The latest issue of ‘Early to Rise’ newsletter has been released. Craig Ballantyne says, “This is the type of article that will either send you to the “Unsubscribe” button or will finally wake-and-shake you into action. The right action. I’m seeing a disturbing trend in stores, restaurants, among business owners,... [Read more]

Jim Edwards is hosting a webinar on Wednesday, September 26 at 7.00 pm EDT.The topic of the webinar is “The Jim Boat 2013: Cut The Crap Cruise Preview”. Edwards says, “If you’ve ever been curious about going on the Jim Boat. If you’ve ever wondered “How much does it cost to go? What do we do? How does it work?” If you’re... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “How Journalists Are Using Pinterest”. John Paul Titlow says, “Pinterest is quickly finding its way into the social strategies of media organizations large and small, even as the company itself is still figuring out its business model. Here’s how they’re using the virtual scrapbooking... [Read more]

Viral Traffic Control reveals a simple, 5 step process to: • bring lots of traffic to your fan page • build your mailing list • get your fans to do the heavy lifting You do all this without ads, saving you money. When Donald Wilson discovered this process, he found that writing a letter to his fans, instead of making them fill out a simple... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Kindle Fire HD Already Makes up 11% of All Kindle Tablet Traffic”. Samantha Murphy says, “Less than one week after Amazon unveiled its latest Kindle Fire HD tablet, the device was already occupying about 11% of all Kindle Fire traffic, a new study suggests. According to a data conducted by... [Read more]

The latest ‘Web Marketing Today’ blog post is titled “Using Meta Tags for Search Engine Visibility”. Lorrie Thomsa Ross says, “Search engine optimization continually evolves to include new tactics. But classics like meta tags are still important. Making the most of your meta tags can be a small step that can make a large difference in your... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘Website Magazine’ is titled “Facebook Fan Page Fail Guide”. Pete Prestipino says, “Whatever your opinion on the future of Facebook is, all Web workers – from marketers and designers of all types, to analysts and entreprenuers – need to know how to manuever in that particular social network. More often than... [Read more]

Empire Avenue is a business-oriented online game. It can bring social traffic to your website as you connect with people and “invest” in them, go on “missions” and, in general run a virtual business. The people on Empire Avenue can become your ambassadors, tweeting about you, liking you, mentioning your YouTube videos and more. You... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘Offervault Scoop’ blog is titled “The Traffic Source Affiliates Aren’t Using Yet”. Dustin says, “You know all about dealing with Google’s Display Network. You’re leveraging as many channels as you can to get results. But unless you’ve been on the very cutting edge, you probably missed a big change. The biggest... [Read more]

Jay Baer ‘s latest ‘Convince & Convert’ blog post is titled “New Research: Social Media ROI is Still a Challenge for 57%?. Baer says, “Social marketing software company Awareness released the second part of its bi-annual State of Social Media Marketing report for 2012, and there are a few surprising key points that brands and marketers... [Read more]

Troy White’s latest blog post is titled “The marketing secret of the red lanyard”. White Says, “Is it possible that an itty bitty strip of cotton dyed red could contain a marketing secret? Watch this and let me know… If you have other questions about the red lanyard or Empower Network, make sure you read this post as well”. The marketing... [Read more]

Overcoming ad blindness is no small matter. People are tired of ads and often ignore them. New approaches to ad formats may help break through their she’ll. MAO Flynn has created WP Ad Generator to do just that. Instead of “pretty” banner ads, this new software creates banners with notable text displays. They blend in and look like... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘The Forrester Blog’ is titled “Focus On Customer Experience To Navigate Digital Disruption”. William Band says, “Executives don’t decide how customer-centric their companies are—their customers are the ultimate arbiters. Digital disruptors—a term coined by Forrester describing companies that leverage digital... [Read more]

Shawn Collins’ latest blog post is titled “Google Authorship, The NHL Locks Out Affiliate Marketing, And Mastermind Groups”. Collins Says, “This week on the Affiliate Thing podcast (listen to the latest Affiliate Thing), Shawn Collins and Lisa Picarille talked about affiliate marketing meetups, mastermind groups, and the impact of the NHL lockout... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Copyblogger’ Blog is titled “Why Content Marketing is the New Branding”. Frank Strong says, “Branding is just another name for creating a perception. Branding isn’t your company name. It’s not a tag line. It’s not a logo. When marketers ask, “How do we want to brand this product?” what they’re really asking... [Read more]

The USA is an important market, but the worldwide market is growing, and is nearly 4 times bigger. The rest of the world doesn’t buy at Amazon.com, but at one of the country-specific sites Amazon operates, sites like Amazon.CN, Amazon.JP, Amazon.co.UK, etc. Local Azon, a new WordPress plugin, helps you reach these other Amazon sites, and earn... [Read more]

The latest ‘SEOmoz’ blog post is titled “How Many SEO Consultants Actually Know What They’re Talking About?”. Ashley Tate says, “As an industry, SEO is constantly battling the bad rap of being tactless and unethical. We decided to take a true, calculated look at the quality of today’s SEO consultants by going “undercover”... [Read more]

Jim Edwards’ latest ‘I Gotta Tell You’ blog post is titled “The REAL “Magic Formula” To Start As An Affiliate”. Jim says, “I’ve been online since 2006, and during my first year it was affiliate marketing that allowed me to learn how this business works and to start earning some money. Even now, six years later, affiliate marketing... [Read more]

Jeremy Schoemaker’s latest blog post is titled “What you need to do to get started making money online”. Schoemaker says, “I was browsing Traffic Planet a little while back and saw a thread linking to one of my posts. I chimed in and got a question… one I get a lot. I wrote a lengthy answer that I thought I would share here: Terry &... [Read more]

People do judge a book by its cover, and they do judge a product by the attractiveness of its sales page. Make your sales page better and make more sales. The Visual Sales Page Templates just released by Max the graphic artist include 10 customizable high-quality designs as good as any you see around the net. They are customizable with your graphics... [Read more]

John Chow’s latest blog post is titled “New Business Model That Can Make You $10,000 Per Month”. Chow says, “When I was at ThinkTank last week, I met up with 30 of the biggest Internet marketers in the business. One of them was Matt Lloyd. Matt flew all the way from Australia to join me on the beach at Del Mar. His story is extremely interesting... [Read more]

The latest article on MarketingSherpa is titled “Marketing Research Chart: Most popular email elements to test”. David Kirkpatrick says, “MarketingSherpa is excited to launch its 8th Annual Email Awards. One successful B2B team and one successful B2C team will win a trip to Email Summit 2013 in Las Vegas. Plus, unlike most industry... [Read more]

The latest ‘Web Marketing Today’ blog post is titled “Understanding Google Analytics, Part 2: Content, User Actions”. Feras Alhlou says, “This is “Part 2? of a 4-part series on getting the most out of Google Analytics. In this series, I’ll address the following areas. “Part 1: Traffic Sources” “Part 2: Content, User Actions”... [Read more]

Sometimes, affiliates are not as excited about your product as you are- and that’s an understatement. You need to nudge them along by making it easy to promote your product. Mark hess’s new WP Promo Tools makes it easy for you to offer a page of promo tools for your affiliates. On his sales page, he demos the tool to show how easy it is. WP... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “What Is ‘Native Advertising’? Depends Who You Ask”. Todd Wasserman says, “Like Gangnam Style, the term “native advertising” was fairly obscure until mid-August and then all of the sudden it was everywhere. Well, not everywhere, but it seemed to be in advertising circles and blogs... [Read more]

comScore is hosting a webinar on Wednesday, September 26 at 2.00 pm ET. The topic of the webinar is “State of the Internet in the U.S. Q2 2012”. comScore team says, “Join comScore Senior Director Tiffany Walker for our State of the Internet in Q2 webinar as she provides an overview of internet usage in the U.S. and worldwide, along with... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘ReadWriteWeb’ is titled “Why You Should Never Pay For Online Reputation Defense”. Dave Copeland says, “A host of firms claim they can protect you and your brand from bad online reviews. But the best approach may be to get your fans to support your reputation for you”. Why You Should Never Pay For Online Reputation... [Read more]

This WP InstantUpsell WordPress plugin from Mark Hess (his second in as many days) offers an easy way to get people to consider a second offer. It places a “No thanks” button on your page, so that if people aren’t interested in that offer, they can exit easily, but you can specify any text for the button and you can specify where it... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘Website Magazine’ is titled “40+ Data Points Added to Google’s Core Reporting API (Analytics)”. Pete Prestipino says, “Web workers can expect to see a lot more in the way of data within the applications they interface with as Google last week added over forty new data points (metrics and dimensions) to its reporting... [Read more]

MarketingProfs is hosting a seminar with David Bratvold on Thursday, September 27 at 12.00 pm ET. The topic of the seminar is “Using Crowdsourcing to Develop and Enhance Your Content”. MarketingProfs team says, “What Will You Learn? How to use crowdsourcing to enhance your content Tips and tools for crowdsourcing effectively Potential... [Read more]

The latest article on ‘The Forrester Blog’ is titled “You Asked, We Answered! Questions From Webinars About Our New Book, Outside In – Part 2”. Kerry Bodine says, “On September 19, my co-author Harley Manning and I delivered two webinars outlining the concepts in our new book, Outside In: The Power of Putting Customers at the Center... [Read more]

Clink Faber’s new SEO Positioner will show you, he says, “how to outrank any competitor in Google.” It’s completely “white hat” and is desoigned to survive any future changes Google may make in its algorithms. This is because it doesn’t try to trick Google, but it works with Google to supply the things Google... [Read more]

Experian Hitwise is hosting a webinar on Wednesday, September 26 at 1.00 pm EDT. The topic of the webinar is “Improve Your Holiday Marketing Results with Experian Hitwise”. The Experian Hitwise team says, “Are you being challenged to increase holiday marketing results and spend less? Join us on September 26th as Experian Hitwise experts... [Read more]

MarketingSherpa is hosting a webinar on Thursday, September 27 at 11.00 am MDT. The topic of the webinar is “Email Marketing: How Overcoming 3 Common Errors Increased Clickthrough Rate by 104%”. The MarketingSherpa team says, “Most email messages, even semi-important ones without sales pitches, are deleted each day. What happens when your... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Register to Vote for Internet Freedom”. Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai says, “Would the fight for Internet freedom get you to vote? That’s the hope of a new voter registration drive labeled “Internet Votes.” Launched today, the initiative has been organized by the Center For Rights and Fight... [Read more]

These five templates (complete with background music) make it easy to create animated sales videos. Place them on your own sites or client sites (you get a developer’s license, so use them as widely as you like.) or on YouTube. They come with a variety of visual effects to attract attentin to your message. Just add your text, graphics or other... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Copyblogger’ Blog is titled “Get Paid What You’re Worth: 37 Negotiation Tactics for Every Freelance Writer”. Demian Farnworth says, “Do you freak out when you hear the wordnegotiation? Does your gut turn, palms sweat, and heart pound when it comes down to talking price? Do you self-medicate with Tums and a tumbler of... [Read more]

The latest ‘SEOmoz’ blog post is titled “Seventeen Ways To Improve Your Blog – Case Study”. Dan Shure says, “Blogging is tough these days. It’s a crowded realm with a staggering amount of people in the game. With so many competitors, how will you get your blog to stand out from the crowd? Check out these tips for a solid foundation”. Seventeen... [Read more]

The latest post on ‘Mashable’ is titled “Google Search Goes Down — For Some”. Lance Ulanoff says, “Web surfers got an unpleasant surprise Tuesday as many of them found their favorite search engine, Google, offline or nearly un-responsive. Others are reporting that Google Hangouts have gone offline as well. One screen showed a “Fatal... [Read more]

As a result of the Panda and Penguin updates, Google de-indexed many sites, and dropped the rating of many more. Some people wonder if they will ever recover. Maybe, there’s a better way to rank and earn more online. YouTube’s enomous traffic (only two sites in the world get more) is the marketer’s secret weapon. GluTube shows you... [Read more]