As usual I only recommend what I use. Make sure you check out this awesome software. They have a free trial, so it’s a no brainer.
I think this is so important that I’m going to offer a limited time bonus.
LIMITED TIME BONUS UNTIL END of MAY 2010
As a marketing test, anyone that buys Replay Media Catcher via that link, can choose ONE of my software products and have that for FREE. Backup Smart $37, or Script Smart $67, or Affiliate Page Pro $97. Just submit your receipt to the support area, and I’ll hook you up. Strict time limit on the bonuses, at the end of MAY I’ll pull this.
Let me know what you think of being able to easily capture, save and download streaming video or media directly to your hard drive, by just leaving me a comment below.
Aaron
Another little FREE tool has just jumped onto my radar and made it into my stable of useful software tools.
It’s called Michelle MacPhearson’s Rank Decoding Engine, and it’s actually the most no frills software I’ve used in many many years. I just love these internet marketing launches with all the freebies, some of them are really great.
Look out geek speak ahead! No installer, no update mechanism. Just a super tiny (10kb) executable file which is basically a wrapper around an inbuilt browser to Michelle’s server based scripts. Superb use of software!
Watch my video review of it now.
Super easy eh, let me know how you go with uncovering super targeted link opportunities in your market. Leave me a comment below.
Get the FREE rank decoding engine software from here …
http://websmartcentral.com/rankdecoder
Talk soon.
Aaron
If you are only new to internet marketing then you might not know what the Butterfly Marketing phenom is from Mike Filsaime is all about.
If you’ve been around for a few years then you will know all about it, and probably even own a copy of the Butterfly Marketing Manuscript (like myself) or even the software itself.
The Butterfly Marketing software is basically a content management system (think of Wordpress) for setting up a website that can handle one time offers / upsells / downsells / and inbuilt affiliate system.
Runs on most hosts, with PHP and mySQL
Well after years since it’s first release as paid software and it’s now just been released as Open Source (free to use / modify).
This doesn’t really happen in internet marketing circles so kudos to Mike Filsaime for starting what I forsee as becoming more popular technique, giving away the software source and offering developers a paid forum infrastructure.
Since I’m a developer and could create websites, I’ve never used the software, since I only ever purchased the Butterfly Marketing Manuscript and implemented the concepts as needed.
However I’ve now just downloaded the Butterfly Marketing Open Source code and will be installing it on one of my niche sites to test it out.
I’ll return back to this post and report my findings real soon as a Butterfly Open Source Code Review.
PS. I’m on a LOT of marketers email lists. As I’m sure you are, and you’ve probably received a pile of all the same emails promoting the launch of Butterfly Open Source Code. What a joke, and jeez I hate it!!! Jeff Johnson was the only one that took the time to write a simple email about it in his own words. The rest just copied the affiliate copy that Mike put together. Why can’t people just put some personalisation into their promotions. I guess looking at the flip side, I’m not the average IM user, and am on far to many lists, just to see what everyones up to.
Talk soon
Aaron
Let me show you how I use online live chat to increase sales and have better customer support.
Watch this video.
As mentioned in the video leave me a comment on this blog post if you would be interested in an info product that makes this super easy to setup on your own site and / or across multiple niches. Videos on installing and setting up the Livezilla chat software (Windows only I’m affraid people), and the script to get a nice hover popup over your existing pages. Which is the best way to get a chat going. Not some static live help image sitting off to the side of the website that no one sees.
For those brave souls that like a challenge and do it on your own, make sure you get started with LiveZilla.
Forget all the paid chat services, they can’t handle multiple instances of the chat software which is what internet marketers need. Those with multiple personalities anyway 
Talk soon
Aaron
Thought I’d answer a question from the warrior forum on my blog with a video. I know some of your will want to know this. Watch below.
How to delay a buy button or link to appear on your website after a certain amount of time. This is popular for video sales letters so that visitors are forced to watch to a certain point in the video.
Of course this method is so crude that the visitor just needs to pause the video on your webpage and come back to it later and the button / link will have appeared since it’s just on a timer and not triggered from the video player. So if you need to sync this up to appear when you are speaking about it in the video, you’ll need the more advanced method.
The more advanced method is hooking the javascript up to an event from the flash player at the 15th minute for example. JWplayer (my favourite web based flash FLV player) has this ability, but that’s a whole other video tutorial since it’s an advanced approach.
But why make it hard for yourself, just do it this way it’ll cover you for most cases.
Stick this in the header area of your code
<script type="text/javascript">
function showBuyLink() {
document.getElementById("buylink").style.visibility = "visible";
}
// adjust this as needed, 1 sec = 1000
setTimeout("showBuyLink()", 5000);
</script>
Stick this around your buy link code.
<div id="buylink" style="visibility: hidden"> <!-- put all your add to cart buy links and images inside this hidden div --> <p style="text-align:center; font-size:26px;"> <a href="http://mybuylink">Add to Cart or Buy Link</a> </p> </div>
Talk soon
Aaron
Watch this video as I review Peter Drew’s Brute Force SEO EVO II
If you have a website or know someone that does and you want to get higher search engine rankings then Click This Link to get your 7 Day FREE Trial of this automated link building software.
Here’s some videos of Peter Drew’s that show you EVOII working…
Now that you’ve watched all the videos, here’s my thoughts in writing.
My review of Brute Force SEO EVO II is simple. I use it and happily pay for the privledge of using it every month.
I use it on my niche websites, I use it on my software websites, I use it on my offline business websites, and I use it on my clients websites.
Now I even charge clients for SEO on a monthly which makes up a nice side income for my business.
I never wanted to do SEO for my local business clients before I started using EVOII because it’s just so much work doing the link building (off page work). But now I’m using EVOII and the power of automation it’s so much easier.
I wouldn’t use it much less recommend it, if it didn’t do what it says on the box. It’s an automated link building tool. Period.
This means that it’s not the be-all and end-all of marketing your website, but it sure cuts down on a MASSIVE amount of drudge work that I used to do by hand. Even outsourced.
Dan Raine (from ThirtyDayChallenge / ImmediateEdge) got me onto this software and I thank him for that. Now I’m passing on my findings to you.
Click here to take the free trial and I’m sure that one day soon you’ll be thanking me in a blog post like this one.
Talk soon
Aaron
Thank you to all my software and information product users for your continued support throughout 2009.
2009 was a big year with Backup Smart being launched, and new versions of Script Smart, and Affiliate Page Pro using Adobe AIR being relaunched.
All my software now runs across all platforms, Windows, MAC OSX, Linux.
Reputation Smart was launched as well.
I’m currently working on a new information / software product at the moment which I’ve slated to release in late January. I’m currently testing it across my internet marketing niches and my non internet marketing niches as well. Will talk more about it later.
You guys and gals will be the first to see it and use it of course.
Best wishes for your holiday season, and take care.
Talk soon
Aaron
PS Thank you to my children for helping me record such a wonderful song to use in the video above.
PPS Leave a comment here and let me know what you think of the video. It’s really easy to make one like this using animoto.com (another free tip from me to you to grow your online business)
There are some new addons that have made it into the v2.34 upgrade for Affiliate Page Pro.
If you don’t know what Affiliate Page Pro is, quite simply it’s an affilate page builder that creates a webpage with all your affiliate tools on it, that seemlessly integrates capturing the affiliates email address and modifying all the tools with the affiliates customised affiliate link already embedded in them. The affiliate simply copies and pastes which ever tool they would like to use to promote your product.
Here is the now current list of affiliate tools that you can provide on this wiz bang affiliate page.
- EMail Copy (initial and followup emails)
- Video Ads (very cool new feature takes any youtube video and adds your affiliate link to a clickable region of the video)
- Blog Posts
- Articles (new)
- Keyword Lists (new)
- PPC Ads (new)
- Email Signatures
- Forum Signatures
- Site Reviews
- Ezine Ads
- Box Artwork
- Banner Ads
As you can see it’s quite extensive and if you give your affiliates even 1/2 of these you’ll be doing more than most product owners that just slap up a sales page and expect their affiliates to promote them.
Check out the affiliate tools page for Affiliate Page Pro as an example.
http://affiliatepagepro.com/affiliates
This is what all affiliate tools pages should be like. I just wish product owners that want affiliates to promote for them would spend the time to set this up.
Current Affiliate Page Pro 2 users need to simply start the software and it will self update to the new version.
I haven’t bothered to add a Twitter feature to the software, because quite frankly if an affiliate can’t think of 100 characters to write to promote your product, with a shortened link of their choice, then they are a lost cause.
If anything I could add a Twitter section, and just have the text there as prompters, and the affiliate could just add in their shortened affiliate URL of choice.
Let me know your thoughts on adding Twitter as an new option to the software. Just reply by adding a comment on this blog post.
Aaron
At the request of users over the last couple of months, several new features have been added to Backup Smart – the cPanel website backup software application.
Those that own the software get all updates for FREE.
Here’s what was added in version 1.26…
* A very handy option to only include in the scheduled backup logs those sites that failed their backups. So for those with lots of websites they can quickly see if anything failed which needs their attention.
* Added a minimize on startup feature (in settings menu) – Backup Smart always had the option to start on system startup, but now it can minimise as well.
* Added ability to bulk import tasks from a CSV file. This is mainly for power users. Instead of creating tasks from scratch for many websites, you can now load all the data into a CSV spreadsheet and then import it straight into Backup Smart.
For those that haven’t checked out Backup Smart yet, go and grab yourself a FREE 7 day trial of the software.
For those that own a copy of Backup-Smart just restart the software and it should self update.
Talk soon
Aaron
My first Wordpress plugin is such a simple one, but it works like a charm.
So you want to get more comments on your blog posts, but most non technical and non blog savvy visitors have trouble finding how to get from the front page of your blog to the comments area of an individual post.
This plugin solves that by including a dedicated and in your face link at the bottom of each of your posts (not pages) that points the visitor directly to the comment response area.
You can see the plugin in action for an example of the add your comment link … http://truckiesonline.com
Download the Add Comment Link Wordpress Plugin directly from the Wordpress plugins directory. Since this plugin is free I thought I’d put it into the directory.
I’d like to add some options to this to make it better, any ideas just leave me a comment. Or leave a comment if you’ve found it useful.
PS. You can change the text that appears at the bottom of each post to language that makes sense for your site visitors. See the Add Your Comment section under the Settings menu of Wordpress.
Aaron
