With all of the different Internet Marketing business models out there and all of the different variations therein, it’s nearly impossible for me to provide tips that are going to help EVERY person who reads my advice. What one person is doing will be at least slightly different than another and completely different than another and all three could very well be working on a profitable model.

There are many ways to make money online. That’s just how it is and once you get through the information overload and develop the knowledge that allows you to understand and separate each model, you start to realize that’s actually a good thing.

However, with all of that considered, there is ONE thing that almost all online business models require and that is TRAFFIC! And where do we find one of the biggest traffic sources online? Yep, search engines, primarily Google. And what is the primary thing that they look at in order rank a page? Yep, links.

Link Building is one of the first things many of us learn about when we start working online because we want as much of that free search engine traffic as possible.

So we find services that do it for us. We submit to link directories. We comment on blog posts. We submit to bookmarking sites etc. etc. and we start to see links coming in. But doing all of this over and over, day after day gets to be pretty time consuming and we get tired of it pretty quickly. So over time we reduce our link building to a few sources, then eventually down to only one or two.

THAT is the mistake! I just read a blog post on this exact topic from someone in this business who I have alot of respect for, Lynn Terry. The post is titled Effective Link Building: One Major Ingredient and I highly recommend you give it a good read. It explains why it’s so important to diversify your link building and offers a good example of how you could promote a good piece of content in order to set it up for success.

Of course this is one of the many things I go over in “The Ultimate Link Building Report” as well. So if you are one of the few who haven’t picked up a copy of that I urge you to do so now (special price through that link.)

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The car in that image is my dream car: a Jet Black Porsch Carerra GT. If I had a dollar for every person who has said “Google prefers blogs over static sites” I would be driving that car Unfortunately I don’t

It’s one of the biggest misconception in Internet Marketing. The simple fact is that Google does not rank any site over any other based on the platform in which it is run on. To understand why Google would never do this, we have to think about the goal of Google the Company. Google has one main goal, to make money. They make their money through advertising and the heart and soul of their advertising is their search engine.

So when it comes down to it, the more relevant and useful the top 10 results are when a user does a search, the more money they’re going to make (indirectly) as a result of more and more people using their search engine because it’s the best available.

So, with that being said, if site A is a WordPress blog and site B is a static site and site B is more relevant and useful to the user, why would Google rank site A over site B? They WOULDN’T!

It all comes down to authority and the platform in which your site is being run does NOT increase authority! That’s all there is to it!

BUT WordPress Blogs do have certain Advantages over Static Sites

Now don’t get me wrong, WordPress blogs are awesome and very useful. There are a few characteristics of blogs that make them very powerful.

With RSS you have an additional Means of Visitor Retention – In addition to building a list of prospects via email marketing, which you SHOULD be doing no matter what platform you use, blogs allow you to send updates to anyone who wants them via an RSS reader or directly to their email. This is done via RSS and it is something you don’t have with a static site.

WordPress blogs provide a platform for users to Interact – Every blog post you publish can be discussed between your visitors. Conversation is very powerful! It allows your users voice their opinion (you’re going to voice yours on this post aren’t you?) it allows you to get to know your regular readers and it also creates returning traffic because people want to know what others are saying in response to their comments etc. There are multiple benefits to user interactivity!

WordPress blogs get indexed quicker – It’s not because Google sees that it’s a WordPress blog, and for no reason likes it immediately. Google WANTS to index every single legitimate page on the Internet. The reason blogs tend to get indexed quicker is because they have the ability to ping. Every time you publish a post with WordPress the software pings a list of services. These services include Google Blog Search, Technorati and other authoritative, established sites. Google sees this and comes running to you in order to index your new post.

WordPress has thousands of plugins – When you run a static site, you don’t have all kinds of developers creating cool plugins to tweak out your site. With WordPress you DO. You can get a plugin that will do just about anything imaginable and the best part is most of them are free.

There are also a few cons, but the pros definitely outweigh the cons. WordPress requires quite a bit of server space compared to a light, static site script especially when you have multiple blogs. With WordPress you have to update the software fairly regularly to keep up with security risks etc.

Overall, when comes down to it, WordPress is an awesome Content Management System and I highly recommend using it. But I wanted to clear up that very common misconception with more than just “because I said so.” So the next time someone tells you Google loves blogs, remember what I said today and say “Why? I would love to know your logic” There response might be somthing like “because everyone says so”

I would say that about 95% or more of those who try to make money online have “The Herd” Mentality. When I first got into Internet Marketing about 5 years ago I frequently visited and took part in discussions over at the Warrior Forum. Back then I was a part of a private forum inside the Warrior Forum. I forget the exact name, but it was something like “The Herd Mentality” and it was basically supposed to be a place where “elite” marketers could basically talk about “elite” stuff lol

It was a JOKE! 99% of the people in that forum HAD the herd mentality and weren’t anywhere close to being “elite,” but the purpose of the forum was excellent and there were a select few members who did “get it” and I learned from them. The problem was that I was one of the few who had the ability to separate those with that mindset from those without that mindset.

So what is “The Herd” Mentality anyway?

When it comes to success, there are typically two types of people; those who follow (the herd) and those who lead. A leader isn’t just a leader of people, he is a leader of his life! Followers CAN and sometimes do find success financially but it’s very rare and normally takes much longer than it takes a leader to find equal success.

Some people will say “we all need to be followers in the beginning.” My answer to that is NO, we don’t! There is a difference between a “follower” and a “student.” A student can be a leader, but a follower is never a leader. We all need to be students in the beginning, not followers.

Followers make up the population of the “Herd” and they all have the same basic characteristics when it comes to seeking success. They aren’t particularly dumb. Some of them are even geniuses. They aren’t particularly lazy. Some are extremely hard workers. They simply have a totally different mindset than that of a leader.

In my experience, the main things that cause a leader to succeed at a much higher rate than a follower are optimism and drive! They don’t see failure as a dead end, but merely a speed bump in the path to success. However, it’s more than just that. As I mentioned, it’s a totally different mindset.

“The Herd” Mentality is NOT incurable!

I don’t care WHO you are, you can be a leader in your own life. You control your mind and your own mentality is a choice! But you can’t just flip a switch and “poof” you’re a leader. You need to want it! The next time you come across a situation in which you do not know the answer, whether online or offline, remember this post. How will you handle the situation?

A follower will ask anyone and everyone he or she thinks might know the answer. If he doesn’t get an answer he’ll either quit or put it off until he can get an answer from someone.

A leader will start off the same way. He will ask people who he thinks may know. But if that doesn’t work he’ll use logic and determination to find a solution! A leader doesn’t worry about going “against the grain” while a follower will argue to the end that they are right because someone in a forum told them so! To a leader “proof” means they’ve experienced it to be true. To a follower “proof” means they’ve heard it to be true!

If you think you may be a part of the herd, change your mindset and I promise you it will change your life!

Don’t be a follower. Be a leader. Remember, it IS a choice!

If you were following me towards the end of last year (08) you may remember a product review I did for something called “phpBay Pro.”

I had just started my Geocaching blog at that time and was looking for monetization ideas. Since there are alot of different Geocaching items on eBay, I figured I would give phpBay Pro a shot and 8 months later I can say I’m glad I did.

(If you don’t know, it’s a product that allows you to easily set up small “stores” on your site that sell eBay products. It’s very easy to set up. You could have a phpBay store up in less than 5 minutes. However, this post isn’t about the mechanics of it. If you want to learn exactly what it is, just refer to the initial review, which I linked to above.)

I’ll tell you right away how much I’m making from it. I’m currently only using phpBay Pro on my Geocaching blog and it averages about $40/month.

Now, $40 a month may not sound very impressive, but it IS and I’ll tell you why. There are 2 reasons:

1. I’ve done VERY little promotion of the blog and it gets very little traffic. I’ve submitted ONE article to ezinearticles and followed a bunch of Geocachers on Twitter. The blog only gets about 20 visitors a day! In the past few weeks I have started to do some more promotion, but for the past 8 months I’ve done VERY little. You could almost say no promotion. Most of the 20 or so daily visitors is coming from Google for various related terms and Twitter. In other words, there isn’t anything special going on here.

2. phpBay Pro has outperformed both Adsense and Affiliate offers that I’ve placed on the blog. Outperformed would actually be an understatement. I had Adsense on the blog for 30 days and it earned $4.67 I removed adsense and placed some very targeted affiliate offers for one month and I made 1 sale, which resulted in a $12 commission for me. SO, I went back to PHPbay Pro and right away it was back up to $40 a month!

Now my plan is to simply start promoting it, mostly through article marketing, and get that $40/m. up to $1,000/month. I’m confident I’ll get it there in the next 6 months or so. The way I see it, if one article and a little tweeting got it to a consistant $40/month, what will 20, 30 or even 50 articles do?

Why does it outperform adsense and affiliate offers?

You know what, I honest don’t have a good answer to that, but it certainly has in this case. My initial thoughts on this was that it could be an alternative to adsense in certain niches or affiliate programs in others. But I honestly didn’t think it would be possible to earn much money, just from eBay fees. I was wrong! People find something in the phpBay Pro shop, then it seems they tend to buy multiple products, so those fees add up, which means my commissions add up each time.

This data has convinced me that this is a viable money maker for niche sites and even authority sites depending on the niche and model. After seeing the results from this blog, I’m going to be adding a phpBay Pro store to almost all of my niche niches and even a few of my authority sites.

Whether you run niche sites or authority sites, if there are products related to your niche on eBay I recommend considering this! It’s working for me and I bet it will work for you too!

If you choose to give it a shot, I worked out a discount for you.

To take advantage of the discount use the link below:
http://ez-onlinemoney.com/blog/recommends/phpBay

Then use this Discount code: 2E9C2A36C9

Once you get there, you’ll have a few options:

1. phpBay Pro for WordPress – This is what I use and what I recommend to you if you use WordPress.
2. phpBay Pro API – This is what you would use if you do not use WordPress. Will yield the same result.

3. phpZon Pro for Wordpress – This is just like the phpBay Pro WordPress plugin, except it uses Amazon products, instead of eBay. I haven’t used this yet, but I plan on doing some tests in the near future. It looks promising!
4. phpZon Pro API – This is just like the phpBay Pro API, except it uses Amazon products, instead of eBay. I haven’t used this yet, but I plan on doing some tests in the near future. It looks promising!

I’m sure you’ve noticed that the subtitle of this blog is “Making Money Through Ethical Marketing.” And I’ve gotten alot of comments and questions about that over the years. I’ve even gotten criticism about it.

For instance, a while back I received an email from a very angry customer who had just downloaded one of my free reports. This person had opted-in to receive the report and then, just like everyone else, he was offered a special discount on one of my products. At the end of that page there is a link to bypass the special offer and download the free report. (The free report was also sent to his inbox.)

Apparently he didn’t think I had the “right” to display a one-time offer after a free download. I’m giving him a an extremely valuable report for free and on top of that I’m offering another highly valuable product to him for half price. To me that sounds like a favor, but apparently not to him.

This is one of many examples that ANY long-time Internet Marketer can give you in regards to customers, or “leads” in this case, who feel they have been “wronged” in some way.

Now lets get into some of the things that people seem to dislike in the Internet Marketing niche particularly.

OTO’s (One-Time Offers) – Offering some kind of special offer directly after a purchase or opt-in.
Pop-ups - Those annoying things that pop up out of nowhere when you open a page.
Promotional emails – Emails from a list you are subscribed to promoting a related product.
Hype – Making a product sound AMAZING… like you can’t do without it.
Forced continuity – You order an ebook (for example) which you believe is a one-time payment, but in reality, since you didn’t read the fine print, you are also starting a monthly subscription, which will be taken out of your account automatically.

I personally have no problem with the first four and I execute all four in various campaigns. But I have a MAJOR problem with #5 because it’s deceitful!

So why don’t have I have a problem with the first four, when so many others do? Because I use these marketing techniques for the right reasons. It’s a win/win situation! I make more money and my clients get better deals! When someone sets up a pop-up that is trying to get you to buy some crappy product that he or she has never used… he or she just wants money, that’s a pop-up I don’t agree with.

If someone serves an OTO to you and they don’t believe in the product they’re offering, they just know it will increase their profits, that’s an OTO I don’t believe in.

If someone sends you promotional email after promotional email for products they don’t believe in, those are promotional emails I don’t believe in.

If someone uses hype to try to get you to buy a crappy product, that is hype I don’t believe in! You NEED to use at least a little hype. If not you don’t believe in your product nearly enough!

These things are part of marketing. Marketing drives the economy and it drives the World really!

So what do I consider to be “Ethical” Internet Marketing

I got carried away with my examples and got a little off track of the title, but if you really think about it all ties together. The topic of ethics is a sensitive one. It’s almost as sensitive as religion and politics. I mean, both religious and political views are a matter of ethics in one way or another, right? It’s all about what you believe in and what you believe is right and wrong.

I believe helping people is right. But I also NEED to make money at the same time. Luckily my “job” allows me to make money BY helping people.

To make a long story short my idea of “Ethical Internet Marketing” is making money by sincerely helping people. Will some people disagree with some of my marketing techniques? Yes, absolutely. But I’m perfectly fine with that because I know that NOTHING I do is done with the wrong intentions. I know that the guy who was mad because I use OTO’s will be just fine and if he would have taken me up on that OTO he would be a smarter marketer with a better shot at success. I know that to be true, whether he does or not.

Sometimes it’s good to get your mind off of Internet Marketing and just take a break. And although I can’t force that upon you, I can give you some info that has nothing to do with Internet Marketing for once.

Today I’m going to talk about me, as a person. In response to one of the questions I asked in a survey I sent out to my list a few weeks ago asking what I can do to build more trust, many people requested that I talk more about myself outside of IM. You asked and I listened. I’m not going to hold back, not even some of the very embarrassing things that I’ve gone through. One part of this post may really shock some people.

The more I thought about it, the more I realized this is a good idea. It’s always neat to learn more about the personal life of a friend or acquaintance and if you follow this blog, you’re a friend of mine!

You’re about to learn more about me than you ever wanted, or cared, to know

Just random details

I’m 29 years old (at the time of writing.) I am originally from Washington, Indiana, but now live in Indianapolis, Indiana (I like Indianapolis MUCH better.) I am very happily married to my wife, Claudia. We have one child, Aaron, who will be 3 years old in February.

I smoked for about 12 years before Claudia and I both quit January 2008, cold turkey, and never looked back!

I am one of six children. I have two older sisters (Dana & Kelly,) one older brother (Matt,) one younger brother (Jon) and one younger sister (Emily.)

… one niece, seven nephews, one more on the way.

We all grew up in the “middle class” I would say. My father was, and still is, a conductor for the railroad and made/makes good money, but with 6 kids money was still tight. We weren’t poor, but we weren’t rich by any means either. My mother cleaned houses for extra cash when she could, but she was always so busy cleaning up after us she couldn’t do that very often.

Work

My first “real” job was, you guessed it, flipping burgers. I was a grill cook at “The New White Steamer” in Washington, IN for a few years. I think I started when I was about 16. My salary was something like $4/hour, yes really lol

After that I got on at a Furniture Factory in Jasper, Indiana (Jasper Wood Products,) which is now closed. I was a machine operator, running various machines, making all kinds of furniture parts. I worked there for about 3 years.

Then I got tired of my boring life in Indiana and decided to join the Army. The $17,000 sign on bonus made up my mind for me haha I signed a 5-year contract and left for Basic Training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma February 28, 2002. My MOS (Military Occupational Specialty) AKA job, was 13M Multiple Launch Rocket System crew member.

I was then stationed in Babenhausen, Germany. Not long after I got there I was deployed to Iraq for the initial invasion. One year later I returned to Germany, traveled all over Europe and met my wonderful wife, who is from Frankfurt, Germany.

I started my online business late 2004, while still serving in the Army. I got out of the Army May 31st 2007 as a Sergeant and started working online full-time from there on out.

My Idiot Phase

You know how children go through “phases?” When I was a teenager I went through what I call my “Idiot Phase.”

I got multiple tattoos, which I regret now. I was arrested for drinking and driving. I did drugs, which luckily didn’t do any permanent damage before I got smart and quit. But worst of all, I beat up a guy, which resulted in a Class-C Felony. Yep, I’m a felon. Sorry if that disappoints you. Luckily the guy recovered fully, but that charge is on my record for life. It’s something I regret more than anything I’ve ever done in my entire life, but it happened and I can’t change the past.

To make a long story short I thought the guy was a child molester because I listened to unconfirmed rumors and I decided to take the law into my own hands. It probably had something to do with my 18 year old ego too, since a group of my friends were there too. It turns out he wasn’t a child molester, or at least he had never been convicted of it. I was arrested and sentenced to 4 years in prison. But in reality a 4 year sentence really means one year. Half of the sentence is almost always “suspended” and you almost always do half of what’s left, for “good behavior.”

I was given the choice by the judge of 1 year in jail, or 2 years of house arrest. I chose 2 years of house arrest and spent 2 of the most boring years of my life EVER sitting at my parents house, but during that time I had plenty of time to think about my past and more importantly, my future. Lesson: Don’t listen to rumors!

My Hobbies and Passions – My #1 passion is spending time with my wife and son. That’s corny and of course I know Claudia is going to read this But it’s also very true. My online business is also a great passion of mine because I am privileged with the ability to help people and make money at the same time! But below you’ll find some recreational things I like:

I have several hobbies, some of them are also passions.

1. Health and Fitness – I can’t stand the feeling of being weak and unhealthy!! I HATE it! I honestly enjoy going to the gym and although I love food, I eat fairly healthy and watch what I eat. I work out 6 days a week and do alot of strength training. I wouldn’t consider myself a bodybuilder, but I constantly work on increasing muscle size, strength and endurance. But, I never have and never will use illegal drugs to improve that like so many do. I spend a good deal of money on legal supplements though. If you’re interested in health and fitness I highly recommend my trainer’s blog “Personal Training Dude” at http://www.PersonalTrainingDude.com/. Health and Fitness is a hobby and a passion!

2. Geocaching – I started Geocaching in the summer of 2008 while visiting friends in Germany. I LOVE this hobby, it’s fun! I run a Geocaching blog at http://www.MadCacher.com/ and if you have no idea what it is, read this post: What is Geocaching?

3. Fishing – I’ve loved fishing since I was a kid. I like fishing for just about anything, but I primarily like bass fishing. I love the feeling of a big bass grabbing the lure, jumping out of the water, then fighting to get him in.

4. Collecting sports cards – Yeah, I know. It’s for kids, right? lol I was a big card collector as a kid, then got away from it as I got older, like so many others. But several months ago I’ve picked it back up and have a growing collection of Gem Mint sports cards, primarily basketball.

5. Football (Colts) – I’m a horrible Football fan because I just started getting into it last year and I don’t even know half of the rules, but I LOVE watching our Colts play and will be attending several games this season! oops, I just lost some blog readers from New England, huh? I hope not.

Beliefs

Politically I tend to lean more toward conservative views, but I try to stay away from politics and there are a few liberal views I agree with as well. If I did get into politics, I guess I would be more independent.

I believe children should be treated better than the average child is treated in the World and that definitely isn’t limited to third-world countries. I believe many children, even in the U.S.A. are treated poorly no child deserves that, no matter who their parents are.

I’m against abortion because I don’t think any person who has already been born should have the right to decide whether or not someone else should be born. “I’ve noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born” – Ronald Reagan

I believe all people should be judged by their character, not by anything else. But I also believe many people get away with far too much because they know people are afraid to say anything.

I believe most people have NO CLUE how much potential they possess!

I believe people should be judged by the type of person they are, not by what church they go to (if any) or by what religion they observe.

I believe the famous quote “You can do anything you want, if you put your mind to it” is false, but has great intentions.

I believe most people measure and accept their destiny by how they are raised. I believe this is a bad thing 99.9% of the time and a good thing 0.01% of the time.

Well, that’s all I can think of right now. If I think of more I’ll edit this post and add those things.

That’s a snapshot of my life. Complete honesty! I hope it hasn’t driven you away

One of the best and most frequent pieces of advice I offer to those who are trying to succeed at something, whether it’s Internet Marketing or something else, is to accept failure and understand that failure is part of success.

You will not find success with anything worth doing without first finding failure. In many cases you will fail multiple times. These failures are what prevent most people from being successful. Only a small percentage of people keep going when they fail. Those are the successful ones!

A few days ago I came across a blog post from Michelle Adams, who is a long-time member of my Private Forum and a very smart marketer and person in general. The post is titled, “Fail to Succeed” and it basically hits on the point I just mentioned, but applies it to the site flipping model, which she is successful in.

It’s an excellent post, as I stated in the comment field on her blog, but what I liked the most was the video she posted directly after the text.

It’s my Favorite Video of All Time!

This is a Nike Commercial featuring Michael Jordan, one of the best Basketball Players of all time (only surpassed by LeBron James) and it hits on EXACTLY what I’m always trying to tell people!

There are many different “road blocks” that come up along the way no matter what “model” you adopt or how long you’ve been working online. Usually each model or technique presents it’s own set of road blocks or issues that need figured out. But there is one that seems to come up over and over again for almost everyone, no matter how long they’ve been working online and no matter what it is they do online.

“Writers Block!”

I get it, you get it and everyone else who writes anything, whether online or offline, gets it too. It just sucks, doesn’t it?

It’s what happens when you know you need to write an article, blog post, web page etc. but you just can’t think of something good to write about.

Although I, myself, still get it, it happens much less frequently these days because of the advice I’m about to give you.

The following are the 5 best ways in my opinion to come up with topics to write about online when you’re suffering from your own unique case of “writer’s block:”

1. Go to one or more forums in your niche. Discussion forums are probably the BEST place to go to find topics in your niche that your readers will want to hear because forums are full of people just like your customers and in some cases they may BE your customers and/or readers! Check out the “hot” threads. The threads with LOADS of replies. These are awesome topics to write about!

2. Ask your subscribers what they want you to write about! Sending out a survey is the best way to do that. Offer something for free to those who complete the survey or some kind of contest. Asking a visitor what he or she wants to learn from you is about as accurate as it gets. You can offer the survey to your list if you have one, on your homepage etc.

3. Watch your competition! Particularly the competitors who are authoritative in your niche. They got that authority somehow and it’s a good bet their readers like what they are writing about, so looking at their content will usually give you some good ideas as to what you should be writing about.

4. Actively participate in social networking! Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin etc. are social networks that provide a unique opportunity to not only interact and get to know others in your niche to JV with etc. they are also full of potential readers, clients, customers and leads! Any chance you get to interact with these people is good. Social networking is a great way to find out what they’re interested in within your niche.

5. Look at what you’ve written in the past that seemed to have done well (if possible.) It won’t give you an exact topic, but it will give you an idea of some of the things you know your readers respond to historically.

Although some of these points may seem obvious or basic to you, hopefully you can refer back to this post next time you get writer’s block and hopefully they help find an idea for you:

(Keep in mind, if your business model targets long-tail phrases with niche marketing, it’s not about finding topics. Your keyword research will yield your topics for you. But for just about any other model this advice should come in handy.)

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As you may know, I got started online as a content writer. With VERY little knowledge of any kind of marketing, no tech skills… nothing, it seemed like the best way to make some cash online and it was!

I made quite a bit of money writing articles for others, but it did take some trial and error and I could have definitely started making money with my writing much quicker than I did.

So today I’m doing a review of a product by Courtney Ramirez, who I’ve worked with several times in the past, called “The Content Chef” which is basically a guide she has put together that will help anyone who wants to get the same start I had making money online and do it quickly and correctly!

What you get

As soon as you purchase the product you receive a zip file that contains LOADS of info! You get:

1: The primary product, which is presented as 3 PDF’s. Each PDF is a different “module.”
2: A 30-day Success Guide, which offers in-depth instructions on how to get started for the complete “newbie” to content writing.
3. A “What is Internet Marketing” report for those who are completely new to Internet Marketing in general.
4. A Business Forms pack to help you stay organized.
5. A 46-item list of free web resources to help you with your new writing business.

If you already have a basic understanding of writing for money online then you’ll only really need the primary product. If you’re BRAND new to this whole thing they will all be useful and together they will help you get a profitable web writing business going fast.

First, an important note

If you think you need to be an excellent writer in order to do this you’re wrong! I’m a decent writer and I made good money when I wrote for others and I’ve seen people with HORRIBLE grammar do this and make loads of money. If you can write the English language and it makes sense, you can make money writing online!

What I like about “The Content Chef”

- The thing I like most about this product, which I knew before I even read the PDF’s, is that it comes from someone who REALLY knows what she’s talking about! TOO many products out there these days, especially electronic products, come from people with mediocre to substandard knowledge on the subject. They do it for one reason, to make money.

While I’m SURE Courtney’s goal is also to make money, this is a topic she certainly knows a great deal about! I’ve known Courtney for years and I’ve personally paid her to do writing work for me. She’s one of the best online today, so when you take the advice she offers within “Content Chef” you know you’re getting solid information!

- You’re not limited to just one type of writing job. Courtney goes into detail and shows you how to make money writing for multiple types of individuals and organizations doing multiple types of writing jobs. If you just want to write 300 word articles for people, that’s fine. If you just want to write ebooks, that’s fine too. She shows you how to make money doing ALL KINDS of different proven methods. If you want to do everything you can possibly do, that’s fine. Courtney lays it all out there!

- Not only do you learn HOW to write for money online, you also learn WHY, which for some people including myself, is an important part of any instruction. I like to know WHY I’m doing something… why people are willing to pay me to do this, what they’re using it for etc.

- Unlike ANY other product of this kind, after Courtney teaches you everything about writing for others and making money from them, she goes into how you can get started on your OWN stuff! Your own websites etc. In other words, she shows you how to get started making cash by working for others, but she also explains how you can expand from there and eventually flip the script and make money like the people who are paying you are making money!

What I don’t like

You know, I’d be a liar if I told you I don’t make money if you purchase this product. The fact is I will indeed make money if you purchase it, so any type of review of this type from anyone is going to be a little biased. But I’ll also tell you that although I can’t avoid being a little biased due to those facts, everything I said above is true!

Now it’s time to add a little negativity to add to the credibility of the review because that’s how you write a good review to get people to buy But I honestly don’t have anything bad to say about this product. I’d say Courtney is probably offering too much, that’s about it. Most people won’t need all of the bonuses. Some people won’t need any of them. But there will be a few that get something from all of them, so it’s not a bad thing.

My conclusion

I can honestly say, putting my reputation on the line, that this is an EXCELLENT product for anyone who wants to start seeing REAL money coming in from their online efforts!

I used many of these methods to make money first money online and there is no doubt in my mind that you will to if you get this product and put the advice within into action!

The Content Chef

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Between email, support tickets, my Private Internet Marketing Forum and blog comments I receive multiple (sometimes 100+) questions on a daily basis. These questions obviously vary, but there are a few that I get every single day that are very similar. These are questions that are derived from confusion and this confusion comes from one thing – People who work online for months, even years, and still don’t succeed can usually attribute their failure to not picking a model and sticking with it!

BUT, it’s not as easy as saying “OK, I’m going to do affiliate marketing, that’s my model.”

Did you know that there are HUNDREDS of different ways to make money with affiliate marketing? Let’s say you find 5 affiliate marketers that you trust. You read their blogs and everything else they put out and you soak it all in. The confusion should start to go away, right? In most cases that doesn’t happen because those 5 affiliate marketers have 5 totally different business models.

Sure, they’re all affiliate marketers, but that doesn’t mean they’re doing the same thing. And it gets worse. Now take 5 affiliate marketers, who only use PPC. I guarantee those 5 affiliates marketers who only use PPC are using 5 totally different techniques to earn their money!

This happens with all business models! The primary source of confusion comes from newbies getting mixed signals. They get one piece of the puzzle here and another piece there etc. and when they try to put the pieces together they don’t fit.

How to avoid it

There are 2 things you need to do.

1. Find a very specific plan! Not just any plan though. This needs to be a proven plan that comes from a legitimate source. I know it’s hard to know for sure who is legitimate or not, but you just have to try your hardest and hope for the best. I’ll be coming out with a new product sometime in the early week of August that would be perfect for this, so stay tuned.

2. Find a mentor and stick with his or her advice! You don’t necessarily need to spend thousands of dollars paying for a coach, but you need to stick with one or two people who you really trust. When you follow multiple people you’re going to get bits and pieces of info on multiple business models and techniques! There are alot of knowledgeable people out there, but remember, everyone does things a little bit differently!

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