Twitter results
3 March 2010
I don’t know if you saw the last post with my notes on Twitter. But, if you haven’t check it out. Essentially, if you follow the notes written, you’ll get at least one new Twitter follower a day. Not bad.
Arbitrage on the internet Part 2
16 February 2010
Another form of arbitrage on the internet can be found with products. Essentially, in this case, you will buy something for a low price and sell it to someone at a higher price. We see this every day in the real world. For example, someone may trade in their car for $5,000 and the dealer resells it for $7,000.
So, how is it done on the internet? Well, you could potentially buy something during a one time sale of say 30% off. Then, you can resell it for 20% more on sites like eBay or Craigslist. Make sense. The key here though is to make sure you’re not holding the ball. In some cases, you can actually list your product for sale before you even buy it. This way, if no one buys the product, you don’t actually purchase the original product.
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What is arbitrage? And, how is it done on the internet?
15 February 2010
About.com defines it as the following:
“The opportunity to buy an asset at a low price then immediately selling it on a different market for a higher price.”
So, the question is, what does this have to do with the internet. As a web developer for many years, I should know how this is used on the internet, but, I don’t so I’m learning right now.
Here are some different ways arbitrage is done on the internet:
- Click arbitrage – You buy traffic where it’s cheap, then figure out a way to redirect the traffic to someone that will pay for it. Sound familiar? How about Google Adsense? In this case, someone pays Google to show an ad, whether it’s on your site or on the search engine. In this case, the big winner is Google because people are paying Google for their traffic that they are redirecting to their own site. Another technique is to pay Google for your traffic and redirect that traffic to another site, maybe advertisers on your site, or affiliate marketing advertisers. The benefit of course comes from the difference you pay for traffic versus the amount of money you make from affiliate marketing advertisers or banners.
- CPA Arbitrage – This is similar to click arbitrage. Think about it, almost any type of arbitrage has to be based off of user actions like clicks. Here, your site or ads are designed to send someone to an affiliate marketing advertiser that will pay you a commission for someone buying, CPA (Click Per Action) something from their site. This is by far probably the most lucrative aspect. For example, if you can drive traffic at lets say $10 which causes someone to buy something which pays you a $20 commission, you’re making a $10 profit. Because the internet is so predominant these days, the affect of this can be enormous. If you’re good enough, $1000 can net you another $1000. Not bad.
Newly launched AffiliateMarketingTop10.com
13 February 2010
We recently launched AffiliateMarketingTop10.com. Why? Because it’s nice to have someone step you through the process. But, it’s a pain in the butt trying to sift through all of the hooplah about everyone’s program and why they’re the best.
So, we put the site together to do a comparison of the affiliate marketing training guides and coaches out there. If you’re interested, I’d definitely check it out. I found some similarities among all of the programs and some great big price differences. It was pretty informative to step back and look at what everyone was actually training and how much it costs.
Essential Twitter applications by Laura Wilson notes
12 February 2010
I signed up for the free webinars by Laura Wilson and to say the least, I’m greatly impressed. Below you will find my notes on what I learned from 1 webinar. Pretty cool. To sign up for her webinar, go here for the Essential Twitter Guide free sign up page.
Notes:
7 Tools and applications
140 characters of text for each text
TwitPick – allows you to post pictures to your account
Tweet – Status update
followers – Who’s following you
Following – who’s following your tweets
Friends – reciprical followers
DM’s – direct message to one of your friends
Lists are twitter groups
Twitstream – your Twitter home page.
retweet – when someone retweets your tweet. This is an excellent thing.
7 applications and tools
- Twitter Search
- TwitPic
- SocialToo
- Twellow
- SocialOoomph Tweetlater
- Twitter Karma
- Tweet Adder Software
Twitter Search
www.search.twitter.com
Trends, Market Research, find specific people and info, live topic updates
Easily research different topics, information is up to the minute
Putting search phrases in quotes is like an exact phrase search, like googles
TwitPic
allows you to upload photos even by phone through email address
SocialToo
Autofollow people follow people that follow you. If you don’t follow people then naturally, they will unfollow you. You can also create surveys to ask your followers questions.
When you set up an account, go into the settings and make sure you autofollow others
Reminder, go into SocialToo and set up a social survey
Twellow
Yellow pages of twitter, like yellow pages, like twitter search except you can find people by characteristics
Will also suggest users for me.
Allows you to find information on your followers as well.
SocialOomph
Formerly Tweetlater
Send new followers an automated DM
Schedule tweets at a later time/date. Like Twuffer. This is an excellent way to construct Tweets to go out at all times of the day from now until the end of time. Have to do it one at a time though.
Twitter Karma
Bulk Follow, bulk unfollow, tidy up your twitter account, useful for mass follow techniques, see your friends, following an followers
Tweet Adder Software
Follow people by keywords in tweets, autofollow 250 people for free, set up recurring tweets. Better than Twollow
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