Blog networks can become an invaluable tool within your marketing arsenal, and provide you with a much greater promotional reach. If you’re wondering, a blog network is a collection of sites that you (or your company) own and manage. These sites are generally about slightly similar topics that overlap, but by no means have to be. This makes it easier to combine and leverage the traffic from all sites into a single purpose.

For example, you can create a blog network that contains multiple sites, each with different subjects such as golfing tips, golf holidays and travel, golf clothing and equipment, celebrity and pro-tournament golf, and so on. Each site is obviously centered around golf, but different enough to have their own readership, keywords, and require different searches to find. Now instead of only having one simple blog with one set of targeted keywords, you have multiple blogs, and are spread out amongst the search engines more, making it much easier for golf enthusiasts to find you.

This provides you with great benefits, including a much larger overall readership, your readership (and hopefully mailing list) is organized so you know who came for golf holidays, and who came for golf equipment. You can then easily present each segment with products and services that may benefit them, plus advertise your other golf sites and easily cross sell products to your entire readership.

Generally it’s a pain to setup a blog network. You have to:

• get the domains and hosting in place,
• install WordPress on each domain,
• configure WordPress as needed, then of course,
• manage and add content to each site.

This can be a time consuming task, but a newer software system on the market called xMarkPro relieves a great deal of the pain involved. xMarkPro allows you to easily create and manage a blog network, or even multiple blog networks. xMarkPro is an excellent WordPress Manager.

Using the domain manager, by completing a small form within seconds you can have a new domain created, with WordPress installed and configured with the desired themes, plugins, settings, pages, posts, and more. Plus it allows you to easily centralize management of all your domains, including one-click login to your WordPress dashboards, automated upgrades of WordPress and plugins, plus a great deal more.

Not only does xMarkPro handle domain and WordPress management beautifully, it also provides professional management of campaigns, link tracking, split testing, traffic & sales statistics, plus more. With all traffic being automatically tracked via Piwik (a world leader in open-source traffic analytics software), plus the ability to automatically download commission and sales data from all programs you promote, you will receive unparalleled statistics regarding your online operation.

With the high quality analytics available, you can view detailed information regarding your overall network, plus broken down by domain, page, country, campaign, link code, and others. You can view statistics such as raw & unique views, bounce rate, clicks, joins, sales, refunds, commission earned, and much more.

Now only that, xMarkPro provides both graphical and tabular statistics, which are packed with AJAX functionality allowing you to instantly view the exact statistics you want, without waiting for your browser to reload. Nothing beats is, as you can easy pinpoint the strong and weak areas within your operation.

In conclusion, setting up your own blog network has a substantial number of benefits.

• Greatly increase your exposure and readership volume,
• gain placement for more keywords within search engines,
• have a great deal of extra advertising space,
• cross sell your readership to your other sites, plus many more.

Setting up and managing your own blog network can be an arduous task, but the folks at xMarkPro has definitely made is much less of a hassle.

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Elmar Sandyck

This is the last part of a three-part series on Synnd™.

In my previous posts on Synnd™, I talked about the overview and an introduction to Synnd™ the software.

To continue, Synnd™ as a software has several modules that can help us automate our marketing tasks.

It could help us promote our websites through any of the following:

• Bookmarking
• Social News (Voting)
• Twitter
• Article Syndication
• Blog Commenting

We all know how doing these marketing tasks in these various platforms can be very tedious and time-consuming so if you want to maximize productivity and efficiency, which eventually translates to effectiveness, Synnd™ could just be the tool that could really address your online marketing needs.

But, more than just a software or a tool that you can use to promote your marketing tasks for you, Synnd™ is actually a community of members that likewise helps promote one another’s content or website.

And so you ask?

What’s In It For Me, A Synnd™ Member, If I Do That?

Remember the concept of Pay It Forward?

In a previous blog I wrote, I talked about how a random act of kindness roller balls into several acts of kindness and before you know it, whatever kindness you have shown to others have doubled and likewise benefited you.

This is pretty much the same concept in Synnd™.

Synnd™ members help promote each other in order to earn credits.

And when we talk of credits in Synnd™, we are talking about anything but monetary.

We are talking about bookmarks, votes, comments, saves, bumps, Diggs, Re-tweets, article submissions, and a whole lot more of promotions, which really help drive traffic to your website!

Indeed, there is great power in numbers! Pretty much like the I-do-this-for-you;-you-do-this-for-me situation. And if we’re all in this together, Synnd™ members all, then we are truly a force to reckon with.

And here’s the catch, you don’t even have to manually do everything yourself.

Yup.

Welcome to the Wonderful World of the Synnd™ Remote Automator.

When you log in to Synnd™, all you have to do is select the marketing tasks that you want, including checking the desired actions you want the remote automator to perform on behalf of another member. As simple as that.

In a sense, what Synnd™ does is just making your life less complicated without shortchanging what you offer to your readers and followers. With these tasks out of the way, you can focus on the more important ones, especially coming up with the best content possible.

What Do You Think of Synnd?

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Elmar Sandyck

This is the second part of a three-part series on Synnd™.

When I said in the previous post that we should go back to Mario Puzo’s “The Godfather” series to jumpstart our discussion on Synnd™, I am not implying or inferring that being part of the Synnd™ syndicate is akin to being a member of the Sicilian mafia.

Hardly! It was just a perfect excuse for me to talk about a cult movie among the gentlemen.

Godfather or no godfather, let’s now dissect Synnd™ the tool.

What Does Synnd™ Really Do That We Mere Mortals Could Not?

There Are Actually A Number Of Ways And Let’s Get Down To It One by One:

#1. Leverage

Mere mortals cannot run a campaign like the Synnd™ network does. The Synnd™ network operates 800+ computers stationed around the world, 18,000+ social media accounts, 800+ IP addresses and an army of 800+ outsourced workers! Imagine that. Or, better yet! How can you top that?!

#2. Automation

It’s like being the Minister of Defense; with one top command, everything works automatically to promote your campaign tasks to hundreds of Synnd™ members’ computers and Internet connections. Retweeting, bookmarking, commenting are automatically done for you and for each action, a commensurate reaction and all is then being referred to your posted content.

#3. Promotion

Your wish is Synnd’s command! It can promote any content posted as long as it directs back to a URL.

#4. Traffic

We all know the importance of website traffic. In my previous posts, we have outlined its significance especially when we are talking about search engines. Synnd™ facilitates traffic to your site with no sweat on your part.

#5. Visibility

Antoine Saint-Exupery in his book “The Little Prince” said that what is essential is invisible to the eye. Well, not online! What you want to achieve is to be like a social butterfly or a bee that creates buzzes with every bookmarking of your content in various networks. And Synnd™ does this on auto-pilot!

#6. Search Engine Rankings

It goes without saying that if you make a buzz about town, then you are one popular guy! And Google and other search engines notice!

#7. Viral Spread of Content

When you buzz and you’re popular, then it just spreads and spreads and pretty soon your content is all over the worldwide web!

#8. Social Proof

And it never ends! Retweets retweeted, bookmarks bookmarked, comments commented, and so on and so forth! It’s a social proof that your content is relevant and significant.

In my last post, we will talk about Synnd™ as a community of members.

So, Are You Creating The Buzz That You Wish?

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Elmar Sandyck

This is the first part of a three-part series blogposts on Synnd™.

To have a better understanding of Synnd™, let’s go back to Mario Puzo’s “The Godfather.”

“Welcome my friend.
Are you ready for today?
Because today will set a course for all our futures.”

– Michael Corleone

“The Godfather” series spawned a cult following that are enamored with the lives of the Mafia even until today. So many movies have already been made about the Mafia but “The Godfather” series has remained to be the Mafia movie. This fascination with all things Mafia is likewise a fascination with all things related to how syndicates operate.

According to the dictionary, a syndicate is a combination of individuals or commercial firms to promote some common interest.

What Is This Common Interest?

It’s not hard to identify that the common interest of Corleone’s lot is power. With power comes control of the cartel, getting the bigger chunk of the money, and instilling fear among the group.

Taking it from a different perspective, however, and translated to our own MLM language, a syndicate could be a good thing because you are in a network of people who have a shared common interest where everyone is helping out in promoting it (assuming that your shared common interest is not to propagate organized crime!).

Technology has evolved so fast in this decade that we have seen the rise of the Google nation and the Facebook and Twitter phenomena. The Internet landscape has changed and the scenarios that we have been accustomed to before are no longer there.

In promoting our articles, for example, we need to do the following in order to gain ground and get the maximum benefits of promoting our content:

• Maintain thousands of social media accounts worldwide
• Rotate IP addresses across hundred different IP addresses from around the globe
• Work non-stop
• Employ hundreds of employees to make real votes and blog comments
• Totally skip sleeping

Much as we want to, we just can’t do this alone.

• We need a group.
• We need a team.
• We need a syndicate, if you will.
• We need something to automate these marketing chores for us.

We need Synnd™.

In the next two posts, you will learn more about Synnd™ the software and the community of Synnd™ members.

Are You Part Of Synnd™?

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To Your Success,

Elmar Sandyck

Are you using Twitter For Marketing?

Each online marketer who finds himself respectable or who is online for several months has a Twitter account nowadays; there’s no question about that.

But are they all using Twitter to its maximum potential AND, more important are they all at least using it THE RIGHT WAY?

Hmmm…. I don’t think so!

To be honest with you, when I first learned about Twitter, about two years ago, I didn’t see it’s potential; I even didn’t like it that much. It was a queer thing for me to send a short 140 character message multiple times a day to tell people what I had been up to. So I didn’t use it that much at first… and I certainly did not use it the right way…

Another “problem” I had was that the number of followers started growing, so it was impossible to keep up with the endless flow of messages from all the other people.

To cut it short, I did not see Twitters potential and I did not know how to use it in a practical way without spending hours and hours on it…

Maybe you feel or felt the same way, and I understand it exactly

But since I’ve understood how it works, I’m sharing with you some ideas and some useful Twitter applications that’ll make your Twitter experience such a pleasurable one and maybe most important will give you a way of using Twitter for marketing (without spamming other peoples accounts!)

You can use these resources to make your Twitter experience more productive and a great leverage of your time.

CAUTION !!! “When you read further from this point, you might end up being a Twitter Addict… So take it easy and brace yourself.”

Okay, since you’re willing to take the risk, read the overview for 10 Useful Twitter Applications:

• SocialOomph (used to be www.TweetLater.com) – Personally I use this to send automated Twitter welcome messages to new followers. There are many more things you can get from SocialOomph, check out the site for it.There are some bozos who use this tool to spam by sending their affiliate links on the welcome message. Don’t be one of them!! This is totally useless AND it will surely ruin your reputation.

→ “Remember with Twitter or any social networking site, you are creating relationships more than anything, so don’t ever spam!”

• TweetDeck – This cool tool makes it super easy for you to follow people you are interested in. This allows you to group people which makes their messages organized and easy for you to read along.
  They say TweetDeck is like the air traffic control for Twitter. With this great tool, you can connect with Facebook and MySpace friends through status updates, video and photo posts, comments, or voting and following your friends as they are placed in columns, to keep track of what they are doing.
  There is a similar service to TweetDeck, named HootSuite. The advantage of this service is that it is completely webbased.
  Find more about it on my post about HootSuite!

• Twellow is Twitter’s yellow pages directory, one of the useful Twitter applications you’ll surely love. This is the directory of Twitter accounts with hundreds of categories and advanced search features to find those people who really matter.
  There are many things you can do with Twellow. You can update your Twellow profile and categories as well as add links to your social media profiles. You can also come up with extended bio profiles and add all the links you want. It’s never too hard to follow anyone you are interested in with Twellow and the best part is that it also comes with free registration.

• Twollo is a keyword-based tool that automates the process of getting more targeted Twitter followers than you can possibly imagine. A very useful application that you can setup and forget. Once it’s set up it keeps running and working in the background without you lifting a finger.

• BubbleTweet is the cool tool that allows you to drop little friendly video notes to your Twitter followers, making it easier for you to have as many followers as you want with a Video Bubble Tweet.

• TwitterFriendAdder – This tool is very helpful in targeting specific followers. This allows you to easily remove and add Twitter followers as you want.
  There are other tools that can do this but if you want to do it fast and easy, you can get TwitterFriendAdder. This tool saves you a lot of time, you can find more information on this page.

• Twitter Karma – This is another tool that lets you remove and add followers. It’s one of the useful Twitter applications that are free but there’s a limitation to it. When you start having many Twitter followers, it takes a very, very long time to do so…

• TwitPic - This cool tool allows you to share your pictures on Twitter. Very cool!

• TwitterCounter – This highly informative tool let’s you know at a glance the number of followers, friends, and number of updates. This would truly help you in comparing one account with another.

• TwitterGrader – This great tool helps you gauge the power of your Twittering. With this tool, you can check on the power leveraged by your Twitter profile. It also includes the number of followers, these followers’ power, and the level to which you engage in a community.

This is merely an overview of some very useful Twitter applications I personally use. As said before these tools will help you a lot when you are using twitter for marketing.

This list is not all there is to it, there are much more twitter applications out there, but these 10 applications are very good and practical.

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Elmar Sandyck