Folks, we live in very “interesting times” there’s no doubt about that.  I’m not one of these people who’s running around screaming “the sky is falling!” but even I would be stupid to say there’s nothing wrong in the world.

The economic situation can affect you even if you *are* doing well in your business.

SIDE NOTE:  We went to see our accountant on Monday to deal with last year’s taxes… he was surprised to even see us since he knew we were going through multiple foreclosures over our collapsed real estate empire from the past few years, and figured we (like almost all his other clients) wouldn’t have any significant income to show anyway.  I showed him my single page overview of my online business for last year, and I swear he did a triple take.  He could NOT believe what he saw… that we actually had a business that had HUGELY exploded over the year, and that actually had very significant cashflow to show.  Of course we’re making it all disappear through TONS of real estate deductions that we get to apply for years to come, but… we actually showed about a quarter million dollars in revenue just from online activity, which he said is pretty much unheard of for his clientele right now.  I thought that was a very interesting thing to learn, coming from someone who’s job is to know the intimate details of his client’s financial lives.

OK so the real point of this post is to let you know about a hit we just took.  Over the past year we’ve had plenty of credit cards lowering our limits.  Even American Express - our supposedly “no limit” charge card - has cut us to $1,500!!  This is despite a perfect payment history.

Today, we had another card with a $30,000 limit, cut to $500.  We had JUST paid it in full and were ready to put our next big round of adspend on it, and in the couple of days it took the payment to clear - they killed it.

Fortunately for us we built up a massive arsenal of credit a couple years ago so it’s not the end of the world at all.  But it IS something to be aware of and take note.

Companies that have given credit out like candy in the last decade, are in a PANIC now and are reeling it back in any chance they get because what happens when people have credit but lose a job or have some other financial hardship?  They USE THAT CREDIT!  And if they live on the credit until it’s maxed out and then default, the companies are hosed.

It can make NO difference how much you’ve been spending, or that you’ve always paid on time, etc. etc.  Even people with flawless credit (which I am not one of due to the real estate mess) are having the same thing happen.  It can happen to anyone, and I would go so far as to assume it WILL happen to you.

So what am I suggesting?  A very calculated but potentially dangerous strategy.  Keep your credit cards FULL as much as you possibly can.  The last thing you want to have happen is for you to lose that leverage, and if you keep them full, they can’t take it away (except for the period after you pay it off, as mentioned above… watch out for that!).  They can freeze them though and not allow you to charge anything more, so even this is not without limitations.

So keep them full, but MAKE SURE THEY ARE MAKING YOU MONEY!!  Don’t just spend them up for the sake of spending. 

This requires exceptional money management and tracking of your limits, balances, etc.  It’s also very bad for your FIco score if that matters to you (i.e. you’re buying a house, refinancing, etc.) Also if you’re just plain not comfortable with credit/debt as a tool, then absolutely don’t do this.

But if your primary requirement is credit capital to keep your online business momentum moving, even with paying some interest (which we generally don’t since we pay in full before interest accrues) simply becomes a cost of business and we’re willing to do it in order to keep the machine moving.

In time things will turn around and credit will flow again, but for now (and I believe at least the next year or two minimum) things are pretty damn ugly out there for most people, and if your business depends on credit cards (as most of us probably do who deal in paid traffic) then you NEED to have a plan for weathering this time.

Oh, and a little plug… I have two formal testimonials now from people who have put my Prepop Power Profits report into action, and both were in profit from day 1 with it (one guy earning $300/day PROFIT from 3 campaigns!)  Granted both of them had some experience under their belt - they were not total rookies.  But the point is this method DOES WORK and I believe will work for anyone who just does what I outline in the free report.

I was also asked today, why I gave this method away… did it mean I was on to bigger & better things, or that it didn’t work that well anymore?

Here’s my answer:

I thought REALLY hard about this, and was thinking I better not tell anyone about it.  But then I thought on it some more and realized… all this will do is give MORE people the ability to make MORE money promoting MORE offers.  It doesn’t in any way hurt MY ability to do the same thing.  In fact, it might HELP email submit offers to stick around, and maybe even encourage more advertisers to support prepop.

Now if it was a strategy for getting super cheap clicks on Google or something… then yeah, sharing it would hurt me!  But this is something everyone can use and I still can too. 

So there you have it… this isn’t something that will “work” for a little while and then stop. It can’t get saturated or lose effectiveness. Prepop is just a tool that you can employ to generate more online revenue.

Use it and prosper!

Jonathan

I just got this testimonial… talk about taking action!

Hey Jonathan

I just had to write and say how blown away I am from your report.

I managed to find a string of email and zip submits which looked very promising for a niche I was researching, so I contacted my affiliate managers and managed to get some prepop links. I followed some of your steps in the report by rotating different landers that sent the user to some framed offers which I then had some additional prepopped offers pop up when the user tried to leave the page. The result has been a net profit of $300 a day consistently for a week now! I’m getting around 400-500 optins a day and this is spread over 3 offers. I’ve never been able to profit so quickly so to start getting $300 in almost a day of setting it up was great for me. I am going single optin and watching my spam complaint rate like a hawk, I’m totally new to email marketing but I believe that potentially for one of these offers there could be some repeat buyers so I’m now looking into list building more and more and ramping these campaigns up.

So thanks so much for putting this report together, its been a massive help, I not only learned a new tactic but also started to make some decent headway in this business.

Regards

Tom Page

And all this from a free report. Hot diggity!

Here’s another testimonial I got just a day after the report went live:

Jonathan,

Your Pre-Pop report was a great read. It was short and to the point. I already had a chance to test out your methods and was able to grab almost 500 optins in just one day. And approx 30% of them completed the email submit CPA offer on my backend.

To break it down into dollars and cents for you, thats approx 150 conversions at a commission of $1.20 each, for a total gross revenue of $180.00. The traffic cost me just under $150 for a NET profit of $30 for the day. Annualized, this report just gave me almost $11K raise for the year.

I don’t know how many day jobs give out $11K annual raises so I’m very happy.

Now I just need find the time and creativity to scale up from here.

Thanks again for a fabulous report.

- Alex

I want more success stories, so share yours now!

Oh and if you don’t already have the report, grab it now… I’m thinking I should make it a paid product after this PPCFormula prelaunch is over with.

Go get Prepop Power Profits now!

You only need to refer 2 people to Gauher’s prelaunch list to get the report, and if you can’t manage that… are you sure you want to be in the marketing business?

Jonathan

Prepop Power Profits - How I Built a List of Over 60,000 Optins In Less Than 6 Weeks And Earned $64,821.60 In CPA Commissions Doing It!

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I first must apologize for the TWO previous dates I have said
this would be available.  The final delivery of the report is
not directly in my hands, and I was wrong - TWICE - about the
date it would be ready.

But regardless, that day has finally arrived!!

In order to get my report, you will first be given access to a
report written by my CPA Marketing mentor, Gauher Chaudhry,
called “The Insider’s Guide to CPA Marketing Profits”.

Frankly in my world, Gauher is the SOURCE to go to for what’s
working NOW in CPA marketing.  I don’t ask him about Clickbank,
I don’t ask him about blackhat, and I don’t ask him about SEO.

I ask him about CPA MARKETING because that is his specific area
of complete mastery.  Not just PPC either, any form of traffic.

You wanna learn something right?  You go to a master.  And
Gauher is that guy.

Anyway, after you opt in to get his report, you’ll be able to
get mine.  So head here now:

www.tooltrainer.com/pppreport

I’m not going to wax poetic about how amazing this report is,
I’ll let you be the judge of that.

But I have never seen anyone talking about this subject in any
detail, and I know that this could be life changing for some.

I look forward to hearing of your results!!

Jonathan

OK so… I ended up staying up until just past 4AM the other night/morning because of Google Cash Detective. Talk about an engrossing addictive tool.

BUT… will it deliver on what it promises?

This is where I’m not quite sure yet.

I don’t have any hard data to share yet… I want to do a video with some detail but I’ve got a VERY full plate right now (I shouldn’t even be spending ANY time with it quite frankly, at least not right now!)

But I can say this - the interface needs some work. The raw data is there and is amazing, BUT… there are next to no searching capabilities right now, nor sorting capabilities. At the moment, it is fairly clumsy to use.

Fortunately, that’s all very minor stuff to fix, and I’ve heard that it will be addressed within a few weeks. So… I’m still optimistic.

But I need to actually put up a campaign with it. So far, because of the clunky nature of the interface, I haven’t found anything that has met the criteria, and after a while you get sick of click-click-clicking to see each possibility one by one by one. I think I need to just commit to a full day where all I have to do, is get a campaign from GCD up & running.

Anyway that’s all I have to report right this second, and I’ve got loads of other things I need to be focusing on.

Oh crap and on that note I just noticed that it’s 12:25AM *AGAIN* (thanks to the time change this time). I’ve gone so nocturnal again… not good!

Jonathan

This is crazy. It’s well past midnight, and I still have to take out the trash for collection in the morning.

Why on earth am I still up???

It’s entirely my own fault. I got sucked into some training videos. I was just going to take a quick peek. A few minutes, tops.

But not this time… I’m sucked in, and I think you might be too. So I guess I had better explain myself. I absolutely had no idea I was going to be posting this tonight. I had no intention of doing so, I was just curious more than anything… but now I’m excited.

Let’s go back in time a bit shall we? Do you remember all the completely outrageous hype that surrounded the “Google Cash Detective” a couple years ago? I think it was about 2 years ago… I can barely remember now.

Anyway, it was hyped up as the hottest thing since sliced bread. It would make you a bazillionaire overnight. It would make your bed. Cook you breakfast. Clean up after the dog. You get the idea.

And I gotta say, I was very intrigued. The concept seriously appealed to my analytical nature. I mean - think about it… what if you could actually download every adwords ad, for millions of keywords, every day, for a long time. Holy cow, you’d know exactly what made money, instantly!! The Holy Grail of online marketing finally realized!

Unfortunately at the time, I was seriously strapped for cash, and it was not cheap… I just couldn’t swing it. Months later some cheap imitators came along and I bought one of them… and hated it. Returned it after 30 days and decided that “spy tools” were a total load of crap. I still feel they are fundamentally flawed and won’t make anyone rich overnight.

HOWEVER… I still think the basic idea makes sense:

* Gather intelligence.

* Analyze the data.

* Make decisions.

* Act.

In my book, that’s a winning formula.

So what’s the point? The point is… there’s now a Google Cash Detective 2 and this time I got in (thanks for the heads up Mike!!). Like I said it was really just curiosity… I didn’t expect to be particularly blown away. Sure it would probably be pretty interesting, but… I’m pretty jaded about the latest PPC fads at this point.

And then I watched one of the videos. And then another. And another. And…

And now I’m wide awake and it’s 12:28AM and I still have to take out the garbage!!!!

I’m a big advocate of staying focused, of not getting distracted, of not chasing every “shiny object” that comes along.

But I have to admit, this one is really, REALLY shiny. I think I’m going to have to take a bit of a detour and implement it. They have come a LONG way since the original, where I heard a ton of horror stories about it not working, crashing, not delivering, etc. etc. etc.

All I see now is one highly evolved, smooth, absolute monster of an intelligence weapon. I only personally know one tool that might rival this, and it’s not public.

However GCD2 is once again NOT an inexpensive product. This is absolutely not for the beginner on a limited budget. But if you have the pockets for something like this, or are already a seasoned marketer… you’re gonna want to see this. Like, NOW.

Check it out and let me know what you think… I will definitely write more once I’ve deployed some campaigns and have some personal results to share.

http://www.tooltrainer.com/gcd

Damn, why did it have to be so shiny???

Jonathan