They are a great tool if you want something to seem more personalized. Something that is coming from you. And it is probably a better sales tool than your standard squeeze(landing) page.

I started looking at this because of an email I got from many of the mass newsletters I receive for internet marketing. So I did a little research on this and found this blog post on how to create your own video optin page.

The great thing about this is that all of the tools you really need are either free or already on your computer. You could even use WordPress.

Build your email list. Sell your product. Create traffic.

Twitter is one of the fastest growing communities on the web today. There is still plenty of time to take advantage of this emerging market.

An example of this has shown up with TweeterGetter. A great tool to expand the number of followers to your tweets and possibly your website. The more people following, the more targets you have for your product.

TweeterGetter has a unique method of growing your follower base. And is a great example of internet inovation.

The concept is simple, when you retweet the message in the form below, you will automatically start following the 6 people in front of you in the system.

A message posted on your twitter will automatically be formated with your unique link. Meaning that when people follow through to this site, they will have to follow you in position 1 to use the system themselves.

Now when those people refer others via their link, their new followers will also follow you in position 2 and so on down 5 levels deep. By the time you reach the 5th position, you will have thousands, if not tens of thousands of new twitter followers… and it NEVER stops growing!

All of this with a simple site run with the Twitter API.

If you are looking for a version of this site that you can run personally, you can either create something on your own(it is very simple) or you can download some software from ViralTweets. It does the same thing as TweetGetter.

Great Bum Marketing tool.

Sociable – You might see some little icons at the bottom of posts in WordPress for various sites such as Facebook, StumbleUpon, Technocrati, Digg and many others. These are all social websites where users participate in finding interesting things to share. What could be better than having them share your content? Can you say more traffic?

WordPress Download Monitor – Have an Ebook? Would you like to make a bit of extra cash with it? Want to know how many have downloaded it after they have paid you using the ArePayPal plugin? Just use this handy plugin to upload your ebook. Track the downloads and secure it to members only.

Google XML Sitemaps – This is probably the most absolute handy plugin you could install. It is a definite must have for any WordPress blog. Configure it once you install it and your pages and posts will be added to the Google directory search much faster than if you waited for Google to crawl your site. Sometimes only hours from the time you post to the time people find you through the search engine.

WP-Affiliate – Affiliate marketing is always a touchy thing. People can just copy the link and remove your id to deny you any commission. This can happen easily if someone uses an iframe to display your site and some software to just swap their affiliate id with yours. Users are also a bit more inclined to click on a link that doesn’t have an affiliate id. This plugin will allow you to add links that will redirect to the actual link without the user knowing until they are already there. It will also help you with your Google page ranking as Google looks for those affiliate id’s and off site linking. This works great with affiliate programs like Clickbank and Commission Junction.

With a little work you can have a healthy number of revenue streams with your WordPress Blog. All while providing great content for your readers.

What is Twitter?

Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? – Twitter

How will this help you?

Well, if you run a web service that has constant updates, you may want to check it out. It is a free service, and everyone knows I like the free ones over the paid ones. Have your members sign up and follow you. You can send out updates on things you find that they want to know.

Twitter goes great with blogging. Especially since there are plugins and API’s that can be used in the various services to make updating your Tweets easy and painless.

A great way to do this with WordPress is a plugin called Twitme.

You can configure the plugin to automatically update your Tweets anytime you make a post. It can also inform you of any new members following you.

So, how does this help? It drives traffic and it is free.

Everyone knows that traffic is the key to monetary success. The more you have the more you earn. Your Tweets to Twitter are very short. You have a limited amount of characters that can be used. Make the title to your post in WordPress catching and imbed a short url along with the post and you will end up with something that someone may want to know more about.

If you use WordPress at all, it would be to your benefit to go ahead and start up a Twitter account. You won’t need that email service that way.

What you might not know is it is also one of the largest sources of traffic available as well.

Many marketers out there are using YouTube to create “how to” videos and bring people to their websites. It is a great free tool that will increase your traffic if used properly.

Make a video explaining how to do something that is related to your website. Post it on YouTube after creating an account. Don’t forget to put your URL into the video and your profile.

It is that simple. Just another Bum Marketing technique that you can use.

Combine your Adsense and Amazon Associate accounts into one website and get some results with a targeted audience.

With CommonSense Search, you will be able to create your own AdSense search engine. AdSense ads are thoroughly integrated with search results, and are virtually indistinguishable from them! Most users click on the first three search results, and don’t even notice that hey are AdSense ads! This results in extremely high click-through rate – over 20%! With such high CTR, your income will skyrocket like never before.

You can even define the keywords used for this search engine to use so you can customize it to the url that you purchased for later sale or just to keep around and draw traffic. You could even integrate a banner manager to go along with it and display banners to your other websites.
I recommend it for a short term website that you plan on developing later on. Keeps you with a possibility to earn a bit of additional revenue with very little work. Get it here.