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How A Geeky Kid Became Millionaire at 18 And Is Now Worth 300 Mil

Hey guys,

I got emailed this great story this morning from domaining industry magazine, DN Journal.

It’s about how 2 brothers founded a company for $600 that is now worth $300m!! It certainly is a story for motivation and inspiration.

I look at something like this and I see that doing nothing but internet marketing or writing articles will not get you there. Sure, you have to start with small steps but why do that for years? Look what these guys achieved in just a few small years.

Moral of the story: set your sights higher than they already are!

Here’s the story:

http://www.dnjournal.com/cover/2008/september.htm

Posted 16 September 2008 † Chris § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °

Big Ticket Affiliate Programs - A Huge List Of High Paying Products To Promote

I’ve assembled a massive list of big ticket affiliate programs programs for you. It took me a while but I’ve only included products with a minimum of $100 per sale, and most of them are in the high hundreds - as high as $999!!

Big ticket affiliate programs (also known as high ticket affiliate programs) are interesting because, on the face of it, you can get more money per conversion. I’ve prepared a list of them because I looked around for some and found hardly any information on them in a single place. So if there’s any I’ve missed, please leave a comment and I’ll add it!

By the way, the reality is that these kinds of programs usually require warming up the prospect a lot more than for your typical $50 product. This is because unless you’re a millionaire then you won’t buy a $2000 on impulse!

So you’ll probably get higher conversions if you feed prospects into a list and it’s also a good idea to give them good bonuses of your own if they buy (you could ask them to forward you an email receipt of the sale in order to get the bonuses). But hey, even just introducing them could get you some FAT commissions!

Anyway, on with the list. Some of these big ticket affiliate programs also offer recurring and back-end commissions too! For the most part, they are forex and IM niches but, even if you’re not in these niches yet, then I would say to dive into them because the potential commissions are too good to resist!

Wealthy Inner Circle

I’ve heard that the payouts on this product are around 1000 bucks. You do need to pay $50 to get access though. This might sound strange but apparently some big ticket products are like this. I wouldn’t normally include products that you have to pay for in this list but someone on Warrior Forum with over 1000 posts vouched for it.

The link above takes you to an opt-in page but I can save you the trouble of opting in because it redirects you to this page.

Yanik Silver’s Ultimate Copywriting Workshop

We all know how good copy can double or triple your conversions and therefore your profits. And a good copywriter can cost tens of thousands of dollars for a single sales page.

No wonder then that copywriting courses sell for thousands so wouldn’t it be nice to get some of those tasty commissions :)

The commissions on this product are 25% or $368.75! You can even offer your prospects a $200 discount although that will eat into your profits a little.

The link above takes you to the general affiliate registration page for all of Yanik’s products including this course. It’s a good affiliate program and he even has 3 rebrandable viral pdfs that can be generated on the fly.

Butterfly Marketing

Some big ticket items have a huge product launch behind them and are very much “flavour of the month”. I don’t know if this is the case for this product but nevertheless it has a stonking $700 commission based on a 2 grand product!

To gain access, just click the link above and then scroll down to the bottom where it says “Affiliates - Earn Cash”.

Nitro Affiliates

These guys are a complete program with a range of high ticket products. They pride themselves on having lots of high commission (up to $300) and recurring commission products. I see a lot of products from people that I recognise and trust such as Joe Vitale and it looks like mostly internet and direct marketing stuff.

Turnkey Affiliate Program

This program lets you promote various IM products and pays out via Paypal. They claim to have super affiliates such as Allan Gardyne, Russel Brunson and Dr. Mani. I noticed that most of the commissions are over $200 and the best is a whopping $1000!! Ker-ching!

Amazon Associates

You probably already know that the commission on Amazon products is frankly sh1t (maximum of 15% if you’re lucky). This is because they carry mainly physical and not digital products so there are extra costs for extra business. But they do have some very large ticket products there such as books and DVDs for industry.

It’s a little hard to find them but one way is to drill down to a category or do a search and then resort the listing by price, from high to low.

Moreniche
Worldniche

Moreniche is an interesting affiliate program. These guys have a slick looking site and let you sell their physical products. I’m not just talking banners here - they give you some very slick high converting templates that you can redirect to.

They offer an eclectic mix of products including diet pills, penis enlargement devices, real estate seminars and customer support solutions!

Anyway, the best thing is that despite being physical products, the commissions are very good! For instance, diet pills pay up to $130 per sale, and the customer support solution pays out a whopping $500 per sale! They even have some pay per lead programs paying up to 50 bucks per lead.

Not just this but once you’ve registered then your login also works at their sister site, Worldniche, where you can promote various pills, creams and herbal cures each with commission over $150 per sale!

Options University

Trading products pay very well and Options University is no different. This site is extremely slick and caters well to affiliates.

There must be something like 20 or 30 different products: seminars, webinars, DVDs and more. Free report links, opt-in list affiliate links etc. They have 35% commissions on all their products, some of which are what I have created a name for - “uber ticket” lol! I’m talking about $2000 dollar products here so I make that a potential $700 commission per sale!

Profits Run

This is another slick looking site for forex, stocks and futures. It seems they don’t want the casual surfing affiliate because you can’t even get to their affiliate page from their homepage.

So what do they sell? Looks like a variety of multiple DVD courses mostly over $1000 and two of them at $2000. And the commission for the top products is a whopping $681.45!! Show me the money! Even better is that they can pay via Paypal if you want.

Getresponse

This is the first of the two best autoresponder programs that marketers use. You’ve probably already heard of Aweber. The great thing about it is that you are promoting a monthly membership service = ker-ching! 30% residual commissions on e.g. a $17.95 per month membership. Just over 5 bucks a month might not sound like much but that is lifetime income!

Aweber

This is the second of the two best autoresponder programs out there. Both of them must have something like 80% of the market. I wouldn’t say that one is better than the other and you might as well give a choice to your prospects and promote both at the same time. Anyway, Aweber pays slightly less residual commission - 20% - but on a higher monthly cost starting at $19 and going upwards.

Forex Affiliate

This is a very slick forex program offering what they call a “CPA+” platform. What this basically means is that when you make a sale you get a one off commission AND a recurring commission.

The more you refer the better the commissions - and they’re pretty good to start with anyway: a nice $250 per sale + 10% revenue share.

Unlike the other sites mentioned above this is not a forex training site but an actual trading website.

The Second Tier

This is the affiliate program for Russel Brunson. Curiously, although I’ve heard of him, I’d never heard of this program before. The unique spin on this program is that there’s additional training offered to you although all I could see was a blog so please correct me if I’m wrong.

Anyway, you can promote some good high ticket products here for up to 75% commissions. For instance, $450 commission on a home study course or $10 a month recurring on a membership. Oh and the payout options include Paypal if you want that.

Futures Trading Coach

The commissions on this site are incredible. This is really up there as one of the highest paying affiliate programs I’ve found. I’m talking about $999 uber commission on a mentoring course and even $100 monthly recurring on a trading room alert membership.

There are a wide variety of products that you can promote here: coaching programs and trading consultations from as little as 30 minutes to the full 5 days.

5 Pillar Affiliate Program

Although giving only $75 per sale, you do get recurring commissions for renewals. This is the affiliate program for Ken Evoy’s huge successful Site Build It program.

I’m including it because this program definitely sells well with good retention and plenty of affiliate tools. I see no reason why the total long term sales are not at least $100 per sale.

I hope you liked this post. If there are any products that I could add to this list then please leave a comment and let me know. Thanks!

Posted 27 July 2008 † Chris § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (1) °

Bad Review Of Video Post Robot

I road tested Video Post Robot and the results were not good.

So, I’m looking at video marketing because some people have been telling me that it delivers more “bang per buck” than articles. And you know how writing endless articles on the same niche can get mindnumbingly boring!!

Anyway, more on my video methods later but one of the things I needed was some kind of automatic video syndication.

I searched on the forums and it looked like the free options weren’t good enough, it seemed. The paid options were three:

So it turns out that both of the last two have a $1 trial. I decided to go with VPR because I heard good things about it.

The Software Functionality

I gotta say, I like the software. It’s well made and has some good features. If you are operating in many different niches and have different video identities then these can all be saved under a custom username profile. This is something you don’t get with free options like Tube Mogul. There is even a category profile that you can create e.g. one for your educational videos, one for your action videos etc.

Uploading Success

This is where the software let me down and I decided to cancel.

Software could not upload to:
Veoh
Crackle
Sevenload
Atomfilms
Flurl (got stuck at 93%)

Uploaded but video site either rejected my video or was not processed:
Metacafe
Livevideo
Revver
Spike
Vimeo

Verdict

Now I should add here that I did retry the uploads. In fact, there were one or two that did not orginally work that a second try fixed. But the lists above are the final result.

I was a little disappointed that some big sites like Metacafe and Revver did not accept my videos. And yet it had nothing to do with the content, tags or anything else being used to reject me on a “spam” or marketing basis.

I say this because I had no trouble later making the uploads manually or with TubeMogul.

So when I have time, I’ll probably check out Traffic Geyser but be sure to check out TubeMogul. I think I didn’t give it enough of a chance before - it contains some high traffic sites and the analytics can’t be beaten! Add to this that it has awesome uploading checking - you upload to the server and it reuploads to other sites, you can check the status at anytime. Much more reliable than multi-uploads from your PC in my opinion.

Have you tried any other video upload sites yourself or got any recommendations? Would love to hear from you.

Posted 21 July 2008 † Chris § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (1) °

Using Scribd For Getting Keywords

Hi guys,

I’m still around although very busy at the moment. For various reasons, I am currently working my butt off to reach various goals on mine (I’ll post more about goal setting in the near future).

Anyway, I thought I’d share with you a cool site I’ve known about for months but never really used until recently.

Scribd is an online document site. It’s kinda like the Youtube of documents. There are other document sites out there too and they make great place to upload your own reports and ebooks (with link backs to your own sites of course!):

http://www.scribd.com
http://www.issuu.com
http://www.openfloodgate.com
http://www.docstoc.com
http://www.edocr.com
http://www.doxtop.com

As well as uploading your books, you can do a search and they are a great way to do niche research. Like Youtube, there are also a lot of pirated books on there too so there could be problems ahead for Scribd.

Anyway, the best thing about Scribd compared to the other sites is that you can see the search engine referrer information for each page. This is a goldmine of niche keyword data!

Lots of the keywords are question type keywords such as “How do I…” or “What…” style keyword phrases.

Hope this helped and do you have any of your own keyword tricks that you can share with us? Please leave a comment and let us know :)

Posted 01 July 2008 † Chris § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (3) °

How to Survey Your Customers and Prospects

It’s very important to survey your list. To find out what they want so you can deliver the value they are looking for.

I’ve looked into how to do this - there are ways such as using SurveyMonkey but then I found this great tutorial on Aweber’s site which tells you how to make a survey using Google Docs and the results are very easy to do and impressive!

Check it out:

How to Survey Your Customers and Prospects

PS how do you currently do your own surveys? Do you have any tips to share such as what kind of questions to ask to elicit the best quality and most responses? We’d love to hear from you :)

Posted 19 May 2008 † Chris § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °

How To Find Higher Quality Niche Forums

Probably you already know that forums are a great place to do niche research.

In forums, people gather to discuss the issues relating to that niche. They ask the most common questions and the experts reply with the different solutions. Exactly the material that you need to create a great product that will satisfy a need in that market.

The problem is that there are a lot of really low quality forums out there. Some of them are filled with spam, some are deserted, some are commercial. It can be tough to find the really good ones.

I have a number of good methods for finding good forums but one killer query that I use is to search for the phrase “vbulletin“.

So let’s say I wanted to find quality dog training forums. Then I would type into Google:

“dog training” vbulletin

The reason for this is because vbulletin is a type of forum software that is generally reckoned to be “the best”. And for this reason, it is also a paid license (one method is to lease the software) - that’s how valuable it is.

So when you find a site with a vbulletin forum, whose license has had to be paid for by the site owner, then you can generally be sure that it is a decent quality forum.

Do you have any other methods that you personally use to find good quality forums? Please leave a comment as we would love to hear from you :)

Posted 15 May 2008 † Chris § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °

How To Calcuate Clickbank Refund Rate

Those of you who promote Clickbank products might be interested to know that there is a way of finding out the refund rate of a product before you decide to try and sell it.

Although not published, it can be calculated from the product stats that you are shown.

Rather than use a pen and paper and calculate the formula, it’s easier to just use a premade web calculator.

Just type into Google:

clickbank calculate refund rate

I did it and this was the first link I visited to my satisfaction:

http://cbhelper.com/refund-calculator.html

Try it for yourself, you might be surprised by the results you get.

Posted 12 May 2008 † Chris § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °

Effective Article Template For High Click-Thrus

Do you suffer from articles (on directories) with low click-throughs to your main page? I know I do.

So I’ve started to use this template that EzineArticles themselves recommend.

To quote:

The Pain Avoidance Template Simple Layout:

1. Introduce the pain. No more than (1) paragraph.
2. Give real-world solutions to the pain. (3-10) paragraphs max.
3. Tell why the solutions offered solves the pain. (1-2) paragraphs max.
4. Wrap up with a (1) paragraph conclusion that reinforces why your reader is in pain, how you recommended they solve that pain and why it’s in their best interest to follow your advice.

Get the full info here:
http://blog.ezinearticles.com/2008/04/the-pain-avoidance-template.html

Hopefully I can report back soon my results to you.

Posted 10 May 2008 † Chris § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °

Finally I Have A Computer Desk!

Have you ever considered your working environment and whether it might be affecting your productivity?

For 2 years now I have been doing all my computer work from a sofa. Yes, a sofa!!!

Little wonder then then I started to get irritable with leg pains and a bad back.

I decided to bite the bullet and get a desk. Here in the UK, organising deliveries and taking time off work can be a bitch, to say the least.

Luckily, I managed to find a good desk at my local catalogue store. It cost the equivalent of 60 dollars and comes flatpacked as wood and metal tubes. I noticed it was made in China, no doubt for barely a dollar. These crazy markups on physical goods from China got me thinking again about looking into importing, a thought which I have had for a while (I reviewed a product on “importing from China recently” and it was very interesting to say the least. There are a ton of import sites out there - here is just one that you can check out just to get more of an idea - http://www.chinavasion.com).

Life with this new desk is so much better. I have better posture, my neck is not straining. I am no longer glued to the PC all day and when I do sit at it, I automatically feel like “working” and not “surfing”. It’s an incredible transformation!

In case you are interested, here is a link to the desk. There is a wooden shelf in the bottom but I did not install it because it would have left zero legroom!

Beech Finish Computer Desk and Chair Set

Posted 08 May 2008 † Chris § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (0) °

Free Mind Mapping Software

I don’t know if you have heard of this site, but bubbl.us is taking the internet marketing world by storm.

This site is a free online mind mapping software which I understand is used and recommended by some gurus too.

What Is Mind Mapping Software?

This type of software is great for developing ideas - whether you need to brainstorm an idea for a project, work out the key parts to a product launch, plan your site marketing strategy or more, then mind mapping software can be really powerful.

In the past I have used software such as Mindjet for mind mapping but bubbl.us is really good and I am pleasantly surprised with the good results. You can even share and collaborate on mind maps with other people.

Check it out for yourself here: bubbl.us - brainstorming made simple.

Posted 04 May 2008 † Chris § Uncategorized ‡ Comments (3) °