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Today, Brad Smith of Easter JV Giveaway fame, launched the 5 Day Giveaway (Mark II). It’s an interesting launch, because Brad completely re-wired the giveaway platform to work with social media, so rather than having sales letters for invitations (well, in addition to them, anyway), you just enter your details for social networks, and it does all of the advertising for you.

I’m really excited to see how things work out – Brad’s giveaways attract visitors in the tens of thousands, which makes for massive list building potential (for details on that, you might want to visit http://www.IssacG.com/jv_splash.php) and I’m hoping to cash in on this with another burst to my lists.

This time, I’m doing a few things different – both with the way I’m setting up my products, and (in the spirit of the social-networking aspect) in the ways that I’ve been promoting.

Watch this spot for more info on how it goes!

(I’m on twitter! Click the twitter button to the right to follow me!)

I just wanted to say Kudos to Dan from http://www.dansbanners.com/ for being the first to congratulate me there. Thanks Dan!

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I’ve been having a bit of a brainstorming session on how to make the most of Twitter.  So, yeah, I’m admittedly a bit late to the Twitter game arena, but there are still tons of ideas floating around, just waiting to be monetized.

For example, what about bringing the credit-based safelist  idea and twitter-izing it?  Really simple concept:

User signs up for service, provides their twitter credentials.  The user is now added to a pool of twitter users on the “Safelist”.  Users can earn (or buy?) credits, which are used as such: for every X credits, you can post your message to Y number of users on the safelist.

Except that this is WAY cooler than safelists, because you’re not just advertising to the direct opt-ins of the “safelist”, but rather to all of followers of all of the members of the safelist.  So lets say you post an offer to 200 members of the safelist – your ad will now be seen by 20,000 people (assuming an average of 100 followers per person on the safelist).

Talk about Viral, eh?

Of course the pricing takes this into consideration.  You’d probably earn 5 credits for each link that YOU look at personally, and maybe 1 credit for each link that one of your existing followers clicks on.  And you get to post your offer on one person’s twitter account for every, say 100, credits that you have.

Voilà!

(PS.  I want a 2.5% commission if someone monetizes this )

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I was originally going to post about this in another post, but didn’t want to get off-topic there with the Hitsilo specific news:

So I made a decision a while back to work on promoting Hitsilo, the new logiscape traffic exchange which is launching in a few days.  And I’m taking it quite seriously, for 2 reasons.

The first reason is that Logiscape has a solid base of massive traffic exchanges, and there’s always new traffic flowing there.

The second reason is the 70% commissions that they’re offering, which when combined with the above reason, makes for a great money-making opportunity (keep an eye out in the Doncha Love Getting Paid section in another month or so when the first checks come in )

There’s a prelaunch signup list at http://www.Hit-Silo.com/ and Logiscape just announced that there will be a 3 hour window before the prelaunch notification and their official launch announcement which can be used to promote the TE before the official launch announcement.

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Before I get into the case study, I wanted to mention that there is some news on the Hitsilo launch.

I’ve been very excited about the HitSilo launch and have been working hard at promotion, both paid and free/organic.  There really hasn’t been much promotion on Google, which left the front page of searches for hitsilo only half-full.  In that half was me, along with the hit-silo.com website, the @hitsilo twitter page, and Jon Olson’s HEN post.

This morning, I’ve been treated to a front row seat of Google Organic Marketing Magic.

It started with a post on a blog called Collecting Blog Posts, which linked to another post at Simpalife, which had a traceback from a post at Organic Blogs…  And the list goes on.

They were all picked up by the twitter page, and suddenly I found myself in 4th place on the 1st page of Google.  And I found myself thinking of all of the SEO tips and tricks that I’ve been reading about, but never really applying for myself.

There’s a concept called an Authority Site, which Google, as I understand, loves.  The concept is, if enough websites link to you with one-way links on similar link texts, Google interprets that to mean that the site being linked to as an authority website on the topic being linked about, which boosts the rank considerably on Google.

Now, the authority website,  before the launch, actually doesn’t do anything (a mistake in this marketer’s humble opinion) for Hit-Silo, but does link to other sites, like Easy Hits 4 U, and their affiliate links for other Logiscape exchanges (which is something, I suppose, even if it will distract folks during the initial mad rush to sign up for Hit-Silo in a few days).  My assumption is that after the launch, the authority site will edit the post and add their affiliate link for Hit-Silo itself.

I’m definitely going to watch it, and am curious to see if it turns out the way I expect.