On Monday, December 5 2011, we will be moving all our PMP Exam Prep Products and PDU Products from Premiumcast to Nanacast. This move is necessary, because Premiumcast is closing down soon and only by migrating over to Nanacast will we be able to continue offering our affiliate program to you.

The good news is that Nanacast is 100% the same system as Premiumcast, but it offers a lot more and improved features.

We are already in the process of migrating all our products over and in about 10 days you will receive an email that you have been added to our new Nanacast-based affiliate program. You can now log in to your new account and take a look around.

You need to update all your affiliate links on December 5:

On December 5th we will begin selling all our products via the new Nanacast system and sales on Premiumcast will stop. This means, that you have to update your affiliate links on your website. We recommend the following process:

• Search your website(s) for "premiumcast" and create a list with all pages on which you use your Premiumcast affiliate link.
• Continue adding any other pages to this list that you may need to update, like forums, banner advertising, newsletter links, etc.
• Login to your new Nanacast affiliate account and identify your new affiliate links for all our products, so that you know where to find them.
• On December 5th go through the list you created and change all your Premiumcast affiliate links to Nanacast affiliate links.
• Do another search through your website and ensure that all instances of "premiumcast" have been removed.

There are three consequences of this migration:

1. If you do not update your affiliate links, you will not earn any more commission. This is because all sales are made from Nanacast and the system doesn't know that you send customers to us via your Premiumcast link.
2. Your old links will stop working as soon as we close our Premiumcast account. Your customers will see a "page not found" error
3. Don't use the new Nanacast links before December 5th, because before this date all sales are done via Premiumcast, which doesn't know your Nanacast links

We apologize for this, but the Premiumcast/Nanacast team does not offer a solution for this problem to us and the two systems do not talk to each other.

We will keep you updated about the migration over the coming weeks. Please expect your invitation to login to your new Nanacast account around November 14th.

Thank you for being an affiliate of our company and please let me know if you have any questions that I can answer about this move.

Position Location

You must live and work in the Philippines because the team that you manage, lives and works here as well. Applicants not living in the Philippines cannot be considered.

Position Overview

OSP International LLC is a provider of online training resources for project managers around the world. We are located in California (USA) and we have a team of 5 Virtual Assistants throughout the Philippines. We are looking to hire a qualified Online Business Manager who will be in charge of managing the team as well as most of our online business activities. This position requires a highly qualified and motivated individual. If you have not managed a team of at least 5 people previously then we will not be able to consider your application.

General Purpose and Duties

The Online Business Manager has the primary responsibility for overseeing, managing and implementing all online business strategies, marketing activities and product delivery. This role requires strong management skills, detail-orientation and a self-starter attitude. In many ways this role functions as a partner to the company President to help free up the President to focus on creativity, strategy and growth.

You will work as partner to the President to achieve:

•  company goals and priorities
•  Smooth running of the business
•  Ensure that all VAs follow through on and complete their assigned tasks.
• Increase sales through most cost effective strategies
•  Ensure timely implementation for all marketing strategies and program deliverables

This role also requires ruthless time management, excellent planning skills and the ability to lead and inspire our team of Virtual Assistants (VA) to achieve a common goal.Specific Tasks and Responsibilities

• Manage our Team of Virtual Assistants. Define, assign and oversee all activities assigned to the VAs. Receive and analyze the "dailystatus emails" from all VAs and take action where necessary. Ensure that all VAs have a proper workload. Organize and hold a weekly staff meeting.
• Set up social media technology and manage traffic strategies for Facebook, Facebook Fan pages, Squidoo, multiple twitter accounts, Linked In, Digg, StumbleUpon, etc.
• Develop and implement all marketing activities such as blog advertising, article marketing, direct mail, google advertising, banner advertising etc.
• Maintain most up to date blog technology including 3 – 5 weekly posts, managing versions, updating ads, updating cross-links, finding 3rd party blogs, etc.
• Maintain our websites, web pages, upsell/downsell offers, including all corresponding auto-responders, thank you pages and necessary downloadable products. Once we offer physical products: Interface with fulfillment house to set up auto-ship.
• Set up tracking and statistics to measure the effectiveness of all our marketing efforts.
• Manage monthly web statistics to include traffic, conversion, list size, etc.
• Interface with other team members as necessary to accomplish role. Keep other team members in communication loop for all initiatives, changes and/or customer challenges.
• Research and learn about new online marketing strategies on a weekly basis. Recommend appropriate strategies for implementation and oversee appropriate rollout in our company.

Knowledge and Skills

• Experience in all facets of social media, traffic generation tools, online marketing and ecommerce essential. Must know Joomla (from a user perpective), DreamWeaver, basic graphic design, Facebook, Twitter, Aweber, Clickbank.
• Well-developed interpersonal skills. Ability to get along diverse personalities. Tactful, mature.
• Discerning judgment, willing to stand up for best use of company’s time and financial resources.
• Hiring and resource management experience essential to manage our team of VAs
• Experience with sales of electronic products
• Satisfactory communication skills – written and verbal.

Work Requirements

You must live and work in the Philippines because the team that you manage, lives and works here as well. This is a full-time position offering 40 hours per week. Work hours are usually 8am-5pm of your local timezone. This position will allow you to work primarily from your own home office, so you need to have:

• A complete office set up with high speed internet connection
• Setup for Skype with video.

Compensation

Will be commensurate with the experience and skill of the applicant

The Ideal Person for this Position

The ideal person for this role is very energetic, results-driven and is more of a finisher than a starter. Excited to be a part of someone else’s vision, the ideal candidate is more enthusiastic about being in charge of getting things done than they are driven to pursue their own creative ventures. The ideal candidate has at least 2 years experience in the online information marketing world, direct response marketing, ecommerce, business management, project management and is comfortable with a rapid paced, ever changing work environment.

This role will work very closely with a very creative, fast-moving entrepreneur who expects his team to be at the top of their game. Must be willing to occasionally work different hours, handle fires, and learn new technologies/marketing techniques when required for growth.

Please send your resume to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for consideration

Are you subscribed to any Newsletters? - If you have an email address then your answer is probably "Yes".

But are you also subscribed to any Uselessletters? - Let's find out together.

I define a Uselessletter as an email newsletter that you once subscribed to because you were interested in the topic it covered. But as time goes by, your interest has diminished and every week (or every month) you find yourself deleting this newsletter without reading it. 

The newsletter has become useless to you. It's now a Uselessletter.

And let's be honest... You know that it's really useless to you. It's just that for some reason you haven't gotten around to unsubscribing. Maybe it's sentimentality. Maybe you think that next week there might be something in it that sounds interesting. But this week you are going to delete it. Just like you did last week. And the week before that. And so the cycle continues on forever.

It's time to make a change.

I challenge you to free yourself and unsubscribe from all of your Uselessletters. And tell your friends to do the same! Unclutter your inbox and unsubscribe. Even if that means that you unsubscribe from one of my newsletters. After all... if they are useless to you why would you want to receive them?

It's 7 days to Christmas Day. How many Uselessletters can you rid yourself of until you open your presents? I got rid of 2 already today.

What is FTC?

As an affiliate, what should I know about the new FTC regulation?

How do I make the disclosure beneficial not only to consumers but more so to me as an affiliate?

Twitter is a microblogging platform that allows users to answer a simple question: "What are you doing?' You have 140 characters to say what you want to say with every update. Each update is called a "tweet". I have used twitter successfully to build a medium sized group of people who follow the updates about my personal life, project management and the PMP exam.

But every Friday I have to shake my head when I see how people manage to get Follow Friday totally wrong.

Follow Friday is one of the most popular Twitter activities - it is a weekly event on Fridays where everyone suggests other Twitter users to follow. In other words, you recommend people that you think your followers should also follow. This is a great way for you to help others grow their network

So why is everyone doing it absolutely, utterly, totally and supercalifragilisticexpialidociously wrong by posting tweets like the following:

FollowFriday @projectshrink @THE_REAL_SHAQ @bullyblends @dennisstevens @booktalk @brianbuck @corneliusficht @scottlaw1 @PMForum @razzaque

If you give me a list of 10-15 Twitter users that you think I should follow then you are wasting my time. This approach seems to me that you are taking the easy way out by simply listing 10 "random" names of twitter users. Granted, you may have put some thought into this, but I can't tell. It's just a list of names.

To show you what I mean let me ask you this: Would you do the same thing at a party? Would you just come up to me and say "Hey Cornelius, you must talk to the following 10 people here tonight - him, her, him, her, him, her, him, her, her and him. Bye now!"

The answer is: No.... you wouldn't do that. You would come up to me and say "Cornelius, I want you to meet someone. Follow me and I'll introduce you to Susan over there. I like what she has to say and I bet that you will find value in her thoughts, too."

That is why I have changed the way I do my FollowFriday tweets: I'm giving you one person per tweet and I include a reason why you should follow them. 

Judge for yourself... which of the following would you be more likely to follow:

The old way:

• Follow Friday:  @CoachM @thelazypm @PM-StrayDogg @pmstudent

The new way:

• Follow Friday: Margaret Meloni is @CoachM who inspires with her tweets & will lighten your day. Especially if you are working with jerks...
• Follow Friday: Peter Taylor aka @thelazypm - He tweets about how to be "productively lazy" on your projects. Some tweets are on dinosaurs.
• Follow Friday: @PM_StrayDogg (Dan Strayer) - He knows how to ride a Camel - and he can manage projects, too!
• Follow Friday: Are you starting out in Project Management? Need direction? Let @pmstudent guide you. Experts are welcome, too!

Yes, it's more work because you actually have to use your brain (instead of just the copy/paste function). But it shows your followers that you care, that you know the people you are recommending and and that you actually put some thought into your recommendations.

So join the revolution and tell my WHY I should follow your Friday recommendations!

Please do your part and RT this post followers - just copy paste this text into twitter and click Update: Avoid Unfollow Monday - Do Your Follow Friday's Right! http://bit.ly/o2tlj