Yes, I’m guilty. I have not written a blog post in a long time as we have been furiously working on the next version of Backlink Booster and this has absorbed pretty much all of my time recently.

However, I just got an e-mail from our friends over at Operation Gratitude and as you know we are big supporters of this charity that sends much needed care packages to our brave men and women in uniform.

We even had a product called Operation Cash Tornado which donated 50% of the profits to this excellent charity that supports our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Well here’s the thing, Pepsi is running a competition and is donating cash prizes to worthy “Great Ideas.” Operation Gratitude is taking part in this competition and trying to secure funding to get more care packages over to our troops. Only the top 10 ideas voted on get this cash prize and currently Operation Gratitude is number five!

However, they have an anonymous donor called Secret Admirer who is willing to top the cash prize if they secure the fourth place or better (which also gives them an extra bonus from Pepsi).

Today, I am going to share with you a technique that is every powerful indeed and one I don’t hear a lot of people talk about. Now you may have heard of this phrase before, but it is true “the money is in the list”.

However, for many people, creating a mailing list seems to be difficult. Well, not anymore. I am going to show you a very clever technique that you can use today to start building a very powerful e-mail list without designing a website or doing anything complicated at all.

The strategy has helped me build many powerful e-mail lists that I can continuously market products to. Also, what we can do is leverage other people’s lists and websites to generate our leads with minimal effort. Not only that, we can also make a ton of extra money by doing so.

How busy are you? Do you get overwhelmed with your day-to-day tasks in your business? We have all been there, especially in the small business world where we need extra hands, but don’t want to take on extra staff to cover the extra workload.

Sometimes you have small projects or tasks that you would be better off having someone else performing that you don’t want to do yourself so you don’t take time away from you from your main focus, which is making money. In cases like these outsourcing projects is a very real option.

In this article I’m going to share some very powerful tips to help you avoid the pitfalls of using an outsourcer as well as how you can get the most bang for your buck and save a lot of time and effort that can rob you of your profits.

I just noticed I have not updated this blog for a while, as I’ve been very busy with other projects and upcoming products. Don’t worry, that is going to change as we have a lot of new stuff for you here at TheManicMarketer.com.

However, after a phone call with a client today, I want to share some of the advice with you that I gave to him for small business promotion.

He has a small business and has just created his first website. Now, his website looks absolutely phenomenal and he spent a lot of money on development. His website looks as good as any professional website out there and he has listened to a lot of my advice over time about search engine optimization and how to target certain keywords.

What he needed, on a limited budget, was a way to drive targeted traffic to his website in his specific niche. So I suggested he look at article marketing as a great way to target certain keywords and use these articles as lead generators for his business.

Given the vastness of the world wide web and the infinite number of web pages, it is easy to see the importance of ranking high on search engine return pages (SERPs). In an ideal world, the best webpage which contains a wealth of accurate content, helpful links and nice pictures to boot would be at the top.

However, the world of the web is less than ideal. Many businesses will, happily, pay large sums of money to SEO experts expecting a high ranking. If the business is able to keep the competitors at bay and the return on investment (ROI) is large enough, then the price is justified, and rightly so.

But, what about the smaller businesses; the ones that are unable to pay for their own SEO experts? Can there really be such a thing as search engine optimization for dummies? By the way, that is just a term; no offense intended!

Happy Thanksgiving To You All!

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This is the ultimate wordpress ping list for pinging your site when ever you make a post on your blog or when you want to get your page indexed worldwide. It is a fact that pinging your page is one of the fastest ways to get your page indexed by the big 3 search engines Google, Bing and Yahoo.

Pinging is a basic process that notifies blog search engines that you have made an update to your site and lets everyone who may be looking for information related to the topics you target find you easily.

For the most part, people use Pingomatic.com which let's several services know that you have made an update, but as many of you know... I like to take things to the next level. So I compiled a list of over 100+ ping sites and places that you can notify when you make an update to your site.

As some of you know, I am a huge supporter of the military and our brave troops who are currently serving overseas. Also, as many of you know we recently launched “Operation Cash Tornado” that donated 50% of all profits to the troops and showed you three very powerful ways you can make $100/Day or more.

This product did not have a huge build up, or pre-launch, or any JVs at all. That being said, I am pleased to announce that we just donated the first chunk of cold hard cash to our brave troops and I cannot thank you enough for your help!

I haven't posted anything in a long time on the blog here as I have been working on some of my new projects, which has really eaten away at my free time here. However, today I came up with something pretty cool that I wanted to share with you all. What we just put together is a very cool little tool that allows you to ping any page you are on straight to Ping-O-Matic without having to actually go to that site and enter any of the details. All you do is press a button on your browser and BOOM ... it's pinged!

For many marketers I am sure your eyeballs are popping out of your skulls thinking "Wow, that would be so useful!" and there may be others going "Huh? What does that do for me?" Well, for the latter crowd, let me explain why this is so powerful.When you are link building for your website or you have just created a new page and you want to get it indexed almost instantly by Google, MSN and Yahoo, then pinging your page to the blog search engines is one of the fastest ways to get the job done.

Well it’s has been an incredible few week’s and I have been slacking off from posting on the blog. We have been working on a brand-new product launch with some of the top names in Internet marketing industry. Suffice to say, we are all very excited here and have been running around like crazy trying to get all of our ducks in a row and get everything ready for launch day.

As we work through our launch cycle and getting everything ready it reminded me of a small story from many years ago I wanted to share with you. I started off as an entrepreneur at the age of 10. Yes, I know that’s young but we all have to start somewhere.