Affiliate Marketing | 100k Blueprint

Stepping Into Google’s Mindset: Creating Effective Websites

January 24, 2012 By Michael Leave a Comment

Though there are numerous ways to make money online without having your own website, most internet marketing business models revolve around building one or more sites. And for most purposes, many of the objectives are the same: traffic & conversions. But as with so many things, it’s often the details that make the difference between success and failure.

In this new “Internet Marketing 2.0″ world, we’re seeing more critical and more frequent changes in how sites are ranked, how and where traffic is generated, and the viability & success of monetization methods.

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Filed Under: Adsense, Affiliate Marketing, Business, Content, SEO & Ranking Tagged With: adsense, affiliate marketing, content, ranking, SEO, traffic

It Had To Happen: Disruptive Correction, and the Death Of Internet Marketing

December 19, 2011 By Michael 56 Comments

If you are involved in Internet Marketing, your world is about to change, in a profound and massive way.

There have already been some huge changes, or “shifts” in the Internet Marketing space this past year – chief among them Google’s “Panda” updates, but many others such as the Federal Trade Commission bans.

As big as they are, however, they’re just the “tip” of what’s about to happen. Everything – really, everything – is about to change. I don’t mean an algorithm change / update, or a TOS change, I mean everything.

And not just at Google.

What follows is a report I wrote entitled “Disruptive Correction, and the Death Of Internet Marketing”. It describes and explains what is undoubtedly the most significant change in internet marketing since the field began, the death of “Internet Marketing 1.0″

Choosing A Niche, Part 1

September 19, 2011 By Michael 2 Comments

I get the awesome opportunity to do a lot of presentations & webinars. Most of them are in support of one of our “$100k Blueprint” courses, and go over some ‘common’ concepts and information. We always end with a Q & A session – plus the webinar application allows attendees to post questions during the presentation. As a result, we get an invaluable perspective on what marketers are thinking, where their uncertainties are, and what aspects of the business they feel least certain about.

Invariably, niche and keyword research top the list of things internet marketers want to do ‘better’.

Niche marketing is at the heart of virtually all of our making money online efforts. Whether we’re building Adsense sites, email opt-in lists, or affiliate marketing sites, everything revolves around a niche. Choose the niche properly, and everything else moves forward smoothly. Choose poorly, and no amount of effort is going to result in optimized returns.

Boost Conversions, Boost Income

September 9, 2011 By Michael 1 Comment

Shortly after releasing “Adsense $100k Blueprint“, we began to get feedback on the course, and customers specific efforts. The two things we heard most often were, how do I get more traffic to my site, and how do I apply these methods to other ways of making money online – other business models i.e. Amazon affiliate sites, video marketing, etc. That was the genesis of “Traffic $100k Blueprint“.

When we began work on our Adsense course, our goal was to provide a step-by-step plan that virtually anyone could follow that would enable them to build a strong, sustainable business. When all was said and done, we realized we had two ‘complimentary’ results: how to build & rank a niche website, and how to optimize a website for maximum Adsense revenue.

Within the A100k course, the ‘traffic equation’ was all about ranking: providing you did your upfront keyword research properly, you would follow the plan to get your Page 1 rankings for your keyword phrases, which in turn would translate into traffic to your site. But search engines only represent a part of the overall available traffic. And so we set about to list all the other free traffic sources we were using ourselves, along with some explanations on how to best leverage them. That took care of the traffic question.

“Traffic $100k Blueprint” Launches Tomorrow!

August 18, 2011 By Michael 7 Comments

After a LOT of time & effort, “Traffic $100k Blueprint” is finished! Those who bought “Adsense $100k Blueprint” were given an opportunity to purchase it ‘pre-launch’ on Tuesday, 8/16, and it will open for general availability tomorrow (Friday, 8/19).

“Traffic $100k Blueprint”, or ‘T100k’, is a comprehensive course on where & how to get free traffic to your sites, offers, etc., combined with a series of “Blueprint” – step-by-step make-money guides. The 7 included Blueprints each cover a different Internet Marketing business model: Amazon affiliate marketing, video marketing, getting rankings via SEO, an “authority site” blueprint, offline marketing, and site flipping, plus the first of our ‘external’ Blueprints.

Traffic $100k Blueprint Success Formula: E – I – A – C

May 27, 2011 By Michael 9 Comments

If you’re a member of our private forum or an “Adsense $100k Blueprint” customer, you may have heard that we are getting ready to release “Traffic $100k Blueprint” soon. In fact, we hope to have it available pre-launch for A100k customers next week, with the ‘public’ launch a few days afterwards.

“Traffic $100k Blueprint” will be a game-changing landmark course. In addition to being the most comprehensive and effective course on free traffic and internet marketing that you can buy – for just $47! – it includes over half a dozen step-by-step money-making Blueprints, each one leveraging a different strategy or free traffic source. But the ‘game changing’ aspect are what we call our “external Blueprints”. These are additional step-by-step plans, but are based on the hottest internet marketing products on the market today.

For each “external Blueprint”, we purchase a top-selling internet marketing product, learn it, and implement it. Then we write up a full ‘expose’, telling you exactly what’s inside – their strategies & tactics, ‘loopholes’, ‘secrets’, etc. And then we create our own Blueprint based on the product, one that works – a step-by-step plan to implement the same strategies, tactics, etc.

Quickie: Easy Flipping Formula

April 28, 2011 By Michael 3 Comments

One of the easiest and most self-contained ways for making money online is website flipping. While there are many avenues or strategies to pursue, such as buying inexpensive sites, boosting them, and reselling them, for this quickie we’re going to go over a quick and easy formula for building and selling new sites.

This strategy revolves around quickly building unique content sites, and flipping them right away. Using this method, you can expect to get $100-$200 per site, for about a day or two work; if you are good, or able to optimize your efforts, you could realistically produce these sites in about half a day.

To understand this strategy, it helps first to understand the website auction marketplace. While there are a number of venues for selling websites, such as eBay, digital point, and others, we are going to focus our efforts on the Flippa. This is in part because it is the largest auction venue, and in part because it will be the ‘easiest’ in terms of buyer sophistication.

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Filed Under: Adsense, Affiliate Marketing, Business, Content, Quickies, Wordpress Tagged With: affiliate marketing, amazon, flippa, flipping, quickie

Quickie: 5 Ways To Make $1000 In The Next 30 Days

February 16, 2011 By Michael 1 Comment

Some things never change; and in this business it’s the questions surrounding making money online. One of the questions I see a lot on forums is “How can I make $xxx”. Invariably, many of the responses are along the lines of “Just pick something, take action, and stick to it”. I also see a lot of “Look, it takes a lot of blood, sweat, and tears; don’t just come here and expect us to tell you how to make $1000 in 2 weeks”.

The truth is, it’s not impossible to make $1000 in 2 weeks, and in fact it can even be fairly easy if you want to make $1000 in the next 30 days. Nor does it necessarily mean a huge learning curve. What it does require is thinking outside the box, and the willingness to put in the effort. “Easy” doesn’t mean “effortless”, but in this case it does mean “very doable”.

Affiliate Marketing Backwards: You’re Doing It Wrong

February 8, 2011 By Michael 1 Comment

If you’re familiar with any of our products or reports, you know we don’t put much stock in “conventional wisdom”. After all, if “conventional wisdom” worked so well, you probably wouldn’t be here reading this.

In this post I want to challenge the “conventional wisdom” of affiliate marketing, one of the fastest, easiest, most lucrative ways to make money online, if done properly.

If you are new to Internet marketing in general, or affiliate marketing in particular, it is simply this: selling other people’s stuff. Connecting buyers with products, and earning a commission as a result. In practice, it can take many forms. Review sites that talk about particular products, niche websites that promote topical products, membership sites and e-mail lists catering to various topics and interests, pay per click and paid advertising, all are common ways to connect buyers and sellers.

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Filed Under: Affiliate Marketing Tagged With: affiliate marketing, internet marketing, online marketing

Affiliate Marketing – Backwards

January 20, 2011 By Michael Leave a Comment

Affiliate marketing – making money simply by promoting other people’s products – is one of the great online business models; really one of the great business models period.

The problem is that it is often taught and practiced backwards. What I’m referring to is that conventional wisdom that says “find a product to promote…” The idea is, find a product that meets certain criteria, such as a “top seller”, a “starving market”, etc. and then promote it. Promoted how? If you already have a captive market, such as a list or a membership site in a certain niche, this may work well. But for most marketers, it’s an entirely backwards approach.

As with most other Internet marketing business models, affiliate marketing relies on traffic. Unless you’re planning on spending a lot of money on pay per click, for most of us this means search traffic and rankings. Doesn’t it make more sense then to get traffic and then monetize it, rather than have a product and try to figure out how to get traffic?

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