Affiliat Summit Social Media in NYC Oct 5th

Just got my press credentials to cover Affiliat Summit's Social Media Conference in NYC on October 5th. Looking forward to a great conference and sharing everything with you.

There's only room for 300 attendees; if you can make it to New York on October 5th I highly recommend this conference. You'll never approach Myspace, Facebook, DIGG, and Technorati the same....

More info here: Affiliate Summit

Problem with 'too much information'...what do you think?

After a great summer in New York I'm back to share my latest tips and tools to help make your Internet marketing efforts pay off in the fourth quarter.

After laying low for the past few weeks I am forced to overwhelm you with 'too much information'.

Yeah, you'll hear me say that you need to focus on only the important things in order to be successful online (getting traffic, converting traffic, and publishing great content). And yet, today, I've got so much damn good information to share with you that I just can't help myself.

Forgive me, I'm going to 'free associate' for a moment...

Many of you have already taken me up on my offer to evaluate your site from a design AND seo standpoint. Thanks for all the positive comments. For those of you who are on the fence, know this: my site evaluations come with a one-on-one phone consultation that is worth many times more than the $297 fee. Jump in; I won't bite.

Of course, even though I'm very proud of the SEO reports that we produce for you, some of you are very happy with your search engine optimization and I'm happy to share your comments like this one from C. Jones:

"Thank you but I already have an excellent search engine optimization company that markets my website. Check them out! www.seochampion.com"

And while we're talking SEO, here's a fine tip from Ian Lurie of Conversation Marketing:

"Write a high-quality meta description tag for each page of your site. That may not affect ranking but it'll get more folks to click on your search listing."

Must Have Tool for Affiliate Marketers

You'll notice I have a section in the right panel called 'Affiliate Opportunities'. If you're looking for good offers to promote and make money from, go no further. Except for this place....

Out of the hundreds of affiliate networks in existence, I'm pretty active with at least a dozen of them. You can imagine how much time it takes me to manage my affiliate marketing activities (finding offers, getting the links/copy/creative, promoting the offers, and, most importantly, tracking results).

Well, I think I'm about to significantly cut down on the time it takes for me to find the best offers out there. Affspy is now in 'public beta' so I recommend you register with them to start your search for the best affiliate opportunities (other than the ones I feature ;)

And while we're talking affiliate programs, check out inboxdollars (I'm making over $.30 per click with them and you can find them at Azoogle)


Capturing Attention

If you sell or market a product or service from your website, I want you to checkout Adimpact.com

Adimpact combines a floating layer technology to getting your popups noticed. I added it to this site because it helps to build my e-mail list (almost 22,000 strong!). If you need to get your message seen, try it out for a month and let me know what you think (add a comment at the end of this post).


Publicity for Your Web Site

Online press releases (creating inbound links) are good for your search engine marketing efforts. Here are three services you must consider:



...plus, PRWizard, and Eric Ward's URLWire.


Goodbye, dialup

My monthly stats show that 4.19% of Cool Site of the Day visitors arrived via dialup while only 2.19% of my coolsite.com visitors (a more 'business' focused audience) are using yesterday's technology.


Do You Blog? Do You Firefox or Flock?

Fire up your blogging with Scribefire


Find Great Domain Names

Domain Lookup is a Firefox extension that helps you discover valuable generic domain names while surfing the web.

Just select the text you wish to check and hit the shortcut key. Domain Lookup checks availability at your favorite registrar in a heartbeat.

Try it for a few days -- you'll be hooked too. It's free forever and takes just sixty seconds to install.

And yet another great Firefox Add-On (for sharing your web pages and blog posts with the most important social media sites): Shareaholic.


Start Your Web Building from Scratch the Easy Way

Looking for an all-in-one, site-brainstorming-and-building-and-hosting-and-marketing, step-by-step system of software tools that delivers thriving, profitable business? Check out SBI!


More Stuff...

QuickRibbon is a completely free Web2.0 tool, a website ribbon generator which lets you create a custom ribbon, insert a link in it and place it in the top right corner of your website (you can see it in action on Cool Site of the Day). It will take you less than 5 minutes to generate your own website ribbon with this trendy widget. I recommend using the QuickRibbon tool to attract your site's visitors attention to new features, announcements, sales, etc.

Finally, thanks to one of my loyal readers, Bob P (he sells candles) who alerted me about Network Solutions and their questionable business practices. If you have any domains registered with Network Solutions, please read this short article including the link to another article (even more offensive) entitled 'front running'.

To your success!

Mike

Cool Talk on hiatus until September 11, 2008

Cool Talk is taking a brief hiatus for the summer. We'll be back on the air on September 11th. Until then, stay tuned to this blog for a continuous stream of online business building tips and tools.

Also, be sure to listen now to last week's episode of Cool Talk right here...

Double your sales through testing -- free guide and software.

If you sell anything online (either as the owner of the product, or as an affiliate) you probably draw visitors to a landing page on your site.

And out of 100 visitors who land on your landing page, some of them buy your product, and some of them don't.

How would you like to make your landing page better -- more effective?

How would you like it if twice as many people bought from your landing page?

Well, Jim Stone promises to teach you how to improve the response on any landing page. He has an eBook called "10 Steps to More Sales With Accelerated Split Testing". He used to sell it. But he's giving it away right now.

In the book, Jim teaches you how to track and improve the responses you get from your visitors. Any kind of response. Sales, Opt-ins, click-throughs, etc.

And that's not all . . .

Jim is also offering a simple version of his Split Test Accelerator software as well. You can install it for free. And that's not "fake" free. That's real free. You don't have to pull out any payment method to install and use the software.

If you've heard of split testing, but didn't know how to get started, this is the best opportunity I've ever seen to learn how to improve your marketing any time you want. You'll have a great guide, and some great software -- all without spending a dime.

Take a look here.

Get started tracking, testing, and tweaking today. You'll be very glad you did.

Cheers,

Mike


P.S Markus Allen, of Stump Markus, is obsessed with testing and marketing. His free call-in webinar takes place every Thursday at noon EST. Anyone can call-in and ask Markus for advice related to their site....take advantage of this. Here's your link.

(BTW, Markus charges $295 for a PRIVATE 45-minute brainstorming session but I gotta tell you, you can get a 30-day free membership to his Marketing Junkie Inner Circle Membership and archive, which is worth 10 times more than a 45-minute call with him). Go to this web site now and look for the section "Get Started Here - FREE!" and click on the link "Marketing Junkie Inner Circle member (FREE for 30 days)"

P.P.S. If you have any interest in marketing your web site, take advantage of this.