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Pinterest…So What’s it All About?

So what’s ‘Pinterest’ all about then?

Basically, Pinterest is a site full of images, just like you would find in a catalogue. You can create as many categories as you like and you can share the pins of other users in what is called a ‘repin’, or pin off the Internet from sites that have been wise enough to add a ‘pin it’ button to their site. The person who is sharing is referred to as the ‘pinner’.

 

Why would you make the effort to start using Pinterest?

Well, put it this way, Pinterest is by far the fastest growing social media site in the world at this moment in time!

It’s actually got well over 11.7 million unique users, making it the fastest site in history to break through the 10 million unique visitor mark.

So that makes Pinterest the third most popular social network at the moment, behind Facebook and Twitter.

Pinterest Stats

Now that we’ve established how popular and fast growing Pinterest is, let’s see how we can use it, and more importantly how it can help make our lives easier.

The first thing you need to do is to request an invitation to join, you can do that here for free.

Once you have your account you can then start pinning, it’s really simple to work out, there’s nothing hard about it, first edit your profile and then create your ‘boards’ (categories) for your pinned images.

A simple way to pin ‘any’ image you see is to install a Pinterest addon for your web browser, I use the Pinterest Right Click addon for Firefox, you can get it here if you need it.

However, it’s also simple to ‘repin’ images that other users have already pinned, by simply browsing the images in Pinterest and clicking the ‘repin’ icon in the top left of the image, this will then pin that image to your chosen board.

There’s also some really simple tools inside Pinterest that you can use to add ‘Pin It’ and ‘Follow’ buttons onto your websites, just like this one:

Follow Me on Pinterest

Another really cool thing about Pinterest that I personally love is the mobile phone app, if you pin an image from there, you can also set it up to post the image on Facebook and Twitter, you can also take an image from your phone and pin it at the same time.

Maybe now more people will start to add more high quality images relating to their products and services! ๐Ÿ™‚ Oh, if you ever need any images then you can’t beat GFX-1 for quality and cost.

There’s obviously a lot more about Pinterest than I would want to bore you with here, so I’ve got a complete eBook about the subject for you totally free, you can download it here.
Feel free to share/sell this eBook, as long as you don’t change the content, if you need any PLR material for yourself, then look no further than our PLR Monthly site.

Enjoy!

Regards,

Dave.

Oh, don’t forget to share your love with the social sharing below, and please let me know your comments on Pinterest, good or bad ๐Ÿ™‚

Facebook Timline Changes and How They Will Affect You and Your Business!

Hey guys,

OK, unless you have buried in work for the last month or two (like me :-)), you will have heard about the new Facebook timeline changes for all fan pages.
Basically, on March 30th 2012 all pages will be automatically changed over to the new timeline format on Facebook

So I would recommend you go and familiarize yourself with the new layout before Facebook makes the change.

I personally think it’s a great update, I know it’s a bit of a pain to update your pages, but there are loads of new features that are pretty cool:

Cool New Features:

Massive Cover Photo Size

The cover photo, or main image at the top of your page can now be upto 851 pixels wide, giving you a LOT more exposure to highlight your page.

Cover photos are 851 pixels wide and 315 pixels tall. If you upload an image that’s smaller than these dimensions, it will get stretched to this larger size. The image you upload must be at least 399 pixels wide.

Facebook has set a few rules with this though, check them out:

Cover images must be at least 399 pixels wide and may not contain:

  • Price or purchase information, such as “40% off” or “Download it at our website”
  • Contact information, such as web address, email, mailing address or other information intended for your Page’s About section
  • References to user interface elements, such as Like or Share, or any other Facebook site features
  • Calls to action, such as “Get it now” or “Tell your friends”

All cover images are public, which means anyone visiting your Page will be able to see the image you choose. Covers must not be false, deceptive or misleading, and must not infringe on third parties’ intellectual property. You may not encourage or incentivize people to upload your cover image to their personal timelines.

Oh, and they’ll probably keep updating them, so make sure you keep checking!

Much Wider Page Tabs

This is great in my opinion, the old page tabs used to be 520px wide, allowing you to use around 500px before scrolling, but the new ones are a massive 810px wide which you can place a decent 790px page into.

That’s pretty much a full size website, giving you a LOT more scope for making your page look cool with loads of content.

Better Tab Icons

The tab icons that link to your ‘Photos’, ‘Likes’ and custom tabs etc. are placed very prominently just below your cover photo, they are much larger than the previous ones (109x72px)

Fan Page Messaging

This is also a pretty cool feature, pages now have the option to show a ‘Message’ button just below the cover photo, so fans can message the page privately. As I said it’s optional, but by default it shows the message button.

It’s a good way for your fans to interact with you I think, as long as it does not get abused. Guess we’ll have to see how that goes eh! ๐Ÿ™‚

Highlighting and Pinning Posts

This is definitely a cool feature, by simply clicking the little star at the top of a post you can ‘highlight’ it, making it full page width, and by clicking the little pencil icon you can pin that post to the top of your page.

Awesome idea for those ‘need to be seen’ posts!

Newย  Page Admin Panel

This is also a pretty cool feature, you can now view your admin panel in great detail above your page, giving you information on notifications, messages, likes, insights and page tips right at your fingertips

 

Not So Cool New Features:

Default Landing Tab Removal

Booooooo, the default landing tab is going to be removed, so you can’t set which page a fan will land on by default, it’s not a big drawback, especially with the new tab icon size being more readable, but nevertheless it’s not so cool!

 

Please let me know your thoughts on the new Facebook timeline changes, and feel free to share one link to your new fan page once you have it set up.

Also, don’t forget to ‘like’ and share this post using the options below too please!

Talk soon,

Dave.

Highlights of 2011 and $100 Gift for YOU!

Hey guys,

2011 HighlightsOK, so another year has almost passed us by again, doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun! ๐Ÿ™‚
I’m going to go over some of the things that I have been up to this year, as posting regular updates wasn’t one of them! ๐Ÿ™‚
As last years little competition was such a success, I’m going to do the same again this year and hopefully give some lucky reader $100 cash!
It’s real simple, all you have to do is to reply to this post with YOUR personal highlight of the year, I’ll then put all the names into a hat and randomly choose the lucky $100 winner!

So here’s MY personal highlights of 2011:

January 2011 – The first thing I did in January was to launch the new look for my Planet Divinity website, it’s kind of a central hub for me and home to some great turnkey websites.
I then told you about Matt Garrett’s Instant Article Videos, and how simple it was to turn all your articles into videos, the feedback I received on this was great!
Later that month was the launch of Michael Cheney’s My Millionaire Mentor, where myself and John Thornhill teamed up to put an awesome bonus package together with the hope of providing you all with some great content and also win his affiliate contest at the same time, we did win it thanks to all of you and we gave over $2,000 to charity too.

February 2011 – In February I re-launched Multi Profit Monthly with John Thornhill, a 12 month course where we show people how to duplicate our success, using all the methods that we have used to succeed online.
Then John Thornhill launched his excellent One Month Mentor program, which is 31 days of TOP QUALITY training, aimed to get you started FAST!

March 2011 – The first thing to come in March was a superb free eBook from my good friend Daniel Sumner, that shows you exactly how to create and more importantly market an eBook, it was called The eBook Cycle.
Later that month myself and John offered you $8,174+ worth of just about all of our best selling products for what can only be described as a truly INSANE price, it was 72 Hours of Complete Madness!

April 2011 – In April my good friends Tony Shepherd and Tony Newton launched a cracking 4 week training course that basically shows you how to create and Flip WordPress Blogs! Awesome stuff!
later that month Myself and John Thornhill launched a fantastic piece of software that creates Facebook like pages in under a minute, it was called Like Page Builder, and the best part was we gave you it for FREE!

May 2011 – In May I had been working behind the scenes with Omar Martin to create a FREE source for you to find out all about the people and products online, it was called IM Trustworthy, and it’s now very widely used and respected.
May was also the time that my good friend Stevie at GFX-1 created a brand new collection of Over 1,500, High Quality, Professional Website Graphics, excellent for ‘instant’ web pages that look amazing!
Later this month my good friend Lee McIntyre released a controversial free video where he revealed the 3 weird little strategies that he used to build a SEVEN FIGURE online business in record time, it was called Instant Internet Lifestyle and it really was lifestyle changing stuff!
Later that month my good friend Socrates Socratous launched a ‘killer’ product, it was called Killer Content and it was that good that I offered a BONUS of over $1,594.00 just for anyone who purchased through my link! Cracking stuff!

June 2011 – June was when I launched Affiliate Ad Rotator, this was a product I teamed up with John Thornhill on, basically, it displays and rotates ClickBank IMAGE banner ads. We all know how well images work instead of just plain text, well, this gives you the perfect ads for your websites or blogs, we even have an option for users to add their own ads to our database, giving excellent exposure!
Around mid June, John Thornhill and Keith Purkiss launched Push Button Giveaway, a great product that basically makes using giveaway events ‘push button’ ๐Ÿ™‚
Soon after that I launched PLR Monthly 2.0, myself and Daniel Sumner made this to be what we think is the greatest PLR resource site in the world… Bar none! We added a shed load of content to our already great content, far too much to list here! Around the end of June my good friend John Thornhill launched a ‘Warrior Special Offer’ for only $12, it was called Affiliate Promo Formula, giving you a blueprint of how to make BIG bucks with affiliate promotions.

July 2011 – This was when John Thornhill launched his $497 Coaching Program for only $19, no catches or anything, just a single $19 payment for his cracking coaching program.
Around mid July was when my good friend Omar Martin launched his excellent ‘My Unfair Advantage‘ which was basically some TOP quality software, training and support from REAL experts. This was so good that I also offered a $497 BONUS just for anyone who purchased through my link!
Near the end of July I teamed up with John Thornhill to launch ‘72 Hours of Complete Madness‘, we really went to town with this one, giving you 3 days to grab an AWESOME package of products, if you missed this then you should kick yourself! ๐Ÿ™‚

August 2011 – The start of August was when me and John launched Multi Profit Monthly in a $5 Warrior Special Offer, this was an amazing success and if you took advantage of it then you got a superb deal for only $5!
Later that month we launched the Simple Success System series, the first one shows you via FREE webinar, how we generated over 8 million from multiple income streams! Soon after that John launched another, called 3 Steps to Success.

September 2011 – At the start of September my good friend Jim Cockrum launched a cracking course called quite simply The Proven Amazon Course, with Amazon getting even bigger and Jim’s extensive knowledge and experience, it’s no surprise that this was an amazing success for him!$
Around the middle of September John launched another great WSO, this one was called Profit from PLR, you basically got a great $97 product for only $5! Soon after that my good friend Alex Jeffreys launched an awesome FREE report showing you how he generated 1 MILLION in just 21 days, and how you can do the same too, it really was good stuff!
Around the end of September Jim Cockrum launched a great bok that was basically the result of a decade worth of ideas that Jim has collected and found REALLY work, it was called Free Marketing, and it really was an excellent read, Jim also gave the proceeds to charity…What a guy!

October 2011 – The first thing that highlighted October for me was an excellent bit of software from Robert Black, this usually sold for $77, but as a WSO you got it for just $5 ($10 now), I thought this was great!
Around the middle of October I launched an AWESOME WSO with John Thornhill, we offered you one of our best selling $197 products for just $5, it was Multi Profit Websites.
At the end of October John launched his excellent WSO Domination, this gave you a step by step blueprint to creating a WSO and making money from it. As with any great product I also offered a BONUS again too!

November 2011 – This was when we launched ClickBank Affiliate Master in a WSO special for only $5! It’s an excellent piece of software that allows you to create multiple ‘custom’ ClickBank affiliate links and pages, we use this software on just about all our products, and it helps pull in thousands, if not TENS of THOUSANDS worth of ADDITIONAL sales.
Around the middle of November was when my good friend Stevie B launched a cracking Video Template Pack in a WSO, you guys loved this!

December 2011 – Well I’m sure you can remember this, but I teamed up with John to give you guys yet another AWESOME BONUS, this time it was for PLR Jackpot, an awesome PLR package. Oh, it’s available again for a limited time if you missed out!
Around the middle of December myself and John launched our hugely successful WSO Success program, this sold out right away, but you can still get on the waiting list for next time.
Soon after that my good friend Stevie B launched another ‘PREMIUM’ Video Template Pack via WSO, another great essential!
I’m sure you saw our Festive Blowout just after Christmas, this really was an AWESOME package of some seriously high quality products from us, I hope you managed to grab it before it was gone, if you missed it then you missed a treat! ๐Ÿ™‚

OK, so that’s basically my highlights of 2011, I also did a lot of ‘behind the scenes’ stuff, which I’ll tell you about some other time!

Sorry if this post went on a little longer than expected, but there was a lot to fit in!

Remember, if you hit reply and let me know your marketing highlight of 2011, I’ll put your name in a draw for $100 cash!
I’ll make the draw in a week or two and send the cash instantly! You must be able to receive the cash via Paypal, if you cannot and you still wish to enter, I will donate the cash to a deserving charity in your name.

Please make sure you use your best email address when you reply, as I will need to contact you on it if you win!

Good luck for the $100 cash draw and I hope you have a great 2012.

Happy New Year!

Dave.

P.S. Oh, don’t forget to ‘re-tweet’ and ‘like’ below please ๐Ÿ™‚

Utilize and BENEFIT From Lost Traffic

Hey guys,

I’m always being asked for additional ways to generate traffic, so I thought I’d create a short video showing a different way that you can Utilize and Benefit from what I call “Lost Traffic“. I’m sure you’ve actually been one of those ‘lost visitors‘ yourself, I know I have many, many times!

In the video, I’ll show you exactly how YOU can Utilize and Benefit from this really simple technique. You can also implement it multiple times, for greater success.

I’ll also provide you with all the ‘easy edit‘ pages that you need to implement this.

Checkout the video here:
Utilize and BENEFIT From Lost Traffic

You can download the package I talk about in the video HERE, no optin or anything required, just a zip file download.

I know a lot of people charge for this kind of content, so they may not like this, but I always try to help out as much as I can, so I’m GIVING you everything totally FREE as a subscriber of mine.

If you like the video and the package then please leave a comment.

Also, if you need even MORE traffic, then checkout the BRAND NEW Automatic Auction Traffic, it REALLY will help you to maximize your eBay store and drive AUTOMATIC traffic to your cash generating offers.

Please don’t forget to share and comment, even if you just want to say hi! ๐Ÿ™‚

Regards,

Dave.
[EDIT] Oh, I have had a few people asking if they can use this video on their blogs, so here is the youtube version – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sa44wvoLubk
All I ask is that you link back to my blog to download the package! ๐Ÿ™‚

Secure Your Business with a Simple Success System

Multiple Streams of IncomeHey guys,

Firstly let me apologize for my lack of posts lately, if you have been following me on Twitter or Facebook then you’ll know I’ve been really busy, buy hey, that’s no excuse, so I’m going to try to rectify this with some quality posts that will REALLY help you out over the next few weeks!

Now let’s get down to business… So just how safe is YOUR business?

Well, I’m sure nobody can say anything is 100% safe in this day and age, but there are certain things we can do to make things a little safer!

The most important bit of advice I can possibly give to anyone is ‘don’t rely on ONE SINGLE INCOME STREAM’

For example, what would happen if that income stream all of a sudden stopped? You would be left high and dry, that’s what!

Don’t think it can’t happen to you , as it has happened to MANY people in this business, remember the eBay digital delivery ban for example, this put literally 1000โ€™s of digital product sellers out of business within a matter of days!

I know it’s easy to get a little complacent when you have found a way to generate an income online, you may just think you can rely on that income forever, but nothing is forever and you would be naive to think that you are safe in this day and age.

I’m not saying you should start to panic or worry about your current business, far from it, I never think you should worry, it will only make things worse. What I am saying is that you should do something about it SOONER rather than LATER!

I have created a short video that will explain a little more, please watch the video and let me know your opinion on this.

Even if you don’t have an opinion on this, at least say hi… It’s been a while! ๐Ÿ™‚
Here’s the link mentioned in the video to the FREE webinar with me and John.

Don’t forget to send a short comment and let me know what you think.
Also, hit the ‘Like’ button below and the ‘Retweet’ button above too please ๐Ÿ™‚

Talk soon,

Dave.

P.S. Oh, I placed the video on YouTube, so you can feel free to use it on your own blogs or whatever if you like.
P.P.S Don;t forget to checkout our FREE webinar here:
www.simple-success-system.com/streams