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Dec7
Automation tools
Filed under: Internet Marketing; Tagged as: affiliate marketing, automation tools, Internet Marketing, Network Marketing12 CommentsI get asked quite often about automation tools that I use so I decided to put it in writing so I can refer to this post when someone asks. I will keep the post updated as I change, add or remove tools. And I am going to be very honest about my opinions on the tools. I will list them alphabetically.
Amember – Amember is a membership management program for membership sites. Amember is one of the best out there. It is a bit complicated to get setup and working but once it is, it works really well. It can integrate with just about anything. It has a built in an affiliate program but in every case where I have used it I have integrated it with iDevAffiliate. Only because I use one central affiliate center as much as possible.
Animoto – Animoto can take still photos and turn them into awesome and incredible videos. When I need to throw together a quick video and do not feel like sitting down in front of final cut and editing a video this is where I go.
Article Video Robot – Like animoto, Article Video Robot creates videos for you. But Article Video Robot creates videos from your article content. It is not quite as simple as just pasting in your article but it is pretty easy. Expect to spend 5 to 10 minutes creating a video for each article. But when you are done you have your article in video format ready to be submitted to the video sites.
Aweber – Aweber is an email auto-responder service. Aweber is tied for my #1 choice along with getresponse. I have accounts both places and love them both. They each work a little differently but accomplish the same goal in the end. If you are looking for a good auto-responder I can definitely recommend Aweber.
Bookmark Generation – Bookmark Generation is a service that borders on the edge of being black hat. If you have ever heard of Howie Schwartz then you know he borders and crosses over into the black hat of marketing with some of his tools. That is just a warning. Bookmark Generation is an automated bookmarking tool where you provide the list of bookmarks and bookmark generation will bookmark them over a period of time so they look like they are being submitted naturally. Very powerful tool for creating back links.
Butterfly Marketing Script – When you purchase butterfly marketing from mike filsaime he gives you a membership script called the butterfly marketing script. If you are familliar with the concepts that are taught in butterfly marketing you understand how hard it is to manually do all the tasks. The butterfly marketing script makes it easy to manage. However, setup of the script is not so simple and could be overly difficult for a non experienced web person. It is an awesome script if you are web savvy. I have only one site using this script at current, I have been using Rapid Action Profits script more as it is easier to setup and does basically the same thing. But if you can get this script it is a good one.
Extreme Auto Responder – This is another auto-responder program like Aweber and GetResponse. I would not recommend using this service over the other 2 as it is not as advanced. I only use this auto-responder when I have an email list that I have not double opt’d-in. I import and send an email to a squeeze page to get them to opt-in. Very rare I ever actually use this one.
FirePow – I have over 150 blogs out there and FirePow is what manages them all. If you are blogging then you need to have FirePow. It can install a new blog in seconds, keep the blog software and plug-ins all updated. It can manage your posts, pages, etc. It can social bookmark your posts, it has a built in content creator called content blitz that can load up content automatically to be displayed from a number of sources. It has it’s own high PR blog network that allows you to promote your blog and a ton of other promotional tools and features as well. I cannot do it justice here. You really need to visit it and try it out. There is no way I could manage my large network of blogs without it.
GetResponse – GetResponse is another auto-responder service like Aweber. Both are tied for my #1. They both are great and I could not image doing without both of them. I use each for different parts of my business to help keep everything seperated. Hi can highly recommend GetResponse as an auto-responder service.
iDevAffiliate – iDevAffiliate is software that help me manage my affiliates. A number of the membership programs I use have built in affiliate management systems already but where I can I try to use iDevAffiliate. Why you may ask would I pay for one when I can get them for free in the other software. Well, many reasons but here are just a couple. 1) iDevAffiliate has awesome tools for both me and my affiliates. My affiliates can install a small client that keeps them up to date on thier sales. During a launch they can get play by play data. It has built in graphics, payment tracking, multiple levels, etc. 2) I like to centralize my affiliate program if possible so that an affiliate can sell any of the products without having to create multiple affiliate accounts.
Rapid Action Profits – Rapid Action Profits is a membership script that the best I can compare it to is the butterfly marketing script. It is a complete membership management script that has a built in affiliate program, multiple membership levels, special access for JV partners and so much more. Awesome script. It is complicated, or maybe I should say complex not complicated. It is easier to setup than the butterfly marketing script as well. Either this script of the butterfly marketing script will serve you well.
SENuke – This tool is at the center of my Web 2.0 marketing. SeENuke will create accounts on a large number of web 2.0 sites, store the password information, etc. After you create accounts you put your article in and spin it so that SENuke can generate a unique copy each time it needs to. It will then go login to web 2.0 sites like hubpages, google knol, etc. and post a new unique article into each one. After you finish posting to the web 2.0 sites (which takes a few minutes) you then post to the social bookmarking sites all automatically and then to the RSS directories. If you have a video it can post to a number of video sites as well. It turns a weeks worth of work in front of the computer into about an hour.
This is a tool that if I did not have, I would probably not still be marketing. It is worth it’s weight in gold. There is another similar product out there that comes from australia, I am not going to mention it by name but stay away from it. I tried it for 2 months and it did not work well, is complicated to use and does only a fraction of what SENuke does. Can you tell I really like this product?
Traffic Geyser – Traffic Geyser is a video submission service that submits your video to many video sites with just a couple of minutes of typing in of information. There is a similar site called tubemogul. But there is really no comarison. TubeMogul is free but does not do anything close to what Traffic Geyser does. I met mike recently at a conference and he was talking about some of what is coming in Traffic Geyser and it is truly amazing. It is no secret that video is what is working in Internet Marketing now and Traffic Geyser is what can make it work for you. If you go to the Traffic Geyser site there are some free videos you can watch to see what it can do for you.
TweetSpinner – TweetSpinner is another one of the twitter automation sites. There are a lot of free sites out there too. TweetSpinner is a paid memership but has some really cool features. I have a new product coming out soon that talks about using twitter and at the center is TweetSpinner as the tool to help dominate the twittershpere.
Unique Article Wizard – If you are an article marketer and have never heard of Unique Article Wizard you owe it to yourself to check it out. UAW is a service that respins your article before it posts it to each new article directory. But it is not your typical spinner that turns out something that is unreadable. It works completely differently because a human has to respin each paragraph 2 times. It then takes the different variations of paragraphs and makes unique articles out of each one. It can submit to thousands of article sites and will only submit to ones that fit your criteria so you are not post spam to article directories where your article does not fit. This eliminates the duplicate content penalty.
Wishlist Member – Wishlist Member is another membership management system. Wishlist Member work entirely within wordpress. Yes RAP that we discussed above can add members to wordpress but wordpress does not have a nice membership level control. Wishlist Member adds some awesome membership level controls including automatic advancement of levels based upon time. This is what I use for my Micro-Continuity Sites. When you sign up for micro-continuity you are entered in at week 1 and every week you get access to the next week. Wishlist member handles all of this completly hands off from me. It also integrates with amember and clickbank, paypal, 2checkout and more.
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