Why the overly-dramatic title? Well quite frankly… because I believe it’s true. And here’s why…

BRIEF VERSION:

I’m helping promote a new course on being an Amazon seller (not an affiliate).  I like it a lot and I think you might too.  If you buy it through this page you’ll get to choose from some pretty awesome bonuses.

FULL VERSION:

When you’re an affiliate, you’re being paid for bringing leads and customers, to someone else’s business. That’s all fine & good when you’re being well paid for what you do. But the fact is – you carry all the risk, and receive only SOME of the reward.

If the product you’re promoting is discontinued, or they change their landing page, or the company disappears, or Google looks sideways at you, or any one of a myriad of other things happens – your income will go to zero overnight.  (believe me – I’ve experienced every single one of these things and more)

And what do you have to show for it other than a bit of short-term cash?

Unfortunately the answer is… not much! You didn’t build a list, you don’t have customers to sell other products to, and you’re out in the cold and starting over with some other product or service to promote.

Now please don’t misunderstand me – I’m a big big FAN of affiliate marketing, both as a product owner and as an affiliate! I believe strongly that being an affiliate is probably the absolute fastest way to learn a ton of valuable skills you will need, when trying to make your living online.

But I’ve said for quite some time to many of my customers, that they need to focus on not having to be an affiliate. I’m all for affiliate marketing being a part of your overall income strategy, but it absolutely shouldn’t be your only method! I strongly advise creating your own products or services, or otherwise figuring out how to *control* a product so that you can reap all of the rewards rather than just a portion.

Now that’s easy to say… but creating a product can be a LOT of work! Trust me on this one.   That’s not the only option though, there are other approaches such as outsourcing, dropshipping, public domain material, JVs, and more. But even if you’re able to figure those parts out, what about getting an audience for your product? You’re back to the usual affiliate game of fighting over PPC, SEO, or other forms of traffic in a desperate attempt to get noticed and get sales.

Frankly… it’s not nearly as easy as it sounds at first! Still, I’ve seen some friends make a lot of money doing dropshipping and others make a ton of money by outsourcing basically every single aspect of their online business.

OK so where am I going with this? I just got done explaining why it was a bad idea to be an affiliate, so now I’m going to promote something as an affiliate. Isn’t that a contradiction?

No not at all… I said it’s a bad idea to be only an affiliate.  But the real long-term strength in affiliate marketing is in using it to augment your other business.  In fact there are even situations where you can get the best of both worlds – being an affiliate for your own product!

Possibly the largest single way to do that, is to understand selling on Amazon.  I’m not talking about being an affiliate for Amazon and collecting a tiny little commission.  I’m talking about being the product seller, and keeping as much as 85% of the revenue (or even more if you’re clever enough to be your own affiliate!  )

And that’s where the Amazon Money Machine enters the picture.  It’s a new course being launched today, that goes into outrageous detail about how exactly to source products (or get them created), get them placed into Amazon, promote them to the top of the listings on Amazon, and even get Amazon to handle all the fulfillment, customer service, financial transactions, refunds, chargebacks – the whole nine yards!

You don’t even need to have a website or do any paid advertising of your own because Amazon does it all for you.

You’ll probably be hearing about it from everyone and their brother today, but stay with me because I have something totally unique to offer you.

I found out about this product and the fact that it was launching totally by accident, but I liked their message so much that I asked to be invited as a JV.  I don’t promote a lot of launches (in fact almost none) but this resonated so well with me, I just had to check it out.

I was given access to the course a few hours ago and have been devouring it as fast as my mind can absorb it, in order to make sure it meets my personal standards for promoting.

And frankly – I think there’s some great stuff here.  To break it down, here are the things I like most about this course so far (not really in any specific order):

1. It’s quite deep.  There is a HUGE number of videos that go into a lot of detail about exactly how to implement these strategies, and cover everything from how to sign up as a seller (not the same as being an affiliate), to how to get a Kindle book written for you, to how to source products for Amazon fulfillment, to private label & dropshipping, to strategies for completely dominating the Google rankings for high-value and high-dollar keywords, and a whole lot more.
2. It’s well organized and presented.  The Author, Matt Clark, does a pretty good job of articulating everything.  He’s not a super-smooth trained presenter, but he’s easy to listen to and speaks clearly.  The videos are organized in fairly logical sections, and it’s easy to jump around to what interests you if you’re a non-linear thinker.
3. The strategies are pretty wicked smart.  I’ve gotten some big ideas from what I’ve seen so far, and I’m not even 1/4 through the material yet.
4. It will require real effort and work to reap the rewards.  At first glance this may seem strange – I like something because it’s going to take hard work??  But yes I do, because that’s a barrier to entry.  In my experience, most people aren’t willing to do the work required to succeed with something like this.  So the fact that this requires time and effort, is an advantage for those who will do what’s required.  Due to the nature of the whole process, you can’t even get paid anything for at least 60 days when you start – so this is not “overnight easy money” by any stretch.  But I do see it as sustainable long-term income fairly quickly.
5. Matt is using these very techniques right now, today.  These are not worn-out techniques that he used last year and stopped working.  He shows some of his live Amazon accounts from as recently as 2 weeks ago.

Now all that being said, what don’t I like about it?

1. Almost all the videos are in .ogg format.  No big deal except that Enounce MySpeed doesn’t seem to support that format, so I can’t play the videos at faster-than-normal speeds.  I’m having to download them completely first in order to do that (thank goodness I have a REALLY fast net connection).
2. The Amazon Money Finder Software is an Adobe Air Application.  This is really a personal preference, but I just don’t care for Air apps.  I don’t like the way they look & feel, I don’t like the way they install… just not an Air fan.  Also the software isn’t available to me yet so I only got to watch the videos about it.  Drag.  =(  I just got access to the software but need to go through the videos still to learn how to make the most of it.
3. There is no number 3.  (What can I say, there isn’t much to dislike!)

OK so, let me cut to the chase at last.  I’m an affiliate for AMM (duh) and so I’m going to offer a bonus for those who purchase through this page.  This is a fairly high-ticket product, and so I want to really earn my commission.  To that end…

If you purchase Amazon Money Machine through this web page and send me a copy of your purchase receipt, you’ll get to choose one of the following from me:

• A full lifetime license to my WPGen and LPGen dynamic landing page generation systems ($399 value)
• 2 months membership in my Skype personal coaching program (starting when you’re ready), so you can get my help with anything right when you need it ($398 value and not publicly available)
• 1 hour private phone consultation at your convenience ($500 value)

Additionally, all buyers through this page will get a full license to my newest upcoming product, WP SneakyLinks ($??? value… just you wait & see )

And on that note, I want to share a few words of caution.  This is not a small course, nor is it something you’re going to devour and implement in a weekend.  There’s a lot of material to absorb and most of the techniques are probably pretty foreign, since they’re so different from what most of us have focused on for years.  Also as mentioned above, you’ll have a bare minimum of 60 days before you’ll see any income even if you started today.

This course is for people who want to be more than just an affiliate, and are going to truly dedicate themselves, their time, and their resources to implementing and executing an Amazon selling business.  If you’re going to buy this and then a month later have moved onto the next shiny object – please just plain don’t buy it in the first place.  I think there is tremendous potential in this (so much so that I’m going to ask my better half to check it out) but it’s going to require a serious commitment and total focus.  This has a very real potential to become an extremely lucrative, very hands-off business, but it won’t start out that way.

So for those who can heed the above and put in the time & effort, I look forward to sending you your bonuses!  Just please remember to send me your purchase receipt after you place your order.

EDIT: Helps to know where to reach me doesn’t it!? support@tooltrainer.com

And on that note, it’s past 2am for me so it’s time to begin winding down.

Make great things happen!! 

Jonathan

I just put this video up real quick to illustrate something I think is just absurdly awesome…

http://screencast.com/t/COHuk5yJCJBI

If you aren’t already familiar with Remarketing, and aren’t yet a member of VanCluteSolution.com, then you should check out my Remarketing Unleashed videos.  For the price you won’t find better info out there on the topic.

Are you exploring remarketing yet?  If so how’s it working for you?

Jonathan

Gauher shared some awesome stuff on today’s webinar, in particular an entire new traffic source that he’s making 300% to 400% returns on!  I’d never heard of this one prior to the call, and he gave it away for free.

Check this out, listen carefully and see if you can’t make use of some of the advice given here!

Jonathan

This is a very limited time chance to get some really good free training on PPC marketing from someone who does this himself every day to make the bulk of his substantial income.

http://www.payperclickformula.com/webinar.php

It’s free, but will only be up another day two.  So if you aren’t already a member of PPCFormula and you’d like to basically get a lot of the nuts & bolts of it all for free, make sure you check this out right away!

Jonathan

I don’t know how many people even know about Looksmart, but they’re one of the larger 2nd tier PPC engines.  They do have a lot of traffic and it can be a whole LOT cheaper than Adwords for the same clicks.

Click the “Looksmart Video” link on this page to learn how to set up a looksmart campaign.  If you’re into PPC at all, this will be a valuable 14 minutes and 47 seconds!

JVC

P.S.

Make sure to sign up for the free Webinar Gauher is going to be holding, on the same page.

Does PPC Still Work?

Amazingly, I get asked that question fairly often.

And I say amazingly because I tend to assume that by now, people must realize that traffic sources don’t work.

We work THEM!

And without exception the people that I know who make a good living via PPC, work very, very hard for it.

This stuff is NOT EASY.  I don’t care what anyone tells you.

I suspect that nobody knows that better than Gauher Chaudhry.

As you probably know if you’ve been around me any length of time, Gauher is a “guru” in the PPC game, having created the PPCFormula course that changed many of our lives as far back as 2007.

In the years that I’ve known Gauher, I’ve watched him totally rebuild his business from scratch several times.

I’m talking about a guy who does 7 figures a year in PPC-generated commissions, and he’s rebuilt it all.

More than once!

But what’s even more remarkable than that, is that he hasn’t just managed to recreate his business each time (usually due to the nature of the game changing in some fundamental way).

He’s made it STRONGER than last time!

And here we are, today, in late 2011, when a lot of people I’m sure would tell you that the PPC game is “over”… with so many stories of account bans and slaps, it would be hard not to listen!

But Gauher’s doing better than ever.

And believe me, he’s not sitting on the beach with his laptop sipping a margarita!

He’s hard at work, every single day, nurturing his campaigns, building new ones, testing new ideas, and optimizing his data.

If there was an award for “Hardest Working Guy In PPC”, I’d say give it to Gauher!

His PPCFormula course has been closed for quite some time now, but that’s about to change once more as well.

Gauher has totally overhauled the course, with case studies of exactly what he’s doing NOW, in 2011, that’s working for him.  PPCFormula 3.0 is about to launch.

I was one who took him up on the offer of “early bird” access to the new content earlier this year, and I truly must say that if you want to have the best shot at success with PPC – especially if you want to promote CPA offers – then PPCFormula 3 is the smartest way to go.

Check out the free video Gauher has just posted, where he walks you through the entire process of setting up a PPC campaign on one of his most profitable traffic sources, that almost nobody is talking about.

Sign up for his list and I’m certain you’ll get some really valuable tips from him even if you don’t decide to buy PPCFormula 3 now.

One last word of caution before I sign off… PPCFormula 3 is not “cheap” and in my opinion it shouldn’t be.  The price reflects the caliber of people who have trusted Gauher as a teacher, and it’s worth many times the price for those who are willing to do the work.

I’ll say it again – FOR THOSE WHO ARE WILLING TO DO THE WORK.

This stuff isn’t easy, but if you will put in the time and the focus, it could change your life like it has so many others’.

Be well!

JVC

Just found out that Gauher Chaudhry has a batch of physical DVD sets of his PPCFormula 2 course leftover, and he wants to clear them out before he launches PPCFormula 3 next month.

You can get them for just $497 until they’re gone, and that’s less than half the regular price as I recall.  Plus his OTO after you buy, is PPVFormula for only $397.  As you may know, PPVF is where I initially learned all about PPV myself, so I can’t recommend it highly enough.

There’s less than 100 sets left and I know his list has over 50,000 people on it so… if this interest you, you definitely need to decide quickly!

Enjoy,

Jonathan

I was really hoping I’d get a chance to do this but wasn’t sure what with all the “bigger dogs” involved in this product launch.

On Tuesday April 19th, at 6PM Eastern (3PM Pacific), join me live as I talk to Peter from Advertiser360.com about his new course.

As genuine as I think he is, and as impressed with the course content as I am, I still have my share of questions & concerns about people getting into being an advertiser, and this is my chance to put him on the spot and ask the things I really want to know.

I really hope you can join me, but if not I’ll be posting the replay here once it’s done (assuming there are no problems with the recording… you know how these things go sometimes!)

Look forward to “seeing” you there!

Jonathan

Hi there,

If you were lucky enough in the past to get into PPVFormula
when it was open, you can disregard this email.

If however you have *not* joined the industry’s original PPV
traffic brokering community, then you really want to pay
attention.

http://tooltrainer.com/tools/blog/ppv-formula-is-back

In case you’re totally unaware, PPVFormula is the original PPV
training course.  It’s where I and everyone else I know who
makes good money with PPV traffic, got our start.

PPVFormula hasn’t been open to new members in quite some
time.  Created by Gauher Chaudhry, he’s always kept it fairly
small and private – not to mention insanely underpriced.

But he’s finally decided it’s time to let some new blood into
the community, and he’s opening the doors this week,
specifically on Tuesday at noon Eastern I believe.

He hasn’t told me if he’s going to limit the membership this
time, but he is definitely going to raise the price over time.

If you want to truly master PPV traffic, and be part of the
single best PPV community in the industry, you absolutely need
to be part of PPVFormula.

I don’t very often tell people “You have to buy this right
now!”  This is one rare exception.

You have to buy this right now!  LOL

Of course I’ll also be the first to say PPV isn’t for
everyone.  Fortunately Gauher is a solid guy and he stands by
his product, so you have 30 days to evaluate it, participate
in the forums, and decide if this is right for you or receive
a full refund.

This is the only time in your PPV career you’ll have no risk! =)

I’m also offering a very special bonus for those who buy
through my link.  You can read all about it by following the
link.

http://tooltrainer.com/tools/blog/ppv-formula-is-back

I can’t stress this enough.  If you truly believe PPV is for
you, then you’ve got to work with like minded individuals, and
you need a complete set of strategies and formulas for
harnessing the awesome power of PPV.

It’s *not* as easy as some of the recent info-products would
lead you to believe!

But with patience, discipline, and the help of others who have
gone before, I believe anyone can master this form of traffic
to huge benefit whether it’s CPA offers, list building,
branding, or anything else that needs lots and lots of
traffic instantly.

Plus if you’re quick to join, you’ll get it at the lowest price
ever.  This is so undervalued I just can’t say it enough.

I hope to see you inside, and possibly even to work one-on-one
with you (see my bonus! 

Always the Best,

Jonathan

Gauher Chaudhry is releasing PPV Formula 3, so if you’ve ever wanted to truly learn how to harness PPV traffic to make money, you absolutely positively must have this course.

Anyone else would be charging $1497 to $2997 for this course, but Gauher is charging only a fraction of that.

Check out my bonus as well and I think you’ll agree this is “an offer you can’t refuse!”

Jonathan