Lisa Ginger earns her living online.  She makes in four months what her previous career paid her in one year.  She tried the traditional methods for promoting her sites but couldn’t get her new sites to list in Google.com.  Lisa somehow discovered social bookmarking and thought she should try it.  She couldn’t find any worthwhile information on the web about how to use social bookmarking sites for marketing, so she decided to do her own research and wrote her report.

I was pleasantly surprise how easy it was to read and understand Lisa’s report.  You would think it would be stuffy and full of jargon because of her previous research scientist background.  Not so, in this report…  The concepts were crystal-clear.  There was nothing abstract about it.  Concrete step-by-step details were presented.  It was all practical and nothing theoretical.

Lisa wrote and organized this report logically.  She focuses on four main social bookmarking sites and presents each in the order in which you should use them.  That is, you should finish the steps on one site before going on to the next.  When you finally get to the fourth site, you will have built a foundation that maximizes the level of traffic you’ll receive.

It might take a little time for you to get used to the layout of these social bookmarking sites.  Lisa does explain to you the important features on these sites and helps you navigate them with screenshot captures.

In Lisa’s sales letter, she claims that these social bookmarking sites are the fastest and easiest way to get targeted traffic to your site on demand.  I think many people who read that headline would be skeptical.  However, if you follow her advice on what types of “Tags” you should select for your sites and follow through on it, then I see you can at least get temporary surges of traffic almost immediately.

What I would have liked to see more of are further details of the plug-ins or scripts she recommends to enhance WordPress blogs so people can bookmark your blog to their favorites on these social bookmarking sites.  A video demonstration of how to install them would be helpful as well.

Not everything Lisa shows you in her report will be easy to do.  You will have to spend some time researching “Tags,” and you will have to add plug-ins to your WordPress blog so you can maximize your results.

If you’ve seen your search engine rankings drop or you don’t want to build hundreds of dummy blogs just to get a new site indexed, then I recommend you read “Tagging Secrets: How to Flood Your Sites with Traffic on Demand.”  http://www.myonlinetools.biz/recommends/TaggingSecrets.html

If Lisa decides to do a follow-up on her report, I would like to see a chapter that introduces and compares some of the automation tools to help people who own many sites or blogs manage their Tags and social bookmarks conveniently from a central location.

Copyright © 2006 Leroy Chan

Leroy Chan runs MyOnlineTools.biz, a blog that reviews Internet Marketing Tools, Website Site Builders and Web Marketing Automation Software.  Visit his blog at http://www.MyOnlineTools.biz

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His PDF ebook is only 22 pages long and the sentences are double-spaced.  You’ll need to spend a small amount of money to get the system started.  However, it’s conceivable that you’ll recover your initial investment once it turns a profit.  If you’re a novice, you may not make money immediately because you may need to figure things out before you have the confidence to get started.  But, the income generating idea seems to be a sound one and similar strategies are used by speculators in the stock and options markets.

Michael’s writing is clear and to the point.  His instructions are easy to understand and follow.  Michael concisely explains how to create and maintain the system in six steps. 

Affiliate Cash Vault provides the essential links to resources that make the system work.  Michael also includes software to help you create a critical component of the system.  He also provides other supplemental files.

The oddest thing about the Affiliate Cash Vault sales letter is that it shows off Clickbank checks and earnings reports.  However, in the ebook itself, ClickBank isn’t mentioned anywhere.  That omission of Clickbank in the system, probably won’t take away the income producing potential.

Novices can probably understand easily the Affiliate Cash Vault system.  However, the novice may encounter a few minor problems before they can get started. 

The system uses two online services to generate income.  The first of these services requires you to sign up as an affiliate and becoming one isn’t always a sure thing for some.  You need to have a website before you are even considered. 

The second online service also requires you to sign up and you need a website or at least a web page.  You are required to make small payment to it to continue using it.  And you may need to put in some study time before you can effective use it. 

However, if you’re already familiar with these two popular services, then you’ll probably be able to start generating income from the system almost immediately.

This ebook would be better if Michael gave more guidance on using the second online service effectively.  Instead of writing more about it, he includes a supplemental report that another person wrote, which does go into further detail.

A potential problem that may prevent the Affiliate Cash Vault income generating system from working is that the two online services used in the system may change their terms of use and not allow its members to use these techniques. 

Affiliate Cash Vault isn’t something you or your business can’t survive without.  However, if you want additional income streams, then the Affiliate Cash Vault system can show you a unique way of doing that.

I’ll give Affiliate Cash Vault, a rating of 5 out of 5 for being a unique money making idea.  It gets 5 out of 5 for being an income generating system that will probably work.  In addition, it gets 4 out of 5 for providing guidance and good step by step instructions.

For more information on Michael LaNoue’s system, “Affiliate Cash Vault,”
Please visit: http://www.myonlinetools.biz/recommends/affiliatecashvault.html

If Michael updates his Affiliate Cash Vault ebook, it would be helpful to have more guidance for using one of the services needed in the system as I have already mentioned previously.  In addition, it would make it even easier to learn the system if videos were provided.

Leroy Chan runs MyOnlineTools.biz, a blog that reviews Internet Marketing Tools, Website Site Builders and Web Marketing Automation Software.  Visit his blog at http://www.MyOnlineTools.biz

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In From A One Man Office To 150k, Mike discusses how Rich’s business coaching sessions and the concepts in the Internet Business Manifesto has helped him improve his income tenfold.  Mike had been earning $15,000 per month before meeting Rich.  After Rich’s coaching, Mike now makes $150,000 per month.

Mike mentions how Rich’s coaching finally helped him realize how important it is to create a vision for his Internet business.  He also learn the importance of knowing his metrics.

Mike originally didn’t want to hire employees in his Internet business.  Rich made him see how he was focusing on the negative points of having employees rather than on the many positive benefits that could come out of it.

Mike thought he wanted to work from home.  Rich made him realize he really doesn’t want to work for anybody else.

Mike finally realize he had to treat all his websites like a business.  It is important to not let your business consume your home and family life.  Once it is possible, you have to move your business outside and away from your home.  That is, you’ll need to have an office.  Then you will have a real business and be able to separate business from home and family easily.

People who work at home, don’t differentiate between work life and home life.  They are constantly on their computer.  They wake up in the morning going to work and they never leave it.  When there is a clear separation of business and home, great business ideas have a better chance of occurring.

Rich believes you’ll end up making more money by working less.  You have a business so you can have a better life.  You don’t want to be a slave to your business and deprive yourself of time away from your family or enjoying yourself.

You need to be absolutely clear about what you need to accomplish each day and make the tasks a priority by doing them first before doing something else.  Rich says if that doesn’t work for you, you can do the opposite by planning fun activities or things outside of work so you purposely limit your time at work so you will be more focus when you do go to work.

Allowing yourself to take the day off may motivate you to work more productively on the day you do go to work.

Rich emphasizes you need to know your metrics.  He differentiates between tactical, management and strategic metrics.  Before being coached, Mike didn’t have a clear idea of what his metrics were.  Now he knows his business metrics and realizes you can only improve something in your business if you measure it.

Many more concepts are discussed in the full transcript and mp3 audio file.

http://www.strategicprofits.com/interview/SchefrenWithFilsaime.mp3
http://www.strategicprofits.com/interview/SchefrenWithFilsaime.pdf

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The sales-letter for this ebook had testimonials from a few popular Internet marketing gurus.  I don’t agree with everything these gurus say about it.  I also think the sales-letter was a bit overboard on describing some of the contents.

I think you’ll need to have some basic knowledge or experience with Internet marketing techniques to figure out how to apply the system that is revealed.  Let me tell you why.

It advises you to put Adsense ads on your blogs and Clickbank product reviews.  However, it skims over the details on how to sign up for Adsense or how to setup your Clickbank affiliate links.  That tells me the author is writing to someone who is already familiar with these programs.

The Adsense tips it gives are very basic.  It tells you not to have a border around the ad so it will blend in with the blog content and not appear to be an ad.  You probably already heard about that tip a thousand times.

It devotes more pages to show you in screen shots how to create a blog on blogger.com, than it does to the juicy blackhat techniques such as creating massive blog networks or automating the posting of blog comment spam.

The author refuses to believe leaving an automatically posted unrelated comment containing links to his own sites on other people’s blogs isn’t consider spam.  However, in an update report he also provides, he seems to have changed his thinking about this.  He changed his strategy to making automated comment spam posts only on his own blog network (I’m not saying you should try any risky techniques, but the author does mention them).

The system in this book relies on the creation of thousands of blogger blogs.  The network of blogs will link back to the blogs that carry the Adsense ads and Clickbank product links you are promoting.  The network would be impossible to create without the help of software that will create all the blogs and automatically post comments to them. 

You’ll have to purchase the blog account creation and posting software separately.  However, I wouldn’t buy the software he recommends. 

The book also shows you several common ways to get one-way links to your blogs.  But believe me, these are methods you already know about and have probably already tried.

The book gives the urls to the actual blogs tested with this system.  I’ve made a search for them in Google.com and they are still there.  However, they don’t rank as high as they once did from the time my version of this ebook was purchased (3/14/06).  For example, one of the blogs had a #7 spot on MSN for a particular keyword.  Today, 7/13/06, it is in position #79.  Another blog was #9 for a certain keyword phrase, but today it can’t be found within the top 100 search results.

http://www.myonlinetools.biz/ebooks/Blogging-to-the-Bank.html

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Rich is qualified to give business advice because he has successfully run three of his own.  In addition, he has coached big name Internet Marketers and shares some of what he has learned in his sessions with them.

He observes that many people jump from one opportunity to another.  That is, when they learn about a new way to make money, they try it.  When another opportunity comes along, they have to try it also.  They repeat this behavior because they don’t think strategically.

Rich believes that a businessperson must have a strategy to become successful.  They need to have a vision for their business.  He notes that entrepreneurs constantly think of and do things that are consistent with their vision.  Unlike opportunity seekers, entrepreneurs don’t fall for every money make fad that comes along.

The reason why most Internet Marketers struggle and waste their time is that they lack fundamental business building knowledge, Rich says.

He advises us to start an Internet business now, because big business can easily take over any market online.  He gives examples of how the infomercial industry was once “easy” to become a part.  Big businesses are dominating it now and the little guy will have to compete against them.  This same scenario will eventually happen having a business online.

Rich sees how having an online business has become complex.  Internet marketers mistakenly believe they have to keep learning and doing more just to keep up with everyone else.

In his coaching sessions, he has helped clients develop strategies, streamline and systemize their businesses.  Clients who had never had taken time off from their businesses before, do now… and their income continues to grow while they’re away.

To Rich, knowing what your time is worth is important.  The time you spend on your business should yield productive results.  There are activities mentioned in this report which Rich considers a wastes of your time.  Instead, you should be doing the things that will add to your profit.  Rich shows you how to calculate the monetary value of your time.

There is a way to actually work less, and still make more money.  Obviously, one of the ways to achieve this is to outsource your work.  You’ll also need to have a system in place so you will know what areas need improvement. 

Rich believes it’s important to have good project management skills in businesses.  Many projects aren’t successful because the people who are in charge of them don’t know how to manage them. 

Learn what else Rich says about running an Internet business here:
http://www.strategicprofits.com/download/manifesto.html

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Tim has several sites and each make for him and his family anywhere from $150 to $300 or more every month.

The nice thing about his strategy is that these are small sites, only 5 pages long.  However, then the trade-off is the many domain names he must register and maintain.

His formula involves six steps.  He’ll choose three niche subjects, build five page websites for them, use articles to test each site’s potential, aggressively promote the best site among the three and get one-way high PR links pointing to his site.

Among all the free reports available, Tim Gorman’s The Power of Article Marketing has real unique ideas that you can apply.  However, you will wonder how you will write all those articles he suggests promoting your site.  His approach is for someone who is already familiar with using articles to promote their sites.  Tim’s formula may just make your sites more successful.

The Power of Article Marketing is worth your time reading.

Click here to download your copy.

http://www.myonlinetools.biz/free-ebooks/The-Power-of-Article-Marketing.pdf

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If you already have experience selling online, then you probably won’t learn anything new from this report.

The report starts with something obvious: how working for someone else will not help you retire comfortably.  Then it tries to show you why you need to have an online business to meet your retirement objectives.

The report exposes several myths that newbies have about starting an online business and each is debunked.  Then ten steps are discussed that are supposed to guide the newbie to starting and running a successful online business.

There is a link in this report to help you decide on your domain name.  Then it goes to a site that you can register it.  I would say you should use the link to figure out what domain to have, but go elsewhere to register your domain, like Godaddy.com, which is half the price of what the link in the ebook is charging.

Some of these steps would require more explanation for a complete newbie.  For example, the report talks about building an email lists.  It only devotes one page to this topic.

Under step 5 in the report, it is stated, “Opt-in series email marketing is a secret
weapon many big name marketers prefer not to talk about much.”  I’m having a hard time believing that.  You can read about someone who is talking about it here.

I thought it was odd that step 9 was about investing money you earned from your online business into stocks, mutual funds, real estate, etc.  It seem to be out of place considering how the previous step talked about endorsing other products to your opt-in lists and then step 10 talks about outsourcing your web business tasks.

Personally, what I got most from this report was in step 7.  That is when you are looking for owners of websites to promote your product.  You find non-competing sites similar with your own.  Then you contact them and offer to promote their product and hint at having them promote your own.  The report calls it cross promoting.  It sounds like an approach that will get better attention than the standard approach of just asking website owners to promote your own product for a percentage of the profits.

If you are still curious about this report and want a free copy, go here:

http://www.myonlinetools.biz/recommends/Internet-Based-Financial-Independence.html

IMPORTANT: Scroll down to the bottom of the sales page.  Don’t click the buy button and pay $97 for the report.  Instead, click on the image of the gold key found to the right of the words “Ready To Grab The Special Report?”

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He’s had three successful businesses and has helped the above mention gurus improve theirs.  He’s made his Internet Business Manifesto report available to the Internet marketing masses and many have read it.  It contains “common sense” advice for anyone who already has an online business or is thinking about starting one.

Between 70% to 90% of businesses fail and Rich thinks he knows why many people don’t succeed in business.

An interesting observation that Rich makes is that having a website doesn’t necessarily mean you have an online business.

Rich believes people give more thought to choosing a marriage partner than they do choosing a business to start.

People need to think strategically about how they will build their businesses.

You need to find the right business for you or you will fail because you chose the wrong business.

What I believe is the most important advice in The Missing Chapter is that you have to know your strengths and find a way to use it in the business you now have or plan to start.  The problem people have is that they are trying to improve on their weaknesses and that will cause a delay in becoming successful.

Rich believes this ultimately will allow you to compete well, make more and work less.

Rich will show you how to figure out what your strengths are.  He examines the individual components of strength to discover were yours lies.

Finally, Rich looks at how he used his own strengths to turn around a retail clothing company that was only making 1.5 million a year to 6.5 million three years later.  The highest paid person on his staff didn’t make more than $30,000 per year.  Many on his team went on to work in high status positions of other famous name retailers.

Download The Missing Chapter here:
http://www.strategicprofits.com/missingchapter/

Download the Internet Business Manifesto here:
http://www.strategicprofits.com/download/manifesto.html

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Every important point made in the sales-letter was backed-up by what I read in the ebook it advertises, “From and idea to $37,641.85 in 24 days.”
 

Frank Sousa shares his true-life story that reveals the income producing formula he believes anyone can duplicate himself or herself.
 

What was Frank’s idea?
 

Frank developed software targeted to webmasters who wanted a way to get their websites indexed by Google quickly.
 

How Was He Able To Make $37,641.85 in  Just 24 Days?
 

Frank set up joint ventures with several Internet Marketers who already had an established base of customers.  These marketers were willing to send out information about Frank’s software to the people on their lists because he offered a percentage of the profits.
 

Frank explains his success step-by-step.  In his well-written ebook, he describes how to get ideas, check for profitability, hiring other people to create it and various ways to promote the finished product.
 

In other Internet Marketing ebooks, the authors don’t reveal the websites that have made them money.  However, Frank shows you the website and the product he talks about.
 

Don’t get the wrong idea…  Frank uses his software as an example of how the formula works.  However, it doesn’t have to be software.  It could be any informational product, which there is a demand for it.
 

For example, he also demonstrates how he researched a health topic niche he had no knowledge of and a very short time later it became another income source for him.  Frank then gives the information he had ghostwritten to you as a downloadable ebook.
 

Frank didn’t invent the money making formula he shares.  It is obvious that other people have used the same formula before he did to achieve success online.  However, what sets Frank apart from the other marketers is that he shows you exactly how he applied the formula with a real product and gives you the information and resources you need to also succeed.
 

Click here to learn more about Frank Sousa’s book, “From and idea to $37,641.85 in 24 days.”
 

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I learned about this report today when I got an email from Matt.  He offered this as a rebrandable and resellable PDF report, which I could charge for, or give away free.  I decided to give it away to you free.