The idea that more technology can somehow give us more time is seldom true.  The idea that a cell phone or an email will save us time is much prettier than the simple truth that the more accessible we are to the world, the more the world will intrude on our personal time.  Do you ever watch those movies from just 10 or 15 years ago and wonder how did we do it without cell phones, laptops, instant emails and of course electronic guidance systems.  

In this age of ever advancing technology, the ability to stay on the forefront is harder than ever.  Technology is changing at ever faster intervals.  It is unfortunate fact that by the time a college student graduates from a University most of the material they had learned will be obsolete.  It is a delicate balancing act to know what is going on, being prepared to act quickly to changes in the marketplace and to maintain some personal time and space.  I first heard the notion of “EFS”s back in my Network Marketing days.  An “EFS” is an electronic focus splitter, such as a cell phone, camera, laptop etc…  I find it more and more important in my personal and business life to set up some personal boundaries to maintain my sanity.

It is important to remember, that technology without boundaries is Armageddon.  I bring all this up to discuss the proliferation of social media automation services that are becoming more and more frequent.  From simple stuff like posting status updates to multiple social media accounts like http://Ping.fm to mass uploading of videos at the touch of button with http://TubeMugal.com, the proliferation of these, time saving websites has not had the impact it was designed to.  Instead of saving Internet marketers much needed time, it has simply created a paradigm shift in social media marketing and upped the ante.  

The rise in competition between internet marketers has caused the advancement and proliferation or Facebook automation, twitter automation and Myspace automation tools and devices.  In the last couple of years these powerful social media marketing tool websites have been developed: 

• http://Buzzom.com
• http://SocialOomph.com
• http://FutureTweet.com
• http://Tweetmeme.com
• http://HootSuite.com
• http://AutomaticallyYou.com

These sites have completely changed the way social media marketing is done.   The way social media marketing worked in the past was different.  The rules we played by were not as they are now.  Many online marketers had a couple of Twitter, Facebook, and Myspace and Youtube accounts.  They may have personally or hired an intern, employee and may have even considered outsourcing this work abroad because of the time intense nature of social media marketing.  Clicking on hundreds of followers and friends was not necessarily the best use of time for top level web marketers.

The game is at a completely different level now and the giant influx of new internet marketers, especially with an MLM interest are playing the game with a giant disadvantage.  Unfortunately for them, they are on an uphill battle with the pros.  The pros have experience, time, systems, more money and tools that new online marketers are not familiar with.  The pros will happily sell a few of their secrets for mass profits but never the good stuff.

What is the good stuff you ask?  The good stuff has to do with proven systems that work over and over again.  The good stuff can drive traffic to an MLM squeeze page, or an online dating PPA landing page.  It can boost your Alexa ranking on your business blog to the first page of Google for all your key words in no time at all.  These systems have special tools and work over and over.
One of the major focuses web marketers understand is that of time saving tools or devices.  There are many automation websites and available downloads that can automate part or all of a system.  There are a number of valuable systems that more for online marketing.  Automated online SEO is one, advanced social media marketing is another, and article posting is a third.  There are automation systems for things like posting ads on Craig’s list which have made people millions of dollars.  There are YouTube automation services that artificially increase the number of views, comments and five starts ratings that one gets.

They have amazing automated social bookmarking sites that can get you on the first page of Google in a Week.  As these websites get bigger, wealthier and more powerful it will be interesting to see how big business and the search engines handle this.  As advanced as Google’s algorithm is, there are more and more internet marketing geniuses sharing the system.  As Facebook, Twitter and Myspace use more and more code to attempt to confuse and frustrate automators, the reverse seems to happen, the automators simply continue to improve their skills.  

It reminds me a little bit of the guys who created the speed radar gun.  It was a great invention for the police.  The problem is that when one creates a paradigm shifting product such as a radar gun, it instantly opened up another market to defeat the radar gun.  Thus, the radar detector and many other products were created.

To think that a little Captcha, the annoying thing that makes you type in a couple of words will keep brilliant computer programmers from using automation is ignorant.  The truth is much simpler.  In order to really achieve monetary success now for any person who wishes to do internet marketing and into the future you will need to have a number of automation programs working 24 hrs a day 7 days a week to propel your websites in the search engines.  These Facebook automators, twitter automators, Myspace automators, YouTube automators etc… will continue to improve and continue to be critical to drive traffic, build a following, automate messages, make friends, build lists, increase links, increase page rank and much more.

To find out more about automation tools, check out our Internet Marketing Training site http://TrafficToolBelt.com, where we go into detail on what to do in terms of automation and more importantly what not to do.  Allow us to show you how to save tons of time and money and get massive results the way the pros really do it.

 

Twitter is breaking into uncharted waters.  On Oct. 19^th 2009 Google signed its deal with Twitter to allow Twitter’s data to be used in Google’s search engines. 

 From the Google blog:

 “Given this new type of information and its value to search, we are very excited to announce that we have reached an agreement with Twitter to include their updates in our search results. We believe that our search results and user experience will greatly benefit from the inclusion of this up-to-the-minute data, and we look forward to having a product that showcases how tweets can make search better in the coming months. That way, the next time you search for something that can be aided by a real-time observation, say, snow conditions at your favorite ski resort, you’ll find tweets from other users who are there and sharing the latest and greatest information.”

 Just weeks earlier Twitter had signed a similar deal with Microsoft’s Bing to do the same.  In addition to signing deals with two of the biggest companies in the world, Twitter received $100,000,000 in investment money to take their global micro blogging site to the next level.

 As Twitter continues to grow, with it’s over 18,000,000 users and large international following.  It appears Twitters unconventional revenue model should be returning on its investments.

One of the biggest questions right now online is exactly how will Bing and Google use Twitters data in their search engines.  Though a number a discussion with some of the top Internet marketers out there here is what we have gathered.

• It is believed that there will be a separate tab on Google similar to the ability to search a term and click on pictures or videos but for Twitter info.
  

• The power of the re-tweet or RT should be huge when this is up and running.
  

• The ability to get massive RT’s should help people get on the first page of Google from Twitter quickly
  

• It is believed that all of the websites out there focused on twitter traffic and data such as  http://TwitterCounter.com,, http://Socialtoo.com,http://hummingbird2.com,  and http://TweetAdder.com will grow in popularity and value due to their excellent positioning.
  

• There are a few key guys that say the future is in the automation of tweets with the majority of business going to these main sites, http://FutureTweets.com,  http://Buzzom.com, http://socialOomph.com, http://Synnd.com and especially http://AutomaticallyYou.com

• Twitter will grow rapidly in number of users and number of tweets per user
  

• Twitter may allow more personal information on their pages to compete directly with Facebook.  In addition, Twitter’s main revenue model should change considerable over the next 12 months as a consolidated revenue plan is being developed. Even advertising revenue and data mining should be the largest area to grow in Twitter’s business model.
  

Twitter’s amazing rise to success has been a roller coaster.  Being able to withstand such rapid growth has destroyed many companies and many Internet companies.  Twitter’s constant innovation and sincere focus on their customers has kept them in such a promising position.   With the inking of their two-mega deals with Bing and Google and by receiving 100 million in investment money, it is easy to say that Twitter is a force to be reckoned with. 

We will be keeping our eyes on Twitter and watching with anticipation how Twitter and their powerful group of innovators take Twitter to the next level and achieve a large ROI.

Sincerely,

 Peter Celnicker

The Online Traffic Magnet

 Keywords and Keyword Phrases: Reach Your Targets by Utilizing Keyword Research Tools

The keywords/keyword phrases that you base your content around are what determines your success in reaching your intended audiences. It is imperative for you to understand your targeted audiences when you are attempting to promote products, services and/or programs online. The Internet is a huge entity and you want to maximize the effectiveness of your promotional efforts. Let's examine the concept of keyword-based promotion and learn how to make it work for you.

 ·         Keywords and keywords phrases are the tags that search engine spiders are "crawling" for to determine the relevancy of any given information source. When the spiders find highly-relevant material, they present it to web surfers as a valid result for a given search query.

·         In order to attract the appropriate audience to your online material, you need to base the material that you create around specifically-targeted keywords. Whether you are writing articles, landing pages, website content, press releases, Squidoo lenses or any other type of material, it all needs to be based around your chosen keywords.

 How do you choose the best keywords to create your content around?

It's not that tough to do. Here are the characteristics that you want your keywords to have:

·         High search volume;

·         Low competitor volume (other advertisers);

·         High relevance to the product, service or opp that you are promoting;

How can you find keywords/keyword phrases that yield these characteristics?

You find them by spending a little time with keyword research tools. These tools are available for free and they are very useful to any Internet Marketer. They not only tell you how many people are searching for given terms in a given time period; they also tell you how many online advertisers are using them for their own advertising campaigns. In addition, many of these keyword research tools provide you various other informational parameters as well - and all at the click of your mouse button.

What are some of the top keyword research tools available?

Try these three to get you going. There are many available to be found by a basic search engine search for "keyword research tools", but these are probably all you will need.

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/

http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/ 

When you get to the tools, take a few minutes to educate yourself about all of the information that they are truly providing to you. As an Internet Marketer, it is your job to understand all information that can yield you higher sales ratios. By basing your advertising campaigns around well-chosen keywords and keywords phrases, you will explode your sales and become one of the Internet's elite income generators.

Ahhh, the great American dream.  White picket fences, puppy dogs, a beautiful wife and children, good friends and …a great job.  Hey, wait a minute – that all sounded pretty good up until that last part.  From birth, we have been brainwashed that the optimal value of our lives is determined by our vocation.  We are thrilled when we’re finally old enough to get our first paper route.  We feel like real mature adults when we’re in high school working diligently.  We work our way through college so that we can call ourselves educated and get a better job.  There, we spend the rest of our able-bodied lives working away.  The first question that most people ask each other is, “Where do you work?” or “What do you do for a living?”
Enough!  It’s time to break the mold!  Working our lives away until we’re too old to enjoy life is for the birds!  Here are 10 fantastic reasons to get rid of your crappy job today:

1    Having a job limits your development – both personal and professional.  If you spend all of your time working for “the man”, then you will never get to be the person that you want to be.
2    Working your life away works the life right out of you.  People give the most healthful years of their lives to their jobs.
3    Having a job assures you that you will never really have any money.  When you spend your life working for others, you lock yourself into poverty.  You have to learn to do your own thing for the benefit of yourself and your loved ones.
4    People who think that hard work is the only way to success are simply misled or perhaps mentally challenged.  There are incredible ways to generate loads of cash and have more free time than you know what to do with.
5    You deserve more vacation time than one or two weeks every year.  Think about it: if you wake up every day and go to work for 50 weeks straight, then you get two weeks for yourself and your family.  Most times, those two weeks are spent just trying to wrap your mind around the next 50 that are coming up again.
6    If you believe that all you are ever meant to be is an employee, then you will probably be a great one.  However, that’s all you’ll ever be.
7    There is no honor in servitude.  Helpfulness, yes.  Giving, yes.  Slavery, no way!
8    Think about all of the dreams that you had throughout your life.  How many of them have you achieved or seen come to fruition?  The reason that people don’t achieve their goals in life is because they’re too busy working at their jobs.
9    Do you wake up every morning feeling really excited to be alive?  Are you full of anticipation about getting to the office because it’s such a thrilling experience? Hmmm, why don’t you do something about it?
10    People claim that it is the responsibility of an individual to work.  Nothing could be further from the truth.  Your responsibility is to enjoy your life.  It’s the only one that you have!

Begin living your life the way that you choose to.  There are many ways to successfully replace your job and generate more cash than you ever thought was possible.  Hard work does not accommodate or bring about happiness and success.  On the contrary, working your life away is exactly what will cause your great misery.  Take control of your own destiny!  Become your own champion!  Realize that your job is killing you and then do something about it.
 

Forum marketing is another excellent method to generate conversions for free using Web 2.0 technologies. There are forums for anything and everything that you can imagine. Just type in any topic that you are interested in and "+ forum" and you will be rewarded with a plethora of marketing possibilities. Not to mention, the contacts that you will make in these forums will help you to develop your own email list for future marketing endeavors.

Here are some excellent tips to help you get into the exciting realm of forum marketing:

1.    Target your forum marketing efforts - just any old forum will not do. If you promoting an Internet Marketing opportunity, don't go to a basket weaving forum. Get it?
2.    Post frequently and always answer other forum member's questions promptly and thoroughly. Encourage them to contact you and always perform professionally.
3.    Place your unique selling proposition in you forum signature. Include a link to your website and/or landing pages.
4.    Determine and understand your own areas of expertise. Do not pretend to be an expert - actually be or become one.
5.    Create new threads on the forums that you join. Offer intriguing questions and stimulating responses. Remember that there are millions of people in cyberspace that thirst for knowledge. Satiate their needs for information and they will reward you by branding you as an expert.
6.    Do not spread your forum affiliations to widely. Keep the number of forums that you frequent under ten and try to post at least five times per day on each. In this way, you will quickly establish yourself as an expert (as long as you keep the quality of your posts high).
7.    Search the news for hot topics and then create threads based on them. Link these thread topics into the opportunities that you are trying to promote. Do it subtly and never be a salesman. If you are doing it properly (subtly), then your prospects will come to you.
8.    Help other members to solve their problems by addressing their needs for knowledge. When you help them through their difficulties, they will naturally gravitate towards you and become open to what you are promoting.

Forum posting can be a very effective method of lead generation and prospect conversion. Just remember not to be pushy and never seem like you are dying to make a sale. Just present the information about your opportunity in a subtle fashion and always stick to the forum's guidelines.

With a bit of time and practice, you will be well on your way to establishing your own expertise, creating an open-minded email list for the future and making lucrative sales all at once!