Sometime after the buzz caused by “The Death Of Internet Marketing” report, Michael Cheney of AdSense Videos fame responded with a brilliant follow-up about his big-break story. You can download The Internet Marketing Country Club Report.

There’s one statement I want to highlight on pg. 35: “Internet Marketing is about bringing people together.”

Read that statement again.

If anyone thinks doing a business is as dumb as being an armchair entrepreneur and blasting e-mails from the digital cave that is your bedroom, perhaps s/he is already the no. 1 customer to the headline, “Put me on an island with a laptop and I show you how to make $1,000 in 30 days!”

Truth be told, I have a PDF file with that kind of headline. I almost got sold.

Today if you ask me, I can’t remember what’s the content of that file now.

Today 3 years on(line), we still interact with subscribers in e-mail conversations, rendering support and advice. Is communication dead? Far from it and just the opposite. It increases and we must move to Skype and blogging and maybe a ‘live’ training workshop is not far from the horizon :)

Speaking of Skype, you can find my details here.

MyBlogLog is the BEST system yet for cultivating an amazingly active and vibrant community of bloggers and for filtering targeted traffic of interested readers. Click here to join!

According to the bestseller “The Long Tail” by Chris Anderson, the days of one-way monologues from seller to buyer is over. Communication must move beyond that level and how it should be is anyone’s guess. I have many articles advising in this area so check this directory.

One powerful mode of communication is Masterminding. Napoleon Hill was able to define the kind of principles, both logical and emotional, that individuals must bring into a masterminding session for maximum productivity and effect. In his words, “Masterminding is the coordination of knowledge and effort, in a spirit of harmony, between two or more people, for the attainment of a definite purpose.”

Masterminding is a specific manner of communicating to achieve a purpose and fulfill agendas. It has a set of protocols to follow so that time is not wasted on idle chatter.

I am forever grateful that 5 years ago, I had the great opportunity to learn and witness how group masterminding work its magic among all participants involved. The occasion so impressed on me that I’d wish I never left that hotel room because 10 new companies could have started overnight! Today, I still practice Masterminding with that particular community of go-getters, including Joel Chue and Stephon Seah, who launch the Mastermind Income Generator. This Mastermind system is simply the most in-depth series of materials ever created and dedicated to Business Masterminding in the 21st century.

You will discover:

1) How to make it ‘BIG’ with existing resources.
2) Your own unique thinking process and use it to your best possible advantage.
3) How to handle ‘ideas air raids’ and turn them into chunks of executable plans.

Just listening to Nelson’s personal mentor K.C. See, who taught ‘live’ masterminding for 9 years, is worth the investment. Of course, how can MIG be complete without Nelson’s interview too! The latter record is an exclusive bonus of Mastermind Income Generator, so don’t you miss that!

You can get the main collection for the current launch price. Don’t be late and don’t hesitate. Sharpen your saw and grow your own alliance masterminding community!

Here are your 2 appetizer reports: The Master Key To Success and Mastermind Incubator.

Running you own free newsletter or e-zine can bring massive benefits to your website and profits. Did you know that newsletters are one of the most important components for you to drive traffic to your website and build your online business?

The popularity of newsletters is based on the thirst for information by information-hungry Internet surfers. The main reason people are online is because they want and need information and that is exactly what newsletters provide.

There are 3 major advantages of starting your own newsletter, no matter what product or service that you are offering. They are:

- Being able to maintain regular contact
- Being able to build a relationship with your subscribers
- Being able to offer new products and services

A newsletter allows you to keep the connection with your site visitors reminding them of how your product is suited for them.

The other, often overlooked, advantage of having a newsletter, is the income it can generate, not from selling your products and services or links to affiliate programs, but from selling advertising space in it.

You do need a medium to large subscriber base before other businesses will be interested in advertising, but this is not that hard to achieve, especially if it is regularly full of quality content. You can earn a few hundred, even thousands of dollars, every month just from ads if you play your cards rights.

Your online customers will eventually become your offline customers if they trust the information you regularly send them. Put simply, a newsletter is your way of helping people. If you help people online, eventually they will buy from you.

However, running your own newsletter involves a considerable amount of work. It is vital that you regularly write a lot of quality content before your next release. Ideally a newsletter should be sent out every week or at least every fortnight. This is not always easy. It definitely takes consistency and a keen eye for content.

You see, just as it is on your website…content is KING in your newsletters.

You need to offer valuable information, products, services, and more to keep your subscribers clicking on every newsletter that you send out.

Where can you get quality content for your newsletter?

1. Article directories like ezinearticles.com or findarticles.com. Also get articles from yahoogroups. The downside to this is that you need to include the author’s signature or resource box.

2. Forums. One of the most dynamic and updated places on the Internet is where people write off the cuff and in real-time. Thread after thread, reply after reply of the latest information comes off the minds of forum participants. Combine interesting topics and reword them into an original article.

3. Your own Inbox right under your nose. Whatever other marketers are writing or selling about, use them to your own advantage and recreate them as your own.

4. Your own insights are really your best resources. When you have passion, you will never stop talking about what you know. Be consistent at no. 4 and soon enough you will find a way to mold yourself into an expert. Continue to expand your knowledge database and add value to it.

In conclusion, running your own newsletter can have a very positive impact on your website and online business. If you dedicate yourself to keeping it up, you will find it well worth the effort. We have seen incredible success on the Internet that is most encouraging as we integrate work, play and home into a lifestyle, one that we’re sure you have a desire for too. We wish the same for you.

For the past 2 years, I published “A Moment Of Sharing“. Check out how I designed my layout and its content. Hope you can gleaned some useful clues for your purposes.

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Inspired by Tristan Louis’s research into the value of each link to Weblogs Inc, Dane Carlson created this little applet using Technorati’s API which computes and displays your blog’s worth using the same link to dollar ratio as the AOL-Weblogs Inc deal.

Hmmm…Internet Mastery Center Blog is worth $34,436.94, not bad. No matter, I can’t decide whether the price on your blog is tongue-in-cheek or for real. After all, the blog is only as worthy as the content, which in turn is as worthy as the wisdom of its blogger. Selling an established blog to the next blogging owner does not necessarily sustain loyalty of readership; readers only go to whoever they wish to follow. The value of that virtual real estate will be affected after the money has changed hands, unless the new owner pretends to be the previous blogger in name, but that’s stoopid. I believe an actual trade would only take place based on domain name trading mechanisms upon the analysis of PR, hit rates, age etc.

Domain name trading is, after all, an established industry with all its rules and politics. Folks like Dr. Mike Woo-Ming and my Money Mastery buddy Shi Heng Cheong are seasoned hands at creating portfolios of expired domain names and “squatting in the jungle” for the right time to let them off for a premium price.

Interestingly, I have long suspected that people who deal in property investment and stock market would be very adapt at domain name trading because the mindset is already well honed for crucial timing…well, some similarities are there, like getting hold of names the moment they expire on that very day.

It used to be a heck of a gold rush registering all the creative word combinations you can discover with a .com placed behind them. I wonder how many domain squatters are now stuck with domain names that other people may want to possess but don’t know where and how to get them. That should be easy with the availability of background details from the WHOIS registrar, and yet the information may not be updated at the turn of expiry date…very tricky. The trading aspect is mostly the trickiest part where negotiation and mutual goodwill is concerned. On the other hand, squatters may hold on to domain names that depreciate in value some years down the road only to finally realize they are absolutely useless. They just don’t know how to evaluate the present and projected monetary value of those names and quickly find a targeted buying audience via an established channel to let them go for a timely profit.

What if I say that there is an e-book that teaches you how to be a savvy domain name investor, and within a matter of days you will know everything about domain trading, domain speculating, domain investing and using domain names to generate a passive income?

Yes, please continue to nod your head :) I know you want to learn more.

Matt Smith, co-author of Domain Profiteer, emphasizes that expired domains are where you want to invest your money, because of the targeted traffic that some of these used domains can attract. And in Internet Marketing, traffic means money, targeted traffic means a lot more money.

Domain Profiteer includes a 1-month access to Domainer’s Edge which otherwise charges a monthly fee of $99.

Domainer’s Edge is a very powerful software for domain investors. It provides a lot of information on a domain at a mouse-click. These information will help you to make good decision to buy and sell your domains. In time, you will have the dexterity to get rid of the useless names in your portfolio and keep the good one to generate a monthly income. Not only that, you just might stumble upon a PR6 site for a bargain offer and reuse or resell it to your own advantage!

However, domain name trading and investment is not for everyone, especially when you need to be on time watching domain auctions in action. With all that’s being said, not many Internet marketers, or people in general, are savvy enough to handle the risk involved in investment and evaluation of domain names, but it still means that there’s immense potential for first-movers. Domain name trading and investment is not the next big thing; it has been one of THE big things all these years, including today. To get educated, find out how Domain Profiteer can help you.

Oh, share with us how much moolah your blog is worth and try selling it to Technorati.

Mark Joyner’s Simpleology 101 is considered by many as the ‘bedrock’ foundation of their success in life.

For example, Internet celebrity Tellman Knudson has every single one of his employees start their day with Simpleology.

Many other wildly successful companies are catching on and doing the same…

Simpleology 103 is the long-awaited follow-up to Simpleology 101.

What’s it about?

Well, it teaches you how to boost your energy to levels teenagers would be envious of.

Without drugs.

Without supplements.

Without extreme diets.

Just simple changes to your life that you’ll barely notice.

Let us just say that you need to beat a path to this course in the name of wellness.

Considering that Mark has changed so much from his famous black-and-white self-portrait (if you have seen his Extreme Business Makeover videos), he has moved on to defining his own wellness niche via Simpleology 103. That’s really amazing.

“The principles found in Simpleology are the same that I followed to become a 3-time Olympian.” - Ruben Gonzalez, 3-Time Olympian

“BTW, on a personal note (if you could please share/forward this along to Mark, after completing the Simpleology 102 course I had an immediate 25% increase in salary and now make well over 6-figure salary! WOW! Life is Going GREAT! Thank You Mark and Simpleology!” - Daniel Harris, San Jose, California

It will take just a few seconds to register your account, so head over and watch what the fuss is all about…a big breakthrough in your health and life!

Jonathan Leger just setup IMToday.net where where you can read all of the latest Internet Marketing news from more than 1,100 IM newsfeeds and still counting.

He has rounded up the first 1,100 sources of Internet Marketing feeds he has ever come across, and he is making it very easy for you to customize a compilation of feeds according to your selected keywords e.g. ‘adsense’, ‘market research’ etc. so you can input the customized RSS URL into your feedreader.

I’m sure some of you are already thinking of leveraging on IMToday.net for auto-blogging…well, read this post first. So long as you can tidy up the feed display on your blog (if you are not careful, it can look like garbled mess) and you mean it as content filler on days you are not blogging—not for splogging (i.e. leave your blog alone)—you would do well to maintain readership with an active-looking blog.

You can also submit your blog feed at IMToday.net now and leave comment on certain blog threads—an opportunity to create backlinks to your site.

By now you should have observed a series of colourful social bookmarking buttons below each post. They allow your readers to easily submit you to many different social bookmarking and networking sites.

Get your WP-Notable plugin for WordPress and installation instructions.

The one thing that will stump all but the most hardcore of bloggers is what is meant by the “loop area” (installation instruction no. 5). Until now, me neither. All you need to do is:

1) open index.php, archive.php and single.php of your WP template with your HTML editor,
2) search for the word ‘postmetadata’. You should find only one occurrence of this word in each file,
3) copy-and-paste the WP-Notable code just above the statement where ‘postmetadata’ appears,
4) save your 3 PHP files and upload them in your WP template directory.

Refresh your blog and the icons must appear below every post now.

The best instructions we can find for adding social bookmarking buttons in Blogger blogs are right here.

Many people want to change their permalink structure, for example, from /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%postname%/ to /%category%/%postname%/

But doing so will make all pages indexed by search engines become invalid, thereby losing visitors from other sites or bookmarks that link to you.

With this plugin, you can safely change your permalink structure without breaking the old links to your website, and even doesn’t affect your search engine rankings.

Jimmy Roos has launched his Exclusive Giveaway in which he is giving away lots of quality products that are sold elsewhere on the Internet for between $27 and $97.

Most of these products come with Master Resell Rights as well as Private Label Rights. This means that you can use these products yourself or you can resell them, making a handsome profit in the process.

Note: Exclusive Giveaway does not accept Hotmail and Yahoo! addresses.

Perry Marshall is doing a whole series of interviews with world class marketing geniuses. He already kicked off Friday the 12th with Ken McCarthy and then will also feature Yanik Silver, Jason Potash, Paul Myers, Bob Serling, Jim Edwards, Bob Bly, and a number of others as the guest list grows. Each of these interviews will cover a different topic and if you sign up you’ll get notifications and access to the calls and the MP3s. Free access!

John Hostler and Liz Tomey has put up a really valuable resource where you can watch a few free videos and be able to put resell rights products online in no time to start profiting from them. One current challenge among most marketers is that you can have a whole hard drive full of resell rights products, but don’t know how to use them.

John and Liz created these videos as an awareness response to this challenge and to their subscribers, and sincerely believe it does truly help a lot of people! With that said, there’s a brand new package of master resell rights products, limited to ONLY 300 people and appear as an OTO offer so please don’t miss it!

Blog Announcer Pro is your blog equivalent of the article submission software. It automatically submits your blog’s URL And RSS feeds to the Web’s top directories in a matter of minutes so you can gain more traffic and boost readership from them. It’s going for $47 for an unknown time period before resuming normal pricing because Rob Benwell says “it’s the new year.” Grab your offer while 2007 stays fresh!

Widgetbox offers all kinds of plug-ins for most popular blog platforms. Don’t get too addicted to it and focus on your business.

Fellow marketer Pavel Lenshin has taken great trouble to list out all possible Google resources that you may never know: Parts 1 and 2. If there’s any link missed out, feel free to contact Pavel and send him further input.

This is a bit of an old news from last month. In case you haven’t heard of it, Google Inc. has changed its mind on the practice of placing images next to ads. The AdSense team had actually started knocking on webmasters’ doors and courteously asking them to take down images. So far I haven’t heard of anyone getting penalized heavily for the crime, however, that day shall come…You know what to do now.

I was just re-reading Joel Comm’s Monthly Templates for copywriting tips when I begin to have this funny feeling that some elements of his sales page are ‘bugging’ me, and I can’t tell exactly what they are. Guess what? Today, a mail from another marketer was trumpeting more loudly this one aspect of Monthly Templates.

If you read through Monthly Templates, Joel emphasize that his templates are designed using W3C-compliant XHTML, whatever that means to you :)

Now how does it feel to give your product a label of certification to make it look good? Like it is safe to use, right?

Wah, AdSense templates that are validated with W3C-compliance. Perhaps it did not come to my attention when he promoted Instant AdSense Templates before. Now I am stifling a laughter under my breath and thinking whether this is some kind of overkill or a new marketing angle. But AdSense templates are supposed to be “stripped down” and simple anyway…

OK, time-out for some education. What is W3C compliance?

The W3C is the World Wide Web Consortium and since 1994 (that’s waaay back) the W3C has provided the guidelines by which websites and web pages should be structured and created. They set the standards by which best practices in web design are defined and followed through according to the type of coding used, whether it’s HTML, XHTML, XML (blog feed), CSS etc.

(Strangely, W3C reminds me of the United Nations. Who still listens to them these days?)

If not for W3C standards, nothing that you read on screen would be intelligible. One of the main challenges that Tim Berners-Lee, the so-called Father of the World Wide Web, had to face up to and solve during W3′s formation is to ensure interoperability and that data is not lost in translation as they are presented on-screen.

It is still quite a big issue among webmasters today. From personal experience, I had designed sites without thinking how people would view them in FireFox. If you don’t care for these folks, you lose a market share, simple. (Part of the problem is that proprietary features that do not conform to any existing W3C specifications are designed into popular browsers, so life become very difficult for those of us attempting to create websites that look good across most, if not all, browsers and platforms, screen sizes and resolutions and overcome most types of visual disabilities.)

I surprise myself on looking back, that it took me a significant amount of time to realize from an Internet Marketer’s point-of-view, when designing a website, you need to bear in mind that visitors ONLY respond in 3 ways:

1) To click on a link.
2) To opt-in.
3) To purchase something.
4) And only 1 WAY AT A TIME.

The last point is terrifically important. I recall seeing a website with black background with lots of links, blinking graphics and bright banners. It reminds me of Las Vegas. If I fly to Las Vegas for the first time and not knowing anything about the place, I wouldn’t know where to start enjoying myself. That’s the problem with such sites. Everywhere is a shout, yet there is still no obvious call to action.

(This is another “Las Vegas“.)

Thus the principle is: the more obvious a “call to action” is, the simpler the site must be. It must simply scream, “DO THIS.” And when a site is made simply, I presume it cannot veer too far from W3C specifications. Look at Microsoft.com. Did you think it’s W3C-compliant or bloated with excess code? It’s a chicken-and-egg problem for the webmasters at Microsoft if they are pressed for time (so as a result, do not pay careful attention to making their site more lean. Looking at their history of software patches, one may make an educated guess of how they work.)

Back to Monthly Templates, you want to get this not only because they are W3C-compliant (i.e. they don’t look spammy to SE spiders so Google should love them), not only because sales is going to be limited, but also because Joel has done the job for you, so you can quickly upload them for good without giving any further thoughts (perhaps market research). You may have heard that one trick to encourage more AdSense clicks is to make the site content more unremarkable or mediocre so visitors can “click away”. It’s simply suppressing quality so this point is very debatable. Whatever, part of Monthly Templates is giving you 250 new PLR articles every month so you have no lack of variety and pages to add on.

You also get:

* 50 new professionally designed niche site templates each and every month in these 5 formats: HTML, HyperVRE, XSitePro, WordPress and phpBB

* 3 hours of user-friendly training videos

* Joel’s bestselling “Google AdSense Secrets” worth $97

* Content creation e-book revealing how to write, find, outsource and develop your own content for your virtual real estate sites.

* Several e-books on generating traffic and finding additional ways to monetize your sites.

* The starter kit CD, an indispensable part of the Monthly Templates program, and has material valued at several thousand dollars. This alone is worth the minimal price of admission.

* Something called “Word Page Builder”. It’s kinda sandwiched in the sales copy so it’s easily overlooked. This is a fast-action bonus worth up to $197 so don’t miss this! Not available to the general public (probably until February), you can instantly convert any MS Word document into a website fully optimized with Google AdSense with WPB! Very cool and saves times as well.

Joel will deliver his box pack direct to your door as quickly as possible so you may begin getting to work on your sites asap.

Then, the “monthly” part of Monthly Templates will start in 30 days when Joel will be sending you a NEW CD, packed with 50 brand new professionally designed templates in all formats with graphics, private label rights articles and a new special exclusive bonus!

If you just want to get an endless supply of articles, I recommend Cody Moya’s Your Own Articles which gives 850 PLR articles every month + niche keyword lists to boot too.

The alternative offer to Monthly Templates is the one which I came to know only today: “The ONLY 100% Hand-crafted AdSense Templates That Are Validated by W3C and Loved by Google!” Upgrade your membership to access all templates though…only $9.97/month.

There you have it, I’m giving you some choices so you can exercise your freedom in having how and what you want your online business to be. Expect to see 10 more marketers offering W3C-compliant, Google-lovin’ sites next week, haha.

How would you like to get the exact number of web pages and backlinks indexed in Google, Yahoo! and MSN?

These key statistics have mostly been accessible in some highly priced complicated SEO software. Some free web-based and similar services do a similar job of reporting, but they don’t record a day-to-day comparison of the numbers so you can’t get a clear impression of general indexing performance.

But Site Page Tracker is about the change all that!

Site Page Tracker uses a PHP script to accomplish its magic. Server installation is a snap, and as you can see from the picture above, your stats are saved each time the software runs a cron job. You can even copy & paste into a spreadsheet to chart your data. It tracks article listing too!

Site Page Tracker installs on your own domain and can track as many domains as desired from a single installation. Daily updates can be forwarded to you by email automatically. You’d be very surprised to find out why the search engines can de-indexed, re-indexed, de-indexed, re-indexed hundreds of pages every day…

Sharlene Raven has released her New Year Firesale containing 134 Internet Marketing and niche products + 16 MRR bonuses, inclusive of SPT and other very interesting e-books and software…

Promotion ends on January 14th.

By investing in her firesale, you are also helping to cover medical expenses for her husband Scott. This is no ‘sob’ story…it’s a real human crisis at work since early last year! You are giving her husband back, and you are giving Sheyenne and Stormy their daddy back!

On January 8th, we mentioned a new coaching program by Gregg Hall and since then there are folks who asked good questions about how the coaching is carried out, the validity of its current pricing and so on. We quote Gregg at his words:

“I just wanted to be sure you know that the personal coaching from me is just what it says. What I mean by that is that I am not involving any staff which is why I am able to offer it at a rate so much less than many others, but I also still have my other businesses to run and I have a family so please be patient on response times especially in the evening and on weekends.

“A big part of our business relationship is going to be based on trust and mutual respect. I opened the coaching program to fulfill a need that I saw and truly want to help everyone who joins but please be realistic on time constraints and also make use of the immense resources I have given you in the member’s area. The subscription you are paying for is the hourly coaching per month. The member’s area, including the forum I am working on by the end of the month, and where you will be able to bounce ideas off each other and even do business with each other, are bonuses.

“I am here to help you but I need to focus on what you need help with most. What I am finding with most people I am talking to is that the biggest problem they have is just that, a lack of focus. I can give you detailed help on one subject in a one-hour consult, if you choose several topics, it is not going to give you the results you want.

“Internet Marketing is like eating an elephant, there’s a lot to eat and it can be done, but it takes time. I have been marketing online since 1995 or so and I still learn something new everyday. How long have you been marketing?

“If you haven’t already done so, take the time to put together the areas that you wish to receive your first consultation on so that I can be prepared to help you to the best of my ability.”

Coaching is the beef, but we capture just some of the goodies in the members’ area as you see above. Gregg is going to bring you up to speed with making sense of and optimizing the all the Internet Marketing resources you have.

If you have any further questions, we encourage you to get in touch with Gregg to see how he can fulfill your needs. Click on the Helpdesk link on this page.

Uncle Jolly lives just a block away from me and is very good at event management, networking for business contacts and defining business processes. If I need to look up to him for help, he treats me to a drink instead…

About 2 weeks ago, Mr. Richard Quek dropped by so together with old friend Jolly Tan, we had supper!

Past encounters were rather brief so this time we had a great chat for more than 2 hours. I had tears in my eyes from laughter and breathlessness as he related his own adventures online, the good…MAINLY the bad and ugly crossfire-style. OMOM…

I promise you more mobshots in the future. You should take pictures for fun too.

Richard previously launched his TIMM eSeminar physical package in October 2006 for $497. Since then he received many requests for an online version that is more affordable.

So as a way of welcoming 2007, he has prepared all the softcopy versions of his materials ready on offer–the TIMM eSeminar online version. If you are interested in learning the basics of Internet marketing without all the hype, take a look here.

This is a MUST for Internet Marketing beginners.

If you’ve been pondering about setting up a membership site, just to let you know you can watch an exclusive demo of how you can get Easy Member Pro up and running in minutes with all your preferred settings. It’s supposed to be ‘Easy’.

Easy Member Pro is a cutting-edge membership site software created by Kim Standerline & Anthony Hull. You can handle administration of multiple subscription periods—monthly, 3-month, 6-month, 12-month and 1-time and different payment options for each level, to the extent that members can get a discount for signing up for longer periods (a good flexible feature). There is also a whole lot more you can do to communicate with affiliates and plain paying members separately.

If you have been pondering a membership subscription model for your online business, this should come just in time.