Ken Evoy releases updated 2008 edition of the Affiliate Masters Course

August 31, 2008 by John Dilbeck · 5 Comments
Filed under: Affiliate Marketing, Books, Marketing, Sitesell and Site Build It 

Ken Evoy just released the new, updated, 2008 edition of his highly acclaimed Affiliate Masters Course.

So, what is the Affiliate Masters Course and what is it all about?

From the introduction to the course:

The Affiliate Masters Course is an intensive 10-DAY course on becoming a high-earning affiliate champion.

How? By “building income through content,” the proven, C-T-P-M way!

An affiliate business is one of the easiest ways to get your feet wet in e-business. You send visitors (i.e., potential customers) to a merchant’s Web site that you are representing. If they buy or complete a required action (for example, fill in a form), the merchant pays you a commission. No fuss, no muss!

That, in essence, is the beauty of the affiliate concept. You can be up and building an online business in record time, at minimal risk. Top-notch merchants supply everything (i.e., excellent products, ordering, credit card processing, and delivery). All you need to do is to put yourself in the path between customers and quality merchants… and earn a commission for your efforts.

So what’s the best way to put yourself on that critical pathway?

That’s what the course teaches you, the best way to put yourself in the path between interested customers and quality merchants.

From the introduction to the Affiliate Masters Course:

Upon completion of this course, you will have the power of C-T-P-M working for you, helping you to build a flourishing, profitable and stable online business. With the right process, you get the right results!

Be forewarned about the Affiliate Masters Course, though. The material we cover will be extensive in scope. It will require effort and commitment on your part, as does anything important that yields rewards. Most folks have to train or go to university for years to prepare to earn a substantial income stream. Your mini-university course will accomplish this by the end of this e-book.

I don’t mean to scare you. All of it is manageable. Take your time to digest the information properly before you start to work on the prescribed action steps.

Use the Goals-of-the-DAY and Ongoing Goals as your guideposts, your beacons of light. Understanding the concepts will boost your confidence level in applying them. Even as adults, we never lose our need to know why things work the way they do.

It’s critical that you finish each DAY of this course before you begin the next. The DAYS build on each other. Always keep in mind that you are following a step-bystep process.

Please don’t feel that you have to rush. Work at your own pace, as time allows. This is not a race. Sometimes, you will be able to devote large blocks of time each day to the course. At other times, you may have only 15-30 minutes per day to spend on it. In this situation, it could take you a week or more to complete a “DAY” of the course. And that’s perfectly normal!

It does not matter how long it takes you to complete the course. The key is to set aside a realistic amount of time each day to “do” the course. You’ll find it was time well, no best, spent.

I downloaded a copy of the new edition this morning and I’ve been reading through it with interest.

Here are the 10 days and what you’ll learn:

DAY 1 – Intro To Affiliate Business Basics
DAY 2 – Brainstorm Your Site Concept
DAY 3 – Develop High-Profitability Topics
DAY 4 – Plan Your Monetization Models
DAY 5 – Refine Final Concept And Register Domain Name
DAY 6 – Build A Site That Gets The Click!
DAY 7 – Build Free Traffic
DAY 8 – Build Relationships
DAY 9 – Know Your Visitors
DAY 10 – Monetize!

It’s good to see that the time-tested, proven steps for building your affiliate marketing business are still here (as I knew they would be), but the web has changed since the last version and some of the sites and tools are new.

I don’t remember if I first studied, several years ago, the Affiliate Masters Course or Make Your Site Sell!.

At the time, the Affiliate Masters Course was a free, multi-part, course delivered in email using an autoresponder. Make Your Site Sell! was a huge ebook that cost about $20.

After studying both of them, I rebuilt several of my websites and, over the next few months, I started making affiliate sales and began to earn regular commissions.

Later, when Site Build It! was introduced, I subscribed and studied all the training materials and the step-by-step Action Guide in order to build a profitable site.

Now, I’m applying what I’ve learned over the years to the Squidoo lenses, websites, blogs, forums, and social networking sites that I own and/or manage.

The more I learn, and the more I apply it, the more I earn. You can, too.

The Affiliate Masters Course is one of my very highest recommendations. Download it today and start your journey to becoming an affiliate marketing master.

Act on your dream!

JD

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Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, It’s Back To Work We Go

August 25, 2008 by John Dilbeck · 3 Comments
Filed under: Affiliate Marketing, Sitesell and Site Build It, Webhosting 

Summer is coming to a close.

No more vacations. No more lazy days in the sun.

It’s time to go back to school and back to work.

This raises the question, “Do you like your work?”

Over the years, I’ve had a few jobs. I liked some of them and had a hard time dragging myself out of bed to go to others.

It’s incredible how much of a difference it makes if you like your work.

These days, I love to wake up and get started. First, I make a detour to put on some coffee, and then I go turn on my computers and printer. I log into the account I’ll be using (I have several accounts set up on my Mac and each is customized for specific tasks) and go get a cup of coffee while my computer loads the applications and documents most commonly used for the things I’ll be doing.

Total elapsed time, under five minutes, tops. No commute, no traffic, no outrageous gasoline prices. If I didn’t make coffee, I could be at work in about one minute.

You’ll notice that I didn’t say anything about getting up in the morning. That’s not the way I work. As I write this, it’s a few minutes after midnight and I’m going strong. I had a nap this afternoon and I’ll be working for a few more hours, probably.

Work has been a bit slow this evening, because I was keeping one eye on the closing ceremonies of the Olympics while I worked. I was reminded of how much I enjoyed watching Michael Phelps win his eight gold medals. I was also happy to see Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh win their gold medal in beach volleyball, making it a history-setting back-to-back win in the 2004 and 2008 Olympics.

But, now the Olympics are over and I can return my full attention to what I’m doing.

It’s the time of year to get back to work. I love what I do. Do you?

I could make more money if I went back to consulting or being a systems administrator, but I just don’t need the stress and long hours, any more.

I enjoy researching products and services and recommending the best I can find to you and other readers of my blogs and websites.

I love working at home, on my own schedule. If I’m tired, I rest or sleep. If I don’t feel like working, I watch a movie or read a book.

When I feel like working, which is most of the time, I work on improving and expanding my websites, forums, blogs, lenses, and communities. I meet interesting people all around the world and receive very welcome commission checks from the few companies I recommend.

It’s not at all like it was back when I was paving roads and pouring concrete in the heat of the summer and cold of the winter. I never slice into the palm of my hand as I did back when I used to open about 200 dozen oysters at a seafood restaurant every evening. I don’t suffer from millions of stinging glass fibers as I did when I packed fiberglass insulation. Those were not my favorite jobs – not at all.

So, what makes it possible for me to work at home and make money using my computer and an Internet connection?

I’ve invested a lot of time and effort to learn affiliate marketing, and I’m doing better every year. This is a fairly easy business, but doing it as well as I can takes some effort and discipline.

If I’m not careful, I spend all my time building new websites, starting new blogs, and doing all the other things I can do half-asleep. Up to a point, this is a useful exercise, because I’ve been able to test lots of things to see how they work, or don’t work, for me.

I’ve joined hundreds of affiliate programs to learn how they work from the inside and have found that most return either very little or no return on my investment of time, effort and money. However, I’m determined to be successful at this and every time I learn something I don’t like about an affiliate program, I recognize what I do like about the programs that work for me.

As I’ve mentioned before, my favorite is the SiteSell Five Pillar affiliate program. Not only do they offer an outstanding product, Site Build It!, they also have the best affiliate program I’ve been able to find.

It has all I’m looking for:

  • An excellent product
  • Great support and training
  • An active and supportive forum
  • Lifetime commissions
  • Recurring annual commissions
  • High commissions per sale

So, I enjoy promoting Site Build It.

You know what I say, right, “If it’s not good enough for me, it isn’t good enough for you.”

I’m a very happy SiteSell customer and I use Site Build It! to power my Act On Your Dream! website.

I have big plans for that site and I’ve been doing a lot of behind-the-scenes work on a complete redesign and expansion of that site that I plan to complete before the end of the year. It won’t look much different, but I believe you’ll find it more useful.

Gee, John, get to the point, already!

Sorry about that. I do tend to get long-winded (or should that be long-fingered), don’t I?

OK. Here it is.

My life has changed for the better because of Ken Evoy, SiteSell, and Site Build It! I’m living my dream of working at home in the mountains far from the nearest city and doing what I want when I want to do it. That’s what I call freedom.

It all started when I found, and bought, Make Your Site Sell! a few years ago. I learned from that ebook what I needed to do to redesign and rebuild my websites so that I could make money via affiliate marketing. I was happy to pay for that book and I earned back my tiny investment hundreds of times since putting into action what I learned there. Now that ebook is a free download.

I liked Make Your Site Sell! so much that I became a Sitesell 5 Pillar Club member and started earning money by recommending it to other people who were looking for legitimate ways to earn money online.

Later, when Site Build It! was introduced, I bought a subscription and put it to work. One of these days, when I have more time, I’m going to buy another subscription and create another niche site.

If you’ve been considering purchasing Site Build It so you can learn how to build a successful online business, this is a good time of year to get started.

Did you know that over half of SBI! owners own more than one SBI site? Some own several.

But, SBI isn’t magic. It provides the tools and training, but you have to bring your brains, inspiration, knowledge, ambition, creativity, and motivation to the party. It takes a lot of work to build a successful business, even if you have the best tools available.

When you take it one step at a time, however, and follow the action guide that is part of the SBI process, you’ll find it manageable and achievable, even if you’ve never built a website before.

I’ve watched thousands of people on the members-only SiteSell forums go from that wide-eyed deer-in-the-headlights stage to offering sage advice to others a year later.

If you’re willing to invest a year or two in learning the tools, following the guide, and building your site, you may become one of the success stories featured in the case studies or have your site featured on the results page.

Of course, not everyone succeeds, and SBI doesn’t do your work for you, so if you’re not willing to spend a year or two to build something that can provide profits for years to come, then this isn’t for you. It’s work, no doubt about it.

But, if you have a passion for something and love researching it and telling others, then you already have the personality and some of the traits that make building an online business easier and more enjoyable.

Between now and August 29, 2008, at midnight, you have a choice. You can buy a one-year subscription to SBI for $299, or you can get two subscriptions for only $100 more.

Sure, you can keep both sites and build them yourself, but you may find that it’s better to give that second site to a friend, spouse, parent, child, or colleague. By giving that site to someone else, he or she will become your lifetime customer. If they join the affiliate program, they’ll be on your second-tier, a part of your team.

You can change your business life, and that of someone close to you, for the better.

Just remember to do it before the special ends on August 29 at midnight.

SiteSell and Site Build It! have helped me change my life and it’s working for thousands of other customers, too.

Why not you?

Act on your dream!

JD

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What is your top affiliate program?

August 16, 2008 by John Dilbeck · 10 Comments
Filed under: Affiliate Marketing, Sitesell and Site Build It 
  • Do you earn money – regularly – from an affiliate program?
  • Would you recommend it to your closest friends and family?
  • Is it fair?

I regularly earn good commission checks from several top affiliate programs and I want to tell you about them.

I created a new page on this blog, Top Affiliate Programs, and I’ll be telling you about the dozen or so affiliate programs I value highly and enjoy promoting.

Now, before you go look at them, you have to remember my niche is earning money while working at home with your own affiliate marketing business.

So, if you’re looking for tools and services to help you in your affiliate marketing, I may have something of value to recommend to you.

Perhaps your niche is something totally different. In that case, my recommendations may not be very helpful.

Affiliate marketing is a wide niche with thousands of merchants and service providers.

But, let’s give this a try, anyway.

What is your top affiliate program?

Please feel free to comment on this post and tell us about your marketing niche, the merchant or service you promote, and why.

Feel free to link back to your own website or blog, but don’t post any affiliate links. Any comments that contain affiliate links will be deleted. Promote your business offerings on your own site, not mine.

But, again, feel free to link back to your site or blog to a page that has more about your top ranked affiliate program.

I think that’s fair. Do you?

Without a doubt, my top affiliate program is SiteSell’s 5 Pillar Affiliates and the primary service is Site Build It!

You can learn more about it on my Top Affiliate Programs page on this site.

So, what’s your opinion?

What’s your top affiliate program. Please limit your comments to one program.

Act on your dream!

JD

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Updated Site Build It! 5 Pillar Program lens on Squidoo

August 15, 2008 by John Dilbeck · Comments Off
Filed under: Affiliate Marketing, Sitesell and Site Build It, Squidoo Lenses 

If you don’t already know it, I’m a huge fan of Site Build It!, Ken Evoy, and their 5 Pillar Affiliate Program.

I’ve joined and tested hundreds of affiliate programs, and the 5 Pillar Affiliate Program remains at the top of the list.

You can earn generous commissions from each sale, and recurring commissions from each annual renewal. This is true lifetime commissions, and the folks at SiteSell go out of their way to make sure you are credited for the sales you make.

It is a two-tier program, so you can earn residual commissions each time someone you refer to the affiliate program makes a sale.

SiteSell offers outstanding training, a regular newsletter for affiliates, great promotional tools, dedicated affiliate managers, and free members-only forums.

The 5 Pillar Program remains one of my highest paying and most reliable income streams.

Have you joined, yet?

It’s free, you know.

Come learn more about the Site Build It! 5 Pillar Affiliate Program.

If I were going to recommend only one affiliate program, this is it.

Act on your dream!

JD

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