Internet Marketing Toolbox

For newbies to the Internet Marketing (IM) field, swimming in the ocean with all the big fish (read guru’s) can be a very frustrating experience, for all sorts of reasons. Now, we’ve all heard that you need your own “product” if you are going to really get somewhere with this Internet Marketing stuff…

But let’s say you’re developing your own product in the field of “list building”… or perhaps the latest in “traffic generation” tools…

What …

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Another reason to pay close attention to your web server stats!

I recently discovered that an eBay seller was flogging a product that I give away - the Mike Filsaime Interview - Confessions of An Internet Millionaire.

Nothing strange in that you might say… anyone can flog it…

Except that one of the images he used was stolen directly from my site! Over June and July there have been quite a few requests for the image that …

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It’s my birthday, today! As is often the case with birthdays… at least as you start getting on a bit… you reflect on what you have “done”.

And today, I realised I have spent precisely one quarter of my 53 years working as a full-timer on the ‘net!

Way back in the good ole days, circa 1995, the ‘net was very like the wild, Wild West. And I was there, blazing trails into the great unknown, trying …

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It makes sense to reveal a little bit of your “personality” to your visitors and subscribers - unless you are a total raving lunatic - because that helps differentiate you from other marketers. But how up close and personal should you get? How much of your personal life should you reveal through the web? And when does too much get in the way of your marketing?

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See Important Update In Comments Below - June 12, 2008

Oh I wouldn’t want a business on eBay for quids! The changes are coming so think and fast it’s almost impossible to keep up.

After last month’s digital delivery fiasco, it seems that now eBay Australia wants to get into the action by announcing they will ONLY accept CASH or PAYPAL after June 17, 2008.

So with direct deposits, money orders and personal cheques no longer viable payment …

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While I’m wrapped with using WordPress as a publishing platform, I DO want to take things a step or two further, and right now, I want to include a membership section on a web site. That means HIDING my WordPress pages and posts from the public, and showing them only to paying “members”.

You’d think that would be a very simple thing to do with WordPress - just grab another plugin, and voila! Instant membership section.

Not …

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Have you developed a workable comment policy for your blog-based web site? While it doesn’t need to be published for all to see, it does help if you have a set of guidelines you can follow to help decide which comments to publish, and which Akismet comments to de-spam.

For starters, all comments to your blog should be approved before publication. That means as soon as someone makes a comment, they’ll see the “Your comment is …

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In a move which shocked thousands of eBay digital goods store owners, eBay has banned goods with digital delivery methods - ebooks, music, software, web templates, domain name sales, design services, web hosting, craft epatterns etc - from being shown in their auction marketplace.

Instead, if you want to list such products, you have to now use their Classified Ads service.

Brian Burke, eBay’s Director Global Feedback Policy, cited “feedback manipulation” as the reason for this …

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Two current Internet Marketing promotions are poised to split the IM community… or at the very least, give it a lot to talk about! On one hand, you’ve got the crowd who say that the best way to succeed online is to freely give first, and grow on your reputation. On the other hand, the train of thought is to monetize absolutely everything you do, including your marketing.

Both promotions are part of a launch for …

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How do you find out what THE most important question people have about Internet Marketing is? Simple! Just ask them. Mark Joyner did that, and already there’s a virtual landslide of responses… well, I’d call 143 comments on a blog post after 10 hours a landslide!!! Check them out for an excellent insight into the Internet Marketing marketplace.

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