Okay, as I’m writing this you probably actually haven’t heard about this system yet – it’s very much below the radar… today. By the end of the week, however, a lot of people will probably have heard about the Magic Bullet System.
Information on what is actually in the product is a little spare but to be honest, I don’t really care about the information. I care about the software.
CPA marketing as a publisher is how I’ve been earning a living the past 15 months and I’ve been doing so quietly, but it’s not the easiest thing in the world to do. In fact, it can be a major challenge to find a profitable campaign to promote.
And that’s where the Magic Bullet System comes in. I’ll update as soon as I know more about the training – like I said, I’m way more excited about the software since I already have a wealth of knowledge on how to do CPA.
Here’s some of the info I’ve uncovered so far about the Magic Bullet System…
Today is the day that Sales Tsunami opens up and if you’re on this page, you’ve probably heard about it over and over and now you’re wondering if it’s really any good and would like to read something that isn’t a thinly disguised sales pitch.
I’ll do my best to give that to you here.
Here’s the big thing I want you to remember – this product isn’t for everyone.
This product really isn’t targeted to or priced for people who just want to make a couple extra grand each month. It’s very much designed for those who want to be one of the “big guns” in the online world.
Fast Action Bonus – First 100 People
Here’s the must have bonus for the product and it’s being provided by Mike Hill himself but only to the first 100 people who buy the product. It’s a video consultation with him. If you decide it’s for you
Links:
Sales Page (the page where you can get the product)
Webinar Page (I think they’re taking this down today or tomorrow – cliff note’s version of the product – even if you’re not buying, I’d listen)
Free Stuff Page (not sure how much longer they’ll have this page up either)
Here’s my original overview of the product that I posted on the 11th of October if you’re interested. :
Here’s a video I found that’ll give you a pretty good idea of everything that’s in the box – I don’t actually have mine yet so I can’t do my own review of it just yet:
Click Here To Visit The Official Sales Tsunami Site
I’ve been running an online business for the past 8 years and as someone who has spent in the neighborhood of $100,000 on products and training, I can tell you there are a lot of bad and useless products being shoved down your through.
They don’t really give you the information you need to run your business and many of the ones that do provide solid information only give you a small sliver of the information you need to actually run a successful business.
Sure, most of these products have been proven to get results for the guru selling it, but frequently it’s not a system that can be duplicated either due to a unique skill set the guru has or can’t be understood because the guru is a poor teacher.
I think that’s what really drew me to Mike Hill’s Sales Tsunami course.
First of all, rather than just covering the “sexy” and fun parts of being a business owners, he covers the minutia and details others conveniently leave out.
Let me give you an example. Instead of just explaining the mechanics of building a landing page for your offer, Mike actually explain the psychology behind what’s going on in your prospects mind so you can get a far better conversion rate. And because you probably can’t read minds, he explains how to split test your page until you have a winner on your hands.
It’s that kind of attention to detail that will end up saving your bacon in the long run.
There are actually 19 different sections to the course so don’t expect to be able to understand the entire business model in just one day. I would actually recommend you treat this like an intensive summer school class. That means you study the material at least 5 days a week for 5 weeks.
It is far better to approach this system the same way you’d treat a 400 level college course. You’ll need to take the time to study the material if you want to do well with it.
Here’s the link to check out the product – Sales Tsunami
Have a great day.
Gary
Today I’m doing something that I should have done a long time ago…
Better late than never, right?
Anyway, what I’d like to do right now is find out what YOU need help with… and then, get this, answer your question. (no tricks, I promise)
So here’s what I’d like you to do – there’s a link that says comments on this blog post – please click on comments and post your questions, dilemmas and places where you’re stuck, and I’ll do my best to answer your specific question. (I’ll reply in the comments and if you leave your real email address, I’ll send you a copy.)
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Why am I doing this?
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The first is obvious – I actually do care and want to see you succeed. I have a lot of niches that I’m involved in but this is the one I’m truly the most passionate about, and has a lot of awesome people in it that are struggling for one reason or another that I think I can help.
I don’t want to come off as some kind of arrogant “marketing god” or anything like that. I’m just a guy who loves marketing trying to help out my fellow marketers. (We gotta stick together, ya know.)
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I want to help YOU!
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Now the second reason I’m doing this is because I’m cookin’ up a couple new training products here at the Command Center and I want to make sure they directly address your problems and potential hang-ups. The advantage to you is that I’m personally going to respond to all your questions and give you the best answer I can.
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Here’s what to do next
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Just click on the comments and submit yours. I’ll personally respond to the questions every few hours (and if you leave your real email address, I’ll send you the reply as well so you don’t need to keep clicking the refresh button).
Feel free to ask comments on anything related to running an online business – getting traffic, conversion, affiliate marketing, eBay, whatever! If you ask a question that I can’t answer, I promise I’ll do what I can to at least get you pointed in the right direction.
-Gary
P.S. I can’t keep replying indefinitely, you can keep commenting, but if you want an actual answer, please make sure you ask your question within the next 72 hours (that’s 3 days if you’re “math challenged” 
If you’re looking for a good web host for your website and you’re considering Yahoo Small Business Web Hosting, I’ve got some advice for you – don’t do it!
I’ve had my own website since 2002 and I have to say that this has been my most disappointing hosting experience in that time.
Here are my top 5 reasons to avoid Yahoo Web Hosting.
1) Overpriced
Let’s start at the beginning for why I didn’t enjoy their service. First, I felt it was overpriced. There are a lot better deals out there for faster web hosts at better prices. Yahoo can get away with charging more because of their name, but really you’re not getting anything but that name when you pay extra for it.
2) Poor Customer Support
A few weeks ago I had a question that I needed an answer to quickly. With other web hosts I’ve done business with, I typically get a response in about an hour – for the web hosts that weren’t great, I’d get a response within 24hrs. How long do you think it took Yahoo to reply to my email? Well, I’m sitting at 6 weeks and counting – they never bothered to reply despite saying they replied within 1 business day.
Then today I called them up because I was having an issue and didn’t want to wait indefinitely for a support response and was told they didn’t allow me to do what I needed to do on my website (see reason #3) so I told the guy I needed a refund on my hosting – he transferred me to billing because he couldn’t do it. After an hour of waiting, I decided I wasn’t going to waste anymore of my valuable time waiting around for Yahoo. Web hosting customers are pretty valuable to a company yet Yahoo didn’t feel the need to answer my phone call to talk to them within 60 minutes – that’s just unacceptable.
So I hung up, and canceled online and told them about the ill will they’ve earned from me.
3) No Htaccess
If you’ve never worked on websites yourself, them you may have no idea what this is or why it’s important, but to me it’s a huge deal that I be able to add a custom .htaccess file to my sites. Yahoo in its infinite wisdom simply doesn’t allow this. I’ve never had this happen with any other host I’ve ever worked with… ever! This was the reason why I called up Yahoo Customer Service this morning and why I decided to cancel – I’m not going to pay for overpriced hosting when I can get a better deal with someone who will actually allow me to customize my site like a “real” web hosting provider would.
4) Not Easy To Usefurniture Elhovo
You would think that since it’s more expensive than most hosting, it must be easy to use to make up for it. Nope. They do have a built in online site builder but no serious website owner would be proud of what that thing can build. Then there’s their Yahoo Site Builder – that thing is just a pain to work with and guess what – I wasn’t able to get it to work properly.
I hired a professional to design a content management system to put on the site and he found working with their Yahoo system a complete nightmare… and he’s a professional – I can only imagine how frustrated novices must get.
I prepaid for 3 months of service in advance. I only used one – you’d think that’d I’d get a refund for the two months I didn’t use because that just makes sense, right? You shouldn’t have to pay for what you didn’t use. Nope – Yahoo won’t refund any money you’ve paid them – it’s buried deep within their convoluted terms of service agreement. To be honest, this just astounded me. I can’t think of any other web host that would be in business with practices like these but since Yahoo gets so much traffic and has their name to rely on, they can get by with offering really crappy service and people put up with it because they don’t know what else to do.
Alternatives To Yahoo Web Hosting
So if you’re looking for alternatives, here are two that I’ve personally used and can recommend to you.
Hostgator.com – I’ve been a customer with Hostgator for years. Their customer support is superb. I don’t think I’ve ever waited more than an hour for an email response from them and they offer toll free phone support too (and trust me, you won’t be waiting an hour to talk to them on the phone). Their hosting prices start out at $4.95/month.
Liquidweb.com – My personal favorite web host. Honestly, I’ve only ever purchased dedicated servers from this company, but I have to tell you their service is great, their servers are reliable, and their prices for managed dedicated hosting are great. And although it is rare for me to have to contact customer support, I get directed to a live person almost immediately after I call them (I’ve never waited more than a minute to talk to a person), and their email response is always extremely fast. If you’re new to web hosting, you won’t need Liquidweb right away, but when your website is big enough to justify going with them, I’d recommend looking them up.
So if you’re looking for web hosting, I hope you found this post helpful. I didn’t mean to go on such a long tirade but I really hate getting treated like crap by companies and wanted to let you know about my bad experience with Yahoo so you can avoid it.
It’s not too often that an affiliate manual comes along that I’ll actually buy, much less implement.
Most of the products are simply a bunch of “me too” products.
Affiliate manuals tend to come in two flavors. The first group says something about building lists, then marketing the crap out of that list. The second group says let’s build sites and send pay per click traffic to them.
I have nothing against either one of them. Both work. The problem is that both require substantial testing and knowledge to use effectively.
However, in Confessions of a Lazy Super Affiliate, author Chris Rempel puts a whole new twist on things. In fact, he actually uses a system that is similar to what I’ve been using over the past year and a half.
He teaches you how to build sites that get really targeted traffic designed to convert well – i.e. desperate keywords. While you’re not gonna get millions of visitors per day by using this system, you will get people who are in need of a solution. It’s your job to provide them that solution in the form of an affiliate offer.
That’s the jist of it. The trick is actually getting that traffic, and as someone who understands search engine optimization, I have to admit that Chris really knows what he’s talking about in his ebook, “The Lazy Marketer.”
I think that’s the part that surprised me the most. He not only understood affiliate marketing – he understood search engine optimization and has combined the two beautifully.
However, while revealing that particular system was somewhat innovative, I wouldn’t call it earth shattering. It’s really just an advanced combination of Bum Marketing and Affiliate Project X (but it is darn effective).
The part of the system that made me decide I actually need to own it was what he calls viral software marketing. He revealed to me a traffic generation strategy I’d never even heard of! I’ll be honest, that doesn’t happen too often anymore. Basically what you do in this part of the system is create simple yet useful programs (or outsource it, which is what I’m doing since I’m not a programmer), then you distribute them to the top software directories.
The results can be impressive – thousands of extra visitors per day.
So would I recommend that you buy Confessions of a Lazy Super Affiliate? I would. In fact, I’m recommending it as my top pick if you want to start making money online in 2008.
I actually am actually budgeting several thousand dollars for the development of these type of sites myself despite having plenty of other projects on my plate. That’s how confident I am in this system, I’m sticking a lot of my own money into using it – something I rarely do especially for cheap little eBooks like this one.
Click here to learn more about Chris Rempel’s Confessions of a Lazy Super-Affiliate.
Is Rob Benwell’s Blogging To The Bank 2.0 really a book that can teach you how to create highly profitable blogs that suck in thousands of targeted visitors everyday?
That’s what I wanted to find out.
I’ve read lots of information from people on how to make money with blogs. I’ve even recorded my own 1hr and 42min video on the topic myself, so I know a little bit about how to get traffic to blogs and how to make money from it. I was curious if this product was going to be a system that anybody could take and make a blog a profitable one or if it was just about of vanilla information that was outdated and useless.
So I bit the bullet, downloaded the product and read it. Afterall, he does make over $30,000/month using this system so I figured it was at least worth a read.
Blogging to the Bank 2.0 started out with some very important information – his five blogging commandments. They’re pretty basic, nothing earth shattering, but then again if you screw them up, you won’t have high traffic, profitable blogs – so be sure to read them and commit them to memory.
Then he gets to the fun stuff, his step by step blueprint for highly profitable long term niche blog. He teaches you how to research profitable niches for your blog (very important) and shows several how to do this research for free.
Then he moves on to setting up a blog, which is a section I didn’t read since I already know how to do that.
The most important section he talks about is the content section. He talks about creating content, getting content created for you, and provides a guide for outsourcing this part of your blogging (which you’ll need to know if you intend to have a lot of blogs)
He then covers some info on optimizing your blog, and some tips on how to use Web 2.0 to drive traffic to your blog.
Despite all the great step by step info covered in the book, there were some major points about getting traffic and links with blogs that were completely glossed over or were out of date. That part disappointed me a little. Overall, however, the product is a great system for someone who wants to make great money online to start with.
One thing to keep in mind is that when you’re building up high quality blogs, you’re building up a valuable asset that you could decide to sell down the road unlike some other systems where you’re simply flooding the Internet with garbage.
If you decide to invest in Blogging to the Bank 2.0 (which I’d recommend despite a couple of small deficiencies) one thing you’re going to want to learn more about is how to build links to your blog and how to drive massive traffic to it, and Blogging to the Bank 2.0 doesn’t do a great job in explaining that so what I’m going to do if you get Blogging to the Bank through the link on this site is include two videos that I’ve recorded on building links and traffic to blogs. The first video is called “The Power of Blogs” – it’s 1hr 42min of tips on how to properly optimize, build links, and generate “buzz” using blogs.
The second video you’ll get takes this generating “buzz” concept to the next level – it’s my “Complete Guide To Linkbait.” If you want to learn the real secrets to getting thousands of links in a very short time and getting 10,000 visitors in a single day, then the Complete Guide to Linkbait is a must watch video.
I’m going to include them as a free bonus to anyone who buys Blogging to the Bank from this site since I feel it’s an excellent product for someone who wants to be a great full time living online.
Instructions to Claim Your Two Bonuses
1) To get your two bonus videos that will help you dramatically increase the traffic your blog gets – The Power Of Blogs and the Complete Guide To Linkbait – order Blogging to the Bank 2.0 by clicking this link.
2) Email me at mfxbonus@marketingeffects.com and send me a copy of your Clickbank order receipt
3) Enter “Blogging To The Bank” as the subject of the email
4) Upon verification of your purchase, I’ll send you “The Power of blogs” and “The Complete Guide To Linkbait” for FREE.
NOTE: You must order Blogging to the Bank through my link on this website in order to get the bonuses.
If you have any questions, as always be sure to post them in the comments for me below.
Update: This post has gotten a little old so you can check out my new how to make money with a blog reviews at bloggingprofiteer.com.
Gary
This review isn’t going to be like all of the other reviews you’re going to read for Project Black Mask.
First of all, there isn’t a single affiliate link in this review. (Not even to good products like Affiliate Project X)
Second, this is NOT one of those supposed “reviews” pretending to be an independent third party that just wants you to buy the product. I’ll be honest. I don’t want you to buy the product – it’s crap.
I purchased this product because I purchased Chris’ previous products, Affiliate Project X and Day Job Killer. I was pleased with both
However, I have to say that Project Black Mask is one of the biggest piles of crap I’ve ever purchased, and this is one of a handful of times where I’ve actually felt it necessary to ask for my money back.
So if you’re sick of reading promotions for this product by newbies claiming all this stuff really works or it’s new, then read on.
One thing I do need to mention is that I spent a good two years doing black hat SEO and building scraper sites so I feel that I know this whole “blackhat” traffic game better than most, and one thing I can tell you is that these supposed Google “loopholes” have been closed… since 2005! Yahoo and MSN were slower to come around but by 2006 their figured most of this stuff out. It’s 2007 now – who the heck are you trying to fool?
You see, if you follow the strategies in Project Black mask you’ll be building hundreds of worthless websites trying to generate Adsense revenue from the traffic. You’ll be spamming to get your links, and your sites will quickly get banned from the search engines.
You might see a short spike in traffic for a little while, but search engines like Google are exceptional at spotting these garbage sites and throwing them out of their index quickly. Think about it – when’s the last time you saw what was clearly a scraper site ranking in the top 10 for anything? I know I haven’t seen a single one in quite some time.
This supposed “loophole” you’re exploiting is simply marketing hype to sell excellent blackhat strategies from 2004 in 2007. Simply put – you’re too late.
Now the theory behind building all these sites is that you work hard the first months building your websites up, and then they just sit there and make money for you and you don’t have to do anything with them. The problem is, like I already mentioned, the search engines will throw you out of their index quickly, so the sites you built two months ago will be banned and will not generate any money for you.
These blackhat strategies can make you money as long as you’re willing to work 60 hours a week indefinitely. You won’t be building up any long term revenue, lists, customers, or anything that will be worth something down the road. You’re simply giving yourself a job and an annoying job at that.
I compare what you’re being taught to do in Project Black Mask to being a weed. You’re not wanted and you’re an annoyance. Sure, a gardener (the search engines) might let the weeds grow a little bit but as soon as they start to take hold, they’re going to be gotten rid of.
Is that how you want to spend your time building your online “business’? Do you really want to be building websites whose only purpose is to annoy people just to extract a few cents out of them?
Probably the thing promoted in this manual that annoyed me the most was the promotion of using automated forum spam software. This is where you use a program that will automatically register you and post to hundreds or thousands of forums at once. First of all, as a forum owner myself, if everyone using this software found a nice high cliff and jumped, I would throw a party.
And I know that some people will defend it by saying that they only post to forums that have been abandoned. Well, in that case, almost every single one of those that I’ve run across has been removed from Google (never checked Yahoo or MSN) because they’re full of spam links and Google *hates* that. So even if you’re not annoying forum owners, you’re still wasting your time because those links simply won’t count towards anything. You’ll find your site listed alongside Russian porn sites and pharmacy sites which can get you banned just by association. (You’re building black hat sites, so one way or another you’ll get banned anyway.)
This type of software has also caused many a good forum to call it quits because handling the spam was just too much of a hassle. Do you really want to do that to someone – destroy their forum just so you can get a link?
So that’s what I think about Project Black Mask. If you want to make money online, this is not the way to do it. I wouldn’t touch this thing with a 10 foot pole if I were you, and if you did get suckered into buying this product, ask for your money back.