It was a catch 22 situation.

However as a result of the really poor products that have been released lately I’ve decided to change tack and go and find quality products.

For me to review them I’ve set some rules,

I must have chatted to the creator , not necessarily an interview but you can tell a lot about peoples ideals and beliefs by just chatting in person or on skype.

They must be ethical, no false screenshots, genuine testimonials , nothing that could be construed as sharp practice.

Finally they must support their products and genuinely care about their customers.

So the first product I am going to review that ticks all these boxes is Mark Acutt’s Cash Bootstrap Method.

Check out the Video below

You can get Cash Bootstrap Method for a special price of $9 By clicking on the link.

Hope you enjoyed that as ever i welcome your comments.

Optimizepress and Wishlist Member.

When I set up WordPress goldmine and Video Creation mastery I used Amember to control the membership, Vbulletin for the forum and to deliver the content, I also used a premium WordPress theme for the front end. (WPG was originally a html sales page). It works well but can a real pig to set up. I think wordpress goldmine took me about 5 or 6 days to get it like i wanted and VCM about 4. One of the longest parts was getting the sales pages and login pages looking right.

I was actually very close to signing up for Nanacast to deliver this product before I decided to check out OP and WL, Nanacast would have cost me $99 or $149 per month and I don’t think it would have worked as smoothly as this combination.

One of the reasons I haven’t posted anything for about 6 weeks was because I was in Las vegas running a seminar and then I returned home and turned the seminar into a course. Last week I planned the delivery method and decided to try a theme that has recently been released called Optimizepress along with Wishlist member and simple:press for the forum portion of the site.

I was blown away by just how easy it was to integrate these 3 products. The main parts went together without a hitch but it’s the little bits that blew me away.. for example when I add a video or make a post , there is automatically a thread created in the forum so members can discuss it. I build a skeleton sales page in 5 minutes then just filled in the blanks.

Wishlist worked first time with both Clickbank and Paypal, without me having to buy any additional plugins or tweak something. I managed to get a site up and my first members in about 24 hours. Having done it once I am sure I could now get the whole process completed in under 6 hours.

I’ve created a Video to show these tools in action, it’s only about 12 minutes long but you’ll see the power of this combination.

You Can find out more about the Tools I used at:

Optimizepress

WishList Member

Simple Press

I’d Love to know what you think about this combination, let me know by posting comments or questions below.

It’s also no secret that one of the keys to my success over the past year is Micro Niche Finder. It has allowed me to target niches with very little competition and lots of searches. Adsense income alone from sites I’ve biult around niches and keywords I’ve found in the past 6 months was $500 last month and affiliate commission was similar.  Not bad for a $67 product.  However that price is about to change.

Version 4 of micro niche finder was released this week and it’s had major improvements. Gone are the wordtracker stats and they have been replaced with Stats from Google.  The immediate impact from this was that by rerunning some old searches double the number of results were returned .

Other changes Include the Strength of competition indicator being moved and replacing it on the main dashboard is a Commercial intent indicator, basically an indication of the likely hood of someone buying who uses that search phrase.

Within 2 minutes of the upgrade i had found a search term for a Nintendo Wii that had almost 1000 searches a month and only 47 competing pages with a comercial intent indicator of 89% not bad for a first attempt.

Unfortunatly with the improvements the price is due to go up so if you have been thinking of buying Micro Niche Finder now is the time to buy it. James Jones the creator has added more videos that show you just how powerful MNF can be.

http://income-academy.com/recommends/mnf

These 2 to 3 weeks session where I review everything allows me to focus on the sites and get them profitable again. 2 sites I spent a day working on last week have already made me over $120 in the past 3 days .One of them was a domain I bought placed wordpress on and promptly forgot about it.

One week later it’s getting almost 40 visitors a day the sales alone would now make this site worth around $500 if I was to sell it. But whats even better is that I’ve built it in such a way that I can sell adverts in the form of review spots which rotate on the front page so as the traffic increases I can increase the charges for these. Without doing this review I would probably have left this site to expire.

What makes this whole process much easier is a free tool i’ve discovered called Bubbl.us this allows you to create a visual representation of your workload  . You can use it to plan sites or even use it to plan your work for the day.  I’ve been using it to plot the promotion I’ve been doing on each site. I was using whiteboards and spreadsheets for this but I usually forgot to put something on there.

I really do urge you to check it out and I’ve got a nice Gift for the best suggestion for using it so please post your comments below.

A few final notes today. Firstly if you are doing affiliate marketing how would you like to own a site that made over $5000 in the first 2 months? Or a site that makes $142 from 34 visitors before lunch? Chris Rempel the author of Confessions Of a Lazy Super Affiliate  has released a new VIP guide called The Conduit Method. The guide consists of 13 pages and a video there is no fluff and I’ll guarantee that you’ll get more information from it than most 100 page guides written by so called guru’s . It only costs $14.95 and is well worth the cost. You can read more about it by clicking the following link: The Conduit Method

Finally it’s my Birthday on July 1st and so to celebrate I’d though I’d open up another One to One mentoring Program. I usually only do this once every year as it takes up a lot of my time. Unlike other mentoring programs I am available to you via email or skype every day and there is no time limit on the mentoring. I still talk regularly with people I mentored 18 months ago! If you need a way to get motivated and really kick your earning up a gear then this is for you. As Ever I strive to keep the costs down so the cost will be $167 and will include various useful resources. Places are very limited as I find 5-10 people is the most that I can handle. If you are interested you can email at admin [at] income-academy.com  It would be helpful if you use the Subject mentoring . I’ll then send you more details

Until next time..stay lucky

Mark

If you are looking for a quick and simple method of creating an online income then this may be of particular interest to you.

In video 1 I look at a method of adding regular unique content to your blogs.

Video 1 was only one piece of the jigsaw. In video 2 I look at how you can turn that content into an income. You can get the free UAW plugin for wordpress at http://www.uniquearticlewizard.com/contact.html#addurl jusr scroll towards the bottom of the page and you’ll see a selection of plugins. Grab the one for wordpress.

The Plugin I use in Video 2 is the WordPress Link Cloak plugin just follow the link and you can read more about it.

By using these 2 simple plugins and a bit of website promotion you can almost have a semi automated income machine build and earning 24/7 for only a few minutes work every few days.

We have got a really in depth review for you that we published on our Affiliate Marketing Blog so I am going to be very lazy here and send you to our sister blog Affiliate Income Academy (very little sister actually!!) If you would like to read our review.

I gave my self a new site The Article Marketing Blog (apt eh?) I used 1 article 1 Article distribution tool and a maximum of 1 hour. In that hour I had to create an article and work some magic on it to ensure that the distributed articles were teated as unique.

You can see the first 2 videos and reports If you look at the posts which were posted under The lab Category. The final video is below.

Before I discuss the tool I used it’s probably worth while having a look at the final video.

The results are quite Impressive and I’ll definitely be using the the tool for the next few months. It wasn’t all perfect and I came a cross a few problems which have since been sorted out. Below is an excerpt of the review I wrote for the site member. As with all product reviews I try to highlight the Good parts as well as the Bad parts.

Article Market Tool Review

Unique Article Wizard

UAW uses a different method of making every article submitted unique than most tools in that it doesn’t rely on synonyms and the article actually turn out reading like original articles. When you sign up you are required to sign an NDA so I can’t reveal it here which is a bit strange as I have used exactly same method in another easily available tool.

Cost: $37 month 1 and then $47 from the on (thats a special at the moment not sure when it goes upto $67)

The reason it’s a monthly cost is that they manually review your articles before submitting them and it is server based so there is ongoing costs. I don’t usually like monthly payments but In this case I can accept the logic behind it. Plus you get the benefit of having your articles verified by a human.

Value for Money: Pretty good. Even at $47 or $67 per month I think this is good value. I try to submit 2 articles per day so it’s less that $1 a day to get a unique article sent to 200-300 sites. Once on the sites they also get picked up by website owners..Try buying 200 links for that much.

Does it Work: Yes, so far. The new site I tested with was indexed quickly and there are now lots of links to the unique authors name I used.
“Results 101 – 144 of 144 for “rune danton”" that is after Just 11 days…(including 5 days when there were problems- see below) If you’ve watched the vieo above you’ll have seen how that has grown in just another few weeks.

Additionally I can track 1 affiliate sale to an article I distributed I need to create a better tracking method. (Now 3 sales)

The adsense sites I distributed articles for are also performing better. One that had an article submitted 10 days ago made $3.96 yesterday…. It had been making that a month upto then It’s already made 91cents today.

Time Requirement: It takes about 50 minutes to 70 minutes for each article. I have been recycling old articles to speed things up. Compare this to writing an artice for your site and 1 for ezine articles and it’s not too bad.

Unexpected Bonuses. You can grab unique articles from the software to send to ezine articles and also to put on your site as well as the distributed articles as there are thousands of articles created. I would recommend submitting to ezine asap.

Problems: There were some problems to start with.. My articles were going out to only a few sites (60-70) and for 2 days none were distributed. I contaced the help desk and within an hour the article had been sent out and a bug had been found. They now go out to about 300 depending but the actual amount varies depending on the Topic.

They had to change their system last month as before they were submitting to article dashboard sites but they ran into a bit of trouble with some owners. This was because they could distribute the articles to the sites without the owners permission.

This was overcome by creating a plugin that the site owners have to install to get the articles. The number of distributions are now seeming to increasing almost daily. They are also working on a WordPress plugin (how useful will that be!! unique content direct to your blog!) and I’ve personally given them my plugins for ArticleMS so they can hopefully adapt them to be used on the 100 or so ArticleMS directories.

Documentation: The documentation is very good and consits of a number of videos If you are using the step by step wizard you have access to contextual videos.

How I use it: I recycle old articles and submit them for adsesne sites and affiliate landing pages. I then add unique content thats been created to my sites…so I not only get backlinks and traffic I get fresh new content on my site.

Recommended for: People who have time to submit an article a day and spend around an hour preparing it. There is a wizard that takes you through it step by step and this is all done online or you can just upload prepared articles. You can also outsource the article creation.
Not recommended for: People who don’t like writing articles or outsourcing You might use it for a day or two but then you’ll give up!

Affiliate Program: There is a 2 level affiliate program paying 40% on the first level and 10% on level 2 sales. 3 sales will cover your monthly fees.

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