If you are using Magnetic Sponsoring to help you generate leads and commissions (getting paid to prospect), then you will need to know how to use the back office to locate links, banners, and training aids.

This video also covers setting up a "campaign" for tracking the different ways you are promoting the products, seeing the breakdown of where you traffic is coming from and following up with your prospects initially.

As I said, this is just a primer. Future video’s will go into more detail.

You finally made the decision to get your own domain name, only, someone has already registered the exact name you wanted to use.

What do you do now?

Well, you can grab your Therasaus and look up words that mean the same thing, or you can use Register.com’s Advanced Domain Name Search feature and let it suggest 20 or 30 different but similar names. Me? I take the shortcuts where ever I find them.

How would you like to have a personal assistant that does a lot of the research you need to do, in order to be successful in whatever "niche" you choose to market in? An assistant that works without pay, without cost, without rest or potty breaks?

Google offers a free service that does just that. Give it a keyword to monitor, and every time something is added to the web for that keyword, Google will send you an email alert containing the link(s) to the pages that contain your word(s) of choice.

Let Google help you keep track of what you are interested in.

Recently, a client came to the house for a bit of training on using eBay to liquidate some of the items at his house he no longer wanted. (I am sure you know how that goes)

He agreed to allow me to record the training session both for his own use, and to share here.

This video walks you through creating an eBay sellers account, choosing your auction options (such as title, price, shipping options, photos, etc), and building the ad using basic HTML. Starting at about 11 minutes on the timeline is the HTML used to create and format your auction ad.

One of the most popular blogging platforms on the web today, Wordpress offers a lot of features to make "push button publishing " possible for almost everyone.

If this is your blogging platform of choice (as it is mine), then you will need to upgrade the "software" to the latest version whenever they release a new one. While the process isn’t "hard", there are a few steps. This video details each of those steps.

If you prefer just reading about it (boy, is this stuff dry though! ), then the instructions are below. I got these directly off Wordpress’ site here. http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress

Continue Reading "Upgrade To The Latest Wordpress Version"

Even though it’s 2008, not every one has high speed Internet (I am sad for you) so I created a channel on DailyMotion where you can see some of the video’s I post here in a lower quality streaming format.

If you do have high speed, or aren’t having trouble viewing the video’s here, great! But if you are, you can check them out by clicking on one of the images below. (Hover over one to get a little mini preview)

Skill Level: Intermediate

Christian Wilson wrote in with a request this week which I would like to share here (thanks Christian!).

Christian Writes:

How do you make a pull down navigation menu that is all in CSS?

As I said before, this is not a beginners task and might not even be an intermediate one, but I will throw down on it and you can pluck from this what you will.

Continue Reading "Dropdown Menus Using CSS"

Most Wordpress themes automatically add navigation links at the top that point to pages you have added to your blog, but did you know you can add to that list? Even if it’s not a "page" within your blog.

If you have extra web pages you want to make available to readers of your blog, you can simply upload them and add "references" to them in your theme files. This 8 minute video will walk you through editing your Wordpress theme "header" file (I’ll even show you where that is!) and have to editing your theme like a mad woman in no time. (Figure of speech guys)

iFrame PHP Redirect Generator software, or something similar.

If you are into any type of Affiliate marketing, then you know the value of being able to mask those long ugly affiliate links with something more visually pleasing and professional looking. It’s a boring process and requires you get the code exactly right, every time.

I wrote some software to make this easy for you.

This video shows you how to get iFrame Generator, install it, and use it to build solid professional PHP code that will redirect your web visitors safely and quietly to the page of your choice.

Using AWeber as an Autoresponder will improve your chances of reaching the right people, at the right time, by allowing you to continue marketing to them over time.

A Wordpress blog (the best blogging platform in my opinion) can be a great place to allow people to "Opt-In" to your list.

So, how do you add an AWeber Opt-In form to your Wordpress blog? Well, this video takes you step by step through the process. When you are done, you will be able to create a list in AWeber, add a Web Form, and then put it on your Wordpress blog.

When you have your own domain, you will often need to transfer files between your computer and the Internet location (your domain). FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is the means by which you send and receive those files.

I recommend Filezilla for those on a budget (it’s free), and demonstrate how to find it, download it, install it and use it in this video. Personally, I use (and recommend) FTP Voyager for those that can afford it (it’s about $40) because it also contains a built in scheduler that will monitor directories and upload / download files automatically for you. For most people however, Filezilla will do everything you need it to.