http://aminmotin.com Thoughts from an internet marketer Mon, 20 Jul 2009 08:53:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Wow! It's getting hard to keep up with the releases at WordPress. No sooner do they release one update with various fixes, than they release another one a few days later with even more fixes. It used to be that you could update to the latest version and then relax for ... http://aminmotin.com/wordpress-2-8-2/ So, just how stupid do some marketers think we are? I've just received an email from someone who tells me I can get a piece of software for just $4.95. It's a July 4th Special. Seems a good deal and I have a July 4th Special deal coming up myself. But ... http://aminmotin.com/how-stupid-do-they-think-we-are/ If I listed all the things I never knew, well the things I now know but didn't before, it would be a very, very long list. What's most surprising to me is that there doesn't seem to be an end in sight. I mean that every time I learn something new ... http://aminmotin.com/things-you-never-knew/ I use a lot of stock photography myself - well, a fair amount anyway - and the cost can soon add up. Recently, while surfing the web, I came across a great list of resources for free royalty free photos. Rather than repeat the list, let me give you a link ... http://aminmotin.com/free-royalty-free-photos/ Do marketers who lie really think that's the only way to make money? I mean, seriously. Is that the only way they can think of to make a few dollars? By lie I mean mislead. I've just received two emails from marketers whose lists I'm on. Here's an excerpt (they're identical emails, ... http://aminmotin.com/lying-internet-marketers/ I just had a very interesting experience. Paypal has completely stopped working. I hit a payment button, which is know works, and the Paypal site gave me an internal sever error message. I've never seen anything liki that before. I took a screenshot because it was so unusual. http://aminmotin.com/paypal-blew-up/ How I'd love to be able to say I've found the best affiliate program. Instead, I think I've found one of the worst. I have a number of sites that promote affiliate products and I'm always on the lookout for a relatively open sub-niche to explore. I thought I'd found one about ... http://aminmotin.com/best-affiliate-program/ I've recommended a few different scripts recently and I sell a few different ones myself. I've been asked why I recommend different scripts/applications when they can't all be the best. That's true, they can't all be the best, but like so many things we buy, we don't always want/need the best. The ... http://aminmotin.com/business-building-scripts/ I don't normally promote the 'big' campaigns - actually I don't promote all that much anyway because a lot of what you see is not really worth having. I'd rather not make a few dollars peddling what I think is junk, even if other people are making a lot of ... http://aminmotin.com/butterfly-marketing-promotion/ I've just received an e-mail from a marketer whose products I buy on a regular basis. His products are software tools which are of value for Internet marketers. The particular product he's promoting in this e-mail is one called SmartDD V3. under normal circumstances I would have sent out a promotional ... http://aminmotin.com/smartdd-v4-is-coming/ This may not be of much help to you if you don't already have a blog that's PageRank 3, but I've been experimenting recently with the fastest way to get new sites indexed. What I've found is that if I write a suitable post on one of my blogs, with a ... http://aminmotin.com/faster-indexing/ I upgraded my blog a couple of days ago and I've just noticed that it wasn't loading - I broke the blog with the upgrade. I couldn't figure out what I'd done wrong since I upgrade dozens of blogs on a regular basis and it's almost like clockwork now. So I ... http://aminmotin.com/break-your-blog/ The PodPress plugin doesn't seem to be working anymore. It's a plugin I've recommended a lot in the past, but with limited development work on it it just seemed to stop working with one of the recent releases of WordPress. I think there's an attempt to bring out a temporary solution ... http://aminmotin.com/podpress-not-working/ We all make them, don't we? Every January 1st we promise ourselves all the things we'll do and change. Usually, or so I've been given to believe, the average person puts 6-8 items on their list. 6-8 big items. You might have done something like it yourself. Lose weight Make money online Stop smoking Go ... http://aminmotin.com/new-years-resolutions/ You may know that one of the recommended ways to make money on the internet is to give things away. Strange as it might sound to a beginner, it does work. For one thing you can collect a name and email in exchange for the freebie and you can also offer ... http://aminmotin.com/how-much-does-free-really-cost/ I've just found out that the BlogRush service, from John Reese, has been closed down. Doesn't surprise me, really. When it was launched it promised a great deal, but the experience of so many people who used it was nowhere near that early promise. A lot of people were very annoyed ... http://aminmotin.com/blogrush-rushed-to-market-too-soon/ Back in June I wrote about a piece of software called Q10. It's a text editor - a 'dumbed down' version of a word processor, if you like. I have no idea why they call it Q10, but I've had several months to try the application now and I can tell ... http://aminmotin.com/q10-revisited/ How Fast Can You Get Indexed? I've been experimenting with a number of traffic generation techniques recently, but one thing that almost always helps is being indexed in the search engines. Of course you might have an army of people willing to send traffic to your site, even if not a single ... http://aminmotin.com/fast-indexing/ Children Foundation to Collect 1$ Donation for Every New Subscriber on Catchtheposts.com Hans over at CatchThePosts has vowed to donate $1 for each new subscriber to his blog. The money is going to the Children Foundation. I'm very happy to point readers in the direction of his blog because I think it's ... http://aminmotin.com/donate-to-charity-the-easy-way/ You can make more money. Seriously. All you have to do is follow the lead of the people out there making a fortune. And you know what seems to be working these days? Lying. That's right. Lying seems to work. It must do, or big dog marketers wouldn't do it so much. Ok, so ... http://aminmotin.com/how-to-make-a-few-dollars/ You probably want more traffic, like everyone who has a website, product, or service to promote. And you probably do certain things to get that traffic. Would you like to know about how one marketer made an extra $80,000 pretty quickly and (relatively) easily? Dean Hunt is a British marketer who's written an ... http://aminmotin.com/you-can-get-more-web-traffic/ There's a growing demand for audio products - I suppose most people are too busy to read these days and you can listen to audio while you do other stuff, like drive, exercise or whatever. So if you want to create a product of your own, just make a recording and ... http://aminmotin.com/sell-mp3-recordings/ Writer's Block Everyone who writes will come across it at some point. Not knowing what to say. Sometimes not even knowing what to write about. Do you have a blog? Ever needed some inspiration on what to blog about? It's hard, isn't it, sometimes, to come up with new ideas all the time. ... http://aminmotin.com/not-sure-what-to-write-on-your-blog/ You know what the three most important attributes of a great house would be? Well, a realtor would tell you: location, location, location And I would argue that the three greatest factors in succeeding in any business are: motivation, motivation, motivation Of course other factors come into play. A good idea, some skill, a ... http://aminmotin.com/motivation-motivation-motivation/ How To Fail Without Even Trying Now I'm not actually going to tell you how to fail, although you could argue that learning how to fail would help you avoid all the mistakes that generally lead to failure. No, I've just read a very interesting - and insightful - blog post by ... http://aminmotin.com/what-it-takes-to-succeed-in-business/ I quite like the idea of letting viewers listen to what you're saying. I know this post should have an option to do that, but I haven't recorded it yet so I can't add it. But generally, it gives people more choice. Especially for a longish post it can be beneficial ... http://aminmotin.com/talk-to-your-audience/ I have several blogs and for a while I have wondered whether to link to them from each other, or re-use content from one on some of the others. Blogging is a great way to make a profit, but keeping up with the amount of content creation you need can be ... http://aminmotin.com/blog-your-way-to-profit/ No, it's not actually an enzyme. Well, not in this case anyway. Q10 is the name given to what I believe is a brilliant little piece of software. It's pretty old-fashioned, many would say, but that's really where its power comes from. Do you do any writing? Do you create articles, for ... http://aminmotin.com/q10-review/ It's true. You really can increase your income with video. Video right now is hot, for a number of reasons. I think reason 1 is that we all respond more to a movement and action than we do to the written word. It's just the way we are. But also with ... http://aminmotin.com/increase-your-income-with-video/ Forgive the dramatic headline, but that's the very serious possibility that Hostgator themselves are trying to fend off with an enforced change of passwords for their customers. Just ahead of the long holiday weekend Hostgator sent out an astonishing email asking customers to login and get a new password - by ... http://aminmotin.com/hack-into-hostgator/ Easy Steps to Creating Your Own Product Part 1 If you've been around the internet marketing world for a while, you'll have heard so many different things about making money. A couple of them are almost carved in stone. The money's in the list and You need your own product to make serious money Well, I ... http://aminmotin.com/easy-steps-to-creating-your-own-product/ Slightly hypey headline, which I hope you'll forgive, but I got an email from Paypal telling me about planned maintenance. Seems on Friday, 30th May, they're going to have about an hour's downtime when they won't be processing payments - so nobody can buy your stuff during that time. At least ... http://aminmotin.com/paypal-payments-pain/ Technorati Tags: blogs, blogging, Amin Motin Ok, fair question. There are billions of blogs now. Everyone and his dog has a blog. But there's always room for another one and particularly if you learn from what you've done before. Blogs are just ways of delivering content and ... http://aminmotin.com/why-another-blog/ I've been working with Frank Haywood's Nickel Sale script and the more I see of it the more I like it. The only thing that isn't terribly inspiring about the product is the templates supplied - they're downright ugly. No I think that's a good thing. It means nobody (not in their ... http://aminmotin.com/nickel-script-templates/ My fellow Brit, Frank Haywood, is having a nickel sale on a Nickel Sale script. The product is going to sell for $47, but right now it's a little over $8. At that price it's a bargain. I just bought my copy and I'll be installing it on one of my ... http://aminmotin.com/nickel-script-sale/ Welcome to my blog. As an internet marketer I love blogs - they're easy to setup and easy to use, so it's natural for me to create a blog in my own name. Something that's recommended, even if right now you don't have a ton of products you want to promote. So ... http://aminmotin.com/hi-and-welcome/