Internet Marketing is a unique business for many reasons; technology, scale, growth, well you know, it’s the Internet! It does, however share one characteristic with most other businesses: it is easier to fail than it is to succeed. There are lots of reasons, some of them common to any business, some more Internet-specific.

Unique "Direct Publishing" locks in your referrals
Free IQ has done many evolutionary things when it comes to affiliate marketing, such as 1-year cookies and SEO-friendly affiliate links. But they've also done some truly Revolutionary things; one of the most significant is "Direct Publishing".If you have your own web site, and are referring to Free IQ, it is easy to use your affiliate link. But if you have a large site, or multiple sites, it can be all too easy to miss opportunities by inadvertantly leaving out your affiliate link somewhere. Or, you may have many links and content that can get unwieldly to update and manage.What if... you could somehow just say, "Here's my URL, make sure that I get the referral for anything coming from here" - well, that is exactly what Direct Publishing is. You simply "register" your domain through a quick and painless two-step process, and Voila! anyone coming from anywhere on your domain automatically gets tagged with your name!You can only do this for domains that you can save a small file to (just your email address on a blank page), and this rules out blogs such as Blogger - which wouldn't be your domain anyhow. But for domains that are yours, this is a wonderful feature!Here is a short video showing you exactly how to do it. Make sure you do it today - don't risk losing a referral that may become someone else's first!

5 Step Plan for Budding Internet Marketers with Little Time and Less Money
I received an email from someone on my list saying:
“Help! I am just overwhelmed. I really want to make money online, even if it never makes me rich, just gives me a decent income stream. The problem is that I’m completely overwhelmed with too much information. Also, I just can’t afford to spend much money, […]
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There’s NO SUCH THING as a 10 cent keyword!
A few months ago I wrote an article with that title. It drew lot of attention and criticism. But it’s important to understand the premise. When you create an ad campaign in AdWords, each of your keywords has a Minimum Bid that you must meet in order to trigger your ad for that keyword. One of the ongoing objectives for any campaign, is to pay as little as possible, while getting the best conversion. [Read more →]

Some of you might recall the piece I did about SpeedPPC, a revolutionary PPC system that promised previously unattainable capabilities and near-insurmountable competitive advantage. The gist was, after investigating it, I became a ‘convert’, and even considered making it the first affiliate marketing tool that I use myself that I wanted to keep to myself.

Keyword Research Tools to Improve Your Internet Marketing. We offer Tips, Tricks, and Strategies for Beginners & Pro's at Improveyourinternetmarketing.com. Check out Melanie's Tips for “The Mother of All Research Tools Lists” and so much more on Internet marketing. 

Internet Marketing is a unique business for many reasons; technology, scale, growth, well you know, it’s the Internet! It does, however share one characteristic with most other businesses: it is easier to fail than it is to succeed. There are lots of reasons, some of them common to any business, some more Internet-specific.