I’m a big fan in the idea of automation. Trying to put as many pieces of your business on autopilot that you can…and focusing most of your time, energy and effort on the stuff that you really are passionate about.

I tend to be MOST passionate about this sort of stuff – writing copy, helping people, coaching clients, trying to be creative, entertaining and generally trying to improve my karma for many of the disastrous mistakes I make in my first 3 and a half decades on this planet.

One of the very best ways to build a REAL business online is through using strategies of scale.

We’ve talked about that here many times….re-purposing your content in as many creative, compelling and far reaching ways as possible…..to give you the GREATEST amount of reach, with the least amount of effort.

I spent MUCH of my first years marketing online doing ALL of the heavy lifting myself. Writing every last word. Crafting EVERY last piece of copy.

Simply fighting the fickle hands of father time each and every day….in a DESPERATE and feverish, and ultimately flailing and failing approach to world blogging domination that never quite arrived.

One day – I kind of got smart.

I started to automate little pieces of my business. First – with out sourced writers. And then….even MORE powerfully, with technology. And being a total tech dummy (maybe a lot like many of the people reading this) most SPECIFICALLY with content creation tools and technology.

And for blogs – there are LOTS of very common, very "well known" tools that the mainstream affiliate marketers or bloggers use to build automated islands of content.

Most of these solutions I’ve tried….and found to be far too spammy for my taste, so I end up junking them at the end of the day.

There are however – a few, UNDERGROUND style tools…..that most people are blisffully unaware of….yet rise well above the rest of the pack. 

And this is the sort of stuff that when I find, I tend not to talk about too often. 

Here though, for a variety of helpful reasons, I will.

My friend Ed is a TRUE "underground" SEO and technology expert.

Not one of these guys who you’ll see on boards or forums talking about that one keyword phrase he cracked for a few clickbank sales……but a guy who creates killer tools that make the process of BUILDING blogs (and businesses) a breeze.

And serendipitously stumbling on one of Ed’s tools a while back, was a pretty watershed moment for MY business – as he creates stuff that gives you SUCH an unfair advantage in the content creation and publishing space, that’s it’s actually scary.

And just about EVERY time I talk to Ed on the phone, I promise myself I’m going to focus that much more on this "side of the street"...because it’s truly that amazingly easy.

If I’ve done any consultations with you on this blog already – you probably already know about these tools, because I’ve undoubtedly revealed them to be the "secret" weapon for automating an online business that TRULY works on autopilot.

But for the other 99.9% of you who just stop by…..or leave a comment – or I’ve never spoken with directly, these are THE tools you want to use if you truly want to build an online publishing empire extremely fast.

For someone (being me..:-) who sells very little on this blog, why am I making such a big deal about Ed and his technology, tools and software?

A couple reasons:

• I was going to write and then sell a course on how to build these style sites, to help automate your blogs and business, and of course, I would be recommending buying this technology as the short cut to doing it. (as there isn’t anything else that really compares, in my experience)
•  I decided, temporarily to NOT sell a course (although I probably still will a month or two down the road) – but instead, just to write a free report for my coaching clients ONLY on how to do this, and augment it with a transcription of one of my conversations with Ed about his software
•  I truly believe, this is one of the BEST, fastest and smartest ways to build a viable, valuable and long term business, and think that in a sea of silly (and seamy) online investments that are completely and utterly worthless and predatory – this is one of the very BEST ways that just about anyone can TRULY leap frog the learning curve in rapid fire turn around time, and with complete "impunity" from things like Google Slaps and other nefarious nonsense.

So here is what I’m going to do:

Ed and I have had several conversations discussing this technology and how to use it to automate your online enterprise….the last of which, (yesterday) we recorded at my suggestion, much of it.

The recording that we did was just about 90 minutes…..and I’m going to edit it and share some of it here on the blog which I hope will be instructive, and will transcribe the rest of it into a PDF that you can download and read at your leisure.

I hope to have that done next week.

In the meantime, you can listen to some shorter clips (the thought of anyone listening to a 90 minute conversation on ANYTHING I have to say seems like the purest definition of torture, and I think even Dick Cheney would agree that this would be cruel and unusual punishment)

Ed has made a really generous, and to be quite honest, far too inexpensive offer to people on my list alone, from the standpoint of pricing these tools for sale. As you’ll hear at the end of this recording (and this is 100% true) when he first told me, several months ago, what his Article Stalker Software could do, and sent me a copy (I’ve paid for everything else of his that I’ve bought) I told him to charge BIG money for this, and make it a continuity thing. (i.e. – a private membership site where you must pay every month for access)

He chose this route instead. And he has offered a 50% discount, on top of that, to you…..for being someone who reads this blog. (or is on my list)

Article Stalker (and you want to check out the video - or wait until I have the complete audio transcribed) will allow ANYONE to create many, many niche blogs in one day…..ALL with highly targeted, keyword rich FULL articles, with proper attribution (links back to original author) at the PUSH of a button.

I’ve used it – and as you’ll hear in the audio – (and see in Ed’s videos) it works amazingly fast…and well.

You can literally, put up a 500 page site in less time as it takes Judge Judy to say – " Judgement for the Plaintiff" in one of those roommate squabbles that are so damn entertaining to watch mid-day.

You can use the complimentary tool, which is a WordPress plug in called Slick - to auto post all sorts of amazing content – from random RSS feeds, to product catalogs from places like CJ.com and Linkshare, to even…..taking a PDF file that you broke down to text file using another free solution or program, and AUTOPOSTING it as individual blog entries over days, weeks, months or even more to add even more unique content to your blogs.

As you’ll hear in the short audio clips – using premium wordpress templates, you can create GREAT looking, keyword and content rich blogs in hyper speed and even SELL them….and there are many different powerful permutations that we didn’t cover in this call. (but – if you buy the software – I’ll share with you privately in a special report, complete with an example "network" I’ll set up to SHOW you how this can be done really well)

Again, I’m not one for BS scarcity – or pushing people to buy stuff.  Some of you can’t (or shouldn’t) afford to spend a dime on your business right now….and if that’s you, please don’t. 

And for some of you, this may not be the optimal approach for your particular business. But for most of you, who do the sorts of things we cover here – it is. And will make your life MUCH easier.

And MOST importantly, Ed supports his stuff in a major league way. I bought something from him months ago, before we knew each other – and emailed him at 11pm on a Friday night, mostly because I’m a big tech dummy with a very slow social life.

Not only did he email me back in 15 minutes, he helped me get the program set up, and working in 2 or 3 emails over the next hour. (and when I apologized for the inconvenience, he quickly let me know that the apology wasn’t required)

So – check this stuff out here- and trust me when I tell you, you’ll be one of the very few who is using this sort of technology to your advantage.

And at a price FAR lower than everyone else is paying. AND, I’m going to send everyone the full transcript of the call, which covers some very specific ways to use these tools to make marketing magic happen. (hands free..:-)

AND – I’ll also put up a network of specific sites – to illustrate some innovative ways to do this – that I’ll share ONLY with the people who actually buy the program to be fair, and I’ll have that to you within the next week or so. 

Check out Article Stalker and Slick at a very special combined price.  (only for us)

Excerpt from the audio done with Ed on Sept 28th

(please note – pay MUCH more attention to what Ed has to say than me……as I just re-listened to the whole thing moments ago and noticed I seem to say "you know" in every sentence, and have unusually bad impulse control when someone else is trying to talk.  I’m working through that in therapy..:-) 

Also – you’ll appreciate the fact that Ed and I didn’t really discuss how to price this for my readers ahead of time – so I sort of just left him high and dry at the end where he conveys the discount he’s offering my list. 

Trust me when I tell you – this is an outrageously good deal on killer software that I use often, and if I was starting ALL over again, would probably be the one purchase I would make to get moving in the right direction hyper fast for sure, especially if blog building continued to be a focus)

Enjoy – and the full pdf transcript - where Ed discusses his background as a developer – and the technology behind these programs – and the BEST way to monetize these style sites – will be sent out in the next week or so – so look for it then!)

PS:  You have to scroll ALL the way down on the sales page to see the discounted price for my blog and subscribers.  The top price is the general public price and NOT what you have to pay. 

PPS – To get a BETTER feel for what this software does…..LISTEN to Ed on the audio, or read the transcript – rather than read the "sales copy" on the page.  (because a great developer of super cool tools he IS.…..a great copywriter, I dare say…..he is not..:-) 

(You can listen to – or simply download the MP3 file below)

(Please Note: Update for 2010 – Audio is now available by newsletter only as we’ve discontinued using previous service – please comment below if you’d like a copy)