Damn I meant to put this up sooner but just plain forgot.

If you don’t already have SpeedPPC in your PPC marketing arsenal, here’s your chance to get it for almost half price:

www.speedppc.com/sneaky

They’re running a really short term special deal, I believe as of now there are just a few hours left. Go check it out and give them some feedback on their new site, and grab SpeedPPC version 4 before it’s really had it’s public launch.

Enjoy!

Jonathan

Just got this email from Yahoo… mighty interesting things appear to be brewing. I wonder what it will all mean!

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Dear Advertiser,

Yahoo! and Microsoft have now received regulatory clearance to form a search alliance. This is a significant milestone and an exciting first step in our combined effort to help you reach even more customers with greater ease and efficiency.

What’s Ahead

There will be no immediate changes to your Yahoo! Search Marketing account. Both companies are committed to making this transition as seamless and beneficial to you as possible. Our aim is a high quality transition of advertisers and partners in at least the U.S. prior to the 2010 holiday season. However, we may wait until 2011 if we determine this will be more effective. Approximately three months in advance, we’ll begin providing you with detailed information about what to expect and how we will assist you.

How the Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance Will Benefit You

Once implemented, the Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance will enable you to:

Reach more customers.
• Reach up to 150 million searchers(1)9 and get approximately 62% more search volume(2) than on Yahoo! alone through a new, unified search marketplace combining the Yahoo! and Microsoft networks.
• To help drive future growth in search volume, Yahoo! will continue to significantly enhance the search experience on our leading web properties.

Save valuable time and effort.
• You’ll log into one place–Microsoft’s adCenter–to manage campaigns, for greater efficiency and a better ROI.
• With just one buy, you’ll reach users on Yahoo! and Microsoft sites, as well as other premium partner sites.

Benefit from rapid innovation.
• Yahoo! will deliver new features and innovations to the world’s favorite online destinations, content, and web products used by hundreds of millions of consumers to connect to the people and things that matter to them most.
• Microsoft will innovate the underlying technologies that drive high quality algorithmic and paid search results.

We appreciate your business and look forward to bringing the benefits of the Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance to you. In the meantime, please refer to the resources below:

Sincerely,

Your Partners at Yahoo!

1. comScore custom data, December 2009
2. comScore qSearch December, 2009

While my status as a huge twit is arguable, I’m definitely not a huge Twitter-er. I use it from time to time to search for stuff (http://search.twitter.com) and occasionally when I’m bored I tweet random things.

But frankly I’ve not really seen it as a straight forward money making machine, despite there being countless products for sale all swearing they’ll tell you the secrets to making fortunes on Twitter.

Quite often they seem to operate under the assumption that zillions of followers = zillions of dollars. Which is simply not true in and of itself. Getting a million followers and spamming them endlessly with your ads is not a terribly viable long term strategy, in my opinion.

But a couple weeks ago, one of my customers and reader of my Prepop Report, responded to an email I sent to my list, where I mentioned that I hadn’t really done very well at converting freebie seekers into conversions in my attempts at email affiliate marketing.

The short version of the conversation is that he’s developed a system to make money using Twitter.

Now automatically when I hear that, my eyes start to roll back in my head and my ears begin to tune out and my brain says “next!” and I’m ready to move on. But since this guy was already one of my customers and had actually implemented my Prepop techniques into his own product, he was clearly a notch or two smarter than most.

So, I listened to what he had to say. And frankly, I was impressed.

He’s actually built an entire automated back end system that makes money on Twitter NOT by building a gazillion followers and spamming them to death, but by letting people find HIM since he provides relevant content to exactly whatever they are looking for.

Now, using Twitter’s search function to get people to find your affiliate offers is also not a new concept.

But the way he’s done it, combined with the complete automated back end he’s built, made me take note.

So this is about the point where you expect me to say you should rush out and buy his eBook right? Well, not gonna happen. For two main reasons:

1) There is no eBook, it’s not an info product, it’s a complete do-it-for-you automated platform (oh and yes it does come with information step-by-step on what you need to do, to get it working for you. This does require work. Once. After that it’s auto pilot).

2) It’s not for sale. IT’S FREE.

In case you missed #2, here it is again:

THIS AUTOMATED SYSTEM TO MAKE MONEY ON TWITTER IS TOTALLY FREE.

And no it’s not just a ploy to get you to a One Time Offer page where he makes his money off of you, etc. etc.

I won’t spoil the entire model for you here but once you see inside, I think you’ll agree that it’s really pretty brilliant, even if all you do is follow his steps to make your little “ATM Machines” and don’t look any deeper.

I signed up and checked it out and while I haven’t had time to deploy it due to some personal issues right now, I think this is a really ingenious system, especially with the things I know he’s going to be adding to it.

And come on, who doesn’t love something that’s totally automated once you set it up? What could be better.

So anyway, check out Steven Jenkins’ free automated system that can help you figure out how to make money on twitter.

I think you’ll be glad you did!

Jonathan