I’ve used a lot of SEO software over the past few years and to tell you the truth 90% of it is worthless.  Most products can’t even do what they claim to properly.  Internet Business Promoter (IBP) from Axandra is a rare exception.  Anyway, I’ll keep this Axandra IBP Review short and to the point.  This product has a ton of features built right in and honestly they keep releasing newer versions with even more features faster than I care to keep up.  They’re up to version 10 now and are calling it iBusinessPromoter now.  Either way IBP is the same product as before, only better.  One of my favorite features is the top 10 analyzer.  It will look at the onpage SEO factors for the sites ranking in the top 10 for your keyword and offer suggestions on how your site could look more like theirs to a search engine.  Of course on page factors are only one thing, which is why it also has features to help you gain incoming links to your site.   It also keeps itself up to date automatically with the latest search engine and directory definitions. 

Something about my PC searching the internet all by itself looking for things to help me make more money just makes me smile.  I can’t express how cool it feels.   Like I’m Neo searching for information about the Matrix, but in this case it is looking for money in every nook and cranny of the web.

I could probably ramble on all day about this program but the fact that they offer a free demo means you should just check it out instead of reading my random opinions.  I think you’ll like it. If you’re serious about making money online or are already making money Axandra IBP is a great investment in your business.

I’ve had an account at World Wide Brands for a while now.  I can’t believe I haven’t written about it already.

To make a long story short, this onesource review will cover what WWB’s One Source program can do for you.  If you’re reading this review chances are you already know what it is and just want to know if it is worth the investment.

Right off the bat a huge plus of World Wide Brands’ drop ship directory is that your account doesn’t expire.  You could use it to start up 20 online businesses if you wanted to.

Drop Ship Directory Review

What does it do?
The java based one source tool lets you search their enormous wholesaler directory for keywords or products.  If you wanted to sell Baby Cribs you just type it in and (optionally) choose a category to better narrow your search.  It will then present you with a list that tells you how many of the various types of suppliers are available with the product you want.

As you can see in my resized and cropped screenshot here there are 12 drop shippers available that say they have baby cribs.

If you’re already familiar with the terms in the above image please skip this paragraph.  Drop Ship means that the company will shop products directly to your customers for you.  That means you don’t need any inventory or a warehouse (or garage full of boxes like many of us).  Light Bulk means that they will sell you small quantities directly (rather than by the case or whatever the minimum order size is for the larger volume wholesalers).  The OneSource results will also show you liquidations and auctions if they are available, which is a great way to acquire a deeply discounted one-time supply of products.

We want to drop ship our baby cribs directly to customers so we click on the “12″ and get the screen below.

This shows us a more detailed description of exactly what the product is.  This information alone will save you countless hours.  Imagine for a moment that you wanted to sell heart-shaped cribs.  Without the information from World Wide Brands you’d have to find all the baby product suppliers you could. Then you’d filter down that list to ones that did drop shipping.  Then you’d find out that they won’t give you any information about exactly what products they provide or the pricing unless you have a wholesale account with them.  Setting up such an account can take a while and you usually have to fax around a few forms.  Imagine doing this with 10 companies only to find out none of them have heart shaped cribs.

While we’re on the heart shaped cribs subject we click on that.  It will then show a list of suppliers for that product (in this case it is only 1).  If you click on that 1 supplier you will get a detailed page about that wholesaler.

Unfortunately their terms of service don’t allow me to disclose the details of the wholesalers listed in their directory, so i have covered the information so you can still see how it looks.  They give you almost everything you need to know right on this screen, at which point you are usually one click away from signing up for their wholesaler or drop ship program.

The usefulness of the OneSource product doesn’t end here.  It will also try to give you an estimate of how difficult selling a particular product online will be.

This screen shows keywords related to your search and what kind of search volume they get.  Heart cribs may be somewehre further down the list.  The competition, advertising, and Auction tabs also show information which will help you decide if selling that product online is a good idea.  Your goal should be to find the perfect balance between too much competition and no demand.  What I find most useful about it is that it will help you decide what kind of business or products you will be successfull selling. 

I haven’t regretted my purchasing onesource for even a moment. It is priceless when brainstorming new business ideas and has saved me countless amounts of time and money.

Even if you’re not ready to get started just yet I highly recommend checking out the World Wide Brands Web Site because it has a ton of valuable information, free ebooks about selling products online, videos, etc.

They’ve put together a great video showing you how the process works which does a much better job than I ever could of explaining it.

Anyway I hope you’ve found this worldwide brands review helpful and I wish you all success in your future ventures.

~WW

I apoligize for waiting so long between updates here. I’ve been working on other projects for a while now and this site unfortunately hasn’t been getting the attention it deserves. I know that saying I’ve been too busy making money with other web sites to even worry about this one sounds funny, but it is true.

One of my friends and business partners keeps suggesting that I package up one of the software products I’ve created to build sites for myself and sell it to other people. My response is always “I’d rather have all the sites myself and make all the money while other people wonder where I got the script that built that.. which is much better than trying to get a hundred dollars from a few people here and there and end up with clones of my sites everywhere.” I guess that is a fairly long-winded way of saying “I wanna keep it for myself!”

I’m still around, and last month I made more money than I ever have in my life. The scary but exciting thing about that is I’m barely scratching the surface of the amount of revenue the web sites I’ve already built could be making. A year from now I expect to be making even more money online.  I decided that I don’t really want to be the jerk insulting people or flashing his money around saying “neener neener!”  I’d rather be the millionaire that nobody knows about… unless they happen to see me out driving a car that most people can’t afford.

So, are you raking in online cash every month?

~WW

Well 2006 is finally gone. While it did fly by pretty fast I have to be happy about how things went. 2007 is my time to take things to the next level. I admit that this blog and entire web site is pretty neglected. I did help many people learn to start making money online in 2006, but this project is only one tiny fraction of my online business. While it is possible to make a lot of money online teaching other people how, it is not what I’m about.

This year will mark my move toward selling my own products and less affiliate marketing. I’m hiring some additional staff which should help the 25 or so web sites I must’ve built in 2006 start to take off. I made a lot of money last year don’t get me wrong, but I really believe that each of my web sites is running at about 5% of its potential.

I’m sort of an engineer by nature, so I have to force myself to stop making new stuff all the time. I’ve cranked out quite a number of web sites in the past 18 months and never even tried to get incoming links to most of them. Now that they’ve had a chance to age a bit, get indexed, go through all the Google Sandbox BS, etc it is time to turn it up.

I have to constantly remind myself that I know exactly what it takes to make money online (which is obvious since I’m already doing it pretty well), but I need to stop letting myself get distracted. Focus is crucial.

A couple of good quotes from some wise online people (I apologize if I get these wrong or attribute them to the wrong person):
“Since when is more a solution for too much” –Rich Schefren
“The Last thing we need is another good idea” –A sign on the wall of Bran Fallon’s office

I’m always pretty slow to find new things and cool sites. I heard about Squidoo a long time ago but finally got around to playing with it today. It is pretty sweet. I setup this small page about making money online today and there’s a lot of potential there. If you need to setup some articles or write about things on a site outside of yours you should check it out. I have a feeling it will get exploited and become a lot less useful in the near future but for now get in there and snag the urls you want!