We are hosting a VERY IMPORTANT webinar this Wednesday (March 10^th) with Brian Johnson. Many of you probably are already well aware of Brian Johnson, but in case you’re not familiar with him allow us to summarize some of his accomplishments. First of all, he is the creator of Commission Ritual, a hugely successful product that gives valuable SEO methods to his customers. Secondly, he is an incredible internet marketer who truly understands how to make money using the internet and has been doing this since 2002. Furthermore, he’s been one of our featured Affiliate Spotlight winners. In the world of internet marketing, Brian Johnson is kind of a big deal.

Not content to rest on his laurels, Brian is releasing a brand new product called “Auto Content Cash” (spoiler alert: it’s remarkable). We are hosting a webinar with him this Wednesday so that he can personally explain his product and so that you can ask him any questions you may have. You’ll get all the information straight from the creator’s mouth.

Brian is releasing this new product tomorrow (March 9^th), and although you can buy it right away (it is a good investment after all) if you wait until after the webinar you’ll be completely informed about the product, its purpose, how to use it, and if it’s right for you and your business plan or not. This webinar will be much more thorough than any sales page could ever be.

In the Auto Content Cash webinar, Brian is going to explain and demonstrate how to create income streams that…

* take just about an hour (each) to set up
* generate consistent passive income
* can be easily sold off for hundreds, even thousands of dollars each

Lots of people will be promoting this - brace yourself for the deluge of promotional emails - but if you wait until after the webinar and buy it from our affiliate link we will we give you AMAZING bonuses and you’ll also be fully informed and confident in Auto Content Cash’s capabilities. We’ll explain the bonuses after the webinar - sorry to leave you in suspense! It’ll be worth the wait though, promise!

Here are the details for the “Auto Content Cash” webinar:

Date: Wednesday March 10th, 2010 7:00 PM EST
Sign Up Page: http://www.snip2.com/re/acbl
System Requirements: For PC-based attendees: Windows® 2000, XP
Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista.
For Macintosh®-based attendees: Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer.

As always, this webinar is FREE!
If you are unsure about what time the webinar will start in your time zone, please reference our nifty blog post about time zone conversions.
Space is limited and this webinar will be packed.  Reserve your place now so that you can sit in live on this informative and completely worthwhile webinar!

It’s been brought to our attention that the various time-zone differences can be confusing for people not living in EST (that’s short for North America Eastern Standard Time). Since we are doing an increasing amount of live webinars, we thought that this simple post showing how to calculate time zone differences would be helpful.

First and foremost, while we are well aware of GMT, we are also painfully aware that not everyone else understands the concept of GMT. GMT, also known as UT, is the “Universal Time”. Every time zone in the world is based off its relation to GMT (Greenwich Mean Time). So for example, if I was in Ahmedabad, India, I would be GMT + 5:30 (five and a half hours ahead of GMT); if I was in Chicago, USA I would be GMT - 6:00 (six hours behind GMT). While UT (Universal Time) is the more politically and scientifically correct way to designate the time, many people still say GMT or disregard GMT/UT altogether.

For the record, we are in the North American Eastern Standard Time zone (EST) and North American Eastern Daylight Time zone (EDT). We are EST during the autumn and winter, so during these seasons we are GMT - 5:00 (five hours behind GMT). The reason we have two time zone names is because Daylight Savings time changes our relation to GMT and in the spring and summer we become only four hours behind GMT (GMT - 4:00).

If you want to just figure out the time differences between our time zone and your time zone, there is an easy website to use called The World Clock Time Zone Converter. This is handy because it also takes into account Daylight Savings Time (not everywhere follows this) and calculates day differences (ex: it may be Thursday the 4^th in our time zone but Friday the 5^th in another).

Once you click on the website, you will see a little form you can fill out. Please enter the correct information for the Month, Day, Year and Hour.

Time Zone Converter

Next, you are going to fill in OUR time zone. You can do this two ways:

1.) Find a location near to us - although we are not based there, choosing the “U.S.A North Carolina - Raleigh” is a good option.

Our "location" method

2.) Or you can click on the tab that says “Time Zone”

Time Zones Method

If you click on the “Time Zone” tab, find the option that says “EST - Eastern Standard Time (North America)” if it’s during our autumn or winter. Then click on “New York (winter)”. If it is during our spring or summer, find “EDT - Eastern Daylight Time (North America)”.

The field will fill in automatically:

Time Zones Method - EST or EDT New York

Next, fill in YOUR time zone by selecting a city that is near your location. For this example, I’ll pretend that I live in Auckland, New Zealand.

Your Time Zone/Location

Once everything is filled in I will hit the bottom button that says “Convert Time”.

I will then see a screen that tells me what time 7:00 pm in Raleigh (or New York time, depending on which above method you used) is in Auckland, New Zealand. I now know that if there was a webinar starting at Wednesday 7:00 pm EST I would have to be at my computer by Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 1:00 pm to listen to it in its entirety.

Time Zone Conversion Complete

Time zones are tricky measurements, but with this website you’ll always be able to convert times accurately and quickly!

Ooooooh, do we have a treat for you! This upcoming Thursday (March 4th) we are hosting a webinar with Paul Counts called “How to Profit with PLR in 45 Minutes”. Paul Counts has agreed to give you some awesome live
training on ways you can quickly generate profits with private label
rights content. 

Not content with merely explaining the process, Paul is going to actually take a PLR product, rebrand it, set it up for sale, attach an affiliate program to it, and even start driving traffic to the offer page all in less than 1 hour! You will have to see this to really believe it!

Paul gave a similar presentation from stage at a live event in Las Vegas and literally wowed the crowd there. The difference is those people paid a whopping $697 to attend the event plus had to pay for travel expenses. You get to experience a similar thing for absolutely nothing!

Here are the details for this AWESOME webinar:

Date: Thursday March 4th, 2010 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST
Sign Up Page: http://www.snip2.com/re/pcbl
System Requirements: For PC-based attendees: Windows® 2000, XP
Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista.
For Macintosh®-based attendees: Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer.

Space is limited, so reserve your place now before it’s too late!
Don’t miss out on a truly amazing free training opportunity!!!

Congratulations to our newest Affiliate Spotlight Winner, Bob Willoughby of Laurel, Delaware!

Bob has been an affiliate for two years and an avid Micro Niche Finder user (he says it’s the most used software on his computer). To learn more about Bob and his experiences with internet marketing, go to our Facebook Fan Page and click on the box titled “Affiliate Spotlight”. You can also check out his website at How to Find a Niche Market Using Niche Market Software.

Due to an overwhelming demand we have decided to host another webinar with James Fladlien . This new webinar is called “More Traffic More Sales” and the objective is to do precisely what the title says: get you more traffic so that you can make more sales. As always, the webinar is free - and if you’ve been to any of the other webinars we did with Jason Fladlien, you already know how thoroughly he explains the information!

Among other things, this webinar will cover:

• An entire A-to-Z traffic and conversion blueprint that you can set up and be using to make money online in a matter of minutes…
• A “PLR” loophole to exploit for an easy $500+ a month (it ain’t a lot, but it’s free money!)
• How to use certain “hidden” affiliate programs for your own personal gain (converts better than normal!)

Here are the details for this important webinar:

Date: Thursday Feb 25th, 2010 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST
Sign Up Page: http://www.snip2.com/re/mtbl
System Requirements: For PC-based attendees: Windows® 2000, XP
Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista.
For Macintosh®-based attendees: Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer.

Space is limited, so reserve your place right now. Furthermore, there is a good chance that you’ll be rewarded for sitting in live on the call (hint hint). See you then!

Amazon’s Kindle is one way (albeit a great way) to make profits from eBooks you have the rights to. It’s free to upload, easy to do, and is a great example of “set and forget” profits.

In addition to the reasons listed above, there is now another motive to put your eBooks on Amazon’s Kindle. Amazon just announced that ALL of its eBooks that were previously only available on the Kindle will now also be available to download on Blackberrys!

Millions of people in America own a Blackberry (sorry international users; Kindle for Blackberry is only available in America for now) so this means the amount of people that now have access to your eBooks has increased dramatically. It’s a rather simple equation: as more and more people have access to Kindle’s books, there can be more potential profits for you!

The types of Blackberrys that can support the Kindle Application are as follows:

-Bold 9000
-Bold 9700
-Curve 8520
-Curve 8900
-Storm 9530
-Storm 9550
-Tour 9630

If you already have a Kindle, you can synch your Blackberry to your Kindle via Whispersync. This is practical and necessary; for example: if you were reading a book on Kindle and bookmarked your last page, but are now somewhere without your Kindle you can start reading exactly where you left off on your Blackberry - how convenient!

There are future improvements coming to the Kindle on Blackberry - highlighting, creating notes, and search capabilities namely - but the Kindle on Blackberry is still decent enough in its initial form to encourage Blackberry users to immediately start buying eBooks.

In short, publish your eBooks on Amazon’s Kindle as soon as possible! Not only will those that have a Kindle be able to buy your eBooks, but so will people that only have Blackberrys (and of course, those that have both devices). The profits are yours to make, good luck!

Originally a social-networking site that started in a Harvard dorm room, Facebook’s popularity spread throughout universities and colleges throughout North America. Whereas it was originally available only to college students, Facebook became so popular that it eventually allowed non-college students to join. As of writing this blog post, there are approximately 400 million people in the world that have a Facebook account - and the numbers keep growing (225 million of those 400 million are from last year alone). The astounding, nay, meteoric rise of Facebook has interesting implications for internet marketers.

An increasing amount of people now peruse the internet based either on their friend’s recommendations or their friends recent activities, ushering in a new way of social media optimization called “friend-casting”. The principles behind friend-casting are simple and to explain the process I will use a recent and personal example.

I was on facebook perhaps two weeks ago when a friend whom I know and trust recommended checking out a website with the tagline “putting this in the nursery” (she’s having a baby soon). It was a link to a website that sold wall stickers - adorable ones for children, might I add - and since I have a family member who recently announced that she’s pregnant (good thing they don’t live by each other or I’d have to question the drinking water) and I had a flash of inspiration. Voila! I have found the perfect gift for the inevitable baby shower! This website made a sale (I bought ’Woodland Animals’ wall stickers, in case you were wondering) because my friend posted a link on facebook.

Friend + Link + Facebook = Social Media Optimization (via “friend-casting”)

Think of your own facebook experiences. How often have you clicked on links your friends recommended? How many times have you posted a link, photo, or a video and had someone “like” it, let alone comment on it? How frequently have you commented or “liked” something one of your friends posted? This is friend-casting, and it’s powerful. Friend-casting is the e-version equivalent of “word of mouth” advertising! So important is friend-casting on Facebook that it is considered the premier way to achieve great social media optimization.

Consider this: According to web measurement firm Compete Inc., for the first time ever Facebook directs more traffic to major websites (on caliber with yahoo and msn) than Google. More traffic than Google! I’ll let that sink in…and for other types of websites, Facebook is among the top sources for directing traffic, with Google still being in the lead. Google is still king - no question about it - but ignore Facebook at your own peril. In the same vein, Search Engine Optimization is definitely still important, but Social Media Optimization is too effective to disregard.

Furthermore, a large portion of a person’s web session is dedicated to their destination, with only a small amount of time actually dedicated to the search (statistically speaking - which may or may not be true for you). The amount of time people spend on Facebook has grown too, which effectively means more people are spending more time on the internet with Facebook as their destination.

From an internet marketing point of view, the immediate implications for this development is to start advertising on Facebook in order to reach a wider demographic and drive traffic to your business. For smaller-scale enterprises, this could mean simply sharing links in your status updates or posting the occasional note. It can also mean utilizing a mix of features, such as advertising on facebook, starting a group or a fanpage (ahem…have you joined ours yet?), linking your notes to your blog, linking your twitter and facebook accounts, updating your status with information relevant to your business, and the list goes on!

Remember my friend that told me about the wall stickers I mentioned a few paragraphs above? Well, she is woefully ignorant about affiliate marketing - but you’re not! To toe the FTC line you would have to mention you are an affiliate near the link, but you can absolutely tout your affiliate website or product on facebook via status updates, a note, etc. Your friends will see it on their Facebook feed and by the sheer virtue of being friends on facebook your suggestions will resonate with them and be influential, which could translate into increased traffic and sales!

Social Media Optimization, primarily through Facebook, is one of the new internet marketing 2.0 strategies (”interwebz” marketing if you REALLY want to be 2.0 about it). It’s a constantly evolving field, but if recent developments are any indication, Social Media Optimization will be a vital component of internet marketing for a long time to come.

“Cracking the Code” to online success has always been the toughest obstacle for any “newbie” just starting out. If you’re looking for simple, easy to apply strategies and a step-by-step plan to become successful online in as little as 30 days, join James Jones and Bill White on Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 at 7:00PM EST for The Absolute Newbie Success Webinar. It’s a straight forward, tell-all hour of pure content you won’t want to miss. 

• Discover the “secret” 3 step formula that thousands of other successful use every day to generate profits on autopilot
• Learn a 30 day plan to put it into action.
• And much more advice for internet marketing success, given to you straight and without meaningless “fluff” in this 60 minute LIVE webinar!

The details for this important webinar are as follows:

Date: Wednesday Feb 17th, 2010 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM EST
Sign Up Page:  http://www.snip2.com/re/answ-bg
System Requirements: For PC-based attendees: Windows® 2000, XP
Home, XP Pro, 2003 Server, Vista.
For Macintosh®-based attendees: Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer.

Space is limited, but you can reserve your place in a matter of seconds. The formula IS simple, it DOES work, and you DON’T want to miss it!

Our newest Affiliate Spotlight winner is Laurie J. Brenner! Laurie Brenner is a prolific writer who uses Micro Niche Finder not only to help with her writing but also to help her in all of her affiliate endeavors. In addition to Micro Niche Finder, Laurie also uses The Ultimate PLR Article Collection to create valuable content for her business.

If you go to our Facebook Fan Page and click on the box titled “Affiliate Spotlight” you can read about Laurie Brenner and check out her many websites, including Best Real Work At Home Jobs , Law of Attraction Masters, and her blog to name a few. Laurie also gives insightful advice that may be of help to all new affiliates!

With the influx of PLR related articles and ebooks, it’s important to use images to help distinguish your product (be it article, website, or ebook) from the rest. For instance, a well chosen cover image can boost your Kindle sales tremendously. While many people realize images are curcial for their sales, not everyone acquires and uses images legally. This of course can lead to BIG legal problems - and we don’t want you to ever, EVER fall into that predicament.

Much like articles can be copyrighted and trademarked, so can images, and much like using articles you don’t own the rights to, you can be sued by the person or company who does own the rights to the image(s) and be forced to pay a lot of money for copyright and trademark infringement. Doing a Google Image search is absolutely NOT a good way to find images. Most of the images are copyrighted and unless you know how to determine if an image is royalty free or not - risky business, may we add - you are better off not even looking for images in this way.

To avoid the humongous hassle of being sued, you want to look for and use images that say “Royalty Free”. Royalty Free images are akin to PLR articles - you don’t have to pay royalties, you can modify them, and you can publish them as your own. Royalty Free images are by far the safest way to add valuable images to your website or product without having to worry about repercussions.

We use this awesome website to find our royalty free images: http://www.sxc.hu/ It’s free to register and loaded with Royalty Free images. Even if there isn’t a picture directly related to your subject, the odds are good that with a little creative thinking you could find an image that will work well (and hey, it’s better than illegally using what you perceive to be the perfect image). SXC also sells really high-quality images for $1.00 (sometimes even less). It’s a very affordable way to legally use professional images.

To prove our point, here’s a royalty free image for your enjoyment:

"Oh Hi!" Panda - a royalty free image