If you’ve been following our posts, then you know that we’ve been working behind the scenes for several months on a really big project that we believe will change the way people do business online.

It’s called Shopper Approved.

Shopper Approved is a state-of-the-art customer rating and review service, specifically designed to help e-commerce websites effectively gather, and then prominently display customer feedback, in order to help entice, educate and motivate new potential customers to buy.

We’ve been running several live-beta tests over the last couple months, and the results have been nothing short of amazing, with nearly 1 out of every 2 customers providing initial ratings and/or reviews, and almost 1 out of every 3 customers opting-in to fill out a full survey once they receive their order!

People in our beta test are getting tons of great ratings, reviews and testimonials – all automatically! This is the kind of social proof every website needs.

We’re just about to officially open the doors, but before we do, we need your help in choosing the final seal design from 3 possible contenders.

Please select the overall seal design below that:

1 – you like the best, and
2 – that you think your customers will be most likely to respond to

Once again, thank you for your participation and ongoing support. On behalf of myself and everyone here at Trust Guard, I want you to know that we appreciate the opportunity to serve you, and we look forward to working with you in 2010!

Sincerely,

Scott Brandley, CEO
Trust Guard

Tags: New, Shopper Approved, sneak peek, Trust Guard

I was talking to Mike Filsaime on the phone the other day, discussing the big reveal that we’re doing with him in February regarding several ‘behind-the-scenes’ split tests we’ve been doing with his company over the past year, to see which companies have the most effective, highest converting trust seals.

We’ve tested Trust Guard against some of our major competitors, and the results are amazing (so look for the big news in February of next year)!

Anyways, as I was talking to him, he told me he was going to be in Vegas next month to meet with his partners on his 7 Figure Code re-launch. That caught my interest.

Turns out he’s decided to give away 10,000, yes that’s Ten Thousand copies of his best-selling ‘7 Figure Code‘ course away for free!

He’s sold thousands of copies of this course for $1,297 and now he’s giving it away. The best part is that there are no catches, no monthly commitments, no fixed continuity or any of that stuff.

The one catch however, is that he’s giving all 10,000 away on a first come, first served basis starting on Dec. 15th, BUT you can go get on the early-bird list right now. Just go to http://download.the7figurecode.com and sign up to get your free copy today!

For those of you that know Mike, he is a great guy and he has helped literally tens of thousands of website owners build, improve, and run their businesses online.

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Tags: Course, Free, Mike Filsaime, The 7 Figure Code, Trust Guard, Trust Guard Insider

Garrett Pierson, our Operations Manager here at Trust Guard, came into my office today and told me that his brand new Building Social Equity 2.0 step-by-step video course was finished, and that he wanted to give a bunch of his brand new videos and content away to our members to help educate them about the incredible power and influence that Social Media Marketing can have on their websites.

Listen to my Trust Guard Insider interview with Garrett below:

http://www.buildingsocialequity.com/

For those of you that don’t know, Garrett is a Social Marketing Expert that has not only helped to build Trust Guard online, but has also personally trained a number of well-known online experts, including Alex Mandossian, his staff, and many other individuals and companies.

If you’re tired of repeatedly beating your head against your desk trying to get to the top of the search engines, then it’s time to try the ‘other white meat’ – social marketing (also known as web 2.0).

For example…

Instead of Google, try WordPress
Instead of Yahoo, try Facebook
Instead of MSN/Bing, try Hubpages

Or even better, do all of the above! Each of these social marketing sites is like it’s own gigantic search engine, and some of these sites get more traffic than Google! (Yes, you read that correctly.)

Even better, all of these sites show up at the top of Google, so if you build pages in these social sites, guess where they show up?

Joel Comm said this of Garrett:”A new face on the business scene, Garrett is one to watch!”

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Tags: 2.0, Building Social Equity, Garrett Pierson, SEO, Social Media, Social Media Marketing

Thanks to your ongoing patronage and support, Trust Guard continues to grow and develop, helping thousands of online businesses of all shapes and sizes improve their online trust and increase their sales – from brand new startups to multi-national publicly traded companies.

We anticipate 2010 to be an incredible year for Trust Guard, with anticipated seal views exceeding 2.5 billion by over 400 million people.

In an effort to continually improve our services, we feel that a new, modern seal design should be added to our lineup, which is why we would like to propose the addition of our new Trust Guard ‘Chrome’ design.

While the new Chrome design retains the 4 standard sizes, we’ve decided to make it one solid color instead of the traditional two-tone design. What makes the Chrome seal stand out, is the use of color hues to make it appear to be reflective, like chrome or glass. We’ve also added some additional color options to the Chrome design that aren’t available in our other seal designs, namely charcoal and silver.

So, what do you think? We would love to know! Please cast your vote below.

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Tags: Chrome, new seal design, Poll, Trust Guard, Trust Seals