Hitler finally comes to grips with the reality of being an affiliate. This ones the best one yet!

FYI: This is an ultra late review of Cell Phone Cash that came out last year around the 4th quarter of 2010. I meant to get this out after Cell Phone Cash released but got sucked into other internet marketing programs. Anyway on to the review!

Cell Phone Cash is a brand new make money program from Mack Michaels, the founder of the ultra successful Maverick Money Makers. Membership to this program costs $67 monthly.

No it’s not about selling cell phones or mobile plans. Cell Phone Cash is about you direct linking affiliate products via Admob, an ad network similar to Adwords, but instead of advertising on internet search engines like Google you actually promote products via cell phones with internet browsing capabilities like Apple’s iPhone or Verizon’s Droid.

In the member’s area the layout of Cell Phone Cash is very well thought out and simple to use. Unfortunately access to a community forum is only available if you join the Maverick Money Makers program which of course isn’t free.

Cell Phone Cash is broken up into an 8 week course. First weeks training course consists of eight high definition videos which I quickly gobbled up in an hour. Turns out you can’t continue to the next week’s videos until the following week.

Doh!

Oddly you’ll get a feeling that the last video of the very first course was actually the real meat and potatoes of the whole program. Everything else seems like filler material to justify people paying and using the program. However for those new to internet marketing it’ll definitely prove helpful.

As of right now the average bid prices on Admob are super low at 3 cents! These are unheard of bidding prices that only existed years ago when Google’s Adwords was still brand new to the scene. Yes its still possible to get 3 cent bids on Adwords but that’s a whole different topic I wont go into.

One of my pet peeves was that your ad getting approved on Admob can take anywhere from 24 hours to several days. Although, a few of my campaigns was approved immediately after I complained in the Admob community forums.

It’s simply crazy as to how much traffic there is on the mobile search engines. With Admob you have to add funds into your account with $50 being the minimum. A few of my campaigns went from $50 to zero within only a few hours of it going live! The average impressions I got were around 190,000 with 1,600 clicks.

Simply amazing.

A serious flaw to Admob is that you don’t have control over the keyword bidding so your ads end up being shown to everyone regardless if they have any interest in your product. This increases the amount low quality clicks.

One of the oddest things happened a few days into the course. Mack Michaels released a statement on the Cell Phone Cash website indicating that they don’t recommend Cell Phone Cash users to promote money-making programs on cell phones due to the nature of most people not interested in reading a long sales letter and then pulling out their credit card to make a purchase.

It begs the question then why did they mentioned in the training videos in the first place that they recommended make-money products because it was profitable on cell phones?

Of course after this statement was released I did lose all faith in the program. It was obvious they were promoting a product they themselves never used.

I’ll have to be honest. Even with the huge impressions and clicks ninety percent of my campaigns were not profitable. The only one that generated sales was, not surprisingly, my iTunes campaign which produced about 50 sales with a net profit of $3.50.

With an investment of $50 I made $3.50 back. Yay!

Summary

The damaging aspect of the statement that was released by Mack Michaels hurts this programs credibility. However marketing on cell phones still has huge potential but at this early of a stage it proves too risky since you have no control where your ads will be shown.

Pros

• Huge untapped potential for marketing on cell phones
• Costs extra to access community forums
• Training videos make the learning process very easy
• 60 day money back guarantee

Cons

• Lots of filler material so for experienced marketers there’s nothing new here except for the module on marketing on cell phones.
• Statement released by Mack Michaels proves very damaging to the credibility of this program.
• You have no control over keyword bidding with Admob so your ads are shown everywhere.
• Its hard to justify $67 a month for a program that you can complete in a day.

Important: “All of the reviews on my website are REAL reviews of programs that I have tried myself and paid good money for. Just like you I got fed up with reading fake review websites where the author had actually never tried the program. You won’t get any of that BS here. This is the read deal.

I’d also like to note that my reviews will include scary affiliate links so essentially I’ll make a few bucks if you decide to check out the program yourself. Yay! Thanks for the support!”

~ Phong Khang

Founder of HeroicBlogger.com

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You ever get that feeling that people are secretly avoiding you? More on that in a minute.

You’re never safe at the mall.

At every corner there’s a death trap of salesman or woman just waiting to pounce on their next victim.

They don’t care if you want the product or not. They just want you to buy it.

Luckily their radius of travel is less than 10 feet from their original location.

And then you’re reminded why you never visit the mall anymore.

You finally get home and you think you’re safe. But not so fast. Your nephews already there and he’s already begun pitching about a new vacuum cleaner that has the sucking power of a fighter jet.

It’ll only cost you $2,000!

Of course now you avoid him at all costs as well.

And then you’re online chatting with another marketer whose selling tactics involves stopping people dead on their tracks and then engulfing the poor soul with an in-your-face sales pitch. He actually believed that people didn’t know they wanted it until you showed it to them.

Kind of reminds you of the snakes at the mall and your annoying nephew doesn’t it? But most importantly of all…

Does it remind you of your own cold selling tactics? Are people avoiding you?

This old fashioned way of cold selling no longer works. But honestly did it ever?

Here’s the new and improved approach you should be doing.

Sell only to people who want your product and avoid others like a plague!

Its so common sense isn’t it?

Not only will people like you more but they may also start seeing you as a reliable person they can turn to when they need something.

It also has the nice added effect of increasing your profits because now you’re only selling to those that actually want your product.

Another awesome side bonus is that now you’re stressing less because you’re no longer doing any cold sales.

How awesome is that?

But wait. What if your product is hard to promote and people don’t really want it?

Ditch it.

The effort and time you spend trying to promote it could’ve been used towards promoting a product that people actually want.

Find a pain and provide a solution. Your customers will line up with money in hand.

What’s your experience with cold selling?

Nothing beats knowing your work is getting done while you’re at the beach on a 2 month vacation enjoying a nice cold drink made possible by the wonders of outsourcing.

One of the awesome ways of automating your online business that will produce results instantly is by outsourcing your repetitive tasks or other parts of your business to a virtual assistant from overseas.

In case you haven’t read my review of ReplaceMyself, it’s is where I hired my virtual assistant from the Philippines for a $180 a month for full time work. Another benefit besides the low cost is the fact that most Filipinos from the Philippines are fluent in English.

If your so inclined to you could also do what the owner of ReplaceMyself did and hire a virtual assistant to check your email!

Personally for me I needed a virtual assistant because my online business got to a point where I needed an extra hand to handle the other areas of my online business that I couldn’t get to which were usually repetitive tasks.

If I wanted to I could also hire a virtual assistant who had talent in a specific area that I was lacking in. Never do you want to waste your time learning something new when you can outsource it for so cheap.

Everything in your business that you hand off to your virtual assistant should contain clear written instructions that are simple to read and understand. Make sure you keep these instructions in a folder so that you can use them again down the road when you hire new virtual assistants.

Be sure to go over these instructions with your virtual assistant before you let them loose and make sure they full comprehend it. Our usual meetings took place on Gmail’s glorious chat box.

You could right off the bat hire them when your online business is still new but from my experience it’s very easy to get into a situation where you run out of work for them to do so they end up doing misc tasks that produce nothing for you and costs you money in the end. This is why early planning is essential.

You do have several options however.

You could hire a virtual assistant who has the benefit of a special skill in an area that you may be lacking in such as creating websites. That way they’re building your website while you concentrate on building content. These guys cost a little more but definitely still cheaper than hiring anyone local or in the USA.

You could also hire your virtual assistant on a temporary basis where he only works for you when you actually need him.  Be sure to let them know early one what they’re getting themselves into and how long they can expect to stay hired.

One of the ultimate goals and benefits of hiring and maintaining a relationship with your first virtual assistant is so that eventually when your online business starts taking off you can hire more virtual assistants who are then managed by the first guy you hired thus freeing yourself so that you can concentrate on more important things, like perfecting your sun tan at the beach on a 2 month long vacation.

Hence the term “replace myself.”

There are many positives and benefits to outsourcing your work overseas however don’t rush in until you have a clear plan on how you’re going to use your virtual assistant effectively.

Oh, you haven’t hired a virtual assistant yet? Hop on over to ReplaceMyself via my affiliate link and check’em out.

Here’s an ultra quick rundown on Google’s Adwords Quality Score. This is Google’s way of automatically selecting only the highest quality ads to be shown next to natural searches while punishing low quality ads with high bids and horrible positions.

This is meant to enhance the user experience. It all makes sense if you think about it.

With my own personal experience I’ve managed to get my quality score maxed out at 10 and have been rewarded with extremely low bid of 6 cents on a highly competitive keyword. This keyword was “reverse phone lookup” which receives 1.2 million searches a month on Google! People still don’t believe me when I tell them this. Here’s a picture to prove it:

Super low keyword bids made possible by high Quality Score

Here are 3 ways you can improve your Quality Score today:

1. Improve your click-through-rate (CTR).
   How do you do this? Split test your ads. The longer you have your ads running with a good CTR the better chances your quality score will increase.
2. Aim for Relevance
   Relevance is king at Google. When selecting keywords make sure you also put them in your ad copy, url and the website destination. Relevance improves your chances of profitability or generating a lead.
3. Website loading times and useful content
   Google now takes into consideration you’re landing page or website loading times. Unfortunately sometimes you have no control over this if your host puts you on one of their slower servers.

   Your website should also contain useful information and simple navigation. If you collect personal information then definitely include a privacy policy. Yes, Google’s bots look for this and if you don’t have it your Quality Score takes a hit.

And that’s it. It’s the same steps I’ve used to get my quality score to 10 and lower my keyword bids to 6 cents. The concepts are simple, however getting all three to work together in unison takes time and effort.

When it all comes down to it Google’s main goal with their Quality Score is to improve the user experience by only allowing advertisers who also abide by these rules while punishing those that don’t.

This article is part of a 4 part mini Adwords tutorial. To learn more check out Adwords Secrets Google Doesn’t Want You To Know About.

Split testing is one of the more advanced yet lesser known strategies that many ppc pros keep close to their heart and I’ll be showing you how to do it properly. You’ll definitely need to know this too if you want to improve your click through rates without wasting money.

If you don’t split testing then how else will you know if your ad copy is working?

No doubt split testing is such a simple concept and will be the number reason why you’ll succeed in your ad campaigns.

Basically with split testing your competing two very similar ads against each other to see which one gets the most clicks and the highest click-through-rates. The two ads are created within the same campaign.

After 50 or 60 clicks you should be able to tell which one is the winner and which one is the loser. After deleting the loser you create another similar ad to the winning ad. You make one small change to the new ad and then you let it run for another 50 to 60 clicks.

However if both ads show very similar clicks and click-through-rates then let it run for a little longer until one of them is the winner.

You repeat the process over and over again until you eventually end the campaign.

The changes you make to the second ad should be very minor. The tiniest of changes can have a dramatic change in click through rates. You don’t want to make the second add too different since it’ll defeat the whole process of split testing in the first place.

Here are two examples from a past campaign:

Notice the difference? Always keep your changes small.

Before you start split testing go into your settings tab and change the ad rotation to: Rotation: show ads more evenly. View image below

Critical: Don't forget to change this!

Reason why you’d want to do this is so that Adwords will rotate both ads evenly so that your split testing will be more accurate.

Its pretty safe to say if you come across someone who is split testing their Adwords campaign then its sure bet they are an advanced ppc marketer. Split testing is the magic formula that will increase your profits and improve your click-through-rates.

Stay tuned for Part 3 where I’ll go into detail on how to improve your quality score. I’ll show you how I got mine to 10!

This article is part of a 4 part mini Adwords tutorial. To learn more check out Adwords Secrets Google Doesn’t Want You To Know About.

No doubt we can all agree the internet has opened up a world of endless money making opportunities.

Yet ironically the question that gets most asked is “how do I make money online?”

It’s pretty clear that when it comes to this subject finding honest reliable information is rare and actually has the negative effect of making you lose money instead.

Enough is enough.

I’ve decided to create a guide called 20 Ways To Make Buckets Of Money Online to help those in need of a good money making resource to turn to.

This guide lists 20 extremely juicy money making ideas that have generated six figure incomes for those that have dedicated their time and energy to make it work.

It’s safe to say this guide is well worth over $997 in value due to its revealing content but I’m not interested in selling it. I’m giving it away for totally free.

This is definitely the guide you need to get if you’ve been wondering how to make money online.

Here’s one example from the guide that you can use right away:

4. Direct Linking

A very popular way of making fast money online is by direct linking with affiliate products using Adwords. How it works is that instead of directing your customers to a website you created instead you direct them to the affiliate’s website via your affiliate link. When they buy the product, you get the commission.

Direct linking is popular because you don’t need a website. For those interested in going this route I highly recommend you don’t jump in until you fully understand how Adwords and direct linking works since it’s so easy lose lots of money quick.

One program that I’ve used in the past that taught me everything there is to direct linking with Adwords is the Google Cash Detective program or GCD created by the father of direct linking himself Chris Carpenter. This is the program to join if you want to get serious with direct linking.

There are even better money making ideas within the guide so enter your email below and get yours right now. In addition you’ll also get real down to earth internet marketing tips via my blog updates.

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One of the quickest methods I’ve used to drive traffic to my websites and get it indexed right away is with Google’s juggernaut Adwords program. Yes, SEO works as well but that can take weeks before you start seeing any results.

In this 4-part Adwords mini tutorial I’ll go over some of the more advanced tactics I myself have used to reduce my keyword bids from $1 to a crazy low 6 cents on a highly competitive keyword that gets 1.2 million searches a month on Google. Let me tell you 6 cent keyword bids will do you wonders.

If you’re pretty familiar with the basics with Adwords then I’m sure you’ll have no trouble at all following along.

Here’s what I’ll be covering with this 4 part Adwords mini tutorial:

Part 1: Getting Your Adwords Campaign Locked and Loaded
Part 2: How to Increase Profits By Split Testing
Part 3: 3 Easy Adwords Tips To A Quality Score of 10
Part 4: Ad copy that gets people to click and which ad positions are most profitable (coming soon)

This 4 part series will be spread out throughout several days so be sure to check back every now and then. Here is the first one to get you started.

PART 1: GETTING YOUR ADWORDS CAMPAIGN LOCKED AND LOADED

With any Adwords campaign you need to be constantly tweaking and testing it to milk out the maximum number of clicks while trying to achieve a high click-through-rate.

When first creating a new ad campaign under the “Networks, devices, and extensions” turn off Content Network and leave Google search and search partners on.

Why?

You want to create a separate campaign for both Search Engines and Content Networks so that it’ll be easier to distinguish the clicks and click-through-rates for both. Yes you’ll use the same keyword bids and Ad copy for both campaigns.

For Devices you can turn off iPhones and other mobile devices if the destination page is not optimized for the mobile devices.

Turn off content network and Mobile devices

If your direct linking to a sales page you wouldn’t want to turn this on since majority of the time sales pages contain flash media that mobile browsers can’t display properly as of yet. Also add to the fact that majority of mobile users aren’t in the mindset to buy, rather they’re looking for entertainment and news.

Anything else that I didn’t mention here you should leave them as is. This is about it for getting your Adwords campaign locked and loaded for the advanced tactics that I’ll be going over in the coming days.

I’ve barely scratched the surface so be sure to stay tuned for the rest of this 4 part guide on Adwords Secrets Google Doesn’t Want You To Know. It’s revealing stuff you don’t want to miss.

Yes, I am a perfectionist.

I’ve decided to revise the review blogs that I’ve created by implementing a new structure that will make it easier for you and all my other fellow readers.

The reviews will be broken into different blocks with its own mini heading:

• What is the program?
• What is it about?
• Who is this program for?
• What can you expect to get out of it?
• Why this program isn’t perfect
• My own results?
• My advice
• My conclusion
• Pros and cons

So why am I doing this?

We all know nobody really reads blog posts anymore. They either quickly skim and only read whatever jumps out at them or they bookmark it for later and never actually come back to read it.

I’m sure you’ll find this new way of my doing the reviews very helpful.

I’m also thinking of doing a heroic meter that rates these programs from a rating of 1 to 10, with 10 being the best.

Let me know what you guys think.

Outsourcing.

To some the very word conjures thoughts of evil corporate companies sending our jobs overseas, but for business owners it is a magical word that conveys success.

Some of the richest people in the world didn’t get to where they were today by doing everything themselves. They either delegated their projects to other people who specializes in that area or they simply outsourced their work overseas.

No longer do you have to be a big shot or a big corporate company to outsource. Now there is a company that specializes in helping the average person outsource any part of their online business overseas for a very affordable price.

For the online entrepreneur like you and I, outsourcing is the key to automating our online business and to ultimate success.

Now I have to admit if I were to stumble onto this website accidentally I would have probably exited the page within a heartbeat, however it was referred to me by one of my highly respected mentors so I decided to give it a chance.

I’ve use this service to hire my own personal virtual assistant from overseas at an incredible price and I have no regret in doing so.  My VA has always been polite, honest and has always done wonderful work for me so I can definitely vouch for the credibility of this website.

I must warn you however. Yes the front of the site is a sales page and it doesn’t do a great job of convincing you that the program is legit however like the saying “don’t judge a book by its cover” it holds true in this case:

What is This Program About?

Replacemyself finds you personal virtual assistants from the Philippines for as cheap as $180 a month for full time work, which was the rate I paid for my virtual assistant.

Their main goal is to help you find a virtual assistant who would essentially replace you in running your online business so that you can spend your timing doing whatever else you want.

Here’s what you can expect to get out of this program:

• What is outsourcing and how anyone can do it cheaply
• How to hire your first virtual assistant from the Philippines
• How to properly train your virtual assistant for quick results
• How to pay your virtual assistant and keep track of their progress
• and much more…

Ok so you’re probably thinking why in the world would you want to outsource to the Philippines? Why not India?

One very good reason is because the majority of people in the Philippines are more westernized unlike in India. So you can be sure that they will understand how you think and know what it is that you expect from them.

From my own personal experience this is very true.

$180 a month full time sounds cruel and sweat shop like but take note that the American dollar is currently much stronger than their currency. Essentially $180 over there is like $1,600 over here.

Everything is modernized over there and they have access to just about everything we do.

Upon joining Replacemyself you’ll immediately notice several training modules that are available which as it turns out is not for you, rather is for your virtual assistant. A big gripe for me was that more training videos were only unlocked once per month!

Doh!

However the training videos are quite good and reduce the time consuming task of you having to create them yourself. You can always unlock more training videos buy purchasing them, however at $97 per video it isn’t cheap.

No, your virtual assistant will not walk away from you and decide to launch their own website after seeing the training videos. From my own personal experience they’d rather that you pay them then for them to go out and try to figure this whole internet business themselves.

Within Replacemyself it’s not too hard finding a virtual assistant with experience in programming, graphic arts or html. However the rates for these guys usually cost a little more but it’s still way cheaper than hiring anybody here in the states to do it for you.

Definitely take advantage of this if you can.

You’ll also get access to their nifty project site where you can create projects, assign due dates and much more. Very nice to have to keep track of their progress and keep you sane.

Hand selected and pre-screened virtual assistants are available at a premium of $300, not including you paying your virtual assistants wage and the monthly $97 membership fee.

Yea, it starts to add up. But still cheaper than hiring someone in the USA.

However there is another section within Replacemyself that lists unscreened virtual assistants. This is much cheaper and was the route I took. You’ll have to prescreen them yourself but it’s worth it.

My Own Results

The majority of the Filipino virtual assistants are young but they are super reliable and very polite. From my own personal experience if you give them clear instructions and allow them to watch the training videos they’ll do wonders for you.

With my virtual assistant I’ve been able to delegate repetitive tasks and free up a ton of time where I can focus on marketing and promoting my websites.

This produced results for me immediately!

If you wanted to you could have them run your whole online business for you while you sit back and collect the checks. However I don’t recommend you go this route right away. Its best to build a relationship with your virtual assistant first and then when the trust is there you can take this route.

Closing Comments

By outsourcing repetitive tasks or areas of your business that you don’t have expertise on, you can truly accelerate your chances of succeeding online. Or maybe you just want more free time to spend with your family and your passions. Replacemyself makes this possible. I’ve seen awesome results for myself and I’m sure you will too.

I understand for some people outsourcing is a touchy subject however if accelerated success and extra free time  is what your looking for then do not hesitate to give this wonderful service a try.

I’m sure you have tons of questions as I did when I first signed up. Please leave your questions or comments below and I’ll do my best to answer them.

Hire Your Own Personal Virtual Assistant From Replacemyself Today

PROS

• Outsourcing gives you more time to focus on more important areas of your business or extra time with your family
• It’ll be the number one investment you’ll made that will produced instant results and increases your changes of success online
• No longer do you have to be a big corporate company with deep pockets to outsource
• Majority of Filipino virtual assistants are reliable and honest
• Costs less then hiring anyone local or in the USA
• Training Videos are very helpful

CONS

• After paying $97 to join, you find out quickly that you have to fork over $300 for a pre-screened virtual assistant. Good thing you have other options within the site.
• Sales page does little to convince you the site is legit. Good thing it gets way better when your inside.
• New training videos are released at a snail crawling pace of once per month. Several training videos are available when you sign up and your virtual assistant can finish these within a few hours. Good thing these training videos are very well made.

Important: “All of the reviews on my website are REAL reviews of programs that I have tried myself and paid good money for. Just like you I got fed up with reading fake review websites where the author had actually never tried the program. You won’t get any of that BS here. This is the read deal.

I’d also like to note that my reviews will include scary affiliate links so essentially I’ll make a few bucks if you decide to check out the program yourself. Yay! Thanks for the support!”

~ Phong Khang
Founder of HeroicBlogger.com