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I'm delighted that they decided to share this with us.  So without further ado, here is the second video in the banner traffic series.

Three Internet marketers I know have struck gold and I can't keep it quiet any longer.

They stumbled on a formula that uses Intenet video to generate UNBELIEVABLE TRAFFIC AND SEARCH ENGINE RANKINGS–in as little as 24 to 48 hours!

I know it's hard to believe but they have the proof.

In fact, one top Internet marketer just used their little known but highly effective techniques to capture the ENTIRE FIRST PAGE OF GOOGLE RESULTS for his targeted keyword phrase.

How did he do it? I want to let you in on it, too. More

When people speak about driving traffic through social networks, the first site that comes to mind is usually Digg. Digg’s popularity is obvious: as the numbers increase above the “digg it” button, the likelihood for increased traffic goes up as well. There is a plefora of information on the Internet on how an extremely popular link on Digg can bring you traffic and links.

A lot of people want to get their page on the Digg main page, but in terms of popularity of other online social mediums, it stops there. There are other means of getting good — perhaps better, when considering that it’s targeted — traffic, such as StumbleUpon.

StumbleUpon is highly personalized traffic based on your interests that is served to you when you are actively looking for new sites to discover. The service requires a download of a very easily-integrated toolbar that sits right under the Address bar on your browser. To begin using the service, you click on the “Stumble!” button on your toolbar, and you can rate a site with a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down sign. As sites are continually rated with a “thumbs up,” the page is served to more and more SU users.

The toolbar, which was recently updated with more eye-grabbing icons due to StumbleUpon’s continuous desire to improve the user experience, is shown below:

StumbleUpon also allows you to “discover” new sites. In your regular browsing experience, you might find a site that you think would interest other people. The “thumbs up” icon works for all sites, and that is how new sites get into the database of StumbleUpon pages that are served to the end user during their stumbling session. When you “thumbs up” your site and it hasn’t yet been submitted, you’ll see this window:

The URL is inherited by default, but you can personalize your initial submission with a title and the brief description of the page. You can then categorize this into any one of the categories listed and you can tag it with whatever appropriate tags would benefit your visitors. Once the site is in the system, people will begin stumbling and learning more about the site you submitted.

How can you leverage your StumbleUpon influence to get your submissions noticed?

• Personalize your page. Upload an avatar, tell people who you are (fill out the “General” section), and share with the community what you like (the “Interests” section). If people are browsing the user community, they’ll get a truer sense of who you are.
• Join the communities relating to your interests and your business. To make sure that you are served pages that truly interest you, you’ll want to join targeted communities so that the traffic is desirable. You’ll also be able to contribute similar pages to the StumbleUpon engine so that they are added. If your page relates to these groups, they will be served to the group members. You can join up to 63 groups in the following main categories, which should cover just about everything:

• Befriend people who have similar interests. Adding friends whose pages interest you means that they will likely appreciate the pages that you’re submitting as well. It grows into a mutual relationship. People who like the pages you submit will befriend you and you will be serving them content based on the relationship. With the StumbleUpon network, you can have up to 200 friends.
• Stumble often. Just submitting and stumbling upon a single page doesn’t bode well for your reputation, and keen users will take notice of this. Stumble frequently. If people like the pages you’ve stumbled upon or submitted, you’ll likely also be rated highly in the community.
• Label and tag your submitted pages appropriately. When you tag your new submissions, be relevant. Pertinent tags will bring you the most targeted traffic from the users who specifically have expressed an interest in the topic you are serving content for. If you cover all the keywords (and tags) that you could possibly think of that don’t relate to your site, your popularity (if any) will be short lived when the thumbs-down button is pressed. Bear in mind that once the page is submitted, tags can be added and removed by the community members (which is a definite indication that they’re visiting the site!)

Why should you look at into directing StumbleUpon traffic to your site? Beyond the obvious benefits of extremely targeted traffic, the traffic doesn’t come all at once compared to a site like Digg. There’s the inherent benefit of having that “15 minutes of fame” on Digg until it crashes your server. StumbleUpon traffic is generally much more gradual. In one particular example, Neil Patel explains that StumbleUpon drove 17,209 visitors to his site in 25 days. Traffic coming directly from Digg is much less memorable, and most Digg users don’t venture farther than the front page.

An alternative is to consider sponsoring your site on StumbleUpon. Compared to the most obvious rival, Google Adwords, StumbleUpon traffic is sought and is the only page being served to the user at the time. It’s also incredibly cheap at $0.05 per visitor (with a maximum of 2,000 visitors per day). The results have been pretty amazing and provides “qualified traffic instantly” compared to Adwords, as indicated by a recent user’s experience.

So if you’re not interested in advertising, go social. The StumbleUpon community is a great way to find some pretty neat pages that you’d have never previously heard of.

I used to like to receive a lot of marketing offers by email.  It gave me a chance to see how it works - marketing by email - how to write sales letters, emails, how to follow-up, etc, but lately, I have been removing my name and main email account from a lot of "lists".  I was receiving the same offers, over and over again.  The same rehashed information.  And some of the senders, the "gurus" were sending me offers at least twice a day.  Although these are great marketing tools, the popularity of teleseminars, webinars and viral videos, ebooks and reports of late has precipitated my name getting on lists threefold, fourfold and even eightfold because I would be required to fill in my name an email for every single one of them, even though I was already on  their lists. Of course, this is probably how their  income have exploded - by marketing through this media but using email marketing to make contact with people who are ready to buy.

I have also noticed lately that I am receiving offers from senders whom I have never opted in with.  One day, when one of the guys was marketing someone, a whole bunch of marketers lined up to send out offers for this person's products - a complete newbie on the scene. I decided then and there to remove myself from all but a few lists.  I must have been on every single list that this person's product was peddled on.

But I continue to receive mail from certain people - from marketers who are not pimping their lists and who are not trying to shove every new (or re-invented old)  product and/or opportunity down my throat.

One of them is John Reese. Here is a free interview conducted by John Reese where you don't have to give your email address or be bombarded with several emails just to listen to the darn interview.

It's about a new advertising program and offers the opportunity to make upwards of $150 and even more from a single click.  This sounds fantastic so I signed up at once and will give it a try.

Aparently, the guy to created the system has found a way to use some powerful technology to optimize the ads and the ebay 'network' offers higher payouts than you could ever get on your own.  It even "geotargets" ads based on a visitor's location so you can earn massive payouts from people going to all the eBay country-specific sites.

eBay is already paying over $20.00 per new user that gets referred to their site, and while this program can
easily make you those referral commissions, it goes wayyyyy beyond that.

You get a % of the eBay fees any new referred user spends (in a certain period of time) AND this new service knows when to send visitors, for example,
to like eBay Germany (for German users) where the referral payouts are even higher than eBay USA users.

John Reese recently interviewed the creator of this new program for nearly TWO HOURS where they talked about all kinds of tips and tricks for making more money from any web site — tons of stuff that had nothing to do with this new program.

He says that this interview has more value than most paid ebooks! 

Here's the interview on Income.com:  http://www.income.com/newinterview.html

Here's the link to try out this service: http://www.auctionads.com/refer_de6181f4181fc1d84a66


Angela Wickenberg

Renegade millionaire Matt Smith has broken the "code of silence"
to reveal the secret methods used by a fortunate few domain
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http://www.surefiremarketing.com/4hourweek/call/

Even though the call was free - I strongly suggest
you make time to download and listen to it.

On this call you'll discover:

*  How to kiss the email habit goodbye. (Tim only checks email
2x/day or sometimes not for weeks at a time if he's on one of
his many getaways!)

* How to create your ultimate lifestyle NOW and not waiting until
retirement. (Tim calls this "Lifestyle Design" and I promise it'll
get your more excited than you've been in a long time!)

* The management secrets of remote-control CEOs. (Or the
new "MBA" - management by absence.)

* Mastering the "low information" diet. Why most of us are drowning
in information and what to do about it.

* Outsource your life - using "geoarbitrage" to get others to work
for you at a fraction of the cost. (This is not elance.com)

* Creating automated "cash flow muses" in just 2-4 weeks to fund
your new lifestyle & much more!

http://www.surefiremarketing.com/4hourweek/call/

Don't forget to grab Tim's book at Amazon and tell a friend!

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