APD-Marketing Newsletter

Hello and welcome to the March edition of the APD newsletter.

At last, some nice weather here in the U.K, Monday and Tuesday last week were wonderful. So, I took a day out on Monday and Alison and I went for a nice walk around the Hertfordshire countryside in the sunshine.

It was absolutely wonderful to be out walking without a coat for the first time in 2010. It sort of reminded me that we haven’t had a holiday for a few months! Mind you Lee and I have been hugely busy as you will have seen with the launch of Internet Marketing Strategic. If you haven’t joined yet, and you are interested in making some money online, get along and join. It’s free, and you have my promise that it will always remain free.

So far there’s great video tutorial series on running your website (everything you need to kow about control panel), affiliate marketing, SEO and Adwords. There’s also loads of eBooks and website and Wordpress templates…oh, and a huge file of website graphics…all totally gratis.

Join Internet Marketing Strategic Now…it’s free!

There will be more great info added soon, so make sure you use it to help you get yourself up and running and making some money on the Internet. Even if you know what you’re doing there’s still some great resources, you have nothing to lose.

And, if you know someone else who might be interested do them a favour and tell them about Internet Marketing Strategic

I have also totally revamped the APD site during February, so you can now find that at APD Internet Marketing - loads of Internet Marketing product reviews and links to all of our own products, which brings me nicely to…

..the launch of my Life Mastery System.

I’m giving you the “heads up” on this because it’s at a special introductory price at the moment, only for APD subscribers…so get in quick before I withdraw the offer.

What is it? Well, it’s the distillation of how I turned myself around from no-hoper to the lifestyle I’ve always dreamed about in just a few months.

It’s a short concise eBook (with some bonus items) that shows how I learned from some of the “money-power” giants of this world. How I learned to control time, money and therefore my life and destiny.

It’s hugely powerful stuff that shows you how to break down time and money into their smallest component parts, exercise absolute control over them and then build powerful money making systems from those minute parts.

You see, most people just do not understand time and money at the most basic level. If you can master the art of doing this, you gain complete and utter control over your life and destiny.

Life will be dancing to your tune, not the other way around!

Please go and have a look at www.control-your-life.info/Life_Mastery_APD_Offer.html

Be quick though as I will be taking this offer down on Friday12th March 2010 and then it’s gone forever…even if you plead with me :>)

O.K, I hope you’ll indulge me blowing my own trumpet a little this month, it’s not very often I take a major chunk of newsletter space to do so :>)

So, let’s get on with some money making info for you.

I talk to a lot of people over the course of any given month and obviously, being in “Internet Marketing” I tend to talk about the subject an awful lot. In talking to many people on this broad subject, one of the things that comes up time and again, particularly for those just starting out, is how do you build a website? I’ll admit it was the same for me.

I don’t know about you, but I have a chromosome lose that dictates I just HAVE to know how everything in my business works. So, as sure as night follows day, I had to know how to build a website :>)

So, I am going to make a very bold statement right here, right now.

This “personality defect” has cost me many thousands of dollars over the last four or five years!

Why, I hear you ask?

Well, it held me back in terms of the time it took me to learn how to build even the most basic website. And, it also held me back because the websites I built were, not to put too finer a point on it…complete and utter crap!

There are three issues here.

Firstly, the time issue, which I have alluded to already, secondly a tools issue and finally a training or knowledge issue.

I’ll take these in turn.

Time, I’ve talked about time many times before and by now you will know my view that time is a very precious commodity indeed. This life of yours is NOT a trial run. This is it, you get one chance and once your race is run that’s it…there is no more. A bit unnerving that, isn’t it?

So, if you’re like me and not wonderfully good technically do one of two things. Either, get yourself some proper training in order to make your self good…or get someone who is good and time efficient at building websites to build yours for you.

By default we have gone into the knowledge aspect of this here. What I will also say is that gaining the knowledge can be very time consuming and costly as well.

Where did I go wrong? Well, I guess I tried to learn Dreamweaver, which is a fairly complicated program, by myself from the ground up. It was a stupid task when I should have been concentrating on the making money aspect.

So, talking of tools, there are now tools that can make your life a whole lot easier. I now use Blue Voda, and it’s great, it’s also FREE - yipee! If you can use Word, you can use Blue Voda with about an hour in the online tutorials.

It’s a great tool and when I do build sites, it’s what I now use and I am now reasonably proficient.

However, it’s still NOT a good use of my time…if I’m honest I have come to enjoy pottering around in Blue Voda, but I can get “lost” in it for hours on end. I repeat it’s not a good use of my time.

So, when it comes to technical stuff, if you enjoy it and you are good at it, then great go for it. But if you are not that way inclined…outsource!

I use Rentacoder and Odesk. I’ve stopped using Elance because prices were going up and I just didn’t seem to get what I wanted on the ocasions I did use it.

When you outsource you do need to be prepared to “kiss a few frogs” first. I had a situation where I was looking to hire someone to do a one week “socialisation” project for me.

I ended up hiring a young lady from China, first time I had used her and she was quite aggressive on pricing and closing the deal. I felt she really wanted the work so despite a slight nagging feeling I hired her.

She never did a drop of work, and I ended up having to go through arbitration to get my money back. I guess the lesson here is trust your instincts, if something appears to be too good or doesn’t feel right, be more diligent in checking it out!

But don’t be put off, because this is a very cost effective way to get work (of all sorts) done and after a while you find a number of suppliers that you trust and deliver good work on time and to budget.

I now have a list of “go to” suppliers for websites, writing, SEO and socialisation.

Outsourcing is how you really start to leverage time in your favour and I have become a great fan. It has also taught me that I don’t have to understand in finite detail everything that goes on “under the hood” of my business…I still like to know though :>)

Oh, and just before I go, one other little trick I have used to good effect in certain circumstances is to use the local University for technical resource. I have developed links with a couple of local educational establishments that have Computer Science departments.

One two occasions I have used final year students to do web development work for me. This is a real win/win as the student can use the project towards their course and you get a young, enthusiastic and hungry technician who is very keen to please to do your work for you…for beer money!

It does take some time and effort to find the right people to talk to and to gain trust, but it can be a worthwhile tap into some excellent resource.

And talking of leveraging time, I had to go out in the rush hour this morning! My daughter came round last night and stayed over (she can’t resist my amazing roast dinners), so I had to get her to college by 9am this morning! It’s a seven mile run, door to door, and it took….54 minutes.

What a waste of time and life force! Although clearly I enjoyed extra time with my daughter, but…I queued in traffic for most of the seven miles! Frightening, why would you want to do that just to go to work? Stay at home and make money online, it’s much more fun!

O.K, that’s it for March, I’ll be back just after Easter with the April newsletter. Argghhhh, Easter, haven’t we only just had Christmas?

I’m sure time goes more quickly the older I get…but that’s another subject for another day.

Until next month, have fun and make money!

Cheers now

Derek

Hello and welcome to the February newsletter.

The nights are drawing out here in a very unleafy Hertfordshire and as I sat there looking at the sunset tonight, I wondered what to write about this month. A beautiful sunset indeed, and inspiration indeed…this month the Internet Marketing Guru industry gets it with both barrels!

You see I have been watching what’s been happening recently very closely indeed, and I have some very interesting observations. This is gonna be a hairy rollercoaster ride so hold tight!

Here goes.

First up, what a huge fanfare and who-ha about Twitollower, oh boy!

I watched the video and thought, yeak O.K, how much?

Then when I saw the “just $97 a month” I got really angry. This has to be the worst sort of rip off. I’m sorry if this offends anyone, but…if you pay $97 a month for this then more fool you .

Now I didn’t set out to be controversial here, but it annoys me for two reasons!

Firstly Lee and I only started to engage with Twitter back in the autumn. Lee being the technical one in the partnership did some research on follower automation and came up with Tweet Tank.

We had tried manual follower building and it was very time consuming and didn’t seem to be providing much in the way of results.

So, despite the fact it took a bit of working out, Lee implemented Tweet Tank on one of our Twitter accounts and we added over 2,000 followers in something like 5-6 weeks.

Pretty cool you’d think? And, we are still adding 10-20 followers each day, and we’re getting listed. Little tip here…if you do use automation to build followers, I think Twitter has sussed these programs. They don’t seem to mind you using them, but…they will work about four times better if you do a few “manual” tweets each day… I’ve done some testing on this!

Back to the story…I’ll be honest here because we might have missed something in our Twitter marketing as we haven’t looked at it in any great depth, but…we are still not making much from Twitter. (Oooo, honesty from an Internet Marketer!)

So, the second reason? Well, I am beginning to think Twitter has just become “noise”. Yes it’s O.K if you have a reputation or high profile and people already want to hear what you have to say, but I don’t think you can now use Twitter to build a reputation. You just get lost in the noise.

Ask yourself, how much attention do you pay to the thousands of tweets that you see each day? I rest my case.

I would be really interested to hear if anyone is making any decent money using Twitter, drop me a line. As I say, we may have this wrong, but…the fact remains, $97 /month on an ongoing basis versus a one time $27 payment, errr, it’s a no brainer!

So, that’s me off my soap box having got that off my chest!

Now, this whole Twitter thing got me thinking…watch out here comes some real heavy stuff!

Twitter has been hailed as the silver bullet by so many Guru’s over the last six months. It’s the new thing, it’s your saviour, you can build a list of thousands really quickly and make loads of money marketing on Twitter.

How long has Twitter been around?

Actually I don’t know the answer to that and I can’t be bothered to look it up. However, this got Lee and I chatting and we thought that maybe…just maybe there might be a recurring theme here.

New “thing” hits the street. A few savvy top-level marketers pick up “thing” play with it work out how to make bundles of cash using new “thing” techniques. They may even be “in the know” prior to “thing” happening.

So, they, being top level Gurus (with technical staff they can allocate to work out how “thing” works), take their “thing” technique to the BIG GURU weekend where they share with the top level Gurus.

All the top level Gurus implement and make a bundle of dosh.

All the top level Gurus then share the “thing” techniques with their top level mastermind groups (which are filled Tier 2 Gurus), so you now have Tier 1 and Tier 2 Gurus using the new “thing” techniques.

Then the Tier 2 Gurus implement and make some money, but the techniques are now starting to get a little bit wide spread and diluted. Some clever “non-Gurus” work it out.

Then the Tier 2 Gurus share with their own high ticket paying “students” who then go away and implement the “new” “thing” techniques.

By now the “new” techniques are starting to get really watered down, but…the top level Gurus can show amazing proof of concept and earnings…

…so, NOW (drum roll please), it’s time to roll the techniques up into a $1997 product!

So, the Tier 1 and 2 Gurus sell this package to their best “non student” customers and so the “thing” techniques scale down another tier.

Over the next six months or so a plethora of clone products flood the market at prices anywhere from $497 down to $47 and they achieve massive sales based on the huge proof of concept shown from when the technique was brand new and not being used by all and sundry. It’s not a fair cop!

Of course by now the technique is with the masses and is virtually useless. The masses however are rabid buyers of IM “how to” products.

Most who buy in this price range don’t even do anything with the product!

But the Gurus are happy because they ripped the technique for huge profits when it was new and then did the same when it was clearly past it’s “sell-by date” by selling it as a “how to” “silver bullet”.

Now you may think I’m being cynical here, and maybe I am, and maybe it’s not quite as clinical as that…but it does make you think and want to ask questions doesn’t it?

And…it was interesting to see Adeel and Booby launch Software Submitter this week. Now funnily enough Soctrates Socratous did a free video series on exactly this technique about 6 months ago.

So I tried it.

Admitedly I tried it on a hugely competitive keyword. Want to know my results?

O.K, are you sitting comfortably?

5 list signs ups in 3 months. Somewhat different to what Adeel and Bobby are spouting about. Although in all fairness and in the interests of complete transparency, I only submitted to one directory, they offer you twenty I think.

And do you know what has really upset me about this launch?

I purchased (with my own money) Mass Article Control (including an article submitter) from Adeel and Bobby, and there’s a full review of it at http://www.apdinternetmarketing.com/massarticlecontrol.html

And, it’s not a bad product, but…they are still promoting Mass Article Control - big time, yet, in the sales copy for Software Submitter, one of the major selling points is that article marketing is
dead!

I’m sorry, but that is just not acceptable. It’s wrong and it’s ripping people off.

No doubt I will get shredded by some of the Gurus for opening up like this, but…Lee and I (notice I drag Lee into this) are determined to stand firm…

…and that’s why we launched Internet Marketing Strategic last week.

If you don’t know what it is yet, it’s simply a FREE Internet Marketing Training Membership site.

So far training on Cpanel, SEO, Market Research and Affiliate Marketing  is included as well as a stack of eBooks on similar subject matter. We will be adding more training each month so do get signed up and do keep a close eye for new additions.

Lee and I have also revamped the main site and moved it to http://www.apdinternetmarketing.com

We have taken away a load of the crap and made the site a simple link to all of our products and a simply structured IM product review site.

Again keep watching for new reviews all of the time.

All of the old APD free stuff will soon find a home within Internet Marketing Strategic.

Final word, Lee and I are determined to bring a new freshness and clarity to the Internet Marketing world. It’s about time someone told the truth and stopped the rip off of the uninformed. By massively raising the “free bar”, we hope we have given that process a massive boost…thanks to Armand Morin for the idea!

Why do we want to risk the wrath of the Gurus?

It’s simple…the Internet is BIG enough for everyone. There is room for you, me, the Gurus and most of the population of the world…it’s huge. This rip off doesn’t need to happen, so we are going to do our best to remove the smoke and mirrors and bring transparency.

I hope you’ll join us on our crusade!

Peace and happiness…and lots of fun for all!

Until Next Month - Cheers now.

Hello and welcome to the Full of Festive Frolicks December newsletter…

…and what a bumper edition I have for you this month.

Back, fresh from the World Internet Summit at Heathrow, London I’ll be revealing some of the great tips and techniques I learned at the conference.

I’ll also be revealing something that Lee and I are going to be launching in January that you are absolutely going to want to get your hands on!

Think of it as a Christmas present from Lee and myself. One that will last you all the way through 2010! And…it ain’t gonna cost you a single dime.

Well, after all ’tis the season of goodwill to all men (and women, let’s not be sexist), and what we are going to give you in January will certainly make you very merry!

So, without further ado, I’ll crack on.

The World Internet Summit is rapdily becoming the Internet Marketing Seminar of choice and it’s easy to see why.

At just $197 for you and a guest, it’s great value.

If I’m honest, the flip side of this great value is that all of the speakers do get to sell to you at the end of their presenatations.

However, I think it’s a price worth paying for some of the great profit making information you get given during the course of the event.

So, here’s a few of the gems that came out of the November World Internet Summit over at The Thistle at Heathrow.

The first thing that came out was the move by Google to offer more local services through Google Maps.

If you are running a local business how would you like to have a virtual clear run at a Page One Google ranking? Sounds good doesn’t it?

Well, go to Google Local and that’s what you can have.

This one is a real no brainer for local businesses. Just follow the instructions to set up your local account and enter your business details and you will immediately be on Page One of Google for any searches on your business niche with the relevant local qualifier (town name, zip code etc).

Why will you be on page one?

Two reasons…

Firstly, did you know that 67% of Google searches use a geographic qualifier?

Google ALWAYS listens to what the searcher wanst…and that’s why they have had a “local” campaign  and made this service available through Google Maps.

Secondly, most local business people have not found out about this yet and therefore don’t know - and even if they did know they wouldn’t know what to do about it.

Dominate now, while you can if you are local.

It’s like being able to take everyone else’s entries out of the yellow pages and just leave your one there!

Final word on this, big time Internet Marketers have cottoned on and are now developing products around this, get in quick before this becomes common knowledge.

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One of the most interesting things that I heard was that global online sales are expected to hit $500 billion plus in 2009. Yes you did read that right $500 BILLION! (Estimates do vary to be fair, but it’s always between $200-500 Billion).

That makes the Internet the biggest market place - EVER.

That makes the Internet the most POWERFUL sales medium EVER!

Who said there was a recession going on? How many times have I told you the online world is simply not participating in “the recession”.

And…the Internet is becoming ever more “social”. It’s about giving and sharing your information.

You only have to look at what people like Howie Schwartz are giving away these days to know that the top marketers are making an absolute mint by giving loads of stuff away!

You see, if you give away loads of (good) stuff, you gain trust VERY quickly. People like you more, tell more people and you build a reputation for quality very quickly.

Lee and I have taken this on board :>)

Remember that Christmas present? Keep reading!

So, the key to Online Success?

It’s a SEVEN step system!

1. Fine a Hot Niche Market - Remember the product comes second, the hot, rabid niche is the first and most important thing!

Solve a major problem and you have a WINNER!

2. Create a product that gives the market what it wants - remember a want is much more powerful than a need. A want allows you to sell on emotion!

3. Create a powerful and compelling sales message - vital.

4. Design a SIMPLE site that converts prospects to buyers. Think…

K - Keep
I - It
S - Simple
S - Stupid

Who are the most successful websites?

Google?
Amazon?
eBay?

What do they all have in common? Lots of white space and powerful messages. Copy the best!

5. Bring Traffic using search engines and PPC. Have you tried Bing? I hear there are some very buyer friendly clicks going at very cheap rates!!!

6. Use eMail marketing to convert yet more buyers.

7. Have an army of people to sell your product for you. That means your own affiliates.

You simply HAVE to get your business online!!!

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Moving on, Nicola Cairncross a Brit who lives by the sea, was one of the most amazing speakers over the entire course of the weekend.

She lives a very simple life here in the U.K, drives an old Volvo but lives one of the most enjoyable lives you can imagine. Totally stress free and not working very much at all!

Before she made a living online she was a financial analyst. Working long hours, she re-assessed her life. Then she took her skills and built a membership site aimed at helping small business manage money more effectively.

She now turns over many times what she made offering her services one to one and because it is a membership model that she has built…

…her income is residual in nature and pours in month after month.

The moral of the story?

Membership sites build massive residual income.

Think what you might be able to develop a membership based model on - it’s a key to easy and recurring income online!

Throughout the entire weekend, one message came through LOUD and CLEAR!

Video is where the immediate future lies.

The most successful online marketers are now using video to sell. Most now use video sales letters and you simply MUST get video skills on board.

If you are not using video you are missing a MAJOR trick. I did a feature on this a few months back.

Did you know YouTube now gets 2.7 BILLION views each month (and the figure is growing).

In fact, you Tube is now a social network. You can build friend lists, market, chat, share, everything a self respecting social site should do.

You see Google now sees YouTube as an integral part of the new and rapidly forming Google Social Infrastructure that I talked about last month.

You have to get yourself fully immersed in the new Google fabric. Why?

Because the more you do in it, the more hard coded links you will have to your sites held on Google servers…and such links carry one hell of a lot of ranking juice.

It’s also interesting to note that everything is driven by Google Friend Finder and…it’s self policing because you have to agree to connect to someone!

Have you noticed you don’t get spam in Gmail?

So, I have started building a Google infrastructure. You should to!

You can connect to me if you like…

derek.armson@googlemail.com

Add me to your GFC or Google Wave.

Indeed, Lee and I will be looking to do some free Q & A waves early in the new year to test out GWave, why not join in?

Anyway, I digress, back to youTube.

The average person watches 150 videos a month on YouTube. No wonder the traditional T.V companies are struggling to get advertising these days!

Yes, that’s another upshot of all this…

…traditional advertising budgets are now making a massive move online. It’s getting close to 70% of all advertising spend being allocated to online advertising.

Ask yourself…how often do you watch T.V these days?

Do you watch more online videos, or do you watch your favourite programs on the T.V company “players”? I know I do!

Sorry, I digress again…it’s such an interesting subject!

Anyway, get your videos on YouTube and you can guarantee getting to page one on Google, normally position four…and you can do it for keywords that you would have no hope of getting a page one listing for otherwise.

Check it out, you’ll see the videos come up in position four!

Just make sure you have the keyword in your title, filename and tags and you’ll be there.

What further incentive do you need to get into video.

And, it’s easier than ever as technology advances.

I use Camtasia to render my video. But, if you get yourself a flipcam, you can record and upload to YouTube in one easy movement!

It’s never been easier to get yourself online and making some money!

All you have to do is TAKE ACTION!

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Yes, I know here I go again…but NO! It’s Christmas, it’s the Holidays, so I shall be gentle on you. I’ll talk about getting off your lazy ass after the festivities :>)

Seriously though, I know many people suffer from not knowing the easy bite sized chunk steps you need to take to be successful online.

So, in January (maybe sooner - watch this space) Lee and I are going to launch Internet Marketing Strategic.

What is it?

Simples!!! (Sorry, only U.K residents will understand that).

It’s a F*R*E*E, yes F*R*E*E Internet Marketing “How To” membership site. I’ll send you the joining link as soon as the first modules are live.

This is my Christmas present to you. I am going to REMOVE all of your excuses for now being successful online.

Beginning to end, chapter and verse, every little thing you need to know to build a successful online business, Lee and I are going to give you!

The first module is seven in depth market research videos - as I said above you need the niche first.

This module is just about ready.

The second module is how to do all that nasty techncial stuff behind the scenes in Cpanel. Everything you need to know in 23 short two - three minute videos. So you can learn in easy bite sized chunks.

Over the course of 2010 we will be releasing modules (regularly) that cover every conceivable Internet marketing subject, all gratis!

Now, I have to say, this is a VERY bold move and may well lead to a certain amount of indignation amongst the IM community…but we don’t care!

You NEED to know exactly how to do this, so Lee and I are gonna damn well show you!

And, finally, I know this may not relate to you and is nothing to do with Internet Marketing, but…

…you may have seen in the press this week Gordon Brown talking about Child Internet Security.

As it happens, we have just launched an Online / PC Child Security product to the world. Please check it out at:-

www.parental-software.org

If this is helpful to you, fantastic. If not and you know someone who is keen to protect their children online, please feel free to pass the link on.

And, finally…

…I promised to tell you about the car key episode at World Internet Summit, embarrassing as it is. Here’s some Christmas fun at my expense!

At lunch on the Saturday, Lee needed to get something from the car, so I gave him my car keys!

At the end of the day Lee went off to chat with Brett McFall while I was chatting to some potential JV partners for the Secure Kids Online product.

We agreed to meet at the car, and when I got there, I realised I didn’t have my keys (no sign of Lee)! Completely forgetting I had given them to Lee, I spent the next half an hour rushing around every place we’d sat at or had coffee in the entire hotel searching and asking if anyone had seen my keys.

Returning to a now empty reception Lee was standing there looking very puzzled.

“Where have you been?”

“I’ve lost the car keys!” I pleaded.

“****, I’ve got them”.

Talk about look and feel a complete Twonk!

Yes, you’ve done it too! Admit it!

O.K, that’s it, there is no more for this month and indeed 2009! Wow, where did it go? Don’t know about you but I’ve had a complete BALL in 2009 and I can’t wait for 2010! It’s great to always look forward with excitement at what the future will bring.

So, I would like to close by wishing you and your family a very happy and peaceful Christmas and a Prosperous 2010…come join me at the TOP! The view is amazing!

Peace and Happiness

Cheers now

Derek

Hello and welcome to the November 2009 issue of the APD Marketing newsletter.

I hope you are well and I find you in fine fettle this month.

Another year is drawing to a close! I won’t go on another one of my “time flies by” rants, but it does focus the mind. After all, we will all be making new years resolutions again soon!

So, what am I going to talk about this month? Well a bit of a mish-mash really. Time, sort of, but more the pace of life…particularly in the world of Internet Marketing.

I recently wrote about a new wave of technology and the changes that were coming. Part of that change was Google Wave, and you’ll be interested to know that Google is now rolling out Google Wave (or Gwave as it now starting to be called), so you should get yourself signed up.

http://www.wave.google.com

Sign up and give me a “wave” at “internetmarketingstrategic”

Gwave is going to become a very important tool for you in your Internet Marketing quest.

Indeed, Google generally is starting to move in more and more interesting circles.

The sixty four million dollar question of the Internet world has been “Why doesn’t Google play in the social media market”?

That question is about to be answered.

Google Wave looks like it is going to be the glue that holds this entire thing together, but…if you look at the tools Google has now developed and is now delivering at an incredible pace…their mission seems to have been re-stated as world domination.

What got me started on this whole thing was a great little product I got from Howie Schwartz a couple of weeks back. You would have got my marketing email about it.

Go Trick or Treating With Howie

I know some of you picked this up and the feedback I have had from the people that did make the purchase is very interesting.

I’ve been watching Howie for a long while but always thought his stuff was full of hot air. Not so.

This product (it is still available) is like a sneak peak into Howie’s world and it made me realise what a very sharp marketer he is.

You see he is master of Web2.0. We told you how to automate Web 2.0 with the Instant Social Traffic Formula, and this little product shows you some great new Web2.0 techniques that I certainly wasn’t aware of.

Lee and I will be incorporating some of this stuff into an upgraded version of Instant Social Traffic in the next couple of months once we have tested and made sure we understand how it fits together and works.

And, now Google has started on it’s own quest to dominate the social environment…well it got me thinking!

Now first up, what is Google doing?

Well, it looks like they are pulling a number of tools together to form a monster social networking “environment”. As I said above I believe Gwave is going to be the glue that holds this all together.

Firstly there is Gmail. This is going to be where you keep your friend list. Some new Gmail tools are going to make it easier to find and connect with people as well as save your friends lists.

Google Reader is going to make it simple for you to keep up to date with what is happening on the favourite sites you follow.

They already dominate video with YouTube which is becoming more and more a social network and they are also releasing Google Friend Connect which is the new friend finder in Gmail.

Then their is Google Profiles where you can keep your online “business card”.

Mix this all up, add Gwave and what you have is an all out assault on Facebook, Linked In, Mixx, Digg blah, blah, blah.

Google is set to dominate again!

Now it is my contention that Facebook is not easy to use. It is a social tool that Facebook are now trying to monestize. As it wasn’t a money making model in the first place monetization is proving awkward.

But, with all these very cool tools from Google coming together it is like they are generating a perfect “online marketing storm”.

If you are going to succeed online…you have to be in at the forefront of this stuff! Because as sure as eggs is eggs, Google will give their own tools the highest weighting in the search results!

And, despite what anyone might say, Google is where it’s at. Yes, they have taken their time in maturing this plethora of tools, but it is clear they intend to retain their dominant position on the Internet.

You have to see the online marketing world through Google’s eyes. It’s vital to your success.

And with tools like the “show options” and “wonderwheel” it is becoming much easier to do just that and see the world through Google’s eyes.

It’s like they are telling anyone who cares to look exactly what you need to do to succeed online.

See the World Through Google’s Eyes!

So, to learn all this stuff and implement becomes somewhat time consuming. Add to that the time needed to do all of your Web2.0 and socialization and you need to be in control!

So, this month, I’ve got two things to help you.

I have just revamped Total Control and added some even more powerful time management techniques to it. The bottom line, you need some advanced tools to overcome information overload and paralysis of analysis these days.

The workload to dominate Google is now more than ever. The savvy Internet Marketers are working behind the scenes, using these Web 2.0 and Google Tools to complete dominate any niches they choose.

You simply have to control the most valuable resource you have – time!

Control your time, means a controlled life. Total Control will help you achieve more than you ever thought possible. And, as you massively increase your effectiveness and time and money come under control,..You will feel stress melt away – I can vouch for this!

Get in control now!

Secondly, Lee and I have been working hard on a new review site for you. It’s called Internet Marketing Strategic and you can see the bare bones of it at www.internet-marketing-strategic.com

It should start to gradually come online over the next two weeks.

What is it?

Quite simply we are going to be reviewing all of the new Internet Marketing product releases so you will know, up front, if any given release is right for you.

We’ll be doing in depth product reviews and telling how, where and why you should (or shouldn’t) use any product.

I don’t know about you, but my inbox is bulging every day with new product releases. It’s impossible to tell what’s good and what’s not most of the time. So, now we’re gonna do it for you!

I know some of the Guru’s ain’t gonna like us for this, because if a product is out and out crap, we’re going to tell you.

So, keep an eye out for Internet Marketing Strategic - enter it in your Google Reader account :>) there will be regular updates! If you are subscribed to this newsletter, by the way, you don’t need to get signed up to that list as well

Finally, Lee and I will be at World Internet Summit from Thursday through Sunday next week. There is stunning line up for speakers including Tom Hua and Brett McFall (obviously), but also Armand Morin, Sean Roche, Ewen Chia, Howie Scwartz and a host of others.

At just $197 (plus a free guest ticket) it’s a ridiculous price to help secure your future…plus there’s always the chance you could be the subject of the World Internet Challenge and be invited up on stage to start an Internet business live at the event…and KEEP all of the profits! At the last event in Singapore the lucky subject earned over $22,000 and fainted when she found out how much she’d earned in just four days!

Sign up for the World Internet Summit here.

Anyway, if you are there, look us up, we’d be delighted to say “hi”!

O.K, that’s it for this month, I’ll be back with a bumper festive edition in December!

As always…to *YOUR* success.

Cheers now.

Derek

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