Graham Hamer has taught me as much as anyone about making money online, his eBook the Traffic jam remains an iconic masterpiece and his programs including profit Plan, Affiliate Doubler, Profit Blaster, the X Factor Cyphers, Profit Warrior and Profit Arena have always delivered excellent content and been great value for money.
I’ve just got word that Graham has teamed up with fellow Internet marketing veteran Jennifer Herold to produce what promises to be the most comprehensive Internet Marketing Handbook ever produced.
These two Internet Marketing success stories have done the hard yards building real Internet business’ and their combined experience is worth much more than the next “hot” Clickbank product produced by some wet behind the ears wannabe.
Tompedia – The Online Marketing Encyclopedia promises to be a massive educational resource devoted to helping people create real opportunities for home business from their own knowledge and passion and is due for release on Tuesday 9/3/2010US EST
To see the kind of quality that Graham Hamer has produced before, take a look at this video on affiliate doubler and my previous review re Graham’s previous product Profit Blaster and Bull Free Zone.
Tompedia – look out for it and watch for my full review and bonus due shortly. The affiliate doubler link is here
Most Home Business Opportunities expect you to pay reasonable sums of money to buy in in to the opportunity. Predictably the odds are stacked against the average Home based business owner from the start. Most home based business opportunities expect/train you to promote their business opportunity pages everywhere. Effectively they use the promoter as a cheap form of advertising, “helping them” with pre written advertisements and cookie cutter website templates that they give everybody else. They then have the power of mass advertising to brand their product.
Most program members/affiliates or “independent representatives are left to desperately scramble for the odd sale while the “business opportunity” owners kick back and watch the cash roll in.
The lie is told and sold everyday.
“We do 99% of the work for you all you have to do is promote.”
It just doesn’t work.
Not for the little guy.
It’s been irking me for a long time, so I’ve been working on a program that really does give the little guy a real business opportunity.
The program will teach people to develop their own truly independent website that they can change to their own needs as circumstances permit and it will actually cost nothing to be a member of.
Yes there will be some recommended purchases, but these are necessary must have tools that make home Business possible.
I’m excited about what I’ve put together. Look out for it it can turn the home based business opportunity scene on it’s head
Home Business Opportunities abound in the market place. I use and recommend quite a few based upon my own home business experiences.
However. it has to be said that just because a Home Business Opportunity suits me and works for me it doesn’t necessarily mean that it works for you.
Here is a big tip about Home Business Opportunities.
You are the business.
You need to find opportunities that match your profile and interests and then you need to present those opportunities realistically and in a unique fashion that suits your personality profile.
There are literally thousands of people falling over themselves trying to promote “home business opportunities” by advertising generic affiliate pages. This is akin to committing home business suicide. Effectively you are branding the business opportunity and doing nothing to promote yourself.
So what do you do to promote yourself?
You start at the very beginning – with you.
Your home business opportunity lies within you, your experiences, your knowledge, your passion, your hobby, your dreams. These are the things that make you an expert in many people’s eyes. These are the things that represent your real home business opportunity.
How do you go about it?
On line you need essentially three things to turn your passion into a home business opportunity.
They are a high level domain name (by high level, I mean dot com, or dot net nothing else cuts it in the search engines); some website hosting and an autoresponder to follow up prospects.
With these three tools you can set up a profitable search engine friendly blog that can deliver income streams from places like Google Adsense, Chitika Premium Ads and Amazon for starters. As you progress you can seek out affiliate programs and business opportunities that match your passion.
This is what program owners don’t want you to know, they want you to fall overyourself promoting their business opportunity on their behalf. Effectively they trap over 80% of their affiliates into becoming their promotional slave.
Don’t fall into that trap.
Take your knowledge and turn it into your business opportunity.
How much does all this cost?
Reliable Website hosting can be provided by Hostgator for as little as $4.99 per month.
Of course you’ll need to purchase a domain name and the folks at Hostgator will help you out with that- realistically you’re looking at $10 per year.
When you’ve got your blog set up and you’re getting some visitors you can trial a quality autoresponder for 30 days at Traffic Wave. This ultimately will allow you to build relationships with interested people seeking more information and may well need to be matched to the affiliate programs that you end up promoting. After30 days Traffic Wave costs $17.95 per month.
My recommendation is that you don’t rush out and get an autoresponder immediately. Get your blog set up. Work out your marketing strategy, make some posts and when you know that you’re getting traffic, work your autoresponder in to the process.
So initially, your home business can be up and running for as little as $15 with an ongoing $4.95 commitment.
How easy is this to do?
Well I decided to show you with this very easy to understand video, how easy it is to install a Wordpress blog using cpanel.
Basically cpanel is your domain names back office and to understand how to use it I highly recommend this site Understanding cpanel.
Opportunities for Home Business Owners can take many forms, but most of them are smoke and mirrors and deliver nothing more than a bulging credit card debt.
A real on line Home Business Opportunity should take you by the hand and and tell you exactly how to profit from your online business.
Several years ago, my friend and mentor Graham Hamer produced two excellent online publications Profit Blaster and Bull Free Zone.
Profit Blaster when it was released cut through the hype and lies of Internet Marketing and presented a solid overall picture of how to build a real online business and took in the big picture, with Marketing Plans, a portfolio of products, and an overall strategy. It was and still is an excellent product.
Just take a look at what Profit-Blaster covers in its educational format
Introduction
It’s Your Choice, Your Journey Begins, Internet Myths
The Plan
Roadmap, The Next Step, Build Your list, Reselling Profit-Blaster, Explosive Stratagies
Bull Free Snippets
Skeptism, Credibility, Old tricks, Lemmings, Niche Markets, Ezine advertising, Why the Panic, Read the Label, Spam = Scam, Payments &Passwords, Conferences, Customers & Math, A Quick Mixture
7 Lessons on Building an online living
Education
Market Savvy, Glossary, Attitude, Safelists, the Truth, Site Traffic, Blogs, Emails the Sell
Promotion
Safelists, Ezine Ads, Purchased Traffic, Email marketing, Hands Free, Pay Per Click, Local Domain Traffic
Register a domain, Get the best hosting, Building Your Pages, HTML code, HTML Color Chart, Professional Design
Empty Your Cup!
Joint ventures, I have a vision, What Competition?, Google and Pop ups, The Big Boys, The Pen Lesson, 10 Step Sales Letters, Don’t Waste It, Persistence, Self esteem, Influencing others
Your Portfolio
Kiosk, Affiliates Alert, Herculist
Desire For Success
Do You Want Wealth?, Keep What You Earn, Dream Your Dream, Plan Your Wealth, Self Discipline, Pay The Price, Decisive Action, Know When To Stop
Adsense
Choose target market, keyword research, write unique articles, Blog, Tag and Ping, Link all your sites
Life Coaching
Becoming a life coach, Life Evaluator, Unlimited Confidence, Get What You Want, The New You, Manage YourCareer, True Communication
Speculative
Domain Names, eBay, Real Estate
Resources
Reading and Resources #1, Reading and Resources #2, Free Bonuses
Membership Summary
As you can see, this is as comprehensive a package as you could help to find on line that delivers keeps delivering solid quality information to take your home business opportunity dreams and turn them into reality.
I have always recommended Profit-Blaster and Graham’s products to everybody withconfidence and conviction and if Profit-Blaster remained as a stand alone product I would confidently recommend it to you for the price of $56.70 (plus an ongoing rental of $19.70) because it delivers incredible value, but for that low price you also get a second program tat is in all honesty better value.
Where Profit Blaster educates and motivates, Bull Free Zone gets down and dirty and goes through the exact steps required to build your own online digital product. The information contained within this site is literally a goldmine for those prepared to take it and run with it.
Backed up with archived Bull Free casts, and detailed instruction on how and where to get Private Label Content that you can repackage and call your own product, Bull Free Zone tells you exactly how to make money selling digital products.
And the great thing is that the guys running this site in their own words “are a couple of old farts”. They aren’t SEO whizz kids with diplomas in computer science they are a couple of real genuine online money makers and if they can do it so can you.
I love this program and I highly recommend it. I have bought products for 10 times the amount of the asking price for this and at the end of the day I’m sitting there and saying but Graham Hamer showed me that in Bull Free Zone.
It’s not what you know , it’s what you choose to do with it. If you’re serious about taking a home business opportunity and making it work here it is, practically gift wrapped, remarkably hype free and priced way below what those over hyped big ticket items that gurus would sell you essentially the same information for.
PROFIT BLASTER & BULL FREE ZONE BONUS
OK this is hard and it’s hard because not only do Profit-Blaster & Bull Free Zone give you great education they also give you over $1000 worth of free bonuses with 100% resell rights included.
And they give you two highly discounted discount blow out boxes full of digital products that you can purchase for pennies in the dollar, so what I’m going to do is take one of those products that I purchased and give them to you free when you purchase Profit-Blaster and add several high quality publications that I own myself to give you a bonus package worth twice the purchase price of Profit Blaster
Here is my bonus package available to purchasers of Profit -Blaster/Bull Free Zone through my affiliate link
Profit Blaster Bull Free Zone Bonus #1
Facebook is fast becoming the preferred social networking site. Discover how you can profit from this social media phenomenon (Value $19.95)
Profit Blaster Bonus #2
No nonsense blue print for Clickbank products value $47
PLUS
This product is available within the Profit Blaster membership area as part of a package that sells at the discounted rate of $38.55. As a standalone product, it’s suggested price is $97. I’m putting a value of $47 on it
That’s a bonus package worth $113 that I will give you when you purchase Profit-Blaster membership.
Here’s whet you need to do to purchase Profit-Blaster and claim my bonus today
Step 1 – Clear you cookies
Step 2 – Go to the Profit Blaster Site Here and purchase membership
Step 3 – I will be directly notified of your purchase and send you details of where to download your bonus’
Step 4 Dig in to the site and learn how to turn your Opportunities for Home Business dreams into reality.
Stacked Income is a concept that I was introduced to through the marvelous marketing program called Traffic Exchange Profitsand to be frank I didn’t fully understand the brilliance of the concept.
The Stacked Income principles are fully disclosed within the Online Business Alliance Center member’s area but briefly explained allow anybody to build a real on line business for just $5.
You may raise your eyes and scoff and say that a real business will cost much more than a greasy hamburger, but you haven’t taken into account the Stacked Income Principle and how it helps you to build a business,
By utilising the Stacked Income Principle, people can invest what they can afford into the business and market it as a fully fledged business model.
This is achieved by paying a one time lease fee on advertising space within the OBA business center. Members are encouraged to purchase the lease space but are not obligated to. Ultimately, for them to grow the business they must take the step, but they’re is no time limit.
Of course, to make the model work you need to be able to successfully market it and that’s where Traffic Exchange Profits comes to your aid. Traffic Exchange Profits provides a marketing plan that requires work on the business owner’s part, but it is logical, and workable.
Traffic Exchange Profits marketing plan and resources are freely available to members of the On Line Business Alliance within the members area.
Additionally, I have produced my own eBook which can assist people with advanced Traffic Exchange marketing techniques and I am happy to make this eBook available with re-branding rights to anybody who chooses to use the On Line Business Alliance
by purchasing the $5 eBook
I’ve had the misfortune to have one of my sites hacked in to by some unscrupulous low life and I am here to tell you that it cost me a lot of money, damaged my reputation, may have cost me at least one friendship (they were sending obscene material through my domain name) and took me too many hours to repair the damage.
I was very pleased to receive the following warning from Joel Therien, CEO of Kiosk/GVO
Hi Mark
There has been a recent attack on many wordpress blogs that have been injecting Iframe attacks on accounts.
Here is what you need to know.
1. If you have no idea what wordpress is then do not worry, this is not affecting you.
2. If you do have a wordpress blog, make sure that you have upgraded your blog to the latest version.
In your wordpress admin you can automatically upgrade in there.
It seems many of the Iframe attacks are caused by an old version of Wordpress.
What hackers are doing is logging in via a insecure blog and then changing the index pages of all the pages on that specific server.
To prevent this from happening in the future just please make sure you are running the latest version of wordpress.
- Joel Therien President GoGVO.com
Joel has backed this warning up with several instructional videos one of which can be viewed here
There are a number of things that really impress me about Joel’s reaction to this. The first is how seriously he has taken the threat and the massive response he has personally made to what he perceives to be a very real and very serious threat to his customer’s business. You have to give him top marks for service
Secondly this response from Joel has come after he had to manage a massive campaign launch of GVO, complete with some very damaging abuse of his products from one stupid individual.
No wonder the guy looks pooped in the video, but he still took the time to helop his customers. Great stuff and just another reason to use GVO web-hosting.
There’s a program enjoying enormous popularity at the moment called Adflashers and I was alerted to it’s existence in a forum run by a well known Internet Marketing identity.
Curiously, said identity would not mention the name of the program in the forum but directed readers to a secure site to sign up. Now, I asked myself at the time why would they do that? Furthermore, the same identity stated that the program “appeared legal” but warned “nothing good lasts forever.” Talk about having an each way bet.
Does anybody hear warning bells? I did.
But in the interests of my subscribers I decided to do some investigation of this “amazing product that people could earn $100 per day from just by clicking ads”
I “Invested” $15 in the program’s view packs to see what would happen., knowing full well that I would in all likelihood never see the money again.
Close examination of the site revealed that it exhibited all the characteristics of a doubler – a program that pays you double your investment after enough stupid people buy into the program after you, with the exception that in adflashers case they had worked a funded proposal (on paper anyway)
The premise of the scheme is (was) this .
The program attracts advertisers looking for proven paying viewers. These advertisers pay $4 per 1000 “ad impressions” – with a guaranteed click through rate of 4.6% or 46 click throughs – so the advertiser is paying about 10c per click
To ensure that only “paying viewers” view the sites, the viewers must purchase 100 view packs at a cost of $15.
When they have successfully viewed the 100 view packs, they receive $30 back (double their money). Typically each view pack contains 27 matrices of flashing ads, within these matrices, an ad will start to countdown. the viewer must click on that ad before the timer runs down and then allow the advertisement to load completely and allow sufficient time to view the ad in its entirety. My experience suggests that the viewer would click on approximately 300 ads over the course of the entire 100 view pack, thereby “earning” 10c per click. Here is where you require some mental mathematical gymnastics to understand why the concept appears to be better than fully funded.
Advertiser is paying 10c per click approximately Viewer is earning 10c per click approximately
But Viewer has paid approximately 5c per click to view theads, so the program would appear to be profitable and legitimate.
But there are some logistical problems. The first is the ads themselves. They are completely untargeted. I saw ads from greenhouses in America, I saw ads for business opportunities. I saw ads for weight loss. I saw ads for ice makers, local dress shops – You name it. Now you have to ask yourself who would really advertise on such an untargeted medium. Getting click through rates is one thing, but getting click through rates because the viewer wants to double their money is entirely another. People may try this form of advertising once, but they won’t try it again, because IT WON’T WORK.
And then what happens?
People who pay to view ads won’t be able to see them, because there wil be no ads to see.
To adflashers credit, they make this abundantly clear in their terms and conditions and they claim that they won’t make ad packs available unless advertisers have paid for advertising. This sounds good but in practice has proven to be false unless I misunderstood something (we’ll get to that in a minute)
Now as for the “earning” task of viewing ads.
It’s excruciatingly boring.
There I ‘ve said it and don’t resile from it. Sitting in front of a computer watching ads flash,waiting for a timer to countdown so I can earn 10c is demeaning. There are easier, better ways to make money. Even if this site is legitimate, they are essentially enslaving you to sit in front of your computer and view ads. Hello? you are better than that, much better.
Yes I use Traffic Exchanges and click for advertising credits, but I do it with purpose and drive and I make much more than $15 per hour (and once I have a profitable campaign I just buy the credits). Yes I have and still do recommend several “Paid to Read” programs to help people earn some “seed money” but I never claim that they can earn a living wage just clicking ads.
The program may be well intentioned, but to my mind simply cannot last.
By the way, the $15 I paid (and the $15 I earned) is still being held by Flasherads as funds pending and frankly,I can’t understand why. I mean if somebody bought advertising,I’ve viewed it, it should be a fully funded transaction, but apparently it isn’t. I don’t expect to see my $30 any time soon.
Yesterday I received an email from Flasherads and I post its contents for you to read below.
AdFlasher.net Important Update – 09/17/2009
We have been listening to feedback and reviewing the situation with View Packs. Since View Pack sales are limited based on Ad Pack sales it has become nearly impossible to purchase them. We understand it’s not fair for us to create a situation where members have to constantly check the Buy View Packs page to see if any are available.
Consequently we have explored numerous other options. These options included auctions, reservation systems, random allocation and a few others. We were not satisfied that any of these options were the best solution.
We have reviewed our business model and have decided to make Ad Views free. Each completed view will pay $0.10. These free Ad Views will be assigned to members on a weekly basis based on Ad Pack sales from the previous week. Members may now upgrade and create a premium account. Premium members will receive free Ad Views with a higher priority. Premium memberships are $60 and expire 1 year from the date of purchase.
Additionally, we are aware that none of you are happy about the pending funds. With this new system your earnings from completed views will be available immediately. There will no longer be any pending funds.
If you still have pending funds in your account please be advised that you will be paid as per the original terms. AdFlasher.net is a new concept in advertising delivery and we might not get things right the first time. We are confident that this new model will allow us to grow and will dramatically increase the speed that pending funds are released.
Normally with a change such as this we would release advance notice. In our case it was important that we move fast in order to do what was best for our existing user base. Referral commissions have not changed. You will receive referral commissions on all premium membership purchases at the standard rate of 10%.
Happy Flashing The AdFlasher Team
I make the following comments.
If this is truly a unique business model as adflasher claim, then surely they would have put he program through the hoops prior to launch and been confident that their business model would stand up to whatever demands it was subjected to. Furthermore, Adflasher claimed in its initial sales pitch that it was “extremely attractive” to advertisers because they’re site would only be seen by paying customers. Suddenly this isn’t so important anymore. Suddenly they can make the adviews “free” and pay 10c per click. It doesn’t make sense.
Do not get involved in this program unless you’re fully prepared to lose your money.
If you want a real business opportunity that has stood the test of time Click Here
GVO is the latest offering from Joel Thieren of Kiosk fame and is not really a new product at all, but rather a repackaging and rebadging of several quality products that Joel offers under various banners including Kiosk web hosting and Easy Video Producer.
GVO has been running for several weeks now and I have deliberately left it alone and allowed the hype to settle down a little before posting a review on the products and the program.
Essentially GVO is Kiosk with some bonus products rolled in at a Titanium package level and it is the titanium package that I wish to concentrate on.
The GVO titanium package includes everything you need to run an on line business in one package – Unlimited hosted domains, an eresponder pro service, GVO conference facilities downtime witness and easy video producer,each product on its own is probably worth between $35 and $45 per month, with the GVO Titanium package you can get the whole kit and caboodle for $44.95 per month.
Thtat’s what you get and as such it offers excellent value, what GVO also offer is a compensation plan that can really push your business along when you refer others to their services
Here is how it works.
You can get paid in four possible ways.
Quick Start Bonus
To put money in your pocket fast GVO pay a very healthy 50% commission on the first month of all your enrollees.
So let’s say you signup 10 people in one month, you would get 50% commission on those people, plus all your existing commissions on all the people that fall into your matrix!
Binary Hybrid Matrix Plan
After your referrals have been enrolled for one month it is time to start building your team. Why? Because you will make a healthy commission to infinity!
How can that happen? GVO pay you a matching check bonus of 20%. So not only do you get paid down 10 levels. You also make a 20% matching check on your referrals down 10 levels!
So let’s say you have 4 referrals all making around $5000 a month.
You would get your regular commission check of at least $5000 Plus an additional $4000 a month in referral bonuses!
Re-entry bonus after you hit a volume of 14 people!
Once you have a downline of 14 people or more, you earn a new profit position in the GVO matrix that you can actually bank!
Why would you want that?
Let’s say you find a new “Heavy Hitter” you can let them know that if they join the program, you will join right under them to help them build their business!
You can cycle your re entry as many times as you like! Bonus Pool
Regardless of how much you are currently making. GVO share 10% of their net revenue with the top 20 recuiters of the month!
So let’s say you joined today, and you bring in 10 people in month one. If you are in the the top 20 people, you will be paid your quick start commissions, your Binary Hybrid Matrix commissions, your Matching Check commissions AND now share in the bonus pool too!
Additionally GVO allow Titanium membersto resell hosting plans and keep 100% of the profits.
Generally Matrix type programs immeaditely send alarm bells ringing with me,they are based on nothing, other than a shonky pyramid scheme and I have a rule not to recommend such schemes unless there is real value associated with the product.
I can honestly say that there are very few matrix affiliate programs that I can recommend with any confidence.
Kiosk web hosting has been of the few products that I have been able to confidently recommend to subscribers and website visitors, because it actually offers real value.
In fact the Titanium webhosting package provides you with the scope of being able to host unlimited domains and in fact it provides an opportunity within an opportunity to be a hosting reseller.
The difficulty in selling Kiosk has always been the price structure, however with the full package of products now made available, by the repackaging of the product under the brand name GVO, this product represents a legitimate real business opportunity that in my opinion offers great value.
Best of all you can sample thefull features of the GVO package for $1
I recommend that you evaluate it for your self and make an informed decision about this business opportunity and my question would be if it’s not right for you- what will be?
GVO SIGN UP BONUS
As a special bonus and encouragement to anybody who trials GVO I have decided to forward a copy of a great resource that was provided to me by Alex Goad.
GVO is essentially all about on line webhosting and there is no pint in webhosting without getting Traffic, accordinglyI will give anybody who elects to take the GVO$1 titanium trial offer a full 150 page report on making money with adwords. This is as a comprehensive report as I’ve found and it has helped me a lot.
This is a massive report packed with great information and is directly aimed at affiliate marketers, I believe that it would still be worth in excess of $77 – that’s a great trade, I believe
Here is what you need to do to claim your bonus
Sign up for the GVO Titanium trial by going here right now
The Internet is so full of get rich quick schemes, scams and programs that simply do not deliver on their promise that it becomes almost impossible for the hopeful Home Business Opportunity seeker to recognize a real opportunity when it presents itself.
Even if they do they are really up against it because they need to develop a clear strategy for promoting it and leveraging off it to make money.
Too often I watch hopeful wet behind the ears opportunity seekers crash and burn as they try and promote some mythical money making machine that spits out $20 bills on the hour like clockwork.
It doesn’t work never has, never will.
Even a product like Traffic Wave which is a great tool, with a wonderful affiliate program is difficult for the average Joe to promote because they have no clear strategy, and no real idea of what they’re trying to do.
I’ve tried to address this problem several times by developing my own products, but people always ended up promoting my product and not their own business.
Invariably they failed, while I did reasonably well.
It irritated me so much that I put together a re-brandable package that encourages the business owner create their own online presence by providing them with free web-hosting, linked to my re-brandable course and aligned to the one tool that every Internet Marketer needs.
This package has been at least three years in the making and I have sacrificed a certain amount of automation to ensure that the opportunity seeker gets a fully branded package that makes his/her business their business.
The course contains a clear strategy for targeting a hot market of business opportunity seekers and can be as labor intensive or as hands free as you wish (according to your budget and time commitments)
How much does it cost? Nothing -only membership at Traffic Wave and by promoting the course you will earn a residual income and fast start bonus’ that will start your business off in fine style.
Nothing happens overnight, but success comes to those who are well prepared.
One of the best ways to make the most of an on line business opportunity is to create a membership site with a pay for privileges option. Preferably this option should have a recurring billing option and an affiliate program.
The Clickbank Cash system really emphasized the importance of setting up monthly billing options and the potential to succeed with a quality membership site. Once you have a member who is satisfied with what you provide, you can bank on a regular stream of income coming from a variety of happy members. If you have an affiliate system like Clickbank, you have potentially hundreds of new members being directed to you on a monthly basis.
Do you see the potential here?
A membership site can be in any niche, providing its providing on going value and training, your prospects will want to join and they will want to stay
The cost of setting up membership sites has been prohibitive for many people. Good membership site software can cost hundreds, even thousands of dollars.
I was stunned therefore to find this site which is offering free access to its membership site script.
This is the way some of the biggest names in the industry create substantial incomes and I highly recommend that you visit Memberfire today and claim your free membership site script.
By the way , they offer a very good One time Special, and you should consider it carefully.
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