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Old 20-03-2008, 10:51 AM
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Everyone would like to know how to make money online as an affiliate. Unfortunately, not everybody who starts out to learn how to be an affiliate is making money online Internet marketing.


One obstacle for not being able to make money online doing Internet marketing is a lack of education. The reason you need to be educated is that education is more than just doing a course, it means to actually understand what is required and how you need to go about it.


Another obstacle is a lack of training. To be trained, means that you are getting hands on experience by actually doing what is required to penetrate your market.


This may mean knowing how to build a website; knowing what to put on your website; knowing how to lay out your website; and knowing where to host your website.


You will also need to know which autoresponders to use and what are the requirements for using autoresponders. There may be reasons for using more than one autoresponder, so it is to your advantage to know this. You will also need to learn all the functions of your autoresponders and, if using an autoresponder service provider, it pays to learn all that is available to you. The provider might provide some very useful features that you are aware of which can turn you a profit more quickly.


You will need to know which products are worthwhile marketing and where to find them. You will also need to know how to market those products in such a way that you will be able to make money from selling them. There are just so many different types of products available, apart from the fact that there are digital and physical products.


To be truly successful at Internet marketing you will need to know how to build and use a squeeze page and how to write a pre-sales page and a sales page. This is an art in itself.


You will need to know how to write your own ebooks and reports. You will need to know how to source material for writing your ebooks and reports. You also need to know how to create an ebook and pdf report. You will also want to know how to brand it and utilize it as a means of viral marketing, if you are to make the most of it.


Now having that you have sourced all the products and done everything that there is to be done, you will also need to drive traffic to your website so you can sell your products. This will require you to have an understanding of marketing strategies and tactics that you will need to employ. You will need to be versed in the use of Google pay-per-click adwords advertising and how to find other avenues where you can drive traffic to your website.


Now, having just read that, you are probably not surprised why so many people burn out and so few actually know how to make money online Internet marketing.


Fortunately, if you know who to ask, you can get 95% of all the work done for you and get on-the-job training in how to be a successful Internet marketer who makes money online. And, for less than what you would pay for a good night out.

How good is this?

Especially, if the ebooks and reports and sales scripts and squeeze pages and follow up messages are already done for you, so as a newbie you can kick off making money online as an Internet marketer looking like a professional virtually straight away

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Old 20-03-2008, 11:17 AM
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Is this for real?
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Sure is for real, Hamo.


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Well gosh darn. Despite having made a nice six figure income last year from AM... I don't know what the hell a squeeze page is. I can't use auto responders, and I have never written an e-book.

And my, my, my... someone else will do 95% of the work? Why did I never find this out before I spent 7 days a week working 12 hours a day. Why was I under the misapprehension all my money came from hard, hard work? Everything I have written in my 100% free blog has been wrong. All those FREE step by step guides about content and hard work. Misguided!!

I can see my career is on a knife edge here. But golly mister, if only you could tell me exactly who pay my money to I think I might just be ok!!

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Old 23-03-2008, 04:00 PM
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lol - my thoughts exactly
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Hi KirstyM.

"I can see my career is on a knife edge here. But golly mister, if only you could tell me exactly who pay my money to I think I might just be ok!!"

Not exactly sure what you are trying to say. If you worked 12 hours a day, 7 days a week, for your 6 figure income, well, that is fine. Every one is permitted to earn money which ever way they like.

Me, I am lazy in that respect. I haven't really worked in years. But then I suppose I only do what I like, and, because of this, what I do is fun, not work. Right now, my project is to find out how a newbie affiliate could make money online Internet marketing without any money.

I know it is difficult to do it without any money, but I am trying to see how it can be done with as little as possible. I find this a real buzz, right now. I am hoping to find out before I launch my main website. You see, right now I am playing around with some free websites that are hosted for free.

Surprisingly, people click on to my websites and then go on to my autoresponders. So I am building a list. Although, when I launch my main website I will be going with JV partners.

But if anybody wants to know how to get a quick head start without wasting their time and money on a lot of rubbish, then I am only too glad to help them.

There is a lot of time involved learning about how to make money Internet marketing, and if dedicated and focussed people would like to learn in a matter of a day or so what might otherwise cost them $100s, if not $1000s, and take over a year or more to learn, then I am more than willing to show them how they can do it.

It just happens, that in a very short time, I have learnt how to show people how to jump start their Internet marketing business as an affiliate very quickly and for minimal cost.

In fact, I can show you how to get a website, squeeze pages, autoresponders, all the material you need, such as branded viral ebooks and pre-written articles, affiliate programs etc, and get started in learning how to make money as an affiliate interent marketer for less than $50 and be up an running within a matter of hours.

Maybe you can do it for less. But that is the cheapest and best value for money I have been able to come up with.

I am only here to help, and learn, but if you want to ridicule me that is your choice.

All the best

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So how much have you made from this system so far happy?
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Old 25-03-2008, 12:29 AM
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Hamo.

Let us say that I got my fifty dollars back very fast.

However, let us concentrate on how much people can save from being burnt as newbies. Then if they want to step up their advertising campaigns and learn how to make more money on the back end, at least they will have a greater chance.

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Personally, I find this particular sales pitch ringing all of my "sucker alarms".

Squeeze page? Isn't that just Shoemoney's term for a landing page, that he came up with to make it sound like something different?

eBooks? Seriously? Writing an eBook is literally no different from writing a regular book. Whilst there are several technological tricks one can do with an eBook, I've yet to see a single one that actually bothers with any of them, like audio/visual add ins, or even just hyperlinks! Never mind the capacity to install interactive elements as of Acrobat V7.

Viral marketing? The whole thing about viral marketing is to create a buzz that people are susceptible to because they haven't encountered it before. It has to be memetic, and has to be cross-media. Like seeing a particular grafitti stencil EVERYWHERE, and then going "What the hell is that!?" and looking it up online, to be redirected to a site that seems to be for something, but cleverly advertises something else... like the WildNRG drinks you see in Safeway. That logo was everywhere for a whole, then there were a bunch of rave parties... All to sell an energy drink!

Anything that promises a get rich quick solution is limited, and always based on a market place of diminishing returns, and is therefore unsustainable in the longer term...
Especially when you're following a set formula.

I'm working my arse off in various projects that I also do for fun (events management type things), but I'm funding it through my online activities.
I tried the stuff from eBooks, and found that they worked for a limited time, but within about 3-6 months, they always collapsed in on themselves... I had to start thinking for myself, and hey, that's paying off now.
It's hard work, and I have to do 100% of it...
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Old 25-03-2008, 10:32 AM
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Harvey J.

You are obviously past the newbie stage and I reckon you would have spent more than $50 before you got burned. Because, human nature is to demonstrate a resentment towards the fact that something might be better than what they found and then got burned with.

The suggestion that what I am talking about is for "suckers" when you haven't even looked at what I am talking about, really.

I had a look at the marketing hype of many websites and promoters and all I could see was people trying to sell each other the same thing in different wrapping. So where is the product, I wondered. Without an actual product that is going to be consumed, there is nothing of value.

However, there is need for a delivery vehicle and that vehicle does not have to be an overpriced ebook or whatever.

One of the good things about what I have discovered, Harvey J., is any newbie can learn virtually what there is needed to be known, for about $50. This is extremely good value and, if you think that rings of being a sucker, well, anybody who pays anymore or has paid anymore is a bigger sucker.

To get a domain name, website and webhosting for $10 a year. Now you say that I am looking for suckers.
Now for less than $40, a person can have:
video tutorials,
pre-written brandable articles,
brandable ebooks,
squeeze pages to capture names and bypass a merchant's squeeze page as an affiliate, autoresponders,
pre-written follow-up
messages for recommended affiliate programs.

Now you are saying that is not value, that that sounds like come in sucker. Harvey J., be honest, that is unbelievably huge value compared to the garbage I have seen promoted on the internet for much more, and people buy it.

And here's the good part, if within thirty days you are not satisfied. Money back, except for the $10 domain name, website and web hosting. So you are risking $10.

By the way I also joined another program which cost $250 because I thought that it was tremendous value. I get 30,000 leads a month, cloaking of my affilate id, so no body can steal my commissions, and it saves a massive amount on having to buy domain names that you couldn't otherwise get and you also get every landing page title to read what you want.

In fact, a page that is not mine, gets a high google ranking, but bearing my name, because of the technology that is used.

By the way, I got my $250 one off fee for joining this program back in two days.

However, if I was to be promoting that program here, maybe I might be looking for money for myself, but I am not promoting that program.

All I am doing is letting people know, especially newbies, that they do not have to pay $100s in order to learn about Internet Marketing, when you can do it and actually get hands on experience for less than $50.

Now you must admit that is unbelievable value.

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Here is an interesting perspective I received by email today.

Here is a person who has ebay businesses and he tells how
the internet business is changing.

** We charged as much as $50,000 for an ecommerce website
that had a shopping cart and inventory management system.
** We charged as much as $10,000 for a simple website with
no bells and whistles.
** We charged as much as $5,000 just to setup a website
merchant account and credit card system.
** We charged over $500 an hour for eBay consulting.
I made a killing in that business...
Unfortunately, the good old days have come and gone.
What used to require months of development, a team of
expert programmers, and $50,000 to create can now be done
by anyone, anywhere, anytime, in just a few hours.
Case in point...
I discovered a new website building system that will do
everything my old company used to do and a lot more for
a fraction of the price in a fraction of the time.
Instead of $50,000 for a full blown ecommerce website,
loaded with eBay tools, inventory management for 500+
products, marketing assistance and more...
You can get it now for as little as $49.95 per month.

Now I am not associated with this person. YOu can get a
website for nothing and well hosting you have to pay for, or
you can get a domain name for $10 and free hosting for a year
plus a free 5 page website.

However, what you see is how the internet is changing and
how different strategies are required to make money these
days.

Happy

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Hi Happy Riches,

I was wondering if you would be happy to contact me or vice versa. Your offer for help and advice would be much appreciated. Breaking into this market would be so much easier with a bit of guidance and mentoring. I have a few sites up that I would value your thoughts and scrutiny.

I have lost alot of money so far with adwords and clickbank products and am now trying to utilise adsense instead. My first adsense rich site is http://www.pixelarticle.com

My email if you would be interested in having a chat is zane@zanemcintyre.com

Regards
Zane
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