Adventures in Internet Marketing

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If you read my blog last week, you’ll see that I chatted a bit about the new plugin I discovered thanks to my friend Wayne Lambert. The plugin is called Pretty Links and helps you to cloak links using your own domain name. Very cool.

Well, I have an update for you…

I was writing some articles recently for Ezine and other similar directories and realised that they wouldn’t accept these cloaked links, even though I’d made them pretty. Incidentally, when I say pretty, I don’t mean that I’ve covered them in flowers and patterns. I just mean that they now have look like this:

mydomainname.com/pretty-link

instead of like this:

bit.ly/random-collection-of-letters

So, although the plugin is awesome for blog and e-mail postings, it doesn’t work for article links. However, what does work very well is using domain names to cloak the links. Basically, you buy a domain name, then set it up to forward to your affiliate link. Whenever anyone clicks on it, it takes them straight to the affiliate promotion.

Now you may be thinking: ‘Yeah, but isn’t it more expensive to buy a domain name every time you want to cloak an affiliate link?’

Yes, of course it is, but there’s a very good ‘up side’ to doing it this way.

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OK, so I’ve made online sales before. But this one is special. This is the first time I’ve sent out an e-mail to my list on behalf of a JV (Joint Venture) partner and made a sale.

Super exciting! Look at my silly happy face! Incidentally, another first: I recorded this video on webcam straight to YouTube. Enjoy!

I had a lovely interview this morning with money expert and entrepreneur Judith Morgan.

And you, you lucky people, can listen to it again right now!

http://bit.ly/Interview-Replay

As I knew she would, Judith asked some great questions about the life of the internet marketer, particularly when it comes to the daily routine and discipline required to do it.

If you haven’t had a look at Judith’s site, I’d strongly recommend it. In the meantime, here’s the interview link:

http://bit.ly/Interview-Replay

Leave a comment below and let me know what you thought of the interview. Also, check out Judith’s site as she’s

As always, if there’s anything I can help you with, let me know and I’ll make a video or write a post about it.

Enjoy!

http://bit.ly/Interview-Replay

I’m pleased to re-announce (after a tech issue) that my rescheduled interview with Money-making guru Judith Morgan is on Blog Talk Radio tomorrow morning at 9am GMT.

You can see the site for the show and set a reminder for it here:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/judithmorgan/2010/02/15/adventures-in-internet-marketing-with-actor-matt-duggan

Please tweet and Facebook this using the buttons below or the ones on the site.

Also, please comment here if you do listen to the show.

Talk to you soon.

Many of you may have heard the name Tom Hua. He’s one of the internet marketing greats and is the co-founder (with Brett McFall) of the World Internet Summit.

This video has just been posted to their blog and I’d urge you to check out the site as it has a lot of great stuff on there. Brett’s ’10 Minutes To Save A Business’ exercise is particularly good.

You’ll find it at WorldInternetSummit.com and WorldInternetSummit.com/blog.

Here’s Tom:

We had a bit of a glitch on the interview this morning, where I had called in and the host, Judith Morgan couldn’t hear me. Cue a volley of expletives from me…

She could see me online but for whatever reason, the Blog Talk Radio site wouldn’t let us talk.

Thankfully, we’ve rescheduled it for Monday 15th February at 9am.

So, tune in then to hear Judith and I chatting about entrepreneurialism and the joys of internet marketing.