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		<title>7 Tips To Grow Your Affiliate Income</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:49:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[7 Tips To Grow Your Affiliate Income By Susanne Myers Try the Product Before you start to promote something as an affiliate, go the extra mile and try the product. You can either ask the owner for a review copy, or just buy it and try it out. Then write an honest review of the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>7 Tips To Grow Your Affiliate Income<br />
By Susanne Myers</p>
<p><strong>Try the Product</strong></p>
<p>Before you start to promote something as an affiliate, go the extra mile and try the product. You can either ask the owner for a review copy, or just buy it and try it out. Then write an honest review of the product including the good as well as the bad. Your articles, emails and messages will be more convincing if you actually have some personal experience with the product you’re selling.</p>
<p><strong>Diversify  </strong></p>
<p>Don’t focus on promoting just one product. Keep a constant eye on what else is available in your market and try those products out as well. If they are quality items that your readers might be interested in go ahead and promote them as well. People will often buy several similar items if they are interested in a topic or are trying to find a solution for a problem.</p>
<p><strong>Get Better at SEO</strong></p>
<p>Sharpen your SEO skills to get more traffic to your affiliate site. It’s the least expensive form of traffic to your site. Start with the basics of making sure you pick good keywords, and then use those in the title and content of your post. Don’t forget to work on getting more links to point to your pages as well. Spend some time each month to learn some new skills in this area and apply what you are learning.</p>
<p><strong>Follow Up</strong></p>
<p>Let’s face it, not every visitor that comes to your website is ready to buy. Set up an autoresponder to capture their name and email address and follow up regularly. Provide them with good, useful content and build a relationship with your list. Continue to offer affiliate products throughout and if you do your job well, they will buy and do so frequently.</p>
<p><strong>Find Recurring Products</strong></p>
<p>What if I told you there was a way you could make a sale once and then get paid for it month after month. That’s exactly what you can do with affiliate products that offer recurring commissions. Check out things like hosting and membership websites for these types of affiliate paychecks.</p>
<p><strong>Check out the Backend</strong></p>
<p>No, I’m not trying to be funny here. Marketers that know what they are doing have quite a few backend products in place. With a good affiliate offer, you not only make a commission on the first sale, but everything else the marketer upsells your visitor on down the road as well.</p>
<p><strong>Testing</strong></p>
<p>Don’t be afraid to test out other offers. Always be on the lookout for other products in your market that pay decent commissions. You never know when you’ll come across one that pays a better commission or converts better than what you are currently marketing to your list.</p>
<p>Ready to put all this together and grow your affiliate income? <a href="http://www.affiliatenichepacks.com/order/go.php?r=1043&amp;i=l40" target="_blank">Daily Affiliate Tasks</a> make it easy with weekly checklists that show you EXACTLY what you should be working on each day.  All it takes is 30 minutes per day!  <a href="http://www.affiliatenichepacks.com/order/go.php?r=1043&amp;i=l40" target="_blank">http://www.DailyAffiliateTasks.com</a></p>
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		<title>Undercover Commissions Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 22:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dlovelace</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Product: Undercover Commissions Author: Matt Bacak Site: www.UndercoverCommissions.com What is it? Undercover Commissions teaches you how to get massive traffic ultra fast using a little-known, under-used traffic source.  It&#8217;s not a &#8220;secret&#8221; per se, but most Internet Marketers tend to focus on the most talked about sources of traffic and therefore miss out on this [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p><strong>Product:</strong> Undercover Commissions<br />
<strong>Author:</strong> Matt Bacak<br />
<strong>Site:</strong> <a href="http://davidlovelace.com/recommends/undercovercommissions">www.UndercoverCommissions.com</a></p>
<p><strong>What is it?</strong></p>
<p>Undercover Commissions teaches you how to get massive traffic ultra fast using a little-known, under-used traffic source.  It&#8217;s not a &#8220;secret&#8221; per se, but most Internet Marketers tend to focus on the most talked about sources of traffic and therefore miss out on this gem. I won&#8217;t reveal it here, in fairness to Matt, but I will tell you it&#8217;s paid traffic.  With that said, Matt shows you how to get it for pennies (and it&#8217;s not PPC).</p>
<p>You&#8217;ll see Matt show you &#8220;live&#8221; as he generates massive traffic (over 52,000 visitors in less than 24 hours) right there on the <strong>Undercover Commissions</strong> web site&#8230; so there&#8217;s no theory and no pretending like so many others do with their fake screen shots.</p>
<p>But the beauty of this product is that it doesn&#8217;t just stop at traffic.  Matt also shows you how to monetize it, both immediately and long term (aka, how to build a sustainable profit-producing business). This includes how to build a list FAST from this traffic.</p>
<p><strong>What&#8217;s included?</strong></p>
<p>4 screen cast videos (viewable online or available to download to your computer &#8211; love these options), 3 BONUS &#8220;quick start&#8221; PDF&#8217;s, web templates, and software.</p>
<p>Price comparable to value?</p>
<p>The price is only $47, to my surprise.  One would expect to pay $97-197 for this.  At least, that what most people are pricing similar products.  In fact, Matt sold a watered-down version of this recently for $97 and didn&#8217;t include Matt&#8217;s high-converting web template nor his NEW software that plays a huge time-saving part in the speed at which you receive and monetize this traffic.</p>
<p>So yes, the value you receive with all of the training material (plus the excellent support, by the way) is well worth the asking price!</p>
<p><strong>Upsells?</strong></p>
<p>Yes.  You&#8217;ll have a chance to &#8220;get to the money faster&#8221; by having aspects of the system done for you, including a ready-made list of  in-demand offers and pre-built lead generation landing pages.  When I say &#8220;get to the money faster&#8221;, I&#8217;m referring to saving you a ton of time compared to doing this yourself, so you can start generating traffic and sales quick.  Time is money, and this upsell offer is worth taking a serious look if your time is valuable and/or you just want to see results faster.</p>
<p>There is another offer made, but I won&#8217;t reveal it here&#8230; again out of fairness to Matt.  But I will say it&#8217;s another complimentary offer that gives you instant ability to make 100% of the money you make from your traffic, instead of 50% average profits you&#8217;ll make otherwise.  It&#8217;s not for everyone, but again worth checking out.</p>
<p>What I like about these offers is that you don&#8217;t need them to succeed with the core training.    I hate it when you purchase something, then realize after the sale that you NEED something else to actually make it work.  Not the case here.   Instead&#8230; Matt makes the offers 100% complimentary &amp; added value for those who want to save time and see results quicker and easier.</p>
<p>In addition, Matt has put a lot of thought into the user&#8217;s experience providing access to the core product along the entire process! 2 thumbs up for that.  Plus, there are links to contact them on all of the pages (even a telephone number to call if needed) if you have any questions or need support.</p>
<p><strong>Guarantee?</strong></p>
<p>There is a 60 day guarantee.  I think that&#8217;s fair.   That&#8217;s plenty of time to put Matt&#8217;s training into action.  If I can&#8217;t duplicate a fraction of Matt&#8217;s success in that amount of time, then it&#8217;s on me.  Matt&#8217;s contact info is in plain site, so it&#8217;s easy to contact him at any time should you need to request a refund. So no worries.</p>
<p><strong>Recommended?</strong></p>
<p>Definitely.  A well constructed product at a reasonable price (that want break the bank for most).</p>
<p><strong>Summary</strong></p>
<p>The bottom line is&#8230;</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re going to make money online, you need (1) an Offer, (2) Traffic ,and (3) Conversions.  Matt&#8217;s <strong>Undercover Commissions</strong> provides training and the tools to capitalize on ALL 3 and at a very affordable price in my opinion.</p>
<p>Click here to learn more about <a href="http://davidlovelace.com/recommends/undercovercommissions" target="_blank">Undercover Commissions</a></p>
<p>Hope this helps!</p>
<p>Dave</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 07:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Think You Are Creating These Prevalent SEO Mistakes? SEO is one area nearly anyone using a web business or blog is aware of. The idea of SEO is very simple having the highest possible search engine ranking on the major search engines so that you will secure the 1st chance at the sought after blog [...]]]></description>
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<p>SEO is one area nearly anyone using a web business or blog is aware of. The idea of SEO is very simple having the highest possible search engine ranking on the major search engines so that you will secure the 1st chance at the sought after blog traffic. As easy-to-follow as the theory is, and at the same time quick as the most prevalent strategies of generating SEO success are, a wide range of website and blog managers are rendering critical problems that will cost them a whole lot in time and effort.</p>
<h2>Tag: You’re It</h2>
<p>Tags are often misunderstood , and maybe even disregarded entirely by beginner marketers. It’s easy to overlook the most basic of website or blog building factors when software applications or platforms do the actual making for you. In quite a number of conditions a internet site creator may have meta tags hidden inside the menu bar, and owners don’t make an effort to adjust them. Given that the very common among these types of computer programs are WYSIWYG (What You See is What You Get), people go about developing their web site by using the website page window , and consequently don’t even think to alter the particular name connected with the saved document much less all of the root tag words. Take a look at the topmost bar as you start building your internet site. If or when this says “home” you actually are really missing out on lots of remarkable SEO juice. You seriously should switch your home page title connected with your web site to help replicate the organization or web-site name, in addition, that moniker should certainly possess all your high levels key term or phrase inside it if at all attainable. Unquestionably the aforementioned is actually the case with respect to blogs, except they tend to be noticeably more simple since you will be asked to pick out a url for the majority of instances from the very beginning , and likewise title your blog. If your blog’s homepage possesses “home,” found at the the very top , or inside its actual address, uncover just how you can easily adjust that to be more SEO friendly.</p>
<h2>Double Tagging</h2>
<p>You will should tweak your homepage to mirror your company moniker featuring keywords / phrases , however you really don’t want every single web page located on your website to actually have the exact same label. You actually decrease your additional SEO advantages of an array of web pages whenever they are actually more or less all identical. You really should also refrain from letting the web pages to be labeled containing common names, along the lines of about, links, features etc. As an illustration , if you own a internet site about your Arabian horse mating farm a simple front-page may possibly be tagged The Famous Arabian Ponies , and yet you want your other webpages to echo your articles and other content while utilizing SEO friendly tags during the same time. As an alternative to “about,” use The Legendary Arabian Reproduction History , as opposed to Horses , to introduce your stock incorporate items for instance My very own Popular Arabian Stallions, Arabian Mares. In contrast to for sale title the web page Arabian show race horses available , or something similar.</p>
<h2>Non-Descript Calls to Action</h2>
<p>Definitely one of the premier and most frequently found issues might be linking to some generic word or phrase including follow the link. You might see it practically all the time and it can be a okay motivational plan to be able to get people to visit a link. The actual trouble is actually this website link is not web engine beneficial. Each of the links found on a person&#8217;s website should preferably draw internet search engine juice. Rather than labeling them by using commonly used phrases , set the follow this link within the actual text (bold in the event that you desire to be more intense ) after which you can link to a descriptive of what you would like these items to take a look at. As an example: To get additional information see more at marketing secrets that give good results.</p>
<h2>The Issues with Now</h2>
<p>Lastly , following all of the challenging treatment , as well as consistently working the web site just about the most normal error on-line marketers make is often giving up prematurely. You are living in a “Now” civilization. It really has been this way for decades , as well as impatience , and desire to obtain what we desire to have at once is in fact pretty ingrained within ones psyche. On the flip side , where the idea relates to SEO, it does take a little bit of time. You will need to permit the crawlers to locate you, and as a result permit your hard worked pages, and articles time to reflect in the standings. Don’t anticipate customers to pour into your web page the morning after you upload it, even if you’ve done it all right. It can take weeks, and perhaps months before you can see real effects from your labors.</p>
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		<title>Clickbank 60 Day Refund Policy Actually 6 Month Policy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:15:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I received shocking news today.  Apparently Clickbank.com’s 60 day refund policy (as we all know and understand it) does not apply to subscriptions. I just received a refund notice for 2 month’s subsription fees (today, June 16, 2011) for a product that was intially purchased in October, 2010!  I thought there must have been an [...]]]></description>
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<p>I received shocking news today.  Apparently Clickbank.com’s 60 day refund policy (as we all know and understand it) does not apply to subscriptions.</p>
<p>I just received a refund notice for 2 month’s subsription fees (today, June 16, 2011) for a product that was intially purchased in October, 2010!  I thought there must have been an error in this, so I contacted Clickbank via live chat.  A “Blanca” replied saying that the last 2 month’s fees (60 days worth) were refunded.</p>
<p>“What?!”, I thought to my self.  “How can that happen?!”.  As I understand the policy, a refund is only given within 60 days from the initial purchase.  So I asked if a customer could refund anytime they want in a subscription and the answer was “yes”.</p>
<p>That’s ridiculous.  If I were a vendor, I would be very upset at this.  This customer has had at least 6 months to decide if he/she was satisfied with the “product”.  I think that’s MORE than enough time to make an informed decision.  Honestly, the first 60 days is fair.  But apparently Clickbank feels it okay that members can make up their mind when they want and get the previous 60 days refunded regardless of this!</p>
<p>As an affiliate, it’s equally disturbing and upsetting to discover this news.</p>
<p>Am I the only one in the dark about this?  Have you experienced this as an affiliate or vendor?  Feel free to chime in with your comments below.</p>
<p>Dave</p>
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		<title>Net Space Profits Review – The Ugly Truth!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Review of Net Space Profits by Tyler Ericsson http://netspaceprofits.com Price $34 I recently purchased this product because of it&#8217;s massive potential and uniqueness for making money helping small businesses. Everything sounded great on the website and based on my years of marketing experience, the business model looked sound. But very quickly after accessing the information [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><p>Review of Net Space Profits by Tyler Ericsson<br />
<a href="http://netspaceprofits.com/">http://netspaceprofits.com</a><br />
Price $34</p>
<p>I recently purchased this product because of it&#8217;s massive potential and uniqueness for making money helping small businesses. Everything sounded great on the website and based on my years of marketing experience, the business model looked sound.</p>
<p>But very quickly after accessing the information and training, I discovered a greedy &#8220;catch&#8221; along with additional &#8216;negatives&#8217; that you MUST be warned about.</p>
<p><strong>What is it?</strong></p>
<p>Ready-made websites custom built for specific offline businesses such as Chiropractors, Plumbers, Attorneys, and so forth.</p>
<p>These sites already have SEO elements built-in and together with the suggested domain name format (based on people searching for these businesses in &#8220;local&#8221; areas), can get ranked high in the search engines.</p>
<p>Once ranked, you can then go to a specific small business and show them that you&#8217;re ranked on the 1st page of Google and can send them very targeted traffic specifically interested in THEIR service. You will then offer to lease the site to them for $300 per month.</p>
<p>Example:</p>
<p>If you target plumbers in your area, you setup the &#8220;plumber&#8221; site and send the letter to as many plumbers as you can. The site will be leased to ONE plumber only for $300/month. The letter basically tells the prospective business owner that you have notified many others, but only 1 gets the site.</p>
<p><strong>What&#8217;s included?</strong></p>
<p>[+] Custom built 1 page websites</p>
<p>[+] Instructions on acquiring business specific offline-related domains.</p>
<p>[+] List of top businesses that this business model is most targeted to.</p>
<p>[+] Tips on getting backlinks to your site.</p>
<p>[+] Ready-made letter to send to prospective local businesses.</p>
<p>[+] Ready-made contract to pass on to the business owner for the lease of the site.</p>
<p><strong>Upsell?</strong></p>
<p>Yes. Expensive &#8220;fast track&#8221; upgrade. But the offer is confusing. It really doesn&#8217;t make any sense. I wasn&#8217;t sure how the &#8220;upgrade&#8221; was any different than the original product. The wording basically described the product I was already buying!</p>
<p>I exited from the page and was shown a 50% discount offer and passed. But&#8230; within 24-48 hours after purchase, I got access to the &#8220;upgrade&#8221; at no cost delivered via email!</p>
<p>Great, but I would not have been happy to go through the trouble of ordering the upsell, then the hassle of getting a refund if he was just going to give it to me later.</p>
<p>You also get a suprise bonus a couple of days later containing videos and powerpoints along with instructions on how to use them (and sites to go to online) for getting backlinks to your site. This is a good bonus and I was already familiar with this traffic tactic. I teach it in a free video found here on my blog.</p>
<p>Bottom line. Don&#8217;t order the upsell!</p>
<p><strong>Additional Costs?</strong></p>
<p>Yes. Requires domain purchase (approx. $10 per year) and hosting ($4.95 and up). Note &#8211; that low prices like $4.95 are usually only available if you pay for 2 years in advance.</p>
<p><strong>Who is it for?</strong></p>
<p>The entire training is extremely targeted to &#8220;newbies&#8221; and anyone completely inexperienced who doesn&#8217;t have hosting. Otherwise, if you have experience, you can probably just figure out things, albeit, a couple of steps are a real pain due to Tyler&#8217;s horrible training. Keep reading for details&#8230;</p>
<p><strong>Pros&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>Great offline-to-online business model.</p>
<p>Well designed sites.</p>
<p>Website content is good and can be tailored to the individual business fairly easy.</p>
<p>Ready-made prospect letter and contract.</p>
<p>Price.</p>
<p><strong>The BIG Con&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>This is where the product owner&#8217;s REAL intentions are revealed with this product, and the downfall of his ill-developed product.</p>
<p>You are FORCED to signup with their affiliated hosting company, Brain Host, to which they make more than what they&#8217;re charging you for the front-end product.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Side note</span>: in my experience as a tech guy for a recent Clickbank launch for a marketer who also setup a special arrangement with Brain Host, I would never use them! The support was a nightmare. They caused MORE support tickets for this marketer about the hosting than for the product!! Disclosure: Brain Host has expressed that they have since improved customer service. I have no interest in finding out if that&#8217;s true or not.</p>
<p>The aggressiveness of which they &#8220;push&#8221; this on you is a turn-off and makes the owner appear greedy. This could have been done without the scare tactics (ie, &#8216;if you don&#8217;t signup with Brain Host, you won&#8217;t be able to get it to work on your own&#8217; B.S.)</p>
<p>So basically, if you have your own hosting and don&#8217;t want to signup with another, they make it sound like the sites won&#8217;t work unless you signup with Brain Host.</p>
<p>Proof of said B.S. &#8230;</p>
<p>Tyler first recommended Host Gator, as seen in the contradictory training videos, but&#8221;says&#8221; you &#8220;must use Brain Host&#8221;! so obviously the sites work with Host Gator (and thus other hosting companies). In fact, these sites should work with ANY hosting company with .php! He just wants the fat Brain Host commission! With this forceful approach to this, it makes one think that the front end product is just a lead-generator to get you to buy hosting which pays more than what Tyler is asking for Net Space Profits.</p>
<p>His &#8220;forceful&#8221; approach to this says to me &#8220;your money in my pocket is more important than anything else&#8221;.</p>
<p>The proof is in the pudding, as it goes. And the horrible and incompetent support is definitely proof of the greed (beyond the obvious &#8220;MUST use Brain Host&#8221; tactic).</p>
<p>It&#8217;s evident that they are too &#8220;bothered&#8221; to take additional time helping &#8220;newbies&#8221; and thus arranged Brain Host to setup everything for you.</p>
<p>Ok, great for newbies, right? Yes, but then you have the contradictory training videos that are a mix of version 1 with Host Gator and version 2 with Brain Host.</p>
<p>They also make you believe that their &#8220;sites are specifically designed for Brain Host&#8221;. Bullsh#!</p>
<p>They just mean that they have cPanel and that B.H. will setup the sites for you (after you go through multiple upsells from Brain Host and after you get your domain name from Brain Host &#8212; which you&#8217;re FORCED to do too!) With that said, Tyler&#8217;s video does state to ignore the upsells.</p>
<p>I <span style="text-decoration: underline;">never</span> recommend getting your domain name from the hosting company. Any hosting company who forces you to get it through them without the option of getting elsewhere (like Namecheap or GoDaddy) first.. run away.</p>
<p><strong>My experience with Net Space Profits support</strong> (from a very experienced point of view)&#8230;</p>
<p>First, if you already have a high level domain (aka, the first domain you registered and used for your first hosting account), then you can simply use addon domains for this.</p>
<p>BUT&#8230;</p>
<p>In the training video, they make it sound like you can&#8217;t. In fact, on the &#8220;install&#8221; form, you plainly see a statement &#8220;if you&#8217;re using addon domains, then&#8230;&#8221;. But Tyler (or whomever is instructing in the video) doesn&#8217;t address that. He just looks over it and doesn&#8217;t address that option.</p>
<p>So I opened a ticket attempting to confirm the use of this option to no avail.</p>
<p>In fact, I had 2 questions.</p>
<p>The 2nd one was about another conflicting training video that showed Tyler using a .zip file in the install process that wasn&#8217;t in the folder, then later using the correct .zip file in a separate video.</p>
<p>The 2 videos not only conflicted each other as to the file that should be used, but also as to the correct order. The info did not make sense because in the latter video, the zip file was modified. But the earlier video instructed unzipping the files first on the web server. As an experienced tech guy and marketer, this didn&#8217;t make any sense! Why would you unzip a file first if it was going to be modified later?!</p>
<p>Both questions were ignored by support, twice, as if I had not written them! That&#8217;s a sign of very poor support.</p>
<p>Their initial response was &#8220;Read these PDF&#8217;s from the training&#8221;. I had already done that as they make an HUGE point to tell you &#8220;read ALL of the training PDF&#8221;s and watch the videos in order BEFORE getting support.&#8221;</p>
<p>The PDF&#8217;s didn&#8217;t answer my question and I told them so and asked why they ignored my question.</p>
<p>I had also explained that I&#8217;m not a Newbie and know how to install sites and &#8220;get&#8221; the install process and don&#8217;t need Brain Host (and have no intention on using Brain Host for any reason). I explained this just so they might reply with a more appropriate response tailored to experienced marketers&#8230; and the response?</p>
<p>They said they understood where I&#8217;m coming from, but I should still signup for Brain Host!</p>
<p>Again, totally ignoring my questions!!</p>
<p>At this point, it&#8217;s evident that I&#8217;m dealing with incompetent support who either doesn&#8217;t know the answer or doesn&#8217;t care and just wants to make sure they get the Brain Host commissions!</p>
<p>I then replied with an explanation that a refund would happen if they didn&#8217;t provide the answers to my questions. Their reply was that &#8220;we tried to call you&#8221;.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s great, but I didn&#8217;t want to talk to anyone. I was already busy with a project and they had wasted my time enough already.</p>
<p>Why was it so hard for them to provide a written answer?</p>
<p>Who knows. I contacted Clickbank for a refund. Entirely too much conficting info in the training and unprofessional/incompetent support.</p>
<p>Another side note&#8230;</p>
<p>Support is nameless. No one replies with a name. So you don&#8217;t know who to hold responsible. What are they hiding from? Another sign of unprofessionalism.</p>
<p>A tip &#8211; Sometimes product owners do this so they don&#8217;t look like the bad guy if things go awry or a customer is not happy. Hmmm. Was it Tyler? Who knows.</p>
<p><strong>Summary..</strong></p>
<p>Love the business model, but their &#8220;thorns in the rose bush&#8221; made it a &#8220;loser&#8221; based on my experience.</p>
<p>From the &#8220;greediness&#8221; of the forced hosting signup to the conflicting/confusing and incomplete training materials to the horrible customer support&#8230; on a scale of 1-10, Net Space Profits gets a 1 from me!</p>
<p><strong>Would I recommend it to anyone?</strong></p>
<p>With all of this said, now that you have been warned of the &#8220;thorns&#8221; and &#8220;gotchas&#8221;, the product may best benefit total newbies who do NOT have experience and who do NOT have hosting yet. Although I think you&#8217;ll personally struggle to pull off the business model unless you at least have a grasp of marketing and have the ability to express that in a conversation.</p>
<p>You&#8217;re not required to speak to anyone; do any cold calling because a pre-written letter is provide to mail to prospective business owners. But it asks them to contact you. So you need to be prepared to at least sound like you know what you&#8217;re talking about.</p>
<p>If that&#8217;s you, this MIGHT be for you. Maybe you&#8217;ll have better luck with support and not run into the issues I found that made the experience an unhappy one.</p>
<p>Hope you found this review helpful.</p>
<p>Dave</p>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Jun 2011 07:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Try not to Treat Visitors Like Idiots We&#8217;ve all come across those well-liked how to training books for &#8220;Dummies.&#8221; They are effective simply because they simplify challenges making oftentimes difficult to grasp topics easy to understand. When you find yourself thinking about your sales webpages, articles and even blog posts, write to readers with that [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<!-- Start Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><!-- End Shareaholic LikeButtonSetTop Automatic --><h2>Try not to Treat Visitors Like Idiots</h2>
<p>We&#8217;ve all come across those well-liked how to training books for &#8220;Dummies.&#8221; They are effective simply because they simplify challenges making oftentimes difficult to grasp topics easy to understand. When you find yourself thinking about your sales webpages, articles and even blog posts, write to readers with that in mind, make ideas quick and simple to follow but don&#8217;t address readers like idiots.</p>
<h2>Reality Wins Devotion</h2>
<p>When you&#8217;re advertising an item, you need to prove to the potential buyer that it&#8217;ll help them to do a task, make them pleased, help to make existence less difficult, or whatever the actual product was created to perform. Nevertheless, the fastest way to lose the confidence of a website, or landing page guest is to spin tall stories of impossibility. Coming on too tough, just like the common used car salesman is simply gonna develop disbelief, not faith.</p>
<p>My hassle-free dandy insect zapper will kill any bug for 100 miles, and you&#8217;ll never ever get bit when BBQ&#8217;ing in the back yard again. Simply a sample, and rather far-fetched. It&#8217;s easy to notice the loopholes in that statement, and even while you might get several unsuspicious fools to bite, most of the people will jeer and click on to the next item on the search engine listing to find out what they have to consider that will genuinely tell them the truth about their product or service.</p>
<p>Instead, the merchant that has a robust, sturdy insect zapper may well say: This product incorporates a powerful electronic current which will kill any kind of bug that lands on it. The brightness from the device allures them for as much as twenty feet, and while a few may get away, having one of these in your backyard will make your out of doors experiences a lot more pleasurable.</p>
<p>The statement might be significantly less fantastic, but it&#8217;s more potent because it is believable. People today aren&#8217;t naive, for the most part. In the 50s and sixties, men and women actually accepted what commercial spokespeople claimed on commercials. Eventually, however shoppers became doubtful of advertising, and with the Internet&#8217;s growth of marketing, they are downright cynical of what people claim regarding a item. It takes a lot more to encourage a shopper, particularly if you have a new service.</p>
<p>Act as a pal. Customers are more likely to buy a product from someone that they see a lot, who they think comprehends their own situations. This is where a great weblog can be a genuine important element in online achievements. You do not even need to push item sales in your weblog. What you can do to help make your blog site really work for you is actually compose thought provoking content articles, interesting pieces about how to perform connected goals, or maybe appreciate a similar interest. If you are selling outdoor bug zappers, create posts regarding how to make a back garden setting great deal more child friendly, much more environmentally safe, or a variety of similar pieces that can show your readers you do have an excellent handle about what they desire and want from their home and property.</p>
<p>Develop the trust, don&#8217;t lie, do not exaggerate, merely provide them with a little something to believe in, and they&#8217;ll have faith in your products or services as well.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Studying Your Specific niche market Looking for a niche that is popular will often provide good results in relation to sales of associated products, but specific niche market selling tends to be tricky. The hardest element is learning enough with regards to the niche to get into the &#8220;inner circle.&#8221; You have to be qualified [...]]]></description>
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<p>Looking for a niche that is popular will often provide good results in relation to sales of associated products, but specific niche market selling tends to be tricky. The hardest element is learning enough with regards to the niche to get into the &#8220;inner circle.&#8221; You have to be qualified to not just create articles knowledgeably in relation to the subject, you also have to grasp precisely what the typical needs happen to be of those who are active in it. If you sell a boat navigation system, it is not enough to only focus on yacht owners, you have to understand what it is with regards to moving around the waterways that is so tricky, and just what problems there are to watch out for. You have to know precisely why a course-plotting product is so important to boaters, and just what different types there will be when it comes to different kinds of water. This is also true for virtually any niche. Pet owners have got unique requirements, and it appears to be that those who have had a dog would be in-tune with the overall niche. However, that would rely a great deal on how often you chat with other pet owners. One person&#8217;s experience might help, but wouldn&#8217;t be all inclusive to the over-all niche.</p>
<h2>Where to locate Market Information</h2>
<p>The best thing to do when looking to acquire info on niche markets is usually to bury yourself inside the society of it as much as possible. On account of the Internet, that&#8217;s incredibly easy before. Locate a discussion board, the more energetic the better, make up a free account. You may not even need to talk, even though getting on board and creating contacts with the other posters is a great technique to develop a following. On the community forums you&#8217;ll be able to usually add signature lines where you could hyperlink to your website and some have clickable links below member titles with things such as website and blogsite locations to help other people discover you. These are good ways to obtain traffic, but still far from the true importance of a forum. The actual benefit is in what you may come across there, information about what folks mixed up in specialized niche are interested in, need assistance with, and knowledge on specs concerning the subject. If you decide to never say anything, and merely read all the posts, and soak in the information, they are worthy of their weight in gold.</p>
<p>Blogs happen to be one more great approach to finding individuals that have an interest in the specialized niche you are in. They supply a very one-sided look at the needs of individuals mixed up in the niche, but when you visit enough of them you can start to see what topic matters are important to them, and just how they think in relation to important issues.</p>
<h2>Do You Need to Care?</h2>
<p>No. The easy answer is you don&#8217;t. However, if you cannot take the time to be familiar with your niche, it&#8217;s more unlikely you&#8217;ll be able to relate with your customer&#8217;s demands and desires, or even create convincing sales copy either. Investing several hours a week to get on board and understand more about your niche&#8217;s consumers will certainly generate far greater results in your bank account, and also be worth the effort.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Determining if a Investment is Paying Back As with any company, once you start advertising a product or service online, you need to pay particular attention to the results. If a advertising plan is not doing the job, it is better to know straight away, and alter your techniques rather than let it languish and [...]]]></description>
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<p>As with any company, once you start advertising a product or service online, you need to pay particular attention to the results. If a advertising plan is not doing the job, it is better to know straight away, and alter your techniques rather than let it languish and disappear, costing you both money and time.</p>
<p>In an effort to comprehend the principals of investments of any sort, you should know the best way to assess ROI. ROI represents return on investment. It sounds easy enough. The amount you spend on marketing vs. the amount you distribute. If it were actually that easy no one would have a problem seeing if they&#8217;re getting their money&#8217;s worth. ROI consists of a basic equation: GROSS profit take away advertising and marketing investment, divided by that marketing investment. That will offer you a percentage of income. In the event you produced $100,000 and had to pay $30,000 to create it you would then have a little greater than a 2% gain. Fair enough, however is that adequate to know for sure?</p>
<p>Unfortunately many newbie internet marketers forget to keep tabs on every little thing they pay out. You need to figure expenses to manufacture a product, ship it to you, ship it to consumers, in addition to all connected internet charges such as internet sites, landing pages, graphic designers, and many others. Determining ROI is hard enough with just one product, but if you have several it might truly become tricky, particularly when they each share a few of the investment decision costs, such as web site space. You should be capable of break down the actual portion each utilizes, because it is essential to track individual goods. You could have a really healthy and well balanced company, however, if you have a few products not pulling their weight, or perhaps even worse, losing you lots of bucks, it could appear that the total organization is in terrible shape.</p>
<p>Given that online marketing is so simple to get into, many people that have never ran an enterprise previously begin online businesses. They have never had to evaluate earnings, so when they see $100,000 revenue, and figure the big fees they remember shelling out as about $30,000, they think they are in the money, however cannot understand why they&#8217;re penniless.</p>
<p>Take some time right from the start of your internet business, and build a spread sheet to help keep a record of all fees, from the most significant to the smallest. Break down the pay out of expenses to incorporate both general expenses shared by all products, and fees that are distinct to a particular product. Do that even if you only have one product or service at the time you start out. You never know where you will go following that, and having the accounting down pat at the start will make any type of changes you make in the future much simpler.</p>
<p>You cannot track ROI excessively. If you did day after day estimations, it could be a little excessive, but it is significantly better to be extremely careful, rather than to dismiss them, or only calculate your income annually.</p>
<p>Being aware of your business&#8217;s correct net worth can not just help you figure out what is working, and what is not, it can help you evaluate which campaigns are functioning so when it comes time, if you need a financial loan to expand, or get through a tough place, it will help financiers appreciate you&#8217;ve got something beneficial and well worth taking a risk on.</p>
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<p>Internet affiliate marketing is known as a web-based income machine for both newbies and professional online marketers at the same time. It&#8217;s relatively easy to start with, plus it does not cost much, if any money to do it. A winner in many ways. However, it is not foolproof. A lot of beginning web entrepreneurs begin having ideas of heaps of cash, as well as grand dreams merely to give up in discouragement. The problem is not with affiliate marketing but with the methods which are used to handle it. There is 1 deadly error a lot of newbies make, they become scattered.</p>
<p>Some new internet marketers get scattered due to frustration, other folks simply because they can&#8217;t select only one item to back.</p>
<h2>The Problem of Frustration</h2>
<p>The anxious newbie entrepreneurs manifest in two different ways. The 1st set gets started thinking that they should start many associate campaigns to achieve the maximum visibility. The idea is apparently to post numerous diverse promotions and hope just one hits big, or perhaps a good deal of them demonstrate just a little income to make 1 significant profit.</p>
<p>The 2nd set of frantic newbie web marketers do begin with only one product, and these people work it diligently for a couple of months and expect it&#8217;s going to kick off and make lots of money a month instantly. Maybe they&#8217;ve used the glamorous tips of a number of the teachers ensuring easy and fast riches utilizing affiliate marketing. Real truth be told, you can find riches, however it&#8217;s work. If it was not work, almost everyone would probably do it, and it also probably would not reward well. If these people fail to start to see instantaneous income in the levels that they have imagined, they begin to get anxious and start hunting for the item that can do that for them, and very soon they&#8217;re working similar to the scatter online marketer from the initial set of frantic marketers.</p>
<h2>The Choice Predicament</h2>
<p>And the second sort of online marketer that becomes swept up in the scatter method of affiliate marketing is the one that sees many excellent items that they genuinely have faith in, that they can&#8217;t pick. There are plenty of excellent products. A lot of those items have proven internet track records. It really is difficult to choose, nevertheless, you have to.</p>
<h2>Steering clear of the Scatter</h2>
<p>The real key to staying away from the scatter as a result of desperation is usually to be reasonable regarding how quickly your online earnings will build up. Brick and mortar businesses take a while to build and so do web based ones. The truth is that it is really simpler online, additionally, the overhead is almost nil makes the internet business a lot more stable, but it still needs a lot of hard work and time to get it to where it&#8217;s making a income. If you are anxious for money, try working part time, or preserving your daytime work for those who have one as you create your business online.</p>
<h2>The best way to Find the Appropriate Product to advertise</h2>
<p>In case you simply are unable to decide on the best item, and feel motivated to market each and every good idea around, quit and relax. To begin with, the whole thought of focusing on one, or perhaps at the most two things to start with does not imply you can&#8217;t ever promote another product. It means that you ought to focus all of your time and energy on each of them individually until finally they take off before adding more.</p>
<p>Select your niche market 1st. Select things that you are passionate about with regards to your theme. If it is weight reduction, fitness, cooking, offshore fishing or basket weaving, it is best that you decide on things you can identify with so that you can advertise the linked item using that same zeal and even authority. Needless to say, you don&#8217;t need to enjoy it, but many sales representatives, whether or not they operate online and / or in the real world, will confirm that the best sales agents have faith in the merchandise they&#8217;re selling.</p>
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<p>Choosing a web hosting provider can be extremely confusing for first time online marketers. You will discover lots to choose from, and the rivalry amongst all of them is fierce. If it were simply a question of choosing the hosting company having the lowest priced service, the decision would be a little easier.</p>
<p>Even if that is your main condition when deciding on a host, you have to consider the main features to decide if those costs will last, and if they do not exactly what the actual price is for the services after the demo phase is finished.</p>
<p>Price, however is not the very most effective criteria for choosing a web host. It&#8217;s fine to be cost conscious, especially when beginning a business, however there are lots of additional aspects of website hosting that may make discount prices not such a good deal. So how do you know if you&#8217;re getting everything you need whenever you pick the best price?</p>
<h2>Is Free Of Charge Genuinely Free?</h2>
<p>The initial thing you may see when looking for a web host is the large number of companies offering web space for your website for free. Appears fantastic, right? I mean that reduces your overhead a whole lot if you don&#8217;t have to cover a month-to-month, or yearly bill for the online spot to place all your sales materials.</p>
<p>Free of charge isn&#8217;t really all it&#8217;s cracked up to be, however. Particularly when you&#8217;re focusing on a career in marketing. Free of charge makes a person look cheap to your viewers. Free websites are hard to make clean feeling squeeze pages on too, but even if you&#8217;re hosting a store front, or associate weblog, it&#8217;ll be littered with the internet host&#8217;s adverts. That&#8217;s the way they make their funds when they don&#8217;t charge you for the space.</p>
<p>Free services might also limit your potential to market on the site. Although it&#8217;s your website, it is really their internet land as it were, and so they own the rights to it, and can dictate everything you do with it. Many no cost web space hosts are aimed toward giving sites to ordinary people who would like individual weblogs, a fun web page for his or her family, and so forth, not for professional marketers trying to promote goods off their web pages. If you do select a no cost web host for the website, be sure to have a look at TOS, terms of use, to be sure marketing oriented pages are allowed.</p>
<h2>Services to Look For</h2>
<p>No matter what webhosting company you choose, be sure you look into their control panel. The user interface is your command center for the web page. It&#8217;s where you have the web site files, and may even incorporate a website creator that can be used to generate pages right online. The control panel also is where you will see email options for the web page, File transfer protocol importing functions, and perhaps add-ons including WordPress, or maybe internet commerce store fronts.</p>
<p>Make sure the host&#8217;s cpanel is simple to work with, and that it works properly with your computer. They aren&#8217;t all the same, and the amount of complexity in use needs to be in line with your current expertise. If you are not a programmer, it needs to easily be understood, not to mention guide you through all the operations obtainable.</p>
<h2>Data transfer</h2>
<p>At the start, most marketers do not have to worry too much concerning bandwidth. You aren&#8217;t going to be getting the huge traffic which could increase the risk for web page to experience down periods as a result of going above data transfer useage. Nonetheless, when your site traffic grows, if the webpage does not have enough data transfer useage, there will be numerous occasions readers come to your website only to end up being greeted with an errors page. It&#8217;s likely they won&#8217;t come back.</p>
<p>Make sure to do your homework when selecting a web site hosting server, and get the best to suit your budget. Even if you choose one which is affordable, or perhaps cheap, ensure you can use it easily, and it complies with all your website traffic requirements.</p>
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