We just got done with the first of our Mentoring Group meetings.

I gotta tell ya–it was exciting as well as exhausting!

If you haven’t signed up for the Mentoring Group yet do it now–it’s free. You’ll immediately get the Podcast and slides from tonight’s meeting. Just go here now:

http://www.FullTiltBlogging.com/blog?p=194

We have a few spots left. Why in the world WOULDN’T you sign up? I can’t figure it out.

If you were one of the participants tonight, I’d love for you to put your comments below and let others know what you thought. I know I told you not to divulge the content, but you can still tell whether you learned anything, whether it was worth the time and whether it was FUN.

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Today, I’m going to talk a little about my experiences so far with Neil Shearing’s “10 Day Cash Secret”.  So, just what is the 10 day cash secret? Well, Neil Shearing is an internet marketer from England who has developed a wordpress plug-in that will automatically load a merchant’s datafeed at specific time intervals.  For those of you who don’t know (and I didn’t, until very recently) there are many merchants who offer product datafeeds that affiliates can use to create online stores.  These datafeeds are usually csv files of some sort, which usually contains the merchants entire catalog.  You modify the datafeed with your affiliate ID.  If someone then clicks on a product from the store you’ve created, they’ll be taken to the merchant’s store.  If they buy something there, you will get a commission from that merchant.

What Neil has done is to use wordpress to create these online stores very quickly.  Furthermore, you can set it up so that a new entry is put on the blog every 5 minutes.  The advantage to this is that search engines love fresh content from blogs.  Typically, they will rank fresh content from a blog higher than they usually would, for a period of time.  So, with your blog / data feed store updating every 5 minutes, search engine spiders will be crawling your site within hours.  In theory, you will rank highly in the search engines, and people will come to your site.  If they click on anything, and then buy something, you’ll make some money.  You don’t have to worry about search engine optimization, ppc ads, or anything else.  Your blog / datafeed store with its updated content will do it all for you.

The example Neil gives in his sales letter is this site:

http://winebuyersuk.com/
He set up this site, and within 10 days, had his first sale.  Within the first month of this site being live, it did $3851.30 in sales.  Now, this is total sales, not commissions.  However, let’s say he’s getting a 10% commission.  Making $385 a month from a site as simple as this isn’t bad at all, is it?  I mean, if this works, all you’d need to do is to create another 10 sites, and you’d be sitting pretty, right?  Well, I thought this looks interesting, so I paid $154 dollars for the basic plan (you can pay $300 for the deluxe plan, which includes direct e-mail support from Neil) and got to work.  So what happened?

Tune in tomorrow to find out

To our Success!

- Dave

Earlier today, I was able to watch a one hour video on affiliate strategies at www.JohnChow.com. It featured John Chow (naturally), Zac Johnson, Amit Mehta and Kris Jones. All of them are very successful, but all of them approach the industry in different ways. I’m not really focused on affiliate marketing in the way these guys are at the moment, but it was still well worth my viewing. There are just so many angles to this internet thing, it boggles my mind sometimes.

Anyway, of all of them, Amit really stood out for me. He is a very smart guy (not that the other guys aren’t, lol) who used to work at MIT. One thing he said that I found interesting is that he has PPC campaigns in all three search engines. What’s more, he finds that he converts more sales using Yahoo and MSN, as opposed to Google. The reason for this, he suspects, is because search users who use Yahoo and MSN tend to be less sophisticated and are more likely to buy online. I thought this was interesting, and it may very well be true.

Amit also mentioned a tool called winner alert that helps you with the split testing of ppc ad campaigns. Again, split testing and ppc ads are something I’m planning on looking at in the near future. However, If you are running multiple campaigns, I can see it coming in handy. Check it out here: http://www.winneralert.com/

Amit also praised Google’s adwords editor as being the best out there. All four of the panellists agreed that social media was the hot topic now, and would likely continue to be in the future.

When I listen to guys like this, I find it inspiring. I’d like to be up there with them at some point. One step at a time

Today, I worked on my PLR articles some more. I’m not quite done them yet, but I’m getting close. Reading PLR articles just puts my brain into a fog. Regardless, I’m committed to building my site this way, and that’s what I’m going to do.

On another note in my previous post, you may have seen a comment from Genesis, who runs http://plrarticlepacks.com/. Looking at his site, I thought the prices he was offering for his packs were very reasonable. What is interesting about his service is that you can pick the article topics, and then his service will write them for you. In addition, if you’re willing to pay a little more, the articles will be exclusively yours. I may try this service myself in the future, we’ll see.

That’s it for now. Tomorrow I’ll hopefully finish off those PLR articles, and maybe I’ll get that video of my niece put up.

To Our Success

- Dave

PS – one thing I loved about winner alert was the guys sales letter. He did it in a kind of un-salesletter way. Very funny.