Shannon Murphy, Todd Gross and Josh MacDonald have released the new Keyword Scout Lite. The original version was released here in December, 2011, for $95, with a couple of functions not included in the new “Lite” version.;Keyword Scout Lite, which runs on Windows XP or higher, gives you the same benefits of the best keyword research tools, but at half the price (or less) of most of them.For example, its $95 big brother is aimed at SEO professionals who are familiar with SEO and don’t need the help Keyword Scout Lite offers. The pro version includes the Amazon scraper and 2 other... [...]

If you are planning to create a Kindle book, you should know that how a book looks in the Kindle sales pages has a big effect on how many sales it gets. You need a professional book cover for best results. But hiring a professional can be expensive. For a good cover, you can expect to pay at least $50. For 12 high-quality covers, bought in bulk, you would probably pay at least $500.Anthony Fesalbon has created 12 Smashing Kindle Book Cover Templates that look professional in every way, but are available for well under $10, although the price is rising.These 12 covers come with editable PSDs... [...]

You can use a Facebook fan page to build a targeted list in any niche of your choice, as well as gathering a large number of Facebook fans.Karthik Ramani discovered that he could use Facebook giveaways to get viral shares and grow his count of fans. He shows us how to do it in Fan Page Giveaway List Builder.Ramani says the process is simple. In fact, he says you can create your first campaign from start to finish in less than 15 minutes. In addition, Fan Page Giveaway List Builder has integrated major auto-responder support, including Aweber, GetResponse, InfusionSoft, plus a full export feature,... [...]

Underground graphic designer, Dee Ferdinand and his team has just released a unique triple-decker Graphics Pack that contains over 280 graphics modules. He is letting us download 20 of them at no charge.There are many types of graphics included in the free sample (and also in the larger pack, of course). The free sample contains:• 5 Add to Cart buttons• 1 “Belcher Button”, an enhanced add to cart button• 2 Graphical headers (same header with and without text)• 1 Mini-site template• 1 Coordinated business image package, with logo, business card, envelope,... [...]

Travis Ketchum has just announced a 7-day sale on Contest Domination. During the sale, Ketchum and his partners have dropped the price from the regular $360/year to less than 10% of that.With this software, you can create contests for any purpose without needing any technical skills. Its easy fill-in-the-blanks interface and professional templates put the power of contests in the reach of any marketer.This software has built-in logic to choose the winner, so you don’t have to worry about fairness. It also has built-in social sharing functions so your visitors can virally share the news... [...]

John Smiley, Jerome Johnson and Andy Brocklehurst have built 100 software products you can get for about $0.33 each (although the price is rising). They address evergreen niches that have a lot of traffic.These are simple programs that act like dynamic PDFs to give tips and advice to the user on a niche topic. People interested in the niche will find your software worth downloading. While they are using using the program (or before you allow them to use it) you can optionally ask them to register. The authors have found this is an alternative to a squeeze page that gets a better response.You... [...]

The best way to use a press release is to get it onto a major news site, where many people will see it. To do that, you first submit it to press release sites that are considered to be of high value, have good Page Rank and are ranked well by Alexa. Once the release is loaded on these sites, news sites will have the chance to see it and publish it. That’s how it can be seen by many people.Reporters are looking for interesting stories. When they search for a topic matching your press release, yours will be somewhere on the results list. If the reporter finds your press release interesting,... [...]

Ari Rothman has been coaching new marketers for years. His coaching fees can reach into thousands of dollars. But now he has taken some of his proven coaching and compressed it into Rothman details how to build trust and authority even while you are just starting up. Once you are seen as an expert, sales become easy.He covers several topics of interest to most marketers:•In the “Going Big!” module, he shares how to scale up your list building while earning a living at the same time•In the Strategic SEO module he explains simple ways to track all of your vital visitor metrics... [...]

If you ignore the huge and still growing mobile phone marekplace, your business is missing a lot of revenue. Consider these facts:• Recent surveys show that over half the people with smartphones use them for surfing the web. • According to http://Mobo.Me, there are five times as many cell phone users as there are computer users. That means 8 out of 10 consumers are primed to see your message on a phone, tablet or other small-screen web-enabled device.• Websites that track analytics currently report that as much as 20 percent of their web traffic is alread from mobile phones. That... [...]

Virtually every website on the web has been attacked or soon will be. When it happens, your life is turned upside down for weeks while you try to recover your’s site’s integrity.If your site is based on WordPress, there’s now a protective measure you can try. Sherman Fredericksen has created a plugin called WP Lock Up II that locks down your site so no hacker can comandeer it.Fredericksen’s new tool will create a secure database.It can add a Captcha challenge to your site to discourage malicious content being added by a visitor.Change default setup settings that have... [...]