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Blog Classroom: Nearly 3,000 Free Unique Visitors…

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Here's a quick update on the FREE Blog Classroom training if you haven't already joined in…

We now have a total of close to 350 comments, over 200 blogs submitted, many of which are BRAND-NEW — installed after watching our videos!

There are already 3 homework assignments posted, but you can still participate, watch the videos and get your blog up and running… today.

Videos currently on the blog include:

  1. How to Install Your Blog in 3 Easy Steps
  2. Setting-up For SEO
  3. The Power of the Long-Tail Keywords (Tons of Free Traffic)

And we still have a way to go! 5 more free videos, 2 LIVE webinars and a secret interview with one of the top bloggers in the world…

For more information on how to access your free blogging instructional videos, listen to Anik's personal message for you at BlogClassroom.com.

Spinning Your Wheels?

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I often hear Internet marketers who are not making money online use the term ‘spinning my wheels‘ to describe how frustrated they are with what they're doing… or NOT doing.

They report working on sites for 40 hours per week for over a year; or that they've started 5, 10 and sometimes 20 different sites – and still haven't earned a pittance.

The term ‘spinning my wheels‘ is a very telling metaphor. Being from Canada, when I see someone really spinning their wheels, it tells me that the person doesn't know how to drive for conditions… and I've seen it a thousand times.

The guy who guns the gas at the intersection and ends up standing still. Someone who takes a corner too fast and ends up wrecked in the ditch. The ill-informed who use ‘all-season' radials (believing that they're an acceptable substitute for winter tires) and wonder why they have no traction or control. Of course, there are the grannies who top out at 5k an hour… and blessed are they that stay home. 🙂

Sure… we all have to learn, but the uneducated get themselves needlessly into situations that risk their lives and the lives of others.

Granted, starting an online business without a proper education might not mean risking life and limb — but doing so could risk your life savings or ruin your marriage – and I do know a few to whom that has happened.

Here's a clue to the trap that they fall into…

Many of those ‘wheel spinning' newbie entrepeneurs buy every $999 or $1999 course that promises to reveal the latest ‘tricks of the trade', but have never invested in a basic business course at a fraction of the cost.

Why?

Because they can ‘learn all the basics in the forums'.

Uh… huh. Sure they can. NOT.

When I need to know something (about anything), I ask a professional – and where's the guarantee that the person giving the advice on one or another forum is a professional? From what I've seen, really bad advice gets shared on forums, as well as the good — but when you're just starting out… how do you tell the difference?

Furthermore, you can spend an awful lot of time searching for advice online and either come up with nothing at all, too many different opinions or a really good answer that is so far above your head that you'd have no idea how to make it work.

That's why successful business people all have their own libraries of reference materials related to sales, marketing, customer service, etc., etc.

My office library, shown here in the photograph to the right, didn't have a single business book on the shelf when I started my Internet business in 1998 — but today it is chock a block FULL of business manuals.

There are books and courses about sales, marketing, affiliate marketing, traffic generation, and copywriting. I have a section just for inspiration and motivation that includes the stories of successful business people. Of course, there are a bunch of Revenue magazines (I keep every issue) and if you peer really close at the top shelf, second door from the left, you'll see a copy of the course that I think is ESSENTIAL READING for EVERYONE who wants to start an Internet business…

… the Internet Marketing Center's Insider's Secrets to Marketing Your Business on the Internet.

If you've been following my work for any length of time, you might know that “Insiders Secrets” was the first course that I purchased and that I've picked up every edition as they've been revised over the years.

You can read more about the l latest version of Insider's Secrets here

E-commerce is not rocket science and there is no reason you should be spending any time spinning your wheels as you try to get your business off the ground.

It is about doing it right – right from the start. And this course will help you get that “right start” for a very modest investment.

HOT OFF THE PRESS:
Derek Gehl's best-selling system “Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Business on the Internet” VERSION 2009!

If you want to…

  1. Start your own Internet business in 48 hours or less…

  2. Explode the profits of your existing website by 437%
    (or more!)…

  3. Take an offline business online and expose it to MILLIONS of online shoppers…

… You NEED to get your hands on these 800+ pages of step-by-step Internet marketing strategies and website case studies… tested and proven in over 1,000 online businesses!

To learn how you can test drive this powerful step-by-step system RISK FREE, click here…

How They Saved 7K+…

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Call me nuts.

I turned down a 7.5K consulting job the other day with 2 fellows who wanted me to help them get an affiliate site and PPC campaigns up and running to profitability. (Actually, they'd initially offered me 10K and I offered to do it for 7.5K.)

On the surface, the job would have been relatively simple.

One of them had read my book and already had a great understanding of the affiliate marketing process that I've used successfully since 1998.

Furthermore, the niche they picked was great – I could easily have helped them turn a profit in that sector.

Moreover, I LOVE working with clients who plan to do things right from the outset – and that's incorporate PPC advertising into their affiliate marketing plan.

So, why did I turn them down? [Read more…]

Mindmapping for Info Marketers

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Have you ever wondered how top information marketers really THINK?

Would you like to know exactly how they build those big comprehensive projects and products? i.e. How do they think up all the elements and then organize them into a useful whole without going crazy?

Well, Yanik Silver has produced 3 videos that will give you insight. In the videos, he details his own thinking processes, including how he uses “mindmapping” to brainstorm new products, generate ‘hooks' and how he manages to organize his ideas so he can see everything all in one place.

This information is straight from Yanik's two sold-out $5,000.00 per person & $10,000.00 per person workshops he conducted during the past year. During those workshops he taught attendees everything he knows about how he sold $12M of information products with ONLY his wife helping him… i.e. he makes millions with NO employees! Amazing!

The free video training includes:

  1. The “Oil well video” details the model Yanik has used to build his own information empire… and I do mean EMPIRE.
  2. “5 Big Ideas” shows 5 ways to formulate a big idea or hook that instantly sells your product or service
  3. “Using The Power of Mindmapping to Create Your Best-Selling Info Product“

These are good videos to watch (the mindmapping one in particular) even if you don't plan to build a big product. They can be used to help you figure out your next site topic, figure out a better sales pitch or organize your thoughts around an article that you're writing.

Enjoy!

Project Black Mask Review

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If you are as uncomfortable as I am with ‘black hat’ or ‘grey hat’ SEO techniques then Project Black Mask – the latest ‘tell all' Adsense product for affiliate marketers – is definitely not for you.

Project Black Mask is the next-in-series of IM products by Chris X, the author of Day Job Killer, Affiliate Project X, and Adwords Miracle.

I read it about a week ago and quite frankly, there's NO WAY I would take this approach to making an affiliate income. Seriously, why would anyone want to invest in 100's or thousands of domains to make a dollar a day (probably less) on each through Adsense, when they can earn at least as much or more selling real products as a content publisher through just one, two or three sites?

Granted, the content publisher approach always appears to be too much like work for some folks – especially those who hate to write, don't want to pay for PLR or ghostwriters, or have no time or inclination to build a list and create real relationships with newsletter subscribers.

If that describes your take on content publishing as an affiliate marketer, then perhaps Chris' approach will seem like a godsend, but don't say that I didn't warn you about domain or software outlays or, if this technique eventually turns out to be another flash in the pan approach to affiliate marketing.

All that said, one section of Chris' book that is worth it's weight in gold is the keyword list generation chapter. He says, “I’m a keyword addict. I collect good keywords like a museum collects expensive paintings” and it's obvious to this ‘keyword addict' that Chris knows exactly what he's talking about when it comes to keyword research and generation.

Chris tells you exactly how to build and use big beautiful lists of longtail keywords. It's absolutely fabulous information and in my opinion, worth the price of admission, whether you're into black hat SEO or a by-the-book white hat affiliate marketer like myself.

Visit Project Black Mask

Super Affiliate Handbook Updated for 2007

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Super Affiliate HandbookI just finished another hefty revision on the Super Affiliate Handbook, bringing it completely up to date for 2007.

My primary objective with this revision was to reduce or completely eliminate some barriers to entry for new affiliate marketers – primarily those associated with web-site building.

The book therefore now includes step-by-step instructions for setting up and working with a blog and there are tons of screenshots that show every step of the process.

In a nutshell, through the update you will:

  • Learn how to Install a Blog in 7 easy steps with screenshots to show you every step of the process.
  • Learn how to Post to your Blog.
  • Learn how to put a new Page on your Blog.
  • See how to add Categories and Sub-categories to your Blog.
  • Discover how Keyword and Niche Market Research just got a whole lot easier.
  • Learn how to Set File Permissions with and without FTP.
  • See exactly how to Install Links in your posts and pages.
  • Learn how to put Images in your Posts and Pages.
  • See exactly how to Install a New Theme (look) for your blog.
  • Learn more about Contextual Advertising and where to find the most recommended contextual advertising networks.
  • See how to put Google Adsense on your blog.
  • See 116 Screenshots of how everything works!

The latest version was uploaded late on May 31st.

Those who purchased on or after December 1st, 2006 (until the time of the upload) should have received email notification of the download location which will be available until June 6th, 2007.

If you qualify and missed this message, kindly contact us through the Support Desk (provide your receipt number please) and we'll resend the download instructions.

For owners of the handbook who purchased between December 1st, 2005 and November 30th, 2006, we are in the process of setting up a sizeable discount for you and you will be advised by email when it is available.

Oh, and by the way, the book is still priced at a ridiculously low $47… 🙂

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