A major part of Income.com’s content is going to be VIDEO.

I love video and think it’s incredibly powerful. Here at Income.com we’re hard at work developing several different video shows for you.

We’ll be producing several video episodes every month. We have some really cool stuff in the works! From tutorials to case studies to interviews and more.

Think of Income.com as your Web-based TV channel for Internet Marketing and online opportunities.

We’re also working on some special video programs. For example, we’re in the process of producing the Income.com Crash Course series. It’s a multi-part video series that will teach anyone how to go from complete newbie to experienced online marketer as quickly as possible.

We’ll also be producing a lot of programs for the advanced marketer.

And, best of all, all of the above video content I am describing will be 100% FREE.

Income.com’s core mission is to help YOU (or anyone) to successfully start a new Internet business or to grow an existing one. We want to help you make more money just from our free content.

Because, ultimately, we know that you’ll strongly consider our premium products after our free content has helped you succeed.

By the end of this week, I’m going to start posting some videos to this blog. The intial group of videos I will be posting are excerpts from a recent keynote speech I presented. You’ll discover many little golden nuggets of info in these videos.

You’ll have to be a little more patient to check-out the Income.com video shows. We’re still in the process of producing our first group of episodes. But soon enough you’ll start seeing them posted every week as new episodes are created!

Here’s a super-duper-top-secret spy photo from part of the new Income.com Video Studio. This is one of our editing/sound mixing workstations. (We love Macs!)

Stay tuned.

I want to personally thank everyone that donated to Stephen Pierce’s fundraiser to feed starving children.

Our efforts raised over $100,000 in 72 hours!

A Big Thank You to everyone that helped out.

My close friend, Stephen Pierce, has just launched an amazing fundraiser…

His goal is to feed over 1,000,000 million children within 72 hours.

While many of us are enjoying our Memorial Day Weekends by relaxing and spending time with friends & family, let us not forget that there are many people all over the world that are suffering at this very moment. And many of them are hungry children.

Please join Income.com, and Stephen’s other great partners, in helping to feed over 1,000,000 children that need our help.

Here’s How You Can Help:

1. Visit the web site at www.foragreatercause.org

2. Download the free “Success Report” that will by itself donate a plate of food on your behalf — even if you don’t give one penny of your own money.

3. (Optional) Donate any amount that you’d like. Every single dollar will help. * You get TONS of free business & success audios, videos, and special reports when you donate.

4. Spread the word! Email your ezine lists, post about this on your blog, and feed children that need our help!

A HUGE “Thank You” in advance for any help you can offer this amazing cause.

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Jeremy Shoemaker AKA Shoemoney.

What was originally planned to be a candid discussion for about 20-30 minutes turned into an all-out marathon of a call that lasted nearly TWO HOURS.

Jeremy is one of the foremost authorities in the world when it comes to making money with Affiliate Marketing and we had an amazing discussion about different ways that any webmaster can make more money from their web sites and blogs.

This interview delivers more value than most Internet Marketing ebooks being sold.

In this interview we discuss a number of ways that anyone can start making more money from their existing web site traffic. We also talk about Jeremy’s incredible AuctionAds service and technology.

If you haven’t yet tested it on your own sites, don’t walk but run on over and create an AuctionAds account and immediately start testing it on your pages.

AuctionAds doesn’t conflict with the AdSense Terms Of Service so it’s okay to use it on a page where you might already be running AdSense.

What’s amazing is how fast AuctionAds is growing virally — and it’s powerful to see how participating webmasters earn money when other webmasters join after clicking the ad blocks displayed on their pages.

It’s definitely one of those… I wish I would have thought of that.

Download and listen to this incredible interview. I promise you, it will be well worth your time. If you pay close attention to what the interview reveals it could earn you a small fortune. And that’s no joke.

Right-Click here to download the MP3 file of the interview [76MB].

* Disclosure: The above links to AuctionAds are affiliate links for Income.com. It will take you to a page where you can get a bonus $5 just for signing up. If you’d like to go directly to the site you can just go to AuctionAds.com

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I recently made a post that had some long overdue praise for Internet startup, PayPerPost.

As I mentioned in that post, I had never met PayPerPost’s Founder/CEO, Ted Murphy, even, though, PayPerPost is also located in Orlando where we are.

Ted emailed me after seeing my blog post and invited me to join him for lunch. And after spending a couple of weeks trying to get our schedules to cooperate, we were finally able to get together for lunch this week.

Ted and I had a great lunch and enjoyed sharing “war stories” about our adventures as entrepreneurs. We had a lot in common.

I talked with Ted in great detail about how PayPerPost was doing and picked his brain about his Master Plan for the company…

Let’s just say the Internet will soon being seeing a lot from PayPerPost.

Ted’s a sharp guy and I could really tell he’s very passionate about what he’s trying to build with PayPerPost. And my initial thoughts were definitely confirmed — he sincerely cares about the “Posties” that allow PayPerPost to even exist.

It was a lot of fun to visit PayPerPost’s headquarters. It’s quite a setup. They have bright colored walls and ‘fun’ stuff everywhere. Most of the employees have decorated their work areas with toys, memorabilia, and all kinds of personal objects.

PayPerPost has pretty much outgrown their existing offices as they have people working very close to one another in a large open room. But what I thought was truly amazing was how absolutely QUIET it was in their office.

Everyone was extremely busy and just quietly working away.

My visit to PayPerPost pretty much confirmed my thoughts on what I thought their company would be like… a team of hard-working people that really cares for and appreciates its customers.

After doing a little digging, i.e. trying a bunch of crazy searches, I’ve been able to discover some additional stuff about Google’s upcoming Universal Search format…

You should be able to do a Google search for “Paris Hilton” and see some of Universal Search in action.  If you get the same results page I got here’s what you’ll see at the very top…

As you can see in the above screenshot they have some News results listed first — including a photo pulled from one of the articles.

But if you look farther down on the results page (about where the 10th listing would be) you should see this…

Here we can see how they’ve integrated a Video listing on the first page of results.  And you can click that “Watch video” link and actually watch the video imbedded within those results.  Pretty cool.

This leads me to believe that all the relevant Video and Image results won’t just be stacked at the very top of the results page.  It looks as if they will be scattered throughout the listings, hopefully, based on relevancy.

While this doesn’t take away the fact that optimizing video files will become a more important part of the SEO landscape it does look as if the regular listings might not be hurt as bad as first thought.

Google just announced that they will be releasing a major update to their algorithm and to the format of how their results are displayed.

Their new results page is called “Universal Search” and it will combine results for Video, Images, News, and the rest of the Web.

This is a MAJOR change that will have a massive impact on the world of SEO. 

It will also have a big impact on the traffic some were getting from search results.

For example, a site that used to rank #7 for a specific keyword phrase will probably now receive traffic as if it were ranked #12 or #13 — because the Video, Images, and News listings will push the web site listings farther down on the page.

We will now most likely see a lot of new SEO strategies that target Video, Images, and News.

I think Video-optimization will see the most activity since News will be too hard for marketers to game the system.  Images will seem like the easiest target but I’m sure Google already has some tricks up their sleeve to keep people from gaming the system there as well.

I believe Video is where we will see the most activity — and it will probably be a combination of user ratings and other factors that determine which videos get displayed; not just a matter of video tags.

Here’s a great detailed write-up about these changes from Search Engine Land.

Here’s more on this important story from Search Newz.  And here’s an article from CNN.com.

 

  I truly believe anyone can make a small fortune on the Internet.  But it all starts with the first move being one that validates that the product you want to sell (and the marketing you’ve set up for it) will work.

 I don’t care how great you think your product is or how amazing you think your marketing plan is.  When trying to sell anything online it all needs to start with one thing and one thing only - The Exact Targeting Test.

Your overall marketing process should begin with Market Research - let’s not forget that.  You need to do the proper market research to see what others are selling successfully, what certain markets want/need, etc. etc.

But once you know what product or service you are going to sell, and you setup a landing page (or complete site) to sell it, your marketing strategy needs to begin with a test that I call The Exact Targeting Test.

Here’s How The Exact Targeting Test Works…

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   I’ve received amazing feedback about The Rebirth Of Internet Marketing report.  We’re heading towards *500* comments on that one blog post. 

Others have written about the report on their own blogs or in articles to their ezine lists.

I would say that 95% of the comments and feedback have been positive but there has been some criticism.  Which I certainly welcome.

Several people have raised some interesting points about different sections of the report and in my next few blog posts I want to address them…

“I disagree about the Internet getting more competitive and becoming a harder place to make money.  As more people start using the Internet around the world there will be more opportunity to sell things to those people.”

Of the people that had some criticism about the report this was by far the #1 reaction and disagreement.

Some even claimed I was preaching “Doom & Gloom” merely as a marketing tactic to promote Income.com as the solution to a false fear that I was making up.  (Now that made me laugh!)

I stated in the report that it is going to become increasingly difficult to make money online because the competition is growing by the second.  Generating an income from the Internet is the ultimate business and more people are figuring this out everyday.

ANYONE can start an online business without much capital or technical experience — so the low barrier to entry is going to grow competition at an extremely fast rate.

So let’s examine the argument of as more people start using the Internet there will be more people to sell to…

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  As many of my longtime ezine subscribers already know, I love to travel.

Well, in the past 10-12 months I’ve done a lot of traveling.  I took trips to Japan, Scotland, England, France and Italy.

 And I finally made it to China for the first time.  Unfortunately, I got really sick and it ruined the trip.

I went on all those trips because I was feeling a bit burned out from all the business projects I had going on.  I desperately needed to get as far away from the computer as possible.  So I did.

While I was away I had a lot of time to think…  to figure out what was and wasn’t making me happy in my life.  I did some serious soul-searching.  And as I previously wrote in my ezine, I decided to pick just one project and get out of the rest — to keep from going insane and to be able to focus on doing one thing great rather than several things fair.

As a serial entrepreneur this is something I have battled with my entire life.  There’s never a shortage of opportunities and it’s just too easy (especially online) to try and conquer multiple projects at the same time.  But it rarely turns out as well as it would have to just focus on ONE project.  So I had to make a major change…

That decision process led me to take my ’side business’ of teaching Internet Marketing and to focus on helping as many people as I possibly could with it.  And that’s exactly how Income.com came about.

But while I was traveling around the globe I still took time out to check email here and there as well as catch up on my favorite blogs and other news sources.  (Internet cafes rule.)

During the time I was away a major FIRESTORM of controversy hit the ‘Net.  Blogs all over the world were going crazy.  People were getting fired up.  Mainstream media outlets got involved.  It was nuts.  And it was all concerning one little startup company…

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