I passed my Infusion Certification Exam and am an official “ICC” or Infusion Certified Consultant.

What does this mean?  For starters, it means that Zing Sales Solutions (my other business venture outside of SMB Consulting) can help you implement and fine tune an Infusion installation along with helping you develop automated marketing campaigns that integrate with your existing website and marketing efforts.

I feel as if automated eMarketing is going to see a huge wave in the near future, and Infusion is positioned very well for the Internet marketer and small business.  Their focus is businesses with less than 100 employees, and they have a lot of Internet marketers as customers already.  It’s a very powerful program that I encourage you to check out.

Here’s Roger’s review of David Bain’s 26 Week Internet Marketing Plan:

What You Get:

• 4 DVDs with 26 weeks worth of instruction
• 4 workbooks that reinforce the DVDs
• 8 Audio CDs with bonus interviews
• PDF files to reinforce interviews and instruction
• 10-Step Quick Start Guide
• Poster that outlines the entire program completely color coded

Admittedly, I was a little apprehensive when David Bain approached me to joint venture partner with him on the 26 Week Internet Marketing Plan venture as a lot of what David’s claimed to be offering was similar in scope to the SEO Bible’s intended content. After mulling it over for a bit, I remembered my own affirmation “why try to reinvent the wheel?” I’m glad I came to that decision.

The 26 Week Internet Marketing Plan is a robust product offering that incorporates business strategy, tactical how-to advice, and covers a wide array of internet marketing topics that should benefit anyone looking to learn more about this lucrative field. There are a lot of products that touch upon various aspects of the 26 Week Internet Marketing Plan, but I’m not exaggerating when I say this is what we were hoping to produce with the SEO Bible video and audio training package. Again, “why reinvent the wheel?” This is what was being developed behind the scenes, but I highly encourage you to get this package now. We’ll throw in our SEO videos once they’re complete, and you’ll get a copy of the SEO Bible eBook immediately upon purchasing David’s product through our affiliate link here:

Purchase 26 Week Internet Marketing Plan

Simply e-mail us a copy of your order number, and we’ll send you a copy of the eBook immediately then send you update links as the videos, audio files, and supplemental workbooks become available. We’ll even throw in the SMO videos (our next product) once they’re produced at no additional charge to you. How’s that for an offer? Hopefully one you can’t refuse.

Unbiased Product Review

Ok, as for the product itself. I’m impressed with the strategic overview David provides at the beginning. When a lot of marketers set out to create a web presence, it’s simply because a competitor is already ranking well for a certain term (SEO) or they think ranking well for a particular keyword phrase will lead them to oodles of traffic and increased sales. Reality doesn’t quite workout that way more often than not, and there are more things to consider beyond ranking well for a few keyword phrases.

The 26 Week Internet Marketing Plan does a good job with traditional SEO (if there is such a thing for a relatively young industry). SEO is just one piece of the puzzle though, and I’m grateful that David’s program delves deeper into a myriad of topics surrounding internet marketing including: social media, press releases, site architecture, blogging, RSS, e-mail, PPC, directories, article marketing, forum interaction, podcasting, video marketing, and analytics.

While it pains me to admit that David beat us to the punch with his product, he did so there’s no sense in pretending otherwise. Hat’s off to him for producing a quality product that covers a lot of ground in a well integrated package that should benefit those lucky enough to get a hand on the product for years to come. I highly recommend this package to internet marketers of beginning to intermediate skill levels. There is a lot to learn, and this is a fantastic place to start.

Well done David!

PS–this isn’t to suggest there isn’t something of value to be learned in our products because they compliment one another very nicely. I don’t want that to be lost in the shuffle.

Some of you may recall this post which discussed a potential partnership in the works to provide complimentary internet marketing education. Well, that day is here, and the product is David Bain’s 26 Week Internet Marketing Plan. I’ve taken the liberty to review the product and highly encourage you to get your hands on it if you can. I’ll share the review in a separate post as I want to share an offer with you.

Should you purchase David’s product, I’ll throw in The SEO Bible, all the videos (once finalized) and the upcoming Social Media Optimization product line (videos, eBook, audio, and workbooks) at no additional charge. All you have to do is e-mail a copy of your order number along with the name you used when ordering (so we can verify the affiliate link). That’s it–two products for the price of one.

In the meantime, download David’s 4 Phases of Internet Marketing for free.

While we’ve been promising you videos for a little over a month, and we haven’t forgotten that, we’re in the process of updating the eBook and the videos to contain quite a bit more on Social Media Optimization (SMO).  We believe this is the next frontier for SEO and traffic generation for businesses so we hope this strategy pays dividends for all involved in time.  Plus, we want to provide more value than our competitors.

If you haven’t had a chance to check out our report/eBook SEO 3.0: Business Implications, we encourage you to sign up for updates on the homepage so you can gain access.  It talks about SMO quite a bit and contains some tips that can help you generate a lot of traffic to your site quickly.

We’ve taken the liberty to upload a few pages to our products section that address areas of SEO that might be a sticking point for some of you like copywriting, blogging, web video, and article submission.

If any of these topics interest you, click on the hyperlink to take you to a sales page for the product. Let us know if you like any of the products or if you’d like to see others added. We’ll be reviewing quite a few products over the next few weeks that will help you with Internet marketing.

NOTE: we did not create any of the products (we’re affiliates). We’re trying to become a resource hub for those looking to learn SEO and Internet marketing.