Review: Article Marketing Domination
By Alan | July 1, 2008
I just finished reading Josh Spaulding’s Article Marketing Domination which I found to be an excellent blueprint for writing articles that will pull traffic to your website.
This is a fluff-free, no hype, step-by-step guide to article marketing.
Lets face it, writing articles to drive traffic to your websites is a must. Josh does a great job detailing the step-by-step process.
Here is my video review of Article Marketing Domination (which I highly recommend):
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Grab Your Lifestyle
By Alan | June 29, 2008
Have you heard of Lee McIntyre? He is a former teacher from the U.K. who is now a very successful Internet marketer. He literally (no BS here) went from Zero to a Six Figure Income In Just 56 Days!
But unlike many in this business he tells you that it wasn’t a walk in the park…
“I Worked a Mind Numbing 14+ Hours Every Day”
Lee McIntyre is one of those rare gems. He absolutely cares about his list. He has helped me review my e-books and promoted my Niche Podcasting e-book. Very few at his level would help out someone who doesn’t have much to offer him (as in a huge list-which-I don’t have). But that is the teacher in Lee McIntyre. Always wanting to help and teach.
His posts on the Internet marketing forums are famous for the amount of free information he gives. I blogged about a few months ago how this post of Lee McIntyre was the best of 2007-IMHO.
Lee has released an audio product and transcript called, Grab Your Lifestyle, which is just amazing. He lays out how to succeed in this crazy business without working yourself to the bone like he did.
I’m in the same boat. I left my corporate America job because I was sick of working my tail off for someone else. And although I enjoy what I do now, I’m putting in 14 hours in myself. So Lee’s Grab Your Lifestyle was really an eye-opener for me.
You get Lee’s 70 minute audio recording with an Internet marketing legend discussing how to achieve that Internet marketing lifestyle plus a full transcript of the audio recording for only $10. Trust me it’s worth more than that. So check out his website and pick this gem up for only $10.
If you’re not on Lee’s list, I highly suggest you head over to his blog and sign up. It’s one of the best. One you will actually read. 
>>>>Grab Your Lifestyle<<<<<
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Backlinks with Directory Submitter
By Alan | June 28, 2008
I’ve been blogging about how I outsourced the directory submission process to someone from Digital Point forums. He was charging $90 for five sites to 1,300 directories. All done manually.
He did a great job and I was impressed with the results but as I publish more and more eBay niche stores his fees start to add up.
I’ve found Brad Callen (Elite series products like Keyword Elite) and his directory submitting software, Directory Submitter. He has a free version (300 directories) so I’m going to give a try.
His gold edition costs $76 but has over 2,000 directories listed and it allows you to add more directories manually. I like the ideal of paying $76 once for all my sites vs. paying $18-27 per site.
I’ll try the free version of Directory Submitter tomorrow and if I like it, I’ll upgrade to the gold edition. So, stay tuned for updates.
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Social Bookmarking At Work
By Alan | June 26, 2008
Interesting stats on my social bookmarking expirement for my WordPress eBay-phpBay stores. I used a free service to bookmark my site on 47 social bookmarking sites. I liked the results enough that I’ve now purchased Social Bookmarking Demon (review soon). I wouldn’t use SB Demon for this blog but for my eBay niche stores it looks perfect.
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Yahoo Domains Information Super Highway Robbery
By Alan | June 22, 2008
Warning: Yahoo Domains Increases Price from $9.95 to $34.95
A few years ago when Yahoo domains first started offering domain reg services they were charging $1.99 for unlimited .com domains.
That was a sweet deal, so I picked up a bunch of domains. I’ve been transferring them out since Yahoo Domain services are terrible for domaining (example: they have no push capabilities so to sell a domain registered with Yahoo, you need to transfer it out of there).
Anyway, I still have 11 domains registered with Yahoo Domains. These are domains I was lazy to transfer over to Go Daddy so I just renewed them with Yahoo for $9.95 which is more than I pay for domains but as I already wrote, I was lazy.
Needless to say I was shocked when I got this email from Yahoo Domains:
Talk about bait and switch. Lure you in for $1.99 than increase it to $9.95 and now they’re sticking to you for $34.95.
I don’t know if they’re on crack or they just want to weed out domainers so only small business suckers who don’t know $34.95 per year for a domain registration is complete rip off, are left with Yahoo Domians.
Needless to say the transfer of my remaining domains with Yahoo Domains to Go Daddy is in progress. Soon Yahoo Domains will be nothing buy a memory for me.
I just wish the small business owner would research to easily find domains at under $10 per year before being ripped off by Yahoo Domains.
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Thin Affiliate Sites
By Alan | June 20, 2008
Content is king. It is so true. Although I’m building some rather thin-ish eBay niche stores the bottom line is for long-term success they needed to be fattended up with quality content.
This article about the future of thin sites by Mark Hansen is an eye-opener. He has some pretty popular BANS sites like ShopFamilyGuy.com.
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Niche Store Directory
By Alan | June 18, 2008
I’ve been pretty heavy into building my eBay niche store empire 
and today I’ve officially unveiled my own directory for eBay and Amazon niche store owners at Niche Stores Unleashed Directory.
You can find more info and watch a video of the directory in action via my Niche Stores Unleashed blog and reading the “Directory” page by clicking here.
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Twitter Problems
By Alan | June 17, 2008
It looks like Twitter is getting too popular. I’ve been getting this a lot instead of being able to tweet:
Hopefully they start adding some more capacity to support all the new twitters so we don’t keep having these down times.
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eBay Niche Store Blog
By Alan | June 17, 2008
As you might know, I have been building eBay niche stores using phpBay and WordPress for about a month now. I’ve been blogging about my progress and my niche stores a lot lately. I’m enjoying the eBay niche store concept and I’m spending more time at developing new niche stores. So I’ve decided to start a new blog dedicated to my eBay niche stores.
I would love to hear your feedback about my new blog. Internet Marketing Nirvana will continue to be my main marketing blog so I’ll keep blogging about the crazy world of Internet marketing.
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MXL Mic Mate Review
By Alan | June 15, 2008
I just love the MXL Mic Mate which allows me to easily connect my condenser mic to my computer via USB. Here is my video review of the MXL Mic Mate and you can see it in action.
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