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Willie Crawford Giving Away His $397 Internet Marketing Quick Cash Infusion System - Jun 30,2009

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:18:22 GMT

12 1/2 year internet marketing veteran Willie Crawford is giving away his very detailed, step-by-step course on how to go from zero to several thousand dollars per month in online sales.

This course is also currently selling for $397 but Willie is offering it his blog visitors for free.

You basically need to read a PDF report on how to properly research and choose a proper niche, and then drop Willie a note at his help desk, and he will have his team manually set you up with access to this course, which includes a LOT of video lessons on exactly what you need to do.

Willie says that after 12 1/2 years and much success, he basically wants to just give back to the Internet marketing community.

Get complete details and access the course here: http://budurl.com/jvgr

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Buy Land For $100 And Sell For Thousands Using The Power Of The Internet - Jun 29,2009

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:00:00 GMT

While the current worldwide recession is causing major financial strains for many, there are people quietly making small fortunes buying and selling property. For example, I recently chatted with 2 individuals who buy parcels of land for as little as $100 and then turn around and sell it... often for tens of thousands of dollars in a few days. One of these individuals is actually a neighbor that I frequently dine with as I pick his mind :-) They use the power of the internet to do this. To me this is "internet marketing on steroids!" On Monday, June 29th at 3-4pm CST, I'll be interviewing these 2 individuals on my radio show and invite you to join us. You're guaranteed to be amazed. Bring your questions. They are going to be teaching their system too, in a teleseminar series, that I will be taking part in. If you'd like more information on that, please visit: http://LandFor100Dollars.com Willie

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Advanced Twitter Marketing with Doug Champigny - Jun 25,2009

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:00:00 GMT

Many internet marketers look at Twitter, how fast it's growing, and how popular it is, and they wonder how they can market their products on it. Many of the "social marketing experts" tell them that you can't do it... that Twitter is for socializing. Doug Champigny has developed a system for marketing VERY effectively on Twitter. He describes it in his new ebook, "Advanced Twitter Marketing." We'll be discussing why the experts, including many who have products teaching "Twitter marketing" are wrong. We share why Doug's system works. Doug will share how he tested his system, his testing results, etc.

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How To Generate Website Traffic And Business With Press Releases - Jun 25,2009

Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:53:04 GMT

How To Generate Website Traffic And Business With Press Releases
Copyright 2009 by Willie Crawford

Most Internet marketers struggle to get enough website
traffic, yet ignore one of the most powerful tools that
would help solve this problem. Most of them completely
ignore the venerable press release or "news release."

Here's why and how you should start using press releases in your
marketing mix today.

If you use start using press releases today, you'll
probably zip right past your competitors who don't use
them - grabbing major market share. That's reason enough
to actually learn to use this very simple tool.

Those who don't use press releases assume that they are
complicated, or some tool that only PR firms would
understand. In actuality, they are generally just a
1-page summary of some newsworthy event that tells the
media why and how they should contact you to get the full
story. To get the preferred format for a press release,
you only need to "google" the term "press release
template."

The press release is really just suppose to grab the
media person's attention and entice them into contacting
you. That means that it absolutely must have contact
details that will be valid any time. You need to include
a phone number that will be answered, because otherwise
you might miss your BIG opportunity.

One good press release can get you hundreds of thousands
of dollars in free publicity. A decent-sized ad in an
industry magazine could cost you $50,000 or more. Yet,
let the editors at that magazine know that you have a
story that would interest their readers, and they could
give you a free five to ten page spread.

Free publicity in the media is even generally more
effective than paid advertising. The reason is that when
the media features you, they are also indirectly
endorsing you. They are telling their audience, "Here is
someone that we think you should pay attention to!" That
can be very powerful, and doesn't raise the reader's
defenses like reading an ad does.

Press releases can also be used for search engine
optimization. The major search engines crawl all the
major press release sites. They often crawl them almost
continuously. They know that this is the place to find
the latest information on topics that are HOT, and that
their users are actively searching for.

Many search engines often list items found on press
release sites first, before listing any other type of
content. That means that if you have a search engine
optimized press release on one of the popular press
release sites (or on all of the top free press release
sites), you will instantly rank for some of your most
important key words.

The secret to using press releases for search engine
optimization is to make sure that you do have your most
relevant keywords in the title of your press release, as
well as sprinkled throughout the body. If you submit the
press release to sites that allow it, and the press
release is primarily for SEO, you should also have your
most important keywords as anchor text in your
hyperlinks.

After you've written your press release you can submit
it to any of hundreds of paid or free press release sites.
For most purposes, you probably don't need to use a paid
site. Just submit to the top 10-20 free press release
sites and your press release will be syndicated all over
the Internet.

Since media personalities often search for sources/experts
on the Internet, if your press release is in enough places,
it will get noticed.

Now that you know press releases are a very effective tool,
start using them today. Publish press releases often. Do
it before your competitors discover them :-)

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Willie Crawford is a 12-year veteran of internet marketing.
One of his favorite methods of driving visitors to his, and
his clients websites is via search engine optimized press
releases. He submits his press releases to dozens of the top
sites using the automatedpress release submission service at
http://EasyPushButtonTraffic.com

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Joint Ventures - What Works In Leveraging Others' Assets - Jun 24,2009

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:00:00 GMT

into others' lists, website traffic, products, name recognition, and credibility. Learn how to put together irresistible joint venture offers Discover the best way to contact potential joint venture partners and get your joint venture proposals heard and responded to. Most people that I see making joint venture proposals do so many things wrong, that they probably have a less than 5% chance of even having their offers seriously considered. You don't need to be one of those inadvertently making major mistakes.

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Free Video How To Rapidly Grow Your Blog Traffic - Jun 24,2009

Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:43:35 GMT

You don't see this kind of thing very often, but my good friend Yaro Starak, and his partner Gideon Shalwick from Become A Blogger have just released one of their premium content videos to the general public (no cost)...

http://budurl.com/6ny6

Inside the video, Yaro talks about what he calls "Impact Marketing Techniques" - the kind of tricks he's used himself to drive hoards of new traffic to his own 6-figure income blog.

Now, what makes this video so special?

Well, normally you'd have to pay for it.

But not today...

You can watch it at no cost right now, without one of those silly optin forms - nice for a change really:

http://budurl.com/6ny6

In any case, I just thought I'd let you know about this powerful video, because no matter what you do online, you can never know enough about how to drive crazy amounts of traffic to your blog.

L8er,

Willie

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Insider Secrets To Marketing With Press Releases - Jun 23,2009

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:00:00 GMT

Discover how to write effective, professional looking press releases. Learn how to use press releases both for garnering free publicity AND for search engine optimization purposes. Discover how to leverage your press releases to get them in a LOT more places... almost effortlessly. See my press release template.

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Automated Video Submission Services - What You Need To Know - Jun 23,2009

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:48:04 GMT

Insider Secrets To Marketing Via Video Sharing Sites - Jun 22,2009

Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:00:00 GMT

Discover what it takes to effectively generate traffic and sales from videos that you create and upload to video sharing sites. Discover how to increase traffic to the videos themselves, and how to increase the chances of them going viral. Learn how to make direct sales from video sharing sites. Master creating and uploading a lot more videos, so that you increase the number of signposts that you have out there... all pointing back to you.

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How To Actually Make Money With Article Marketing - Jun 19,2009

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:00:00 GMT

I've written close to 1500 articles over the past 12 years and use them very effectively for making direct sales, and driving traffic & subscribers to my websites. Let's discuss how to write more effective articles and how to distribute them in a way that actually makes you money. I'll share some of my most significant insights with you.

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Marketing On The Fringe - Proven Ways To Generate Website Traffic Like Crazy - Jun 08,2009

Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:00:00 GMT

Bill McRea, creator of the amazing traffic generation course, Marketing On The Fringe, and I will be discussing: Search engine optimization tactics that work, converting that traffic to buyers, automated traffic systems, social marketing, and what so many are doing wrong.

Bill McRea | Search Engine Optimization | Automated Website Traffic Generation | Increasing Website Conversions | Social Marketing

Free WordPress Search Engine Optimization Plugin - May 25,2009

Mon, 25 May 2009 01:04:27 GMT

Free Traffic-Getting SEO Plugin... that's what Jeff Johnson calls it.

It's his newest free SEO software that you can use to grab more free traffic from the search engines.

All you have to do it plug it into your blog and his software does all the rest.

Check it out: http://www.undergroundtraininglab.com/go.php?879382

Don't worry:

If you already have a WP blog you can simply plug it in and let it work its Traffic-Getting magic.

And if you don't have a blog... Jeff shows you how to install a free one in as little as 2 minutes using a secret "push a button" technology that even the newest of newbies could use.

The great thing about Jeff's brand-new Free Traffic-Getting SEO Plugin is that it is...

It couldn't be easier to use and it's...

100% free and Installs in minutes.

Check it out: http://www.undergroundtraininglab.com/go.php?879382

Enjoy!

Willie

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The Truth About Website Traffic Generation - May 17,2009

Sun, 17 May 2009 07:34:46 GMT

The Truth About Website Traffic Generation
Copyright 2009 by Willie Crawford

Without traffic to your websites you have no customers.

Without customers, you have no sales, and really aren't
in business.

So the question becomes, "What really works in generating
website traffic?" Let's look closely at a few proven
method.

1) An email newsletter is a quick way to generate repeat
traffic, but building a list takes time. There is a
popular saying in the Internet marketing community -
"The money is in the list." That's a true statement. With
a responsive list, you can generate sales with the click
of a button.

If you are not building a list right now, then you should
start. Offer an email newsletter or a free ebook or
piece of software to get people onto your list. Then
follow-up with them, delivering valuable information, and
when you offer them products, they will buy.

If you are relatively new to list-building, I recommend
that you start out by contributing one of your ebooks to
a free list-building giveaway. You can find current ones
which are free to join at:
http://FireSaleLegend.com/blog/

2) Pay per click programs (such as Google AdWords) can
generate immediate traffic, but if it doesn't convert, you
can waste a lot of money. As soon as you set up your
pay per click account, and set up a campaign, you can start
to see traffic within minutes. The problem is that,
depending upon your niche, each click could cost you several
dollars.

You pay for each visitor, and there's no guarantee that any
of them will buy anything!

3) Joint ventures are a risk-free way to generate tons of
quick, quality traffic, but it takes time and lots of effort
to build joint venture relationships. Most online marketers
that I know prefer dealing with friends, or people that they
actually know, like, and trust. Building those relationships
takes time and a concerted effort.

That's not to say that you shouldn't use joint ventures to
drive traffic to your offers, you just need to start
building those relationships today. A good place to start is
The Internet Marketing Inner Circle.

The Internet Marketing Inner Circle is a community that I
started back in 2006 as a place for people from numerous
niches and experience levels to work together. It's a place
where members brainstorm, do joint ventures, coach/mentor
each other, and even jointly create products.

Members of The Internet Marketing Inner Circle also get a
free Gold Membership in The International Association of
Joint Venture Brokers. IAJVB is a membership site where
members share information about upcoming product launches
and orchestrate joint ventures. Gold members can enter ALL
of their projects into the full-searchable database. This is
an EXCELLENT way to recruit affiliates/JV partners practically
hands-free.

You can join TIMIC and IAJVB at http:TIMIC.ORG Remember,
TIMIC members get a free year in IAJVB :-)

The truth about joint ventures is that unless you DO start
networking, you'll be an outsider who'll often find it
hard to get JV partners.

4) Creating content that discusses problems and shares
solutions to those problems is one of the most reliable ways
of generating quality free traffic.

That content should include articles, videos, podcasts, and
press releases since your audience members prefers consuming
information in different modalities.

Some prefer reading articles. They often print out an article
and make notes as they read it.

Some prefer watching videos that show them rather than just
telling them. Many of your audience members have spent a LOT
more time watching television than reading, and are
conditioned to learn via watching.

Some prefer listening. They may have hectic schedules and
consume your information by downloading a podcast and then
listening to it while out exercising, or on their long
commute to that job that they hope to leave soon.

Press releases are also an excellent way to get your concise
message into the hands of the right people. The search
engines as well as the media frequently comb press release
sites making press releases an excellent tool for search
engine optimization, and to get free media exposure.

I actually teach that you should start with an article,
turn that same content into a podcast, and create a
video from the same content. With a little creativity, you
can also do press releases related to the topic of your
articles.

Next you need to distribute your content. There are
literally tens of thousands of places where you can
distribute your content, but in each category, only a
handful get significant traffic.

Focus on submitting to the top 10-25 sites in each
category (article, video, podcast and press release).

You can submit manually, but in order to really get
noticed in many niches you need to crank out a LOT of
content. Manually submitting dozens of articles could
become a full-time, incredibly tedious job. Instead, I
recommend using an automated submission service that
complies with the terms of service of the sites that it
submits to.

I personally do my submissions using Easy Push Button
Traffic, and recommend that you do the same. The
proprietary software and method that Easy Push Button
Traffic uses ensure that the sites that you submit to
accept and display your content.

EPBT is at http://EasyPushButtonTraffic.com

The truth about traffic is that you have to figure out
where it's at and stand in front of it. All of the
methods described above allow you to do that. For the
average marketer, creating and distributing content is
the method that's easiest to implement, and that makes
the most sense.

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Willie Crawford is an internet marketing and traffic
generation expert. He often distributes content (articles,
videos, podcasts, and press releases) to generate highly
targeted website traffic. To do that efficiently he uses
the automated service: http://EasyPushButtonTraffic.com

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Here's A Quality, Brisk-Selling Affiliate Product With Recurring Commissions - May 16,2009

Sat, 16 May 2009 23:03:24 GMT

EasyPushButtonTraffic is an all-in-one video, podcast, article and press release submission service.

It's priced at only $37 per month, with a special introductory sale going on now where customers can join for only $27 per month.

Become an affiliate for Easy Push Button Traffic and earn 50% residual commission on each customer for as long as that customer stays.

Each EASY sale is worth $222 per year to you, and this product is selling like hotcakes!

Since Easy Push Button Traffic really is push button easy to use, customers will use it frequently, and therefore will stick around for a long time. So, for each easy sale you make, you'll have commissions coming in for a long time.

We've tested most of the other submission services and haven't found any that work as well as ours. In fact, we discovered that even though the leading submission services often show that your content was accepted, when you log into the sites, it's not on display. We've spent nearly 2 years getting EasyPushButtonTraffic to where your submission actually get through.

Many of the other services are also getting a lot of their users banned for using blackhat tactics, and for not adhering to the sites' terms of service. We are COMPLETELY whitehat and put your customers interest first!

Bottomline, send your customer to us and they get results, and you make lots of money!

Register as an affiliate at: http://www.easypushbuttontraffic.com/partners.html

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Thanks, Willie

Why Most Affiliate Marketers Fail - May 11,2009

Mon, 11 May 2009 01:12:03 GMT

Why Most Affiliate Marketers Fail Copyright 2009 by Willie Crawford

Many people coming online and deciding to sell affiliate products never sell a single product. The reason is glaringly obvious, and it's not the unfortunate affiliate marketer's fault.

Think about any job that you've ever held in the offline world. What happened? You were hired and told when to report for work.

When you showed up for work you were entered into training. Depending upon the job, you spent weeks, sometimes even months, with a trainer guiding you and looking over your shoulder.

Compare that with your typical affiliate program that the complete newbie can join.

You fill out an affiliate registration form and are handed an affiliate link. With some affiliate programs you are also directed to an affiliate resource center.

With a few of the better affiliate programs, you are also directed to some affiliate training videos. The affiliate training videos are the exception rather than the rule.

Affiliate marketers are basically left to figure out what works all on their own.

It's really not much better for new people coming online who decide to launch their own product.

They come online and read over and over again that you really need you own product. So they decide to create one, perhaps putting it on Clickbank, or a somewhat better option - decide to use the Rapid Action Profits script.

These new product owners understand that they need affiliates, so they put a link to an affiliate signup page somewhere on their site. They often stick this affiliate program signup link in the worse possible place - right on their salespage where it distracts buying customers.

As a side-note, a better place to put your affiliate signup invitation is on your download page, or you can tell your new customers about your affiliate program in a follow-up email. What better person to recruit as an affiliate than a satisfied customer who actually knows your product?

These new product owners sign up affiliates, give them their affiliate links (and a few tools) and then wait for the orders to come flooding in.

When the orders don't come surging in, the new product own wonders what he did wrong, and concludes that affiliate programs really don't work.

The problem in both of the above cases is simply a lack of adequate training for affiliates in what works in promoting affiliate products.

The sad part is that there is lots of information available on what has proven to work for top producing affiliates. I, as a super affiliate, have written over 1300 article on the topic of ecommerce. Many of those articles outline techniques that work flawlessly for me.

For the product owner or affiliate program operator, there are entire affiliate training programs in a box. One that I looked at recently included 52 weekly autoresponder training sessions. It even included video lessons to SHOW the struggling affiliate how to do many things.

Each of the weekly lessons in that "affiliate training program in a box" taught a skill that the aspiring affiliate marketer needs to understand.

If you are an affiliate program owner and wants to check out that "affiliate training program in a box" it's at: http://WillieCrawford.com/TrainYourAffiliates/

Seasoned marketers and copywriters understand that marketing is not guessing. It's testing until you discover what works, and then USING those things proven to work.

Seasoned marketers and copywriters understand that they are often WRONG as far as what they think will work. Only the market decides what will work. That's why they don't experiment, but instead stick with the "tried and true."

If you are a new (or unsuccessful) affiliate marketer, your solution is simple - learn and stick with what's already proven to work.

If you are a product owner with an affiliate program that's NOT producing, your solution is simple - train your affiliates.

When you train your affiliate, they will experience success selling your products, and having finally figured it out, will double their efforts in promoting your products.

Like any other paying job in the world, affiliate marketing does require training. Make sure that you're not overlooking this critical element of the online marketing puzzle!

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Willie Crawford has been teaching internet marketing and ecommerce since 1996. As founder of The Internet Marketing Inner Circle he now teaches his tactics in the membership site at http://TheInternetMarketingInnerCircle.com You are invited to join this community of serious marketers today!

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How Any Internet Marketer Can Make $10,000 NEXT Weekend - May 11,2009

Mon, 11 May 2009 00:36:50 GMT

How Any Internet Marketer Can Make $10,000 NEXT Weekend Copyright 2009 by Willie Crawford

Lately, I hear from a LOT of struggling internet marketers. Many of them are worried about paying next month's rent, or having their electricity turned off. In other words, I hear from a lot of internet marketers "with their backs against the wall."

The sad part is that if they've studied internet marketing for a year or so, this is completely unnecessary. They already possess the knowledge to generate as much as $10,000 (or more) in a single weekend. They just haven't learned to properly value and market their know-how.

How does a struggling internet marketer go from zero to $10,000 in a single weekend? You CHANGE who you are marketing to.

Instead of trying to convince other internet marketers that they need some $20 ebook, you market to people with money already budgeted for expertise similar to yours.

The customers that I propose you market your internet expertise to are local offline businesses. Many of the local businesses in your area are struggling, and need your expertise, and are willing to pay for it.

What am I proposing?

I'm suggesting that you put on a 1-day workshop where you TEACH local businesses to use the internet to drive more paying customers through their doors.

You charge a token fee of $100 - $200 (or more) to these local businesses, so that they value what you are teaching, but that's not where you cash in.

In your 1-day workshop, you teach these local businesses about things such as search engine optimization, long-tail keywords, and capturing the email addresses of their customers (and website visitors) so that they have an easy way to follow-up with them.

You teach the local beauty parlor that, if they noticed Thursdays are always slow, an easy way to fix that problem is to send out an email on Wednesday to all of their customers, telling them that if they come in on Thursday, they get a 10% discount. Then you teach them how to capture their customers' contact data so that they can easily contact ALL of their customers for free.

You explain the power of email to them as compared to say newspaper or radio advertising where there is considerably more preparation and lead time required. You teach them that email is practically instant AND free.

You spend the day teaching these local businesses how to really harness the power of the internet. You don't need to hold anything back - you can teach them everything that you know.

At the end of the 1-day seminar (you can make it 2 days if you prefer), you offer to do the things for them that you just taught them how to do. You'll be pleasantly surprised when 90% of them want you to do it for them (even though you just taught them how to do it).

These local business people are too busy running the day to day operations of their businesses to learn a whole new set of skill, so they will pay YOU handsomely to do it for them.

Here's the secret, you "outsource" that work. You charge the local businesses enough where you can pay someone else to do the work and still end up with thousands of dollars from the weekend.

You funnel the work to talented people that you've met online or find through sites such as Elance.com

It really is that simple and easy.

But what if you don't feel up to putting together a presentation? You can get a complete seminar in a box, with slides, script, handouts, everything you need, from several places online.

In fact, I didn't write the presentation that I use when I put on local workshops. I got the entire presentation at: http://TeachingEcommerceToLocalBusinesses.com

That "seminar in a box" package is so complete that it even has the ads you use to let local businesses know about the seminar. It is so complete that you "could" just hand the slides and script to an assistant and they could run the seminar for you.

I was so impresses with the completeness of that package, and how easy it was to just take it and host a seminar for local businesses, that I interviewed the two marketers who created that package on my radio show. You are welcome to grab the transcript of that show free. I entitled it "How to Make A Fortune Offering Freelance Consulting To Local Offline Businesses" and you can download it here: http://WillieCrawford.com/FreeTranscripts/

When hosting local seminars, you want to keep your costs low, so you want to use a meeting room in a local hotel, high school, or you can rent a meeting room very inexpensively from the local Knights of Columbus or Shriners. Lots of local civic and fraternal organizations have their own meeting place, and happily rent them out. You can even get some of these organizations to publicize your seminar for you :-)

Everything that you need to know about organizing a seminar for local offline businesses is included in the package mentioned above, and the free transcript shares a lot of great information too.

With just a little preparation, and the decision to share your expertise with the "right market" - business people who have already set aside funds for growing their businesses, you literally can earn $10,000 (or more) in a single weekend.

If you get into action now, you could literally do this next weekend, although I'd allow a little more lead time.

This IS something that you can do!

Take a look at the resources mentioned above, flow out the event, and then do it! You'll find yourself looking not only at your city, but at other nearby cities. It's that lucrative, and that much fun. You'll become a local celebrity, and a hero to local businesses too.

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Willie Crawford has been teaching internet marketing and ecommerce since 1996. As founder of The Internet Marketing Inner Circle he now teaches his tactics in the membership site at http://TheInternetMarketingInnerCircle.com You are invited to join this community of serious marketers today!

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Are Internet Radio Interviews Worth The Trouble? - May 09,2009

Sat, 09 May 2009 02:33:06 GMT

Are Internet Radio Interviews Worth The Trouble? Copyright 2009 by Willie Crawford

When I first discovered Internet radio shows, and the fact that anyone can start their own radio show online, I wondered how valuable they really were.

I wondered how useful it would be to become a guest on some of these shows. I wondered how big and how responsive the audiences were.

I wondered how useful it would be for me to host my own show. How many people would actually tune in to the live shows, and how many would listen to recorded episodes in the archives.

I am very please to announce that after over a year of being a guest on numerous Internet radio shows, and of hosting my own, I consider them VERY useful.

Long ago, I took a course in getting free publicity by being a guest on talk radio shows. In that course, I learned the with some of the smaller radio stations you may NOT have a huge audience, but if you do things right you can still make lots of sales, and get lots of new subscribers.

I've discovered that being a guest on an Internet radio show is really no different than being a guest on an offline radio show.

It's actually MUCH easier to build your list by being a guest on Internet radio shows though. You merely need to asks the host's permission to give out a free gift, and you send the listeners to an autoresponder to collect the gift. With offline radio shows your listeners may be in their cars, or nowhere near a computer so it's harder to drive them to a website.

Hosting my own radio show for over a year has also provided a terrific marketing tool, boosting my sales and name recognition! My show, hosted and archived at http://BlogTalkRadio.com/WillieCrawford/ has had hundreds of thousands of listeners (mostly tuning in to archived episodes). Many of them have become customers, often buying affiliate products promoted during the shows.

I've also had many episodes of my show transcribed, creating dozens of ebooks that I either sell or give away. You can see how I turn transcribed episodes of my show into free ebooks (and use them to build my list) at: http://williecrawford.com/FreeTranscripts.htm

I promote those free transcripts via email, articles, press releases, videos, blogs and social networking sites. I also offer some of the free transcripts (as "ebooks") in free list-building giveaways).

In the past year, I've had over 250,000 downloads of transcripts from my radio shows. That's a LOT of great publicity, and a LOT of links to a products and services that I recommend.

My radio show has become a content generating MACHINE!

I often use MY affiliate links for products offered by guests on my radio shows. It's a very lucrative model.

So getting back to the title of this article "Are Internet Radio Interviews Worth The Trouble?" my answer is absolutely. It's a big part of my business model. It may be a ready source of new business that you should tap into today.

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Willie Crawford is a leading Internet marketing and traffic generation expert. His favorite method for generating free website traffic is distributing videos, audios, articles and press releases using the automated distribution service at http://EasyPushButtonTraffic.com

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Are Internet Radio Interviews Worth The Trouble? - May 09,2009

Sat, 09 May 2009 02:27:40 GMT

Targeted Free Website Traffic Generation That Really Works Long-term - May 04,2009

Mon, 04 May 2009 00:55:18 GMT

Targeted Website Traffic Generation That Really Works Long-term Copyright 2009 by Willie Crawford

I've been in business online since 1996, and have tried dozens of website traffic generation tactics. I've written ebooks on the topic that others have purchased the rights to so that they could create courses from them. Those course each generated multiple six-figure incomes!

I've also discovered that when you try to focus on too many different traffic generation tactics, you master none of them, so I only really, really focus on a few. I've mastered writing and publishing articles, and have personally written over 1300 - because they work.

I'll make no secret of the fact that article marketing is my favorite free website traffic generation method. The reason is simply because webmasters, article directories, and ezine publishers all love giving their visitors quality, useful content. So they happily publish your articles - with your bi-line in the resource box.

Articles have worked for me long-term because when you write and publish a good article, it will be published in many places, and the search engines will also discover it posted online. That article then generates a steady stream of website visitors for you, sometimes for years.

As the internet evolved, and bandwidth became more affordable, audio and video also grew in popularity. I decided to repurpose many of my articles, creating podcasts and videos from the same content.

Sometimes I just read articles, turning them into MP3's.

Sometimes I just created slides of the key concepts in articles. Then I turned those narrated slides into PowerPoint presentations which I recorded and turned into short videos.

I submitted those podcasts and videos to leading podcast and video sites that get millions of visitors.

I did create many original, new audios and videos, but I wanted to make the point that once you have the content you can just output it in different formats. I've done that numerous times. Do the work once and then use it over and over again.

Some people prefer reading, others prefer listening, and still others prefer watching. If you don't give the content to them in their preferred method of consuming it, you miss a huge portion of your audience.

As video grew in popularity, something else also happened... Google often rated videos on a topic higher than articles on the same topic for a given keyword. That increased my use of video.

While studying how Google ranks content, it was also pointed out to me that Google ranked "news" such as press releases very high. Press releases often out-ranked article, podcasts, and videos for the same keywords. So press releases often appeared at the very top of the listings. My mastermind team deduced that it may be because Google considers news time-sensitive.

That increased my use of simple, to-the-point press releases, that also told my audience of my expertise on a give topic (keyword).

I've discovered that creating article, press releases, podcasts, and videos generates a steady stream of free highly-targeted, long-term website traffic - VERY effectively.

This traffic is targeted because, when someone clicks-thru after consuming your content they are pre-sold on you. You've already demonstrated your expertise to that visitor. They arrive wanting more - and ready to follow your suggestions.

It's free traffic as oppose to you having to pay as much as several dollars per visitor when you use pay-per-clicks. This traffic is, in my opinion, better than pay-per-click traffic because, again, they arrive pre-sold on you.

As I ramped up my use of articles, press releases, podcasts, and videos, I also looked for ways to automate my submissions. Visiting dozens of sites each time I wrote an article, created a podcast or video, or wrote a press release was simply too tedious.

I did consider outsourcing content distribution, but found that using sites that allow you to automate the distribution yourself allowed the degree of control that I insisted upon.

While my content is created with search engine optimization in mind, I write primarily for my readers. I'm seeking to demonstrate my expertise and then attract website visitors pre-sold on that expertise - buyers.

After trying numerous solutions, I now use and highly recommend Easy Push Button Traffic. EPBT submits to numerous sites in a totally white-hat method that will get you lots of inbound links and traffic long-term. On top of that EPBT costs only 1/4th as much as it's nearest competitor which uses many "questionable" tactics.

You'll find EPBT at http://EasyPushButtonTraffic.com

I've just shared with you my favorite, most effective free website traffic generation method. After being online since 1996, and trying "the latest and greatest" numerous times, I've not discovered anything better.

It's free, effective, and something anyone can do. It also doesn't come with the risk of methods such as pay-per-click (where you can lose thousands of dollars on a campaign if you're not careful).

Now that you know my "secret" all you need to do is use it too. Website traffic generation need not be complicated.

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Willie Crawford is one of the world's leading internet marketing experts, and a proven expert at website traffic generation. You only need to "google" his name to verify his expertise. For easy traffic generation, Willie highly recommends http://EasyPushButtonTraffic.com

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Birthday Bash Mastermind Session - Mar 20,2009

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:00:00 GMT

The Birthday Bash Seminar, and Networking Extravaganza will be in Orlando, Florida March 27t - 29th. Please join us as some of the speakers and attendees share what you can expect, and how to get the most out of this rare networking opportunity. Please let you frineds on Twitter and FaceBook know about this very episode. You can register for the Birthday Gash Seminar at http://BirthdayBashSeminar.com

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ody Image Mastery - Building A Successful Online Business Means NOTHING If You Don't Treat Your Body - Mar 19,2009

Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:00:00 GMT

Meet Laura Fenamore and lets discuss learning to love yourself and to take proper care of your body. Laura Fenamore, CPCC is a gifted Body Image Mastery Mentor and a celebrated speaker, lecturer and teacher to thousands of people worldwide. Laura’s company, Body Image Mastery, is devoted exclusively to helping people find balance in their lives and learn to value the home they get to live in - their body. Her vision is living in a world where health and body image are celebrated. Her approach is unique. Jack Canfield, co-creator of the "Chicken Soup for the Soul" series thinks so. Here's what Jack has to say: "If you're looking for someone that could help you get clear about where you want to go... feel comfortable, safe and motivated and get the results... I want to encourage you to work with Laura." Laura shares her own journey of rebuilding body esteem after severe obesity and multiple eating disorders; (she lost 100 pounds twenty-one years ago and has kept it off) a journey that has led her to helping other people live more joyous and balanced lives.

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Here Are ALL Of My Membership Site Secrets - How To Set Up A Membership Site - Mar 15,2009

Sun, 15 Mar 2009 15:26:44 GMT

Several times in recent years, I've watched big names release products talking about what a great money-maker running your own membership sites is.

Being as skeptical as the next person in internet marketing, I usually stepped back and asked what are they really teaching, how are they making THEIR money, and are they doing what they teach.

As often as not, they made MORE money from selling you a package on how to set up lucrative membership sites than they did from running their own.

Often, they made BIG bucks from selling you some over-priced membership site package. With these expensive packages they often used scripts that are available for free, and that may even be pre-installed on your hosting account!

They may spend $100 to get their tech guy to configure the script and pocket the other $2000!

So, I wisely, didn't bite :-)

Besides... the hardest part is NOT setting up the site, it's getting and keeping members!

I did slowly build a number of membership sites over the year, and some of them did quite well, and continue to do so. I learned the business in both "the school of hard knocks" and sitting down and talking to those operating membership sites over a beer at a seminar.

I stopped drinking, so I bought them beers, and when sufficiently lubricated, they shared their juiciest membership site secrets with me. I made notes, and wisely used the things that they freely taught me :-)

Fast-forward to today and I have a fairly simple formula for new membership sites. It's using Joomla for content management and aMember for billing and subscription management.

Let me break that down for you...

Content management is just organizing everything. Having a place to upload, store and grant access to videos, audios, ebooks, software, forums, chat rooms, training sessions, etc. A good CMS also lets your users interact... which is one of the BIG things that keeps members around!

The biggest headache in operating many of my earlier membership sites was actually managing access to the site. I used systems where I'd set up Paypal as my payment processor, and then after they'd pay, Paypal would deliver members to a page where they completed registration.

Then month-after-month, they'd pay, and things would chug along smoothly UNTIL their payment didn't go through for some reason. At that point, Paypal kicked out an email saying a payment failed and I had to manually log-in to my membership site control panel and decide whether or not this was a temporary condition and whether or not to lock this person out.

Then I discovered a really nice 105-video tutorial by my long-time friend James Maduk. In his videos course, James explains how to integrate aMember with Joomla.

James explained that with the aMember integration, when the payment doesn't go through, Paypal (or any of 60+ other payment processors) talks to aMember and updates the database. At the appropriate time, the script automatically locks out the former member.

Doing it manually, I had to either make a note of the exact date when the person should no longer have access, or just lock them out when the payment failed. Amember is smart enough to keep track of that and allow your members access UNTIL the appropriate date.

You can check out James' tutorials at: http://WillieCrawford.com/MembershipSites/

I have actually wanted all 105 videos:-)

I saw the benefit in mastering the topic and simply set aside the time to do it!

If you already have a membership site up and running, and want to maybe just switch over to an automated solution for managing billing and controlling access, then you may want to just grab a copy of aMember.

Get aMember at: http://WillieCrawford.com/aMember/

I now know aMember inside-out. I could map out how it works in my sleep. I gained this total mastery of the script from watching James' video tutorials.

I also digested another tutorial series - exclusively on aMember.

That tutorial told how to integrate aMember with Paypal, 2CheckOut, Clickbank, 1ShoppingCart, your own merchant account, and 60+ other payment management systems seamlessly.

You can get the aMember tutorial at: http://WillieCrawford.com/aMemberTutorial/

Back to how I now set up membership sites...

In my "old age," I've grown lazy and risk averse. So, most of the memberships sites that I now set up are actually partnerships. I partner with online marketers and even local business people.

I provide the technical know-how in how to get a membership site set up in just a few hours that will run flawlessly for YEARS. I also provide the marketing know-how that will be necessary to get the flow of members started.

My partners typically provide ALL of the content. They also funnel a lot of their contacts, clients, and list members to the new site (as early members).

I typically turn members into affiliates, so my sites grow themselves once they get started!

James' tutorials provide a lot of the business know-how in getting and keeping members.

James also teaches you how to configure your membership sites so that your MEMBERS generate the majority of the content... and your members also bring in new members and keep old members around.

The TRUTH is that for most poorly managed membership sites, the average member might stick around for three months. With a properly managed membership site, members will stick around for years.

So, yes, running a successful membership site IS all that it's cracked up to be. Just imagine having a site with only 1000 members paying just $20 per month. If you only have to spend an hour or two per week on that site, wouldn't you consider that a great money-maker.

You could even outsource the management of your site, and after paying your helpers, you'd still be doing "OK."

Anyway, I've just shared with you my system for building and operating lucrative membership sites. I've also shared where I learned what I know, so that if you prefer going to the source, that's an option too.

Willie

Top 10 Security Mistakes You Want to Avoid to Protect Your Online Business - Mar 12,2009

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:30:00 GMT

Willie Crawford and Cheri Sigmon, CISSP ask "Are YOU Making These 10 Security Mistakes Online?" Learn how to better protect your online business from a seasoned professional!

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Butterfly Marketing Domain For Sale - Mar 10,2009

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 03:40:37 GMT

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An Affiliate Product That's A Proven Consistent Seller - Pays 100% Commission - Mar 10,2009

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 01:14:49 GMT

One of the groups that I administer on Facebook is called "Affiliate Products Proven To Sell." There, members share with each other which affiliate products they have sold with a lot of success.

I was just getting ready to make a post there, but considered it more appropriate to share with you my all-time best-selling ebook. This ebook has sold steadily for me for over a year now, and I sell copies virtually every day.

The reason I'm telling you this is that there is a customer-only affiliate program that pays 100% commission.

If you are looking for an affiliate product that you can promote, just with an honest recommendation, and make sales day-in-and-day-out like it do, take a look at:

http://20Ways.org

Get a copy of this ebook, read it, then, in your own words, share with your subscribers, blog readers, and Twitter followers, why you loved this ebook.

It really is that easy.

Go ahead and get a copy now at: http://20Ways.org

Willie

12 Membership Sites Making $60000 Per Month - Mar 07,2009

Sat, 07 Mar 2009 15:58:50 GMT

I started off today on a call with a friend at 5:30am. As soon as I wake up each morning, I spring out of bed, ready to face another exciting day.

My friend noticed me on Skype and wanted to bounce an idea off me for a membership site.

We chatted about a number of people that we know who are doing amazingly well with membership sites. One is my friend Ryan Deiss, whom I met at the very first seminar that I attended back in December 2002.

I was a speaker at that seminar, and Ryan was a very attentive attendee who took a ton of notes, and even back then, knew how to take massive action!

My friend told me that Ryan has a dozen membership sites, averaging $60,000 in recurring monthly income EACH. I quickly calculated 12 x $60k = $720 per month.

what does Ryan know about membership sites that I don't?

Not too much... I've been studying and building membership sites for several years myself.

It took me longer to figure out the formula though... to get all of the pieces in place to make my sites largely hands-free.

My model is to partner with others who are experts and can provide the niche content... in niches like real estate, investing, fitness, insurance, internet marketing, pets, etc.

I set up the sites, get them rolling and then my partners do 90% of the work... and they often oursource most of it.

Here's the platform that most of them us AND the blueprint that many of them follow: http://WillieCrawford.com/MembershipSites/

The secret is to not spend too much time over-analyzing it.

This is the easiest business model that I discovered, and the only danger when you do it the way that I do it, is that often.... while you're thinking about it... your competitors are DOING IT.

Grab the blueprint today, and if you don't feel like doing it, get your spouse or one of your kids to do it. It's plain silly to ignore something this simple and easy: http://WillieCrawford.com/MembershipSites/

Willie

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How To Outsource 100% Of Your Website Traffic Generation - Mar 05,2009

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:09:47 GMT

Many of the products that I've created and marketed the past dozen years have focused on website traffic generation.

There's a very logical reason for that... without traffic to your webpage, nothing else in your process can work.

You've often studied my materials, understood what I taught, and just didn't want to do it yourself. So, you've asked me if I could do it for you, or if I could recommend someone trained to do it for you.

Prior to today, my answer was always NO.

Now, I have located a team of very highly trained experts who understand all aspects of traffic generation, and can do it a LOT cheaper than you can train cousin Joe's teenage son to do it :-)

Are you tired of spending countless hours driving traffic to your site?

Are you tired of being whacked by Google for those AdWords campaigns?

What if I told you we have a team of highly trained professionals standing by to do all of the tedious, Traffic Building tasks you do yourself now?

Yes - highly trained.

You don't need to tell them how to drive traffic.

You don't need to tell them which sites to go to.

You don't need to train them on optimization of web pages.

You don't need to teach them how to create and submit videos.

They already KNOW how to do all of that! All YOU need to do is tell them which sites you want all of your traffic driven to.

But there's just one catch...

We have very limited space. So you need to hurry to secure one for you:

http://WillieCrawford.com/OutsourcedTraffic/

Go Now - We can only take on a limited number of new clients.

Now you can get rid of those tedious task that is absolutely essential to your business... if you hurry.

http://WillieCrawford.com/OutsourcedTraffic/

Willie

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Your Amazing Peers - Meet Ron Douglas - Mar 01,2009

Sun, 01 Mar 2009 22:38:45 GMT

I am constantly amazed and humbled by the really, really sharp people that I encounter everyday... people literally making 6 and 7 figures online - almost effortlessly.

NO, these are not the majority of people that I come across, but a lot of my friends are at that level.

I'd like to introduce you to a few of them, and share the things that they've taught me.

I'm also constantly surprised when I strike up a conversation with someone sitting next to me at a seminar or conference, and I discover that they are already multi-millionaires.

These are people who are constantly thinking, testing, and improving their game. They enjoy learning new things, refining what they already know, and setting up lucrative joint ventures with others at seminars and live networking events.

One such person that you absolutely must meet is my friend Ron Douglas, who has already registered to attend my 50th birthday bash which will be March 27th - 29th in Orlando.

Ron Douglas

Last week, on my radio show I had the pleasure of interviewing Ron. I’ve known Ron for a number of years but his interview completely blew me away because I didn’t previous know all of his accomplishments.

You can, and should download the MP3 from my interview with Ron. It's 100% free and you can get it at: http://WillieCrawford.com/InterviewWithRon/

I think that most of us could learn a thing or two from hanging out with Ron, picking his mind, and yes, setting up a joint venture or two with him.

Ron:

- Has had the #1 selling ebook in his category on Clickbank since 2003

- Has a mailing list of over 225,000

- Has sold over 60,000 ebooks and books

- Gets MILLIONS of hits per month to his websites

- Managed to get a TRADITIONAL publisher to notice one of his books and publish it, offering him a HUGE advance

Ron also shared in his interview that many of the good things that have happened to him STARTED when he went to a live networking event. That's also why he's attending my birthday bash. Attending live events puts money in his pockets and allows him to network!

Ron also mentioned being inspired by an article that I wrote, and that that was the catalyst for one of his major projects.

Anyway... it was a very insightful interview. Ron shared a LOT of the exact techniques he uses right in the interview, and again, you can access it completely free of charge, no opt-ins or any hoops to jump thorough, at: http://WillieCrawford.com/InterviewWithRon/

Feel free to tell others about that interview. The information shared there is actually better than found in many products I’ve purchased recently!

There are a lot of other amazing people who have told me that they wouldn't miss my birthday bash. I hope that you can make it too. You can read about it at: http://BirthdayBashSeminar.com

Stay tuned to see who else you'll meet and get to network with there.

Willie

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Ask Willie Crawford ANY Internet Marketing Question On This Open Phone Call - February 27th - Feb 26,2009

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:42:37 GMT

For several years, I hosted weekly networking and brainstorming calls that all of my subscribers and clients were invited to join.

I haven't done one of those in a while.

Tomorrow at 4pm EST, I'm hosting a free networking and brainstorming call where you're invited to come and ask ANY internet marketing question that you have.

For 90 minutes, you get to ask your questions right over the phone, and I will try to answer them. I'll have some friends on the phone call who are also seasoned marketers, so if you ask any question that I can't answer, hopefully one of them can.

There's no charge for the call. We're not selling anything.

It's just for you to ask your internet marketing related questions, and for us to give you the best answer that we have.

You do need to register for this call. As soon as you register, you'll get an autoresponder email with the dial-in number and access code.

You'll also get notified the next time that I host one of these free brainstorming calls.

Please register now at: http://WillieCrawford.com/free-brainstorming-calls.html

Speaking of registering, I hope that you've already registered for my 50th birthday bash. If not, also please do that now at: http://WillieCrawford.com/BirthdayBash/

I'll talk to you tomorrow :-)

Willie

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Ask Willie Crawford ANY Internet Marketing Question On This Open Phone Call - February 27th - Feb 26,2009

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:23:05 GMT