This guide provides a simple list of the most important steps and products/services needed to start out in Internet marketing. This guide is intended for new and aspiring Internet marketers.

The guide includes a budget section that shows costs at 3 levels of Internet marketing -

1. Start-up Level
2. Intermediate Level
3. Proficient Level

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Fresh on the heels of upgrading the RemoteAutomator to a more powerful platform with enhanced performance, SYNND is now poised to increase its network of 55 social media sites, 18 video sites, 30 article sites, and press release  networks too.

Currently, despite the list of 9 active social media sites, SYNND still is a powerful tool due to the way it is set up with its 800+ members and the time-saving & powerfully intelligent role played by the Remote Automator.

CLICK HERE for a demo of SYNND!

Here is the list of what's coming -

1. 55 Social Media Networks (including Social Bookmarking sites & Twitter)

Digg, Reddit, Mixx, Twitter, Delicious, Yahoo! Buzz, Google Friend Connect, Technorati, Propeller, Fark, Twine, Clipmarks, Blinklist, Faves, Diigo, Sphinn, Furl, Spurl, Google Bookmarks, Plugim, Jumptags, Linkagogo, Tagza, Backflip, Bibsonomy, MyLinkVault, Faves, Indianpad, Danogo, Healthranker, Wirefan, Mister-Wong, Feed Me Links, Connotea, Dotnetkicks, Bebo, Facebook, MySpace, Yahoo Bookmarks, FriendFeed, Xanga, Twackle, Current, Kirtsy, Simpy, Meneame, AIM Share, Care 2, Oknotizie, Blogmarks, N4G, Fresqui, Funp, Dealspl.us, Yigg …

2. 18 Video Syndication Networks

YouTube, MySpaceTV, Yahoo! Video, Veoh, DailyMotion, MetaCafe, Vimeo, Viddler, Blip.tv, Revver, Break, Brightcove, eBaums World, Graspr, GrindTV, Howcast, i2TV, MSN Video …

3. 30 Article Distribution Networks

EzineArticles, Articlebase, Suite101, Buzzle, GoArticles, Helium, ArticleSnatch, ArticleDashboard, ArticleAlley, IdeaMarketers, Amazines, SearchWarp, SooperArticles, a1articles, iSnare, SubmitYourArticle| ArticleCube, Site-Reference, ArticleCompilation, Web-Source, 365Articles, ABCarticleDirectory, ArticleNexus, ArticlePool, Article-Buzz, ArticleStars, ArticlesFactory, affSphere, ArticleCell, ArticleWarehouse …

The growth of SYNND is not only with its Web 2.0 website network but also with its membership. SocialMediaScience.com is poised to add another 1200 members to the Synnd network within the next few months thereby providing a powerful website promotion leverage of 2000+ people across 2,000+ IP addresses, interacting (voting, bookmarking, tweeting, commenting, rating, viewing) your website content as well as working to increase your website/web-page rankings AND visibility in the search engines. … all of this actually being performed by 2000+ Remote Automators across the globe … the power and effectiveness is simply incredible.

However there are couple of warnings/caveats for prospective subscribers -

1. There is the potential for a significant price increase with the increase in the size of the network … the current lowest tier price of $67/month for 500 credits is a steal.

2. The list of network sites put out by SocialMediaScience is planned only and could change. Furthermore, the roll-out of additional sites could be gradual. You have to make to sign-up decision on what is available today and their track record of meeting their promises! This is a call you will have to make … as for me, I have made my call and am staying with SYNND the whole length of the journey.

Try SYNND out today for only $1 for a fully working 14 day trial!

Before I give out the reasons why I rate this product so highly and provide you some insights on how I use it, I would like to briefly tell you about Semiologic Pro …

First of all don't be mistaken … although many refer to Semiologic Pro as a Wordpress theme, it is not to be confused with a 'typical' Wordpress theme.

Semiologic Pro is a software that turns the WordPress content management system (CMS) into a powerful and comprehensive website builder. Initially released in 2005, Semiologic Pro comprises a stable version of WordPress combined with a suite of powerful plugins and widgets designed to support the ease and speed of use for both technical and non-technical Internet marketers.

In the words of Denis De Bernardy -

"Semiologic Pro is a carefully prepared combination of WordPress, tweaked with proprietary Semiologic code, and integrated with over 70 tools and plugins, each selected for both utility and SEO considerations – then tested to work harmoniously with each other and within the Semiologic framework".

Here's what I like about Semiologic Pro -

1. Design inherent search engine optimization – I'm truly amazed by Semiologic Pro's ability to generate organic traffic from the search engines – you can see proof of it as most of my blog posts are ranked in the top 1-3 pages of Google for the select keywords, without any/much of promotion or link building.

If you are wondering how this is possible, here's how -

Many WordPress implementations load pages left to right, making the sidebar appear before the content. Not Semiologic! Denis Bernardy created an optimized layout which serves your content first, then the sidebars. While you may not notice this 'sleight of hand', the search engines do notice, reading and indexing your content faster, because they see it sooner.

2. Quick, Easy and sophisticated website building – I use XsitePro to build corporate php/html sites but prefer Wordpress for my Internet marketing sites. Semiologic provides the the same simplicity and power (as XsitePro) to build Wordpress sites. You will find everything you need, in one cohesive framework. One-click feature customization, advanced page templates, built-in SEO, ad management, newsletter subscriptions, visitor tracking, author images, podcasting, video casting, comment subscriptions, spam control, advanced caching, are some of the many out-of-the-box functionality provided by Semiologic Pro!

3. Suite of powerful, common-sense plugins – The plugins that are bundled as part of the software is a treat. The best news is that it can be used with most Wordpress themes (I use 25 of these plugins by default). You cannot find the range of functionality that the entire suite of Semiologic Wordpress plugins provides anywhere else. And the best part is that the support for these plugins and their seamless integration with the Wordpress platform is simply outstanding. They are well tested and designed to work cleanly with Worpress and upgrades are a regular feature.

Click here to read my post here on the Semiologic Pro (and other) plugins I use most on my blogs!

4. The Blog Cloning and Theme/Plugins Update Wizard – When I am putting up multiple mini blogs on a domain, I use the same theme, widgets, header, footer, etc. and I'm able to save a significant amount of time by simply cloning the 'parent' blog using the Semiologic Cloner tool. Simply enter the url of the blog you need to clone and enter the unique site identifier code and sit back and wait for a couple of minutes while Semiologic goes about cloning your blog. All you have left to do is add posts and pages and you're ready to go.

The latest version of Semiologic Pro's Version Checker tool enables one click upgrade to the latest version of Semiologic as well as one-click mass upgrade of all the plugins … a significant time saver.

5. Website Layout & Customization – This is the icing on the cake, so to speak. The variations you can implement with the Semiologic theme is simply mind boggling. Some examples -

a) Layouts and Skins

Semiologic Pro includes 18 layouts, 24 skins, 3 width options, 12 font options and 3 font size options. Ideally, you will probably choose one or two combinations as favorites, but it is good to know that you have so much variety, and that each one has built-in SEO. (If these are not enough, you can also use other WordPress themes and take advantage of the powerful plugins).

b) Advanced Templates

In addition to the standard template based upon your choice in the Layout and Skin switchers, you can also select a sales page or a single-column template to create some variety and override the "blog" look for those particular pages that need it.

c) Header Customization

With Semiologic you can have a different header on any page/every page, if you wish. You want can also have the navigation bar above the header by simply dragging the respective widget within the Header area.

d) Widget Contexts

This feature is not available anywhere else. If you wish to control the display of the content specified in one of your widgets, you simply deselect the box where you do not wish the content to appear. The selection is done totally within the widget. Just to give you and example of how practically useful this feature is, if you don't want the say, multi-language translator widget on the home page of your blog (for the obvious reason that the home page is constantly changing and you can't cache it), all you have to do is to deselect the Home page box and you're done. As simple as that!

e) Widget Management

This is even more powerful stuff – how Semiologic uses Widgets. Widgets can be anywhere: in the header, before the entry, in the content, in header and footer blocks, in the footer, and in the sidebars. You would be hard pressed to find an area where you could not insert a widget. Imagine, every area of every page can be reordered and is reconfigurable (see sample image below). Your imagination becomes your only limitation.

Furthermore, Semiologic provides for generalized or fuzzy widgets which can be used for posts, pages, and links. They can also be further customized to show only certain categories, allowing contextual sidebar navigation.

For easy entry of widgeted content into posts and pages, Semiologic has inline widgets, a virtual widget location which can be accessed from a drop down menu within the editor to effortlessly insert a widget any place within the content. For example, adding an optin form within your post.

6. Siloed website -  Siloing your website with themed content is one of the key requirements of good SEO. Semiologic serves this design best practice with Silo Widgets.

There are three types of silo widgets:

- A Silo Page Widget outputs what amounts to an automatically generated navigation menu for your static pages.

- A Silo Stub widget, which you can use as an inline widget when you'd like to automatically generate the contents of a page whose only purpose is to link to its children and

- A Silo Map widget, which you can use as an inline widget to automatically output a full site map of your site.

7. Many More Features – There are many, many more features which make Semiologic the outstanding product that it has become. My favorites are -

- The Redirect Manager which lets you create a site that redirects affiliate links as well as pages
- Built-in auto tagging
- RSS and Social Bookmarking
- Google Sitemap Generator
- Plugin for Google Analytics Integration
- Script Manager – to add various scripts site-wide or to specific pages.

I also like the tools that allow you to easily insert content using our Article Uploader, the Search Reloaded which is without doubt the most powerful improvement to WordPress's built-in search in the market, and Advanced Cache, the easiest to use, and most advanced caching plugin for WordPress.

The Bottomline:

Quality & Support - To add to all the above goodies, Semiologic Pro is, undoubtedly, the best maintained piece of software in the internet marketing world. Denis and his team are extremely professional and proficient. The product is in continuous upgrade mode, both to parallel the releases of the underlying WordPress platform, and also to implement features and modifications suggested by users and research staff.

Semiologic Pro Pricing:

Priced at $295 for unlimited site license plus and annual maintenance fee of $175/year, Semiologic Pro is definitely an excellent investment for any serious Internet marketer.

To order you copy of Semiologic Pro, CLICK HERE.

This post is to share my evaluation and perspective of this service … (a warning  – this is a long post … had to be due to the complexity and significance of this product)!

First things first – What is The Internet Time Machine (ITM)?

Simply put, The Internet Time Machine (ITM) is an extremely powerful Search Retrieval and Analysis Engine (built on the cloud computing architecture, which gives it its power and scale), that mines over 36 million keyphrases from across the World Wide Web every 24 hours for -

a) what's being talked about
b) what is being advertised
c) which are being searched for, in what proportions and related to what topics.

The ITM has been conceptualized by Curt Dalton – an Economics major from Massachusetts, and he has rightly used core Economics principles to create an application that analyzes the inefficiencies in the supply and demand curves of what people are looking for (the demand) and how much supply is available on the search engines with respect to products or solutions (measured by number of organic search results and PPC ads for the demand keyphrases).

The ITM project, developed by a team of engineers and mathematicians, started 8 years ago and cost over $200,000 to put together. It has been in private operation for more than 2 years now and is just being opened to the public.

As a side note, Curt Dalton is launching a new search engine – NowRelevant.com, which integrates The Internet Time Machine into the paid search ad campaign platform.

How does the Internet Time Machine (ITM) work?

ITM makes a scorecard that records nouns and pronouns phrases that are being searched and time stamps them. Then the ITM goes out to the top search engines and then uses its own proprietary algorithm to analyze the trend of these key phrases.

Essentially, the ITM analyses the demand and supply curves of the latest buzz works on the internet and provides you the results.

How is the Internet Time Machine (ITM) useful to YOU – the Internet marketer?

The ITM is a revolutionary development in the realm of Internet marketing, giving Internet marketers and SEO experts the ability to foresee a highly profitable product or product niche, BEFORE it has gone public. The wealth of information provided by the ITM in the form of hundreds of thousands of extremely valuable keyphrases in this manner, creates a market breaker for product development and profitable release.

The biggest problem most Internet marketers make is simply look at 1 dimension – the demand curve to see what's in most demand, and build niche sites promoting products based on this single dimension. What they are missing, which will make a big impact on their results, is the 2nd dimension, which is the supply curve. Where supply and demand meet it is equilibrium – there is no niche here – no way to make money.

A niche develops when the supply and demand curve in a particular area is not efficient. If you just have trends, or search volume, you will not make money without the other side of the equation, the results.

The ITM uses artificial intelligence algorithms to ignore most of the mined keywords, instead choosing to focus on the top one hundredth of one percent. These are the words showing the greatest increase in search volume with results not keeping pace with volume. The team at the ITM then then back test the data to find out if what they have a "million dollar gap", which is then presented to the members.

With the ITM, the days of experimenting with varying combination of Keyword Lists and Keyword Tool Suggestions are over. Users of the ITM will have the ability to Know Today What People Will Buy Tomorrow, or better yet, are wanting to buy now!

With the ITM marketers can easily find niches that are high in demand but with low supply in terms of product and/or services.

What tools does the Internet Time Machine (ITM) provide you?

The ITM membership provides 2 levels of access -

1. The ITM Membership Site Access: which provides you with -

a. Top-10 $$ ideas
b. Latest News From The Internet Time Machine
c. Videos – covering niches and affiliate product ideas
d. Forum – covering more niches and affiliate product ideas

The deliverable from this site access includes -

i.   Monthly Secret Summary Reports
ii.  Summaries of the month in blogs posts in easy to print out PDF format.
iii. Secret Invites to Members only webinars and teleconferences
iv.  Instant tweets and email alerts about trend breakouts and how to profit them

2. The ITM Software Access: which includes the 3 search tools -

a. Most Recent Mentions From the Last 24 Hours
b. Potential Trends From the Last 24 Hours
c. ITM Core Trend Analysis

About the 3 Internet Time Machine (ITM) Tools:

a. Most Recent Mentions From the Last 24 Hours:

This tool scans over 36 million keyword phrases, proper nouns and noun phrases used in search engines, blogs, newsgroups, mailing lists, etc. – keyphrases that are the most popular 'movers' in the world – just what's currently popular, what people are talking about right now or what the buzz on the internet is right now.

Internet marketers can use the keyphrases generated by this tool for SEO purposes – by knowing the keyword phrases that are most popular, you can optimized your anchor texts, title tags, blog headlines, blog post titles, article theming etc.

Scoring -  10 being the highest from the internet buzz standpoint – what everyone is talking about … so you can make your blog or article for your niche more relevant.

b. Potential Trends From the Last 24 Hours:

This tool is ideal for PPC arbitrage -  the missing link PPC advisiters are looking for – quality clicks with little or no competition.

The tool harvests keywords and keyphrases that people are searching for on multiple search engines, which do not have enough supply with regards to content or PPC campaigns. Basically keywords/keyphrases whose search volume is rising, but organic search results or PPC is not keeping up with the search requests. The generated content is not a keyword synonym result, but the actual search terms being used – searches that are getting HOT on multiple search engines.

c. ITM Core Trend Analysis:

This is a very powerful tool for Internet marketers planning on creating a new product. This tool uses proprietary, state-of the-art search analysis algorithms to identify hot new product areas and niches that are developing worldwide. It monitors increase search volumes over time in topics and look to see where supply, organic or PPC, is not keeping up with demand. These are long term product development ideas.

Similar to (1) but goes over 60-90-120 days looking for trends – actual trends that people have continually searched for but there isn't enough results either from organic search or PPC.

This database updates every 24-48 hours.

This is the "big idea" button for product development/affiliate product promotion.

A note of caution here – since the tool analyses subjects that people are talking about, there may not be many money making niches. You may have to ignore 90-98 % of the data, but the 10-2% you find could be pure gold for product development.

How does the ITM compute the relativity SCORE for each keyphrase?

The ITM is composed of THREE major components: CRAWLERS, TREND BOTS and STATISTICAL ANALYSIS MODS.

The combined operative functionality of all three components in tandem, allows the ITM to study data from millions of sources across the web, and evaluate what keyphrases are being mentioned where on the web, what their relative importance is to the users searching for them, where (which search engines) they are being searched and in what frequency, what topics are being written about on multiple websites that are contextually relevant to these keyphrases, how much PPC Advertising there is already being conducted for these keyphrases (if any, which is the catch the ITM capitalizes on), and what keyphrases are exhibiting high volumes of search and have little to no PPC ads being supplied for them.

Having completed its daily search and analysis routines, the ITM is capable of projecting a score, individually, for each keyphrase, that depicts how valuable that keyphrase can be to Internet Marketers, SEO Experts and/or both. The scores projected are such that, the HIGHER the score, the HIGHER the DEMAND for it is (this is reflected via No. of Search Queries as only ONE of several parameters involved in computing the score), and the LOWER the SUPPLY in PPC Ads for the keyphrase in question. Typically, the HIGHEST SCORE and any scores within 5% of the HIGHEST SCORE, represent HIGHLY PROFITABLE keyphrases / keywords that if used correctly in PPC Campaigns can generate massive profits due to little to NO Advertiser Competition!

By providing these scores to users of the ITM, particularly those of the 'Potential Trends' feature, the ITM provides a wealth of information to Internet Marketers to successfully market existing products in hot niches identified by high-scoring keyphrases, OR to develop new products for the same. This presents an AMAZING plethora of hundreds of thousands of UNTAPPED keyphrase combination that are PPC-Ready, or are basically winners if used correctly in PPC Campaigns to market new or existing products.

JOINING ITM – ITM Membership Access Packages:

There are 4 membership levels offered by the ITM -

1. Bronze Package: $5.00 for the first 2 weeks, then $47 per month after the first two weeks for access to the ITM Membership Site.

2. Silver Package: $197 One Time Charge for lifetime access to the ITM Membership Site. (Click here to get a special $100 off on this membership level)

3. Gold Package: $97 per month for access to the ITM Membership Site plus ITM Software Access.

4. Platinum Package: $397 One Time Charge for lifetime access to the ITM Membership Site plus ITM Software Access.

Note: On the order page, the Platinum Package is only available as a back-end up-sell from the Silver and Gold packages.

TheInternetTimeMachine.com Membership Bonuses:

The ITM team is offering the following 3 bonuses when you sign up -

Free Bonus Gift #1: Free Niche Marketing e-book on "Knowing What People Will Buy Tomorrow"

Free Bonus Gift #2: Free copy of their "Best Money Making Areas for 2010" secret file.

Free Bonus Gift #3: Free Access to Invitation Only Private Webinars with The Internet Time Machine staff

Even if you don't sign up, you can receive their "5 Best Ideas for 2010" Free Report – in exchange for your email address.

My perspective on The Internet Time Machine:

Having had full access to the Platinum membership the past few days, I believe it is a very key tool for Internet marketers to find new, hot niches or new product ideas. We depend on this kind of intelligence to scale our revenue generation efforts and take the most advantage of new and emerging opportunities.

The model (demand-supply analysis) upon which the ITM is built is flawless and the output based on multiple sources is irrefutable. Having said this, you should be aware that since the ITM is mining from a wide database, many of the results may not pan out to be money-making niches. You have to use the information the tool provides to find products/solutions that would be viable for earning revenue. This is especially true of the ITM Core Trend Analysis tool where you would need to ignore maybe up to 98% of the keyphrases spewed out by the system. Is this a waste of time? In my opinion – No!

Also since the promoters of this service are relatively new names in the Internet marketing business, I did an extra due diligence to verify their credibility. The ITM site is rated as a Trusted Site by the Onine Business Bureau and they have a "Recommended" rating which means that they are a member in good standing with no outstanding complaints. You can find this information here.

To check out this powerful tool/service, simply click on the image below -

I look forward to your feedback and comments on this post. As always, I will answer all questions you post here to the best of my knowledge and ability.

For those of you Internet marketers who are just starting out and have not generated sufficient online income or do not have sufficient websites to justify signing up for website promotion services like SEnuke, Web2Mayhem, EVO2, or SYNND or buying one-time payment products like Bookmarking Demon or SocialBot, then you will find this free product – Viral Submitter from Jeff “Herschy” Schwerdt an extremely valuable tool.

It is simple to use, time saving and it works great.

Of course there is an obvious 'catch' for the 'free' offer … Jeff “Herschy” Schwerdt wants your email id to promote an upcoming product to you in the near future.  Apart from this obvious marketing tactic and the fact that it is being given away free does not in any way depreciate the usefulness or value of Viral Submitter.

So, what does Viral Submitter do for you?

In simple terms Vial Sumbitter allows you to quickly submit your content (videos, articles, blog posts and press releases) to the top online properties – YouTube, Viddler & Vimeo for video, PR-Log, Free-Press-Release and ClickPress for your press releases, EzineArticles for your unique articles.

Once you've done that, Viral Submitter allows you to quickly syndicate the content through Digg.com (which is a 'big boy' loved by Google when it comes to content syndication) and also tweet the url through the Twitter.com network – undoubtedly the most powerful viral messaging network.

No sweat … takes just a few minutes.

Here are a couple of snapshots of what's inside when your install the Viral Submitter

Image:1 – Viral Submitter login screen

Image:2 – Viral Submitter Content Syndication screen

You will see a video demo on the software and how to use instructions once you access the download page.

Get Viral Submitter here NOW!

Viral Submitter is a Windows operating system based application. I have tested it and it is free of any spyware, malware, etc.

IMPORTANT! Don't Do This!

Please resist the temptation of mindlessly dumping in a bunch of keywords and activating all the modules in WP-Robot. The results will be disastrous and you will spend a lot of time cleaning up afterward.

Here are some tips on how to use WP-Robot effectively -

1. Do your keyword research (Market Samurai recommended) and pick out your theme and category keywords. Plug these into WP-Robot and activate following modules only for these keywords -

a. Articles
b. Yahoo Answers
c. YouTube Videos
d. Yahoo News
e. Flickr Images

It is best to use the 'Bulk-Add' feature for this. Make sure that you use the right syntax for getting the content into the correct category – keyword;Category Name; – category name is case sensitive.

2. Go to Amazon.com and check out the products in your niche … (play around with keyword variants to get the best results). When you are satisfied that you have a list of products that give you your expected commissions, then use the keyword variants you used in your search in Amazon.com and plug it into WP-Robot and activate the Amazon Module only for these keywords. If there are no worthwhile products in Amazon.com, then don't activate this module.

3. Do the same step as above for the eBay Auctions module. If you don't follow this step, you will find a number of blank eBay auction listings for keywords that have no auction items (you'll spend a lot of time cleaning this up …).

TIP: You should also change the content in the 'Post Template' (under the options tab) so that your eBay auction listings are unique to your site.

4. Regarding the Clickbank Ads module – my recommendation is DON'T  use it. You will find a number of affiliate related content in the descriptions which are not useful. If you want to run Clickbank ads on your site, I would recommend you sign up with CBproAds.

5. The RSS Feed module is quite useful if you take care in selecting the right feed.

6. Translation options – I do not recommend that you use this feature at all. Instead, use this nifty Wordpress Plugin (CLICK HERE).

7. In the WP-Robot 'Probabilities'section, change the Clickbank to '0'% and Flickr to '5'%.

8. Make sure you post some unique articles into your blog too. Meshing unique keyword optimized articles with your WP-Robot posts will add to your rankings and increase traffic to your site.

9. Yahoo Answers: You can also use this free Wordtracker Keyword Questions online tool, type in your niche keyword and harvest the top questions people are asking (see example below). Plug these keywords into WP-Robot and activate the Yahoo Answers module only for these question keywords and  you will get some good results.

Follow the above steps and you will have a very rich and useful auto-blogging website that requires very little or no editing/deleting of junk posts.

Hope this helps. Please add your comments/questions below.

This post is to explain my submission and also to provide more insight into why I believe Charles Heflin's SYNND solution is the right one for effective social media marketing. Take a look at the image below …

Do you notice my yesterday's post at the top of the Digg.com list with 13 votes … compared to the ones below with 2 and 1 votes?

This is the main difference between SYNND and the rest of the solutions I mentioned in my post. The post with the most Diggs stays at the top (better still if the Diggs are from a wide geographic spread).

Don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with these other products … they are solid products developed by very knowledgeable and experienced Internet marketers … my point is the approach or strategy to implement social media marketing is wrong -  so you have a case of the right horse pulling the wrong cart!

And here is why, I believe Charles Heflin and his team at SocialMediaScience.com have taken social media marketing to the next level and implemented a social media marketing model that effectively leverages time and the power of social networking.

Let me first outline the process with SYNND for creating the global buzz for your content, bookmark or tweet -

1. With SYNND, you have the option to -

a) post content for syndication in the social news sites like Digg, Reddit, Mixx..
b) bookmark your URLs on socialbookmarking sites like Delicious, JumpTag, Folkd, Faves, Blinklist …
c) retweet your post on Twitter

2. It takes all but 2 – 5 minutes to make a submission (content syndication, bookmark or tweet) to the SYNND Central Server.

3. Then its hands off … the Remote Automator (RA) takes over and distributes your content across the SYNND network (after it passes quality control) for the army of other Remote Automators to log in to the respective accounts of their owner (other SYNND subscribers) and either vote on, bookmark or retweet your submissions.

All this is done without any human intervention (although you can select more tasks for your RA to perform and thereby earn more credits).

4. You can set up how many 'buzzes' you want your submissions to receive and the maximum buzz per day (in the Digg example above I set mine to max of 13). The entire process of meeting this 'buzz' count and distributing the submissions across a wide geographic base, at different time intervals, is done through automation.

QUICK – SIMPLE – EFFECTIVE marketing!

Now I will address the TOP 3 Reasons Why I became a SYNND member -

1. Time Saving:

This was the biggest issue for me. Despite all the automation power behind SEnuke, EVO2, Bookmarking Demon and others, it still took me few hours to -

a) create those hundreds of accounts across web 2.0, social bookmarking, twitter, articles, scuttle and pligg sites
b) spin the content (more accounts to submit = more variations to create), and
c) submitting them (with/without auto CAPTCHA solving)

No denying these were effective … I have often dominated 6-7 out of 10 results on page 1 of Google (with social news sites, video sites, RSS sites and article sites) using the above tools … but it was not a good return on my time.

With SYNND, it is simply the quick creation a few accounts (quality over quantity), and the submission process is down to 2-5 minutes per submission. The 'behind-the-scenes' automation is simply awesome.

2. Social Networking Power:

The second issue was whether or not I was getting enough leverage from my social media marketing efforts. The example of the 13 Diggs vs 1 Digg explains this. It is a well known fact that the more 'buzz' your backlinking content gets, the more authority is assigned to it by Google. SYNND wins this hands down with way in which it has been designed and implemented.

This is why SYNND requires fewer sites to submit to, compared with the other tools – for better end results. It is due to its ability to create a powerful buzz for your submissions as compared to the weakness of single submissions (1 Digg vs 100s of Diggs).

[Web2Mayhem has implemented a similar concept with its Web2.0 Co-op syndication ... but it is completely manual and dependent on the time and intent of the members within the network. With SYNND, this dependancy is eliminated with the use of the ubiquitous Remote Automator. ]

Also, more importantly, on account of the human QA being done on each of the submissions and the member BEST PRACTICES rules in place, the quality of the content that gets syndicated across the network is assured, which protects the members reputation and their accounts on the various social media sites including sending a strong message for social responsibility in social media marketing.

3. The Price:

At $67/month the SYNND service is extraordinarily cost-effective compared to the $100+/month you pay for the other tools.

Finally, The Icing on the SYNND Cake – SIMPLICITY:

With all the pressures on our time and attention, we crave for simplicity … SYNND is implemented in a very simple yet effective way that save you time whilst leveraging the power of the social media networks for you.

With simplicity comes more participation … suddenly for me, social media marketing has become fun (I no longer feel like a slave to social media marketing) and so I am doing it more often, and I'm seeing the positive results in my business – WIN-WIN-WIN!

I hope you found this post useful. Please leave you comments/questions below so we can discuss this deeper for the benefit of all.

If you have not yet signed up to SYNND, now is the best time to sign up for the $1, 14-day trial.

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Today is a big day for Internet marketers as Amish Shah & Jay Styles launch their much publicized product – The Magic Bullet System (not to be confused with the Magic Bullet Blender!)

Since everyone in the Internet marketing world is talking about this product, I thought I will give my commentary on it for the benefit of my subscribers and visitors to this blog. (This is not a review of the Magic Bullet System).

Before I go further, let me briefly describe what the Magic Bullet System is -

From what I have seen, read and heard, the Magic Bullet System is a comprehensive system (bundled with a comprehensive training program and an CPA Network) that can effectively run your affiliate marketing business for you. It has all the tools within the custom software to -

- Build Websites for you
- Build "Google Friendly" Landing Pages for you
- Build Blogs and Opt-in pages
- Create and optimize PPC/PPV campaigns
- Conduct in-depth market research
- Tell you what to sell and who to sell it to
- Help you to optimize your campaign, track clicks and conversions for profitable promotions, etc.

In more detail, the Magic Bullet System -

1. Builds optimized pages for you in minutes, literally – sales letter style pages, opt-in pages, blogs with content rich pages … it has all the frills like 'order buttons', 'call-to-action' graphics, legal pages etc.

2. Creates ads, draws out competitor ads and uses a proprietary algorithm to unearth the ads that has the maximum profit potential.

3. Automatically optimizes your campaign, tracks clicks and conversions from any traffic source and creates a profit profile. Helps you know your stats for your PPC networks, Content networks, Social Media Networks …

4. Automatically computes the most profitable bid for keyword enabling you to create a profitable campaign.

5. Has a comprehensive reporting system that integrates data from all aspects of your campaigns.

6. Lastly it includes a comprehensive 8-week training that covers everything from how the CPA system works to the use of the custom Silver Bullet software.

The 8-week training program covers -

Week-1: Market, Keyword & Competition Research, including customer demographics which are important in building and targeting your offers.

Week-2: Target Acquisition System – How to use the Custom software to build Landing Pages, Tracking Strategies & Linking Tactics & improving Conversions on landing pages (including the psychology of landing pages and what you should be writing on your landing pages to effectively target your demographics). You also learn about cheap traffic sources like CPV (PPV), 3rd party engines and more … You will learn how to split test offers & landing pages.

Week-3: Setting Up Campaigns and driving traffic through Google, Yahoo, Bing, CPV, others.  They also teach you how to dominate the Google Content Network, how to write convincing ad copy – techniques and the knowhow of when to use them, as well as the emotional benefits to improve ad copy and website design.

Week-4: Using Magic Bullet Auto-Tracking features. This session tells you how to read the reports that show you -

1. which keywords are working
2. which ads are working
3. which landing pages are working
4. which demographics are working
5. where the customers are coming from and where they are converting
6. testing offers (including split testing offers) to identify what is working best.

Week-5: Testing, Optimizing and Expanding your Campaigns. They teach you how the software will automatically optimize your campaigns using their proprietary algorithms.

Week-6: How to funnel massive traffic to your websites, about media buying and traffic flow.

Week-7: The Future of Affiliate Marketing

Week-8 (Bonus): Essential Elements of Managing Your Business

What Do I Think of Amish's Magic Bullet System?

I think Amish & Jay have put together a very solid product. This is something they have built and used for the past year or more and so it should be relatively bug free (assumption).

Why are they selling this product?

Other than the obvious monetary reason, I believe their strategy here is to build an army of well equipped affiliates to promote the CPA offers in their Ymultimedia CPA network (www.ymultimedia.com) … a very intelligent, long term strategy.

Is it worth the $2,997 (or 4 payments of $797) price tag?

I believe YES. In effect, with all the pieces they have thrown in, it is akin to buying an entire working business model with the training on how to run it and make it successful (I believe there is also a Mastermind continuity program that is an optional sign on – which could ensure continued success).

If you are a newcomer to the Internet marketing business or even a medium to extremely experienced one, you will find that buying pieces of software (and spending the time to learn each of them) that ultimately does what the magic Bullet System does will come up to the same price range (or maybe more) … and yet you will not have the benefit of a nicely integrated system which includes a comprehensive single window training.

The Magic Bullet System is, like it states – a complete out-of-the-box system that performs the end-to-end process of affiliate marketing using paid traffic sources.

(If your Internet marketing model  is based on SEO and free organic traffic, then this product is not for you).

An Important Point To Note:

Those of you buying this package should realize that you are buying into the business of CPA Affiliate Marketing and PPC Marketing. You need to have a decent budget set aside for PPC marketing in order to benefit from this system … so, your total cost of ownership of this system is much higher than the $2,997 price tag. You need to factor this into your purchase decision of the Magic Bullet System.

The good news is that you can test out the system and see if it fits with what you want to and can do in Internet marketing. The product comes with a 6-week 100% money back guarantee.

Is There A Cheaper Alternative to The Magic Bullet System?

YES there is! You may check out SpeedPPC which is an excellent program that does a lot of what the Magic Bullet System does. It comes with comprehensive video training and user guides too.

SpeedPPC comes in 2 flavors -

1. SpeedPPC 4 – at $397

2. SpeedPPC 4 Affiliate Pro (Best Value) – at $497

A Note of Caution to Internet Marketing Newbies:

PPC marketing requires a different mindset and a certain element of risk taking (even though the software claims to mitigate some of these risks) with campaigns potentially going awry.

I would recommend newcomers to the Internet business to grab themselves a copy of Perry Marshall's "The Definitive Guide to Google AdWords" as a starting point to learn the nuances of PPC marketing. Priced at $49, this 277-page guide is an invaluable resource.

However before he got to becoming a millionaire, he struggled, like many of us starting in this business. In this well presented home study course – MoneyMindset – he shares his experience and processes that took him from being in debt, to a millionaire entrepreneur.

Have you experienced this?

Or this?

If you are just starting out in your Internet marketing business or if you find yourself simply 'spinning your wheels' and not getting any traction, despite all the hours and efforts spent in learning the Internet marketing business, then this course could not come at a better time for you.

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After you log in click the "Resources" button to download the PDFs.

I have no hesitation in recommending this product to you since John Reese is a very credible and successful Internet Marketer who has gone through the cycle of starting from scratch to building a profitable business. It is worthwhile to learn from his experience, especially when you are starting off or feeling frustrated with your lack of success.

I recommend that you head over to the MoneyMindset website and check out this program -

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Try it out for 30 days and if it does not work for you simply contact his support desk and get an instant refund.

If you tried out his course and would like to add your comments to this post, please do do below so that others can benefit from your feedback.

Additional Recommended Resource:

You will find that this program -  Action Machine Pro – works wonders to help you Increase Productivity and Efficiency and is an ideal companion to the above course.

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As an Internet Marketer and Marketing Consultant I am constantly exploring the areas that affect my business. Social media marketing has always been a fascination for me primarily because I was intrigued by it. Never fully understood how and why it worked, but savvy enough to know that it was the most important piece of the Internet Marketing puzzle that I needed to solve.

Yes, I have read a lot about it, tried out the latest and the best software (SEnuke, Bookmarking Demon, BruteForce SEO, SocialBot) ran multiple campaigns over many months … but deep inside I was still dissatisfied with -

1. the hours I spent creating new accounts (whether it was automated, semi-automated, or manual), it still involved time (my time as well as PC time)
2. the more boring hours I had to spend propagating my websites and posts to the ever increasing social media universe

… and after doing all the above, I could not see any significant return on my time or money spent.

No, don't get me wrong … I would see my content on the first page of Google for very competitive terms … in fact multiple listings in a very short span of time … Digg, Mixx, YouTube, Feedage etc. … but they disappeared after a while and I found many of my social media accounts closed for violation of TOS (and mind you, I'm not a black hatter)!

I felt there was something missing … or maybe my social media marketing strategy was wrong? So I began to probe around some more … I started visiting the social media and social bookmarking accounts I had set up previously and I started to notice something … something significant … particularly in my Digg account …

All my submissions across multiple accounts had this (notice the 1 Digg?)-

whereas I saw many postings at the top of the subject pool with this (multiple Diggs)-

That was my eureka moment … yes, I've got my social media marketing strategy wrong. Which is when I began searching for solutions … and that led me to Charles Helfin and his post "Social Bookmarking is Tricky" (click here to read it).

Finally all the huff and puff about social media, bookmarking, twittering, etc., etc. started to make sense. I also read "The-Complete-Syndication-Revelation Report" Charles Heflin and Thomas Rozof put out, and all the pieces of the puzzle as well as my frustrations with time and effort spent on social media marketing started to dissolve as I found a new, more effective way to leverage technology and build a long term social media marketing strategy …

(Click here to read this free report – no optin required)

I signed up to the SYNND network was truly amazed at the level at which Charles and his team at SocialMediaScience.com had taken this project. It had all the elements of success -

A well conceptualized content syndication and bookmarking service

An awesome training area which uncovered the secrets behind social media marketing and effective Internet marketing

A well set up membership area and support forum

The unique credits system (you get 500 free credit each month with your membership)

A very affordable price point of $67 per month

The best yet was the awesome SYNDD application and its Remote Automator (RA) – a tireless virtual assistant!

As Charles has defined it – SYNND is a human powered promotional engine leveraged by software automation -  which is exactly what it is! This awesome system makes it possible to  outsource your marketing to 600+ people worldwide in less than 2 minutes!

The concept is simple and the implementation effective!

SYNND is -

1) A community consisting of over 600 existing members

2) A software which automates promotional tasks known as “campaigns” for each member

3) A tool that coordinates 600+ members (in concert) on a single member’s campaign.

It is the EQUIVALENT of having 600+ people promoting your content across the social web and the search engines so you don’t have to. The end result is that you start creating a worldwide buzz around the content you have posted on the social networks and your 'Dugg' content has more that the '1' Digg staring back at you!

This is a diagrammatic representation of how SYNND works -

The BEST part is the SYNND Remote Automator (technology working for you):

The SYNND Remote Automator (a little 'bot') that runs invisibly and quietly in your PC background without disturbing your computer's processes. It unobtrusively completes the tasks that you assigned allowing you to focus on your main job at hand. Whenever it sees a task assigned, it launches an invisible browser that automatically logs you into the social media site, completes the tasks on your behalf and then logs you out.

I set up the Remote Automator on an old laptop and it works for me 12 hours a day, 7 days a week (even my kids can't interrupt its work) … Mac users and those of you who do not want to keep your PC running 12 hours a day/7-days a week, have the option of hosting it on the SYNND servers at an additional cost of $17.95 per month – well worth the price considering the importance of the tasks it is performing.

The SYNND Remote Automator, in my opinion, is the most significant differentiator between SYNND and the other social media marketing products out there including SEnuke, BruteforceSEO, Bookmarking Demon, SocialBot and even the newly released Web2Mayhem (Web2.0 Co-Op service).

The SYNND Remote Automator saves you time and does not interrupt you from doing other tasks, while it is performing tasks for you … and is effectively  is your 'Virtual Assistant'.

Using SYNND effectively enables you to -

1. maintain the equivalent of 10,500+ social media accounts,
2. rotate your IP address across 600+ different IP addresses from around the world, and
3. work non-stop for 160+ hours every time you want to achieve the same effect that Synnd does for you in just a FEW MINUTES.

The system simply rocks … and at its price tag, its a heck of a deal.

The BIG question users of other bookmarking services will ask is – How Is SYNND Different?

The answer is simple … its creating a back link for your content (with other social media applications) versus creating a Social BUZZ for your content (with SYNND). This is a very big difference and is what the new SEO 2.0 is all about.

You can watch the SYNND demo video here.

Synnd benefits in a nutshell:

• Higher search engine rankings
• Higher visibility from up to 600+ members making up to 10,000 references to EACH piece of your content throughout the social web
• Higher exposure in the social networks to rise above the noise
• Get “noticed” in social networks through the power of 600+ people coordinated on increasing your visibility
• Traffic in growing numbers
• Initiates the viral spread of content by injecting it in the most popular social networks.

I would recommend that you sign up for the $1, 14-day trial of SYNND and try it out. Once you're inside you will experience the same excitement I did when I got in.

Note: CLICK HERE to read Part-2 of this post!

Here are some useful resources for you to check out too -

1. Watch this video for an introduction to the process that makes The Syndication Revelation a reality through a system they call The Perpetual Internet Traffic Machine (click here).

2. Watch this video for an introduction to the Central Hub element of the Perpetual Internet Traffic Machine (click here).

3. Watch this lesson to see how your online sales funnel will tie into the Perpetual Internet Traffic Machine (click here).

4. Watch this lesson to see the process of developing your content syndication network (click here).

5. Watch this video for an explanation of the O.G.R.E.S. formula and the “raw power” of content syndication and why you need to be building your own content syndication network (click here).

6. Watch the following video for a summary of what they call “The Syndication Revelation” (click here).