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Posted on June 25, 2010 - by Kelly Verge
Bring the Fresh – My Review (part 1)
Back around the beginning of June I was given the opportunity by Kelly Felix to review Bring the Fresh (Full Disclosure version). This is his latest project in which he has partnered with Mike Long.
Unfortunately I was sidetracked by a trip to Summer camp with the Boy Scouts, so I’m just now diving in.
I’d read some good things about the product, however, I really didn’t know any details before diving in. As I write this paragraph all I’ve done is scan the members’ area – I haven’t even read the sales page.
The volume of information within BTF is staggering. As an example, there are 48 videos, totaling more than 29 hours. Obviously it will take some time to go through this material.
The follow-ups to this post will give more details about the quality of the content.
I’ll follow along using the BTF methods and will show real results, where possible.
Finally, I’ll compare the information within the course to the sales page to determine if the product matches the sales copy.
Stay tuned…
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Posted on August 3, 2009 - by Kelly Verge
150+ Ways to Grab the Keyword-Rich Domain Name You Need
You’ve found the perfect niche.
Unfortunately, when you try to register a domain name, you find that the .com, .net, .info, .us, .biz domains are already claimed.
So you head to Squidoo, HubPages, Blogger and Wordpress, only to find that those domain names are claimed, too.
Since it’s very important to have your keyword phrase in your domain name, sometimes you have to get creative. Occasionally dashes between the words are all you need to try. Sometimes, however, you need a little more.
The list of prefixes and suffixes below can be combined with a keyword phrase to greatly expand the choices of available domains. For example, if your keyword phrase is “underwater baskets,” you might choose something like, “underwaterbasketssource.com.”
If your favorite domain combination is also taken, you can always add hyphens to the combination: underwater-baskets-source.com.
Here’s the list:
Prefix:
123
1st
a1-
all
best
buy
classic
cool
cyber
daily
direct
e
easy
ever
ez
fast
first
free
fresh
front
geo
get
giga
good
goto
grab
great
hit
hot
i
inter
mega
meta
metro
multi
my
neo
omni
pro
quick
retro
rush
saveon
simple
simply
sleek
smart
solo
super
techno
tera
the
think
top
ubi
ultra
urban
vip
you
Suffix:
2u
4u
123
247
360
411
a2z
access
advisor
alley
atoz
authority
base
bay
beat
blog
board
book
box
buzz
byte
cache
cafe
camp
cast
cave
center
central
channel
city
club
coach
coast
connection
county
country
cove
data
deals
depot
direct
discounts
dome
domination
dotcom (best with one-word niches)
experts
fever
flow
focus
fun
future
garden
guide
guru
heaven
home
house
hq
hub
info
informer
insider
insight
journal
lab
life
link
load
loophole
market
mart
nation
net
network
news
nexus
now
online
park
place
planet
point
portal
post
pro
promo
pulse
ratings
report
reporter
resources
revealed
review
reviewed
reviews
road
scout
secrets
share
sight
signs
site
source
specials
spot
station
steals
story
street
system
talk
tech
times
today
tools
town
tracker
trends
valley
village
ville
vine
voice
warehouse
watch
web
wire
wizard
world
zone
Finally, if you’d rather use an automated online tool to suggest your domain name combinations, try one of the following sites:
http://expert-marketer.com/cgi-bin/domains.cgi
If you have a favorite domain name prefix or suffix that I’ve left off of this list, please let me know!
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Posted on July 29, 2009 - by Kelly Verge
Free Niche-related Wordpress Theme Pack
This morning I created a Wordpress theme for a new niche site.
I thought it might be of use to some of my readers so I’ve packaged a few different versions of the theme. In addition to the header shown to the left, there’s a header for the following themes: pets, couples, medical/health, and a blank header to be used with your own image.
Enjoy!
“Thoughtful” Wordpress theme – thoughtful.zip
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Posted on July 27, 2009 - by Kelly Verge
Top Ten Tools to Track Twitter Trends
Watching the trends on Twitter can be a good way to do real-time market research. These trends can also help spot the hottest news stories – those that have “viral potential.”
Even for the average Twitter user, these hot trends often point out the coolest subjects.
There are lots of tools that can help you stay on top of the latest trends on Twitter without needing to be glued to Twitter all day. Here are some of my favorites:
- Twitter Search – It’s simple. On the other hand it displays the top 10 topics real-time in a basic display. Additionally, if you click on the tiny link for “Advanced Search,” you can do some pretty cool things.
- Tweetmeme – This site shows which URL’s (web pages) are being tweeted the most. If you’re interested in staying on top of the hottest stories or news, this site might be for you.
- Twitterfall – This strangely hypnotic site shows the real-time tweets that contain the selected trending phrase or your search phrase.
- Trendyobot – Follow this bot within Twitter and he’ll send you the latest trends as the start happening.
- #hashtags – This site tracks trending hashtags. Hashtags are a way of being involved in a wider conversation than with “regular” tweets.
- Twitt(url)y – This is another site that tracks the most tweeted URL’s. They present the information in a different format than Tweetmeme, so use whichever one you like best.
- Monitter – This site also tracks either the hottest trends or your specific search terms, but it also has a widget you can place on your website.
- Twist – Pretty cool Twitter trend site that displays a graph of the trend.
- Retweet Radar – This site shows the topics that are retweeted (RT) the most on Twitter. The topics are displayed in a cloud format. They also show the people and URL’s that are retweeted the most.
- Tweetizen – Shows Twitter trending topics and allows you to only show trends in areas that interest you.
- TweetGrid – While this site doesn’t give you the trending topics, I’ve included it as #11 because it’s a useful search tool.
If you know of a cool Twitter trending tool or site that I haven’t listed, place a link to it in a comment so that I can check it out, too.
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Posted on July 19, 2009 - by Kent Verge
Today’s the Day!
Are you frustrated at how long it’s taking to find success? It’s easy to feel that way when you’ve tried what others say work but don’t seem to find the key. The easy answer is to quit and try something else, but the easy path isn’t always the right one.
Let me tell you a little story about a man named Mel.
Mel was a scuba diver in the 50’s and 60’s back when the sport was very young. In fact, he opened the first dive shop in the world in California and had some huge success. Over the course of several recreational dive trips to the Caribbean, Mel became intrigued with the idea of finding treasure in the many shipwrecks in the area.
In 1962, Mel joined forces with another treasure hunter to search for a group of ships that wrecked off of the coast of Florida way back in 1715. Since his partner was funding the operation, Mel agreed to work, along with a small team of divers, for a year without pay for 50% of whatever they found. Every morning before making their dives, Mel would tell the crew, “Today’s the day!” Unfortunately, things didn’t quite go as planned. Days turned into months and they didn’t find anything.
On the 360th day of the year, Mel once again said, “Today’s the day!”
That day they were trying out a new contraption that used the ship’s propellers to push clear ocean water from the surface down to the bottom where the divers where working. The idea was that the clear water would push away the murky water from caused by their digging. As an unintended side effect, the blast of water dug a hole in the ocean floor that revealed 1,033 gold coins! Today was in fact the day! Mel later said of the event, “Once you have seen the ocean bottom paved with gold, you’ll never forget it!”
After almost a year of searching, Mel and his team found the 1715 fleet which they continued to salvage over the next ten years. But that’s not the end of Mel’s story.
In 1969, winter storms off of the east coast of Florida prompted Mel and his team to shift their efforts to searching for a new wreck in the waters off of the Florida Keys. This ship was the holy grail of treasure ships: the Spanish galleon Nuestra Senora de Atocha. The Atocha sank off of the coast of Florida in 1622 with a cargo of 40 tons of gold and silver. This was a prize worthy of a real treasure hunt!
So Mel and his team began their search, and again, Mel would begin each day by saying, “Today’s the day!”
And they searched…
For eleven years…
Then, in 1980, Mel found another staggering treasure in the Keys. Although it wasn’t the Atocha, he found one of her sister ships — the Santa Margarita — that was sunk in the same storm. This find netted Mel and the team more than $40 million in gold and treasures. Although this was a find of historic proportions, Mel wasn’t satisfied. He’d been searching for the Atocha for years and felt like it was just outside of his grasp. So they continued searching.
Five years later, July 20, 1985 started like any one of the previous 5,400: “Today’s the day!”
Indeed it was.
That day Mel and his team found what his son called “the Mother Lode.” After fifteen years of searching, Mel Fisher found a shipwreck containing stacks of silver bars, chests of silver coins, gold, jewels, and thousands of other unique artifacts. One of the divers described it as a reef twenty-five to thirty feet long and five to six feet wide, made up of silver bars. They had finally found the resting place of the Nuestra Senora de Atocha. This find was the richest treasure find since the opening of King Tut’s tomb. They continue to dig up emeralds and other artifacts from the wreck to this day. The total value is over $450 million and continues to grow.
After fifteen years of searching and frustration, Mel Fisher finally found the success he knew was there all along. What made Mel different from all of the others who searched before him?
He never gave up.
So when you find yourself getting frustrated, remember the story of Mel Fisher. Maybe the next article you write won’t be a home run. Maybe your Squidoo lens won’t make any sales. Perhaps that PPC ad is just a waste of money after all.
Or, perhaps today’s the day…
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