Internet Marketing Resources: If you want to market via the Internet, here's how.

Here are resources to help you do almost anything you would want to do to market your books as an author or publisher. These resources are provided by me, by other good companies and individuals, or by some very useful websites.

Most of these resources pay me an affiliate payment if you sign up for their services by clicking on the links below. I would recommend them anyway, but it is nice to get a little bonus.

Just click on the titles below to find out more about each program I describe.

General Book Marketing / Publicity and PR
Creating Books & Products / Writing & Selling Manuscripts

General Internet Marketing

eMarketing Basics: Internet Marketing System Video Membership — This online video membership site from Mark Caron offers you more than 80 video tutorials taking you from an online newbie to an experience Internet marketer, step by step. Also includes 20 bonus software programs and reports that you can resell. Cost: $147/year membership.

How to Cash in on the New Internet and Flood Your Business with Customers by Rocket Helstrom — Provides one system for marketing ebooks and other products via the Internet. If you want to draw more traffic to your website, this book can help.

Hypnotic Marketing 2.0 by Joe Vitale —

Internet Marketing Explained — This incredible series of audio, video, and more teaches you everything that Armand Morin knows about Internet marketing, and he knows a heck of a lot. More than 98% of other Internet marketers. The best Internet information marketing resource out there right now. Includes 34 CDs of content, a live seminar (which, if you cannot attend, you'll be able to listen to via the web), 8 weeks of training videos, 4 Generator Software products, resale rights to all videos on the IME blog, and a teleseminar describing how Armand generated $4 million last year from just talking. Cost: $1,997.

The Internet Marketing Retirement Plan — This audio program from Robert Bly reveals a simple 3-step program to create an on-going retirement income from online marketing. Cost: $97.

The Obvious Truth by Armand Morin — A free ebook that outlines the 16 basic and easy steps to building an income-generating Internet-based business. Free.

Peel Away Ads — I love this new little technology that adds little peels to one or more corners of the page. They offer a nice way to add a postscript or additional feature without being obtrusive. With this program, you can add as many peel away ads as you want to your various websites. While you will need to know a little HTML or how to edit a webpage, the process is fairly simple. As part of the program, they provide you with videos showing how to implement them. For a sample, see the peel away ad at the top right of this page. Cost: one-time fee of $37. That's a bargain!

Ten Non-Techie Ways to Market your Book Online — This ebook by Judy Cullins shows how to get thousands to your site daily and sell all the books you want. Discover how to augment your traditional marketing with easy, cheap, and doable online marketing. No buying ad words, just doing what you do best: writing and submitting articles. Cost: $44.95.

What Works Now newsletter by Kevin Wilke and Matt Gill — Free email newsletter on what's working now in marketing products and services via the Internet. Free.

Marketing Via Articles and Ezines

Article Marketer — This proven article distribution system allows you to submit to thousands of publishers with one click. Sign up now and get free custom-written articles just for you so you can get started fast. $49.99 per quarter to syndicate your articles. Or a lifetime subscription for $400. Your free submission goes to 12,988 publishers on 30 sites. Paid distribution goes to almost 68,000 publishers on 3,886 sites.

Best-Selling Sales Letters — This ebook and course by Mark Hendricks not only teaches you how to write those long sales pages you see on many Internet sales pages, but also how to write better news releases, postcard mailings, advertising copy, and more. If you have trouble writing news releases and sales copy, this program will pay for itself very quickly. Cost: $197.

Complete A-Z Article System — This downloadable e-book by Eric Gruber is a do-it-yourself guide to working with article directories, ezines, and others to publish free articles that will bring your website and book free publicity, more traffic, and increased sales. Cost: $97.

How To Make Your Ads, Sales Letters, And Websites Sell Like Crazy — The title of this ebook by Mark Hendricks tells you exactly what you are getting. But the deluxe package includes AutoResponder Magic, Million Dollar Emails, Email Marketing Secrets, 1001 Ways to Make Money on the Net, Web Design Magic, and ten other valuable ebooks to help you sell more books via your website. While dated by a few years yet still relevant, this is the bargain of Internet marketing programs. Cost: $57.

Instant Article Submitter — This PC software tool by Rod Beckwith and Jeff Alderson allows you to submit to over 200 online article directories in one easy click. You can submit your articles without having to visit each article directory manually. Article submissions allow you to get more free website traffic, improve your search engine ranking, and make more sales. Each time you open the software, it updates with the latest directories. You can also suggest new directories for the service. Also includes Instant Article Creator, which walks you through writing great articles, and Speed Article Writing, a 21-page guide to writing articles fast. Cost: $97 with no recurring charges.

“I just started using a software [note that she didn't say which software or service she was using] that distributes articles one has written and I've had really good results hitting 35 of the top 50 slots for my keywords on Google.... It's all one big experiment and I won't know for about 3-6 weeks what the real results are like, because I'm not sure how long those articles will stay at the top of Google or how many will be reprinted on blogs about adoption or scrapbooking.” — Lisa Copen, author, Adoption Scrapbook Album

Nitro List Builder — Create a ever-growing list of targeted email subscribers fast using co-registration list building techniques. $299 for 20,000 leads.

PR Leads Article Marketing Publicity Program — This service submits your articles to hundreds of online article directories, ezines, and other users of articles. A great way to promote your book online. You can do it yourself (using the resources at http://www.bookmarket.com/onlinearticles.htm or by following their Complete A to Z Article System) or by paying them to automate the process for you. Their Serious Article Marketing Publicity Program (14 articles over 12 months) costs $5,000. Their Starter Article Marketing Publicity Program (7 articles over 6 months) costs $2,500. Their Test the Waters Package costs $500 for 1 article.

Press Equalizer — This PC software tool by Rod Beckwith and Jeff Alderson allows you to quickly and easily syndicate your press releases to dozens of top online PR directories and free press release distribution services. You could manually submit to dozens of such services by using the ones listed at http://www.bookmarket.com/onlinepr.htm or you can let this software do it for you in minutes. Cost: $97.

17 Ways to Build a Responsive and Profitable List — This special report and audio download from Mark Hendricks will help you build an email list of customers and potential customers. Learn about the right kind of freebies to give away to get people to sign up for your list, how to instantly position yourself as an expert to listen to, the three special ingredients you'll need to include to build your relationship with your customers and subscribers, and much more. Cost: $67.

Marketing Via Blogs
and Social Networks

Blogging Equalizer — This PC software from Jeff Alderson and Rod Beckwith helps you to put your blog or website on steroids, at least in terms of getting the attention of the major search engines. They call it the blog and ping method of building search engine recognition. Cost: $97.

Comment Kahuna — This PC software allows you to search for relevant blog posts for any key word or phrase and then automate the process of making comments on each of the selected blogs. Easy to use. Quick to set up. Free.

Forum Equalizer — This PC software from Jeff Alderson and Rod Beckwith makes it easy to participate in up to 2,000 forums and submit your introduction, ask questions, suggest resources, etc. This software looks very tempting, but I haven't verified the quality of the forums yet. But you might want to check this software out. It automates the entire process of participating in forums with your signature (and link back to your website) so you could end up with hundreds or thousands of links to your website. Cost: $77.

How to Generate a Fortune in Quick and Easy Backlinks (to Help Claim Top Rankings) and Free Laser-Targeted Traffic — This free ebook by Jeff Alderson and Rod Beckwith describes how to get tons of links pointing to your website by working with blogs, article directories, and more. This ebook promotes many of their services, but also describes succinctly many key ways to get incoming links. Free.

Instant Blog Links — This PC software from Jeff Alderson and Rod Beckwith allows you to quickly and easily locate and gradually submit useful comments (along with a link to your website) to countless high-page rank blogs within your market. Over time, this can easily add up to dozens, hundreds or even thousands of incoming links. This is not an automatic mass submission blog spam tool. It still takes some time on your part. You must submit quality comments if you wish to get results. Cost: $97.

Marketing Info-Products Through Social Networking — This short ebook by Antonio Crawford describes the fundamentals of marketing information products through online social networks and offline personal networks. Only $7.00.

Ten Million Eyeballs — Watch for this new seminar series from John Kremer. In this series, I'll be showing you how to get 10 million eyeballs for your book, product, service, idea, cause, website, etc. Not only one way to do so, but four ways that have worked for others who reached millions of viewers, visitors and, of course, eyeballs.

Marketing Via YouTube
and other Videos and Audios

Audio Acrobat — You can use this wonderful service to generate podcasts, broadcast Internet radio shows, and create other audio content by just making a phone call, recording your talk, and hitting send to syndicate your audio podcast to 27 podcast directories like iTunes. You can also create and send audio or video emails, post audio or video to your website with neat players, and so much more, all for only $19.95 a month. That's an incredible bargain. Sign up for the 30-day free trial today!

Internet Infomercial Toolkit — If you want to learn how to create videos (both as infomercials for your website but as well as for YouTube and other video-sharing websites), you need this toolkit created by Michael Koenigs and Rocket Helstrom. It shows you how to shoot, edit, and launch your Internet videos. Also shows you how to put the resulting video on your website as well so people can see and hear you. Cost: $997.

New Video Pro — If you can take a picture, then you have what it takes to stream video off of your website or blog in under 57 seconds. Add sticky and selling videos to your website without losing visitors to YouTube or another video-sharing service. Plus, you don't have to convert your video to Flash before posting it to your site; the service does it for you, quick and easy. Cost: $49.95, but take advantage of the $1 30-day trial (that's almost free!).

VideoTrafficGuys.com — If you want to get more traffic to your website and/or get top ten rankings in Google searches for your keywords, this program not only shows you how to do it, but they also make it very easy to do. These guys make it so easy to use video to post to your blog, drive traffic, and build awareness of what you do. A fantastic resource. Plus, the cost of joining includes some wonderful resources for creating and posting videos. Very well explained and easy to use. It got my juices flowing really fast. Cost: From $47 to $147 per month.

Watch this video right now: http://www.TrafficGeyser.com/cmd.php?af= 710393&u=www.trafficgeyser.com/tg. If you don't see the possibilities for book promotion that I see, then I apologize. But this system offers something that should knock your book sales right out the window and into the stratosphere and beyond. Very soon, it might do even more than that, if I have anything to say about it.

Generating Affiliate Income

Affiliate Gurus — For only $147, you can have a one-year membership in an informational website featuring more than 90 videos to help you sell more books via your website. Their step-by-step video tutorials help you to optimize your site for search engines, publish an ezine, track ads, select keywords, convert documents into ebooks, sell books via PayPal, set up audio for your website, blogging, and putting Javascript onto your website. Plus get a selection of software for website automation. If you want to know more about the ins and outs of website marketing, this membership can help you learn.

How to Make $100,000+ a Year with Affiliate Programs — The now famous 3 hour, 15 minute roundtable discussion with today's top affiliate marketers where they lay out entire affiliate marketing systems and reveal all their short cuts, proven tactics, success stories, and guarded secrets, so you too can start to earn jumbo-size affiliate checks - includes the 63-page transcript of the entire discussion. Cost: $74.00.

e-Products Websites

Websites for Selling eBooks, MP3 Audios, and other eProducts: http://www.bookmarket.com/eproducts.htm — Websites for selling your electronically delivered products: ebooks, MP3 audios, software, reports, databases, etc.

Setting Up a Website
and Shopping Cart

Membership Site Bootcamp — If you want to create a membership site as a way of delivering content to your website visitors, you need to take this complete course on how to run a profitable membership website. I have taken this bootcamp created by Ryan Lee and Tim Kerber, and it is superb. I will be using the information here to begin several membership sites in the coming months. Membership sites are a great way to deliver paid email newsletters that get delivered, provide coaching services, do a paid teleseminar series, etc. Well worth the price of admission.

Net Audio Ads — You can earn 25% of what the advertiser spends on PPP 5-second audio ads you serve on your websites as well as 5% of what the advertiser spends on PPP 5-second audio ads played on the websites of those you refer. Advertising began on February 1, 2008. For a great audio sales message on this program go to: http://www.audioadguys.com.

Web Marketing Magic Shopping Cart — If you need a shopping cart, here's one that's advertised as the world's smartest. You can get a free 30-day trial for only $3.95. You can use this shopping cart to send out email newsletters and promotions. Be sure to get the pro version because it's the one you'll want anyway. It allows you to sell downloadable ebooks, audiobooks, reports, etc. Plus do a lot more than the basic package, like affiliate tracking, multiple autoresponders, etc. Cost: Starter package for $34 per month. Basic package for $59 per month. Pro package for $99 per month.

WebScribble Social Network — Create an online community like MySpace or Facebook with people invitations and search, music, blogs, groups, events, videos, & more. All for only $199 with free installation and lifetime upgrades. For around the same price, you can also buy their WebStore application to create your own online shopping cart with digital downloads. They also offer software for creating dating sites, classified ad sites, and job sites.

Website Hosting with 1&1.com — With 1&1, you can register, create, and host websites really fast. I've registered and set up websites in less than 24 hours using this service. They host more than 40 websites for me, all at a low price of $19.95 per month, plus registration costs of $7.00 per year per domain. They are easy to use, offer lots of services, provide great service, and are readily available by phone for fast answers to questions. A really reliable website hosting service. The best! They are having a 3-month 50% discount sale on all their services.

WS Craft Content Management System — A fully functional CMS that supports virtually any marketing initiative and turns your website into a cost-effective tool for growing your business. Cost: $580 to $700 for a license.

Teleseminars and Webinars
via the Internet

InstantTeleseminar.com — This service allows you to create and host unlimited teleseminars (limited only by your time!). As many as 200 people can listen in via the phone while another 2,000 can listen in via the web. Anytime, day or night. Whenever you set up a teleseminar. You can also host and record interviews with anyone using this service. All recordings are hosted indefinitely with the service or can be downloaded so you can sell them as mp3s or audio CDs. All this for only $47 per month. I really don't know how they do it for that low price, but I'm not complaining.

Using Teleseminars to Create and Market Books — This teleseminar by John Kremer shows you how to use teleseminars to create new content, write new books, build important relationships, promote your books, and sell more books. In this seminar, I revealed a secret tip on how to begin creating relationships with top media and book buyers, even months or years before your book comes out. This one tip could boost your book marketing program to levels few authors or publishers have ever enjoyed. Mp3 audio download, $47.00.

Webinar Secrets — This complete program by Jim Edwards and Chris Zavadowski teaches you everything you need to know to run profitable webinars as a tool to market your books, create new products, build your list, or to do live training or consulting. This program really does provide you with everything you need, from promoting webinars, holding webinars, creating products from the webinars, and following up. Their promotional secrets are incredible. They really know how to sell webinars, step-by-step. Cost: $1,997 and worth every penny.

How to Create and Market Membership Websites

AMember Professional Membership Site Software — aMember is a flexible membership and subscription management PHP script. It has support for PayPal, BeanStream, 2Checkout, NoChex, VeriSign PayFlow, Authorize.Net, PaySystems, Probilling, Multicards, E-Gold and Clickbank payment systems and allows you to setup paid membership areas on your site. It can also be used without any payment system where you manage users manually. Cost: $199.95. An inexpensive option for running a membership site that requires only a one-time fee, but it does require some set-up and experience with website creation.

Membership Site Bootcamp — If you want to create a membership site as a way of delivering content to your website visitors, you need to take this complete course on how to run a profitable membership website. I have taken this bootcamp created by Ryan Lee and Tim Kerber, and it is superb. I will be using the information here to begin several membership sites in the coming months. Membership sites are a great way to deliver paid email newsletters that get delivered, provide coaching services, do a paid teleseminar series, etc. Well worth the price of admission. Cost: I forget the exact amount, but around $1,497 (when the program is open to new members again). The above link goes to their video 2. Click here for video 3 and video 4.

MemberSpeed — Membership site software or hosting solutions that provides you incredible flexibility in designing and managing a membership site, including autoresponders, audio/video streaming, affiliate management, and much more. With the hosting solution, they do much of the work for you. If you pay the one-time fee, you'll have to do much of the technical downloading and setting up the behind-the-scenes stuff. Starts at $57/month on up to a one-time fee of up to several thousand dollars.