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I hate this method. It’s pure spam.

Here’s how our conversation went:

NEWBIE: “Hey people, i need some help. Does anyone use SpinChimp? I’m trying to figure out what are the best setting (for Global spin, favorite spin and Instant Unique) to set so that i can get the best readable quality from my articles. Any help from anyone?”

PALYN: “:/ I would like to encourage you to adjust your business model to not include spun articles. I can understand the attraction, in terms of ease.. but it is not a long-term (or even short term, IMO) compatible SEO or business model.

My main beef is that this practice often feeds the instant gratification many internet marketers seek, yet only leads to a long path of “chasing the dragon” and never really reaching their sought after goal. “One more piece of software… one more domain.. one more affiliate program..”

I would like to encourage all internet marketers to use non-fleeting building blocks when creating their empire.”

NEWBIE: “Thanks for you words of concern Palyn. Truth is that i eventually plan on outsourcing some of the work like article creation and submission. But as for right now as i start i’m kinda tight on cash so i was looking for more affordable option till i get to the point where i can possibly have my own team of people that i can outsource different parts of my business too.

So with that being said, then whats your outlook on software such as Senuke that supposedly automate everything for you?”

PALYN: “For the websites that allow completely automated submissions .. are those the sites you really want to send time getting links from?

Google knows about them, and they are the exact types of sites that are being discounted heavily ..especially with the Panda update. Much of Panda is an *offline* process that Google runs on their index. So those (honestly) spammy sites will definately give you a boost for a very short while, but will go away soon after that. Possibly damaging the Trust of your domain name forever, forcing you to rebuy/rebuild.

These 100% automated programs only post to certain types of sites that allow it and are designed for it. Talk about a footprint, eh?

Even scripts that spam blog comments onto people’s standard wordpress sites aren’t all that great anymore. Most blogs require comments to be approved anyway (because of spammers). I don’t say that lightly.. years and years ago, one of the *very first* blog comment spam scripts on the market was my very own design, but I distanced myself from it because I felt like an asshole using it.

I only do white hat stuff. All my clients are small businesses, anyway, so I have to go that route no matter what, and I control the resources to pump out freshly written articles/blog posts/videos for them each week – but not many people can just jump right in to doing stuff like that.

Here are a couple tips… (again, having no idea what your real-world business mode is)

1. Instead of doing 50 affiliate programs and going to wide with your efforts, pick the top 3 and go very very deep. If you go wide and spread your efforts thinly, you’ll just get lost in the noise. But if you spend time building a solid foothold in just a few markets, you’ll have a better chance of seeing a return. Create an imaginary persona for yourself for each market – a persona who’s LIFE is this market and spreading the message. Create their website, product website, blog, article profiles, web 2.0 profiles, etc, and spend the time to bolster those.

2. Reuse content, don’t spin it. It’s not about quantity, it’s about quality. Take that article and manually post it to ezinearticles.com.. after that manually create a lens at squidoo.com… after that manually create a hubpage.. after that, post it on your “market blog” for that niche. Yep, it takes more work upfront to do this stuff, but the work you do builds on top of itself instead of disappearing just as fast as you put it in place.

If you do spend time working to a domain, don’t get lazy and start up with the automated stuff again.. it’ll tarnish your domain’s reputation with the search engines.

I hope that helps.”

NEWBIE: “Thanks Palyn, your reply is a encouraging because it lets me know that i’m somewhat on the right track then because you have pointed out some things that i’m also doing (e.g. focusing on a few products rather then a ton of them). Sounds like you have been doing this for a long time. About point 2, won’t Google see that as duplicate content?”

PALYN: “A while, yeah.

Duplicate content has always been a dramatic topic. Generally, the FIRST place google finds the content gets the most credit for it. Which is specifically why you first want to use a high trust website like ezinearticles.com and include a link to your main website. Do that with your original article before you spin it. Let google discover it on their own. Very very important.

After that, you are free to put the content in other high trust places like hubpages and squidoo. Surround the content with *other* content like videos from youtube, and rss feed, images, a unique paragraph or two that you type… You’ll be fine.

Google is much less concerned with duplicate content between different websites than it is with duplicate content on the SAME site.

Let google discover your content and links to your website at these other high trust places.. give it a week or so…

After that you are pretty much free to spin the content and build all the links you want, even if it’s spammy links. build links to your main website AND all your content URLs at these high trust websites.

It DOES matter how google discovers your website, and in what order it finds links to it. If Google finds your website through low trust websites first, your domain is shit out of luck. However if google discovers your website through high trust websites first, then you are golden. Establish trust, THEN build links.

Also, don’t forget to create a video at animoto.com and upload it to youtube.com .. letting google find that video there first (with a link to your website in the description, of course) … then upload the vid to all the other vid sites to create backlinks.

Don’t rush this process. You must let Google discover things on it’s own and in the right order.

p.s. I still want to encourage you to not spin at all though… I gave you a loophole that allows for it because I want to help you along your path, but you’ll be better off without it (and you could still get caught one of these days).

Think long term, add value to people’s lives and move forward with wisdom.”

NEWBIE: “Thanks bro, that really helps me out a lot. And about building/discovering links gradually, i learnt that the hard way
Thanks for the tip about getting back-links from trusted sites first, never thought about it but it makes a lot of sense.”

PALYN: “Anytime. You know where to find me.”

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Every entrepreneur who is looking for the most efficient way to sell products over the internet should be very enthusiastic about drop shipping. It finally allows you to sell nearly anything you want, be it computer equipment, toasters, billiard tables, even planter pots, all without having any inventory. And do you know what no inventory means? It means no risk! The only time you ever buy any products from the wholesaler is when you have already sold it to a customer! And the best thing is (or should I say, another best thing), the wholesaler packages it up and ships it out to the customer for you, and usually your business name is on the box! As far as the customer knows, you have a warehouse full of products.

When you sign up with a wholesaler, they will most likely ask you for your tax license number, or a faxed/emailed copy of it to prove you are a legitimate business. If they don’t ask you for this, they are either a very small wholesale company with a specific niche of products and just want to make the process easy for their clients, or they are not a real wholesaler at all.

If you ever come across a “wholesale” company that carries tons of items, ranging from Barbie’s to hair dryers, and they say that you don’t need to have a tax license to deal with them, then be very skeptical, because 99 to 1, they aren’t a wholesale company at all.

That sort of company will just take your order only to turn around and order it from the real wholesale company at a much lower cost than you paid for it (and they did have to get a tax license to do this). It doesn’t stop there either. Since you bought it at a higher price, you will need to pass this on to your customers by marking it up higher than you need to. And if you ever needed or wanted to, you would have less margin when lowering your prices to match or beat your competitors. And your competitors would probably have a tax license, so they would be dealing with legitimate wholesalers.

Seriously, be very careful about this, there are many wolves in sheep’s clothing out there. So skip the middleman, get your tax license, get legitimate and you will save yourself a lot of grief and money.

Once you make an account with a wholesaler, some will mail you a wholesale catalog and price list in the mail with a CD full of product images to use on your website. The smaller companies will just allow you to copy the pictures and descriptions off their website. With this product information, you can post the products to your online store and wait for orders. It’s as simple as that!

Then, when a customer places an order, you either call, email or fax your contact at the wholesaler and give them the customers name, address, and the items they want, including any other miscellaneous information the wholesaler may want. The wholesaler then charges you for the cost and shipping of the order at wholesale price, then packages it up and sends it off to the customer. All you have left to do is turn back around and charge the customers credit card for the items with your profit margin markup.

The reason this is growing in popularity amongst wholesalers is because they get to have many other companies market and sell their products, thus reaching more people and selling greater volumes. The wholesale company is still able to sell their products for the price they want, and you get to keep the profit margin as a reseller. It’s a win/win situation.

Drop shipping is enabling the average person to be able to run a successful, full service online retail store from the comfort of their home. No inventory, no shipping department, only buy when you have already sold — this is the perfect affiliate program.

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Boy was it was crazy, I couldn’t have been more wrong! I imagined myself just climbing on and riding off into the sunset like a pro. But when the time came and I actually sat on the bike for the first time and rode a few hundred feet, it was quite an eye-opener, to say the least. I felt like I was 15 years old again, with a driving permit in my wallet and my mom in the passenger seat. Those familiar emotions were running through me again — apprehension, confusion, excitement and fear — only this time I had more life-experience under my belt to better manage them all.

Sure, having driven a manual transmission car for many years did help control the motorcycle, but it was still pretty foreign. But with time, practice, and making plenty of mistakes, I got pretty good at it. Eventually, it became second nature. And even now, after all the experience I’ve gained, I’m planning on taking an advanced riders safety course.

This reminds me of internet marketing. Maybe you are just starting your first online business, or maybe you are on to your second or third and are now marketing those. Where ever you are at, the amount of business experience you have will vary from most everyone else; but here’s a fact no matter how long you’ve been doing it: if you don’t practice internet marketing, it will never get any easier.

Internet marketing is just like learning to ride a motorcycle or drive a car. Before actually getting into the thick of it, people may tell you “Oh, it’s so easy!” or “All you have to know is this, that’s it.” Even when you think about the steps and procedures beforehand, you can convince yourself that you have it all planned out and it’ll go off without a hitch. But once you actually do it, you get that much needed reality check.

Internet marketing isn’t something you can just “do” and get right the first time around. Yes, it is important to take advice from professionals you trust and who are where you want to be, and to read their eBooks and what not. But it is much more important to actually get out there and do it yourself. Guru’s can point they way, but they can’t give you experience. To be successful at internet marketing, it takes focus, concentration, and especially practice.

Just like using a clutch, you will mess up your marketing. You may gun it, and offer your customers a product that would’ve sold better had you waited. You might pick a product you are not really qualified to market. Whatever it is, be it headlines, sales copy, product placement — you will get it wrong some of the time. But the more you practice marketing, the more you read about people who are doing it correctly and effectively, the more you write and rewrite, the better you will get.

Eventually, you will develop a “sixth-sense” of what is good or bad — marketing will become second nature to you.

Most people are looking for the easy way out. That’s why ”get-rich quick” schemes are selling so well (and ruining it for us legitimate netizens, damn it!). But those people never reach their ultimate goals, because there is no legitimate, fool-proof quick way — especially one where you can keep your conscience clean!

All those who are determined to succeed, who try and try again and do not stop despite all the obstacles in their path — those are the ones that will succeed, guaranteed. You can do anything you want in life; no one can stop you but you, and this does include financial independence.

Ask yourself what you really want out of life. Would you rather catch the new episode of ‘Friends,’ or spend time strengthening your sales copy? It’s easy to get distracted, but stick to your guns and re-do it for the tenth time. Just remember, for every time you get something wrong, you are that much closer to getting it right.

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REPLAY: 6-Steps to Complete Local Market Domination and Attract More Customers Than You Ever Thought Was Possible

This was one of our most popular seminars ever, so we thought we’d put the replay up for your viewing pleasure and education. During this seminar, Palyn Peterson walks the average small business owner through everything takes to get their website optimzed and promoted correctly in order to drive in large amounts of local customers.

The recording started 1 minute late, but all you missed was a bad joke and a quick discussion about how the printed Yellow Pages are dying due to consumers moving online. Enjoy!

WORKSHEET: Click Here to download and print out your own copy of the seminar worksheet. (Very important! The seminar will make way more sense with this in front of you. Also, this is NOT the “resource sheet” that is mentioned. The resource sheet had URLs and whatnot that are no longer valid, so we pulled that particular document.)

47 minute running time – LOTS of numbers & specifics will be given, please have a pen handy.