Tag: plugins

Google Plus One – Viral Plus One Plugin

Google +1 is already blowing its way to the top of the heap and it’s not even officially launched yet. I am convinced it will eventually eclipse Facebook and is some respect already has.

For one thing the circles that are central to +1 will give those of us with many faceted lives the opportunity to control our output and direct it to only those people we wish to communicate with, rather than the entire free world who we have happened to friend along the way.

As a marketer, I have multiple niches, not to mention family, friends and associations via my political and other social interactions. In the facebook world, all would get the same messages. In the Google +1 world, I can send messages to my body building niche to just my body building niche and not also to my home staging niche or any of my other associations.

Now the new +1 system is not fully released and changes are continuing to be made. What is clear is that one new aspect that will be related to this new system is the idea of +1 ing posts, web sites etc. These votes will be similar to “likes” on facebook, but may have more significance as time goes on and have a material bearing on rankings in the Google search engine.

The exact impact of this all is not clear at this point, but it is pretty sure bet that the more +1’s a site can get the better.

As a result I bought a new WordPress Plugin that will help me generate more of these soon to be valuable +1 ‘s by putting a +1 logo at the top and/or bottom of each blog post automatically.

I can also configure it to post within posts, and even have flyovers at scheduled times to encourage people to give me +1s.

Now many people will wait till it’s obvious that such a thing is needed. I think I am ahead of the game on this one, and that I will benefit by being an early adapter.

Google’s struck out in the past in its social networking efforts, but I think it’s finally got its act together on this one. This was a cheap purchase, and represents my first step to really getting a handle on +1. But I feel strong enough about it to recommend you consider adding the plug in to your blogs.

It’s Called Viral Plus One

How To Decide Which Clickbank Product to Promote.

As affiliate marketers we often rely on Clickbank for inventory to sell.  It offers products to sell in a lot of different niches.  Quite a few in many of the more lucrative fields.  Some pay to promote, others may not perform.

Deciding is a complex mix of knowing your competition, the quality of the site, its products, gravity, and trend lines, etc.  Some pay more,  some have residuals.  We can analyze all the above or rely on pure guess work.

Now in the past, I looked and ultimately kind of grabbed a product and ran with it, if only to get the experience.

But as you get more systematic and start following a plan of consistent action for massive results, you want to focus on the best products, which when coupled with your best efforts yields maximum profit.

But you can’t be wasting your time researching the sales page of junky Clickbank products that won’t sell. Your time is too valuable.  Instead spend your time focused on the best options and use the ones that best fit your particular niche and approach. Your results will be better, for the same amount of effort.

There is an easy way to discover the best performers.

Brad Callen introduced a free plug in for Firefox, that highlights the best performers from among all the products listed on Clickbank.

It’s easy to install.  I have, and it works great.

The plug in color codes each product offering on Clickbank, and reports critical information on its marketability.  Those colored green, met a set of standards for marketability that is proprietary to the product. The red ones didn’t and are to be avoided.

You will succeed faster by focusing on those products with stronger prospects.

The one rub is that it’s kind of a black box.  We don’t really know the full contents of the equation they use to decide who gets green and red and why.  But we can get a pretty good idea by listening to their introductory video. Enough to make a decision on.

http://askearlabout.com/CBSurge.php

Do you think it makes sense to try it for a while? Would it help you find better products to promote?

The basic version is free so you can test drive it for years if you want.

Once it’s working for you, upgrade to the paid version, but no need to do that now. Unless you want to.., of course.

Whether you are working facebook, twitter, blogs, email marketing, moble or more, Clickbank is a huge resource – no matter what your niches.

Your objective is to promote the cream of the crop, not the poor performers.

This free tool will eliminate 80% of the clutter, so you can focus on the 20% of solid offers that will pay you for your efforts.

http://askearlabout.com/CBSurge.php

 

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Free Gift for Clickbank Users

If you are doing affiliate marketing and use clickbank as one of your primary resources for product to sell, you will want to grab this free plug in created by Brad Callen for Firefox users.

http://askearlabout.com/CBSurge.php

One of the most important steps in promoting an affiliate product is in picking just which products you want to promote.  This new FREE tool will let you see a lot more information than you can get from Clickbank itself.

Most people I know, rely on gravity scores to make their decisions. While gravity is a useful aid, it can be very misleading, and most importantly, its an incomplete means of judging.

If you are going to the trouble of setting up a full fledged marketing campaign you want to start off with a quality product with some upside. This new firefox plugin will help you do that.

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Blogging PlugIns- Which Ones to Use.

While I have been blogging for a while now, I am far from an expert.  Luckily, I have run into Mike Paetzold who is as good a blogger as any I have encountered so far online. I have learned a lot from him and monitor a couple of his blogs on a regular basis.

In a new posting today, on his Word Press Made Easy Blog, he offers a list of the plug ins he uses.  This is an important topic and I wanted to share it with you.  Plug ins are powerful and can seem mysterious as well to those just getting started in blogging.

I will be going through his list of plug ins and comparing it to the ones I am currently using.  You may want to do so as well.

However, you need not follow his list blindly. I will be not be changing one for sure.  I prefer the audio manager plugin for pod casts to the one he uses.  That’s not to take anything away from his list though. Different plugins work differently on different themes. That ads to the Joy/frustration of Plug ins, but it is the real world.  So you will need to experiment.

You can find his list at: http://wptutorial.com/blog/information/plugins-i-am-using-right-now While you are there you may want to do yourself a favor and sign up to his list. He will reward you with a good ebook, called Blog Tracker thats worht $37. More importantly, you will find that Mike is a valuable resource if you are blogging on a regular basis. And you should be.