Very cool Web 2.0 research tool…

Mark, my buddy from Vtribes (the best membership software on the planet) just sent me a cool find.

It is called AddictoMatic. Type in your name or your product name and see how well you are doing on tons of different Web 2.0 properties along with the engines.

AddictoMatic is a neat research tool as well. Type in different hot keywords from your niche and see what people are saying in various corners of the web about that topic.

This is one of the best tools I’ve seen so far in getting a bird’s eye view of ones social and search engine footprint.

Tags: addictomatic, research tools, web 2.0 tools

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Overwhelmed? Check Out Jeff Mills’ Outsource Compendium

Jeff Mills has just put out a whopper of a free guide to outsourcing for busy webpreneurs. This thing is chunky.

“You’ll not find another program, ebook, or report online with this much real and actionable information about how to maximize your profits while minimizing your own efforts.” -Jeff Mills

If you’re completely in control of everything and have no stress over how you are going to get everything done for your online business, this book isn’t for you. For everyone else, yeah, you could use a peek at this guide for sure!

The “Outsource Compendium” is on par with the Authority Black Book in value. It’s not just another ebook.

Tags: jeff mills, outsource compendium review, outsourcing, outsourcing guide

Tipzu - Full blown HTML enabled content network

Want to get in early on a new site? The creator of Tipzu is asking for beta testers for a new Web 2.0 property.

What’s Cool About Tipzu?

The thing I like the most about it is it is unrestricted. You can link out in any way you want from the content you publish there. It accepts articles with full HTML control and has a ton of other great features like:

• Publishing Multiple Articles
• Full HTML control
• Revenue Sharing
• Add Video’s, Opt-In Forms
• Build Multiple Landing Pages
• Blog Platform
• RSS
• Title Tag Control
• Comments
• Build A User Base Community
• Newsletter with RSS

It’s Squidoo, Hubpages + Blogspot in one…

It is worth a hard look. This is going to help a lot of publishers with SEO and the network will attract a good deal of traffic as word grows and it comes out of beta.

To check it out and become a beta tester, head over to Jon’s welcome video which shows you all the features and gives FTR readers a “back door” into the site.

Tags: beta testers, content syndication, getting links, link building, seo, tipzu, web 2.0 marketing

Marketing Product Review

Mike Filsaime has a great site called Marketing Product Review. The neat thing about it is its a blog. And real customers review the products instead of affiliates.

Mike just set up 6 more products for review today. You can download a PDF of all the products added each review cycle and you can review products you’ve used before as well.

Problem: Mike doesn’t have links turned on. I am going to get on him about this because it is killing participation. If I can get him to turn links on so people who do reviews get to point back to their sites, I will update you all here.

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Tags: marketing product reviews, marketing products, mike filsaime, product reviews

Gmail Introduces Custom Time

Here’s a great way to always be the first to reply.  Especially useful in contests where people say “Be the first to reply and win a Wii!”

I’ve been on Google about this upgrade for years.  Now I can sleep as much as 6 hours later each day yet still get back to everyone in the morning!

Check out Google Custom Time…

Tags: google custom time

Web 2.0 Marketing Training for New Marketers Opens Today

I am totally biased about the new course that has come out of Web 2.0 Marketing Tips.com.   Because I am a contributor, I can’t be objective, but I can assure you of the quality of the training because I’m an “insider!”

If you are new to Web 2.0 marketing, you couldn’t make a better move than to get in on this 6 month Web 2.0 marketing course… 

If getting the scoop on marketing with social sites and Web 2.0 tactics from the very beginning, spelled out in the simplest terms with no geek-speak to interpret, this course is for you!

I can vouch for Web 2.0 Marketing Tips because I am part of the team who developed it! Go there and get some serious Web 2.0 traffic!

If you’d like to learn how to use this blueprint of web 2.0 viral marketing tactics to generate up to 5,000+ visitors per day and boost your search engine ranking at the same time… and if you want to to do it through a quick and simple process with easy-to-follow steps, then you should consider applying to join us today.

Here are just a few of the important things you’ll learn:

* The right way to start a blog and how to configure it to gain high search engine positions and to grow your readership quickly and easily.

* Where and how to submit your blog’s RSS feed to achieve maximum social media exposure. And how to make sure your posts get into Digg, StumbleUpon, del.icio.us, reddit and the other top social bookmarking websites.

* How to effectively use social networking websites to build a strong network of business contacts, associates, jv partners and even super-affiliates.

* How to quickly position yourself as an industry expert by using social media and social content sharing websites. And how to leverage that position to get more traffic and maximize your profits.

* The simple strategy to “bait” the social bookmarking crowd to go wild over your content and spread the word about your site world-wide.

* How to easily create web video and distribute it to social media sites.

* The “secret sauce” that every video you create must have to make it go viral and bring in a steady flood of traffic to your websites.

* How to mix-and-match web 2.0 websites to create the snowball-effect that skyrockets your traffic and how to make sure you make the most of of it…

I have to tell you, it is simply awesome to see students doing this stuff after starting out knowing nothing about this type of marketing. Across the board they tell me that they’d never gotten this kind of recognition, attention, branding, rankings, or links before with SEO, Pay Per Click, or any other form of marketing.

I want that to happen for as many people as possible, and now I can help reach newer folks who say I can be a bit cryptic at times because they are so new and I talk a lot about advanced tactics.

Check out Web 2.0 Marketing Tips!

Tags: web 2.0 course, web 2.0 marketing, web 2.0 promotion, web 2.0 traffic

A new blog community to check out: BlogUpp.com

Just got a note from the owners of a new blog community called Blogupp.com. It looks like a traffic, link exchange program with a widget.

If you scroll over one of the two sites in the widget it shows a post snippet from your RSS feed behind the picture. That’s pretty neat and different.

Might be worth a test on your site to see if you can generate some more traffic with it. It certainly has a cool interface which is a refreshing departure.

Tags: blogupp, blogupp review, blogupp widget

TrafficJam.com by John Reese

The circle closes. BlogRush user data manifests at TrafficJam.com for a quick, easy look at the days events according to the BlogRush member network.

Bloggers have a new place to rank on the web with TrafficJam.com, the latest addition to the John Reese marketing arsenal. If you are a BlogRush member (free to join blog widget traffic network), you are automatically placed in the TrafficJam aggregator according to the popularity or “hotness” of your latest posts withing the network.

If your post is getting more clicks than others in your category or even overall in the network, you show up at the top of the results for any given day.

I know this because I just checked my stats and noticed some traffic coming from TrafficJam.com. I go and check and see that I am number 2 on the main page for one of my latest posts.

This is the first time I’ve shown up on the front page since this relatively new directory started, and I think I know why. If you are a BlogRush member you are coached to be creative with your blog titles. The better titles get clicked more on the network, sending you more traffic.

I guess my post about making almost $42,000 in 24 Hours (even though it was about Qassia Dollars) caught a lot of attention on the BlogRush widgets around the web in my category!

That was nice proof for me that John Reese has figured out how to tie BlogRush and TrafficJam tightly together, with TrafficJam reflecting accurately what’s being clicked on the most in the BlogRush network.

I can tell you that it sends a decent amount of traffic to be on the first page of the network. Especially for the amount of effort I put into it: a blog post I’d have written regardless of the chance to get picked up on the TrafficJam network.

How to Show Up In The TrafficJam Blog Aggregator

Just join BlugRush and follow the instructions. Once you are in BlogRush you will be eligible to rank on TrafficJam.

If you are already a BlogRush user and haven’t had a post hit the front page at TrafficJam, make sure you spend the time to think about how your next blog post title is going to look in the widget. Make it appealing, outrageous, interesting, or something that will catch eyes.

That’s what you’re supposed to be doing with your titles anyway. Writing a good title for the BlogRush widget is the same as writing a good title to draw your readers in from all over the web.

Oh, and put TrafficJam.com on your list of places to check out daily to see what stuff IS rising to the top so you can tailor your posts and headlines accordingly.

Tags: blog marketing, blogrush, john reese, traffic jam, trafficjam review, trafficjam.com

How I Made $41,925.00 in 24 Hours

This is the easiest money to be made on the web.  Yesterday I posted about Qassia and how you could use it to generate buzz and valuable links back to your main sites.

What I didn’t talk about is the opportunity -right now while they are in beta and building their membership - to earn Qassia Dollars.

In the first 12 hours after you join (for free) everyone you refer pays you $500 Qassia Dollars.  You can’t spend this money at the Sharper Image.  It is only there to help you rank higher in their directory, sorry.  The more money you generate with referrals AND by posting and screening content, what they call “Intel,” the higher you will rank in their  directory.

The directory is on the way (they need a decent member base first) and once it is up they will probably come out of Beta and it will be much harder to earn Qassia Dollars.  In fact, you won’t ever be able to earn $500 per referral again.

So, this is a “Social Maven” strategy whereby you gain a lot more traction in this community now than all the tens of thousands who will join after Beta and they reduce the referral amount.  At that point it will be $10 here and there for screening content and rating it and whatever they give you for referring others.

In 24 hours I racked up a tidy sum.  Think of all the friends you have in all the social networks you belong to who own sites who would love to check this neat site out and take advantage of this Beta themselves.

When it launches you can be in the top of their directory instead of trying to earn Qassia dollars the way the “peasants” will have to - the hard way!

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How to Make DVDs - And Make More Money!

Do you know why so many experts put their content on DVDs?  It’s all about the Benjamins (money!)

For the same content you’d normally deliver via a blog, an ebook, or series of paid videos or audios you’d stream online behind a membership site, you can put it on DVD and increase your profits drastically!

It’s no real secret why we’ve put several products out, like our live seminars in Vegas, on DVD.  They sell better and at higher prices than we can get for streaming them online.

By simply putting part or all of your audio and video inventory on DVD and selling it through a fulfillment company you can increase profits substantially and reach a customer base that is more comfortable consuming that content in DVD format.

How To Make A DVD Product

Aye, there’s the rub, right?  How does this all work?  How do you make a DVD and then turn around and hook up with a fulfillment company to do the dirty work of copying and packaging and mailing the product for you?

That’s where my friend Mike Stewart can help.  He’s doing a special training on DVD production that is going to be packed full of people who want to learn how to make DVDs and turn old products (and new products) into fresh profits.

One of the easiest business models of all time on the web is running your traffic to a DVD product sales page and having people purchase, having your fulfillment company do all the dirty work, and you just collect the money.

If you’ve ever thought of what it would do for your authority in your market to have a professional DVD package (its like having a real book, but a lot easier to put together than writing a book!) then get in on Mike’s training.

He’s the best in the business.  Plus he’s giving away a free lesson and $150 worth of 60 second themes just for taking a look!

Sign up for “How to  Make a DVD” training by Mike Stewart!

That’s NOT an affiliate link!

I just want FTR readers to get something out of this and come back and say “You know Jack, I took you up on that advice and now I have my product on DVD and we are making more money than we ever have!  Thanks!”

Tags: dvd production, how to make a dvd, make a dvd, mike stewart

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