YouTube offers a free and convenient video platform, for anyone to use. What a great opportunity for the frugal online marketer, right?

Wrong.

There are certain uses for YouTube, but it also comes with substantial risk. In fact, there are some kinds of videos that absolutely don’t belong on YouTube, under any circumstances and if you run an online business, you need to know about this.

Read on to learn about the risks of using YouTube and discover exactly what kinds of videos do and don’t belong on YouTube.

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If you’re subscribed to many online marketing related newsletters, you’ll notice that they tend to do an awful lot of promotions (a.k.a. product pushing). And if you’re subscribed to mine, you might notice that usually don’t do a lot of that kind of thing, at all.

Most people don’t like being “salesy” and pushing products on people. Ideally, we could run a business that makes us a lot of money, without having to promote stuff all the time. And that’s exactly what I’m doing with IM Impact.

How can you promote stuff and make money, without being salesy? Read on to find out!

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In this post, you can watch the replay of our website clinic webinar, where we showed live examples of how to improve websites to make them better and more profitable.

In addition, you’ll also discover the easiest ways to replicate the tests we utilized during the webinar and you’ll find a list of all the sites and resources we mentioned during the call.

Read on to get everything you need, to start making more sales from your site as well.

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Would you like your site to generate more income, but don’t know how to make that happen? Are you unsure about what direction your site design should take? Do you hear a lot about “usability” and “engagement”, but lack a concrete guide for what to actually do about these things?

If so, this post is for you.

Read on to find out the only two factors that truly matter for your website’s performance and profitability.

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Today, I have a pretty special invitation for you.

This coming Saturday, I’m going to do a live webinar unlike any I’ve ever tried before. You’ll get a unique chance to get help with creating better websites, getting more traffic, getting better conversion rates and more.

Watch the video below to see what the webinar will be about.

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Cashvertising (or Ca$hvertising) is a book written by Drew Eric Whitman. With its roots in offline and print media advertising and with a strong emphasis on copywriting, is this book any good for purist online marketers?

Watch this short video review to see exactly what you can get out of Cashvertising, as an online marketer.

Discover its strengths and its weaknesses and see a new kindle in action!

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Most stats we see when we look at our website analytics are just “vanity stats”. They elicit an emotional response and we can even get addicted to logging in to check our stats, and seeing another slight improvement in traffic or some other positive signal.

But beyond that, how much use do we actually get from checking our stats? How often is it a real, useful business tool and how often is it just another distraction?

I was using analytics the wrong way for years and you’ve probably done the same. In this post, let’s kick our bad habits and look at how to use analytics to actually improve your online business.

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