Hey guys,

Thought I’d put out a short blog post as this would be easier to get attention than updating the last one, and / or doing it manually.

To all those that emailed me, or talked to me on instant messenger before this post, you’re probably in, I have already started working with around ten of you and early signs are good. Some blogs have already started receiving traffic. If some of the people I’m working with agree, maybe some blogs will be posted on here so you guys can follow them ‘live’.

To all others, sorry that I can’t accomodate anyone, there are only so many spare hours in a day and I’m a tad lazy. If this goes well, will hopefully do more of it in the future.

The new theme should go up before the end of this week. To the rest of you, keep cracking, and good luck!

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Grr. Was looking to post earlier, and get up the new TUK theme but there have been a few teething problems with it - hopefully it will be up sometime this month after I get the various issues fixed.

Secondly, I’m looking to launch a full scale offline ‘attack’ over here in Dubai… if you’re a blogger or marketer here, or know some that stay here, tell them to get in touch. Lots of exposure, and eventually lots of money made too hopefully.

Now… on to the topic of this post.

I’ve continually talked about this, and everyone that reads this blog knows that site flipping is big right now. People are interested too, as I’ve seen in decent sales for my site flipping guide.

However, some people can’t learn from products… they want a more ‘hands on’ approach. The thing is, those people tend to be newbies, so they can’t afford the $1,000 odd coaching classes from experienced marketers.

Where this ties in with me is that I have a lot of free time on my hands… for the next month, at least. I’ve outsourced almost everything of my online business, so I’m doing relatively nothing myself. No work for money is always good, but that could be increased

Anyways, here’s the deal. A few of you have asked me about something like this before, but since I’ve been busy I tended to turn down most offer. However, now that I’m not busy, I can do more of these.

Basically, I’ll set you up - hosting, a domain, install Wordpress and various plugins for you, let you use Aweber to create an autoresponder series, a premium theme and custom logo should you need it, as well as being on instant messenger for advice should you need it.

YOU will have to promote the blog and write content. One post a day for a month. No slacking. You will however have me on hand to ask questions, advice etc should you need it.

At the end of the month, we sell the blog (I’ll cover listing fees) and split profit 50/50. Could be $100, could be $500, could be $1,000 - $2,000+… depends on how hard you work at it.

How does this benefit you? You get yourself setup without having to spend any capital of your own, and get the full blogging experience. You can use the things you learn for future site flips, where you do not need to use me and you’ll keep 100% of the profits.

How does this benefit me? I get to help people out without having to charge up front for it, get good will and in the end, if you use my tactics fully… MORE income than I would selling a $47 product. 10-20 success stories of people combined making $XX,XXX+ will also work very well in the future should I eventually decide to launch such a product.

What will you need? Although I’d love to be able to take on anyone, I can’t. However the base requirements are very easy.

You’ll need to be able to write half decently (not world class or Shakespearean writing, but readable) and be able to dedicate 1-2 hours per day to work on your blog. Nothing else. You’ll likely not have to work the whole of that time, but as it’s your first (maybe first successful) $1,000+ flip, I want you to get the basic strategies that you can use over and over and over again. If you cannot do either, please do not contact me. Lastly, you’ll need to have some sort of instant messenger (email is a pain)

Anyways, I’ll be taking on ten people most probably, twenty tops. If you want to start learning (we can get it working today), contact me… for a partnership that will (hopefully) benefit us both.

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Been busy of late with the launch and with a few Internet problems. Arsenal won too, which is always good. - had a little time to write this up

Forums are the easiest way to promote a new site.

Especially large ones.

Every day, you get people asking on the very forums they should be “stealing” traffic from… “how do I promote my site”?

The problem is, a lot of people, including those that read this blog think that IM / MMO is the only way forward. IM / MMO is a very, very, very easy niche to do well in, if you work it right… however, when starting out a different niche is better to go for. Which niche? That’s entirely up to you.

Why other niches? The thing is, people in the IM niche are constantly being sold to… they’re preconditioned to avoiding ads, preconditioned to be wary of affiliate links and more knowledgeable than your average web user. If you recommend a product to an IM-wary user, they’ll usually wonder whether you’re doing so solely because it’s a good product, or only because it pays a better commission than product B (and so they should wonder).

Whereas you recommend a product to a non IM-wary user and they’ll check it out, buy it if they have a need… as long as you cloak your affiliate link, they’ll probably use it simply because they don’t know how not to.

Anyways, on to forums.

You can grow your blog(s) entirely using forums. I did this for this very blog, simply because when I started out I had no idea what social networking / bookmarking, comments, contests and various other things were. I didn’t even know what RSS stood for and still don’t.

At its peak, this blog was getting around 4,000 - 5,000 uniques per month JUST from forums.

Of course, you need to do this carefully. Forums can be a huge time waster if you’re not careful - you can easily promise to spend just ten minutes on one and find yourself a couple hours later having nothing done.

How should you get the most out of forums? For me, it’s pretty simple really.

Out of every five minutes you are on a forum, you should be doing at least one thing that benefits you.

Some may think that this is selfish, but let me explain.

Putting out a high quality forum post does benefit you, as people will grow used to them and trust you to be a knowledgeable and high quality source of information.

Changing your avatar to something catchy benefits you.

Having an interesting signature benefits you.

As long as you can see that there is enough interest in the niche, start a blog on that topic. Promote the blog on the forum for a month, producing 1-3 quality articles on that blog per week (these can/should be outsourced, of course) and at the end of that month promote a high quality information product. If your reputation is reasonably good on the forum, and the posts you’ve done on the blog are good too, your conversions will be awesome.

Next step? Flip the blog.

Rinse, repeat, over and over and over and over and over again.

Of course, if you’re lazy… *cough* you can outsource the posting on the forums. You should aim to pay around $0.10 per post, each around 10 - 20 words long and all on the topic of the forum (none in general chat etc). You want around 500 - 1,000 posts on the forum (more or less depending on the size). Make sure you make use as much as possible of whatever’s allowed to help you stand out - avatar, signature, blog feed, different colour text in posts and so on.

The great thing is, that once you build up this reputation on forums, it remains… unless you do anything stupid of course. You can market new sites, promote other products, link to your other sites to get them indexed fast and so on.

Building backlinks. If the forum is dofollow, each post with your signature link enabled counts as ONE backlink to your site. So 1,000 posts = 1,000 backlinks. Of course, most forums allow you to have 4-5 signature links, meaning that you can help along multiple sites at the same time. You can even sell your signature links - again, signature links on ‘niche’ forums tend to sell for more than they would on IM-knowledgeable forums, since users tend to be less unaware and signature links will get clicked more.

Having backlinks also adds value to a site, and you can easily agree with a buyer to keep the link there for X months even after the site is sold. Remember, everything that adds value is good.

You can even create and promote your own product, as if you’re reputed enough and market yourself as an ‘expert’ in the niche (outsourcing IS king) people will buy from you. Of course, make sure the product itself is of high quality and if you don’t know what you’re talking about, make sure the person that you outsource to DOES know what they’re talking about. You could even build a list through a catchy signature link on forums alone.

Forums should provide you with multiple ideas… if you’re not milking them already, you’re missing out. Get to it!

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Learn how to earn a full-time income through online writing by visiting Chris’ freelance writing blog at ChrisBlogging.com. Chris earns $10k+/month as a freelance writer.

Are you looking for a way to earn good money online? If so, and you are tired of trying and failing at other methods, it may be time to turn to freelance writing. While writing for online clients may not be the most desirable job as a freelancer, it can go a long way in helping you earn money for projects that you are more interested in.

Here are three benefits of writing for online clients:

1. Low startup costs. What do you need? Generally speaking, if you have a computer and an internet connection you are on your way. There is no domain to buy or site to setup. For aspiring entrepreneurs with no money, the low barrier of entry is something to keep in mind.

2. Don’t I have to be a great writer to earn money? For the most part, if you have a good handle on the English language you will do just fine. Notice the word good. You don’t have to be the next great novelist in order to earn money online via writing. As long as you can produce well written, error free, easy to read content you are in good shape.

3. There are many ways to find clients. Content is king on the web, and there are many companies and webmasters hiring writers, just like you, to produce well written articles. You can locate clients through cold emails and forums, as well as many other avenues such as cold calls.

Believe it or not, you can earn big money writing online. Many are surprised to find success so early in their writing career. You can decide to start writing today, and be earning money within a few hours. And if you have any sort of patience, within a few months you will be well on your way to establishing a client base.

Even if you don’t earn big money by writing online, you can earn a nice supplemental income. This “side income” can help you get bigger projects off the ground, or you can simply the extra cash to fund your entertaining lifestyle.

All in all, there is no denying that you can earn a lot of money by writing for web based clients. Are you ready to get started?

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This is a paid review and not really influenced much by me getting paid. If you’re interested in ordering advertising on this blog, check out the advertise page.

When you think of setting up standard niche affiliate sites, it usually strikes me as a boring activity… especially if you do it yourself. Finding products, tweaking the template, getting content, just setting it up really - it can take a lot of time. When you’re starting out, it can be difficult to outsource if you want to go the bulk option, as you don’t really have the money to do so.

This is where StoreStacker comes in. StoreStacker is basically an affiliate product store script, created with the newbie in mind. No longer do you have to struggle for hours with code that you don’t get - all you need to do is use their interface and you can generate niche stores on the fly.

Claiming to have more than 10,000,000 products, StoreStacker already have the likes of Clickbank, eBay and Amazon available for integration, which means that you save time. Of course, the more time you save, the more profitable you are and the more money you can make.

It currently costs $97 for an unlimited domain license, however addons cost extra ($25 apiece). Of the addons, I’d recommend getting the Clickbank one and the article one, so even with them that’s only $150 total, and you can use it on as many sites as you want. To encourage people to purchase the addons, perhaps StoreStacker should run a promotion - buy one addon, get the second at half price / free.

What StoreStacker aims to do is help you better your affiliate experience - and they definitely do that, with you getting full control over how you want the site to look like (12 different templates), what products you want, and what kind of content you want (articles or videos, or both) that will help your stores rank easier in the search engines.

You don’t have to work on search engine optimization on your own though - the backend comes with SEO features that are important but will pass many newbies by - keyword tags, google sitemaps and so on. Get one of these on the front page of Google for a competitive term, and you’re making money.

If you want to see what it looks like before you purchase, they have a set of Camtasia videos showing you the interface - both front and backend. There are also videos instructing you exactly what to do after you purchase the product - everything from how to install it to how to tweak it so that you can get the maximum amount out of your store. Lastly, there is a member forum (which looks reasonably active) and a support centre so that you can get any problems you have sorted out, as well as ask for advice on how to best use it.

In conclusion - if you do like working with affiliate marketing, and want a simple way to generate a lot of high quality ones, StoreStacker is definitely worth the purchase. $97 is nothing for an unlimited domain license, as you could build up traffic to your sites and sell them for a hefty amount. You can purchase it here if you feel it would help grow your business.

What do you think of StoreStacker, and do you have any feedback for the creator (Scott)? Let him know through the comments section below.

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