Today's "Cheat Sheet" is all about affiliate marketing. To me, affiliate marketing is probably the most significant breakthrough in ALL of internet marketing's history.
The affiliate game is one of the oldest in town, and has allowed COUNTLESS people to get their start and even make their entire fortunes.
Sorry for the bit of French in the title there. Tout-suite means RIGHT NOW! And that's when you should be using Twitter in your business: RIGHT NOW!
Today's "Cheat Sheet" will give you StomperNet's Twitter Tool Tips. (Say that 3 times fast!)
This is IMPORTANT and you need to know about it RIGHT AWAY.
Tonight Facebook is staging one of the biggest virtual land grabs ever – the rush to claim your own name on Facebook.com.
You've heard of Internet Marketers claiming that the surge of traffic crashed their servers?
Well tonight there will be a server rush that has rarely, if ever, been duplicated on the Net. And you NEED to be part of it.
Right now if you want to send someone to your profile, you have to figure out a URL that looks something like this:
www.facebook.com/people/Your-Name/585946540
(That's an inactive URL, BTW, so don't click it.)
But wouldn't you rather own www.facebook.com/yourname?
And this becomes even MORE important for Facebook Fan Pages (not your regular friend profiles, the pages you can set up to promote your business.) Can you imagine how devastating it would be to have someone else own your company name in Facebook?
In the past, it was easy to own your own name on Facebook, all you had to do was to spend a large amount with Facebook (think $50,000+ per month) or be a huge celebrity, and it was yours.
But starting tonight at midnight Eastern US time (that would be 9:00pm Pacific time) you can claim your name as a facebook URL. Plus, you can claim names for your business pages too.
But here's the catch – it's first come, first serve. Imagine a couple of hundred MILLION people all try to grab their name at the same time, and there will be some interesting server shenanigans occuring.
Here's what to do.
Tonight at midnight US Eastern time, login to Facebook then go to http://www.facebook.com/username
You will see a form that will give you several suggested usernames, and the ability to choose your own. Either choose one of the names suggested or type in your own.
Repeat this process for any Facebook Fan Pages you administer, though there are three catches: first, your page must have over 1000 fans prior to May 31st 2009, you can't claim something generic like travel or insurance, and you can't claim someone else's trademark.
In fact, if you have a registered trademark, I suggest you go to
http://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=username_rights
right now to prevent others from grabbing your name.
If someone else has already has your name, get creative - add a period, or a dash, shorten it, lengthen it, or slap a number in there somewhere.
That's the drill. I'll be there at midnight, and I suggest you be there too.
And bring a book, the page refresh times may be really sllllloooooowwww.
Don Crowther
SMARTS Founder
StomperNet Faculty Member
Do you find creating content difficult? Do you struggle to find things to write about for articles, autoresponders, newsletters, blogs, etc? You're not alone.
Today's "Cheat Sheet" is actually an exercise you can do TODAY that will generate 20 pieces of stealth-marketing content that you can start to use in as soon as a few hours.
Social Media Marketing is the topic of today's "Cheat Sheet" and you can find the full report here on StomperBlog (yes it's free).
I compiled a short list of methods you can use to make a powerful Web 2.0 presence part of your online strategy, and you'll be amazed at just how fast you can have an army of an audience to call your own.
When you use video for marketing, you can probably double any video's conversion rate just by altering the way it's DELIVERED to your viewer.
The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.
~ Alfred Hitchcock
Yep, there are LOTS of different opinions about how good filmmaking works. Some are worth listening to.
And some….
Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
~ Martin Scorsese
…are not.
When it comes to using video for Internet Marketing, you don't need to listen to an opinion - you can test.
And here's a technique that I've tested so much that I've STOPPED Testing. 'Cause it works every time.
Sometimes I use video to get traffic – sometimes I use it to generate discussion, and sometimes I use it to get subscribers.
THIS is about getting SALES – Lucre-Cash-Money.
And of course, you're going to learn about it by watching a…
…Video.
The Take-Aways and Action-Items start at about 5 minutes and 14 seconds into the video – so have a notebook handy.
And BTW, this is NOT complicated. In some cases, it's as easy as changing the word "web site" in your copy to the word "blog".
Until Next Time,
Keep Stomping!
~Andy Jenkins
One of the FOUNDATIONAL bits of education that we built StomperNet around is the concept of the "long tail" of search.
I've got a free report about it for you here on the StomperBlog.
If you haven't been following along, "long tail" means we aren't just going after the top-tier, highly competitive keywords with our SEO.
We're going after the massive chunk of multiple-word phrases that can represent 20-30% more traffic for the savvy marketer who can scoop it up. Get it here.
Here's the scenario:
You're finally getting your web pages to show up in Google's index, but they are WAAAAAY in the back, 10 pages deep.
Did you know you can do something about that? Yes, TODAY.
The power that can drag your page to the front of the index is the magical, mysterious, and misunderstood power of PageRank.
And you're NOT going to do it by getting backlinks from strangers. Nope, this is all in-house, on your own site. You can start TODAY.
