How To Market Your Business On Autopilot
February 5, 2010 by Ben Janke
Filed under Social Marketing

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One of the upcoming trends of Internet marketing is viral marketing. Viral marketing is a type of social marketing that is allows your website visitors or customers to spread the word about your products and services easily and quickly.
They can refer their friends using Twitter, Facebook, or any of the other social networking sites, but what if you want to allow them to invite people without having to use Twitter or Facebook? What if you could just have them click a few buttons and invite their entire contact list? How do you think that Facebook and twitter have grown so quickly? The incorporate the same method of a type of tell a friend.
When you give you quick review of a product that I have used called Viral Inviter. It is a script that allows your website viewers to invite their friends and receive gifts and bonuses by doing so. No one really will share information with their friends about you or your services unless they have an incentive to do so. Either your content has to be very very good, or they have to receive something in return for spreading the word about you.
I tried viral inviter about a year and a half ago and found it very hard to use. I use WordPress a lot and didn’t find it very user-friendly, but they have recently made some very important updates to the scripts that allow easy installation and customization of the viral inviter script.
If you’re serious about getting more traffic, leads, and sales from your website, I think you get like this.
Watch this video shows you how the script works.

Blogging On Wordpress From Android Devices
February 2, 2010 by Ben Janke
Filed under BenJanke.com Contributors

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Wordpress just announced that they are launching some functionality to Android 1.0. You can get it now on the android marketplace. Since you can do a lot of other things from android, you might as well be able to blog on your WordPress blog.
This’ll make it a lot easier to not only blog on your site when you’re on the run, let’s respond to comments and make updates to your blog when you’re away from your desk.
Check out this WordPress blogging with android video demo
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How To Turn Wordpress Into A Membership Site
January 19, 2010 by Ben Janke
Filed under Wordpress Plugins
How do I turn WordPress into a membership site?
There is no doubt that WordPress is a very functional and flexible way to bring your business online or market other other people’s products online.
About two years ago, I decided that I wanted to turn one of my websites into a membership site. There’s quite a few different ways to do it and I researched a ton of different scripts that allowed the interaction of WordPress and their particular membership script. There was amember, membergate, memberwing, and a couple other ones that I looked into. After a lot of research I decided to go with amember.
So, I installed the script, bought the extra plug-ins to integrate with WordPress, and got it all put together. Now it’s time to test it. After hours and hours of testing in trying to manage the scripts and getting very frustrated, I gave up. Maybe I just wasn’t meant to have a membership website.
About one year later, I got an e-mail about WishList Member. I was pumped because WishList member integrates directly into WordPress via a WordPress plug-in. Now I didn’t have to worry about separate scripts and trying to integrate with WordPress because this membership plug-in made it so simple. I had all set up and figured out within about two hours instead of two weeks. There was also some great video tutorials on how to get set up.
Now it was time to put to the test. I set up a member only site that only allowed people to view the site if they were signed up as a free member, and they had the opportunity to upgrade to a premium membership. I did some YouTube videos to drive traffic to my membership site. No matter which page they landed on, they were redirected to my sign-up page. All with one click of a button.
To my surprise, I was able to drive 4000 people to my site one day, and one out of four signed up as a member. So, in one day I had 1000 members using the WishList member plug-in. Not that success in quick fashion.
I also set up to integrate automatically with aWeber to deliver my emails. If you are looking for a way to make wordpress a membership site, make sure to check out the Wishlist Member plugin.
Wordpress Training Resources
Wordpress is just a great tool overall. It has millions of users all over the world. The best part is that it is always evolving with technology and changes in the internet world. If you really want to start to build your business online, wordpress is a great way to go.
Here is a good blog post from wordpresstraining.com that I think you will like about how to use wordpress and how to learn more about it.
My next batch of WordPress training videos is currently in the planning stages. To be honest, I’ve been hesitant to put a lot of effort into producing a bunch of new videos with the WordPress 2.5 release just days away.
In the meantime, I wanted to take a moment to point out a few other WordPress resources that some of you might find useful:
- The WordPress Training Group on Facebook: The official Facebook group for this website. The group currently has well over 400 members and the discussion forum is turning into an valuable support resource. If you’re on Facebook, be please join us.
- Lessons for WordPress Beginners: A set of lessons designed to help the WordPress newbies get up to speed quickly. The lessons are part of the official WordPress Codex. While the Codex tends to be somewhat technical, these lessons are clearly for beginners.
- WordPress University: Ben Cope’s new site promises to be a valuable collection of WordPress training videos. Ben covers a couple of topics not covered on this site, including inserting YouTube videos to your WordPress post, and installing up WordPress on a GoDaddy account.
- iTheme’s Free WordPress Tutorials: Another collection of free WordPress videos that overlaps somewhat with the videos provided on this site. A few videos deal with issues I haven’t gotten around to yet, like setting up FeedBurner and installing Google Analytics.
- Free eBook – How to develop money making niche sites with WordPress: Based on the early results of our WordPress training survey, it appears that quite a few of you are using WordPress with the goal of making money online. If this describes you, you’ll definitely want to check out Caroline Middlebrook’s free eBook. Even if you’re not hoping to get rich with WordPress, Caroline’s book offers pretty good documentation on setting up WordPress with Fantastico.
And finally, If you haven’t done so already, please take a moment to complete our WordPress training survey. Your feedback will help determine the focus of our future training videos.
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Buidling My Own Website Is Fun
October 12, 2009 by Ben Janke
Filed under BenJanke.com Contributors
Create blog website was nothing new for me. You see, I have been involved in the Internet since long time ago. Today, you can keep touch with friends via webpage and putting up post. Blogging is a small task after all. For better or for worse, I was creating my own webpage before I could write a decent sentence. And, none of my own websites were particularly technologically sophisticated – something that got me into trouble.
When I decided on creating my own business website to make money at home online, I thought there would be nothing to it. In theory, I knew it would be more complicated than creating my own website had been in the past. Most of my sites are simple and straight forward. Sure, people could post responses to some of my blogs and vote in online polls, but that was about it. It is easy and does not require any technical background to begin with. Based on this, I thought I could create a business website without any problem. Well, how difficult can it be? It turn out that the process is very difficult! Well, making my own website for my business was one of the stupidest things that I have ever tried to do.
At first, it seemed easy. I decided that I would start off with the things I knew and then learn the things I didn’t know how to do as I got to them. I knew the fundamental such as design layout, how to make some good content, and how to organize menus. Then I tried to do fancy things and it starts to collapse. The lesson lernt here is that you must be prepared and stick to the basic. Getting fancy about things may turn out to be not so good an idea.
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Create A Blog Now And Join In The Online World
October 12, 2009 by Ben Janke
Filed under BenJanke.com Contributors
It was a few years ago that I first decided to create a blog to learn how to how to make money from home using websites. Back then, I use the blog mainly to keep up with friends. After all, in our this generation of internet, you practically have to have a blog if you want to have any chance of keeping in touch with anyone. The fast pace of the way information moves has make letters and phone calls quickly becoming more inefficient. Even e-mails are starting to go that way – at least from the perspective of keeping up with you friends.
Creating a blog has many advantages over these other forms of traditional communication. One of the biggest ones is that if you have some news to announce, you can give it to everyone at once. The blog once created, enable you to not repeat the same thing over and over again to people. Everyone can read it themselve at their own time.
People have online identity for various reasons.Right now, the most popular reason for any to go online is social networking.But, there are some focus on very specific reason.This can be due to the reasons that some people like niche topic.Such blogs could be talking about politics,entertainment,music etc.
Even there is nothing to write about, you can still have a post on your blog just to keep the community warm. This can help you to be on par with what is going on in the world.Be a blogger yourself and that is the best way.You can communicate with other bloggers and exchange information this way. You can also learn how to make money on blogging with internet marketing affiliate program
Wordpress Dream Theme
If you have ever tried to use a wordpress theme for your website, you will probably understand how complicated it really can be to install and customize. I have tried about 20-25 themes in my days. I also researched like crazy to find one that looked great, and was easy for me to customize.
After all of my searching, I ended up using the Revolution 2 theme (Church). I went with it because it looks like an actual website rather than just a blog. You can use it for your entire CMS or just for a typical blog. It is great and has a forum and support site to help you with any customizing you need to do.
I recently did some testing of the Wordpress Dream Theme. I was blown away with the great functionality of the theme and how dynamic it really was. Instead of having to hunt down plugins that might or might not work, this theme has a lot of them built right in to help you get off to a quicker start.
It has built in SEO features, feedburner support, widget ready, custom theme pages built in, thumbnails for each post, footer images, and best of all, and great support system to help you along the way. I have tried a ton of different themes that had no support to help you customize them. Unless you are an html, css, php expert, this is going to be a must have. Many of the free themes are especially hard to customize or figure out how you can make it your own look.
See the demo here of the Wordpress Dream Theme. If you have used any other wordpress themes that you like, make sure to leave a comment below and let us know what you like. Especially if you have used the Dream Theme or Revolution 2 themes.
Online Business Marketing: Step 2
August 3, 2009 by Ben Janke
Filed under BenJanke.com Breaking News
Pretty much every business is starting to move some of their emphasis to online marketing. The great thing for you is that a very high percentage of them are not doing it right.
Making money online can be done with any business and the first step starts with installing wordpress and getting your domain name. This will work for ANY type of business from real estate and mortgage to traditional business like plumbers and landscapers, to affiliate marketing.
Go here to buy a domain name
Go here to buy hosting
Go here to buy a revolution 2 wordpress theme (church)
Affiliate Marketing Using Wordpress
August 1, 2009 by Ben Janke
Filed under BenJanke.com Breaking News
One great thing about WordPress is the fact that it’s free. You have nothing upfront other than your hosting costs. This is great for people just getting started, but don’t be fooled, WordPress is very powerful and can take your business from zero to hero in a short amount of time. With WordPress.org files you do need to get a hosting service and also a domain name. So a domain name may cost you about $10 per year, and your hosting is very cheap at only about five dollars per month. Not bad for Internet business.
Make sure that you go to WordPress.org to download your files and not WordPress.com. WordPress.com is not hosted by you, therefore you have a lot less control over what you do with the program. With WordPress.org, you have complete control over your content.
The best thing about WordPress that I like, is the fact that it is open source. That means that it is driven and grown by the members and developers who use it. Is there something the one done or automated, you can typically get someone to build a plug-in for you.
As your blog gets bigger and bigger, you may have to move to a dedicated server which will cost a little bit more per month. Still a pretty small price to pay for so much potential.
WordPress.org keeps you from having to worry about what is allowed and what’s not allowed. Because it’s on your own server, you have unlimited potential and reign over what you put on your webpages. WordPress.com does not allow many things that you want to do.
In addition to WordPress there are other valuable resources that you can use for your affiliate marketing. Hub pages, Squidoo, ezinearticles.com are just a few of the tools that you have your disposal when you are actually marketing. These are great for getting traffic to your personal blog and also getting back links.
If you don’t want to be disappointed with your internet business, get started with WordPress right away. Here is what I recommend to help you get started with wordpress. This is my favorite plugin for wordpress that helps me make a wordpress membership site.






