[Update: August 17th: Greg Jacobs' "The Assassination target" launched today. Copies were expected to sell out in about 5 days. However, demand has apparently far outstripped what was anticipated and the doors are expected to close within 24 hours. That's quite phenomenal for a $1997 product! So the question is: am I buying this product? No. That's not because I think badly of the product, think it's over-priced or any such reason. I simply don't have the time available to follow another course as I'm already invested in Alex Jeffreys marketing course and Mike Johnson's Autoblog Blueprint course. The Assassination might be the course for you, so check out the video on the sales page.]

I just received word from Greg Jacobs that he’s launching a new training course called The Assassination on August 17th. It teaches how to create a product and launch it, starting from nothing and ending up with a viable product.

Beyond that, the only info I have is this short blurb on the course:

The Assassination is an 8 week webinar coaching program that will take participants through the course materials to ensure success.

By the end of these 8 weeks they will have created and launched their own product.

This takes students from the beginning, starting with nothing, to creating a complete product, sales letter, website, running a launch and creating a sustainable long term income.

We also provide them with the tools they need; members receive lifetime access to The Assassins Guild (an online networking platform to build their team). They also receive lifetime access to FusionHQ – revolutionary software allowing people to build their online business from a centralized platform – no coding required, even a non-techie can do it.

I was poking around checking some affiliate links today when I came across some offers on quality internet marketing products. I’ve no idea how long these offers will last so use your on judgement.

First up is Market Samurai, a top-notch keyword research tool. If you build websites for profit or you’re looking for keywords to do article marketing on, then this is a superb tool. It pulls keywords from Google and provides a range of tools for analyzing those keywords for relevancy to your niche, checking the competition (and strength of that competition), hoe much traffic those keywords get and whether they’re profitable or not. There are numerous way to find out more about your competition so you can decide if a niche is worth going into or if it’s just too competetive. If you’re stuck for an affiliate program to match your selected niche, it will provide a list of suitable programs for you and will advise you on the best offers to promote. It will even find content for you. Use the above link to save 35% on the regular price for the software.

Next is Keyword Elite 2.0. Another top-notch keyword research tool. While it doesn’t have the same set of tools as Market Samurai, it does pull keywords from other sources as well as Google, so keywords come from other search engines and may not be used as search terms in Google. This gives you a wider range of keywords. The software itself provides SEO insights, quickly allows you to determine if your keywords will target buyers or window shoppers, find high CPA offers, uncover niches and sub niches pretty much on demand. Normally selling for $297, Keyword Elite 2.0 is currently on offer for $97.

Then there’s Auto Blog Blueprint 2.0 which is a course that teaches you how to build successful autoblogs (it’s easy to build unsuccessful blogs; building a successful one takes more care and effort). This is unquestionably the best autoblogging course available. It’s techniques and methodologies can be applied to regular blogs as well to help them do better in the search engines. If you don’t know what an auto blog is, it’s a blog that has content added to it automatically on autopilot. Normally $147, you can get the course for $97 using this exclusive coupon: BEC006C89A. The course is updated frequently (at no additional cost) and consists of a mixture of text pages (like an online ebook) and a series of videos. There’s also a forum for members.

If you do article marketing or are looking for content for your websites, you could do a lot worse than Article Underground. Each month, you get 400 high traffic, low competition, exact keyword phrase optimized articles of at least 400 words. They also have a network of 44 high quality blogs (plus over 80 more member contributed announcements blogs too!), covering broad & specific niches and general topics where you can promote your own sites and pages (i.e. instant quality backlinks). There’s also a load of special reports, tutorials & videos available to members. Membership is normally $97 per month, but using the above link, you can get a year’s membership for $399 (equivalent to $33.25 per month – a saving of 66%).

Lastly, $7 Deals have reduce the prices on all their video sets to $7 (they normally only sell video sets for $7 for a week before permanently raising the price). Video set range from SEO techniques to article marketing, working with Camtasia to creating brandable reports, and other internet marketing related topics.

It’s quite a while since I bought myself a gadget. My trusty old Dell Axim PDA finally gave up the ghost and I also needed a new MP3 player. PDA’s seem to have been subsumed into cellphones over the last few years, so it seemed that the best upgrade/replacement path was to opt for a smartphone.

Apple’s iPhone gets rave reviews, but there have been a lot of complaints recently about their draconian control over what apps are allowed onto the iPhone platform. I’ve been hearing that apps that currently available are actually being removed from the marketplace because Apple deems them unsuitable for whatever reason they deem appropriate. It’s that old monopolistic ethic at work again…”It’s our way or the highway; you’re either with us or against us.” (imagine the only place you could buy books published by HarperCollins was their designated store).

I prefer platforms where such strict controls aren’t in place which is one reason I never strayed into Apple Mac territory when developing software applications. Now I’ve never used a Mac, don’t know anyone who’s owned one or who’s ever written software for one. I’ve only seen them up close in high-street stores and didn’t like what I saw (design-wise). Nothing about Apple’s products has ever enticed me (in fact, they just put me off).

The iPhone does look good though but it’s expensive and, from what I can see, you need to be tied into a contract to use one. Not for me. Things have moved on now since the iPhone was first introduced and it’s revolutionary interface isn’t that revolutionary any more.

So, since I wanted an unlocked (sim-free) phone that would double as a PDA/MP3/Video player, I looked around at what was available. A friend brought the HTC Desire to my attention as he’d just bought one. I guess I fell in love with it ‘cos I went out and bought one! I found the cheapest offer on Pixmania (€469/£399) but cheaper prices might be available on eBay.

It’s a lovely piece of kit. The screen is fantastic – AMOLED (Active Matrix Organic Light-Emitting Diode) – crisp, bright, 480×800 pixels, easily read in daylight and doesn’t suffer contrast drops when seen at an angle.

The HTC Desire has a built-in MP3 player and video player (though it only plays MP4 files, so AVI’s and other video formats have to be converted for playing). It will sync with my Outlook calendar and contacts, can be connected to my PC as an external drive, can piggyback on my wi-fi connection for surfing the web, has a digital compass and GPS, and on and on. In other words, it’s a techie’s dream.

So, this is a phone I own (I’m not tied into a contract with it) which will probably get used more as a PDA than a phone. There are many places to get software for the phone. The iPhone has seniority here, but the HTC cellphone’s are proving to be very popular and getting great reviews and that means more and more apps will become available for the phone over the coming months.

Tim Bekker’s Autoresponder Code launched earlier today.

The Autoresponder Code is unlike other email marketing products. Rather that teaching you “How to build your list” or “How to drive traffic to your website”, in instead focuses on a largely unknown area of email marketing, offering simple tricks and techniques you can instantly use to :

- build a strong and positive relationship to your opt in list subscriber

- personalize your websites for your subscribers

- increase your squeeze page conversion rate massively

- increase your confirmation rate

- build your own affiliate program just by using your autoresponder

There are more than 25 techniques that aim to increase your profits dramatically.

Pros:

It’s a pretty good course on how to go about list building and the psychology behind opt-ins and listbuilding and it will help you to maximise your list building efforts.

Bekker is also providing 3-Tiers in which affiliates can earn from promoting this system.

Cons:

If you don’t have a list yet, then you’re probably better off not buying the course until you have created one. The course doesn’t teach you how to drive traffic to your opt-in pages, so you’ll need to go elsewhere to learn that skill.

Ever have one of those days when just about everything seems to go wrong? Well, I’ve pretty much had a week of that. Some things went well, most didn’t.

So what did go right (I’m starting with this list because it’s much shorter than the things that went wrong!)?

1. I released the latest edition of my SiteBuilder Elite software. That had been on the back burner somewhat, because I’ve been dedicating time to following Alex Jeffreys in his coaching program.

2. I released the latest edition of my LunarPhase Pro software. This has absolutely nothing to do with internet/affiliate marketing – it’s a software tool for amateur astronomers that predicts various lunar phenomena, contains an interactive Moon atlas and other stuff.

3. I got my most recent blog post written up and published (My Article Marketing Strategy).

4. I managed to get a Squidoo lens set up for my training with Alex Jeffreys.

Now for what’s gone wrong…
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If you use link cloaking for eBay links on your site, or still have Build A Niche Store (BANS) sites around that are running every link through a 302 redirect, you have 4 weeks to fix it, or your eBay Partner Network (ePN) account will be expired (SiteBuilder Elite users: SBE does not cloak eBay links, so no nothing to worry about).

ePN has a post about this on their blog, and in the last paragraph… it’s very clear:

If you are currently using a 302 redirect in a method similar to the one described above, please inform us by emailing CS and make the appropriate changes immediately. From June 8th 2010, we will treat this issue as an intentional breach of our terms and conditions and any affiliate exhibiting this behavior will be expired.

In other words – FIX IT!

The easiest solution is to just switch to phpBay, with it’s latest updates!

If you do currently use phpBay, either on your blogs or traditional websites, you will need to update your auction file on all affected sites. You should have received an email from Wade Wells (phpBay author) informing you of the changes you need to make.

Remember, you’ve only got till June 8th to make the change or ePN will terminate your account.

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I have a Deal for you available on Seven Buck Deals for Domain Cash Generator, a series of 7 videos that show you how to find and flip or sell domains for cash…

The Domain investing industry is not dead as some would have you believe.

There are millions of common keyword phrases out there, that people are willing to pay for …which means there are domain names people will gladly pay BIG Bucks to own.

That’s where this video series comes in. You see, not only will these videos show you how to find profitable domain names, but they’ll also show you how to increase the ‘value’ of these domain names …so when it comes time time to sell them, you will make a nice profit on your investment. All you need to do, is follow the simple, legal techniques, set out in this 7-part video series.

The videos are $17 until April 29th. Then until May 2nd, they’ll be $27. Thereafter, they’ll be available at their full retail price of $37.

A bit of late-breaking news: I’ve just heard that Article Underground is running another membership Firesale. You can get a year’s membership for $299 (that works out at $24.91 per month instead of the regular fee of $97 per month) – you won’t find this offer on their main sales page.

Membership gets you 400 PLR articles each month, video training on ways to use the articles and (best of all) access to a blog network where you can post articles and snippets to get quality backlinks to your sites.

The price goes up by $50 for every 10 memberships that are sold.

Now, if you have ever seen a firesale, you know how it works. The basic premise is you start at a very low price and as units are sold, the price goes up. That way the folks that know what they want and act fast are rewarded with a lower price than those who “think it over” and wait.

First 10 fast movers get it for $299. Next 10 will be $349. Next 10 will be $399. Next 10 will be $449.

The Regular Price is $499 for a year when you prepay (still a big saving on paying monthly at $97).

George Montague Brown may not be a name you’ve come across (even though it is memorable). He’s been in the internet marketing business for about 2 years and is the author of  Google Sniper, which describes a method for building profitable affiliate sites.

He’s just come up with a way of pulling a huge amount of traffic using YouTube. No, you don’t have to create your own videos and upload them. The method is ingenious and he details it for free in these videos (the link takes you to Video #3 but you should watch Videos #1 and #2 first):

Leveraging YouTube Traffic

I’ve just finished creating an updated video for promoting SiteBuilder Elite.

The video shows viewers what’s involved in setting up and building a site and how changing some settings can alter the look and layout of a site. The video also shows how the software automatically downloads articles to create content-rich sites.

You can promote SiteBuilder Elite with this video using the following link:
http://www.sitebuilderelite.com/Introduction?id=YOURID

You’ll need a Clickbank account to promote the software. Simply replace “YOURID” in the link with your own Clickbank ID/Nickname.

The link that appears below the video will include your affiliate id.

If you don’t have a Clickbank account, you can get one here.