and captivating. And finally if you are a resident of New York, then all these services will be given to you by avid New York search engine optimization firms.

However, it is almost impossible to manage and execute all these jobs, without the expert hand of professional help and this is the reason why, nowadays, many intelligent companies are opting for the valuable assistance of New York search engine optimization firms. The firms are well recruited with efficient professionals and good content writers, who have earned qualitative years of experience in this field. In addition to this, these firms also offer the facility of upgradation services to their clients, even after the website is posted on search engines on a contractual basis.

Hence, if you too, have chosen the medium of internet for promoting your products, services and brands then simply make efforts to gain the maximum advantage of New York search engine optimization firm. Also, keep in mind the fact that the requirements and techniques of online promotion are consistently developing and thus, it is important for you to introduce essential amendments in your website accordingly. Take the help of experienced professionals, who are well informed about the several changes and advancements and get your website redesigned in an appropriate manner. The day to day upgrading will never let your site become out dated. Promotional tactics are the key to generating awareness about any business, even for online websites. So, move ahead and let the entire world know about your online business and rake in the profits.

Monetizing Application Traffic On Social Networks Sourabh Niyogi (Social Media Networks) You’ve built your app so how do you make money? Find out what types of advertising make the most sense and options for how you can participate in the social network advertising ecosystem. Sourabh Niyogi, co-founder and VP of Engineering at Social Media Networks, will describe his experiences over the past year in how successful applications are growing, monetizing and measuring their traffic, sharing key metrics you can use as baseline assumptions in building your application business. Social Media Networks is the world’s leading social application advertising network, enabling developers to monetize their application traffic by selling advertising to performance marketers, brand advertisers and developers.

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So many people ask me about starting an AdWords campaign. They say, “I have no idea what this is going to cost, how many impressions I’ll get, or what will work. I have a product that will bring a $30 commission, what should my cost per click be?”

Here’s what I tell them: “$29.99, and that’s if you’re getting 100% conversion.” Of course, that won’t happen in the Internet marketing arena, so what can you spend? That’s the ultimate question. What are you willing to take and just flush down the toilet? Make sense?

It may and it may not. It depends on how new to the Internet marketing business world you are, and how well you know how AdWords works. So, let’s make this clear. If you want to advertise your business using Google AdWords, you have to decide how your Internet marketing business can afford to drop every day, until your AdWords campaign becomes viable.

You may be thinking, I can’t waste any money right now. If that’s true, then you probably shouldn’t be messing around with AdWords. There are so many other ways to advertise in Internet marketing, without using AdWords, and many of them are free. So, wait until you have the wherewithal to lose some money, and then, you should set a very specific budget for that kind of advertising.

But for this illustration, let’s figure that you can just flush away some money. But you have to first decide what your advertising budget is for your Internet marketing business, and what percentage of that you’re willing to spend on AdWords. It might be $100 a day, or it might be $3, but whatever that amount is, you set your AdWords daily budget at that figure.

Just remember that you’ll get fewer impressions with the lowest amounts, and fewer click-throughs. It’s possible that it will take a long time to see your ad circulated enough to do any evaluation of how well your ad works. But let’s just say that your daily budget is $50. You can just dump that $50 a day, and it won’t put a dent in your Internet marketing business, right? So, let’s just say that you only get clicks that cost you $10 a day for 7 days. You have $40 a day left over that you didn’t spend. OK, then, for the next seven days, you can boost your daily rate to $90 to see what happens.

Eventually, with a lot of testing and tracking, you’ll find a sweet spot. Your ad will be getting impressions and you’ll be getting clicks. It just takes time. You have to continually monitor the campaign and tweak it until it becomes profitable. A good ebook to read to get you into this game is Perry Marshall’s The Definitive Guide to AdWords. Get it and use what you learn inside.

Though my answer here may seem cloudy, it’s the truth. Nobody can tell you what your cost-per-click should be. Spend as much as your Internet marketing business can afford on AdWords and not a single cent more. When you see that the campaign is starting to work, you may change your strategy and spend more on AdWords. It just depends on how quickly you make changes and move forward. Just never become depressed or upset at how this is going. You have to keep moving ahead.

Here is the key to success. Never give up. Just don’t put expensive demands on your Internet marketing business’s budget to the point that you’re way in over your head. Your Internet marketing business will fail or you’ll be stuck paying huge credit card debts for years. If you don’t understand the system fully, learn it before jumping in head first. Be a little conservative, and plan your AdWords campaign wisely.

Probably you have noticed that there are several companies competing for a single product. For instance, in athletic shoes alone, you will be able to count more than ten competitors. In the airline industry, there exist more than ten competitors in providing air travel services for travelers both inside and outside the United States.

How will you distinguish one competitor from another competitor? That is where branding comes into action. In fact, this is one of the important yet unappreciated aspects of Internet marketing.

Before you will be able to understand the goal of branding on Internet marketing, let us first discuss the branding on traditional conduct of business. It is an advertising method that is used to identify the products or services of a seller or a group of sellers and differentiate it from those of other sellers offering the same products or services. Establishing a brand for your own products or services will help you achieve the following:

• Deliver the message clearly to the public about your intention of marketing your products or services;

• Confirm your credibility as an independent and reputable seller;

• Motivates your buyer to patronize your products or services; and

• Build a concrete and loyal clientele base.

In other words, the goal of branding is to give your products or services its own identity apart from other sellers offering the same products or services. You will only succeed in the investment you are into if you have established yourself as an independent and reputable seller through branding.

What are the consequences of branding in your investment?

• The brand of your products or services will rest with the hearts and minds of your clients and potential customers. This will influence the way they patronize your products or services that may even result in the expansion of your clientele base.

• It is what the people will remember about you. For instance, you have branded your pet products as “Pet Lovers”. Once the brand is consistently patronized by the people, you will be able to achieve success and your products will certainly have an edge over unbranded products.

As previously mentioned, branding is one of the most important yet the most unappreciated aspects of Internet marketing, particularly in terms of web advertising. Since most advertising programs are focused on click-through rates (since it is the basis of earning through online-based affiliate programs), Internet marketers often neglect the important of branding in terms of Internet marketing. This is relatively unfortunate since the success of Internet marketing is also dependent on branding awareness. In other words, branding is essential in promoting the brand of the product or services of the affiliate. Without branding, there is no sense that the product or services you are endorsing will be popular to your clients.

Keep in mind that your goal here is to earn money and not to lose any penny. Thus, it would be better if you will invest on branding-based Internet marketing. It is easy to promote products and services that are already well-known to the public rather than unbranded ones.

However, you can also help building brand awareness of not well-known products or services that will help a lot in making your online advertising successful. Here are some of the strategies that you can use:

1. You may think of a brand name that will suit to the products or services of your clients. Such brand name must not be too formal yet too lousy to the eyes and ears of your clients. You may include interesting words that will produce the needed “twist” to the name of the product or service.

2. Since a brand is an intellectual property, you need to check with the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) if the brand name is already taken by someone else. Once the selected brand name is still available, you will be able to apply for the registered patent of that brand name.

3. Once the patent has been approved, you need to consistently advertise the name so that it will gain popularity among potential clients. You may also suggest to the merchants that the brand name needs to be advertised through various affiliate programs over the net for more visibility.

Branding must not be taken for granted. It is one of the factors that will help you achieve success in Internet marketing. Keep it as your goal and stick with it along the course of your investment.