Whenever I start a new internet marketing campaign, I always research competition first, ALWAYS. There are many ways of doing this. Some methods can be done by hand, and some you absolutely need a tool for. In the past I've talked about some of these tools. iSpionage has just recently relaunched themselves with a new line of tools that are incredible!

What is iSpionage?

iSpionage allows you to easily find and keep track of keywords and competitors' ads across not only Google, but Yahoo and MSN/Bing as well. It is a comprehensive tool that includes so many features to sky rocket your marketing campaigns through competitive research that it is crazy.

Let's take a look...

iSpionage is constantly monitoring what your competition is doing in regards to what ads they're running and what keywords they're bidding on. You can find out at any given time what ads, what keywords, etc. Finding just one new adgroup idea can prove to skyrocket earnings.

What's cool is when you start a project, you can either aggregate related keywords by site or by keyword.

From there you will see what advertisers are using your selected keywords and how many they're using, as well as where they're putting their ads (Google, Yahoo, Bing), what their ads look like, and get links to their landing pages. (Win!!!)

Now, the really cool part.

Not only can you research your competition, you can actively build a new campaign ready for importing using their system, right there on the website.

You can literally have this website generate entire campaigns based on competitive research and be going in no time at all.

One of the other great features is to setup alerts on whenever a particular advertiser starts bidding on new keywords or when new ads are made. So when your competitors start a new adgroup, you'll know about it... You can always have the upper hand on what is profiting.

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What is Squeeze Theme?

Squeeze Theme is a wordpress plugin that can be used to generate some SERIOUS cash. This WordPress theme / plugin automates much of the process of making squeeze pages.

This squeeze page method can be used to generate some serious income... Let me explain below how.

What is a Squeeze Page?

A Squeeze page is page designed to have your visitors give you their email or similar in exchange to of viewing more content. This is a very common and highly successful marketing method used.

The idea behind this is that you offer valuable free content (usually in the form of an ebook or report) in exchange for the persons email. Then you use this email list to market / upsell your related product.

I personally have seen this method succeed. My dad has used this method to generate over $60,000 in a single month. Needless to say, it's highly effective.

How does Squeeze Theme Help me?

SqueezeTheme is designed to work well at gathering email addresses and that's exactly what it does. If you're not sure if this is something you could use or you're unfamiliar with building squeeze pages, you might as well check out their free 37-page Squeeze Pages 101 eBook. It's packed with REALLY helpful information on squeeze pages.

Check out this video about Squeeze Theme:

My next project includes Squeeze Theme

When I heard squeeze theme was coming out, I was really excited. I actually have a project coming out soon that will need a squeeze theme! This product is ideal for me because I can spend way less time coding and designing and more time focusing on the quality content. I am really excited to see how it all works out.

You can grab your copy of Squeeze theme here.

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In the past I posted a HasOffers review that you can check out, but this post is about their new dedicated solutions.

I Love Has Offers

I am a huge Fan of Has Offers. I really love the design of the interface, the features, etc. I am surprised it has not been more widely accepted.

One of the main reasons that many people did not move over to Has Offers right away was due to the servers being hosted at their data center. Just like with Direct Track and LinkTrust, the servers stay at the tracking server company and you modify the software theme to match your website. The main concern I had heard from others is that Has Offers was run by Tatto Media, which also runs an affiliate network. Some people felt like they could use the data to their own advantage, etc.

Self Managed Solution! Awesome

With their new dedicated solutions, HasOffers is one of the first affiliate tracking software solutions that has the options to have self managed, self hosted servers. This is especially great due to the fact that you can keep the server in your own server colocation center vs. them having to manage the server.

A single HasOffers Dedicated Solutions’ server is capable of running over a billion impressions per month, which is quite impressive. More than enough for MOST businesses.

Price

I tried to get the price for the self managed hosting solution but because it varies due to certain factors, they would not tell me. They did say however that it is less than competitors.

What does this mean? I know the other guys run around $1000 bucks a month, so perhaps the price is under that? Either way, well worth it!

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I'm really not a huge "book" type of guy. My wife is the reader of my family. She reads every single day, usually twice. I read usually just once a day, and it's usually the Bible. Hah!

When Twilight came out, she read through that series amazingly fast because she could not put the book down. Predictably Irrational has been like that for me.

From page one, there are nuggets of information that seriously have redefined a lot of the way I look at marketing promotion.

I highly suggest that you take a second to just read the free couple pages on amazon now. It's 4-5 pages that I bet will have you impressed.

In the first chapter of this book the author, Dan Ariely, talks about how we all make comparison to other products to come up with what is an acceptable price. For example, we don't know how much a 4 cylinder car is worth, but we know it should cost less than a 6 cylinder.

Dan talks about an experiment in which he demonstrates this and uses points of reference and comparison to get someone to pick a more expensive item more times than not.

The experiment given was using a newspaper subscription. You could join the newspaper subscription as follows:

• Internet only subscription - $59
• Print Only - $125
• Print and Internet - $125

What do you think most people went for? Over 80% went for the Print and Internet - $125. Why? Because the Print only was a price comparison point that made it easy for them to decide to get the print and internet.

Now compare this to when he just had the Internet only Subscription and Print and Internet as options. Now over 70% of people selected internet only. This was because they had no point of reference to make the print and internet deal seem worth it.

Crazy good right?

Read the first pages at least, well worth it for any internet marketer.

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What Is WF Review?

WF Review is a SWEET plugin for wordpress that ADDS VALUE to your blog landing pages! The way it does this is by adding the following to your landing pages made out of wordpress:

• Gives you the ability to use WordPress comments as Amazon.com style ratings! (This has shown to increase conversions an amazing 12% to 80% depending on niche.)
• Imports MASSIVE amounts of data, straight from CSV to wordpress, using easily modified templates that you control.

Essentially, you can get real life user feedback making it a community driven landing page. Google likes this, it's true. More importantly, (most importantly) it can really increase conversions!

Increased conversions = more money = you can increase ad spend = more volume = even more money. Like how that works? Then you should check out this cool little plugin.

It cost's a nice little chunk of change up front, $130ish but that includes unlimited landing pages, free upgrades for life, etc. At $130ish as a time fee, you'll be able to make that up in the increased commissions fairly easily if you're pushing some good volume.

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While I was on my Honeymoon, Gary Simon, an amazing designer hooked it up and redesigned my logo for this site.

I really love the way it turned out and honestly, after looking at his work and price, wish I knew about him sooner!

Check out some of his other logos:

For $99 bucks you get a top tier logo designer.

He also does web design and other things.

If you'd prefer to do it yourself and learn to design, he also has a website for that called How To Design Your dot com!

Thanks Gary!

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Revolution202

Just recently the Tracking202 team decided to launch yet another awesome arm of the 202 company, Revolution202. So now you can find new offers, track your campaigns automatically, get stats on your iPhone, and now, you can run your affiliate campaigns through revolution202, an affiliate network.

Another Affiliate Network?

It seems like every day more affiliate networks are popping up into the affiliate marketing scene. There are literally hundreds of places that you can run your affiliate marketing traffic through now, and your job as an affiliate is to find the best.

Every network out there can claim to give you the top payouts, the top this, the best that. The truth is, most networks out there are nearly identical, except for a few main things.

So What Makes Revolution202 Different?

The main difference that sets Revolution202 apart? It's really simply one huge thing. The staff.

The Revolution202 staff is filled with people who actually know something about the industry. First, you have the owner, Wes. Wes is one of the coolest guys I have met. Very personable, very professional, and genuinely loves all of this industry.

Next, the 202 staff. I got a chance to hang out with all the 202 staff during Adtech. Of all the teams of people I have met, this is honestly one of my favorites.

Lastly, the Revolution202 staff. Today I joined R202 and emailed Wes about it. He responded to me in 5 minutes (which I really appreciated) and my account was approved and my account manager was assigned. I looked and was pleasantly surprised that I knew my Account manager personally, Justin! Jacob and I had a good time just chilling with him during Adtech San Fran.

I really appreciate that R202 is filled with knowledgeable staff rather than some female who was hired only to get horny affiliates to run traffic with them.

On top of the quality staff, the R202 website actually has a really cool feature to reach the staff. On the side of R202 website, there is a chat window that allows you to chat with online affiliate managers at any time. Need a quick bump? Have a quick question? It makes it very easy to reach anyone, and I love it.

"Invest Into People"

I was reading a book the other day called, "Integrity" by Dr. Henry Cloud and the author was talking about his conversation with his multi-millionaire friend.

He asked his friend, "Now that you've made it, where and what do you plan to invest in?" His friend replied, "I only really know one area really well so I choose not to invest into anything except for that." Knowing that his friend had invested into a five or six companies, he asked him, "What about these companies? His friend replied, "I didn't invest into those businesses, I invested into those people. I know their work ethic, their drive, their etc, etc, etc."

To sum that up, he was saying that he did not invest into companies or ideas, but people. The same idea applies to who you decide to work with. That's why I highly recommend the Revolution202 affiliate network.

Sign Up For Revolution202

If you're looking for a top notch affiliate network, I suggest you sign up today.

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