Profit Lance Vs Wealthy Affiliate - a clear winner!

Hi there,

In my last post I was extolling the virtues of Profit Lance. But I have come across some drawbacks, sadly.

I think probably the biggest problem with Profit Lance is the fact that every person gets the same sites to practise on. Although it’s explained that the site are mainly to practise on, in the blurb they say it’s all you need to make money online. I don’t think that is strictly true.

First of all, if you want one of the 150 sites to use adsense on, you need hosting and a domain - which isn’t free. Also the templates do look rather dated. If 1,000 people all have access to the same sites, Google is never going to rank them because of the duplicate content. The few sites that a set up as clickbank affiliate sites are identical and you cannot add any more information to them, to make them different. Again, that’s an SEO nightmare.

I think for information, Profit Lance is good. Michael Andrews has the right idea, to teach information and back it up with projects. But although I thought at first he was over delivering, now I don’t necessarily agree.

I can tell you something else as well, which is a little bit creepy. Apparently Michael Andrews was previously a member of Wealthy Affiliate. The set out of  WA is almost identical to Profit Lance, and Wealthy Affiliate have instruction and then tasks. They have a keyword tool, and Profit Lance has a keyword tool. WA has a forum - which is part of the reason it is so brilliant - and Profit Lance doesn’t.

I think really that Profit Lance is a poor man’s version, and inferior one at that, to Wealthy Affiliate.

The reason Wealthy Affiliate is so good is often touted as the forum. But how come a forum is so good, so helpful? Lots of people of course are genuinely altruistic and that’s fantastic, but at Wealthy Affiliate there is another reason.

A genius came up with the idea of WA gold. When a person starts at Wealthy Affiliate they get five pieces of virtual gold, and they can give it out to people who help them. No-one has to pay for the gold, and I am guessing you get more gold every month. But if you are helpful and you do get gold - you can change it for real money. So being helpful has a non-altruistic benefit also.

I think this is part of the reason the forum is so positive and helpful; not the only reason certainly, but part of the reason because it encourages an ethos of cameraderie and friendship which has positive vibes of it’s own.

I told you in my last post that Profit Lance is rumoured to be changing to a monthly task. Well, that is the only “draw-back” to Wealthy Affiliate.  I say draw-back in “” because I do believe that it is worth the money.  For instance, one man earned over $500 in his first three weeks. I do not know how much he knew before he signed up, but seems like a good result to me. Maybe he got lucky - it’s more likely he  applied what he had learned on the 3 weeks of the 8 week course. And this is not an isolated case by any means.

I would urge anyone to have a look at Wealthy Affiliate. You can click on my link and take a tour which costs nothing,  and I think most people would be amazed at the resources that are put in. Not only is the training superb, (thats why they call it Wealthy Affiliate University) but also there is free hosting, a website builder so you do not need to know HTML, and NicheQ which is an amazing resource in itself. It contains all the information you need for a particular niche and you get  to pick a new niche each month.

I think the amount of money you can save by getting the free hosting, the site builder, and the information on new niches is worth the cost alone. When you then throw into the mix the forum of skilled marketers ready to help, then the value of the product shoots sky high.

Wealthy Affiliate. Click the link, have a look for yourself.

Best wishes,

Ruth

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Profit Lance

Hello!

For anyone interested in Internet Marketing there is a product that I hugely recommend. When I say product - please be assured this is not a single item at all, more like a complete groundwork covering all the basics of internet marketing.

It covers Affiliate Marketing, Google Adense, Information Products, Getting Traffic, Writing Sales Copy, and SEO Tactics. Each subject is clearly explained, and there are also explainatary videos that go along with it.

More importantly, each section has a number of projects which you go over, and you also have 15 websites that are pre-built for you personally, which you can use to make money (which is yours) plus use to do the projects on.

The person that wrote this, Michael Andrews, is available to email at any time. I personally have not emailed him,but having done some research on this, the reply time varies from 15 mins to a few hours.

 The information on the course is constantly updated, and the projects are organised so as you work through the projects you get a few more, so you work a your own pace until you have completely covered the basics.

The cost of the course covers you for a lifetime of updates, once you are a member that’s it, you are always welcome back to catch up with any new information that comes out.

If you are thinking, wow this has to be a four figure price tag, you are going to be very pleased and surprised. The price is very reasonable for the amount of product that you get - over deliver is the term here!

Be warned! I have heard that soon this plan is going to be switched from lifetime membership to monthly membership which I am sure still would be totally worth it - but if you want to get it at a once only price then CLICK HERE!

To your success!

Best wishes,

Ruth

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Giveaways - the new list builders!

Hello,

It’s not what other people can do for you, its what you can do for other people!

That’s what internet marketing is all about, solving peoples problems, helping people along. All good stuff.

That is why I am so happy to be able to promote some giveaways. If you have an ebook, video, piece of software, or something you would like to share: CLICK HERE

And if you would like a ton of valuable internet marketing information, sure to inspire you and help make you make money online, CLICK HERE!

This giveaway launches on 31/01/09, and then closes on the 28/02/09.

That is the Be My Valentine Giveaway!

There is also the Massive Monthly Giveaway which is available shortly, keep coming back for more information as it’s going to be a huge giveaway, sure to have something that will appeal to you.

That’s all for today, I am really excited by these giveaways, I have another couple but I am waiting for more information on them, but of course, I will let you know about them in the shortest possible time.

I am delighted to give back to you loyal readers!

Best wishes,

Ruth

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Article Marketing- List Building for Mum’s

Hi,                                                                                                                                                   

This is the article I promised, I would love to know your opinions on it. It’s a different style to my normal way of writing so I really do need your feedback. Also I don’t have a proper title for it yet, so if you have any ideas, do let me know!

“Are you trying to earn some extra money on the internet? Have you tried

everything and only ended up frustrated and angry? Have you bought

ebook after ebook looking for the illusive formula; and not been able to put

anything into action?

 

It’s frustrating to spend hour after hour at your computer, subscribing to

email lists, trying to find the pieces of the puzzle that will fit together to

make you understand how, exactly, to earn some money at internet

marketing. How many times have you read, the money is in the list, the

money is in the relationship with the list, you need a list, you must have a

list - or even worse, bought something that promises you the world - then

you find out that you have to have a list of buyers to market it to!

 

Let me give you an illustration. When you look at your baby, you know that

you they learn by imitation. They know to get up and walk because you

walk. You have to take them by their little hand and show them how to

walk, how to do any number of things, right?

 

So how about if someone took you, step by step, through the maze of

emails, ebooks, and systems, and showed you how to build a business

online?

 

I am talking about List Building with Alex. It does exactly that. This proven

system will take you step by step through everything that you need to do

in order to build an online business of your very own.

 

In the ebook which is available at no cost, for free, you can read about

Alex Jeffreys rise to success, how he started with nothing, a broke bloke.

How he worked to build his business, to this year becoming an internet

millionaire. He shows how he did it and how you can do it too. When

someone helps you and shows you step by step, exactly what to do - then

the whole situation becomes so much clearer, so much easier.

 

So instead of pouring money and time into ebooks that are simply

rehashed information, into software that you later find out is available for

free, just stop. I know I felt that I was pouring money into a black hole, with

nothing to show for it for a long time! Don’t feel like that any longer.

 

Internet Marketing Maze Conquered By Hand Led Mums!

 

You can escape the daily rush to work, the guilt pangs as you hand the

children over to the childminder. No more having to explain to your boss

that the children are ill again and can you have some more unpaid leave.

No more wondering who will look after the children when the heating goes

at school and they are all off for the day. And of course, no more missing

school plays, parent and student trips - you can be there for your children.

 

But, perhaps you feel like you have spent enough on information products

to last you a lifetime? Many people have felt like that, it’s understandable.

But people who have bought this have found that it’s much easier to make

profits with internet marketing with clear step by step instructions, and

have gone on to do so.

 

This information is highly valuable. List Building with Alex is not a get rich quick scheme, it’s not

about making fast money and getting out quick. This is all the information

that you will need to build a real, online business.That’s a business that

you can use for the rest of your life.

 

Jim, from Ireland, put into practise what he had learned from List Building

with Alex. In a few short weeks his list had built to over 3,500, and he was

earning 1,500 euros per day! He said: “At first I didn’t think it was going to

work, it was just another information product. But when I started putting

the information I had learned into action - wow, even a seasoned marketer

like me was impressed!” Jim G, JV village (www.JVvillage.ning.com).

 

We understand that people sometimes just don’t want to risk money,

especially these days when it’s getting more difficult to come by. So we

take all the risk for you. If you do decide to buy the List Building System,

we give you an eight week guarantee. When you purchase, just note down

the date you bought it. If, within 8 weeks, you don’t think the strategies you

have learned will generate you many times the cost of the product, then

just let us know. We will refund you, no questions asked.

 

I am Ruth Stewart, at home Mum. I want all Mums to be able to choose the

freedom of working from home. I do what I do :

So All Women Can Take Control Of Their Lives.

Take control of your life, click the link: http://www.listbuildingbyaj.com
See the difference it can make!

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List Building and Traffic Generation

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Hi! You may notice a change in things this week. Yes I have swapped my old theme for a new one, and I think it looks just great.

Happy news also - I have got Google Analytics working at long last. Just as I was about to give up on it I got the green tick that tells me where all my fantastic traffic comes from and how much there is of it.

You may have noticed I havent been about much the last few days. I have had a few days off, really considering my options and thinking about what I need to be focused on. I think I had a bit of information overload where I ended up thinking about doing other things. But my commitment lies with this course and with generating great traffic and working hard to build my business this year. I know there are other ways to make money online but I want a good solid base to start my business off from, and this is it!

I am constantly amazed at how easy it is to be distracted. I think it really pays to be organized. As an at home Mum I am fortunate that my husband works at home too so we have our childcare needs covered. It does mean though that we have to be organized so that we both get time to work. Its all too easy to say well I want to do this today and it’s important, and then you don’t get the work done that you need to do.

So we have devised ourselves a new routine which allows me to get stuck in with work again, hurrah!

The plan is to do what I have been doing, but keep at it more regularly. I also need to keep checking my G/analytics because I will be applying the 80/20 rule - finding out the 20% that gets me  80% of my traffic and concentrating on that. Work smarter!

I mentioned the video competition that Alex Jeffreys and Maria Andros are promoting for Alex students, and so I will be doing as much as I can to organize a great video. I have left this quite late and therefore am unlikely to win but I want to make a really top-notch video. Keep your eyes peeled for the link, it will be on here!

I enjoy visiting others blogs, and it does provide me with links, so I will also be adding the sites that I like best to my blogroll. I have only just thought about doing that but I think it will be a good idea plus make it easier for me to dive over to them and visit.

I am part way through an article which I would really like some opinions on, I hope to be posting it here tomorrow. It’s a different sort of style to my normal way of writing, and I will tell you more about it tomorrow.

The final thing I will be looking at is giveaways, some of Alex students have had real success with this. It would be best for me to write something completely original, but I do have some things that I can grab that are really helpful to new marketers, to add to List Building with Alex.  I am looking forward to putting together an excellent package.

Until then,

Best wishes,

Ruth

 

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List Building is back!

Hello!

I have been at my mothers again, that is why you haven’t heard much from me. The thing about my family is that they don’t really understand about internet marketing, and they don’t understand that it’s important for me to work! They do not see “playing on the computer” as work, which makes it difficult to do anything while I am there. I tend to get accused of being unsociable!

Back to traffic - the competition I spoke about in December closed and I am delighted to say that Jim Gallgher of www.kotobot.com won the prize with a huge amount of traffic. Well done Jim!

You may well notice that many of the tips I have given here are ones that Jim has suggested, what a fantastic reward for being so helpful to so many people.

Last week we had a bonus module on the coaching course by Alex Jeffreys. It was given by the wonderful Maria Andros who is also known as the Queen of Video. She is great and gave huge amounts of information and tips on video marketing. The new competition is about making a video, there will be two prizes of $1,500 dollars each. Maria Andros will help Alex judge the videos, so it’s very exciting. I am also pleased that Maria recommends one of the products that I also use, Traffic Geyserwhich is a real plus for spreading out traffic all over the internet - over forty different sites including RSS feeds and podcasts.

I am about half way through catching up with module five on the coaching programme, so I will be writing more about this tomorrow when I finish it. It  is high calibre stuff, very interesting and as always Alex manages to put things over in a really easy to understand way.

So, I will be back again tomorrow to give more of the outstanding information that is provided. Until then,

Best wishes,

Ruth

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List Building - Article Writing

bodyforblogbig5Things are chugging along ok. I have found a great ebook about the psychology of customers which was expensive at $107, but nevertheless very interesting.

I wanted to tell you about some new article directories that have come to my attention. These are:

Buzzle.com

Searchwarp.com

Area219.com

These are, I hear, popular with Google. I have tried Area219 and they have an author bio box which is permanent - very handy. Although of course you have to be careful if you are promoting something specific, it has to remain very general.

Area219 allows affiliate links.

I haven’t tried the other two, as you know I am at my mothers house so work is somewhat limited.

Late tonight is the fifth module of the mentoring programme, and video queen Maria Andros is speaking, I am going to listen to the module tomorrow when it goes up on the members site. I will let you know what I find out, I am looking forward to having a go and making some more videos though. Also there is a competition with a prize money of $3,000, so that may prove to be rather interesting also.

Oh, one last tip. If you want to improve your page rankings, get a hubpage. I went from number five and six to four and five over night after I put up a hubpage. My hubpage is at http://hubpages.com/hub/List-Building-and-Traffic so give it a visit and a nice rating for me please!

Best wishes,

Ruth

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List Building - Psychology!

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Well I have been doing the usual stuff for my list building. I have also come down to Mums for a week, with number two son, and there was no wi fi on the train so today actually I haven’t even managed a classified ad.

 What I have been doing is some reading some marketing material, because you know I think my copywriting - well to be honest, is sucks. So I have been trying to get my head round some information about psychology, and the psychology of marketing.

I have found this site, and I found it via copyblogger.com, it’s called psychotactics.com. Very interesting stuff, and so I am trying to change all my classified to include lots of psychological who harr, to encourage people to join my list.  Apparently it’s important to empathise with the customers pain, also important to show the cost value of the product you are marketing.

I am pleased to learn that Garry Parkes has done the second edition of his fabulous newsletter. I only sent the last one out a little while ago, because people are so busy during the holidays, I thought perhaps they wouldn’t have time to read it.

I haven’t really got anything new to tell you, so I am going to say goodnight now, I hope everyone is doing well.

Will give you all the news as it occurs!

Best wishes,

Ruth

 

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Tools That Help List Building

 

bodyforblog3Today I want to talk about one of the tools that I have used to get my traffic so far. Over the last couple of weeks I have been driving lots of traffic to this blog, but I haven’t had the sign-ups that I have wanted.

So for the next few days until the next module of training (Thursday) I have been directing some of my paid traffic through to my squeeze page to see if it does any better. It’s not on advice from Alex, but it’s just something I wanted to try for myself.

So, tools. For everything anyone ever wanted to build, there are tools, and list building is no exception. I have told you about a few of the ones I have liked over the past couple of weeks, but there is one  more that I have been testing that I want to tell you about also.

The first one is free, so off to a great start there! It consists of three pieces of software, the first is very useful to us because it let’s the user know if a blog has “no-follow” plug-ins. This means if  you go to the trouble of writing on the blog, and it does have the no-follow plug-ins, then you won’t get the benefit of trackbacks to your blog. You can then concentrate on the blogs that do allow trackbacks and this will improve your general rank. Remember what Alex says about associating yourself with leaders? Well this part of the software helps with that.

The other piece of software that it contains checks other peoples sites Alexa rank and what back links it has, which can be useful because sometimes sites can have back links to undesirable sites, which Google spiders might not like.

There is another piece of software but to be honest I didn’t use, and don’t really know how to explain but it does apparently help with SEO. The link for all these free pieces of software is here.

There is another thing I want to show you and maybe you will think this is cheesy, but I was shown something similar recently and it motivated me.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=1HNHbucBXrA

There you go, I hope it works for you too. I try and remember this when gathering the list seems to be an up hill battle, and not one that I am winning.

Right, thats me off to bed, it’s 12.14am here!

Best wishes,

Ruth

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Blogging traffic

Today I want to talk about two ways of getting traffic. Both are great fun! This comes as a surprise because most of the traffic tips that I have shared lately have seemed to involve cash, and neither of these do, hurrah!

The first one is a traffic exchange, and this was recommended to me by Kotobot.com, Jim Gallagher. Truly a person who knows what he is talking about with over 5,000 visits to his blog! Marvellous.

Anyway, it’s called Blogclicker and its fun. Jim says he gets around 100 people a day for doing ten minutes looking at other peoples blogs. Well, I have had a go and I think it’s great fun looking at blogs, I was planning on just doing ten minutes or so when I glanced at the clock half an hour had gone by!  I thoroughly recommend this one, for the sheer fun factor. I am not so keen when I don’t understand the language of the blog - but nearly always they are in English, so that’s good.

The second one I want to tell you about is www.icerocket.com. It is a site that lists blogs, and it shows the latest blog posts. You put in the keywords that you want to highlight or read about, say affiliate marketing or list building, and it will show you all the latest blog posts that use those keywords. This is good fun also, and you can learn some interesting stuff. For instance I found a blog that has a list of all the traffic exchanges that the person recommended.

I plan on having a look at them and if I feel its a good deal or good idea I will let you know, of course.

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I nearly forgot my lady of the day, here she is.

I hope you all had a wonderful first day of 2009, I certainly did.

 

Best wishes,

 

Ruth

 

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