Sounds simple doesn’t it?  Well it is if you enjoy writing and find the whole process of generating ideas, carrying out keyword research and writing good content that people want to read, it’s easy.  However,  lots of people find it quite daunting, worrying about what to write, the quality of their writing and how to spark the interest of readers.

If that resonates with you,  you should stop worrying because help is at hand through Wealthy Affiliate. One of the many services available to members is taking part in a challenge to write 30 articles in 30 days.

Yes that’s right 30 articles in 30 days – more if you can manage it.

Does that excite you?  If so great.  Read on.  But even if you’re immediate response was  to say ‘No way!’  still carry on reading.

I’ve taken part in a challenge (more than once) and I wanted to share with you the top ten benefits that I think are to be gained from signing up to take part.

Top 10 benefits of 30 in 30 Challenge

1.    A well written 30 day programme

These challenges are delivered by email on 30 consecutive days with step by step instructions on the tasks for the day.  Everything is written in non technical language which can be understood by everyone including those with little experience.

2.    Good back-up resources

There is a comprehensive range of back up resources (written or video) that show you how to do particular things eg how to buy a domain name and how to set up a website.

3.    Lots of hand holding available (if needed)

Alright there isn’t literally someone holding your hand, but the fact is that there is lots of support and encouragement.  Encouragement comes from Kyle and Carson (founders of Wealthy Affiliate) in the daily emails that drop into your box for 30 consecutive days as well as the support that is available from them and other members of Street Articles through the active and engaged community where you can build your network and connections with other authors. (No one will make you feel foolish).

4.    Establish the habit of regular keyword research

Although a lot of people only do keyword research when they have something specific to write about – taking part in a 30 in 30 challenge will help you get in the habit of carrying out regular keyword research. I spend about 20 minutes a day and find that the research I do is invaluable in writing articles or blog content every day.

5.    Increase your writing speed

Before I tried my first challenge it used to take me about 6 hours to write one article – sometimes longer.  I was always worried that what I was writing wasn’t good enough.  However, if you write regularly you can’t help but increase your speed.  After my first challenge I was down to 2 hrs and now on average it’s 30 minutes maximum to write and 15 minutes to proofread and correct mistakes.

6.    Can significantly increase traffic to your website

Now if you’re hoping that I’ll say by how much – I can’t.  No one could.  But the fact is that if you write good content that readers enjoy and as you build a relationship with them you will find that your CTR (Click Through Rate) from your articles to your website will increase.  I emphasize writing quality content and writing content within a niche you enjoy writing about as it will lead to much higher reader retention.

7.    Obtain high rankings in Google

Through improving your keyword research skills  and choice of keywords you will find that you can gain high rankings within Google.  I have a lots of #1 rankings for my articles and some of them have now been #1 in Google for over 6 months.  My success is due entirely what I have learnt from taking part in the challenge and continually improving my skills.

8.    Establish your expertise as a niche writer – You may in the future want to outsource some of your  article writing, but by taking part in the challenge you will understand what goes into writing regularly and successfully and it helps to establish your expertise in a single niche or several niche areas.

9.    Boost your confidence

I defy anyone not to feel more confident about article writing by taking part in a challenge.  At the end of 30 days some people manage to write far more than 30 articles and others like myself fall short of the target.  Did I get despondent?  Not at all.  The second time I tried the challenge I far exceeded the target because of what I had learnt the first time round.

10.    Increase your knowledge

I don’t know about you, but I believe in lifelong learning.  The great thing about taking part in a 30 in 30 challenge is that you learn so much not just about the art and discipline of writing articles on a regular basis but lots of additional information and networking with other Street Articles authors.

30 articles in 30 days.

Believe me the benefits of taking part far outweigh any doubts you may have about your writing skills.  Are you up for the challenge?

You can join the FREE challenge here!

Good luck!

Beverley
Member of WealthyAffiliate.com
Author at Street Articles (follow me)
Website: Confidence Coaching

This is a logical approach. This is what we have been told to do and over the years we have just grown accustomed to think of a New Year as a reason to set new goals.

There is a major problem with this and we think it is a systemic issue in our society. Sure some of us need to shed a few pounds, earn a bit more money, quit smoking, or make more time for themselves, but these are all SELF CENTERED GOALS.

And these are perfectly OK, however they are not “world changing” like something we are going to be sharing with you could be…

Does you losing 15 pounds or does you getting a better job have a positive impact on anyone but you? Perhaps. Maybe we should rephrase this.

Are your resolutions this year going to POSITIVELY impact the life of someone that you DO NOT know?

If your answer is no, then we want you to at least consider our new way of addressing a New Year. You don’t have to take action on it, but at the very least, can you please spend a second and read what we have to say?

Thanks for your time…we genuinely appreciate it.

The WE New Years Resolution

This year we are going to be doing something completely different. Instead of my usual “ME” goals that are typically self centered, and based around self improvement, we are going to be moving my goals to “WE”, meaning others.

Our goal this year instead of changing something that we are doing, we want to have a positive impact on a few people’s lives that we don’t even know.

Someone that has no idea we may cross their path now, but they will be better off because of the relationship.

We want to change at minimum one person’s life for the better!

Helping someone else this year instead of helping yourself could be instrumental in changing the world in a positive way.

We are living in a world of constant war, economic pressures, negative news, and an abundance of other negative “stuff”, that the positives are overlooked. In fact, people tend to do less “positive” because they feel that as a single person, they cannot make a difference.

Collectively we believe WE (including you) can though!

If you could simply help one or two people in a positive way each and every day or even throughout the year, think of the viral effect of this.

People that get helped in a selfless way (without incentive), tend to be in a better mood. They tend to pay their help forward. It becomes viral in a sense.

It is similar to the coined phrase “paying it forward”, however it starts with helping someone that is in need. It means helping change someones life for the better.

We could all in some degree benefit from change, but what if we helped each other achieve this change. Sometimes it is much harder to change yourself, whereas others can have a changeful impact on your life with relative ease.

We know this is ambitious for me to collectively think that this could change the world, but even if we are the only ones that takes part in this, then we know it has made an impact.

So here it is, our New Years Resolution is about OTHER PEOPLE this year. We think that going forward we are going to do this and we think you should consider doing it as well.

Our “WE” New Years Resolutions

Way we are going to change someones life for the better #1: Sponsor at least one local child that is suffering or lacks some of the basic necessities (food, clothing, gifts)

Way we are going to change someones life for the better #2: Sponsor at least one person in poorer countries who do not have the resources to get their own food, shelter or health care

Way we are going to change someones life for the better #3: Continue pushing the existing community to help 10,000’s (hopefully 100’000’s) get an education in the Internet, to better their lives from a knowledge, financial, and long term perspective.

Way we are going to change someones life for the better #4: Have a positive influence on people’s lives on a daily basis. A positive attitude is contagious in the same way the a negative one can be negative. I am going to challenge negative people with kindness, regardless of the situation.

The part that is exciting about this, is that two worlds are going to connect.

The Impact This Could Have…Imagine…

This can and will become viral if you get involved and get those involved around you. Here is a breakdown the impact that you could have…

If 1,000 people have a positive impact on improving someones lives, these 1,000 people that benefit from this may go on to impact another 1,000…which in turn could equate to 1,000,000 people over time.

Could you imagine if 1,000,000 people went out of their way to have a positive impact on 1,000,000 other people’s lives.

Could you imagine if every single person in a country went out of their way to help ONE person in one way or another.

Could you imagine if this was just something that we did naturally within the world. What an unbelievable place this would be to live, to grow up, to raise families and to co-exist with others.

We are going to hold myself accountable!

We are going to hold myself accountable to achieving what I said I am going to achieve and I will be reporting back on all of it later on in 2012. I would love for you to take part and do the same.

We are also not going to flinch at the idea of having to use my own money if need be. There are tax incentives to donating money, but sometimes this forces us to donate to charities that are loaded with administrative entities that suck up a good deal of your donation. We are going to go to ground ZERO if we have to and deliver my help to the person, not the organization.

We are going to make sure if it takes money (it doesn’t necessarily need to), that it is not going to some big corporation, rather the actual person that needs it. The resources and the benefit go much further this way.

Self Improvement, My Thoughts…

Self improvement is something that you should always be doing and should not be waiting until January to do anyways. If you are overweight, don’t pack your face until the New Year. Make a change now. If you don’t like your job and you need to make a change, do it NOW. Don’t wait.

If you need to quit a bad habit, improve a skill, become more educated, or focus more of your time on your family, DO IT NOW. Don’t wait for some silly date on the calendar to make this change, that seems ridiculous.

We are hoping that you take part in this and if you are willing, please leave a comment on “How you plan on helping others out this year”. Let’s make this the year of the “WE”, not “ME”.

We also hope you can help me spread the word here. If you know of anyone that may be interested in helping others, can you please share this (Facebook, Twitter, Google +, Blog, Email). The more people that take action on this, the better place this world will be for all of us.

Let’s make this world a better place, one person at a time!

Kyle & Carson
Founders of  Wealthy Affiliate
www.wealthyaffiliate.com

PS. We also hope we can positively change your life this year in one form or another.  All the best in 2012!

I know there are a lot of people out there with a lot to say about WA, positive and negative and I wanted to invite everyone here to help create the most elaborate Wealthy Affiliate review on the net.

I am Kyle and I am the co-owner of WealthyAffiliate.com.

It may seem strange that Carson and I are approaching a review of something we own, but we think that this would be the most powerful way to deliver our thoughts on our services, what we like about Wealthy Affiliate, what we know we need to improve upon at WA, and where we are headed with the Wealthy Affiliate community.

And of course, your AWESOME feedback will definitely help this review out, so please be sure to leave your comments if you are an active member of the community or have been an active member of WA at some point in the past.  It will also give you (if you are a non-member) insight into what you can expect and what type of people are members at Wealthy Affiliate.

OK, cool, without any further jabber, here it goes…

What Does Wealthy Affiliate Mean to Us

Most people don’t know this because they do not have an idea of our vision and as an outsider, it may appear that Wealthy Affiliate is just another one of those “make money products”. However, it is far more than that.

Wealthy Affiliate has been a full time investment, passion, and has driven us to help 10,000’s of people since 2005, when the community started as a simple keyword tool site. Since then, we have allowed it to evolve in a flexible manner based on what our “members” want from us.

Believe it or not, many of the decisions along the way have lost us a good deal of revenue in the name of providing more value to the end user. Yes, we do treat WA like a business, but our considerations for improving our service, providing new tools, resources, technologies and training are driven by what will make the community better, not what will make us MORE MONEY.

We don’t do product launches. We don’t promote other people’s junk. And we don’t make crazy claims. Wealthy Affiliate is the only community that we believe in and are passionate about, why would we promote something else.

I am always connected to the community, in fact…you can find me and Carson hooked into WA from your nearest Starbucks on our coffee breaks.

Wealthy Affiliate meets Starbucks

How Wealthy Affiliate Can Help You

Wealthy Affiliate is training. WE are tools. We are services. We are support.

But more than that, Wealthy Affiliate is a community. It is like any other educational platform, you go to school, you have friends to hang out with, you have your teachers that can provide you with lectures, you have labs (tests) that you can do (taking action on what you learn), and if you ever get stuck, there will be MANY people there to give you a hand.

Because Wealthy Affiliate is not a product, rather an open community, it evolves with the times. When something changes in Google or when a new shift in the way we do online business happens, you will know about it. We will invite you to discussions to talk about it. And we will create tools and training to help you with it.

People ask “Can Wealthy Afffiliate Help me succeed online?”.

My answer. YES. That is why we created it and that is why we have maintained the longest standing and most successful service within the Internet Marketing niche.

We teach you techniques that work now. Other people regularly share techniques that work for them. We have close to 1,000 total resources, so we cannot say we teach ONE thing, because we teach 100’s of different techniques you can utilize to earn money online.

Where Wealthy Affiliate Lacks

We believe there are always going to be areas that we lack, but that is exciting to us. We would only be lying to ourselves if we said that we were the best at everything or that we “know” everything. We simply cannot.

What we do do however, is when we realize a weakness or someone brings it to our attention, we actively work to improve upon it. We have the resources and the technical knowledge to do just about anything when it comes to making the WA community better, and we are always working on new developments in the background to make Wealthy Affiliate a better place.

One recent example is Instant help. People were complaining because sometimes there was a delay in getting responses via the forum or through Private Messaging (we respond to every single question we are sent within WA and have done so since 2005!).

That led us to develop our WA Chat system, an instant way for people to communicate within WA. Now people can log into the Wealthy Affiliate members area for their first time and watch conversations going on, join in on conversations, and most important, get answers to their questions RIGHT AWAY!

In 2012 we are going to be improving on some more of our weaknesses. One is instant notification of new techniques and training, keeping our resources updated to the minute, and improving the social interaction within Wealthy Affiliate. Oh ya, and improving the speed, tools, and existing services that are already included in Wealthy Affiliate. It is going to be a busy but exciting year for all members!

Is it Really a Full Support Community?

This is something that people don’t understand that I want to clarify.

Carson and I are ACTIVE within Wealthy Affiliate every single day. I am writing this over the Christmas Holidays after spending the first 3 hours of

Me chatting at WA throughout the day!

my day communicating within WA Chat, responding to Private Messages, adding a blog post within WA, and commenting on some new training that was just created.

Over the years we have written “millions of words” in support and helped people that never thought success was possible to achieve success online. Ultimately, we are there to facilitate your learning and to share our experiences with you.

What we don’t do is DO the work for you. People that succeed online are those that are DOERS…people that take action. And when they get stuck, they ask questions. That is where the community at WA can come in and help.

There is also incentive to partake in the community. In 2012 you can earn an opportunity to meet Carson and myself in Las Vegas, paid by us simply by partaking in the community experience, sharing your experiences, and helping others out in the same way they help you.

Wealthy Affiliate is going to continue to evolve into a far more social animal, a community that spurs ideas, activity, and leads to greater collective successes!

The Technical Engine Behind Wealthy Affiliate

The technology driving the Wealthy Affiliate community is a very sophisticated and powerful engine…something that has been 6 years in ongoing development. With a vast programming team improving on our services and rolling out new updates almost daily, our services, tools and overall technology at WA are only going to continue to get better.

Here are some of the things that we offer all members NOW:

State of the Art Web hosting - State of the art architecture and redundancy. Our hosting runs live back-ups with full redundancy. It runs on the fastest servers available and we limit the number of domains that go on our servers to 20% of that of regular web hosts, allowing for quicker website loading times and greater efficiency.

3 Step Website Installation - Building a website is NECESSARY, but very easy using WP Express within WA. Literally 3 steps and less than 5 minutes of your time you can install a website. Platinum members get unlimited installs, some people run their entire local marketing business using WA hosting and manage 30+ client websites within WA.

Tools for interacting efficiently and building a following - We have a variety of systems within WA that allow you to create and build relationships with fellow members at Wealthy Affiliate, many of which are currently operating million dollar online businesses in many different facets.

Training infrastructure, delivering YOU what you are looking for - Our open source training model allows people to create resources as they see fit, interact within the training, and to comment on training inadequacies. The training at Wealthy Affiliate is diverse and covers a wide range of topics, but of utmost importance, it is current.

Leveraging research tools to increase your reach - We continue to build onto existing research and keyword tools within Wealthy Affiliate, improving their practicality for the “new age” of the Internet. This includes understanding Google competition, understanding social metrics, and being able to decipher other web pages in an efficient way.

I could spend another 5,000 words explaining systems that are within WA, but I don’t want to overwhelm you. I just want to say that if you can dream of it and you can request it, we can provide it and WE WILL provide it.   Here is a quick snapshot of the main menu within WA as a quick example..

We offer a lot, in fact 6+ years in the making!

WA is never stagnant and every year we roll out no less than 50 updates within the community. This upcoming year is going to be no different.

Your Wealthy Affiliate Review

Carson and I would love for you to provide your feedback, comments and opinions on the WA community. Be honest with your reviews. If we have helped you, let us know. If you see a weakness, let us know. Your review of Wealthy Affiliate means a lot to us!

WA has and will continue to evolve in 2012. It is going to be our most exciting year with the biggest changes yet!

Kyle (& Carson)
Wealthy Affiliate Owners
www.wealthyaffiliate.com

We are welcoming a brand new year. 2012 is here folks which means some very exciting things.

First off, some exciting things for you. If you join Wealthy Affiliate before January 7th, 2012 at MIDNIGHT we are going to be giving you a fantastic bonus package.

On top of the massive amount of awesomeness you get when you join Wealthy Affiliate, we are also going to be giving you access to our New Years Extravaganza 2012 Package.

Here is what you get in the New Years Extravaganza 2012 Bonus…

(1) Traffic Explosion 3.0. This is the third iteration of a guide that I created initially about 9 months ago when I landed my initial 10,000 clicks in a few days using a simple “charlie sheen” technique that only took me 15 minutes! It has since evolved to get my article views over 90K, and I have diversified in the 3.0, including some brand new techniques that will work like a “traffic charm” in 2012.

(2) 1,000 Frickin’ Low Competition Keywords.  I hunted high and low for some awesome keywords…and I found A LOT of gems. People try to tell you that there are not many keywords out there left, but I can honestly say I have just brushed the surface. These are keywords that can likely get you rankings in MINUTES in Google and other search engines. These will work unbelievably well with the traffic techniques I give you in Traffic Explosion 3.0.

(3) 500 Keyword Rich Domains - Ever wanted a domain that could get you IMMEDIATE traffic and rankings in Google? It is possible to do with top two and three word .com and .org domains. We have spent a considerable amount of time coming up with 500 of these, high traffic, low competition keyword rich domains. You can buy these and instantly resell them for a profit, you can leverage the traffic you get from them and earn money, or you can put a site up….get it ranked, and flip it for even a higher profit!  Keyword rich domains like this are typically sold for $50+ each!

If you are reading this and you are an existing member of Wealthy Affiliate already, don’t worry, you will get this bonus as well. It will be released within the members area on January 7th!

If you are not a member yet, Sign-up here to make sure you get your very OWN New Years Extravaganza 2012 Package!

OK…let’s talk about 2012 and what it is going to mean to us and what it is going to mean to you…

2012 in Wealthy Affiliate Land

Big things are going to happen, and this is going to be quite apparent in the way WA molds to conform to the new age of Internet. We have many plans in the works for 2012 that is going to allow for brand new innovations, brand new opportunities, greater member networking, and ultimately many more successful members.

Our goals it to HELP people first and foremost. I ranted in one of my most recent posts about GURU’s and the products out there that are teaching misinformation…and believe me, there is a lot of it.

A few things that you NEED to SUCCEED in 2012 are:

(1) A website
(2) An understanding of content
(3) Understanding the concept of sharing
(4) Branding and passion in a niche you LOVE
(5) Transparency

And a community that “cares” on your site. One that offers you all the support you need until you can find success. One that helps build your foundation so you can do whatever you like online and get rewarded for it. One that provides you all the tools you need to create this and all the training you need to understand it. That community is Wealthy Affiliate.

The years of “fun” marketing and building REAL online business are here. The blackhat marketers & the gamers are going to be left in the dust, and those that prevail are those that are passionate about what they are doing and enjoy talking about their business.

Things that you no longer need to care about and should avoid are:

(1) Backlinks
(2) Auto-blogging, auto-submitting, auto-anything for that matter
(3) Using broken old article directories like EzineArticles and ArticlesBase
(4) Spinning Content
(5) Squeeze Pages
(6) Review websites
(7) High Page Rank Websites
(8) Creating your own Clickbank product

Some of those may come as a shock to you, but as I said, there is a TON of misinformation out there.

If you are getting backlinks still, good luck getting rankings in Google. This is likely hurting you more than it is benefiting you. Anything auto or spinning, is unhealthy…and there are a ton of misconceptions about websites, web pages, what to put on them.

Are you ready for success in 2012? I hope so!

Again, If you join WA before January 7th, you are not only going to be joining the top online business community online, you are going to get the New Years Extravaganza 2012 Package!

Before we leave you today, here is a quick update of the upcoming “members online” LIVE video training coming in January:

January 6th, 2012: FREE Traffic Methods – Leveraging the MANY free traffic outlets online

January 13th, 2012: Being a Vendor vs. Affiliate – Which one is for you?

January 20th, 2012: The Business of Local – The Global Local Business

January 27th, 2012: Pimpin’ Out Your Pinterest! – Taking advantage of the latest social community

Enjoy your holidays and Happy New Year!

Kyle (& Carson)
Wealthy Affiliate
www.wealthyaffiliate.com

Want to know why this frustrates Carson and I so much?

It is not that we have to compete with these people for business. It is not because we feel that their products or services are superior. It has nothing to do with the amount of money they make.

The reason is that people ASSUME simply because they have been scammed in the past, that we are a scam. The crooks out there are ruining it for the rest of us that actually want to help people out, help people succeed…

It has to do with the fact that “consumers” become completely JADED from the whole niche. They have been lied to, they have been ripped off, they have been promised things they never received, and they have basically been bent over by an entire slew of GURU’s.

Because of this, I wanted to provide you with a list to give you “tell tale” signs that you may be dealing with a guru. These are characteristics that most gurus have and if you see anything that fits this list, you should be VERY weary. And for those of you out there with make money products, I hope you don’t make it into my Top 10.

Here we go, in David Letterman “fashion”…

Top 10 Ways to Tell if You Are a Guru!

(10) You brag day in and day out about money or a launch you did 3 years ago…

(9) You launch a clickbank product per year and you use clickbank screen captures from your last product launch to sell your new product.

(8) You are part of a “mastermind”, “joint venture”, or “super millionaire” group.

(7) You promote a new product every week to your list.

(6) You promote a new product every week and you don’t know what it is?

(5) When you consider upselling and downselling your product before you care to think about your CUSTOMER.

(4) You create a “make money” product before you know how to make money.

(3) When the name of your product name or website has “fast”, “project”, “push button”, “cash”, “super”, “millionaire”, “quick”, “instant’, “crusher”, “launch”, “commission”, “system”, or “clickbank” in it.

(2) You claim that a product can help you earn $100,000+ in a month.

(1) When you think you are a GURU.

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There are positives for us here though…

When people join WA, they are ecstatic. The realize we are real and we actually care about our members. They feel as though they have finally found something that works and is a save haven from GURU’s.

You have a question for us, you get an answer. We are INSIDE WA every day, chatting with people using our instant chat, building resources, and behind the scenes, building new technologies and services that will only continue to increase what WA offers.

One of the main questions we always get is “why we don’t promote other people’s products like all of the other GURU’s out there?”. My response is simple.

We cannot ethically promote anything out there.

Trust me, if we could find something that was high quality, and was as cost efficient as WA, and provided the same sort of value that we do, we would promote it. Seriously.

However, all of the $1997 products, the $5,000 mentoring packages, and the 10,000’s of $27, $47 and $97 products out there pale in comparison.

Have you been taken by a guru in the past?

If you are a member of WA and you are reading this, I would love to hear your thoughts.

If you are not a member, I would love to hear about your experiences thus far.

Our goal in 2012 is to make the Internet a safer place!

Have a Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and a Happy New Year. We will be in touch in early Jan. Lots of exciting stuff coming!

Cheers,

Kyle
Co-owner WealthyAffiliate.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/kyle.wealthyaffiliate

Every week at Wealthy Affiliate, we have weekly discussions about certain topics related to online business, Internet marketing, and sometimes they are just wide open and can be about any random topic.

This week’s topic happened to be on “OUR SECRET to 10 Years of online success”, a subject that is obviously very near and dear to Carson and myself. Also a topic that comes as second nature to talk about.

Today I wanted to share a bit of the dialogue that went on in this discussion, as I think you would find some value in it. Remember, Carson and I created success from nothing. From $0. From no knowledge. And well, here we are 10 years and many successful businesses later…

So here it is, our discussion for you to read, enjoy, and critique (please note that I left the conversations raw and unedited, there may be some spelling/grammar mistakes).

“OUR SECRET to 10 Years of online success” Live Discussion Excerpts

WA Member Question: Did you also struggle with simple things like setting up domains and hosting?

Kyle’s response: Absolutely, you are not just born with technical skills. When we started out, website development was much harder than it is now. You needed to know HTML, you need to know how to manipulated templates, you needed to know how to create your own graphics. The actual process was probably 10x longer than it is now to create a website, if only there were CMS like WordPress when we started out, things would have been much easier.

The thing about technical stuff is that once you do it once or twice, you know it. You don’t lose it. You don’t forget it and you will be able to do it going forward without having to worry about relearning anything….and you can also help others.

WA Member Question: Hey Kyle, I know building a website was different back then, but most of your success came from paid traffic correct? (google adwords) I know google adwords was much much different back then.. they are very strict now..

Kyle’s response: Yes, correct. A good deal of my earnings were a result of paid traffic back 2002-2005. At the core, SEO would have been just as appropriate a technique and many people were doing that and doing very well, but Carson and I were focused on techniques that worked for us. When we started Wealthy Affiliate we had experience in SEO and building lists, but our expertise was primarily in the PPC, web development and “helping people” line of business.

The underlying strategy for success online has not really changed. The ideologies have not changed.

You have a person and you have a product. As an affiliate your job is to connect these two items. As an advertiser, your goal is to get traffic and you do this through creating quality content that search engines like (which is a result of people liking it). The mediums have changed though. They were far more PPC and SEO based back then, now there are far more mediums to do this as people are much more connected. Social, building leads, engaging in content, apps, etc. The principles have not changed, the mediums for which it is delivered has…and in my opinion, the opportunity has grown as far more people are connected now.

WA Member Question: I am just confused, because it seems like you need to know so much…and there are so many different ways to achieve success.

Kyle’s response: Once you figure out YOUR formula, you can scale. When Carson and I worked independently of each other, we did very different things. Sure we were in the PPC and SEO worlds (primarly PPC at first), but our strategies, our apporach, and our niches were much different. What we did is we took what worked for us, and then we continued to build on that.

People get far too distracted. They buy new ebooks to learn new techniques, when most of the time these are written by people who just “theorize” about whether or not it will work. They are making money off of selling the book and if you asked them to implement what they teach, they would be screwed.

I focused on what I knew, what I learned through failing and succeeding, and built off of that. Everything can be turned into a process once you have a formula down, and any process can be scaled.

WA Member Question: How do you approach failure? How often do you fail?

Kyle’s response: I fail all of the time. I believe that learning how to fail and accept failure is critical to success within any business. How you address failure is what will lead you to much more success in business.

I only know what I can know, so sometimes “trying” new things is the only way to learn. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn’t. If it works, that is great…and I take mental note. If it doesn’t, I know what not to do next time. Knowing what not to do is sometimes far more powerful as knowing what to do.

WA Member Question: How did you go about finding products to promote that you were passionate enough about?

Kyle’s response: If you are passionate enough about your niche, you will be just as passionate about the products within it. You can give people the option as does any store out there, as some people like lower cost, but not as good products where some people want the “premium” products and are willing to pay the premium price to get these. You just need to understand that everyone is not going to want the exact same type of product…that is why stores like Walmart are so successful, because they let people decide on options within the exact same product niche.

Things are much easier and better for you online, as you can create relationships with people and offer insights into products, services, and programs.

WA Member Question: So what would you say the 10 secrets of today are? not what worked 10 years ago, 1 year ago, 1 month ago, 1 week ago, or even yesterday, but what works today that is not over saturated already?

Kyle’s response: First, the secret is that there is no secret. People who tell you otherwise are just trying to sell you something, like their debunk product.

Secondly, what worked 10 years ago for the most part still works today. The principles that is. People have not changed that much, the mediums in which they communicate, share and buy things have changed. I think that if you approach this like a business and not a scheme, then you will be setting yourself up for success. People that think this is “push button” and they get sucked into the idea of that are bound to fail.

Your success comes down not to the niche that you choose, it comes down to how you approach the niche. Your drive, passion and persistence within a niche makes it successful. I hate it when people say “I am going into the weight loss niche because lots of people are making money with it”. Sure there are, there are lots of people making money within every niche. That doesn’t mean it is necessarily a good idea for you to. If you are not interested in it, you will not be able to connect with an audience. That connection and that passion will be very evident in everything you do.

The thing that has changed the most over the 10 years is the transparency online and the emphasis that this is truly a people business, not a snake oil salesman biz.

WA Member Question: Read somewhere that with all businesses we are actually in the business of marketing …., not necessarily in the business of selling shoes or e-books etc, I think that the main thing is to market whatever it is with integrity.

Kyle’s response: I agree, market with integrity. I like it. When it comes down to it, a long term business is built off the brand they create, not a singular product they launch. In the online world, this could just as easily be your personal brand.

WA Member Question: Since google is very strict now.. what paid methods do you recommend?

Kyle’s response: Google is fine for PPC if you are promoting your own product/service, if you are an affiliate they are far harder on you, in particular within the Search Network.

There are actually many opportunities for ad buys out there. Singular websites are willing to sell you ads if you contact them. Why not approach a site that is ranked under “search term a”, one that you want to get traffic from, and offer to pay them for an ad on their site. I think you will get a decent response.

There are also places like Facebook ads, LinkedIn which are popular, but again moreso for driving people to your business. That is why I promote the idea of creating a business, you could be in the business of helping people within a certain niche, and this will act as a business. If you potray yourself as a vaccuum salesman as the first impression, then people are less likely to do business with you and this includes Google, Facebook, and your website visitors.

WA Member Question: 10 years is a long time, ever think about changing businesses?

Kyle’s response: No, at first I didn’t know I WAS a business, I was just doing something that I enjoyed doing and earned me money. Over the years I learned a lot about business, through trial and error, through failure and through successes.

As for changing businesses, that is a tough questions. I think we have evolved so much in the last 5-6 years alone (as has the Internet) that I do not feel like we are doing the same thing as we did then. Next year I will probably feel completely different about the business we are operating as well. That is what makes this so interesting, appealing and exciting to us.

Yeah, that is the Internet. Change is inevitable, but change is exciting…and change is happening to everyone around us. The conventional way we live, think, learn and earn money is shifting…so people better get used to it.

WA Member Question: 10 years though, are you happy like this? I mean you’re here every single day

Kyle’s response: Yeah, still happy buddy. Change and growth are the two things I find most interesting…and creating technologies and services that help people.

Growth doesn’t mean money necessarily either. It could be user based, it could be new technology, it could be seeing new ideas materialize, it could be an entire different business.

If I wasn’t happy, I can honestly say I would be doing something else.

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There you have it, some of the snippets from the dialogue discussed amongst myself and members at Wealthy Affiliate.

We enjoy doing these every week and if you are interested in connecting with us, we would love for you to partake in the upcoming one. There is only one pre-requisite, you have to be a member of WealthyAffiliate.com. You can join here!

Here is what we will be talking about this upcoming week.

Live Discussion Date: Wednesday, December 21st, 2011

Topic: Content, content, content (how to get it ranked)

Most people are doing content wrong. This likely includes you. If you are still writing for keywords, back-links, and trying to appeal to Google, then you have it all WRONG.Get ready for us to RIP APART Google Panda, analyze the many “content related” changes that have taken place in the past year, and give you a working “content business model” that will work for YEARS to come! Panda approved!

Hope to see you then!

Take care,

Kyle
Co-owner of WealthyAffiliate.com

As we near 2012, there are exciting things to look forward to in the coming year. There are also many landmines that we need to be aware that can lead to a lack of efficiency from a cost and time perspective.

In this post I am going to discuss some areas of concern and open up some dialogue on certain concepts that are often misconstrued, misrepresented, and misused.

2012 is going to be your best year yet if you do things right and prepare for the new world of Internet marketing.Ready for some honest insight into what I think 2012 is going to look like? Want to know about something we are giving away to members of Wealthy Affiliate on January 1st, 2012?

Read on…

Social Ain’t Going Anywhere

Many of you are late to acquire social…many of you are probably reluctant to utilize social media for your businesses, for your website, and as a medium to share information.I am not going to lecture you here, but you need to understand that your business CAN benefit from social media. It can also lead to some major inefficiencies (can be a waste of time) if you overuse it.

You need to find out what works for your business and for your brand. No entity is the same and none should be treated the same.

So which ones should you use? At the minimum you should familiarize yourself with Facebook and Twitter. For 2012 I am predicting that Google is going to take a run at Google+ trying to force it upon people by integrating it much more heavily into search. You can prepare yourself by getting an account if you have not already done so.

There may be new up and comers that you should adopt as well, but it comes to management. It is tough to manage MANY different social profiles at once, so do what works for you.

One of the biggest aspects of social is SHARING. Getting your content out there is becoming much easier thanks to social mediums. Content can become viral very quickly and if you make content quality a core focus of your website, then you will see a significant amount of traffic coming to your site.

Are you still SELLING?

As I explained in a post that I wrote a while back, Hard Selling Ain’t Cool. I meant it. People are spending far too much time online trying to sell stuff. The Internet is not a vehicle for the hard sell, it is a medium people go to get informed…if you can help them out and build a relationship with them, then maybe you are going to be able to turn them into customer…perhaps a lifetime customer.

I am still seeing it all the time. People with weak “promo only” websites, people with review pages that are sell, sell, sell, and sites that are basically a replication of the sales page.

Not good!

Think of your experience online. Do you go to a site that is a promo and say, “this page is so awesome…I really trust this site!”?

Likely not.

All it will take is you to review your own website or blog as a viewer or get a friend to take a peak to let you know if it is delivering. You are in the people business and if you don’t deliver to your visitor, there are billions of other sites they have to choose from (and they will).

Another issue I still see is people promoting a product because they “think” it will sell rather than knowing the product or being a user of the product. How can you recommend a product if you don’t know it is a good product.

Selling stuff becomes so much easier if you are a user.

Think of all the stuff around you that you use on a daily basis and love. These would be easy for you to sell. If you are going to review a product, know enough about it that you can help someone make an educated purchasing decision. Don’t become a grimy sales person just to earn money, it will only earn you a bad reputation and a short term stay in the business world.

A curator, who are they and does it matter to you?

Search engines are going to become less and less important in our day to day lives. If you don’t believe me, then let me explain the change that has already started to take place.

People are hungry for information, this is a static. People will always want info.In the past people have gone to Google to get information for everything. From news, to how to sites, to content revelation (finding stuff they didn’t know they wanted to know). Now with the influx of tablets, apps, and curation tools and curators (people that don’t create content, rather they distribute it).

Now content is getting found without the help of Google. It is getting found through other mediums. For example, I love many of the apps out there for finding news, Pulse and Zite to name a few.

People will always use search in some form, so don’t think your SEO efforts are going to waste. They aren’t. What you need to consider is the rest of the content mediums that will continue to search for and find content that is valuable and that offers a quality user experience.

You want reach? Think about the end user reading your content, not the keywords within the content.

Is everything becoming FREE?

Not necessarily, but people are much more conscious of their dollar these days and are not paying for things they typically once paid for. Information is a big one, and with the rate at which technology is advancing, there are many services that are using the ad based model to drive their businesses.
As an online business, you can leverage MANY of these free services to drive additional business and to use as productivity tools for your business.

Here are a few of my favorites..

• Websites (blogger.com, weebly.com)
• Authoring Content, Submission (streetarticles.com)
• Social mediums (twitter, facebook, linkedin, googleplus)
• Keyword Research (google external, jaaxy free version)
• Documents, Spreadsheets, Diagrams, PDF creator (Google Docs)
• Image modification (Pixlr, Splashup)
• News alerts, product alerts (Google Alerts)
• And the slew of phone and tablet apps that are out there.

As a marketer, you have a ton of tools that can lead you to an efficient, bootstrapped business without having to spend a ton of money. Not to mention the best Internet business training out there is only $47 per month (shameless plug).

Not everything is going to be free, but as technology prices lower, more and more free businesses are going to enter the market. A user base is worth something to companies and we as users, get to take advantage of that by using many tools and services for free…as well as getting a ton of information for free.

Education should not cost more than a car!

News alert:manufacturing jobs are disappearing and so are jobs that can be outsourced. These may include some of the jobs that some of you are currently doing or know someone that is doing. The content/writing, call center, tech support, programming, manufacturing, even personal assistants.

We (Carson and I) get this, and it is the reason why we have not just created an “info” platform at Wealthy Affiliate. We have created and continue to build new services, technologies, and support mediums into the community.

Info itself has become far less valuable, the way it is delivered, the supporting tools and systems, and the support/communication mediums are where the real value comes in.

I can honestly say that a year from now there are going to be far less $1997 info products slamming into the market.

I am sick of seeing people getting ripped off by these, and I know there are many people that are exhausted from the 1000’s of people promoting a new product like this every week.

I also think that people are going to smarten up to the costs of education within the offline world (I hope). The practical and applied knowledge that you can learn from an education on the Internet (and one that is current) is becoming vital to your function within the work place. If you don’t know the Internet business, then you are probably going to limit your potential as either an employee or a business owner. This will give you the upper hand.

Pretty much everything can be done on the Internet these days, and pretty much everyone is on the Internet several times throughout the day. Why wouldn’t you want to be part of these and educate yourself in it? You are only increasing your value!

Amplifying Efficiency and scalability

Outsourcing is cost effective and can lead to scalability. It is only continue to grow as more people become aware of it as an opportunity to not only make money (through doing the work), and people can leverage cheap labor to get a lot of the tasks completed that they do not want to do and will allow them to grow.

If you are only one person or only a few person operation, it can be difficult to scale. You eventually tap out your resources (there is only so much time in the day), and by outsourcing tasks like website development, content creation, social profile management, etc…it can allow you to focus on growing your business.

Outsourcing has changed though. A lot of people have entered the global “outsource force”, meaning that there are good workers as well as not so good workers. That is life, but you should treat any outsource work you do as a business relationship. It is not simple, it should be done with care.

Not everyone is a good worker, I can attest to that (I would even say that most people do not produce quality). So treat your outsourcing as a company would any hire. Do your due diligence, ask for work samples, and get a small job done before you sign into a big contract.

Proper outsourcing can lead to scalability and is going to be something that is going to continue to be used heavily by online and offline businesses in 2012. Why would you hire local help when you can get the same thing done in a far more cost effective manner online?

Shed the tasks that you don’t want to do and become better at the tasks that you like doing!

New Years 2012 – A Internet Marketing Resolution

We are starting the New Year off with a Bang!

On the week of January 1st – 7th... we are going to be launching a New Years Resolution package to ALL active members of Wealthy Affiliate. We are doing this in pure appreciation for our members and the fact that so many people have stuck with us over the years. 6.5 years later and Wealthy Affiliate is at the top of the game, with a TON of awesome stuff coming in 2012.

Here is the BARE MINIMUM we are going to be offering all members:

• At Least 300 Keyword Rich and Highly Valuable Domain
• At Least 1500 Low Competition, Easy Ranking SEO Keywords
• A Guide to Success in 2012 – Traffic Explosion 3.0 Style!

Lots of things to look forward to and Carson and I personally believe that some of the things that are coming to WA are going to send shock waves through the industry…but are very good and will lead to greater member success rates.

WA is going to be the place to be in 2012 if you are looking to scale your success in the ever elusive Internet world.We wish you all a wonderful holiday season!

Cheers,

Kyle (& Carson)
Wealthy Affiliate
www.wealthyaffiliate.com

And I am typically not very good at leaking secrets, but in this case, I happily will.

So you know exactly what you are getting yourself into right?

If you have taken a look at our site, you will know we offer all members…from the training, the tools, the services, to the support…I could go on and on.

BUT we haven’t detailed exactly what is coming up. That is why I wanted to touch base with you today and let you know EXACTLY what you have to look forward to when parting with your hard earned $1 dollar.

Unbelievable Live Video Training w/ Full Q & A Sessions!

LIVE @ WA on November 24th Video
Topic: Everything Google +, Business pages, and Authorship

Google +.  Is it a waste or should you be taking advantage of it.  If you don’t have at least one foot in the water, you may be missing out on driving more business, more traffic, and building your brand even further. This live video training will be targeting….

LIVE @ WA on November 28th, 2011
Topic: A COMPLETE Walk through of Wealthy Affiliate

This is a special training module specifically dedicate to the Black Friday Folks! WA is BIG, POWERFUL and a VASTLY AWESOME place.  We want to simplify the system for you, show you where you find all the training you need, where to start, where to go, how to get help, and how to leverage all of the components of Wealthy Affiliate to your maximum benefit.  You are not going to want to miss this one.

LIVE @ WA on December 2nd, 2011
Topic: The New World of Backlinks, 2012 Style

Backlinks are useless.  If you are using backlink services, you are wasting your time.  If you are paying for backlinks in any shape or form, you are wasting your money.  There are only a few quality ways to get backlinks left and they are likely not what you think they are.  Article spinning, backlink membership sites, backlink services, auto comment submitting, and pinging are ALL outdated techniques that can adversely affect your Google rankings.  Be here for this live training!

LIVE @ WA on December 9th, 2011
Topic: Create your own damn brand!

Fumble around the Internet for another minute without considering your brand and you are wasting a lot of potential.  Your brand is important.  Not just your business brand, but your personal brand.  We want to show you exactly how you can set up your online business for branding success..from start to finish.

LIVE @ WA on December 16th, 2011
Topic: Social Local

I’m local. Your local. We all contribute to social local.  There is a huge business in building local businesses social profiles.  There is also a huge business in marketing yourself through social channels to reach a local audience.  If you are a local marketing expert or you want to learn about the social local opportunity, chime in for this one.

LIVE @ WA on December 22nd, 2011
Topic: Getting Graphic with it

Graphics, text, font, and overall site appeal can make the all the difference in the world.  We are going to show you how you can quickly create your own graphics, where to find quality graphics, which colors work best and way, and provide you with some cool worksheets you can follow when you creating your websites and blogs!

LIVE @ WA on December 30, 2011
Topic: SECRET (I can’t tell you this)

LIVE @ WA on Jan 6th, 2011
Topic: Another SECRET (I also cannot tell you about this one)

Live Chat Discussions With Kyle & Carson

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011
Topic: Hidden gems within WA

WA is vast and many people overlook much of the system they can really benefit from.  Many people don’t know about many of the aspects within WA that you can harness to earn far more money than you can imagine.  This discussion is going to be awesome and going to really show you how incredibly valuable WA is to your Internet Marketing LIFE!

Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
Topic: The Future of Social

Social is here and social is here to stay.  A few years from now we are not going to be referring to social with a name, it will be LIFE.  There are many facets of social marketing that are quickly changing and we want to point you in the direction of what works now…and have an open discussion on what Social holds in the future!

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011
Topic: OUR SECRET to 10 Years of online success

You will not want to miss this one! There is a lot that people don’t know about Carson and I and I truly believe there is a lot you can learn from us.  We are going to reveal why WE think we have been able to succeed for a sustained period of time in this completely open discussion.  Ask us what you want, find out what we have learned about failure, and what ultimately has lead us to years of success and the creation of SEVERAL multi-million dollar businesses.

Wednesday, December 21st, 2011
Topic: Content, content, content (how to get it ranked)

Most people are doing content wrong.  This likely includes you. If you are still writing for keywords, backlinks, and trying to appeal to Google, then you have it all WRONG.  In this discussion we are going to rip apart Google Panda, the changes that have taken place in the past year, and give you a working “content business model” that will work for YEARS to come.  Panda approved!

Do you have to pay extra for these LIVE video training sessions @ WA, or the personal and interactive live discussions with Carson and I?

HECK NO!

These are included as part of your $1.  Man, I have never seen a dollar go so far in my life.  Have you?

Remember, no obligations to stay at WA.  If we suck, tell us!  If we are awesome, stick around.  Nothin’ more to it.

So here we are.  You with $1 in your hand (likely in your Paypal account or on your credit card)…and us guys here at WA.  We have parted with what I think is $1,000’s in real, tangible value in exchange for your one dollar.

A spectacular deal and one that you will NEVER see again.

We are offering something GOOD…feel free to share the GOODNESS!

Also, I know many of you that have friends, family, people you like, and maybe even people you don’t like that would be interested in taking part in this offer.  You can share this in many ways:

• Click the Facebook Like button (on the left side of this page)
• Email a friend this page
• Share it with your network on Linked In
• Stumble it, Digg it, Mixx it, Reddit
• Twit it, I mean tweet it (on the left side of this page)
• Write a story about it on your blog or website
• Tell someone about it (yes, there is communication outside of computers)
• Send it out at work, just make sure your bosses don’t come down on you.  I am not responsible for you getting fired.
• Or just keep it to yourself, completely up to you

Again, this offer may seem to good to be true.  It is real and it is the LAST time we will be running this.  Access for an entire month to the #1 Ranked Internet Marketing Training/Tools/Service/Support for $1. Unheard of really.

Our goal in the upcoming month is to help you realize your potential, help you to start and grow a business, and prepare you for the year ahead in Internet marketing.

I look forward to meeting you!

Kyle
Co-owner of Wealthy Affiliate
www.wealthyaffiliate.com

PS.  If you have any comments, questions or just want to say what’s up, leave your comments below.

MASSIVE Internet event.

We are doing something crazy!

We are doing something we have never done before.  We are doing it all in the name of “YOU”!

We are giving YOU full access to Wealthy Affiliate for an ENTIRE MONTH for an unbelievable price of ONE BUCK.  This is a 98% discount!

No catches.  No annoying upsells or pitches.  And no limitations to your account access.

And we want you to be PREPARED on the day of the launch.

On Black Friday, November 25th you are going to notice a change on the Wealthy Affiliate order page.  The change is going to be  simple.  You will be able to join WA for $1, for one full month!

This offer is only going to be available for 4 Days!

Black Friday, November 25th  @ 9AM EST – Cyber Monday, November 28th @ 11:59PM EST (mark in your calendar)

It is nearing the holiday season and we are feeling generous.

We feel that we offer so much but people are used to being scammed.  Therefore we want you to give you a full access experience to Wealthy Affiliate, no restrictions, full access to support our entire training suite, and all the tools and services.

If you like us, you stick around and pay the low price of tuition of $47..  If you don’t, it was still $1 well invested.

There is a reason why we are still here and every other Internet Marketing community has dissolved.  There is not a single membership site that has been able to survive since 2005 and there is a reason for that.

We care.  We help people.  We continue to innovate.  We continue to evolve.

What is Included for your $1?

Everything at WA.  I could create a huge list here, but it would take up the whole page.  Actually, to make a point of emphasis, I am going to tell you exactly what you are going to get in this upcoming month when you join WA for $1.

• 4 Live Video Training Sessions
• 4 Live Chat Sessions (Hosted by Carson and Kyle)
• 30 day success club, with daily actionable tasks
• State of the Art Web Hosting (for up to 3 domain installs)
• 3 WordPress Express website installations, install an awesome looking website in seconds
• Access to us (Kyle & Carson) personally if you have any questions
• Over 500 training videos, manuals and resources
• Our database of over 60 hours of Live Video Training
• Your own social profile, your own space, and your own WA blog
• Our famous forum, with 447,168 posts!
• Ability to create LIVE chats on any topic and join 100’s of active training discussion
• INSTANT support.  If you need help, there will always be someone there!
• Acclaimed keyword research and niche finding tool, in fact FIVE of them
• Article Writing tool, keyword density checker
• Link cloaking and traffic analysis tools
• Campaign and task management tracking
• Network with 1,000’s of other Internet marketers
• Hot Affiliate Program finder, find the trending affiliate programs
• Facebook and Twitter revenue generation system (click a button, earn money…really!)
• WA Jobs, outsource your work or get paid to do jobs right within WA.
• and this is just the start…

This is ALL included for your $1.  I know, seems unbelievable right?  No jokes, no hidden fees. $1, one month, full access to Wealthy Affiliate!

Why YOU Need to Join…

It is $1 for an entire month.  If you don’t like what we offer, there is no obligation to stay.  If you do like what we offer, it will only be $47 per month after this date.  It is our way of giving you a full test drive to our service.  We know we offer a service of value, a community that cares, and a training platform that exceeds anything else available.

We also know what we offer is goes far beyond any service out there, including any University education teaching Internet Marketing for $10,000+ per year!

BE Ready, Don’t Miss Out

Don’t forget these important dates.  Come to Wealthy Affiliate on November 25th, 2011.  You will be able to join WA for $1.  Mark on your calendar, put a stick note on your computer, or put this date in your phone.  If you have ever wanted to start an Internet business, scale your existing business, or attract new affiliates to your business, then Wealthy Affiliate will be the only place you will ever need.

Again, this offer is only good from:

Black Friday, November 25th @ 9AM EST ⇒ Cyber Monday, November 28th @ 11:59PM EST

If we put an opportunity for success right in front of you, would you grab at it?  WA for $1, ONE FULL MONTH…this is your time to shine!

JOIN WEALTHY AFFILIATE NOW FOR $1! 

Cheers,

Kyle
Wealthy Affiliate Co-owner
www.wealthyaffiliate.com

PS. Feel free to share this post with anyone that you may know that is interested in online business or making more money..  Also, if you have any comments of feedback, please post them below.

Have you ever had an offer sent to you that says “get a free iPad”, or “click join underneath me so I can earn money” or “join this program and get paid by clicking stuff”?  Maybe you have even at one point in time sent off these emails to your unsuspecting friends, family and coworkers in attempt to coerce them into making you money….

Whatever the case, this IS NOT the Internet economy.  These are schemes and are very fractional components of the Internet and ones I personally do not like to be associated with or recommend.

Somehow over the years, people have grown to think that this is the path to earn money on the Internet, however, these are schemes that are driven in a similar way to those that Bernie Madoff constructed to fool people out of billions of dollars.

The Internet Economy is far from this…

It is the up and coming economy of the world, where the trading, the transactions, and usership, and the ability to set up your own business enterprise have become part of the scope.

So what is the Internet economy?

Every economy is comprised of a few components.  People.  Products and Services.  Money. Trade.

The Internet economy is no different.  It has all of these components and you can be within any of these, or a service that provides or contributes to any of these components and become quite successful.

Perhaps you are thinking that the Internet transactions are no where near that of the offline world.  Well, use that is true.  But it is still big and it is still growing.

The Internet economy is now worth trillions however.

Just think of a product or service that you may be involved with, perhaps it may even be your current method of employment.   It more than likely has an online division or an online component that is critical to its current success, if not, it will be instrumental to the sector growth of that niche.

Even farming has become part of the Internet Economy

Every business that is offline can leverage the Internet.  Many do, a lot however STILL haven’t taken advantage of this.  Within this niche there is the potential for an Internet JOB.*

*I have decided that from now on I am not going to call anything on the Internet a job.  Although it could be classified as a job as you may or may not be doing work for another business or company, it is actually a business.  You determine your own success, and how much success you can achieve.  Because of this I am going to refer to it as “Internet Solution Opportunity” or ISO for short.

Most business can in fact bring a whole division of their business online.  Many haven’t and have died because of it.   Look at some of the biggest bookstores that have gone out of business, most recently Borders in the United States.

They were fools.  They had the upper hand…they had the framework, the partnerships, and the computer systems that just needed to be turned into a web store and a web application and there may be no Amazon.com today, the world’s largest book seller and the the offline bookstore killer.

But this also pisses some people off.  They think that Amazon is a job killer, when in fact they are a huge job creator. The technology behind their store has created an incredible amount of jobs.  Their current workforce is over 43,200 employees!

This is just the half of it though…

Their domestic and International shipping has created jobs.  And their store framework that any seller can plug into has been a hit and has made many local mom and pop shops far more successful.

And what about the Internet Solution Opportunities?

Hidden under the most obvious service that Amazon provides (a huge Internet store), is one of the greatest suppliers of online based opportunities.

First, they have the largest affiliate program in the world.   Amazon has over 2,500,000 affiliates actively promoting their program. As an affiliate of Amazon , you can promote any of the millions of products within their network without owning any of them, having to deal with the support or shipping…basically you just need a place to put their links and you can earn money.

You can join the Amazon Associates (Affiliate) Program Here

This has created UNLIMITED ISO’s. Almost EVERY single product that is for sale can be sold within Amazon and affiliates of Amazon generate over 40% of all Amazon sales.

Secondly they have a true job network, called Mechanical Turk.  For a small price you can outsource the tasks you don’t want to do, or for that same amount of money, you can earn money doing little tasks like “clicking”, “submitting forms”, “submitting links”, “writing”, or “proofreading”.

You can earn seed money for your starting your online business using Mechanical Turk or you can “scale” your existing business by outsourcing your arduous tasks for quite cheap.

Lets look at another offline business the Internet Economy has killed!

Remember going to the movie store to pick up a movie when you are bored on a Friday night?  What about now?  You are likely paying a small subscription fee and getting instant access to 10,000′s of movies from the comfort of your home.

Thus the departure of Blockbuster and the arrival of Netflix.com.  Netflix now boasts massive earnings, and Blockbuster is well, out of business.  I am not going to elaborate on this in the same way as Amazon, but Netflix has also created a boat load of online based opportunities.  A number of these are online through the Netflix.com affiliate program, through their popularity of movies online, through online movie review sites and informational sites…etc.  I digress.

This is a sign that humanity is exercising the benefits of the Internet.  It is more instant, it is more affordable, it is more connected, it is more interesting, and anything can be accessed from pretty much anywhere.  I personally think it is incredible.

The fact that once “monopolized” industries are moving to Internet based economies where affiliates all have the opportunity to earn their share of the revenue is a critical component of the “business world” going forward.  There are millions of independent “affiliate marketers” in this world, many of them earning a full time income online.

There is an affiliate program for just about every single niche you can imagine, even some that you may not be able to even comprehend.  IT is here, it is the way of the future, and the Internet is a job manufacuture that will continue to destroy large scale offline business and create millions of new opportunities and millions of new “Internet Solution Opportunites” for people like you and I.

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Kyle
Wealthy Affiliate Co-Owner – Top Affiliate Marketing Training Community
www.WealthyAffiliate.com