Unstoppable Affiliate comes in over 50 videos

Unstoppable Affiliate Review

Introduction: The Internet Lifestyle

What is the Internet marketing lifestyle? We hear about it all the time, and some of us even claim to live it – but what is it really?

My definition is simple: it is the ability to live your life on your own terms, secure in the knowledge that your income, from Internet marketing, will more than fund it.

It is not about the number of hours you work so much as the enjoyment you get from all the hours in your life.

In my case it means eating out a lot, going to the movies a lot and taking days off whenever I want to. But my needs are simple and I love staying at home more than anything. And although I could follow the 4-hour ‘work’ week, I don’t really think of what I do as being work anyway! Doing stuff on my computer is my hobby and most of the time is just a lot of fun.

Probably a more general view of the Internet lifestyle is of someone who jets from exotic place to place, works only when absolutely necessary – and from the beach at that – and makes more money from their efforts than they can ever spend.

I know a lot of full-time Internet marketers, many of whom make really big money, but I’ve only known two people who fit the jetset image in any way at all!

But I do know a lot who could drop everything and live life on their own terms whenever they want to.

Oddly, of all the people I know with that ‘lifestyle freedom’, almost all – probably 90% of them – are affiliate marketers. Their entire business model is based on selling other people’s products for a commission.

It is often said that to make real money online you have to produce your own products and get affiliates to sell them for you, but I beg to differ on that. Producing products can be very profitable, but it can also be exceedingly hard work. It can take months of serious effort to plan, research and create the product in the first place, can often cost quite a lot in development costs too, especially if it is software based. And as for attracting that army of affiliates, that in itself can be time-consuming and frustrating because even assuming that you have the contacts (or know someone who does) they are busy people who may not be able to fit in to your carefully devised launch schedule.

Don’t misunderstand me – creating your own products is a great way to make money online, but it is certainly not the easiest method!

And, as many big-name marketers have seen this year, you can put in all that work, expense and effort and still have a failure on your hands.

Affiliate marketing, on the other hand, has many advantages without many of the problems.

For example, it is largely set-and-forget. You build your affiliate site, do all the things you need to do to attract traffic and search engine love, then pat it on the head and leave it to send you money. Then you go on to build another affiliate site, and another.

Affiliate marketers build ‘Multiple Streams of Income’ that protect them from many of the ups and downs of the market. If you have ten sites making you money and three of them slow down, the chances are good that some of your other sites will do a little better and balance things out. or, it is easy enough to build a few more sites to catch whatever wave is current today.

Another big advantage that affiliate marketing has over selling your own products is that you very rarely have to do any customer support. As an affiliate you are the middle man who introduces a buyer to a seller, so if there are problems along the way, or questions to be answered, that’s the job of the vendor, not the affiliate.

For that reason, affiliates are far less tied to a desk or an email account. They can disappear off, enjoying their version of the Internet lifestyle, for weeks at a time and nobody will notice.

And, as an offshoot of that, they can remain largely anonymous if they wish.

I suppose that the closest offline analogue to an affiliate marketer is a commission-only salesman, but the analogy is very poor. For one thing, the offline salesman needs to rely on the force of his or her personality to sell. Salesmanship is the be all and end all. The ability to deal with – and persuade – people is vital. Affiliate marketers are not really salespeople at all. They are more like go-betweens who act as a conduit between the people who, by the very fact that they are searching for something online, have a problem they need solving and the sales page that offers them the solution.

I suppose ‘introducers’ would be a good description.

It is the salespage – which is the responsibility of the vendor, not the affiliate – that does the work of closing the sale. The affiliate’s job is merely to make sure the potential buyer sees that sales page.

If you aspire to your own version of the Internet lifestyle – whatever that means to you – then learning how to be the best affiliate you can is by far the best way to achieve your aim.

Unstoppable Affiliate – Review in Detail

Learning how the super affiliates really operate is often difficult because the really top people, by definition, are not the ones creating products teaching it.

I mentioned earlier that I only know of two people who really live the jet-set lifestyle that is traditionally associated with being super-successful online. Both are affiliate marketers, but luckily, one of them is also very good at teaching what he does and how he does it.

That guy is Andrew Hansen, a young Aussie who, but his own admission, takes at least a week’s vacation every month! Although he lives in London now and has visited my London Lunches on occasion, tying him down to a date is like knitting spaghetti because he is forever out of the country!

I will say this though – when he does come along he is always surrounded by people because he loves to share his secrets and has a very calm and easy way of explaining exactly what he does that works so well.

A few days ago I learned that Andrew and his business partner Josh Stanton, have produced an exhaustive course, called Unstoppable Affiliate, that lays their entire affiliate marketing business model bare, right before your eyes.

In 50 or so videos (some are very short and some are 20-30 minutes) they break down EXACTLY what they do into really simple steps that absolutely anyone can follow.

I’ve known Andrew for some time and have enjoyed some of his other products, but this one is in a whole new league. Although I AM a pretty successful affiliate marketer in my own right, I learned at least three things from the first four videos – any one of which was worth the whole price of the course for me.

There is no black hat, dodgy dealing. There are no shady tricks. There is nothing in this course that would get you in trouble with Google in any way. Unstoppable Affiliate is a genuine process that will turn you into a super affiliate the fastest and most effective way possible.

http://kickstartrecommends.com/unstoppableaffiliate

Let’s talk a little about the sales process, because so many products launched lately mess up big time with outrageous claims, absurd hype and outright lies on their sales pages.

Andrew and Josh don’t need any of that.

There is a good video on the sales page, which, unusually these days, has all the controls on it that you need. You can pause it, fast forward it and even stop it. And it tells you exactly how long it is too! It is sad that I even think that is unusual enough to mention!

If you don’t much like sales videos you don’t have to watch it. I recommend you do because Andrew’s presentation style is refreshing, but everything is down below on the sales page too, so if reading is more your thing it’s all there for you.

Incidentally, that attempt to cater for all tastes follows through into the product as well because although it is primarily a video course, each of the videos has an accompanying PDF transcript for those who prefer the printed word.

One thing that I know many people (including me) dislike on sales pages is the way so may of them throw up an alert box as you try to leave that offers you a reduced price. I’ve seen some that have as many as 5 and they really get on my nerves.

There is one closure alert on this sales page and it is one that is a bit different.

Instead of making a phony cut-price offer, what Andrew has done is offer you the chance to get the entire product for $1.

The way it works is this: you can either pay the full price up front, or you can elect to pay in three instalments – the first of which is $1 followed by the second instalment five days later.  The overall sum is the same, but if you are unhappy with the product you can cancel the 2nd and 3rd payments before your five days trial period are up.

I would be very surprised if anyone did cancel though because the course is worth its weight in gold – and certainly far more than the low price Andrew has put on it for now.

Speaking of the low price – this is just an introductory rate and will increase in a few days time, so don’t put off grabbing Unstoppable Affiliate while it is still in launch phase.

One thing I should mention – as far as I understand, there is a problem with the trial offer payment. Andrew says that 50% of people are able to take up the offer with no problem, but for some bizarre reason the rest are not. He is working on it but if it doesn’t work for you, don’t worry about it – just go back to the sales page and pay the regular amount. You are guaranteed either way so it won’t make any difference.

If the $1 trial is important to you and the page doesn’t let you get at it, drop me an email and I will send you a direct link that should work.

Whenever I’m considering buying a product I almost always check out what people are saying about it on the product review section of the Warrior Forum. There are people there who are negative about everything, so I know to take some of the comments with a pinch of salt, but in the case of Unstoppable Affiliate the 57 comments (so far) are exceptionally positive. Not just about the product, but also about Andrew Hansen himself.

Oh that more marketers could have such a shining reputation!

The other question that people often ask me regarding sales processes is about upsells. How many and how relevant are they to the main product.

In the case of Unstoppable Affiliate there is just one (as far as I know) and it is for a coaching course with Andrew. The aim is to provide more in depth personalised training for all the concepts involved with UA and as such, it augments the main product very well. Do you need it? No. The main product gives you all the information you need, but for many people, real-world training is very important so I would guess that this option will be popular.

Frankly, if I was in the market for personalized training, there are few people I’d rather do it with than this very successful – and extremely personable young man.

Inside the course itself (this wouldn’t be much of a review if I didn’t tell you about the content) the teaching is done in four sections:

1. Research

Here are ten videos that cover all aspects of finding niche markets and product to sell to them. There is a ton of information in here are a lot of things that I never knew about before.

It goes on to show you how Andrew assesses the niches, finds the best keywords, determines the likely profitability and uses tools like Google insights in ways I have certainly not seen discussed before.

2. Site Creation

This section shows you how to build quality websites that work. Everyone should take notice of the things taught here no matter what kind of sites they build because this is the stuff that will keep your sites earning you income long after your competitors are thrown out of the search engines.

3. Conversion Strategy

It isn’t enough to build a great website that the search engines love. Affiliates only make money when the visitors to their sites click through to the vendors’ sales page – and take action when they get there. That’s called conversion and is often missed out or glossed over in affiliate training.

Not so in Unstoppable Affiliate. There are 13 videos here to teach you everything you need to know to ensure that your visitors convert as well as is humanly possible.

More conversions equal more money for you. It is as simple – and as vital – as that.

4. Traffic Mastery

The final piece of the jigsaw is traffic. No traffic, no income – so it is a really important arm of the course.

There are another 13 videos here that will turn you from a traffic novice to a demon!

All in all I think you have got the idea by now that I’m seriously impressed with Unstoppable Affiliate. It really is the key to whatever type of Internet lifestyle that you aspire to.

It gets a huge Kickstart Recommendation from me.

http://kickstartrecommends.com/unstoppableaffiliate

Follow Up…

Since my initial review there have been more videos added and a
whole new section on outsourcing, so the course is now even
better value than I originally thought.

http://kickstartrecommends.com/unstoppableaffiliate

As my inbox has been full of questions over the weekend so I will
show the most common ones here:

1. Are the videos downloadable?

- No. They are streamed on a site that you get access to after
you join. Andrew says that they have been optimized to run well,
even on low speed broadband, but a downloadable version is not
likely to be offered.

2. Are there PDFs?

- Yes, although the course is intended to be delivered by video,
each video has an accompanying PDF transcript.

3. Is the $1 trial genuine?

- Absolutely. You can get five days in which to decide whether to
keep it and pay the balance of the price in two instalments. This
shows a huge commitment by Andrew and Josh, and a great deal of
confidence in the quality and value of the product. A confidence
that I believe is totally justified.

You can get the $1 trial by closing the initial sales page at
http://kickstartrecommends.com/unstoppableaffiliate (wait for it
to finish loading before you close it) and then clicking on the
Cancel button in the box that pops up.

4. Is Andrew a real person?

- I can understand where that question comes from as so many
products are now being launched under fake names as the real
people behind them have become tainted by the underhand tactics
they have been using. I can assure you that Andrew is 100% real –
he has been to my London Lunches and has been a well-known
success story online for about 5 years.

I have never heard any negative words about him and his products
have always been of the very highest quality.

5. How much extra will I have to spend to put Andrew’s course
into action?

- Nothing. Although some of the things he teaches can be done
faster and easier if you have professional tools (for keyword
research, for example) and when you are totally comfortable with
the methods you may want to outsource some of the process, right
from the start you can do all of it for no more than the cost of
a domain name and hosting.

6. Is the information covered in Unstoppable Affiliate available
in other courses that I might have?

- I don’t know what other courses you have, or how well you have
studied them. And I’m certainly not familiar with everything that
is on sale. I can say that a lot of what I discovered in UA has
been new to me, so I certainly haven’t seen it anywhere else.

7. Is it really step-by-step?

- Yes. Each video shows you clearly how each step works. When you
are familiar with the process you might change the order you
personally do things, or you might choose to drop some of the
steps out. That’s your choice and you are free to adapt the
methods to your own style of doing business. However, from the
beginning, UA doesn’t leave anything out and explains everything
so that even a complete beginner should be able to follow along
perfectly well to become a super affiliate in their own right.

8. Do I need the upsell training?

- Some people learn better when they are guided by a real person,
and that method has the huge advantage of being able to ask
questions and gain extra clarity if anything confuses you. For
that reason, I have to say that for the right person, the
training will be invaluable.

Is it necessary? No. The videos cover everything and for me, give
quite enough information. But if you prefer more personal
training, then the upsell is very much worth considering. At the
very least make sure to read all about it because the first
training option offered is a one time offer that you won’t be
able to access again later.

9. Is the ‘introductory price’ genuine?

- Yes. The price of the course, which is delivered as over 50
videos (with accompanying PDF transcripts) is currently just $67.
But that will go up in a few days after the launch week is over.
As I write this there are just 4 days left of the launch price.

http://kickstartrecommends.com/unstoppableaffiliate

The launch price and, I believe, the $1 trial end in just 4 days.

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You, like me, may be sick and tired of hearing about Chris Freville’s Stealth Profit Machines by now. I’m getting dozens of cloned emails a day from all the big-time affiliates – multiple copies from many of them.

The result is that Stealth Profit Machines has gone from nowhere to being very close to the the biggest selling product on ClickBank. It may even be at #1 by the time you read this.

Now, I have my differences with Chris about some aspects of the sales letter. I’ve expressed them here in Kickstart, and privately by email to Chris. I don’t approve of the ultra-hype and downright falsehoods that are so commonly used these days. It seems to me that copywriters are taking the easy way out, which is sad.

I’m also uncomfortable with the exit price offers, the endless upsells, downsells and cross sells, and the general feeling that all you want to do is buy a decent product but the owner has set a small dog to biting your ankles.

Tip: Don’t buy ANYTHING connected to Internet marketing without first trying to exit the sales page. More often than not you’ll be offered a cheaper price – sometimes for the same product, sometimes for a lesser offering, and if not, you can always go straight back.

Chris’ launch hasn’t been unusual in any of the marketing tactics it has used. Lot’s of big name affiliates motivated by the desire to out-sell each other, scarcity tactics, outright deceits justified in the name of ‘selling’, lots of controversy, crashed servers – you name it.

But what sets this one apart in one specific way is that behind it all there is a very good product being sold at a very decent price (whether you get the $10 discount or not).

That’s why I’m being a hypocrite and still promoting it. You can read my full review at http://imkickstart.com/course/reviews/stealth-profit-machines-warts-and-all-review/
If you want to create self-populating blogs with an absolute minimum of effort, for an incredibly low price, then SPM is just what you’ve been looking for. But take the sales letter with a big pinch of salt and don’t forget to try to leave before buying.

As to all the upsells, downsells and cross sells, none of them are necessary to make SPM work. They are icing on the cake that you can pick up if you want to.

One thing that has been pointed out to me and which I must pass on is that the content SPM pulls into your blog comes from EzineArticles. According the the very strict wording of their ToS, what SPM does with the articles breaks EA’s rules. I’ll have to leave it to you whether you are comfortable with that or not.

Maybe I’m naive, but I’m sure that a more ethical sales letter and upsell/downsell process would not have damaged its success. In fact, going by the number of people I’ve heard say wouldn’t buy because of the sales letter or the cloned emails, maybe it would have been MORE successful.

I’m sure that Chris and his top affiliates are a lot better off after this week. And good for them. I have no problem with people making money. And I have no problem with the launch marketing process, provided it is ethical.

But I suspect that Internet marketing itself is becoming poorer as a result of people getting tired of the ‘art of persuasion’ being overshadowed by the trend towards ‘market stall tactics’.

At what point did hypnotic marketing become hypenotic? And can we begin to remove the e before the FTC in the US and the ASA in the UK take notice and regulate all of us out of existence?

Not long, I suspect. And when they do, as always happens with government bodies trying to clean things up, they will probably be draconian in their approach and unreasonable in their regulations.

When that happens, a lot of people will be up in arms about the loss of their earning potential, but really, we all will have only ourselves to blame.

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So it is that it comes as a great surprise and pleasure to find a
big launch product that is very low cost and does exactly what it
promises.

I shouldn’t be all that surprised because the big launch product
I’m talking about comes from Chris Freville, who, although he
runs with the gurus, has never forgotten that your reputation is
foremost, and quality products and first class customer service
are what that reputation is based on.

When I got my review copy of Chris’ new product, Stealth Profit
Machines, I expected the best – and got it.

The sales page has been written by the same copywriter who seems
to have cornered the market in big launches – and so it is full
of hype and tries to tease you into buying without actually
telling anything concrete about the product itself. I dislike
that style a lot, but I’m told it works.

I also dislike pile ‘em high, sell ‘em cheap supermarkets, but
they work brilliantly too – the biggest in the UK has just posted
profits up over 12% on last year!

So hype selling is probably here to stay whether we like it or
not. All the more reason then for people who write reviews to
fill in the blanks and balance the hyperbole.

The claim on the sales page is that in just 7 clicks of your
mouse you can have money-making websites set up and running
completely on autopilot.

Now I can tell you that that is true.

To make it completely clear though , yes, you click the mouse
button 7 times, but between those clicks there are a few bits and
bobs to fill in on the on-page forms. Its not hard stuff and only
takes a moment.

Here is what Stealth Profit Machines does…

It sets up WordPress Blogs for you – as many as you like on any
domain (although I would personally have one per domain),
installs a theme of your choice and all the plugins you need.

Apart from the bits you have to fill in on the form, I think that
lot takes up three of your clicks. It’s that simple.

Having done that, the software prompts you for a keyword and then
goes off and finds articles to be posted on the blog.
Automatically.

You are always in control and can pre-select which of the
articles are posted, or all of them if you so wish.

You can build a list of as many articles as you like.

Then SPM randomly posts them to your blog according to a pattern
you set once and then forget.

So far, so good. It all works perfectly, but it isn’t all that
different to several other auto blog products out there.

But then things get better.

Within SPM you can set up affiliate links (it doesn’t matter if
they are ClickBank, Amazon , Commission Junction or any other
affiliate program) and ‘attach’ those links to specific keywords
of phrases. So every time one of those keywords appears in an
article it is turned into a text link to the affiliate product.

But, cleverly, when you hover over the link, it is cloaked so
that it looks as if it is simply a link to another page on the
blog.

What you end up with is a blog that grows on its own, filled with
affiliate links that don’t look like affiliate links.

And all in seven clicks (and some form filling).

I love it and have already started putting up blogs on several
old domains I’ve had stored away and never found a use for. Now I
can very quickly dust them off and get them out there working for
me.

I can’t make comment yet on the earning potential that the sales
page talks about as my SPM blogs are still too new to be making
anything, but I can see how the claims could be perfectly
reasonable.

But think about it another way – how about you use links to your
other sites instead of affiliate links – you’d have a very quick
and easy way of developing a ton of backlinks.

Or use links to your own products.

The possibilities of this are enormous.

And yet, the price is laughably low.

One thing about the sales page I must comment on is the 300
copies limit. You know what I think about those false scarcity
claims, and, frankly, expected better from Chris. So I asked him
about it.

The copywriter du jour insists on putting it in his copy,
apparently, but here was an initial limit while the product was
in beta test, to make sure that their support team weren’t
overwhelmed if there happened to be an unforeseen bug or two. It
turned out that the launch went smoothly and no serious problems
were found, so the limit has been lifted and Chris is planning to
take it off the sales page.

To be completely transparent, you can replicate what Stealth
Profit Machines does with a collection of other software and
plugins. But the genius is in having put it all into one program
that is dead easy to use.

And to sell it at a price that you don’t have to think about.

http://urlnex.us/stealth-profit-machines

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I’m going to give you my full, hands-on Market Samurai review, but first let me explain why I’m feeling a little foolish right now. Like the guest who was invited to the best party that has ever been thrown but didn’t go because there was something on TV.

You know that feeling?

It’s like being offered tickets to the most spectacular firework display but going to the cheap one in your local park instead because that’s what you’ve always done.

The reason I’m feeling so egg-on-faceish is because I’ve been deliberately ignoring something that I now know I really, really shouldn’t have ignored.

If you think I’m being a bit over dramatic, let me explain.

Keyword research is vital to my business. Anyone who reads Kickstart knows that over the years I have used, and recommended, a multitude of keyword research tools. Each one offered something a little different to its predecessors and was a little easier to use, or a little better in its functions.

Some, like the excellent Niche Inspector, stopped working eventually and were abandoned by their creators. Some just failed to keep up to date.

My latest favorite was Micro Niche Finder – a sophisticated bit of kit that I’ve been proud and happy to recommend.

For quite a while now, I’ve been aware that a lot of people have been talking about a program called Market Samurai and extolling its virtues sky high.

But I didn’t take a lot of notice. As far as I was concerned, MicroNicheFinder did the job perfectly well and I couldn’t really see what more Market Samurai could offer that would make it a significant step up.

I did download their free trial offer, but for some reason got distracted and didn’t use it in the trial time. So when I did get around to wanting to test it out, my trial period had expired. I was left none the wiser.

Micro Niche Finder did all that I needed, so I forgot about Market Samurai and (a bit uncharacteristically for me) closed my ears and my mind to any of the buzz that kept appearing about it.

I guess I figured that there is only so much a keyword research tool can do and if I was happy with the one I had, why go looking for anything else.

How wrong I was.

I took the plunge this weekend and bought Market Samurai and NOW I can see what all the fuss was about. Hence this review.

[If you are one of those people who have been telling me so all this time, I can quite forgive you thinking 'Told you so!']

Make no mistake – Micro Niche Finder is a fantastic keyword research tool and if you already own it, there is absolutely nothing wrong with it …

… it is just that Market Samurai is better. A whole lot better.

What I hadn’t appreciated, but do now (a lot) is that Market Samurai isn’t just a keyword research tool. To call it that is like calling Google a search engine. Yes it is that, but there is a lot more going on.

Market Samurai is a Swiss Army Knife – a whole array of tools to help save time and effort – and help you make money.

There are eight parts to it right now, with a ninth due to be added very soon.

They are:

1. Rank Tracker. You tell it your domains and it checks where they appear in the search engine listings against any keyword that you are analyzing. This is really useful and digs in to give you even more information: PageRank, backlinks, how many pages each search engine has indexed and so on.

Of course, you are not limited to your own domains. Add your competitors sites and you’ll know exactly what you have to beat.

2. Keyword Research. As a keyword research tool, Market Samurai does everything you’d expect of it and a bit more besides. It is beautifully easy to use and includes all the filtering options you need to uncover the best keywords to target.

3. SEO Competition. Here is a useful module. For any given keyword, the SEO Competition module will analyze the top ten results in Google and give you a table showing eight off-page SEO factors and five on-page ones. It gives you a very clear snapshot of what you are going to have to do to rank a page for that keyword. The chart is color coded to make life even easier for you.

A very nice touch is that you can also enter specific URLs (pages you have already created perhaps) and see how they compare to the Google top ten,

4. Domains. Once you’ve decided on a great keyword, the Domains module will quickly discover if it is available to buy as a domain, or if not, will suggest lots of similar domains that are available. Of course, you could just go to GoDaddy to do your own research, but it is a real time-saver to have this facility built right in to Market Samurai.

5. Monetization. The previous modules are great, but the last four are the deal-clinchers for me – starting with the Monetization module. I have been using this one a lot in the last couple of days.

Click on this tab and, depending on which keyword you are analyzing, Market Samurai will let you search Amazon, Commission Junction, ClickBank or PayDotCom to find appropriate affiliate products. You then just have to pick the one or ones you like the look of best.

As if that wasn’t powerful, timesaving stuff all on its own, it is actually just half the story. Once you’ve picked a product, Market Samurai actually helps you create a blog post, a banner ad or a WordPress sidebar ad.

I have never seen anything like this in another program and I’m very impressed by it.

6. Find Content. As the name implies, this module goes out to the Internet and finds all kinds of content that matches your selected keyword. It selects articles, blog posts, pictures, videos, news feeds and more. And having found the content, Market Samurai then lets you analyze it so you can select only the best.

At the risk of sounding like a cracked record, this is really useful and time saving.

7. Publish Content. They really have included everything. This module works seamlessly with the previous Find Content one. Any content that is found can then be passed to an editor screen in the Publish Content module. You then either make changes if you wish, or use the content as is (with content from articles directories you shouldn’t change anything) before clicking one button for Market Samurai to publish directly to your WordPress blog.

I’m running out of superlatives!

8. Promotion. This module is all about getting backlinks from sites that are already considered authorities for your selected keyword.

There are a variety of choices: Web 2.0 sites, Blogs, or Forums, with several option in each category.

Just select the sources you are interested in and in the blink of an eye you’ll be presented with a list of places you can get quality backlinks.

I have Market Samurai running beside me right now and with one click of the ‘Analyze’ button have just found a ton of high PR sites that I can place backlinks on. Really useful stuff.

This overview has only scratched the surface of the major features of Market Samurai. Within each module there are other buttons and options that make them all even more powerful than I can describe here.

I wish I’d listened to the people who have been singing its praises over the last year or so, but better late than never!

Don’t end up with egg on your face like me.

Get It Today For Free!

Now – I’ve saved the very best bit to last: you can try out Market Samurai completely free of charge.

There is a free trial available – of the complete program, not a cut-down version – at Market Samurai Free Trial

Just make sure you use it!

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It’s the one that was giving away free stuff last week (still is
if you hurry – http://urlnex.us/cbpredators ).

While I was very happy to point you at a bunch of useful
freebies, I was a bit concerned that CBPredators wouldn’t live up
to its promise and I’d have to recommend against buying it. After
all, freebies or not, I don’t want to start promoting stuff just
for the sake of it.

So it came as a relief to get inside and find that a lot of
thought has gone into it and – from my admittedly early
impressions – it seems to be a winner.

So what IS CBPredator?

It is a membership site (with a very low monthly fee – I’m not
allowed to say how much it is yet, but you will be very
pleasantly surprised) that lets you create fully-featured review
sites for some of the top selling ClickBank products.

The makers say that you can create a money-making website with
CBPredator in just 18 clicks of the mouse. I didn’t count, but
I’d say that is an accurate statement as the whole process is
dead easy and you are guided through the entire thing.

At the moment they have about 30 product reviews to choose from,
with more being added by professional writers all the time.

In case you are concerned that they will get so many members all
making sites based on the same reviews, let me put your mind at
rest. There are two safeguards to ensure that YOUR review will be
unique:

1. Each review will only be available to a limited number of
members. Once it has reached its quota it will be withdrawn.

2. In order to publish your site you have to make changes to the
review – spin the text to make it read differently. The process
to do this is very easy, and because it is written by you it will
always be human readable, and not auto-spun gobbledygook.

They don’t leave you high and dry on traffic either.

Building a website for you is one thing, but getting traffic to
it quite another. The guys behind CBPredator are aware that
traffic is a problem for many people and so a lot of effort will
be devoted to teaching you all about what works.

And naturally, the sites are built with the latest cutting-edge
ideas on SEO, so they should start getting natural search traffic
pretty quickly on their own.

The whole system has been built by Mike Merz, Chris Fox and
Jerome Chapman to automate their already established methods of
building successful, income-generating review sites. They know
their system works really well and have devoted their energies to
capturing that successful formula without compromising its
effectiveness.

In fact, their beta testing period has apparently netted the team
over $100,000 in profits!

I’ve already made my first CBPredators site, and can attest to
the fact that there was nothing complicated about the process
whatsoever. You don’t need to know anything about building
websites at all – the software does it all for you.

In fact, I’m very happy for you to take a look at my first
CBPredators site – a review of a ClickBank ebook called Truth
About Abs: The Facts About Abs – it took about half an hour
from start to finish – and that includes me going to GoDaddy to
buy the domain!

It is just a basic WordPress blog, but note that although I’ve
left it as it comes ‘out of the box’, the blog is totally
customizable – you can change all kinds of look & feel things if
you want to.

The basic setup gives you the blog and all the plugins you’ll
need, automatically created for you at the click of the ‘Publish
button’ and the main review page. It also includes those boring,
but important nuts and bolts pages that are linked to at the
bottom of the page: a privacy policy, terms of use, disclaimer,
contact us and about.

Once your blog is set up for you, it is dead easy to add pages
too. In fact, I’ve added 20 articles to be drip-fed into the blog
over the next week. I got them all from an article directory and
it cost me nothing – apart from about half an hour to post them
all.

This really is a very simple system to use.

The CBPredators sales page goes live at 3pm Eastern, tomorrow –
Tuesday April 20th – but I’m thinking that with the limits on the
number of people who can use each review, they may fill up all
their available places rather quickly.

For that reason, if you haven’t get yourself on their
announcement list already (by registering for the freebies they
are currently giving away) then do so now because it’ll be a case
of first come, first served.

And when launch time comes around tomorrow, get in quick at 3pm
EST (8pm UK time) in case there is a server meltdown!

I’m lucky to have review access right now, but I can tell you
straight that if that is revoked after the launch, I’ll be one of
the first in line to pay to join.

http://urlnex.us/cbpredators

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About a year ago I recommended another product that was all about how to build WordPress Blogs – WordPress DeMystified.

Well now I have news of a brand new product from the same guy who created WordPress DeMystified, Jason Johns, that shows you, in great detail, how to build profitable niche blogs.

Niche Blog Advantage is so hot off the press that I don’t think that Jason has even mentioned it to his own list yet, but for the last few days I’ve been very happily watching the videos and learning a ton of good stuff along the way.

Jason is a really good teacher. His style is to let you look over his shoulder while he actually does the business – and commentates on exactly what he is doing and why for every step of the way.

The result is that there are no stones left unturned and no possibility of confusion.

It also helps that he has a great sense of humor and happens to sound a lot like Ricky Jervais. Education and entertainment all rolled into one – it is a winning combination!

Jason has broken his new course down into four main sections:

* How to pick a niche (11 videos);

* How to master keyword research (12 videos);

* How to build effective and profitable niche-based WordPress blogs quickly and easily (5 videos);

* Everything you could ever hope to want to know about traffic generation (15 videos).

There is a lot of stuff covered in Niche Blog Advantage that is new to me, and if he has left anything out, I have no idea what it could be! But just in case, Jason has added three sets of bonus videos on Twitter, on Automated blogging and on the hot topic of the day, how to make money from CPA offers. There are over 30 videos just in the bonuses!

You’d think that such an exhaustively complete course (and believe me, it IS exactly that) would be priced at the very top of the market. I know if I’d put in the work and effort that Jason has done I wouldn’t sell it for less than $147, and probably even more than that. And I believe it would be worth every penny.

But Jason has decided to keep the cost low. Very low. Stupidly low (and I’ve been on Skype with him this morning telling him just that).

Frankly I hope that he wakes up and sets a more realistic price for Niche Blog Advantage soon, but until that happens, you can get hold of the best value-for-money product I think I’ve ever recommended.

But don’t be deceived by the silly price. The information Jason teaches is worth a bundle – and the clear way he teaches it is priceless.

http://urlnex.us/nicheblogadvantage

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The Blogging to the Bank ebook was so popular because it
explained just how straightforward it is to make money from your
blogs.

WordPress blogs are free to produce and only take moments to
install (the process is actually done for you).

Google loves blogs and getting them to rank and receive free
traffic is quite simple.

All those things mean that if you are not yet blogging you should
do so soon, and if you are, you should do it some more.

And now there is another, even more compelling reason to take
notice of the blogging world.

For the last five years, Tony Newton has been making a handsome
full-time income from making simple WordPress blogs and then
selling them. That’s right – the correct term is site flipping
and Tony has it down to a fine art.

Now my friend Tony Shepherd has sat Tony Newton down and got him
to share exactly what he does, how he does it and what he expects
to make from it. They have called their joint product
‘BlogFlipz’.

Your eyes will be opened.

The result is a PDF document (for those who like to read) and 10
videos (for those who like to view) that take you from start to
finish. You’ll learn how he (and you, after you’ve absorbed all
the step-by-step info) can throw up a simple blog and sell it for
up to $100 in a single day – or how he (and you?) easily builds
high traffic blogs over a few weeks that can sell for thousands
of dollars.

The course describes how to build three different types of blogs
and how you can make money from selling each of them.

http://urlnex.us/blogflipz

There is a big market for blogs – but the catch is that they have
to be built, managed and presented in the right way to attract
the big dollars. BlogFlipz gives you all the information you need
to do it the right way.

As Tony Shepherd says, “And remember, this is a FULL start to
finish course – no matter what level of skill you’re at, it means
that YOU can grab this course and start working towards your own
REAL work at home business.”

And as Tony Newton says at the end of the video course: “Now you
have everything you need to make your own WordPress sites, and
sell them.”

BlogFlipz is easy to follow (none of the videos are over long)
and very modestly priced – and there is a full money-back
guarantee if you are not happy with it, so there is no downside.

The upside is that you could be flipping blogs by this time
tomorrow and building your way to a full-time income from a
highly in-demand business.

Don’t miss this one – flipping sites is big business and
BlogFlipz gives you the real low-down in easily digestible form.

http://urlnex.us/blogflipz

Have fun and make great profits!

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But very rarely do I read an ebook that makes me wish it was available as a real-life, printed and bound old-fashioned BOOK (without the e).

Well I’m in the middle of reading one such book right now. And I can tell you that it is really, really good stuff.

It is called The Money Gym and was originally written in 2005 by Nicola Cairncross.

I’ve known Nicola for a few years now. Our paths cross at various seminars, she is a regular attendee at London Lunches and I even spoke at one of her incredibly popular Money Gym seminars last year.

She is one of those real people you hear about – not some highfaluting guru type, but a down-to-earth single mother who has gone from the rat-race to become one of the top wealth and success coaches around.

And she is a thoroughly nice lady too.

The people she helps worship the ground she walks on – I know because I know quite a few of them and they have nothing but praise for Nicola and her methods.

Well a few days ago, Nicola sent me a review copy of her latest book – a completely revised, 2010 edition of The Money Gym.

My goodness. I can’t put it down. And with 232 pages packed with real information, eye-opening advice and so many ideas, strategies and suggestions to explode your own personal wealth that I know for a fact that you won’t either.

That’s the good news.

The better news is that it is priced so that absolutely everyone can afford it.

Kickstart is about making money – among a lot of other things. It is my dream that every Kickstart reader can learn how easy it is to make money online and to use that knowledge to change his or her life. Or should I have said YOUR life?

Nicola’s book goes way beyond that dream.

The Money Gym isn’t a book about Internet marketing (although it has an entire chapter devoted to it). It is a book about money – how you get it, how you keep it, how you leverage it, what it means to you and how you can master it to become wealthy.

If it was a hardback book on the shelf of a bookstore it would not only cost a great deal more than Nicola is asking for it, but it would also become a runaway bestseller.

And it would have pride of place on my ‘essential keepers’ shelf right beside my desk.

[You can stop blushing now Nicola and buy me a drink at the next London Lunch! ]

You can read more about it on the sales page at http://urlnex.us/moneygym but I wouldn’t bother – just scroll down to the buy button and get your copy without delay.

And if you hurry, Nicola is offering an extra special bonus to a lucky few buyers.

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http://urlnex.us/bttb2010

I wasn’t a big fan of Blogging to the Bank 2 as it went off into
areas of Internet marketing and promotion that I’m not too
comfortable with – a bit black hat – but thankfully, this new
version is whiter than white! and better than its previous
incarnations by far.

Rob Benwell is still a young man, but he has a real talent for
making things clear and simple.

In Blogging to the Bank 2010 he tells how makes over $100k per
month, how his blogging system is easy and fast to set up, how
you need no experience to get started, and how he has personally
used his own strategies to drive over 2 million people to one of
his sites. Very powerful stuff and very easy to follow and
emulate.

I had planned to write more about Blogging to the Bank 2010 when
I first mentioned it, but at the time I was writing a lot about
Twitter and Twittollower, so somehow I didn’t get back to it. But
I’ve just heard that in its first week or two on sale, Blogging
to the Bank 2010 has already sold over 2,100 copies and that Rob
is considering taking it off sale when it reaches 2,500.

That means, at this rate, that there may only be a few days for
you to get this very useful, and extremely low-cost ebook.

http://urlnex.us/bttb2010

There is no question that blogging is a very effective way to
make real money online. Blogging to the Bank 2010 makes it easy
for you to get your share – even if you don’t have any experience
of blogging yet.

And, of course, it is sold through ClickBank so you can buy with
100% confidence.

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I was looking back over some old Kickstarts and saw that I first
recommended a membership site called Unique Article Wizard back
in July 2007. I had just joined it and was waxing lyrical about
the success I’d had.

With Unique Article Wizard you write an article and then rewrite
each paragraph a couple of times. Then you upload it to the
service and wait for the magic to happen.

The magic is that Unique Article Wizard ‘spins’ your article and
submits a unique version of it to a huge number of article
directories and blogs. Automatically.

At the moment, they have over 11,000 places to submit articles to
on their database.

The result is that you get a huge number of backlinks.

As we all know, backlinks are the bedrock of success online. The
search engines, and Google in particular, take backlinks to be
‘votes’ for you web pages. The more votes you get, the higher
they will rank you.

It isn’t quite as simple as that, but backlinks are so important,
it may as well be.

And Unique Article Wizard gets you backlinks by the hundred.

To be frank, I join a lot of membership sites, and like most of
us, often cancel after a few months because something better has
come along, or because the promise I saw in the first place
hasn’t been lived up to. It happens.

But I’ve been a member of Unique Article Wizard now for two and a
half years – and have no intention whatsoever of letting it go!

The service has just got stronger of the years.

Article marketing is the easiest way to make money online and
Unique Article Wizard puts article marketing on steroids.

http://urlnex.us/uaw

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Back then, blogging was fairly new, and Rob pretty much cleaned
up. His book, over three editions, has sold well over 30,000
copies.

Now, as you know, on the Internet, things change very quickly.
What works today, doesn’t always work tomorrow. New things come
(and go) and making money consistently demands that you keep up
with the latest ideas.

That’s why Rob released a new edition of ‘Blogging to the Bank‘
each year. He is constantly testing and tweaking his own blogging
business and once a year updates the book with the latest things
that are working for him.

Some of those editions I’ve liked a lot, and some have left me
cooler. But overall, and having met Rob on a couple of occasions,
I know that he is honestly striving to provide good quality
information that works.

The latest version of Blogging to the Bank, the 2010 edition,
launched a couple of weeks ago and I have just got hold of a copy
to review.

For my money, it is the best so far!

It covers all the basics, so if you are new to blogging, you will
be able to get up and running very quickly. And, importantly, it
leads you through to the latest cutting-edge tactics that Rob is
using to make real, serious money from blogs right now, in 2010.

By sheer coincidence, there is even a section on Twitter – and
you can access a complete Twitter course, called Twitter
Domination, that Rob has produced as a free bonus from inside the
book.

Believe me – it is WAY better than any of the products I
reviewed. And you get it free!

http://urlnex.us/bttb2010

Blogging is very easy – Rob’s ‘Blogging to the Bank 2010′ helps
you make it super profitable as well!

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This is part 2 of the Twittollower review I started yesterday.

It is now about 60 hours since I signed up and as at this moment
I have 327 followers already.

Apart from the couple of minutes spent opening my Twittollower
account, I haven’t had to do anything – Twittollower just works
in the background sucking new followers to your account like a
magnet.

I have made a few tweets, of course. Although they have been
mostly generated by a plugin on my WordPress blog that tweets an
announcement that I’ve made a new post.

The results so far are that I can now directly attribute a few
sales to the new twitter traffic (totaling $74.95 in commissions)
and Kickstart now has seven new subscribers.

http://urlnex.us/twittollower

Some questions have been raised by Kickstart subscribers and I’ve
tried get answers…

* “Are the followers you get genuine people or just
auto-posting bots?”

Well, I’m quite sure that there are some rubbish followers
in there. That’s the nature of Twitter, after all. But the
fact that I’m getting excellent traffic to my blog in
general, and specifically to certain pages I’ve tweeted
about, suggests that a lot of the followers are real people
who are both targeted and responsive.

And let’s face it – auto-posting bots don’t buy stuff!

* “Does Twittollower break Twitter’s rules and will you risk
getting your account banned?”

Apparently, when Twittollower first launched, a handful of
people did get their accounts banned for growing too fast.
It seems that Twitter don’t like your follower list to grow
faster than a certain number per day – whether you have
added them manually or by a service such as Twittollower.

To combat this potential problem (it only affected a very
few people) Twittollower set a limit on how many followers
it would add to your account each day. Since then, there
have been no more problems.

I don’t know what that limit is, but as I’ve been getting an
average of 130 per day, I’m not complaining!

* “What’s happened about the price increase after 200 sales?
Surely they have gone past that point now?”

Yes they have. Originally they intended to increase the
price after 200 sales, but a few JV partners started
promoting the service before the official launch date, and
so they had passed the 200 mark before Twittollower was even
available to the general public.

To make things fairer all round – and especially to
customers of affiliates like me who wanted to test the
service before promoting it – they have extended the launch
price until Friday 5th February.

After that, joining Twittollower will cost more.

* “Isn’t Twittollower quite expensive for something you could
do yourself for free?”

There are two answers to this.

The first is that while you can add followers for free,
adding over 130 per day would be both mind-numbingly boring
and time-consuming.

I certainly wouldn’t consider it a good use of my time and
I’m sure most effective marketers would feel the same.

Free has its place, but not if getting free costs you in
other ways.

The second answer is that you have to remember that
Twittollower guarantee to get you 2000+ new followers each
month.

If you think of each follower as a sales lead, that means
each lead has about a 3 cents acquisition cost. And that is
outrageously cheap!

Of course, once you have them, you have them forever, so you
pay to get them once, but can profit from them over and over
again.

My ’1st 24 Hours’ video is still up at

http://imkickstart.com/twittollower-review

And the Twittollower sales page, with Tahir’s very good video
(which you really must watch right to the end) is at

http://urlnex.us/twittollower

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I’m not much of a Twitter fan – if you’ve read Kickstart for
long, you’ll know that I blow hot and cold about it – but as most
of the people who have been promoting Twittollower are my
friends, and the guys behind the service are too, I figured I
should take a closer look.

The real impetus for me to delve a little deeper came at the
London Lunch on Friday, when I met one of the respected marketers
who have been promoting Twittollower and asked his honest
opinion.

He had absolutely nothing to gain from feeding me a line, and as
I’d asked for his views off the record, could have easily told me
it was a load of rubbish! But he didn’t. He actually enthused
about it in a very positive way.

He told me that he had been getting phenomenal results himself.

Spurred on by that, I decided to sign up for the service and test
it out for myself.

So on Saturday afternoon I opened a brand new Twitter account and
signed myself up to Twittollower to see if it is really as good
as they (and my friend) say.

And I video’d the process so you can watch over my shoulder.

Twittollower is extremely simple. It gets you targeted followers.

Nothing more, nothing less. Setting up your account takes seconds
and once done, Twittollower just works away in the background
getting mew followers into your account. You don’t do a thing
(except make the occasional Tweet!)

I set up a fresh Twitter account called imkick that had no
followers and followed nobody. It was a completely blank canvas.

I then added a WordPress plugin to my blog at
http://imkickstart.com that would automatically tweet and new
blog posts I make. This part was optional, but I like to make
life as simple as possible for myself!

Over the next 24 hours I made a few blog posts, and sure enough,
tweets were made to the new account.

That’s all I did.

To say that I am impressed with the results after 24 hours would
be an understatement. Twittollower has far exceeded my
expectations.

And right now – 40 hours on – I’m completely blown away.

My brand new imkick Twitter account already has half as many
followers as my regular account which has been building up for
over 18 months! I’m sure it will have more than my old account in
another day!

And the followers are clicking on my links.

Traffic to my moribund blog has exploded. In just the first 24
hours, uniques went from an expected average of 12 to an actual
count of 54.

Even better, those visitors are looking around my blog like never
before. On average, I expect people to view 4 pages while they
are there – in the last 24 hours they have been viewing 11.3.

And they have been signing up to Kickstart too. Already I have at
least 6 new subscribers who can be directly traced to
Twittollower.

I’m a very happy bunny!

Take a look at my short video that gives you the results of my
test at http://imkickstart.com/twittollower-review

[For some reason, the video sometimes stops itself at 3 and a
half minutes. If you click the play button again, it resumes
playing normally. I'll fix that later if I can.]

And when you done that, head on over to the Twittollower website
at http://urlnex.us/twittollower

There is a brilliant video there to watch – it is quite long at
about 30 minutes, but well worth watching right to the end.

I learned quite a lot from just watching the video!

At last I can really see the point of Twitter. It is an
incredibly powerful tool – but only if you have a big list of
followers who are highly targeted and interested in whatever your
niche subject is about. But getting highly targeted followers in
sufficient numbers to really make a marketing difference is the
problem.

Twittollower solves the problem. I’m really happy I joined them.

And more importantly, very happy to recommend it to you.

http://urlnex.us/twittollower

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Isn’t it funny how just observing something so often changes it!

Not long after I sent out Kickstart I was told about a guy in New
Zealand called Geoff Shaw, who is selling a product called
BumBlogging. The words used by the friend who recommended it to
me were “You should take a look at this – it’s REALLY good.”

I did. And it is.

BumBlogging is a complete system that has been perfected by Geoff
over the last few years. It is a very clear blueprint of how he
actually makes a considerable income himself and as such it
doesn’t include a lot of the theoretical BS that you so often
find in such products. This is step-by-step reality.

The entire course is delivered as a membership site, but one with
a big difference – there are no on-going charges. You pay just a
small one-off fee to join and then nothing more.

The reason Geoff has made it web based is so that he can
continually update the information as either the Internet
changes, or he finds better ways of doing things.

Consequently, this isn’t tired and out of date, it is always
current and totally workable.

Even better, apart from a domain and hosting, there is nothing
more to buy. Geoff’s methods can all be achieved using free
products and services.

And overdelivery! Wow! This guy piles it on!

Since getting BumBlogging I’ve been reading it on my iPhone,
reading it on my monitor, reading it in bed … Delia wasn’t too
impressed with that … and absorbing as much of it as I can. Not
that it is complicated – it isn’t – but to make it work as well
as it can you have to understand the process and follow it
exactly.

And even though I’m crazy busy with offline commitments right
now, I have EVERY intention of putting BumBlogging into practice
as soon as possible. To not do so would be to leave a huge amount
of money untapped.

Two or three times a year I get really excited by a new product –
usually by the ones that give you all the information you need to
succeed. That’s why I love BumBlogging and why I’m so anxious to
get started with it.

And there is another reason to get excited too.

If you go to the main website at www.bumblogging.com you’ll see
two things: one is that the price is $97 and two is that it is
currently closed to new members.

Well as soon as I saw just how good this thing is I emailed Geoff
Shaw and asked if I could offer BumBlogging to you as a Kickstart
reader.

He not only said yes, but he also slashed a massive $60 off the
price.

http://urlnex.us/bumblogging

You’ll get EVERYTHING that full-price members get, but at a tiny
fraction of the original price.

It doesn’t matter if you are a complete and utter newbie or
already an experienced marketer, BumBlogging will be easy for you
to understand and put into action, and full of concepts that will
make you wonder why you’ve been over-complicating Internet
marketing for so long!

Do yourself a favor and get this one.

http://urlnex.us/bumblogging

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It doesn’t take much to fix a PC so that it will run faster and more efficiently, but you do have to go about things in the right order – and with the appropriate regard to the safety of your data.

To that end, I’ve written this article to give you ten steps to a more efficient PC – and the security of mind to know that your data and programs are safe and sound no matter what might happen to your hard disk!

Each step is an important stage in improving your computer’s speed, so don’t miss any out.

Many of the things I suggest you do are free, or have free alternatives. One or two are items you need to pay for, but think of those as an investment – in making life easier and in giving you peace of mind.

The Kickstart PC Speed Up Action Plan

1. Perform a full scan of your computer for viruses and trojans.

Options for this include:

* Norton AntiVirus

Norton works very well and keeps your computer as clean as possible. The latest version doesn’t appear to slow the computer down significantly. I’ve had my ups and downs with Norton over the years, but have now got the latest version happily installed on three of my four computers – and will add the fourth when its current system expires. Norton offers essential protection from viruses, hackers and privacy threats. (Click here for the UK site)

* AVG
The free version is pretty good. You don’t get the bells and whistles that the paid-for programs offer in the way of control panels and option, but the free AVG is a pretty good AV solution if you are on a budget. Get AVG here

2. Fix any lingering problems you may come across.

Anti virus programs are very good at detecting and removing the bad stuff, but every once in a while they will come up against a virus or trojan that they can’t remove. Hopefully this won’t happen to you, but if it does, don’t panic! Head on over to Google and type “[virus name] removal” – replacing the [virus name] bit with whatever name your AV program has identified. You will almost always find specific instructions for getting rid of these persistent menaces.

3. Perform a full scan of your system for adware, malware and other undesired ‘ware’ programs.

There are lots of good programs that will make this a really easy process. My two favorites are currently:

* Windows Defender:
This free download from Microsoft is pretty good. It won’t remove everything, but will keep your PC clear of the most obvious threats. Click here to download a copy.

* Spyware Doctor.
This is by far my program of choice – I’ve used it for about three years now and wouldn’t dream of failing to renew my subscription. It is a paid-for program, but it is so much better than the free alternatives that it is in a different class.

Spyware Doctor seems to be able to find junk on your computer that nothing else gets close to – and offers real time protection that is superb.

4. Clean out any obvious junk that is on your computer.

The simplest way to do that is by using the tools built in to Windows (sorry Mac users, I have no idea how it all works for you.) On a Vista machine, go to the Start button then All Programs -> Accessories -> System tools. Select Disk Cleanup and wait until it has performed its scan. You will be offered a checklist of types of file to remove – read the labels carefully and get rid of the stuff you don’t need.

5. Remove unwanted programs.

If your computer is anything like mine, you constantly add new stuff, but don’t ever think to remove the junk that you no longer want.

Go to Start button -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System tools again, but this time click on the More Options tab, and then the button in the ‘Programs and Features’ box. This brings up a list of all the programs currently installed on your PC. Go through the list and remove any that you know for sure you won’t be needing again.

If in doubt, keep it. You don’t want to go removing stuff you don’t know what it is – it just might be important!

6. Set a new System Retore Point.

You do this (in Vista) by going to Start button -> All Programs -> Accessories -> System tools and then selecting ‘System Restore’. A box will pop up and the last line in that box will read ‘To create a restore point, ‘ followed by a link to ‘open System Protection’.

Click that link and another box will pop up (Microsoft haven’t made setting a restore point very easy in Vista – in XP is was more straightforward.)

At the bottom of the new box is a button marked ‘Create’. Click it.

What this does is saves a lot of system settings, so if anything messes up on your computer you can, in theory, wind it back to this point.

7. Back up your computer.

There are lots of ways to back up a computer – it is something we all should do on a regular basis, but which often gets forgotten. Until it is too late.

The best way of all is to use software that byte by byte copies your entire hard disk on to another one. In effect you create a clone of your computer, so if the current disk gets mangled, the backup one can just be swapped in – or copied back.

This ensures that you can never lose more than 24 hours data.

* DriveClonePro6
This automatic backup software is reasonably priced and very good at what it is designed to do. Currently it is on sale at $15 off! Take a free trial here and see for yourself how easy it is to secure your data while you sleep easily.

Stupidly, I haven’t yet installed anything so sophisticated on my workaday PC, but am now investigating a different solution!

* Online backup

This is fast becoming a very serious and convenient solution. For a very low monthly cost (under $5) you can back up 150Gb of data every night while you sleep. There is even a free trial option – which may in itself be enough if you don’t have too much data to keep safe.

I’ve just signed up for this myself and have been very impressed with what I’ve seen so far.

8. Repair and Optimize your PC.

My Mac using friends sneer at Windows, and in one respect at least, they are quite right to do so – as an operating system it is rather prone to getting itself into a muddle. At the heart of Windows (of any flavor) there is a big database called the Registry. This keeps a record of the wherabouts of every file and program on your computer in the most astonishingly complex ways.

In theory, every program you install, and every action you take while using your PC  is supposed to ‘register’ itself with the registry and delete its entries there when finished. Unfortunatley, this rarely happens as it should and so the Registry gets quickly filled up with junk – or worse, conflicting entries.

This can slow down your computer, make it work less efficiently and at worst, cause all kinds of crashes and errors.

To combat this, I recently reviewed a piece of software in Kickstart called Perfect Optimizer which cleans, repairs and optimizes the Registry for you – on up to three different computers.

My experience of using the program was very good – some long standing troubles were fixed right away, and the two machines I’ve so far used it on are running much faster and smoother.

As it is possible for anything that works on the Registry to mess up, I would strongly recommend that you perform points 1-7 as listed above before you run Perfect Optimizer, or anything similar. That way, if the worst happens, you should be able to retrieve your data. Dozens of Kickstart readers bought Perfect Optimizer and only one has reported any problems, so I judge it to be pretty secure – but better safe than sorry.

There is a free download trial that will scan your system and tell you just how messy your Registry is!

9. So what next?

By now you have cleaned out the obvious junk, rid yourself of viruses and spyware, thrown away unwanted programs, polished up your registry and backed everything up nice and safely.

The final step is to make sure that all the data held on your hard disk is stored in the best way for your computer to access it.

Computer files are generally sliced up into tiny chunks and stored anywhere on your disk where there is room. This can slow things down a bit as the computer has to search around to piece things back together to run them.

In your system tools folder (yes, that od favorite again) there is a program called Disk Defragmenter. Run that now and it will find all the fragments of files and stitch them together again. It will also identify any programs or files that are run often and will place them on the disk where they can be accessed the fastest. It will then squash everything down into the smallest possible space.

10. Relax … your work is over!

You’ve now done just about everything possible to make your computer run smoothly and efficiently. You’ve also secured your data so that if the worst happens, you are covered.

You might have to go through the process again in 3 to six months time, but meanwhile, you’ll be getting the best out of your machine that you can.

[Please note that while all the processes mentioned in this article are tried and tested, every computer, and computer user, is different and can react in unforeseen ways. I can take no responsibility for any unexpected or unwanted results that arise from following the steps outlined.]

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Every now and again I come across something that I think may be
of real interest and value to you.

When I do, I tend to sit on it for a while, thinking it through
and testing it out. Only then, when I’m satisfied, do I commit to
recommending it to you. There are exceptions – sometimes
something is just so obviously good that I don’t need to ponder
it. And yes, sometimes (rarely, I hope) something doesn’t live up
to its initial promise.

But in the main, the Kickstart way seems to work.

There is something I’ve been sitting on for a few days now that
the time has come to announce to you.

That in itself speaks volumes I suppose, because unless it had
already passed my quality score you wouldn’t be getting this
email!

The ‘thing’ in question is a new membership site called ‘More
Money 365′ that has made me gawp in amazement. (Or should that be
gasp, or gape?)

As you may know, I’ve been pondering starting my own membership
site for some time, but seeing just how much is in this one, and
how professionally run it is, I really don’t think I could
compete. Certainly I couldn’t compete on the price.

You know I’m an affiliate, and therefore you must wonder if I’d
say anything to get the sale (many would, let’s face it) but I
hope that my track record speaks for itself. I’ve passed up the
chance to promote some of the biggest things – products that
could easily have made me hundreds of dollars per sale – because
I wasn’t 100% happy with them or the way they were doing
business.

And I’ve fallen out with quite a few big name marketers as a
result! (I’ve even had a lawyer letter from one of them
complaining that I was too harsh on her client’s product!)

But back to ‘More Money 365′…

What you get is a very professionally put together membership
site that has four main sections:

1. The members’ area.

This is the entry page, which links you to the other areas of the
site, but also gives you access to some great new stuff that has
recently been added (new things are added to ‘More Money 365′
every few days, so not only does your membership continually
increase in value, but there is always something new to explore).

At the moment the featured product is a set of templates for
Amazon affiliate sites. These templates, while not specifically
designed for IPK users, could easily be adapted and would shorten
the Info Product Killer build process substantially.

In my opinion, my membership fee has been more than covered for
several months with these templates alone!

And we haven’t moved beyond the first page yet!

2. Downloads.

The second area is called downloads, but is actually a growing
area of how-to information that you’ll be sure to find useful
whatever your current experience level in Internet marketing.

This is stuff to teach you everything from the basics to some
very advanced techniques.

What I particularly like about this section is that new tutorials
and how-tos are added every three days, so you avoid information
overload when you first join, and have good reason to keep
checking back for the latest additions.

3. PLR

This section is, in my opinion, misnamed because it includes
products that offer resell rights, master resell rights and
giveaway rights as well as the private label material.

But whatever it is called, it is a treasure trove.

There is a huge amount of products there right now – all stuff
that you can immediately offer for sale on your own sites – and
more is being added daily.

If you follow business plans like the very popular one Michael
Green teaches in The Money Tree Challenge, you will know the
value of a ready source of good quality, salable products.

This section of ‘More Money 365′ is like a field of diamonds. You
don’t even have to dig to find dozens of things you can make
money from. Just pick ‘em up and use them.

If you can’t make at least ten times your investment back from
this section alone, you are not really trying.

4. Articles

Finally, there is a large, and growing, section of top quality
articles split into a wide range of Internet marketing related
categories. These are both interesting and useful and serve as a
great place to go when you have a specific question you need an
answer on.

I wondered (it isn’t made clear on the site) if the articles can
be reused on our own websites or in blogs. They are very high
quality, and using them would be a great benefit. So I fired off
a quick email to support and got a response in double-quick time
telling me that provided MoreMoney365.com is credited, members
can reuse the articles. Excellent!

Also excellent was the speed of the response. It is always good
to know that a membership site offers great support.

In summary, I am generally quite skeptical about membership sites
and join very few. They often start out well but quickly
deteriorate. This one seems to be different.

For one thing it is low cost. The monthly fee is very affordable,
and the amount of material available inside makes it incredible
value for money.

For another, I very much like the 3-day drip-feed idea. That
makes you want to regularly check back with the site to get the
latest products and information. One of the big problems I have
with membership sites is that they only update once a month (some
not even that often) and that means you are very likely to forget
you are a member. More Money 365 forces you to take action and
from the perspective of you actually making money, that’s a great
way to go!

There is something else I like about the site too – something
very close to my heart and my wallet. It is something that you
will love too, but you’ll find out about that when you’ve joined.

There is currently a two-week free trial – that shows how
confident Dan Vaughan (the man behind the site) is in the quality
of what he offers – so I heartily recommend you to get in on this
one while you can.

http://urlnex.us/MoreMoney365

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Info Product Killer

For the last few days I’ve been completely distracted from my normal Internet marketing routine. Something happened that has made me set almost everything else aside to concentrate on something new.

The real reason for my current state of distraction is a new Internet marketing product I’ve been reviewing called Info Product Killer. It has got me more fired up than almost anything I can remember for a very long time.

As you probably know, I review a lot of products and recommend a few of them in Kickstart. Some I put into action and generally do well as a result. But on Wednesday morning I got hold of this new product called Info Product Killer – a series of pdf files and videos that teaches the exact process the creator used to make over $100,000 last Christmas, and a lot more than that so far in 2008.

What is this thing that has got me so excited?

What’s nice is that it is Internet marketing, but not to the usual Internet marketing crowd. It is about how to sell real products to real people through real vendors. and make a very healthy profit in the process.

The system that Craig, the originator of the Info Product Killer concept, has developed is a very streamlined and efficient mini site idea. Mini sites are nothing new. Phil Wiley wrote about them seven years ago and several people have brought out new versions of the concept over the years.

What Craig has done is to boil the whole thing down into a very effective system that capitalizes on proven on-page SEO techniques.

The number of people buying stuff online is growing all the time – in fact, the current credit crunch may even accelerate the growth as more people look online for bargains.

Craig’s Info Product Killer shows how to build sites that the search engines love to send free traffic to – traffic that is really targeted, and highly likely to convert into sales. And every times a sale results, you get money in the bank.

I don’t say this lightly, but I am really excited about the idea.

So much so that I’ve already bought a bunch of domains (.info ones that only cost a dollar each) and have built my first Info Product Killer website.

Would you like to see it? It isn’t completely finished, but as near as makes no difference. You can take a look at Baby Born With Magic Potty

Don’t laugh at the subject matter – that is one of this years hottest toys!

The site looks pretty good I think and it was based almost entirely on the template that is supplied.

You will need a bit of HTML knowledge to make a fast start with the IPK system, but quite honestly, even if you don’t have that yet, you’ll soon pick it up.

There is nothing that a newbie couldn’t tackle – there are a huge number of videos in the members area of IPK to help beginners get going quickly, and Craig is awesome at customer service (that’s a word I don’t use very often).

The basic principle of Info Product Killer

I’m not giving a away a secret to tell you that the idea behind Info Product Killer is to tap into the millions of people who are searching online to buy specific products – from my Baby Born With Magic Potty site you can see that I’m concentrating on toys this Christmas, but there are any number of other categories that could just as easily be used – gadgets, book, video games are just a few possibilities.

You build a series of websites, according to the precise details that Info Product Killer provides, to attract a share of those hungry and eager searchers. IPK’s secret is the way you are taught to use on-page SEO to make your sites very attractive to the search engines so they naturally send you plenty of free traffic.

That free traffic is then monetized by sending them on to big merchant sites, like Amazon, who pay you a commission on each sale.

Info Product Killer works all year round – at Christmas the earning potential is concentrated into a smaller timeframe, but people are eager to buy bargains at any time of year – and your IPK sites make those bargains easy to find for them.

A fast process

My first site took me about six hours to build. Now I’ve got the idea, the next one I do will take a lot less. I reckon that I should be able to put whole sites together in under two hours each.

I just got off the phone from Craig, and he tells me that he can create entire sites and have them up and earning in under an hour now – and I quite believe him.

The secret to success with this strategy is to keep building more and more sites, and so getting them up quickly and efficiently is paramount.

The current sales focus of Info Product Killer is on making a killing for this Christmas. Now is exactly the right time to get started – if you can get your IPK sites up by the middle of November you should be well placed to make a good return by Christmas.

But if you want to move a little slower, no problem. IPK is actually based on two strategies – one for Christmas and one for the rest of the year. The year round method is, I’m told, even more effective at raking in commissions!

Did I say how excited I am about this? I can’t remember a product that has made me drop almost everything else to put it into action before. It really is that powerful.

Special Kickstart Offer

The sales page (there are some videos to watch there that are worth taking the time to view) is at http://www.urlnex.us/ipk

As I said earlier, I’ve just got off the phone from a very long conversation with Craig – what a nice man he turned out to be – and he has kindly given me a very special coupon code for Kickstart readers to use to get a huge discount.

When prompted, type MAV777 into the appropriate box and you’ll get IPK at a fraction of what it is really worth.

A final note…

Craig is based in the UK. His earnings for last Christmas – $100,000+ in a few weeks – were entirely from UK traffic. His sites were not aimed at the American market at all. If he could make those sorts of earnings from the relatively small UK visitor numbers, imagine what the much bigger US market would produce!

The IPK concepts are 100% international. They will work almost anywhere. He stuck to the UK last Christmas because, quite frankly, he didn’t need to expand his operation.

The US is wide open for this and those who jump on it fast will make a killing.

No matter where in the world you are, IPK will work for you.

http://www.urlnex.us/ipk

But don’t delay because the time to act is now.

Update: Questions and Answers about Info Product Killer (first published in Kickstart Daily Ezine)

Hi,

This is an extra message that is aimed mainly at the many
Kickstart readers who have recently bought the excellent Info
Product Killer strategy.

If you have no interest in this specifically, or in Internet
marketing in general, please ignore this email.

A huge number of Kickstart readers have bought Info Product
Killer over the last few days. It is probably the biggest selling
product that I’ve ever promoted – and rightly so.

You may be one of those who have invested in it – or you may be
still considering it. If so, this email is aimed at you.

I’m really not sending this to try to sell any more copies – this
is to try to answer some of the many questions and comments that
I’ve received up to now. On the principle that if one person
bothers to ask, there are another ten who are wondering the same
thing, I think it will be a useful exercise.

Okay, here goes.

1. Can you use IPK with WordPress?

I see absolutely no reason why not, but equally, as the template
provided is about as optimised as you need it to be, I also see
no particular reason why you’d want to use WordPress.

All my sites are being made with the template (or rather a close
approximation of it; see a later question) and I’ve had no reason
to want to use WordPress.

2. Can you use XSitePro?

I actually think that using XSitePro would be a very good idea. I
don’t think the IPK template can be easily imported into XSitePro
(although I haven’t tried) but creating a site from scratch that
followed the template’s look and feel would be quite simple.

XSitePro would make building these sites very fast, I believe,
and should save you time. It would also handle all uploading to
your hosting account stuff, so would be ideal for people who are
less experienced with FTP.

3. I’m in Australia/Canada/India/[wherever you live] – can I
still use IPK?

The IPK sales page and videos talk a lot about America, and
Craig, IPK’s creator uses his UK sites as examples, so you could
easily think that Info Product Killer is only suitable for those
places.

Nothing could be further from the truth. you an use the IPK
methods from anywhere. All you need is an affiliate account with
Amazon – and that can be the Amazon of your country, or of any
other country.

For example, I am in the UK and my current Amazon account is a UK
one – so all the sites I’m building right now are UK sites. if I
were to open an affiliate account with Amazon US I could build
American sites.

Where you are doesn’t matter – it is where your Amazon account is
that determines where you’ll make money from.

As a matter of fact, opening an Amazon.com account (US) is high
on my priorities because then I’ll be able to target a much
bigger audience.

4. Your example site doesn’t look exactly like the IPK examples.
Are you using the template ‘out of the box’ or have you adapted
it?

Hands up, I’ve made a few small changes. Nothing of any
particular note though. My programmer brain just wanted to make a
few bits of it easier for me to use.

In any case, a few minor changes are probably a good thing if you
know your way around a bit of dead simple HTML. Otherwise, using
the supplied template is perfectly okay and will lead you to less
confusion.

5. This all seems like an awful lot of work. Is it really worth
it?

It is a lot of work. Whoever said that Internet marketing is easy
should be taken outside and severely beaten with a birch twig (or
is that just me?)

Each site you build is likely to take you 90 to 180 minutes when
you get the hang of it, and you will probably need about 15 sites
to get the needed link juice flowing.

As to whether it will make money or not, time will tell. The
figures that Craig shows are very compelling – and having spoken
to him on the phone several times now, I have no reason to doubt
them. If anything, he is making more than his sales page
suggests.

It is early days for me. Only one of the seven sites I’ve built
so far has been indexed and it hasn’t floated very high in the
search engines yet. It is getting a small amount of search engine
traffic though, so the structure of the site seems to work.

From my years of experience of Internet marketing, I can say that
the methods are totally practical and look to me to be logical
and consistent.

I have high hopes, but it’ll be another week or two before I’ll
know for sure.

6. Isn’t it too late for Christmas now?

Not really. The Christmas season is certainly upon us already,
but online sales don’t really explode until mid November. If you
can work your socks off and get your network of sites up in the
next week to 10 days, there is every reason to suppose that
you’ll get a good chunk of the Christmas traffic this year.

And there is always next year!

As a matter of fact, the Christmas strategy is only half of the
IPK product. The other part is all about using a very similar
method, but with a couple of extra twists, to make money from hot
products all year round.

If rushing to get your Christmas sites up is too much work in too
short a time for you, and I respect that time is a finite
commodity for many people, then concentrate on the year-round
strategy, which can be taken at a slower pace.

7. Christmas is all about toys, so aren’t there going to be
thousands of people building IPK networks to compete for the same
niche traffic?

To start with, only a small percentage of the people who buy IPK
now will put the effort in for this Christmas. But even if they
do, the sensible ones will look for other niches that are also
popular at Christmas. It isn’t all about toys.

Here are a few suggestions for non toy networks that should do
very well at Christmas – and all year round:

* Playstation and games
* XBox and games
* WII and games
* Cell phones
* TVs
* Home Cinema
* Digital cameras
* Apple stuff
* SatNav
* Audio Equipment

That’s off the top of my mind and already is far more than one
person could cope with. The opportunities are almost unlimited.

Just think beyond the box that is Christmas.

8. Who is the product creator? You call him Craig, but he signed
himself Aaron on the Warrior Forum.

I asked Craig about this on the phone and he laughed. Apparently
he has been called Aaron for years as a kind of nickname. (He
used to live in a country where they could pronounce Aaron, but
Craig gave them difficulties!) Anyway, on forums he has stuck
with the screen name Aaron.

Nothing suspicious – a lot of people (probably a lot more than
you’d think) use pen names online. In any case, he isn’t hiding
behind anything and is one of the most approachable guys you
could ever hope to deal with.

9. Isn’t this too hard for newbies?

Absolutely not. There are a few steps along the way that will
make you ponder, and some that might actually make you think, but
there is nothing really complex at all.

Any time a part of the strategy has caused anyone any confusion,
Craig has simply created a new video in the member’s area to
clarify things. Pretty much everything that you could ask is
covered now – but if you still have questions or confusions (we
all get confused over this Internet marketing lark sometimes)
just send in a support request and I’m sure you’ll be sorted out
in no time.

10. How much is all this going to cost me?

You will need to buy up to 15 domain names and hosting for them.
That COULD mount up to a pretty penny (about $10 per .com domain
per year) but you can save a lot of money by buying .info
domains, which are currently being sold by GoDaddy for $0.99
each.

See next question.

11. Your example site is on a .info domain. Isn’t that bad for
ranking on the search engines?

In my experience, .info domains are just as likely to get indexed
as .com ones. it is what is on your site that is important. I’m
very comfortable buying .info domains and have done so for all my
IPK sites so far.

12. Now that so many people have bought Info Product Killer,
isn’t it getting hard to find decent domain names?

That fear crossed my mind too, but in practice it doesn’t seem to
be a problem.

I bought 17 great domains for each of the best-selling toys this
Christmas and had absolutely no problem finding ones that I was
very happy with.

13. Getting indexed in the search engines takes weeks, how can
this strategy work in time for Christmas?

Google is really fast at indexing when it wants to be. The trick
is to ‘seed’ your site by linking to it from another site that
already has plenty of bot visits.

My www.babybornmagicpotty.info site had a link to it in Kickstart
- which was then placed on my archive. That archive gets several
bot visits a day and the new site was indexed in Google within an
hour or two of it going live.

Once it is first visited, if you have some unique content for the
spiders to see, they’ll keep right on coming back. According to
my stats, in the few days it has been up, the Google Bot has
visited 25 times, Alexa 20 times and Yahoo 11 times.

If you can beg, borrow or steal a link to your first site to get
it started, you’ll soon have a feeding frenzy.

Just concentrate on the content. The search engines won’t like
you is they find rubbish on your site, so give them something to
chew on.

13. Have you made any money yet?

I thought you’d never ask!

With only one of my network sites indexed and the directory ‘hub’
site still under construction, I didn’t expect any sales at all
for a while. But according to Amazon I have already made one sale
(albeit a very small one that has generated only a couple of
Pounds in commission)!

But it has begun!

I think that covers everything I’ve been asked so far, but if you
have any other questions, please let me know and I’ll do my best
to help.

You can view the Info Product Killer sales page and videos at
http://www.urlnex.us/ipk/

Best wishes,

Martin

Update: My directory site is up and running now: Hot Toys for Christmas 2008

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