Veteran marketer Shawn Casey (he’s been in this business over 10 years) has been involved in all kinds of online marketing, from software development to webinars to “you name it”. Now, he has something new and potentially game-changing. Casey has just announced Tsunami Sites, and through the weekend, it’s on a grand opening sale. Early Monday, the price goes up. Facebook drives millions of visitors daily to media websites (sites with videos, funny pictures, etc.) For example, it sends about 4 Million visitors to BuzzFeed.com daily. It sends nearly a half-million to Upworthy.com... [...]

Mike Cowles shares his affiliate marketing (with list building) techniques in a free video here: Mike Cowles’ Affiliate Marketing Training In his video, he takes you through the whole affiliate marketing process, but with an important advanced feature, building your mailing list of buyers. Most affiliates fail to capture the mailing information for people who buy through their link. But this severely limits their future profitability. Every time they sell a product, they have to recruit buyers through the online equivalent of a “cold call”. But if you capture the addresses of... [...]

A mascot is often used to make a business or organization look more friendly or approachable. That’s why marketing giants like Proctor&Gamble, IBM, the Olympic Games and others have used mascots to represent their product. You (and, if you are a consultant, your clients) can see some of that same benefit by using a mascot in promotions. You can hire an image consultant and pay them millions, or you can create mascots for yourself and your clients with Maulana Malik‘s Mascot Creator Bundle. Prolific web designer Malik has just announced this elite tool that even beginners can use... [...]

Infographics are all the rage in marketing today. These colorful graphics convey information in a more attention-grabbing way than plain text ever can. You can pay a freelance artist to create an infographic for you, but due to the complexity of infographics, a lot of back-and-forth communication will be needed to end up with a result you feel good about. But there is another way. Bertranddo has come out with his latest product, software he calls Infographics Presence. It is a web-based toolkit that lets you create sophisticated infographics by dragging and dropping stylish graphic elements and... [...]

These days there are people (and some entire companies) surfing the web seeking money by “legally” stealing it from websites that don’t have proper legal documents published. They could claim you stole content from them. They could claim you are preying on children, etc. There are dozens of scams they can use, each of them potentially ruinous for you and your site. Not only that. Tthe government could also come after you for violating Federal Trade Commission regulations. Your bank account at risk. But even more, your entire company is at risk. If a hacker misuses your site to create... [...]

Proxy Demon Pro: Anonymous surfing, posting, researching and more #ad In Summer of 2012, Lani released their Proxy Demon software to help marketers find a Proxy Server they could use and find it quickly and easily. It was a big hit with marketers around the world. Here’s what one of the original purchasers said about this software: On my first run, I was able to scrape more than 40,000 proxies within a few seconds (can’t say exactly but 1-2 minutes), the proxy checker got me more than 241 Elite proxies within just 5-7 minutes (though it was still checking proxies from those 40,000... [...]

When things go wrong for a customer, they most want your attention and caring. How you respond to their help requests can make the difference between losing a sale and making a customer for life. Andrew Hunter has built Sonic Reply to assure that you can promptly and efficiently address problems customers care about most. When you handle the customer concerns and complaints quickly and effectively, people learn that you can be trusted and they tend to stick around your business, and when they need something else, they tend to turn to you. Sonic Reply creates a help desk ticket system so you never... [...]

Many WordPress sites fall to hackers everyday. Yours could be next unless you protect it. There are two ways people try: 1. Frequent backups that you can use to restore your site if it is ever attacked. This can work, but it’s expensive and time-consuming. 2. Software that closes the gaps in native security for WordPress so that no hacker can get through. Joshua Zamora and Radu Hahaianu have just released software that will lock down your site and will also create and restore backups, in case a future version of WordPress ever opens loop-holes that bypass cureent lock-down methods. They... [...]

John Christos has just released a new software application called ImgLinker. If you use images on Pinterest, Instagram, WordPress, Google+, Facebook, etc. you can now link the image (even an animated GIF) to any website you choose. (But be aware that Facebook doesn’t animate any images; it just shows a still.) When you place the image wherever you like you are turning that image into a clickable banner. ImgLinker is a WordPress plugin. In WP, you set up the image with the link you want it to use. The plugin creates a link that you can paste anywhere you choose to load the image onto Facebook,... [...]

SEO has many nuances that have some effect on your results, but one of the primary factors in a high rating is backlinks. And the most useful backinks are “do follow” links from influential sites. Finding authoritative sites that will give you backlinks is no small task, particularly “do follow” links. For example, IM NewsWatch marks its links to products for sale “no follow”. David Henry‘s software, Comment Commander Pro Plus 1, finds influential websites in your niche that allow “do follow” backlinks and helps you place backlinks on them. Finding... [...]