The “Definitive Twitter Resource Guide” is a free e-book containing 201 Twitter Tools to empower you to more effectively manage your Twitter stream, followers and those you are following. The guide has been created by Stephen Pierce, author of “Make Real Money on The Internet,” which is said to be the most powerful money making manual for the internet. You can obtain a free copy of Stephen’s book by clicking here: Make Real Money on The Internet

The “Definitive Twitter Resource Guide” is divided by catagories and includes: applications, ad networks, analytics, badges & widgets, Twitter for buiness, follow management, file sharing, finance, media, multi-account management, printing, posting & alerts, search engines, travel, trend and others.

The guide provides a very logical layout that includes hop links for each resoure highlighted and rated in the guide. I was aware of a few of the resources featued and have used a couple such as Tweet Deck; however, the vast majority of these resources were new to me as Twitter is a rapidly evolving tool to leverage social media to become a powerful part of my overall traffic strategy.

You can instantly download your copy of 201 Free Twitter Tools here: Definitive Twitter Resource Guide

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This is part 3 of my 3 part series entitled “YouTube Slap Survival Guide.” For more background see my HUB Page by visiting “How to Survive the YouTube Slap, Build Your Brand and Create Lasting Results,” you can also review YouTubes policies by visiting YouTube “terms of service”

For the aggressive marketer I simply will say, sorry guys you may have caused the problem and I know you are aware that YouTube is not the bad guy here. This is worth saying again, content aggregation sites like Google, Yahoo, You Tube and others are focused on the customer’s experience. The priority of these companies is to deliver “relevant” content to their end users based on their chosen search criteria. When a marketer games the system by manufacturing search results which do not serve the end user – watch out!

If you are an aggressive marketer or practice “black hat” techniques, you know that it is not a question of if but when the slap will come and you are likely ok taking it. It was a long run, you made your money and now on to the next frontier. If you are like me, you want to be as assertive as the rules allow, but your priority is to deliver value, build your brand on integrity, and create a sustainable business.

Because you guys are the target, the fix for you is a little more complicated and depending on whether or not you have already been flagged, following these suggestions might preserve your presence on You Tube.

1. Based on the feedback I am getting, I would explore the IP address questions previously raised and act accordingly. Really strive to get the correct answers, I have received conflicting opinions offered by I.T. professionals.

2. If you have been a heavy abuser you might consider subscribing to a proxy server provider and shift your marketing to a new IP offered through a third party proxy service.

3. Do not change the email address on your primary account, but do so on the others, it appears that duplicated email addresses draws a flag.

4. Consider consolidating all of your content onto your primary account and close all others.

5. Do not reload the exact same videos without following these steps.

• Create an original source file by re-compressing the video from your editing software on your desk top
• Provide a new title for the video when uploading to YouTube
• Make sure that ALL of your tags are relevant to the content of your video

6. Do not use friend finder or video blaster software to manage content or make connections on YouTube. This is not the same thing as appropriately using a system like Traffic Geyser.

7. If you use video submission software to post your videos, edit “YouTube” out of your posting preferences and manually upload your content to You Tube.

In addition to these suggestions, I would adhere to all of the recommendations offered to new YouTube users listed in my prior post:

“YouTube Slap Survival Guide Part 1: The New YouTube User”

“YouTube Slap Survival Guide Part 2: Experienced Users with One or More Accounts”

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By now you have heard about the “YouTube Slap,” which has resulted in YouTube In part 2 of my 3 part series called “YouTube Slap Survival Guide.”For more back ground see my HUB Page by visiting “How to Survive the YouTube Slap, Build Your Brand and Create Lasting Results,” you can also review YouTubes policies by visiting YouTube “terms of service”

As an experienced YouTube user you know the value gained by posting relevant content, participating in the community, viewing others videos and posting comments, and have likely grown your following organically as a result of the value you bring. If you are like me you also had no idea that having more than one account could put your entire YouTube strategy at risk.

If you are in this category you may be feeling a little frustrated by a slap that might impact you even though you are playing by the rules. If you follow these tips you will be able to continue doing a great job providing value to your viewers and building your brand.

1. Decide which of your accounts has the broadest reach and impact on your desired market and make that your official home on YouTube.

2. Step back and take a fresh look at your profile and messaging, ask yourself this simple question, “Am I adding value?”

3. Consider closing all secondary accounts especially if the content is duplicated from your primary channel, your videos are simply hyped up sales pitches, your content is not relevant to your titles and tags, or if you built a following predominantly with friend finder software.

4. If you decide to maintain more than one account you may be at greater risk if you use a common email address for multiple accounts. So consider changing the user email for your secondary accounts.

5. There are conflicting opinions about the role of IP addresses when monitoring accounts. Some who have researched this say that maintaining multiple accounts on one IP address will flag your accounts. I am not an I.T. expert, so I am not certain of all of the details related to this issue. One marketer who had his accounts closed suggested that you call your ISP and find out how to obtain a new IP address.

In addition to these suggestions, I would adhere to all of the recommendations offered to new YouTube users listed in my prior post “YouTube Slap Survival Guide Part 1: The New YouTube User”

Resources for More Experienced Users

Video Submission Training and Software

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I posted a HUB Page titled “How to Survive the YouTube Slap, Build Your Brand and Create Lasting Results,” which received more that 100 page views within hours of be published. It has been interesting to watch the fallout from YouTube’s decision to more aggressively enforce their “terms of service” policies resulting in the closure of several accounts, including a few big name internet marketers.

I have decided to share the key content from my HUB Page on this blog and I am doing so by breaking the article into three parts to specifically address the your needs based on your level of experience using You Tube.

The YouTube slap was predictable and it may reach wide and deep before the dust settles and we gain a complete understanding of what this means for Internet marketers. YouTube has become a favorite platform for both legitimate Internet marketers and unfortunately online spammers. The spammers and a few gamers may have spoiled the party for many well meaning marketers who consistently provide value to their viewers.

I personally know two big internet marketers in the network marketing niche who have had all or most of their channels shut down and have lost tens of thousands of page views and friends connections as a result. To their credit they acknowledge why their accounts were closed and have vowed to correct their own “terms of use” violations and teach others how to do the same.

Content aggregators like Google, Yahoo, You Tube and others are focused on the customer’s experience. The priority of these companies is to deliver “relevant” content to their end users based on their chosen search criteria. When a marketer games the system by manufacturing search results that do not serve the end user – watch out.

In this HUB Page I am going to share a number of suggestions designed to help you survive the YouTube slap and thrive through this transition by focusing on value creation and the development of your personal brand. This HUB will address best practices for you regardless if you are new to YouTube, a regular user with one of more accounts, or an aggressive video marketer with several accounts, automated systems, hundreds of videos and thousands of page views.

For New You Tube Users

Congratulations, you don’t need to unlearn any bad habits and you get to start with a clean slate flying well below the radar screen. Follow these simple rules and you will survive and thrive.

1. Build your YouTube brand and presence on one account. Many of the users that had their accounts shut down utilized multiple You Tube accounts.

2. If you just can’t help it and want to utilize a second of third account for personal use or another purpose unrelated to your online marketing activities, be sure that each account is registered using a unique IP address.

3. Regardless of the number of accounts you have do not spam! This includes your title, video description, and tags with “non relevant” keywords. This has become a common practice with aggressive marketers and this practice will get you shut down.

4. Avoid using “add a friend” software programs and mass submission software specifically in YouTube. Do not use these programs to add friends, rate your videos, or add comments.

5. Do not upload duplicate content even if the title and tags have been edited. This is not likely to be a big red flag, but since we are discussing best practices, let’s raise the bar.

6. I am not too familiar with the process of buying You Tube views. I understand that the practice will put you in the cross hairs. Avoid buying views and play it safe.

7. Do not turn your channel into a cheap pitch site for your programs or opportunities. Not only does this practice rarely work, it weakens your posture in the marketplace and leaves you exposed if you change companies or your company encounters problems.

Keep in mind the hyped up sales pitches only attract those looking to get rich quick, which may produce short term results, but provides a weak foundation to build a long term business upon.

8. Remember, the goal is to be a professional and build a sustainable long term businesses that will provide income, leverage, and time freedom long term. Always seek to provide value and your rewards will follow.

Additional Resources to Leverage Video and Grow Your Business:

Quick Video Marketing Training Course

Why do top marketers use video? *It’s faster than slaving over your keyboard writing sales copy and much less agonizing… *It gives you quick search engine rankings for massive FREE traffic (results in minutes)

MLM Quick Start

The 30 Day Challenge is a professional coaching program for home based business professionals

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Allow me to make a few assumptions so that I speak directly to those who can benefit most from this tool. So you have finally stepped into the world of making money online. You too, like many others, have decided to start with affiliate programs. Also, you must have heard that it’s not a big deal to make good money with affiliate marketing, provided you choose the right programs and do some strategic planning while promoting your affiliate products. So far so good.

The profession of affiliate marketing is competitive but if you are strategic and invest the time required to effectively structure your business funnel and marketing techniques you can create a profitable business that produces multiple streams of consistent income in a variety of niche markets.

Take a close look at the profession, you will see that not every one who gets into affiliate marketing is successful. People who are doing well leave no room for failure and take all security measures and understand its importance. When I first started promoting affiliate products using my affiliate links I had no idea that someone could literally steal my commissions.

Security is one of the key factors in properly setting up your affiliate marketing business. If you do not adopt proper security measures, your business will be at high risk potentially costing you thousands of dollars in lost commissions. One of the most important way to restore security is to protect your affiliate links. Do not take them for granted. A bit of carelessness on your part in regards to affiliate links may cost you a lot of dollars.

Do you know the long complicated links that you send to your prospective customers not only look convoluted but they can create a lot of problems too! If you send such an affiliate link to your customers, then the smart ones will definitely figure out that you are promoting someone else’s product and they would rather visit the parent website. People often do this because they mistakenly assume that dealing with the actual creator of the product offers some advantages, which is generally not the case. Also, if your link does not function properly your customers will need to type a long obscure URL into their browser, which may definitely put him or her off and you may loose the moment of decision leading to the purchase.

There have also been cases where a fellow affiliate, a small percentage who are Internet traffic pirates, actually replace your links with their own and literally hijack your commissions. This is a more rare, but no less real security threat that is easy to defeat.

Once I understood the risk of exposing my links, I set out to research link cloaking tools including expensive software packages and a number of free web based tools on the marketplace. When I discovered Viral URL everything fell into place for me as I discovered a great tool to leverage traffic in addition to securing my affiliate URL.

So, if you are not getting the desired amount of traffic or if you are recording a large amount of hits with few conversions try adding Viral URL to your affiliate promotions tool box and monitor the results. There’s definitely a remedy to these challenges and the best part is that an fully finctional account with Viral URL is free by simply following this link: is ViralURL.com

I have been using this program for several months now and it has created a tremendous amount of leverage in my business. In addition to using the program to cloak my affiliate links, I also use it to shorten links when I am linking a blog, article or other web page in my social network updates and tweets on Twitter. This allows me to earn advertising credits in Viral URLs link rotators program, which is included with your free account. By incorporating this into your funnel you can gain additional traffic to your pages and larger commissions from increased sales.

Here is a quick review of this powerful system:

*ViralURL helps you protect your commissions
*ViralURL helps you drive traffic
*ViralURL helps you build mailing lists
*ViralURL helps you track statistics
*ViralURL helps you earn ad credits

After using the system extensively I cannot find any negative aspect associated with ViralURL. I recommend visiting the website, signing up for a free account, cloak a few affiliate links and share a few article links on your social media sites and then review the statistics to see the number of clicks you receive and fully understand how easy this system is to use.

You can get all detailed information about the program from the site www.ViralURL.com . There, you can find several unsolicited testimonials from various users of ViralURL. So if you want to protect your business and see your earnings grow, try ViralURL.

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Whenever I visit with a new prospect for my business I always start with a simple question, why do you want to create a business of your own? As you can imagine the answers vary and include everything from money to deeply felt long held visions of how the person wants to conduct their lives. You might be surprised that the answer does not always center around money.

I have found that the people who have success in life have a passion, and people who have the most success in life have greater passion or a number of things they are passionate about. It only take one aspect in life to make a decision that will move you to live in an exceptional way, to accomplish greatness. I came across this video clip from the move “Braveheart” starring Mel Gibson portraying William Wallace, a very passionate character. Watch this video and think answer these questions for yourself; what are you passionate about and what are you willing to risk?

If you can answer the question “why” and would like to learn “how” feel free to contact me, I have a few special gifts for you. If you cannot answer the question “why” and would like to discover your passion, contact me and I have a few tools to share with you.

I am here to help you succeed!

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