If you plan to go into consulting for (and marketing services to)offline merchants, you need at least one service in your repertorythat is easy to sell (because it has irresistible appeal to businessowners) and easy to deliver. SMS prospecting for local businesses is agrowing opportunity. With SMS, you can deliver instant results toimpress your clients. Once you have impressed them, you have manyopportunities to upsell other services to them.Mark Helton has just released SMS Hot Box, that shows you how to sign up local merchants todo SMS marketing for them without cold calling or expensive... [...]

Liz Tomey is known for her training, particularly on the variety ofher training. She explores many different ways to use the internet toearn a living (models of businesses you can start, or “businessmodels”) and she prepares introductions to get you started even if you are a beginner.Today, she is releasing Volume 1 of her new Online Biz Model Bootcamp, and she is offering a free copy to anyonewho needs suggestions on ways to work online. We can expect that othervolumes will be available in the future.In volume 1, she explores 20 varieties of internet businesses you can operate... [...]

If you plan to go into consulting for (and marketing services to) offline merchants, you need at least one service in your repertory that is easy to sell (because it has irresistible appeal to business owners) and easy to deliver. SMS lead generation for local businesses is a growing opportunity. With SMS, you can deliver instant results to impress your clients. Once you have impressed them, you have many opportunities to upsell other services to them.Mark Helton has just released SMS Hot Box [...]

MAO Flynn has been studying and teaching online marketing for quite some time. He has created many products to help other onlime marketers improve their business. In Sales Detonator, his latest product, he outlines marketing principles that any website can benefit from.He has incorporated the latest psychological insights and research-based scientific insights about how people decide to make a purchase, so you can apply these principles to all your websites.He shows you how to leverage technology in your business so you get more sales for each hour you invest in your business. Combined with the... [...]

John Leonard just released FB Member Press, which lets you build attractive and feature-rich membership sites on Facebook.This is a WordPress theme that can create a membership site either on Facebook (the content is fed from the WordPress site, which would stay in the background), or if you prefer, directly on WordPress.This theme is structured so that it will fit on your Facebook fan page perfectly. Your membership site includes:• A login page so that people must be registered members to get access to your content• A member dashboard, the home base for members once they log in• Other... [...]

It isn’t talked about much, but there’s a problem with many sites that causes slippage in search engine rankings. It has been a factor in rankings for several years and will continue into 2013 and beyond.All Affiliate Sites, Geo Targeting Sites, Offline Sites are faced with one major problem that arises from their content.Partially duplicate content on our sites. Nearly all sites have it, and it is one reason our sites have been falling in the search engines and are ranking lower than they should.Problems include:• If any of your posts and pages are similar to each other, Google... [...]

Now marketers don’t have to waste time prospecting among vastpopulations of people who will never by your products. Facebook hasthe people who want your product, and has the data on those peoplethat lets you separate the good prospects from those who will neverbuy.Janes Renouf’s FB Fahrenheit is an application that is completelycompliant with Facebook’s terms of use. If a marketer uses itresponsibly, there should never be an issue that would get the accountbanned.But with all this safety comes great power, too. You can use itto:• Do competitive research on what... [...]

Josh Precht has just released a theme local merchants will findhelpful, and marketing consultants to local businesses will findprofitable.WP Feedback Theme solves a two-part problem all local merchantshave: Getting good reviews from customers while avoiding bad reviews.Placing good reviews from real customers on the merchant’s websitecan go a long way to providing social proof for the store’s quality.But there is a risk that goes along with giving customers an “openmicrophone” . Customers who are upset may place negative reviews onthe site and hurt the merchant’s... [...]

In Solo Ads for Internet Dummies, Guy Ferdman show how he builthis own ultra-targeted list in just weeks by using solo ads.In it, he shows a step-by-step proven process to create productivesolo ad campaigns, including his detailed email template proven toturn clicks into leads at up to 67.3% conversion.Solo ad campaigns generally cost half of what an Adwords campaignwould cost to get the same results. And it’s something anyone canlearn to do. No special software or tool is needed.It can also be scaled up at will. As you make sales, use some ofthe profit to buy additional solo ads.... [...]

Josh Precht has just released a theme local merchants will findhelpful, and marketing consultants to local businesses will findprofitable.WP Feedback Theme solves a two-part problem all local merchantshave: Getting good reviews from customers while avoiding bad reviews.Placing good reviews from real customers on the merchant’s websitecan go a long way to providing social proof for the store’s quality.But there is a risk that goes along with giving customers an “openmicrophone” . Customers who are upset may place negative reviews onthe site and hurt the merchant’s... [...]