Beijing 2008 & The Bigger Picture

August 8, 2008 – 9:22 am

8-8-2008… Today is the opening day of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing China and this opens a huge opportunity for Internet marketers to tackle.  The entire world will be watching the Beijing Olympics on the television and you know that country rivalries in sports like football (soccer for those in the US), basketball, track & field, boxing, aquatics and gymnastics are going to be heating up!  This also means that sports fans around the world will be itching to cheer their countries on. 

There is opportunity to promote to sports fans just like any other audience in any other industry online!

Beijing is an event happening in 2008 that only occurs once every 4 years, but what about other events that you can take advantage of throughout the year?

Here are a few HOT events from this year that we personally know people have taken full advantage of marketing online (and made a killing):

- New Years Resolutions (weight loss, quitting smoking)
- NCAA Football Rose Bowl
- Tennis - Australian Open
- Chinese New Year
- Super Bowl
- Valentines Day
- NCAA Basketball Tournament
- Golf - The Masters
- Soccer - UEFA Football Championship
- 2008 Summer Olympics
… and the list goes on

We are constantly on the look out for current events that present great online marketing opportunities and we have a massive list that we give away to all members at Wealthy Affiliate.  The WA Task & Goal calendar provides notifications to members about upcoming current events that they can market online.

During the most recent World Cup Soccer tournament (2006), we set up a campaign where we earned $60 per minute (yes, per minute) during the times that the matches were on each day.  There were 3-4 matches per day, so you can do the math and see that we made a fortune promoting this one sporting event.  This exact opportunity will present its self again many times in the future (in 671 days, 6 hours, 28 minutes, and 51 seconds to be exact!).  There are many other marketing opportunities just like this happening each and every month, and you are missing out if you are not taking advantage of them.

Finding hot niches to promote online can earn you a fortune, and many of these events happen on an annual basis!  Once you’ve promoted an annual event once, you will be able to let things run on auto-pilot for years to come as you will have the marketing campaigns, the websites, the keywords, and the content ready each year when that event rolls around.

You can earn BIG dollars by staying current and up to date with what the hottest events are throughout the year.  If you want to get access to our list, you’ll have to join Wealthy Affiliate!

Get Your List of Hot Annual Events Here

To your profits,

Kyle & Carson
The Wealthy Affiliates
www.wealthyaffiliate.com

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Two-word Landing Page Optimization = 5000% ROI

July 18, 2008 – 9:14 am

You’ve spent countless hours setting up that Pay-per-click campaign or writing articles to drive traffic to your websites, but when traffic gets there you get the ultimate slap in the face… no sales.

Getting your website optimized is something that needs to be priority #1 before you start sending traffic to it. We recently exploded our Return on Investment (ROI) on one of our sites by over 5000%, and we did it by changing just two words.

The way that you word your landing pages will have a huge affect on the amount of cash that you put in your pocket each month. You need to know how to tweak and optimize your landing pages so that you aren’t leaving money on the table. EVERY single visitor that comes to your page is a potential client for life, all you need to do is explain to them why they can benefit from making a purchase from your site. Why is that weight loss product any different from all the rest, and why will it help them lose 10 pounds in 10 days? Connecting with your visitors on an emotional level will set your website apart from all the rest. Hit each visitor with an emotional connection, a great looking page where information flows from one point into the next, key benefits that are easy to find, and a clear pathway to make a purchase.

We’re not joking around when we say that our ROI jumped up 5000% by changing just a couple words, and no, it had nothing to do with changing the price.

If you’re stuck scratching your head and wondering why your visitors aren’t buying from your site, you need to get educated with website optimization.

Small tweaks can = BIG Rewards and earn you hundreds of dollars (if not thousands) more each day.

- Rewording a link
- Changing an image
- Moving an image
- Deleting some of your content
- Color of your text
- Deleting fancy graphics
- Changing a few words
- Tweaking your headline
- and a lot more….

It’s true that a two-minute tweak to a page can make you thousands every month. Testing your landing pages and websites, optimizing your content, and simplifying the flow is something that every marketer NEEDS to know. Don’t let a few words on your landing page hold you back from getting that new TV, or jetting off to Cancun with the family during spring break. Get informed, and let Kyle and I educate you in mastering website optimization at Wealthy Affiliate.

You could be just a few words away from being that success story you’ve read about time and time again.

==> Join us at Wealthy Affiliate and get that website optimization training you need!

To Your Profits,

Carson (and Kyle)
The Wealthy Affiliates
www.wealthyaffiliate.com

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The face of the Internet has just changed…

July 8, 2008 – 12:41 pm

The much anticipated launch of WA Gold has just taken place. We
had a live countdown going within WA by members and we had 100’s of
people email us in excitement of the brand new evolution at Wealthy
Affiliate.

We can honestly say the excitement has increased 10 fold since we
actually launched the new SYSTEMSSS.

Most of you are curious about the “moo-lah” that we are giving
away. What does this mean?

*****System #1: WA Gold

We have added a currency within Wealthy Affiliate and are
essentially creating our own economy. Each month members at
Wealthy Affiliate get more “gold” which they can then give to
fellow members at WA. If you offer value anywhere within WA, you
are going to get gold from others.

This gold is then cashable. You can exchange this for REAL USD at
the end of every month. We are dumping $10,000’s back into Wealthy
Affiliate each and every month to run this economy….and like a real
economy, you have to spend your gold in order for it to work.
Because of this, we made it so that your own gold is not
“cashable”. You can only cash gold given to you, so we encourage
members to give out all of their gold every month.

Members can now earn money right within Wealthy Affiliate….all
funded by yours truly, Kyle & Carson! We were told that we were
too cheap to begin with and NOW we are giving moo-lah away to ALL
members of WA. We are going to get told we are “off our rockers”
for doing this, but we don’t care.

We continually give back to members at WA, when other Internet
marketers are continually taking from you. We truly are different!

Wait, that is not all…

“And what else do you guys have up your sleeves?”

We have made no mention of our second launch that took place….

Consider this one a SECRET launch, but just as big as the WA gold,
if not bigger.

*****System #2: WA Share Zone

This system is going to explode the content within Wealthy
Affiliate. Members can now create their own tutorials, videos,
and upload their own documents right within the Wealthy Affiliate
Share Zone community.

That is right! Now all members of WA can be active content
contributors! Why bother though?

First of all it feels good to help others out, but secondly, this
system is also tied into the WA Gold. If you offer value within a
tutorial that you offer to fellow members at WA, you could earn
residual income for a lifetime! How do you like the sounds of this?

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So get ready for not only a new way to earn money through Wealthy
Affiliate, but an explosion of helpful and powerful content.

The evolution has come….and the Internet marketing world has been
ready for this for a long time.

Join Wealthy Affiliate and take part in this new and improved
community!

Sign-Up HERE!

Take care and have a “golden” day!

Kyle

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A new type of GOLDRUSH coming soon!

July 1, 2008 – 12:09 pm

We hope that you are enjoying your day…and if you are from Canada like us, we hope that you are having a great Canada Day!

We just wanted to let you in on something big, REALLY BIG that is coming to WA next Tuesday.

It is an Internet marketing revolution and to be honest with you, we are not sure how we are going to top this new addition to Wealthy Affiliate. It is probably our biggest innovation and biggest move towards helping as many people as possible succeed online that we have made yet.

The system is called WA Gold, and although we are not going to release exact details until Tuesday, we can tell you a few things about it:

(1) It will allow all members to earn money right within WA
(2) It is going to make WA the place to be for Internet marketing
(3) Quality information at WA is going to grow 10 fold
(4) The already high success rate at WA will skyrocket
(5) WA will simply become the best IM community online

Now, like we said, full details will come on the launch date, but you can definitely take part in the celebration if you are not already a member of WA.

Sign-up Here

This is BIG.

Take care and have a great week!

Kyle

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Our “How To” on Finding Profitable Niches

June 23, 2008 – 1:12 pm

Every single day there are 100’s of frustrated Internet marketers out there banging their heads against the wall for ONE very big reason.

They can’t find a niche for the life of them!!

Quit being so dang hard on yourselves. Niche hunting should be fun, should be ad hoc, and should be a habit if you are a marketer.

I am going to outline one proven and effective niche finding tactic that you can incorporate into your daily research activities. I say “daily” because you should always be doing research, whether you are really coherent to it or not.

Niches will come out of thin air…

When you are at the bus stop, when you are at the shopping mall, when you are flipping through a mag, when you are browsing through Facebook…wherever there are people communicating, advertising mediums or an audience searching to make purchases, there are plenty of niches

Sorry for ranting, but now I will get to the goods…the strategy, the easiest way to find super motivated and hyperactive buyers. People that are ready to make an emotional purchase and all you have to do is put something out in front of them to buy and they will complete the sale!

Look no further than the How To’s.

People that search “how to XXXX” into Google or any other search engine…and even if they are talking about it, are actively looking for a solution to a problem.

That is easy enough, right?

Well, your job is made even that much easier with the addition of new “How To’ Q & A and Wikipediaesque websites.

The following are some of the top “how to” website that you should take some time familiarizing yourself with:

• WikiHow
• eHow
• Yahoo Answers

Spend a couple minutes (or even an hour) on these sites and you are going to have an idea of some of the queries that people are searching online, but also some of the inner intricacies of these audiences.

People wanting to know how to prepare their child for camp…
People are wanting to know how to heal cavities using Ozone….
People are wanting to know how to attend college to become a teacher…

You could pull literally 1000’s of ideas for niches just by roaming these sites. Take some time and learn the “how to’s” within an industry; YOU WON’T REGRET IT!

Take Care,

Kyle

PS. Niches are something we really teach and help people understand within Wealthy Affiliate. If you want to brush up on your niche skills and become a highly successful Internet marketer, we would love to have you on board at WA!

Join Wealthy Affiliate Here!

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Social Networking, Web 2.0, and Internet Marketing

June 17, 2008 – 8:19 am

Carson just poked you…

If you received an email saying that you just got poked by Carson a few years ago, you might think twice about what the heck just happened!

The Internet has changed and web 2.0 is in full affect. Social networks like facebook, MySpace, hi5 and Friendster are changing the face of the web. The most popular sites on the net are no longer run by computer geeks writing code all day long trying their best to come up with content that is interesting for you. Web 2.0 websites and services have a life of their own and allow the “digital” you to make your presence in the online world. Everything is becoming more and more “user” generated.

When you check your email and see that “Carson just poked you” you know exactly what’s happening and you log into your facebook account to find out what I want. Maybe poke me back. No need to say anything, you know that I’m just saying Wazzup!

Social Networking sites are so popular and fun because they have a life of their own. The network is its own entity and it grows, changes, and evolves based on the people who use it. You get exactly what you want when you log into facebook because YOU helped create it. You have your own piece of the Internet, something that your input helped to create.

The old days of Internet marketing have seen a ray of sunlight shining down on them because web 2.0 has finally made its way to the way that people earn money online. Internet marketing is a multi-billion dollar per year industry and there are hundreds of thousands of people utilizing the net to make a living online.

Like Facebook, you now have direct control over the evolution of an Internet marketing social network. Choose your buddies, communicate and work together, share your successes, failures, and learn from other people just like yourself. Wealthy Affiliate is the first fully web 2.0 Internet marketing social network where the system evolves and is developed by you!

We have a vision of where we want Internet marketing to be and how we want to evolve the entire industry. Facebook changed the face of online social networks, and Wealthy Affiliate has changed the way you learn how to make money on the Internet.

Start getting excited… because very soon we’ll be releasing one of the largest and BOLDEST systems ever to hit the Internet marketing scene. We’ve merged a full web 2.0 system into the members area at Wealthy Affiliate to further revolutionize the way that we teach members how to create online streams of income.

So, what’s so bold about the newest web 2.0 system that we’re launching at Wealthy Affiliate?

How about the invention of a new way to make money online. That’s right, we’ve created a new model of social networking that is going to change the industry forever. Very soon, you’ll make money from just being a member at Wealthy Affiliate. Before you even implement a single technique or strategy you’ll be in a position to make money. Its like earning money while you learn.. It’s nothing short of awesome!

Oh, and for all of you current members who actively use the WA system, we’re opening the doors for you to start seeing the benefits of the new system immediately. We’re bringing the term that Wealthy Affiliate is a goldmine to life.

Join Wealthy Affiliate and be on board for the launch in July 2008! We guarantee that existing members of WA are going to earn money right within the system within the first few minutes of the launch.

The fun starts in 2.0 weeks!

Carson

—-> Join Here to Get in On the Action

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An article a day, keeps your campaigns in check…

June 12, 2008 – 10:07 am

All the time we get this…

“How come my article isn’t converting?”

Excuse moi? Did you say article or articles?

The reason most people fail at article marketing is the simple fact that they do not have a regular article marketing schedule. All too often people spend days (and sometimes even weeks) writing that perfect article…that article that is going to make them rich.

I can tell you from experience that you are better off spending 5 hours writing 5 articles, than tinkering around with the SAME article for 5 hours.

Someone that has 5 articles is 5 times more likely to get a page listed within the search engines and at a good position. We recommend that you create yourself a schedule and write 1 or 2 articles/day for a couple of weeks, and THEN analyze what you have done.

At this point you can refine your campaigns as you will likely be receiving traffic at this point.

Think about this.

If you write 1 article per day for an entire year, you will have 365 articles potentially receiving traffic. Say you only average 40 clicks per article throughout the course of the year (some will produce more some less).

You would have obtained 14,600 free clicks in a year. ALMOST 15,000 FREE CLICKS!

If you were using PPC, this traffic could have cost you well over $7000!! This is something you rub in the face of your PPC marketing friends!

One article per day, keeps your campaigns in check! Remember this.

Here are a couple of tips that will help you get listed within the SE’s.

(1) social bookmark your articles using sites like del.icio.us, digg.com, stumbleupon.com, propeller.com, reddit.com. These incoming links will improve the likelihood of your articles getting indexed and also boost rankings.

(2) Submit different articles to different article directories. Some will achieve better results for you than others. A few of the best are:

www.ezinearticles.com
www.squidoo.com
www.hubpages.com
www.usfreeads.com
www.goarticles.com

(3) Use article marketing tools to your advantage. We offer a content creation and article spinning tool within Wealthy Affiliate that will help you generate articles with high quality content and will allow you to spin 100’s of articles in minutes. A successful marketer is an efficient one and this is why we created this tool for members of WA.

On another note, we also provide members of WA with 50 fresh new PLR articles each month…you can use them (straight up), spin them, bust them up, or build guides from them. This is something that will save you both time and money.

Hope this helps everyone out. Have a great day!

To your article marketing success,

Kyle

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Kicking things into HIGH gear at WA (about time we got a blog!!!!)

June 10, 2008 – 3:50 pm

Well, we have finally decided to put together a blog at Wealthy Affiliate. Where the heck have we been and why have we been so “old school” by not having a blog?

Well, our perception was that we never really needed a blog. We could communicate anything and everything that we wanted to our subscribers through email, however we were missing something that is more critical than we ever imagined.

The average visitor to WA that did not want to become part of our newsletter would never get to see how regularly we update WA, the regular messages that we deliver outlining industry news, and the type of Internet marketers we truly are (we don’t like to be consider Guru’s by the way)!

So, here it is…the introduction of the Wealthy Affiliate Blog!

We would like to thank-you first and foremost for visiting our blog, and secondly for bearing with us for the long delay on the addition of our blog. Sometimes we become too member “focused” and lose vision of the people whom are not are members.

Obviously our members at Wealthy Affiliate are first and foremost, but we like to help people…so we would love to help anyone out who visits this blog. We are here for the people, not to get rich off of someone else’s debt or emotions. We have made our money online and now it is time to give back, but we do have to charge a nominal fee for our services.

We continue to introduce things into Wealthy Affiliate that are brand new to the Internet marketing industry…and if you could only be lucky enough to be a “fly on the wall” at our weekly meetings, you would be shocked and warmly surprised as to some of the things that we are introducing to Wealthy Affiliate members…and for FREE.

A list of just a few of the things that have been added to WA over the last year are:

• Site Rubix (full drag and drop website builder)
• Rapid Writer (content creation tool, article spinner, 50)
• WA 3.0 (many new additions and new interface)
• Hot Topics (industry hot topics and news)
• WA Spaces (an interactive community within WA)
• WA Jobs (post jobs and get paid to do work right within WA)
• 50 PLR Articles Monthly (addition of free content for your use every month)

….and the list could go on. You will hear all about the new services that we add in upcoming and regular blog posts. You will want to check back to this blog regularly as we are going to update you with industry news, Wealthy Affiliate news, seasonal bonuses, and tips and tricks you can implement to expand your online business.

Success to all!

Kyle (& Carson)

PS. We have some big freakin’ news coming over the next couple of weeks as we are about to unveil some revolutionary systems and resources at WA! Stay tuned!

If you have been on the fence and would like to join us at WA, we would love to have you on board and help you achieve success online.

Join Wealthy Affiliate Today!

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