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Fran Kerr is my web assistant and helper with Blog Mastermind and a partner in a new eBay lead generation venture we are working on (can’t talk about this one yet!). She’s also a guru at natural skin care and runs a blog, High on Health.

Earlier in the year I asked her to have a play with the social bookmarking software Web2Submitter to see if it’s worth using as a tool to help bloggers get more traffic from social marketing. Here’s what she had to say about the program…

Automate your social marketing activities with Web2Submitter - Submit your content to Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Propeller, etc automatically with this software from Jack Humphreys.

Product Name: Web2Submitter
Creators: Jack Humphreys and Brandon Hall
URL: http://web2submitter.com/
Price: $47.00 USD
Reviewed by: Fran Kerr

I was really excited when I received a copy of the Web2Submitter, because it promises to make social bookmarking so much easier.

Web2Submitter is a software package that has the intention of saving you time and increasing your traffic by automating most of the process of submitting your blog or website articles to social bookmarking services. The idea is to submit to as many services as possible, with very little effort.

So, How Does It Work?

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Steve Iser has been online since he was 9 years old. Now he’s 21 and makes money using social media sites like MySpace and Facebook as marketing tools to promote products.

I called Steve up to do an interview after I finished reading and listening to his Ready.Aim.Wired information product, which teaches how to use social marketing sites to drive leads, build a list and make sales. The book is solid and presents a system that I can actually see working in MySpace because it uses the same language and “model of interaction” as Steve calls it, to establish relationships.

Just like with email marketing or any form of online marketing, you have to build relationships in order to get a positive result and if you are using sites like MySpace to do so, then you have to use the same language and community behavior. Ready.Aim.Wired is a great introduction to how to execute this concept based on what Steve has done in the past.

In the call I wanted Steve to break things done for us because I still didn’t quite understand how his methods work. Steve explained things really well in this interview, so I expect after listening you will have a solid grasp of what it takes to successfully market using social networking sites. There’s a lot more to it than just broadcasting messages to as many people as you can - spamming MySpace, not surprisingly, won’t work.

Here is a breakdown of Steve talked about in the interview. I think you will enjoy the podcast, so make sure you slot in half an hour on your drive to work or when you go walking to have a listen.

Show Notes

1. How Steve first made money on the Internet
2. Why Steve entered into social media marketing
3. How to use MySpace as a direct response marketing tool
4. The importance of natural communication in a social networking site
5. Steve’s model of interaction for attracting targeted friends (leads) from MySpace
6. Outsourcing your MySpace marketing
7. Facebook as a marketing tool
8. What Steve is currently working on

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This is the last blog post I will make about this. Blog Mastermind is closing to new members today.

I’ve been blown away by how many people have joined in the last week and I look forward to working with all the new members.

This is going to sound cliche, but I just had to restart the server (yes we crashed the server!), so if you had trouble joining or if you are a member and you had trouble accessing the resources in the last few hours, I apologize, it should all be working fine now.

If you haven’t come on board yet and are still considering, you have a few hours left to make up your mind. I’ll leave the doors open until Monday is over around the world.

You can view the video case study and the complete Lesson 11, both samples taken directly from within Blog Mastermind. If you find those two resources valuable then you will love what is inside Blog Mastermind.

You can also view the entire six month program outline and reviews from people who are currently in the program.

If you have decided to join and work with with me and hundreds of other student bloggers, please sign up by clicking here -

http://www.blogmastermind.com/

I’ll end this post with just a couple of unsolicited testimonials people have sent me through via email. I didn’t ask for these, they just came from people who wanted to send through their feedback, which I then got permission to publish as a testimonial.

I’ll see you on the inside.

I decided to sign up to your program because I was impressed with your expertise and sincerity through the e-mails and audio articles that I have heard. They gave me the impression that you are very honest, competent and dedicated to helping other people. Not only that, unlike many people in the blogosphere, you present things totally free of hyperbole and unrealistic expectations and I admire and value that greatly. My dealings with you on this issue totally confirm that impression so well done and many thanks!

– Nick Pagan

Thanks Yaro, by the way I’ve been doing a LOT of research and joining a lot of online programs. By far, the content I’ve seen you provide is the absolute best I’ve seen so far. Although the videos I’ve seen so far are only for beginners I’ve already been learning lots of little “tips” that I had little “DoH!” moments because I made the same mistake you mentioned in your blog reviews.

I’m really excited to check out the advanced stuff. Keep up the good work! I will not hesitate to recommend your course to anyone interested in this topic. Thanks.

– Paul Piotrowski

Sign-up: www.blogmastermind.com/

Now back to your regular scheduled blogging.

Yaro Starak
Blog Mastermind Plug-a-thon

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It surprised me when I first launched Blog Mastermind how much people loved the video case studies, where I review and critique the blogs of students in the program. I’ve gone on to create 13 so far, reviewing more than 15 member blogs and I expect I’ll do a few more as we have had a rush of new students joining the program due to the doors closing this Monday.

The following is a video case study taken directly from Blog Mastermind. In this case study, Peter asked why his audience growth was flat-lining and asked for tips to increase his traffic. The video goes for 18 minutes and you can watch it by clicking the image below -

Click here to watch the case study video

The video begins with basic design suggestions and then details some very simple traffic tips to implement. I show the exact sites to draw traffic from and as you will see in the video, these are steps any blogger can take to build traffic.

This video is another sample from the materials in Blog Mastermind. If you like this video there are many more like it in the program and you can also nominate your own blog as a target for a case study by suggesting it in the forums. This is strictly for members only.

Remember doors close to my coaching program this Monday, December 10th, the price will go up when I get the changes made and open the doors again next year. This is a no risk offer - if you don’t like my program just let me know within the first 30 days and you can have your money back.

You can sign up to Blog Mastermind by clicking here -

www.blogmastermind.com

Let me know what you think of the video.

Yaro Starak
Case Studying

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I know I know, you shouldn’t try and pitch a product - even your own product - in more than one or two blog posts in a row…I can see my RSS feed falling already
Seriously though, this is a post that doesn’t just promote my coaching program, it also demonstrates powerful marketing lessons. For those of you paying attention, leave a comment and tell me what triggers I’m attempting to elicit with this blog post.

Blog Mastermind Reviews

It’s funny how you can state how good something is, you can even show proof by giving away free samples, but if it’s your own product you are talking about, well, some people just don’t believe you. They never will, until someone else says it’s good.

So, in the spirit of helping you to decide whether Blog Mastermind is right for you (and remember the doors close this Monday), here are just some of the reviews of the program I’ve found on the Internet, written by people who have actually looked inside and taken part in Blog Mastermind.

Bear in mind some of these people are using their affiliate links in their reviews, but you can’t blame them for that - that’s one of the monetization techniques taught in Blog Mastermind. The content of the reviews, as you will see, is quite honest (both good and bad points) and you will get a good cross reference of opinion if you go through each of these reviews.

Reviews in no particular order…

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