A CMS is defined as:

A system for the creation, modification, archiving and removal of information resources from an organised repository. Includes tools for publishing, format management, revision control, indexing, search and retrieval.
members.optusnet.com.au/~webindexing/Webbook2Ed/glossary.htm

What this means in human speak is a script that allows you to not have any html experience and be able to manage your content. Like put it online, edit it, and that type of thing.

The best example of a CMS is a blog. Namely the script from WordPress.org. It’s actually what runs this site. Whenever I want to put more content onto this site, I just login to my admin area type it and click publish and bam… It’s live.

Now there’s a lot of things that my blog didn’t do when I first installed it here. Like it wouldn’t automatically hyper link links like this: TomeyMarketing.com If I typed it in like this www.TomeyMarketing.com it would. So I found a “plugin” that I just uploaded to my blog and activated that automatically makes my links clickable for me. That is a very simple example of a plugin. You can find plugins to make your blog do just about anything.

Other CMS also have this plugin function. If your CMS doesn’t do what you want it to do, you can just find a plugin to make it do what you want. No code to edit or anything like that. You upload it, activate it, and it’s ready to roll for you.

CMS are the future of the Internet, and it’s time to start educating yourself about them. They will make your life as an Internet marketer much easier and they have many things about them that the search engines love. Free traffic is yet another reason to use them.

So, what would you use a CMS for?

We just talked about blogs. And a blog is definitely beneficial to your business. You can use them for branding, selling advertising from them, charging and access fee and more. I’ve actually built several blogs up and sold them. Paul Short over at www.bloglogic.net has done the same thing.

But besides a blog there are also a few other types of CMS that you can use in your business like Joomla…

Joomla is just mind blowing. There are so many things you can make it do like running a membership, running advertising sites, forums, and a ton more. You can get the vanilla joomla script for free from Joomla.org And they have a ton of plugins (that they call extensions) at extensions.joomla.org

I’m predicting that Joomla is going to be a HUGE topic in Internet marketing, and A LOT of products are going to be coming out about it and for it. There’s one of my infamous predictions.

Mambo is another great CMS out there. I’ve seen many people using it to run membership sites. Especially ones outside the Internet marketing niche. Drupal is yet another one.

All these can be found for free… There’s tons of tutorials, plugins, videos and you name it for all of them.

Here’s the deal though…

I haven’t seen one CMS yet that can do it all for Internet marketers. Something that will support membership sites, downloads, affiliates, help desk, the whole entire package until this….

tomeymarketing.com/recommends/ChangingIMForU

It’s called CMS Infusion and wont be out until June 5th, and I already have a copy of it. It’s from Simon Hodgkinson and Jeremy Gislason who in my honest opinion are way ahead of their times. These guys are amazing when it comes to technology for Internet marketers.

So over the next few weeks, you’ll get to watch me in my video diary as I use CMS Infusion. When it’s released on June 5th, I’ll have several bonuses for you, and one great big huge special surprise that I wont be revealing until a few days before launch, so stay tuned…

While you’re waiting for the first entry into my “Video Diary” for CMS Infusion check out these videos… tomeymarketing.com/recommends/ChangingIMForU

Posted on May 25th, 2007 by Liz Tomey
Filed under: IM Techy Stuff