This post comes shortly after my 1000th post at an affiliate marketing forum (<<You should read it - I gave away tons of free profitable campaigns) or webmaster forum… I signed up to DOZENS years and years ago, and went through signing up to about 20 (or perhaps ‘resigning up’ would be more accurate) about a year or so ago…

It can be a rather… intimate experience, one part of you is just trying to fit in with this group, another part of you is absorbing and filtering the bullshit, another part of you wants to network, and yes for many these plague infested fcuking forums are also filled with spammers, wankers, scammers, wannabees, and HILARIOUSLY fubar signature links with all of them chasing the same nickel… Now don’t get me wrong, forum marketing is HUGE, and I love it myself, and use signature links too however what I find fascinating are the kids that blatantly put “Make 7K your first 3 weeks online” - yet proceed to ask the stupidest and most basic questions totally diluting his own credit and being a broken inglush hypocrite … . .. Grrrr.. . …

So - in light of this new little milestone and being loyal to xx forums, and constantly refining my journey through them all, I’m going to try to offer a non-biased straight up look at the truth about each forum below. Please feel free to drop your opinions or agree/disagree with me - I AM going to offer a few of my ‘opinions’ here as well.

1. NicheChoppers Marketing and webmaster forums
100% Free, No paid sections yet, Na ads! must sign up to view most goods:
Visit: http://forums.nichechoppers.com

^^ I’m obviously going to have to spam my own first - it’s newer than most, is JUST starting to get busy, and I’M GLAD I waited a year of being loyal to others before really shaping and recruiting into mine - in short: No hassle bung free environment, moderated well, rather aggressive yet loose approach, tying my family in a little tighter with each day. Closed loop family with success stories, tons of step by steps, growing daily.

2. Digital Point review - Visit: http://forums.digitalpoint.com
Usually where most people start at, it’s HUGE and full of…. crap:however is also the forum I myself had to filter and waste time at for over 1000 posts (1001 at this time) before handing in my diet card and bowing out… I’ll be back, however probably just to laugh at the de ja vu of stupidity and horrible moderation. If it’s one thing DP has, it is shear SIZE and the fact that it is always BUSY - however at the same time is FULL of just… everything bad with this industry, like everything…

I personally must have helped get 20-30 idiots banned from there… FACK makes me angry thinking about that place!! If you’re a TOTAL n00b, enjoy the rare little golden nugget you can find in there, and don’t buy ebooks or click on signature links unless you view it from a marketing point of view not a consumer… (Hi guys, miss me yet?). If DP let ME run the boat for a few days, I’d a) kick a lot of people off b) get BETTER MODS c) Monetize it better d) Change the colors

3. WarriorForum review - Visit: http://warriorforum.com/forum/
Well, definitely a step up from DP!! WF is known to have a TON of the bigger ebook and digital products/services players all hawking their newest WSO (Warrior Special Offer) to each other and there is a LOT of padding, and patting! Hey I myself have sold a few things in their WSO section, and their JV section is actually pretty good if you’re scouting for new offers, launching, or looking to partner up with someone on a project…

I thought about dropping some names here but I’m not that kind with my link juice yet… and this blog seems to do great with ranking - so perhaps I’ll give some props to at least one person I can say a LOT about in there so far - and that is Nicholas from MasteredManuscripts << Great writer.

4. ClickBankSuccess review - Visit: http://clickbanksuccessforum.com/forum/
Once I joined CB - I wanted to start scouting for AFF’s and for pubs alike, thus joining CB’s appointed forum… I liked it a lot more at first than I do today - Main reason is it might as well be a ’support’ forum as their rules and door are quite tight re what you can/can’t talk about… If you so much as question whether or not CB is down/acting up/failing, the post gets removed and you may get banned… I can see why they do it and I would hate that on my forum too, so perhaps a stupid example but overall - THEY’RE TIGHT!

The good part is you’ll find a LOT of both CB n00bs and pro’s asking/answering GOOD and relevant CB questions. Though even with their own appointed forum - DP’s CB section alone easily compares to the activity and n00bness factor in each… (GUYS - A FEW FCUKING STICKIES!! THAT’S ALL IT TAKES TO STOP DUMB QUESTIONS AND FAST-TRACK PEOPLE - oh wait, you WANT dumb questions, versioned intel, make them ask… more threads and posts right??).. meh, sorry they’re all like that to a point not just this one. So yes, stickies and loosen the tie a little please.

5. ABW - AbestWeb review - Visit: http://www.abestweb.com
Perhaps the ONLY forum I’ve ever been banned from and kicked off of… wankers! I made a HUGE blog and formal complaint about it a while back but decided to remove it due to their response/reaction… more wankers! Also very busy, MANY top level brands and bullshit commission structures on things like carpets/rugs/tangibles/etc… Lot’s of pro’s and I heard the owner can be a nice guy, but the short lived days I had there proved him and his crew otherwise…

In short: I launched a Recruitment and affiliate spy software (TFRP), and paid to put up a advertorial/recruitment post… The first response was a hidden insult at my whole program FROM A FCUKING MOD - Referencing another new member and getting the whole crew to come to my paid thread, and rip me plus my program to pieces… Ok cool, I got to show some colors too, and have a good look around at all their sigs, their thread style, their learning curve/operation etc… and can only say that the elitists there do a good job of making n00bs stay n00bs, and detouring any chance of real earnings with mouthy personal bullshit back and forth, ‘at least put some humor into it you WF wannabees’. Anyway so within a day, I got thousands of views, some PR, some negative buzz, a lot of affiliates, and a pissed off group of elitists for not ‘freaking out’ like I’m sure they hoped…

Finally posted my final ‘fcuk you and have a nice day, I’m out’ but in a very gentle way, and my post got removed, then my whole paid thread got removed… then got a refund and a ban and kick in the ass out the door for standing up for myself, because I was vexed that a MOD would make an idiot out of a sponsor/paying member publically (hi Trust - hope all is well in ‘fun’ mod land)- wankers! Before all this drama - I was STARTING to like SOME of the banter and the members and offers/pubs…, however will still say that most are stuck on selling rugs and see 3-12% commission on $59 offers as ‘amazing’ programs, SAS seems to have them by the balls along with a few other networks, and the digital arena products/services is just ’stench’ to them…. On the flip side - THEY BANK (just needs some clean up with operations/day to day bullshit they allow). **Oh and too much advertising imo too (I know they’re for profit, but c’mon - easy on the offers man - way to make me feel UNcommunity - what is this church? You’re waiving a money basket at me when I just got here??).

6. 5staraffiliateprograms.com review - Visit: http://www.5staraffiliateprograms.com/
One word - WOW - More on the corporate side of things, LARRY IS DA BOMB - and the main owner is actually really cool and involved with the op fairly intimately so the moderation is par… perhaps a tiny bit tight but for the programs and offers/clients/recruiters etc. that they attract, I think it’s best this way - To note the above - if ABW mods and members came to 5star, they’d get wake up call that’s for sure.

This place is like an affiliate and publisher wonderland full of anything and everything to do with our industry. News, gossip and funny banter is minimal - rather expect a mix of dry humor with witty banter and low tolerance to crapola. Also home to many networks sponsor threads and good recruiters/programs for all levels of experience. I said this once on there before - “Every Forum Needs A Larry” - And just might make him a t-shirt that says that oneday… Known not to sleep for 3 days because he actually PM’s just about everyone/anyone for any reason or just to help, or break their posting cherry, etc… (Wonder what he’s worth actually - most committed employee I’ve ever seen)… Kudos to you guys, sorry I’m not there as much, get an easier to remember domain and I’ll stop wasting time trying to get there and giving up .. . .. Jokes.

6. WickedFire GAY MARKETING FORUM review - Visit: http://www.wickedfire.com/
Two words - HOLY SHIT - “They can actually get away with this stuff?!?!” is probably the first thing you’ll think before visiting less than 4 threads. Perhaps the most diehard and down to earth AM forum - DEFINITELY NOT A PLACE FOR N00BS!! Lucky my name is Norb not noob - and although I PHAILED MISERABLY there on occasion - I’ll easily say that this is one of the best and upbeat places to mingle/stay active (just don’t transition from DP to there and you’ll be fine - maybe).

Amazing names and faces, top level industry veterans along with perhaps the most lethal dose of internweb humor you’ll ever experience… It’s like a Seinfeld episode and Kramer is 10x as fuct, mixed with many elements of ’survivor’ and a splash of ‘reality fcuk you’ daily n00by disaster pwnage…

All fun aside though - I’ve been there a little more often recently and after getting pwned myself, I’m making headway and gaining a few points with their elite .. . … i thinkz… See - if you haven’t been there you’ll think I’m an ass for calling it a gay marketing forum in the title lol, however once you get there and read some threads, you’ll see what I mean (no they are not actually gay - and no you should NEVER click on things - even when they look absolutely harmless… TRUST ME DON’T DO IT!!!) - it’s home to the most epic dickroll since the inception of the interweb, and you’ll be scarred for life!

Ok as you can see I’m really liking this one. However perhaps more than most others because it has a LOT of EDGE - kinda like me, though I’m quite tame in comparison - it’s amazing what they actually DO get away with - I won’t spoil it, and I won’t promise YOU will like it or fit in or get liked, but I will promise that it is packed with everything from black/blue/white/fcuking polkadot hat tactics, n00b guides, great threads, and an addictive humor base to boot.

6. WebmasterForums review - Visit: http://www.webmasterforums.com/
Kinda dry really, I think this was one of the ones I signed up to eonz ago and didn’t like it too much then either. It’s not that it’s bad - it’s just that I have to compare it with a LOT of other shtuff above - and that shtuff is just.. better.

Anyway - It’s got some great technoids that do seem to enjoy that side of the industry a lot more than actually making money (being a webmaster) - Not as busy as some of the others, not as intimate, and a lot of the threads are hard to decipher as it attracts a LOT of foreigners with horrible typing (god bless you all however you’re trying to break into the MARKETING spectrum in English speaking markets - you NEED to par up your writing/grammar before trying to be some expert/guru/makehmoniez ebook developer…)… Sorry but I’m giving this and DP the same playing field and user experience rating… At least this one laid out a little better and the pros/mods seems to care for the community a little more.

7. eWealth review - Visit: http://www.eWealth.com
I like it - Not as busy as many of the others, however home to many big names as well as great focused community involvement. Things to look for are the interviews with the pros, the announcements for programs/callouts to affs, and a well spread section for a few networks out there… Can’t really say too much more about it! 4.5 stars! (Good mods/good humor from senior members).

8. BlackHatWorld review - Visit: http://www.blackhatworld.com
Retarted amounts of info and ‘tools’ are available on this forum. If you’ve ever wanted to venture over to the wrong side of the digital legal tracks and see how to monetize them… this is the place to learn. It’s kinda funny actually - as my loyalty grew to this one slowly, I noticed that it’s actually filled with 80% n00bs too, most have no clue how or what all this BH stuff is, but want to eagerly learn/explore, and thus these n00bs probably (imo) evolve into amazing whitehat/greyhat marketers very quickly. I like hanging out in there sometimes because they don’t sugar coat shit, they don’t tollerate dumbasses, they explore and document sooo many tactics that you’ve probably never thought to do (and will probably be too chicken shit to try).

Once you get your initiation out of the way it’s smooth sailing… Not nearly as ‘bad’ as you’d think re the people or the vibe. Cheers to the admins/mods there they’ve been great to me (had a bunch of my shit shared there, and they actually have a blacklist for people like me to add their progs to make sure members don’t share them or they get banned - woot! And of course - I had to learn the hard way - everyones initiation is different)…

Damn I gotta run, was hoping to do at least 10 - perhaps I’ll do volume 2 later though I probably won’t… So in closing - yes I’ll probably still poke my head into all xx forums, no I probably won’t be signing up to anymore, HELL NO will I NEVER be paying for them like many dumbasses do, and HELL NO I don’t think I’ll be making my 2000th post at DP anytime soon…

I tried to raw - sorry if any of you owners read this and don’t like it - perhaps my own forum will now be under scrutiny but that’s fine mine is still a baby and has no $ agenda other than to honestly make my team money - because they sell my products they also make me money - so it’s in my best interest to make sure my forum, my family and my crew earn well, learn well and grow fast… /shameless plug.

<forumdiet> bigtime </forumdiet>

Norb.

It’s quite amazing every now and then when you sit back and think “I’ve grown recently, I might not be where I want to be just yet, but BOY am I glad I’m not where I used to be!”. The more often you have these moments, the more often you attain… goals, happiness, growth.. .. …

I’ve been hanging out with some old friends lately and doing my best to be a positive influence to them not really to achieve their financial success to but to take their ‘person’ to the next level… It’s heartfelt to have many types of friends and acquantances (sp?), and seeing how one person grows differently from the next. I think those that are successful, are truly the ones that first and foremost are aware of their surroundings, their outreach potential, and their inner circles. It’s no wonder why most Harv. Grads become successful, most are surrounded by success from birth. Well - with that said, there are just as many success stories that derive from the ghettos, the dropouts, the underdogs - and THAT is what I want to ramble on about today.

Simply put - when you go through life being the underdog, you learn to be creative, stretch limits, it’s not a choice for you it’s just reaction/survival… Well in our eco-system it isn’t that much different is it? The bigger inner circles are well coordinated, they pass the hat, they run the lists, they acquire HUGE customer bases quickly, they learn to monetize as a collective with an independent yet collective nature… And then there are the 97% or so that are always trying their best to get through the clutter and start to become successful with their online ventures. So you think - can an underdog or newbie really make it nowadays???

In truth - it’s like asking can you quit smoking if you really wanted to? Could you give up coffee or candy or any other habit? I’m sure you can if you ‘REALLY’ wanted too or had to! The journey through manifestation and attracting your desires and goals doesn’t come from desire alone, it comes passion, determination, believing in yourself and sometimes willingly put yourself in a pressure zone where you must ‘make it or break it’ - because we all work best when we are under pressure or ‘need to survive’…

If you were to think you have 10 days to raise 5K or else…(put horrible scenario here) - it would be similar to saying ‘you have 4 months to live if you don’t stop smoking’ - ummm uh oh - I must survive!!! I’ll QUIT RIGHT NOW!! This is rather extreme, but that’s what it comes down to when you put yourself in a pressure spot, and you WORK your brain like never before to acquire your want/need. The will to acquire your goals is about 90% of your actions and the remaining 10% is reactions you will generate. The more actions you take that equate success, and the more times you can overlap them, the more often success will be in your favor. If you’re the underdog, chances are you’ll learn a lot through trial and error, and that’s what makes coming out on top even more rewarding - saying you did it from nothing! Homegrown baby!!

No matter how big you get, how much you earn, you’ll always look up to somebody(ies), and it’s good to have mentors and those you respect around you not just for financial goals but for bettering your person too. If you surround yourself with nothing but miserable negative people, chances are it won’t take long for it to rub off on you - alternatively the more you focus on taking in more success and pure souls into your life, the more success you will deploy with your daily actions by default. Do your best to be the positive leader you know you are, when growth happens - it doesn’t announce itself - it just happens. However in order for it to happen, it’s like the old lottery saying ‘you can’t win if you don’t play’ - so the more often you practice and play, the more chances you have at winning and attaining your goals in life.

I’ve manifested recently from a spot in life that me by a grip, and has finally let go - a little personal but it involves a woman and a ring so… yeah - During this growth I made myself focus on my career/business and really forget about women, and in turn it’s like a) women smell it on me and want me more b) i’m really focused and much less distracted c) I’ve become even more aware of my limits and success potential. When I heard recently that she’s getting married to someone else it was that final bit of closure - and I got a chance to reflect on everything that has happened in my life for the past year… .. . A hidden blessing in disguise, and I find myself sitting back yet again saying, “I might not be where I want to be just yet (underdog smiley here), but I’m sure glad I’m not where I used to be”! It was a nice ring too

When success happens, acknowledge it, accept it, don’t analyze it too much just reset your goals and keep improving/optimizing/networking/duplicating and all the other fancy marketing words you know… Manifest yourself starting yesterday and think of this blog post the next time you realize something great has just happened, and not so inadvertently… rather through the seed you planted via your own laws of attraction.

So what’s my secret? Lot’s of sleep! Lot’s of networking, not being naive to what is available to me, taking advantage of this thing called the internet you might have heard of - and for my offline personal ventures I just try my best to be a great person, honest, loyal, transparent, a good leader, and do my best stay happy 100% of my day, lately it’s happening more and more. The more honest you are with yourself and the more open minded you can stay to achieving extraordinary goals, the better your chances at achieving them - simple!

Daydreaming is out of style - making those dreams a reality is, in fact, your own reality if you choose to acquire it and stop at nothing (within reason!) to getting it. Remember being a baby and crying to get what you want? Probably not but you’ll agree - IT WORKS! While I don’t endorse that you start crying out loud and screaming that you want success - that’s how much you need to want it day in and day out if you’re a hungry underdog - and you WILL eventually - get what YOU want!

Motivation is key and not wasting time is also key. Perhaps take a good look at your daily tasks and figure out how many things you do on a daily basis that can be eliminated to equate to a) more time to yourself enjoying life b) more time to lucrative ventures and actually applying steps to complete tasks c) filter out the BS in your life and focus on your bigger goals - manifestation is incremental yet does not happen on it’s own, filtering is important to the underdog as well as the experienced gurus of our time. Motivate yourself and replace negative time with applying those motives to profitable/gainers in your life.

A cool one liner I’ve heard recently: “You only get ONE shot at this ‘life’ stuff - make the most of it! Live today like it was your last, you’ll find yourself doing some pretty crazy things”.

Cheers family, best of luck with your next manifestation.
NC.

I’m not even sure how to start this entry, other than saying that this past weekend catered to an interesting digital theft scenario not in my backyard, but more like my bedroom…

While doing a part of my daily geeking session - msn pops open with a message “Hey - “LINK” << Your product is being shared” or something or other - I click - and sure enough - I come to a blackhat forum where I am actually a member (for various reasons, and this being one of them), and see one of the members actually posting my download page - not only that - but I notice a TON of products that are jacked/cracked/shared via 3rd parties, etc., and everyone gets repped/thanked/etc. for finding the new gold, the new gems, the expensive programs, the stuff these scavengers will goob all over and download like crazy…

So - I sit back in my seat, and I think to myself “When I signed up here, I wondered if I was going to see my own stuff someday, and here I am, here it is, time to react”… I’ll tell you now - most publishers would probably do this

*Email the forum owner to remove the thread and add this to their ‘do not share’ list.
*Change the location of everything, perhaps put the files onto a totally different server.
*Perhaps expose this incident to the appropriate authorities (if there are any).
*Seek some type of compensation and immediate damage control.
*Perhaps document everything tightly for a week quietly, and then litigate the forum owner.
*Stay quiet about it and never say a word to preserve their pride and ‘unhackable claims’
**Insert other reaction here_______________

So I really thought to myself, you know - there probably IS another way to handle this without having to do any of the above, and to have karma work on my side here. It didn’t take much thought before simply changed a few things around on my server, but not enough to realllllly deprive that community of having it, just to make them work for it a little bit if they really want it. So here is what I did, and here is what happened…

*I post a quick hello and “hey this is my product, I’m flattered that a BH forum thinks my stuff is good enough to steal…”, and introduce/plant a little seed to cause a good buzz here - I wanted to have fun with this - I know I’m not bulletproof, if these guys are going stop at nothing to get my goods, I will at least take the good karma that comes from it, I’ll educate these cats on what and how good karma works, and I’ll flip this whole thread around into a promo for me by the time we’re done with it…
*A member advises that I ask the mod to put my product on the ‘do not share’ list, which I still might do, but for now - this little thread and theft is actually NOTHING MORE to me than some bandwidth… so I point out that since the thread was made, I am noticing a bump in my affiliates, an affiliate sale was recently generated, my site is getting more traffic, and without having to go against the skewed TOS, I successfully managed to now turn this into a full on recruitment tactic and networking opportunity - you can’t BUY the kind of publicity and attention this OP just gave me… so I gave him rep for it instead of freaking out on him for jacking my product. I also mention that people are free to PM me and I might be happy to just give them the link/product anyway… Perhaps to challenge them and myself, and to see if in fact any of them would PM me (within 48 hours - 4 PM’s - 29 jacked downloads as I left the location of the files the same and kinda liked watching my traffic logs to see the various creative ways these guys are getting to my page - taught me a lil’ here and there - thanks boyz).

*Next day - wake up to see many of the members leaving really heartfelt messages regarding all my programs i.e. “I love your sales pages”, “I second that”, “Hey great graphics”, “next compliment here”… Perfect, this is working already - so I express my gratitude and continue to disregard my option to notify the admin to add this to the ‘do not share’ list…

Instead I’m now milking all the marketers from that forum into joining my operation - and since then many have befriended me, approached me, offered partnerships on future projects with me, and for it being a blackhat forum, well, the scavengers are indeed there but so are quite a few elite and highly respected names. I have nothing to hide by being a member there, and want you all to know that right now - I LIKE being a member of a place like that so I can see what is possible, how and where the weaknesses lie within the various systems I support/need/work with, etc. And in turn, this knowledge has made me a much stronger white hat marketer. My clients are too sensitive, the projects I touch are too sensitive, and for me to try BH techniques would/could result in huge losses so I simply poke my head in, read what/where i can, have a few ‘AHA!’ moments, and take the knowledge with me on my way out…

The paradox of the thread is this: For all the community knows, along with the forum admins, this whole thing could have been a setup

For all the community knows, I paid the OP to post this in order to plant this seed and buzz campaign.

For all the community knows, I paid the admins to allow me to operate like this - after all its a black hat forum right?

For all the community knows, I AM the op, behind a set of proxies with multiple marketing identities and accounts.

For all the community knows, this black hat world could have just been hacked white hat style and gotten away with it - after all it’s marketing, influence, and perception not a creed of code of ethics among theives that the truly successful manage to attain.

And - for all the community knows, this was indeed all natural including all reactions including my own - but who will EVER know the real truth? I’ll take this one to the grave with me… As I’ve stated in a previous BH post - it’s a black hat world - after all.

I know every single one of you that take your affiliate marketing seriously and are really deep into your journey, probably have gotten past the frenzy of telling other people how you make money online from scratch… Usually when asked, you probably go “oh me? I play with computers” or “I do marketing stuff”…

Because you know that if they drag you into elaborating on it - it will turn into an hour long conversation - and in about 10 minutes you will be ‘right into it’ and find yourself recruiting again while you are just supposed to be having a chat… “I Do A Lot” Is my usual answer, I can’t sum it up because I touch many branches branches in the marketing arena so there is no ‘one hour’ I can dedicate to an overall explanation. You know what I mean?

Do you find yourself trying to explain it to someone, even the basics, and they just scratch or heads - OR - They think”WOW - YOU are brilliant!!!” and you think “Umm, not really - there are thousands like me - millions like me!”. I then remember that not everyone understands everything about marketing, or use their computer for much more than simple daily tasks at work/home/msn/email/little web surfing… I then remember ‘Wow - you’re ‘not even a newbie yet’ - how in the world am I going to explain ‘what i do’ to you? Ummmm… I… sell stuff…. no I make stuff to sell…. but I don’t sell it I get others to… yes I pay them but not until it’s sold… umm… they just find me, i scout for them to help me sell and give them good money for it… .

Yes - they get a lot of ’stuff’ to help them sell… no i don’t know most of them… yeh i have many ‘products’ and teams all at once and I sell the odd product for someone else too…. .. .. no I don’t invest a penny, just time/talent/resources… .. yeh I make a killing - sure i can teach you - just go to… blah blah and sign up, then go to blah2 and sign up, and blah3 and start to market stuff with blah and blah totally free, then buy adspace at blah for targeted traffic - oh that’s the traffic you need to get, no you can’t just buy 10K for $10 and get sales… why? because it’s… oh wait - yeh umm we were supposed to chat about the weekend and that cottage weren’t we? How did we get you here? Yes I know you want more money and to automate your life but hang on lol!!! I usually just try to avoid the topic now really.

I’m at a point where my studio is actually CLOSED and I’m rather enjoying NOT taking on anymore clients for a while too - I’ve managed to automate a few projects really well and get to focus on partnering with people I want to work with for future projects So now when someone asks me what I do for a living - I might say something like… I do NOTHING - and I make money - in fact - by the time I finish this sentence, I will make money It took me years to do ‘nothing’ and earn from it - but I’m finally here - and what do YOU do?

It’s a deregulated market guys, a lot can happen overnight - I’ve been developing branding material for big firms and smaller businesses for long enough - this might bite me in the butt but I kinda don’t want to build any more marketing campaigns for ANYONE other than my internal team ever again! You have no idea how hard this industry can be sometimes - I’m owed well over 200K if not more over my last 11 year stint working with suits/powerhouses/illusive entrepreneurs… I’ve made a heck of a lot and it balances out however I’d rather minimize that risk and worry have to worry about ME ripping myself off - much better problem to have

So let me ask you THIS - please answer it in a comment below: If a stranger asked you today “what do you do for a living?” How would you sum it up in less than a paragraph?

I knew that title would get your attention

So - my studio is about to unleash a pretty crazy project onto the markets. My previous post about these Forex systems was indeed a pre-text to gage the markets, search results and popularity of these products as a market test for our new release.
The Forex Tracer is going to rival the big boy products in this sector for quite a few reasons - see - All these products are somewhat similar in nature, and the real difference between them all is the branding and packaging behind them. While many pay and or get endorsements from industry veterans, it’s really all the same - unique aspects within each software may indeed be present - however they all have the same goal - to data mine the forex markets in real time and bring back profitable spreads on currency exchanges… . . .. a 3 TRILLION Dollar a day market.

Understanding the logistics and mathematics of these robots, tracers, raptors, killers, autopilot systems etc. is not something the average Joe can decipher. Most of the algorithms used in all the software are probably the same in my opinion, again the difference being in how efficient and reliable end results are.

So having said all that - I’m enjoying this branding treatment and this product is said to hit the affiliate world within the next few weeks if not sooner - the sales page is coming along - and although this may be a bit premature, I know many people out there thrive on getting news first, and being able to act on it first to help us monetize fast.
The site so far: www.ForexTracer.com

It will more than likely find its way onto the ClickBank marketplace - the CBID for this will be ‘iforex’.
Affiliates will be able to expect a $50+ payout, and we welcome any and all Forex enthusiasts in advance if they want to try it out and offer a review/testimonial… .. …

Hope you guys are ready for this - The marketing material is looking great and we expect this one to be among the top sellers on whatever marketplace(s) this ends up on.

Stay tuned, and keep your eye on that site.
Norb.

Landing pages and Mini Sites.

Landing pages are basically quick presell pages that vendors offer their affiliates, they serve
many purposes and most times a landing page is going to convert for you much better than
straight aff linking from ads to the main site. These pages are usually designed with SEO in
mind, HOWEVER: We STRONGLY recommend you change the title, some meta tags, and some
text on the page, I’ll explain why shortly.

This product has various landing pages for you to use and customize. If you still don’t get it: We
do our best to attract affiliates to help us sell Project Wealthy, and we need to offer them all types
of marketing material to get them selling with minimal effort. In addition to the main site, we make
great little one page sites that affiliates point their traffic and ad campaigns to, that landing page
has their affiliate link and ID attached to the links so when they click fom the landing page to the
main site, we know exactly which affiliate sent the traffic.

If a sale is made, both the affiliate and the product owner will know where and how the traffic got
there. Some landing pages are amazing and others will just not convert. We recommend using
landing pages that are attractive, short, sweet, and have amazing calls to action to click through
to the main site.

How to use them: The best thing to do is to download all the landing pages a vendor offers,
optimize them all with your own affiliate links and seo tricks, and upload them to your
servers/hosting space. Now submit those pages to as many SE’s, directories etc. as possible.
Though it’s not mandetory it will obviously make most sense to grab a domain name
(godaddy.com $2.99) that is relevant to the product, and forward your domain name to your main
landing page.

If the product your are promoting does not have a landing page, you will have to create your own.
Take some of the graphics and text/colors/fonts/etc. from the vendor page and utilize them into
your own powerful one page call to action. Make sure there is a continuity in design, and do not
try to sell them anything yet, do not show price points, simply get them OFF the page quickly
and onto the merchants sales page.
Monetizing Intermissions
Looking after my own products and promoting others: I can confidently say this.
1. If you find a profitable system with adwords via direct linking, you will soon get bumped (i hate
that!). Superaffiliates can smell a successful campaign a mile away.
2. Landing pages have MANY pros and few cons, for the products I run, my best affiliates
convert with the landing pages that i premade, which they changed re text/meta/seo, and some
now place higher than the main site for certain keyphrases organically.

If done correctly your landing page should:
a) Get you long term results if you take the time to change up the meta/seo and submit those
pages to se’s. There is a whole chapter on SEO etc. if you haven’t read it yet you’ll love it.
b) Utilize a social bookmarking tool on your landing pages, it may go viral without you knowing
or having to do anything.
c) Allow you to get a domain name and forward it for your own sub-branding, and not competing
with the main .com in sponsored listings.
d) Well made langing pages are not meant to keep the customer on them, they are meant to
quickly get visitors onto the merchant site. Look for landers that are not long pitches but quick
effective intermission pages.
e) More control over the content, keys, presentation, tricks etc.
f) Allow you to throw in your aweber (explained in the ‘email marketing’ chapter) or other forms
for follow up/list collection.
g) Easier tracking/analytic abilities if you make multiple landers w/their own sets of ads.
h) If a product offers more than one landing page in their affiliate section, I recommend grabbing
them all, changing them all to your own keys and submitting them all to se’s, why do one if you
can double/triple test your campaign.

Monetizing Intermissions cont’d
I have actually made over 90% of my sales with the use of effective LP’s on both my own
campaigns promoting cb products, as well as watching how my affiliates work on my products.
The ones that succeed are the ones that indeed utilize both, however the ones that stick around
are usually the ones that use landers (because they see more sales).

Some believe that landing pages get penalized by google and you get a low quality score on
your ads because it is only a single page without much content. The best workaround is to make
a 3 step pre-sell - so on landing page 1 you intro the product with a call to action link that goes
to page 2, here you tell them a bit more about the info, perhaps a video/audio/flash demo, and
have another call to action and link to page 3, here you tell them how much this product is going
to help, what advantages there are and your most important call to action link will now point them
to the merchant site. IF the free info and step by step you’re giving them is put together well, you
can literally presell the customer so well that they won’t even read the entire vendor site and just
scroll to the ‘buy now’ button to order.

You will notice that most ClickBank products pretty much follow the same formula, most are very
long sales pitches that follow a sequence of important information, testimonials, offers, bonus
material and powerful close. These pages are usually designed and written by professional and
expensive copywriters. Why? Because often the sales letter will be more powerful than the
product itself, so vendors realize that getting into the minds and emotions of their customers is
important.

There is a science to it, psychology and reaction play a big roll, and this money pulling, reaching
for your wallet influence is very important for the customer to absorb. SO, in my opinion it is still
better to get your traffic and customers OFF your landing page quickly with a great call to action
to the merchant site, chances are you will not be as good at the whole sales pitch as the vendor
and their team.

Take action
Even if you do not have hosting or have not picked a product yet, please complete this action to
understand how to maximize your landing pages.

1. Please pick a CB product that offers a landing page now, download and open it.
2. Inspect the page, look at all the SEO and meta-tags, re-arrange them with your own tricks and
target new/better keywords, try to outdo the vendor with their SEO.
3. Add some customization to it, if you have Aweber, put a form on the page. Make sure the
lander has a social bookmarking tool, if it does not - install one.
4. Now that you have one page mastered, make a backup copy. Now starting again, create your
first two or three-step call to action. Make two-three pages, and get creative with how you’re
going to entice your visitor to click through them and onto the merchant site.
5. Review, refine, double check links, seo, etc. Once all is complete, if you have a hosting plan
upload the pages to your server and check everything again in a live online environment.
6. If you’ve done everything correctly, point your .com or dns to this page, and proceed to submit
the pages/domains to as many SE’s as possible.

The sooner you start to build landers, the more experience you will have and the better your
knowledge base will be for future products. To truly maximize landing pages it does not take
much effort, and most of the work is usally already done for you.
Thank you for reading this chapter and if you are ready to proceed please open the next eBook.

To your success!!
Norb Czufis
NC Media
Project Wealthy

You’ve seen them, you’ve been ‘wowed’ by their power and by the amazing CMS (Content Management Systems) capabilities, and now you’re wondering “Do these guys really make any money with this stuff? It’s just some opinions and some text and some graphics/banners/aff link…?”.

Truthfully? You can make millions from these blogs - especially once you make your first one and prove that you can profit from it. Do I make millions with this one? Nope, not yet anyway - my blog has been up for a few months, during that time, one month it was down due to a server switch and careful customization/setup, and even now as I write, the blog itself is still NOT complete… However, having said that - blogs can be made into a wonderful income generator if they are setup properly…

1. If you are promoting someone elses product as an affiliate, it is relatively easy to get yourself a blog or wordpress theme, and buy a relative domain name to forward it to. The more SEO you throw at it, or the more plugins you get to help, the better! IF you are making it product centric, you can easily convert clicks and not deviate from your goal to monetize the offer you are pushing.

2. This is what I see most- and I KNOW it does not yield optimum results. If you set up a ‘make money online’ free blog with no customization or flare, just another plain blog, and throw tons of products on it, say by making it a review site - your efforts will be short lived imo. I think the biggest mistake I’m seeing is when people make blogs with 10 or so products, and promote 2-3 of those products in articles, youtube etc. just to get clicks to the blog first. Once at that blog, the person is distracted and tempted with 10 other products that you have endorsed… Chances are you just lost them before they even got to your site. If you heavily endorse a product, create your blog around THAT product and only THAT product, do not let the reader be distracted by any other offers or exits, leave them with as little room as possible for ‘decision making’.

3. LEARN SEO - Even if that means spending two-three weeks in advance of creating your blog - you MUST understand SEO so you can target keywords in various ways throughout your posts to attract your targeted visitors. If you do not know SEO - you might be setting yourself up for failure before you even start.

4. Do NOT create 10 blogs and interlink them - at least not yet. Your first task is to understand how they work, what the possibilities and restrictions are, and to MASTER your first blog so you can create others with just as much density and SEO. Otherwise you’ll have many ‘mediocre’ blogs and no matter how many you make it won’t make a difference for backlinks and quicker raises in your results.

5. Nowadays there are auto content generators, auto commenting in do follow blogs, auto searches and keyword stuffs… so many little tricks and fake generators that you can probably notice the difference right away as any reader would. This is not ideal - Your blog should be filled with useful, original and great content that YOU yourself have written or acquired - do NOT steal or imitate others ideas and posts, simply BE ORIGINAL and google/other SE’s will love it.

6. Don’t forget, google, msn, yahoo search engine bots are like a 6 year old, they do not like to be confused, yet they get confused easily so your objective is not to trick them knowingly, but to rather give them exactly what they want - feed them in a way that will not confuse them or put them in a loop.

7. Branding - I can talk about this one forever so I will make it brief. Notice how my blog is quite original and you will not find one like it elsewhere (unless people start copying it). The better job you can do with your branding, the more readership you will attract, and the more respect/authority you will portray. Nobody likes looking at stale or standard templates no matter how good your content is, make sure your blog is at least well put together and well thought out visually. Logo, colors, typography sets, graphics, taglines, white space, etc.

8. Sometimes I feel that those who have absolutely NO intention of monetizing their blogs get the most attention. Why? Because their objective is pure - they give google and others real content to index that is clearly not an ‘ad’ or meant to monetize… Google might be like a 6 year old, however you must think - how many webmasters try to take advantage of it everyday with potent SEO tricks? Their algorithm changes a lot and though it acts like a 6 year old, it’s filter to crap is that of a world leading veteran… So - content is king after all - make sure your content is GREAT and you will succeed. Take time with your writing, take time with your formatting, take time with thinking about what to write. Get a lil’ personal, that works well for me. Write to your readers on a one to one, tell them a story, bring them into your world a little deeper than others, and YOU - will have them hooked and subscribing to your feed in no time.

9. I’m sorry that this post does not have a clear step by step of how to make money with your blog - so in closing, there are countless ways to monetize it including:

*Get a clickbank or paydotcom or CJ or linkshare or shareasale or other network account (free).
*Pick a sector of business or life in general that you love, and start acquiring the top 3 products in that sector. You will soon be promoting these products and affiliate links from your ‘one to one’ blog.
*Get adsense - this is only going to make you pennies per click however if your blog goes HUGE - it can be a good little stream of income.
*Advertise for people - allow a banner spot or 2 or 10 with pricing for each.
*Offer reviews of products for a fee - your client will have a professional review, backlinks to their site and most people will read it before buying as they research what they are about to purchase…
*Sell your own ebook/digital product and get a paypal account, you can create PayPal buttons right in your posts and collect directly from your blog.
*If your blog is for a good non-profit cause, put a ‘donation’ button/box in all your posts or on your interface somewhere.

A good scenario: You get a blog, about life - it costs you $10 - lets say you get www.allaboutlife.com <<I’m sure that’s not available but good example. Now you can write all about life and endorse anything and everything.

Now you get an account somewhere like clickbank, pick a product YOU LOVE << get a domain name for it. Now promote that domain in your blog Here is a video to better explain this:

I must finish as it’s long weekend here in Toronto and I can here the firecrackers starting to go off so I’m gone to the beach to watch the show! Enjoy and I hope this teaches you enough that you get inspired to go to blogger or wordpress and start on one tonight!!

Cheers everyone and God Bless.
Norb.

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I’ve been noticing that my blog does an absolutely amazing job with indexing me quick and high for whatever keywords I target. So today, just as a test for google and other search engines, I’m going to keyword stuff this post and see how high I can climb on random “make money online” variations and potency…

Why not - I know this may work against me and I might get penalized however I’m not too worried as this blog isn’t meant to be monetized ‘that’ way anyway…

I will update this post once in a while with my findings. So far - the elements are:

* Folder name
* Page name
* Headline piece
* First words
* last words

*Bolding
*Strikethroughs
*Italics
*Header1-2-4 and 4 tags
*S p a c i n g
*Alt-Tags on links and on pic
*”Quotations”
*vArIaTioNs

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I'm giving this test a good kick of karma. You all know about PW - and if you don't - it's one of my courses that teaches you marketing on the top level and costs $250 - however:

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Norb Czufis.

It’s funny nowadays that so many pirates have polluted forums, infested networks, taken control of the industry and consider themselves ‘the elite’ if there is such a thing… Some of these people are simply what I like to call ‘Virtual land owners’ - Their real estate online is ‘hot’ - they monetize by simply ‘being there’ with a great .com and a big head start in the industry… Lucky them huh? They get free user generated content, discussions, rantings, bashings, advice, chatting, creating pages and pages of backlinks and keyword stuffing << I just did it actually, just by trying to describe this process, go look up ‘generous marketing’ - .5million + results and I’m on page one within 2 hours (at time of this posting I’m at #3 - this lil’ blog of mine has some ‘juice’! **EDIT: now on page 2 ((the following day)) - however google sometimes reindexes or crawls and updates if you add/change pages, so generous marketing keyword << goes there, let’s see if re-adding the phrase “generous-marketing” a few times and changing my headline makes a difference and bumps me up again, I will update this part tomorrow or the next day) ((EDIT #2 - Following day - Now I’m on Page 1 - result #2!! this is for both google.ca and .com - it….worked;)) … Anyway so you think that if you could just get a site that gives you free content auto-generated and indexed quick, you can just throw some adsense in there - or some affiliate programs - or both (not recommended), that you can cash in the online cow and auto-pilot your revenue right?

Let’s take a different approach on things for a second though. Let’s talk about just good old marketing. When you get exposed to enough of it or have to look after many of your own clients, you see that sometimes the most bizarre techniques can actually get you the biggest results. Let’s look at internet marketing for a second, and the various ways we ‘do things’ in our day to day. We pick products to endorse, we buy ads everywhere, we get domains and set up tiny urls, we get opt-ins and autoresponders, we do upsells and retention campaigns, we re-cycle lists to keep trying to monetize them, we partner with others to do all of the above on a bigger scale… all in the hope of getting sales, affiliates, and at the end of the day consider yourself a good marketer paying his/her way through life with an internet connection…handsomely, hopefully!

Ok so ‘that other thought’ - everyone likes ‘free’ right? And everyone likes ‘money’ right? When you launch a campaign based around generous marketing or as I like to call ‘karma’ marketing - you have no idea what kind of buzz you can generate! Car manufacturers give cars away at promos or car lots all the time as prizes , in a branding effort, or a community effort, balloons are given away to kids at carnivals for the same - the feeling - the thought - it’s memorable and you’ll come back next time with a smile…. Marketers do it ‘every day’ and they do it in many different ways… but - there IS usually a catch, there IS usually someone, somewhere - that will want to monetize you or put other offers in front of you, I am no different! However this can also be done in a transparent way and under a good light…

Imagine if… you could offer someone some solid - genuine advice today. No really - some information that they perhaps were ‘craving’ for and having a really hard time finding… You might think of consulting or lawyering or a specialist you might hire or have hired. Now if YOU were the person that had the knowledge and information, how valuable would it be to you if you gave it away to your peers for free? How much ‘detail’ would you share? How much do you think you would be appreciated for offering someone that information - that could in fact make a big difference in their pockets and earnings? Sounds fishy right? of course, we’re all use to it - however when you have something people want, and you do a contest or a giveaway that is money related, you’re going to see that the response is huge and you will make an impression…

Here are two examples of such experiences, this goes to further shed light on a mass scale of all of the above.

How To Do A Giveaway Launch:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=811869 - Good Karma Marketing

Best ClickBank Starter Tips >> Getting Rep For Your Free Knowledge:
http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=831441- Generous Marketing

Next time you’re thinking of a hot promo - allocate a part of your efforts to a giveaway. Bonuses seem to run a large portion of the daily sales for many people - adding bonuses to your offers along with free knowledge, well - now we’re ‘talking’….

Make it a great day!
Norb.

A recent interview I did that got transcribed: **If you are promoting this product, you are free to take this and use it in your promo.

Q1- “The Fat Rich Pig?” Why did you come up with a name like that?

NC Media -Well, I didn’t come up with the name first of all, however if I did want to launch this again, may be I would come up with something different…but…knowing that there are few other products out there in the market that :
a) have similar characteristics to this one and
b) The name itself: It just gives us so much room to play with when it comes to the branding perspective, and having the cartoon of the pig and having characters to work with… ahhh. The word ‘pig’ itself, I mean - we launched a couple forum announcements, and kids are just having a hay-day with this name…

So I know its kinda corny but none the less, the fat rich pig IS what it’s called, and basically the name is but a reflection of this whole industry. Everybody is trying to make money, enormous amounts of money in no time. If they could they’d be there yesterday, so it’s sort of a play on words, where we are calling the whole industry a big fat rich pig, and if you want it, its being offered to you right here in this cute little product.

Q2-What Is The Purpose Of This kit?

NC Media-At the end of the day there are two: One - basic education and fundamentals. The knowledge base you need in this industry grows every day, and the fundamentals don’t really change much. In fact and without those fundamentals, just learning todays new strategies, without having your grade 1 to grade 8 if you will, is very difficult.

So we take you through the grade 1 to grade 8 in funnels 2 wealth, which is the e-book, which is part one of this collection. Part two is the affiliate crusher, and what this does… actually it’s a part of the next question: