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Wow. I just logged into my Wealthy Affiliate account 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…

Best of Success,

Alex

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As some of you might already know, a few members of Wealthy Affiliate will be going to Las Vegas in the winter of 2009, mostly for an Internet Marketing conference - but also lots of fun! Now, the coolest thing about this trip; everything from plain tickets to the room in some of the most amazing hotels in Vegas (like MGM Grand) is paid be Kyle and Carson, the owners of The Wealthy Affiliate University. Besides, you get to meet some of the best marketers out there, share ideas and maybe even get a great Joint Venture with a few of these guys!

Anyways, EVERY MEMBER of WA has a chance to attend this conference. I am one of them. Will I deserve my WA trip to Las Vegas? I will keep you updated on this! And if you wish to find out more then CLICK HERE RIGHT NOW to find out more about this incredible Wealthy Affiliate incentive!

Alex

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Hello!!!
I have got my VERY first product on Clickbank! (it was about time )

To be honest, this site was launched in December 2007, I launched it with a “partner”… But the sales copy was a real mess, the product itself was not that good - however, we still managed to make a few sales…

Few months later I shut it down and decided to restart this project when I am more experienced. Well, most of you know of my online success, and I was finally able to re-do the whole video course from scratch, the sales page as well. I actually put my life story as the sales page. Through all these months I have realized that TRUTH sells best.

So, here it is: http://OneMonthAffiliate.com ! Price is at $67.77!

I am sure this will sell like hot cakes, since it’s in a video format! Not a boring confusing e-book… I could tell you so much more about it but I am sure you can read the sales page yourself

I launched it today, Thursday August 21st 2008 at 4pm. It is now 5 pm and I already sold 2 copies! I told you - HOT CAKES!

Alex

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It is important for a blog (site) to get more links. Your website gets more popular in the eyes of search engines if many other sites link to you. More links also means more exposure for your site hence more visitors.

Social bookmarking is an important step of the whole process of marketing your website. However, it is often overlooked by many site owners.

So what exactly is Social Bookmarking? Here is the definition from wikipedia:

“In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine.”

More and more Internet users visit Bookmarking sites such as StumbleUpon, Digg and many others. This means that every time you submit a link to one of these sites, you reach thousands of potential visitors. Also, you get a link to your site which increases your ranking in the search engines such as Google.

Now, social bookmarking might take up lots of your time. Right? Well, there is an easier way to do things; SocialMarker.com! Visit this site and on the right side you will see over 40 bookmarking sites. You need to visit each site listed and create a free account (try to use the same username and password for all of them, it will make your life easier). It will take an hour or two – but you do it only once. Once you are done, go back to SocialMarker and fill in the information about a page you want to add; Title, URL, description and keywords – then click on Submit. In another 30 minutes or so, your site will be submitted to all these directories – giving you backlinks and visitors.

Repeat this step EVERY time after writing a new post to your blog or adding a new page to your site.

Sit back and Enjoy the free traffic!

Alex

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Ways For Teens To Make Money

So, you are young and need extra cash? You could always cut your neighbor’s grass, babysit a lil brat or even work at a grocery store… However, there are other ways for teens to make money. One of the coolest and easiest ways to make money is the Internet.

If you spend a few hours online, browsing websites, blogs and wasting your time on many useless things offered by the net - why not make that time profitable? So what are the easiest ways for teens to make money?

Blogging gets my vote. Blogs are so popular and easy to maintain these days - everyone should do it. Simply by using Blogger,com or Wordpress you could create your own blog within minutes. Getting readers to your blog is not that hard - the hard part is to keep those readers loyal. The blog must be interesting and updated at least 2-3 times a week. There are many other details that go into “blogging”, I guess I will make another post about it later.

So, I told you about blogs but I still didn’t talk about the ways for teens to make money… Once your blog is running and has readers, you must start advertising on it. Many bloggers go with Google Adsense (displaying ads on your blog that are related to your content). When someone clicks on these ads - you earn anywhere from $0.01 to $1, even more on some VERY rare occasions.

Personally I prefer affiliate marketing over Google Ads. Basically affiliate marketing consists in promoting all sorts of products amd/or services and getting paid per sale, not per click. If someone purchases after clicking on a link on your blog - you get paid anywhere from a few dollars to $100+. I offer a 100% FREE complete guide to affiliate marketing on my site; http://Extra-Paycheck.com

The cool thing about Google Ads, Affiliate Marketing and Blogging - it’s all FREE. It is easy to get started with as well.

This is one of the ways, hence the title of the post; PART 1

Feel free to check my updates since I will be posting more parts of Ways for Teens to Make Money.

Alex

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Hate it or love it but sex sells. And it has been selling for hundreds of years - more than anything else. But sex is not the only thing that sells. Trends sell amazingly well. In some cases even more than sex.

Remember when Playstation 3 came out? Or the Wii? Or the Xbox 360? People spent to as much as 1 week in the line-up near their local Best Buy store, eager to lose over $500 for some game console… That was a huge trend. Even though the stores sold these for 400-600$ a piece, some savvy eBay users sold them for over a $1000.

Now the new iPhone - released in the USA in 2007. It was JUST released in Canada (July 2008) and once again people spent 2 days waiting for those phones to go on sale. Then they spent $600 on a 3Gb phone (not knowing that 8Gb are available online for a LOWER price) - another big trend if you ask me.

Now, Diesel, Von Dutch, Ed Hardy - clothing brands that are not exactly fashionable, but heck they are trendy. When $200 t-shirts sell like cupcakes, there is a trend and there is money to be made.

The cool thing is - you could spy on daily trends from home. Everything is at a click of a button. So how do I research my trends? - http://www.google.com/trends

Check it out - it might give you some great ideas and don’t forget to follow the trends because they SELL!

Alex

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I noticed that many people on different forums keep asking: “What to sell” … the answer is quite simple - ANYTHING and EVERYTHING. When it comes to being an affiliate, please do not limit yourself to Clickbank, CJ and a few other affiliate based portals.

Please remember that a serious business will ALWAYS work with you, if there is an opportunity to make more money. Let me explain.

This summer I was shopping for an airfare from Montreal to London UK. I ended up buying tickets from a website called CheapTickets. Only after purchasing I started thinking: “Hmmm, cheaptickets is not an airline, so who are they?” - you guessed it, they are affiliates of many airlines. I checked out British Airways, KLM, Ryanair (to name a few) and they ALL have affiliate programs! Some offer as much as 5% commission per sale! And thousands (if not millions) of people fly daily, they all need to buy the tickets so why don’t YOU sell it to them?

In this case you do not even need to be a good salesman and convince them to buy the ticket. These customers are ready to BUY!

Wow, a lot of rant but I still didn’t get to my point. Even if the seller of a product or a service does not have the “AFFILIATE” button on their link - they will most likely work out a deal with you if you contact them. The best way would probably be a telephone. Do not be shy, phone them! Say you would like to promote their product for a small commission - most companies will go as far as hiring an affiliate manager just because of you!

Millions of people buy things online every single day; airplane tickets, insurance, computers, e-books, DVD’s, cars, houses… even private islands! So open up your eyes and start looking for opportunities.

Sincerly,

Alex