One of the most common threads in the Wordpress Goldmine Forum relates to how to get accepted by EPN.

The first thing to say is that don’t take it personally, I’ve been turned down by loads of companies when i applied to be an affiliate usually a quick email get your application reviewed and accepted. The ones that don’t accept you usually come begging once you start to make $$$$. Strangely as soon as I had a $10,000 month On CJ.com some of the the very same companies that turned me down 3 months previously emailed me and asked me if i would be an affiliate…It gave me so much pleasure telling them where to stick their affiliate program.

Right back to EPN

Even if you follow the steps below you will probably initially get rejected by EPN however a few emails asking why your application got rejected and asking them politely to review your site and tell you why it’s not acceptable usually gets you accepted.

Step 1. Find a good niche and create a nice looking blog.

Step 2. Add several pages of good quality UNIQUE and relevant content

step 3. Add your contact details, a privacy policy and a TOS

Step 4. Do NOT Monetize your blog in any way shape or form!!!!!!

Now ask yourself..If I was one of the biggest online companies would I like a site like this to represent me??

Now submit your application and expect to get rejected. If you do get rejected send a polite reply asking why. You will probably now get a cut and paste answer…cool we are almost there!!

Now email back and politely point out that you site does not fall into any of the categories mentioned. They will have now run out of cut and paste replies so someone will need to physically look at your site and if you’ve followed the guide above you will get accepted.

Just consider EPNs automated responses as a bit of gentle hazing, which would you rather have affiliates who take initiative and try to get accepted or ones that give up at the first hurdle.

Believe me that it is Worth trying that extra bit harder to be accepted by EPN it is probably one of the best affiliate programs available to you. Especially with tools like Phpbay, Bayrss and excellent and highly recommended Reviewazon (yes you can add ebay items to the posts & also overstock items)

I  love it ever few months when a obviously overhyped crap product comes out as it allows me to clean out the lists of who I receive emails from. I recently got a huge deluge of emails about the Clickbank code. So I checked it out. The problem was the further I dug the more obvious it became that the sales letter was the biggest lie since ….well since the last big lie.

If I can spot that after less than 10 minutes research it means that the people promoting it..and there are lots either A) know it’s a poor choice to promote it and don’t care about their subscribers or B) Don’t care enough about their subscribers to do a bit of research.

So lets look at the obvious things that they should have noticed.

1. The headline…. Clickbank newbie makes $48,000 in his first Month

This product is by Michael Jones  ( it’s not really but we’ll come to that later!)  A bit of research would have shown that Michael Jones Had a product out late last year called Cracking The Adwords Code And also a product on clickbank called The Adwords Manifesto   So hardly a newbie!!  He’s been using the same methods in the book to rake in thousands a month If you believe the other products..

2. The fact that he already had a product on Clickbank that was hyped by other marketers surely doesn’t mean that those $48,000 worth of sales came from that product does it???  I’ll let you decide!

3. Ok so who is Michael Jones  Ok so according to all his sales copy he is an Ohio man…. really? since when was Ohio part of Israel? From reading various posts in different forums I beleive that Michael Jones is an alias for Roy Oron & Maayan Marzan. The Two have had a string of products over the past few years. Just search on their names and you’ll see pleanty of negative comments.   The Voice of Michael Jones is provided by a Voice Over artist from Ohio who advertises on Elance. So The Ohio Connection is sort of correct.

The product itself is just a rehash of other products and a rewriting of “Michael Jones” other Adwords products…  Basically find a product on clickbank, spend $500 a day on adwords and wooo hoo we are rich…. or possibly heading towards bankrupcy.

You’ll find that every month or so a product comes along that is hyped by loads of people usually this means that it’s payign good commissions not that it’s good. In the Past year i have found only  ahandful of products that I would consider worth promoting. One of those was a very similar product to The Clicbank code called Commission Blueprint If you want to get into adwords then i would recommend that. Personally I’ll be sticking with Article Marketing

Be careful out there,  and unsubscribe from those lists!!

Hi, Glad you found your way here. This is the new home for my personal blog, you’ll notice that all the posts from the old blog have been transferred across to here.

If you want to be notified each time the blog is updated please enter your email details in the box on the right..

I want to get the word out about the new blog so here is a little proposition for you…

Send the tweet below and I’ll give you 2 of my reports for free..Sound Like a deal??

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If you have been keeping up with the latest IM promotions you could well be forgiven for thinking that The definition of free has changed.

To me A Free product means exactly that it’s free, it costs nothing , there is no payment needed. If you tried to access the Free Butterfly marketing promotion yesterday you would no doubt have seen that Free means different things to Guru’s as it does to us humbler marketers.

In the case of BFM 2.0 free meant a $29.95 postage and packing fee.. Wow How expensive is postage in the US?? I got a router and an Ipod fedexed over night from New York To Spain for about the same price. On top of that you signed up for a forced continuity program for a Newsletter which costs $40 a month .. (forgive me if I am wrong with the price I was laughing too much at this stage!).

Good Luck cancelling

I also loved all the email’s that came out about how you are getting agreat piece of $2000 software for free. I hope it’s improved from the buggy program that was released 2 years ago. I am sure I have seen it offered a few times since them for much less.

I hope you asked the guys promoting it if they use this “awesome”  (irony!!) piece of software.

So What am I going to do to try to redress the balance and show you that there are some great marketers out there who actually care about the people who read our blogs and buy our products.

How does this sound.

My favorite fellow marketer goes by the name of Potpiegirl like me she actually cares about people and above all wants people to succeed. So I am going to include a link to an excellent free guide she has released about creating an income from Squidoo. It is well worth a read.

I am also going to show you how to find a sucessful business model that you can copy and improve on.

So first off lets look at the video , it’s just over 8 minutes long but if you follow what I am doing I guarantee that it can change your life. There are loads of successful business models out there so just find the one that suits your circumstances.

Hope you enjoyed that. To grab Potpiegirl’s free book Click Here

Finally I am running an experiment with twitter so if you enjoyed this post please use the link at the top of the post to retweet about it. I’ll reveal my results in a few weeks.

As always comments are welcome.

There are two things I want to cover in this post  the new Adsense for Domains program and Internet Marketers who show their class. First up lets deal with the dark side of internet marketing.

I subscribe to several marketers mailing lists especially those who products I promote or those that have products that I feel may compliament the stuff I am doing.  As with all marketers they send regular emails I don’t mind this and expect it. I have several rules which help me to determine whose lists I stay on. One of those rules is that If I get more than 3 emails in 3 days I’ll unsubscribe.

Over the weekend I got 3 emails from Mike Hill one of which was a repeat of the one I got a few hours earlier and apologising for misspelling a word in the title..he still managed to include the links again.  I unsubscribed from his list and he had a form to ask my why..so i told him that he was sending to many emails hyping stuff and not enough good info.. 3 emails in a couple of days is way too much hype.

Guess what?  He replied to me in a really classy style..

Hey D^%$ H@#$ I have given more info than anyone else… Not my fault you cannot attend my training seminars. Then I give you good free info and you don’t do a dam thing with it… just look at your desk top and you’ll see all that free content sitting there and you haven’t taken action on anything…

So anyway Mike, here I am sat on my Balcony overlooking the mediteranean having breakfast and writing this, all of this paid for by adsense , clickbank and eBay. Damn I really do wish I had taken action! <===Mike,  this last bit is scarcasm just in case you have totally lost your connection with the real world.

So guys If you are on Mike Hills mailing list and don’t want to recieve abusive emails then don’t unsubscribe…

Right Back to the serious stuff.

Google have just released a new program called Adsense for Domains.

http://adsense.blogspot.com/2008/12/extending-adsense-for-domains-to-all.html

I have two contrasting views on this.. firstly it’s great if you park domains as many parking companies take a big cut in your income so cutting out the middle man will be a good thing. It is also great that you can buy a domain and put adsense on it before you do anything with the domain.

My other view is that Google have always said that sites that have adsense should have good quality content and not be MFA (made For Adsense) sites. Obviously the Adsense for Domains program will mean that this fundamental pronciple is being ignored.

Overall I think it’s a good thing and I’ll probably grab 50 or so domains next year and test it out.(once they release it to european customers..you North Americans get all the googd stuff before we do!) This really could make Domain Parking worthwhile again.