Today’s featured free tool is Ping.fm.  This is a pinging tool that lets you update all your social services with one update.This includes many types of services like sharing sites, blogs and micro blogging tools too.

Here are some of the popular services you can update with it:

Twitter, LiveJournal, MySpace, FaceBook, Tumblr, Hi5, Yahoo 360, Xanga, Mashable, Flicker, FriendFeed, LinkedIn. The list goes on.

The point of this type of tool is that it saves you from having to visit all those sites individually. The service can be used to update your status, add a link, talk about a project you’re working on and all your followers in those services get an update. You can’t converse with people unless you visit the sites indivdiually and you want to do that at least sometimes so you don’t appear to be a selfish social marketer but this can be a substantial time saver!

How Ping Fm Works

Sign up for all the social media sites you want to individually first and then sign in to Ping.fm. Then you can add your user name and password for each of those web 2.0 sites and begin taking advantage of Ping.fm. It does take a bit of time to set up initially but can be well worth the effort.

(PS: Update: Forgive my blunder. Yesterday I told you I’d write about making more online friends but started today’s post before reading my day planners. Tsk, tsk. Tomorrow Sean is posting so I’ll be sure to post about that topic for Thursday! Cheers, Dana)

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008

With Thanksgiving in the U.S people around the world might be considering what they’re thankful for.  In internet marketing, there are a lot of things to be thankful for.  Let’s look at a few of them:

Google

Google lets us earn, lets us be found and puts a world of free information at our fingertips.  Yay Google! It really did change the way the internet works and the free available Google tools make being an internet entrepreneur even more profitable.

Social Marketing

Social marketing tools are free to use and help us spread the word about our product or service. They also let us mentor and be mentored to. Tools like MySpace, FaceBook, Twitter, Digg and other social tools can make our online pursuits much easier to do well at.

The Blogosphere

We can blog to be found, to find information and to sell products and services.  Whether you use a free hosted blog, a revenue shared blog or create a blog of your own, this is a great tool for SEO, for social marketing and for internet marketing.

Regardless of what you’re thankful for, cheers to your health, safety and success.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008

If you’re an affiliate who’s been making money online by selling other people’s products for a while, you might realise that there’s big money available if you can launch a successful product of your own. This isn’t an easy feat and there’s a great of time, effort and money involved in promoting your own product but if it’s something you’d like to do, there are many ways to go about it.  Today’s post looks at whether or not to sell your electronic product yourself or get help from other affiliates.

Sell  It Yourself

If you want to work hard and reap all the rewards, you can set up your own e-commerce site with a shopping cart and sell the product yourself. Whether you’re doing an e-book or a membership site, this is a doable solution but one that will require an investment of time, money and resources. You do get all the rewards but the journey will require a bit more of you because you’re on your own with every step of the journey.

Get Affiliates To Sell For You

Just as you’ve sold products and earned commission from publishers, you could decide to go this route for yourself and try to attract those interested in affiliate marketing. Hopefully you’ll get some old pros as well as some newbies!  You can list your product on a site like ClickBank or for a low fee through a site like E-Junkie and get affiliates to help you sell. While you share in the commission you’ve also got people putting efforts into selling for you.

It’s a win-win situation for you because you only pay commission on items sold.  If you’ve got a product that really sells it can run practically on autopilot for you. Other people pay money to get the word out for you through setting up websites, investing in search engine optimisation and through pay per click ad campaigns. While there is often a set-up fee for you to get going and commission is shared, this can provide a great return on investment that allows you to reach a wider audience.

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008

We’ve all heard those stories of affiliate marketers making thousands of dollars a week by selling products from ClickBank. All the money pours into their account faster than they could hope to spend it and they simply keep on selling more and more all the time.

Promoting Products

But we have also heard the stories of people who join the site, try to sell a few things and never make a dime. Most people fall somewhere in the middle of those two extremes when it comes to being affiliate marketers, but unless you are one of the happy few who are really in the top league, you will want to try and increase your sales in some way.

The best way to do this is to look at what you are currently doing first. How much are you promoting these products? Are you really putting the most effort into it, or could you be doing a lot more to become a better affiliate marketer? The people who really are at the top of this particular money tree are always the ones putting in the most effort, so you’ll need to do that yourself if you want to climb even the hard to reach branches to be sitting up there with them.

The Next Step

The next step is to look at the actual products you are promoting. Are they the best sellers? Are they appropriate for your particular audience? Are they likely to bring you a large number of sales or only a few from time to time?

A big part of being a successful affiliate marketer with ClickBank is to work out what works for you. This site has plenty of useful pages on it, so read them all thoroughly and make the most of them. Being an affiliate marketer isn’t easy – but it can be a lot easier than you might think.

Have a most outstanding day.

Sean Rasmussen
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008

We recently talked about how forums can be valuable for you in terms of networking, building SEO, finding gigs and building your online reputation.  Here are some forums that internet marketers might like to visit:

Warrior Forum: A great place to not only find out everything you might want to know about internet marketing but the WSO (warrior special offer) provides you with a place to buy and sell products related to the world of internet marketing. This forum is a goldmine of information for novices and for pros in the world of internet marketing.

SitePoint: This is a great resource for everything related to websites. Looking to get design and programming tips, talk about advertising and SEO or flip your website in the classfieds section? This is a great resource.

DigitalPoint Forums: Digital Point, known as DP is a popular internet marketing and webmaster forum.

V7 Network: Another internet marketing / SEO / webmaster community

Forum Etiquette

Here are a few forum etiquette tips so you can enjoy the forum experience and not find yourself banned.

• Understand linking, posting and advertising policies.  Read the terms of service to be sure
• Stay away from flame wars where people are arguing and debating if possible. Not a good idea to join a new forum and get into heated arguments
• Introduce yourself
• Add  value to the conversations
• Follow standard netiquette (CAPS MEANS SHOUTING, etc.)

Have a most outstanding day.

Dana Prince
Internet Marketing Blog
www.SeanSEO.com © 2008