I just finished Dan Kennedy and Matt Zagula's book called Trust-Based Marketing. You can read my full review here: http://kickbutt.im/tips/detailed-rev...arketing-book/

The lesson? Are you maximizing your affiliate marketing efforts by using your own reviews and getting Amazon affiliate commissions?

For the book I could have just written a review on Amazon. Or, as I did, I wrote a detailed review on my website and then included an affiliate...

I am doing some end of the year website analysis, and in the referrer stats for http://dirtcheapautoresponder I saw the following:

A few points about this I thought were worth quickly posting about:

Free Web Stats

First, the website referrer stats are available for free without giving Google my valuable keyword and website data. I don't use Google Analytics. The stats I was looking at were...

I recently wrote a blog post about vacation autoresponders and how they differ from autoresponder programs like AWeber.

Here, I want to expand upon the reason for such a post - a concept useful for many marketers.

That is, simply, you can never understimate the lack of knowledge someone may have on a topic.

The difference between AWeber and a vacation response - oh that is easy and something you know is "obvious." But, was it is obvious the first...

Each year I make a grandiose resolution for the next year. If it wasn't for continual Google slaps, competition, laziness, and other nonsense, the resolutions would be obtainable.

Alas, they end up being unrealistic.

But, let's be an optimist! By the end of 2013 I want to be making $30,000 per day.

Yowsa, that's a big number!

Here is what it will take:

- A lot more pages doing well with Google SEO. Then the money flows into affiliate...

The best autoresponder? It depends on your needs. At its core an autoresponder simply sends emails on a pre-determined schedule.

But, as you can see in this feature chart there is a wide variety of pricing and options available. Here are some factors to consider:


COST AND BENEFIT

Cost is the price of the autoresponder, and benefit is how much you make from using it.

Hopefully, there is more benefit than cost, but that is not the situation...