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Access Your Home Or Work Desktop From Your iPhone

Attention iPhone or iPod Touch owners!!! There is an awesome new application that I discovered for my iPhone that I wanted to pass along to you. It reminds me of that go2mypc software you may have heard advertised only it is for your iPhone. I have been using this to blog and it is soooooo cool! Trust me I have been using this for about a week and LOVE IT! If you have an iPhone and are a mobile individual you really need to check this out. You can control files and applications on your PC or Mac right from your iPhone or iPod touch. Files2Phones delivers "On Demand" access for instantly viewing Data, Audio and Video files & controlling applications and files on your PC, or Intel Mac with a Windows partition, from your iPhone or iPod touch. This is one of the most convenient apps I have used in a long time. Like I said combined with the wifi capabilities of the iPhone I can now blog from anywhere much easier than before. Trust me I have actually blogged from my old cell

Free Trial Of My Yahoo Search Marketing Success Kit

As an affiliate marketer I do a TON of PPC advertising. For the longest time I pretty much stuck with google adwords as that is what I was familiar with. I also know how to work the adwords angles and get Lord & Taylor postions at Wal-Mart prices. The key is patience with your keywords and bid prices. There is a lot more to it, but that is not for this article. Well over the last 8-9 months I have branched out from using just adwords to using Yahoo Search Marketing , Bidvertiser , and just recently Amazon's Clickriver . Clickriver will be revamping their ad placements starting Jan 1 which they say will have an impact on available impressions. I'll have to see how that changes. What I really wanted to talk about in this article though is that in my opinion you can, in a lot of instances, make better profits with Yahoo search marketing. Now it is your turn to make the big bucks and put them in your own pocket. I am offering a new Yahoo Search Marketing Success kit to all of

Quality Leads = Direct Affiliate Marketing Conversions

If you have a great high converting affiliate program but don't have anyone to send it to it doesn't do you any good. Or if you send it to 1,000,000 people that aren't interested in the slightest that doesn't do you any good either. Having high quality sales leads is a great boost to an affiliate marketer. Here is a top 10 list of ways to boost your direct affiliate marketing campaign. This list is courtesy of Lead Dogs, where you get "marketing with more bite." Top 10 Ways to Boost Direct Marketing Results 1. Have an offer and don't hide it. Don't just put "Get your free CD" in the last paragraph of your brochure. Boring. Include a picture of the CD in a prominent location with your phone number and Web address. 2. Use telemarketing before the promotion to research, build, or clean up target account lists for improved results. 3. Use telemarketing after the promotion to ensure that your message is heard and ask for an opportunity to mee

Profitable Productive Posts - Vol. 8

The Crowded Mind by: hello minty Entrepreneur's Journey What Did Blogging Teach You In 2007? What did you learn from blogging this year? What did blogging teach you? Vandelay Website Design Networking for Bloggers: 8 Keys to Making Yourself More Valuable to Others For bloggers and website owners building a strong network is crucial. In order to be a great networker, you need to make yourself valuable for others. Darren Rowse - ProBlogger How Longer Feature Posts Improved My Blog What did you do on your blog in '07 that improved it the most? BlogClout The Bill Clinton Secret to Writing A guest post written by Daphne Gray-Grant . Great title and a good article as well. Bloggrrl 8 Signs You Masturbate Too Much An older post but one I wanted to link to a long time ago. Since I am finally getting around to this series again I figured it was time to link to it. Display The Profitable Productive Posts Banner Would you like to show people your post was selected as a Profitable Producti

Earthfrisk - A "for real" Great Alternative To Google Search

I know a lot of people that use just google or just yahoo when doing a search. This can limit your results as each engine tends to rank sites differently and therefore your results can vary greatly from one to the other. I know for me, since the google PR drop due to sponsored links, that now my pages rank much higher in yahoo than they used to and lower in google. No one search engine has a monopoly on the "best" results. EarthFrisk.Org is the worlds first hybrid meta-community search engine . I have to be honest I am just a bit leery on their social ranking procedure, but it has worked well for Digg and others who allow users to "digg" or "bury" sites and combining this with hybrid results of the top search engines will bring a nice balance to the results. I noticed right away that already the searches I did seem to have superior results by combining the very best of Ask, Google, Yahoo and MSN's Live! I did a search on google, yahoo, and ask and visi

The 12 Links Of Christmas - Day 12

The 12 Links Of Christmas Cman of Profitable Productive Blogging is giving the gift of links this Christmas and decided to make it fun and share the spirit of giving with others. Here is what to do: Each day from today Friday, December 14 until Tuesday, December 25, link to 12 blogs. Each day will be twelve different blogs for a total of 144 different links. What I would hope people would do is to pass along the gift links in the spirit of Christmas giving. If someone links to you during the 12 Links Of Christmas then do your best to return the favor back to them along with 11 other blogs. It doesn't matter when you get linked to just start the 12 Links Of Christmas whenever and continue until Christmas. If you don't want to do a post each day just do one 12 Links Of Christmas post linking back to the blog that linked to you and 11 others and be done. The point is to give and share some linkage this Christmas Season. Feel free to copy and past

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The 12 Links Of Christmas - Day 10

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Merry Christmas from THC! This is an unbelievable hosting deal for all of you bloggers looking to make money online. One of the largest expenses for a beginning blogger is the hosting costs. You can start off with free blogs that is true but you really need to have your own domain and host. I know there are many hosting programs out there but you really need to check this one out. I have purchased one of the the 1000 offers available for a new blog I am starting next month so I am not just blogging about this I have actually taken advantage of this great offer. This Christmas, and only this Christmas, Top Hosting Center offers 1000 special web hosting plans that make the best Xmas gift ever. Any blogger or small business owner who needs professional web hosting can have it for LIFE! THC offers the most affordable web hosting plan on the Web. Here are some of the great features you get with the Rudolf Christmas special! World class web hosting including: For a one time fee of $ 95 U

Year-End Moves For Investors

As we near the end of the year I am always looking for ways to lessen my tax burden. I hate giving the government money. I have a firm belief that I know MUCH better what to do with my money that any local, state, or federal government. The government does nothing efficient and certainly don't worry about profitability as most are convinced that the American taxpayer is their limitless ATM machine for all of their well intentioned program. I have always thought it funny that the US postal service can't make money but UPS, FEDEx, DHL, and many other regional and national parcel services continuously make a profit. Another good example is AmTrak. I know carrying people is different than cargo but I still find it ironic that AmTrak has never made money, ever, but there are tons of rail services that do. The federal government will never do things efficiently and almost NEVER end a program once it is started. Then they scare the American people into thinking someone wants to cut p

The 12 Links Of Christmas - Day 9

Can A New Novice Trader Make Money With Forex?

As an online, and off, entrepreneur I like for my efforts to make money. That is the ultimate goal of any business right? Now if you have read much on this blog you also know that I love saving money. I like leveraging different methods together to get the best possible use of my money. Whether that is saving on a purchase or saving by putting money into an investment vehicle of some kind, to me it is all saving money. A penny saved is a penny earned type of thing. One area that I got involved about 6 years ago is Forex Trading . Forex is simply a currency trading market like the NYSE is for stocks. You buy or sell different currencies and obviously the goal like any investment is to make money. I started out with the free accounts you see advertised everywhere so that I could get used to the concept and get a feel for market. I did a lot of reading on the subject as well. After trying out a ton of strategies from a myriad of sources I found some things that worked for me. Once I ran t

The 12 Links Of Christmas - Day 8

Targeted Lists Are Key To Successful Affiliate Marketing

Having targeted, preferably double opt-in, email (and snailmail) addresses in my opinion is key to a successful email or direct mail marketing campaign. Having a great landing page, or other vehicle, that captures potential customers email, and mail, addresses is a must have tool for any affiliate marketer. Looking to do a mortgage lending campaign, you want addresses for people interested in a new mortgage or refinance. Wanting to run email ringtone campaign, you want cell phone owners, and probably a younger demographic. You don't want to be sending ringtone ads to older folks in their 70's that have never owned a cell. You can see the importance for screened and targeted lists. There are several ways to get such a list. You can build it yourself through a collection vehicle of some type such as a good landing page, a site newsletter, etc.. Or you can buy consumer mailing lists both email and snailmail targeted lists. I use both methods. I have several landing pages where pe

Year-End Tax-Saving Moves

As an affiliate marketer and blogging entrepreneur, a business owner, I am always looking to make some tax-saving moves this time of year. If you are looking to make money online or already are you really need to look at it as a business. I also recommend that once you start making a decent profit you incorporate your online ventures. There are ton of tax advantages to this.

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5 Ways To Maximize Hits4Pay Earnings

Many of you may have read my original Hits4Pay Program Review article published towards the end of June as it seems to pretty popular internally and with google :). I wanted to give a big thanks to all of you who have joined Hits4Pay and give all of my readers an update and all of my affiliates some tips on maximizing your Hits4Pay income. I use Hits4Pay as supplemental income to cover PPC costs, link buys, and other expenses. Hits4Pay has been a very successful program for me to date earning me about $1500 in about 8 months. That isn't bad for about 20 minutes a week. I don't state that to brag but to show you the potential that is there. In light of my article Blogs, Full of Sound and Fury, Signifying Nothing , I don't want to just tell you how much I earned, tell you that you can do it to, give you a link, and leave it at that. I want to help you succeed, and maximize your earnings in the Hits4Pay program. In that spirit here are my 5 Steps. 5 Ways to Maximize Hits4Pa

Walmart.com: 12/18 Last Day for 97 cent Shipping

Walmart.com is finishing up the online holiday season in style with 97 cent shipping on top items in multiple categories! All of you last minute shoppers will be able to find that special gift and save with 97 cent shipping and have it delivered just in time to go under the tree ( December 24th Delivery ). Additionally, 97 cent shipping will be available only on 12/18 for ALL items in the following categories: GPS, Digital Cameras, and MP3 Players! later all and have a profitable and productive blogging day Get more profitable and productive information by subscribing to my FEED and my newsletter! or clicking the links below to bookmark my site, or add me to your favorites.

Free 2-day Shipping & Holiday Offers at The Popcorn Factory!

I just received this offer and will be starting a marketing campaign this afternoon featuring this it. I wanted to pass this along to my readers first. This is a great offer on a great product. If you have never had popcorn from The Popcorn Factory you are missing a great treat. I love gourmet popcorn The Popcorn Factory has some of the best. If you are looking for a great last minute gift for the holidays check out this offer. FREE 2-day air shipping from THE POPCORN FACTORY! Hurry ends 12.20 1pm EST. Use code: 2UP later all and have a profitable and productive blogging day Get more profitable and productive information by subscribing to my FEED and my newsletter! or clicking the links below to bookmark my site, or add me to your favorites.

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The 12 Links Of Christmas - Day 5

A Great Affiliate Marketing Campaign Idea

Webhostingpad is making a big impression in affiliate marketing! Even though they just recently entered affiliate marketing they already seen impressive conversions with their all inclusive hosting plan. Right now is the perfect opportunity for you to join their program and start seeing conversions with our TRIPLE REWARD sale (as shown above). They have a high payout of $100 CPA and for affiliates that are able to generate 10 sales in a month they will give a $500 bonus . As if that wasn't good enought if you can generate 20 sales in a month they will give you a bonus of $1000 . That's an effective CPA of $150!! Also, I'm sure if you are able to generate more than 20 sales a month you could probably negotiate better rates. $100 CPA High conversion rates Dedicated Affiliate Manager 120 day cookie duration Great performance incentives Lots of great reasons to market Webhostingpad. Are you looking for some other great offers to market? Why don't you Make More Money with N

Smorty - Paid Posting And Advertising For Your Affiliate Campaigns

Well in most opinions probably not but there are some advantages. If after all the Google pagerank issues of the past month you are still doing paid links and paid posting then let me point you to another good paid posting site. The site is Smorty. What Smorty stands for or means I have no idea. What Smorty is, is a paid posting site with a few added benefits over PayPerPost. So if you are looking for another revenue stream in your making money online ventures you might want to check out Smorty. My first impression of the user control panel and account management front end is that it is quite a bit less robust than that of PayPerPost. That being said, the opportunities available pay very well and there are a decent amount of them. There aren't as many as you might get from the big boy but enough to be a nice supplement to other paid posting sources. One advantage that Smorty has over PayPerPost is that they pay weekly. With PPP you have to wait about 30 days for payment for a post.

The 12 Links Of Christmas - Day 4

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I Was Scammed 40 Times!

Have you seen that ad? I have seen that PPC ad on both Google and Yahoo. Honestly my first thought wasn't to click on it, but was what a dumba-- why would I want your advice. Maybe this is just me but after about say 20 at the most I would start to suspect that maybe It was me. There seems to a single common denominator in that math equation and that is you. Second thing that I thought was the guy should quite. Just give up. You obviously don't have a knack for this sorta thing. Now my third thought was that after being scammed that many times this guy is probably broke and is trying to recoup losses by trying his own scam. I mean heck he ought to know what works he fell for them 40 TIMES ! Reality though is that he probably has no clue. The point of all this was to get you to examine PPC ad headlines and how they can affect your campaign performance. More on this topic in a coming article. I also thought, if this guy is so gullible how can I sell him a few things? What is your