Reviews

Having worked on the net for several years, I'm fully aware of just how confusing it can be if you want to start working it commercially. There are so many products, often insanely hyped and reviewers frequently seem to be more interested in fleecing their customer than helping them find exactly what they're looking for.

Because of that, I'm only providing reviews of a few quality products that I honestly believe will benefit you, written and/or created by the leaders in their field, the cream of the crop. The reviews are actually spread throughout the Websites & Internet Marketing sections but I though a centralised page might come in handy as well. 

One interesting thing to note about these products is that few of them come with EXTRAS from other marketers, they're mostly stand-alone and that's because they're quality, they don't need to be hyped. You won't need all of them but bookmark this page, because as your needs grow, you might. 

Software & Scripts Reviews:

• Adsense Gold detailed stats about your Adsense earnings from Jonathan Leger. Adsense Gold will almost certainly point you to ways of increasing your Adsense income
• Amazon Hunter Software for discovering which Amazon products are being promoted by Google Adwords. It soesn't sound like much but you can reverse engineer the results to find exactly what Amazon products to promote for Affiliate &/or Niche Marketing
• Article Submitter FREE software from Brad Callen's Bryxen Software for distributing articles and gaining backlinks quickly, It's a massive timesaver with an upgrade available
• CB Accountant Rod Beckwith's excellent data and sales workstation for Clickbank sales
• CB Engine PRO Clickbank's stats presented in a form that makes deciding what to promote easy
• Directory Submitter like Article Submitter, FREE software from Brad Callen's Bryxen Software for getting backlinks, this time, from directories. Upgrade also available. 
• Get Response My choice of autoresponder
• Instant Article Wizard Brilliant reasearch tool from Jonathan Leger with very clever usage of RSS feeds etc. for keyword-rich phrases and sentences to build an articles with 
• Keyword Elite in my eyes, the best keyword research software on the planet, from Brad Callen's Bryxen Software
• Keyword Explosion Incredible database of Adwords keywords and top bids, essential for planning Adsense sites 
• Push Button Sales Letters The legendary Marlon Sanders' software based on his best-selling The Amazing Formula, that asks you all the right questions to create a killer sales letter
• SBI if you're new to site building, Ken Evoy's SBI is a magnificent Website Builder and coaching system which will hold your hand through the whole process of creating a website, SEO, site promotion...and making a profit. Excellent value for one or two sites
• SEO Elite SEO Elite was a huge seller in the past and is still a very effective reciprocal linking software from Brad Callen's Bryxen Software
• XSitePRO the sitebuilder that I use. Excellent value, sophisticated, reasonably simple to use and a very powerful tool if you intend to build a number of sites
• Wordtracker the keyword tool of choice for or many top SEOs

Books:

• Rosalind Gardner The Super Affiliate Handbook is an excellent intro to affiliate marketing and how Rosalind earned $436,000 in one year using pay-per-click advertising like Google Adwords. She earns a lot more now, telling folks how she did it!

• Perry Marshall. Urbane Perry Marshall is the biggest name in understanding Google Adwords globally. His The Definitive Guide To Google Adwords is a great, probably the best, intro to what is becoming the most powerful advertising system in the world

Mini book reviews

• Jim Edwards Turn Words Into Traffic The first How-To ebook about Article Marketing with everything you need to know about usin articles to promote your business  
• Karen Thackston  (see Article Marketing) Karen Thackston's Copywriting Course. Probably the best introduction to easy flowing copywriting that I've come across
• Karen Thackston  (see Keyword Research) Karen Thackston's Writing For SEO Course. Deceptively simple approach to writing keyword dense copy
• Stephen Pierce invterviewed by Patric Chan, Winning Your Niche. Audio interview with a real Niche Marketing heavyweight
• Antonio Thornton Turn Your Hobby Into Profits Surprisingly thorough intro to Niche Marketing with your hobby

Videos:

• Michael Cheney's Adsense Videos Excellent set of videos in which passionate Brit Michael Cheney holds your hand as he walks you through the Google Adsense jungle
• Email Promos Exposed Even the FREE version of Michael Rasmussen's superb set of videos about how to sell to your list is worth catching. Really excellent material

Membership Sites:

• Article Underground PLR site with excellent SEO backlinks & traffic generation techniques
• Adword Accelerator the easiest software to run Google Adwords campaigns with (server based)

Direct Marketing & Sales

• Marlon Sanders If you intend to sell anything on the web, you should learn from the very best...and in my opinion, there's only one person who can lay claim to that title. Marlon Sanders, the King of Direct Marketing