Traffic leads and sales is what its all about right?

Being able to build yourself a list of leads is what makes you stand apart from other affiliate marketers and other business owners. A list in which you can promote to can produce amazing results sales wise in little time. Today I have the unique chance in inviting my readers to join a revolutanry program that will help you build your list and produce extra income for you.

The site is called Traffic Leads and Sales which you can join 100% Free at Join Traffic Leads and Sales.  When you join, it really is key to take up one of the one time offers you will be presented with. This is going to unlock a huge bonus for you of earning 100% commissions from anyone you directly refer to the site.

Here is how it works, for each new member you bring in they start to promote their own referral url and start filling up your 10 by 6 matrix. Each of these new sign ups will be presented a gift, 6 in all each of which will sign them up with a new newsletter to join. Because these new sign ups are in your downline you will be getting them on your mailing list.

The site works with many auto responders such as AWeber and TrafficWave, both of which come with a one month trial. AWeber is $1 the first month while traffic wave is free for the first month.

While Picnik has been around since 2006, I have never heard of it till just recently when Google acquired it. After checking out the site a bit the other day I wanted to share it with you as it just blew me away with the quality it offers. Much of the design work I do online requires me to work in photoshop which in itself is an amazing program unfortunately it comes at an amazingly high price as well.

Picnik is a free to use photo editor that works right in your web browser no download is required. The site allows you to do a ton of editing to your pictures to give them cool effects or just to make them look better in general. It allows you to take those dark images you took that do not look so great and brighten them up into a eye catching photo.

They offer an upgrade called premium which costs just over $2 a month which is a great deal for the amount of tools and add ons you get with the service.

Here is a quick example of what you can do with this service with a before and after picture.

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After

This next part could very well be the most important. I will go over two of the scripts I have used and the benefits and disadvantages of them. These scripts allow you to do many things which include, building your optin list via AWeber or TrafficWave, protecting your products from thieves, build a membership base which continues to drive traffic and can result in additional sales and allows you to  create one time offer pages to bump up sales.

The first membership script I used is called Instant Member. This script comes at a great price of just $97 and each additional site after just $47. I used this script on my web site Secret Traffic Reports which is a monthly report that is dripped into the members account each month. This script has many benefits and unique features such as being able to drip the content over several months, different upgrade options, one time offer pages and supports many popular payment methods such as Paypal and Clickbank.

I have found there is a major drawback with this script which is it hampers with some customization.  All of the pages are encrypted so you can not edit any of the pages besides in your admin area. This makes things difficult if you wish to add additional pages such as a JV invite page or add features to your pages such as javascript as the editor in the admin area is only an HTML editor and will not support javascript.

The second script is one I am using right now called Launch Formula Marketing. This script comes with a bit of a price tag at $997 or you can do a payment plan for $333 over a 3 month span. This script so far is awesome and easy to set up. Once you pay for the script you can use it on as many sites as you wish. You also get 1 year of free upgrades of the script. The best feature so far about this script is it is fully customizable and comes with a built in rebrander. This is one effective tool to use when you want to build yourself a large list. It allows you to create an ebook, give it away for free and then upsell them on the rebrand rights for the ebook. They can then login to their account and input their affiliate ideas and give the ebook away for free with their own links. The site I am building with this script will be announced at the end of this tutorial.

This is a quick bonus that I found when researching around. This site is called Digital Product Delivery and will protect your digital products from thieves. It is a low monthly fee of just $5 to protect 10 different products with the option of larger packages if you need it. I use this digital protection on my web site Take Action SEO.

The next posting will be: Creating Your First Digital Product Part 3 and go over Prelaunch JV’s and steps to take before the launch of your product to make is successful.

Creating your first digital product such as ebook, software or report can seem like a hard and long task to undertake. In fact at this very moment I am working on another product of my own that is to the be released so. I figured this was the perfect time to go over the break down step by step on how to create your very own digital product. This posting will be broken up in parts and will be released as I go though the phases of building my newest ebook.

Creating a digital product is really going to step you ahead of the pack as you now have to strong asset to build your list with, brand your name and your companies logo or you face. Doing so will gather more attention and get you better well known on the net.

The first step you need to do is sit back and do a bit of brainstorming. You need to answer this list of questions before you can start building the product.

1. What niche am I looking to get into?
2. What is a common question or issue that comes up often in this niche?
3. Can I create a software product or a ebook/report to help others gain the answers to this questions?

If you can come with these answers and more importantly number 3 be able to say yes to this then you have your first product idea and can now push ahead. Even if you feel you yourself can not research and put this information together you can always outsource this to someone in the niche or someone to research the niche and create a report.

You next need to plan your attack on this product. Are you a good designer? programmer? marketer? writer? We can’t all be great at everything we do and this is why it is so important to understand how to outsource your product to people that specialize in these fields. I will go into detail about setting up the site in part 2 but for now get an idea of the tasks you can do on your own and start doing them.

If you are a writer then you will want to start writing up your ebook or report. I do this via Microsoft word and then use Docudesk to convert this file into a PDF file. If you are outsourcing this part be sure they send you both the PDF and the word document so you can update the product and make changes to it as needed.

Is your product going to be software related? If you have the skills to program it on your own go for it. For me I need to outsource this work and do so though a web site called Guru. This is the best site I have found when you are looking to outsource a project. Be sure to review each person/business that bids on your project. Look for things in their review and feedback section that have to do with the project you will be hiring them for. If they have previous positive work experience this could be the person for you.

Creating your digital product part two will go over what scripts you can use to house and protect your products from thieves.

This is a list of plugins you should consider using for your blog. Many of these plugins help with SEO ( Search Engine Optimization) which allows your blog to be spidered and indexed faster. Social networking is also key here allowing you to interact with your readers which makes a world of difference and promotes repeat visitors/readers.

Comment Luv – This is a great way to give back to the readers who comment on your blog posts. This plug will visit the site of the comment author while they type their comment. It will retrieve a selection of their last blog post, tweets or digg submissions which the commenter can choose one of  to include at the bottom of their comment when they click on submit. This plugin also helps with increasing the amount of comments your blog receives as you are giving a little something back to them.

Contact Form 7 – Simple contact form that you can add to a page of your blog. Great way to get in touch with your readers on a more personal level. I have received many JV requests and was able to connect with many of my readers on a more personal level because of it.

Google XML Sitemaps with qTranslate Support – Creates Google sitemaps that are compliant XML-Sitemaps for your wordpress blog. Supports all of your Wordpress pages as well as custom pages. Every time you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol such as Google, MSN,Yahoo and Ask are notified about the update.

Headspace 2 – This is your ultimate SEO (Search Engine Optimization) tool for wordpress. It allows you to create a custom title and description for each of your blog posts. Also allows you to customize a wide range of things on your blog to help with SEO tactics.

No Self Ping – Simple plugin but it works great. I constantly link to other blog posts within my own blog which always created a headache with pings telling me I linked. This plugin simply removes any notification of a self ping.

Sociable – Make it easy for your readers to bookmark and share your posts on many different networks with a single click. This is a great viral tool to gain more visitors to your blog with no additional efforts.

Tweet MeMe – I love this plugin and you will see it on many big name blogs . It displays a retweet button at the top of every post as you see on mine in the top right. Your visitors can then click to retweet your post and share it with all of their followers. It also puts a @username in front of the retweet for further advertising of your site.

WordPress Database Backup – Backs up your entire wordpress blog as often as you want. Just encase things turn south you can rely on this plugin to get you back on your feet quickly.

WordPress Mobile Edition – Easy to install and set up this plug makes your blog mobile friendly. I have it installed on this blog right now. Just load it up in your iTouch, iPhone or any other internet mobile device to check it out.

Clickbank is the powerhouse of digital affiliate marketing. The products on clickbank range from ebooks about beekeeping to how to make thousands of dollars from the comfort of your own home. Because of this wide range of products anyone can become an expert in a field and push affiliate products that have to do with their area of expertise. What is also great about being an affiliate of digital products is earning higher commissions upwards of 50% to 75% of the total sale. This is much higher then physical products such as you find when you are an affiliate of amazon which earns you around 6% of the total sale.

What is hard about selling digital affiliate products is trying to create content and advertising for each. While some of these affiliate pages will give you resources to work with such as banners and email ads, they are generic and many affiliates more then likely are  copying this information and using it. What you need to do is stick out above the rest and be different. This is where the real money is made.

Clickbank pirate does just that in the form of a monthly access package. This package includes everything you need to become successful at affiliate marketing with clickbank. These access packages include a tracking url, squeeze page, email ads, custom tweets, blog posts, articles, thank you page ads, 404 page ads, unannounced bonus ads, customized ebook that includes your affiliate links, email signature ads, forum signature ads and countless banner ads of all shapes and sizes all professionally created with one goal in mind to maximize your sales.

The hardest thing about creating income such as this is building a mailing list. Not only is it hard to make your own squeeze page and then back up the mailing list with helpful content to keep your subscribers interested but it also costs a good deal of money. This is another area where clickbank pirate steps in by managing the list for you. All you need to worry about now is promoting you squeeze pages and getting opt ins. Cindy Battye and Soren Jordansen two top professionals in the affiliate marketing world manage your list and create high selling emails that produce results.

Get started today with Clickbank Pirate click here (Please take note I am an affiliate of this product and will earn commission from any orders made though this link. This disclaimer is here to abide by the FTC rules. Commissions earned allow me to have the time to test out products such as this and give you a honest review on them.)

This product also has a OTO(One Time Offer) installed on it. While the traffic exchange credits do help a bit to get you opt ins right out of the gate what truly makes this OTO valuable is unlocking a second access package each month at no additional cost other then the OTO fee.

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With so many new social networking sites being launched and becoming more popular it is common to see many internet users especially internet marketers with a profile at each. I myself hold a facebook, twitter, digg and linkedin account along with countless other smaller networking sites. While it allows me to connect with different people on each the difficulty is the time it takes to manage each of them and stay connected with everyone that follows me.

A website called Ping.fm allows you to create an account and tie all of your networking sites together. You are able to access your profiles from anywhere and gives you a central site in which you can update your status and have it appear on all of your social networking sites. This is a great way to save time and allows everyone to keep up to date with you on a new product your launching or just what your doing in your everyday life.

There have been a number of sites which have tried doing this already including Hellotxt and Socialthing. While ping.fm is a new program it takes after older ones but provides some interesting goodies that set it apart. It fulfills a substantial need, works properly, and even possesses a real business model that can save you and your company time when communicating to the new social networking community.

When I first started using twitter my first question was how would I make sense of all of this information coming at me. After your list starts to grow in the hundreds or let alone thousands it becomes very difficult to keep track of who is tweeting about you and trying to stay connected with them.

There are some programs out there that will allow you to send automated messages for each person that follows you thanking them. However I feel this is a bit to spammy  and often times it discourages me to really consider this person serious. I wanted a more personal touch and to be able to manage everything efficiently.

Thats when I ran into tweetdeck, a software package, free to download that makes all of this easier to manage and keep connected with thousands of other tweeters giving it that personal touch. You can download your copy of tweetdeck at tweetdeck.com They  are  on top of their game over at tweetdeck by always updating the software.  It now allows you to connect into twitter, facebook, myspace and linkedin all from one central platform.

I want to point out a number of awesome features that come with tweetdeck to manage your twitter account. The first of which is the ability to translate what you tweet about into many different languages such as  Chinese, French, German and Japanese just to name a few.
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This allows me to communicate with thousands of other people via twitter I would not have been able to otherwise. When they tweet me back a message I can translate what they say back into English making this one powerful and easy to use tool.

The second feature I like about tweetdeck is just the little things it does such as with hash tags. When replying to someone with a hash tag with tweetdeck simply click reply to this person and it will place in their name and the hash tag at the end of the tweet.

Third feature is with shortening URL’s, this took a bit of time before having to visit a website like tinyurl and inputting my main link then copy and pasting the new tinyurl into my tweet. But with tweetdeck it allows me to type in my main url and once completed will automatically transfer it into a shortened url without me having to do any additional work.

If you would like to view even more features of tweetdeck please check out their video on youtube or visit their site to pick up a copy at TweetDeck.com

You may have heard by now you should be pinging your blog but what is pinging and what does it actually do? What a ping does is tells search engines and other sites that you have new updated content on your site and they need to come check you out. Upon this request a bot or spider will be sent to your website that crawls your site for new information and index’s your pages for keywords to be listed in search engines like Google and Yahoo. This allows your sites to be indexed faster and let them know of new content that needs to be shared with the world.

How do you submit your site to be pinged?

It’s very simple and there are a number of websites that offer this service. Many of these are free such as Blog buzzer which will ping your blog to over 20 different sites. It can become a bit of a hassle doing it every day and remembering to. For this they offer a premium addition for just $9 a year which will automatically ping your blog once a day to these top sites.

When I first started writing content and posting articles over a year ago I realized one thing, “Content Is King”. But writing all of that content was time consuming and if I wanted to post the same article on multiple article directories I had to write a new one for each. The reason for this is if your article is an exact duplicate it will only be indexed for one site leaving the rest off of the search results. While this would still drive traffic from the other articles it would limit them as they would not be listed on Google.

I searched for an extended time to find a product or service that would make this task shorter and allow me to push more quality content out. I took a look into article spinners but it made the text for the article unreadable for the most part as it jumped all over. I continued to look and found a product that was highly recommended by a few people. I want to go over with you exactly how this software works so you can judge it for yourself.

The screen shot above shows you exactly what you will be getting with mass article control. The system is  easy to use and already comes preloaded with thousands of synonyms. Simply paste in your core article to mass article control and click on each word. If there is a synonym for it it will show up in a list format, simply click add selected to replace that word with a like one. The more you can add with the sentence sounding correct the better off you will be.

Another method used is by selecting whole sentences and replacing it with a different sentence that means the same thing. Doing just a few of these will create many unique articles out of your core article. Within about 20 minutes you should have gone though your core article and replaced like words and sentences. Your next step then is to click on File -> Preview Articles.

Doing so will present you with a new window with all of your new articles. In this example I have 32 brand new articles from my core article and all are over 52% unique content. I am not certain to what percentage you want to make each of your articles unique in order for them all to be ranked on Google and other search engines but from what I have learned a 40% unique value will suit you well.

Using this program will save you time and money. By taking PLR articles and rewording them with mass article control you can begin to pump out hunderds of quality articles each day to submit to sites like Blazing articles, Ezine articlesand go articles.

You can order your copy of Mass Article Control Here (Please note I am an affiliate of this product and will earn commissions for any orders made though this link. This disclaimer is to abide by the FTC rules. Your order helps me create honest reviews on products and gives me the time to write other quality posts that will continue to benefit you.)

Mass article control also has a small add on to help with your submission process. This second bonus software is called Mass Article Submitter. The software allows you to submit to 10 different article directories faster then it would take you to visit each site on your own. This saves you a bit of time and frustration. Upon ordering you will be presented with a one time offer to double up the submission software allowing you to submit up to 20 of the most popular article directories.