Sorry for not posting lately…our group went on a trip to Anvaya Cove, Bataan, Philippines (a really nice place by the way…check it out here. I am not in any way affiliated with them, although one of my colleague is).

Along the way, we were struck by several mishaps and what was supposed to be a day trip became an overnight stay. I have to leave the car there too…

It was all worth it though. The ambiance and scenery were all breathtaking. After finally reaching home, I opened the PC and guess what welcomed me? A list of unfinished tasks…And one of it is this post!

As an internet marketer, we should be effective at managing our time. Is your hard drive a disaster right now? Do you made a plan at the beginning of the year and realized that you are not at least halfway to it?

If you didn’t know, I have a lot of sites to maintain…a total of five sites including this blog. Complete list of things that need prioritization:

• My-Resources.Net – my main site. This is where all my info-products and affiliate pages are stored.
• This blog, RiczSabido.Com – where I place all my shameless plugs : )….. and share all what I know about Internet Marketing.
• Fat-Loss-101.Com – a joint venture with my girlfriend. Although both of us don’t know anything about weight loss. All articles are researched and outsourced.
• LyfCafe.Com – my group’s blog. Self-improvement niche. Really delayed though…
• My girlfriend…
• My family
• My Caring Group

There are several other things not mentioned above the list but these are the ones that I prioritize over others. The real challenge for an internet marketer is managing all these.

I can do it all, however, there are still a lot of things that I do regularly that aren’t productive (one’s that are not contributing any value towards the realization of my goals).

To be an effective internet marketer, one of our main goals should be to manage our time better. We can’t avoid it, some things will just eventually fall through. Sometimes, we just don’t accomplish certain important things and it always cost us money along the way.

My hard drive is in a mess right now. I plan to sort through all of it and get my system of organization back.

I used to be good at organizing things and managing my time, but as I added and changed a lot of things in the process, it messed up the big picture and it never found a smooth transition within. I’m buried and, I must admit, a little scattered.

There was a book that I remember reading a year ago that really gave me a sense of direction and I plan to reread it again this week. The title of the book is Getting Things Done by David Allen. I highly recommend this book if you feel lost in your online business. David shows an incredible approach on how to organize things.

This is probably one of the most useful book I’ve read about time management and the most powerful too. It gives a very simple straight-forward plan to get all the things you need to be done, organize it, and put it into a system (The same process we need as an internet marketer – automation!).

It’s really easy once you have a system in place to take care of all important tasks. And for us internet marketers, time is just as important as making money and building a business. If you’re disoriented right now, focus on rebuilding your system. Work less, Make more!

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Viral marketing is one of the best free traffic methods around. I know marketers who have earned more than $1,000 of commissions relying only on viral marketing campaigns.

What is internet viral marketing?

It is when you use the power of other people to promote your products or offers in exchange of something of value in return – a gift, comission, reward, etc…

Why viral marketing?

You always hear the phrase “the money is in the list” right? If you have a list, you can send offers to them and earn money right away but…you don’t want to send offers to your list every day…unless you want them to leave your list that is.

Viral marketing will take the burden off your list and pass that to other list owners. By leveraging on other people’s list, your products will be promoted all over the internet without exhausting your own resources.

Internet Viral Marketing Ideas

In the internet, it’s very easy to do and launch viral marketing campaigns than it is on offline businesses. This can be done at no or at a very low cost. The list below are some of the most used internet viral marketing techniques by internet marketers.

1. Tell a Friend Viral Marketing

Almost every social site have this tool. Sign up on friendster, myspace, facebook, etc… and you will be prompted by an opportunity to invite your friends as well. These friends will in turn invite their friends if they sign up with these social sites. The process can go on and on without the site owner lifting a single finger…that’s the power of viral marketing.

This type of viral marketing campaign, however, will only work well with these three conditions:

• The one referring or telling his friends should have something to benefit from doing it
• His friends should also have something to receive as a benefit for joining
• The process of telling or referring should be made as easy as possible

If you want to see a tell a friend script in action, you can look at my site here – Free Traffic Generation Softwares.

There are several tell a friend script or software out there but these are the ones that I highly recommend (good for any level of experience – beginner to expert):

• Viral Friend Generator – this is the one I’m using at my website.
• Viral Inviter – more pricey but if you want to have a cool looking Facebook style tell a friend tool, this is the one your looking for.

2. Master Resell Rights Viral Marketing

You create a product, put all the links you want inside it and then offer or sell it with Master Resell Rights. The resellers who purchased the product from you will then do the selling for you and spread your name and links around the net.

Ways to obtain a Master Resell Rights product of your own:

• Write the product yourself or hire a ghostwriter to do it for you then sell it with Master Resell Rights
• Find a product with Master Resell and Re-branding Rights so you can place and brand it with your own links

3. Private Label Viral Marketing

Private label rights is one of the best rights that you can buy from a marketer. Having a PLR means you can do whatever you want with the product. Not all private label rights are created equal, there are some that still have certain restrictions such as bundling rights or non-transferable rights.

You should try to look for products that have no restriction PLR. Since you can also sell the private label rights and pass it to other, this will produce a very massive viral effect because plr products are really easy to sell. And most of them come with a reseller website. You just need to put your links on the product and watch it spread exponentially.

What if the resellers who bought the private label rights from you actually edit the content and change your links?

Believe me, 90% of the time, the resellers won’t do a thing on the plr products they buy. We, as a human beings, are lazy by nature. Because it is too much work for them to redo and rewrite the content, these resellers will just copy and paste the sales page and promote the product as it is – in its original form.

These are just some of the basic viral marketing techniques. On my next post, I’ll give you another three viral techniques (more advanced.)

You don’t have to drive traffic to your website by yourself, maximize your site’s potential by leveraging on any of these viral marketing techniques and watch your sales grow exponentially.

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Another Affiliate Internet Marketing Video Uploaded – Using Amazon S3 File Storage Service.

If you have been doing business online for quite some time, you probably own multiple websites right now – each generating its own traffic per month. Constant and massive traffic is good, but if your web hosting can’t handle it, your online business might get into trouble.

With the advent of affiliate internet marketing audios and videos, your website files can get quite large. And many internet marketers choose to upload these kind of files to different web host or server aside from their main host/ server for performance reasons.

This is where a file storage service comes in handy. File storage service allows you to store large amount of data and access large file sizes for a very inexpensive charge. And some of them charge a penny for a click!

The most used file storage service of internet marketers is Amazon S3 (which stands for Amazon Simple Storage Service). This is the one I also use and I am loving it.

Why use Amazon S3 file storage service:

• Your main hosting server won’t have a problem with using too much resources – so that you won’t need to upgrade to a much expensive server (Amazon S3 is way cheaper and you only pay if someone actually access and download your files)
• Allows your website to be up and running as smoothly as possible – even if you have a high amount of traffic coming to your website and have a lot of people downloading your product at the same time
• If you have a major product launch and expects it to be a really big product launch, then this solution is the best to use to avoid site problems on the launch date itself

This video will guide you on how to use Amazon Simple Storage Service from signing up to setting up your first files. Enjoy!

Resources on the video:

• Firefox http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/
• Amazon s3 http://amazon.com/s3
• Amazon S3 Firefox Organizer https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3247
• url to s3 files (sample only) http://bucketname.s3.amazonaws.com/foldername/filename

Amazon S3 is built for storing and accessing your website files. Its not a normal hosting account and it’s way cheaper than applying for another web hosting service. Several people use it for file storage because it’s really meant for it.

Amazon itself use their file storage service to store all of their files and data. If they have a trust in their service, then what’s your reason not to trust them?

Amazon offers three services, all inexpensive so it’s a really good solution for your online business.

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