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• 1 Mikael Rieck // Apr 15, 2009 at 3:41 am

  I am speechless. I’ve read all the small ebooks you have published and I know you have a fantastic ability to make everything come across in a simple and easy to understand way. But this post really nails it!

  Thank you.
  Mikael

• 2 Pierre Roberge // Apr 15, 2009 at 5:43 am

  Hi,
  I found your site because I set up a google alert on “virtual mouth” an application for the iPhone I created.

  I think you’re right, as Steven Covey says need to invest in the production capacity before reaping the fruits of the production. The production capacity in this case is fulfulling a need. The system you build to fulfill a need is your production capacity. Invest time and monet in that before you can milk it. Without a system, there is nothing to milk!!!

• 3 matt // Apr 15, 2009 at 7:21 am

  excellent article Chris. One of the best IM blog posts I have ever read. I am tweeting it now.

• 4 charles // Apr 15, 2009 at 7:22 am

  phew !

• 5 Craig Wilson // Apr 15, 2009 at 7:25 am

  Chris, you always seem to put out common sense and straight forward information that even the most greenhorn Internet marketer can understand. I find your writing to be very informative. It’s amazing what a little actual “work” can do for peoples pocket books huh LOL– Very good post…That’s why I look into anything you come out with product wise…Keep the great information coming.

• 6 Kyle // Apr 15, 2009 at 7:30 am

  Wow…thanks for the post, Chris!

  Excellent stuff, as always, and I couldn’t agree more with you. I’ve finally started doing this very thing in the past few months, and my income has shot through the roof!

  Take Chris’ advice if you’re reading this…you won’t be sorry. Believe me. =)

  Take it easy,
  Kyle

• 7 Wim // Apr 15, 2009 at 7:32 am

  Great post Chris! Any news about your review templates?

• 8 Tanksalot // Apr 15, 2009 at 7:32 am

  Hi
  I agree with your observations(aka rant ) to quote one of the best sales trainers I have ever studied- Tommy Hopkins “The only time success comes before work is in the dictionary”.

  I am guilty of non action partly because of being scared to act. But who the heck is going to know its your website? The choice is if you act something might happen, if you don’t I gaurentee nothing will.

  Now off to put up a miniblog

  Regards

  Nick

• 9 Puranjay // Apr 15, 2009 at 7:34 am

  Chris, you’re the man! The most honest, straight talking marketer I’ve come across.

  Thanks for this article..

• 10 Steve // Apr 15, 2009 at 7:34 am

  This is the best article on affiliate marketing I’ve read since I decided to go into the business a month ago. There is just too much information out there, some free, most not, and makes it hard to know where and how to start. It comes down to common sense. I read a military book on survival last year. It said that you should define a problem as clearly as possible, come up with three plans of action (no more, no less), look at the pros and cons of each, then choose one and stick with it until completion. Pretty simple!

• 11 Wim // Apr 15, 2009 at 7:36 am

  A quick question: If you use ezine articles to populate your autoresponder, aren’t your required to keep all links intact? Maybe people click the author’s link and buy from him..

  Thanks,
  Wim

• 12 Junior // Apr 15, 2009 at 7:37 am

  Totally agreed.

  No excuses left folks

• 13 Andrew // Apr 15, 2009 at 7:38 am

  wow man you hit it on the head with that one. What you said there is exactly what happens to guys starting out and happened to me big time. i bought your loopwhole method and for some reason did not put it into practice. about 3 months a go I started to actually set goals. Somthing I have not done… ever. Like actually real tangible, dated goals that I will not stop till I have acheived type goals. Now I have a purpose and its starting to move in the right direction.

  Keep it up everyone

• 14 Loz // Apr 15, 2009 at 7:39 am

  Wow! Thanks Chris.

  By the way, my ‘experimental’ site based on your lazy marketer report makes a tidy $100 a month now with virtually no effort on my part. I’m also using your link building techniques to grow my other online businesses to the tune of several thousand dollars a month.

  Oh, and I put some real work into it too

• 15 LG O'Reilly // Apr 15, 2009 at 7:41 am

  Hi Chris and thanks for a great Email.

  Put like that it really seems ‘do-able’. What makes my eyes glaze over is para. 6, the whole traffic thing.

  Also, I keep getting hung up on what is exactly meant by a ‘web site’. By that I mean how sophisticated does a web site have to be?

  I fully understand the K.I.S.S. concept. Trouble is, just like you mention in your Email, I always take a simple idea and constantly add layer after layer of complications.

  And yes, I also believe that it is better to do something that bombs than do nothing at all, waiting for everything to be perfect.

  I’m giving up my day job soon so I will no longer have that comfort bubble to retreat into. I’ll have to launch a project then otherwise I will be in deep shit.

  Cheers, LG.

• 16 Zander Boon // Apr 15, 2009 at 7:42 am

  Hi Chris,

  God stuff as always. One thing though, if you get articles from EzineArticles you SHOULD include the author’s original link(s). Presumably you do this and thus honor the agreement, and make YOUR LINKS just that much more noticeable?

  Cheers
  Zander

• 17 Zander Boon // Apr 15, 2009 at 7:44 am

  Ps I meant “Good” stuff, not “God” stuff. You’re good, but you ain’t THAT good!!! :-))

• 18 Publishers Paradise // Apr 15, 2009 at 7:44 am

  Dang! I thought I was gonna get the “cherry” on this comments on this post!

  Once again…good work Chris at “reading my mail” and pointing out my shortcomings and heading me back in the right direction. Although I do have a site up I know that since my business is still not my primary means of income it’s easy to blow it off at the end of the day. It’s always easier to find something else to do…good movie on tv…the grass needing to be cut…contemplate my navel…torment the cat with a fork (only kidding!)…point is that I think when I decided to do this I thought it would be easy because many “guru’s” paint the picture as so…”work from home in your spare time!”….”$60,000 for five minutes work”…when in reality it can be a job like any other but even more so it requires disipline and fortitude just not to give up…to continue working at it…taking your licks when things don’t work out and figuring out where I went wrong etc…

  I love your stuff and will probably read this over a few times in order to motivate myself…and thanks again!

  Cheers!

• 19 Rick // Apr 15, 2009 at 7:48 am

  Absolutely great post Chris!

• 20 William // Apr 15, 2009 at 7:49 am

  Hi Chris,

  You’ve sure hit the nail on the head on this one.

  The most issues I tend to see very often are multitasking and failure to start or take action. So, your “7 days or less, because that deadline ensures simplicity, feasibility and a realistic plan of action that won’t continually “grow” 100 times larger than the initial idea (which has the exact same net result as procrastination - regardless of the intention)…”

  Is really great and reminds me of me way back when

  Okay, I’ll read the rest of the post now

  William

• 21 A recipe for affiliate success in 7 days or less // Apr 15, 2009 at 7:49 am

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• 22 Brenda // Apr 15, 2009 at 7:52 am

  Yeah, OK. Some of us out here really understand you need to apply what you learn. But I think rants like this come from marketers because they feel guilty over providing overcharged products that are a lot of hype and not a lot of truth. You reap what you sow. If you sell a product that says: “Do this like I did it and see how I made ten thousands of dollars in a month” I cannot tell you how many methods like MSN Loophole are hyped up, and then when marketers are pressed, they say “Well, it really doesn’t work unless you do a, b, c more and by the way, I have an additional product or service to help you do that.” It’s easy to sit in a glass house and throw stones at people who don’t do the basics. But aren’t you responsible for telling the whole truth in the products you create? I have found that most info-providers on the net, don’t know what they are talking about. MSN loophole for example, DOES NOT WORK unless you set up 100’s of blogs, although the book and videos say otherwise. Truth in advertising needs to come to the info-peddling, half-truth tellers of the internet, who take your money and complain that people just don’t do the work.

• 23 Greg Gillespie // Apr 15, 2009 at 7:56 am

  Hi Nice WORK Chris,

  yes it is WORK that most folks are afraid of because they have been brainwashed by the marketing hype about how you don’t have to work, so they buy into the delusion pay the money and just sit there waiting for something to happen.

  Yep that’s right nothing happens.

  I have sites that like you mention that are making me money, they just sit there and work for me, they did require me to WORK to start with.

  Your article here is a beaut and nice waves in Narrabeen today, (ok off topic but couldn’t resist)

  One of my sites, http://www.learn-to-draw.org makes about a few hundred a month and most of the work is now done. Do check this out and copy it if you like, it works for me, and will WORK for you, but you must first WORK for it.

  (so 98% of people will not be bothered to copy this as yes it requires work ; )

  Cheers,

  Greg

• 24 Greg Gillespie // Apr 15, 2009 at 7:58 am

  Answer to WIM,

  re: the links intact from ezine articles, no harm in just including them but making your “click me” links in a more prominent position.

  Whether you are putting the article on website or in your autoresponder series this is completely within the rules.

  M2cw.

  Greg

• 25 Greg Gillespie // Apr 15, 2009 at 7:59 am

  Hey Chris,

  Any good outsourcers you can recommend, I like the idea of sending a freelancer here, a bit short on time right now but want to do this?

  cheers,

  Greg

• 26 Roy // Apr 15, 2009 at 8:08 am

  60,000 buying courses? wow, he must be a PHD by now.

  The key is focus!

  I need to get back to work.

• 27 Kris // Apr 15, 2009 at 8:17 am

  Chris, you are absolutely right that without action nothing good will happen.

  The hard part is turning that action into real money. Making a little money is not that hard. Making decent money is not as easy - and not just from a work standpoint (you can work hard and still go broke).

  Finding the right formula to make a lot of money is challenging. That’s why so many suckers buy all the promises from all the “experts”.

• 28 Wim // Apr 15, 2009 at 8:18 am

  Thanks Greg!

• 29 Alex Newell // Apr 15, 2009 at 8:18 am

  I echo Charles, “Phew!”

  

  I think you are spot on Chris in your analysis that many beginners chase “money making” because they seem to think the Internet is some kind of magic rules defying black box.

  Many have an anti business attitude too.

  It’s also true that many people make a lot of money pulling the wool over the eyes of such beginners.

  There’s two sides to the story.

• 30 Frank Kern // Apr 15, 2009 at 8:24 am

  You said it brother. Most people want to be entertained, they don’t want to dig.

• 31 Cheryl // Apr 15, 2009 at 8:30 am

  Right! 60K spent?! More like a guy throwing money at a roulette table hoping for a win!

  Aside from learning the basics of building a simple website and digging through Clickbank for a likely product, we are truly just a week away from profit.

  I think we just get bogged down with all the “shiney” offers to help us make big bucks which can translate to a lottery mentality. “Maybe this time I’ll make it BIG!

  Thanks for the proverbial kick!

• 32 Allan Ashton // Apr 15, 2009 at 8:31 am

  As usual you get right to the point and I don’t think that anyone is more impressive than you when it comes to kicking ass, as you US guys put it.

  You also must be reading my mind as I am just about to promote a blues guitar course and now have some food for thought

  Regards

  Allan

• 33 Ken Leatherman (The Old Geezer) // Apr 15, 2009 at 8:44 am

  Chris,

  I knew there was a reason I stayed on your list. I’m going to send this link to my list. Thanks for putting this out there.

  Ken
  The Old Geezer

• 34 Cherie // Apr 15, 2009 at 8:45 am

  Great post, hit the nail on the head

  thanks

• 35 Wes // Apr 15, 2009 at 9:05 am

  Thanks Chris for the 7 step process.

  If you buy a PLR product make sure to have someone create a sharp-looking ecover for it. That seems to always help with conversion. Another tip for more optins to your list, that works for me anyway, is a lighter background color (white preferably). I don’t know why, but I get higher conversions with a white background.

  -Wes

• 36 How To Blog // Apr 15, 2009 at 9:06 am

  Hi Chris,

  You are so right about w.o.r.k!

  An Internet business is no different from any other business - to get it going and make it a success you have to put the effort it, remain focused and follow it through to completion.

  The problem we’ve all come across is that there are all these dishonest marketers out there peddling get-rich schemes which newbies easily fall for.

  We need more people like you giving away really valuable help and inspiration. Keep it coming!

  Sarah

• 37 Louise // Apr 15, 2009 at 9:08 am

  Fantastic post. Thank you, Chris

• 38 Dan B Cauthron // Apr 15, 2009 at 9:19 am

  Some people obsessively push buttons on slot machines thinking “this time” I’ll win.”

  Nine years ago this month (after reading a $10 copy of Internet Cash Machines by Allen Says) I built my first [really ugly] info-product sales site and made $480 in sales within 6 weeks.

  Action is definitely the key.

  I started with just an idea, a single ebook with resale rights, and about 20 pages of “training.”

  But I did START - and over the last 9 years I’ve learned consumately more by DOING than I ever have from “training.”

• 39 Dave Lovelace // Apr 15, 2009 at 9:21 am

  To Wim

  Re: A quick question: If you use ezine articles to populate your autoresponder, aren’t your required to keep all links intact? Maybe people click the author’s link and buy from him..

  You don’t copy their article and use it as-is, you use the article as an idea generator. That means you read a few articles and re-write it in your own words, then you don’t have to include the author’s bio/resource box. Problem solved.

  The article directories are a great place for content ideas. You’re just using O.P.I. (other people’s info).

  Hope that helps

  Dave

• 40 Arindam // Apr 15, 2009 at 9:28 am

  Simply wonderful. Wish I got it 2 years before

• 41 Andres // Apr 15, 2009 at 9:29 am

  Well, this article comes exactly on time for me. I have a lot of traffic coming to one of my sites, 1,000 visitors per day and going up very quickly, but it is all untargetted (from several countries, several ages, the only common thing is that all have Internet access ).

  Don’t know what to do with all this people. Adsense is very sad, so I think that the best option is convert them into targetted traffic and raise the value per visitor before making offers.

  I thought that could be possible to push many of this people into the “make money” niche. What do you think about? What would you do with a lot of untargetted traffic that grows quickly?

• 42 Domains at Retail // Apr 15, 2009 at 9:31 am

  Great post again Chris. Action is the key to everything and action requires work. Hard concept and I myself find I procrastinate a lot. So I have tried a couple of methods like the conduit method and actually doing it. And I have seen results pretty quickly.

  Building a list isn’t something I have ventured in but if it can be done in 7 days, i’ll have to squeeze in that time.

  For the Ezinearticles, isn’t Chris saying in the auto responder to have a link to the article on your own site? So they would click the email to your site, and then presumably you would have your own “Buy Product” button / pre-sell that would grab the attention more than the author links.

• 43 jipson // Apr 15, 2009 at 9:37 am

  Hey Chris,

  You’re an asset to the IM community.

  Thank you for the blueprint, I’m on getting traffic section at present with my project and one big mistakes I notice all the time on IM Niche Forums is SPAM.

  Don’t Spam the Forums

  If you’re going to use online forum communities to market your products and this can be a great way to advertise your affiliate marketing business, make sure you become a valuable member of the community; don’t just breeze into the forum and post messages that scream, “Buy from me!” Doing so will only succeed in turning off members of the forum and you will lose all credibility from the very beginning. Instead, participate in relevant discussions and post a link to your website or product site in your signature line. Once you become a valuable member of the community, others will click on your links because they’ll wonder what you’re up to.

  Looking forward to your new review sites.

• 44 Jeremy Hier // Apr 15, 2009 at 9:38 am

  right on the money about why people fail or take a long time to succeed

  a millionaire once told me ‘excuses don’t bring results’

• 45 Barb // Apr 15, 2009 at 9:52 am

  Chris - I look forward to the day when I can give back a fraction of what I’ve taken from your teachings. But for now … once again… thanks!

• 46 Palo // Apr 15, 2009 at 9:58 am

  I’m not whining. I feel like I have done the hard WORK. Now, I do need some help and I hope you’ll help me.

  WARNING: I’m going to give you my website, you’re going to see my niche’s and I will share with you any information that you think you need to help me. (The reason I say this is because in the past when I’ve asked people for specific examples they have declined on the basis that they did not want to give away their niche.)

  I built a conduit site, http://newshawkreport.com/ . I have written and had published articles on EZine, I have also published articles on other article directories. I have SEO optimized the site, I manually did 20 social bookmarking sites, I have manually pinged the site and have over 150 ping addresses in my dashboard, and I have done about 10 back links that are high PR rating. I have added posts. Made Squidoo Lens and Blogger Blog with the same title. Pinged them. For the past two days if you put in the words, Review of Women’s Natural Bodybuilding my site comes up as the number 1 and the number 3 listing on Google. Women bodybuilding.49,500 hits and natural bodybuilding got 40,500 hits in March. I have not made any sales yet. I based everything I’ve done on the Conduit method and some information from Stephen Wagenheim of the Warrior Forum.

  I would be extremely grateful for any suggestions for additional ideas any of you have. I would be totally happy to make a sale. I don’t want to hijack this thread so you can e-mail me at palocoyote at gmail (dot) com.

  Thanks in advance I really appreciate any suggestions, ideas or assistance you can give me. Palo

• 47 Doug // Apr 15, 2009 at 10:25 am

  Very true, we must work to get some payback, or even feedback. I think sometimes people are overwhelmed at the number of options, and just don’t now where to start. Thanks for the good tips!

• 48 Elaine // Apr 15, 2009 at 10:46 am

  Chris, this is a great post, I’m a newbie- only had my blog since November 08 - and having to sift through what is real and what isn’t has been tricky- so my question is this, given that I completely understand where the man who spent $60,000 is coming from- luckily I haven’t my budget just wouldn’t allow such an extravagance, how can you really tell if a product is hype or not? I am not in the make money on line niche, my niche is relationships, but obviously I need to know how to market to make any money, but having subscibed to various ‘gurus’ lists as they seem to shout the loudest, how would I know if the latest launch- i,.e product launch formula 2.0 or 2.2 isn’t completely hyped up and not worth a tenth of the money, and indeed whether it works of not? What I have found is that most if not all sites I’ve been on and subscribe to are affiliates of the various products they talk about, which I suspect you are too, so my question is- how would a newbie really know?

  Thanks

  Elaine

• 49 Walt // Apr 15, 2009 at 11:12 am

  For such a lazy marketer, you’re sure talking about “work” a lot

  You are, of course, absolutely right - and it seems from similar posts I’ve read on other blogs, you’re not the only one preaching this new “just do it (tm?)” attitude. Apparently everyone is getting sick and tired of constant distractions from the latest-and-greatest-wallet-reducing e-whatever. I, myself, have unsubscribed from all but a handful of newsletters to keep myself on track.

  The 7 day strategy you suggest is wonderful. Just reading it gives me a bunch a new ideas for sites I currently have. I have also found a few smart affiliate programs that already have some of it (free report, followup, etc) set up - I hope that trend gets popular.

  P.S. - $60,000? That’s just sinful/stupid (take your pick) - not only on the part of the “victim”, but also the unscrupulous hawkers who prey on well-meaning people. Man, I could take that money and start a campaign to end all campaigns (eventually I will :).

• 50 Doug // Apr 15, 2009 at 11:17 am

  Chris,

  Your comment re: ” They had no real intention of trying, because they prefer the “excitement” of new discovery” is SO TRUE!

  Internet Marketing is just so much fun. I’ve been addicted for about 4 years and am now only realizing what a trance I have been in.

  At the same time though, I have learned a tremendous amount but am now putting my energy into doing and not just learning.

  It is amazing how little “doing” it takes to start seeing results.

  Now I get excited about the results I am seeing and that motivates me to put more energy into growing my business. As a result, I don’t have much time left for looking for my next IM fix.

  Interesting formula: I do more work, I make more money, no time left to spend any.

  Love your posts.

  Doug

• 51 NicheVictory.com // Apr 15, 2009 at 11:19 am

  Shockingly good post…and so very true.

  This the same process that I perform for my own members, which saves them time.

  Therefore, I know how true this stuff is and how, if you get the presell right (which does take practice at first) then you’re literally laughing all the way to the bank.

  Funny how so many folks just want to “dig” and not “dine”.

• 52 Perfume Designers // Apr 15, 2009 at 11:40 am

  I find it ironic that you offer a course at the bottom of the email …

  I’d recommend people try and find a copy of Rich Schefran’s Internet Manifesto from a few years ago.. which says the same thing as here..

  Quote to remember, “There is no magic bullet … every bullet works if you fire the gun”

  (btw i just made that up, but sounds good to me)

• 53 Hayley // Apr 15, 2009 at 11:47 am

  Listen to Chris.

  He knows what he’s talking about.

• 54 admin // Apr 15, 2009 at 11:52 am

  @Perfume - Ironic?

  I just totally laid out a complete strategy that dealt with list-building.

  At the VERY end, as an afterthought, I mentioned my own, which goes into a lot more depth.

  1. It’s my blog and I’ll do what I want

  2. Rich Schefren didn’t create the Manifesto out of the goodness of his heart - it was a pre-sell for his coaching program

  3. The point is ACTION. I still buy courses and stuff all the time. The difference is that I USE them - even if it’s just one thing I learn that I can leverage or in some cases exploit.

  -Chris

• 55 Tim // Apr 15, 2009 at 12:13 pm

  Hey Chris, I really enjoyed your post; you make some very good observations.

  It’s easy to spend tons of dollars on training, in fact it’s hard not to! As soon as you start getting emails from the 1001 “Gurus” out there promising sure thing processes and methods. Your action plan is very good at least on the face of it; however I think your article is missing a couple of important aspects of the real problems newbie’s face.

  I mean this in an entirely constructive way. Your site is great and your content is first class. Here’s the thing though….

  People who have been doing IM for a while tend to drastically underestimate the complexity of the technology, concepts, applications and methods.

  For example, I recently produced my very first ever video and it took me around 10 days! I don’t mean 10 days of filming, I mean 10 days, start to finish. Finding the right editing software, I can’t tell you how many abortive attempts I made evaluating SW that either just didn’t support the file type of the pieces of screen capture video I had recorded (PowerDirector does not support Jing videos) or did not allow me to do the things I wanted to do. Learning how to use the SW only to realize my system did not have enough resources to manage multiple clips for editing. Learning how to upload it, controlling the quality, ScreenCast verses Youtube, adding a watermark, highlighting certain parts of it, understanding the merits of different file formats. In the end I had a 30 minute video I was fairly pleased with but only after many occasions of throwing up my hands and getting really frustrated. And that was just producing a simple video….

  BTW second video took me about 4 hours, the next about 30 minutes…

  Along with a few other people I have been working on a single page site, setting up a video, auto responder and form capture process, we just ran into issue after issue, and it took us many weeks to complete. Our second site we were able to do the whole thing in just a few days….

  This is really my point, when you know how to do something it IS easy, your 6 point plan is very doable once you know how.

  Also different people have very different talents; for example someone who is good at writing may not have a clue when it comes to setting up a hosting account, pointing a domain, adding a web page template, inserting an autoresponder etc etc.

  Once you know how, it is very easy to forget all the things (knowledge) you take for granted. I recently helped someone (a mature and intelligent person) install a piece of software; they couldn’t do it because they did not understand what was happening to the file once it was downloaded. Vista was not helping because it was hiding the exe file…

  Unless you are the kind of person who has a natural talent for technology, personally I believe the best way to make rapid progress is to team-up with people who have complimentary talents and to NOT try to do it all by yourself, at least to start with. The challenge is finding people that you can trust and work with who have similar interests…

• 56 TV // Apr 15, 2009 at 12:17 pm

  Thanks for the post! Really simple plan!
  And comments also are useful.
  I have a question if anybody has something to say, please… - Is there a reason why google does not like WP blog? One day it just disappeared from SE. Can it depend of a hosting company??
  Thank you!

• 57 Parvo Treatment // Apr 15, 2009 at 12:43 pm

  Chris,

  Probably the best, most direct post I’ve ever read on the subject of IM. I’ve already copid it into a document so that I can refer to it whenever I need a morale boost / kick in the pants.

  It’s really easy to get distracted, and I suspect you’d be far better unsubscribing from all the guru lists and getting on with the real work.

  The more information you get, the more likely you’ll find conflicting information, and that will only serve to confuse you and lead to inaction.

  Mark

• 58 MichaelZ // Apr 15, 2009 at 12:48 pm

  For folks reading these comments who might be thinking that the Loophole method that Chris and Dave put out last year does not work, without 100/s of blogs, I can tell you quite simply that it definitely does work.

  Not only do I make money everyday from my LH sites, I do not have 100’s of blogs, and I have (as of today anyway) 8 first page rankings on MSN and 3 number ones. And these are not in markets like goldfish hunting for fun and profit, these are Big Markets.

  In addition to that, I can also say that Chris and Dave are two of the most polite and genuinely helpful people I have ever met online.

  They are genuinely good people. And when Chris has a new product out, he takes pains to point out how “if it fits in your business, buy it” and “if it does not fit in your business, move along” I have passed on some becasue they do not fit with what I am doing, but the ones that do fit, have been weel worth the money for me.

• 59 JC // Apr 15, 2009 at 1:09 pm

  Hey Palo
  Looked quickly at your site. First thoughts are it looks boring. No pics, no emphasis on any words and your links are not SEO friendly. Also when viewed on a large screen (most people have them now) your sentences are very very long! Too long to read. I can see people arriving at your site and clicking to leave straight away. Look at some of the experts sites who (not mine, only just this up, lot of work to do - but its already made sales. It tells a story and tempts the visitor to go further. Only my ten cents worth, you’ve got the knowledge, now act like a salesman and sell it.

• 60 Affiliate Money // Apr 15, 2009 at 1:25 pm

  Great post! Every time I read something like this I’m reminded of one of the coolest verses in Proverbs:

  The hand of the diligent shall bear rule, but the slack hand shall be put to forced labor.

  Who said the good book isn’t cool! Tells it like it is. If you don’t want to work for someone else, working on your own still takes WORK! Affiliate and online marketing can be lots of fun and it really needs to be for one to put in the effort it requires.

  Speaking of “works,” even old dead horses like Traffic Equalizer can still work (especially since almost nobody uses it anymore). I specialize in using things the majority of people say don’t work! It’s a riot!

• 61 admin // Apr 15, 2009 at 2:04 pm

  @Tim,

  Those are certainly valid points, although entrepreneurship is really all about managing a project and seeing it through to completion.

  It’s kind of like running a restaurant. You can’t greet, serve, cook and wash dishes by yourself - that’s insane.

  And although web business definitely CAN be a one-man-show if you can do your own HTML, etc - technical knowledge is the easy part.

  Either you spend the time to learn it yourself (and once you “get it”, you’ll always “have it”) - or you go to a place like Elance.com and hire someone who’s far more capable for a very affordable rate.

  Technical skill is honestly a dime a dozen.

  Marketing skill is NOT.

  Master the latter, and you can write your own ticket.

  Master the former - and you’ve simply got the option of doing it yourself. Nothing more.

  -Chris

• 62 Jim // Apr 15, 2009 at 2:54 pm

  Thanks for another super post!

  If you have the time, I’d love to read your reply to Palo’s post.

  Thanks again for always being so generous.

• 63 Raul // Apr 15, 2009 at 3:33 pm

  Hi Chris,

  Always following your threats silently. But I wanted to talk in this threat…

  What you reveal here is frankly amazing: That the majority of failing people who contacts you doesnt even have a website. I have to say with all due respect, that there are people doing more harm than good by trying to help people, causing them to the “cheap/small investment/mode”.

  I explain: When people are told to write articles and all that the basic idea seemes to be helping strugling people with little money. Is also amazing how many people sees basic outsourcing as a “weird” thing. Or even a luxury. People are working thier butts, doing all the work themselves and in the end, putting all that bulk effort and content “in someone elses site”, as you say.

  I think the internet is cheap enough to not even having a website, and the basic resourses to promote.

  I always remember that anecdote you wrote once where someone was sad after writing almost 1000! articles without results…

  And is absurd that people want a “switch” for wealth without work, when ironically they have spend fortunes and months of reading and “brainstorming” in the meanwhile.

  People like you is necessary to cause newbies and struggling people to “get the bottom line” online and stop doing tangencial, spreaded things without a basic system.

  Thats why I liked “connfessions” from the beggining and, also because I was at the edge of starting the “article writing race”, feeling that surely there was another ways but I didnt knew at the time.

• 64 Sonny // Apr 15, 2009 at 4:01 pm

  Wow What a great post. You make it sound so simple and it is. People seem to complicate the process. Thanks again for the post

  Sonny

• 65 Formlen til Succes // Apr 15, 2009 at 4:04 pm

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• 66 cheap garden sheds // Apr 15, 2009 at 4:18 pm

  The best truthful no-nonsense info I’ve seen in a long time. People ask me how I do it and I tell them to take action and read good SEO but most of the time they complain that it doesn’t work for them!!!
  There’s no instant gratification on the internet just planning and work.

  Nice one Chris.

• 67 Paul // Apr 15, 2009 at 4:30 pm

  Great post Chris! I feel for that guy who spent over 60K on info products, because people get caught up on looking for that magic pill or rather ebook in our business. I was in same boat until I took action, and starting building a presence online. I started to make money on the internet once I started using this method I call P.AT.

  Plan, Action, Test!!

  Paul

• 68 Philip // Apr 15, 2009 at 5:08 pm

  Like the others have said, great post! Having a clear plan of action + a deadline is the way to go to make anything happen.

  You should even make deadlines for major steps along the way and check them off one-by-one as you go. Make an action plan and just do it!

• 69 Cynthia // Apr 15, 2009 at 6:16 pm

  Chris,

  Great 7-day strategy synopsis. You could’ve sold it (an expanded version obviously). I totally agree with you about the $60,000 man. The hype on the sales page gets the greed glands going & common sense goes out the window. However some info out there that is for sale in the make money online niche leaves out vital pieces of the puzzle (purposely or unintentionally) making it impossible to experience success. If one can find a worthy program, then implementation (aka work) is definitely the missing ingredient.

• 70 StanLee // Apr 15, 2009 at 6:28 pm

  Chris,

  I disagree with your comment about learning a technical skill. Knowing basic html and a scripting language like PHP is one of the most valuable skills to learn.

  Yeah sure it’s ok to outsource it but this takes time to send the job, then make changes etc.

  I run a butt load of cash through PPC and within hours I can tell whats working and what isn’t. If I couldnt code then id have to wait days to get even the smallest changes done which can sometimes mean $XXXX of lost revenue.

  So, while I outsource all design and page creation i’d be at a huge disadvantage if I couldnt make changes myself.

• 71 admin // Apr 15, 2009 at 6:31 pm

  It’s certainly better than not knowing - but it’s still not essential.

  Making offers is where the money is.

  Realistically, designers, programmers and writers are a dime a dozen until you get into the ultra-specialized skillsets.

  -Chris

• 72 admin // Apr 15, 2009 at 6:34 pm

  It also depends on your business model.

  If you’re running many offers on PPC, like it seems you are, then yeah - there’s management considerations like tweaking, running tests and so on.

  But honestly - the other half of the equation is that it’s simply not that hard to learn, either.

  Seriously.

  Spend a day or two reading free tutorials and using the software’s own training material.

  Not difficult.

  -Chris

• 73 Cynthia // Apr 15, 2009 at 6:43 pm

  Palo,

  I checked out your site. Your site doesn’t looked focus (you’ve got a review of “Offline Gold” on the same page). You don’t have a picture of any of the products you’re reviewing. It’s sort of bland looking (no offense) cuz everything sort of runs together & it looks like a lot to read. My immediate reaction was to leave.

• 74 G.from Wealthy Affiliate Review // Apr 15, 2009 at 8:24 pm

  Chris, great post like always

  funny that we have to remember it on and on that EARNING MONEY has something to do with exchanging something.

  So if you do nothing, obviously you will not be noticed and nobody can buy something from you. So you need to communicate somehow with your prospects, perfectly with all what you have available.

  But even if you do this (you DID work) but don’t GIVE and PROVIDE any value, then you simply won’t be able to get something (money) in exchange for it.

  Why someone should give you his money if you don’t give him anything valuable first ?

  In addition I would say that you need to have a simple plan like Chris posted here, then you need a GOAL (in quantity and quality), a time frame (that are the 7 days, but can be different, use your pace), and then you need to FOCUS on those points.

  If you get distracted and stop to focus you lost, you MUST focus on your plan till it’s done in the time you established.

  Just then you will be able to control if you reach your goals, and WHY NOT?

  G.

• 75 Sally // Apr 15, 2009 at 8:27 pm

  Once again, you nailed it right to the wall. I can’t add to what has already been said, but you should know I posted this on the Wealthy Affiliate forum.

  You deserve all the signups you’ll get from the forums. You da man!

• 76 Andrew Murphy // Apr 15, 2009 at 10:04 pm

  Chris,

  What is the best (easiest) way to setup an offer page for promoting a 7-day mini-course. I know that the site weebly.com is pretty good and basic for people without too much technical knowledge. Any thought on this?

  PS- as everyone has mentioned here, this truly is one of the best pieces of content I have ever read!

  Thank you,
  Andrew Murphy

• 77 Palo // Apr 15, 2009 at 11:11 pm

  To JC and Cynthia, THANK YOU very much for looking at my site. You both pointed out that there are no pictures, lots of words and kind of boring. Here’s my dilema, both Chris with the “Conduit Method” and Alan Says, Owner of the Warrior Forum and owner of http://www.selfhelpinsider.com, have said that these “review” or “conduit” type sites should be “spare” and more information than hype. That was the pattern that I followed. In Chris’s “Conduit Method” and “VIP Essentials” 2 of the templates he suggests do not have pictures or photos. Maybe I was being to literal in following their instructions. I do have to tell you that Steven Wagenheim said that some big guru with a million people list wrote an “understated” kind of sales letter, got lousy results. Then this same guru wrote a sales letter with all the usual “hype” and got tremendous results. I am TOTALLY confused by this “Conduit” report stuff. I’m a former journalist, I can write “reviews” all day. Maybe pictures would help. At this point I’m just confuse. Thanks for looking and writing back. Cynthia you are a hero of mine with your review site. JC your site is GREAT!
  Thanks,
  Palo

• 78 Andrew Murphy // Apr 15, 2009 at 11:29 pm

  Palo,
  JC and Cynthia are right about your site. I think the template that you are using is outdated. I would go to http://wordpress.org/extend/ and look for a different theme. People do not like to read very far across the page. Notice how all the comments on this post are keep neatly within the center of the page and don’t spread across the whole site. People are very critical on the web and have very little patience for any site that isn’t visually appealing. You have about 8 seconds to grab a visitor’s attention otherwise they are gone. Good luck to you!

  Andrew Murphy

• 79 Andrew Murphy // Apr 16, 2009 at 12:10 am

  Chris,

  You mentioned, ” Now go scour Clickbank, CJ.com, AzoogleAds, ShareASale.com and others and make a list of all the niches where the vendors have an opt-in form.”

  Once you setup a capture page or opt in page(you get the lead info added to your list) then they would receive a 7 day mini-course and get the free report with your affiliate product links in the copy. Do you find that people are resistant to opting in again for the affiliate products because some of them have mini-courses or newsletter signups within them?

  Thanks,
  Andrew

• 80 Trevor Dudley // Apr 16, 2009 at 2:53 am

  Hi Chris,
  another brilliant post….thanks and good luck with the next.

  A quick question: Is that 7 days full time or 7 days part time on top of a typical 10 hour per day job?

  Thanks
  Trevor

• 81 Cynthia // Apr 16, 2009 at 3:18 am

  Palo,

  I think maybe the formatting is what makes it look so crammed together. Chris had some videos to watch about the “Conduit” method & showed what his review sites looked like. They have pictures of the products. There are even templates but I don’t remember if they came with that report (I paid for all of them in advance last year). Ask Chris about them. They’d really help your site.

• 82 Gary // Apr 16, 2009 at 3:23 am

  Amen to Brenda.
  However, credit where credit is due. It was a decent article.

• 83 admin // Apr 16, 2009 at 3:47 am

  Actually Gary, Brenda is misinformed about Loophole. It works as stated.

  And you don’t need 100’s of blogs, as per Michael’s comment above.

  I maintain my position on the issue because I don’t have the “guilt” complex that she assumes I do.

  And that’s because I practice what I preach, and it works.

  Believe what you want.

  At the end of the day - it’s the results that matter.

  -Chris

• 84 eLottery // Apr 16, 2009 at 4:31 am

  As a full time internet marketer I know exactly where you are coming from. A great looking 7 day plan and something I will definitely try.

• 85 The Mad Webmaster // Apr 16, 2009 at 7:46 am

  Ok Chris… I think you’ve lost it!

  Please quit making all this stuff so simple. I don’t like the competition. LOL

  Now you know why your blog is one of the few I even bother to read… I can sum it up in one word.

  INTEGRITY!

  Keep up the great work.

  Paul
  “The Mad Webmaster”

• 86 Perfume Designers // Apr 16, 2009 at 8:01 am

  “@Perfume - Ironic?

  I just totally laid out a complete strategy that dealt with list-building.

  At the VERY end, as an afterthought, I mentioned my own, which goes into a lot more depth.

  1. It’s my blog and I’ll do what I want
  ”

  Dude a little harsh .. I found it funny. You don’t think it’s ironic that you say stop buying courses and then you offer a course to buy? Of course you can do what you want, never said you couldn’t.

  “2. Rich Schefren didn’t create the Manifesto out of the goodness of his heart - it was a pre-sell for his coaching program”

  Never said he did, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a good document.

• 87 Perfume Designers // Apr 16, 2009 at 8:19 am

  and in case I’m not being clear — I agree with you 100% it’s right on the money.

• 88 GrapeGrowerWineMaker.com // Apr 16, 2009 at 9:31 am

  Brenda - MikeZ is right.

  I have no connection with the LH venders but confirm from my own recent experience that LH works on just 10 to 20 sites. They do need to be on separate Class Cs though.

  Obviously, the more sites the merrier, but I wasn’t prepared to go bigger until I saw some results.

  It’s taken me 6 weeks plus to get results, not least because of some early mistakes which set me back. And I confess that my faith did waver a little during the wait.

  However, I now have several top 10 keywords that previously I wouldn’t have expected to do so well. And I have seen several keywords rank for the first time in MSN (and Yahoo).

  Previously nearly all my traffic came from BigG. If nothing else, I now have a healthier spread of eggs over different baskets.

  LH has definitely given a new lease of life to some jaded sites that Google had lost interest in for lack of fresh content.

  Interestingly, the new traffic seems to be coming from Yahoo as well as MSN. No idea why or how - and don’t care so long as it works!

  Steve1943

• 89 SLeon // Apr 16, 2009 at 9:53 am

  @Tim,
  Congratulations on your effort. Since you invested so much time and effort into producing the end product, have you thought about documenting *process itself* and its pitfalls into an ebook or the like? Along the lines of what Chris writes about in his reports.

  Video is hot/popular and there’s lots of people that would run into the exact same frustrations you did. Maybe they’d be willing to shell out some money for a well-written guide. Or the conventional authority site/affiliate route, whatever makes sense.

  Just a thought.

• 90 Domains at Retail // Apr 16, 2009 at 10:44 am

  Ok, so I implemented the MSN Loophole and have not had the success I thought I would on it. I do believe it does work as 1 out of my 15 money sites did end up #4 for a fairly competitive keyword (77 million results). This lasted about a week and then it completely vanished from the listings. And it hasnt been back since.

  None of my other money sites came close to ranking for any of the keywords. I didn’t have a large network of blogs but think it should still work. I did not do extras like SBM, article submit but did RSS submissions.

  Any way to get help on triggering the light bulb to get these sites working for me?

• 91 admin // Apr 16, 2009 at 12:12 pm

  How well does MSN index your blogs?

  How is your C-Class spread?

  -Chris

• 92 Domains at Retail // Apr 16, 2009 at 12:28 pm

  I am using 5 different C-Class IP’s for the money sites. So 3 sites of different themes per IP. Then I have different sets of blogs pointing to each different theme set of money sites.

  The blogs are all indexed. I do notice that MSN does not pick up all of the pages of my blogs? If I have 100 posts, it ranges from 10-30 pages only showing up in the MSN index.

  For example, one blog has 98 pages indexed in google but in MSN only 10. Another has 124 in google, but 8 in MSN. It could have to do with this now that I did a check but how do I improve this? Why would MSN spider differently than Google? I am using the templates provided by Dave.

  From my stats I do see that the MSN bot is visiting the blogs and money sites though.

• 93 Tim // Apr 16, 2009 at 1:25 pm

  @SLeon, yes I think you nailed it. Making ‘how to’ video’s as you learn is a smart way forward. I consider myself a novice still but am gradually getting better at IM and video creation generally. Here is a link to my first attempt that I uploaded to Screencast http://xrl.in/20vt. It’s pretty horrible but everyone has to start somewhere right? The trick is, as Chris puts it is to actually have a go and do something and not be scared of messing up or looking stupid. I think that is also what holds a lot of people back.

  The very cool and surprising anecdote about this is that I essentially made a video covering the very basics of video creation talking about how good Camtasia is and that it is worth the $299 investment. In the process I logged a couple of technical issues/questions at Techsmith (publisher of Camtasia) and completed their support survey and was stunned when they sent me a free license for the software!!!! I’m sure it was just a coincidence…. 

  As a team we have created a private (for now) “Project” site using Google sites, where we are creating a lot of content covering everything we are learning as we go. Everything, particularly including how to work together as a team (team structure, rules of engagement, what’s expected from a team member, collaboration tools, how to bootstrap etc.), are no easy things as I have discovered. We have an initial site that we have just started to use to recruit into the team http://www.jointventureim.com/, it’s all very exciting and fun to do. Once people join the team they get access to and can contribute to the ‘Project’ site.

  At this point we have not monetized it in any way. However, as we grow the number of people in the team, the opportunities to create revenue seem boundless…

• 94 admin // Apr 16, 2009 at 1:39 pm

  @Domains - Build some more links towards your blogs so that MSN indexes them more thoroughly.

  Deep indexing is absolutely what makes this work, since your links have to rotate and refresh for the MSN Bot on pages it can actually see/index.

  Also keep in mind that time is a greater factor with the LH because unlike regular linking methods, what generates the rankings here is the fact that OVER TIME, msn will see a pattern of continual influx.

  Which means that on their first pass or two, they’ll need to register the “beginning” of the link build-up.

  -Chris

• 95 Tim // Apr 16, 2009 at 1:45 pm

  @admin, I’m new at this and messed up my last post.

  I’m assuming you are okay with the links I added as you allow it to be submitted but I managed to add a ‘,’ and a ‘.’ to the links rendering them non-functional.

  Is there a way to preview a post and or edit one once it is submitted?

• 96 Women's Work // Apr 16, 2009 at 2:53 pm

  Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. Thanks for knocking out the noise in my head…I’ve been working without a plan…and, not surprising, getting nowhere. This post has just become the backbone of my plan. Thanks, Chris!

• 97 CT // Apr 16, 2009 at 3:32 pm

  I’ve been “into” Internet marketing for over two years and I too have never set up a site. I did buy a bunch of things, but nowhere near $60k. Well under $1k. I stopped buying a long time ago when I realized they weren’t telling me anything I didn’t already know.

  This hit home. Hard. Chris says what I’ve been thinking, and it took this to really solidify what I’ve been doing over the past few days, which is creating the structure for hosting, mail, and the like. Even that was procrastinating.

  It’s dinner time, so after I eat, I’ll have a niche, some content, a domain and the start of a landing page. Seven days it is.

  I’ve unsubscribed from every IMers list except Chris’.

• 98 Cinjon // Apr 16, 2009 at 4:12 pm

  To #55 Tim & #61 Chris & #70 StanLee- I tend to go heavy on the technical side of things as well because I’m more natural at that and just a crappy marketer. That’s why conduits & loopholes are alot more fun and easy, but unfortunately, not a long-term asset like a product & email list. Making a product itself is easy, but the two kickers that kill that are drilling down to knowing the right kind of product to make (despite the loads of info in the VIP series) and the art of marketing that product - which is more of an innate talent than one that can be learned short term - at least not as easily as building and distributing sites all day.

• 99 admin // Apr 16, 2009 at 4:24 pm

  That’s a good point Cinjon, and it does come down to playing to one’s strengths.

  While I strongly recommend that everyone learn and master the profitable skills (marketing, business building) - technical stuff may be your skillset.

  In this case, I would recommend that you ally yourself with an established marketer and co-launch products/businesses, each playing to your strengths.

  I do this often (as a marketer - not a skilled tech guy).

  -Chris

• 100 Jim James // Apr 16, 2009 at 5:53 pm

  Chris,

  Great post! (Folks, his paid stuff is good too!)

  One thing I learned a long time ago from another more experienced internet marketer was:

  FAIL FAST!

  He meant to get something on some niche up on the web fast, improve it as you go along, and if it didn’t work out just cut your losses BUT KEEP GOING. You’ll learn from your mistakes, but also from your successes.

  He DIDN’T mean to spend 1 hour building a site with no content, no optin, 12 spelling errors, and no promotion, then check your clickbank account every 15 minutes wondering where the $135,000 a month was?

• 101 Work from Home // Apr 17, 2009 at 12:40 am

  Good point - no need to spend thousands of dollars if you have a proven plan, a good work ethic and actually do some work.

  Great article, thanks Chris

• 102 Tom Jones // Apr 17, 2009 at 12:56 am

  Thanks so much Chris, Your absolutely right!

  This is my first time posting to you.

  Here is my:

  90 Day Since Launch Results For The Ultimate Loophole SEO Course Explained And Reviewed And A Few Other Thoughts

  Thanks so much for your last post Chris you truly inspire me.

  I read every comment posted from your followers and see that many people want to make the Internet work but are having serious trouble believing it will work for them or they just don’t know how to get started without spending a small fortune.

  I see that some have tried very hard to make it work. I salute you! We have worked hard to. Gail and I have tried for over 15 years and have had one decent victory site, a few small victories, but mostly failures. I could never get traffic to most of my sites but usually blamed myself for the copy or something. I now know it was mostly the traffic.

  We recently ran into you and Dave Kelly with the Ultimate Loophole and a lot has changed for the better.

  My love for tinkering with Internet Tech has keep me pushing forward towards the goal of doing nothing but Internet for a living and getting off my hands and knees once and for all with my waterproofing business.

  I want to do Internet in an honest fashion that doesn’t require Gail and I to sell our souls just to make it work.

  We ran into the Loophole method in late January of this year. Winters are slow for us and I usually sit around and go crazy at home unless I tinker with something. My wife and I got busy and published a system of 30 blogs and 40 conduit money sites over a 45-day period of time.

  They are all linked together with Link-u-baiter which was an add on from Dave for 50 bucks more that nicely links all the sites together. I worked around 450 hours and Gail around 250 to build the 70 sites. Do the math, it was a lot of hard work. I had the time of my life. That’s why I’m called the Webit Geek.

  All but one of our blogs contains totally automated content. It takes us two hours total to order up a months worth of scheduled content for all of the blogs. You can see an example of one of my automated blogs at: http://friendsofnature.net/

  Friends of Nature hit front-page Google status but then fell off completely but it doesn’t seem to affect traffic at all. The site still had 394 unique visitors in March, and over 5000 uniques if you count all the blogs total and we made a profit on the Adsense banners but for the most part our blogs aren’t monetized. We only built them to help pull MSN rankings toward our 40 conduit money sites as the Ultimate Loophole teaches.

  We’re impressed so far. Not every money site is a top three raking winner like the Loophole ad suggest. Far from it, BUT, we have had several of our sites pop up to front page MSN on some really big tough niches like wedding, pet, money, work at home. The long tail domains are doing the best. Even Google likes them more.

  We tried to control ourselves and make the conduit sites exactly as the Loophole course suggested. I went overboard on a few but Gail didn’t. She’s having better results than me so far.

  I won’t share what the exact long tails we use, but I will say that we just followed the advice of the Loophole course and choose logical domain names that indicated that the person is searching for something they are thinking about or are already about to buy.

  In the past 30 days we have had over 650 hops to our Clickbank affiliates alone. That’s not counting the over a 100 more clicks we had to our Share-a Sale, C.J. and a few more individual affiliates were hooked up with.

  We wish the Loophole Ad was toned down a bit on the high expectation of perfect results every time but were also thankful for people like you and Dave Kelly who share your talent and success. Every little bit helps. I’m sure Dave is far better at SEO than me and I have probably made plenty of mistakes following his course.

  We all will have different results from following Dave but if some fail at doing this it still doesn’t mean that it doesn’t work. I’m know that I deviated a bit from Dave’s exact plan on purpose but that’s just me! I’m the Webit Geek.

  In closing I would just like to offer my help to any of you that want to get started.

  Here’s what I know.

  1. Internet does work. Google has fed my family and me for years. My simple 6 page static website (content never changes) at pacificnwsurfacing.com has sent tons of free leads over the years to my waterproofing business and it ranks very high on search engines. The site is now about 12 years old and still works me to death out in the field. That’s going to change soon.

  2. You have to be honest and rock solid with what you offer and you have to offer real substance on your websites or your online career is pretty much dead. At least as far as the public and Google are concerned. And that’s the truth.

  3. People are hungry for real information on what YOU know how to do. They are sick to death of fire sale emails, hype ads that promise the moon, the sun and the stars. Don’t become one of those. It’s just not necessary or nice, and it doesn’t work anyway. If it does work then I feel sorry for you.

  Welcome to the new Internet folks! Were all much more sophisticated now and don’t have to believe the daily liars any more.

  I’m not telling you about my success or failure to brag, but rather to give genuine hope to people who doubt and to let you know that it is possible. Internet works, static sites work, loophole works, simple content blogs work, if you are willing to pay the price and offer real substance. Good solid SEO from Dave and Chris doesn’t hurt either.

  I have to warn any one wanting to try the Loophole. It isn’t for the lighthearted but it does work. I will recommend it to anyone. The Lazy Affiliate is very smart as well and much easier for a beginner to get started with.

  Sixteen days ago I started a site dedicated to helping people make the technical side of all this Internet stuff work. In the next couple of days I will start launching the new video series called “How To Make Your WebIT Work” It’s totally free and you can watch over my shoulder on video and learn how to set up your sites and blogs and make your Web IT work.

  In the first 15 days since WebitGeek.com was launched it has had over 75 unique visitors. 80% percent have added it to their favorites. 50% spend time on the site and 284 people have viewed the live feed and 98 have joined. Many visitors return to WebitGeek every single day or more to see if I’ve posted. I better get busy fast.

  Just for your information though, Webit Geek is not hooked up to the Loophole method or following the Lazy Affiliate any other method or course. It is just a plain and simple WordPress Blog that stands all on it’s own as a true content site offering nothing but real substance so Google therefore without any tricks from me visits me least every day and sometimes two or three times a day and minutes after almost every post.

  Yahoo and Alexia are at it every day and MSN almost every day along with a few other unnamed bots and spiders. This is just as the course Blogging To The Bank promised. Expect a ton of those fire sale emails I was telling you about if you buy this kids course. But he is an authority on the subject of Blogs and makes millions with them so he’s worth listening to. He’s the most aggressive mail list guy I’ve ever met however. Fair warning.

  I did a little bit of social networking with WebitGeek on MyBlogLog, Digg and Sphinn but that is it. Not a bad start for just the first 15 days. We are very excited and of course hope people return the favor one day and click on some of our affiliate banners. Some actually are already. Don’t take my word for it. See the proof.

  Check out the 4 minute video that shows you my April 16, 2009 Awstats report.

  So there you have it. If your skeptical, I feel ya, it’s hard to believe it till you taste a little success. This is not an easy business until it’s all set up correctly and then there is nothing at all to do, really, some sites of mine have generated sales without touching for years.

  Blogs are very new to me however and obviously I have a bunch of on going work to do to keep Webit Geek interesting. I spent most of my time perfecting websites over the years and not blogs. A quick course from Blogging To The Bank and a visit to Tecnorati.com got me up to snuff in no time and taught me what a top 100-authority blog looks like in my niche. You need to know this before you build one yourself.

  I know of very few short cuts to success but I do know that Chris offers one of them with the Lazy Affiliate course and so does Dave Kelly for getting traffic with the Ultimate Loophole course but in the end real content is still king.

  Try harder, work smarter and don’t ever quit. Unless your not having fun. Come see me often at Webit Geek and join the feed. We can all learn, share and do this together.

  Thanks so much Chris and to Dave Kelly too.

  Best Wishes,

  Tom Jones
  WebitGeek.com

• 103 Ronnie // Apr 17, 2009 at 1:08 am

  Chris,

  Very good post. I have started doing but not to make money yet, but to learn the basic. Will definitely start on those mini-sites soon.

  Thanks for sending me that email to ask how I was doing, great follow up - the results was a series of actions to get started.

  Good man.

• 104 Nathan Denton // Apr 17, 2009 at 5:31 am

  Excellent post Chris. This is a display of your willingness to share your knowledge and experience with the masses in what I believe is a true effort to try to help others better their financial position. Many other marketers out there force offer after offer to their readers whilst you seem to provide quality information with selected offers on rare occassions.

  I thoroughly enjoy your material and have learnt a lot from you. Thanks.

• 105 Guido // Apr 17, 2009 at 9:18 am

  “While I strongly recommend that everyone learn and master the profitable skills (marketing, business building) - technical stuff may be your skillset.

  In this case, I would recommend that you ally yourself with an established marketer and co-launch products/businesses, each playing to your strengths.

  I do this often (as a marketer - not a skilled tech guy).

  -Chris”

  @Chris — how would you recommend going about this? I have 2 pieces of software that I’ve written that I think could fetch a ton of cash for a high profile launch, but alas I’ve been in ecomm more than IM and have no list, or cred… I’m willing to split profits, interested?

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• 107 admin // Apr 17, 2009 at 12:19 pm

  Hi Guido,

  Sure, send me an email. I’ll take a look at what you’ve got. Send it to chris@thelazymarketer.com and ignore the auto-response.

  Cheers

  -Chris

• 108 Greg Gillespie // Apr 17, 2009 at 6:59 pm

  Hey Chris,

  Since we are talking somewhat MSNLoopHole, wouldn’t it be a good idea to change the sales page to reflect FAQ #10 (i think, or #8) to correctly market the tool?

  I have 50 moneysites and 30 blogs, 3 weeks WORK and then comes the FAQ about why the “heck did you target those keywords” bit of info?

  The sales page does say “Any Keyword” yet this is apparently not so???

  Comments please.

  Thanks,

  Greg

• 109 day trading for beginners // Apr 17, 2009 at 8:42 pm

  IN RESPONSE TO PALO

  I would like to say that I am not a guru in any manner, but looking at Palo’s site, I can see some very obvious ways to improve it and make it more successful.

  Firstly, the site is actually very ugly and visitors won’t stay longer than a few seconds. I say this not to be nasty, but to offer constructive criticism. It does not necessarily have to have pictures in the middle, but it needs to be attractive and nicely laid-out.

  To improve the site, I would change the theme to something more attractive. I would also change the font used to one that is easier to read. Next, I would use a call to action before placing my sales link at the bottom - “Click on this link to get the answer to your problem” tells people what they need to do to solve their problem. Lastly, I would cloak my links, so that they do not look like affiliate links. Using a raw Clickbank link shows people that you are trying to sell to them, and also people will sometimes change your user name to theirs, so you lose the sale.

  I would be happy to discuss this further with you on a personal basis, and to offer a further review for you to help you (no charge). If you would like this, you may email me at barryf at day-trading-for-beginners dot com.

  Good luck with improving your site.

  Barry

• 110 Jon // Apr 17, 2009 at 9:20 pm

  Yet another excellent post Chris. I really appreciate your no-nonsense approach.

• 111 Andrew Murphy // Apr 18, 2009 at 12:09 am

  Chris (admin) or anyone else for that matter,

  What is one of the best ways to setup an offer? On a blog as a landing page? I have setup a landing page and I have an autoresponder (i-contact) but how do I automatically get the PLR report to them after they have opted in? I thought I would be able to load it into the autoresponder but I don’t think I can. If anyone else can help or direct me somewhere for help I would appreciate it.

  Andrew

• 112 Cinjon // Apr 19, 2009 at 2:58 pm

  Andrew - I don’t know if i-contact has this, but I use AWeber, and they have a space to put an URL for where to send an opt-in after they’ve confirmed. That URL should just go to a “thank-you” page with a link to download the PLR report (and probably an upsell or OTO as well).

• 113 Mirko // Apr 20, 2009 at 6:13 am

  Hello, I think one of the biggest problems for a new affiliate marketer is that you did not the results instantly. A lot of the “Gurus” are saying that it will happen overnight, but that is not true. You try something and it is not going for you, so you quit and feeling like an idiot or something. As an example my forex conduit site is now about 2 1/2 months online and has a pr1, not very impressive but I do im part time. The site buidling took about a week. Till now I only made about 110 bucks and only a few optins. Visitors from 20-40 a day. The conversion is not that good but I made money. Not that much but I am buidling more sites at the moment and I will see an increase in sales. By the way, it is a lot of work especially if you only do it part time like me. Just my 2 cents.

• 114 Aristofanis // Apr 20, 2009 at 7:01 am

  Bravo Chris!

  These are accurate statements expreming actual “to-be net marketers” situations.

  Nevertheless most proposed web marketing systems serve in some way their creator’s needs and in overall web traffic needs.

  Web is not a money pot. But clever guys present it as such using it as a bait. Baits are the kind fish like.

  So we have to be carefull.

  Have sth of value to offer and earn. Find who gives a value to it and sell. A buyer worths more than all the surfers of the world (1,6 billion.)

  Wanna be a pro? Act like a pro.

  Aristofanis

• 115 Chris Harris // Apr 20, 2009 at 2:39 pm

  Very concise. Does this work with a single site and a single product ? I’ve been doing 75% of what you talked about and have only had 120 or so “hits” per week while blogging and posting the He%$ out the site. I depend on my affiliate source to have an effective “up sell ” in their squeeze page. The only thing I haven’t done is get an auto-responder or an opt-in form on the main page for follow up. This has been going on for a month now and my start up budget is 0. I am not too technical about using F.T.P. or html de-coders so I am lost as to how to create my own opt-in pages or even how to install an auto responder. The products I do have access to I could promote directly from blog sites. I barely know how to create affiliate links for these, so I have been worried about promoting them. You have been a great help and once I get some cash flow I will be joining up with you..Chris

• 116 Domains at Retail // Apr 20, 2009 at 5:34 pm

  Just an update for if anyone followed my comments but the loop hole does work! Right now I’ve managed to get #21 out of 196,000,000 for a keyword that I haven’t ranked for yet.

  So this is my 2nd big keyword to rank. Hopefully it doesnt drop out like the first ranking I had did.

• 117 Nursery Decoration // Apr 20, 2009 at 8:44 pm

  Chris,
  As always a great post! I think that the most difficult part in making money online is the lack of focus. I agree with you when you say “Not buy some jackasses course about the strategy” . There is tons of launch and products info everyday making hard to everyone to get a right decision. If we keep buying and not Doing…there won’t be any good results at all. Thank ,God we have you!
  Best wishes,
  Cindy

• 118 Nintendo Gaming // Apr 21, 2009 at 12:24 pm

  Once again Chris a great post. Just wanted you to know I check almost daily for updates and am disappointed when there aren’t any!

  If you’re ever in the UK I want to buy you a beer!

• 119 Niche Affiliate Marketing // Apr 22, 2009 at 1:35 pm

  60k Chris? I don’t know, sounds kind of made up.

• 120 admin // Apr 22, 2009 at 7:11 pm

  You’d be surprised…

• 121 andrew // Apr 23, 2009 at 2:32 pm

  After setting up a conduit site and someone finds your site after seeing the original offer if they click on your link and decide to buy, who gets the sale? In other words whose cookie is being tracked, the 1st one or last one clicked on. If it’s the first one then we are losing out on sales. Is this the same across all affiliate sites?

  Andrew

• 122 StevieA // Apr 24, 2009 at 2:57 pm

  Chris-
  Thank you for being completely honest with
  what you do to make a living online. I recently
  turned to the computer to generate income and
  thanks to you, I am finding my way. There is a
  lot of crap out there that I had to wade thru. You
  are my inspiration …. Thanks for giving and please
  don’t stop!

• 123 Barb // Apr 25, 2009 at 4:30 pm

  Just a tip … I received a video from another affiliate marketer who presented a very similar list-building formula, but without the PLR suggestions. He did say that most people unsubscribe from a list overtime, usually after the first 30 days, so it’s important to track which of your emails/product offerings are hitting the right buttons and move them to an “early” spot in the autoresponder sequence, like the 4th email. I’m sure you guys with lists already know this one, but I thought I’d share anyway.

• 124 Greg Gillespie // May 2, 2009 at 5:39 pm

  Hey Chris,

  My appologies on Loophole!

  Wow, I just looked at my post above expressing my disappointment with Loophole but that has all changed now.

  I have 5 of my 50 sites doing well with MSN first page results.

  One of them is at number 2 on the first page and is beating 665,000,000 other web pages. That is over half a billion web pages!

  Yes leave the “Any Keyword” in your marketing, it is just a matter of time, as most of mine are top competitive marketing niches.

  Cheers,

  Greg Gillespie

• 125 Sourav Sharma // May 7, 2009 at 2:05 pm

  one of the nicest article and detailed one I have seen in recent times….

• 126 Len // May 14, 2009 at 12:26 am

  Inspiring idea, Chris.

  I’ve got under way with it. Got a PLR book rewritten and ready to offer, an autoresponder just about set up, and my fingers twitching.

  QUESTION … will I link from the home page of my blog to the inside pages and the articles I put on my blog (step 5)? In other words, will the home page contain only my offer and form to fill in to get the free ebook and the seven day course?

  Thanks.

• 127 Jesper // May 15, 2009 at 10:27 pm

  Hi

  I’m completely new to online marketing.
  I just bought a domain name and hosting a week ago, but before that I got inspired and motivated cause I started researching, basically trying to learn as much as I can on a pretty short amount of time. I’m sure I have learned something, and I have even aquired contacts, but the matter of the fact is i’m insecure how to specifically organize all of this.

  I installed wordpress.org, for my domain and I have made one subdomain.

  I’m not sure if I have understood right, but that’s why I’m asking. I’m from Denmark so some words are rubbish to me I hear the word landing page and squeeze page is that where you have the sales letter? or where you put in the email option?.

  Do I have to buy a new domain for every niche I wanna make? or can I do them from a subdomain where I install wordpress.org , this is important for me to understand.

  Lets say I wanna make a niche about cash rewards, would it then be good with the loopwhole idea to make a subdomain called cashrewards.nicheprince.com ?would that be the landing page? or would that be a page with content, that leads to a landing page?where I believe people write up for an email feedback from you or something right? and could I link it to my domain it self with benefit?
  Do I need more than 1 IP adress?

  I would like to hear how people organize things step by step, when you setup pages when you make you keyword research to applying to advertising networks etc, in what order you do the things and so on.

  gl talk to you soon

  Jesper

  Sorry for the maybe stupid questions, I hope they can be answered. I’m very interested in buying the loophole, and I’m very motivated about Internet Marketing, but I don’t just go around buying e-books and all different kind of courses, and the basic reason why, is the sales pages are usually scam looking, they are always long and teasing, many times you can get something for free, usually its a free view to another page with as much insignificant content, that just wants to lead to a sale, I don’t like that. All the words playing around and manipulating. Do some short sales letters, don’t let me scroll. Anyway I want to buy the loophole, it somehow sounded convincing, and also all the positive critisism both from this page but also another page.

• 128 Jesper // May 15, 2009 at 10:43 pm

  Oh sorry I have 1 more question

  I don’t care about link backs right now, care about advice, thats why I ask, so hope its ok for me to link to my 1 subdomain
  http://soccershop.nicheprince.com/

  when I choose the name soccershop for that domain I didn’t research the keyword, does that matter as I’m only going to have links to my niches here?, where I will go for good quality keywords. Am I right that soccershop is the source? and the niches it should be landing to on subdomains should be called the highranking keywords, and have some sort of text to it maybe some picture or very clearly?

  Ok great post
  talk soon

  Jesper

• 129 Curtis Penner // May 16, 2009 at 9:03 am

  Great article Chris.

  One question…

  Would you consider putting a “print this article” button on your posts?

  After just reading a few of your posts, I can tell it would come in handy.

  Thanks.

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• 131 Scott // Jun 4, 2009 at 4:24 pm

  @Brenda you come in preaching to us about how something doesn’t work blah blah blah…. Well guess what how do you know it didn’t work for me?

  You seem to be spewing the same non-knowledge that you so easily say other “gurus” are doing. So the product didn’t work for you, guess what?

  It worked for me. You want to know how many blogs I set up for it to work, 12 blogs.

  That look like 100+ to you? I mean sure I set up the blogs, made the money sites, and checked my ranking every week for about a month and saw that I was not even indexed for my money sites. but I didn’t throw in the towel.

  Knowing Chris and Dave I decided to just trust them, I went away from my sites for about 3 months and just paid them no mind.

  Fast forward to that time, after 3 months I decided out of curiosity to see if the loophole had worked, and guess what. My sites were sitting in the top 1-3 spots in MSN for the keywords of each site.

  Chris is the sole reason in this internet marketing game that I make enough a month after 6 months to pay the car payment for the car of my dreams. From following just one of his methods alone with one site, I now make enough $ a month to front the payment. So yes Chris is one of the good ones in my eyes.

  I still work my day job making minimum wage, because anyone who has come from nothing to something knows it takes hard work and working smart.

  I use the extra cash from my crappy retail job to buy domains, and expand my online business. What do you do to succeed at this?

  Bash Chris and other “gurus” is what it looks like to me. If you would just read Chris’s posts for what they are maybe you could take away something like the whole “stop spending your time whining and start spending your time doing”

  The fact that Chris just layed out a COMPLETE method on how to make some $$ in the online world just shows who he is. So he promotes his list building product on the bottom? You act like all he said above it was 10 reason why you should buy his product, but he didn’t he GAVE YOU the way to make money, he didn’t even say “but you will need my product”

  He understands that what he has built here is an empire of affiliates and internet marketers that know he really does have our best interests in mind, its just that a high % of people want to be fed the easy way.

  He has given us all the tools you could want to compete and make money in this online world.

  This little rant turned out to be longer then I expected, but it just bothered me the ignorance of your post Brenda.

  Oh and Chris if you ever want/need any kind of testimonial I would be more then happy.

  Scott

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• 133 Robert C - The Wholesale Guy // Jun 9, 2009 at 9:44 pm

  Chris..

  I hope this guy was being sincere and not lying to you. I cannot believe that anyone would spend that amount of money in IM training and get a “low to no” result with that type of expenditure..

  But, this is America and anything is possible. It is a shame really. As you mentioned, you could have bought a “ton” of established websites from Sitepoint, Digital Point, or just about any site that sells websites legitimately..

  I can’t imagine the “website wonders” and profit I could generate if I had that kind of cash as my disposal. I am in full agreement with what you say about people not getting the “work” part of building an Internet business. Could not have said it better myself..

  Robert C - The Wholesale Guy

• 134 Robert // Jun 29, 2009 at 11:48 am

  I think that there are some VERY important subtleties associated with Keyword selection. I have learned quite a bit in this regard but given my total lack of sales with MSN LH and LinkuMate (since January), I may still be missing something(s).
  Goggle, Yahoo and MSN visit my LH Blog sites once and sometime twice a day, but I am not ranking with the vast majority of my money sites. Anyway I will stick with it a bit longer.
  With regard to the basic topic of Chris’s post, I have considerable web presence (like a site with 1500 pages of content), squeeze page ebook giveaway, written articles on 3 ezines, links from Squiddo lens, links from Hubpages blogs, purchased 121 quality 1-way links, have 7 edu backlinks. Yup you know what I am going to say next …. I have very little traffic and not sure why. Oh yeah .. zero sales.
  Chris, I love you man, keep it up, but somehow I am not “getting it” and I’m a freaking rocket scientist.

• 135 admin // Jul 6, 2009 at 3:46 pm

  Robert,

  Links and content is one thing.

  MARKET and OFFER are another.

  I have a site with over 200+ pages and gets about 900 UV’s a day and makes roughly $180 a month

  I have another site with FIVE pages, gets about 200 UV’s a day and makes over $100 a day.

  The offer converts and the traffic is profitable.

  It’s WHAT you sell.

  Not how.

  -Chris

• 136 zman // Jul 16, 2009 at 3:48 pm

  Chris,

  You mentioned getting content from Ezine, YouTube, etc.

  What are the legal issues with that?

  Do you cite the source on your webpage. If so, how (nofollow? put the link at the bottom?)?

  Thanks!

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