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The Internet world was turned on it’s head this week. Someone actually slapped Google! How could this happen, who did it & what does this mean for you online marketing? Find out tonight during my LIVE show…
The show starts TONIGHT at 6:30 PM Pacific Standard Time / 9:30 Eastern. Stop by early & say hi:
http://www.billmcintosh.tv/live
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Today is HUGE for both shoppers and business owners.
Google has just released a feature for users of iPhones, Palm WebOS phones, or Android-powered devices. (Google’s blog post.) As of right NOW, if you do a Google search on your phone for a product, you will see a blue dot if that item is available at a store near you! On that screen you will also see if the item has full or limited availability, the price, which stores near you have the item, the distance those stores are from you at that exact moment, the phone number of the store, and a link to get directions with Google Maps.
If you are an affiliate marketer, you need to be aware of unethical/unscrupulous marketers. They often offer easy, fast and huge payouts. But their business practices are unethical. And they are giving affiliate marketing a bad name.
These companies will promote a product or service, take the consumer’s credit card information, bill them exorbitant fees monthly and make it nearly impossible for them to get requested refunds or stop the service. Sometimes they pass on the credit card information to other companies and add additional charges for additional services or products that the consumer knew nothing about. So what started as a small one-time charge turns into hundreds or thousands of dollars of unexpected debt for the consumer.
Although I discussed this topic on my live show right before Christmas this past year, it applies to all of us from time to time. So I wanted to mention it now.
We often have the urge during traditionally “tough” economic times like holidays, to go into agreement with them, and blame those holidays or seasons for drops in our sales, low income, etc. What times are “tough” depend on what business you’re in. We say “Things are always slow this time of year” or “It’s the economy” or “It’s the holidays”. But saying those things doesn’t improve the situation, it just justifies low production.
There are a ton of affiliate offers out there. There is a lot of money to be made for sure. But scattered among the legitimate ones are the shady offers by companies who charge a lot of money for a much-less-than-awesome product, confuse the customers, withhold the actual amounts they will be charging, and make it nearly impossible to get your money back once you realize what’s happened.
As an affiliate marketer, you have to be responsible for what products you’re promoting, in the same way that you’d be responsible for items you sell in your own shop.
Google has quietly been testing a new feature directly on TVs. What could this mean for the future of advertising for both local and national companies? How does this fit into my theory that the Internet is “Going Local, Social & Mobile”? You’ll want to tune in LIVE tonight and find out…
The show starts TONIGHT at 6:30 PM Pacific Standard Time / 9:30 Eastern. Stop by early & say hi:
http://www.billmcintosh.tv/live
If you are a member of my Business Inner Circle, you should go to:
I’m sure you’ve heard it’s critical that your business use sites like Twitter, FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz & the dozens of others like them. The problem is that it takes so much time! You’ll want to tune in LIVE tonight because I’ll show you how to create your very own social command center so you can be active on all these sites without wasting hours & hours of time…
The show starts TONIGHT Tuesday March 2nd at 6:30 PM Pacific Standard Time / 9:30 Eastern. Stop by early & say hi:
Ah one more Google property. One more social network to figure out how to use. Lucky for you, I’ve been playing with it to figure it out, and I have a clip showing how some of the features actually work so you can see it.
Interested?
Watch the clip!
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Did you miss last Tuesday’s live show at BusinessInnerCircle.com? Here’s what you missed! The answers to the following questions:
1. Is Google just throwing out so many products they want to see what sticks?
2. What should a noob do to get into the Internet Marketing industry?
3. Does Google Buzz have an open API?
4. How do Google Buzz email alerts work?
5. What’s the difference between “white hat” and “black hat” marketing?
This is from an earlier show in December, but it’s more important now than ever to understand and apply local marketing to your online business.
If you remember way back in December (for internet technology that actually IS way back), Google was trying to acquire Yelp. That was HUGE news. Not only that, but Google got turned DOWN by Yelp. A Google representative was quoted saying THEY are the ones who turned down Yelp…which, aside from being a tactic I used in third grade, also makes NO sense. Google buys EVERYTHING which makes sense to buy. They would NEVER say no to Yelp, in my opinion. Anyway, there’s some context for you.
