The Final 2 Marketing Tools (Part IV)
August 3, 2008 · Print This Article
We’ve had Part 1 which talked about RoboForm and OpenOffice. Then Part 2 that covered Google Analytics, FileZilla along with The WarriorForum. Meanwhile in Part 3, we talked about Blogger, WordPress.com and WordPress.org - So what’s the last 2 going to be about?!…
9. ClickBank
This service gets some mixed emotions from people, and some of the time I really don’t know why they are talking about it in that kind of way! Now ClickBank is FREE if all you’re planning on doing is promoting products, if you want to sell one of your own, then you’ll need to have it approved and pay $50. (However at the moment, I’m only talking about promoting products!)
All you simply need to do is go and signup for an account. It’ll take you 5 - 10 minutes at most, and means that you can easily promote whatever product you like that can be found in the MarketPlace. (Perfect if you’ve got a blog or something similar and want to make a little cash from promoting the odd product here and there!)
With ClickBank, they handle the commission and send cheques out on the 1st and the 16th of each month. (They have just recently opened up a Direct Deposit service which you can signup to when you’ve reached the required terms started by CB themselves!)
10. NVU (HTML Editor)
Whenever I’m usually building my webpages, then 80% of the time I use Microsoft FrontPage. The only reason for that is because of me using it way before I came accross NVU.
However there is 20% of the time when I like to use NVU. I guess it depends what I’m wanting to do, sometimes it just works for you and other times you really need to stick with what you know best! 
NVU is completely free, and I’d suggest you go give it a try. It’s just as I mentioned in the paragraph above, go with something that you fell you’re going to like and work well with. FrontPage and NVU both work well for me, and I find they help me perfectly. Imagine having to hand-code all the HTML for your webpage?! (It’s almost hard to believe that people used to do that! In fact people STILL do this, and I can’t quite get my head around it!)
That’s it blog readers! Did you enjoy them? - Let me know in the comments below what you think, and if you’ve got anything to add then just fire away!
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You have mentioned some very useful tools over the past week all of which I have used at one time or another.
I have tried using free and paid methods for almost every aspect of my business but it’s by no accident that certain products acquire a great reputation.
e.g Dreamweaver, Photoshop, etc
It’s all about using the right tool for the job and that will vary between different people and will de dependant on your personal budget. People can’t go far wrong by following the advice given in these posts.
I enjoyed the series Mark, thank you.
NO, thank you for reading John!
Glad you enjoyed the tools, and I appreciate your comments! I personally enjoy using tools that make the job a lot easier for myself, while a recommendation is one thing, it does vary between people like you mentioned!
Speak soon mate!
Thanks
Mark
I, too, have enjoyed reading the tools. Those of us that are on a serious budget are always on the lookout for free or inexpensive tools. For beginners recommendations are very important.
I try to always point out two products when talking about free tools. I am pleased to say that FileZilla nd Nvu are two of the tools I used in my recent beginner books.
I didn’t start off with FileZilla but switched recently. It takes awhile to adapt to a new way of doing things but I am quite pleased that I did.
Currently I am using a different free web editor. I keep reading about Nvu and although I worked up beginning lessons for my book, I still haven’t switched. Today is the day because of your comments, Mark. I have been having some problems on Step and it is possible that they are coming from the web page editor (no, it is not always me pushing the wrong buttons).
A web page editor will definitely be high on my spending priorities but that just has to wait.
Carol
Hey Mark. It’s true what you say about clickbank. i can’t understand all the negative press it gets bearing in mind it’s probably the biggest affiliate network for internet marketers. I’ve never had any problems with them. Then again, I’m not trying to sell a rival product or a product to hide affilate links etc
I use a selection of wysiwyg editors and find NVU just as good and better still, it’s free! I used front page many moons ago and don’t really know why I stopped? i suppose it’s what you get used to.
My 2c
DesDrec.