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Getting What You Want – Achieving Your Goals Step By Step

My last post was about achieving your dream lifestyle by setting goals, SMART goals even better. Now achieving a goal may simply means getting what you want. What it is that you really want? What are these things. You may need a sheet of paper and write these things down.

Of course nothing is going to happen by simply wanting it, but if you can remember what you want then you will put yourself in a discipline, focus mode that will move you towards your goal. Again this has something to do with taking action. We stop ourselves from doing because we fear of not getting results, we are scared to take a risk, we think about wasting time and that the outcome is not there at the end.

We just freeze and don’t move on. This may be inconscient but what we do is focusing on all the negatives side. So once you have a decsion to make here are few qestions to ask yourself:

  • become a 60 seconds decider (I got this from Jason Fladlien): Will this or that action/decision will completely change your life or business? If yes, you may need to take more time, otherwise in 60 seconds you should be able to decide if this action should be done or not, and move on.
  • What is the worst thing that could happen to your business if you take that action? Is it irreversible? Most of the time, it’s not.
  • What is the cost of NOT taking action? What is the outcome of doing nothing?
  • What results do you expect from that action? So do it!

This introducion may look a bit long but I thought it is dedicated to get your mindset on ACTION mode.

Achieving Goals Step By Step

So you may want to lose 20 pounds, do it 1 pound after the other. Of course set your goals the SMART way (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic and Time-targeted).

For income goals you need to know HOW you’re going to achieve it. You may have decided to reach $10,000 per month. How? By having 10 websites to generate $1,000 each. Just an example, you can have your own numbers.

Of course you still don’t know how easch site will perform but we’re not going to discuss niche research, product selection, keyword research and competition analysis.

But either as an affiliate or a product creator (or both), you can decide the money to be made with the $ per sale you get.

$1,000 per month is about $34 per day. You may make more or less commissions depending on various factors but you shouldn’t think about that. What you need to focus on is getting the site up and getting traffic and sales/commissions and then improve if needed.

Basically you need to register a domain, install WordPress (or another site/blog platform you like), have content, monetization, and traffic. The details are omitted on purpose. Most people know how to create a website, create content, build backlinks and so on.

Once you have been marketing online for some time you know what to do, it may just look boring. Have a clear plan, each of your actions should be laid out and you should be able to go through these one by one, or step by step. Outsource your plan if you can.

Let’s dig in our example a bit more:

If you decided to monetize an site with AdSense, you may have 20 pages. To reach $34 a day, each page should generate $1.7. It’s certainly doable right? Remember you can monetize with affiliate offers too, or have your own product.

Build one website and market it so you can generat an income and invest it in content creation. If you already have money to invest then you can have your first website content done for you, and focus on the marketing until you reach your goal.

Hey how many $5 articles can you buy with $1,000? The answer is 200! Or 20 articles x 10 sites. So if you have one website profitable you can and you SHOULD re-invest in your business and reach your goal much faster!

For your first site, writing 20 articles is just writing 1 article, and then another article, until you’ve done it 20 times. Again, just divide each goal, each task and FOCUS on it 200%.

So what is your plan? Can you clearly see each step? Then move on.

In the very beginning of this post I asked you what it is that you really want. So it can be the car, the house… And unfortunately these things are not free, but not impossible to get providing you do the right things and focus on what makes you money.

If you’re not sure if something is worth doing, ask yourself the questions we’ve seen earlier and also this one: will this move me towards my goal or away from it?

If this is something that can be incorporated to your plan then it is fine, otherwise are you really going to use it? An example would be automation softwares. If you saw an offer for an article directory submitter, it can be great if you’re an SEO and article marketer by doubling or tripling your efforts. But if you plan to get traffic with PPC or PPV then is it really worth it?

Affiliates, Are You Ready For Christmas?

Hi all, hope your week end has been great, I just wanted to share some thoughts about your affiliate offers for Christmas. In about a month and a half people are goint to offer each others tons of gifts. Gifts which are… phisycal products.

Since I’ve been discussing product reviews of physical products recently I thought it should be worth telling you should focus NOW on promoting physical products. People are already buying gifts for their families and friends and there are tons of niches you can promote.

Need a plan?

Just go to Amazon, check all the bestsellers in many categories, target product types and product names as your keywords and you get traffic to these. Create a new website with WordPress or free Blogger blog if you don’t have money, create content and put it out there.

As an example I’ve been able to I’ve done that exactly one month ago with a product I’ve found on Amazon, with a free blogger blog. Just 2 articles submitted to top article directories, doc sharing sites, and social bookmarking. I made 2 sales since then. That’s not that much I know but as a test it was very interesting. I can just build more backlinks and drive more traffic to make more, and it was all free.

Now of course it will take you the same effort to promote a low priced product than a more expensive one so if competition is similar promote some higher priced products. If they are good sellers, have good reviews and you can send targeted traffic there then you can only make money.

So… if you need a plan, choose products that…

  • have at least $100,
  • have at least 15 reviews
  • have at least 4 out of 5 rating

No I’m not going to tell you how much competition, how much search volume the keywords should get. Why?

If the product is selling, you can make a commission. You know it is selling because it gets reviews. You can see the bestsellers for each categories and sub categories on Amazon. You can sort results in bestselling order That’s all that matters.

  • Create a website, or free blog and write 2 articles (1 review) for each product
  • Ping your blog/website
  • Social bookmark your website
  • Submit the RSS feed of yoru blog to RSS aggregators
  • Write 2 other articles for each article
  • Submit your articles to top article directories (I’ve already gave you this list, don’t submit to all though it doesn’t hurt, but 10-15 is already enough)
  • Ping the article directories (with your article URL)
  • Submit the articles to doc sharing sites (Scribd, Docstoc), you’ll have to convert your article to PDF (use Open Office to do that, it’s completely free)
  • Ping the URLs of your articles on doc sharing sites too

If you target one niche or product type you can just have one website, it’s ok.

I gave you the link for the topa article directories, but really when you need to find a top list. Just use Google. So if you need a list of social bookmarking sites, just google top social bookmarking sites, or best social bookmarking sites, list of bookmarking sites… Same for web 2.0 pages, RSS, and anything that you can get a link from.

The plan given is really easy, if you’ve been online for some time you can certainly do it. You can outsource it or do it yourself. 5 products, 4 articles each that’s 20 articles. I think you can write all of these and submit and publish 3-4 days appart and have everything done in one week.

Track your sales, hits, conversions… Improve, do a little more here and there.Duplicate.

No secret.

Deadbeat Super Affiliate – Get It Before Monday

Hi world, just a quick update to tell you the deadbeat super affiliate course by Dan Brock is going to raise in price from $37 to $67.

If you want to get a solid knowledge on how to build review sites for physical products, this one is worth its price. Period. Now I’m not pressuring you to get it to make a commission.

If you already have knowledge on building review sites and make money as an affiliate you should then have a plan and make your site as best as possible to get traffic and conversion.

If you already make at least $3,000 per month as an affiliate then it’s not for you, you should go to the next level, I suggest you outsource your system and duplicate your income. Or create your own products.

If however you wants real affiliate marketing training, nothing all so special, just simple stuff. You know what’s cool about simple stuff? It works.

Keep It Super Straighforwardly Stupidly Simple. That’s the KISSSS method. Brand new (cough).

Okay it’s the last time I’m telling you about the Deadbeat Super Affiliate. Cheers!

P.S: Do you already have review sites? Have you enhanced your reviews like the Google Proof Product Review Formula suggest? How are you doing with it? Please share your thoughts and ideas.

Writing Better Reviews Makes You A Proud Affiliate

Hello world, I’ve been promoting Deadbeat Super Affiliate by Dan Brock recently, I talked about his review formula to write great reviews that get buyers traffic and convert well and yesterday I also provided a link to Michel Fortin’s blog on how to write better benefits for your reviews.

Well I’m just doing that currently, enhancing my reviews with more content and trying to provide real value at the same time. It feels great.

I’m improving a website that makes me some nice money every month, and as I go through my review pages I see some are just made of 200 words or less. It’s not that hard to turn these to 700 – 1000 words, it’s quite fast because most of the job is already done once you have compiled all the facts. It’s just a matter of formatting and presentation.

But at the end of the day you can be a proud affiliate that didn’t try to fool visitors by just saying what they can learn elsewhere and adding that you recommend it with your link. Nope, writing your reviews should be HELPING PEOPLE make a purchase decision.

If you can help them making the best decision of purchase (or not) then you are trustable (does that word exist?).

Be cool, be great, be helpful. If you help people do, work, sleep, live better (that includes tons of stuff), then they may help you make more money by clicking on that link.

Okay I don’t know if this post was worthwile to you but that was a natural follow up to what happened to me during the last days.

So if you didn’t spotted my damn affiliate links to the Deadbeat Super Affiliate course by Dan Brock, here it is again…

CLICK HERE

Have a good night, or day depending on where you are on this planet.

Write Better Benefits For Product Reviews

Okay so I just mentioned in my previous post I would tell you how to write better benefits for your product reviews. Actually I won’t, but Michel Fortin will. Here’s a post I want you to read:

Forget Benefits and You Will Sell More

You may already know you should emphasize on benefits instead of features, meaning you have to answer the customers question “What’s in it for me?”. In this blog post Michel Fortin tells you how to write REAL benefits, and I’d say it has to do with the end result the customer is searching for, but you need to be more personal and not keep things general.

Read the post in full, some examples are shared at the end of the article.

Michel is a great copywriter, he can teach you how to write better benefits so your offers and affiliate promos convert better and thus it’s easier for you to make more sales and affiliate cash.

This last sentence is an example in itself. I could have stopped it at “benefits”, but personally, what you want is to make more money.

Deadbeat Super Affiliate Is Live

Okay, this is just a quick post to teel you that the Deadbeat Super Affiliate that I’ve talking about for a few days is now live, actually since yesterday. So if you want to make a killing as an affiliate promoting physical products, this is a course I highly recommend.

Starting with an extra $3,000 a month is quite decent right?

Dan Brock, the creator launched this upgraded version of ProfitZon and filled it with great content. If you’ve watched the videos and download the reports he made available as his prelaunch content then you got some great free training. I’ve learnt some great things, or re-learnt some and have taken action on these.

For example I’m going through my profitable sites and improving the reviews I’ve written to see if I can get more traffic and more conversion. The Google Proof Product Review Formula was extremely useful. I just finished turning a very basic 300 words review into a 870 words one, with the elements Dan highlights in the formula.

And it was really easy and fast. When you already know a bit about the product it’s really simple to aff few paragraphs here and there to really engage the visitors, and provide them real value by offering solutions they’re searching for.

I’ve added video, user reviews, good and bad, and emphasized the benefits. I want to share another link with you about writing better benefits for products or service features you’re providing, it’ll be in my next post as I don’t have the link under my eyes, it just popped into my head and it helped me crafting my new review.

So from my own experience, I can give you another way of writing product reviews, using the formula of the Deadbeat Super Affiliate:

Just write a general review, you should already have enough information to write about the product and may end with something like 300 words. Then as I did, fill it with all the missing elements (quick review, images, benefits, pros vs cons, video review, Q&A, Comparison, user reviews).

Also, and I don’t remember if Dan mentioned it in his formula but it’s obvious, have a call to action. Dan just puts his affiliate links naturally in the review. Something like : “You can get PRODUCT NAME at the best price on Amazon” and I encourage you to do it too. But nothing prevents you to add a stronger call to action like a big button in the beginning and end of your review.

Okay that’s it. I like the content Dan Brock releases and I think Deadbeat Super Affiliate is a great course to make a full time income from promoting Amazon products (and other networks too). It’s $37, with cool bonuses, and certainly worth more. Check it out and watch the video, I didn’t expect to see him like this. He’ll show you real proof and without hyper hypee sales pitch and a great headline :D .

Visit Deadbeat Super Affiliate.

International Affiliate Marketing – Untapped Niche Markets!

Hey friends, hope you’re great today, we’ll talk about developping affiliate sites in foreign languages to make tons of money from untapped niche markets. And actually, these markets can be really huge, but the competition is so low that it’s super easy to rank your sites and get easy commissions.

Yesterday I blogged again about the pre-launch content you can get from Dan Brock, who’s going to launch Deadbeat Super Affiliate, an upgraded version of his great Amazon course ProfitZon.

In this free training you can watch videos and download free reports, one being the Google Proof Product Review Formula and the other one, an affiliate marketing foreign guide. And that’s great, I mean it. PLEASE download it.

What Dan says about people being afraid of selling in foreign markets is true. You may know I’m french. But ALL of my websites target the US markets. They’re all in plain English. I’ve started building sites for ClickBank products (which now also have products in spanish, french, german…), and then for physical products.

I never really considered promoting affiliate offers in French. Just though about it but did nothing.

I guess I had to see it to be convinced I need to go after foreign markets, or for me, local markets that don’t really have this much competition. You may think I have an advantage because I speak french so it’s easier for me to develop websites in French.

This is ture in terms of speaking it, writing it, doing it myself. But it’s easier for you too in terms of competition. In his free training Dan shows you how to hire someone who can do the job in the language you want. And in fact, it’s exactly the same as outsourcing to someone in English. He even provides the instructions to give to your writer.

These people who speak another language, speak English too. So you can give them your instructions in English and they will do the work in German if, like Dan, you want review sites in German.

It’s not hard at all. And I sarmly recommend you take action on this. Again, many people are afraid of selling in foreign markets. And if you’ve been marketing online for some time, you know most people don’t take action from the knowledge they get.

So… just do it.

Now an interesting point Dan is sharing is the SEO part. Search engine competition is low, definitely. You should grab a domain with an extension specific to the language. And for better geo-targetting it is recommended you find a host in the foreign country you plan to launch your sites. That’s true, it’s better.

Well, here are my observations.

I just went through the process Dan talks about in his guide of selecting a product from Amazon.fr and then just analyzed competition quickly with SEOQuake.

The keyword is not the specific product name, but just the generic product type, like espresso machine, though it’s something else, 3 word phrase that gets 6600 seaches per month, exact match.

Well in the first 10 results of Google, I’ve found two websites, one with 5 pages of content (I’d say 300 words on each page, somtimes less) and another with about 10 pages.

  • One domain has 2 hypens in it and a.fr extension, the other has “123.net” at the end of the exact keyword.
  • The .fr is registered with a french hosting company, the .net is registered at GoDaddy with servers in the US.
  • The .fr has 22 backlinks, the .net has 51 backlinks (some really excellent, PR7, PR5, PR3…).
  • The .fr is number 9, the .net is number 8.
  • Other sites in the top 10 are forums and price comparators.
  • The first result has no backlinks and a PR of 1. The 3 rd result got 164 backlinks but every other has almost nothing (either 0 and maximum 7)

My first conclusion would be…

You can still have hosting in the US, providing you get the exact keyword in your domain and get quality backlinks. It looks easier with a site hosted in the targeted country. You don’t need much backlinks to get ranked for a keyword that receives a very nice amount of traffic.

Now another point I want to add, and it’s just from my own experience. I have seen German or UK sites ranking very well in Google France results for some product searches. So if you want to target several foreign markets, UK, Germany, France and Spain, don’t get a hosting provider for all. You may do certainly very well with one host in Germany for all your European sites.

If you think about it, London, Paris, Berlin and Madrid are geographically closer than New York and Los Angeles…

Well anyway, that free training is pure gold and can get you a nice income very fast. Hey, CHRISTMAS is coming. Even if you don’t get an European host why not try it. Watch the video and download the guide now. Deadbeat Super Affiliate launches today so it may be too late to get your hands on that cool stuff.

Elements Of Product Reviews For Maximum Conversion

Hey folks, have you grabbed the Google Proof Product Review Formula by Dan Brock I told you about yesterday? If you don’t know what it is, this is a formula that tells you everything you should include in your product reviews for maximum conversion, trust and free buyers traffic from Google.

This is the method Dan uses for his physicaly products promotions and it makes hime a nice income. Though he mainly applies it to Amazon products, I don’t see why you couldn’t use it for other websites Just grab it before puts it down and launches his Deadbeat Super Affiliate course tomorrow.

So what are the elements of product reviews to include.

The formula goes like this:
QR + GR + I + VR + FvB + Identify + GvB + Comp + QA + UR = G.P.P.R.F

In full text it translates to:

Quick Review + General Review + Images + Video Review + Identify (your audience) + Good vs Bad + Comparison Review + Questions and Answers + User Reviews = Google Proof Product Review Formula.

It may sound a lot of work but actually most of the content to generate your converting reviews are already waiting for you to pick them up and put them together.

Dan details everything in his free video and report, and even shows a website with reviews that he made using that formula. So now you don’t have any excuses of not seeing what the final results should look like.

Be sure to check this free training here. I can clearly admit that many of my reviews don’t include all of these elements, and when I think about it, I could tweak those very quickly and make the products more appealing and attract more buyers traffic. Which indeed, means more money.

P.S: Some more free training is also available. The techniques shared work, very well.

How To Write Product Reviews That Convert – Free Affiliate Training

Hey everyone, I wanted to let you know about some free affiliate training you can get from Dan Brock, here. There’s one video and more importantly a free report (Google Proof Product Review Formula) to download that tells you everything on how to write product reviews that convert. Killer product reviews!

Actually this free training is part of the prelaunch of his upcoming launch of Deadbeat Super Affiliate, on Tuesday, November 2nd. So either you buy that affiliate marketing course or not, I URGE you to take advantage of that free affiliate training!!!

Dan Brock is an affiliate marketer and his methods work. I know this because I’ve studied his stuff. He’s teaching promoting physical products, from Amazon, and make a killing from it.

Though Amazon may have low commission rates they know everything to have a converting website. So if you can write killer product reviews and drive traffic to the Amazon page, then you can make a 5 figure income from Amazon.

Currently there are 3 videos you can watch before the Deadbeat Super Affiliate is launched, the free training may be down then. So really, sign up for the free training here, and download the Google Proof Product Review Formula.

Not only it tells you how to write great reviews, it also teaches how to have your website to attract free buyer traffic. It’s really a no brainer, I’ve read it and I’m glad I did. Because even if you don’t promote products from Amazon you can still apply the method and layout of the review to any other website.

Okay, just get the free training, download the Google Proof Product Review Formula here.

P.S: the next part called “untapped niche markets” is also very interesting, another report to download too. The idea shared is about targetting foreign markets where competition is SUPER low. You’ll enjoy that too.

Revolutionary Affiliate Marketing On Steroids – For Real?

Following my previous post telling you I was still alive, this is the part where I tell you more about that revolutionary affiliate marketing system that few people know about. At least yet and yes, I’m going to tell you to go right here get RAMOS for $1.97 and take advantage of it and actually start making money today. No joke. There are no hidden fees or anything you don’t like.

Sounds like a bold claim, and what could you expect from a $2 report. “This is certainly junk!” I hear you think. Or it could be the hidden door to new affiliate marketing. Damn, it even sounds strange for me to say these words. Anyway, I bought it and it’s gold.

new affiliate marketing“, like this was really revolutionary… IT IS!

The author, Oz, is not one of the face you see everywhere with super hypey expensive products everyone emails you about. But he is damn good at what he does and that certainly explains why he is a bestselling author. Everything he’s produced that I’ve put my hands on is some of the best content you can get. And even when it’s not a plan of action, it is something that changes your vision of marketing and gives you food for thoughts.

Revolutionary Affiliate Marketing On Steroids (RAMOS for friends) is both. A real insight of what the afiiliate marketing industry is today and quite frankly, not that beautiful for most. And a second part that introduces you to affiliate marketing that was never seen before.

You will join an inner circle, for free, no monthly recurring payment and from there the magic begind. You’ll get some worksheets to download that will give you all the instructions. Very easy stuff. But this is not the real beauty of the system.

The beauty of the system

This shines because the system is completely beneficial for you.

What if an affiliate network was paying you for purchases that were not coming from your links, or products you don’t even promote?

Ah this gets interesting, right? But I can’t tell you more. You just have a SMALL initial work to do but then… lifetime commissions. Click and forget. Auto-pilot.

Affiliate marketing has never been easier. Check that stuff right now, do yourself that favor.

This is possible and this is happening right now. And If you don’t want to miss it, then invest $1.97 in RAMOS.

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