Our newest Affiliate Spotlight Winner is Ron Cripps from the Gold Coast of Australia. He is our first international Affiliate Spotlight winner, by the way!
Ron is a new Micro Niche Finder affiliate (he has only been an affiliate for a few months) and yet already Micro Niche Finder has proven to be a valuable asset for internet marketing effectiveness to his company and to his site visitors.
One of Ron’s main business philosophies is to thoroughly research your prospective market before starting any marketing campaigns (Micro Niche Finder is obviously useful for this endeavor!). In addition, Ron is a big proponent of creating authority websites and branching out from there. You can read more about his business strategies and advice by checking out our Affiliate Spotlight section on our Facebook Fan Page (it’s on the left hand side underneath our ‘fans’ box) and you can also peruse his website Affiliate X Files which is full of internet marketing suggestions!
A website company called Wix has developed a simple and (mostly) intuitive way for users to build flash websites and widgets for FREE. This company is a few years old and not yet as well known as it should be, but the potential for this website becoming an important resource for bloggers and internet marketers alike is tremendous.
Some marketers and bloggers have no need or desire to use Flash and that’s perfectly fine. Yet there are many other who wish they could utilize the effects Flash can provide but either don’t know how to go about writing the codes OR don’t want to pay the money to someone else who does know how to write flash codes. Wix allows its users to be their own flash designer for free (although you can always upgrade to more premium accounts, which obviously offers more benefits). You can use Wix to create not only websites, but also MySpace Layouts (admittedly, not many people use MySpace anymore – but for musicians with music on their MySpace page this could be a fantastic way to add pizzazz), widgets, blogs, newsletters, banners, flyers…the list goes on and on.
Wix is initially slightly overwhelming – although it is to a large degree intuitive it does take a bit of playing around with it to fully appreciate all the effects and options at your disposal. There are thousands of free customizable templates for you to use, and once you pick the theme or template you desire you are automatically taken to a wix editor.
This wix editor is impressive and offers a myriad of features you can add to customize your page. For instance, you can add pictures, videos, and music in addition to adding various widgets including RSS, paypal, Google Maps, comments, and contact forms. You can add shapes, give your webpage animations, and introduce visual effects for user behavior. Naturally you can change colors and texts (and there is a wide variety of unique fonts – I happen to like the “pez” font). You can modify or eliminate menus and headliners, and for particular objects on a page you can rotate, resize, and rearrange to your hearts content.
There is so much more you can do using wix – I’ve barely scratched the tip of the iceberg. The best way to learn more about wix and all of its incredible features is to explore it yourself.
Wix is also very important for another reason -Wix websites are fully compatible with search engines! Traditional Flash is not SEO compatible, but because Wix has developed a new way to create content (a hybrid of HTML and Flash – even though the Wix editor relies on Flash, there’s no need to create codes) you’ll be able to use Wix-created websites or widgets for effective promotions and optimizations. For websites this is a HUMONGOUS development, but for widget purposes (such as Facebook widgets) the SEO benefit is not relevant.
I was playing around with the Wix features and decided to post my results into a quickie website (this took maybe ten minutes to make). I’m not great at creating flash codes so if I had to do this the traditional way this would have taken me FOREVER.
Okay, forever is perhaps a slight exaggeration, but the fact that this little website only took ten minutes to make (and that’s including ‘mess around’ time to figure out the features) really shows how easy it is to make a professional-looking website or widget quickly. My “mess-around” website with its minimal effects is only the bare bones of a potential website…and with more time and focus it is absolutely possible to make a stunning and SEO compatible website!
I will explore Wix further (and perhaps you will too) and as I discover more about Wix I will share the findings in future posts.
We’re hosting a new webinar tonight (March 16th) at 7:00 pm ESTwith Jason Fladlien! The theme of this webinar is “How to Create A Membership Site & Be Filling It Up With New Paying Members In Less Than 48 Hours…” and in this webinar you will learn:
How to Create a Month’s Worth of Content in Less Than A Day
The Single Best Way To Fill Up Your Membership With Paying Member
And much more!
In addition, Jason will also be giving away for FREE his “membership area interface” (valued at more than $1,000) to all those LIVE on the webinar! This bonus will not be available for the replay. If you want it, you must attend the webinar tonight!
Here are the details for this FREE webinar:
Date: Tuesday March 16th, 2010 7:00 PM EST Sign Up Page:http://www.snip2.com/re/mwbl 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.
Jason’s webinars have become wildly popular because Jason explains his strategies well. We hope you can attend this webinar! If you don’t live in the EST time zone and unsure about the time that the webinar will start for you, check out our time zone converter to verify the start time!
Congratulations to our newest Affiliate Spotlight Winner, Mark Mason of Allen, Texas!
Mark Mason has been a proud Micro Niche Finder affiliate since 2007! He primarily uses Micro Niche Finder to find keywords so that traffic is directed to his websites via organic searches (a very good strategy, may we add). Since Mark has been in the internet marketing world for quite some time, he has kindly imparted very good advice to all internet marketers. To read Mark’s advice and to learn more about this successful internet marketer, go to our Facebook Fan Page and click on the box titled “Affiliate Spotlight”.
In addition to his Micro Niche Finder affiliate website, Mark also has a very good website called Mason World that we highly recommend checking out. It’s witty, it’s insightful, and it’s a great example of how consistent and relevant blogging can increase sales.
If you missed Paul Counts webinar last week you are in luck! We are hosting another webinar with him tonight (March 11th) at 7:00 pm EST. It is NOT a replay of last weeks webinar – this is going to be LIVE. Although the same content will be discussed, there will naturally be variations between tonight’s webinar and last weeks webinar.
Just like the last webinar, 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!
After listening to the feedback from last weeks webinar, Paul has decided to spend less time hashing out the basics and focus more time on traffic generation methods during tonight’s webinar.
This webinar was very popular and informative for the people who attended it last week. If you were unable to attend the webinar last week now is the best (and last) time to hear Paul’s great PLR profit-making strategies!
Here are the details for this AWESOME AND FREE webinar:
Date: Thursday March 11th, 2010 7:00 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.
If you don’t live in the EST time zone and need help determining what time the webinar will start for you, check out our time zone converter to verify the start time!
We are hosting a VERY IMPORTANT webinar this Wednesday (March 10th) 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 9th), 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 linkwe will we give you AMAZING bonusesand 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 4th in our time zone but Friday the 5th 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.
It’ll be worth the wait though, promise!
