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How To Build A Website From WordPress

If you want to know how to build a website from WordPress then look no further.

It has been pretty well determined that WordPress is the top choice when it comes to building a website these days. I don’t have to spend a lot time here to explain why, it is simply the best way to go. Especially if you are interested in attracting visitors to your website, which most people indeed are.

That being said, understand first of all we are speaking about WordPress from WordPress.org not WordPress.com, and yes there is a difference. In a nut shell, WordPress.org is what you want. It gives you the flexibility to create a great website that can easily be set up to attract visitors through Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and allows the user to use a variety of plugins, which add a huge amount of flexibility. You can research the differences between these two formats, for this post focuses on how to build a website from WordPress.

The flexibility of using WordPress.org does come with a price in that you need to provide your own hosting and you have to maintain the site. There is also a small learning curve and you do have to maintain the site and add content to it.

Do keep in mind, however, the benefits do far out way the costs. You can make a lot of money with your own WordPress website. Most people realize that you can make money with a website, although many do not know how to build a website to make money.

My #1 Recommended platform for building a website from WordPress

As mentioned before, you need to provide your own hosting and you have to maintain your site to use WordPress.org, and there is a learning curse involved with using this platform. There are many website builders available that provide these services, but none of them offers as much as SiteRubix. So, you may be wondering,

what is SiteRubix?

SiteRubix is a website builder that utilizes WordPress and allows anyone to create their own website and is supported by Wealthy Affiliate (an internet marketing training platform) where you are given step by step instructions on setting up your own site. But it doesn’t stop there… It is far more than just another website builder.

What is the cost of SiteRubix?

SiteRubix offers a free version and a paid version. As with any website product the paid version gives you more value than the free version, however, the free version allows you to try out the product for free before even forking over your credit card (wow, what a unique concept).

What you get from the free version of SiteRubix

  • 2 free websites on a.siterubix.com sub-domain
  • free hosting provided
  • Getting Started Internet Marketing Training Course
    • includes 10 lessons
  • No Credit Card required

What you get from the paid version of SiteRubix

  • 25 websites on a.siterubix sub-domain, 25 websites on your own domain
  • free hosing provided
  • Full training (watch video walk through below for full details)
  • $49 a month
  • Much more…keep reading

The SiteRubix platform offers 7 different awesome features that we will discuss below in detail and they are:

How To Build A Website From WordPress Video

Before I get into detail on these 7 features I would like to walk you through the process itself:

Now that you see how the process works and all that is available through this platform we can discuss in detail how each of the 7 features of the SiteRubix website builder can skyrocket your online presence and help keep you accountable to your goals.

Site Manager – Manage the health of your site

One of the aspects of SiteRubix I absolutely love is how they take simple features and build upon it to provide a huge amount of value, This is certainly the case with the site manager. This is the area where you can login to the site in which you have created. It not only provides you with a very secure password, but it allows you to login with a single key stroke. This ensures that you are not only secure, but you do not get into a situation where you cannot remember your password.

If you create several websites, it allows you a single area where you can log into each of them. Simply and easily. Not only that, but you can also access information that improves your overall website health. While many companys provide SEO training, Wealthy Affiliate goes a step further and helps you optimize your site health which also contributes to overall search engine rankings in addition to awesome SEO training to help you get traffic to your WordPress website.

By studying the image below you can see how certain factors affect the health of your site to make it more SEO friendly allowing you more SEO ammunition. I do not know of any other platform that offers this feature.

As you can see the from the image above, the factors that affect the health of your website are laid out in a very simple fashion. This gives you a road map of how to ensure the health of your site is at the optimal range and in addition to good SEO techniques, to help your site to get easily ranked in the search engines.
Let’s continue on to the other features withing the SiteRubix website building platform.

Site Builder

this is the feature that makes building a website from WordPress so easy. It literally takes less than a minute to build the actual site. In fact most of the time is spent choosing what you want your site to be about. But, don’t fear Wealthy Affiliate teaches you how to do that as well. As shown in the above video, it literally takes less than 30 seconds to build a website, and you can build two websites and have it hosted through Wealthy Affiliate for free. The site builder sections gives you three choices to choose from, you can build a website:

  • On a free domain
  • On a domain you own
  • and you can register a domain

This is where you can build your awesome website.

Again, watch the video above where I use this area to demonstrate how to build a fully functional website in less than 30 seconds. A website that can earn you awesome affiliate commissions.

Site Domains

In the Site domains section, you can find, register and manage all of your domains. This way all of your website needs and tools are housed into one area. Many site building companys have you register a domain, hosting and training with different companys. This means you would have to login to three separate areas. This makes it quite tedious to manage your website this way.

This feature allows you to transfer an existing domain that you own to the Wealthy Affiliate hosting, It’s easy, it’s quick, and it allows you to use all the domain features offered here at WA.
You can also
point domains registered
outside of Wealthy Affiliate to WA Servers and host your websites. To do
this update your domain’s DNS at the following name servers: ns1.mywahosting.com ns2.mywahosting.com.

You have an easy to read dashboard where you can see all of your domain names in one area, along with the renewal status right at your fingertips.

Site Content

Site Content is known as the ultimate writing platform. It is where I write all of my posts and pages for all of my websites. Including this one. It has a built in grammar and spell checker along with a template builder. It makes writing content a breeze. It also allows you to check your content to ensure that it is all original content.
SiteContent will speed up the writing process and allows you to section your writing into what is known as buckets. It also allows you to create templates in addition to offering you a few templates, including a privacy policy and affiliate disclosure template.

It keeps track of how many words you write on individual pages and posts, plus it keeps track of your total amount of words so that you can set goals for yourself. It is simply the best content builder on the market. One that has helped me create tons of content to my various websites. You can write from a template or create your own templates, such as a product review template to ensure the consistency within your content writing. It turns you into an expert writer.

Oh, I almost forgot, another great feature within the site content framework, is the ability to add images within the content itself. It allows you to choose images that are available right from within the platform. Royalty free images that you can use easily with a single click of the most. This is a total time saver and one of the most valuable resources within the platform. I use this all the time and it saves me from having to search for relevant images for my content.

As you can see this writing platform can easily take a writer and with time become an accomplished writer earning an awesome leaving from the comfort of their own home. Truly and amazing platform indeed.

Site Comments

Site comments is another great feature that helps rank your posts and pages in the search engines. A well-known ranking metric for SEO is the engagement within the content on your website. As you write more content and build authority within your niche, you will over time gather comments from readers within your pages and posts naturally.
But, in the meantime, as you are building out your site, you can get a boost of comments from within the Wealthy Affiliate community through site comments. This allows you to request other members to go to your website and create a comment, ask you a question relevant to topic of that particular post or page. You can then engage with that comment showing the search engines that you have a high amount of engagement on your site. This helps with overall rankings within the search engines and gives you that extra boost as you gain more and more authority within your niche.
This is set up as a give and take type of system. You earn credits by giving others comments on their sites and you can use those credits to obtain comments on your site. This is another example of how the Wealthy Affiliate community works to help each other out and offer great resources to all. This has been the best affiliate community I have ever been associated with and I use this feature often along with engagement I get from the natural evolution of my websites.

Site Feedback

Site feedback is another great example of how the WA community helps each other out. As you learn and build out very profitable websites, you may want to have feedback from others who have achieved success with their websites as well. You may want to gather constructive feedback and obtain confidence in knowing you are heading in the right direction. Well, that is what site feedback allows you to do.
You can get expert advice and feedback from people who have been earning 7 to 8 figures and know what they are talking about. There is no hype here. Just constructive feedback to help move forward. This feature is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. That is because the WA community is worldwide, so there is always someone available online when you need feedback.
This feature works in the same way as the site comments feature. You earn feedback by giving feedback. As you build out your site and become an authority within your niche, you start to develop knowledge that others do not have. This is because you have been researching and writing about your chosen niche. This is how you become an expert in the community and earn credits doing so. There are levels within the WA community and there are experts in many areas of affiliate marketing, making money online and other niches as well. People who actually care about your success.
As you can see in the image below, you may receive both positive and negative feedback, all of which will help you in becoming an effective marketer.

Site Support

Last but certainly not least, is the site support feature. This is set up for technical support for all related website functions such as hosting support, domain support and overall website support.

Conclusion

So, as you can see, building a website from WordPress is not hard as long as you have the right platform and tools necessary.

The SiteRubix platform certainly has all the tools available in one place which makes it very convenient. This way you are not having to go to multiple sources for things like your hosting, domain selection and the builder itself. It is all together in one nice package.
The other important piece of the puzzle is training. You want to make sure that you have the proper training required to ensure your website receives visitors that are interested in what your website is all about. You certainly get that with the SiteRubix system within Wealthy Affiliate. It is worth trying out for free and if you think you would like to step it up a notch and learn how to create a full time income by becoming a premium member within Wealthy Affiliate, you can do that at any time. There is no pressure whatsoever.

How To Build A Website To Make Money

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It is one thing to build a website, but you may be more interested in how to build a website to make money. If this is the case, then keep reading. Make sure you read the whole page, because I have an awesome bonus for you if you do.

When someone is interested in making money online, they seem to shy away from wanting to build a website. There may be a few reasons for this. If you see a reason that is not listed here, feel free to comment below. I would love to hear your reason as well. People may think:

  • Building a website is too difficult
  • It takes to long to build a website
  • I don’t know what to discuss on my website
  • It’s too difficult to get traffic to my website
  • I don’t know what to sell on my website

I would like to address each one of these areas to show you how you can easily build a website and make money from it as well. I will also SHOW you step by step, how this process is done through a video below. So hang tight, it will be well worth the ride.

Building a website is Very Easy

Back in the early 2000s when I started on this online journey, building a website was indeed difficult. There was a lot of steps to do and there was a lot of parts to the process. Not only that, but the parts themselves were more cumbersome than they are today.

You had to have hosting, just like you do today, but hosting company’s back then did not have the technology available to them that they have now. So, finding a good hosting company was not only difficult, but the cost was much higher than it is today. Today, I can show you how you can build two websites for free and have it hosted as well (that comes a little later).

You also had to have your own domain, which is still true, but most hosting company’s now include a domain in their packages and they are much easier to point to the hosting itself. This used to be a very laborious process, but these days it is extremely easy to do, and I will show you exactly how this is done step-by-step.

Back in the day, website builders were a bit tedious. Hosting company’s tried to simplify the process, but it was nothing like the way the platform WordPress is used today. Today, the WordPress platform is very easy to use and has a bunch of automation attached to it that simply did not exist back then. You can be rest assured that, not only is it easier to use than the older website builders, but is much more efficient and intuitive.

I will show you how you can build a website with less than a few keystrokes and in less than 30 seconds.
So I guess I gave the second point away, but let’s discuss these anyways.

It Taks Less than 30 Seconds To Build A Website, Really!

Is under 30 seconds too long to build a website that has the potential to earn you a full time income online? I would certainly hope that you answered no to this question. No, under 30 seconds is definitely not too long, and it is well worth the effort to do this. You see, I am going to show you a platform that not only shows you how to build a website to make money, but I am going to show you a community that will support that effort as well.

Follow along with me in the video below, because I want to show you and walk you though step-by-step-by-step how to build a website to make money.

 

I hope by watching this video you realize just how easy and fast it is to build a website. Sure, it doesn’t look quite finished, of course, but the premise that we use is, that you get the traffic to your website first by adding good and relevant content to your website. As you are building this content, you will start to notice that the looks of your website will improve as well. We teach you this step by step.

Then, while you are creating this awesome content, we are going to show you how to make your website “pop” visually. It takes no time at all before you have an awesome looking website. The website you are on right now took less than an hour for it to visually look the way it does not (minus all the posts mind you).

So, once you have a good-looking website, it’s easy to learn what to discuss on that website.

A video is one thing, but what I think is really cool is reader participation. I showed you how easy it is to build a website, how about I prove it to you by allowing you to try. Don’t worry, all you need to do is enter the name you want to call your website below (no worries, this is completely FREE, put your credit card away):

 

What Do I Discuss On My Website

The process of making money with a website can really be broken down into 4 steps:


As you can see from the image above, step 1 is to chose an interest. This can be a hobby or even something that you want to learn about and are interested in.

In our community, we have tools that are available for you to find out if that interest will earn you money online. These tools are extremely easy to use, but very powerful because they tell you exactly how many people are looking for products to purchase that are relevant to that interest.

And don’t think this overview image is over simplified, because I can tell you from experience it really is this easy. So, to answer the above question, you discuss what you are interested in on your website once you have established that interest. It is the people who are also interested in this topic that is what is known as a niche. A niche is a group of people that share a common interest and you are targeting that niche by publishing content about your interest. Yes, it really is that simple.

As you may have noticed in the video above, I showed you how I came up with an interest using Google Instant. This is a free and very powerful tool that helps you identify a money making interest that you can discuss on your website. You also saw how I used that interest to find a domain name for my website and then built the website based on that name, and guess what. That leads us to step 3, which is attracting visitors to our site.

It Is Very Easy To Get Traffic To Your Website

Of course, it is only easy if you know how. This is true with anything, right? I mean you were not born knowing how to ride a bike. You had to learn how. Well, I remember learning how to ride a bike and I can tell you from my experience, it was easier to learn how to get traffic to my website than it was learning how to ride a bike, and much less painful…lol
Does is happen overnight? No, it does not. But, it is something that will happen as long as you are consistent in taking the action we teach you to take (for free, by the way).

Within our first course we can show you how to master the most current traffic techniques and how you can be a huge amount of relevant customers to your website through the top search engines like Google, Bing and Yahoo.

MORE PEOPLE = MORE MONEY

In 2017 there were over 3.5 Billion internet users searching for information and looking for solutions to meet their problems, and most importantly, purchasing products and services related to these solutions. This is YOUR potential audience and the REAL world picture of how powerful owning your own website is.

Also, as you can see below, in 2017 46.8% of the global population accessed the internet and by 2021 this figure is projected to grow to 53.7%. This is a statistic that you cannot ignore. This is a piece of the internet pie that you can get.

 


So, how do you get this traffic?

Content

Content is where you get traffic, and is what leads to opportunity. In the free training that is provided by Wealthy Affiliate, you will learn exactly how this is accomplished. It will show you:

(1) How content leads to traffic

(2) How keywords fit into the bigger picture

(3) What it takes to go from a zero business to one that is thriving

(4) Why content is so important to your business

If you have any questions or comments you would like to share, please leave them below and I would be more than happy to discuss!

 

What To Sell On Your Website

I think by now, you most likely know the answer to this question. If not, stick with me here. You may not know, but I think you get the general idea. Once you know what to discuss on your website it is very easy to determine what to sell.

You simply ask your good friend Google.

What do I mean by that? Well whatever your interest is as a keyword phrase can be typed into the Google search box followed by the words “affiliate programs”, and Google will deliver a bunch of pages

I am interested in playing guitar. Plus, I know others are interested in playing guitar as well based on keyword phrase searches that I performed. Then, I can write good content about guitars, my favorite rock groups, my favorite guitar players and then show them how to play guitar by purchasing great downloadable products, where I can earn a commission from.

Take a look at the results, pick an affiliate vendor, join for free and then place your affiliate link on your page. That’s it. Well, in a nut shell that’s it. Check out the image below, I have an actual result I did on Google to show you how this looks.

Conclusion

So, as you can see, there really are no excuses to not building your own website. If you can think of any others, please feel free to leave a comment below so we can get a discussion going. I would love to hear your feedback. This is a two-way conversation OK?

Awesome!

Now I told you in the beginning of this post that I would tell you about a special bonus I have for you. Well, how about these bonuses. No worries, put away your credit card, I am not asking for any money. This is completely free. I don’t mean a free trial, I mean actually FREE, in all definitions of the word (that is rare, I know).

You can join Wealthy Affiliate as a free member and go through an awesome certification training that will teach you how to build a website to make money. Once you learn how to do that, you can upgrade your account and get ongoing training to take you to the level of a full time income online. Here is what you can get for free:

  • 2 Free Websites
    • WordPress Sites that are fully functional
    • Ready to earn online income
  • Mentoring and support
    • Ablity to get personal help and support from me (username: ramr50)
    • Help within the community itself with over 10,000’s of users
    • Live chat support
    • Ongoing relevant discussions
  • Tons of Training
    • Video Training
    • Courses
    • Tutorials
    • Full on Classrooms

So, What Should You Do Next?

So, I believe the next thing you should do is your due dilligents and learn about The Wealthy Affiliate Program by reading my full review HERE

 

How to Start Earning money Online

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Are you tired of spinning your wheels, looking around the internet and simply want to know exactly how to start earning money online?

If you answered yes, then I want to help you do exactly that. You will want to read all the material on this page. I am going to do my very best to show you exactly how to get started online today.

If you are like I was, you have been searching around the internet and have been attacked by what is known as “information overload”. Yes, I know the feeling well. Not only that, but you may have been introduced to a huge amount of hype on the internet promising you the moon. Well, don’t fall for handing over your hard-earned money getting involved with a business that is not willing to let you try it out for free.

I Want To Show You A Strategic and Foundational Approach To Earning A Great Income Online

In order to completely understand how this foundational approach works, watch the two videos below. The first one will show you specifically how to build a website and make money free. The exact steps to start the process.

Watch The Video Below To See How Easy It Actually Is To Get Started

Get Started For Free image

 

 

Next, I would like you to watch my walk through video

I am appalled by the number of out right scams and products online today that promise the moon for a fee. I prefer to try something out before I pay any money.

This is why on this site, I only recommend products and services that are either free or free to try before you pay any money.

Did you know that Apple does this? Before you buy the Latest iPhone, or latest tablet, you can go into your local Apple Store and try it out for free! Then, If you are happy with it, then, and only then, you can buy it. If it was not what you were looking for, then you don’t buy it. What a concept, right?

This is the reason you will see products that I recommend you try are only products that will give you access to look around and “touch and feel” the product before spending a dime of your own money. You will know exactly what you are getting into.

So, here at TheAffiliateResource.com, we only advocate try before you buy products and services.

 

Now I want to get into how to start earning money online and what YOU need in order to achieve success within the online world. But first, you should answer this question.

What is Preventing You (and others) From Achieving Success Online?

Yes, this question is directed at you from me (Ralph). What is the single most important thing that is preventing you from earning a great income online.

  • Fear of failure?
  • Fear of getting scammed?
  • Fear of the unknown?

I am serious, I would like to hear what you think has prevented you thus far in earning a great income online. Please leave a comment below, so I can respond. I truly want you to succeed in this earning online thing. Your comments can help me help you and others succeed. It tells me what type of value I can add to this site.

The reason could be getting scammed in the past. I myself have experienced that a few times before I learned some strategies and foundational approach to working online and having the time freedom that comes with it. I personally have has some very embarrassing experiences from this industry in the past. You see there is a right way and a wrong way to this business. Short term version is definitely not the way to go. A long term foundational approach is the best way and the most lucrative. Trust me on this one.

I want to direct you to the ethical ways of succeeding in this industry. Something you can build upon. The other thing that prevents people from success on the internet is over complicating the process. It is actually not that difficult. I didn’t say it doesn’t require work, it’s just that it is actually quite easy and really only requires three things.

To Know How To Start Earning Money Online Requires Only Three Things

If you have never read about me, you can read about my story here. I have been marketing online since 2007 and have experienced quite a bit. Not only have I learned a lot about how to make money online, but I have learned a lot about people in general.

People learn in many ways. We all have strong points and we all have weak points. But, there seems to be a commonality amongst people when it comes to learning how to earn money online. In other words, people who are successful in this industry seem to share three important things.

(1) They had or have a mentor

If you are like most people, when you get stuck, you want to get unstuck as soon as possible. Before you loose your momentum. This is especially needed in the beginning stages. Many people do not have a mentor because they have seen the cost of these so called “Guru’s” who charge an arm and a leg for mentorship. I know, I have fallen for this trap as well, only to get more stuck and an emptier wallet.

(2) They have their own website

If you don’t have your own website, you will spin your wheels. I know you have seen a lot of hype on the internet about how you don’t need a website, but I am telling you that you do. And, I am not talking about a one-page site or capture page. I am talking about an actual website.

If this has you worried, don’t worry.

I have great news, building a website in the 21st century is real simple stuff. In fact, in a few moments from now you can have your own website up and running with great ease. Without spending a dime!

(3) They learn regularly and put into action what they learn

In order to really succeed at something you really need to understand it and then you need to take action. You can have all the knowledge in the world, but without taking action you will get no where. The opposite is true as well. You can take action without knowing anything and you will do it wrong and that blocks success as well. Yes, you do need both.

learning to succeed online is like riding a bike. Once you learn how, it is a matter of continuing to ride the back that helps you to become better and better at it. But, when I learned to ride a bike, my dad helped me with diligence. He even used training wheels to help me get started. This type of support and guidance help me:

  • through training
  • through motivation
  • through action

When I was a teenager, I learned the mechanics of playing the drums. I learned how to read drum beats and drum patterns that eventually led to playing by feel. When I play today, I don’t even think of the actual patterns and drum beats any longer. It just comes to me naturally.

This is what happens when you get the proper training and then put that training to action.

Get Started With $0

I am sure that you see the commonality here.

  • I like the idea of trying out a business before spending a dime
  • I believe in order to succeed you need training, support, a website and mentoring

And that is exactly what you get when you sign-up for $0,

  • Mentoring and support
    • Ablity to get personal help and support from me (username: ramr50)
    • Help within the community itself with over 10,000’s of users
    • Live chat support
    • Ongoing relevant discussions
  • 2 Free Websites
    • WordPress Sites that are fully functional
    • Ready to earn online income
  • Tons of Training
    • Video Training
    • Courses
    • Tutorials
    • Full on Classrooms
  • The ability to earn great commisions (even as a free member)
    • Most opportunities do not offer the ability to earn commissons as a free member
    • There is no time limit to be a free member, it is not a trial membership, it is FREE forever!

FREE member Commissions:

Initial $19 offer, Commission = $4
$49/mth, Commission = $11.25 recurring
$359/year, Commission = $87.50 recurring

If you are a Premium Member here at Wealthy Affiliate, you get double the commissions as an affiliate and you also get to take part in our $1 credit program, which allows you to earn from free members you sign-up that set-up their accounts. You also earn money with each domain your referrals buy.

PREMIUM Member Commissions: (100% higher commissions!!!)

Credits: They Set-up their account = $1
Domain Purchases: $1 recurring
Initial $19 offer, Commission = $8
$49/mth, Commission = $23.50 recurring
$359/year, Commission = $175 recurring!

You get all the above for NOTHING!, $0, no credit card required. I know it seems crazy, but it is true. You will not find this type of training anywhere, plus the support is awesome! There is a Premium option available as well that you may want to consider, that will give you access to ALOT MORE.

Click the image below and you will get access instant FREE access to this awesome community after you sign up for no cost. You can put your credit card away.

 

Again, click the image below and start making money FREE.


You can read my full Wealthy Affiliate Review HERE

If you should have any question about how to get started, feel free to leave them below in the comment section.

 

 

 

 

Prosperity Marketing System Review

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In this Prosperity Marketing System Review, I will attempt to give you as much information as I can so that I can help you do your due diligence to make a decision about whether this affiliate program is worth the time, effort and cost to join.

This program has been around a while so you may have seen it advertised on one of the many internet marketing mailers, safelists or traffic exchanges since that is a main platform for this program. I will discuss this in more detail later.

 

Quick Report:

Name: Prosperity Marketing System (AKA, The 12 Dollar Funnel)

Website: www.prosperitymarketingsystem.com

Price: 3 memberships available: tour taker, student membership $12/mo., Owner $97 one time

Owner: Darren Olander

Products and/or Services: 4.5 out of 5.0

Training: 4.0 out of 5.0

Support: 4.0 out of 5.0

Overall Rank: 4.2 out of 5.0

Prosperity Marketing System, Product Overview

The Prosperity Marketing System, PMS for short, is really a downline building program that allows the owner to promote whatever primary business they want to, in addition to earning a 100 percent front end commission for the system itself.

There are three levels of membership:

  • The Tour taker – is free and allows you to check out the system and use a splash page builder to create landing pages. The tour taker has very limited access and has no access to any actual training.
  • Student – A student can start with a 7-day trial and while in the trial can try to earn 100 percent commissions on new sign ups. They have complete access to the training, can integrate any autoresponder, integrate a tracker, customize (add or remove) 15 affiliate programs, and use the same primary business as their sponsor. Once the 7-day trial is over, it is then $12 a month.
  • Owner – This is a unique membership level. It is very similar to owning your own script. An owner has full control over editing any training page within the system and can totally add their own content. They can change the primary business page from their sponsors page to their own primary business (any company they want). This option is a one time fee of $97.

Pros and Cons

Even at the student level, there is a lot of customization options available within the Prosperity Marketing System. It is the heart of the benefits in my opinion. Having owned my own lead generation website and understanding how a website script works and how expensive they are, I am amazed how flexible this system really is. Especially at the owner level.

For under $100 you can get a fully customizable business. You can add or delete any of the programs within the script itself. You can even customize your capture pages and call it what ever business name you want. Plus, you can customize your own training program withing the system. Create your own training videos and use any autoresponder system you want.

Pros:

Pro 1: As an owner, you have a fully cusomizable business system. At the student level, you can customize up to 15 programs.

Pro 2: The Training in the system is pretty good. Especially if you are into using mailers and traffic exchanges.

Pro 3: The owner is very knowledgeable and available for questions and always seems to respond.

Cons

Con 1: Beginners usually do not see the advantages of a customizable system. This is really more of an advanced feature and benefit.

Con 2: There are a lot of programs to sign up for. This can be confusing for someone just starting out with internet marketing.

Con 3: There is a big learning curve to successfully use mailers and traffic exchanges. The only other marketing option is solo ads and they can be quite expensive. But, overall the training is a bit weak.

The Prosperity Marketing System, Products and Services

There are 5 main sections within the back office of PMS:

  • Training Courses
  • Income Builders
  • Personal Branding
  • Affiliate Center
  • Customize

We will cover Training Courses in the training section below.

Income Builders

This section covers the primary business, which, unless you are an owner, you will be directed to join your sponsors primary business. Of course, you don’t have to, if one of your prospects joins within the system and you don’t sign up for it, the referral commission will then go to your sponsor instead of you.

If you are an owner, then you can add your current primary business or any other affiliate program for that matter.

This section also covers the autoresponder. This, by default is GetResponse, which you can also be an affiliate for. If you choose not to use GetResponse as the autoresponder (you can choose another one in another section), you can still be an affiliate for GetResponse since it is free to be an affiliate. You can earn additional affiliate commissions when your prospects join under you.
GetResponse starts at $15 per month if you use the responder to build your own list, otherwise you will not be able to build an email list of your own. This is an added cost.

The Ad Tracker is covered in this section as well, and by default you are directed to an ad tracking company known as Trck.me with is a tracking service that tracks your capture page clicks as well as your op tins. You can track where all of your traffic is coming from and which one are generating op tins for you. This service also has a fee associated with it and it is $9.95 a month. You also can earn commissions from this service as well if your prospects join under you.

Another income builder in this section is known as the Advertising Coop. The advertising coop that is used is called Viral Traffic Coop, which is “an advertising cooperative that pools together member’s advertising funds in order to buy bulk traffic at huge discounts. This is a big win-win for everyone, in your case you can get great traffic at a dirt cheap price without lifting your finger”!

The Viral Traffic Coop is owned by Darren Olander as well as many of the viral mailers and safelists. He owns 10 different websites I believe.

The rest of the income builders in this section consist of list builders (safelists) and traffic exchanges, most of which are owned by Darren Olander. This whole system is built around the use of mailers and traffic exchanges.

Who is The Prosperity Marketing System For?

In my opinion the Prosperity Marketing System is for the marketer who likes and is very familiar with using mailers, safelists and traffic exchanges as their primary source of traffic. It has been my experience that there is whole network of internet marketers that are into these types of traffic generating programs.

They mostly consist of owners of these types of programs and their followers.

I honestly do not think this is the system for the beginning internet marketer who is primarily interested in simply making money on the internet. There are better ways of making money on the internet then spending hours a day reading emails and surfing traffic exchanges.

Prosperity Marketing System Training

Training Courses

The training courses consist of the essentials, Prosperity Marketing, Traffic Generation and Solo Ads.

The essentials consist of computer basics and internet marketing basics.

The computer basics include the following:

  • How to Cut, Copy, and Paste
  • Easy file management
  • How to download files from the internet
  • How to change your browser homepage
  • How to use favorites and bookmarks

The internet marketing basics are simply a brief explanation of “what is internet marketing and why is it so awesome”.

Very brief training in this section.

Prosperity Marketing

This section of the training is a description of the fact that PMS is an affiliate program and a marketing system. It provides you with a few capture pages to promote what is known as the “$12 funnel” and how you can earn $12 per month for each affiliate member you bring into the business. In addition to this, you can earn commission by promoting a variety of other programs known as downline builders. It then goes on to explain how PMS is the ultimate downline builder itself.

This seguays into a video training on an introduction to downline builders. You can watch the video below for details:

The training then goes into traffic generation which is a fairly extensive training on how to dominate viral list builders and safelists.

You can get an idea of how this training works by watching the video below:

Once you are familiar with viral mailers and safelists, the training goes into how to effectively use traffic exchanges, and lists 6 traffic exchanges that the owner suggests using. He also suggests spending about 20 to 30 minutes a day surfing these traffic exchanges.

The training then goes on to say you should try solo ads. There is no real formal training here, just a link to a solo ad exchange known as Udimi solo ads.

My Final Thoughts The Prosperity Marketing System

This system would be ideal for…

I do believe if you are an experienced top Network marketer and you have a primary business and you are interested in having your team use a good system, then I would highly recommend the Prosperity Marketing System for that purpose.

The reason I say that is that, you can upgrade as an owner, fully customize the system to use any traffic method, training program or even customize your capture page under the name of your particular team. This would be an ideal program for that purpose.

Many top Network Marketers use customized systems for a large team and spend a lot of many for those types of programs. PMS would essentially do the same thing. It is fully customizable and, in my opinion, should primarily be used for that purpose.

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The Laws of Success – Laws Concerning Work

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I came across this book the other day entitled “The 25 Biblical Laws of Success, powerful principles to transform your career and business”. It is written by William Dougas and Rubens Teixeira.

I found it in a grocery store actually and started to thumb through it since I have a big interest in both business and biblical principles. Yes, I did end of taking it home (oh, and I did buy it…lol).

This made me think of a statistic I read somewhere on the internet about how only about 97% of people actually succeed when starting their own online business. I saw this statistic and then wondered about the other 3% who do succeed and what are they doing that the rest are not. Well….. I think it really has to do with the laws concerning work, which was one section in the book. This section has 5 different laws associated with it.

  • The Law of Work
  • The Law of Courage
  • The Law of Resilience
  • The Law of Joy
  • The Law of Recharging

Do You Believe In the Law of Gravity?

This may seem like a real strange question, but stay with me here.

You see the premise here is that whether you believe in gravity or not, you will feel the effect of the law. It does not depend on belief.

The idea is that there are three types of laws:

  • Man made laws
  • Physical laws
  • Spiritual laws

Man made laws can often be broken without any resulting consequences. Someone who commits murder may not be found out or, due to a technicality, may escape conviction.

Physical laws work differently: They are inexorable and there will always be consequences. There is no getting away from them. For example, the law of gravity. When someone chooses to ignore such natural laws and thereby suffers its consequences, there is no moral issue involved. There is only cause and effect.

What many people don’t realize is that physical laws are not the only ones easily noticed. Just as the laws of physics, chemistry, and biology have an impact on your everyday life, and just as accurate, spiritual laws also influence your daily professional life and carry a degree of cause and effect.

In other words, complying with them will bring benefits, and ignoring them will certainly result in negative consequences.

On other note, you do not have to be religious for these laws to effect you.

As stated in Matthew 5:44-45

“Your Father in heaven….causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous”.

So, the Laws Concerning Work apply to everyone. If you follow these laws you will succeed and if you don’t you will not. It is that straight forward. There is no luck involved. We all have opportunity, no matter what deck of card we are dealt.

That being said, let’s identify the 5 laws concerning work and see how they can help us with our business.

The Law Of Work

Proverbs 14:23 says that all hard work brings a profit, but mere talk leads only to poverty.

Remember in our industry, it is called “Work At Home”, it is not “Make Money At Home”. You do have to work.

The Law of Work says that people who don’t take action don’t accomplish anything, and their lives become meaningless. They may avoid experiencing pain, but they don’t learn, they don’t feel, they don’t change, they don’t grow, and they don’t live. They are like slaves who fear freedom. Only those who take risks are free.

Action takes two forms:

  • Study
  • Work

And success depends on BOTH. Not just one or the other. This is very important, especially since there is risk involved. You see, study reduces risk and increases wisdom.

But you cannot just study and learn, you have to take action after you study or you end up like a lot of internet marketers who just learn and never take action. This is great for the people who are selling these tools to learn, but they are not good for the ones purchasing the tools if they don’t take action after they learn.

If the connection between work and success is ignored, it causes misunderstanding and wastes time and money. Work breeds success. And this work begins with the search for knowledge, whether by studying or gaining practical experience. This is why taking shortcuts can be a real trap that prevents success.

The law of work is a powerful spiritual law because, as a rule, those who achieve success or money without honest, hard work are unable to hold on to either for very long.

“Dishonest money dwindles away, but whoever gathers money little by little makes it grow” (Prov. 13:1).

“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart” (Col. 3:23)

The Law of Courage

The law of courage is about the willingness to take risks, The bible talks about a scared servant who, for lack of courage, did not invest wisely. This is in the famous parable of the talents. Have you heard this one?

In the story Jesus, says that a man needed to leave the country, so he “called his servants and entrusted his wealth to them”. To one, he gave five talents of gold; to another, two; and to another, one. This distribution was based on the ability of each servant.

The servant who received the five, went immediately to trade with them and earned another five. Likewise, the one who received two made another two. But, the servant who received on “went off, dug a hole in the ground, and hid his master’s money”.

After some time the master comes home and called his servants to account. The first two had not been idle and didn’t miss the opportunity to make more money, and received their masters praise. The third servant, however, made no return. Of course, the owner was not happy and said “You should have at least put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest”.

All investments require strategic analysis and carry implicit risk. We cannot be so bold as to be irresponsible, nor can we be excessively prudent to the point of being lazy, negligent, or content with our lot. It really is laziness, not just playing it safe. Often times people are not really honest with themselves when they say they are just being safe. They are actually being lazy, because they are not putting in the effort to research and then take action on what they have learned.

The Law of Resilience

The law of resilience is about knowing how to deal with adversity. We all go through adversity. The real difference is HOW we go through adversity. Do we feel sorry for ourselves? Do we constantly blame others for the adversity we experience, or do we take responsibility for what happens and then deal with it accordingly.

Some people are constantly blaming others, society, politics, or even the President for their circumstances. When it comes to adversity, again, we all experience it and we all experience different types. In order to become successful, we have to stop thinking that success depends on luck or being in the right place at the right time. Most of the time success depends on following these laws consistently.

Being resilient is about being able to cope with pressure. It also means that you don’t give up just because you fall down. You get back up again, learn from your mistakes and try, try again. Again, you do the work anyways. Whether you fail or not. You keep trying. Most, if not all, successful people fail many times before they succeed.

The Law of Joy

Do everything without grumbling or arguing. Philippians 2:14

There are people who spend a majority of their lives complaining about what happened to them, what they are missing, what didn’t work for them, who betrayed them, and so on. They are incapable of learning from the past because they cannot put a “closed stamp” on the situation. They are incapable of learning from their lessons which makes it difficult for them to gain wisdom and knowledge to make work, well work.

When we remain joyful regardless of our circumstances, we put ourselves in a state where we can think clearly and focus on succeeding rather than failing.

This is critical when we are trying to run a successful business, because our business doesn’t stop when we encounter adversity. It still requires to be maintained. The successful business owner is one who can run a successful business regardless of circumstance.

The problem with grumbling and arguing all the time is that it invites other adversity to arise. The best way to end the cycle of adversity is to be joyful as much as we can. This is a very apparent law in action. We see this constantly in the world of business and in our personal lives. Joyful people inherently attract success. It is a known fact and we see this law in action everywhere.

The Law of Recharging

This is an interesting one. In fact, it is one of the Ten Commandments.

Six days do your work, but on the seventh day do not work, so that your ox and your donkey may rest, and so that the slave born in your household and the foreigner living among you may be refreshed. Exodus 23:12

When you properly apply the spiritual law of recharging by allowing time for leisure and recovery, you will substantially boost your emotional and physical energy for your work. This principle is often seen as a prohibition instead of useful advice (like most spiritual laws).

This is known as the Sabbath or Shabbat, which is a Hebrew term that refers to the seventh day of the week, dedicated – in Judaism – to rest.

Unless they break with routine, people will break down sooner or later, and their productivity and motivation will increasingly decline. It’s a simple idea, really.

Conclusion

These Biblical principles and advice is to work hard without becoming desperate; rest without becoming lazy or irresponsible. The goal is to have a well balance calm life so you can enjoy your success.

Using these principles, one realizes that we spin our wheels when we try to look for short cuts. It actually requires less time to do thing right. This is certainly true in the online world. I have been involved with internet marketing for a long time, and it wasn’t until I realized that a foundational approach to business rather than chasing the “shiny objects” is far easier and more productive.

So, if you want to succeed in business or even start a business of your own, do not look for the easy way. You need to do the WORK. It is not that hard, but it is also not simple. You need the right training, support and tools.

Here is where you can learn how to start and succeed with your own business and learn what WORKS!

 

How to Start Your Own Business Online – Use These 7 Simple Steps

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Have you ever wondered how to start your own business online?

If you answered yes to this question then you are among the many. You may be interested in starting your own business for a variety of reasons. This can include replacing an income from your old or current job, or supplementing your current income in addition to your current job, or to allow yourself more time freedom as well as financial freedom. What ever the reason, starting your own business online is actually not that difficult to do and can bring you huge returns.

The best way to start is to make sure you do not over complicate the process, and yes, there is a proven process and a sequence of steps to follow to ensure your success when you are starting out. But, you must be consistent in your approach, follow the laws concerning work, and you must not let all the noise of the internet distract you from following these 7 simple steps that I am about to show you.

  1. Find a niche market that you have an interest in.
  2. Make sure people are searching for information on your niche.
  3. Design and build an easy-to-use website.
  4. Use the major search engines to drive eyeballs to your website.
  5. Establish authority in your niche and on your website.
  6. Follow up with your prospects through email marketing.
  7. Do things in this order.

I know these steps seem very general, however, they do work and are intended to be done in this particular order. This is very important.

Anyone can follow this process. You do not have to have a particular degree or background for the type of research you need to do can be done through simply using the search engines on the internet.

Find a niche market that you have an interest in

You may be wondering what a niche actually is. Lets begin by defining a niche. A niche is nothing more than an “audience”, a distinct segment of a market. When choosing a niche, you should choose something that you are truly interested in. Whether it be a hobby or even something you want to know more about. Keep in mind, you do not need to be an expert. What happens is you become an expert by setting up a foundation and then becoming an authority in that area.
Almost anything can be a niche, and what’s even more interesting is that you can earn money from any niche because there are billions of people on the internet searching for information and solutions to their problems, and these become products or services that you can sell to them.

Many people at this stage of the game are tempted to look for a product to sell first and then look for a market to sell to after. You want to resist doing this. To increase your chance of success, start with your niche first before even thinking about a product or service to sell. So, if you are even worried about not having a product, no worries. It is simply not important right now. Just focus on finding the niche and worry about the product later.

Make sure people are searching for information on your niche

Understanding why people use the internet is very important when it comes to knowing how to start your own business online. So, why do people use the internet?

To find information.

So, the secret to creating a successful business online is to simply provide the information people are looking for. If you give them information they are looking for, they are more likely to want to look at products that you recommend for them. It’s that simple. People don’t like to be sold on things. They want help to find information they are looking for. If the information that you provide for them gives them value, then they are more likely to look at your recommendations. This way you are not selling them products, you are simply recommending products that are relevant to what they are already looking for .

That being said, how do you make sure people are searching for information on your niche?

The answer is to ask your favorite expert “Google”.

Well, you don’t ask directly, you use what is known as “Google Instant”.

What is Google instant?

Well, your friend Google discovered that it takes a person more than 10 seconds to type in a search request and then hit the enter button. Since Google is always trying to improve things, they developed what is know as Google instant search which lets the system search for results as you type them in the search bar. They claim these methods will shorten time spent searching by more than 3 seconds per search attempt, and this instant search in ON by default.

This attempt to decrease the search time, gives marketers to see what people are actually searching for and gives us suggested keyword phrases. The results that you see below are results that people are actually doing. Therefore, you are seeing what people are searching for. If people weren’t searching for those terms, they would not display.

So, let’s say you are interested in starting a business online providing information about learning how to play guitar and you want to know if people actually are interested in this subject. Well, just start typing in google….

See the image below:

Notice, how I just start typing in “learn how to p” and google finishes the sentence beneath my search. This indicates that people are searching for that term. I also found that people are searching for information on how to play piano, chess, how to paint and how to play the ukulele. I just came up with more niche ideas that I know people are looking for information on. Isn’t that cool!

I can even find out how many people are searching for this term and if I have a lot of competition. Because ideally, a good number of people searching my niche with not a lot of competition equals a real good chance I will get a lot of eyeballs on my online business. So, how do I find out how many people are searching for this term and how much competition is there? A good keyword tool will give you this information. I use what is known as Jaaxy.

Here is a screen shot showing a search result using Jaaxy.


As you can see by looking at the above search results, “learn how to play guitar” has 10184 average searches per month, but does have some competition. The QSR results indicate how many other websites have a page or post about the same topic. So, there are 181 competing websites trying to “rank” for this search term. The KQI results indicate that it is “normal” competition.

But what we want is at least 50 searches a month with less than 100 competing websites if we are just starting out. This way we know as a beginner, we have a chance of having many eyeballs looking at our website.

I personally would try to target the term “learn how to play guitar chords”. There is 128 people searching for this term every month and only 28 competing websites with a KQI of “great”. That is, well, great!

Now, imagine if you had a website with just 5 pages written with 5 different search terms like these that each had 128 people searching each month. Well, that is 128 X 5 = 640 sets of eyeballs looking at your online business every month. Now, imaging 10 pages. Yep, that is right 1280 sets of eyeballs looking at your business.

Get the picture of how powerful this can be?

Oh, and by the way, Jaaxy has a free version where you can get access to 30 free searches. There is also a paid version where you get unlimited searches for a fee of $19.95 a month. I will show you later, how you can access Jaaxy for free and get unlimited searches. For now let’s move on to the next step.

Design and build an easy-to-use website

This is where most people start to freak out.

Designing and building a website in the 21st century is nothing like it was back in the day. In fact, you can actually build a website in less than a minute. As far as designing it, well, that may take a bit longer, but not much.

And yes, you do need a website. Do not, I repeat, do not, ever, never (Am I making myself clear here) listen or answer an ad stating you can make money online without a website. It is utter CRAP to even go down that road. Why, because it will distract you from your original intent, which is to make YOURSELF an income online.

If you do not listen to what I am saying, you will end up making SOMEONE ELSE money online. It is that straight forward, OK, enough said on that topic. There are many scams out there, so stay away from anything that smells like make easy money. IT DOES NOT EXIST.

whew! Got that one out of the way.

Anyways to build a website is very easy and I recommend using a blog format and WordPress.

The WordPress platform is easy to use and easy to host and, most importantly, easy to drive traffic to. There are many themes available that make design simple and there are many plugins available to keep it simple.

You basically want to build your website around the idea of your chosen niche. If you want to teach people how to play guitar, then build a website all about guitars. Plain and simple.

Notice how we haven’t even chosen a product yet?

It will become clear why. You see, now that we have chosen a niche. Lets take learning how to play the guitar as an example. We now know we are going to build a website around guitars. I can now research and write all about guitars. It should not be that difficult, because I like guitar. So, I am essentially going to research and write about a topic that I enjoy. Isn’t that the way life should be?

I do not need to know what I am going to sell to write all about guitars do I? no, I do not. At this point I just want to write about information that people are looking for so that I can attract visitors to my website. A product doesn’t matter at this point, because there are no visitors to my business yet anyways.

So, how do I build a website?

Well you follow these simple steps:

  • go to http://wordpress.org and download wordpress to your computer
  • find a hosting company to install wordpress. Any hosting company will have instructions on exactly how to do this.
  • You will want to search for a domain name that is relevant to your niche. For example learn guitar.com (might now be available) Your hosting company will give you directions on how to get a domain name.

That is really all there is to it.

Want a quicker and easier way?

Here is a step by step video on exactly how to build a website it less than one minute. Check out the video below 

How To Start You Own Businesss Online

See, I told you it wasn’t hard to do. And, it is completely free (two free websites).

Now for the next step.

Use the major search engines to drive eyeballs to your website.

There are essentially two ways to drive traffic to your website using the search engines.

  • Paid traffic
  • Free traffic

Free traffic

For both of these methods you still use the following strategy. I am going to give you the simplified version, but it is the most effective strategy.

This is how it works. You write an article based on a search term that you know people are searching for and does not have a lot of competition. For example, let’s use the example keyword phrase from above. “Learn how to play guitar chords”. Remember from the second step? We learned that 128 people per month search for this phrase and that there are only 28 competing web pages writing about this phrase. That is only 28 pages in the whole world writing about that exact phrase.

So, we write an article all about learning how to play guitar chords. With a little knowledge about Search Engine Optimization (SEO), we can target this keyword phrase and rank this article in Google. Anyone can learn how to use the basics of SEO, it is not difficult at all. Later on I will show exactly where to learn how.

So, you then write an article based on this search phrase.

You then, rinse and repeat. You look for other search phrases within the guitar niche and do the same thing.

Make it a goal to write 2 to 3 articles like this a week. After a while, you will see a bunch of traffic to your website. Remember above how we said if you wrote 5 articles with 128 searches per month, that would equate to 640 searches a month? Yes, it adds up folks!

Now you can start to look for related products!
How? You ask. Well, again, let’s ask our friend Google. In the search area, type is learn how to play guitar affiliate programs and check out the results:

 

Below the paid ad section from the image, you will notice a number of guitar lesson affiliate programs. These type of affiliate programs are all free to join. You do not have to pay to promote these products. Many of these products (if not all of them) are digital products so your readers can download them instantly after purchasing them and you earn a commission. Pretty cool right?

So, how this works is you write an informative article on how to play guitar chords because you are somewhat familiar with it or you have researched chord diagrams and you give people some free content about guitar chords. You then recommend a product for them to learn in more detail. That is it! If you wrote 5 articles you would have over 600 people a month looking at your website and can potentially be interested in a recommended product.

You are not aggressively selling them you are simply recommending a product that they have already shown an interest in.

Paid Traffic

Now you start to see some traffic and sales, but you want to scale up. Now it’s time for some paid traffic. I recommend to start with Bing Ads. Bing Ads Network is advertising you can purchase for 3 different search engines with one ad. They target Bing, Yahoo and MSN when you purchase a single ad. Here is how it works.

Again, you write an article based on a search term, but this time you are not as concerned about the competition level. So, in this case we may want to target the keyword “Learn how to play guitar” instead of “learn how to play guitar chords” because there are more people searching for this term.

Now instead of trying to rank your article, you are going to pay the search engine to display your ad towards the top of the search results. Similar to what you see in the image for affiliate programs above. You see the three top search results are ads that were purchased. They will appear up there regardless of SEO because someone paid for those positions.

So, in this case you would write an ad with a headline with something like “Learn how to play guitar like the pros” Click here form more information. And then, boom! someone lands on your page, reads the article and then is led to your affiliate link on a recommended product and hopefully they buy the product and you make money.

The advantages of paid traffic is you get traffic quicker, but your return on investment is higher than that of free traffic. Free traffic gives you a better return on your investment because it is free, however, it takes more time to rank your articles to page one of the search engines. The best thing to do is a little of both.

Establish authority in your niche and on your website

This is really an ongoing thing. As you write more articles about your niche and conduct more research on keyword phrases using Google Instant and a good keyword tool like Jaaxy, you will become an authority in your niche.

As your authority in your niche increases so does the authority of your website. This is what is known as an authority website as apposed to a small niche site. The difference being the number of pages and posts within your website. Can you imagine if you wrote 2 to 3 articles each week to your website what would happen after a year or two. Yes, that is right, you would have an authority website.

It is at this point that you will start to receive income on complete autopilot. Google and other search engines favor websites like this and you will constantly be ranked for many search terms in the search engines.

You should not at this point that we didn’t really worry about a product until after we started to receive some traffic to the website and started to establish authority. This is one of the reasons why it is crucial that you follow these steps in order, which leads me to the next step.

Follow up with your prospects through email marketing

I am sure you have heard of email marketing. All the big players do this. Walmart, CVS, Amazon, and just about every retailer now practices email marketing. Again, it is one of the final steps for a reason.

Why?

because it doesn’t do any good to start getting peoples email addresses until you are getting regular visitors to your website. This is known as the “content first” email marketing strategy. This is different from the “funnel first” email strategy, which is totally different. You can get the details of these two strategies by reading my article entitled “Best email marketing strategies”. It would be good to know the differences between this two strategies to get the full impact.

So, basically the idea here is that toward the end of your article, you place a form on your page that asks your prospect for their name and email in exchange for giving them a gift. A gift can be any free download or free guitar chord chart PDF file that you have created or anything you have to give away. Once you collect their name and email address, you can email them future product recommendation through email.

The reason this is so powerful is that you never lose the customer. Since you have a steady stream of traffic now visiting your website, you can keep promoting and recommending products to them over and over if you collect their email address. Otherwise, you may never see them again until they visit your site again and unless they have bookmarked your site, there is a slim chance they will return. This is very powerful indeed.

It is especially powerful if you use software tools such as an auto-responder, such as aweber or GetResponse. These tools allow you to practice effective email marketing and gives you the ability to ad one of these forms to your web page. Once the prospect fills out the form, you collect their email and you can set up automated email messages to them. These messages can be scheduled over a duration of time giving your prospect both valuable information mixed in with affiliate product offers. This is where top marketers really make a huge amount of money. Through email marketing

Do things in this order

This brings us to the last step. I believe it is critical that you do these steps in the order that I laid them out. It is more efficient and allows for the most profitability for your business. You don’t want to lead your business with the product for example, because it causes people not to trust you and it is difficult to establish authority that way.

Plus you don’t want to start developing your email list until you have provided valuable content to your prospect by providing information they are searching for. Not to mention, it is easier to build an email list when already have a website that is attracting a large amount of visitors.

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What is Now Lifestyle? Is it Legit, or is it a Scam?

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This is certainly a valid question since there is a huge amount of information regarding the opportunity Now Lifestyle. Unless you have been living under a rock you have most likely heard of this company by now. So, what is Now Lifestyle? Is it a legitimate business opportunity, does it have decent products and services, or is it a complete scam?

In this post I will try to answer these questions in great detail. I will give you as much information about the products and services available, the owner of the company, as well as the opportunity itself. This review will cover as much detail as possible so that one can have All the necessary information to make an informed decision whether it is worthwhile to try either one of their products and services or the opportunity it offers as a business.

I would like to start off by saying that as a business opportunity, Now Lifestyle follows the path of a “funnel first” list building strategy, as apposed to the “content first” list building strategy. It teaches the strategies within that particular business model. If you want to know more about these two types of strategies and the differences between them, feel free to read my article entitled “best email marketing strategies” here.

Rankings and Overview of Now Lifestyle

Name: Now Lifestyle
Website: www.nowlifestyle.com

Price: Free Membership (FREE, Sign Up Here), Re seller ($49 per month), (various other upgrades)

Owner: Joel Therien

Products and/or Services: 4.8 out of 5.0

Training: 4.9 out of 5.0

Support: 5.0 out of 5.0

Overall Rank: 4.9 out of 5.0

Now Lifestyle, Product and Opportunity Overview

Now Lifestyle is a unique business opportunity in that they are not really a true MLM nor are they just an affiliate marketing company either. They are actually a hybrid of both. In fact, they are a hybrid in two different ways, let me try to explain.

In the first type of hybrid, Now Lifestyle combines an MLM like pay structure with a variety of affiliate products that can stand on their own right. This makes it unlike a lot of other MLM types of opportunities. The advantage of this is that it doesn’t fall under the realms of a ponzi like system. This is very important from an industry standpoint, especially when we here of companies like Digital Altitude getting investigated by the FTC and other companies who are constantly under scrutiny of the SEC (Security Exchange Commission). These agencies try to pinpoint companies that can only survive by recruiting new members into the system, and have no REAL product or service to sell, which really is what a Ponzi scheme is.

With Now Lifestyle, it is different because they have products that sell for their product benefit, which is geared toward the health and fitness industry, in addition to offering up to 90% affiliate commissions for recruiting and additional affiliate commissions for selling the products themselves. We will cover the details of the compensation plan in another section.

This brings us into the second type of hybrid. Now Lifestyle bridges together two types of products to the table,

  • Physical products, and
  • digital products.

Physical products

Their physical products include a natural dietary fiber supplement known as Eliminate, Whey protein powder (comes in two flavors) and an energy booster supplement known as Elevate. The interesting thing about these physical products is that they are priced very competitively, which is unlike many other MLM’s in similar industry’s that over inflate their prices to pay their affiliates. Now Lifestyle does not charge more than regular retailers of similar products. So, it would make sense for someone to order products without being involved in the opportunity itself. This adds value and overall integrity of the company.
For more detail on the physical products watch the video below:

Digital Products

Now Lifestyle offers a variety of digital products to its affiliates. In this summary we will cover what is included in the standard re seller package ($49/month), they include:

  • the 7-minute workout exercise routine and personalized diet plan for up to 5 members
  • A fully functional auto-responder that allows up to 50,000 subscribers
  • a variety of capture pages and marketing funnels for products and re seller program (new funnels come out regularly for variety)
  • A fairly good internet marketing training program (from top leaders)

Now Lifestyles digital products include an autoresponder known as Send Shark, pre-built funnel pages for marketing their physical and digital products and a host of internet marketing training.

Pros and Cons

As with any product or program there are always some pros and cons to discuss. I will try to list these, although they are not in any particular order. As with any marketing endeavor, one should note that you get out of a company what you put into it. I am not a big fan of so called, “push the easy button” when it comes to marketing online. This is the WORK AT HOME industry. It is called WORK for a reason. Notice how it is not called “do nothing at home” industry.

I only say this because I have been in this industry a long time and I still find people who think that they should get paid to simply do not much of anything. I realize there is plenty of hype in this industry, but one should be smart enough to realize it does require hard work and, most of all, consistent work for one to be successful at anything worthwhile in life.

Pros:

In general Now Lifestyle is a sound company and provides value to its customers and affiliates. The owner has a passion for what he does and he does seem to truly believe in his company and the value that they offer.

Pro 1 :

There is a good solid product line that is not overpriced and offers good value to its customers.

Pro 2 :

As with all of Joel Theriens companies, there is very good support and they offer a live chat system along with a ticket support system.

Pro 3 :

Although there is a high ticket product available, the company doesn’t penalize you for not “going all in” like many other companies do

Cons:

The only reason I even list cons for Now Lifestyle is that they teach and embrace a “funnel first” strategy to list building. As many of you who follow my blog, I am not a big fan of the funnel first strategy. I believe one needs to add valuable content before trying to sell a product or service. But, as far as these types of programs go,

That being said, Now Lifestyle is one of the best companies I know of that use this business model, and, just keep in mind, many companies use this “funnel first” strategy. It’s just that Now Lifestyle (NLS) is one of the best one out there, in my opinion.

Con 1:

NLS teaches the “funnel first” strategy of list building

Con 2:

Because they use the “funnel first” strategy, the opportunity end of the program requires a lot of traffic to enroll affiliates to join. Many free members join, but you do not make money from free members joining. Only a small percentage will upgrade to the re seller level.

Now Lifestyle, the owner

It would be more appropriate to discuss the owner of NLS, Joel Therien, before discussing the details of the products and services. This is because it is his history, passion and background that has led to the products and services offered at NLS. As many of you may know, Joel Therien is also the owner of the well-known hosting company GVO (Global Virtual Opportunities).

Joel is very well-known in the Network Marketing/internet marketing space. GVO has been around for over 15 years and is the hosting choice of many well-known top internet marketers.

The best way I know of to help you understand his story and mission is to let you see him in action. Yes, that is right through the awesome technology of video. Watch the video below to get the details of his story and mission with Now Lifestyle:

 

Now Lifestyle, Details of the Standard Products and/or Services

We covered the general overview of the products and services of Now Lifestyle above, but I would like to get into more detail in this section.

As we mentioned before, NLS is a hybrid in that there are really two sides to the business. Even when you log in to the back office, on the dashboard, you see a health section and a business section. This allows the affiliate to either focus on selling and earning commissions from the health and fitness products to people in the health niche, or to focus on selling internet marketing products and the business opportunity to people who are more interested in the make money online niche.

This adds total diversity to the affiliate marketer.

So, what is the product or service being offered at NLS?

Well, in general, they are products that help with obesity and diabetes. The product line includes a health supplement line of physical products that include:

Whey Protein:

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Eliminate Natural Fiber:

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Elevate Energy Booster:

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So, what is the price point for these physical products?

For a months supply of all of these supplements, you are looking at about $150. If you are familiar with these types of products or have been to retail stores that sell such products, or even Amazon.com, you will find that they are fairly priced, which is not the norm for typical MLM companies that over inflate their prices so that they can pay their affiliates commission.

Now the other products offered within the health side of things include an exercise program that claims to drop the pounds and promote overall health and well-being is what is known as the “7-minute workout”

This workout routine includes the principle of working out 7 minutes a day, three days a week in a ten-day cycle and then you repeat. It is essentially 1 day on, 1 day off and then repeat the process. You will also get an individual meal plan and exercise routine based on your personal profile for up to 5 members of your choosing for the price of $50 a month.

For full details of this product line watch the video below. This gives you all the details:

VIDEO GOES HERE

 

Top Tier Products

I found it necessary to add a separate title for the top tier products offered at NLS. These products off huge value as well as provide a way for experienced marketers to earn top tier commissions. Many top marketers want to market in the top tier internet marketing niche because it offers very high commissions. The idea is that if you are going to use paid traffic, you may as well make high commission per sale. Below is a list of NLS’s top tier product line with details in the following images.


 

As you can see, there are a plethora of top tier products to choose from. If you were to purchase all of these separately it would be way more expensive then if you were to purchase them together in one package. Yes, of course, NLS offers all of these top tier products together into what is called the Masters Package:

 

This masters package can run anywhere from $1000 to $1500 depending on whether they are having a special or not. NLS is a fairly new company, so I imagine the price will settle out at around the $2000 price at some point. This masters package includes all the top tier products you see listed above and is contained within what is called NLS university.
The price point may seem high, but upon a lot of research, I realized that this could be considered a good price if you compare it to a college education. There are many affiliates who generate yearly incomes in the six figures so, it could perhaps be considered a career level education.

Plus keep in mind there is a demand from experienced marketers for companies like NLS to offer these types of top tier products so that an affiliate has the opportunity to earn high commissions.

Now Lifestyle, Details of the Opportunity

Now that we have discussed the product side of things, let’s discuss the business opportunity.

One of the things I really like about Now Lifestyle is that it is a rather simple business to promote. Plus it comes with all the tools you need to promote it with. Unlike a lot of other business models that use the “funnel first” strategy, NLS gives you all the funnels, capture pages and, of course, an awesome auto-responder that you need to efficiently promote the opportunity with.

What’s more exciting is that the pages change all the time, so that you are not promoting the same pages as all the other affiliates. Many top marketers in other companies create their own pages and funnels using expensive software leaving the newbie stuck promoting replicated company pages, therefore, not obtaining the success of the experienced marketers. This is not the case with NLS. Plus the funnels they continue to create, are created by top marketers and are of the caliber that convert. Which is what is needed if you are going to utilize this strategy of list building. This is one program that can certainly help one build an email marketing list very quickly indeed.
As mentioned before, an affiliate can earn commission from selling the physical products when one of their members orders a product from within their back office. The idea here is that if someone is going to order supplements anyways, why not order from their own business, right? When they do that, their sponsor receives the commissions. Plus, their sponsor also receives P of your membership fee (for the re seller package, that would be $25/month residual income).
In addition to this commission, an affiliate can receive a downline commission that goes down many levels. To get complete details of the compensation plan, what the video below.

 

There is also a top tier product line that is offered at NLS. It allows the affiliate to receive larger commissions if they are a re seller of these top tier products. This allows one to receive $500 to $750 per sale. Details of this can be found by viewing the image below:

 

Who is Now Lifestyle for?

This can be a very interesting question indeed. As mentioned several times, Now Lifestyle is really a hybrid type of business in that it appeal to two different niche markets.

  • Health and Fitness
  • Make money at home

That being said, NLS is for people who are interested in losing weight, improving their overall health and fitness, lowering their risk of getting diabetes and a host of other health and fitness benefits.

NLS is also for people who are interested in making an income from home. It provides a “business in a box” type of program that includes all the standard list building tools necessary to grow an email marketing list that is so crucial to working this type of business model.

NLS is also for the experienced marketer who is looking for a business that has an established business owner who has proven to operate a legitimate work from home business and is interested in building a profitable email list to market to.

My Final Opinion of Now Lifestyle

Overall I believe NLS is a sound home based business. It is owned by an experienced internet marketer and health and fitness trainer who has what it takes to provide the necessary resources for both the health and fitness niche as well as the work from home niche.

Joel Therien has a proven track record for paying affiliate commissions for the past two decades and runs one of the most recognized hosting companies in the industry. He is welled known amongst the industry and overall has a good reputation. I have no real negative things to say about NLS, except that I prefer the “content first” model to list building.

This does not mean, however, that a marketer cannot utilize the necessary skills to provide good content by running a good content based website and providing value and then promoting NLS as well. The company certainly has a good product line for both niche markets.

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How To Sell Affiliate Products Online

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Have you ever wanted to know how to sell affiliate products online?

If you answered yes, then stick around and I will explain in detail exactly how this can be achieved. As you most likely already know, there is a massive amount of information on this topic and many techniques taught. But, again, a foundational approach is the best approach and is the one that will bring you the most success.

Theory is one thing and it certainly has its place, but this article will focus more on the practical side of things. Like, what to do and where to go for the information to actually earn an income online. This approach will work whether you are someone who wants to make a full time income online or if you are someone who wants to supplement their income while working a full time job.
This is the beauty of the internet, it allows total flexibility and, yes, it is possible to earn a substantial income on the internet while working a full time career. I have done it myself.

Is It Hard To Sell Affiliate Products Online?

Like anything else in life, it is only hard if you do not have an outline and a map of what to do and where to go. I will attempt to show you what to do and where to go to simply the process. Speaking of processes, one can complicate this making money online thing, or they can simply do what works, and one of the best ways to do this is get mentoring from people just like you who are currently doing it today (not yesterday).

The process of how to sell affiliate products online can be broken down into 4 main steps:

  • Choose and interest (we all have them)
  • Build a website (don’t worry, you can do this in about 30 seconds)
  • Attract visitors to your website (again, let’s not over complicate this either)
  • Earn Revenue (the best part indeed)

As you look at the above list you may be thinking that they sound pretty broad and would like some more detail. Well, if that is the case, YOU ARE RIGHT! They are broad and do need more detail.
But, we break it down this way so that you get the general idea that if you do it any other way, you are going down the wrong path. I say this because there is a huge amount of crap on the internet trying to sell you the idea that it is “so easy a 10-year old can do it”, or “following my method is so easy, your grandmother can do it in 2 simple steps”.

You may have seen ads like this… Stay away, I will repeat, a foundational approach is the best approach. You see this common theme throughout this website for a reason.
So, let’s go ahead and give each of these steps some detail, shall we?

 

Choose An Interest

Choosing an interest is a little more than just picking a general interest and plowing forward.
You do need to do a little research.
Now, don’t let the ‘R’ word scare you, it really isn’t that difficult. You may be wondering why you would need to do research about something you are already interested in. Well, one reason is that you may be interested in something that does not earn revenue, which is the main reason to do affiliate marketing in the first place. Keep in mind, there are millions of ideas that you can tap into that will earn you revenue, and there are easy ways to find out which ones that meet three main criteria.

  1. You have an interest in the topic
  2. People are searching for information on the topic
  3. There are affiliate products associated with the topic

So, how exactly do you conduct research on an interest to see if people are searching for information on that particular topic?

I use what is known as “the alphabet soup technique”. No it is not a bowl of alphabet soup for lunch. It is actually a method that takes advantage of Google instant. What is Google instant you ask? Well it is what you see underneath the search bar as you type in a keyword phrase.

The idea of this technique is to get an idea of what people are searching for online. What appears under your search term are phrases that people are actually searching for. This means that you will see what topics people are interested in, hence, what affiliate products these same people are most likely to purchase. Give people information on what they are searching for is the best way to earn their trust so that you can recommend good affiliate products to them and earn revenue from doing so.
Watch the video below to see this “alphabet soup” technique in action, it is really cool.

 

How To Sell Affiliate Products Online – Alphabet Soup Technique

 

When using this technique you should never be without ideas on what topics or interests you can use to sell affiliate products online, the ideas are simply endless.
Once you have an idea for the topic, you can simply put that idea into a Google search and add the words “affiliate program” and you will come up with a huge amount of affiliate programs that you can join for free and find good and relevant products to recommend to your potential customers. We will dive into more detail with that later.

Build A Website

I know this might seem like a daunting task, but I can assure you that you can build a website in less than one minute. Well, maybe even less than 30 seconds if you try real hard…lol

The platform I recommend for building a website is the WordPress platform. It allows you a huge amount of flexibility and it is super easy to work with, and if you want automation, well, there is most likely a plugin for whatever it is you want to do. If you don’t even know what a plugin is, that is OK, it does not matter at this point. We can show you everything you need to know about building a website through a free training program.
To get more information about this free training program, read my latest “A Wealthy Affiliate Review 2018” here.

I can describe each of the steps on how to build a website through WordPress, but it would be much more effective if you simply read my article on how to build a website from WordPress (in less than 30 seconds) HERE:

So, as you can see, it is not that difficult to build your own website. In fact, with technology the way it is today, it can be done in no time at all. What used to take weeks or even months, can now be done in less than a minute. Amazing isn’t it? As you can see, these guidelines are a birds eye view to show you how easy it really is to sell affiliate products online. To get more information on how to make a great income online check out the best online university there is. By the way it is free to join. Check out my latest review on this amazing free training platform here.

Attract Visitors to Your Website

There are a number of ways to attract visitors to your website. They can essentially be broken down into two different categories. Free methods and paid methods. If you have done any research at all on the internet about how to make money online you have certainly come across differing views on how to drive traffic to a website.
These differing views also depend on the type of website you are using and whether it is a “funnel first” type of website or a “content first type of website”. If this seems confusing, I detail the differences between the two in an article entitled Best Email Marketing Strategies. Feel free to head on over to that article when you have a chance. You will find it educational. You can never know too much when it comes to selling affiliate products online.
The best ways to attract visitors to your website using the “content first type of website” are:

  • Organic traffic through the search engines
  • Bing Ads

Organic Traffic

Obtaining traffic through the search engines is accomplished by writing good content about your interest using keywords that are searched within Google, Yahoo or Bing. The three top search engines. Google, of course being the top dog. This really isn’t as complicated as it may seem. You simply use the alphabet soup technique discussed above to find keyword phrases and construct your article base on that keyword phrase. You then use simple techniques to “rank” your article in the search engines to obtain what is know as “organic search results”.

The nice thing about this method is that it is completely free, however, it takes a little time to get ranked in the search engines and there is a slight learning curve (Which is taught, step by step within Wealthy Affiliate).
You know people are interested because they are searching for these terms. Then you simply recommend products and services that are relevant to that information.
Bing Ads

Bing ads is a unique platform. It is actually an ad network that incorporates three different search engines. Yahoo, MSN, and Bing itself. In other words, when you advertise on Bing ads, your ad shows up in all three of these search engines. These three search engines account for about 30% of the searches online, whereas Google gets the rest.
The advantage of using Bing ads as apposed to Google, is the cost associated with purchasing the ads. The other factor is that Google really doesn’t like affiliate programs, especially if you directly link to them. Bing is starting to not like this as well.
You have heard me talk about the “funnel first” method versus the “content first” method. The reason this is important is that Google and Bing really are cracking down on the utilization of capture pages used in the “funnel first” method of advertising affiliate products. They prefer to see valuable content which can then lead to an affiliate page. Keep in mind they are in the business of providing good quality search results for people looking for good information. A good marketer will provide value before suggesting a good affiliate product.
So, basically the Bing Ads technique is to purchase an ad using a good keyword (competition does not matter in this case) that provides good free information. You then direct your prospect to a good article on your website relevant to that keyword phrase which then leads to a product recommendation with an affiliate link associated with it. This is where you make money.
The advantage of using Bing ads is that you get immediate results, however there is a cost associated with that as well. Not as high as Google Adwords, but a cost nonetheless.
I like to use a combination of organic search with Bing Ads. I recommend the 80:20 rule. Which is 80 percent organic traffic with about 20 percent Bing ads. It is the most cost effective way to advertise in my opinion. This approach will give you a steady flow of traffic to your site. This leads us to the best step of the process, yes, you guessed it, earn revenue.

Earn Revenue

This is really not quite a step of the process as much as it is a result of the process. The fruit of all your labor so to speak. Well, you may be wondering exactly where to you start the process? Where do you get the knowledge, support and training to earn a consistent income online without breaking the bank and without all the hype you see on the internet these days?
You need mentorship, training and direction in order to successfully sell affiliate products online. I have found such a resource that has been doing this sort of thing for many years now and has established a great reputation in the online affiliate marketing place. There is an actual affiliate marketing university that has ongoing support and mentorship and you can get all the nitty gritty details by fully digesting and reading this article. You do not want to miss this if you want to know exactly how to sell affiliate products online.

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