Online shopping portals are making a big hit with consumers.

Online shopping portals are making a big hit with consumers. The portals take advantage of the affiliate marketing "commissions" programs that many independent web site owners have been using for years. Now, any individual can buy their own portal and get cash back "commissions" for every item they purchase online from all their favorite stores. They can also get others to make purchases through their portals and get cash back for those purchases as well. From a purely shopping only perspective an average family can get a couple thousand dollars back a year if they dedicate themselves to do all their shopping on their portal. Everything from soap, shampoo and toilet paper to refrigerators, beds. furniture and electronics. Having your own shopping portal is akin to shopping at a wholesale club like Sam's or Costco's, however, shopping portals have the added advantage of being planet friendly. i.e. if you shop online you are not driving to stores which reduces pollution, carbon foot print and fossil fuel dependency, all of which are growing concerns for almost everyone as our environmental conscience kicks in. There is one shopping portal which takes "environmental friendly" a step further by including a special section devoted to thousands of eco-friendly products from 100+ environmentally conscious manufacturers in addition to the 800+ department stores, specialty shops and online businesses available on their portal. I bought a portal (and you are invited to shop on it!) http://shoptoearn.net/biwiseo or you can learn about the advantages of buying your own shopping portal at http://24hourtour.net/biwiseo You have to shop so why not Make a buck and help the planet!

Monetize your Life! (or help me monetize mine)

Watch this 2 and a half minute video. Then take a moment to think about it. Does it make as much sense to you as it does to me?

ONE SIMPLE CHANGE (can change your life)

“ONE SIMPLE CHANGE” can change your life and help the planet
Shop online – for everything! Toothpaste, toilet paper, shampoo, sheets, towels, curtains, blinds, hardware, building supplies, office supplies, mops, brooms, health food, beverages, furniture, pet supplies, medicine, drug store goods, as well as the usual TVs, computers, printers, gameboxes and electronics that usually make you think of checking on the internet.
A recent informal study reveals that this “ONE SIMPLE CHANGE” is more challenging than it might seem. We humans are creatures of habits and our habits say GO TO THE MALL, and PICK IT UP AT THE GROCERS. (the grocery being the one place we still can’t really access effectively, online…yet. [remember WEBVAN? It will be reincarnated oneday].
But if millions of people quit driving to the store to shop, the reduction in traffic, pollution and fossil fuel usage will be significant. Frankly, it just makes sense. Shopping online is economically sound. It is environmentally sound. Shopping online is an idea whose time has come.
Several clever and industrious folks have even created “gateways” or portals to enable shoppers to get “cash back rewards” for shopping online. In fact it is becoming a whole industry in itself. I am an active participant in one and I own my own online shopping portals http://shoptoearn.net/biwiseo and http://shoptoearth.net/biwiseo . You can engage in owning your own shopping portals simply to shop for your personal needs and get cash back, or you can engage in the optional MLM component to create a significant revenue stream.
It doesn’t matter whether you engage through the portal company I have chosen, some other shopping portal, or simply go directly to an online store and make your purchases without concern for incentives or cash back programs. What matters is that YOU shop online; that WE shop online. It just makes sense.
Yes, this will change the landscape of cities around the world as walk-in stores and malls disappear. Yes, people who make their living in the retail trades will have to learn new careers. Yes, the world will change. Don’t fight it. Embrace it, enjoy it, profit from it if you are so inclined. Do some jumping jacks or push ups, or plant a backyard garden, and then get online, skype your best friend, and shop together – without ever leaving the house.

SEO is little, IMS is BIG

Welcome to Social Media Trumps my blog on Internet Marketing Strategies (IMS). It's a whole new world, from the days when SEO was king.
SEO basically creates a relationship between your website and the search engines.
AdWords campaign are often called SEM. They capitalize on the relationship SEO created and add in a relationship to Ads you create and where those ads will appear throughout the internet. SEM is a small niche that probably gets more hype than it deserves, but it cannot be discounted without some detailed analysis. I like to say that SEM is most useful when it is icing on a well made cake.
IMS (internet marketing strategies) is the much broader discipline of using multiple internet marketing opportunities. Social Networking, NewsFeeds, registries, bookmarking, Blogs, forums, Banner ads, affiliate marketing, link exchange, value add relationships, press release distribution, and a plethora of other opportunities. The major challenge of IMS is to winnow through thousands of possibilities and find the ones that will bring the most return for the total cost of engagement. A couple that I really like would be getting your link on an article on a major media site or getting a prominent link on a site that gets 100,000+ hits a month on a related keyword.After six months of applying social media engagement to business marketing,(with several and various side tracks and distracations) it has become clear, that social media trumps all other efforts.