http://www.EfficientPlanet.com

Now THIS is a cool site! When you are a marketer, and you can literally choose anything you want with your next project or product to put out there, it gets fickle from morals to research to competition etc… I can’t say I’ve been 100% morally ok with every single project I’ve taken on, in fact - I have said yes to work over the years that looking back now, I wish I hadn’t.

My bills don’t seem to have moral problems though and must be paid so back then I did what I had to do…

Lately I’ve been blessed with my marketing prowess and projects, and they have been exploding on me! So I told myself that the next thing I launch is going to be aimed at helping. Not sure who, not sure how, just helping - as many people as possible and for a good cause.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you EfficientPlanet.com - Our newest project and brand that focuses on saving both money, and our mother earth! I figured it would be great dabble in this niche since it’s still new, and is aimed at a great cause! This is a series of DIY (Do It Yourself) books that teach readers how to convert their home to solar power, build their own solar panels, solar generators, wind turbines etc.

It also takes them by the hand walks them through a complete ‘life audit’ starting from the home, to spending habits, to driving, to time management and even has a 12 book bonus series on running an efficient home based internet business… Ok ok enough rambling about it here she is please take part: http://www.EfficientPlanet.com!

This blog isn’t even 100% finished yet re structure and links etc., and I’m already considering closing it up. Why? Well, at the end of the day, this industry is known for both showing your status and spot, as well as documenting your success. More importantly for me though, this business is about automation. My version of status and spot, is to get the fcuk off these computers in the near future. Ever hear a guru try to teach you that? Yep, I said it, my goal and aim, is to go from where I am now into epic levels through quality partners and a big enough greased wheel to allow me to free myself from gazing into a screen(s) all day.

This blog doesn’t make any direct money, it has a couple referral links here and there, and perhaps also helps recruit into my affiliate programs, however the novelty is wearing off and frankly - updating this thing is fun at most, daunting at least. I’m even starting to chuckle to myself that I named and branded this with so much bling and wow factor.. . …

Perhaps I thought “Ok, it’s been 12 years, start a blog already, tell some stories, educate a few people, have some fun, and yes you’ll need it to recruit and get noticed in this industry”. Realistically, this blog hasn’t really done jack shyte for me other than remind me that I ‘gotta do a blog post’ every other day/week. The value of these things can be high, however the overall experience for a publisher to try to keep a blog, and get personal on it as well as mix in some business, has become a bunch of BS.

Having said that, I have no idea where this blog will go from here, you might just see the domain forwarded somewhere else shortly, or I might overhaul it again and stop the bling/money approach - I’m starting to enjoy my free time, and maximizing it for personal or more business reasons - documenting my success shall happen in other ways for me I think.

True automation is quite difficult in any form of business. The only real robots are the machines that enable factories to speedline their products. Every single publisher/merchant/affiliate I know still has a lot of day to day tasks no matter how much you automate your systems. Customer support, retention strategies, competitive intel, new campaigns, skimmers/fraud/refund enthusiasts, technical glitches/hacks, copyright infringement, the list goes on. These short lived spurts of income can become distant if you stop the chase, and I’m finally realizing that focusing on a set of valuable programs with one to one customer support is the true way to success. Not blogs, not recruiting in mass, launching more ebooks, but focusing on developing a relationship with nothing but quality people AND customers.

I will always be available through the Niche Choppers forum, and this domain may in fact get forwarded there in the near. This all stems from a huge launch for a new product/service happening tomorrow. Blogging is not something I really want to do anymore simple as that. It’s been ‘fun’, it’s been crappy at times when getting tons of bots posting bullshit comments/links, it’s been a bitch to try to finish, and it’s been fun keeping in touch with some of you guys through here.

Thank you,
N.

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.

OOPS! I just finished saying I wouldn’t paste another screenshot until I was at my next goal - I CAN’T BELIEVE THE DAY I JUST HAD! While I’m use to seeing nice numbers this is my personal best to date achievement for one day as a publisher or an affiliate.

What The Hell??!?!?!?!!?? HOW/WHERE/WHO/LET ME IN!!
Ok ok - so here is the scoop. Publishers rarely do this (post account earnings) - While I had to mask out some numbers you can see that today (yesterday now - I’m such a night owl!) has an ENORMOUS bar next to it! While the last few days were somewhat plateaud at high 3 figures per day. So what happened? Where did all this come from? Well quite a few things happened in a lucrative sequence… .. here is the scoop.

When you launch a product, you simply cannot predict what will happen sometimes, who you will meet, how you will be found, where your competitors truly make their money, which superaffiliates to try to recruit, what other pros are doing, what lists your promo ends up on - blah blah blah… As your site grows, you start to acquire a ton of customer inquiries, feedback, affiliate support scenarios, JV and list scouting etc.

While our program is doing wonderful and everyone is happy, we wanted to take it to the next level and after being live for a month had plenty of new resources to add to our sites. Thus we both revamped our already profitable site (i know, don’t touch what’s not broken, and we took a risk, boy oh boy am I glad we did!), scouted for a few new JV’s, and set today as another promo/mini relaunch day for many new partners to blitz together…

So having said that - The combination of revamping, constant tweaking, recruiting, and continuously conversion mastering the whole operation - today equated to an unbelievably profitable day! Even most of our affiliates got a boost in sales from both those getting blitz material and researching before buying, and from their existing campaigns now pointing at an even sharper page. It’s amazing what small yet important little changes can do to a site. If you’re a publisher and or you work with an AM for your program - stay close to them, learn what you can from them - and make sure they know what they are talking about not just recruiting you to garbage programs!!

When you’re an affiliate within a new niche and profitable campaign, you always keep your ear to the streets - you seek out hot new products, and though some don’t like jumping onto a hot bandwagon, let this be a testament to ‘there is no such thing as a saturated market if you know how to market’.

Cheers family,
NC.

And yet again, I’m being brave and bold today - It’s Monday - Who says you can’t start the week off on the right foot?!! Proud moment for me as a ClickBanker. My days of reading horribly made and transcripted tutorials, fluffy ebooks/videos, and thousands of posts on various forums have brought me the first real bit of food that is worth tooting my horn over (also because the next check is almost  accounted for and it should be bigger this period - however I will try not to post anymore screen shots until I have a 20-25K  pay period…

This is from both being a publisher and affiliate - and is one of many accounts however this is one of the strongest. This year has had a few rollercoasters and some defeat analysis was indeed endured, but looking at this milestone for me it was and is all worth it.

Don’t hate on it either - it’s real - it’s possible - and anyone with a good analytical mindset or will to succeed can achieve this. Might not be the best time to mention this but I’ve only been at ClickBank since last Sept. (10mnths), however I’ve been marketing for 12 years so this isn’t exactly a newbies success, rather a refined old schooler bringing his slate up to todays times and successful business models. Let the phrase ’starving artist’ be eliminated from my vocab - at least for now while I enjoy this moment

You’d think that I would opt to get a wire transfer right? Nahhh, I don’t mind the bit of a wait to get CHECKS, they mean more to me, like it’s IN my hands, it’s less virtual, i can take a pic for inspiration, I can cash it and make the bankers themselves a lil’ jealous… whatever - I like ma’checks!!

As insane as I look in that photo - I’m giggling behind it and looking forward to the reset button to now achieve both consistency and growth at this level on multiple accounts - wish me luck until I post the next one!

Cheers family - NicheChoppers is doing big tingz - good time to get on board if you’re looking to earn from your talent/time/passion for success.

Norb Czufis.

Hey family, I know that many of you are going to look at this post and wonder why the heck I would up my earnings so boldly or proudly… . .. See in our world (affiliate marketing) - it is very important to both document your successes and prove to the world that making a living online is MORE than possible, to further motivate yourself, and reset your goals for the next level of success… .. …

I’m proud to say that we launched a program 2 weeks ago with NO adspend, just time, talent, and people (and people skills!).

I swear under any and every law made against forgery or misconception that this screen shot is real, not edited or touched in any way, and current…

To some of you - this is perhaps average, or not enough, or you’ve made a lot more in 15 days - however to most of you - this is absolutely luda right? If you’re not into online marketing or don’t have a clue what our world is all about - as you live your life and do the 9-5 thing, then you will look at the above in awe and always wonder a) Is it real? b) Is it possible? c) Can I do this?? - The answer is ‘yes’ to all three.

In my world - I am viewed as an important player for the monetization of a program to take effect and succeed. I am an artist, a producer, a marketer, a manager, a recruiter, a publisher, an affiliate gone wild, yet I…. am NO different than YOU.

This program above - has also paid out over 30K in affiliate commission - 30K in 15 days!! The best part of all this? I get emails and messages from people all over the world that I’ve never met - thanking me for helping them here or there to adjust their campaigns and now they earn enough to do this full time and not worry about money!! Sounds like every marketing pitch out there I know… but I’m smiling and shaking my head right now as I reflect on this past two weeks, and think about the next 2 months! Some of these guys have had 1K days, some guys that did email blasts made $3-4K in 24hrs… How many others will I help potentially stop having to work? How many units of our upcoming products are now going to sell faster? How big is my affiliate pool going to get if this program is soo hot?!!

There have been times where I found myself at a bank deposing over 20K checks for one huge contract that will take me x months to produce/finish/revise/maintain/update/etc. - However THIS is 100% automated revenue - 100% clean with no spend, and the only thing I found myself doing post launch, was helping new comers pop their clickbank cherry and sending them off into the wild jungle we call affiliate marketing. Now I don’t know about you - but I would rather help people make money all day, and grow in this game, and potentially make 100K in a few months in the process rather than do work for one client and be stuck to them forever…. So now - in time - a few affiliate managers will be put into place, paid well to do what we would internally do day to day, and fully automate this so we can focus on next moves.

It’s interesting, I’m reflecting now on the xx programs that I’ve launched to date - some of them were EXTREMELY timely buildouts, long R&D sessions, extensive asset/resources for aff’s, and months of preparation… However this one wasn’t one of those.. . … this one was rather quick and we didn’t have nearly the amount of time we’d like to have pre-launch, yet it’s one of the fastest growing to date. The growth has been natural too, not one huge spike, but everyday another 5-15 new affiliates convert, and everyday our strength in the markets penetrates deeper. So kudos in turn to all of you that have stuck around through the thick and thin with any of my programs, and thank you for your involvement.

If you’re reading this, and it inspired you. I’d like you to take a second and visit my homebase where all my products are lined up ready and waiting to be monetized by people working from home/computers - http://www.nichechoppers.com - It’s not all that hard, and if you’re new, I have guides and step by steps to get you going with no money or expense (perhaps just a domain name - $10)…

Thank you family,
NC.

Due to the recent boom with the digital product market - I am noticing more and more people in this game switch their day to day affiliate ventures to a more complex and potentially rewarding game - becoming a vendor.

“I GOT IT!! I’ve been doing ok as an affiliate, I think it’s time to start my own product and affiliate program…”

There are thousands of people that launch products everyday hoping and praying that the offer will convert well, and attract a huge crew of affiliates in order to maximize their time and leverage their ‘offer’. In fact - almost every single day when I login to the various marketing forums to see ‘what’s up’, I notice is yet another newbie vendor pushing a sales letter generated page and their new ‘product’. I would confidently say that 90% of them enter the market prematurely and get very few if ANY conversions - and so they now realize that affiliate marketing is sometimes better from the affiliate point of view - and they fail miserably at being a vendor.

Now - having said all that - what DOES one need to do in order to have a successful launch? to attract both super affiliates and customers by the dozen the moment it launches? How do you get affiliates if you have low stats or no stats? How do you get super affiliates to switch and properly recruit them to your programs? It’s a battle zone and shark pool if you ask me!

So - being here for a while myself now, and having gone through dozens of launches over the years for products, services, events, people, websites, tv shows and so on - I actually found the process to come somewhat natural to me. Some people are just born to be better vendors and business owners than others. Today is your lucky day because I’m going to expose many of my tactics to you so that perhaps YOU can give some REALLY good thought to your next launch, or your first one!

Step 1. “The idea” - You did it! You found a few niche markets, you mined them, you figured out a GREAT new product or service idea that would fit well in the marketplace… GREAT! You need to a)Make the product (e-book/video guide/audio guide/membership/etc-digital). b)Buy the product - if you don’t understand this - it’s called PLR (Private Label Rights) or MRR (Master Resale Rights) or white label rebranding etc. There is actually quite a few people out there that run PLR/MRR sites for software, e-books, reports etc. and it may not be hard to ‘find’ a cool product to monetize. So day one is complete, let’s say you chose a cooking recipe site with ebooks and audio guides for this example.

Step 2. “Recruitment” - Because your focus will not be customer based (yet), your focus will be affiliate recruitment - YOU NEED TO START NOW! You need to get your .com and put up an opt-in form right away, with your program description underneath it - i.e. “New recipe offer - Affiliates keep 75% - launching xx - come on board early and…”.

Step 3. “Your Brand” - Here is where most people go wrong. YOU MUST understand the importance of branding yourself well. YOU MUST! I can (and will) fill up 20 posts with branding alone - to be short and sweet though, make sure you have a great logo, style guide, color theme, font theme, stock photo theme, product/boxes/books/graphic theme, and importantly - GREAT navigation with your interface. This will take you a long time even if you outsource it however it will be worth it.

Step 4. “Your Site” - Today you will finalize your site: You made sure that - You designed it well. You either hired a copywriter or are a great writer yourself, you have an amazing greased slide read that is broken up well with graphics, bullets, and proper formatting. You have testimonials, proof of end results, great calls to action and your ‘order now’ area/links are very well thought out. Piece of cake right?

Step 5. “Your marketing” - Here is your affiliate recruitment page - this is a page that is filled with marketing material that you and your affiliates will use to go to market with. This is VERY important, the more assets you have to play with, the bigger your outreach and the stronger your penetration into the markets. For a good example of one of these pages visit: http://www.nichechoppers.com/niche-product-thefatrichpig.html

Step 6. Ok - Now you have enough done that you can or should have started to approach others who can act as helpers in your blitz campaign. Hopefully your front page is recruiting well, and you are keeping in touch with people that opted in once in a while to give them updates. Here you must announce your actual launch date, and make sure that you and your team all launch together to really ‘hit’ the markets. You show your team the marketing material and tell them to get ready to promote.

Step 7. You’re 2 weeks away - switch your front page to a HOT ‘coming soon - here is why YOU need this’ page. This page now has an opt-in for customers to fill out so you can notify them when you are ready to fulfill orders. Make an ‘affiliates’ button on the bottom of the page. Point it to your marketing material page.

Step 8. Setup a test campaign with google/yahoo/msn on your own to test the conversions of your sales page - YOU WILL need to tweak it, and will want to maximize it BEFORE your affiliates get their hands on it because if it does not convert for YOU - it won’t convert for them AND they will probably leave you shortly after their first test campaigns.

Step 9. You’re a few days away from your launch, you setup a back door for your affiliates to start to get some pre-sales and testing/warming up to their campaigns. You’ll probably have a lot of last minute adjustments that will need to be made. LISTEN to your affiliates and team - they are the ones that will automate your revenue streams- LISTEN to them.

Step 10. Launch Day - You give the green light to your affiliates, partners, list owners etc. that they can promote - right after you switch your index page (home page) to your official final draft of your sales letter. Once you do this it’s a rollercoaster from here - OR - it dies quickly and everyone leaves because the offer is defective and not converting. << It happens - and I myself cannot say that ‘every’ single launch I’ve had has been huge - but I CAN say that with each launch, things get better and seem even more natural, so if your first product is a bust - don’t sweat it, consider it a practice run.

Post Launch. You might think that as a vendor you have it made - things are easy - everyone is working for you - you just collect fat pay checks. Well ok some of that IS indeed true. However here is a part of being a vendor one often overlooks and then finds it tedious to have to render:

*Customer support - IF YOUR PRODUCT goes HUGE - YOU will have a LOT of customer support to deal with. That’s a ‘good’ thing though. I would rather deal with small little problems all day due to payments and order instead of chasing them to begin with - If I can make a million by dealing with peoples download problems or other delivery problems - my only answer is “pass me the phone I’ll start right now”.

*Affiliate recruitment - You’re always going to be recruiting into your army - ALWAYS - you’re like a gang leader, and must preach to your crew that they need to recruit too - however they will refuse because they want a small team - not a saturated one. You will always be recruiting don’t forget that.

*Affiliate support - Often uderestimated. Affiliates have their own set of needs, and you must tend to them. You must help them shape their campaigns, offer them advice, give them what they need in order to make YOU money.

*Maintenance/updates - You will need to make new creatives once in a while, new articles, new videos, new ’stuff’ in order to keep you and your affiliates campaigns fresh.

*Competitive Intel - You will need to watch those close to your circle, and see if they are doing anything sparatic that can potentially harm your positioning. Always know what your competitors are doing.

*Management - Day to day you will have various little things you’ll need to do. You’ll notice a few of your affiliates might be bad apples, you’ll notice your site slow down or error or get hacked, you’ll notice you’re NOT converting NOR is anyone for a while, you’ll have to keep your ship running smoothly and with a smile yet firm and confident nature. Don’t forget - you are the owner of a big operation now - and you have a huge sales team to look after - a huge monetization closed loop that you must keep squeeky clean in order for it all to equate to that elusive first thought and end goal - MONEY. If you do all of this, and you succeed - what do you do? Launch another product, and another - soon you will have an array of revenue streams, some will outdo others, some will fail miserably, overall though - THAT is leverage.

Before you come to market, do some great research on both your idea and what’s already out there. chances are whatever you are thinking of launching - has already been done over and over - however don’t let that stop you, just DO IT BETTER and you WILL succeed!

Yours In Success,
Norb.

Today is……… “‘Show A Newbie Love’ Day” I wish I had something like this when I first started, would have saved my time and money, and I would have been here or farther - faster.

YOU: This is the first time you’ve heard of ClickBank, you know people are making money, you’re tempted… - You “Go Get Your CB Account” BUT WAIT! Don’t sign up yet - read: When you sign up, it doesn’t matter which you choose - affiliate/publisher - both enable both and are one in the same when you sign up.

**Your NickName: THIS IS UBER IMPORTANT! Even though you might be tempted - DO NOT use a nickname like “SuperAff101″ or “MoneyMan” or “Johnnny”… In Fact: Think about this for a second, when someone clicks on your link, unless you cookie stuff them (don’t worry about that for now), they will come to a page like http://www.yourvendorssite.com/index…op=SuperAff101 < You want that code at the end to look natural. You don’t want people looking in the address bar and thinking it might be some reseller network. Many think that “If it’s not in the IM niche, they don’t care” - This is TRUE! however it still doesn’t make any sense to use a name like that - you cut off a lot of the markets. **Use nicknames that look like they belong in the code like ’securepage’ or ‘product1′ or ‘2n8fk29fsol’ < then it looks like the site generated the code. So - go - pick a great nickname now> ClickBank.

You now have an account “YAY”. So you can now go pick out of 1000’s of products that have all kinds of creative offers and commission/bonus structures - this is the hard part. If you’re brand spanking new to all this - My advice would be to click ‘marketplace’ and do a few searches for things YOU love about life - you’ll find tons of stuff to promote. Sort your searches by two important factors - 1. Payout Amount * Most search for % and think that the 75% products are the only ones they should pick - on the contrary - pick anything that makes you $20 or more - aim for $30-$50. When you search for products you’ll get stats under each product - inspect the ones that stand out. Gravity= the amount of affiliates that converted at least once in the last 6 weeks. So if you see a gravity of i.e. 20.32 - This means that at least 21 (round up) affiliates have converted at least once within today to 6 weeks ago. If all affiliates make 10 sales each or 100 sales each - that 20.32 would remain the same. So think of it not as sales - but as conversions. Sometimes low gravity is GREAT, sometimes the top gravity is also great, though harder to convert.

Only choose products that have amazing branding: Meaning the page ‘looks’ great first. You’ll notice that 90% of them are…. scammy/spammy looking - don’t worry about those ones, just look for great presentation first. Now READ IT! You found a good one, good commission, it’s converting, you like the actual product - READ THE PAGE! So - You are reading about something you actually enjoy in life or a problem you have had or have now, that you want to fix. Is the text convincing? Would you buy it? If you say yes - you have a winner. These are the most important elements - and good publishers spend good money or have years and years of experience in this sector, so: They hire the BEST designers, BEST writers, BEST developers, and conversion master every pixel/piece of text/code/sales pitch/call to action etc. so that it’s easy (or easier) for you to convert… .. That other 90% - those crappy products - they are newbie vendors, they need to go through this cycle but most never make it out alive after their first 1-2 products, stay away from those.

Ok you found your product(s), you are happy about them, and are ready to promote. **IMPORTANT - Consider yourself a ‘franchise’ not just some nicknamed affiliate - you now ‘endorse’ this product and publisher! You stand behind them, you promote and sell for them, they need you-you need them, give eachother the respect of giving it your 100% and nothing less. If you just throw some articles and PPC around here and there from product to product, you’re going to fade fast, or never convert once and give up. If you can, contact the vendor - ask for a review copy or just some reassurance on the phone that this is legit, if the vendor is in their right state of mind - they will be happy to hear from you! Don’t forget you are selling for them, why wouldn’t they take time to speak with their salespeople?! I do.

Ok so you found a product - for this example we’ll use the fat rich pig -
You signed up with a nickname of ’securepage’ for example. you found a product with the vendor id being ‘richpig’, so your link for this product would be : http://securepage.richpig.hop.clickbank.net << In that exact order, it is important to have your ID first, publisher second, .hop.clickbank.net << .net NOT .com. you’ll notice that you end up on page with a URL of http://www.thefatrichpig.com/index.html?hop=securepage << there you are So now if someone buys this product - you get the commission set out in their clickbank marketplace listings.

Sounds easy right? Not yet - So now you have a good nickname, you chose a good product, you figured out how to create your hoplinks and how they work… .. Wait - so…. .. how and what do you do with that link? This is the fun part:

** Most places on the web do not allow you to post affiliate links, so if you thought you could just go start spamming and fluffing the net with your links, you’re wrong… well… no you’re not - you’re absolutely right! BUT - you will need to do just ONE little thing - GET A DOMAIN - godaddy.com - you can buy a .info for $2.99 - BUT being the smart marketer you are - get a .com - it just looks better, feels better, and has more value when aged. When you buy a domain name - YES you should buy a domain (or 2-3-5) for EACH product you promote - remember you are endorsing it not jumping from product to product. So for the link above ‘the fat rich pig’ you would want to buy a domain that a) sounds similar b) has important key words in it c) creative and catchy. So rich-pig.com or affiliatespysoftware.com or the-fat-rich-pig-software.com etc. * Go get one!

You now have your domain name, and you can now fluff the web with your domain instead of your aff links (that was easy eh? almost wrong…!) In godaddy you have two options with the domain name.

a) Login in to godaddy - click domains - click your domain - click ‘forwarding’. Now forward your domain to your hoplink from above. - Masking - YES so now you still see YOUR domain when on the vendors site. Add your meta/keywords and Voila!

b) You can get hosting and get landing pages from merchants if they provide them. Most smart merchants that expect sales from their affiliates will have a page made with downloadable and or copy/paste promotional stuff for you to go promote with - so an example to the above - you would download and host your own landing page from a page like this http://www.nichechoppers.com/niche-p…atrichpig.html

Again - if you’re brand new, you’re probably better off with option a). However if you end up promoting the pig product, I will offer to host your landing page for you - just tell me which one you want to use and I will install your CBID into it and host it - and just tell you which URL to point your domain name to and mask.

Now: You have a nickname, a product, a domain, and either a landing page or straight linking.

From here on out you literally have thousands of ways to promote, the ones that work for me with live examples of real money that I’ve made:

Article marketing: http://www.ezinearticles.com < MAKE AN ACCOUNT - DON’T BE LAZY! Remember - you chose to endorse this, you need to get the fundamentals out of the way and at least TRY these methods, then focus on your own or the ones you like best (the ones that pay/convert).

When you write an article about your product, you will have your domain name on the bottom of the page either IN the actual artice or in your resource box, back to that in a minute…. .. YOUR TITLE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF EZINE! If you’re promoting the pig product - it should relate to popular keywords of that product - some examples of great headers with keys would be:
* Easily Spy On ClickBank or PayDotCom Affiliates And Vendors, oh & Recruit Them Too!
* How Do I Get Affiliates To My ClickBank Or PayDotCom Product? Is There Software For Recruitment?
* The Truth About The Fat Rich Pig Will Shock You… .. The Scam Of Scams!
* Marketing Morals? Funnels2Wealth and Affiliate Crusher Are Getting Geared Up To Spy & Cheat The Gurus…

Your First Paragraph - Again examining the keywords, focus on 3-5 or 8 max in your your WHOLE article, so only put 2-3 in your first paragraph. DO NOT SELL THE PRODUCT! No BUY HERE CHEAPY CHEAPY crap - people on ezine are not ready to buy - they are (90%) researching the product - this is your opportunity to convince them to check your views and build up anticipation towards the end to want to know more…(click).

Main Body - Here is where you can go all out and use many variations of your keywords, cluster them together, throw “quotes” around popular worded lines (i.e. From the author “This is the best spy tool for clickbank we have ever developed…”). Remember you are not selling - you are reviewing, you are telling them your experience with the product, you are elaborating on the product, perhaps the morals of it, perhaps the price, the competitors comparisons - but NEVER sell it (chances are it will get rejected anyway if you ’sell’).

Go over your article at least once. Make sure you break it up well - look at this post you’re reading - it’s LONG but if you’ve read this far - chances are I GOT YOU HOOKED on reading further - and if it was all in one huge paragraph you would have clicked away by now. Spacing, bolding, bullets, format it! make it what we like to call - a greased slide read - it’s so slippery and good that your instincts cannot help but to keep reading based on the way it is written AND how it is presented.

Near the end of your article, in a non intrusive way - link a few words to your domain name or type the domain name. Usually you leave the domain name for the resource box - the last bit of body could be like: I personally thought the kit was pretty good! The funnels2wealth ((hehe, did you just try to click?)) transcript taught me a lot! but the Affiliate Crusher… oh boy, I CAN’T even tell you too much about it here… it’s just THAT sneaky!…. the underlines would link to your domain. Your resource box is a way to promote yourself “John Smith is an internet enthusiast who spends his time passionately reviewing all of today’s newest gadgets and software. “There is a good video walkthrough of how this works in real time at: “Your-domain”. Just remember who told you about it first! **Always build anticipation, anxiety, fear, desire, focus on emotions not ‘buy now’ - if you can phsychologically convince your reader - YOU’RE ONTO SOMETHING!

Don’t write TONS of articles - ONLY write grandslam articles OR for every 5 articles you do - 3-4 MUST be prime - you may fail initially however when you have 100 articles in a few months from now - TRUST ME YOU WILL GET MORE TRAFFIC AND BETTER READ THROUGHS FROM ARTICLE TO ARTICLE. Please PM me if you follow my steps and you end up converting a product due to this - that is all I ask! Here is an article that points to a landing page that has made me more money than what most people make with 50 articles: Example article

Another popular way to get targeted traffic is YouTube. Don’t be afraid of it! Use it the same way as articles but use video - there are tools to help you get youtube vids, compile them/remix them/build your Hot Videos - Use keywords in the title (same importance as ezine) - use your keys in your description when possible - MAKE LINKS BESIDE YOUR VIDEOS WITH GOOD WHITE SPACE - LIKE THIS: http://youtube.com/watch?v=OXVyXGCAyNs or http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZsamSEiwkm0 (NOTICE SPACING) **These videos don’t get that many views but I can’t show/share ALL my stuff so these principles apply to ‘hot’ videos, getting videos ‘hot’ is not that hard - in fact… shhhh… you can …. hire people… to do the videos/submissions/remix them for you - right here on this board!.

Once you do a few of these articles, videos, and start to understand the other components from these CB threads - you’ll learn that ClickBank - Is nothing more than another network that has its doors open to offers and to affiliates. There are many of them. You’ll learn that it’s not some secret that some ClickBank geeks hold to themselves, IT’S MARKETING! It’s creative manipulation of the internet, of messaging, of monetizing these said offers. ONCE YOU convert a few times, you’ll understand that you can sign up to many networks, you can convert on tangible goods, you can convert on the phone for huge upsells - it will eventually spiral for you if you do not give up. It will eventually open your eyes and make you realize that you - my friend - are a business guru! not just a clickbank affiliate - You will sooner than later figure out that ‘Hey this stuff is great, I have sold xx already! Now, wait a minute - what if I did my OWN product! what if I did many of my OWN products! YA!) and you’ll probably fail at 8-9 attempts before you get one that wins - so stick be understanding the industry for a while if you’re new, stick to ‘converting’ your chosen ‘endorsed’ product and do not deviate from your commitment to them - if you choose a product like fatloss or waterforgas, expect to fail at first - don’t do PPC until you read about it here for at least 2 weeks, really understand it.

If you were to ask me which ebook to buy - i wouldn’t know where to begin - I can recommend a dozen - it doesn’t matter - read everything EXCEPT that 90% of the scammy pages I first chatted about - those are usually created with ’sales letter automaters’ and dreams - and poor copy/design, BUT it might tempt you to buy because of pictures of cars/houses/boats/treasure chests/etc. Look at those from a marketers point of view ALWAYS not a consumers - Only buy the products that look pro.

Thank you all, back to my pigpen….
Norb. **PS - No proof reading on this one - straight raw - also posted at DP forums to show some newbie love.

What I Do.

I was going to make this section huge and very detailed, corporate, etc. however in all honesty, my work surpasses any proposal or attractive verbeage I could think of or buy from the worlds best copywriter…

In fact, I’m going to rather ‘explain’ why it is difficult to outline what my studio does within a few pages quickly, and this will indirectly probably answer all your questions before contacting me or retaining my services.

1. I do not have a price list: 52+ marketing and creative services, all different variables and levels of deliverables. Every single client has their own specific needs and variables.

2. I only take on 15 MAX clients a year.

3. I charge quite a bit (min 5k-10k) for my services.

4. I filter out 75% of my prospects. “Are you crazy?” Nope, I will admit that I say ‘no’ to quite a bit of money and clients each month, and I refuse to ‘pass it off for a cut’ either… why you ask? 11 years later, I am able to match up my services and energy to likeminded business owners and only top level work. I will not work with those that push products or services that I see as unethical or immoral - and believe me when you have the types of outreach programs and capabilities that my studio does, you get approached by a lot of interesting people… In summary, if your project is simply monetizing the market by misconceptions or any gray hat business model, I probably will not enertain an RFQ…

5. “Can you give at least an overview of what you do?”
Sure. In short I make people money. No really, over 600 CEO’s, Marketing executives, founders, publishers etc. have come through my studio to help them and their product/service either launch, overhaul or increase monetization cycles with new campaign development.

I’ve been exposed to a lot of problems, and have dealt with some of the most influencial people and brands in North America, on various levels. To try and breakdown each service here would be impossible, my first step with any client is a VERY detailed analysis of their objectives and current standing.

6. “What about people that just want to start making money with you?”
Well, that’s rather easy and hard at the same time. On top of helping all these brands monetize, I recently started developing my own product lines and partnering with brands/publishers to create amazing digital products for the affiliate marketing arena.

 What does that mean for you? It means that if you are good at following direction, and feel that you have a good grasp of marketing, or can learn quickly, then you don’t really need to invest in much more than a domain name these days ($10) to start making money with me.

It’s hard to explain the whole business model here but at the same time it’s not a complex model. I make products, say my product costs $100 - I don’t market to end consumers, I market to other internet marketers and offer THEM up to 75% of each sale. Even though I keep $25 and the affiliate happily gets $75, I have many affiliates, and the happier they are, the more money I make (i.e. 100 affiliates x 1 sale a day = 10K a day in total - I keep 2.5K for letting them market my work which was done once and is on auto pilot). That’s the basics, and now I have many products, in different markets, and am attracting a new generation of clients/partners. You can actually start right now - I have made a centralized site for all my products and top level partners at http://www.nichechoppers.com

6. What about one on one consulting?
Yes, it has come down to problem solving at the end of the day. Sometimes our proposals are actually more than enough of an analysis for you to be able to render the needed steps elsewhere for much less. This happens a lot in my industry, however I would rather a prospect walk away with a detailed proposal and perhaps come back one day if their next vendor of choice doesn’t par up to their deliverables, and THAT happens in my industry a lot too. Either way, consulting is a big part of every project. If you have your own in-house team that can render all your needs, and you are simply seeking top level help with ‘what to do’ with the business in order for it to make more money, I would be happy to co through a deep analysis session with you, and provide you with a full report on best steps to take (data analysis, campetitive intelligence, campaign possibilities, retention strategies, aff recruitment techniques, expanding or downsizing, etc).

The best thing to do if you are seeking top level help with your business or marketing needs, is to visit my main site which explains  my services in more detail at http://www.ncmedia.ca and fill out the project assessment form on the contact page.

Thank you for reading and best of luck with your biz today!
Norb Czufis.