One such success story was a tactic I discovered to cash in on the Christmas period as an amazon affiliate. After discovering the idea I spent a couple of days in November setting it up (I really wish I had spent more time now!) and netted around $500 in sales commisioned. Not a huge amount I know, but I only really had time to test the water to see whether it would work, and the idea is totally scalable. Next year I will be looking for some people to join me in creating a network of affiliate sites for amazon so we can all benefit from this tactic.

I have also been working on a membership site for people who want to become affiliate marketers. It probably won’t be for those who are looking to become big name internet marketing millionaire guru’s (you’ll have to buy some other course for that) but for the average Joe who wants to make a decent income just from being a behind the scenes affiliate. Not everybody likes the limelight, I realise, so this site will be about giving you all the tools and training to succeed in affiliate marketing. I will also be looking to use the power of the collective members to help in the promotion of products.

So I hope everyone has a great Christmas and a very prosperous New Year, and look out for more from me very soon.

There are even examples where it will only take a day before your content gets into search engines. your blog’s content will only take hours to a couple of days to get into most search engines, normally. When beginning a blog, always check the instructions included. There could be section whereby you can switch on the blog software ping immediately, which turns on on the background.

By doing this, when you publish content in your blog, it’ll instantly broadcast ping updates. RSS feeds are also crucial. Not only will you be in a position to publish your content inside a short duration but also copy your content thru the use of your RSS feed. These days , the flow of your content is realtime and the RSS permits you to show your content to a bigger audience. There are many strategies to pump your blog. bear in mind that there is not any plan for speedy money when it comes to profit-making blogging. It needs dedication, time, a method for the content and patience before the money starts flowing in.

The good news is that Alex is about to launch his second coaching program and have no doubt, as Alex himself is still learning all the time, this will be much better than the first one.

The price tag on these coaching program always used to seem a little high for me but I can tell you now it was worth every penny and more. You NEED a mentor to succeed in this competitive business and I was lucky enough to find one who really cared about the success of all his 500 students and went above and beyond in the material that he delivered.

If I’d taken the plunge and forked out a little more cash on finding a mentor earlier in my marketing career, there’s no doubt I would have saved myself tons of money in the long run, and would have been making more money by now. So regardless of whether you decide that Alex Jeffreys coaching is the program for you I would urge you to find someone as a mentor. Alex is an enthusiastic and likeable character who I couldn’t imagine anyone not getting along with, and he will personally see to it that you succeed in this business.

The new Alex Jeffreys coaching program will again have a capped membership and the last one sold out in less than a week, as Alex has now raised his profile since this year I imagine this will sell out much quicker. If you would like advance warning and instant notification of when the course goes live then enter your name and email below.

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But it does work. Some people become rich and others make nothing at all, even lose money. So what’s the difference between these people? The people who succeed know the lies in this business and do not believe them.

Here are 5 big internet business lies:

Lie #1: Starting and running a internet business is expensive.
You can actually start an internet business with very little cost. There are many high quality affiliate programs where all you have to do is concentrate on marketing. The follow up, product delivery and support are all done by the owner of the affiliate program.

Lie #2: You can make easy money on the internet.
People still have a tendancy to believe that they can make money on the internet overnight by doing hardly anything. We are constantly being bombarded with systems that have made people millions in just a few days. Which may well be true for that particular launch, but it takes months even years of work to get yourself in a position to use a system that will make you millions.

Lie #3: You must know HTML, web programming and graphic design to start your business.
You don’t need to know all of these at all. Or even any of them. There are marketing guru’s out there that don’t even have the first clue how to put up a website. The trick is in finding the right people to work with. You can outsource jobs that you can’t do yourself, or joint venture with other marketers to combine your skill sets.

Lie #4: You don’t need to know how to sell on the internet.
Many people hate selling, and these people get attracted to ads that claim ‘no selling necessary’ or even ‘this product sells itself’. Usually these products are unfeasible and run by fly-by-night marketers. Do you really think it’s possible to have a successful business by doing nothing at all? The trick is not to try to sell to people, but to educate and inform them. Show them the benefits to their life if they owned your product.

Lie #5: You don’t need to build a mailing list.
I know you’ve all heard the ‘money is in the list’ mantra. There’s a reason you’ve heard it so often though, because it’s true! But more importantly, the money is in the relationship with your list. Deliver value over and above their expectations and you’ll be well on your way to success.

The above 5 are just a few of the internet business lies out there. Remember, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

As you may already know, I live and work in Koh Samui, Thailand. After finishing off the coaching course with Alex Jeffreys I’ve been busy putting his blueprint for a successful online business in to practice. One thing I didn’t expect to end up marketing though was iso 9001 quality manuals!

Over here in Samui you meet lots of diverse and interesting people. I love the island life, you find a real sense of community as everybody tends to know or know someone who knows everybody else. Anyway, I was chatting to a friend of mine, Tony Connor, whilst watching the saturday full premiership program down the pub and we got talking about what we used to do back in England. It turns out that Tony is an expert (guru?) in iso 9001 quality control and has been working in the industry for the last 15 years. He also mentioned that he has been thinking about writing a bunch of iso 9001 compliant manuals that he feels would be invaluable to many companies in many different industries, he just didn’t know how he could go about profiting from them.

Now this is where the light bulb went on in my head and I saw the potential to market a high quality product, carrying a fairly high ticket price in a niche that I thought we could compete in well. We continued our discussion over the next few weeks and came to a business agreement we were both happy with. The website (ISO 9001 Manual) is almost finished now, and I’m looking forward to making some sales for us both.

The rest of my time has been taken up recently on another joint venture with 3 students from the Alex Jeffreys coaching course. This month myself, Garry Parkes, JT Martin and Gary Simpson will be launching our own JV giveaway event. I’ll be releasing more details about this closer to the launch date but we will be looking for contributors fairly soon so stay tuned.

Exciting times!