2 BIG things for YOU today

Folks,

If you you've been paying attention lately, you've noticed that I keep adding links to my 'Great Resources' section to the right. Well, today I added a link that is sure to change the lives of many of you.

But first a story ('cause I'm in that kind of mood)

Something urgent and critical here.

My partner Greg and I have been locked in the office for two weeks brainstorming the final details of the Cool Site of the Day VIP launch. (It's live and limited to only 25 people -- more later.)

But here's what's critical right now: All week long, Greg has been glued to the information the StomperNet guys are giving away online. There's literally hours of amazing, useful, super-inside SEO techniques on improving your website's organic ranking.

They're giving it away. Be clear on that. No obligation, no trickery, no nonsense.

We're both just stunned at the value we're taking away just from watching these videos. They're incredibly well-done; Andy Jenkins, who has an honest-to-God EMMY for editing (Hollywood's highest honor), has made watching these super-informative information videos a joy to absorb.

Here's what's up: We just learned that all of these videos are being pulled down sometime Thursday... it's the official end of their launch (yeah, the timing of their launch and the Cool Site of the Day VIP launch could've been planned better but, hey, my loss not yours).

Anyway, here's some background worth reading:

In 2000, Andy Jenkins, a guy who had already gotten an Emmy for film editing at a pretty early age, decided to start an online business or two. They were successful businesses and made Andy some pretty good scratch.

But it turns out Andy really had a thing about TEACHING, so he developed an ebook about how to set up a Yahoo Store that was extremely successful.

Along comes Brad Fallon, an attorney by training, who had learned some Search Engine Optimization techniques while getting his wife set up selling wedding favors online (don't laugh – their *little* company - Aspen Brands, will do about $21 million this year).

Brad reads Andy's Yahoo Store Profits ebook and thinks "wow, this guy knows some stuff, I should give him a call."

The rest is history.

Sort of.

You see, when Brad and Andy got together, they created a best-selling set of CDs called "Stomping the Search Engines". And the followers of their teachings started calling themselves "Stompers", using these cutting-edge techniques to create multi-million dollar sites for themselves.

After Andy and Brad had successfully conducted a couple of high-priced Apprentice programs they came to an inescapable conclusion: they were "on to something."

Thus, StomperNet was born.

In the beginning, though, it was just Brad, Andy, a box of DVDs they put together called the Business Brain Transplant, and a promise: to create the best possible environment for people with online businesses to learn, grow, and prosper.

That was just over eighteen months ago.

And even though they've added faculty, staff, technology, content, programs, coaching, office hours, tools, etc. etc. etc., it all still boils down to one question: with all this, are StomperNet members succeeding?

All I can say is watch this video for some amazing testimonials (to see it, you may have to give up your e-mail address on the right of that screen but, trust me, it's worth it).

It's powerful stuff.

BTW, the last time StomperNet was openened to new memberships, they sold out 325 in 8 hours.

http://www.cnotes.com/r/stompernet.html

These videos are from real MEMBERS of StomperNet, and they're going to tell you EXACTLY what they accomplished, and HOW they got these results. I don't think I've ever seen anything like this.

Video 1 - Kristie is going to show you how she went from making $1,000 a month to $10,000 a month - in 45 days. She made $75,000 last holiday season, too. She's learned this stuff so well she's now an expert e-Biz consultant in her home town. And she started this 18 months ago.

Video 2 - Cassia is going to show you how she started with making only $5,000 a month - and she had been struggling at her business for YEARS. She and her husband Steve got the "Home Study Course" videos when they signed up for StomperNet, and the next month, they DOUBLED. 3 Months later, they hit $27,000 a month, and have been holding there - even while Cassia had a baby and they moved to their dream home in Colorado.

Video 3 - Chris is going to show you how he was virtually killing himself - getting up at 4:45am - 7 days a week, to be a personal trainer at a gym. When Chris joined StomperNet Andy Jenkins couldn’t figure out whether he was just a guru groupie, or dead on serious.

Turns out, he was NOT JOKING about his business. Today, he's got 8 OTHER TRAINERS working for him, ranks all over the FIRST PAGE of Google for his Money Keywords, and just got back from a 6 WEEK (not day) vacation - and when he came back, his business was BIGGER than when he left. Chris has been a Stomper just about 1 year now.

These case studies don't pull any punches either. Listen for each Stomper's FRANK and Candid discussion of the StomperNet monthly tuition (sure, it's not for everyone and that's why I offer the Cool Site of the Day VIP program as a, perhaps, less overwhelming alternative).

Sorry for the late notice but it's Thursday and already the rush has begun for the very LIMITED number of slots they will make available. And once they're full, they're closing (as sure as I can only take 25 clients in the Cool Site of the Day VIP program).

Watch those case-studies - they're all successful e-Business owners who took a chance, stuck it out, and WON.

They have things to show you.

http://www.cnotes.com/r/stompernet.html

Finally, tomorrow, StomperNet will make a STUNNING announcement.

If you've ever wanted some personal attention for your business, you need to look for tomorrow's announcement. I can't tell you EXACTLY what it is, but... it has improved every StomperNet member's business by 68%.

To your success!

Mike


P.S. If you haven't ordered your free subscription to Website Magazine, do so here:



http://www.cnotes.com/r/websitemagazine.html

Instant viral traffic generation in just a click...

Did you catch last week's 'Stump Markus' broadcast? If you did, then you surely walked away with at least 3 actionable items to jolt your online business.

Here's a rundown of the topics we covered last week followed by a link to the recording and a list of sources mentioned during our talk:

• Instant viral traffic generation in just a click...
• How to spot broken links on your site instantly...
• How to easily maintain tabs on Firefox...
• 59 things you should be doing but probably aren't...
• List of algorithmic pieces influencing search engine rankings at Google...
• Adding the power of a message board to FaceBook.

Listen here:





Sources:

ShareThis:
http://sharethis.com

AddThis:
http://www.addthis.com

HotScripts:
http://www.hotscripts.com/search?q=tell+a+friend&cat=All&imageField.x=0&imageField.y=0

Michel Fortin:
http://www.michelfortin.com

Chris Jordan's Running The Numbers (just a cool site!):
http://www.chrisjordan.com/current_set2.php?id=7

WordPress redirect plugins:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/redirection

TabScope:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4882

59 things you should be doing but probably aren't:
http://www.conversationmarketing.com/2008/03/the_internet_marketing_list_59.htm

Find and fix broken links:
http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/broken-links.html

Search engine ranking factors:
http://www.seomoz.org/article/search-ranking-factors

SuccessChef.com:
http://www.successchef.com

Get your memorable Facebook profile, page or group URL:
http://apps.facebook.com/webaddress/companies

Michel Fortin's Licoricce:
http://companies.to/licorice

Enjoy!

Mike

P.S. The Cool Site of the Day VIP program is so close to being launched. Check your inbox later today or tomorrow ;)

Is it Friday?

Same old story: I aim to post something on Thursday and I'm either scrambling late Thursday night or, as in this case, by the end of the day on Friday. Good thing I have nothing to sell--you've heard it before: send your 'pitch' e-mails on Tuesday or Wednesday when people are more likely to read them.


Cool Site of the Day VIP

Anyway, I'm deep into creating a 'Cool Site of the Day VIP' program so I've only got time to share just a few nuggets with you today.

By the way, the 'Cool Site of the Day VIP' program will enable online business folk like yourself to not only submit a website for review but also opt-in for a pretty impressive monthly consulting/coaching package offered by yours truly. It won't be for everyone but for those who sign-up (and I'll only be able to offer it to less than 50 people), it promises to over-deliver (in other words, I'm going to bust my rear to make sure that NO ONE takes me up on my "100% money back" guarantee).


Search Engine Traffic

I take my hat off to all of you who have wisely chosen to open an account with Web Marketing Concepts. I've fielded a bunch of calls from you over the past several days and I look forward to helping as many of you as possible get the most out of this exceptional search engine marketing tool. And, oh yeah, I'll get to that WMC mindmap soon!

Speaking of mindmaps, if you read the The Internet Business Manifesto, you learned the importance of 'process mapping' all the important routine things that you do in your web business and even personal life. I'll be sharing many process maps with you in the future. The software that I use for mapping is MindJet. Play around with it--you'll be amazed at how well a good map can focus your thinking and ACTIONS.


Pretty Cool Tool

So I get an e-mail from Bill at the Web Marketing Association announcing their upcoming Awards. I see they're talking up a design firm that created the UPS Whiteboard. Can't be that cool or can it? I clicked around and discovered a very cool way to send a message to someone when you want that someone to REMEMBER YOU.

Here's what you do, go to UPS Whiteboard and select the little navigator thingy on the bottom right. Then select 'Break Room'. On the next screen, select 'Create Your Own Whiteboard'. Tell me that delivery system won't capture your intended recipient's attention. I sent a message to my wife but could easily see using it to communicate a simple 'thank you' or 'reminder' to a current or prospective client.


From My Del.icio.us 'tool' TAGS:

1. Web Page Speed Report
2. Formspring (great for adding surveys and polls)
3. Touchgraph (dangerously addictive)
4. Adimpact (GREAT way to get people to do things on your site)

Have a great weekend!

Mike

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Teleseminar - Make Time for This!

I just got this e-mail from Jim at Web Marketing Concepts.

I'm working on a big post for you (unrelated to WMC) but felt I had to get this information to you ASAP.

Here's Jim's message:

"We are pleased to announce that Web Marketing Concepts will be holding a Members Only Telesemiar on Wednesday April 2, 2008 at 8:00 PM Eastern Time. During this 90-minute event, we will be welcoming the new members that have joined during the last month and discussing how you can best use the Web Marketing Concepts system.

We will also be talking about how the Affiliate Content Generator and the Link Expander programs work together to improve your search engine rankings. We will conclude with a Question and Answer session to deal with any questions you may have about Web Marketing Concepts."

Listen, I'm not kidding around, if you haven't signed up for WMC yet you're only hurting yourself. At some point Jim is going to have to shut off all new memberships (or raise the price of entry way beyond what the average webmaster can afford).

As I've said before, with WMC, you will start generating ridiculous amounts of traffic within 45-60 days; if you don't, simply cancel your account. Trust me, it's worth the VERY SMALL risk.

Anyway, I gotta get back to some web page editing. Join WMC today and don't miss the free teleseminar tomorrow night (Wednesday 4/2/08 at 8PM EST).

Back at you on Thursday.

Mike

P.S. I know, you're probably skeptical. Right? How could something cost so little and deliver so much as WMC? Well, it gets even better: if you order WMC before tomorrow night's free teleseminar, I will personally walk you through the steps that I take (shortcuts, tricks, and all) when I setup my WMC campaigns (did I tell you that I currently have 10 separate WMC memberships/accounts!). All you have to do is e-mail me your phone number and your order confirmation number. Let me know a good time to call you and I will make an appointment for us to speak for 15 minutes before the weekend. My obsession with your success is real. Use me.

P.P.S. Here's a video tour Jim recently put together showing some of the nuts and bolts of his system. Worth a look.

Actionable Items

Thinking about that Subject heading ("Actionable Items") makes me laugh; if you've been paying attention, just about everything I post is 'actionable' meaning 'act now and good things will happen later' in your life and business.

Where to get a great logo...

The first thing I wanted to share with you today is a great and inexpensive resource for creating logos. GotLogos.com is run by a guy named Daniel; I've used his talents for several of my websites' logos. You can get a killer professionally designed logo for $25. Great value, try them out (someday I may ask him to offer a discount for webmasters who visit Cool Site of the Day...stay tuned).

Affiliate Marketing Recommendation...

I ran into Gary McNelley of MarketHealth at the Search Engine Strategies Trade Show last week. Gary's a great guy and his company, MarketHealth, sells natural, herbal health and wellness products (yeah, that's a mouthful but all you need to know is that there's a HUGE market for organic health and beauty products). Anyway, I've been a Super Affiliate of MarketHealth (ever since 2006 when I started generating over $30,000 in monthly commissions as an affiliate of MarketHealth products).

Here's the good news: MarketHealth has created a turn-key affiliate program for people who want to sell their products but don't have the time or talent to start from scratch. All you have to do is visit HerbalBiz and signup to create your own unique storefront (and then use WMC to drive traffic to it ;)

Here are just a few reasons why it makes sense to work with MarketHealth (and, no, this has nothing to do with multi-level marketing or MLM):

• Make 50% of the purchase price
• No Online Experience Required
• No Customer Service
• No Warehouse or Inventory
• Sell over 50 well known Health and Beauty Products
• Unlimited Income Potential
• Work from Anywhere
• Set Your Own Hours

I don't know about you but those are all the reasons that led me to build an online business. And like most people, I wanted to deal with a good and honest program that offers the greatest odds of making money. Well, MarketHealth and their HerbalBiz package is about as good as it gets (in the coming weeks I'll be sharing with you the rest of my highest rated affiliate opportunities). If you have any questions after visiting HerbalBiz, shoot me an e-mail--I'll be happy to help in any way that I can.

One Smart Guy...

I'm saving the best for last but this is quite good also: somehow I tripped over Ian Lurie's web site yesterday, Conversation Marketing. First off, Ian is the kind of guy I'd like to work with someday but, in the meantime, Ian is going to teach me (and you) quite a few things that are essential to building and marketing web sites intelligently. Just check out his list of 59 Things You Should Be Doing But Probably Aren't. Truly great thinking and a list worth reviewing once a week.

Search Engine Traffic. Are You Paying Attention?

Finally, for those of you who took me up on my offer to set up your Web Marketing Concepts account, smart move! I couldn't handle all the requests that came in but you'll be happy to know that whether you use my services or go it alone, the results are worth it.

Here are two screen shots of our traffic stats from cpanel. In this image you can see the number of unique visitors shooting up in the second month of indexing (from 1,672 to 2,740 unique visitors). I gotta tell you, on average, I value a web site visitor at $.25 so that traffic is worth close to $700 to me. What is the cost of a Web Marketing Concepts membership? $49.94 per month (just increased from $29.95 as I said it would. Still a sick deal.). Who's smiling now?


This screen shot shows how many times the pages in this account have been indexed. I know it's hard to see but Yahoo's spider has hit the site over 2,000 times and the Googlebot has visited almost 1,000 times...and we're just getting started. Remember the WMC system builds up to 5,500 content pages per account so when the spiders start indexing all those pages it's 'HELLO TRAFFIC!'


If you haven't signed up for a WMC account yet you're doing yourself a big hurt. I'm putting the finishing touches on my WMC mindmap (explains in detail how to get the most from WMC). If you've opened an account and are ready to fly, send me an e-mail and I'll be happy to send you a free copy.

Sign up today before Jim raises the price again or, as he's suggested, removes WMC from public access.

That's all for today.

Mike

P.S. Some of you have been inquiring about my "Get Google Traffic Risk Free" offer. Visit this page and e-mail me if you're ready for some VIP treatment ;)

Search Engine Strategies Expo

Big day yesterday. I was interviewed at the Search Engine Strategies trade show in New York City (see clip below). Also, tune into WebmasterRadio.fm for an interview I did with them at SES as well (not sure what time it will air but I think they'll be broadcasting yesterday's interviews throughout the day).

The All-In-One Solution...

As promised, today I’m going to share with you the industry’s absolute best “out-of-the-box” web building and traffic generating package. Sounds like hype, doesn’t it? It’s not.

Listen, I was once in your shoes; totally overwhelmed by all of the so-called Internet marketing gurus and their “guaranteed” quick and easy online money-making tools and ideas.

Know this: there is nothing about being successful online that is quick and easy.

Fact is, there are hundreds of resources and sites available to gather information about building successful web projects and most of this vast wealth of knowledge is great to use, but the big question is still always there. How do I decipher all this information and tailor it my needs?

The real answer to this question is not a simple one and there is no "secret sauce" that will make you millions. To be truly successful online you have to have, or develop, certain traits. Some of these traits are: persistence, patience, a thirst for knowledge, willingness to take a few risks, and the ability to learn from failure. Then, there are four things that reign supreme when it comes to building a successful website:

1. Pick a topic/subject/product that you are very passionate about and begin a blog or website that you update regularly.
2. Attract targeted traffic to your content
3. Pre-sell those visitors with honest, authoritative articles and reviews
4. Monetize your pre-sold traffic

Fortunately, one man was able to grasp all of the above and was willing to share his gifts with the rest of us.

I've been online since 1986, and I built my first income-generating website in 1994 (when Cool Site of the Day was born). Most of the money I've earned in my life has come from my online businesses. But my approach has been virtually unteachable. Until now.

In the past, if I were to spell-out how to build a high-traffic web site or how to make money from your blog, 9 out of 10 of you would fail. There were just too many programs to master and too many steps involved.

Starting a blog is dead simple these days. Creating a highly profitable, high-traffic website from scratch is very, very hard if you've never done it before.

An Unexpected Solution

The reason I'm writing this article is that I finally found a practical solution for people who want to build a successful online business without getting lost in a sea of technical details, using essentially the same business model I used to generate over $800,000 in affiliate revenue.

I'll explain the details in a moment.

When I started www.coolsite.com, I'd already been running a previous online business full-time for nearly a decade. www.coolsite.com didn't succeed because I was lucky or brilliant. It succeeded because I'd already invested thousands of hours and thousands of dollars in an earlier business. I paid my dues the hard way.

Fast forward to my introduction to Ken Evoy. Ken founded an interesting business called Site Build It!, a fascinating service that helps people build income-generating web sites. They provide complete hosting as well as an extensive suite of tools to help you build traffic and generate meaningful income.

This guy is really passionate about helping people build businesses online, and he found a way to succeed where few have. Ken realized just as I did that the technological complexity required to build a successful online business is just way too high for most people.

At first he tried to teach people how to do it -- even writing a book on the subject (it sold over 100,000 copies, so he knew what he was doing) -- but he ran into the same frustrating problems I did. No matter how clearly you explain it, it's just really hard for people to grasp the details, so they always screw it up. But instead of trying to teach people how to handle every little technical detail, Ken decided to build a service that would do it for them, automating as much as of the process as humanly possible. Ten years later Ken's vision is a huge success, with thousands of "raving fan" customers who've built real income-generating websites via Site Build It!

Ken is an incredibly hands-on entrepreneur with a rare level of dedication to his customers. He's extremely active in the Site Build It! members-only forums, with more than 4,700 posts of his own. Ken makes a tremendous personal effort to help people succeed, and from reading his posts, I could tell that his interest in people is authentic. Ken isn't alone though -- there are lots of highly active members in their forums who are passionate about helping each other. This definitely isn't a take-your-money-and-run operation.

How to Build a Profitable Online Business

Site Build It! is designed around a simple formula, which they refer to as CTPM. This stands for Content -> Traffic -> Presell -> Monetize.



You may recognize that this is precisely the model I refered to above. When done correctly this "content is king" approach can generate tons of traffic, in my case hundreds of thousands of page views per month. Preselling is the process of building a relationship with visitors, which essentially means treating visitors like human beings instead of sales targets. People visit this site looking for ideas to improve their lives, so that's what I focus on providing. The final monetization step occurs when people click on ads or buy affiliated products that happen to be of interest to them.

The major limiting step in this formula is building traffic. If you can't build decent traffic, you won't succeed. But the overall formula is sound, and it works if you do it correctly. It just happens to be very difficult for human beings to apply it without screwing it up. The advantage of Site Build It! is that it provides technical solutions to help reduce your chances of making mistakes. Where it cannot provide a technical solution, it provides clear instructions and education to help you succeed.

Even with Site Build It!, there's still no guarantee of success. This isn't a get-rich-quick scheme. It will still take commitment and effort to build a successful online business. But this robust suite of tools will definitely put the odds of success in your favor. You don't have to become a technology expert to earn enough to quit your day job.

The key benefit of Site Build It! is that it provides tools, guidance, and coaching to help you stay focused on the correct actions. This begins with providing easy-to-use research tools to help you figure out what kind of site to create in the first place. A lot of people fail because they create sites that were doomed from the very beginning. It really saddens me when a blogger emails me to say that s/he is still getting no traffic even after writing 100+ articles. I don't like telling people that they made their biggest mistake before the site was even launched by choosing a topic with virtually no demand... or one that's oversaturated with entrenched competition. Site Build It! can help you avoid soul-crushing problems like this.

Why Use Site Build It?

If you already run a successful online business that generates thousands of dollars a month in income for you, you don't necessarily need Site Build It! But if that's your situation, I highly recommend you join their affiliate program, which will give you an extra passive income stream. (To learn more about their affiliate program, scroll to the bottom of this post, or visit their Affiliate Center directly.)

However, if you're new to online business, or if you've tried and failed, or if you're stuck trying to build traffic and generate income, then you should definitely take a look at Site Build It!

With Site Build It! you don't have to build your web pages from scratch using HTML and CSS. They provide point-and-click tools and templates to generate your pages quickly and easily, including images. This allows you to focus on writing your content instead of wrestling with the underlying technology. Of course, if you're already comfortable with tools like Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and Flash, knock yourself out. Site Build It! is compatible with other HTML editors, so you're always free to fall back on your own tools if that's your preference. This gives you maximum flexibility to create the look and feel you want.

All the Tools, Training, and Support You Need to Build Your Own Income-Generating Website

Site Build It! includes an extensive suite of tools to help you build a successful online business every step of the way, including:

• domain name registration
• web site hosting
• point-and-click page creation
• content management
• blogging
• market research
• traffic stats
• search engine optimization
• auto-responders
• form builder
• graphic manager
• customizable templates
• sitemaps
• RSS feeds
• web mail
• newsletter management

Seriously, this is only a small fraction of the tools they include. Many functions are completely automated, and some tools work for you in the background even when you aren't aware of them. For example, if you update a page on your website, Site Build It! will automatically regenerate your Google and Yahoo sitemaps. If you don't know what a sitemap is, with Site Build It! you don't even need to worry about it. The technology will handle it for you. This means you can focus on creating content instead of worry about getting all the technical details right. Site Build It! will even suggest new topics you should write about to increase your traffic, based on its analysis of your current search traffic patterns.

Site Build It! provides unlimited customer support as well as private discussion forums where thousands of members share tips and advice. I browsed their forums myself and saw a lot of enthusiastic members helping each other. It's an extremely active community with hundreds of thousands of posts. They also have a team of moderators and in-house editorial staff who glean the best pearls from their forums and turn them into articles -- on everything from brainstorming to monetizing.

Their near weekly newsletter keeps you up to date on the current best practices as well as additions and updates to their "Info HQ" knowledge base. They track what's happening in the world of e-business (over 100 feeds, blogs, e-zines), so you don't have to. This makes it easy for you to focus on your business without worrying that you're missing important opportunities.

Site Build It! is basically an all-in-one solution for building a successful online business. They continue to add new tools and refine their existing tools to keep the service state-of-the-art.

Getting Started

I encourage you to look into Site Build It! to see if it makes sense for you. I recommend you start with the Site Build It! home page, watch the 2-1/2 minute video there, and follow whichever links interest you. The 30-minute video tour is a must -- it will really clarify everything for you. The video tour starts out mostly motivational in tone (i.e. benefits of working from home), but later on it dives into the details of how the tools and monetization strategies work, using real web sites as examples. I think you'll find it educational even if you have only a minor interest in making money online.

If what you see arouses your interest, but you're skeptical about what to expect, you'll definitely want to read my upcoming step-by-step Site Build It! walkthrough next. It explains exactly what to expect during the first 10 days, from the time you sign up until your new money-making website is online.

If you really want to do your homework, I suggest checking out some of the success story videos submitted by their customers as well as their in-depth case studies. If you have any questions about Site Build It!, you can submit them via the questions form, and you'll get an answer from a real Site Build It! owner/user.

Of course Site Build It! comes with a money-back guarantee, so there's no risk to try it for yourself. You can test drive it for 30 days and get a full refund if you don't like it. If you register a domain name through Site Build It!, you can even keep your new domain for free if you later decide to quit. That's a better than money-back guarantee, since you get a free domain name no matter what. Also, if you decide to quit after 30 days, you can get a pro-rated refund for the unused portion of your subscription... and of course still keep your new domain name too.

Become a Site Build It! Affiliate

Site Build It! has a very generous affiliate program, so if you already have a website and are looking for new income sources, this one is very solid for several reasons. First, you continue to earn residual commissions when each referral you generate renews their annual subscription, so the earnings are ongoing. Secondly, Site Build It! has a two-tier affiliate program, meaning that you also earn commissions on sales generated by affiliates you refer. Thirdly, unlike some stingy programs, they have an extremely robust tracking system to make sure you're fairly credited for your referrals. And fourthly, they support their affiliates with their 5 Pillar Club newsletter, detailed tracking tools, ad generators, members-only forums, and more. These people are serious about seeing their affiliates succeed.

Site Build It! not only has a great affiliate program, but they back it up with a truly valuable service that actually works for those who work it. I'd have no qualms about recommending Site Build It! to my own family members. I joined their affiliate program myself because Site Build It! solves a key problem for me and many of my visitors. I finally have a place to refer people for the tools and practical education necessary to create their own online businesses.

You can become a Site Build It! affiliate even if you never purchase a Site Build It! subscription for yourself. This is great for people who already have a successful online business. And again, you also benefit from each new affiliate who joins from your affiliate links. Due to the generous commission structure, some affiliates earn more than $20,000 per month.

If you're interested in learning more about the Site Build It! affiliate program, visit their Affiliate Center, and check out the commission structure. It's free to sign-up as an affiliate.

If I hadn't already learned how to build an online business the hard way, I'd use Site Build It! to get there much faster. It would have shaved years off my learning curve if this had been available when I created my first income-generating site back in 1994. I strongly recommend you look into Site Build It! if you want to successfully generate income online.

To your online success!

Mike Corso
Cool Site of the Day TM
On the Web Since 1994. Over 4,000 Sites Served!

Survey Results + 2 Great Tips

Thanks to everyone for completing the survey that I posted last week (“Just One Question”). And welcome to all the new members on this list—we’re up to 3,019 and climbing fast!

The results of the survey are clear; I asked you to tell me what you would like to learn first and the most popular category was “Getting Search Engine Traffic” (selected by 71% of you). A close second was “A Complete Step-by-Step Guide to Building Profitable Web Sites” (selected by 63%). Going down the list, I see “Finding Keywords” at 31%, “Being More Productive Overall” at 30%, “Choosing Affiliate Networks” at 28%, and “Choosing Products to Market” at 28%.

This is great news because the system that I’m going to reveal on March 11th is focused on doing ONE thing: Getting Search Engine Traffic. When you get your hands on this tool you’re going to feel a little sorry for the rest of the webmaster universe (I’ve been testing it out for weeks and I still have feelings of guilt).

Anyway, remember March 11th—that’s the day everything changes for you.

Now, as for “A Complete Step-by-Step Guide to Building Profitable Web Sites”, the timing couldn’t be better; I’ve scheduled my next message to cover the industry’s absolute best “out-of-the-box” web building and traffic generating package. That’s coming this Thursday.

As for today, I’ve got two things to share with you: a book and a Windows productivity tool. Both have transformed my life in numerous ways.

First the book; it’s David Allen’s Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity.

The book is only $9 at Amazon and is a must read for anyone (like I was) who feels overwhelmed by all the information being thrown at them today. I will summarize my biggest takeaway from this excellent book; when reviewing your pile of e-mail or things to read or whatever, categorize each piece as follows:

1. If you can deal with it in 2 minutes or less, do it (thereby you get rid of it)

2. If it relates to information that could be useful in the future, file it under ‘Reference’ (I now have an e-mail folder that contains all sorts of documents that I MAY refer to in the future….but NOT NOW)

3. If it’s a business idea or proposal but it’s not ESSENTIAL to your high priority, focused task(s) file it under ‘Someday’ (just like my ‘Reference’ folder, my ‘Someday’ folder is a storage tank for things I MAY consider in the future but NOT NOW).

4. If it’s related to a task that will take more than 2 minutes, then place it in your ‘Action’ folder and/or delegate the task to someone else. This is the folder that you will check at least once a week and it’s the most critical folder for your short-term success.

That’s just a snippet from this extraordinary book by David Allen. I don’t care what you do with your life (personal or business), this book will help you to breathe, think, and act in ways you’ve never been able to do so previously. Find it here.

As for the Windows productivity tool, all I can say is that I’m shocked this little gem isn’t on every Windows computer in existence. It’s called Activewords and it enables you to assign one or two keystrokes to a task that would otherwise take several keystrokes. That is a gross simplification but, trust me, you must get Activewords and see for yourself how unbelievably powerful it is. There’s no need to search for files or websites any longer, just assign a keystroke or word to those files or sites that you repeatedly use and Activewords will bring it to you. No searching, no frustration. Activewords is currently available as a fully loaded 60-day free trial. Get it now, you’ll thank them later. Don't wait on this one, click here.


That’s all for today. Look out for my post on Thursday. You're in for a treat.

Regards,

Mike Corso
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