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I continue to be very impressed with Digital Access Pass software as a membership site script working with WordPress. The IMSuccessLibrary.com runs on DAP, and I’m finding more benefits to the software than I anticipated.

Some people are in love with Wishlist Member for WordPress – a competitive membership script that I have not tested myself yet (but hope to soon).

The reason I chose DAP in the first place are documented in my first comparitive review.

Let me now share a few additional thoughts now that I’ve been using DAP for a few weeks on a live site.

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If you’re tied into the internet marketing universe, you’re likely seeing TweetGlide exploding onto the scene. TweetGlide is a free software program from Mike Filsaime that combines the functionality of a useful Twitter App with a viral advertising/referral system to help you promote your business.

I’d like to share my initial opinions about it, to give you a better idea if TweetGlide is for you.

In brief:

Pros

• Free
• Works/looks like TweetDeck
• Ads are only seen by other TweetGlide members
• TweetGlide members who see ads are likely on Twitter for business
• Referral program for increased ad views
• Affiliate program
• Easy to remember affiliate link
• URL shortener
• Premium upgrade option special offer is cheap
• Premium ads include longer messages and color

Cons

• Ads
• Works like TweetDeck
• Can not control what is said with the “Tweet my affiliate link” option
• Money and Twitter have been hard to marry openly
• Unproven how long people will use it

I’ll explain more about the pros and cons soon after I’ve tested it out more, but since it’s free and the ads you run are only in TweetDeck it’s worth trying out without fear.

Test out Tweet Glide for yourself and let me know what you think with a comment below!

Bob Jenkins

p.s. Be sure to watch the video on the homepage to get a clearer picture of it.

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I grabbed Kevin Nations for a quick 5 minute conversation. Listen above as you read…
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Does this sound familiar?

You’ve done everything you’re supposed to when it comes to getting people to know about you and your business, but you’re still not seeing the financial results you expected.

When you go to meetings, events, or virtual communities, people love what you do and how much you share, but when it comes to actually doing business with you, they always have an excuse NOT to invest in your services or products.

Well, you’re not alone!

This is a very common issue, unfortunately.

But as luck would have it, I know who you can learn from for the remedy.

His name is Kevin Nations, and he’s holding a special teleseminar October 29, at 4 p.m. Eastern, and again Saturday morning, to share his…

“Prospect Seduction Blueprint:
How To Have Prospects Literally Crave Your Products!”

To make sure this call would be appropriate for you, I pulled my connection card to Kevin, and connected with him for a quick 5 minute telephone call.

I asked him to share why people in the services industry are struggling, and who will benefit from being on his teleseminar Thursday.

You can listen to what he had to say with the audio at the top of today’s post.

After listening in, be sure to register for the call. It’s free, but the value you’ll receive from tuning in can not be exaggerated!

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Please note that the audio was recorded while Kevin was about to leave from his hotel in California to Las Vegas before heading home to Columbus, Ohio. Even though it’s a bit fast, the biggest takeaway I’d like for you to listen for is turning “admire” into “desire”.

Enjoy!

Bob Jenkins

p.s. Kevin’s helped me a number of times this past year get a better mindset and focus for my own products and services. This call Thursday is a “must-listen” if you want people to pay you eagerly and handsomely for what you and your products can do for them.

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As I set up my new membership site using WordPress and Digital Access Pass, I’m making a few notes about things I’m running into, or shortcuts I’m taking.

First, when I went to activate DAP after installing the plugin that it requires, I got an error message:

Sorry, it appears that a required library (PDO) for connecting to a MySQL database has not been enabled. Pls ask your web host if your web site can have ‘PHP PDO Enabled for MySQL’

Installation failed. Please de-activate LiveLinks and re-activate it when you’ve resolved this issue. (101)

So I have submitted a support ticket to my host (this site is running on Kiosk, but you can use that or Hostgator). That should be fixed pretty soon. (UPDATE: it was fixed in about an hour – no sweat!)

While I’m waiting, I’m putting in a few quick settings that I always do for my blogs.

First, in the Settings, Permalinks, I’m changing the default structure of the URLS to %postname%. This makes my URLs more SEO friendly. I just have to make sure I don’t make any posts simply as dap, since that’s the folder of the script.

Next, I paste in a long list of ping services under Settings, Writing, Update Services.

I activate Akismet and delete Hello Dolly plugins. I upload and activate Comment Relish. Comment Relish is the nifty plugin you may have noticed here at AskBobTheTeacher.com. When you first comment, you get an automatic reply message.

I’m not going to spend time right now on my theme, but I do want to set myself up for easy changes. After searching the web, asking on Twitter and other places, I hear so many great things about the Thesis theme from DIY Themes that I pick that up and load it up. Out of the box it’s simple enough, but I’m told there are so many flexible customizations I (or my designer) can do, that it’s worth paying for. (Thanks to Mike Krumlauf for the final nudge!)

Mike told me I also should pick up the free Thesis Open Hook plugin, so I’ve uploaded and activated that as well.

A lot of adjustments can be made right from the Thesis dashboard, which is pretty cool. I’ll have to really play around in there soon.

For the Users settings, I change my own profile to include my main blog website. I change the display from admin to Bob The Teacher.

I’ll also need to set up the initial post, About Me page, and change the inital blogroll links to something more useful than the default settings. And I’ll need to add a few categories.

That’s pretty much it for now.

Bob Jenkins

p.s. If you’re just creating a regular website, and you want a blog as well as plenty of pre-built power, definitely get yourself a Quansite (that’s what AskBobTheTeacher.com works on). But if you want to be your own tech person, spend time with plugins, and add extra scripts, then you need to have your own hosting account.

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I’m in the market for a new membership site script.

You may know that I’m a big fan of Butterfly Marketing, and I’ve been using it for over 3 years. I continue to make mini-sites with the software. But there are a few limitations that are leading me on a journey to creating a membership site with WordPress.

Without customization, Butterfly is great for free front end offers that lead to an obvious upgrade through either follow up messages or a One Time Offer. The ability to create new pages inside the site is good.

The most powerful feature though is the affiliate program. Turning any member into an affiliate instantly is important in viral marketing.

However as the platform for the IM Success Library, it’s showing some limitations. Mainly, there is no customer interaction in a Butterfly Site unless you do custom programming. Since I’m trying to build a community of people who want to learn how to profit from internet marketing, it’s important that I have a community feel.

The other thing is since all the internal pages are hidden, there’s limited search engine optimization available. My IM Success Library contains over 100 pages that can not be indexed by the search engines.

So I’ll continue to use BFM for my single-purpose minisites.

But for my next site, I want to go with WordPress and a membership script add-on that not only allows me to have different free and paid membership levels, but also has an affiliate program and methods for maximizing member experience and search engine optimization.

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Have you ever dreamed up a website platform that would be easy to use like WordPress, but would do a lot of the hard work for you? Something that would be incredibly powerful, but not take a computer programming degree to operate?

That’s the idea behind Quansite, a next generation website engine from RPM Success Group®.

Formerly called Blogi360, Quansite is a business owner’s dream. Instead of worrying about which plug-ins to install, messing with MySQL databases, or fixing broken code, Quansite owners can simply point and click through the dashboard. The results are stunning.

And not just for appearances, either!

Go To QuansiteRevolution.com

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Have you ever wondered why when you do a search for certain keywords that pertain to internet marketing like

• learn Facebook
• best internet marketing teacher
• or best teleseminar training

my blog here at AskBobTheTeacher.com and other sites of mine show up in the top 5?

More importantly, have you ever wondered how you could do the same thing for your keyword phrases?

A not so well-known secret to my SEO success is the platform I’m using to build my website here. Since early 2007, I’ve been using Blogi360 to run my site. And the new media marketing engine that runs my site is largely responsible for my results (in combination with my USING it actively).

Now you can have this same powerful engine doing much of the online marketing for you.

But you won’t be using Blogi360.

Blogi360 is like the caterpillar stage, and later this week it’s metamorphising into “QuanSite”.

In fact, you’re going to be hearing a lot about this “Quansite Revolution“.

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Yesterday, I showed you how I was including a new opt-in form split test on the download pages of many of my sites. Already, this has resulted in an additional 10 subscribers, which is pretty cool!  So this proves the point to leverage your own real estate as much as possible.

Today, I’m going to do more promotion of my new list to my existing subscribers so I can continue the transition from the messy list problem to the centralized list solution.

My action steps:

• Create and send a broadcast invitation to the new squeeze page
• Set up follow up messages in existing lists
• Use a free list-builder site (in case you have no list to start with)

Let’s get started…

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My first info product online was all about how to get traffic through free advertising methods. And although I rely mostly on my blog, social media, and joint venture partners, I still watch for good free ad tools.

So when Frank Bauer and a couple of his business partners released a new site with a list builder inside, called ViralHosts.com, I figured I’d take a look. After all, their ViralURL is pretty decent.

I’ll post again later when I have more results, but I can give you a few thoughts now after my first mailing.

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Is your business benefiting from competition? Whether you say yes or no is irrelevant if you’re only thinking of this question in the traditional sense.

Most people think they need to beat or outflank their competition. Or go where there is no competition. But what if you could grow your business by embracing your competitors business and existence?

May sound strange, and perhaps counter-intuitive, but it’s a powerful strategy that many successful entrepreneurs use. This is especially true in the online marketing world where the customer base is so open.

I’d like to share a free a report with you (the download link is below), which will help you get a sharper edge by leveraging your competition.

Download “Leverage Your Competition” Report Free

The report was written by Lynn Terry, and if you’ve heard me talk about her before, you know she is very generous with her strategies. She’s got a great brainstorming forum by the way at Self Starters Weekly Tips (I just became a paying subscriber myself).

Anyway, she’s also a concise writer, so you don’t have to read through a bunch of fluff before getting to the meat (this report is just 11 rich pages). In less time than it takes you to watch a rerun of Friends, you could likely read this report twice.

Another Friday Freebie for you! And feel free to pass along the report to your own subscribers as a gift for them, too.

Bob Jenkins

p.s. Lynn and I will both be instructors at NAMS (Niche Affiliate Marketing Systems Seminar) in Atlanta in January. Want to join us?

p.p.s. Lynn describes 7 ways to leverage your competition. Please post a comment below with your favorite method, and any results you get when you implement it!

This past week, like most weeks, I have been seeing countless buy now offers from just about everybody.

How about you?

I get tempted just like everyone else to whip out the credit card and plunk down the asking price in a hurry. But I stop myself (most of the time) by asking 5 simple questions:

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