What is WP InstantPay?

Well I think I’ve put it in the title. This is a WordPress plugin that will let you integrate PayPal in your blog. You can thus receive payments for anything you sell on your blog. Now that’s cool since you won’t have to do some technical work and browse all the PayPal documentation to have a button on your site. It’s made easy.

And there’s another very cool feature: it splits payments automatically. So if you want to have your own in house affiliate program, you can do so! The payments are directly splitted between you and your affiliate.

This is something I really appreciate, in the past there were some other scripts used for commissions paid by Paypal. The script would say you get 50% commission, actually you would get 100% every 2 sales. So actually you don’t get paid anything on the first sale, but on the second one. I didn’t want to make some efforts to realize I made 3 sales, and got paid commissions for only 2.

With WP InstantPay now released, I hope merchants will switch to it and thus allow a commission on all sales. If you want to have an affiliate program, you will need a PayPal API, that you will easily get from your account, you need a PayPal Business account first. Not needed for simple payments (no splits).

Now I guess for us little marketers who may want to create their own product, WP InsantPay will allow many to start their own selling blog.

The documentation on WP InstantPay website is very complete and tells you everything you will need to make this a smooth integration. There are much more features: 3rd tier, emails (so you can send your affiliates, or customers), pre-made templates for emails sent after purchases, product lists…

Ideas

I guess you may have PLRs (articles, softwares…) with resell rights on your computer, then you can already start selling those.

And if you’re a freelancer why not sell your services? It can be an easy way to receive orders for articles, design, backlinks or whatever you have to offer.

Create your own reports: have some short eBooks, even at $7-$10 each, few sales each week can be a nice income if you create several of these reports.

Of course, I know you could have done it without it, but I’m all for going the easiest way of doing things. And I’m sure you are too. It’s a worthwile investment, for now it’s $67. That’s a great price considering the potential profits it can help you to create.

Here’s my link:WP InstantPay

You can watch a webinar they just recorded at the following link: CLICK

That’s it. Just watch the webinar and see all you’ll get in addition the Blueprint Project Black Edition program.

So what I wanted to add is about the tools you get, you certainly aw that in their prelaunch they were giving away Keyword Blueprint and Link Blueprint. Well though these are awesome resources that Tim and Steve gave away for free, there are more to get access inside The Blueprint Project Black Edition.

One that I have access too is Discover Niches. This is just so powerful, and fast. Because all the datas are saved. So what you just do is type a keyword and it gives you all the keyword with search volume and competition, instantly. You can even type no keywords but set the search volume and competition figures to your likes and it spits out all keywords to go after.

Another resource is of course the dopshippers and wholesalers database. This is Dropship Blueprint that you will get access to, access to this resource alone is $197. You get access to millions (over 3 millions) of products to build sites for. Think about all the niches that have almost no competition.

If you go to The Blueprint Project Black Edition sales page you can see an example keyword (“buy train horns online” with just 9 results on Google, still the case). I just saw that some of these products were sold for $400. So your profit can be really huge if you get the wholesale price. Remember since it’s dropshipping, you don’t pay anything upfront! You just process the orders to the suppliers, who will take care of handling and shipping.

That’s right, you get paid first!

The most important thing

Then one last thing I’d like you to think about is the advantage that you get being an internet marketer. If you’ve been in this game for a while you certainly know enough, more than many people who would like to have a website to sell their products. Let me explain.

A local business would want an online store so they can sell more, nationally or internationally. Still, they have to install the ecommerce scrip and the online marketing to do to get ranked in Search Engines and get free traffic, or pay for traffic.

Either they take the learning curve of internet marketing and you certainly know how hard it can be to know where to start and where to go from there, or they would pay someone to do the job for them.

Their knowledge is on the product they sell, not on the internet marketing part, and not on the technical side of things either (hosting, instaling the ecommerce script…).

You are different. You don’t have to know anything about the product. You just decide on a niche, click a button to have the store installed, add a few products with few more clicks. Basically you can quickly have your online store up and running very quickly since you know you don’t have to pay someone to do it, everything is done automatically.

And then your marketer job starts, and this is going to be fun. Now with those tiny niches and over 3 millions products to promote you have sites with very low competition, and you now can build few backlinks to get some traffic and easily get ranked. The local business owner who wanted his/her store online is still learning SEO or PPC or having an “internet marketing expert” doing it for him/her.

That is the most important thing you should know: the ease you will make money with this business model. And it is replicable. Just instead of building 10 or 50 affiliate sites, you can just build 10 online stores that you OWN. You directly make the profit, and lots of it.

And here’s one more tip… Vary your niches, go for lower, mid and higher price products. You should still know that it takes the same amount of effort to promote a low price product as a higher one, so your cut is higher too.

Okay, that was my little additional infos and tips for those interested in the dropshipping model.

Now get The Blueprint Project Black Edition before it’s down.

So if you don’t know what it is you can check it out now, here’s my link.

If you want a quick recap…

This is the ultimate version of their Niche Blueprint course: building physical products stores. You don’t need to carry any stock, you get a suppliers database which will handle the storage, shipping and handling. That’s dropshipping.

Steve and Tim and their team have perfected the system so anyone can get a store in any niche, process payments and orders, even if you’re not based in the US. And the store platform is a push-button solution. Also everything is given to you for traffic and sales.

This works. Really. Once you have a profitable website either keep it, or sell it for sooper profits.

If this is something you would be interested in, be sure that it is an awesome value. You get EVERYTHING you need, and a great customer support.

Get The Blueprint Project Black Edition.

Thiese are some of the most valuable tools you can own because THESE WILL MAKE YOU MONEY. If you use them, of course. And yes they are free.

What are these tools?

These are Keyword Blueprint 2 and Link Blueprint, by Tim Godfrey and Steve Clayton.Get them here (they are giving them away for the pre launch of their new program).

If you don’t know who these guys are, they are the creators of Commission Blueprint, Niche Blueprint, SEM Blueprint, IMEye.

These are all great stuff. I can honestly say they produce great products and their support is just excellent.

I bought Niche Blueprint in the past and it was $297. Then they upgraded this course to 2.0 and I had to pay $97 for this, and I did because the new tools included are fantastic. Some of these tools included Keyword Blueprint and Link Blueprint.

Keyword Blueprint is kind of Micro Niche Finder. It retrieves Google keyword tool data and tell you if a keywords is easy or difficult to rank for, or competitive for PPC.

Link Blueprint is actually a network of people to exchange links. But without reciprocal links for better benefits. You give links to other people from your sites, you earn credits. With these credits you can then ask for links to your sites. There are rules to follow to keep this effective: no crap links from link pages, no blog comments, no porn/gambling sites. But at least links from a 350 words article or post and few other easy guidelines.

What’s cool is that if you only have PR0 or 1 sites, it’s ok, you can still ask for PR3 links if you want, providing you earned enough credits.

Now don’t worry if this look confusing, there is a tutorial video for each of these tools.

Now as I said these are part of the prelaunch material of their new program called The Blueprint Project – Black Edition.

What is The Blueprint Project Black Edition?

They define it as their best product ever made. And I tend to believe it. This is actually the ultimate edition of Niche Blueprint. This course teaches you, step by step how to build e-commerce sites. That’s right, sell physical products.

But you don’t touch the goods. You will get in touch with suppliers who take care of the storage and shipping. You basically just process orders. It’s the dropshipping model, indeed.

They give you everything! The platform you get is the best, they have improved it since they started doing this business, and it’s been quite some time now. Also, it’s a push-button solution, really, no technical knowledge required.

All the tools and how to get merchant accounts, payment gateways… you will know it all and you will have no difficulty to be up and running, even if you’re not based in the US: I’M NOT IN THE US EITHER, and I bought this program months ago, it’s even better now.

So don’t worry you will never be alone, they even have a team that helps you with all products/suppliers issues.

To sum up, The Blueprint Project – Black Edition is a course that shows you how to build physical products stores, get them ranked for free traffic and make a real income. And remember you get all the tools, and a customer support that is truly one of the best you’ll ever see.

They also teach you how to flip your website for some of the biggest money to be made online. This is really how you get huge amounts of cash.

Okay that’s it. It may look like I want you to buy The Blueprint Project for a commission, but I’m just enthusiastic about it and because of the free tools they’re giving away. You can decide to watch the video they have prepared for more details.

So visit The Blueprint Project to download Keyword Blueprint, the keyword research tool, and get access to Link Blueprint, the link building resources for your SEO efforts.

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?

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.

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.

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.

I wanted to tell you about it because this training should be priced way higher, but it’s just $19.95. One time payment. No recurring fees.

That’s it, if you already have some good marketing training then stick with it until you get results and don’t jump on every opportunity that pops up. But if you seems you don’t have found something that gives you real value then Lee’s course is something that you can rely on for years and indeed make money, a lot of money.

He’s been a real success story, making real income after his first month online, so he knows what you may encounter right now. Plus, he’s a great teacher and that’s really an amazing advantage for you. He’s someone you can trust.

Lee is quite a big name and you’d be right to expect this kind of marketers release only items with a 3 or4 figures price tag but that’s not the case and if you want to get a training you can rely on for years, without going for another internet marketing course, then I highly recommend you check Instant Internet Lifestyle.