Yes it looks good and it probably is but what’s the point in buying it when you could well end up competing against hundreds (perhaps even thousands) of membership sites offering the exact same thing you are?

Out of those hundreds of competitors, many are going to be big players with huge lists already so they’ll have a jump on the average IM’er from the start. While the newbie is still unpacking Sourcecode millions, others will be quickly established and the marketplace will be flooded before they’ve even started.

The average Joe trying to convince folk to join their version of Traffic Python (the software that comes with Sourcecode Millions) instead of Guru bob’s is not going to easy.

It will probably end in a price war with people giving away more and more to try and entice new members and in the end most will be lucky to get back the $1300 Sourcecode Millions cost them.

So why hasn’t Brett announced how many will be sold? After all, in the original seminar he said he hadn’t yet decided but it would be strictly limited although he hadn’t yet come to a decision on the exact numbers.

As I’ve posted comments on the Sourcecode Millions blog asking this question and sent an email as per instructions if you ‘have any presale questions’ and have yet to receive a reply, it seems he still hasn’t decided what the cut off will be.

Call me a sinical bastard but my guess is the last 50 Sourcecode Millions will be announced once every last possible sale has been squeezed from the honey train.

When every list has been mailed to death and all fresh ideas for bonuses have dried up, that announcement of “the last few available” may well squeeze another $50K into the piggy bank.

If I remember right it was Marc from PLRPro who advised me some years ago that if I was to take this game seriously I needed to use either Aweber or GetResponse as my autoresponder service, all other similar services were merely pretenders.

Being new, being me and being a smart arse, I decided not to listen and shopped around to find myself a bargain basement ‘pretender’ called emailaces.

Since then I’ve built lists of over:

7000+ UK homeowners who have hired the services of a builder and had major renovation work done (priceless).

2000+ would be internet marketers.

1000+ Americans worried about identity theft.

About 10 other smaller lists covering indegestion, back problems etc etc.

Value of above? I’m going to say a grand a month……..minimum.

Last week my bank phoned to say they believed my dedit card had been compromised online and they would not be accepting anymore transactions via the card in question and a new one would be in the post asap.

The card arrived a few days ago so I logged in to my Paypal account and added the new card. Once the 2 small payments had been taken via the card to confirm it was mine, it was all set up.

I should point out at this point that any card attached to my paypal account has not been used for at least 2 years. I get money paid into my account every day from sales made and I never completely empty the account.

No problems so far…

I then cancelled the old card from my Paypal account as per bank instructions only to instantly receive 14 emails from Paypal each telling me a subscription payment had been cancelled and would no longer be taken from my account in the future.

These included memberships such as SEnuke, LinkVana, Backlink Solutions, Nichebot, HostNine, SEO Hosting, a pile of Hostgator accounts and EmailAces.

Dave Kelly’s support guy from LinkVana emailed literally within minutes to ask if I had “really” cancelled or was it a problem with Paypal? HostNine and Hostgator responded to my tickets within an hour to confirm they wouldn’t cancel anything. Everyone else responded within 24 hours to confirm it would not be a problem. Everyone that is apart from emailaces.

The following is a copy and paste of the email I got from emailaces within minutes of Paypal cancelling:

“the Email Aces account referenced above will no longer be billed and is considered to be PERMANENTLY cancelled. We can not re-add you to the system, or re-enable your account for any reason.”

I’ve emailed their support. I’ve filled in their support forms. I’ve emailed their Paypal address. I’ve submitted a Paypal dispute.

My emails ask…

• If their credit and debit cards have expiry dates?

• Why they see fit to cancel accounts without any confirmation request?

• Why if I pay monthly on the 26th should I be locked out of my account with at least a week to go of this month even if I did cancel the subscription?

Not a word of reply as yet. I can’t log in to download my lists and yes I know I should have backed them up but do you?

Lesson learned. From now on its big players only for me. If you are using emailaces or similar services (and that goes for cheap hosting as well as autoresponder services) do yourselves a favor and get out while you can do it on your own terms.

I’ve got to spend the rest of the week going around all my sites, setting up new forms and building lists again from scratch!

I can tell you right now, within 10 minutes I was regretting not taking the plunge months ago and adding this tool to my ever growing list of marketing and promotion tools.

The easiest way for me to do an SEnuke review is tell you exactly how I use it because if you’re like me and want your tools to really be ‘automatic’ then this will probably blow your socks off!

Once I’ve checked my email to see how many sales I made while I was asleep, I fire up SEnuke and click on create accounts.

First thing it does is create an email account to use for all the new sign ups. Once thats done, off it goes and creates new accounts at all the top web 2.0 sites, around 70 in all with more being added all the time.

It does all this while I make my first coffee of the morning. I can make my breakfast and leave SEnuke to it because it does all the captcha solving for itself.

Once I’ve had my caffeine fix, SEnuke will be just about done and I can then send it to go and confirm all the accounts by answering the emails required. This takes about 5 minutes.

Now for some promoting. I give SEnuke a keyword phrase and tell it to find me a suitable article on my chosen subject. Next I click the ’spin it for me’ button and it automatically adds the spin syntax to the article. I click the ‘check uniqueness’ and it spins 16 versions and compares them all against each other and tells me if its spun enough (target is 30% difference between each).

Once I’ve added a link or two to the article pointing at the pages I want to promote I hit the publish and off it goes to log in to all those web 2.0 sites and publish a version of the article at each. Just for good measure it drops a link at the bottom of each post linking to the last one it did, making link wheel creation an absolute breeze.

15 minutes later and all done, SEnuke then pings all the new urls just created. It then nukes them all to random bookmarking accounts and just to finish off, submits all the RSS feeds to various RSS Aggregator sites.

The whole process takes about an hour. As you probably already know, or if not I’m sure you can imagine, doing all of the above site and blog creation, article re-writing, site submissions, bookmarking etc. would probably take 3 good days.

So far I have only used it for link building but a lot of the success stories on the forum are from marketers who use it to promote affiliate products direct. It even has a built in market finder which does your market research for you. Enter a keyword and it checks to see if any web 2.0 pages are in the top 20 results. If there are it then checks Clickbank for suitable products to promote.

I signed up for the SEnuke free trial knowing it would have to be really good to get me to add another recurring monthly bill to my Paypal account. After using it just once though, I knew I wouldn’t be parting with it. This is a great piece of kit and I suggest you take it for a test run yourself before the doors close forever because I don’t see any requests for refunds in the forum.

Click here for the free trial.

Click here to read the success stories in the SEnuke forum.

Yep, its free. Now I dare say there is an upsell attached to this but it really is a great piece of software and I use mine at least a couple of times a week.

Assuming there is an offer attached, don’t expect it to be a hard sell. Jason is not a hard sell guy, he lets his products speak for themselves. A founder of Portal Feeder, the first guy to offer Spin Ready PLR, creator of Content Composer which I’ve been singing the praises of for at least a year and the more recently he created Traffic kahuna and PPC Kahuna.

All the above are quality software and membership sites that need no pre-sell so I’m guessing Jason is using his usual tactic of giving away a great piece of software like Article Assistant so that anyone who hasn’t yet come across his suite of tools gets to see just how good his offers are.

Go grab it now as he usually pulls the offer after he reaches a set target.

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If you haven’t heard yet, Authority Loophole is a 100% free link building tool. Set it running and it finds you ‘do follow’ links on Wordpress blogs. In half an hour I found myself a dozen or so related links including a couple of PR5’s.

2 PR5 backlinks from authority sites would normally cost around $150 so not bad for half an hours work!

Authority Loophole works by locating Wordpress blogs that are using a certain plugin that can be ethically manipulated but note, this is NOT a spam tool. Take a look at the video below.

Update: Authority Loophole has now been closed to the public

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The best way to describe CPA is that it reminds me of how easy it was to make fortunes every day with Adsense before Google changed the rules and moved the goal posts.

The biggest similarity is that there is no selling involved. You just drive traffic to the offer and as the offer is usually to get a free gift of some kind, you get the required action.

As usual I bought the traffic for testing purposes. No point in building a site to rank well, setting up a link campaign, writing unique content, submitting articles and all the rest of the work involved if its not going to be a winner.

As it was I still haven’t started building for the winners and I probably won’t. The traffic is dirt cheap and converting really well on the free offers so I figure if it’s not broke why try and fix it?

If you decide to give CPA a try, think of it as arbitrage. Buy the traffic as cheap as you can (forget Adwords) and drive it to the best free offers you can find.

The first thing that will strike you is just how easy it is to give something away, specially if there is a modicum of targeting for your traffic.

I have one offer on the go that’s converting at over 30% and I’m driving traffic at it that’s costing me a couple of cents. It’s making over $300 a day and only took a few hours to set up.

The hardest part to CPA is getting accepted into a network. I was turned down by the first 2 I applied for so lied on the 3rd and got accepted. They want corporations or at least genuine businesses, not IM’ers. Just set up a domain with a corporate website theme and submit that as your main site and you will be good to go.

A one way link is counted as a vote. How much that vote is worth will depend on the popularity of the page that gives the link and whether its on a topic related to the page it is linking to.

Pretty simple and straight forward right? The problem though is when people actually try to aquire these one way links. How do you convince people to let you have a link when they probably understand the value of that link to you?

You should think of one way link building as a 3 tier system. There are low, middle and high quality links.

Low quality one way links. There is a saying that no link is a bad link and these are your low quality links which you can easily get yourself. Social bookmarking, answering questions on Yahoo, forum signatures, article submission, blog comments etc. 

Middle quality one way links. Create a Squidoo lens, a Blogger blog, a Wetpaint site etc. and point a one way link from them to your money pages. All of these Web 2.0 sites are respected by Google and it costs nothing more than your time.

High quality one way links. These are from sites that have high page rank and are closely related to the topic of your own site. To get a one way backlink from a page like this is next to impossible unless you are prepared to pay.

This is because most of the webmasters who own pages with high page ranks know how the system works. They’ve slogged their guts out getting 100’s of low quality links, building dozens of Squidoo and blogger pages to build middle quality links and paid for several high quality one way links.

Link Structure. This is how I organize my link structure because it works for me. I’m not saying its the best but I will say with confidence that it is a million miles away from being the worst.

Google doesn’t like to see anything unnatural. A new 5 page website selling the latest acne treatment which suddenly gets a pile of backlinks is not natural.

I put the money site up and then build a Squidoo Lens, a Blogger blog and a few others. Squidoo and the other Web 2.0 sites can absorb a quick influx of links so I can point several bookmarks to these and submit a few articles to Article Marketing Automation to get the ball rolling.

With a little work you can soon get these some PR, especially if you get active within the communities of the Web 2.0 sites (get a top 10 Lens rank within Squidoo in your category and you will soon be climbing Google).

While I am building up the PR of my Web 2.0 sites I will add no more than 1 or 2 low quality links per day to my money page so that it looks natural. 

As each of the Web 2.0 sites earn some PR I will add a link within the text to my money page, again though slowly to keep it looking natural, perhaps 1 a week.

If I did my keyword research correctly and checked out my competition strength before starting, this should get me at least a top 20, hopefully a top 10 in Google.

For the final push to get the top spot I choose a few one way links on several related sites that have good to high page rank. I get these from Backlinks.com where I can pick up 5 PR4 links for around $20 bucks a month which is an absolute bargain when you see some companies charging 10 times that amount.

From start to finish takes me 3 to 4 months for a keyword with moderate competition, 9 to 12 for moderate to high.

One that stuck out for me was the one from Jason Potash. The email from him states ‘I am going to take you inside and give you some *real* feedback about it (Launch Tree). The good, the bad and the ugly.’

Obviously the video ends with ‘the good’ but its a neat trick. Play the honest reviewer by explaining some low points while at the same time lead the reader to the buy now button and make a killing on affiliate sales. 

As the emails roll in who’s will stand out from the crowd, the ones who’s title screams ‘check out Launch Tree’ or Jason’s that says ‘Launch Tree - Beware Of This’?

Gain the trust of the reader and you can sell them anything!

Just remember though that when someone is recommending something, its usually for their own agender.

I’ve been coaching a friend who fell victim to the credit crunch. “F**k it” he told me, “I’m going to have a go at what you do!”

Seeing as I do affiliate marketing, blogging, list building, PPC, drop shipping, product creation and Adsense I needed to give some thought to what would be best for him and the obvious conclusion was Adsense.

Obvious because once you learn how to make money with Adsense all those other money making ventures suddenly become a lot easier to do.

I’ve read various ’so called’ experts say there is no money in Adsense and I’ve had comments on here along similar lines but they keep depositing 4 figures into my bank account every month thank you very much.

Those 4 figures from Adsense give me the freedom to buy all those crap ebooks that I review here even though I know the chances of  any of them offering me a little nugget of useful info is going to be rare.

It was also Adsense money that gave me the financial freedom to give up the day job and ‘have a go’ at other online ventures without fear of financial failure.

The thing was though that when I first started I couldn’t make money with Adsense. Most people don’t, but once it clicks and you grasp it, you can pretty much make a success of anything online with the added bonus of having the money to have a go at the other things.

To make real money with Adsense you need to be able to research the competition in any given market, you need to understand keyword selection and you need to know how to optimize your pages so they rank well and get Google traffic.

Once you can do that and you are making money with Adsense all the other ways of making money online suddenly seem a lot easier to understand. Learn about pre-selling and creating bonuses for instance and together with the skills you already have you can move into affiliate marketing. Buy a decent course about email marketing and move into list building.

Even PPC is far easier and cheaper if you know how to make money with Adsense.

All things are possible once you know how to choose a market you can compete in and drive traffic to a page, just substitute the info article you would use for making money with Adsense with your offer/sign up and you are good to go.

If you keep flitting from one money making method/scheme to the next, do yourself a favor and get back to basics with Google Adsense because until you master Adsense you are more than likely going to struggle with the others.

I don’t mind one time offers when I’ve just made a purchase. I don’t blame the seller either, I get the picture…….my card is out, I’m in a buying mood so smack me with another pitch.

3 pitches though before I get to the download page? Ouch! Not only that but I’m being told that actually the sales page I read was full of lies because if I really want to know everything you’ve got, I have to buy your OTO or at least one of your OTO’s because this is the really good stuff that you have held back from the product that 2 minutes ago you convinced me to buy by telling me it was ‘no holds barred.’

The eSlumDog Product

eSlumDog is an ebook broken into 15 modules. I’m not sure why yet and I’ve only gone through the first 6 before I got bored stupid and decided to write this review.

Part 1 for instance is a whopping 9 pages of which the first is a splash page, the second is a copywrite notice, the third is blank and the fourth is the contents page. This practice is repeated in all the other modules. Module 2 had 12 pages, module 3 had 28 pages, a biggy but most were full of screen shots!

I had already guessed the angle of eSlumDog before buying, using the leverage of affiliates to market your own digital product and as I’m soon to release a new product, that’s what got me interested in it.

The trouble though with eSlumdog is that the author has written it for the absolute beginner. So much so that its painful to read. Does a beginner really need to see pages of screen shots showing how to sign up with GoDaddy and register a domain name?

The same thing for converting a Word doc to PDF. Pages after pages of screen shots showing how to use CutePDF when surely a link to the download page and a link to the instructions would do?

eSlumDog is full of this type of filler and that’s all it is because there is no need for most of it. I mean, how many 100% newbies that have never even purchased a domain are going to go “I know, I’ll create my own digital product and market it online.”

His target audience should have been the folk who have been playing around for a year with Adsense and affiliate marketing. They know what a pdf ebook is (they should do, they’ve purchased enough of them) and they certainly know how to register a domain name.

The writing throughout is full of typos which I can live with but it’s also full of glaring holes. Here’s an example of what I mean when the author attempts to explain split testing. The following is under a heading of “So what is split testing I hear you ask?”

Let’s suppose you don’t know what colour to keep for your landing page…you get stuck between green and red…now the question is, which colour will look more appealing to the visitor?

This is where you can split test to find out…make two versions of the landing page and call them 1 and 2…1 has the colour green and 2 has the colour red…now send bulk emails to your prospects…except the links are slightly different, some prospects get page 1 and some get page 2.

OK hands up all complete beginners who don’t understand what a PDF is, don’t know how to register a domain and don’t know what split testing is but are in possession of their own email list that they can bulk email to at will?

The above is no good for the beginner (no mail list) and just too bland for anyone with a little experience. I’ve found plenty of these holes and I’ve only read 6 parts so far.

One of the early modules discusses choosing your topic and you are advised to find something already selling and repeat it but beef up your product to make it appear to be of more value.

I’m pretty sure the author followed his own advice after he read the excellent “24 Hour Hot Product Formula” by Chris Rempel that came out a few months ago. He’s just fluffed it out, got some professional graphics done and written it up for the complete beginner.

If you are a complete beginner though you really ought to get some experience before you dive in with your own product and if you aren’t a beginner and want to avoid all the filler and brain numbing step by step instructions complete with diagrams, buy Chris Rempels version. Its a far better read than eSlumDog and its a lot cheaper too.