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A week or so ago, I wrote up a short post about helping ten people get up to $100/day online. Now - I did not expect to receive many people interested, but was pleasantly surprised by the amount of people that showed their interest. All in all, I had over 100 different emails, most of them from the first day from people of all kinds of ages and nationalities. Sadly, I did have to limit the places to ten people - I promised I would work until you made $100, no matter how much work I need to do. Hopefully it would not require much work, but I’m willing to do whatever is required - once you learn the fundamentals, you’ll be able to tweak and expand this.

I have sent emails to the ten people selected; unless some of them pull out, they will be the ten I’m going to work with. For all those that I did not send an email to, I apologise - I will try and step up the money making ideas on here. Although this idea of mine is nothing revolutionary, and has been done before… it adds a twist that makes things so much easier and so much more profitable.

Some of you wanted to know how I chose people, so here you go:

Professionalism

How professional you are will define your business… and I only wanted people that were professional. If you sent me an email typed entirely in txt spk, I near instantly killed it.

Effort

Some people typed up essays; some people responded with a short line. Now, I did not ask for the former, however the more you tell me about you the easiest it is for me to decide - an email of one of the emails I got was “plz choose me I am ready” - seriously, come on.

I also took a good look at the reasons why I should choose people, as they said in the email - for example, some people were willing to supply an audio testimonial (which is always better than plain text) while others gave examples of how they as an example would appeal to the demographic I was targeting.

Speed Of Reply

If I had two people with similar quality or similar type (see below) replies, I chose the one that responded quickest.

Age

Although I think teenagers are pretty cool (being one myself), sadly having all teenage testimonials on a sales page would not do too well for business. I think half (or maybe even more) are teenagers on this project, but I had to choose people ranging from the higher end of the age scale to the lower end and due to this some missed out.

Gender

Out of all the emails received, I think only three were from women… one of them was written in txt spk, but the other two were well done and instantly selected. Having variation on a sales page (in the above example, age, in this case gender) is very good because it gives people something to relate to and if you do not try to incorporate people from all aspects you are leaving money on the table.

Experience

I chose both people with no experience at all (even though this means more work) and people more clued in in the world of affiliate marketing.

Availability

Some people talked about not being sure if they were available; some talked about being unable to do anything which cost money… I tried to make things as easy as possible (less than $10 startup and minimal time daily) and if people could not cope with that I could not cope with them :)

Reading The Damned Rules

Some people contacted me on instant messenger multiple times when I explicitly said not to; they were crossed off instantly.

If you did not get an email, you are not one of the ten and I apologise - however please do not ask me via instant messenger about it. For all those that got the email, add me to instant messenger; I have a short form that I need filled so I can keep track of everyone and we can start as soon as you guys are ready. I’ve already explained the ideas to one person and he thinks it’s fairly easy… let’s see what the rest of you think :)

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