“Some big changes are coming from Google next year”

That sentence has become a cliché, but what can I tell you – In 2010 Google is launching an operating system, their own line of PC’s, and most importantly for marketers “Google Wave”.

I think they have the lunar X-Prize next year too so they will be looking to capitalize on the publicity. Anyway this post is about Google Wave. The first info products have been released on GW already and its still in pre-release.

Google now has a spiders web of services that offer social networking and RSS integration. The trick is to combine these various websites and gadgets together and with non-Google services to maximize subscriptions, sales & traffic.

Google Wave is going to be one of the phenomenons of 2010.

Well a few of the big names in internet marketing are shifting their efforts into consulting for offline business. Others are turning to services rather than info products – why ?

Piracy and the abuse of intellectual property, the recession – these are the negative motivators.

But there are positive motivators too such as less competition, recurring billing and high commissions.

Personally I would say you want to start learning to speak mandarin. The market in china will grow to 500 million online – there is no effective way to do business with these people without language skills. Its just not going to happen any other way.

Ebay had it made – they bought out the biggest auction site in china six years ago and instantly had 80% of the market there.

This is a multi billion dollar market – its no game. So what did they go and do ?

They moved the whole operation offshore to the United States. How dumb can you fricken be ?
The traffic dropped by 50% immediately. Thanks to corporate brown nosing and blame shuffling the top management at Ebay didn’t even know this – What kind of management is that ?

The competition moved in immediately with more than a little help from the Chinese government – as one would expect.

The competitor Taobao.com now has total dominance and is soon to be making more money than Amazon.com.

Thats $15 billion a year annually in sales from a company that did not exist 10 years ago.

Clearly we can learn from this – Ebay had a foot in the door and pulled it out – they should have expanded the technical base in China not withdrawn to the USA.

Not by selling advertising like Google. They make much of their money by selling virtual avatars and similar virtual goods.

Much internet activity in Asia is also based upon mobile devices.

A great idea for a killer application is software that will turn a mobile device into a virtual pet or personality that takes on a life of its own.

Over the next five years the internet population of China should grow to beyond that of USA/Europe combined.

We should expect to see more of their revenue come from advertising in this period but we can also expect more western online revenue to come from virtual goods.

There will also be a greater shift in web activity away from conventional screen based surfing toward virtual environments and superior visual interfaces.

The technology that will enable this is augmented and virtual reality enabled 3D eyeware – superior to the current commercially available products.

See This Pic:

Top chinese social network had over $1 billion in revenue 2008. Chinese internet penetration can still more than triple in next few years.

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StatsJunky and StatsRemote are the two best – Check em out !!!

Yeah baby !!! You got a pile of PLR or know where to get it for nothing ?

A mountain of public domain at your disposal ?

Well how about HARDCOPY !!! Use print on demand and turn it into a physical product then let the distribution markets sell it for you – like Amazon.

Translate it into other languages and rinse and repeat. I simply MUST do this – not many people have caught on to it yet.
Everybody is caught up with blogging, PPC and CPA this year. On demand publishing and translation are a great avenue.

Not just books but video training, software etc.

On demand publishers list:

createspace
trafford publishing
cafepress
lulu
iuniverse
xlibris
etc…

for a bigger list check this site http://www.bookmarket.com/ondemand.htm

Hers the big thing – you know how video submission works right ? The more sites you publish to the greater the number of top spots you get – same with POD – They do the marketing for you.

Heres a larger pic:

click here

Right now I intend to spend 2-4 weeks sharpening my blog farm and hub building skills – then I am automating a bunch of new domains with chinese content. Will focus these projects on the chinese market.

With RSS, mashups, autoblogging & social network automation it matters little what language the content is as its all syndicated.

How many tweets have you made on twitter ? I have made over 1600 I believe. I learned of twitter a long time ago now and friendfeed not long after. From the 30daychallenge I learned to link my twitter tweets into friendfeed and facebook.

So all my tweets automatically update there too. But this week I discovered how to integrate my tweets with 50 other web2.0 communication portals also – not only that but my blog posts can also be integrated.

I may have to disconnect the facebook and friendfeed system I have in place now or I could cause a tweetloop.

I cant wait to set this up. What fun.

I’m planning to start building some large WordpressMU blog directories.

The sites will be too large for me to create the content – I have to aggregate it.
Preferably in such a way that I am not splogging or outright scraping content.

In my research I have discovered the partial to full RSS scripts that will extract the full posts from a partial RSS feed. EG:

http://echodittolabs.org/fulltextrss

Just enter an RSS feed URL into the form and it will convert it to full text via HTML extraction.

This lead me to Yahoo pipes

Which is designed to aggregate feeds and create unique content – there are several pipes for full text RSS conversion.

What you can do with pipes and Google App engine is nothing short of incredible.

I cant really describe it but imagine being able to combine content from all of googles services, ebay, yahoo, amazon, every blog on the planet withan RSS feed, every website with an RSS feed, datafeeds etc etc.

Not just in a flat and brainless way but in an interactive, unique and useful way.

Google App engine taps into Googles vast server farm. This is a small hint of what the internet will soon become. You see the most advanced supercomputing systems are now in the Petaflop category – that is very close to the hardware equivalent of the human brain. In the next ten years supercomputers will be advanced beyond the human level.

These machines will be linked with fiber optic grid technology to the internet. You will be able to access these machines and their hyper intelligence via web based computing.

Online applications, gadgets and mashups will thus provide services that desktop computers can simply not perform. We are begining to see this now but it will explode on the next decade. What will also explode is the interfacing of consumer electronics to this online distributed computing network.

Man I found some cool software that gives you a 3D view of any websites Internal Link Structure.

You can zoom, pan, rotate using the arrow keys. Press H for help, F1 to toggle full screen.

If you want to make a 3D movie you will need to download Fraps as it runs on an openGL window.

A very useful tool for link analysis.

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Yep google wave must surely spell death for friendfeed and twitter.

It doesn’t exist in the public domain yet but it looks pretty cool.

I dont yet but the time will come soon. There are huge opportunities to better your marketing, your business, your health and so much more.

If you have a few grand to spare – go find a mentor

Gather …

· JV list owner contacts

· Swipe files of sales pages and emails

· Piles more cheap traffic than you can handle

A twelve step plan for total market domination

and success …

“Because nobody else wants to do the work”

PHASE TWO MARKET RESEARCH

By Gareth Thomas

Right – No Messing About…

Step One: Open a fresh Gmail account unique for this project.

Step Two: Determine your what niche / market is.

EG: bodybuilding, twitter marketing etc

Step Three:

A / Go to clickbank and search the marketplace on related terms

EG: bodybuilding, abs, fitness, fat loss

or adwords, ppc, yahoo, msn adcenter etc…

B / Visit each page in the clickbank results list.

C / Join all the optins using the Gmail account.

D / Save all of the sales pages to a folder.

E / Copy all of the URL’s to a text file.

Comment: Some niches will have 30 sites, others 500

You must do the full list – DON’T BE FUCKING LAZY !!!

Step Four:

A / Take out a 3 day membership at Spyfu.com

B / Use the text file listing clickbank URL’s to find PPC keywords being used. Search spyfu by URL not keyword.

C / Save all the results all of the searches into a new folder in excel format.

D / Some sites will show other sites not in the clickbank list using the same keywords. Scan all of these new sites in spyfu also save the excel files and save the URL’s and sales pages as in step Three.

By the end of this stage you should have…

1 / A Gmail swipe account stuffed full with autoresponder sequences in your niche – NEVER DELETE any of them.

2 / A swipe folder with sales copy for all of the info products in your niche.

3 / A complete list of clickbank and related URL’s

4 / A folder of excel files from spyfu with hundreds of PPC keywords, plus PPC ad copy and data.

Sick of this boring shit yet ?

We are not even close to the meaty part.

The part most people will never bother to do because its so fucking tedious.

And yet it’s the BEST !!!

Step Five:

1 / Enter the main market terms and “forum” into google.

EG: adwords forum

2 / Check the actual forum sites and put the URL’s into a new text file.

3 / Join all of the forums using the Gmail account and confirm – yes there may be dozens. Be sure to confirm ASAP!!!

Step 5: Do the same as above using the keyword “ezine” instead of “forum”.

EG: adwords ezine

You will now have a list of all the main ezine and optin sites in your niche.

YAWN !!!

Step Six: Perform Whois on all of the ezine, forum and optin URL’s. Enter this information into a new text file.

EG: Phone, Email, Name, Address.

Step Seven:

1 / Go to amazon.com and choose “books” from the drop down menu. Enter the main keyword EG: bodybuilding into the box.

2 / Enter all the book titles into a new text file. You can do the author names in another file if you so choose.

Step Eight: Do the same as above at Ezinearticles.com for article titles. Don’t bother with article authors though.

Step Nine: Build a list of magazine titles similar to steps seven and eight.

Step Ten: Use your imagination !!!

EG: Build a GURU list of famous names in the niche.

Coming next: The most boring sucky part that pays off real big .

But only if you actually do it.

Step Eleven:

A / Download adwords digger or similar – there are a couple of others.

B / Scan all of the keywords in your article headlines list. Set adwords digger to use 100 results and scan one keyword at a time if you don’t want the software to hang.

C / Put all of the resulting URL’s into a new text file.

WARNING: It has been rumoured the CIA uses this technique when they are prevented from water boarding.

This is seriously boring shit !!!

D / Do the book titles next.

E / The Guru list.

F / The magazine list.

G / The domain names from clickbank.

By now you will have thousands of URL’s for Google placement targeting.

Step Twelve: Now you can multiply that placement list many times over.

A / You can scan all of the spyfu keywords. This can take you to tens of thousands of placement URL’s.

B / You can take a subscription at Wordtracker.com and dig all of the spyfu keywords. Then scan those results with the placement targeting software. This may give you more targeted traffic than you can handle.

BONUS STEP:

Get contact info for ebay power sellers and online stores selling related products for your niche. These guys have buyer lists.

EG: For bodybuilding it would be supplements and fitness equipment.

That’s it man.

GET TO WORK !!!

Heres the link www.belcherbutton.com

This is pretty cool and I recall michel fortin showing a button at world internet summit with a java script to change the border to green on mouseover.

Heres some code to try out for that:

http://www.chami.com/tips/internet/122596I.html

Apparently Belcher has a product with several more split test results at www.43splittests.com

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CPA marketing

I predict that every man and his dog will be CPA marketing next year. In 2006 it wasnt so well known with affiliates.

But by next year even all the newbies will be doing it. It fits with the recession and its been growing in momentum with launches like PPCformula and traffic tactics not to mention Frank Kern telling us in a little video how to mail CPA offers out.

I am seeing more and more stuff on CPA.

There was the Vegas seminar a week back too. Even Reese mentioned somewhere that he anticipates cost per action to become more predominant.

Obama is a case study.

10,000,000 on list and over a billion bucks raised.

But would that have been achieved without a presidential election ?

No way. Obama was the authority figure but the driving focus was the election “The Event”.

Even better the election was not just an even it was a “Contest”.

Marketing around events rocks.

I just met a guy this week who has a sports event he started from scratch. Its on today actually. Its a ocean swim contest, gets national TV in NZ. He runs several major events each year and all over the country there are training events all year.

He networks with similar events overseas. Now this guy does not market information, he has big corporate sponsors that pay for all prizes and donate equipment and supplements etc. This entire business was started from nothing. He didnt event provide the prize for the first contest 6 years ago, a sponsor did.

Anyway this guys positioning at present could make him multi millions as an info marketer.
He has his own small list of 10,000. The prestige of major coporate sponsorship and national TV coverage, international contacts (JV’s).

I have been telling him all about JV’s and product launches. He’s keen as and wants to outsource the whole thing.

Anyway events are very powerful – especially contests that get people excited.

I just experienced Internet Marketing Obsessive Disorder IMOD and yes it was odd.

You see I became obsessed with a Warrior Forum thread. That thread involved a website that had traffic in abundance. This was more than enough to trigger my IMOD syndrome.

Especially since i have been in my room best part of 4 days swotting for a project management exam.

So I became possessed by this thread and the delusional concept that I had discovered a secret traffic generation method.

A method involving expired domains no less.

And so my IMOD led me into a surreal world where I would tap the power of these expired domains and become the wealthy owner of a very large list in a few weeks.

I was delusional of course and have experienced similar IMOD episodes many times in the past. Never does IMOD syndrome involve the same delusional fantasy more than once.

Once the syndrome has manifested itself along a certain delusional tract one is permanently cured of that particular expression of the illness.

I am aware that others suffer from IMOD worse than myself. Personally I have not spent more than a few hundred dollars at a time on an IMOD delusion.

Nor have I developed multiple products while suffering from the disease.

May you all be healed. Good day.