In the last week we have had a focus on Periscope, Twitter’s new live streaming video service. If you haven’t read the introduction to Periscope we placed in the Curmudgeon’s Corner, I urge you to do so, because Periscope is the best friend a marketer has acquired in a long time. For a marketer, the most important facts about Periscope are: 1. Periscope lets marketers (and users, in general) broadcast live, for free, with nothing more than a smartphone. 2. These broadcasts are automatically recorded but the recordings are destroyed after 24 hours. 3. The direct integration of... [...]

Bill Hugall and Tom E have a new training system for affiliate marketers that they call IM Underdog. They say this approach to the task of affiliate marketing can be the breakthrough that small marketers need to actually begin earning money in affiliate marketing. • The methods they reveal in this training are well-established and proven to work • They are showing you, step by step, how to carry out their process. • They give special attention to how to set up a successful email campaign for affiliate offers. • They show you how to drive traffic to your offer, using free traffic... [...]

Jack Hopman, who has specialized in Offline Marketing for more than 6 years, and has, in recent months, been sharing his insights with other marketers, has just come out with another product. You may remember that, in July, Hopman created Maps Hero to show you how make corrections in a business’s online presence in search engines. Now, Hopman has released Video Prospector Jack to help you attract clients for your marketing services. This new product has 3 prospecting videos to get clients for you. Pick the one you think will work best (or rotate them in a split test). These videos feature... [...]

Imagine that you could build a massive video following in just 30 seconds. That could elevate your business success dramatically. That’s what Cindy Battye is offering in her new software : WP Scope. It just went live this week and it has already sold over 2000 basic and upgraded versions. People are aware of the quality software Bettye has released in the past (about a dozen marketing tools) and are counting on this new one to be just as good. With : WP Scope., she is letting you take advantage of the new, free, marketing platform from Twitter, known as Periscope. It is largely untapped... [...]

Video creator, Vu Binh Minh, came to realize that his whiteboard videos needed two factors to actually convert well: 1. The art had to be attractive 2. The way in which the on-screen drawing occurs has to look natural and easy to watch. The pen needs to move in a smooth, connected way. He (and his early clients) learned that only when both of these problems are solved will conversions be satisfactory. The on-screen drawing depends on how the SVG graphics used in the video were first designed. The video just follows what the artist did originally. Vu decided that when he had artwork drawn for him,... [...]

Veteran marketer, Cindy Battye has just released a turn-key solution for publishing fresh, hot, trending video content and then using it to magnetically gather leads and sales, a solution that she calls WP Scope. In this new software, she is taking advantage of a brand new, and so far, untapped platform: Twitter Periscope (Periscope.TV). This software is a leading edge content creation tool and traffic tool that solves a universal problem for marketers using Periscope: how do you profit from from your ‘Scopes’ long after you have held them? (They usually disappear after 24 hours.)... [...]

Clickbank is the largest seller of electronic informational products, products that can be downloaded, in most cases. It has thousands upon thousands of products, covering nearly any niche imaginable. Any online marketer can apply to be an affiliate of Clickbank, so that you can advertise its products and earn a commission when you sell one. And the commissions are very nice; often 50%, and occasionally even more. For all these reasons, any online affiliate marketer should consider selling Clickbank products, regardless of your niche. The main problem a Clcickbank affiliate has is fining the best... [...]

If you provide the local business market with marketing services, you will find InstaConsultant Ancillary Toolkit helpful. This software is a set of tools for marketing consultants who help local businesses get on line. It can help you perform most of the services local businesses need in their on;line marketing: Dr. Amit Pareek and Dr. Nimisha Vijay have just released a new WordPress theme that that makes your local merchant support services easy to provide. You can use it to make sites for your local clients, and these are sites that will do a lot for them: • Lead Management • Social... [...]

Any top online entrepreneur will tell you that a sustainable business online requires: • Building a list so that the first sale can lead to follow-up sales • Affiliate marketing so you will have a steady flow of product offers to present to your list • Driving traffic because without it, there is no income, no business, and no future • Keep it simple because otherwise, you will get lost and confused, and you will get nothing done. These things will keep your business going and keep money coming in. But, if you want more than a passable income, if you want a superior income,... [...]

Every business owner who knows the dangers of chatter on the Internet, knows that a reputation can be destroyed almost overnight by a dissatisfied customer. A complaint on a social media site can go viral and within days, customers can dry up. You can try to avoid these issues by treating every customer with respect and courtesy, but once a person is upset, the only defense is to respond to their complaint quickly and decisively. This raises the question: how can I discover these unhappy people and their complaints. Every business needs a way to find them; without it their reputation will suffer. Even... [...]