This Isn’t some sort of Aprils fools joke, I am deadly serious. We are all trying to be too clever with out Internet Marketing Businesses. I want to make April the month where we all get back to basics and use the methods we know work.

This has all been brought on by the February Step by Step I did in The Wordpress Goldmine Forum. Over 14 days I researched a niche and built a site and did some very simple promotion. I created the videos over 14 days but the actual time taken to research build and promote the site was under 3 hours.  Yes a whole 3 hours of my life.

I did nothing fancy just kept it simple. At the end of february In the last video I monetized the site. 1 month later the site has earned me over $200.  I’ll repeat that again $200 for a site that took me 3 hours.

I have several clickbank accounts which I  use to target different niches. At the beginning of March one account was averaging about $90 per week. During the month I wrote or oursourced about 20 articles which have been submitted. The result is that account has earned almost $700 this week and $600 last week.

Once again there was nothing fancy involved just keeping to the basics and keeping it simple.

No one is ever going to write an ebook that contains the secret to internet marketing as it wouldn’t even fill up one line of an ebook….  Traffic + Monetization = Income.   (That noise is the sound of me shooting myself in the Foot)

If you look at the list of recent ezine articles I have published (see the list in the sidebar) you’ll see one titled “WordPress Blogs and Articles – The Quickest and Cheapest Way to Make Money Online”

It contains a 5 step process to making your first $100 online why not try it this month (then obviously take the money you earned and spend some of it on buying Wordpress Goldmine!!  )

So come on try something simple, you’ll save time, make money and prove to yourself that internet marketing really does work.

The plans for clickbank to offer weekly payments, that I recently reported on my Clickbank Marketing Site www.cbincome.com, has now gone live.

The rules are very simple if you are already eligible for direct deposit then then you can choose to have weekly payments. If not then the following rules apple.

To be eligible for weekly payments and direct deposit, a ClickBank user must have first received three paper checks within any 90-day period. Also, only accounts in the following countries qualify at this time: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom and the United States. The company is expecting to expand direct deposit to other countries in the future.

The weekly payments will have a very positive effect on cashflow and will make PPC advertising much more attractive as payments will be recieved before google take the payment from your account. This in turn will be a bonus for publishers as they can attract more affiliates.

I was chilling out today thinking about ways to attract affiliates and I had a pretty off the wall idea. Why not try to attract affiliates from among your local community? There are lots of demographics who would be happy to promote your products for you, it’s just that they probably don’t know how to, or even know what affilaite marketing is.

Why not place an advert in local shops and local newspapers saying something like:

Want To Work from Home?
Earn $200-$500 Per Month
No start Up fees’
Training Given 

Then when you get enquiries teach them how to use Bum Marketing or create a Bum Marketing step by step guide for them containing all the keywords which apply to your product and links to sites where they can post articles. If you wanted to you could even set them up a personal webpage that will redirect on to your salespage. To take it one step further and once they make 10 sales or more teach them a bit more about affilaite marketing. It’s a win win system for everyone involved.