Before I get into the details I want to make sure you realize this is not a free blog service.

This is an established blog already getting thousands of visitors per month and making an income.

It is on it’s own domain name and it’s own hosting.

Here is a screen shot of the traffic that I took today:

You can see that it averages over 100 visitors per day and all that traffic is coming from the search engines or social bookmarking sites as seen in this screenshot:

If you do the math you will see that the total from the search engines almost matches the total visitors exactly.  These are not people I am sending to the site from my list.

Don’t worry if you are the lucky one to get the site you will be able to look at the full stats from your control panel.

Now comes the big question, “Why am I giving away a profitable site?”

There are a couple of reasons the first reason is that this is in a niche that I don’t have a true affinity for  and the site could be doing so much better if some one that enjoys this niche or is willing to learn this niche was working the site.

The second reason is that I am using it as promotion for my Blogging Beginners site.

At Blogging Beginners we teach the exact methods I used to create this site in under a week and then not do anything to it for months and still get traffic and income.  Again the income and traffic would be much higher if this was a niche I enjoyed working in.  I even have ideas and suggestions that would raise the income level on this site that I will share with the new owner when we give it away.

Now a little more about the giveaway.

This won’t be a random giveaway, we are looking for someone that will take the existing blog and use the techniques we teach at Blogging Beginners (yes, we will be giving away a Free Platinum Membership too)  to make this blog even more profitable.

You have to be a member of Blogging Beginners to be eligible for the giveaway but this isn’t a problem since you can sign up for free.

We will be giving away the blog on July 31, 2009

If you are interested just click anywhere you see the link to Blogging Beginners to sign up and get the case study for the site.  More information will follow after you sign up.

Tags: free blog, giveaway, money making blog, profitable blog

There are a number of methods that will make you money with Adwords but for every one that creates profits there are four or five that will put you in the poor house.

In this post I am going to talk about a couple of very popular (at least right now) adwords courses and let you decide if they might benefit you.

I will be talking about

The ClickBank Code and Keyword ESP.

Now by the name neither of these seem to be Adwords programs.

The ClickBank Code is actually a course that shows you how to make money with ClickBank using Adwords and Keyword ESP is actually a tool to help you optimize and set up Adwords accounts and the landing pages for those Adwords accounts.

Now on the face of it you would think that there isn’t much to compare with these two products but I will find a way.

First we will cover the main thing that sells products but doesn’t deliver to the end user, Hype.

This will be rated from 1 to 5 with 1 being no hype at all and 5 being a ton of hype.

HYPE

The ClickBank Code – 5 *****

Keyword ESP – 2 **

The ClickBank Code – This sales page is all hype.  I have purchased this and I have gone through the videos and I will tell you this read the sales page closely and anything that might be hype is.

We will start with the “newbie” claim right in the headline.

There is no way a “newbie” to Adwords made $11,000 in the first week using the techniques taught in the course unless they spent that much.  Look at it closer, it says, “ClickBank newbie”, not just newbie.  This is a person that already had experience marketing and probably a lot of experience with Adwords before he started promoting Adwords.

It is even quoted on the site, “But I’d never used Clickbank before February 09.” But he isn’t teaching ClickBank he is teaching Adwords. This is similar to a race car driver changing from Ford to Chevy and winning the first race he drove the Chevy in saying, “Newbie Chevy Racecar Driver Wins Every Race” even though he had years of experience with Ford.

The next item $48,506.88 first month – first month of Adwords or first month using his already established Adwords campaigns to promote ClickBank products.  This is one of those typical things where they show you the gross income but he doesn’t show you how much he spent on Adwords and any other expenses he might have had.  For all you know he spent $50,000 to make the $48,000.

Keyword ESP on the other hand has very little hype besides possibly exaggerating the ease of use of the software.  The software is easy to use but your landing pages do take a little more effort than it appears on the sales page.

They don’t even imply that you will make a fortune with this but they show you how to get more click thrus and lower you cost at the same time.

Winner of Hype Keyword ESP

Content

The ClickBank Code – 3 ***

Keyword ESP – 3 ***

The ClickBank Code has some excellent information on how to rate keyword campaigns before you launch them.  They even provide an Excel spreadsheet for you to test them before you actually launch the campaign, this is not an exact science but it is a great way to get idea for which way you should go.

The ClickBank Code would be higher except there are a couple of things in the content that a newbie shouldn’t apply unless they have a lot of money they can afford to lose.  For example they tell you to set your daily budget at $500 per day to test a campaign.  They also tell you to use, “hundreds or thousands” of keywords.  If you do this you will spend $500 per day with Adwords and who knows if your conversions ever make enough to pay for that.  This is the biggest reason people fail at Adwords is because they spend more then they can afford without having a proven campaign.

Since the sales page hype is targeted at newbies the content should be targeted at newbies and not be recommnend $500 per day to test a campaign.

If you avoid the high spend rates and the tons of keywords you can learn a lot about researching your campaign in this course.

The videos are easy to follow and stream nicely online but the download versions didn’t work for me.

One other thing to remember if you use this method to set up is that it takes about six weeks to get your first payment from ClickBank.  But you will get your bill from Adwords in four weeks or less so don’t plan on ClickBank money paying for your first bill.

Keyword ESP – this content is actually a bonus for buying the Keyword ESP tool.  With that said the content is broken down into four sections – Part Time adwords, Full time Adwords, Advanced Adwords and Dominate Organically.

This is all good information for a newbie starting out with Adwords he is careful to keep you controled while starting your account and testing your campaigns at lower levels before you commit to them but still provides the information to move you along to bigger and more profitable campaigns.

The one problem I have is the content is only available through the software, it is recorded in HD and not optimized for the internet.  This means with my DSL connection (not too fast in the islands) it takes me about 45 minutes to download and view a 15 minute video.  If you have dial-up you will have to wait a long time to see these videos.

Overall Keyword ESP wins this competition but they both have good qualities.

Personally, I think you should use the testing methods that are taught in The ClickBank Code and use the Adwords methods and the tools from Keyword ESP together.  But that would require purchasing both products.

If you are a newbie and just starting out and you were going to choose one of these two products I would recommend Keyword ESP because following these methods you are less likely to loose your shirt in Adwords fees the first month.

Either way if you are new to Adwords you should watch the Keyword ESP Video.  It is 68 minutes long and will give you some great content on how to start out.

Tags: Adwords, hype, keyword ESP, review, the clickbank code

Woo Hoo! Yes, that’s right I found the Magic Button that will make you money online at demand.

I bet you are expecting an affiliate link here but guess what?  There is no product being sold from this post.

I know a lot of you have seen sales pages that pretend to be the Magic Button.  You know they tell you things like you can make $11,000 your first week.  But once you purchase the product you find out that you can’t even learn what they are telling you in one week let alone master it.

But I did find the Magic Button and if you are nice I might even tell you how you can find the Magic Button.  Again, I will not be sending you to a sales page.

• The Magic Button I found works for anybody that wants to use it.
  
• The Magic Button I found has limitations but they can be overcome.
  
• The Magic Button I found doesn’t care about how much money you have.
  
• The Magic Button I found can be found by anybody that looks for it.
  
• The Magic Button I found is FREE!

Do I have your interest yet?  If I don’t then you aren’t truly looking for the Magic Button that works or you haven’t purchased enough of the so called Magic Buttons that don’t work.

Don’t worry if you don’t follow this advice you will purchase a bunch of stuff you will never use.

Are you ready to know where you can find the Magic Button?

I will tell you where you can find it but you might not like my answer.

The only Magic Button you will ever find and the only one you will ever need is, you.

I told you that you might not like the answer.

I know it sounds cliché but you can achieve anything you set out to achieve.

Now I have a question for you, do you really believe there is a program on the internet that will provide you with endless income without you doing any work or knowing anything?  If you truly believe this with all your heart my advice to you is quit while you are ahead.

If you realize that there is no such program and that you will have to put some effort and some planning into your obtaining your goal, you are half way to putting your finger on the Magic Button.

You attitude and your desire are what will make you or break you in any business not just the online business arena.

If you develop the attitude that you are going to make money online and realize that you have to put in the effort to do it. You will be amazed at the results you will get.

It will most likely start small but even starting small will boost your ego and improve your attitude.  With a better attitude you will put in more effort and more effort will result in more profits.  This in turn will give your ego another bump and your profits climb again.

This cycle will repeat until you suddenly find that you aren’t working as hard to make the same amount or more money.

Your attitude and your desire is your Magic Button.  This makes it possible for you to put in the effort and achieve your goals.

A few things that will destroy your attitude:

Selling a product that you would be mad about buying, these type of products will get a bunch of complaints from your customers and this negative attitude will infect you.

Setting your goals at an unrealistic level, completely failing in your goals is a definite energy stealer.  Don’t expect to make $11,000 in your first week.  It’s not going to happen.  Make your goals realistic and obtainable.

Don’t expect to do absolutely no work; you will have to put in the effort to succeed.  Hopefully you will have picked something that you love to do.

Don’t think you know everything; you really need to know what you don’t know and then either learn what you don’t know or hire somebody that does know it.

You have your Magic Button right now, all you need to do is discover how to press it.

Tags: Attitude, Internet Marketing, Magic Button, Online Income

That’s right your email is taking cash from your pocket and most people don’t even realize that it is happening to them.

To be more precise I should say that email and hype are killing your profits.

I bet you are wondering how email can be killing your profits, after all didn’t it just tell you that you won millions in a number of different lotteries or that you can make millions just by helping some prince transfer money to your country.

Just in case you are very new and haven’t received any of these type of emails, please note they are scams and all it will do is cost you time and take your money. So, don’t respond to them and don’t even bother reading them, just delete them and be done with it.

But these scams aren’t the emails that are killing your profits. The emails that are killing your profits are the ones that you stop and read, especially the ones that promise untold fortunes with no work.

I am not sure if he coined the phrase or not, but Willie Crawford is the first person I heard use the term, “Time Vampires” and Time Vampires can cut into your profits like a hot knife through butter.

There are other Time Vampires besides email but I personally find that email is my biggest Time Vampire.

See if you can relate to this situation. I am working on writing a post for a blog or anything that will remove an item from my to do list, and all of the sudden the little tone that signals the arrival of an email sounds.

What do I do? I go and look at the email, after all it might be something that requires my attention.

But noooooo! When I go and look it is just the latest product being launched that will end up in my email box a bunch of times. Of course I have to check out the sales page to see what they are offering and of course it is the solution to all my problems, financial, personal and maybe even internet marketing related. All I have to do is give them my money and voila, I will be set for life.

Just as I am about to press the order now button I heard that magical email notification tone and I go back and see what new has arrived in my email, again it might be something that urgently needs my attention.

But nooooo! It is an email from Mike telling me about a video on YouTube that I just have to see.

But of course I don’t fall for this trap. I go right back to work…after I check out the video, and it was hilarious, a monkey, a chicken and a horse all tap dancing. Great video! It was only 9 minutes long so it was definitely worth the time.

Just as I am heading back to work, guess what? The magical email notification tone sounds again. I better go check it might be something that urgently needs my attention.

This time it actually is something that needs my attention. One of the members at one of my sites can’t view the videos with Vista.

Time to do some work and find out why it isn’t working, I quickly jump over to my laptop that runs Vista to see if I can replicate the problem. It is working fine for me in Vista, so off I go to Google and Microsoft to see if this problem has been reported before, no luck.

I am getting ready to send off an email response that says I am looking into it and so far I haven’t found a problem when the magic email signals again.

It turns out my member didn’t realize the video didn’t autoplay and when they clicked the play button it worked fine.

Now back to the post I was writing for my blog. No it is now time for dinner; I guess I can write the post tomorrow.

This might be exaggerated a little, but not much. The Time Vampires are the stealthiest of their breed and you won’t realize they have struck until well after the fact.

When you are working follow your plan and try to avoid distractions. This is called focus and if you are focused it is the most powerful agent against Time Vampires you can find. Even more powerful then those garlic cloves you are wearing.

Turn off your email for an hour, the world won’t end. Turn off your phone and find a comfortable place to get your work done. I believe for Willie this is on the beach, for you it might be somewhere different.

But focus and you will not only bring about the death of the Time Vampires from starvation but you most likely will also notice your wallet getting fatter.

Tags: email, Focus, productivity, time vampires

Guess what? I just bought the latest and greatest product that guarantees I will start making a six figure income. According to the sales letter I don’t need to do anything just sit back relax and watch the money flow!

Did You Get This Too?

Wasn’t it a great deal? Only $297.00 for unlimited wealth.

Ok, now it is time for the truth!

There is no product that will make you a fortune without you putting in the effort to make it succeed. PERIOD.

Can you make a six figure income online?

Yes you can!

Will you be able to do it without doing any work?

No you can’t!

Can you make $10,000 in the next 30 days?

Yes you can but…

…to make $10,000 in the next 30 days one of two things has most probably happened. Either you spent the last six months to a year building up to this or you spend $9,000 to make the $10,000 some people even spend more than $10,000 to make $10,000.

Just a minute…

…you saw the screen the screen shot of the persons income on the sales page. They have to be making that much money.

First off screen shots can be faked but even if they aren’t faked they don’t show you the entire story.

For example: There are a number of people selling products that tell you how to make a fortune with ClickBank® using Adwords® they show you screen shots or even video of their income. Yes, they might be making that much money through ClickBank® but that isn’t the whole story.

To see the whole story you will have to go back in time to when they first started.

They set up their Adwords® account, found a product to promote and started promoting. Did they make money right away? Not likely, but even if they did you have to remember that Adwords bills you at the end of the month and ClickBank® won’t pay you for six weeks. This means that if you have a $3000 bill with Adwords® you still have to pay that before you receive any of your money from ClickBank®. They didn’t tell you that did they.

I have also seen products where they tell you they made over a million dollars using Adwords®. Again this could be true but I am willing to bet that the million dollars is gross income and not net. I personally purchased a rather expensive product that claimed this. Once I got into the product I saw that yes there was income over a million dollars but guess what there were expenses over a million dollars too. The net income was still over six figures but it was divided among a group of people.

But let’s get back to the beginning of this Adwords®/ClickBank® career. Like I said earlier, it is unlikely that they actually made money from their very first campaigns unless they spent some time learning how to optimize their ads to obtain great quality scores (which lowers their prices). They spent more time learning how to write the ads that get the clicks and even more time testing and tracking these ads to get them to be profitable.

So now that you have purchased the product you should be able to do the same thing without doing any work, right? I mean after all they have figured it all out for you.

The answer to that is no, you will have to do as much work to start out as they did because no two niches are the same and they aren’t going to give you all the information about their niche because they don’t want the competition and they don’t want to lose the income.

Does this mean that you can’t learn from the course and start making a decent income?

Absolutely not.

It just means that you have to cut through all the hype and figure out what they aren’t telling you, like the example of telling you they make X amount of money with Adwords® but they don’t tell you how much they spend or how long it took to get to that point.

Once you cut through the hype filled emotional triggers of the sales page remember you will have to do some work to actually achieve any results and it doesn’t matter what the product is or what it promises.

The key thing to remember with any product you purchase is this, “If it won’t move YOU closer to your goals, if it isn’t the next step in your process, you don’t need it now!”

Don’t burn yourself out and become disillusioned by purchasing every product that promises big bucks. More than half of them will disappear in a few months never to be heard from again. That is how some people make their six figure income solely by selling you products that don’t work that tell you how to make six figures.

Set some goals, make a plan, take action and follow that plan. Focus on what you need right now and not what you might need in the future because if you don’t fill in the now you will never get to the future.

Tags: Adwords, ClickBank, Online Income, Six Figure Income