Hopefully, you were wise enough to secure a copy of Butterfly Marketing 2.0 this past week. If by some chance, you weren't aware of the offer and missed all the hype and hoopla, then head over and pick up a copy. I just looked and there are 241 left.
http://butterflymarketing.com
I mean this is the definition of "no brainer". For $30 postage and handling you get a $2000 product by one of Internet marketing's most successful entrepreneurs. The membership website script powers hundreds of successful money making sites and is worth 10x the cost of shipping and handling alone.
I am not even making a commission because I don't have a big enough list to be a JV partner of Mike's. (must have 10k subscribers) But I have had the Butterfly Marketing course for almost a year now and this is something that you want to have. Even if you aren't ready for it now.
FYI anyone who has the first version can now update to version 2.8 in the members area. I upgraded my Traffic Hits Multiplier site last night. I never finished this site for 2 reasons. The first is because I put everything on hold when I started Alex Jeffreys coaching program. I wanted to concentrate all my efforts to implementing the things I learned.
The second reason is because of poor planning and the fact that I was a bit overwhelmed with the script. It is very powerful and there is a lot of stuff to configure. There are so many screens in the Admin area it's hard to know where to begin.
That is why I was ecstatic when I saw that Bob "the teacher" Jenkins was going to be giving some virtual training on how to set up the script and how to pick which features will work best for you. Bob has over 30 sites that are running the BFM script so I think he knows what he is talking about.
I am sure that if you just got your free version of Butterfly Marketing, then you could benefit from this training. You will see what I am talking about when you set up the script for the first time, open up the admin area, and say "Holy f*&%".
The course does cost some money but Bob is also giving away some of the training for free. The freebies include a teleseminar audio with Mike Filesaime and some videos that show you how to install the script and give you an overview of the admin area.
Definitely worth taking a look at. Its at DiscoverButterflyMarketing.com
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I have been putting together a top ten Twitter tools list. First of all I would like to say that I never realized there were so many 3rd party Twitter applications out there. A lot of them are duplications of each other albeit some may have a small twist that discerns it from others.
I have broken them down into several categories. Functionality, automation, and design. My favorite so far is a program that falls in the functionality category called Tweet Deck. Tweet Deck puts your Twittering on steroids.
It opens a window that lets you create columns that you can customize and filter for example, when I am Twittering I have a column of "All Friends" which is what you would normally see, a column with "Replies" (same as the replies page in Twitter), but then I have one for "Fortunate 500" which are the students in Alex Jeffreys first coaching class, and then I have a column that is just a few select friends.
Pretty cool but this is only one feature. In the columns you see the avatar and tweets like normal Twittering. If you mouse over the avatar, 4 buttons pop up. Reply to this person, Direct Message to this person, Retweet this persons tweet, and Other Actions. The other actions brings up a drop down list with Follow, Unfollow, Email Tweet, translate, untranslate, add to group(column), view profile, search, favorite, mark as read, and delete.
At the bottom of each column are some more buttons that do the following: move column left, filter the tweets in this column, mark all as seen, clear seen tweets, clear all tweets, move column right. But wait there is more.
At the top of the window is another row of navigational buttons. These buttons open up the various columns like, replies, direct messages, groups, etc.. There is also a button that opens Twitscoop which is a "tag cloud" of sorts that shows you what everyone is tweeting about. Another button takes you to 12 second TV, which may give Twitter a run for its money if it catches on.
There is a button that takes you to StockTwits and to the top right are 4 more buttons which are Refresh, single column view, settings, and Logout. The most important button is the first button up top which is the Tweet button.
This opens a standard Tweet type box but it has a couple really neat features. There is a place below the box where you can enter a URL then click on a button and it will shorten the URL and insert it into your tweet. There is also a TwitPic button that will take a picture from your computer and load it to TwitPics while creating a nice little short URL in your Tweet to the picture.
Have you typed in to many characters? Not a problem. The box will turn red, letting you know that you have exceeded the 140 character limit. But not to worry. There is a button called Tweet Shrink which will automatically make your Tweet fit.
Last but not least there is a recent hash tags button. Tweet desck is easily my hands down winner for ease of use and functionality. You can do almost everything you need to do right from the one window. Of course, like most Twitter apps, it's free.
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If you live in sunny Florida, like I do, then you can feel that spring is in the air. Hi 60's at night and low 80's during the day will give you a bad case of spring fever.
It stays green down here year round so you don't notice the seasonal changes as much. I like to sit on my porch and drink coffee in the morning and here lately it has become noisy.
Not a bad kind of noise, just lots of birds chirping their celebration of the arrival of spring. But that's not what I wanted to talk about. I want to talk about "tweeting", as in the kind of bird noise you here on Twitter.
I joined Twitter back in it's infancy, mainly to secure my username "jtmartin". I didn't really participate much until recently. I have seen the awesome potential and as such, have started to do some research and look at the multitude of software and applications that are available to increase your followers and automate your Twitter account.
I ran accross one the other day and gave it a try. I was really surprised by the results so I thought I would pass it along to you. All you have to do is follow the link and enter your Twitter info.
Then promote the link they give you, but remember to put your Twitter ID in the last part of the URL. You will still see results even if you don't promote, but like all things, the more you put into it, the better results you will see.
http://www.twitteringfortraffic.com/jtmartin
Did I mention that you also get 3 free Twitter ebooks for trying the viral software? It's a no brainer.
Check back regularly because I am going to be posting some other cool stuff about Twitter as I uncover it. I am probably going to put together a report that will list all the cool resources I have found.
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It's almost 2am but I have finally finished updating my JV giveaway directory. I had to redo 2 weeks worth of work plus add all of the new ones that have popped up in the last few days. I still can't believe how many giveaways are taking place in the next few weeks.
I haven't even set a date for mine yet. I was going to try and pick a date when there wouldn't be a lot of other competing giveaways but that doesn't look like it's going to happen. I will just have to come up with a way to make mine stand out. 
The impact of Jason James Giveaway Riches is evident. He did a fantastic job explaining the ins and outs of running your own JV Giveaway. I know that I am using it as my guide and the fact that so many giveaways are springing up just after his launch is a testimonial to how good the product is.
Not only has he created a easy to follow step by step guide but he has obviously motivated a lot of people to take action. My hat goes off to him for creating an awesome product. I can't wait to get my giveaway off the ground.
My partners and I have been working hard although I have been working on getting other things straightened out. I am glad that I joined up with Garry Parkes, Gary Simpson, and Carl Barton. It would be really tough for me to go it alone this first time around.
Meeting these fellows has been another huge benefit of joining Alex Jeffreys coaching program. Well I'm dead tired so I am calling it a nite. I am going to crawl into bed and snuggle up with the wife. I've got to get up early and get some people set up and on their way to building a list with giveaway events.
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For those of you who don't know, I have been experiencing mega problems with my computer and now my web hosting. The computer is back to normal and I have all my software reinstalled with a minimal loss of a few files but no big deal.
I lost 2 weeks of work and content with the web hosting fiasco and my data bases got all screwed up. The support guy said he was going to try and recover my info off the old hard drive. I guess that means they had a server crash. They never really said what happened.
After 2 days of waiting I assumed all was lost. I have been concentrating on getting my Giveaway directory back up to speed because, as you know, the Giveaways have been popping up right and left and I have been working my butt off keeping my site up to date.
So today I fire up the computer and my blog comes up with my lost posts and the sign up form for my new ebook back in place. Surprise! Surprise! (any Gomer Pyle fans in the house) I checked my safelist and my other blogs and they are back to normal as well.
The funny thing is that now the blog post I made the other day is gone. So, I need to redo that post or at least touch on the main thing that I wanted to say. It was mostly a rant about my screwed up hosting but I am over it now and am just glad things are back to normal.
Mostly, that is. My email is still acting screwy. I can't view my email using Outlook like I usually do. I have checked all the settings and frankly I am getting tired of messing with it. If you want to send me an email make sure you use this new email jt@oventures.net
This is on my first ever hosting account that is with Zoot Hosting. It was part of a deal that I got when I joined as a lifetime member to Adtactics safelist a couple years ago. I have never had a minute of downtime with this hosting. I don't use it much because I am limited to one domain name. But, I only paid a one time fee and I have the account for life. Not a bad deal.
The weekend is here and I have worked a deal out with the wife. She is going to take the kids and vacate the premises as much as possible this weekend so that I can work in peace and try to get caught up. I have made great headway so far and should have every thing back to normal this evening.
Then I can continue setting up some peoples giveaway products for them. (thank you for your patience everyone) Then to get in touch with my partners in crime and launch a JV Giveaway event!
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