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Happy New Year! 2010 will be simply amazing, I can feel it and not only because it’s the year of the Tiger (I am a tiger).
The 2009… well 2009 has thought me a lot. About life, about business, about people. In 2009 I learned about something called Karma. I have helped many people (in the online marketing sphere) without expecting anything in return - most of the time though the favor was returned, in better ways that I could ever expect… Karma. I have learned that Dale Carnegie was right all along, for the past 70-some years his book has been a bestseller and there is a reason for it (to find out more read my post; The 5 Books Every Marketer Must Read).
Listening first, selling second. This will be my drive for 2010. Since I started my free internet marketing course, over 6,000 signed up to it, many of them are now doing Internet Marketing full time, some are taking it slower and some… well let’s not fool anyone, some people simply gave up. Not everyone will succeed in this industry. A successful career in IM, just like in any other field requires effort, time and patience. Not everyone’s got it. In some case people can’t manage their time and simply waste it without being productive… maybe a boring 9 to 5 is better for some.
In 2010 I will be working hard but it’ll be fun. I will be leaving Canada for 6-8 months and I will be living in Europe… Germany, Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, UK - I’ll be all over the place yet I will be working at the same time as traveling. As long as I have an internet connection, I am set… That’s what it’s all about, for me at least. My free course will only get better, I will be producing a lot more content to share with everyone, priceless content that will give you a huge advantage over the competitor marketers and most of this content will be distributed free of charge! I understand that other marketers might charge thousands of dollars for their courses and seminars yet they teach same techniques I do. You might call it crazy but I will disagree… I call it KARMA I truly believe that by helping other people and trying to make this world a better place will also benefit me, somehow. If not monetary than mentally. This world has been going down the train, people become more and more selfish - at least in North America, well I will not follow the same path and whatever will happen - will happen for the better.
So yep, the 2010 is going to be an amazing year for all of us!
Stay tuned, I will be updating this blog more and more often!
I wish lots of happiness, health and success to you and your loved ones.
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I can’t believe I haven’t updated this blog in over 5 months. I guess I was too busy; you know - the weather was nice and I didn’t want to stay home.
Well, I am back to “work”. This Thursday (and the past Thursday) I participated in a private phone conference on internet marketing and it was really awesome!
A few guys from Wealthy Affiliate ( Andrew and Fred ) decided to do a phone conference so Andrew, as an experienced and successful internet marketer could reveal some of his techniques and could help other folks to succeed online. When I heard about it, I decided to join in and offered my help, I have been doing Internet Marketing for over two years now so I thought it would be great way to meet some new people and help them out.
There were a lot of question but I believe a lot of questions got answered, with a lot of details and everyone got tons of value from this 2 hour long call, also the fact that it was completely free of charge made this whole experience priceless for many attendees. Andrew and I even let out some of our hidden secrets; some strategies, site names and very profitable niches have been revealed. I am sure those who took notes during this phone conference might be making lots of money in the very near future (of course if the proper action is applied, simply taking notes and thinking about them is not enough )
Andrew has suggested that we make this coaching a weekly thing - so next Thursday it’s on once again! We will start with keyword research and move along the direction it’ll take. I can promise lots of genuinely valuable information that most “big boys” out there sell as the “Next Big Thing” and will charge thousands of dollars for, we do it for our personal pleasure, will to help the others and completely free of charge!
This private phone training is open to all Wealthy Affiliate members, so login to WA, open the forum, General Discussion and open up the thread called “SKYPE MEETING” there you will find out how to register for these mind blowing conferences. Till then,
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Hello, Warriors!
One of my Youtube videos got over 5,000 views in the past 3 months or so.
I know it isn’t much but that’s not much but the thread is not about getting views, the thread is about learning more about your targeted audience. The better you know them, the easier you can connect with them.
So, this video is within the “Make Money From Home” industry (yes, “industry” and not “niche”).
When you are logged in there is a button next to the video, it says “INSIGHTS”. I never really noticed it until today, so I clicked to see what it was for and I am so glad I did! Here is the image I saw about my video:
Now, knowing that 75% of my video viewers are man and only 25% are women, also knowing that about 25% of my viewers are in the 35-44 age group and 35% of them are in the 45-54 age group… How much easier do you think marketing just got for me? (at least for marketing on the sunject of that video)…
Knowing that about 60% of my viewers are guys who are between 35-55 years old - it will certainly help me market to them.
There are a few more very interesting stats in the “INSIGHT” section, such as which parts of your video are most and least watched, where the traffic come from (embedded videos, related videos…etc), really worth a look!
… It just surprised me how such great free resources are disregarded and appreciated! Well, now I know and I hope this will help some of you as well
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People are scared of scams. Not only scared, people suspect everything is a scam even if they cannot possibly be scammed… Let me explain.
My site, Extra Paycheck and my Extra Paycheck Blog get a lot of hits from Google and Yahoo while people are searching this keyword phrase: Extra-Paycheck.com Scam and to be honest this is rather amuzing to me. As you are most likely aware, the Extra-Paycheck is a free e-mail course to making money online (mostly affiliate marketing).
SCAM, at least to me, means taking people’s money and running away with it without providing promised product/service, so even if I was not delivering what I promise, I offer it 100% free - no money involved… ever! All I ask for is an e-mail address where I could send the content.
After seeing these results, I hit the Adwords Keyword Tool and did a search on many internet matketing related products, free and paid and of course, most searches came using “Product + Scam” keyword phrases. Even the big names, such as Frank Kern, Jeff Walker and many others were searched with the word “scam” at the end.
I guess people do have the right to be scpetical about certain things, but when it comes to free newsletters that only require an e-mail address - how could there possibly be a scam? What do you think about people fear of “scam”?
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Hello, folks!
Today Hostgator is running a special Black Friday offer! They are giving away a 75% discount on their plans!
So the ‘BABY’ plan (Unlimited bandwidth, unlimited domains…) is about $27 today instead of the regular $120! This is the first time ever they run such a huge discount! The deal is good even for 3 year contracts, where you will pay about $71 instead of $350! They even offer reseller accounts at 75% OFF!
update: If you see this post AFTER November 28th, unfortunately the offer has expired. HOWEVER, you can get a 20% discount on all Hostgator plans using the code ‘SNOWMAN’
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THIS POST does not bring any value - Don’t Read It!
(dear Mr. Kern, please don’t sue me for using your photo in my blog post:)
Well, first of all - nothing against Frank. I love this guy’s content, in fact I think he is one of the greatest marketers ever! So what’s all this really about?
You see, I usually have very short hair. I get a hair cut every 2-3 weeks… I haven’t cut it for a month now, however, I want to make it clear - I don’t like to have long hair. So I made up this stupid goal; “I will only cut my hair when I am back on track, making $10,000/month once again…” See, I have been lazy lately and haven’t worked on my promotions… and being lazy kills a beginner marketer, more importantly it kills his income!
So I though, as I see my hair grow longer and longer - I will be more motivated to work more and make that $10,000/month+…
I do wish I’d become as successful as Frank Kern, however I don’t want to resemble him simply because of the long hair
How long do you give me until I cut my hair? (a.k.a Make $10k)
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Hey folks!
How are your online campaigns rolling? I hope they’re making you some decent moolah!
Anyways… So today I was suppose to launch LingoBasics.com, another Clickbank Product… but it didn’t happen. Only today I realized how many OFFLINE factors could affect the actual online business. If you’re in for a little story - than keep on reading.
Today at noon I was making some final touches to the LingoBasic’s sales page, and I was about to send out an e-mail to my affiliates about the program launching at 5p.m.
Before going really deep into all of this, I decided to take my dog for a walk. Spending 30 minutes on the fresh air ( hummm… who am I kidding; Heavily Polluted Metropolitan Air is not fresh), anyhow, after taking a half -an-hour walk I got a boost of energy and was ready to go all in on that product launch. So, I get beck to my computer, open up AWEBER and start writing an e-mail to ny affiliates and all of the sudden - BANG!
… my pc shuts down. In a few short seconds I realize there is no electricity at home! What a great reason to go outside and buy a coffee! As I make it to Tim Hortons (Very popular Canadian coffee shop) which is located only two blocks away from home, I find out, to my disappointment that they also don’t have electricity hence they can’t sell anything. It appears that a few neighborhoods (including mine) don’t have any power.
I start getting a little worried and upset. I have to launch a product, I was also planning on watching the Prime Minister debate on TV (Canadian elections are coming up) and well, a few more things…3p.m, 4p.m 5p.m… 9p.m… still not power! Starting to get bored and sleepy I get into my car to go for a drive downtown, where I can finally get my coffee. Local radio station announces that some excavations in my part of the town damage the power lines but it should be fixed soon enough! Well, what do you know? 10:30 p.m the Light is finally back on!
I have never been that happy to waste some electricity and I honestly do believe I wouldn’t be able to live without it… As you can see, a little mistake made by construction workers ruined my product launch and well - it ruined the whole day for me. The online business does not only depend on Keywords and Traffic - it depends on so many other things we can’t control…
Lesson to be learned? I need a laptop with a copy of EACH and EVERY document that I have on my PC - if I had that, I would have been able to go work in a downtown café… One more thing to buy ASAP.
Feel free to share your personal stories about OFFLINE factors that affect your ONLINE business, in a good or a bad way!
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Hey, folks!
Today was a lazy Sunday… As I set down to work on my next landing page, I somehow ended up on Youtube (it keeps happening to me…lol) anyways, I was watching all these completely unrelated videos and stumbled across something - rather unique.
We all know about the so-called Search Engine Wars. Google is the best, Yahoo! keeps trying to beat Google but this most likely will never happen, then MSN tries to get its share and so on… Search Engine Wars indeed! But these guys at searchenginerapbattle.com came up with something really funny and I suggest you all to check it out and have a good laugh!
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Hello, folks! This post is inspired by a thread started by “domainiac” on one of the Internet Marketing forums. I added some spice to this combo, a way to get better results. So, let’s begin the domination of Google’s first page.
1 ) We are going to use Wordtracker Gtrends Keyword Tool. Search the main keyword. Then, pick the ones you want to use. On the right side of each keyword you will see a little icon (3 bars) if you click on that icon, a new page will open. This page gives you the number of competitors for this keyword phrase - it also gives you a number of CLICKS that keyword gets (assuming it is the result #1 ob the first page of Google).
2 ) So, you selected 3 keywords phrases, now you need to register 3 blogs on Blogger.com and 3 blogs on Wordpress.com. Each blog’s URL must contain one of the keyword phrases, use dashes for blogger. Example:
how-to-learn-spanish.blogspot.com and howtolearnspanish.wordpress.com - all 6 domains MUST be available.
3 ) After you registered all 6 blogs, write 2 paragraphs. Each paragraph must contain all 3 keyword phrases. If out phrases are; Learn Spanish, How to Learn Spanish and Learn Spanish Online, the first paragraph will look like this: “You have always wanted to Learn Spanish. Learning a new language might not be as difficult as it seems, so How to Learn Spanish with ease? The quickest way is to Learn Spanish Online. It is cheap, quick and effective…” as you see, the paragraph uses all 3 keyword phrases. The second paragraph will do the same.
4 ) Post these 2 paragraphs to EACH blog. Now make EACH keyword phrase in the blog (total 6 in 2 paragraphs) into your affiliate link. However, I prefer to link them all to a landing page. More on this later.
5 ) Go to FeedAge.com and submit the RSS FEED of EACH blog. The RSS feed of your blogger blog will look like this: http: / /YOUR-BLOG-NAME.blogger.com/feeds/posts/default and the RSS FEED of your Wordpress blogs will look like this: http: / /YourBlogName.wordpress.com/feed Also submit your blogs to Ping-o-matic!, Digg and StumbleUpon and every other social bookmarking directory you can possible find. To make this task a little easier (in the future) I recommend SocialMarker. I blogged about it in another post, Social Bookmarking or Highway to Backlinks. I suggest you to read that post before continuing. Also add all your blogs to MyBlogLog.
6 ) Make a Squidoo lens (or better 3 lenses - 1 per keyword phrase. Create links in these lenses LINKING to Your LANDING page (which you will build with Weebly.com or a site builder of your choice). Digg and Stumble both; Weebly site and Squidoo lenses.
7 ) Write 2 or 3 articles for EACH keyword phrase you chose. Make sure the articles are between 300-400 words. Submit these articles to EzineArticles. Make sure that your keywords are in the title of the article. After EA has approved your articles, you will be able to find your “Author’s page RSS FEED”, submit this RSS feed to FeedAge.com. Also, take these articles and post them in your blogs, 2 per day. Let’s say you wrote 6 articles. You will make 2 new post on each blog per day (during 3 days), this means each blog will receive 6 new posts within 3 days - Google likes it when you update After submitting new BLOG posts, click on the title of the post and you will see the exact address of the post in the ADDRESS BAR. It will look like: YOUR-BLOG-NAME.blogger.com/post1-How-to-learn-spanish - or something of that sort. Copy that link and submit it to Ping-o-matic. Do this for each new post. Submit all these articles to OTHER article directories, such as GoArticles, ArticleCity… etc. Link ALL THE ARTICLES, including the ones posted on EA to your landing page - this will give your landing page more backlinks and more authority.
8 ) Last but not least. Video Marketing. You can make a 1-2 minutes video very fast. Either film yourself using a webcam, capture your screen with a software (I use CAMTASIA, but I am sure there are some free ones) or simply make a slide show using images, music and text. PC people will most likely use Windows Movie Maker, MAC people will use iMovie. Both are very easy to use. Here is a SAMPLE video - I am sure you can do better than that: Watch This Video.
A few important things. When writing the description of the video, you should ALWAYS start like this: http://YourWebsite… If you write your link in this format, it will become BLUE and CLICKABLE, people will be more tempted to visit your site they they only CLICK and are not obliged to TYPE the address. Now, the important part… Create an account at TubeMogul and upload your video there. This service allows you to upload 1 video to Youtube, Myspace Video, Metacafe, Yahoo Video, Revver, AOL Video, Google video, Veoh and a few other video sites! And the SEARCH ENGINES love videos! You will often find videos ranking very high in the results of search engines.
9 ) Last but not least. Add your video to your Website, blogs and Squidoo. Don’t forget to DIGG and Stumble your videos as well…
Yes, it does take some times. But within a week you will have at least 1 of your links on the first page of Google for whatever keyword phrase you picked in the first step. Most likely you will get several listings in the first page.
TIP: Try to find keyword phrases that get a decent amount of daily searches and less than 100,000 competitors. (To see the # of competitors for your keyword phrases, use “brackets” when searching that phrase in Google. EXAMPLE: Instead of searching: Learn Spanish, search for “Learn Spanish”)
10 ) Now you have the MOST important thing to do:
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Wow. I just logged into my Wealthy Affiliateaccount and I had received a private message from a member, telling me how SHE was inspired by MY story… This person read READ my first post in WA forum (that I made back in 2007) and then she watched my video where I show my $7,000/month Clickbank account.
Well, re-reading my forum post - it really made my smile… It goes like this:
“I just spent my last $30.
Hi everyone.
Here is the deal… I made 4-5 CB sales in last 5 months - by miracle.
I won’t even show you that site where I was promoting the products as I no longer use it. Now I decided to RESTART my online career, I saw the video that was done by Travis back in 2006 and was hoping some of you could help. I do not know if I’ll stay here for more then a month - I lost my job 3 months ago - and the bills are starting to pile up - I’m scared I will have to get another 8-5 job.
Thank You,
Hopeless.”
Hopeless indeed. Now I realize that I have been an Internet Marketer for almost 1 year. I realize that I went from broke to making over $10,000 per month… I realize that I went from “SLAVE” to a “FREE MAN”… Sure, Wealthy Affiliate helped a lot but it’s not the point. I just wanted to say that it can be done.
“Impossible is Nothing”
It was my last $30 - and probably the best $30 I ever spent…
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(I originally posted it in Wealthy Affiliate Forum, then I though I should share this with my blog readers… Enjoy! )
Hey, folks!
… in the past few months I have met quite a few people, in real life and in the cyber space - all these people were trying to make some money on the internet.
Many of these people eventually gave up.
Here is a little advice and a little story from me.
When I started in October 2007 - I had a goal; to make a sale.
Once it was achieved - I made another goal - make at least a sale per day… it took a few months - but I got there… And guess what? I wouldn’t give up - I make another goal; To have at least $100 day - EVERY DAY.
… Guess what - I achieved it in February 2008.
I also had another goal in mind, I even posted about it on WA - You see, I am a car freak, so my goal was to buy a 2008 VW R32 this summer… $30 000.
I do not own this car and here is why:
- These cars are only available in the USA and are not legal in Canada
- I already own a 2007 VW…
- I found better use for the money…
… So I made another goal - a $500 day… I had a few 400$ days, but never got to 500$, until yesterday:
I guess you already know my next goal? Yes, $500 days all the time
So what is the point of the thread?
YOU NEED A GOAL. YOU NEED SOMETHING TO KEEP YOU MOTIVATED.
Wanting to earn some extra ca$h is not enough - tell yourself EXACTLY how much you want to earn - then go for it!
Let it be a house. a Ferrari, or $10 M… You need a GOAL, this way you will work towards it.
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Hey folks!
This will come as a self-motivation post, in my situation still related to Internet Marketing…
… I still remember how 1 year ago I was working my 9 to 5 and how tired I was when I’d get home after work. My girlfriend almost broke up with me at one point because I have become so lifeless… Besides, I never had enough money to take a nice vacation. Forget the vacation - I couldn’t afford a nice night out!
Some people go through life HAPPY even though working regular jobs, but these people are doing something they LOVE to do. Let’s say a Chef at a fancy restaurant or a pilot, but only FEW people actually love their jobs - I hated mine.
Tonight I came home a bit past midnight after a nice night downtown with some friends. We stayed at a cozy terrace on Crescent street where the Montreal Grand Prix (Formula 1) festivities are taking place. And as I got home, I felt that huge wave of happiness! I have been out the whole day and I still made $300! Can you do that with a 9-5 job? I also received my tickets to Sensation White - the biggest dance event that takes place in Amsterdam. This will actually be my first vacation out of Canada - EVER.
There are many other little things in my life that are going exactly the way I always wanted them to go. Without Internet Marketing I would have never be where I am now. I am officially happy with my life…
I am sorry for the rant, but I am so hyped at this moment - I just had to post this!
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Recently I read a post on the Official Clickbank Blog called “Takin’ Care of Business” by Monty Sooter. It made me think about my own friends and even family in some cases:
- Alex, you are going on a vacation to Europe, but you don’t even have a regular job, where do you get the money?
- Well, I am an Internet Marketer
- Oh, you scam people?
… This is how it goes most of the time. Regular folks simply do not believe that I am working only a few hours a week yet I earn more than they do. Okay, even if they believe that facts - they do not believe everything is legit, they think there is a catch. So, I try to explain it to them in an easier way:
- You know eBay right? Okay, now eBay offers a program where I promote items that are already being sold on eBay and if someone purchases through my promotion I get paid a small commission…
- Ebay does that? Dude, it sounds too easy… I mean it’s cool and all but where does the scam come in?
… At this moment I give up. I tell them to do their 9 to 5 while I am enjoying my vacation in Amsterdam. Some people just LOVE to make their life harder and miserable - and I am not going to blame them. I love my Internet Marketing career, I hate the MLM and other kinds of scam, and I will keep on working online as long as the Internet exists!
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Here is an amusing post. I found this posted on Wealthy Affiliate Forum by Jay, however it seems to be an original post from Super Affiliate Mindset blog. Enjoy!
1.Don’t stick with one affiliate marketing strategy for very long. Once you’ve tried something for a month with no results try something else. Keep jumping around constantly : SEO, PPC, facebook, article marketing, etc.
2.Check your sales stats every 5 minutes, and be sure to agonize about it. If this doesn’t COMPLETELY distract you and suck up all your emotional energy, then get one of those tool bars or alert programs that shows you or beeps every time you have a sale.
3.Bid on the most obvious and competitive keywords in your market, then spend 75% of your day checking your ad position for your main one or two keywords vs your competitors.
4.Take that last tip to the next level - constantly check if someone is ripping of your website by continually checking the Google search results for those one or 2 keywords your making sales on. If you find someone copying your site, make a federal case out of it, contact Google, your affiliate manager, and everyone you know to complain about it. Be sure to get REALLY emotional about it.
5. Here’s a big one : spend 80% of your time bitching and complaining on affiliate forums. If you’re at a loss for ideas, here some popular things to bitch about : Google slaps, why your stats are not showing a sale for the last 2 hours, my favorite : how you think the affiliate network your working with is secretly stealing sales from you. Recommend forum : WickedFire.com
6.When you’re REALLY out of things to bitch about on forums start making personal attacks against big name affiliates in the industry. If you’re not sure which affiliates to shamelessly attack, here’s some popular targets : myself, Shoemoney, John Chow.
7.Do ZERO market research before launching an affiliate offer, just pick out something that looks good and start promoting it.
8.Spend all your time buying expensive information products and ebooks on how to do affiliate marketing. Go through these products and learn everything you can, then sit on your butt. Whatever you do DON’T take immediate action on what you’ve learned. Keep waiting for the right time to get started.
9.Have the firm belief that they only reason super affiliates are making big money is because they have some special backdoor deal with merchants, or because they have AMAZING account history so they can buy keywords for 0.20/click that would cost you $1/click.
10.Anytime there’s a slight discrepancy between your Google conversion tracking and your actually affiliate sales - let’s say conversion tracking show more sales - make a federal case out of it. Contact your affiliate manager and Google, absolutely demand you get credit for those 2 sales you “lost”. Make sure to spend several hours (minimum) REALLY agonizing about this, and how the world just isn’t fair.
I truly believe that by helping other people and trying to make this world a better place will also benefit me, somehow. If not monetary than mentally. This world has been going down the train, people become more and more selfish - at least in North America, well I will not follow the same path and whatever will happen - will happen for the better.
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People are scared of scams. Not only scared, people suspect everything is a scam even if they cannot possibly be scammed… Let me explain.
