Entries from October 2008 ↓

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 Most of these are out of date and don’t respond if you fill in the applications.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!