I’ve just released a new product. It’s an ebook called “How To Dominate the Internet Marketing Niche for Instant PayPal Cash!”. It’s 60 pages of solid content giving you a complete blueprint to success in the IM niche. Take a look here: www.zxpublishing.com/dominateIM.

And the first 50 lucky readers of my blog to act quickly get a 50% discount on the price. I get a lot of people reading this blog as the content is aimed directly at internet marketers, so the discount coupons won’t be around for long. Fantasos controls the whole thing so when all 50 are gone, they REALLY are gone…

If this is for you (and let’s face it, if you have any interest at all in this niche then this IS for you) then enter this discount code on the order page: disc33.

I really can’t recommend this highly enough if you’re trying to sell to the internet marketing crowd. And at half-price I’m practically giving it away. You’re also covered by my iron clad, no-questions-asked 60-day money back guarantee, and you get some software that will build you secure membership sites in minutes! See the second P.S. for more.

The sales page is here: www.zxpublishing.com/dominateIM. And the discount coupon to be entered on step 2 of the order process is disc33. Please, don’t hang around on this one.

JVManager 2: Fantasos (www.jvmanager.com) is a complete business solution which I’m now using to run my online operations. It’s taking a while to move everything over as you’d expect, but I’m slowly getting there.

Fantasos currently costs $3,000 to buy… and it’s worth every penny. It really is an all-in-one solution to running an online business. I’m not going to list all of its features because that’ll take me all week and I’ll only be repeating what’s on the sales letter, but so far my favourite features are:

– Minisites. The ability to build unlimited minisites which are designed to get your product quickly and easily into the customer’s hands and get them promoting it for you via the in-built affiliate program. This sort of thing used to take me days to get up and running due to testing all the links and checking the affiliate program worked. Now it’s all done for me.

– Coupons. Easy to give special discounts to new or existing customers, with the ability to limit the number of coupons so they automatically expire.

– Unlimited affiliate programs. You can create an unlimited number of affiliate programs for an unlimited number of products. This is great because it means you can charge people to become an ‘advanced member’ of a program, offering them more promotional material and higher commissions.

– Reseller licenses. You can offer 100% commission to your affiliates while still controlling the price of the product.

– Rewards system. You can give your customers reward points to redeem against other products or services. This is great for membership sites; every month someone remains a member you can give them reward points which, as they build up, could entitle them to free or discounted products or services. It’s a great way of rewarding those who stay a member for longer.

That’s 5 of my favourite features. There are many more. The thing to remember about JVManager 2:Fantasos is that it’s not really a script. Scripts do the things they were built to do and nothing more. Fantasos can be used in pretty much unlimited ways because you’re not tied down with its own business model; it shapes itself to you, not the other way around.

Like I said, Fantasos currently costs $3,000. Don’t worry, I’m not going to give you an affiliate link However, another great feature allows me to resell ‘rolls’ to my copy of Fantasos which means you could get every feature of Fantasos for a hugely discounted monthly fee.

Now, I haven’t made any plans on this yet so nothing is ready and in all liklihood I won’t even do it. But if you’d be interested in ‘renting’ my copy of Fantasos (it won’t interfere with my operations or anyone else’s - great programming) then get in contact with me. Obviously there’s no promises of anything, but I’d like to gauge the interest.

If you’re feeling a little uninspired and you’re struggling to get motivated to take action, watch this video now. It’s a few minutes long but please, please, PLEASE watch all of it. Then reflect on it, and you’ll start to see things a little more clearly.

The absolute minimum this self improvement video will do is put a smile on your face, so taking a few minutes out to watch it isn’t going to slow down your day.

Just click play. If you’re on dial-up then wait a minute before clicking play to let it cache a little more first so it runs smoothly.

If you’d like to add this video to your own website and use it to attract visitors, increase the ’stickiness’ of your website and use it in your promotional efforts then you can grab it now for just $17. Click here.

I just wanted to post a quick review of Affiliate Rockstar Status. If you can’t be bothered to read all of this then let me sum it up for you in a few words: don’t buy it. If you’d like to know why, keep reading…

Take the best of Affiliate Project X and Day Job Killer, rehash them with a couple of extra bits of information taken from other recent affiliate marketing ebooks and the result is Affiliate Rockstar Status.

You’ve read most of it before. There’s a few bits in there about using Google Adwords’ site targeting campaign features (which I started using last year with breast enlargement pills of all things. And by that I mean selling, not literally using…) and it’s a very effective way of getting low cost, targeted traffic.

The ebook starts off (after the usual motivational part at the beginning) explaining that even as an affiliate marketer you need a backend to pull in the real money. No secret there then. I mean, I (along with many other affiliate marketers) have been preaching that for, well, since way before everyone started jumping on the AM band wagon.

Affiliate Rockstar Status then delves into how to find the best products to promote from ClickBank by spreading your risk across various campaigns. After all, the more products promote the more chance you have of finding a profitable campaign. For sure, it makes sense but it all seems a little obvious.

After that we get some Adwords lessons, some of which are actually quite good. I like the ‘writing Adwords copy’ section, though some of what’s printed is open to debate as to whether or not Google will actually allow it when their manual reviewers see it. There’s also a few bits about Google’s Dynamic Keywords Insertion — DKI for short — more of which you can read in my Adwords DKI blog post.

There’s a reasonable section on Web 2.0 tactics for getting organic search traffic, which again is OK. There’s plenty of information in there but at the same time there’s plenty of information missing, especially on the blogging side of things.

Finally, throw in some basics on article marketing, how to build a list and email them and how to potentially get sued by website owners by using software which puts a pop-up over their website and that pretty much sums up Affiliate Rockstar Status.

The information is OK. There’s plenty we’ve all read before and a few things most probably haven’t if you don’t tend to buy a lot of these types of ebooks. But the reasoning behind it almost doesn’t make sense. Let me explain.

Affiliate Project X came out which is an excellent ebook on affiliate marketing. Then Day Job Killer came out, which expanded on APX and gave out plenty of bold promises as to what you’ll achieve. Now Affiliate Rockstar Status is upon us, offering the same promises.

Now I’m not knocking that because we all know 99% of people who buy these ebooks will do nothing with them… ever. They’re compulsive buyers and deep down think that by buying yet another ebook the money they want to earn will magically appear in their bank account. You can rehash most of the old content while adding a little bit of new information and you have yourself a new product which people will buy like crazy and marketers will promote like crazy because they know people will buy it. It is, quite simply, business; find a hungry market and give them what they want.

Sorry if that sounds harsh, especially if you’re a compulsive buyer easily swayed by sales copy, but if you look deep into what I’m saying you’ll know I’m right.

Anyway, back to the reason for the ebook (besides knowing it’ll make a ton of cash in the opening week): The upsell.

There’s the opportunity to buy hosting through a special link which also gets you access to a host of affiliate marketing tools which automate the processes featured in Affiliate Rockstar Status. By all means, the tools look very good and from what I can tell are similar to those available at www.wealthyaffiliate.com.

Again, it makes business sense. Here’s all these techniques and you can get access to some tools to make the entire thing easier to follow for a few bucks a month. After all, the biggest question owners of the ebook will be asking is ‘where do I start?’ so they’re giving you the answer many times in the ebook itself.

It’s a good lesson in marketing, but I’m digressing here. This is about Affiliate Rockstar Status and its content. So, if you own APX or DJK then don’t get this. If you don’t own either of them then get APX. And if you don’t want to get that, get Beating Adwords.

It’s written well enough, but it’s all been written before… and you probably own at least one ebook which covers most of what you’ll find in Affiliate Rockstar Status.

The obvious question is, why the heck would you want to? I mean, there’s plenty of PHP programmers out there so you can simply outsource… can’t you?

Well let me tell you, that’s not as easy as it sounds.

I’ve tried various programmers ranging from $10 an hour to $70 an our and I STILL couldn’t get exactly what I wanted. And — more to the point — none of them could program with my thoughts in mind. Which makes sense as they’re not actually me…

Also, please bear in mind I used to be an IT consultant/programmer, so I know how to write extremely detailed and easy-to-follow specs. My experience goes to show how difficult it can be to get a decent programmer and why nearly all the ones who are any good are snapped up on long-term contracts as soon as they’re found by a decent marketer.

Anyway, enough of that. I think it’s fairly obvious why you should learn PHP yourself. Especially as the vast majority of tasks you’d want doing are extremely small so it makes perfect sense to do them yourself.

And that’s why I’ve got a tremendous ebook for you that’ll show you step by step how to get started in PHP. It’s called ‘I Hate PHP’.

Now, the amazing thing about this book is that it’s 51 pages long and contains nothing but pure content written in plain English so it’s super-easy to understand what’s going on. It’s quite simply the best resource available to get started with PHP. It even covers the dreaded walk into MySQL!

If you’ve looked at PHP books before you’ll know they cost a small fortune to buy. For a basic book you’re looking at at least $25 plus shipping…just like nearly all books that teach you how to program.

You can of course attempt to learn it from the many PHP articles there are out there on the ‘net, but you’ll be searching for hours to find what you want… and then you’re left wondering which ‘way’ to do what you want to do. Without a doubt, being taught one style of programming from day 1 is the way to go… just like I was when I learned to program.

That’s exactly what ‘I Hate PHP’ will do for you. You’ll quickly discover what PHP is, how it works, how to use it and — more importantly — you’ll save a bundle on the trial-and-error of outsourcing your small programming jobs.

I’ve made it available for the silly price of just $6.95 for the time being. And I’m throwing in a 30-day money back guarantee as well, so if you’re not thrilled and satisfied with your 7 bucks investment then you can have it right back and still keep the ebook. I can’t give you a fairer deal than that.

Grab I Hate PHP now by clicking here. You’ll be able to pay via PayPal and you’ll be directed to the download page immediately afterwards.

We’ve finally had some great weather here in the UK (well, my part of the UK anyhow) so I haven’t been working much. However, I figured I should get a post up otherwise you might start to think this blog is going the way of most blogs.

I’m gonna briefly talk about tracking your Adwords conversions. In other words, working out how much it costs you to get a sale/sign-up/whaever your conversion goal is in relation to the amount of money you’ve spent getting that conversion.

It’s something that very few Adwords users do and, as a result, they have no idea which keywords are making them money and which are losing them money. You see, Adwords displays conversion stats by keyword, so Google knows which keyword in your campaign resulted in your ad begin shown, which got the click, which got the conversion. The Adwords interface will then tell you how much it cost you to get that conversion based on your overall cost.

Now why would you want to do that? Quite simply to work out if you’re in profit or making a loss, and to see which keywords are getting you conversions and which aren’t. In turn, you can then kill off the keywords which aren’t getting you conversions and put your budget into the ones that are instead.

I’m sure you can see how powerful that is. I’ve been using it pretty much since Google introduced it, and I was using my own tracking software before that because I know just how vital it is; it can be the difference between a winning campaign and a losing campaign.

All you need to do is put the tracking code Google gives you (from within your Adwords account) onto your conversion page. So for example, if you’re selling an ebook you’d put it on your download page. If you’re tracking how much it’s costing you to build your mailing list you can put it on the page people are sent to after opting in… and so on.

If you’re not doing this then make some time in your day TODAY to do it. You’ll be looking at 15 minutes work (tops) to discover exactly where you’re making money and where you’re losing money. And when you get rid of the losing money part, the wonderful world of massively increased profits will find its way to your door.