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)

Although I discussed this topic on my live show right before Christmas this past year, it applies to all of us from time to time. So I wanted to mention it now.

We often have the urge during traditionally “tough” economic times like holidays, to go into agreement with them, and blame those holidays or seasons for drops in our sales, low income, etc. What times are “tough” depend on what business you’re in. We say “Things are always slow this time of year” or “It’s the economy” or “It’s the holidays”. But saying those things doesn’t improve the situation, it just justifies low production.  Read more... (240 words, estimated 58 secs reading time)

Google has quietly been testing a new feature directly on TVs. What could this mean for the future of advertising for both local and national companies? How does this fit into my theory that the Internet is “Going Local, Social & Mobile”? You’ll want to tune in LIVE tonight and find out…

The show starts TONIGHT at 6:30 PM Pacific Standard Time / 9:30 Eastern. Stop by early & say hi:

http://www.billmcintosh.tv/live

If you are a member of my Business Inner Circle, you should go to:  Read more... (143 words, estimated 34 secs reading time)

I’m sure you’ve heard it’s critical that your business use sites like Twitter, FaceBook, MySpace, Google Buzz & the dozens of others like them. The problem is that it takes so much time! You’ll want to tune in LIVE tonight because I’ll show you how to create your very own social command center so you can be active on all these sites without wasting hours & hours of time…

The show starts TONIGHT Tuesday March 2nd at 6:30 PM Pacific Standard Time / 9:30 Eastern. Stop by early & say hi:  Read more... (156 words, estimated 37 secs reading time)

Every week on my live show I answer questions from both the members-only chat at BusinessInnerCircle.com and also the public chats. This week’s questions answered covered a variety of marketing and advertising topics:

1. The best Twitter app
2. How long I’ve been blogging
3. Good keyword tools
4. Tools to submit sitemaps
5. Good pay-per-lead programs

For answers to these questions, watch the clip. And stop by tonight to get your own specific questions answered.  Read more... (139 words, 1 image, estimated 33 secs reading time)

You probably have heard about my Gold program for people trying to succeed with their internet business. People talk about it on the show, it comes up randomly in conversations, etc.

I mentioned the Gold program in last week’s show and decided to make a little clip of it like a PSA, to explain what this service is to anyone who might not be familiar with it.

So here you go…  Read more... (130 words, estimated 31 secs reading time)

I mentioned this on the Tuesday show, but I wanted to post a reminder on here for those of you who might be interested.

Backupify is an online backup tool that backs up your social data, blog posts, pictures, etc. from your Wordpress blogs, Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and many other social networking sites. Until the 31st of January it’s FREE. So if this is something you are interested in, you only have 2 days to get it for free. I’m not an affiliate for them, and this isn’t a product I own or sponsor in any way. I just thought it was cool, and I like to promote helpful tools to my friends and fans.  Read more... (178 words, 1 image, estimated 43 secs reading time)

I reviewed a few different tools that I considered to be cool on my live show this week:

1. A special automator service for affiliate marketers (VigLink).

2. A duplicate content finder (Plagium).

3. A grammar assistant tool (Gramlee).

There’s a lot to know and do to be successful in creating an online business.  So tools that make things easier and faster are always welcome, in my opinion.  Just thought it might be nice to share a few of them with you.  Watch the clip from this past week’s show below to see what they are and how they work.  Hope they help!  And feel free to contact me about new tools that you think are cool, as well.  Read more... (181 words, estimated 43 secs reading time)

You got questions?  Well…we got answers.

Throughout the week, members of my BusinessInnerCircle.com website ask questions on our forums.  The members help each other, and my staff are there to answer questions as well.  And on Tuesday nights I answer a few of the forum questions live on my show. Two great questions were posed this past week in the forums, so I decided to answer them on the show.

Question 1 was about article writing, its value and the issue of duplicate content.  Read more... (223 words, 1 image, estimated 54 secs reading time)

One of the great things about Bill’s live show is the chat feature.  You can ask questions while the show is on and get them answered live!  On 24 November, Bill did quite an extensive question and answer period on the subject of Adsense, Adsense and nothing but Adsense.  There were questions from the BusinessInnerCircle.com forum presented and answered, as well as live questions from both the public chat in Livestream and the members only chat in BusinessInnerCircle.com.  As a side note, the members only chat members have priority in question answering.  So if you have questions about online marketing, internet businesses and want them answered, the best way is to sign up to BusinessInnerCircle.com and then watch the show from there.  Read more... (206 words, 1 image, estimated 49 secs reading time)