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Marketers Choice: FireFox, IE Or Google Chrome?
Google has just come up with a new browser dubbed the Google Chrome. Download it from
Its nice, certainly could tempt anyone to switch from Fire Fox to Chrome, only thing holding me back is the roboform tool (Internet Marketing essential, IMO) on my firefox. If roboform starts to support Chrome…who knows 
Not a roboform user? Check out Chrome, you just might be lured to the power of the Google side.
Enjoy!
FireFox, Microsoft, Google? "Begun, the Browser Wars has" Yoda, Star Wars
"I Don't Know What To Say Really…" - Any Given Sunday
"I Don't Know What To Say Really…" Excerpt From Any Given Sunday. Enjoy
My thoughts: You find out how important money is when life slaps you in the face. Ever had to decline when friends ask you out because you know the places they frequent are too expensive to afford at your current salary?
Having money and work, gives one dignity. That's the reality of life, and anyone that says different is probably lucky enough to be born with a diamond spoon in their mouth.
For the rest of us that can count only on ourselves, we must develop an inner drive. Because without that "I WANT TO DO THIS, I WANT TO BE RICH, I MUST MAKE IT" psyche, you'll just float in life until one day 5 years has gone, 40 is just round the corner, we're still at square 1, and its too late.
All the best… visit this post if you can (Valid till 7th September)
Sherman
By the way, Happy 32nd birthday to me
Commission Blueprint & Private Banker Girls
Before I go on, let me 1st say, that Commission Blueprint is a good resource. The things they teach, I discovered it very late in my own internet marketing career, 4 years later after tons of trial and error working with php files, tinkering with the 3 major search engines, PPC tools and tracking IDs.
So if there is going to be any nit picking on Commission Blueprint, its just a nit pick, will take nothing away from them. The skills they teach are x10000 more applicable to the normal guy sitting in his bedroom then the stuff many more well know personalities on the internet are flogging online.
The only 1 gripe I have with Commission Blueprint is the way they track their IDs. Its slow and Its effective or Its effective and Its slow (choose your poison). A software they use, and I use myself is the "Censored" PPC software ( I will not reveal this, its their trade secret). The 2 main difference between their views and mine is that they use the in house php templates of this PPC software, and you need to track manually what the TIDs were that coverted. This takes too long and its additional work.
The second is that they prefer not to touch the content network much because there is no info there on how to track sales from these resources. Which is a good call, unless of course, you know how to track which placement gave you a conversion
If you've have been online long enuf dumping $5000, tinkering and racking up losses with adwords campaigns, you know that its just as easy to create a campaign that loses you $100s if not $1000s of dollars, while you test and track, as it takes to create 1 that earns you income that even pretty private banker Citibank girls ($50K-$90K++ earnings) will quake in admiration to. When applying what is in the blueprint, you need to test 10 campaigns quickly, and dump the ones that don't work. The longer you take, the more money and time you lose.
There is a different Tracking software that is x1000 faster with no recurring payment whatsoever. If the CB guys knew about it, they'd probably do away with their current pencil and paper way and incorporate this into their "Commission Blueprint Version 2.0 edition". You'll understand how powerful the content network can be and instead of avoiding it, with the right software, you can jump right into it from the start and be profitable with $0.01 - $0.06 Clicks rather then Sponsored Search Engine Clicks that cost $0.30 to $1.00. (See their videos, can u afford to spend $500 and survive paying for $0.30 clicks during the test phase?)
Here's the Commission Blueprint enhance deal.
- Click through this link, purchase it,
- Open a support ticket at http://www.shermanchoo.com/support and paste your receipt.
- I'll revert the software you need that will give you an edge over the rest who do just what Commission Blueprint teaches.
After you've applied what Commission Blueprint teaches Coupled with the Alternative software (I use it myself) I tell you to get, and this doesn't benefit you X1000 times what is in the blueprint, more importantly separate you from the rest of the people who have bought the same course, I will look into your Adwords Campaigns and help you with them.
READ>>>(Limited to 1 Adword Tweak per User)
Good luck! And To Your Success!
Sherman
PS: If you're sitting on the fence, you won't go wrong on this
The Affiliate Money Magazine Challenge - 1(one) Person To Be Coached To Earn $1000s For FREE.
The Affiliate Money Magazine Challenge - Valid Till 7th September 2008
1(one) Person To Be Coached To Earn $1000s For FREE.
1 Spot Only.
To commemorate a new milestone online (hitting a personal new online income), for 4 weeks and 45min session periods per week, I will coach 1(one) "SERIOUS" person for FREE to make REAL money online.
(Note: If you're already successful online, that means earning at least $5000 every month, then you're doing well, save a spot for someone else who has never made a single cent online or don't know what an internet check looks like)
Please read it all before deciding whether or not to participate.
THE OFFER:
- I will work with you LIVE 45 minutes each week for 4 sessions by SKYPE, giving you personal pointers as you progress through the course, and monitoring what you've done the previous week.
- There is no written material, we will be working live via SKYPE and I will give you pointers on what to do. You'll be taking down live notes on your side of the screen.
- I will be pointing you to live case studies online, websites and URLs that are raking in cash, how you can do it and cash in.
- You will be starting a real internet business. (There are many industries you can go into, CPA, Adsense, Adwords, Affiliate Networks, Product Owner, Merchant Affiliate Programs, there are tons of programs, filtering through them all to test what works takes time) I'll tell you one that I know works, there is a burning desire to fill a need and you can just follow and cash in.
- You MUST hit a minimum income goal of $500. If you can earn more, $1K, $3K, its all your money to keep. The minimum you must hit if you're working with me is $500 from scratch.
WHAT YOU NEED:
- You must learn fast and have a good brain, with *good writing, video creation skills and HTML*
- Learning attitude (Kindly save your questions at the start. I will certainly answer questions related to the previous weeks work.)
- Must have initial $164.95 base capital for internet tools to get off to a fast start then $27.95 each month.
- Burning Desire to increase your income from $500 to $10,000 after the coaching.
- 30 minutes each day minimum.
- PayPal account, get one at http://www.paypal.com
- Be a personable nice person.
- You MUST understand my Singapore English Accent
- You must be punctual for the Live SKYPE coaching. 10 minutes waiting grace.
Because many people instinctively feel that they are "The One Willing To Do Whatever It Takes", lets find out who's serious:
TERMS:
This Coaching Offer is 100% FREE. I will only work with people who are willing to assist themselves. To protect my time and interest, there will be a…
FULLY RETURNABLE $500 Coaching Fee.
Selected individual required to put down a "Commitment" deposit of $500 by PayPal. Please, no "verbal committments", "yes im the one" feelings, "tears in eyes" testimonials, persuasive arguments of "please call my mobile and help me free because…" (Friends no exceptions.) This is a business, work, not school, fun, hobby, games. If you're committed to learning something that will give you a lifestyle change, commit professionally, not with words and pinky swears but a financial committment to Your own future. Once you learn how to make that 1st $500-$1000, the $10K mark is a "Rinse and Repeat" scaling up formula away.
CONDITIONS (Not the usual blah blah blah):
- When you hit the online income goal of $500 within 45 day time frame, your $500 will be refunded, and any money you have earned online, $500, $1K, $2K, $4K is all yours to keep. A check will be mailed to you. (You'll see)
- If you put in some effort, and just fall short of $500, say $490 the $500 deposit will still be returned in full to you. (All I want to see is commitment, not illusions of grandeur)
- If for any reason effort was not put into your own internet business (you had work, trip, family, baby on the way, fell ill) with minimum 30 minutes work each day (yes I will know, don't ask me how) the $500 deposit will be forfeit at discretion, and donated to a charity of YOUR choice by PayPal. You pick the charity you want that is PayPal supported. Receipt will be provided.
Closing Thoughts
This is a serious FREE coaching offer where I will coach 1 person for FREE to succeed online. That individual will learn a skill that will pay for life's necessities new house/car/electricity bill/mobile phone bill/insurance.
Think it through carefully, this is not a "whim or impulse" decision to sign up. Yes, you will have checks appearing at your home like magic - a new income stream added to your household without $1000s of dollars in financial risk.
Once you're $500 sure:
- Introduce yourself via the comment box below
- 280 word write up on why you absolutely want an internet career, write positively. (don't worry, it will appear private)
- Your HTML, Writing, Video Creation Skills on Scale of 1 to 10 (1 being completely new, 10 being Expert)
I will pick the name and email of the writeup I think has the best personality of success and revert to your email on how to proceed.
We'll setup a time by email for the 45 minute coaching. Prepare to do alot of cutting and pasting into your notepad.
During coaching, we'll correspond LIVE via SKYPE privately.
Best Wishes,
Sherman
(Offer valid till 7th September 2008)
READ>>>Your success story may be recorded from beginning to end and be used as a success case study at my discretion to benefit some who need this information.
Final Disclaimer: When after going through the comments and i'm not positive the submissions have the pre-requisite skills to quickly succeed online, I reserve the final right to rescind on this free offer. Good Luck!
Blink Web - Blink Your Way Around The Web
Here's a nifty tool that allows you to create nifty little cash sites and landing pages with opt ins to popular autoresponder services like Get Response.
Its called Blink Web.
I spent 30 minutes tinkering around with it. Nice!
Outsourcing Website Traffic Generation to the Professionals
There's a few ways to get more traffic to your website. For small businesses, or to test a few things on a website, we might send some traffic on our own to a certain website. After a while, when the numbers start to add up, we can decide whether or not to continue generating the traffic on our own, or outsourcing this aspect to professional companies or individuals. Lets have a look at a few outsourcing traffic generation tactics we can use once a business model is working.
- Increase Website Traffic #1 TIp: Pay per click marketing such as ABC Search, Google, Yahoo, Miva can be outsourced to professional PPC companies. Naturally, it does cost to have a PPC company handle your campaigns for you, but if you're looking to target a chinese 1.6 billion audience with Baidu, and can't handle the chinese interface, then it might be a good idea to have a PPC company handle that for you. They have professional tie ups with PPC companies and could get the best rates for you and your keywords.
- Increase Website Traffic #2 Tip: Forum marketing is as simple as having a link in your signature box and answering questions that forums goers might have. Its important to allow your signature link to show naturally, then allow it to be a ad. Once people respect your answers and assistance, they will be interested in your website and services. You can outsource forum answering to professional forum posters. They usually are from Philippines.
- Increase Website Traffic #3 Tip: Offline advertising is perhaps the least used. The most effective way, I feel, is to hand out flyers that lead to a landing page with an incentive or benefit which makes it worthwhile for a visitor to provide you their contact details. This is usually an ecourse or preview of what you can offer. If your benefits are good enough, they will purchase your product.
Outsourcing is a very important part of expanding your internet business from 3 figures to 5 figures quickly. Once operations get larger, allow others to join your business and share a piece of your pie for greater profits!
Increase Online Website Traffic With Duplicate Content?
Download this report that tells you what you need to know about Article Marketing and Duplicate Content.
- stay in good standing with the search engines
- boost your rankings
- drive loads of traffic to your site
To Download: "Right Click On This Link & Select Save As"
Enjoy!
Success University - How To Break Even Case Study
So you heard about Success University. Lets have a look at the business side of things and what it takes to break even.
You'll need your thinking cap.
Compensation Plan - Since Success University is a network marketing company, you get compensated for referring others to the company. Once you get the ball rolling with Success University, you get paid for every 6 person cycle that forms in your downline. Success University pays you well when you can get pass the initial stage. If you don't get pass the initial stage and personally refer 6 persons, then have those 6 persons stay active and also start working hard, you will not earn any profits from the 7 month on and will be losing money from the 1st month.
Here's a typical example:
Lets say you refer 3 person at the start who join the business at $149.50 + $55.00 each (if no price changes). That earns you a fast start commission (around $19.99 per pax), but you won't qualify to earn that 6 cycle commission because you only have 3 persons in your downline. When in the 4 month you don't refer anyone, then you won't earn a commission. 5th month passes and you won't earn any commissions when someone joins, while you continue to pay the membership (your upline still earns though so long as you form part of their 6 personally enrolled members), then in the 6 month you refer 3 persons, you now qualify to earn the 6 person cycle commission, because you have a total of 6 personally enrolled members which covers the 2 months you did not enroll anyone (1 person for each month until 6 months). Your commission for the 6 person cycle is about $40+, not yet to cover your monthly membership which is about $55+. In other words, for 6 months, you would have spent $149.50 + $55 x 6= $479.50. Your commissions for referring just 3 person in the 1st 3 months then 3 person in the 6th month is $40 + (4×20) = $120 (not counting the commissions you lost when you referred no one for 2 months).
So that means you've lost $359.50. (ie 479.50 - $120)
The only time you're considered "reasonably safe" is when your downline starts to get their 6 and this must be done in the 1st month you're with Success University. Otherwise, you'll find yourself able to earn a commission this month, then unable to earn a commission the next because you're fluctuating around the 6 active members cycle.
Once you have referred 6 active persons, you get to earn a commission for life, so long as those 6 personally sponsored members don't leave your organisation. Anyone else in your group that refers and creates a 6 person cycle earns you commissions. This is where if you have 6 hardworking members, you will continue to earn an income that just keeps growing.
6 is the magic number!
In my view, Success University is a do-or-die MLM. There is a life time to the amount of success education one can receive. So after some time, the sustaining factor is to make money from the business, rather then the products. Products that you can use for life are mobile phone subscriptions, domain names or food consumables. Education, well there is a limit to it. Once you have a degree in lets say accountancy or law, you won't need to study law again so you stop paying for tuition fees.
How You Get Paid - Success University pays using a Global Cash Card. This card if dormant withdraws money from your internet banking account. Whenever you withdraw money as well, it also deducts money from your bank account. This is another problem that I see and unless Success University finds a way to allow its members to accumulate commissions before withdrawing, many SU members will pay their tuition fees and leave after 3 months, the best will stay till around 9 months to try to get 6 front line members, which is still insufficient to pay for the membership, not to mention the banking withdrawal and dormant fees deduction which comes to around $5 per mth.
More Typical Examples: Success University fees is around $55/mth. Most actually pay around $149.95 (one time) + $55 (per mth) at the start to earn double commissions. Banking Fees where your comissions are stored costs $5/mth. Any withdrawals will cost about $5 and if you have a withdrawal fee charge, you won't be charged bank dormant fees. So yes it makes sense to withdraw your commissions every month.
In order to do this, you MUST earn more then $100/month, so you'll be in profit after all the little deductions from everywhere. Lets look at the numbers on a "per month best case scenario" basis where you actually managed to refer 6 persons in your 1st month with Success University.
Your Success University and Cashcard transaction fee cost: ($149.95 + $55.00) +($5.00) = $209.95
Compulsory 6 active members in your downline to earn the 6 cycle commissions: You earn $160 your 1st month (you get this only if you paid $149.95 for the one time business upgrade. So you earn $40 from the 6 person cycle and $20 x 6 in fast start bonus cash, assuming best cash scenario that your 6 members all paid $149.95 instead of the normal membership)
$209.95 - $160. You're still $49.95 deficit. This is not taking into account any money you spent in advertising, or adwords, or stuff like that. Its the pure business aspect of how much you made even though you referred 6 persons to Success University and met their qualifications to earn a commission with them for life. Which as you can see, its not easy if you have no existing base or contacts to leverage on.
You will succeed in Success University's business only if your downline are powerful network marketers with existing teams in other business that join this business. Or there is a proper plan to grow this business and targets to meet.
So long as you have a plan to get pass that intial hurdle within the 1st month, and those you enroll are powerful marketers, you will be safe and can expect to earn a huge commission on autopilot with the 6 person cycle compensation plan that goes to infinity.
You cannot expect to build Success University slowly, because your commissions do not accumulate, its a build 6 persons quickly and make sure those 6 start building, or you will surely lose money. This to me is the strangest part. If I referred 6 persons to a business, I should expect to break even immediately. In Success University's case, you will still find yourself in $49.95 in deficit unless your downline starts building.
Here's a target you must meet if you decide to join Success University: Refer 6 in your 1st month, and you'll still lose $49.95 in your 1st month. You MUST refer 6 in your 1st month and have those 6 refer 6 in their 1st month, only then are you safe and in profits. You'll have 42 persons in your downline and counting just the 6 person cycle commissions will earn you around $280/mth.
There is no try and see in Success University, either you build quickly in your 1st month with Success University or I would recommend you try something easier to earn your 1st 6 figures online.
To your success!
Sherman Choo
Payoneer Affiliate Mastercard - How To Receive Money From The Internet
Payoneer Affiliate Mastercard
Some networks issue a debit master card so you can collect your commissions.
When you 1st receive your Mastercard, you will need to activate it at www.payoneer.com and select your pin. See the sticker.
This pin is going to be the pin that you enter when withdrawing your affiliate commissions from your local ATM using this card. The card can also be used for Credit Card type transactions.
It comes with the 16 figure digits, month/year expiry, 3 digit security Code, the whole works.
Bear in mind though that you should only opt to receive monthly commissions with a Payoneer card once you have a minimum steady income of $500+ commissions/mth with the network you're working with. This is because there're dormant fees incurred even when you don't make a withdrawal.
Otherwise, I recommend its better to accumulate your commissions and go for the check option that comes by mail. That'll put more money in your pocket.
To Your Internet Cash!
Sherman
Affiliate Marketing - The Dummy's Guide To Making Online Payments and Actually Spending the $10,000 You Made Online!
How To Make Payment Online.
When making payment online, you can use 1 of 3 modes. Debit/Credit card, Paypal or Virtual Visa.
Let's jump in.
1. If you have a Credit Card or Debit card (see your local bank), these are the most straight forward mode of payment for online transactions. If you don't have either, carry on reading.
2. If you're from the USA, things are much easier because you just need a Paypal account and simply T/T funds from any US bank into your paypal account. Then use your paypal as your internet business account. Before making payment, you just need to make sure of 2 things.
- There are funds in your paypal account. (naturally :))
- Check that the amount you're going to pay the merchant is the correct one.
In this case, you won't need a credit or debit card.
Click here to set up your PayPal account
3. If you cannot fund your paypal account via T/T because you're not from the USA and you don't have a credit card or debit card to fund your paypal account…
Then purchase a prepaid VIRTUAL VISA Card. It works exactly the same as Mastercard and Visa.
Click here to purchase your Virtual Visa Card
How To Spend The Money You Make Online On Gas, Mcdonalds, That New Mobile Phone, Cool Watch, Milk From a Shelf in Walmart.
Since this is an affiliate money magazine, i'm gonna have to assume that you're selling a company's product. After you've made money online, the merchant will send you the money in 3 ways, the 3rd way I don't recommend if you're new to the internet industry and your checks/commissions are not yet consistent.
1. Your commissions are credited into your paypal account. You'll be able to withdraw your commissions from your paypal account into your banking account (there is a "Withdraw Funds" tab in your PayPal account, just click on it and you'll know what to do instinctively). After 5 days, visit your local ATM and use your ATM card to withdraw this money. Spend that money at Walmart on that delicious bottle of low fat milk or the installment for your new car or home.
2. A check is mailed to your home. Cash in this check at your local bank. Visit your local ATM and use your ATM card to withdraw this money. Spend that money…you get the idea.
3. The 3rd way merchants pay out is by cash cards such as Payoneer, Global Cash Card. I don't prefer these payment styles for the simple reason that these modes of payment take money from you even when you don't make any withdrawals. So if you had $10,000 deposited into these accounts lying dormant, you'll find your balance dwindling each month simply for keeping funds in the account. I would only recommend you use cash cards to receive your commissions if your monthly commissions are a stable $500+ per month or more, then the withdrawal fee of about $5.00+ is neglible. But for those that have little commissions, you may find that whatever commission you have earned goes to funding your account. You won't be able to accumulate your commissions to a few $100 before withdrawing since the funds are constantly being nibbled away by the payment provider. Of course, this is my experience and feedback to you…you're free to use this payment style if you like
So there you have it, Affiliate Marketing - The Dummy's Guide To Making Online Payments and Actually Spending the $10,000 You Made Online! Hope this post clears up any cloud and mystery about how money from the internet appears magically in your hands
By The Way…
Whether or not you decide to make online purchases using Paypal, its still a good idea to setup a paypal account. After all its free. And you never know when you might need to use it to receive your $1,000s of commission dollars. Set it up here
That's the tips I have for today.. stay safe. Think I better dance now
