In any marketing business, trust is the key to success. Trust seals are often essential to building trust. You have seen trust seals on many websites. They are those authoritative looking insignia issued by the Better Business Bureau, Verisign and others. Typically, having this endorsement of the ethics and legitimacy of the business does a lot to improve the sales on the site. Any online business can benefit by adding a trust seal to make potential customers more comfortable doing business with the site. However, there is also a downside to most trust seals, the cost, which is usually a hefty... [...]

Luther Landro, no stranger to IM NewsWatch readers, has released his latest tool for online marketers: Ultimate WordPress Branding. This new software helps marketers and consultants who build sites for others. When you show a sample WordPress site to a potential client or when you actually build a site and turn it over to a client, if it is a plain WP site, they can easily buy services from the lowest bidder, from any WordPress webmaster. But if you have tweaked the site to make it better and make it unique to you, then if they want to take advantage of the work you have done, they will need to... [...]

Most of our readers know the power of video to hold people’s attention. And most of you also know of the millions of free videos on YouTube. Probably, a number of you have embedded videos on your site to take advantage of the power of this free resource. This is all good, but it could be better. Naidy Phoon and his partner Zeeshan have built a WordPress plugin, called Ultimate Tube Monster, to intensify the power of YouTube videos on your site. Here’s how you can use it: Step 1 Find a Top Selling Product and a YouTube video Step 2 Link the Video to A Related Affiliate or CPA Offer using Step... [...]

Martin Crumlish just released WP Dollar 3.0. The first two versions were run-away best sellers among marketers operating Amazon affiliate sites. WP Dollar 3.0 is a plugin that you can use with any WordPress theme to build and manage your affiliate stores. It creates full stores on autopilot. Version 3 is a big advancement from the earlier version, and it comes with a developer’s license included, so you can build as affiliate stores in as many niches as you like. You can even go into business building sites for other marketers. For example, for the first time, in version 3, you can build mobile... [...]

During yesterday’s launch of WP She’s Viral Pro , the sales system broke down. Nobody was able to buy for a while. The launch was suspended, and some of you may not have come back later in the day to get your copy. It’s open again and IM NewsWatch has 8 top bonuses to make it even better. Why make the effort to get viral traffic? Well, there was a day when getting traffic to a website was easy. Using SEO with a few backlinks, was all it took. But with all of Google’s updates it’s not that easy anymore. Today, if you do get traffic that way, it’s fleeting at best. There’s always someone... [...]

Anton Nadillo and his team are releasing a new viral WordPress plugin today at 11:00 EDT. You might want to get there a little early and sign up as an early bird. They call it WP She’s Viral Pro , and it’s different from most viral plugins. Most give an incentive to visitors to share by offering a free item for anyone who shares. WP She’s Viral Pro goes one step farther. It creates a unique referral link that the “referrer” shares with friends. Only when one or more of those friends responds (you can set the required number of responders) is the content unlocked. So people... [...]

Chow says, “As has been discussed so many times on this site before, there are innumerable ways for you to make money online and to live the dot com lifestyle. One of these ways is to become a professional blogging, writing about an industry or interest that you are truly passionate about and monetizing your website accordingly. In the context of blogging, easily one of the most popular platforms for a site of nearly any size is WordPress. It’s what powers John Chow dot Com, just as it is what powers Beyond the Rhetoric and MEGATechNews. It’s a free and versatile platform that comes with... [...]

Jamie Garside and David Chamberlain, like many other marketers, have been experimenting with advertising on Facebook. The have found that Facebook video ads generate a lot more response than plain ytext ads, whether you are asking for a sale or for an optin. To take advantage of this phenomenon, they created Video Popper, new software that lets you increase your response without any coding, without any complex software to install and without resorting to underhanded sneakiness. Using this new software, you can create “pop-ins” for Facebook that include a video (from either YouTube or Vimeo)... [...]

Superbizz WP Theme was announced a week ago, with little fanfare, by iWebStudio, an established elite author on Themeforest.com. They have created 40+ Premium Themes, and sold thousands of copies of their themes. They have built on their hard-won lessons they have absorbed through their earlier theme development to create this new surprisingly flexible theme. For example, if you need a multi-lingual site, they have it covered. The theme comes with .PO & .MO files, making it easy to isolate translatable text to send to your translators. But that’s just the beginning. SuperBizz also have these... [...]

Professional theme designers iWebStudio and their leader Heru S. have just released a new WordPress theme that makes building sites with Adsense ads a lot easier. This theme is designed with many premium features: ■ It’s fast loading. GTmetrix.com rates it A for speed. ■ It’s optimized for search engine navigation, using best SEO practices. ■ It’s responsive to phones and tablets. ■ It has easy and powerful theme options. Use the powerful option panel to configure. ■ It has 4 layouts for your screen so you can use the one that fits your needs. ■ Comes with unlimited Colors so... [...]