IM Faceplate has caused quite a stir and Sweeva is an incredibly innovative and revolutionary spin on a traditional (am I allowed to say that when it comes to Internet Marketing) advertising medium.

Everybody’s talking about them and so they should – they’re quality networking programs, but their are some great Internet Marketing Social Media sites that you may not be aware of.

Here are a couple with my thoughts on each one and they’re relative value.

List Volta is first cab off the rank and I confess to having totally underestimated this resource.  AT first glance List Volta is a Safelist produced by the owners of the Iconic Herculist – perhaps the oldest online safelist.  Safelist members are allowed to randomly mail between 500 and the entire database of members on a daily basis dependent upon membership level.  Members at List Volta earn NOKS (advertising points) for viewing ads.  These points can then be applied to various on site advertising options within the site.

For a long time I didn’t see the point, but on closer inspection the advertising options within the site are really quite innovative.

These include

1. Volta Super stream – a facility enabling you to post a blurb about your latest offer or product.  these blurbs pop up on site throughout the day and are viewable from within the site itself.  Bottom line is that they generate traffic.
2. Volitivity Stream- a simple ad that appears within the List Volt and Herculist sites- you can subnit new ads regularly
3. CHAT facility
4. BLOG- for upgraded members only – another way to generate backlinks to your site
5. TEXT AND BANNER ADVERTISING – rotated regularly throughout the site

This an interesting site with an active membership base, a sound administration and appears to be evolving as it progresses.  I recommend that you join at the very least as a free member.

Next cab off the rank is Sokule.  This is a brilliant concept that perhaps is not being used by the Internet Marketing community to anywhere near its full potential.  As the banner says – Sokule is Twitter monetized (i.e it has an affiliate program)

AT a basic level Sokule allows members to “Tweet” their messages to other Sokule members.  These messages are then picked up by Sokule and automatically tweeted on twitter for you as well.  There are many more options for Pro members including integration of your Sokule posts – I think they’re called ” Soks” across a variety of Social networking channels.

The thing that doesn’t grab me about Sokule is that I seem to be besieged by hundreds of “Twitidiots” who have nothing to offer other than they’re affiliate link .  This isn’t a reflection on the site, but the membership – or maybe Ive just been unlucky.

Apsense was in many senses way ahead of its time, utilizing the power of Web 2.0 to build an Internet Marketing Networking community long before sites such as Facebook were even thought of.

This site is packed with networking and advertising potential and is worth investigating.

The keys with all of these sites is not to sell but to concentrate on building relationships.  Good businesses are built on strong relationships.  Spend your time spamming everybody with your affiliate link and you’re social media marketing will fail.  On the other hand,if you take a genuine interest in people, and look to genuinely help them, you will see good results over time.

It was my sales funnel report.

In it I had to detail the number of Housing Loan conversations my branch had initiated, followed by the number of leads, prospects, sales and very importantly cross sales that followed.

In Australian banking, the ultimate Sales Funnel is A Housing loan -you can easily cross sell nine or ten product off the back of the Housing interview because everything fits neatly hand in glove.  Completing the report made sense and was a useful management tool.

A sales funnel is essential in any form of marketing but probably more so in online marketing.

You still need to generate leads, turn them into prospects and ultimately customers.

My eBook and system Break Free Traffic is my primary sales funnel -it’s what I use to generate leads to my mailing list and also acts as a referral source to a heap of money and traffic making programs for me.

Contained within the eBook are at least three primary sales funnels – these are Affiliate Funnel, Traffic Exchange Profits and Traffic Hoopla.

These three programs contain links to dozens of affiliate programs that aren’t necessarily part of my primary business focus – but here’s the clincher – by taking the time to ensure that all of my affiliate links are recorded within these three funnels, I do make the occasional referral and sale – without doing anything.

Where I fall down is the next level, the downline builders within the sales funnels.  A classic example of what I mean is the downline builder’s offered at most Traffic Exchanges and safelists.  I have to confess that not all of these are filled out and that’s to my detriment.

Yes it takes time – but if you make the effort to complete all of these downline builders you can guarantee that over time they will generate referrals for you.

I’m plugging the leaks in my sales funnel – are you?

Anything that can give you targeted free traffic to lead generation sign up pages is worth taking a close look at.

Leads Leap is a free to join program that gives great value and with a little promotion (Preferably directly to your list – but it can be done directly) will ensure that your ads will be seen regularly by a growing list of business opportunity seekers.

This Leads Leap Tour video perhaps best explains exactly what Leads Leap offers

Essentially Leads Leap will display your advertisement across its network and through its targeted blog as well as directly to your downline 10 levels deep.

Now there are many programs like Leads Leap, and I confess that when I joined this program I dismissed it without giving it due consideration.   I don't have a lot of time to earn advertising credits , so I either like traffic to be organic, viral or I'll pay for it.   I dismissed Leads Leap as being a text ad type site without giving it the due regard it deserves.

The fact is that Leads Leap can give organic traffic through it's cool blog widget which I'm deliberately displaying here to demonstrate what it looks like and will be displaying on several of my blogs in the side panel.

Additionally Leads Leap offers many other great ways to generate free traffic including a great tool called the affiliate re-brander.  Just downloading this free tool , setting it up and giving it away will generate leads to your chosen lists or business opportunities as well as Leads Leap

This is one free traffic source that I highly recommend to you.

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New Dominating Google by Mark Dulisse makes it possible!

First off, let me tell you that I have been an advocate of Mark's for over
12 months.  His service, responsiveness and knowledge far outstrip any
other Internet Marketing teacher/guru/expert that I've come across

Mark Dulisse's IM success story is so crazy that at first I really couldn't believe it.
Only after watching some of his instructional videos and seeing some of his affiliate accounts and hearing the genuine pride and excitement in his voice did I realize that this guy really had made the whole journey .  This single dad went from waiting in line for food handouts all the way to the TOP of Google.

I made a great decision several months ago to purchase membership to his IM Niche Formula 2.0 course and have been blown away by the depth of knowledge, and the level of support that Mark provides.  What really impresses me is that Mark provides so much support and feedback that you realize that this guy really wants you to have the success that he's had.

Now he’s released a new course to share how he’s been quietly DOMINATING
Google as a 5 figure affiliate, and he holds nothing back:

Get Dominating Google here!

One of the things it seems like people have been looking for online FOREVER is really good SEO knowledge that:

•  Is NOT too expensive -some courses run in the thousands per MONTH! That hardly makes Search Engine  traffic free
•  They want a teacher who is like THEM.  Not an egghead who knows the science of search but less than nothing about  business- and I can tell you Mark is a genuine guy – who understands business and is really trying to     help people
•  And NOT a "Hissing Sid" junky fraud-act from some slimy sales weasel who is only selling re-bundled outdated(and most likely illegal) SEO because he knows people out there are desperate for it.

At last someone who NOT ONLY who has MASTERED dominating Google’s page one as top-selling affiliate, but has REVERSE ENGINEERED several UNIQUE aspects of getting rankings has emerged to really tell you what it takes to get page one rankings and take your home business opportunity to stratospheric heights.

Seriously, his techniques are almost unfair!

Why do I say that?    This isn’t just a handful of the same old techniques that every wannabe SEO expert trots out.

This isn’t just one or two strategies.  This isn’t even just one single way to get better rankings.  Mark’s not satisfied with getting to page 1.  He’s not satisfied for you to get just that either.

Mark’s strategy is to secure MULTIPLE top listings for MONEY MAKING keywords that are ONLY ever typed in by people who are looking to BUY and buy RIGHT NOW.

They already want whatever they’re looking for  they just need a little bit of justification to convince themselves WHY they need it

That’s where Mark’s methods come in.  No matter where people look, he’s got page after page just  WAITING for them to find.

But HERE’S where Mark’s method differs from your average Black Hat Affiliate marketing bum.  It’s NOT about selling people junk.  It’s about helping people make informed buying decisions.

It’s about helping them not just find what they were looking for, but leading them to buying the RIGHT SOLUTION for their problem  and that’s how Mark went from broke to pulling in FIVE FIGURES a MONTH!  
NO BLACK HAT.  NO SCAMMING. 

Do you want to succeed online?

This is the blueprint, I've watched Mark's star rise over the past eighteen months.  He has the big dogs falling over themselves hoping that he'll promote their product.  His methods work.  Pure and simple.

Do you want to do it ALL with FREE traffic from Google?

Most importantly  do you want to make your fortune by HELPING people so you can sleep with a clear conscience?
 
Now you can, and Mark’s course Dominating Google will make it affordable.

Mark takes it step by little tiny baby step for the beginners:

• Demystifying Google’s Search Pages, what it takes to get to page 1, to stay on page 1, and to start taking over ALL the spots
•  All the tools you need not just to work your SEO magic, but even better measure and IMPROVE over time, climbing over your competitors.
• The EXACT blueprint you need to carve your website into a lean, mean, Google-dominating machine, even if  you’re starting from SCRATCH!

And even if you think you’re an SEO master I guarantee Mark’s got some angles in his bag of tricks that you never even knew were POSSIBLE!

• Dominating Google Verticals like Google Local, Video, Images, News, Shopping  Everything Google offers, you can DOMINATE!
• Dominating Google with RSS, Mobile SEO, Universal Search, Social Media,and of course, blogs!

But don’t make the mistake of thinking of the above two bullets as add ons  ALL of Mark’s SEO knowledge is part of an entire integrated system.

That means that this isn’t a list of 100 different ways you might succeed at getting one ranking one time.  Thisis the real deal – a gigantic interlinked system that creates a power all of its own.

Others have attempted this before, but by cutting corners, they get only SHORT TERM successes.

That doesn’t stop people from teaching slapdash methods to others.  After all, bad SEO even SEEMS to work sometimes But again, this is where Mark’s training truly comes to the fore.

The final part of the course covers in detail how to avoid these hidden SEO Traps and Fatal Mistakes! If  you’ve been around the internet marketing scene for even a little while, you know that-:

You don’t have to be a bad guy for Google to think you are and start punishing you like one!  They call it the Google SLAP or if you’re feeling nicer, the Google DANCE!

The Google Slap is like a death warrant for your site, get left out of Search Engine rankings  and you're left scraping the bottom of the barrel for a trickle of traffic.  Don't follow a SEO Black Hat conman, follow SEO knowledge you can trust.

The basis of what Mark teaches is bread and butter SEO that makes you MONEY.  This stuff is what fed his kids and kept a roof over his head when he was at his lowest

And he kept doing it because it was working.  And now he’s got more money just sitting in his PayPal account doing nothing than some people reading this made last year.

I urge you to see what Mark is offering  and DECIDE TODAY if it’s for you! 
It’s that simple.

Get Dominating Google here!

I’m not going to insult your intelligence with a fake scarcity ploy and say that this price is temporary, or  there are only so many seats

I WILL say that JUST ONE BONUS that I'm currently using included with this course has been selling like hotcakes at $97.  To get ALL of this training  ALL of this support  ALL of these resources for THIS price seems insane.
 
Mark’s not insane – he's just very good at what he does and Dominating Google in some ways is the ultimate testimony to his methods and his success

Not just on his own sites, but his students dominate.  His JVs and vendors dominate.  And now it’s your turn. 
For WAY LESS than any other course as comprehensive.  For WAY LESS than hundreds of less competent gurus. You get WAY MORE that what you’re going to spend.  And it’s sad to say, but that’s RARE online today.  Don’t hesitate to check this out.

Only if you want to quit messing around and start DOMINATING Google.  But of course,if you just want to tease Google, or maybe bypass Google altogether you should be fine with any old SEO education.

Qondio is one of my favorite sites, providing me back links to my websites every time I provide short pieces of "intel" on any subject.  It has a proven track record and an active community of writers, it is not however, a business opportunity, but rather a means of generating traffic.

So my interest was pricked pretty much straight away when Nick alerted me to his new program which he  tentatively called Locust Swarm (promising that the program would generate so much interest that people would be swarming like locusts all over it)

Today I got the opportunity to join and I have to say that I am very impressed with this.

Fortitude in some respects, has been produced as a response to the content factories designed to capture search engine traffic without actually providing quality articles.  Think programs like Constant Content, Demand Studios and Associated Content which pay writers to produce short largely meaningless articles that are keyword rich but do nothing to enrich, or empower the reader (or for that matter make them think) 

Fortitude wants quality content and it wants content provided by its community, voted for by its community.

That's where the home business opportunity comes in.

Fortitude will pay writers between $10 and $100 for articles/poems or essays that make there front page.

It doesn't stop there.

Fortitude's affiliate program is quite outstanding
 

• For each user successfully referred on or before May 31, 2010, receive $16.00.
• For each user successfully referred on or before June 4, 2010, receive $14.00.
• For each user successfully referred on or before June 7, 2010, receive $12.00.

Residual Rates

You will be paid $1 in instant cash for every piece published on the Front Page by any user you referred to Fortitude, for life. Wow! The residual payments are not locked and can be withdrawn instantly. The minimum withdrawal is just $5.00.

All payments are made via paypal.

The obvious question is -Is this sustainable?

Let's consider what Fortitude is doing.

It is charging a very small fee for full membership ($23.98 for 12 months membership) which allows you to submit articles, review content  etcetera.

This fee will pay for any referral fees and leave some cash over for running costs.

Additionally, Fortitude will sell advertising to interested parties.  I have reviewed there advertising pages within the membership area and they are aiming at high ticket advertisers.  Ultimately, as with all magazines and publications – they will stand or fall on their ability to generate advertising revenue -hence their willingness to pay for quality well written articles.  

My Verdict

Nothing is certain in the world of online publishing.  Fortitude Magazine is a bold attempt to create a legitimate online business that gives a legitimate business opportunity to opportunity seekers while trying to create a quality publication. 

As with any program there is a risk of failure, however, this is based on a sound business model, has an owner/developer with a proven track record and makes good business sense.

The risks are minimal ($24 per year) and the potential earnings either by contributing content or by referring others to the program could be quite lucrative.

I have joined and recommend that you do so too

Fortitude Magazine Bonus

This is an exciting home business opportunity, particularly for those who have some writing ability.  Accordingly I have put together the following bonus package for people who choose to become full members at Fortitude Magazine.

Fortitude Magazine Bonus #1

Mass Article Submitting

Software

VALUE $47

FORTITUDE MAGAZINE BONUS OFFER #2

VALUE $7

                                           WITH FULL RESALE RIGHTS

To claim your Fortitude Magazine Bonus here's all that you need to do

1. Go to Fortitude Magazine and Claim your year's membership by visiting here
2. Send an email to me (Mark) at breakfreetraffic at gmail dot com headed Fortitude Magazine bonus  with a copy of your receipt.
3. I will forward you your bonus' within 24 hours of receiving your email.

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• A 90 day super affiliate boot camp with live webinars from Brian Johnson
• Premium WordPress Theme Flex Squeeze
• 17 professional Halloween header graphics
• 3 month access to a powerful link building underground network
• And much more

The Halloween Super Affiliate program is due to launch late in June and I recommend that you keep an eye out for it – it promises to be huge.

I have been able to get a sneak preview of the product and it is a variation on their massively successful Clickbank Pirate.

Regular readers of my blogs may know that I was singularly unimpressed with Clickbank Pirate simply because I was not able to build grow and nurture my own list with it.

Affiliate Silver Bullet addresses that problem in some respects by allowing advanced users to plug and play their lead capture systems into AWeber's autoresponder.

Essentially, Affiliate Silver Bullet enables you to concentrate on driving traffic to a number of professionally designed squeeze pages that will then follow up on your behalf with recommended products and services.

On the face of it, it could work.

There are some difficulties I can see with utilising it – the first is that you either rely on Affiliate Silver Bullet to do the follow up for you- something that I'm not exactly keen upon or  you use Aweber's services – too bad if you use Get response or Traffic Wave or any other half dozen quality email service providers.

Not withstanding these drawbacks I decided to test Affiliate Silver Bullet for you. 
I am not spending much time on this – in fact I'm spending about as much time as your typical Home Business Opportunity seeker may take between working, and living a normal life.

I have therefore implemented the following test criteria.

I have set up a Clickbank account exclusively for the purpose of testing the product.

I have allocated some Traffic Exchange credits to a squeeze page.

I will advertise a seperate squeeze page once per day for the next week on selected alternating Safelists.

I plan to do nothing else.

At the end of the week I will reveal my results.

My sincere advice to you is not to consider purchasing Affiliate Silver Bullet until you've seen the results of what I would consider the average Internet Marketing hopeful capable of doing.

When you can answer those questions you can proceed with launching your home business.

If you want help – just complete the form below and subscribe to my newsletter – I don’t bite.

The trouble is that many home business opportunities are legitimate in as much as they present a legitimate opportunity to the prospect, however, the claims of earning capacity and workload are in many cases grossly over exaggerated.

Let’s begin our quest by ruling out some opportunities that, in most cases will not deliver.

You can immediately discount the following “home business opportunities” as scams.

1. Programs that use a bait and switch “hook” by promising that you will earn a free payment upon completing some set criteria are designed to lure unsuspecting people into a sales funnel that usually is MLM based and ultimately will require that you spend much more in advertising or time promoting the same bait and switch principle to others.  These are cruel cynical ploys that play on the “free earning concept” when in actual fact they are designed to enslave “newbies” in to a shadow  world of promotion, matrices  and mythical pay plans that benefit the owners and hardly anybody else.
2. High Yield Investment programs – these dodgy schemes are doomed to fail.  Typically they promise massive returns on investment and promise to pay you big commissions on referrals.  They are ponzi schemes pure and simple reliant upon a constant stream of money from new players to pay the interest to existing “investors.  Run do not walk from anybody who presents such a scheme to you as a home business opportunity.
3. Doublers/Cyclers operate on a similar premise in as much as they promise to cycle your money providing you can find other unsuspecting victims to part with theirs.  Again, do not touch such a scheme
4. MLM programs that don’t offer a tangible product that is of value to you.  There are some good MLM programs out there selling all sorts of Berry Juice,and health supplements, but the bottom line is if the product does nothing for you why on earth would you recommend it to somebody else.  This is the golden rule for all MLM home business opportunities – ask yourself a simple question – is the product good for me and would I buy it if I didn’t have the opportunity to get compensated for it
5. Paid Surveys.  OK there are lots of Paid Survey companies that will pay you for your opinion, but you will never make a living out of taking paid surveys – and you should never pay for a list of paid survey companies – you can fine the information for free if you spend a little time looking.
6. Anything that says they do all the work for you.  The only work they’re likely to do is pocket your money

Having dispensed with the hype driven part of the market what are you left with if you want to build a legitimate online home based business?

• Affiliate Marketing
• Private Label resell rights
• Product development

These are the real legitimate home business opportunities available online to you today and grabbing hold of these opportunities and profiting from them is not that difficult and will involve some expense, principally in the areas of research and skill development.

I can think of no better place to start your search for a legitimate home based business opportunity then by learning from the  very best  people in the industry.

Here are my Top 5

• Graham Hamer has been involved in online marketing for many years.  He has been there done that and got the tee shirt.  His new publication Tompedia is what it says it is an online marketing encyclopedia and comes with my highest recommendation.
• Mark Dulisse has taken the internet marketing world by storm in the past 18 months and his training series’ are second to none.  At the time of writing his IM Niche Formula 2.0 was available to a limited number of trainees.  I wholeheartedly recommend getting in if you can.  Otherwise his program Gunshot Money is well worth a look.
• Rosalind Gardiner literally wrote the book on online affiliate marketing. Her eBook the Super Affiliate Handbook is well worth the read and very nicely priced
• Alex Goad is a bit of a renegade online marketer.  His latest offering Autocontent cash is currently working exactly as advertised for me- it isn’t for everybody and there is a huge learning curve- but it works.
• Ken Evoy successfully launched the Site Build It concept some years back.  SBI as it is known in the business continues to teach people how to build and maintain quality niche targeted websites – well worth a look.

All of these programs represent legitimate means of earning income online and as such  I highly recommend that you choose one and seriously study what they offer.
Only then will you be able to take advantage of the legitimate home business opportunities that present themselves to you online