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Ed Dale’s Challenge – Module 1 Review

July 20, 2010 6 Comments

Well, anyone that’s begun Ed Dale’s Challenge knows that we’re now done with the first module or week of the challenge. Ed changed things up a bit this year. Instead of blasting through all of the learning and then applying it in 30 days Ed’s decided to take a markedly more laid back approach and I think it was a great idea.

Method for learning and education.

Be Challenged

This year each module is 7 days with a week off in between each of the seven modules. You can work your way through the first week/module each day as it comes out and (if you’re busy, like many people) you can either use the seven day break to catch up or to apply what you’ve learned so far. In this early stage though, it’s more about learning to use the suggested tools for doing your keyword research and finding viable and profitable markets, niches and micro-niches.

The most essential tool that Ed uses and suggests is Market Samurai (<<<< FREE trial link). It’s an amazing and robust tool that will save you hours of switching between online keyword research tools and manually gathering your data. We all need excellent tools in order to produce excellent products and Market Samurai is that tool. It gets my highest recommendation. (I had bought the paid version even before Ed’s Challenge…it’s THAT GOOD!)

Without giving away the whole basket of eggs, let me just say that the first week of The Challenge was a great lesson in how to properly do keyword research in a way that will reveal profitable markets to you. The other side of the coin to finding a profitable market is to ensure that you can adequately compete in that market with your chosen keywords. Sometimes your market will be ripe with buyers. If you choose the right keywords within that market it can make the difference between a site earning $100/month and a site earning $5000/month.

Using the “week off” constructively, I’ll be drilling down in some niches that I’ve always had an interest in but haven’t taken the time to do the research to find the if/what/how/why and profitability of them.

Ed’s choice to use Market Samurai in The Challenge is brilliant. There is no better utility available to do the type of research that’s necessary to successfully launch, promote and succeed with your websites and blogs. In fact, once you’ve finished your keyword research there are modules that will automatically find products for you to promote and content to share…but those are for another module.

It’s NOT too late! Run over to The Challenge and sign yourself up. Use this week to catch up and then follow through by completing the whole challenge. Ed’s got forums and a blog to help support you through your journey and LOTS of helpful folks that are right there in the trenches with you slugging it out in their own niches.

Take the Challenge…You’ll be Glad You Did!

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Your Checklist to Use When Deciding on an Affiliate Program

July 2, 2010 6 Comments

With so many affiliate programs flooding the Internet, how do you choose?

It’s easy; just make use of this easy checklist, and selecting your next set of affiliate programs will be stress-free. Remember that not all of the programs that come your way should be selected. And not all of these programs are beneficial for your websites.

What to look for in your preferred affiliate programs

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That is why you need to carefully select your next batch of affiliate programs and this checklist help you decide:

  • Go for the affiliate program that offers the highest quality affiliate products and services. The companies and the sponsors should also be among the most reputable. Your image and reputation online are connected to the kind of products and services promoted in your blogs and websites.
  • Consider the amount of commission that you will get. Getting into affiliate marketing is tough, and maintaining the program is tougher. For this reason, it is important that the expected commission is commensurate (equal) to the efforts that you have used in promoting the affiliate products and services. Choose a higher pay-out rate, but make sure that this is just right so that your potential customers will not shy away from your websites. Affiliate products and services that cost less than $100 are a good start. And speaking of commissions, you should select the affiliate program that offers the highest commissions. Commissions are the payouts that you receive for every successful referral. Commissions should be between 15 to 50 percent, anything below 10 percent is not worth your effort. As always, it is best to know your value online.
  • In looking for that perfect affiliate program, consider the method or the payout plan of the company. Target at least once a month payment from your company, and speaking of payouts, consider as well the minimum payouts. There are companies that will not pay you unless your earnings have reached a certain amount, say $300. The good news is that there are affiliate companies that have $100 as the threshold. Do you have a PayPal account? Consider these things when choosing affiliate programs.
  • Look for an affiliate company that offers a tracking mechanism. This way you can monitor your earnings and check your performance over a certain period of time. In order to get the best response to your efforts you need to track them. By adding separate tracking codes from each location that you advertise the product you’ll learn where your best responses are coming from and be able to duplicate that effort in your other ad spots. Constantly track, test, re-test, split test and re-test till your response rates are at a level that you’re comfortable with.
  • Make sure that you sign up with an affiliate program that offers customer support. The company that you sign up with should be always available just in case you have questions with regards to the offered products and services. The support that can be offered by the affiliate company can come either in the form of phone or e-mail. There is no such thing as a perfect affiliate product or service so you have to be ready with answers- and customer service provides that.

Use this checklist every time there is a need to get a new set of affiliate programs. This checklist works for a number of experienced online entrepreneurs, and surely this checklist will apply to you as well.

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Paul Ponna’s Copy Paste System

January 14, 2010 Leave a Comment

Paul Ponna has quietly been earning almost $20k per month. He’s now revealing exactly how he’s done it. By using his EXACT methods, you too can begin to see a profit. Only your diligence and attention to detail will bring you close to his income levels, there are no guarantees on how hard or how closely you’ll follow his methods.

Paul can teach you the secrets to unstoppable traffic, automated affiliate sales and increased earnings.

His methods allow you to dominate niche markets without knowing any SEO and drive unstoppable traffic to any link without JV’s or SEO.

Where else can you find a system that’s

  • Easy To Set Up
  • Easy To Profit
  • Too Valuable To Ignore

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Here’s what it DOESN’T take to succeed with Paul’s system:

  • EDUCATION – If you can copy & paste, you can profit with this system
  • LUCK – These are street proven methods. They work again and again
  • TALENT – Everything you need to begin is included
  • YOUTH – Profit has no prejudice toward age or any other limiting belief.
  • EXPERIENCE – Even complete novices can copy/paste/profit

Seriously, Paul has gone all the way with this system. There’s nothing left out. If you can read and follow directions, you need this system.

ecover_dvd_SHere’s an interesting factoid for you and a way for you to check out Paul’s system for 3 days for only $5. Click on the link below, read the entire page, and then close the window. You’ll get a pop up that offers you the trial period for 5 days. This is just my way of giving you some “insider information”

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THE GOLD STANDARD: PAY PER CLICK

November 19, 2009 2 Comments

Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising has been the standard bearer in online advertising models. It all started with the Google search engine that began using keywords that people searched in their engine to determine where to place ads through a content-generated ad placement system.

By combining the power of the Google search engine and tracking keywords, advertisers could set up ad campaigns based on very highly targeted niche topics. This insured that when an ad showed up on a site, it was relevant to the audience, who would be more inclined to click on the ad since it would interest that demographic.

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ADSENSE VS. ADWORDS

In Google’s program, there are two programs that a person can sign up with to use pay-per-click advertising: AdSense and AdWords. AdSense is the program that publishers of pay-per-click advertising use to generate income by adding Google ads to their online content. AdWords is the program where online merchants can create pay-per-click campaigns using keywords so that publishers can expose them to their markets.

There are ways to make money with either of these models, whether as a publisher or as a merchant. Pay-per-click marketing isn’t just limited to people who publish pay-per-click links and get paid per every click generated.

There is far more to making money with pay-per-click marketing than that. However, the most popular and well-known way to make money with pay-per-click advertising is as a publisher, for several reasons.

PPC PUBLISHERS

The main reason that people like to implement PPC publishing as a strategy to make money online is because it costs them nothing, except time, to do. If you have a large enough audience or know how to attract traffic to links, you can make a good amount of money by simply posting links that other people will click on, and thus, create income for yourself.

It does take some understanding of keywords, and we will go over that a little later on. Suffice it to say, for now; if you want to start using PPC marketing in your lineup of potential money makers, then PPC is the easiest way to go. Ads are generated automatically on your sites based on the content that you post.

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