What started as an experiment to take advantage of TypePad's 14 day free trial is turning into something of a love affair! So easy to use.

So efficient.

I have set up multiple blogs to say nothing of the three or four private access blogs-behind-blogs...

And I can run everything from a single dashboard.

My main blog - the blog of blogs - can be accessed at:

http://news.davidpatrickhurley.com

It still looks like a house under construction, but you'll get the general idea if you check it out.

Coming soon...

• A new membership site for my 100 members PLR article marketing subscribers.
• A membership site for my Internet affiliate marketing training services.
• A membership site for my English Renaissance academic papers.
• A membership site for my English language students...

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I have started thinking about switching all my operations over to Typepad.com as I hear a lot of good things about it as a professional blogging platform around which you can build multiple blogs each with an integrated website if you wish.


But what should anybody do with the blogs they leave behind? The best thing about blogs, they just keep going so it should not be such a big issue. Also, if you add links to your posts pointing them to your new blog, you'll be providing your readers with quick and easy access to your new virtual incarnation and giving it some link juice at the same time!


So, if you already have a blog but want to experiment with a Typepad blog or any other blogging platform... just go and do it and then decide which you prefer and point everything else towards it.


David H.
Best Internet marketing strategies

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You may never have heard of Ruben Gonzalez, but I am a big fan of his and am delighted to learn that at the age of 47 (same age as me) his bid to participate in the 2010 Winter Olympics as a luger has been accepted.

Ruben: "On February 12th 2010, when I march into the Opening Ceremonies of the Vancouver Olympics at the age of 47, I'll become the first person to compete in four Winter Olympics each in a different decade." When not risking his neck on the luge, Ruben travels the world as a professional motivational speaker, inspiring his audiences to raise their game by telling them how he came to achieve his dream of taking part in the Olympic games... Check out Ruben's blog at: http://www.thelugeman.com/rubengonzalezblog/

David Hurley
Ruben Gonzalez: What A Three-Time Olympian Can Teach Us About The Power Of Belief

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Guido Nussbaum and Davin Ogden's extremely successful New Year Giveaway is back again for the third year running!

in 2009 the "giveaway" pulled in over 20,000 contributors and members... So whether you want to build your list by offering a giveaway product, or simply want to get your teeth into a stack of juicy freebies, Nussbaum and Ogden's New Year Giveaway event is for you.

Nussbaum and Ogden offer contributors many ways to profit from the event and also, with their contests and prizes it's become a favorite end-of-the-year event for Internet marketers. If there's a single event in the year that you'd be nuts not to take part in... it's this one! It has been designed to be a win/win situation for everybody who gets involved.

If you are new to Internet marketing and are looking for a fast way to build your list then this event will help! That said, do not think you can come into this event and simply ride off the tails of the bigger marketers' promotional efforts. If you want to benefit you must promote the event yourself.

Promoting the event is only fair for all involved. The great thing is, that Guido and Davin provide newer marketers with training materials so they can successfully promote the event themselves. You'll receive proven and effective marketing tactics every other day by email. Everything is clearly explained.

If you are wondering what kind of giveaways you can grab as a member, I've just been checking out the site and this is what I've found so far:

When you sign up you get access to a ton of freebies. I've just been checking them out and there are some great offers on the site:

So far there are about 60 products, including:

* ebooks
* videos
* Wordpress templates
* PLR products and memberships
* Scripts
* Squeezepage generators
* Training courses
* Graphics packs
* Content generator (Hmm... I'll test drive this item and let you know what I think...)

Bear in mind that this is only the beginning... The event will be running well into January with new members adding their offers every day.

This is definitely one killer event you don't want to miss out on if you want to start off 2010 with a bang - and get hundreds of new subscribers onto your mailing list...

To find out more and sign up as a contributor click here.

David Hurley
Best Internet Marketing Strategies

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Experienced and successful Internet marketers will tell you that you need an online tracking service to track your hits, measure your results and split test everything.

I agree!

Right now I am experimenting with various online tracking options to try and find what works best for me. For the last nine months I've been using HitsConnect.com, which is a very convenient and easy-to-use service.

HitsConnect.com is a remotely hosted tracking service. In other words, you don't have to download any software but can log into your account on the HitsConnect.com website and manage everything from there.

One of the key benefits for me of HitsConnect.com was using it to track the sources of hits to my product pages on Tripleclicks.com where I sell Japanese mahjong equipment. Each time I sold a product I would upload another similar product and repoint the tracking url to the new product page.

By using HitsConnect.com to do this, not only could I track where my visitors were coming from, but also I could redirect ALL my links to the product page simply by repointing my tracking URL to the new page.

Another benefit of HitsConnect is that you can also track conversions by placing some code on your Thank You page. That way, you know which links are generating most CONVERSIONS.

One disadvantage of using a remotely hosted tracking service to track your links is that none of your links will work if the site goes down. That happened one day in the my time with HitsConnect.com. It was quickly remedied, but still, it had me worried for a few hours!

Anyway, I have moved on and am currently testing Adlandpro's URL Tracker Service.

Talking of price, here's what you get for free:

• 1 Rotator Account
• 10 Banner Trackers
• 1 Banner Rotator
• An ad from your sponsor will be shown above the sites you track.
  

And here's what you get for $19.97 per month:

• 100 Tracker Accounts
• 10 Rotator Accounts
• 100 Banner Trackers
• 10 Banner Rotators
• Show your links in the Downline Builders of Free Members
• Sales/Action Conversion Tracking
• Your own domain name in the tracker url
• No ads shown above the sites you track.
  

It's a pretty good deal. But there is another reason why I recommend HitsConnect.com even though I have just stopped using it...

When I cancelled my account on the website, I thought nothing more of it. Then, a couple of days later I noticed that I had been billed for another three months' membership on my Paypal account. I immediately cancelled my subscription on Paypal and emailed HitsConnect.com to explain the situation and ask for a refund.

The next day, the full refund was sitting in my Paypal account.

So, thank you to HitsConnect.com for your fast response to my request for a refund. When a company acts in a positive way like that it makes me want to rejoin them straightaway!

I didn't resubscribe, but I now feel fully able to recommend HitsConnect.com as a tracking service, if you are looking for an online tracking service that is remotely hosted.

Best wishes,

David Hurley
How To Measure Advertising Success Online

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I just posted an article on my site that looks at Internet business programs that base themselves around the concept of multiple streams of Internet income.

The term "multiple streams of Internet income" was coined by Robert G Allen in the wake of his bestselling book Multiple Streams Of Income.

He followed up by writing "Multiple Streams of Income" by publishing a book that focused entirely on the Internet titled, "Multiple Streams Of Internet Income," published in 2000.

Since then, using the Internet to build multiple streams of income has become something of a holy grail with Internet affiliate marketers and it was not long before several online "business in a box" packages promising to deliver multiple streams of income began to appear on the Internet.

I guess the most famous and successful "business in a box" is Stone Evans' Plug In Profit Site.

I first got involved with the Plug In Profit Site in 2007 and struggled to get anywhere with it for about eight months and was about to give up when I joined Ken Troyer's mentoring group, the Affiliate Power Group.

As they say, "The rest is history"... Two years later, I have pulled myself out from an Internet marketing "loser" to someone who could break even on his expenses (sometime in 2008), and then to a position where I expect to make money EVERY month in increasing increments... $100... $200... each month setting a new higher target to go for, and each month having more cash in my pot to REINVEST in my success.

I'm not saying every month is rosy - there are inevitable ups and downs. It is a learning process with exciting breakthroughs and challenging frustrations. BUT once you commit yourself to Internet marketing success and set high goals for yourself, get good mentors or trainers, and get "obsessed" by it, you WILL succeed as I have done - and more.

One thing I have learned is that the quest for "multiple streams of Internet income" is worth pursuing, but there are major pitfalls out there that a lot of people fall into...

In this first article on the subject, I discuss What To Look Out For In Online Business Programmes That Offer Mutliple Streams Of Internet Income
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To your success!

David Hurley
P. S. Here's one neat little programme I use that brought in 41 leads and has earned me over $150 on the front end in the last month alone.

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I just received a question via the contact form on my website from someone called Michael, who asked,

What would you recommend as the best tool to increase long-term relevant website traffic?

What would you recommend?

Here's my reply - see what you think:

Hi Michael,

Thank you for contacting me with your question about long-term relevant traffic building.

If you want to keep getting a flow of traffic long after you have performed the marketing action and if you want to be able to repeat that action again and again, the answer is "article marketing".

Here is part of my online marketing course that explains article marketing:

http://grasp-the-nettle.com/Article-Marketing1.html

Here is my blog dedicated entirely to the subject of article marketing:

http://article-marketing-research.blogspot.com

On the blog you'll also find an excellent, free ebook on the subject called "Harness The Power Of Article Marketing" which tells you everything you need to know.

Hope that helps!

Best wishes,

David Hurley

I'd love to know what you would have recommended, or what your response to my recommendation is, so please feel free to add your comment to this post - simply click on the title of the post to access the comments.

Thanks!

DH

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It's common knowledge that you can get better results from traffic exchanges by posting squeeze pages and using them to build your downline and promote yourself and your business rather than try to flog somebody else's affiliate or network marketing programme.

It's common knowledge that you can generate credits across several exchanges more quickly if you surf several at once using the tabs on your browser to click across from one to the other.

But even so, credits disappear fast on traffic exchanges so it would be nice to think that there was a way to earn extra credits beyond the bonuses and prizes offered by the exchanges.

Upgrading on your favourite exchanges in certainly one option, and one that I use on about ten TEs.

Just recently I began experimenting with ways to EARN credits every time my splash page is downloaded. I don't mean earn credits on the TE where the page is being viewed, but on three other advertising sources - all at the same time. Here is an article I wrote about how I do that: How To Earn At Least 3 Credits Every Time Your Splash Page Is Viewed On The Traffic Exchanges (Or Anywhere Else).

David Hurley
Best Internet Marketing Strategies

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Tim Linden, who is the owner of the StartXchange traffic exchange and runs a blog about traffic exchanges, Internet marketing and web development, has confirmed something to me that I'd suspected for a while about traffic exchange users...

I mean that people who use traffic exchanges to promote their websites are obviously sold on the idea that traffic exchanges are good places to promote their websites!

So wouldn't it make sense to promote other traffic exchanges to them right where you can find them - on the traffic exchanges?!

Tim is doing just that with his own Traffic Exchange List of the top 10 traffic exchanges.

He just announced on his blog that Traffic Exchange List is his top performing splash page and brought in 96 subscribers for an outlay of just 2897 hits. That's pretty good going by any reckoning.

For my part, I have been using Affiliate Funnel's Top 10 list to build my downline with slow but sure results coming in off a more modest campaign.

Also, about twenty-to-thirty percent of people who join one or more traffic exchanges via the Affiliate Funnel splash page become regular surfers. That means you can expect to earn increasing numbers of traffic exchange referral credits over time.

Quite a few people also join all the TEs on the Affiliate Funnel list, and if they become active on more than one exchange, you get a big boost in TE credits on several fronts.

David Hurley
Best Internet Marketing Strategies

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My guest writer for today's post is Alan Mater. Alan is a rising Internet marketing professional who specializes in affiliate marketing, text editing/rewriting and proof reading for online marketers. Alan is fast gaining an enviable reputation for his high standards of work, his integrity and reliability.

A few months ago Alan and I realized that my focus on PLR article services, and his focus on editing and rewriting meant that we had excellent JV potential. So we joined forces, and Alan now offers a service in which he rewrites my PLR articles for customers who want to make them unique but don't have the time, experience or inclination to do it themselves.

Alan knows the market very well as he is an experienced affiliate marketer who researches and reviews affiliate programmes on his website at ReplaceYourSalary.com .

When someone comes to me and says they have a unique system to help people make money online, I'm immediately skeptical. Well, that's exactly what happened when Adam Berry, the creator of Flip Switch Profits, came to me and asked if I would be interested in reviewing his product. He claimed he developed a no cost, no risk method for generating unlimited income.

So naturally, I had to see if Adam was onto something, or if this was just another mediocre, repackaged and relabeled piece of garbage that most "gurus" get rich from selling, rather from actually using the methods they describe.

So, I wanted to get a close look at Flip Switch Profits and see if it lived up to the claims.

The website claims that Flip Switch Profits is designed so that anyone can make money online, even if you don't have a website, an e-mail list of subscribers, any marketing knowledge or even a product of your own. I quickly found out that, in fact, you don't need any of that stuff. This system is actually so much simpler than that.

The problem you find with many systems is that they require you to make some sort of initial costly investment or incur a monthly fee. For many people this just isn't possible. Many are struggling as it is which is why they're looking elsewhere to generate additional income. They don't need to be spending money; they need to be making money. Flip Switch Profits is different in that it doesn't require you to spend any money aside from the initial purchase of the course, which is very reasonable. Hence, a "no cost" method.

So what else sets Flip Switch Profits apart from other make money systems?

Another distinction is that Flip Switch Profits leverages other people's products and other people's e-mail lists. You don't need your own product or e-mail list to make it work for you. That's the beauty of this system. What's more is that you're not going to be marketing someone else's product all over the net, trying to get people to buy. That's just hard work, and I would know.

It is so simple that anyone who has a little bit of time to spare can put into action the few easy steps that Flip Switch Profits involves.

So what exactly will you be required to do?

In reality, you'll be required to find an area of interest, or a niche that interests you. Let's face it, there's no point in doing anything if you're not going to enjoy it. So you want to pick a subject that's appealing to you. From there, you'll have to spend just a few minutes doing some quick research on various websites. This is all explained for you, with screenshots included!

After your research is done, if you can copy and paste and click a button, you'll be well on your way to setting up deals that will have the potential to make you a nice amount of money. I'm not exaggerating by any means when I say that. I'm not the type of person that likes to create hype, so when I say that any average person who can follow directions can make this work, I'm being dead serious.

To be honest, I've known about this method for quite some time, but I never fully grasped the true potential that was there, until now. Finally, Adam has explained the whole process in easy to understand terms along with screenshots designed to help anyone who wants to become financially free to do so. He even goes out of his way to provide some advanced tactics. And, he throws in additional resources and cheat sheets that will help simplify the whole process for you, allowing you to do less work.

If you're struggling financially, looking to make some extra money, or trying your hand at the whole "make money online" gig, trust me, this will work.

I must warn you, though, there's no such thing as get-rich-quick. Just like anything else, you'll have to actually do some work. The amount of work and effort you put in will determine how much you make. Think about it, when didn’t you have to work in order to make money? The online world is no different, but it does make it a lot easier.

Adam Berry has created a winner. I proudly recommend Flip Switch Profits as a way to make money for the average person that requires no investment, no risk, no e-mail list, no product and no marketing knowledge.

And just to be clear, I was under no obligation and was not compensated in any way for writing this review. I like to provide you guys with reviews of products that I feel will actually help you in your quest to make money online and work from home. I am 100% sure that this will do what it says, so I am more than happy to tell you about it.

Click Here to check out Flip Switch Profits for yourself. I promise you won't be disappointed.

As always, leave your comments below…

Alan Mater

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