Ken Reno just announced WpNewsTicker, a WordPress plugin that lets you place scrolling content in a small window at the bottom of your posts and pages. Now you can add news ticker style ads to your blog, and even include your own affiliate links in your ads. There’s a lot of flexibility in the ticker. You choose the font and font size, the background color, the size of the ticker window and more. Besides using it on all your own sites, you are licensed to sell it to other marketers for their sites. Although the price is rising, you can get it for about $6.20 at this writing, here: WpNewsTicker.  [...]

The IM Wealth BuildersMarketing team of Cindy Battye, Soren Jordansen, and John Merrick have just released another of their Covert products, this one called Covert Context. As with their earlier covert products, Covert Context is designed to place non-intrusive ads into your blog or website, “covert ads”, if you will. It automatically places links to Amazon products when it finds an appropriate keyword to turn into a link. Like most of their covert products, Covert Context is a WordPress plugin. It offers these capabilities: • You get a super easy “set & forget”... [...]

Mark Thompson has just released his latest version of BonusPress, his WordPress plugin that helps product developers and affiliate marketers deliver bonuses for products they sell. Now, as an affiliate you can give free bonuses when you recommend a product, a practice that will increase your sales. Plus, if you are a product developer, you can set up a bonus page for your affiliates, and give them a custom URL for the page so they can promote it and earn commissions, while building your list. Because no effort is required from them to build the page, they will jump at the chance to promote; the... [...]

Your squeeze page is the key to building your mailing list. You need a compelling page, one that holds people’s attention. Jeff Bode just released WP Video Squeezify, a plugin to add video backgrounds to your squeeze pages. After all, if you’re building a list you really need to use the best squeeze page possible. Otherwise, you’re missing subscribers you could have acquired. Video squeeze pages are going to be big, and it’s time to look into before everyone starts using them. Like all other technology trends, these squeeze pages will eventually become so common-place that... [...]

There’s no need to limit your Amazon marketing to pages the list products and show pictures of them. Now with Azon Publisher Studio WordPress Plugin, you can place links to Amazon products in your site’s articles, and (fortunately) you can have complete control over what products are advertised and where. With this new WordPress plugin, you decide what phrase would make a good link, you highlight the phrase and a search box opens where you can see a list of Amazon products related to the phrase. Select the one you want to advertise, and a link to it is automatically dropped into your... [...]

Ken Sar has just started selling AffiliatePress at a discount. This WordPress plugin lets you build a sales page that motivates a quick decision. It has a count-down timer that warns of the impending end of the special offer you are promoting. This page is intended as a pre-sell page to be used by an affiliate promoting someone else’s product. You include enough text to make the visitor interested. You include a video to show them what it can do. And your timer screams “Do it now; time is almost up.” This timer the most prominent feature feature of the page, but it works together... [...]

There are both advantages and disadvantages to being an affiliate marketer. On the plus side, you are outsourcing the product development and product support to the product creator; you just handle the sales. On the minus side, you are one dozens or perhaps even hundreds of affiliates. As an affiliate, your success rests on being unique. If you offer something other affiliates don’t offer, you will make more sales. There’s another aspect that will also improve your sales: scarcity of what you offer. The AffiliatePress offers you the opportunity to make a unique offer and at the same... [...]

Josee Bedard has just released the latest theme package from Angels Web Design. In fact, this package is stuffed: 3 WordPress Themes + 2 WP plugins + 80 WP videos. The star of the show is Kamelot WP theme, which has a lot going for it: • Supports all 500 Google fonts so your site can look professional and customized at the same time • Easy start-up. You can duplicate the demo site by importing an XML file. Then tweak to get the look you want. • Easy customization of the look, layout, colors and more • Every element (including the sliders) is responsive to mobile screen size. •... [...]

Credibility is key to success as a marketing consultant. Offline businesses, in particular, are bombarded, almost daily, with brochures, emails, and phone calls from people who want to help them get online. If you are pursuing this niche, you need tools that will establish you are a trustworthy, knowledgeable, expert they will like doing business with. To do that, you need to focus on them and their need for clients/customers. Show them the return on their investment in your services, and they will be interested. Bob Donovan and Chris Huish have a solution for the consultant’s credibility... [...]

Brennen Noble is holding a “pre-launch sale” on his new software, Notification Ninja. This is a WordPress plugin that lets you present sophisticated messages to your site visitors, even after they have gone elsewhere. For example, if you are selling an item sold by other merchants as well, people will Google the item and click on each results link to price-shop, looking for the best deal, opening each link in a separate tab until they find the best deal. They come to your site, see your price, and go on to another site to compare. If they leave the window or tab open where your site... [...]