Right tool for the right job creates the right solution.

My dad used to repeat that when I was growing up. At 81, he still practices that old saying.

In January, I got a first hand reminder from him how important it is to have the right tool for the right job.

I sat at his kitchen table pecking away on my computer in his Florida retirement home while mom stood at the kitchen sink peeling a banana. (She never goes a day without eating a banana.)

As I glanced out the garage, I saw dad standing on an 6 foot step ladder in the top of a giant crepe myrtle tree trimming the winter limbs.

I jumped to my feet, ran to the ladder and put my hand through his belt on his back to steady him while gently tugging him down. “Please, let me do this, Dad. I’m here to help.”

“I can do it,” he said. “I’m not an invalid.”

That’s true. At 81 and just six months after nearly dying from a gangrenous gall bladder infection which put him in an Atlanta hospital for 31 days, he can still work circles around me.

“I know. Just let me do this,” I said.

So, he climbed down. I’m much taller than dad, so I didn’t need the ladder. And besides, with the telescoping pruning shears he was wielding, I could reach nearly every limb and trim them easily.

The shears were sharp and exactly the right length.

For an hour, I clipped. Nearly exhausted in the January heat, I stumbled into the house while dad cleaned up the yard – for three more hours.

Mom smiled when I sat down, sipping my cold water. “I can’t stop him,” she said.

I’m the hardest working guy I know. I always have been. It’s in my blood. But my dad continues to outwork me. And because he has the right tools, he always gets more done. Our parents were always teaching us, one way or another. Some of the lessons stick.

That mantra still fills my mind: Right tool for the right job…

Hard work can become much more with smart tools was one that my dad taught me.

In my business, I focus on the right tools all the time. Tools help me get more done, and the right one is worth the investment.

Students and NAMS members ask me all the time, “Which tools should I buy? Which gurus should I follow? Which techniques should I incorporate?”

So, I’m answering those questions over the next month.

We’ll start with my top 20 tools. I’m going to work my way down from 20 to 1. I could have told you about the top 100. I use at least that many tools. But I decided to focus on the ones that I use on a regular basis, at least weekly. More likely, these are tools I’ll use daily.

Remember, right tool for the right job creates the right solution.

Today, I want you to tell you about CBEngine.com.

If you’re an affiliate marketer, you know that ClickBank offers a huge opportunity to provide quality digital products in nearly any niche.

But how do you decide which are worth your time, investment  and reputation? After all, every affiliate product recommendation is going to improve – or sink – your reputation.

I never, never, never refer a ClickBank product without researching it first on CBEngine.com to make sure that I’m referring the best product available in that niche.

But CBEngine.com does so much more. New products are highlighted at release. It allows me do search for products that meet specific criteria such as sales momentum (are other people selling it and is it converting?), helps me build ClickBank ads, determine profitability and a ton of other helpful utilities.

But here’s the kicker. You can get CBEngine for a single, one-time, lifetime fee that is incredibly cheap. But, you have to look for it. It’s kind of hidden on the site.

Instead of opting for the Pro membership which is an annual fee, click the small link on the front page that says “New Lifetime Membership”. The following image will pop up and you’ll have the opportunity to get the lifetime membership for the price indicated below.

Listen, I paid much more for this lifetime membership. You can get this now before it goes back to the regular price. You’ll use it for sales research, finding and promoting niche products for a long time to come.

Enjoy! And remember what my dad says: Right tool for the right job…

Did you know that Utility Poster stops writer’s block – or I guess, more appropriately, blogger’s block dead in it’s tracks?

Do you occasionally stare at that blank screen wondering what to feed the content monster today? It just sits there staring at you demanding to be fed, but you have nothing profound to say.

What if you could just provide a very fast roundup of keyword-targeted news that helped you delivered lots of content to your readers in a very short time?

And what if that news roundup helped you rank for hundreds of keywords and get you a ton of trackbacks?

Jack Humphrey, one of the foremost experts in blogging and blog marketing for high search rankings, has released a new app he uses to rank for over 6400 keywords in Google!

(That’s not a typo!  He ranks for more keywords than that, but he gets targeted traffic from just over 6400 keywords a month!)utility-poster-eliminates-bloggers-block

The reason he created the application was to give you a way to keep your blog active with high-quality, search friendly content and to get you trackback links.

Thank God he did because it’s one of my favorite tools for creating weekly round ups on some of my blogs. And it’s so simple, even I can do it in about 5 minutes. I know. I’ve been using it for a few months to check it out.

Those links help you get higher rankings for your blog posts by simply using a nearly-automated tool to create posts.

Its called “Utility Poster” and it is simply incredible software.

If you visit there now, fine, but be sure to read all of this to learn how to get an additional $20 discount.

• It works on PC and MAC – or anything else you can throw at it because it’s an Adobe AIR application
• It combines Utility Poster and his other two very popular programs: Video Utility Poster and Trackboost

So, here’s the key

You choose the topic by inputting your favorite keyword, choose the type of content by choosing the search category, and click Search. Voila – you’ve got a ton of possibilities for your news roundup.

Post relevant, keyword-rich, high-quality content in the form of snippets  from other blogs, videos from YouTube, Twitter tweets, and Flickr images – all based on whatever keyword you  search with.

You choose from the best conversations going on around the web in your target market and efficiently hand-pick what you include in your posts.

The results:

1. You own an active, engaging, relevant, and search friendly blog as if you were writing 100% original content.
2. You build links back to your site through trackbacks.
3. You build content readers WANT to experience rather than bland, spammy SEO articles that only satisfy the search engines but build no loyal following among readers.

Big tip on how to use Utility Poster for joint venture listbuilding

One of the favorite list building leverage techniques covered in our affiliate training here is to create “Top Lists” of category items such as “Top 20 SEO Techniques“.

But how do you find those techniques? And how do you find people to participate in the promotion?

Do a blog search using Utility Poster, put together the piece by dragging the 20 blog post snippets with links into your new post window (just as Jack shows in the demo video), contact the 20 bloggers and encourage them to promote the roundup article naming THEM as a top 20 technique.

Who wouldn’t want to promote your blog post if they were recognized as an expert in the post? And you’ve just put this together in about 10 minutes…choosing only the most targeted and effective posts to reference.

Other bloggers will willingly and happily link to you as if you wrote the whole thing from scratch.

And you can do in minutes what would normally take you hours to do for such quality posts!

The best way to experience the power of Utility Poster 3.0 is to watch Jack’s complete walk-through video here.

Utility Poster is going to take your blog to new heights in the search engines while cutting your blogging time to a fraction of what you spend now.

Never be afraid of the blank screen again. Now, you can post great content whether it’s video or blog posts or pictures with Utility Poster.

A secondary benefit of using this tool is one that Jack never addresses: Research!

This little tool allows you to quickly research a topic to gather some of the best info on the web already. You can use that information (and some images from Flickr) to create your own original material.

Don’t overlook this – because nothing triggers original writing like reading through and rewriting other people’s material and adding your own twist.

Utility Poster dominates in this department.

So, what’s wrong with Utility Poster:

If Jack Humphrey was sitting in front of me and ask me what I didn’t like about the program, I’d mention two things:

1. The sort order of the blog posts can be a little random sometimes, especially in the date field. While I want my posts to be the latest, I’d like to be able to choose whether they should be in chronological order or relevance order as it already is with the Youtube search options.
2. I’d like to see a Google search or even a Google News search option in addition to the Google Blog Search.

But that’s it.

Now, to purchase this cool tool, Jack has it priced it to sell at $67 on the sales page, but here’s a tip:

Leave the page, and you’ll get a second chance to buy it at just $47.

It will be one of the best $47 you’ll ever spend. (Don’t tell him I told you about this tip. I paid full-freight for Utility Poster!)