Bill McIntosh

If you are an affiliate marketer, you need to be aware of unethical/unscrupulous marketers. They often offer easy, fast and huge payouts. But their business practices are unethical. And they are giving affiliate marketing a bad name.

These companies will promote a product or service, take the consumer’s credit card information, bill them exorbitant fees monthly and make it nearly impossible for them to get requested refunds or stop the service. Sometimes they pass on the credit card information to other companies and add additional charges for additional services or products that the consumer knew nothing about. So what started as a small one-time charge turns into hundreds or thousands of dollars of unexpected debt for the consumer.  Read more... (267 words, 1 image, estimated 1:04 mins reading time)

There are a ton of affiliate offers out there. There is a lot of money to be made for sure. But scattered among the legitimate ones are the shady offers by companies who charge a lot of money for a much-less-than-awesome product, confuse the customers, withhold the actual amounts they will be charging, and make it nearly impossible to get your money back once you realize what’s happened.

As an affiliate marketer, you have to be responsible for what products you’re promoting, in the same way that you’d be responsible for items you sell in your own shop.  Read more... (316 words, 1 image, estimated 1:16 mins reading time)

Here is a clip from last week’s forum roundup. The forum roundup is where I answer questions live which were asked in the BusinessInnerCircle.com forums throughout the week. In this episode I answered the following questions from members:

1. What I think about pay-per-lead advertising.
2. Which emails to customers are spam and which are covered under “opt-in”.

Watch the clip below to find out. And if you want your OWN questions answered, post them in the forum. Who knows? I might even answer it on my live show!  Read more... (150 words, 1 image, estimated 36 secs reading time)

As some of you may know the online marketing world has been through some crazy stuff the past few weeks. This all surrounds marketers who sell free trial and continuity offers (membership sites & monthly autoship offers). This also touches any business who cross-sells and up-sells products and services.

These rules impact other businesses like direct mail and telephone merchants!

It’s important you fully understand the impact of this on your business. Visa, Mastercard & the FTC are all making some big changes and these new rules have the possibility to hurt your business if you don’t understand them.  Read more... (2456 words, estimated 9:49 mins reading time)

I recently showed the viewers of my live Tuesday night show a tool called VigLink that I stumbled across. It seemed pretty awesome to me. So I wanted to share it with you here.

VigLink is an affiliate link automator tool, basically. To see what they potentially can help you earn, they do a scan of the pages of your website for terms which relate to already-existing affiliate products. They will then give you an estimate of how much money you’re potentially missing out on.  Read more... (219 words, estimated 53 secs reading time)

This was a question from the live chat during my 15 Dec 09 show, and I felt it was an important one so I wanted to mention it here.

“To prevent promoting unethical companies, would it be best to just find affiliate offers through known networks? Any advice on this?”

Yes, I do have advice. Here are a couple tips to ensure you are promoting a good product or service:  Read more... (270 words, 1 image, estimated 1:05 mins reading time)

I’d like to offer you my help. The reason is that together I think we can both earn more money with your website. I’m currently offering help to people who sell their own products and services online and also to people who are doing “Internet Marketing” promoting other people’s products and services online for a commission.

Go sign up right now (it costs nothing to sign up):

http://www.affiliatefleet.com/bic/  Read more... (237 words, estimated 57 secs reading time)

Welcome to the July 17, 2009 edition of Bill’s online marketing carnival. The submissions are all in and we review each of them to only bring you useful online marketing tips.  There were many great submissions.  They covered a wide variety of topics.  Everything from SEO and affiliate marketing to general advice about how to run an online business.    Drop me a comment on this post and let me if these were useful!

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A few weeks back my live show covered the topic of using Google AdSense & Affiliate Marketing to earn an income online.  I did some live training and gave out marketing tips that apply not only to people doing AdSense marketing or other kinds of work at home type business, but these tips also apply to any sized business.  The same basic marketing principals apply.

The second half of the show I took live questions over the chat and my call-in line.  Some greate questions were asked (and some great answers were provided I hope)  Read more... (549 words, estimated 2:12 mins reading time)

I’m posting this a little late.  The below recording is for last weeks show.  Since it’s already Tuesday my show is on again live tonight. So don’t forget to tune in at 6:30 PM Pacific Standard Time over on http://www.billmcintosh.tv/live

On last week’s show I covered how to increase your YouTube views with some of the same techniques I use on my own videos.  I also show you how to convert YouTube viewers into website visitors.  Getting people off of YouTube and increasing website traffic is really the key.  Read more... (182 words, estimated 44 secs reading time)