Email marketing is more timeless than most businesses and marketing professionals think, it has been claimed. According to online marketing industry expert Jeanniey Mullen email marketing campaigns can do so much more than offer temporary, time-limited promotions. Writing for ClickZ, she claimed that email marketing also acts as a PR statement for a firm and can reinforce – or undermine – a business’s brand. Ms Mullen said: “Every e-mail sent to your customers is actually a lifelong statement...

No wonder why many (notice, I didn't say or imply all) newbies aren't successful, even after spending months and years in IM marketing.

Here's the reason why, aka secret: They are unknown and untried. They can blog all they like. They can create products from whatever means now until hell freezes over and they can keep spending money until it snows in July, and still not earn a single time for all of the effort they made.

This is really a shame. Those newbies may have...

I'm sure you know what I mean. You've probably seen a few of these videos.

You know, the ones that simply take too long.

It's like you want to scream - "Shut up already and get to the friggin point! Oh and while you're at it.... please stop going on and on about how great the idea your about to tell us is, and then when you finally get to it, it takes less than 10 words to explain.

I didn't need a 20 minute video for that!!!

and...

Ideas are all around us, and nothing feels more exciting than coming up with a fantastic idea that you know will absolutely work. The difficult part for most, however, is taking those ideas and turning them into an actionable plan.

Here are a few tips to help you get started:

#1 – Write out a plan of attack. You have an idea - fantastic! Now is a good time to write out a fail-proof plan of how you will act on that idea. Detail in writing how your idea will work and break...

I have several twitter accounts for various niches.

I use the main one Pearlydean for Internet Marketing and general blogging work.

If you look at this account you will see (at the time of this post) that I have over 22,000 followers.

Now to get this many followers is quite easy if you know what you are doing. Many of these followers interact with me on a regular basis and this makes the communication worthwhile.

A lot of people I talk...