Over the last couple of days a good friend of mine, Doug Champigny, has been writing about the changes he sees in internet marketing. A lot of what he writes about I agree about and had come to similar conclusions. Some I didn’t.

Nothing unusual there to say the least. Everybody has their opinions but most will agree that things have changed drastically over the last two years.

Go read these two posts from Doug and come back here. Will take you a few minutes but they are worthwhile.

Internet Marketing in 2011 – Finally The Truth Can Be Revealed…

Affiliate Marketing 2011 – Affiliate Marketing Predictions For 2011

In the first post Doug deals with some of the changes that I am sure you have seen. Lot of the big guys have increased their email significantly because of the lack of response. Prices have come down on some of the big ticket launches.

The worst thing I have seen is the teaser products that are launching.

You know the ones. You buy a $37 product then get the various up sells to really make it work. Not something I can recommend to people.

Much rather let you know what it costs up front to really make something work.

Then add in the trials, as I am sure you have seen this week. All the just $1 for 50 sites emails. Now the product may be good or it may be bad, but when you are selling, in this case a $67 product, having to really look closely to even find out what the real price is, is not good marketing.

I am sure there are up sells, but as I have not promoted it or bought it, so I can’t tell you what they are.

Definitely agree with Doug that you need to be doing more than one thing right now. Just blogging, just email marketing are not going to work well.

You need to be using multiple approaches to drive traffic and if you are not you are at risk. You need an email list, you need a blog but you need to be doing other things too.

Now to the affiliate side of things.

Setting up ongoing funnels and really understanding the product/s you promote is going to be key. You need to have a regular pre-sell process set up and working for you.

I did like the idea, which I have already been doing for a while, of setting up funnels and allowing them to be recurring income from one time sales. A couple of my niche sites work like that.

These are set up with a blog, a squeeze page system, a variety of articles and various Web 2.0 sites that have been running hands free for quite a while, but each month generate sales.

Something I need to do more of this coming year.

The big difference is that I really think that the economy will not be turning around as soon as Doug does and because of that it will definitely take stepping your game up to improve your results into the future.

More very specific funnels will be my key concentration this year. It is one of the reasons I added a bunch of PLR e-courses that you can grab at The PLR Secrets to allow people to have a base to set up funnels on a variety of topics quickly.

This will be key for the coming year, at least for me.

What do you think?

About the author

Mike Paetzold got started blogging in 2003 and has become an expert on using WordPress. He has become known as The WordPress Guy. After being an under ground niche marketer using his blogs he has surfaced to share some of the ways he uses PLR to enter various niches profitably.

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Affiliate Punisher is releasing a shocking audio to prove what you just saw in yesterdays video.

To be quite frank with you, I listened to the audio and it blew me away.

Before he reveals the Affiliate Punisher System to you and how simple it actually is to implement, he wants you to listen to this shocking audio of one of his top students and friend for life, that brought in over $2,178,000 in 181 Days using the Affiliate Punisher System.

At the end of listening to the audio you should scroll down the page and…
well I don’t want to spoil it for you but he’s got a solution that you should take him up on

Ok so I’ll keep this short, hit the link and listen to the shocking live audio, complete with screw ups.

Listen to the audio and get ready so you can punish the engines using web 2.0 as your weapon of choice.

There is a little surprise waiting for you after the audio but you have to scroll down the page and find out what it is.

Listen to the audio here.

About the author

Mike Paetzold got started blogging in 2003 and has become an expert on using WordPress. He has become known as The WordPress Guy. After being an under ground niche marketer using his blogs he has surfaced to share some of the ways he uses PLR to enter various niches profitably.

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Well another week is past and it has been busy.

Lets take care of the important stuff first. Maddie’s blog has been updated with her pictures from her first trip to the beach. Family always needs to come first. Isn’t that why we do what we do?

Today Soren Jordansen and I will be doing a seminar on “Using Web 2.0″ at Affiliate Funnel seminar at noon. If you are a member login and get the conference room link. If your not check it out – it’s free.

Tweet My Blog launched this week. It is a free WordPress plugin that allows you to combine the power of your blog with the power of Twitter. You can see my feed on the sidebar here and as soon as I post this it will post on Twitter automatically too. If you are not using Twitter you should be.

I am sure that you got bombarded by Traffic Secrets 2.0 this week. If you are looking to take advantage of the buzz you may want to check out Rob Toth’s Buy Now Wizard close out sale. Not only does it improve your conversions but… if you look closely, one of the 4 products included in this “Final Sale” of his is the “How Can I Get Visitors To My Website: Traffic Generation Techniques Explained” course. And he is offering Master Resell rights for it.

You can have your own product and a way to improve your conversions at the same time.

Finally WordPress released a new version – 2.6 this week. It has some great new features and there are a couple posts over at WordPress Made Easy that explain more.

Hope you are having a great weekend and as always your comments and questions are welcomed.

Mike Paetzold

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