I’ll be covering some of the many reasons in this article, but first off…

For today August 31 2010 Only, please see the NEWS FLASH at the end of this post…

What is affiliate marketing?
Essentially Affiliate Marketing is a revenue share arrangement where a merchant or product owner pays you the Affiliate Marketer a percentage of any sales you generate.

(Your sales are tracked through the use of a unique affiliate link provided to you by the merchant, product owner or Affiliate Network).

In the case of CPA (Cost Per Action) Affiliate Marketing however, an Affiliate might even earn a commission for simply getting a prospect to fill out a form such as an insurance enquiry form.

In some cases with CPA marketing, you the Affiliate Marketer, can even get paid when a prospect joins a scheme in which they can get a gift (incentivised marketing) such as a free product sample, a free iPhone, a free iPad, a free  laptop or in some cases even a free Plasma or LCD television!

So let’s get started…

1. You can get started very quickly
You can get started with Affiliate Marketing very quickly. However actually building a business based on the Affiliate Marketing model will take time. (Nothing happens overnight!). You will need to spend time building your business which will include building a mailing list (or mailing lists if you’re going into several markets).

2. You can get started with little or no upfront costs
Working from home, you can get started as an Affiliate Marketer for as little as zero upfront cost in terms of cash spend.

You don’t get anything for free however so you will need to spend quite a bit of time learning the ropes which will include:

• Market research (finding a hungry market in a niche you are comfortable in  promoting)
• Product research (uncovering an in-demand product in the market you are going after)
• Joining affiliate networks (an affiliate network usually carries hundred or thousands of products affiliates can promote). Affiliate networks and affiliate programs are normally free to join…
• Generating traffic (i.e. getting potential customers to in front of the affiliate offer you are promoting).

Looking at the above point’s, if you’re just getting started, you might be asking yourself where can you get the knowledge required to get started as an Affiliate Marketer…

More about this later, but for now lets crack on…

As with the marketing of any product (offline or online), you need to exercise due diligence and satisfy yourself that the product or service you are planning to promote offers real value to your potential prospects. In some cases this might involve obtaining a sample of the product you plan to promote.

3. You do not need to build your own web site
As an Affiliate Marketer , you do not need to have a webs site. You can simply drive traffic directly to the affiliate offer using your affiliate link. HOWEVER, though this is the simplest way to get started, it is highly recommended that you instead drive traffic to your own lead capture landing page.

A lead capture landing page is simply an intermediate web page you drive your traffic to which allows you to entice the visitor to provide their name (usually just a first name) and their primary email address by offering a related gift such as a related and valuable report.

This can actually be achieved virtually in a matter of minutes if you are using an Auto Responder service such as Aweber. The AWeber Auto-Responder service allows you to create a simple but effective lead capture page which they host on their web server so you don’t have to be concerned about hosting.

Once you have enticed your visitor with your free gift, you can immediately send them to your affiliate offer then periodically send valuable follow up email information, some with related product or service promotions.

4. You don’t have to create a product or service
As an Affiliate Marketer, your don’t have to be concerned with creating a product or service which can be very time consuming in terms of the actual product development as well as costly depending on what is being created.

5. Your do not have to be concerned about product fulfilment
As an Affiliate Marketer you have no product fulfilment issues.

6. You don’t have the risk of your product not selling
As an Affiliate Marketers, you do not have the risk associated with your product not selling possibly after having gone through an expensive and time consuming product development cycle. (Though this risk can be reduced with effective market research before developing your product).

As an Affiliate Marketer if you find a product you are promoting is not converting, if you have structured your marketing correctly, it is easy and quick to switch your traffic to another offer.

7. You’re not ultimately responsible for customer service issues
Unlike the owner of a product or service, an Affiliate Marketer does not have the responsibility for customer service issues. Whether or not your customer service handling is outsourced (and it should be), you are ultimately responsible for ensuring you have an efficient customer service handling and process in place.

Conclusions
So you see there are many considerations that must be taken into account when developing your own product. Having said that, as a product owner, you can usually be far more successful (in terms of revenue generation) than an Affiliate Marketer.

Product owners have far more leverage than Affiliate, since the owner of an in-demand product can leverage the services of many JV partners and Affiliates who together can generate far more targeted traffic than the product owner alone.

After you have achieved a level of success as an Affiliate Marketer (if this is how you choose to start your online business) you may therefore wish to consider taking your business to the next level by developing your own products or services.

Earlier I got onto the subject of how you can gain the knowledge you will require to get started with your online Affiliate Internet Marketing business. I strongly believe that coaching from the right coach who is an experienced and successful marketer is one of the fastest way to get up to speed as an online marketer.

Coaching
Working at home on your online business can be a lonely affair. Without the guidance of an experienced marketer it can take many years to attain online success even for the most determined entrepreneur.

Working with a coach you can not only receive excellent and proven guidance, but you can usually expect to have direct access to your coach who can then provide specific or general guidance to point you in the right direction.

One such coaching program is AffiliateDotCom.

At the time of writing this article, there was a limited window in which to gain access into this Affiliate Marketing training program. The program may well be closed when you visit the site. You may however find that Mike Filsaime and Chris Farrell has retained the free training videos on this site which was a part of their very successful pre-launch material.

There are some valuable lessons that can be gained from these free videos, so I would highly recommend you at least take the time to review the free information they provide.

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There has been 13 Big Seminars to date and Armand has announced that the upcoming seminar scheduled for November 5th-7th 2010 will be the last Big Seminar he will be organizing and he is calling it “Big Seminar Finale”.

I’ve not yet been an  Armand Morin’s Big Seminar so I’m certainly planning to make it over to Las Vegas in November for Big Seminar Finale. I also regret not spending more time in Las Vegas when I was there back in January 2010 for Mike Filsaime’s Affiliate Appreciation week end. This event is sure to see many of the big names in internet marketing so the networking opportunity should awesome… I just know that if I miss it, I’ll regret it.

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With the increasing number of domain names being registered around the world, domain name squatting, speculative domain name purchasing, domain names purchased for the purpose of promoting affiliate products etc., it’s becoming more and more difficult to find the keyword specific ‘.com’ domain name that you might require for that new product, service or promotion.

Internet marketers will always favour a ‘.com’ domain name over any other for the promotion of their product. Perhaps the main reason for this choice is that this top level domain name is known to rank well certainly in the most popular search engines.

Whether you’re a budding entrepreneur, or a seasoned professional in the internet marketing circles, it’s most likely that you will have heard or uttered the following phrase yourself many times over…  ”Get a ‘.com’ domain name”

Well…

A new globally recognisable ‘top level’ domain name, yet at the time of writing still little known domain name, could well be set to change this.

That domain name is ‘.co.’ …

So in the future I wouldn’t be surprised if the above phrase being banded around certainly in internet marketing circles, becomes

“Get a ‘.com’ or a ‘.co’ domain name”…

It is being speculated by some in the know that a ‘.co’ domain name is set to become the next must have global and credible top-level domain name that every corporation will want to have.

The ‘.co’ domain name is credible, meaningful, memorable, intuitive and is relevant to individuals, businesses and organisations.

The ‘.co’ domain is an exciting new domain which is set to become one of the biggest domain extension launches in recent times.

You can fully expect major corporations around the world to be snapping up these globally recognisable premier domain names for their email and web address when they become generally available.

The ‘.co’ domain is actually the designated ccTLD for the sovereign nation of Columbian. However Columbia recognises the global recognition and potential ‘.co’ of this valuable domain and have taken “the ambitious step to liberalize it’s domain policies and to share this valuable asset with the global internet community”.

The timeline for the release of ‘.co’ domain name is as follows:

One day on visiting your WordPress driven blog or website, to your horror you find that all the hard work you’ve put in over the months and years has been wiped out! Your site is now displaying some obnoxious comment saying “you’ve been hacked” or  it may even be displaying some very unsavoury content.

What’s happened is that your site has been hacked by someone possibly as far as on the other side of the world. Having taken control of your site, the hacker can now display anything he wants on your valuable real estate! This unscrupulous person may have infiltrated your database in addition to having added their own code on your site. What’s more he may even have changed your ‘Admin’ password so you are locked out of your own site!

So faced with this situation, what can you do?

Well, if you’ve been making regular backups of your blog you’re in luck. The likelihood is that you will have to completely remove your site including the database and restore it from an earlier backup. Having been bitten once, this time around you’ll want to pay very close attention to your site security.

If you’ve not been making regular backups or worse still you have no backups at all, then this could be your worst  nightmare. Especially if your site is used to getting a fair amount of traffic and you’re now loosing money from lost product sales not to mention the loss of face and the possibly long lasting damage such an incident could have on your business.

So lets get started and get into the simple steps you can take that can help to avoid your WordPress blog or website from getting hacked.

10 Steps you can take to help secure your WordPress blog
This is by no means an exhaustive list. Rather this guide is intended to inform the owner of a self hosted WordPress blog about important but relatively easy steps that can be taken to enhance the security of their blog.

There are many more steps that can be taken to enhance the security of a WordPress blog. Not all the many possibilities can be covered in such a brief article. It should also be noted that there are many more security steps that can be taken many of which would require technical knowledge on the part of the reader which is beyond the scope of this article.

WordPress is perhaps the most popular self hosted blogging platform in use on the internet today. It is also increasing being used as a CMS (Content Management System) for small business websites. This trend is set to increase with the imminent release of WordPress 3.0 (which notably is slated to incorporate the long awaited new menu system allowing the user to add new hierarchal menus to their blog/website at will).

IMPORTANT
It is highly recommended that you make a full backup of your blog or website before making any of the changes suggested in this article.

1. Keep your WordPress blog up to date
No software platform can be said to be free from bugs and vulnerabilities and hackers are always on the look out to find vulnerability in the software driving dynamic web-sites and blogging platform such as WordPress.

As new vulnerabilities are discovered, software developers are generally quick to release security patches to plug the known security hole.

For this reason you should look to update your WordPress blog as soon as possible following the release of any security patch. These are normally released in the form of an update.

Make a full backup of your MySQL database and the home page of your website or blog before applying a new update. This way in the event a major issue is encountered as a result of the update, you will be able to restore your site from your backup. See section 10 below.

2. Create a ‘Posting User’ to make your regular blog posts
Create a ‘Posting User’ account which you will use to make your regular posts. This user account must not have admin rights. Instead you may give this user ‘Editor’ rights.

Since your posts will usually display the username of the user making the posts, you should not use your admin login to make posts to your blog.

(This may also provide some level of protection should you unknowingly acquire spyware on your computer see point 10).

3. Change the default admin username and use strong user passwords
By default WordPress adopts the admin user ‘admin’  when a new WordPress blog is installed. However if you’re installing your new WordPress blog through your hosting providers cPanel, you are given the option to change the default admin username. You should always choose a more secure username (and make sure that you remember your chosen username).

All user account passwords should use ‘strong passwords’. If you are not familiar with the concept of ‘strong passwords’, there is a wealth of information available o the web. Just Google ‘strong passwords’ for more information.

If your WordPress blog has already been installed using the default ‘admin’ username, create another admin user with a more secure username by creating a new user and assigning admin rights to that user. Log out of your WordPress admin account then log back in using your newly created secure admin account. You can then delete the original WordPress admin account.

Deleting the default 'admin' user

IMPORTANT
If you already have posts under your original ‘admin’ user account, which is quite likely, when you attempt to delete this account be sure to select the option to ‘Attribute all posts and links to:’ … then select another user from the pop-up list. You will most likely want to assign these posts to the user your created in Step 2.

It is also possible to ‘rename’ the original ‘admin’ username using phpMyAdminL. This method is perhaps for the slightly more technically savvy person and since this article is intended to provide simple but effective solutions, the phpMyAdmin method will not be covered in this article.

It is also important to ensure your new ‘admin’ user name is not disclosed anywhere on your site. See the next Step 2. This user is to be used for the administration of your blog (applying updates, making backups etc) and should not be used to make any blog posts.

4. Ensure you have entered your API key in Akismet and it is activated

Akismet Configuration

In general around 80% of comments are spam. Akismet tries to determine if comments entered on your blog are spam by checking the comments against the Akismet web service. You will be allowed to review the comments via the ‘Comments’ admin screen before they are published. You must register at www.wordplex.com to get an API key.

Your Akismet configuration settings can be found in the ‘Plugin’ section of your blog (you must be logged in as an Admin user to access these settings).

No configuration is necessary other than entering your unique API key and selecting whether you wish to have comments which has been determined as spam to be automatically discarded after 30 days.

5. Protect your admin folder

Restrict access to your admin directory

If you always log into your blog from the same IP addresses i.e. the same internet connections (and they have fixed IP addresses as opposed to dynamic), you can install a .htaccess file in your /wp-admin/ folder (note this is not the .htaccess file in your blog root folder) as shown in this screen shot.

The entry can also be seen below.

AuthUserFile /dev/null
AuthGroupFile /dev/null
AuthName “Restrict Access To Admin Folder”
AuthType Basic
<LIMIT GET>
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from xx.xx.xx.xx
</LIMIT>

Where xx.xx.xx.xx is your IP address. You can list many IP addresses if required by entering each on a separate line e.g.

allow from xx.xx.xx.xx
allow from xx.xx.xx.xx
allow from xx.xx.xx.xx

IMPORTANT
Be sure to use a ‘plain text’ editor (such as notepad on a PC and TextMate on a Mac) to create this file. Do not use MS Word or other word processing program.

If you do tend to log into your WordPress blog from many different locations, you could instead password protect your /wp-admin/ folder.

This can be accomplished from within your cPanel control panel. Sect the ‘Password Protect Directories’ option under the Security section of cPanel. Use a secure username and password. This sill provide an adds layer of protection for this folder.

You may be wondering how you can keep track of all your ‘secure passwords’. If using a PC you could use a Password Manager program such as ‘Roboform’ or ’1Password’ if using a Mac. These programs lets you manage all your secure logins whilst you only need to remember 1 password yourself. For obvious reasons, make sure you use a secure username and password for your Password manager.

6. Ensure your Plug-ins and Themes are kept up to date
Security vulnerabilities can and do exist both in some plug-ins and themes. You should investigate and ensure that there are no know security issues with any of the plug-ins and themes installed on your blog and ensure your plug-ins and themes are kept up to date.

You should also remove any third party plug-in and themes that you may have installed but are unlikely to be using. Even disabled plug-ins can be a security risk if they contain vulnerabilities.

7. Check that your web host has applied all necessary security patches to the server
It is important to realise that your website or blog can also be hacked if your web hosting company has not taken necessary security measures or has not applied the latest security patches to the server itself.  Contact your website hosting provider and check that they have good security measures in place. Check that they are using secure stable versions of  the web server, MySQL database and other scripting languages such as PHP and that their network itself does not contain security holes.

You should also be aware that if your WordPress blog is hosted on a shared server, then if someone else’s site on the same server becomes compromised, then it is possible that your sites could also be compromised (even if you all your own security measures in place).

8. Install security plug-ins

Secure WordPress Plugin

There are a number of plug-ins available that are designed to helped to secure your WordPress blog. Unfortunately many of these plugins such as ‘Login Lockdown’ have not been updated and so may not have been tested on the latest production version of WordPress (at the time of writing the current WordPress version is 2.9.2).

The ‘Secure WordPress’ Plug-in however currently supports WordPress 2.9.2. This plug-in contains a number of features designed to enhance the security of your blog. For example it will prevent directory browsing of your /plugins/ and /themes/ folder by automatically adding an index.php file in those folders. This prevents the contents of those folders from being listed and exposed to hackers.

9. Lock down your open directories and prevent directory browsing
It’s surprising how many applications and plug-ins developed by programmers provide an open door for would be hackers to gain entry to your web site. A large number of plug-ins for instance do not bother to include an index.php or index.html file in the it’s plug-in directory. This poses a security risk since anyone can browse the files in those directories.

Use .htaccess to block directory listing

You can prevent directory browsing by including the following line (as shown in the screen shot) in the .htaccess file found in the root folder of your ‘blog’:

Options All -Indexes

This simple line will protect all open directories in your blog.

Take care not to disturb any of the other entries in your .htaccess file.

If you are sure there is no ‘.htaccess’ file in your WordPress home directory, simply create a plain text file and insert the above line in the file. Ensure you enter a return at the end of the line.

IMPORTANT
I would highly recommend you make a backup copy of your .htaccess file before making any changes. Be sure to use a ‘plain text’ editor (such as notepad on a PC and TextMate on a Mac) to create this file. Do not use MS Word or other word processing program.

10. Make regular backups of your blog
You should maintain regular backups of your WordPress blog. This includes both the MySQL database and the entire contents of your blog home folder.

How often you should backup your blog will depend on a number of factors. If you post to your blog daily for example and/or you receive a lot of daily comments, you should consider backing up your MySQL database on a daily basis.

Your MySQL database contains all the text on your blog as well as the blog settings. You should only need to backup your blog home folder (as well as your MySQL database) after installing and configuring a new component on your blog such as a new plug-in or theme.

Backup Buddy allows backups to be scheduled

A convenient way of achieving these backups is to use a plug-in such as BackupBuddy. BackupBuddy allows you to manually backup both your MySQL database and the home folder of your blog at any time. BackupBuddy also allows multiple backup schedules to be created so that your MySQL database are backed up say on a daily or weekly basis and whilst the full blog home folder as well as the MySQL database is backed up monthly.

Backups can be emailed or sent to a remote FTP server. If using a remote FTP server, this should ideally be on a different server from your blog. Whilst most reputable hosting providers perform daily backups of their shared servers for their own disaster recovery purposes however in the event your server goes down for any length of time, having a separate backup would allow you to re-install you blog on another server.

BackupBuddy can also automatically send backup notifications via email. Should a backup fail for any reason your email notification would alert you to this fact so remedial action can be taken.

Bonus Tip: Possible vulnerabilities on your own computers
Make sure the computers you use to update your blog is free from spyware, adware, malware and virus infections. You should ensure you have a good quality and up to date anti-virus software installed on the computers. The above security measures will be of little value if there is spyware installed on your computer.

Please feel free to add your comments below.

Disclaimer
Though the information provided in this article has been well research by the author it is provided for informational purposes only.  It is highly recommended that a full backup of your website or blog is carried out BEFORE making any changes. Due diligence and care is required when implementing any changes to your website or blog.

No responsibility can be accepted under any circumstances for any issues that may arise out of your interpretation (or mis-interpretation) of any of the statements in this article or from your  attempts to implement any of the authors suggestions. You are advised to seek the assistance of a professional if you are inexperienced or do not feel confident in implementing changes to your web site or blog.

In particular, improper changes made to your website .htaccess file can render your site inaccessible. Extreme care and caution is required in this area. Please seek the assistance of a professional.

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If outsourcing is a new concept to you and you missed John’s pre-launch videos then you’ve unfortunately missed the opportunity to gain a huge insight into what outsourcing could potentially be doing for your business…

If you missed these videos, don’t worry… in John’s final video of the series, the sales video for his coaching program, you’ll get an introduction and a full overview of what John’s offering in his Outsource Force Coaching Program.

Even if you don’t feel this coaching program is right for you, I believe you can still gain a lot of value from the free information contained in his sales video. Now you might be thinking to yourself ‘…but it’s just a big sales pitch’… Of course it’s a sales video but… if you pay close attention to what John is saying in his presentation, you’ll see that there are tons of golden nuggets to be had just from watching this video….

…For example, in this video John explains how a small $300 outsourcing investment ended up generating $millions of dollars for his business. Right there is a classic example of how John wrote a small check and got back many huge checks!!

Just listening the list of what John plans to share with his coaching students, you will gain an insight into the things you should be doing to grow your online business.

I would highly recommend you take a look at John’s final video before his Outsource Force Coaching Program is sold out and the video is taken down…

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John’s Outsource Force coaching program starts on Monday May 17th, so the window of opportunity to learn from this final video is fast closing. There are valuable lessons to be learned from this video and from studying John’s sales technique.

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I run an offline business in the UK and I have been outsourcing services for many years. In fact I would go as far as to say that I wouldn’t be in business if I wasn’t able to outsource a large proportion of the services my company provides.

Outsourcing has allow me to offer new services to my customers, service that we do not have the in-house resources to provide. In his free video service, John talks about the concept of writing small checks and getting back larger checks. Even though I do this all the time in my own business with great effect, watching John’s free video series has re-inforced the idea to me and made me more appreciative of the benefits I could be gaining by increasing my own outsourcing.

John’s OutSource Force Coaching Program pre-launch kicked off on April 30th 2010. John hit the ground running with the first of a series of free videos providing valuable training and insights into effective outsourcing the very tasks that could just be keeping you from achieving the success you deserve and the success you should be achieving.

In the first video of the Free OutSource Force Video Series, John Reese discloses the “$2 Per Hour” Power Formula which can make any business grow without the owner doing the work. He talks about the “The No. 1 Most Valuable Skill in All of Internet Marketing”.

He talks about “The 3 Priority Levels of Outsourcing” that you should be doing to maximize your online success. He talks about ‘Eliminating the Biggest Constraints in Your Business”.

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How do you find these willing and able graduates? You’ll discover this in the second video… And much more…

The  pre-launch video series promises to show you:

• How to get over over 100 hours of results from just 5 hours of work using a simple trick.
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• How this unheard strategy was used by the crazily successful “Blue Man Group” to revolutionized the entertainment industry.
• Why the foundation of building wealth comes from brainstorming new ideas and how to spend your time mostly doing that.
• How the right system to maximize income potential can be shown by dissecting the “Big Six” online money-making models.
• And much more!

Pre-Launch Video ONE: The “$2 Per Hour Power Formula”

In the this video you’ll discover:

• How to “Write Small Cheques and Get Back Larger Cheques…”
• You’ll look at a number of modern examples of how the above formula is being applied…
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• John talks about how he was able to launch one of his most successful products ever while he was enjoying a vacation in Spain…
• How to get the “Golden Nugget’s” out of many of the big online marketing courses without having to spend hours going through the course.
• Why more people aren’t outsourcing and reaping the benefits of having great staff working for you for less than $2 per hour. John discusses the misconceptions and puts you straight on this crucial leverage opportunity
• The THREE CORE FUNCTION of your business
• How to eliminate the biggest constraint in your business which is stopping you from generating the income you deserve…
• How to spend $10 a day and get an additional 40 hours of work per week done on your business without you having to do any of that work… What could this mean for your business?

Pre-Launch Video TWO: “Instant Leverage”

In the this video you’ll discover:

• The things you need to know to maximise your success with outsourcing
• Important things about the life of a freelance and how this knowledge can help you in your grow your business
• Horror Stories about using Outsourcing Firms and how to avoid them
• Where in the world you should be hiring people for your business
• The actual web sites you can use to hire  people
• How to communicate with people and get your ideas across
• How to manage the people working for you
• and much more…

Pre-Launch Video THREE: “The Big Six…”

In the this video you’ll discover:

• The “Big Six” Online Business Models and how Outsourcing can be applied to each…
• Blogging/Publishing model – You probably don’t realise that some of the most successful blogs in the world  are based on an outsourced model – Tech blogs, Celebrity blogs, Auto Blogs, Political Blogs etc. The major components will be discussed and how they can be outsourced.
• Affiliate Marketing – the various elements of affiliate marketing are discussed and how they can be outsourced
• Information Products – the various elements of affiliate marketing are discussed and how they can be outsourced
• E-Commerce Store – the various elements of affiliate marketing are discussed and how they can be outsourced
• Software – the various elements of affiliate marketing are discussed and how they can be outsourced
• Professional services – the various elements of affiliate marketing are discussed and how they can be outsourced
• With more valuable tips along the way…

FINAL Video: Launch – => Click Here To See  Sales Video <=

This valuable video series is part of John Reese’s forth coming Outsource Force Coaching Program.

I would highly recommend you take full advantage of the valuable free information John is sharing. I certainly will be!

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My friend Alex Jeffreys had a meteoric rise to success over the last few years.

I met Alex in around August 2006 at a Robert Puddy event in Birmingham, UK.

I went there to meet up with my Mentor Mike Filsaime, who was speaking at the event, to record a video interview with him, focused on creating successful product launches. (Mike had a very successful launch of his flagship product ‘Butterfly Marketing’ back in January 2006 which grossed $1M within 5 days of launch).

That evening in the hotel Mike was gracious enough to log into his PayPal account where Alex, myself and a few other friends looked on in amazement at the $$$$ that was showing up in Mike’s account.

That was probably one of my most inspiring moments and I know that definitely helped to spur Alex on to creating his first product later that year. In fact Alex signed up to Mike’s $5,000 mentoring and coaching program at that event.

From that point, Alex has gone from strength to strength.

Fast forward a few years I’m proud and delighted to see that Alex has generated well in excess of $680,000 online in 2009.

Alex Jeffreys"Gurus Nightmare" Report

FREE Report ‘Gurus Nightmare‘
Alex has put his heart and soul into writing his latest free 95 page report ‘Gurus Nightmare’ which gives you an insight into his success.

In his report, Alex talks about his journey from being a newbie to being a very successful online marketer.

He talks about how the first Internet marketing product he launched back in late 2006 sucked… and the lessons he learned on his road to success.

There are many valuable lessons to be learned from Alex’s report. It’s only going to remain online for a limited time, so I would recommend you download your copy right away.

In the last 4 days, many thousands have downloaded this report.

Grab your copy today while it’s still available.

Access Gurus Nightmare HERE.

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If you’ve not seen the buzz around this product over the last week or so, and you’re not aware of who Jeff Johnson is, Jeff is an undisputed king when it comes to driving traffic to web sites. He provides a brief background and an introduction to himself in his sales video which you can see here.

Aside form the killer content you’ll be receiving in this unique coaching program, here’s a brief introduction to the some of the bonuses you’ll receive when you join Traffic Voodoo as an ‘Early-Bird’ member:

• As an ‘Early-Bird’ member, you’ll get 3 Months entry to Jeff Johnson’s Exclusive Closed Door “Underground Training Lab” Coaching Club.  Some members of this coaching club have payed up to $5000 to gain entry and some members are paying up to $997 per month.
• Traffic Voodoo has a one-time entry fee (there is no continuity fees) and Jeff is doubling your membership from 8 weeks to a full 16 weeks if you join Traffic Voodoo as an ‘Early-Bird’ member.
• If you’re fortunate enough to become an Early-Bird member you’ll are also be have the opportunity to attend a 2 day Mastermind Session in Jeff’s own office where you’ll be able to work directly with Jeff himself. This will be sometime in May 2010. Jeff’s also planning follow mastermind sessions in his office in September 2010.

And now for my additional bonus:

• Join Jeff Johnson’s Traffic Voodoo Coaching Program using my affiliate link and remain in the program beyond the initial 30 day refund period and I will ship you a copy of my “World Internet Summit Replay” 18 DVD live seminar recording. This Internet Marketing Seminar was recorded in Sydney Australia. Some of the featured speakers are: Stephen Pierce, Mike Filsaime, Derek Gehl, Kirt Christensen, David Cavanagh, Mike Stewart, Morgan Westerman, Matt Clarkson, Brett McFall, Tom Hua and Ted Ciuba.

I’ll also pay for the shipping of this physical product right to your door (up to a shipping cost of $100.00 will be covered). Should the shipping cost to your postal address exceeds $100 – using the United States Parcel Service - you will be asked to cover the additional costs over and above this amount).

You must use my affiliate link so that I get credited for your order to allow me to ship this physical bonus to you.My affiliate link is activated when you click any link on this page (including the banner below) which takes you to the Traffic Voodoo sales page.

You must place your order directly after clicking my affiliate link in order for your order to be credited to my affiliate link. After placing your order today, please contact me here to register your purchase and to enable you to claim your bonus which will be shipped only if you remain in the Traffic Voodoo program for over 30 days.

Here’s a screen shot of the 18 DVD set home study course you’ll be receiving.

Traffic Voodoo Additional Bonus

For more information, click the banner below to be taken to Jeff’s presentation video.

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Thanks for putting this together Mike!

Checkout the photo slideshow below…

Some of the registered attendees were:

Andrew X
Keith Baxter
Jerry Belcourt
Big Jason
Brent Coppieters
Ron Douglas
Dr. Steve & Joyce
Captain Lou Edwards
Harris Fellman
Donna Fox
Clay Franklin
Norman Freeman
Rob Gallo
Ross Goldberg
Tom Ham
Matt Haslem
Glen Hopkins
Jason James
Alex Jeffreys
Andy Jenkins
Brian Johnson
Jeff Johnson
Dan Kelly
Sam Knoll
Brian Koz
Ray La Foy
Simon Leung
Brad Lindsay
Eric Louviere
Adam Lowe
Nick Marks
Jonathan Mizel
Jason Moffatt
Jeff Mulligan
Lon Naylor
John Reese
Eric Rockefeller
Howie Schartz
Erik Stafford
Mike Steup
Joel Therien
Liz Tomey
Sterling Valentine
Jeff Walker
Jon Walker
Tim Warren
Keith Wellman
Mike Wesely
Omar Martin
Adeel Chowdry
Stephanie Mulac
Jani Ghaffor
Dr Mike Woo Ming

On the first DVD Mike and Tom talks about the The Hedgehog and The Fox Concept… It’s been nearly three years but the information feels as fresh as it was when I had the good fortune to be sitting in the audience.

< = SEE STEPHEN PIERCES FULL PRESENTATION
On the left is the full recording of DVD3, Stephen Pierce’s presentation with an introduction from Mike Filsaime. This should give you a feel for the quality of the presentations in this course. You will also see there is no pitch at all in his presentation, just great content.

Immediate Online Access to “The 7 Figure Code”
Well Mike and Tom Beal are not only giving away digital streaming access to ‘The 7 Figure Code’ entirely for just $9.95 FREE (a $1297 value) plus S&H, you’ll also have access to transcripts of the speakers presentations as well as their original powerpoint files.

$25,000 Report Based on ‘The 7 Figure Code’…
Mike Filsaime paid a top gun copywriter to watch the entire 16 DVDs of ‘The 7 Figure Code‘ then compile a printed report which is 85 pages spiral bound called ‘The 7 Figure Secrets‘. You’ll receive “the 7 Figure Secrets” report in your shipment (a $297 value).

MDC Full Color Internet Marketing Magazine
You’ll also receive a complimentary copy of the current issue of Mike’s MDC (MarketingDotCom) full color printed 40 page monthly Internet Marketing Magazine with featured articles from world re-nound internet marketers (you’ll receive this in your shipped package).

Immediately after you register you receive online streaming access to the full “The 7 figure code” recordings.

Other Great Bonuses
And if that wasn’t enough, in your members area you’ll also have access to ‘The Butterfly Marketing Manuscript’ as a downloadable PDF file which you can print out and read at your leisure. The content in this manuscript alone has been responsible for many success stories! You’ll also have immediate access to 16 valuable full color process maps which you can also download and print.

All you need to do is to get this package is to pay a small access charge of $9.95 FREE plus shipping and handling costs ($15.99 US & Canada, $23.99 International) and you’ll received instant access to the online members area while your printed copy of “the 7 Figure Secrets” and the latest copy of Mike’s monthly MDC Full Color Magazine will be shipped right to your door.

At the time of writing, there is still time to get your own access to this incredible value package.

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At this event was many well known and top internet marketers such as Stephen Pierce (speaker), Willie Crawford, Rich Schefren (speaker), Brad Fallon (speaker), Jeff Walker, Ken McArthur (speaker), Tellman Knudson, Michael Cheney, Sterling Valentine, Harris Fellman, Eric Holmlund, Brian Edmondson, Jeff Dedrick, Frank Garon, Mike Ambrosio, Andrew Fox, Glen Hopkins, Tim Brocklehurst, David Cavanagh (speaker) … the list goes on and on…

In the ‘7 Figure Code‘, Mike Filsaime literally blew the doors off his operations to reveal his “insider secrets” and how he grew his multi-million dollar business.

The information revealed included how they outsourced to how they hired, to how they ‘created products – going right through from concepts to cash’… to how their products were brought to market using techniques such as those found in Jeff Walker’s exceptional Product Launch Formula which has helped to generate millions in online product sales for marketers.

An Exceptional Workshop – ‘The 7 Figure Code‘
The recoding of this exceptional workshop was later compiled into a 16 DVD home study course called ‘The 7 Figure Code’ and was launched on 7/7/2007.

Over 2,500 units of ‘The 7 Figure Code‘ was sold within the first 7 days and at the time of writing this blog post, the physical course is still on sale at $1,297.00.

Why Is Mike Giving Away His Valuable ‘The 7 Figure Code‘ $1297 Home Study Course?
Well, Internet Marketing Guru Mike Filsaime has made a decision to step back from Guru Marketing to follow his passion and shift his focus towards his technology businesses.

Mike has released a video where he talks about making this move in changing the direction of his business (click the image on the right or the banner below to view this film). He wants to go out with a bang in 2009 by giving away access 10,000 copies of  ‘The 7 Figure Code’ Home Study Course.

Attendees Paid $5000 To Access The Same Information You’ll Get FREE In ‘The 7 Figure Code‘
This is very same content that is on sale today for $1,297.00 and it’s the very same information for which attendees of the original workshop paid $5,000!

Notification of Mike’s generous offer is expected to go out to over 1 million people so you’re unlikely to get your copy unless you’re on Mike’s priority notification list and you’re able to act fast when this limited offer goes live on December 15th!

Now Mike Filsaime was my former mentor and as I said earlier, I was there in person at that unforgettable live event, so when I heard that Mike was planning to give away 10,000 units,  I wasted no time in signing up to his priority notification list!

Why?

So I can review and get a refreshed view of the valuable information that was imparted during that special week end!

So How Can You Get Your FREE Access To ‘The 7 Figure Code‘?
To significantly increase your chance of being one of the lucky 10,000, I highly recommend you get on Mike’s Priority Notification List right away.

You’ll be expected to pay a small shipping and handling charge of $15.99 for US shipments and $23.99 for International. It’s important to note that there is no forced continuity with this offer! Any other special offers that might be made to you during your registration will be completely optional and your choice.

Click HERE to View Mike Filsaime’s Video In Which He Frankly Reveals Why He Is Exiting The GURU Business And How YOU Can Get The 7 Figure Code FREE On December 15th 2009!!! Update – original video no longer available.

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