Promoting affiliate products is big business, but and this is a big but, just at the moment it has itself rather a bad name.

You may ask why? The answers are very simple, how many e-mails do you get on a daily or even weekly basis trying to sell you the next best thing? In my case the answer is several hundred a day (yes really) how many times do these e-mails offer you something for free to thank you for subscribing, maybe a free product or free report? Maybe some tips or training to get you started online, or as in most cases is it just sell, sell, sell, anything and everything?

Are you fed up of the next must have product being promoted by gurus only to find the next day (sometimes even the same day) they are promoting some other half baked trash. And how do they know these products or systems work? Have they had time to try them out and see the results they boast about, I think not! These ‘gurus’ always have the answer or the next best way of parting you from your cash. There is a lot of rubbish out there believe me, but the excellent stuff too often get lumped in with the rest by association.

There must surely be a better way than this and there is. It is simply to promote only those products that are tried and tested or are from a respected marketer with a track record of delivering excellence, those whose products will be of use to your subscribers and that deliver outstanding value.

John Thornhill has produced a report based on his years of experience as an affiliate, ethical marketer and 100% honest guy. You can grab it here completely for free.

John has also recorded some free training in the form of an audio interview with well known UK marketer Randy Smith. Randy has included a free report based on his successful promotion of John and Dave Nicholson’s Multi Profit Websites using a proto-type of John successful Affiliate Promo Formula. To grab these free extras click HERE

This stuff makes for interesting reading and should be read by anyone who wants to start a business online or before you buy any other products touted by the churn and burn brigade.  Rob………

Free Monthly Websites. Launching at 3 PM EST Tuesday 19^th October a great new way of making money and here’s how you can get the most out of the program.

Free Monthly Websites, in my opinion is one of those programs you either know what to do with or you don’t. I will now show you how you can get the most of it and why Free Monthly Websites is such great tool which can earn you an extra income stream to your business for a long time to come.

The Three main categories we need to concentrate on here are:

1, Selling eBooks

2, Writing articles

3, Affiliate promotions

When you first login and download your website follow the tutorials which is very easy to do and eventually get your website onto your webspace. You are presented with a very nice well designed Adsense website.

What can you do with this free website? Well to be honest the free website has duplicate content so you can rule out getting to the top of the search engine rankings, the premier websites are a different kettle of fish all together but I will get to those in a moment.

Take option 1 above ‘Selling eBooks’ if you sell eBooks especially PLR (private Label Content) conversions, you will find Free Monthly Websites have a rather large variety of websites that correspond with a lot of the PLR out there (if you are a premier member you get a bonus PLR eBook). All you need to do is upload your eBook to a convenient location on your webspace and place a few corresponding links inside your PLR eBook for example:

I have a weight loss eBook and a small paragraph saying “there are 100’s ways to lose weight which can be found in various forms from Books to television to fitness programs bla bla bla” you could not take this small paragraph and insert your Free Monthly Websites website link in a prime location for instance “there are 100’s ways to lose weight which can be found in various forms from Books to television to fitness programs the best resource I found is at www.yourfreemonthlywebsites.com/fitness_website”

Now imagine you done this to all your eBooks! Simply take a little time upload your Free Monthly Websites website to your webspace then reopen your PLR eBooks and insert the relevant hyperlink which corresponds to your website and there you have it. For about 2 hours work you have created an income stream for life. Now imagine you have 50 PLR eBooks doing the rounds on eBay or your blog. Your AdSense revenue is going to creep up and up until you are earning a very respectable income. It’s a simple case of wash rinse repeat.

Option number 2 is even easier. I know most of you will at some point, or do write articles and submit them to relevant article directories. Well why not try writing an article about one of the subjects related to Free Monthly Websites? Upload your website to a location on your webspace, place the link in your article and there you have it, submit to article directories like:

http://www.articledashboard.com/

http://www.articlebasement.com/

http://ezinearticles.com/

http://www.goarticles.com/

And another income stream will start.

The third option is a little different. Using your Free Monthly Websites affiliate link to promote the website and earn a potential 98.50 per referral. You can place your link in the websites provided for you and in the eBooks you sell and articles you write this can generate a missive earnings income of 98.50.

So with your website up on your webspace and your eBook on eBay and your articles in the article directories, you will be well on your way to earning a nice income from a free resource.

I mentioned earlier your Premier Members website. These are a fantastic resource and are worth every penny for the simple fact you receive a private label eBook and 20 articles with every Premier Membership website every month. Not only can you use the eBooks and articles in the ways I have explained, you can key word optimize your website for the search engines, change the content and make your sites as original as you like. In other words you have full edit rights. So if you imagine directing a visitor to your Premier Website via an eBook or article, they will find a fully edited site with offers and affiliate links promotions, and even an Aweber signup box (which you can integrate with a little HTML knowledge) which in turn will create more revenue and more subscribers for you.

My recommendations are if you have a few hours to spare get started with this and you will soon see a Google AdSense income. If you use the Premier Websites, you can place affiliate banners, Clickbank affiliate links and Aweber signup box on your site as well as edit all your own content via an easy edit control panel..

If you are going to move into this business, I recommend you take the Full Premier Websites Access and that will really kick start your business!

Download your Free Report

DOWNLOAD HERE

Kick start your business with Free Monthly Websites. Rob….

If you are terrified of starting online and really do not know where to start then I have some great news I have just completed a Newbie’s startup guide. Internet Marketing For Newbies.  This is a step by step account of how you can start your online business today!

Internet Marketing for Newbies is broken up into 3 parts

Part 1: Making a start, which explains the basics of starting online the how to do rather than the how not to do. Give your business the edge by looking professional from the start.

Part 2: How to promote your site, driving targeted customers to your products and services and how to launch a simple marketing campaign.

Part 3: More advanced tactics, the information that will give your sites and your business the edge over the competition and how to stay ahead of the competition.

DOWNLOAD YOUR COPY HERE

I am intending to launch this as a paid product in the next week or two BUT I am offering it to my subscribers and visitor for a limited time FREE but this will be severely time limited and I will remove the link when it is on sale so grab your copy whilst it is still free…. Rob

In my last post I showed how “cheap” it was NOT, just to start a business using franchises which is the road that a lot of people go down when wanting to start up their own business. As a business model there are many advantages to the franchise model, you are already or should be buying into a successful business model. They will have their own manuals on virtually every task so that it is easy to find solution s to any problem. They will also have a team or individual that will be there to support you through your start up franchise.

But all this comes at a cost; Bryan McHeyzer in a comment on Part 1 gives the figure on $1,000,000 to set up a McDonalds in Australia. Now that’s rather too rich for my blood I think limiting the risk to $100 or less is the better option I think you will agree.

There are even some businesses that you can start for nothing. Not silly ones like stuff envelopes and make a fortune, my brother tried that when he was a student, he was the one who got stuffed! Or make….. [insert amount here], don’t you always know its going to be a MLM (Multi Level Marketing) “opportunity”.

Now if you want to lose friends fast and become a social outcast just follow the helpful instructions “Start by selling to your friends and family” or you could just hang a placard around your neck and ring a bell shouting “UNCLEAN” it’s just as easy.

What about drop shipping, just sell on eBay we ship for you! Yes of course I want to sell stuff on eBay at a much higher price to the drop shipper than I can source it myself. It does have the advantage of paying people to lose money on your behalf so that you don’t have to put the effort in yourself.

If you have an Internet connection you practically have every thing you need to start with now.

No BS ALERT!

I have just completed my new product 12 Roads to Success, 12 proven Blueprints for online success, and I am going to make this available at a special subscriber discount at only $17 for a limited time only. Here’s the best bit I have made available a leaked chapter for you to test drive, get it here by clicking the link below.

CLICK HERE

The “Leaked Chapter” is a complete stand alone business Blueprint in itself, which will.. Sorry you can read this for your self by clicking the link :-).

CLICK HERE

You don’t need to spend a fortune on the “Gurus” latest  make a fortune online and oh and by the way there’s another one you really need coming along in 2 weeks which will cost the other arm and leg but if you don’t have it you won’t make a penny product. Phew what a long sentence.

12 Roads to Success reveals several ways of starting your online business without spending a penny, here’s just 1 simple idea for 12 Roads to Success. Start with some simple blogging techniques by constructing a review blog for other people’s products. You can get a free blog at Blogger.com I show you how to set this up. Want to know more, then click the link for you copy at my special discount rate.

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Or test drive the 12 Roads to Success leaked chapter now by clicking the link.

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To your success..Rob

You may well ask how long is a piece of string (11 ¾ inches I have one at home!). Because this really depends on what type of business you want to run. There are several options.

Open a shop, let’s consider the costs, find a business model and research it, find some premises pay out for the lease, stock the premises use your own capital to stock it or get a bank loan if you can. Then there is insurance, rates and utility bills to find the money for. Simple just open your shop and wait for the passing trade to drop in and spend a few quid on the items you have for sale simple.

Well may be not this approach could prove to be very expensive huge amounts of capital tied up in stock especially if no one wants what you are selling plus the added bonus of working 7 days a weeks. If you are not there every minute how can you make any money?

Perhaps an easier way is to buy a business franchise; this has many advantages over going it alone. With a top franchise you are buying into an already successful business model, you will get the support and training you need from a proven business formula.

You may baulk at the price of a franchise but are the very cheap ones worth the investment; unfortunately all franchises are not created equal or indeed offer the same value. Lets take a well know high street brand and a respected franchise Subway.

Why Subway? Well one has just opened in my home town and the shop it moved into was formally a charity shop. This has been fitted out in the Subway corporate image I have no idea how much this has cost but it will not have been cheap.

A subway franchise costs about £6,000 for the franchise fee plus the fitting out of the premises, and all the other costs above. So how much this will cost in the end could be frightening but I saw a figure on a franchise forum listing £120,000.

If the though of preparing all those sandwiches and working long hours 7 days a week is your bag and you have the funds it could be the one for you! NO? How about this?

Clean out wheelie bins, this one is £16,750 now if you charge £6 a bin then you will only have to wash about 3,000 bins to get your franchise fee back! I don’t know about you but I can’t wait to get started on a cold January morning cleaning out stinking bins.

With too many of these franchise opportunities all you are buying is a minimum wage job for years to come. Believe it or not you don’t have to risk your children’s inheritance on the words of Theo Paphitas you can start off for just a few pounds, you can minimise the risk to yourself and you can work the hours you want.

“It sounds too good to be true, but tell me more”.

You can start an eBay business for just a few pounds in listing fees, start by selling the stuff you no longer want or need and use the money you make as your starting capital to purchase some new products to sell. Did you know that you can sell the same products on Amazon? In some categories you will get a better price than you will get on eBay.

To me for the small retailer without a unique selling point and a hungry market the retail model is flawed and you will always be waiting for your customers to come to you.

What about working for yourself online? Easy to use template drive e-commerce packages are available at a very modest monthly cost for most hosting companies, why pay eBay’s extortionate listing and final value fees if you don’t need too when you can keep the profit for yourself. Sound good to you?

Watch out for Part 2 where I show you how to change your whole perspective about business. Rob..

This post is late, over 3 months late! It should have been online on April 10^th this was my birthday and the intended launch date of my new E-course 12 Roads to Online Success. So at last here it is better late than never.

What is 12 Roads to Success? It is a new e-course that gives you 12 different Blueprints to kick start your online business the fast way. Each one follows a proven simple step by step formula that works in almost every market. Apply the simple step by step formula to multiply your chance of success. Some of these businesses can be started at NO cost whatsoever.

The information in 12 Roads to Success is 90 pages of good solid content, no padding, no fluff. It shows you how to operate in niche markets and so eliminate most of your competitors, it is in niche markets that the real money is made. Best of all, I will show you how to run this business on AUTOPILOT working just a few hours a day. As he says it’s about work life balance, less work and more life.

So here is the deal, 12 Roads to Success is not yet on sale, so I am going to run a competition to win a copy. All you need to do is to leave a comment under this blog post telling me why I should give you a free copy of this course before I release it, simple. I will be closing the competition on Thursday 22^nd July. Good luck Rob…….

“The Challenge.” “What is it?” Absolutely the best FREE training on the web today.

“Hey look Rob we have heard all about so called free training before, so what’s the catch?”

“None”.

“Is it a $1 free trail to an expensive continuity program?”

“No.”

“Oh right, I have to give my credit card number for something hidden away in the small print.”

“No”.

“Tell me more, there has to be a cost somewhere right, so what is it?”

“Ok I’ll come clean, there is a cost, the cost is in your time and some hard work, all the training, all the support and all the information you will need is 100% free.”

“If you are really serious about building an online business instead of just dreaming about it then you really need to grab this with both hands.”

If you are really up for the challenge then here’s what to expect. You will need to give up 30 minutes a day to view the training materials and complete the tasks set. Unlike its predecessor, “The 30 day Challenge” you will get some “days off” before the next phase starts.

There will be video training, audios and top class information from top class marketers showing you how you can build you can build your online business fast, it really does not matter what your online interests are.

“Wow, will it suit everyone?”

“Sadly not, only those people who are will to take the action step and give it a real go.”

This is seriously life changing stuff, to join “The Challenge” click the link and sign up, already you will have taken the first action step! Hope to meet you in “The Challenge Forum”. Rob…..

“SIGN UP FOR THE CHALLENGE HERE”

Affiliate marketing is immediately associated in the mind with the marketing of information products through such organizations as clickbank, commission junction and paydotcom. This is often seen as an easy way to start a business as an affiliate. I have prepared a special product Affiliate Marketing Know How as a gift for you to enjoy and profit from.

Top affiliates can earn a considerable income from recommending these products but for most people affiliate marketing is just one string that you can add to your business that will produce an income. As my mentor John Thornhill has said on many occasions many stream make a river. The more streams of income you have the more that you will make, it is better to have many small income streams than rely on just one or two sources of income.

What is not often appreciated is that there are large amounts of money to be made as an affiliate promoting physical products or services. Most big name companies selling branded or household name products have their own affiliate programs.

A simple search using Google or any other search engine for “affiliate programs” should unearth an extensive set of possibilities. A word of advice simply don’t promote every single thing you can this scatter gun approach is often counter productive. Find a series of products and services that you have a knowledge of or are passionate about you will have more empathy with the product of service you are promoting and this will come over in the promotions that you are involved with.

You can promote products via a website but that mean you will have to have some means of driving traffic to that website, one of the easiest ways of doing this is by article marketing which allows you to link back to your web site via a resource box at the end of the article.

You can also drive traffic back yo your website via forums for your chosen niche, on the website you will need some method of collecting e-mail addresses so that you can mail out your promotions to your list. Giving away a free eBook is often an easy way of capturing these.

Affiliate marketing of physical products is a very easy way to start a business in Affiliate Marketing Know How reveals in more depth at how this is achieved. I am making this product available as a thank you to all my subscribers and visitors to my blog, enjoy. Rob…

Update.

You may find these MP3 files a useful resource to help you with your affiliate marketing. There are 10 altogether I think these are excellent.

MP3 1-5

MP3 5-10

Rob..

Here it is! NOT!

How much e-mail do you get in a day? Well on my average weekday I may get up to 150 e-mails. Most of these will be people trying to sell me something that will make me money the easy way. Just push the button and the cash will flow forth! Easy, no need to do anything at all, push the button count the cash.

If you are like me I’m still waiting for delivery of my luxury liner, my order for my 6 Bentleys seems to have got lost somewhere in the system and I’m struggling to decide which small island paradise to buy. Reality check required, after you have been burned a few times you realise that there is no easy button.

There are however ways to make things easier, the real way to make real money in IM is to create your own products. But when you are starting out this maybe appear a daunting task and we are often faced with information overload. But there are ways making starting up a bit easier.

WARNING NO SALES PITCH COMING!!

My e-mail box is bombarded each day with ‘buy this’, ‘buy that’ and, buy the other’. I could spend several thousands of dollars a day on products that promise instant wealth. To set up and make a start in IM you only need a hosting account. If you have that you will have almost everything you need. If you do not have a hosting account then I can recommend D9 hosting (see my recommended links) who offer a superb service at excellent rates.

If you already have a hosting account you can set up your own blog by downloading Word press for free. You can even have a blog without the hosting package by using blogger.com the problem is that you will never own this blog as it is owned by Google.

You can expand by using Freebies from Giveaway Events, now some may frown on this but it is a way of starting without spending your hard earned on products you may not like or may not use. Save your money, you do not need to spend out large amounts to get started. You can obtain scripts, graphic programmes, templates, PLR information, Video and Audio products for a simple sign up to a list.

Learn how to use these products, you may find that some do not suit you as your ideas develop, at this stage you can pay for custom made products that fit in to the theme of your business you can even out source the work to others more skilled at these tasks than you.

BIG OPPORTUNITY! Earlier this week Mike Filsame made available FREE his Butterfly Marking Script, you may ever have heard of it but I bet you will have seen it action thousands of times. This until recently was a $1995 paid product. This is now available FREE read more about this HERE.

It occurred to me that with this script and some other materials such as 900 PLR articles, I already had I had a complete business start up available that I could offer FREE. So I put the whole lot together in my Freebie Friday 8 event. Remember this is not the easy button but it will make it a bit easier. If you want to make start in Information Marketing go to Freebie Friday 8 and download this now, I have no idea how long Butterfly Marketing will be available for….. Rob