The Ramblings of a Journalist and Internet Marketer

Did you read Adwords Profits 2? No, neither did I. But that doesn’t matter because Google Revenge is the latest from the same author, Jacobo Benitez. In Google Revenge he promises to crack the Adwords code to earning six figures online. Let’s see whether he does.

Even if you hate PPC with a vengeance, because maybe you’ve been stung in the past, Google Revenge sets out to change your mind. Because PPC is the fastest way of driving prospects to your websites so, if you can master it, Adwords is the key to quick profits.

And the key to making PPC work for you is your correct selection of keywords. What you don’t want to do is start bidding on keywords where you cannot afford to outbid the competition. What you DO want to do is bid on keywords that are going to bring you a Return On Investment.

How do you find these magical keywords? You use a good keyword tool. Google Revenge outlines the Keyword Krush method, and this is how it works.

Google Revenge shows you how to use the Adwords Keyword Tool (don’t worry, it’s free) to find people who are searching to buy. Yes, forget people who are just searching for information. Jacobo calls the majority of these ‘freebie seekers’ and discounts them. Instead you’ll be targeting people who actively want to buy, who have their wallets out ready. All you have to do is point them in the right direction.

And how do you do that? Well that’s the ’secret’ in Google Revenge. I warn you, some people might consider the methods that Jacobo uses a little underhand. I just call it crazy. Crazy because it doesn’t do any selling, as such, it just leads the buyer by the nose to the order page.

That’s all, folks!

‘What? You mean that’s all there is?’, I hear you cry. Well that certainly is the Google Revenge system in its simplest form. Like all simple systems it works, and it works well. But remember, you have to know how to use PPC profitably.

And that’s where the rest of Google Revenge starts its work. Because in the remaining 70 pages Jacobo shows you just what to do to optimize your Adwords campaigns and get free backlinks to the info’ pages you set up.

Finally, if you’ve never set up a web page in your life, or don’t even know what a domain is, don’t worry there either. Jacobo gives you the opportunity to download his web page templates and gives the complete lowdown on how to buy a domain, host your sites and use an autoresponder. You’d have to be brain dead not to be able to follow his straightforward instructions.

Now that really is all, folks. If you want more click here to find out if Google Revenge is your answer to fast profits.

As you can see, this is a blog!

What you don’t know is that this is just one of my blogs. Each blog is aimed at imparting information and, because of that, each blog makes money.

Does that sound strange? It would do unless you have really understood the power of blogs. And, to do that, you need to have researched the attraction of blogs, their role as seen by the Search Engines, their relationship with social networking and, last but not least, how to monetize them.

Where do you find all this information? That’s easy, thanks to Blogging To The Bank 3.

The author of Blogging To The Bank, Rob Benwell is, like me, a UK resident, though the only importance of that is that I’ve followed Rob’s career since he first released Blogging To The Bank many years ago.

Since then he has refined his blogging techniques to the point where his blogs earn him in excess of six figures a year. All his knowledge, his blogging techniques, his method for publicising his blogs, his system of Search Engine optimization and so on, are fully explained in Blogging To The Bank 3.

Not only that but Rob shares the methods he uses to find content. With more than one blog to maintain this is invaluable info. He also includes his recommended blog theme plus a bunch of other bonuses you’ll find useful when setting up your blogs.

From getting outside links to promote your blogs to ‘flipping’ blogs (selling them for huge profits once you’ve made them popular), Rob Benwell includes everything you need to know about successful blogging in Blogging To The Bank 3.

If you want to start earning a full time income from blogging then I urge you to look at the details of Blogging To The Bank 3 here. You won’t find a better treatise on blogging.

A few days ago I was fortunate enough to be a Beta tester of a Graphic Design application specifically aimed at creating website Header images. So what, you might say, there are a number of products like this.

Well two things stood out. One is that this application was from the creators of a favorite website builder software. The other is that this application, now it has launched, is FREE.

I found this very easy to use, thanks to some excellent templates, and within a few minutes I’d cooked up this header…

What do you think?

Now I’m a seasoned Photoshop user, so I’m not going to make this application the mainstay of my website graphic designs. But I will turn to it when I want to knock up a header quickly for, say, a minisite or blog.

If you think this would benefit your site designs just sign up for my newsletter, by entering your name and email in the boxes under my mugshot, and I’ll send you the application page where you can get this graphic design software free.

No catches. It just works.

Today I was sent an email from a marketer inviting me to participate in online surveys. What I didn’t expect was to be taken to a site which ’sold’ a directory of online surveys. This is it…

This is a VERY attractive header, don’t you think? Note the happy mother and child pic and the money apparently flowing out of the laptop. Also note the major brand names - I wonder if they know their trademarks are being used for this?

Anyway I’ll let you into a secret. All you’ll find inside this site, once you’ve got past the One Time Offers for other ‘money making opportunities’, is a huge list of survey companies. Most of these are out of date and don’t respond if you fill in the applications. When you do find one or two that are still functioning you’ll be filling in survey questions for the equivalent of $10 an hour.

I know because I did try this some years ago. It took me a month of filling in daily surveys to earn $50!

Don’t fall for the false promises in the salesletters used by these websites. If you DO want to fill in surveys just do a search on Google, Yahoo and MSN. Ignore the sites trying to sell you ‘directories’ and just concentrate on the links to companies actively looking for survey correspondents in your country.

But, I assure you, there are easier ways of earning money than this.

Looks like our old friend ‘The Rich Boy’ is at it again! You’ll have read the review of The Rich Boy? If not click here.

Well The Rich Boy is out to get you again with another trumped up site called ‘Your Bill Killer’. The claims on the salesletter, of course, are wonderful. ‘How I went from broke to $100,000′ - you know the sort of thing. But when you get inside it’s another matter.

I have to say ‘Your Bill Killer’ has gone out of its way to provide a mountain of products. The trouble is, they’re all other people’s products. For example a copy of Ewen Chia’s Autopilot Profits is there for you to watch the videos, there’s a bunch of audio interviews with well know affiliates (which usefully add kudos to the salesletter) and so on.

Now you might think that this is all very worthy. And it possibly would be if that was what was stated on the salespage. But what will really hook people into ‘Your Bill Killer’ is the offer of a free money-making website.

Click on the link inside the download area and you’re taken to…

www.myproductcenter.com

There you go, I’ve given you that link for free, out of the goodness of my own heart! Because, you know what? It isn’t free at all. Well the website is, but inside you are continually pushed to sign up to a bunch of webhosting offers plus extras that you probably don’t want and couldn’t make use of if you tried.

Oh, yes, and there’s a forum to help the ‘newbie’. This is populated by helpless users who’ve signed up desperate to make money and a few other affiliates who have found a way in and are promoting their own links in ‘helpful’ messages. Hmmm…

Naturally what will happen is the ‘newbie’ will be overwhelmed by information, may go as far as setting up his ‘free’ website, get no traffic and no sales (I’ve had my own free website running for a month without one single sale) and then move on to the next ‘money-making offer’.

My advice? Stay away from Your Bill Killer! If you really want to start earning serious money in as short a time as possible take a look at this new system which actually does give you the tools you need to become successful.

,,,or why building an email list is NOT enough!

What’s the first thing you are told when you learn about Internet Marketing?

Give yourself a gold star if you answered ‘Build A List’. Yes, this was the message drummed into me from the very start. But, do you know something odd? It’s not true!

For those of you brought up on this old cliche it may come as some surprise that your marketing efforts should NOT be concentrated on building a list, despite what the ‘gurus’ might say. I hadn’t thought much about this until I chanced on Michael Rasmussen’s ‘Get More Buyers’.

In Michael’s promo video he pointed out that putting most of your efforts into building a list is the biggest mistake that budding affiliates make. So what is the answer?

It’s in the title - Get More Buyers. But how, I hear you ask, do you do this without building a list?

I can tell you what the answer is NOT. It’s not directing more traffic to your salespage(s). It is NOT reducing your price to try and drag in more sales (in fact you might be better doing just the opposite). It is NOT spending more on PayPerClick ads either.

Just what it is Michael points out in a series of 10 Video chapters of Get More Buyers. If you are an experienced marketer you may already know some of these ten strategies. However if you are relatively new to Internet Marketing and are seriously wondering why you aren’t making more sales then Get More Buyers is going to be invaluable training for you.

As well as the video series Michael has condensed his career success into a 140 page book called the Get More Buyers Battle Plan. And he doesn’t just leave it there. This accomplished set of training strategies ends with a Once You Have Your Buyers section or how to follow up and have your buyers hanging on your every word.

If you’ve ever wondered why your ‘list’ isn’t building you the income you expected OR you’ve yet to build an email list and want to get it right from the start then Get More Buyers is going to be perfect for you. Read more about it here.

Cracking the Secret Affiliate Code - the second time round!

It’s silly, isn’t it? A new program is launched and there’s all this hoo-ha like ‘Go, Go, Go, Get It Now!’ and you don’t even know what it does!

I trust you’re not one of those people who buys on a whim, otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this. So, you’ve seen the hype, you’ve read the salesletter, what’s REALLY behind the doors of Secret Affiliate Code 2?

I’ve brought this review to you as quickly as I can because I know you’re probably gagging to know whether it is worth purchasing. So I haven’t been through every single inch of Secret Affiliate Code 2 yet. But I have taken the crash course which goes something like this…

Step 1. Download everything. This took me most of an afternoon! There’s bags of ebooks, videos, training documents adding up to over 400Mb of information.

Step 2. Luckily it’s all organized into a 1, 2, 3 arrangement so you know where to start (and when you’ll be finished, probably in a week’s time). First there’s the intro manual. As Craig says this is both a prequel and a sequel to the original Secret Affiliate Code. It starts off showing you how to concentrate on your goal - making money! You have to have focus if you are going to run this successfully - Craig gives you the key to that focus.

Step 3. Go through the manuals which cover the 3 core tasks to achieving success:
1. Create Content
2. Increase traffic
3. Grow your list

You are given specific methods of achieving each task. For example for ‘Create Content’ Craig shows you exactly how to find niches to target and the profitable keywords to use to monetize them.

Now I know that every affiliate’s major problem is how to attract traffic. So I was really pleased to read the ‘Cracked Code fast start traffic guide’ that sets out a complete plan to collect traffic using free methods. Again this is a step by step guide - all you have to do is follow it to the letter.

After that growing your list is a cinch. Craig is explicit in the methods that will capture visitors to your site(s) and he explains how to do it in a series of ten videos. On top of that there’s another three videos covering List Building, Content Creation and Choosing a Profitable Niche.

These videos assume that you are just starting out as an affiliate, in other words they don’t leave ANYTHING to the imagination. You’re given every single thing you need to get started.

Honestly if you don’t ‘get it’ at this point you’re never going to succeed as an affiliate because I can’t see much more that anyone can tell you!

There is one thing that Craig leaves out, however, and it’s a gap I’m going to fill for you. It would have saved a huge amount of time if Craig had given you a set of articles as ‘content’ for your niche site(s). So here’s what I’m going to do.

If you do decide that Secret Affiliate Code 2 is right for you then order through the link below, send me your receipt details and I’ll send you a batch of over a 1000 PLR Articles in six major niches that you can edit to suit your own requirements. That will get you on the road to getting traffic in no time flat.

Now the good news is that, for a few hours only, I am able to bring you a 50% discount on Secret Affiliate Code 2 if you click HERE. Or click the Secret Affiliate Code box.

At least go and see what’s on offer because I can tell you - if anyone else was selling training as complete as this it would cost ten times what Craig is asking for Secret Affiliate Code 2. Now ‘go get it’ - oops, wasn’t that where we came in!

One of the first ebooks I bought when I was learning how to market products on the Internet was Day Job Killer. To this day I don’t know quite why I bought it. Perhaps I got caught up in the hype about it at the time.

Whatever it was I really thought I was being given the lowdown on getting traffic to my websites and blogs using PayPerClick advertising (which Google calls ‘Adwords’ and others just call PPC). I read the book, put together my PPC campaigns and sat back and waited for the results.

But they weren’t as I expected. Yes, there was plenty of traffic, but no, I mean zero, conversions of visitors to sales. In fact I lost a packet on this one Adwords campaign. And it put me off PPC advertising for life.

Or so I thought. Because when I started talking to other marketers some of them were using PPC campaigns and making a mint. One of the guys I met who was making a more than comfortable living out of Adwords was Amit Mehta.

So when he and Anik Singal launched his PPC Classroom recently I was one of the first in behind the doors. Now, in my usual way, I haven’t joined the razamataz of the recent launch party in the way that other affiliates have. Instead I wanted to start PPC Classroom myself to find out whether it really does deliver the goods.

So far I have to say I’m impressed. I can’t give you the lowdown on the whole course because tuition continues on a monthly basis. But what you get up front when you first enter PPC Classroom is certainly very impressive.

I expected PPC Classroom to restore my confidence in Adwords, but it’s done more than that. I’ve already picked up enough to start a new PPC campaign which, this time round, is actually bringing in some sales. In fact I’m already in profit, which is a huge turnaround of fortunes in my estimation of PPC.

So if, like me, you’ve wondered how the heck you can turn a profit from PPC campaigns I suggest you take a close look at PPC Classroom, here,  today. I’ll see you inside.

As a result of my coaching offer in my last post I’ve had a fascinating time answering people’s questions about ‘how to get started’. I have to say it is a real eye opener seeing the areas in which people who are starting out on their online career are having trouble with.

One of the questions that I get asked most is ‘how did you get started?’. It is actually a simpler story than many imagine.

I think I’ve mentioned before that I discovered Internet Marketing because I needed to sell physical products online and wanted to know the best way to do it. I am also an avid eBayer and wondered whether what I’d learnt there could be applied to websites.

When I saw how marketers were selling through websites, however, it made my mind boggle. Just what was a squeeze page’ and how did it differ from a ‘landing page’? How did you use an autoresponder? How was payment collected and how was the buyer directed to the download page? And what is all this talk of an OTO?

To find all this out I would have to buy a host of ebooks and training courses, and how could I be sure that the promises on the salesletters (as you have seen I’ve an anathema to hype and BS) would be kept?

But then I found something. Something unique. Something I hadn’t counted on. A friend told me about Steve Wagenheim’s ‘My Secret Articles’. He said this was a complete course in itself. OK, it didn’t contain the complete secrets of the online universe, but it did answer all my questions.

What’s more ‘My Secret Articles’ comes in two forms - pdf, for you to read, and Word documents that you can edit. Would you believe it that you can take these docs and use them like a PLR (Private Label Rights, that’s something else I learnt), edit them and then put your own name to them as products?

Wow. I was intrigued. A course on all the ins and outs of Internet Marketing AND a product source as well.

I had to try it out. The usual guarantees were in force if I didn’t like it. But I did like it, in fact I LOVED it. The course is broken down into twelve months of content such is its extent, with over 52 ‘articles’ covering just about every aspect of Internet Marketing.

Such is the depth of ‘My Secret Articles’ that I am still referring to this course today, adapting pieces of it to make articles, email messages and ebooks or reports which I can use for giveaways or to sell as part of a package.

Can you begin to see how valuable ‘My Secret Articles’ could be to you if, like me, you were just starting out? You can find out more about ‘My Secret Articles’ by downloading Steve’s report here. I’d be really surprised if it doesn’t answer all your questions.

I have a confession to make - I am Dreamer (but I turned into a Doer too)! Let me explain…

I was on the way home last night from choir practice (I am a bass singer and also chairperson of our local choral society) and a fellow chorister and I were talking about a forthcoming event that was supposed to be ‘organized’ already (it’s only two weeks away and nothing’s been done yet). She pointed out that the ‘organizer’ was more of a Dreamer than a Doer, and that got me thinking.

Because, for many years, I was a Dreamer. I’d been dreaming since I was a kid. I had big ideas. I was headed for fame and fortune. I just knew I would make it big one day once I’d thrown off the shackles of whatever was holding me back.

Of course, as a kid, it was my parents that were preventing me from fulfilling my dreams. Then, when I reached University, I knew that once I was a graduate I’d put those dreams into action. And when I got my first job I was sure that, once I’d amassed enough money, I’d get started.

Then marriage intervened, followed by children. I was following life’s path, and creating and living new dreams, but my kid’s dream of fame and fortune hadn’t happened. It was always going to happen, maybe I’d get started tomorrow, or perhaps next week once I’d…

Well, you know the definition of procrastination? ‘Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow’! That was me. I didn’t do things until I was forced into a corner and, even then, only with reluctance.

But then, because of financial constraints, I had to face up to it - was I a Dreamer or a Doer? Yes, I had great ideas. Lots of them. But none of them ever got going.

So what happened? How did I turn from Dreamer to Doer?

One day that song from Supertramp kept on going round and round my head…

‘Dreamer, you’re nothing but a dreamer, well can you put your hands in your head, oh no’

I’d never really understood that song before, but it suddenly jumped out at me. I had to put my hands in my head and use them to mold my dreams into reality.

Deadline Approaches

So I set myself a deadline. I knew I had to have a routine to work to. I invested in Michael Green’s ‘2020 Challenge’ simply because it gave me a deadline and daily tasks to follow. I knew, instinctively, that if I followed those tasks I’d get there. Because whenever anybody asked me to do something, I would do it and do it well. And it worked - the fact that you’re reading this today is proof of that.

What’s the point of this story? It’s simple. I meet Dreamers every day. People who say to me ‘oh, I’d love to work from home’ or ‘how I envy you, great house, lovely family, plenty of leisure time, how do you do it?’  I always tell them ‘just do what I did’ and show them the way. But, you know what, they don’t do it ’cause they’re dreamers, not doers!

So, today you have a choice - are you going to face up to it? Are you a Dreamer or a Doer? Here’s how you can find out. In fact I’m giving you three choices. Why three and not one? Because not everyone has the same requirements, or the same expenditure. If you want to turn from a Dreamer into a Doer here are those 3 choices…

Choice Number One:

Follow this link to create your own product and start selling it and profiting from it in just 20 days. It’s straightforward, I’ve done it, I know it works. What’s more I know it will work for you too.

http://jonathanpaston.com/recommends/2020Challenge

Choice Number Two:

Follow this link to kick-start your online marketing career. There’s no time limit on this one but I know that if you follow this step-by-step routine you’ll start seeing results within 30 days and will be generating a substantial income in three months.

http://jonathanpaston.com/presents/HomeBusinessEmpire

Choice Number Three:

Follow this link to become a successful affiliate marketer. Now I know that this is the dream of a lot of people because affiliate marketing, when done right, gives you instantaneous income. The problem is that most people don’t follow the correct route to become successful affiliates. Here is the path that actually will work if you follow it as Tim lays it out for you…

http://jonathanpaston.com/recommends/ProfitPraxis

One more thing

Now there’s one more thing before you go and turn from being a Dreamer into a Doer. You’ll need some help. In fact I only reached my full potential when I received some mentoring from my friend Frank Haywood (www.frankhaywood.com). So I’m going to offer the same sort of help to you.

If you’ve subscribed to this blog, or any other list of mine, then you’ll have my email address (it’s at the bottom of every download page). Whichever choice you make from the three links above just send me your receipt and I’ll help you with any questions you may have, either when you’re getting started or as you are following each course, or even when you get to the end.

Why am I doing this? I like helping people. I want to see more people become Doers instead of Dreamers. In fact it pains me to meet so many Dreamers who have dreams that are never fulfilled. Make your dream come true - start today by making one of the choices above and turn, as I did, from a Dreamer into a Doer!