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Make Money Online: the Internet’s Biggest Scam July 28, 2010

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Only 3% of aspiring internet marketers ever make money online,
and only a small percentage of that 3% get to give up their day-.job
We just don’t realize, when we start out trying to drive traffic to
affiliate offers, the depth and breadth of the knowledge needed to
successfully make a full time living sitting in front of our PC’s in
our underwear, [at least, that’s the image the people who sell
‘systems” try to convey], so we go shopping for the right e-book
or video series that will teach us all the ins-and-outs in a few hours,
not aware that most of which are recycled stuff that has been
around for years, and contain information that can be gleaned from
the web for free.
The so-called “gurus” who sell this stuff know that the information
is incomplete, and sometimes worthless, and they know that even
if we study hard and implement the knowledge we’ve bought, [which
the vast majority WON’T do] we’ll be back for more, because there
are a million more things to learn, so they always have a “new”
course of study waiting for us and our credit cards.
So it is no accident that the Make Money Online or Home
Business niche is the biggest, most competitive category of info
products. The ones who sell the information keep us in the dark
so that we are always a prime, easy target for more sales.
There are, of course, really good, comprehensive systems for sale
online that WILL teach us what we need to know, and some of these
products have been around for a long time and have sold many
thousands of copies to people who later became successful. The
real trick we need to master is picking the right product to learn
from, so that we are not continuously going “back to the well” for
more of the knowledge we are lacking. The problem with that being,
the “gurus” want us to believe that the book or video series they are
selling RIGHT NOW is the one we need, and are very good, indeed,
at convincing us of it.
So, in order to avoid making additional purchases of info products
for every aspect of marketing, we need to select just ONE that will
get our business up and running and profiting.
No marketing system is the end-all, be-all of marketing systems,
but a few are at least complete enough to guide us to making a
profit, and it is SO much easier to justify spending more on info-
products to fine tune your skills if you are already making money
and don’t have to raid your savings account.
For the three marketing systems that I have tried and whole-
heartedly recommend, go here:http://tinyurl.com/profitz

Sheep or Wolf? Learn to Make the Best Money Online June 7, 2010

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Does internet marketing seem like a deep, dark mystery
to you? Are you like a starving refugee, gazing into a window,
where rich people are eating a perpetual Thanksgiving dinner?
You know that the money is out there, lying around in piles,
and some people are allowed to load their pockets each day,
while the majority can only watch and wait….and wait….
Well, I, for one, and thousands of others, have decided to
join the feast, and if the door is locked, we’ll kick it down! By
“we”, I mean the thousands of Wealthy Affiliate University
members, who together represent a formidable force of
unstoppable momentum, barging into the celebration without
an invitation!
You see, all the self-proclaimed “gurus” tell you that making
money online is “easy” as long as you buy their sure-fire
systems. The only problem with that is, 95% of the marketing
strategies you buy from strangers are either out-dated,
incomplete, or just plain garbage, and most tell you that in
order for you to make the best money online, you need this or
that tool or software that is not included in the package you just
bought, but, “hey, no problem, here’s my affiliate link to that
marvelous product”, and bam! they’ve got you again!
The biggest strategy in online marketing is the upsell, where
most marketers make more money than the original sale, and
the list, where all marketers will continue to bombard you with
offers for as long as you are on it. Don’t blame them, it’s the
way things work. Instead of getting mad, get even.
Learn to be the offerER instead of the offerEE.
I spent thousands of dollars online buying the “next big thing”
only to find that none of them ever worked for me, because,
you see, internet marketing IS NOT EASY! There is a learning
process that is the equivalent to a couple of years of college
[at least] and the “gurus” don’t want you to graduate!
When you get to the level of knowledge that they are at, you
cease being a customer and become the competition, so why
would they actually help you along the way?
My eyes were finally opened by Wealthy Affiliate University,
and now I see the big picture.
You should take the free tour and decide whether it is better
for you to be a sheep or a wolf.

http://www.wealthyaffiliate.com?a_aid=427d7ed2

Product Launches Pay Huge Dividends for Affiliate Marketers June 4, 2010

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Ever wonder why, when you finally hear about a hot, new product that is flying off the virtual shelves, it’s already being promoted by
the big-name guru’s?
If you are like me, you’ve bought into these “sure fire money-makers” only to find the market thoroughly saturated, with “Big Dawg”
marketers raking in all the gravy and leaving the rest of us to lick the bowl.
But the truth is, if you can manage to get in at the outset of a product launch by a well-known marketer, the gravy, and the profits,
can be yours, as well.
These insiders, who usually are recruited by the product creator, always get the product free of charge to peruse, use, and write reviews of, as well as promote to their lists, and that’s when the rest of us finally learn about it. By then, it’s too late to get
in on the heavy profit making, and we usually have a hard time even
recouping the investment we made to buy the product in the first place.
If you are a known entity, meaning someone who has promoted a product successfully and has a responsive list, then you already
are aware of how it works, but if you are among the majority of
marketers, who have yet to break into the upper echelon of online
earners, getting that first invitation to a ground-floor launch is only a daydream. It’s just another example of the old axiom, “the rich
get richer” and leaves us wannabes  more than a little frustrated while we gaze at websites that feature the smiling faces of “the rich”.
But there is a way to beat everyone except the guru’s to the punch, and maybe even make YOU one of the elite few who start promoting new
products before everyone else even knows of their existence.

Here’s how: (secret video)
https://paydotcom.com/r/73206/xxxx/20579913/

Read This Before Trying to Make Money Online March 5, 2010

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Hard times are upon us and more and more desperate people are flooding onto the internet in search of money to pay their bills, buy food, send their children to school, and all the myriad other reasons we all are slaves to the economy.

Most should look elsewhere for an income, for the hard truth of the matter is, the learning curve for successful internet marketers is long and precipitous, and almost all will give up the dream before ever making a profit.

The time and money required in order to learn all the average successful marketer needs to know is daunting.

Almost every neophyte marketer will start this learning curve by buying a “system” that some self-proclaimed “guru” swears is the end-all, be-all of the deepest secrets of how to make endless torrents of cash while working maybe an hour a day. The budding millionaire pays his money, downloads a lot of text, or video, or audio, or all three, and quickly realizes the material is totally incomprehensible gibberish because he or she does not know how to implement the strategies being taught, does not know the terminology, has only a bare-essentials kind of computer expertise, and just did not realize how complicated it all was. The smart ones quit right there.

Unfortunately, the dream is so compelling that most keep plugging away, doing their best to learn all they can, and after awhile, buying more “systems” they can’t afford, can’t understand, and usually don’t implement.

By now the average newbie has learned how to set up e-mail accounts, PayPal and ClickBank accounts, and has started advertising on the easiest avenue to exposure, traffic exchanges. He joins every “free” money making site that is presented to him, drives thousands [and thousands] of hits to a variety of offers, and still has not made his first dollar online. “Hey, maybe this isn’t as easy as they said it was”. A lot swallow the dream and quit there.

A sizable number, however, will continue chasing the internet rainbow, convinced that they are smart enough and strong enough to fight through all the obstacles and finally come out on top.

It’s at this stage of the game that the remaining few, that twenty or so percent that REALLY WANT IT will hunker down and go on a learning binge, studying relentlessly how to write articles, do social networking, drive traffic from forums, sell PLR products, write ad copy, make videos, build websites, make squeeze pages, learn HTML, build Squidoo lenses, learn Twitter tactics, and the list is endless, and they spend more and more money, and finally, one morning they wake up and realize that they STILL haven’t made a profit.

Never fear, the “gurus” will tell them, all they need is another “system”, the ULTIMATE SYSTEM, the one they have been dreaming of, the step-by-step solution to all their problems, the REAL GURU SECRETS! Never mind that it costs a couple thousand, put it on the credit card, and before the wife or husband even knows you spent the money, you’ll be swimming in green!

A few weeks or months later, the realization that they just are not going to make the dream come true finally sets in on the vast majority of wanna-be millionaires. We have now pared the pack down to the one or two percent who will actually make money at internet marketing.

I said “make money”, not “get rich”. There is a world of difference.

The average “profitable” internet marketer will make a living. Maybe a good living. That’s all.

But what of the “internet millionaires” you’ve heard so much about? Well, the truth is, the percentage of people who actually get rich in internet marketing is about the same percentage as in the rest of the world.

There are very few people who possess the ruthless drive to make themselves wealthy, and the overwhelming odds are, you’re not one of them.

Am I telling you to give up, not even try? No. What I am trying to demonstrate to the readers of this article is that to just make a living at internet marketing is a daunting task. To get rich is almost impossible.

If you are determined to try, just try to keep things in perspective. Learn all you can from free sources, of which there is a huge supply on the web. Remember that most of the systems that are offered for sale are re-hashed, re-mixed information that has been around forever, and is available from public domain websites all over the web.

Google “public domain” for free stuff, or the thing you want to learn followed by “tutorial” and you will discover vast amounts of knowledge for free.

Don’t spend every free minute on the web, your relationships will suffer for it.

Do not harbor unrealistic expectations from internet marketing, or it will consume you.

I am an internet marketer who has lived this article, and I am not trying to sell you anything with this article, although you could visit my blog and read more of my articles if you are so inclined.

Good Luck and God Bless,

Give Away Free Trials and Make Money in CPA Marketing January 27, 2010

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Want to give away free stuff and earn 35-55 dollars per gift? If that sounds too easy to be true, you are not alone. I thought so too, until I tried it, and immediately started making money online consistently for the first time. A friend referred me to Market Health, the #1 health and beauty product promoter on the web, and since my affiliate sales weren`t exactly setting any records, I thought I would give it a try. After filling out a short questionaire, I was quickly approved, and started learning how to drive traffic to CPA offers. I found that it is not difficult, since the word “free” opens most doors, especially when it is attached to a product that will make the recipient more healthy, more physically attractive, and ultimately happier. Although free advertising will bring a lot of clicks to the offers, most are tire kickers and don`t convert well, but hey, at an average of around $50 per conversion, from free traffic, what`s wrong with a 1% conversion rate? The targeted traffic comes from search marketing such as Adwords or Yahoo Search Marketing, and can bring conversion rates of 10% or more if done right. Think there might be a profit to be made at those conversion rates? Like most CPA marketing sites, Market Health frowns on e-mail marketing, but if you have a good enough list, you can get approval to e-mail market most of the offers. It`s spam that will get your account shut down quickly, after all, they have a reputation to protect. A landing page or “squeeze” page is recommended, after all, building your list is important, and a little pre-sell can`t hurt, but direct linking works almost as well for most offers if you are not concerned with list building or don`t know how to build squeeze pages. Article marketing is an efffective way to drive traffic, as well. All it takes is some research of the product, most of which can be done by reading articles and putting your own spin on the information gleaned from them. All in all, CPA marketing is the easiest, best way to earn money I have yet discovered in 4 years of striving to make make a living on the internet and I am happy to have discovered Market Health, which has the highest payouts and the easiest entry requirements of any CPA network I have seen yet. To join Market Health as an affiliate, Go Here: http://www.markethealth.com/?aid=677036

Forget Selling! The Money is in CPA Marketing January 26, 2010

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So you`ve tried affiliate marketing, driven thousands of hits to
someone else`s sites, built their lists for them, and just haven`t
seen the money. Well, I`m sorry to break this to you, but as long
as you promote another`s product without your own website,
that is pretty much what you can expect.
You need a squeeze page to build your own list, your own
domains, websites, and products to make money in affiliate
marketing.
It takes a massive effort to build a list, brand yourself, and
develop your own products, but to succeed as an affiliate for clickbank
products, it is absolutely neccessary. What to do?
There is a way to by-pass all that drudgery and make a really
impressive income while you are at it: CPA marketing.
CPA stands for cost-per-action, or cost-per-acquisition, meaning
you can be paid for a prospect`s taking a free trial, completing a
short survey, filling in his or her email address, or even their zip
code!
The payment ranges from $1 for a zip code to $55 or more for a
trial of a product, and you do nothing but present the offer to the
prospect, sending them to the website just as in affiliate marketing.
The only difference being, it`s just a whole lot easier to convert a
CPA offer than to sell a product.
I personally am an affiliate for the #1 health product company on
the web, and am happily making a very good income giving stuff
away.
Free trials of products that will make the recipient more healthy
or physically attractive are no challenge at all to convert.
Just tell them you are going to advertise via search marketing,
meaning pay-per-click, and they will welcome you into the fold.
To join Market Health as an affiliate, go here:

http://www.markethealth.com/?aid=677036

Goo-Gool Deflowers Yet Another Pay-Per-Click Virgin… January 12, 2010

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Goo-Gool, the alien posing as the internet giant Google, has just
recieved word that another order from one of his Soo-Per-Ahf-e-le-ahts
has been turned into his newest pay-per-click ad account.
As usual, he rubs his claws together greedily while salivating green
slime, for it seems “Bob”, [or was it “Molly”?], has purchased a
spanking-new sure-fire guide to earning HUGE commissions with
pay-per-click ads, and has created his [or her] Adwords account in
the expectation of striking it rich overnight.
Nothing else can make Goo-Gool so happy.
You see, Goo-Gool knows that this neophyte marketer will rush
headlong into an ad campaign, target all the wrong keywords, write
ad copy that only attracts tire-kickers, and drop a bundle of cash
squarely into Goo-Gool`s lap, making his quest for world domination
a little closer to reality.

[For Clarification of just what Goo-Gool is,visit here: http://wp.me/pozFP-1Z%5D

“Bob”, [or “Molly”], should have known better.
He, [or she] should have known that only a tiny percentage of marketers
actually make money with pay-per-click advertising because of all the
details that the Goo-Roos leave out of their latest and greatest product.
Think of it this way: If you had a system that made you hundreds or
even thousands of dollars a day, would you share it with every Tom,
Dick, and Harry who could come up with 47, 77, or 97 dollars?
I know I wouldn`t, and neither will Goo-Gool`s minions, the Goo-Roos.
What the beginning marketer REALLY needs is a way to duplicate the
ad campaigns of the select few who actually make money with Adwords.
When a budding pay-per-click marketer comes to the realization that
the profits are reserved for only the elite,[because they`re REALLY
GOOD at it}, then buyer`s remorse for the purchase of that “guaranteed”
adwords course tends to set in rather quickly.
So, whattaya do about this terrible inequity? How do you make the
same outrageous profits that the “Gurus” make? You COPY what they
are doing!
I know, there are numerous systems for sale that can, and will show
you how to do that, but almost every one of them are membership sites,
meaning you are fed a little of the formula at a time, for as long as you
pay them your monthly fees.
Affiliate Espionage is different. For a one-time, very reasonable fee,
they will teach you how to…Copy Profitable Ad Campaigns.
Affiliate Espionage will show you the keywords they`re using, theprice
they are paying for those keywords, all the other sites he or she is
promoting, all THOSE keywords, whether or not he or she is making
any money promoting those keywords, and much, much more.
Now you can copy profitable ads that you KNOW will make money,
without any guess work, split testing, or losing your hard-earned cash!

http://tinyurl.com/yhsm6tt

Goo-Gool, Affiliate Espionage, and World Domination October 22, 2009

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What if the entity known as Google is really an expeditionary force from the planet Ker-N-C, a small green orb in the far-away constellation known only to astronomers called Moo-Lah? Their chain of command would be: Goo-Gool, the supreme leader, who lives aboard that giant triangular space ship that occasionally shows up over one or the other cities on earth in order to download financial records. Goo-Roos, the field commanders whose job it is to convince earthlings to transfer their funds to Goo-Gool, and the lowest echelon, Soo-Per-Ahf-E-Le-Ahts, who perpetuate the myth that Goo-Gool will make earthlings wealthy, if only they transfer enough of the planet`s resources to Goo-Gool. Earthlings being the greedy, lazy, and naive masters of the most desirable planet in the galaxy, are fat pickings for these crafty aliens, who will soon own our planet outright, since all our money, from all over the planet, will be in the hands of Goo-Gool and his minions, due to all this espionage. In the meantime, Goo-Roos and Soo-Per-Ahf-E-Le-Ahts will recruit more and more hapless earth dwellers into the Make- Money-From-Home legions, until governments all over the world are forced to borrow money from Goo-Gool, and soon thereafter, turn over the reins of power to the only “person” on the planet who actually possesses resources. A bit far-fetched, you say? Well, that theory is downright logical compared to the blind obedience we Super Affiliate wanna-bes show the “gurus”, who keep unloading their re-hashed garbage on us on a weekly basis and telling us it`s the “Next Big Thing” in our struggle to make a living from home. You see, there are only a few things we really need to know in order to make money from affiliate marketing. >How to pick products to sell. >How to build a squeeze page. >How to build a list. >How to drive traffic to our squeeze page. If you know these things, and know them well, you will make money from affiliate marketing. Hey, it ain`t alien technology! You probably have all this knowledge stored on your computer even as you read this whimsical little article. But what if you are new to affiliate marketing and DON`T have this information? Well, shopping for “systems” will make you poor quicker than Captain Kirk`s phaser can turn your body into unassimilated molecules! So, what`s the answer, you may ask? What if the World`s #1 Super Affiliate GAVE you a complete marketing system, and trained you to use it for free? http://tinyurl.com/yfq6sq2 And what if you could spend just a little money and get software that would show you exactly what successful marketers are doing in their PPC ad campaigns to make money? http://www.affiliateespionage.com/l/?r=3952
Live Long and Prosper, TeeMike

10 Things to Know Before Choosing an Affiliate Marketing Program May 19, 2009

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#1 Ask questions first before you join an affiliate program. Research your choices of programs.

#2 Will it cost you anything to join? If you join a marketing system that teaches you how to make money, the price can be from $27 to $5,000. In the more expensive systems, the amount of information you will receive is enormous and daunting, so stick to systems that cost under $100 so as not to be overwhelmed with info. Also, they are easier to sell.

#3 When do they issue the commission checks? Every program is different. Some issue their checks once a month, every quarter, etc. Most new marketers need their money as quickly as possible. It is usually best to join a program that sells clickbank products so that you know exactly when [and if] you get paid. Clickbank is ultra dependable.

#4 What is the hit per sale ratio? This is the average number of hits to a banner or text link it takes to generate a sale based on all affiliate statistics. This factor is extremely important because this will tell you how much traffic you must generate before you can earn a commission from the sale.

#5 How are referrals from an affiliate’s site tracked and for how long do they remain in the system? Are you confident in the program`s ability  to track those people you refer from your site. This is the only way that you can credit for a sale. The period of time that those people stay in the system is also important. This is because some visitors do not buy initially but may want to return later to make the purchase. Know if you will still get credit for the sale if it is done some months from a certain day.

#6 Is it easy to track your stats? The program should have your hits and impressions readily available and you should check them often.

#7 Who is the online retailer? Find out whom you are doing business with to know if it is really a solid company. Know the products they are selling and the average amount they are achieving. The more you know about the retailer offering you the affiliate program, the easier it will be for you to know if that program is really for you and your site.

#8 Is the affiliate a one tier or two tier program? A single tier program pays you only for the business you yourself have generated. A two tier program pays you for the business, plus it also pays you a commission on the  sales generated by any affiliate you sponsor in your program.

#9 Are there residual payments? This can be huge if the program is a membership with recurring monthly fees that you are paid a commission on each month.

#10 What is the commission rate? Do not settle for less than 50% commissions! Most affiliates these days are getting 60-75%, which is reasonable, since you are the one doing the advertising for the program.

These are just some of the questions that need answering before you enter into an affiliate program. If you are interested in a marketing system that answers all these concerns and teaches you how to make big money at the same time, go here:http://tinyurl.com/c8yrvt