Bill McIntosh

Today is HUGE for both shoppers and business owners.

Google has just released a feature for users of iPhones, Palm WebOS phones, or Android-powered devices. (Google’s blog post.) As of right NOW, if you do a Google search on your phone for a product, you will see a blue dot if that item is available at a store near you! On that screen you will also see if the item has full or limited availability, the price, which stores near you have the item, the distance those stores are from you at that exact moment, the phone number of the store, and a link to get directions with Google Maps.  Read more... (266 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)

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)

A while back I posted a video on Youtube about my Adsense earnings. Many people have asked me how I got that Adsense Video to be #1 in searches. This past week it was asked in the live chat, so I thought I’d post the clip here for you. Now go try your hand at making a viral video!  Read more... (125 words, 1 image, estimated 30 secs reading time)

This past week a lot of great questions came into the BusinessInnerCircle.com forums. Topics answered live on the show were:

1. Graphics in websites VS SEO
2. What makes one website show up in search engines and another not.

There’s one primary and most important thing that makes the difference between a website showing up in a search and a website that doesn’t. Want to find out what it is? Watch the video! And for more secret tips and facts and training, stop by the live show every Tuesday at 6:30 pm PST, join the chat and be part of it!  Read more... (165 words, 1 image, estimated 40 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)

Tonight I’m LIVE at 6:30 PM Pacific Standard Time / 9:30 Eastern. I’ll be covering some recent developments in mobile marketing. This impacts ALL businesses! No matter what size your business is or even if it’s an offline business. You’ll want to tune In LIVE tonight & find out about this…

Stop by early & say hi:

http://www.billmcintosh.tv/live

If you are a member of my Business Inner Circle, you should go to:

http://www.businessinnercircle.com/forum/forum/addonchat.php
(If you’re not a member yet, just click the link & sign up… it only takes a minute)  Read more... (111 words, estimated 27 secs reading time)