JV giveaways are springing up right and left. I have added at least 6 to my JV giveaway directory in the last week. There are so many giveaways going on in the next couple weeks that I have decided to delay the giveaway that I am going to host.

I was going to do a Flag Day giveaway that would start on the 14th but have changed it to a Declaration of Independence Giveaway that will run around the 4th of July. But that's not what this post is about.

I know that a lot of you are just starting out with your list building and using giveaways. When you have limited resources and have a small list or no list at all, it can be a daunting proposition when you have to promote the giveaways you have joined.

For some of you, it may be a daunting task just to set up your gift in a giveaway. For those of you that need help, look in the side bar to the right in the "categories" drop down box and click on "How To Videos". There are a couple videos that will help you out.

When deciding which giveaways to promote, there a few things you should take into consideration:

1. Commission percentage – should be 75% or more for an upgraded contributor. This is a big one! I see some giveaways that are designed to make the host a lot of money. The contributors come second. If you are going to upgrade, you want to get the highest commissions possible on your referrals as well as you "special offers". This makes it easy to recoup the cost of upgrading.

I don´t know whether it´s just me (a grumpy old sod =O) but, email marketers just seem to to have a real lack of imagination when it comes to there broadcast email titles. I´m just looking through my trash folder, as that´s where most emails end up and I see swathes of emails titled “RE”: , re what for Gods sake. Or the latest sheep trend seems to be “Cancelled”

I think a lot of this boils down to the fact that a large majority of marketers are just plain lazy when it comes to promoting other peoples products. They have access to a vault of pre-written email swipes and as a result they just don´t bother to take the time to re-write anything.

That´s all well and good but, from my point of view when I get the twentieth email of the day banging on about how good a product is and the marketer uses the exact same template that every other poor sap is using, they just become faceless, they do nothing different that stands themselves out from the crowd.

Obviously there are exceptions to the rule and one marketer who stands out for me is Michael Cheney. He always manages to pique my interest with his headlines and as such I always open his mail.

Hi All,

I´m on a bit of a roll at the moment 3 posts in 2 days ! I found a brilliant plugin the other day called Rank Tracker. The plugin is being sold by Paul Forcey  (the comment hut guy). Anyway after installation the plugin will begin to tell you what keywords your ranking for and the position within Google. When you configure the plugin you can set an email account were the plugin will send a message with regard to any changes in your keyword ranking. I set the plugin up on all my niche sites on Monday and by the same evening I was getting messages through.

One thing that amazed me was the fact that I was getting messages through about keywords that I am ranking for that I did not even have any content on my site that matched the keyword, obviously a broad match search. One keyword in particular surprised me as I am ranking position three in Google for this keyword without any actual content on my site, whoo hoo !

The thing is though now I´m getting these messages through I can write posts and articles that are laser targeted to the particular keyword search, which will in the long term enable me to rank even higher.

I just love these set and forget type of plugins. At the end of the day we are all so busy chasing our tails trying to find out how to get more traffic to our sites and this Rank Tracker gives us the information on a silver platter.

Morning all,

I found this great piece of software yesterday from a company called Dropbox. If you are anything like me when you need to move for arguments sake a text file from one computer to another you would normally email yourself the file, Dropbox gets around this annoying little problem by dropping and dragging files into a Dropbox folder that you have on each of your computers.

As soon as you have dropped the file into your Dropbox folder it automatically appears on any other computer that have the Dropbox software installed. There is a paid option but, you can get up-to 2gb worth of storage for free, me likey =O)

I made a small video for you just to show you how it works. I love finding little pieces of software that help my day to day work and this certainly will free up quite a bit of time.

Until next time take care and good luck.

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The owners of those stores pay fortunes in rental space for those prime locations.

Back to websites…

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Hi Guys,

I just wanted to show you a new version of a product that has been around for a while. The name of this product is Easy Web Video. Now I know from the feedback I get that there are a lot of people who are frightened when it comes to putting video on their sites. This product could quite possibly be the answer to their prayers. As You will see from the video below this little beauty is simplicity itself.  All you have to do to get your videos online is insert one line of code.

As I said in the video the company host all your videos so all you need to bother yourself with is inserting one line of text on your site, now you tell me could that be any more easy !

Until next time my warmest wishes to you.

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