Here’s a freebie from HarperCollinsPublishers.  “The Undecided Voter’s Guide to the Next President” highlights the backgrounds and positions of the current presidential candidates.  Here’s basic information on each candidate (their family, education, accomplishments, employment and government service) and a synopsis of their positions on key issues.

Mark Halperin, the author, covers the Republicans in Part 1.  He includes the current candidates and “other possibilities” like;

• Rudy Giuliani
• John McCain
• Mitt Romney
• Fred Thompson
• Sam Brownback
• Newt Gingrich
• Mike Huckabee
• Ron Paul. 

In Part 2 he highlights the Democrats including

• Hillary Clinton
• John Edwards
• Barack Obama
• Joe Biden
• Chris Dodd
• Dennis Kucinich
• Bill Richardson

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If you do any affiliate marketing or have your own product to market, check out the new outfit in town.  Click2Sell is a direct Clickbank competitor with a number of benefits. (Frankly it looks like they tried to eliminate many of the frustrating problems with Clickbank, and learned from CB’s mistakes.)

First:  There’s NO setup fee!  Joining as a merchant or affiliate is free!  Simply go to Click2Sell and sign up.  You can handle product sales and affiliate marketing from the same account.

Second:  You control how refunds are handled!  You set the time frame, not someone else.

Third:  All types of merchandise can be sold!  This includes hard goods, downloadables and subscriptions.

Fourth:  Flexible payment options including direct credit card payments, support for Paypal, Authorize.net, Google Checkout and WorldPay. 

Fifth:  Funds are transfered to your merchant account almost instantly via Paypal, Authorize.Net, Google Checkout and Worldpay.  (No more waiting for weeks for funds to transfer.)

Sixth:  Merchants and affiliates can communicate with each other.  Merchants have more control over their programs and policies.  Affiliate and merchant reputation are tracked.

Seventh:  They can handle digital delivery in a secure environment.  (They even offer a default landing page and the ability to capture customer information.)

Eighth:  Their reporting module tracks sales, affiliates, products, refunds, payments and more.

Their system seems easier to use than Clickbank’s and offers a lot more features.  Check it out for yourself at Click2Sell.com.

I’ve always wondered about which pay-per-click network actually performed the best. So far, all of my campaigns use Adwords and usually have average to poor results. I don’t blame Adwords, I figure I’m still learning the ins and outs of pay per click. But, it was great to stumble upon successful marketers who had taken the time to run actual tests on the various networks.

Chad Frederiksen at CDF Networks put together a comparison of 10 pay per click networks which looked at volume, click pricing, conversion rate, keyword competition and ease of use. He took a campaign that was performing well on Adwords and ran it across the other networks. His results and conclusions surprised me!

Chad ran additional comparisons in January and September of 2007. You can check out the results at http://www.cdfnetworks.com/category/ppc-smackdown/

Talk about big goals.  Here’s some internet marketing training you may want to consider.   It’s called Ken’s Project.  I know, it’s a catchy name.  But, it has some catchy goals.

Ken’s Project has three objectives:

1) Create one million new entrepreneurs

2) Help each entrepreneur build a million dollar business

3) Generate one million dollars a year for charitable causes

I’ve listened to Ken’s first lesson about becoming an online entrepreneur.  I think it’s something every new person to internet marketing should hear.

He provides some eye-opening exercises that will help you develop better focus and help shift your mind set so that you are more likely to focus on what’s important rather than what’s urgent.

Based on his description of the goals of the course, he’s trying to teach long-term business success by focusing on the characteristics and methods that need to be developed.  Strategies by themselves won’t build long-term success.  Just having a strong interest in an area or marketing niche won’t build success.  And most importantly, just having a passion about a topic or market won’t build success.  Every marketer’s advice is “begin with what you’re passionate about and what you’re interested in.”

There are thousands of starving internet marketers who are very passionate and very interested in the markets they serve.  It takes more than passion, more than interest and more than strategies to build a successful home-based business.

I don’t know if Ken has all the answers, but if his first lesson is an indication of what’s ahead, I told him to count me in.   That’s at least till I find out it’s a $10,000 seminar or has an $800/month membership fee.  Then I’ll have to re-think the whole proposition.

You can sign up for Ken’s Project at http://www.kensproject.org