Gary Burton has just launched his newest website Ideas Festival.

If you already follow Gary, Oli and Daves blog, then you will know that you will definitely want to check out Ideas Festival.

Gary is going to give away ebooks that will be about creating and running your online business.

The first one is called Big Business on a Shoestring Budget, and is a pretty good one to start with as most people seem to start an online business with a minimum investment.

The book will walk you through the basics of buying a domain name, getting some website hosting, building a website, setting up and autoresponder, creating and info product and then marketing the product to make money. All while spending as little money as possible.

I bought the Affiliate Project X eBook a couple of months ago and decided to report back with my thoughts on it.

Affiliate Project X is the work of a guy called Chris who lives in the UK, and was launched sometime towards the end of last year.

The book itself is not too long (weighing in at just 50 pages) but is packed with no BS methods of making money with internet marketing as quickly as possible.

It begins with a chapter that explains all the resources that he uses in the book. e.g. Affiliate programs, Google Adwords, email marketing, Autoresponders, etc. And also gives some good advice on building up you portfolio of affiliate marketing products.

In a nutshell, Chris guides you through 6 distinct and laser targeted methods of generating an online income. He calls these methods:

1. The Leech - The Art Of The Pre-sell
2. The Affiliate Diary
3. The Workhorse Method
4. Thief In The Night
5. Copy The Best
6. The Opportunist

In spite of the “Code Names” he has given to each of his 6 methods, I was reasonably familiar with the fundamentals of each of them. However, the value of Affiliate Project X lies in the twist and lateral thinking that Chris has applied to each of these techniques and shares with us in the book.

In the final chapter, Chris gives away some great tips on using some advanced tricks to help you make more money.

Another thing that I has impressed me with Affiliate Project X is that I have received updates and an extra chapter since buying the book. It appears that Chris updates it periodically and notifies you of updates and extra bits and pieces.

I have to honestly say that Affiliate Project X is one of the best internet marketing eBooks that I have read. And I truly believe that Affiliate Project X is worth more than it’s price … and I have paid more for less useful information.

A really cool thing that I have benefited from Affiliate Project X is taking one of the methods and adding my own twist that has seen my revenues jump significantly.

Click here to visit the Affiliate Project X website.

Todays product review is Secret Affiliate Weapon which is written by Ewan Chia.

Secret Affiliate Weapon is probably the best value introduction to Affiliate Marketing that I have ever read. Why? Because it covers the essential stuff that you need to know for only $9.97.

Think about that.

There is no doubt that just about everything you can learn about anything can be found for free on the internet. But how long does it take you to find it and how much does that time cost you?

Anyway, Secret Affiliate Weapon is split into 2 parts:

Secret Affiliate Weapon : Part 1

Here, you will find out what Affiliate Marketing is all about. After reading this part you will know:

• Is Affiliate Marketing Is Right For You - What is involved and will it suit your lifestyle and work patterns. Get an understanding of what is involved and, more importantly, whether you will enjoy it.
• How Much Money You Can Make - And the mind set and strategies you need to achieve these earnings.
• Tools For The Job - Find out what you need to make you Affiliate Marketing work easier for You.

Secret Affiliate Weapon : Part 2

Here you will find a step-by-step strategy of what you can do to start earning money quickly.

Details include:

• Setting Up An Affiliate Program - This is essential to get started.
• Short Term Promotional Strategies - These include how to do article marketing, link building and ezine advertising.
• Longer Term Promotional Strategies - You will sell nothing without promoting it and getting website visitors. Secret Affiliate Weapon covers promotional strategies such as Pay Per Click, Viral Marketing and Joint Ventures.

Funnily enough, I have been trying to find some resources on the internet for something I want to implement with my Affiliate Marketing and found it on re-reading Secret Affiliate Weapon for this article! Woo-hoo, that saved quite a bit of time.

So, if you are considering giving Affiliate Marketing a go, or are looking for a few different ideas, the I can highly recommend Secret Affiliate Weapon.

And for $9.97 you can’t go wrong!

Here is a simple and obvious statement. To achieve success in the Internet Marketing game, you must get Website Traffic.

OK, this is not a revelation and I don’t proclaim to be the first person to say this. However, It is a simple fact that making money from websites is a numbers game - and that number is website traffic in the form of visitors.

So success is simple. All you have to do is get as many visitors as possible. How? I’ll be covering various methods in my Website Traffic Building Category as my blog progresses. So make sure you keep coming back. Or even better Subscribe Here to be kept up to date.

Here is a really simple example of how it works.

I have a really super niche website that gets about 30 visitors a day coming almost exlusively from the search engines. This website took about 4 hours to set up. I do no work on this website anymore, it just sits there and makes me some money each month all by itself.

It makes money in two ways:

1. Google Adsense
2. Amazon.com

I know that as long as I get visitors it will make money. I know this because of my website statistics, Adsense statistics, and Amazon Affiliate statistics.

I know that for a certain amount of visitors that come to my website, I will make more than $20 from Adsense.

I also know that for every 100 visitors that click through to the Amazon.com products that I am promoting, 4 will buy at least one product and I will make between $10 and $20 per sale.

If you do your sums, you will see that I will never get rich from this website alone. I know that.

But what would happen if I created 100 of these websites for different niches, or I increased the traffic???

You see, it all depends on numbers. If you have a website that is monetized and you get visitors, then you will make money.

Last week I posted my review or Beating Adwords. Today, I’m going to post my Wealthy Affiliate Review.

Wealthy Affiliate is a sort of sister product to Beating Adwords. It is produced by the same two guys, Kyle and Carson, but instead of being a downloadable ebook, Wealthy Affiliate is a members only affiliate marketing website that aims to coach you to success in internet marketing.

What Is Wealthy Affiliate?

The contents of the Wealthy Affiliate website consists of:

• Affiliate Marketing & Advertising Tutorials - Enough material is provided here to provide a novice with the essential knowledge of this subject. Fresh ideas are also provided for people who are already experienced.
• Video Tutorials - These show you around Google Adwords and explain how to set up an account and campaign. These would be really useful to a Google Adwords beginner.
• Keyword Lists - There are several keyword lists that contain many keywords each. Each of these lists is provided with relevant affiliate products. You could easily set up some campaigns with these immediately.
• Private Forums - Newbies and successful marketers gather at the forums to seek and provide advice.
• 1 on 1 Coaching - Kyle and Carson will answer emails promptly to help you out with your campaigns. If you want to, they will log into your Adwords account to give you advice on your campaign. This helped me out a lot on my first campaign (remember to change your passwords afterwards!).

There is a whole load of other resources such as free landing page templates, case studies, and courses that I won’t go into here because it will take too much time. Visit the Wealthy Affiliate Website to find out more.

The primary method taught by Wealthy Affiliate is the PPC - Affiliate Marketing technique, whereby you promote affiliate products through Pay Per Click programs with the desired outcome of spending less on advertising than you make in commissions.

Wealthy Affiliate does not claim to make you rich overnight, but sets out a strategy for building your income over time - with goals of reaching several thousand per month after about 1 year. Many of the subscibers who take part in the private forums are achieving this and helping people who are not.

Is It Worth Joining Wealthy Affiliate?

If you are a seasoned pro at Google Adwords, then you would probably not learn much that is new to you (allthough it might be worth just joining for a month to have a poke around).

If however you are thinking of starting out with Google Adwords or PPC/Affiliate Marketing then I would definitely encourage you to join. I have been a member for a few months now and have no reason to cancel in the near future. I make more money from the ideas I get and utilize than the $29 a month that I am paying.

I have also learned a couple of other techniques from members of the private forum that are nothing to do with PPC, but are earning me extra money.

Click here to visit Wealthy Affiliate.

Related Link: Wealthy Affiliate Review Review of the affiliate marketing program Wealthy Affiliate. Go inside the members’ area to see what’s inside.

Last week I wrote about How To Get Started In Internet Marketing. One of the things that I mentioned that are need to get started is Website Hosting. So let’s take a look at some things that need to be considered when choosing website hosting for the first time.

1. Price - How much do you want to spend and how much can you afford on Website Hosting?
2. Features - What is included in the price of your Website Hosting?
3. Reliability - Will your Website Hosting company let you down.
4. Value For Money - What do you get for your money?

Now that list above depends heavily on the type of websites that you plan to host. So let’s assume that you are starting out in the world of internet marketing and plan to set up a few sites on certain topics to give us a feel for the internet marketing landscape.

OK, now let’s take a look at that list again.

Price Of Website Hosting

If you are starting out, then I would recommend going for Share Website Hosting. This is one step up from free hosting, but there are many different options that you can choose that will vastly affect the price of yor website hosting bill. I’d say to expect to pay about $10 a month for a quality shared website hosting plan.

Website Hosting Features

Things to look for here is stuff that will make your life easier and your website hosting experience faster.

First take a look at the software that can be installed on your website hosting plan with one click installs for software like Wordpress, Joomla and phpBB. This means that if you are not too familiar with setting up databases, ftp and the more intricate aspects of server configuration, then some of the most useful website software can be installed automatically with scripts provided by your website hosting company.

Also take a look at what they in the way software to track you website statistics and what email features are include in your website hosting plan.

Website Hosting Reliability

There is nothing that is more frustrating that your website hosting server being down. Your pages won’t be showing and you won’t be making any money. Unfortunately, server downtime is a fact of life. Check potential website hosting companies for their downtime policy and what you can do incase you website does go down:

• Can you phone them? Some companies have a freephone 24/7/365 support desk.
• Can you email them? Or more to the point, will they answer your emails. I usually fire off a number of questions about their hosting and guage the promptness of replies before committing.
• Is there an online status that is updated with news of issues. DreamHost has an RSS feed that covers this.

Website Hosting Value For Money

You should take a look at how much you will be getting for your money. One thing I would say here is think expandability. If you find that you enjoy and are successful at internet marketing then you will probably want to set up several websites. To keep costs low when you begin, look out for the following in your Website Hosting:

• Multiple Domains - How many domains can you host on one account. Hosting companies like DreamHost and Host Gator offer unlimited domain hosting on some of their Website Hosting Plans. They will cost a couple of dollars more per month, but it is worth paying this.
• Monthly Bandwidth Quota - This is how much traffic your website hosting plan will be able to handle per month. Check out what the charges are for going over your limit.
• Disk Space - This will determine the size of you websites.

So there, in a nutshell, are some considerations for choosing you website hosting. If you have an others, then please feel free to leave a comment.

And my recomendation? It has to be DreamHost because of the ease of setting up website software, unlimited domains, huge bandwidth and disk space, and the online news service for status of their network.

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Beating Adwords covers in detail how to make money on the internet using a combination of Pay Per Click (PPC) and Affiliate Marketing.

What is Beating Adwords?

Beating Adwords is an Ebook that you can download immediately (after paying for it!). It is very easy to read and will dramatically increase your chances of making an income using Google Adwords to promote Affiliate Products.

It is written by two experienced and successful internet marketers Kyle and Carson who also run a website called Wealthy Affiliate that serves as a coaching forum for the information in Beating Adwords.

However, membership to Wealthy Affiliate is not necessary for what you learn from Beating Adwords (but is an extra benefit).

Of course, you could use the information in Beating Adwords to promote your own products too.

What Information Is In Beating Adwords?

Here is what is in the 87 pages of Beating Adwords:

• An introduction that introduces the authors and gives a rundown of making money on the internet, PPC and Affiliate Marketing.
• How to get started with Google Adwords - What Google Adwords is all about and setting up an account.
• A really good explaination of Affiliate Marketing and where you can find great products that convert well.
• How to advertise these products. Setting up all the nitty grit bits and pieces of you Adwords campaign and how to write effective ad copy that sells (when you only have 4 short lines of copy to play with).
• How to outsmart your competition. This is really easy when you know how to configure your landing pages and implement effective bidding techniques.
• Optimizing your Adwords campaigns so that you can increase your Click Through Rate (CTR) and lower you bid prices.
• How to make web pages that sell - this is one of the key ingredients in increasing your conversion rates for a better return on investment. They include examples of effective landing pages that you can use.

Is Beating Adwords Worth Buying?

If you are planning on making money with PPC and Affiliate Marketing, then I would definitely recommend this book.

The bottom line is that as long as you take action on what it teaches you, then you will recover the cost of Beating Adwords quickly, even if it is saving money you would have wasted on in-effective advertising.

Also remember that most people lose money with Google Adwords simply because they are not aware of a few simple techniques that can seperate you from your competitors and convince your prospects to buy your products.

Click Here to visit the Beating Adwords Website.

If you are thinking about starting a business, and don’t want to risk too much money, then there is probably no better choice than Internet Marketing.

When I say Internet Marketing, I’m refferring to the process of promoting other peoples products on the internet to make money on the commissions for sales.

Here are some reasons for Getting Started In Internet Marketing:

1. Low Startup Costs - All you need is a computer, an internet connection and some webhosting space.
2. Time - You can work when it suits you. You can fit it in to evenings and weekends so that it does not interfere with your job.
3. Its Easy - With all the online resources available, you won’t have too much trouble getting to grips with what you need to do to get started.
4. Scalability - As you progress you will find more incomes streams become available. It is easy to scale up your business to accomadate these extra opportunities.

First, let’s take a look at the low startup costs. Low can pretty much mean free in the internet marketing business. To test the water you could set up a blog at Blogspot (or similar) and get a feel for things there.

Then, you can buy some webhosting and a domain name and suddenly everything starts looking professional for less than $100 for the first year.

Now let’s take a look at the time that it takes to get started in internet marketing. Basically you can spend as much time as you like. It fit’s in perfectly as a part time job and as you start making more money it can replace your part time job. If everything goes well, you can take as much time off as you like because your website never sleeps and will continue to make money around the clock.

But how easy is it to get started in internet marketing? Answer: Very easy. It is as easy as buying some domain hosting, getting and open source CMS installed on your website and generating content and implimenting some basic marketing skills to start driving visitors.

And scalability? Well as you start earning money from a couple of sources, you will learn many other ways that you can increase your revenues. The beauty is that once one revenue stream starts ticking over, you can then start on another.. and another.. and another.

So there is a pretty simple explaination of how to get started in internet marketing.

Now that I’ve scratched the surface, I think I will have to write some more detailed articles.

Any comments or suggestions?

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