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“How Jeremy Went From Nothing,
To $1Million A Year In Affiliate Commission…”

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When you see testimonials for most affiliate marketing products, you always see the same old familiar faces giving them. It’s hard to know whether to believe any of them, because you see the same people recommending every product that comes out.

But when I saw this, I sat up and took notice…

When was the last time you saw a testimonial from ‘Commission Junction’ (The biggest affiliate network on the Internet) or ‘Yahoo’?

Yes, I did say Yahoo!

Jeremy Palmer is a super affiliate in every sense of the word. When top companies set up a new affiliate program, Jeremy is the one guy they all want to get as an affiliate. They will do everything they can to entice him, including offering him commission way above what you or I would get.

Why?

Jeremy is the real deal, not some wannabe masquerading as a super affiliate. His high performance affiliate sites, make him and the companies he promotes a ton of money.

  • He received the CJ Performer and Horizon awards from Commission Junction, for being one of their ‘top-tier’ affiliates.
  • Given the Yahoo Ambassador award for his search engine marketing expertise.
  • Achieved the acclaimed status of ’Google AdWords Professional’.

Now, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Jeremy must be some seasoned pro, who has been at the affiliate game since it started.

Not so…amazingly; Jeremy only first discovered affiliate marketing in 2003, but has already catapulted his affiliate earnings to over $1 million Dollars a year.

He Wants To Show You How He Did It

The good news for you and I, is that Jeremy has taken time out to show us exactly how he does it.

He’s put together a very detailed and comprehensive guide (140 pages), and provides you with his step-by-step plan for becoming a successful super affiliate.

  • He gives you the addresses of 5 of his websites, so you can see exactly how he makes money as an affiliate. This is a massive bonus, because most top affiliates are very secretive about their sites, and usually don’t want you to see exactly what they are doing.  I got some great ideas from looking at them, and have already started making changes to some of my own affiliate sites.
  • ‘The Keyword Buying Cycle’ -  You will find Jeremy’s explanation of ‘Browse’, ‘Compare’ and ‘Buy’ keywords a real eye-opener.  Using this one tactic could really transform the results you get from pay-per-click and search engine marketing.

    Do you think you can make more money, if you can catch people when they are in a ‘buying’ mood? It makes perfect sense doesn’t it, and Jeremy explains exactly how he does it.

  • How to find and choose a good affiliate program to promote - It was great to get inside his head as he takes through his selection criteria, on choosing the right affiliate products to promote. It’s easy to waste a lot of time and money marketing the wrong affiliate programs, which is why you will find this section very helpful.
  • He shows you how he writes highly effective classified ads, to help drive in the people who are looking to buy.
  • There’s a members only forum, where Jeremy is answering questions and responding to feedback - Often when you buy a product, the seller either disappears or is very unresponsive if you have any questions. Jeremy has set up a forum for purchasers, and has been actively replying to comments and helping people out.

    Since the forum opened on 3rd April, Jeremy has already made 66 posts. He genuinely seems to want to help people succeed, which is rare to find these days.

What I didn’t like ;-)

Unfortunately, I couldn’t find a magic read button in the book. You know? Where you press it once and out pops a ready made instant affiliate business, with no competition and huge profits. If that’s what you hoping to find, I’m afraid you won’t find that in Jeremy’s book.

But, if what you want is to discover proven strategies and an easy to follow plan, from someone who went from nothing to making $1 million a year in affiliate sales, after only 3 years…you won’t want to miss this.

Find out more here:

http://www.BusinessBrainwaves.com/HighPerformanceAffiliate.html

Wishing you success,

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Posted in Affiliate Marketing on April 28th, 2006   2 Comments

Something All Website Owners Desperately Want…

Gap In The Market Alert!Today’s ‘Gap In The Market Alert’ is all about leveraging the skills and services of other people, so that you can create and provide your own ‘highly in demand service’, where other people do all the hard work, but you make the lions share of the profit!

Sound good?  Let’s get down to the nitty gritty…

First things first; let’s analyze the need and demand for this type of service.

What is the one thing that all website owners desperately want more of?

WEBSITE TRAFFIC!

Now, I will forgive you for thinking that this is a bit obvious, and that this is an extremely competitive market to be in, with wall-to-wall competition everywhere you look.  So where’s the supposed gap in the market?

Let’s first identify the type of service you will be providing.  Please stay with me here, because you won’t see the complete picture unless you read the whole of this post. The key part is not just what you will be providing, but who you will be providing it to.

Article Writing And Distribution Service

Writing articles and syndicating them for other websites to publish, is widely regarded as one of the top ways to drive traffic to a website. This much I’m sure you already know.

However, you may be on a dozen or so Internet marketing lists, and hear about this traffic generation method all the time, but there are tons of bricks and mortar companies out there, who are crying out for someone to help them get some website traffic, and they don’t know the first thing about writing articles and getting them published.

What you can do is leverage the power of other other people’s services, and offer your own complete: ‘all in one solution’, where you just outsource the work as it comes in.

  • You get a ghostwriter to create the articles for you, and put your own fees on top.
  • You then use an article submission service like: http://www.articlemarketer.com, to get each article published around the Internet. Again, putting your own fees on top.
  • You could provide a comprehensive package, including consultation, keyword research, writing of the articles, and getting them syndicated.
  • You could offer a selection of packages to cater for different requirements. Offering various discounts if they order a certain amount of articles to be written and distributed on the same order.

Even by offering discounts on larger orders, you should be able to charge anything from 3 to 10 times+ over what it would cost you to get the articles ghostwritten and syndicated.

These companies will be paying you for your experience, expertise and the ‘CONVENIENCE’ of having you do everything for them.

They will be getting:

  • Increased exposure for their website, company and products.
  • Increased link popularity, which will help help boost their search engine rankings.
  • Increase in traffic as people click through to their website after reading the articles.
  • Long term value, as once articles are published they will often stay visible on a website for years.

If you consider running this type of service there are many good plus points:

  • Potential for on-going income from repeat orders and referrals.
  • You outsource virtually all of the work.
  • Extremely low overheads, because you can ask for payment in advance.
  • There is a vast potential market for this service, and as the Internet keeps growing it’s going to get bigger and bigger.

Ideas For Finding Potential Clients

Now, you can try and get new clients for your service by writing and distributing your own articles, and using pay-per-click advertising to drive traffic to your website. However, I think you could do even better if you go looking for clients yourself, instead of just relying on them finding you.

Think about it, the businesses who need this service most, don’t even know it exists, so they are not going to be searching for it in the search engines.

  • To try and identify potential clients, a good place to start is the yellow pages.  Look for companies that have paid to enhance their standard listing, and who have their website address displayed in their ad.  This will give you ’some’ indication that they are willing to spend money to promote their business, and that they want people to visit their website.
  • Go to Google and do a search to see how much exposure their site has in the search engines.  The less the better, because it will mean that your service can have a big impact on their business.
  • On the other hand, if you notice that companies are paying to be listed in directories like Yahoo, this is also a good indication that they are willing to spend money to get website traffic.

To begin with, I would go looking for smaller clients, while you refine your service and iron out any potential issues. You should even consider doing some of your initial orders at break even or less, in exchange for feedback and maybe a testimonial if they like your service.

If you are good on the phone, probably the quickest way to get clients would be to phone them to introduce your service, and then follow up with a infomation pack via snail mail, email, or direct them to your website. You will probably find snail mail more effective, but you should test to see what converts the most orders.

Getting The Work Outsourced

Ghostwriters:

These days there are tons of ghostwriters looking for work. You can post projects for freelance ghostwriters at sites like:

Whilst hiring ghostwriters is not that hard to do, there are a few pitfalls you can trip up on, if you don’t know what you’re doing. So if you don’t have much experience getting articles ghostwritten, I have just aquired the rights to a very informative publication which will be an anormous help to you.

Helpful Tips For Hiring Ghostwriters:

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Publishing and distributing the articles:

Once you’ve had the articles ghostwritten for your clients, the next step is to get them syndicated around the web.  To do this, you will need to submit them to article directories and article announcement email lists.

You have three choices:

  1. You can submit them manually by hand, but I strongly recommend against because it’s very time consuming, and boring work.
  2. You can use software to submit the articles for you. I have used the Article Announcer software from http://www.articleannouncer.com and found that to be excellant. It is quite pricey, but it also comes with an extensive course on article writing, which I found very useful and enlightening.
  3. Use an article distribution service like: Article Marketer from: http://www.articlemarketer.com. This is a subscription service where you can submit an unlimited number of articles.  You will need to open a new account for each client, but the huge plus is how effortless and quick it is to use. Plus they are constantly increasing the number of places they submit your articles to, so it gives you great exposure.

This type of business could easily be started on a small scale part time, with very little up front investment and risk. That said, the profit opportunities are almost endless, with so many potential clients out there.

I realize that this is just a brief overview of how to set up a business like this, but I hope it has given you a few useful ideas ;-)

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Posted in Business Ideas on April 23rd, 2006   3 Comments

“The Easiest Way to Start Your Own eBook Publishing Business”

Arguably, one of the best ways to make money online, is to have your own information product that you can sell to a hungry niche market.

The trouble is; it’s a lot easier said than done.

To start off with, you have to do a load of research to locate profitable niche markets, and then find out what they want to buy.  If you are lucky enough to find that out, you’ve then got all the hassle of getting the product created and written.

Doing all the writing yourself is a hard slog (believe me I’ve been there), and if you decide to get the ebook ghostwritten that can be very expensive, and it also brings its only headaches in trying to find a decent writer.

I’ve just gained access to a brand new service run by Robert Blackstone and Adam Maywald, which solves all these problems for you.

Every month they give you FOUR new private label ebooks, which you are free to sell and use in multiple ways, and keep 100% of all the profit that you make.

There are many different things that I like about this, which makes it different from other similar services out there.

What impressed me to begin with was the quality of the products. I’ve already gone through the initial ebooks that you get when you join, and they are superior to most other PLR ebooks I have seen.  Quite often with private label content of this nature, it’s often been written by cheaper ghostwriters who are not native English speakers.

However, with these ebooks they have been written by competent ghostwriters who speak English as their first language, so the quality of the content is very good.

  • Membership is STRCITLY LIMITED to just 300 people! This is incredibly low when you compare it to other similar sites that have 1500+ members.
  • You get a PDF and a Microsoft Word (doc file) version, so you can easily edit and add to the content to make each ebook unique to you.
  • A ready made sales letter, a list of keywords to use for pay-per-click advertising, header graphic for your sales page, and ebook cover graphics (including the original Photoshop files as well), plus a pre-written 5 part mini course, which you can use to capture leads and build a list for each market.

The autoresponder mini-course is a huge bonus in my book, because they are a proven way of driving visitors back into your site, and increasing your sales conversion rates.

It doesn’t stop there either; Adam and Robert have also gone to the trouble of finding relevant affiliate programs, appropriate for each niche ebook.  This is a big time saver, and by weaving in a few recommendations for affiliate products into the ebooks, you can make even more money from back end affiliate sales.

Lots Of Different Ways To Profit
And Use The Content

  • The most obvious choice is to sell them as standard ebooks, with a recommended retail price of between $15 to $30.  With services like ClickBank and PayDotCom, you could have an ebook site up and ready to take money in no time.  Plus the opportunity to get affiliates promoting them for you.
  • You could use the ebook as an upsell for an existing product you may be selling.
  • You could even take parts of the ebook and create articles for a content site, to profit from AdSense, or even for a blog.
  • You could take portions of an ebook to create one or more mini ebooks, to use as marketing tools, free gifts or even viral ebooks that can be rebranded by affiliates.
  • You could create an audio product by recording an mp3 version of the ebook. This would be a very simple way of making your product unique and adding extra value to the package.
  • Take portions of the ebook and create an audio mp3 for podcasting, and submit it to podcast directories.  Podcasting is growing at an alarming rate, and this gives you a great opportunity to profit from podcasting in niche markets.

To help protect members, you are required to re-write some of the content, depending on the use. There is a ‘terms of use’ link on the sales page, if you want to find out exactly what you can do with the content.

In any case, I definitely recommend that you undertake some re-writing of the content, in-order to make your product unique, and to stand out from what other people are selling.  The good part is; most of the hard work and effort has already been done for you.

With FOUR new products every month, including sales pages, graphics, keyword research, and a pre-written mini course, you have a real opportunity here to get up and running with your own successful publishing business, very fast.

…Plus at a fraction of what it would cost you to get this all created yourself, not too mention the hassle involved.

10% Discount Available For ‘Business Brainwaves’ readers!


You must not hang around thinking about this…

I’m serious when I say this. Adam launched his AdSenseNiches membership site in February, and it completely sold out in 24 hours flat, and there’s currently a list of 400 people still waiting to get in.

As an additional bonus, I have managed to get a nice 10% discount bonus for my Business Brainwaves readers, which comes off EVERY month for as long as you are a member.

To get the discount, you must use the following link, and type the word ‘brain’, where it asks you for the coupon code on the order page (type the word without the quotes).

http://www.BusinessBrainwaves.com/ebook-niches.htm

I’m sorry to try and hurry you with a rush deal like this at the weekend, but if Adam’s last product launch is anything to go buy, this opportunity could be gone in the next 24 hours.

If you want a quick way to start your own ebook publishing business, grab my discount code, and get in now while the door is still open:

http://www.BusinessBrainwaves.com/ebook-niches.htm

Wishing you success,

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Posted in Information Products on April 9th, 2006   0 Comments

Information Overload: How To Manage Your Email More Effectively

Are You Having An Email Inbox Nightmare?Do you ever feel like you are drowning in information overload, and that your email inbox is a huge burden on your time?

If this sounds like you, I have some tips and tricks I want to share with you, so that you can finally get back in charge of your inbox, instead of your inbox being in charge of you.

As someone who is constantly learning and studying business and Internet marketing strategies, I regularly buy new software tools, information products, download free reports and subscribe to free newsletters.

As a result of this, I have found myself on multiple email lists from many different Internet marketers all over the place.  I am currently on at least 100+ lists, and I stay subscribed to them because I want to keep up to date with what’s going on in my niche, and study the methods and sales tactics of other marketers.

As you can imagine, I get a ton of email each day, but I manage to keep on top of all information hitting my inbox, because I’ve organized my email very effectively.
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Posted in X Factor on April 3rd, 2006   5 Comments