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8.2 …What Now? (AF)

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8.2 Transcript Below

What’s going on, FIMP family?

So, you’re going through all of these training up to this point. You’ve completed hours and hours of self-development and you’ve got to be asking yourself: “What now? I’m coming to the end of the FIMP training, and now what do I do?” And that’s what this video is all about.

And I want to drive one thing home. I can’t emphasize this strongly enough, stop this video now unless you’ve finished all of the other training at FIMP, and at the very least, you have completed all of the following: you’ve picked your first niche, you’ve registered your domain, you’ve installed WordPress on your website – if you signed up with Bluehost, it’s automatically installed on your primary domain.

And ideally, these two aren’t required, but I would really like to see you at this point before watching this video. Because otherwise, it’s just going to complicate things for you a little bit too much: you’ve, at least, picked a handful of keywords, and hopefully, you’ve written at least your first 2 to 3 articles on your website.

So, those would be ideal. But at the very least: picked your niche, registered your domain, and WordPress is installed on your website.

So, I can’t overemphasize this: seriously, please stop this video. I know people jump around all of the time. I know tons of people skip Section 2 because they see mindset. And even though I say, over and over again: “watch Section 2, it’s usually helpful”, they skip it.

So, I know that there are going to be people that are hearing me now and going: “Ah, no, I can keep watching”. Stop this video. It’s just going to overcomplicate things, it’s going to make things confusing unless you have finished all of the other training and done everything that I just mentioned, okay?

Seriously, please stop this video if you haven’t finished everything that I just talked about.

Okay.

If you’re still watching… Seriously. I assume we’re good. Okay.

So, if you have finished all of that, I want to give you a huge congratulations. It’s a really big deal, because only 10% of people finish the training at FIMP. Even though it’s 100% free, even though it’s really step-by-step, and it doesn’t leave a whole lot of margin for error, believe it or not, only 10% of people actually complete all of the training at FIMP.

And my main focus shifts from getting you through all of the training at FIMP, because you’re obviously a self-starter and you’re really motivated, and you’re really ambitious, and you’re taking this very seriously – which is kind of important if you actually want to succeed online.

My goal is to take you from the one in ten that finishes FIMP to the one in one hundred that actually build a profitable online business.

We’ve talked about this a lot since the beginning, that it’s very few and far between when it comes to how many people succeed online and actually build a profitable business.

So, that’s what this video is about; getting you from the one in ten that finish FIMP, to the one in one hundred that are actually going to build a long-term profitable business that lasts, alright?

And that comes down to where you’re at now versus where you need to be, to be that one in one hundred.

So, right now you have the strongest foundation you can possibly get online. I don’t say that to toot my own horn. You know, I’ve just been doing this for a very long time. I’ve seen hundreds upon hundreds, thousands of people over the years attempt to build an online business.

And what has been great about that is I’ve seen a lot of people try a lot of things, and it’s made me recognize all of the patterns that lead to success and all of the patterns that lead to failure.

And that’s what ultimately drove me to create FIMP, and put it into the world, and put it into the world for free – was because I wanted to set as many people up for success as I possibly could.

Even if you stopped here, there are so many products out there that will say: “Okay, now that you’ve finished this, you need to invest in this $500 thing, or this $1,000 thing. Because without it, there’s no way you’re going to be successful.”

And they almost lead you to believe that you need something else, that’s going to make them money, whether it’s their own product or something they’re getting commissioned on.

“You need something else if you want any chance at success” – and that’s not at all true with FIMP. If you stop right here and you didn’t invest in anything else, you have everything you need to succeed online, period.

You just have to work the system, you have to stick with it, you have to be consistent, you have to put in the work, okay? So, just stick closely to the training at FIMP, and that’s all you need. Legitimately. Okay?

But, I do want to say, the more you learn in this industry, the more you’ll succeed. One of the reasons I’ve achieved the levels of success that I’ve achieved now is because I never stop learning.

There was a point, a few years in, where I stopped, I got complacent, and my my entire internet business failed. And I vowed to never make that mistake ever again in my online business.

So, I constantly keep self-developing. And I strongly recommend, as a FIMP finisher, that you do the same. Because that’s what’s going to set you up for success, the best.

And the thing that will help you the most, the best thing you can do for your success at this stage in the journey based on where people begin to fail from here out, is to get plugged in to an active internet marketing community that’s going to help you, that you can continue self-developing and most importantly, you can feel that those people are side-by-side, you’re standing shoulder-to-shoulder with thousands of other people that are on the same journey as you.

Because this industry can get really lonely. And one of the biggest reasons people fail online is because they feel like they’re in it just by themselves and nobody else they know is going through these struggles, nobody else understands what they’re going through, all of the hard hours they’re putting in, and ultimately they just give up because they just can’t connect with other humans that are on the same journey as they are. And I, personally, gave up several times early in my journey because of that, too.

And that’s what this video is about – is getting you connected into a community where you can keep learning, you can keep growing, but most importantly, you can get connected with like-minded people that are going to be there to support you, be there to help you when you get stuck, and all kinds of other things. So that’s what we’re going to talk about here.

And what I’m about to recommend is, you know… there have been a handful of occasions in the Free Internet Marketing Project where I recommended premium tools… premium resources.

And this is one of those rare cases where I’m going to recommend something that’s actually a paid resource instead of a free resource, only because there’s no free resource out there that compares to it.

Even in the community at FIMP, and the training at FIMP, and the Facebook community for members, nothing compares to what I’m about to recommend, alright?

And you’ll see that. Fortunately, you can see that for free. I’ll explain that a little bit later.

But there are two types of people that are watching this video. There are going to be the people that have watched all of the training and you know, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that I would never recommend something simply for an affiliate commission.

You know, if that’s why I got into this industry… I’ve been doing this now, I’ve been on this side of the industry for 10 years. I’ve worked very hard to preserve my reputation, which is not an easy thing to do in this industry.

I could’ve made a hell of a lot more money, and I would be making a hell of a lot more money today if I just sacrificed my ethics and my morals and said: “I’m just going to recommend things for the affiliate commissions.”

So, hopefully, by this point, you know that I practice what I preach. And that I’m all about delivering value. And my number one priority is always your success, not my bank account.

And if you don’t believe me, and you’re made uncomfortable by this, just don’t buy it through me. Buy it outside of my affiliate link, which is below this video, and just cut me out. And that way you can go: “Oh, okay. Ian doesn’t care whether or not he makes a commission. He’s going to recommend it anyway.” Because that’s the case, I would greatly appreciate it if you help FIMP stay funded by purchasing through my affiliate link. But if that bothers you, then just don’t do it.

And then, there’s the other people that are going to be watching this, and no matter what I say, you think I went to all of this effort, and I spent hundreds of hours creating FIMP, and I continue to spend hundreds of hours every year maintaining the community, growing, helping people just to sell you something.

And if that’s where you’re at, there’s just not much I can do to convince you outside of what I’ve already done. I apologize, but I’m not even going to try. There’s just… I know where my heart’s at, and hopefully you know too. I’m not going to get stuck on this, I can get stuck on things. Hopefully, you belong in the first category. But at the same time, you can’t win them all.

So, the community I’m talking about, some of you may be familiar with, you may be experienced in, you may be of heard about it in the past and it’s called Wealthy Affiliate.

And it’s far from perfect. Even if you’ve heard about it in the past, I guarantee you haven’t heard the perspective I’m about to give on it. Because people like to talk about all the sunshine, and rainbows, and daisies, and all of the gumdrops, all of the great things about Wealthy Affiliate.

But there are a lot of things that aren’t great about Wealthy Affiliate. But there is no other place like it. I’ll talk about that a little bit later too. And at the end of the day, there is no place that I feel like you could get plugged into at this point that’s going to set you up for success better than Wealthy Affiliate, including the FIMP Facebook community. These guys are years, and years ahead of anyone else. And I’ll talk about that later.

But the first thing I want to talk about is the reasons that Wealthy Affiliate sucks. Just flat out. Because I don’t believe in sugarcoating things and I would want someone to be honest with me about these things on the front-end. So, that’s of course, what I’m going to do for you.

The things that I don’t like about Wealthy Affiliate are their foundational training, the stuff that you’ve just gone through at FIMP and everything you’ve learned, isn’t as thorough as I’d prefer it to be.

The training at Wealthy Affiliate probably is about 25% to 30% as thorough as FIMP’s training is. And that’s important because what you get as your foundation is going to shape your success forever.

I mean, if you stay in this industry for 10 or 15 years, the stuff you’ve developed at FIMP, wherever you’ve developed your foundational training, will determine a lot of your success along the way.

And so, of course you don’t really have to worry about that too much because you’ve gone through all of the FIMP training. So, that one’s kind of knocked out, that’s, you know, no concern there. But that’s the one of my biggest problems at Wealthy Affiliate.

And one of the reasons that I created FIMP was to give people a stronger foundation than the number 1 place for beginner internet marketers online was giving. Even they weren’t thorough enough. So that’s one of the reasons I set out to create FIMP.

Another thing, and this isn’t just something I don’t like about Wealthy Affiliate. This is something I despise about Wealthy Affiliate. It’s just the only thing I despise about Wealthy Affiliate, and I am a very vocal opponent of this. They have something called Wealthy Affiliate Bootcamp, it’s abbreviated WA Bootcamp. And it’s all about… you’ve probably seen this in other programs, as well. It’s all about becoming successful by promoting their product.

This rolled out, I want to say somewhere around 3 years ago. I have disliked it since it begin. Like I said, I’ve been a very vocal opponent of it. There’s a post on StoppingScams.com about why I don’t think anyone should do Wealthy Affiliate Bootcamp.

So, when you get in there, just know to avoid that. It’s something that I make sure any one I refer into Wealthy Affiliate knows to avoid. I’ll talk about it more in another video down the road. But at the end of the day, it just doesn’t set you up for success like their other path of training and community support does.

And sometimes because it’s a community filled with a lot of newer internet marketers, some pretty crazy stuff gets taught and perpetuated. Things like: Backlinks don’t work. Even when google themselves… you know, there have been engineers and analysts from Google that have come out. And year after year, there are more of them that come out and say: “Hey! Backlinks are still the number one thing that influences rankings”

So, to say backlinks don’t work, really bothers me. Because even Google is telling us that they’re going to continue to be dependent on backlinks as a number one indicator, the number one signal for rankings for years to come.

They are getting more advanced, they are things that are improving, their algorithm is factoring in more things outside of links. But links are still very important. You have to be smart about how you do it, right? We’ve talked about that some.

You don’t want to build backlinks like you used to in 2010 or 2005. But they’re still important, right? And I take issue with any community that says backlinks don’t work. Because it’s pretty clear, by any good data you look at, that backlinks are still really important.

Another thing that comes from the very top of Wealthy Affiliate that I don’t care for very much, personally, based on my experience, is that comments are one of the biggest factors for search engine optimization and search engine rankings.

You know, basically right now, I’m knocking out the top things that you will see in Wealthy Affiliate, you’ll go: “Ah, this is different than what Ian said.” So, I would just say, Ignore them. There’s a lot of good stuff there, too.

But I, personally, have never seen good data, I don’t see good data for my own websites – and I own several of them that shows that comments are one of the biggest factors for rankings.

It would also be really idiotic for Google to do that because it’s one of the easiest things to game. It’s one of the easiest things to fake. And Wealthy Affiliate actually even has like comment exchanges and stuff built into their community, just don’t waste any time with that.

So, yeah, I’m, personally, of the belief that you get traffic and you get more comments, not you get comments and you get more traffic and more rankings. So, it’s a matter of chicken before the egg. And again, I’ve done thorough research, I’ve looked for it and looked for it, and I just have not seen any convincing data that shows that comments lead the rankings, rather than rankings lead the comments, okay?

So, the good thing about all of this is that not only in this video am I here telling you avoid these things, and setting you up for success in the Wealthy Affiliate community that way, but I personally coach every one of my referrals at Wealthy Affiliate on what to avoid.

They have some really cool systems in place that allow me to do that without a whole lot of effort. And so, you’re never going to have to worry about any of those kind of potholes in Wealthy Affiliate, that if you were referred in by someone else, you would potentially fall into. Because basically, what I’m doing through Wealthy Affiliate and through this video is I’m patching those potholes so you never trip over the things that could compromise or jeopardize your success. Okay?

So, now that I’ve talked about the things that I, personally, think suck at Wealthy Affiliate, I want to tell you the reasons that I’ve been at Wealthy Affiliate for over 5 years.

I joined in October 2012. So I’ve been a Wealthy Affiliate premium member, I will continue to be a Wealthy Affiliate premium member. The guys that founded it, the co-founders, their hearts are in the right place. They’ve had opportunity, after opportunity, after opportunity to kind of shift into that really immoral side of internet marketing and do some shady stuff, and they never have.

What they have demonstrated through their training and through the way they’ve built Wealthy Affiliate over the years is that we’re very like-minded. Where I’m at… and I try very hard to be ethical and guide people without thinking about my own monetary gain, and just help people become successful. They have done that over and over again but for many more years than I have, even.

So, the reasons I’ve been a Wealthy Affiliate member for over 5 years is that there is so much training on topics that FIMP doesn’t cover yet. And I want to cover in the future, and I want to cover really in-depth, but with me working on my own internet marketing businesses, it’s a very difficult thing for me to do.

I still have every intention to, I still plan to, and I will continue to record training. But in the mean time, there’s no better place you can go to continue your education and build on that foundation that you’ve poured at FIMP than Wealthy Affiliate. There is no safer community online.

Like I said, they’ve been doing this for years. And just between their own training and all of the training that other members have posted, and other experienced internet marketers have posted, there is a massive training library at Wealthy Affiliate that FIMP just can’t touch. And they’re years ahead, and it continues to grow almost exponentially. So, it’s going to be very difficult to keep up. So, I think you’ll really love that. And that’s one of the reasons I love it.

There are also weekly live webinars by a guy that really knows his stuff. He’s a veteran internet marketer, he runs his own local SEO business, and has a lot of really noteworthy clients, and also does a lot of affiliate marketing, as well. Ans his name is Jay.

And Jay is just a brilliant internet marketer. There are very few people in this industry that are better to learn from. And literally, every single week, he does a live webinar at the end of the week. And his material is just outstanding. He’s a great teacher.

There’s just nowhere else you can go for as cheap as the monthly dues are at Wealthy Affiliate, and get access to someone live, one-on-one, like Jay at Wealthy Affiliate. And so, that’s definitely… that alone is worth the investment at Wealthy Affiliate. But there’s so much more beyond that, as well.

And some of the community’s most knowledgeable members and veteran internet marketers (myself included) regularly add training to the community. Regularly blog about things that we’re learning. But also, something that I’ll be doing a lot more of now is I’m creating video training for Wealthy Affiliate. Just putting that into the community, and of course you would have access to all of that as well in the Wealthy Affiliate community.

And so, like I said earlier too, the community engagement and support is just unbeatable. You can’t go anywhere else and find a community like Wealthy Affiliate. It’s just such a safe place, it’s monitored so closely. It’s just incredible, what they’ve created there.

You know, there were… a couple of years ago, when bootcamp really started to gain a lot of traction. A lot of people are going into it, and I, personally, from the very beginning, didn’t feel like that set people up for success very well.

And I was really upset that it was becoming as popular and as prevalent within the community as it did. And I looked around for days on end to find a place that I could refer people to that was better than Wealthy Affiliate, and a safer community overall. And I just couldn’t find it – no exaggeration, I could not find it.

And at the end of the day, I mean, I’ve kept my eye out over the years and we’ve reviewed hundreds of products as StoppingScams, and nothing else comes close to Wealthy Affiliate.

So, ultimately, what I decided was instead of stopping promoting Wealthy Affiliate altogether, was I started using their systems that they haven’t placed for me to stay connected to my referrals. And like I said, kind of patching those potholes to make sure you never fall into them. Because there just is no other place that you can end up that’s better than Wealthy Affiliate. And it takes a lot for me to say that about a product.

After all of these years, there are very few places that I have been impressed by, but there is only one place that I would give a… I would say an unqualified recommendation, but I have qualified this recommendation a lot. There’s just nowhere that I would recommend stronger than Wealthy Affiliate. You’re just not going to find a better place online to keep growing and keep plugged in to a community.

And the best thing of all is because of the systems in place, they have some incredible support tools for their members like me. I can personally guide and mentor every single one of my referrals into Wealthy Affiliate. And that’s really special for me. It allows me to have a much more one-on-one relationship and keep tabs on your journey a lot easier. And there’s just no way I can do that using something like a Facebook group, because Facebook does not have the tools built-in to help make that efficient like Wealthy Affiliate does.

And so, one of the nice things about Wealthy Affiliate, especially now that you’ve finished FIMP and I know you’re serious about this journey, is we can connect on more of a one-on-one level. And whenever you can’t find what you need at Wealthy Affiliate, or you post a question and nobody answers or gives the answer that you were looking for, you can always reach out to me, individually.

I know that early in FIMP I talked about how you need to be very independent and don’t be you know, pinging me for every single question. You have there a lot of things that you can Google.

And you know, the nice thing about Wealthy Affiliate is that they have systems in place that allow me to have that one-on-one relationship, without it being super time-consuming.

So, you know, that basically takes us down to… I know this is getting a little bit long-winded, but it’s something I’m really passionate about. And again, it’s something that in order for you to go in and have success, you have to go about it a very specific way.

So, I apologize for taking up so much time for this video. But at the end of the day, this is what I truly believe sets you up for success best, so I didn’t want to just make a quick 5-minute video and move on.

So, if all of this sounds good to you and you’re interested in checking it out, you can check it out for free. They have something called a “Starter” account. And if you want to do it through my affiliate link and support FIMP and also, you know, get access to the resources that my referrals get… unfortunately, the only way my referrals get that information is if they’re tagged as one of my referrals because it’s built into Wealthy Affiliate’s system.

This is the link you would use: it’s stoppingscams.com/fimpfinisher (all one word, all lowercase). And you can check it out for free. I don’t get commissioned if you check it out for free. This is an affiliate link. It does keep FIMP funded, but only if you upgrade to premium, Ultimately, because you decide it’s good fit for you and where you’re at on your journey.

So, after you create a free account, fill-out your profile just really briefly. You don’t have to do anything super fancy, but upload an image and post your description about yourself, introduce yourself to the community.

And please stop by my profile (you can skip this one step, if you want to). I would love to know that you made it. I would love to know that you went through FIMP, and then you decided: “Okay, I’m going to keep growing, I’m going to keep developing, I’m really serious about this. So, Ian, I ended up at Wealthy Affiliate.”

So, please stop by my profile and just say hi. Just introduce yourself really quickly if we haven’t already connected. And if we have already connected, just let me know you made into Wealthy Affiliate. Because that’s really special for me, to know that a community that I’ve been a member of, and I’m so passionate about – someone from FIMP made it in there, as well.

So, my profile is “Pribs” (P-R-I-B-S), and you can just search that on their platform and you’ll find my profile, and stop by and introduce yourself.

And then, you know, the best part of Wealthy Affiliate, just start interacting with the community. They have a live chat feature, they have the ability to post questions, and you can do a lot of that for the first several days that you’re a free member. If you decide to upgrade, you get unlimited access to the community, and posting in the community, and stuff. But you at least get a taste of it, early on.

And one thing I do want to mention is, you know, in the free starter account at Wealthy Affiliate, you do get access to some training. At the free level, it’s lower level than what you’ve already gotten at FIMP – which is great. It speaks volume as to what we’re doing at FIMP. But at the same time, just know that that is not representative of the plethora of training that becomes available to you after you upgraded to premium.

They have several levels of what’s called “Online Entrepreneur Certification”, I’ll talk about that here in a minute. They have 5 levels and they’re continuing to add to them. You would pick up at level 3 – is where FIMP has left off.

So, you only get access to level 1, as a free member. So that’s not going to be very representative, or very helpful for you if you’ve already completed FIMP, just know that.

And know that if you do like the community, and you like what they’re doing at Wealthy Affiliate, and you decide to invest in their premium membership, which is $19 your first month and $49 every month thereafter. There are some discounts for an annual membership too. But if you decide to do that, you’ll get access to the premium training, as well; which is where you would continue learning, continue growing, and continue developing.

So, the other thing is, I mentioned some of the systems at Wealthy Affiliate has in place for me to stay in touch with you, and keep tabs on you, and guide you, check in on you, et cetera. One of those things is automated messages that I get to post to your profile at Wealthy Affiliate. So keep an eye on your profile for those, again, full disclosure automated messages from me that I’ve put in place.

But, if you ever get stuck, or you look at one of the questions I asked in one of those automated messages and you go: “No, I do really need help with this”, reply to it because I personally receive every single one of those, and I personally respond to every single one of those.

So, although I have some automated messages set up at Wealthy Affiliate, it’s one of the things that enables me to have that more one-on-one coach/mentor relationship with the people that I refer over to Wealthy Affiliate.

So, keep an eye on your profile and on your inbox, if you decide to upgrade to premium. Because I am always just one reply away from my referrals at Wealthy Affiliate, if you decide you need a little bit of help.

So, I just mentioned this too, if you decide to invest in a premium membership and you get access to the premium training, pick up where we left off in the Online Entrepreneur Certification level 3. And I’ll post a link to that below this video as well, so you can just click directly over. But again, you won’t be able to access it until you have a premium account. It’s not accessible through the free starter account. Alright?

So, I want to knock out, before we tie off here, just a couple of questions that are probably on a lot of your minds. And I know, if you don’t have them on your mind right now, they’re going to come up. I’ll just blow through these really quick.

One of them is: Do I need Bluehost or external hosting since Wealthy Affiliate premium includes hosting?

The answer is absolutely yes. In my personal opinion, Wealthy Affiliate has a lot of cool features built into their hosting platform, they also have some limitations. But at the end of the day, if you build your website there, you get trapped into, essentially, $49 a month hosting. If you ever want to cancel your account, and then you have to go through the hassle of transferring your websites out of Wealthy Affiliate to an external host.

So, it’s cheap enough, that from the very beginning, I just recommend hosting externally. That way, when you do decide that you want to leave Wealthy Affiliate, whether it’s a month down the road, or 3 months down the road, or 8 months down the road, not everyone’s going to become a Wealthy Affiliate member for over 5 years, like I have been, you can continue to have access to your websites and not lose access to them because you cancel your Wealthy Affiliate membership.

Another thing that people ask a lot is: Should I use Jaaxy (which is Wealthy Affiliate’s keyword tool) or LongTail Pro (which I teach as the premium keyword tool in FIMP)?

If you’ve invested in LongTail Pro, absolutely, hands down, use it over Jaaxy. The data is better, the competition data is more reliable, the keyword search volume is more reliable, it’s just all around much better, more reliable tool.

But if you can’t afford LongTail Pro, Wealthy Affiliate’s free version of Jaaxy is better than nothing. They’ve got a really cool engine built into that that’s very good for suggesting keywords. But just make sure that you still use the free tools taught at FIMP. I believe that’s video 5.5, The Free Keyword Planner, Google Keyword Planner, and the Moz bar to check competition. Just double-check the keywords you’re finding in Jaaxy, still. Because the data just isn’t as reliable as I would prefer it to be.

I know they’re constantly improving that, too. But as of right now, as I record this video, just continue to set yourself up for success, as well as possible, using the tools taught at FIMP, as well. But Jaaxy can help a lot if you don’t have the money to afford a premium keyword tool.

And, you know, one of the biggest questions I see coming up at this point is… okay, you’ve taught me a ton at FIMP and you’re going to see some overlap at Wealthy Affiliate and you’re going to go: “Well, how the hell do I actually get the most out of my membership at Wealthy Affiliate?”

Pick up where FIMP left off at the Online Entrepreneur Certification level 3, if you decide to upgrade to premium. Get plugged in to the Wealthy Affiliate community because it is just an outstanding community.

One of the best ways to learn is to teach. I have found that over and over again in everything I’ve done in my life. And you will have plenty of opportunities to help other people and teach.

Obviously, you don’t want to get too caught up in that because it takes time away from your business, and that should be your main focus. But at the end of the day, the more you teach other people in the Wealthy Affiliate community because you have gotten a better foundation than they have at Wealthy Affiliate, the better that’s going to solidify and make more concrete your own understanding of internet business and set you up for long term success.

So, get plugged in to the community, ask questions when you have them yourself, help other people when you have answers to their questions, as long as it’s not taking too much time away from your business. And you’re going to love that. That community is just outstanding, and it is unmatched, unparalleled across the rest of the internet marketing world.

Attend the live weekly webinars by Jay. There are always replays too, if you can’t attend live. Check those out because he’s one of the most knowledgeable members in Wealthy Affiliate.

And drop me a message if you’re ever stuck anywhere. Again, this is one of the biggest advantages to having a Wealthy Affiliate membership is that they have the systems and tools in place for me to have that more one-on-one relationship.

And also, the nice thing is, by this point, especially in this video if you’re still watching, a lot of people have been weeded out throughout the FIMP training. So, it kind of, separates, to live this to the very end, it separates the people that are serious about their success and those that aren’t.

So, I don’t get overwhelmed by this huge support burden by a lot of people that aren’t ever going to take this very seriously. I know you’re serious, I know you’re ambitious, I know you’re committed to this journey, so I want us to have that one-on-one relationship. And the best way for that to happen is through Wealthy Affiliate’s platform. Thanks to the tools and support features that they built in, that I have access to.

So, if you get stuck anywhere, if you can’t get the help you need from the community, drop me a messages, post to my profile, whatever, get in touch with me so that I can help you personally. Alright?

So, I know it’s been a long video. Thanks for hanging in there with me through it all. I guess it’s fitting that we finished again. This is such an important video. Where you go from here will determine so much about your success online.

And I just want to congratulate you for finishing FIMP. That is such a huge accomplishment. And I don’t want to undermine that by just going: “Hey! Alright, you’re done! Now here’s another assignment.”

But at the end of the day, the best thing for you, and the best thing for your success is to get plugged in to a community and keep learning, and keep growing, and don’t become complacent or stagnant. And I know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the best way to keep you moving forward is to stay in touch with, more of, a one-on-one relationship through Wealthy Affiliate.

So, I hope you’ve enjoyed this video. I hope you’ve enjoyed all of the FIMP training. I have no doubt that you will enjoy the Wealthy Affiliate community, if you decide to get plugged in.

So, if you want to do it in a way that supports FIMP, please click the button below this video, or the link below this video.

If you’re uncomfortable with me making a commission if you upgrade to premium, just go ahead and head straight over to Wealthy Affiliate. But I would greatly appreciate your support for what I’m trying to do at Free Internet Marketing Project if you would create an account through my Wealthy Affiliate link, posted below this video.

And I look forward to seeing you there. I look forward to, hopefully, continuing to see you around the FIMP Facebook community, as well. And most importantly, I look forward to seeing where you end up several months or several years down the road.

And, hopefully, we get you to that one in one hundred that not only finish FIMP, but built a successful, profitable, long-term internet business that helped you change your life.

So, thank you all so much for sticking with me through this long, long, long video. And for completing the FIMP training. I truly hope it helps you change your life.

I’ll be around if you need me. Take care. And I hope to talk to you soon.

8.1 When and How to Monetize Your Content (AF)

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  • How to monetize your content using physical products
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  • How to monetize your content using CPA marketing
  • How to monetize your content using digital products
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8.1 Transcript Below

What’s going on, beautiful people?

Time for another lesson. Another section. This section’s going to be pretty brief overall, at least as I have it planned for now.

And the main thing that I want to talk about in this section is when and how to monetize your content. So this will be a fairly long lesson compared to a lot of the ones we’ve done recently.

But it’s a very, very important thing to address. Because just like people try to get the website design perfect from the very beginning and they play with all the colors, they’re trying to get all their widgets perfect, and, they’re just tweaking all these things that don’t really matter until you get traffic; monetization is the exact same thing. It falls under the same category.

It’s not going to do you any good to worry about all those little details and how finally integrated your affiliate links are. Or how well you’re monetizing or you’re optimizing for opt-ins to your e-mail list. None of that’s really going to matter until you get traffic anyways.

So I want to talk about when to start monetizing your content exactly. And how you might consider monetizing your content once you break that threshold, okay?

So, if you stick things out until you’re getting traffic, that’s really when it’s time to start worrying about monetization. So typically, this is, at least, a few months in. I’ll talk about some exceptions there.

But once you get traffic, it’s time to start making money, right? Once you’re getting consistent traffic, it’s time to start making money. And the way you do that is by monetizing your content.

You will notice that in my article that I created in this section about creating high-quality content, there were no affiliate links, there were no calls-to-action yet. And it’s just flat out… in my experience, it’s not worth spending the time on until you start seeing which of your posts are getting the most traffic, which of your posts are getting the most engagement. And then, you worry about monetizing those posts.

Because I could spend at least a couple three, four hours hunting down affiliate offers or trying to figure out how I’m going to monetize the traffic for that one article. And on top of that, I could spend all kinds of time, as much as dozens of hours, coming up with a lead magnet to get people to opt-in to my list. And none of it means anything until I get traffic anyways.

And another thing you’ll find is – as you work on these dozens of articles over the coming months, you have no idea which ones are going to gain traction first.

So, you could spend two hours optimizing each one of those articles for monetization and getting people to click through your affiliate links, buy things through your affiliate links.

And the ones that you least expect, could be the ones that get the most traffic because they’re the ones that get rankings first.

So, you can spend all kinds of time. Just frankly, in the early stage is wasted, that could go towards traffic-producing activities, worrying about monetization. But I wouldn’t really suggest that. I wouldn’t recommend that.

I would recommend focusing on content, content, content and some promotion. Focusing on everything we’ve talked about up until this point. And once you start to see that tipping point, where your traffic is catching, that’s when you should worry about monetization. Because before you get traffic, it’s just not going to mean anything.

You may lose out on a few dollars over the first few months. But, you know, if you lose out on a couple of hundred dollars over the first 8 or 12 months versus being highly productive and putting out more content and focusing on the things that matter at that stage of your business, I think it’s a pretty fair trade-off.

Because your going to see a lot better results once you start to hit that tipping point if you just focus on the things that matter in those early stages. And that is traffic-producing activities – which are content creation, on-page SEO, picking good keywords and other forms of promotion that we discussed in the last section.

I would say, once your consistently getting about 75-100 visitors… ah, I say that per month, that’s actually supposed to be per day. I’m actually going to correct that because that’s a pretty, pretty big one. Sorry about that. It’s important that that’s in there correctly.

So, once you’re consistently getting 75-100 visitors per day, is when I would start worrying about a monetization. I often don’t even worry about it until I’m getting a couple of hundred visitors per day, it’s just a matter of taste. And I can understand if you’re antsy and you want to get making money as quickly as possible after you’re getting traffic.

And it’s warranted, I’d say, once you get to 75-100 visitors per day. You’re not going to be making anywhere near a full-time income in most niches with only 75-100 visitors per day, but it warrants the time and effort to start worrying about content optimization and monetization. Okay?

So, next bullet point I guess. So, you’re going to have several options and I’m going to go through each one of these, one-by-one.

You have advertising as an option. You have CPA marketing – which is Cost Per Acquisition marketing – and it’s one of the many areas of affiliate marketing that you can participate in. Physical products that you own or dropshipping, and digital products that you own. We’re going to take a look at each one of these in this video.

So, we’ve discussed these, somewhat, a long time ago in one of the first sections. We talked about different ways to monetize content and we talked about each one of these when we discussed reverse math. If you can remember that far back, because it’s probably a ways back, depending on how quickly you’ve covered these lessons.

But advertising is going to be one of the most straightforward and easy things to implement. Especially if you’re going to Google Adsense route. You basically just copy a code from Google Adsense, you paste it on your website and it starts populating ads automatically. And you get paid based on how many times people click those ads on your website.

But as I discussed when we visited this topic the first time, advertising doesn’t make a lot of sense unless you’re getting a ton of traffic. I’m taking about hundreds of thousands, if not millions of visitors a month. And the vast majority of websites just never make it to that point of traffic. And even if they did, unless it’s just in a non-buying audience or it’s just this really weird traffic that isn’t super valuable any other way, advertising is going to be one of the least effective ways to monetize your content.

Because odds are that you could integrate CPA marketing intelligently or your own physical products or your own digital products in a way that you would make a lot more money than advertising is going to produce. Because really, advertising just produces pennies per thousands of visitors. And at the end of the day, that’s just not a level of traffic most people are going to hit to make this make sense.

And as I mentioned, for the vast majority of websites, what this is actually going to do is it’s going to distract from the things that actually make you money.

So what a lot of people do is they integrate maybe their own product and they integrate their own lead magnet – which is opt-in to my e-mail list, get these free things so that you can start pitching them in a sales funnel. And then they, you know… add advertising and they’ve got all of these different CPA offers, their own offers, lead magnet, advertising. And it just doesn’t make a whole lot of sense, because what you’re actually doing is dwindling your conversion optimization.

We know based on study, after study, after study in the conversion optimization industry that every time you stack something else onto your page – whether it’s a banner, whether it’s an ad, whether it’s an in-text link – if those things aren’t congruent with one another, if they’re not all part of the same sales funnel on that page, what you’re doing is you’re pulling someone in multiple different directions.

And there have even been psychological studies that show: when you give people too many options, they just don’t make a decision. That’s something that Malcolm Gladwell discusses in his book, Blink. And it’s proven hard science, it’s just how we react as humans.

So the best practice for conversion optimization is to keep people on one straight funnel and kind of pitch them one offer at a time.

Which is why if you see any of my websites, you’ll notice that I have a consistent funnel across all sections of a website. Maybe I have multiple different niches on the same website because it’s really established authority website, but you know… for example: on StoppingScams internet marketing stuff stays internet marketing stuff, survey stuff stays survey stuff.

I don’t pitch survey people on the internet marketing stuff. I don’t pitch internet marketing subscribers, that are looking for ways to make money online, survey offers and ways to make money taking surveys online. I don’t pitch either of those markets anything having to do with MLM or network marketing, because it hurts conversion rates when you do so.

And so, whenever you put ads on a website unnecessarily, maybe you’re making a few extra pennies per day. But what you’re actually doing is really dropping your conversion rate for other offers that could make you more money.

So, for the vast majority of people, advertising just isn’t going to make sense. It’s super easy, yes. It makes you a little bit of money. You know, literally, pocket change. But it’s just not going to make sense for the vast majority of people. Unless you’re getting hundreds of thousands or millions of visitors a month.

The next thing that I would like to discuss is CPA Marketing. And in Cost Per Acquisition Marketing, under that umbrella, you have pay-per-sale, pay-per-free-trial giveaway, pay-per-lead… just all kinds of offers that kind of exist under that umbrella.

And there are tons of different CPA networks that have all kinds of offers that you can look for and compare and shop.

The most important thing about CPA marketing, about anything, when you’re talking about monetization is to remember to integrate offers that are actually valuable to your audience.

If you’re writing a piece of content about a specific topic and about how to solve a pain point or answer their question, don’t just pitch the thing that’s going to make you the most money. Because that’s going to significantly, again, decrease your conversion rates.

What you want to do is you want to pitch things that are actually valuable and helpful to them. And not only are you going to make commissions that way, but you’re going to forge a relationship that you can continue to monetize, as time goes on. And get your lifetime value (which is abbreviated LTV) up and up and up with that subscriber as long as you never burn that bridge.

The first time you recommend something that’s not useful to them, and you’re just recommending it because it’s going to make you a good chunk of money, you’re very likely to burn that relationship and never be able to make money off of that subscriber or that website visitor ever again. And on top of that, most of them won’t even convert because it’s not something that’s truly valuable to them.

So remember that when you’re integrating CPA offers and, again, anything else for monetization on your website, you want to continue building that relationship. You want to continue adding value. You don’t just want to throw out there whatever is going to make you the most money.

If something’s going to make you $10 and it’s relevant. Or something’s going to make you $100 and it’s kind of a stretch, it’s a little bit relevant. Maybe I can get people to convert. Pitch the thing that’s going to make you $10, because you’re going to convert more people and probably make up the vast majority of that difference, if not significantly more by converting more people than the $100 offer that’s only slightly relevant with convert. I hope that makes sense.

It’s best to integrate CPA offers through, in my experience… through in-text links and kind of buttons throughout the content.

So if you’re talking about something and someone’s reading, reading, reading… in my experience, you convert much higher if you kind of integrate your affiliate links in the content as text. Because they’re reading the article and, again, it’s value to them, it’s relevant to what you’re talking about.

If it makes sense to do so, those are some of the best converting links that I have. And some of the best paying affiliate links that I’ve had on any of my websites over the past 10 years.

It converts much better, typically speaking, than banners. Especially if you have multiple banners for different products down the right-hand side of your website, or at the top of your website, or in your content. Those banners just don’t work remotely as well as in-text links and buttons with really strong calls-to-action that tie in contextually to whatever you’re talking about.

So, if you’ve just made a reference to something in your content and you hit a point where it makes sense to add a button – a call-to-action button right there – you know, loop it in to whatever you’re talking about in the content. And try to create a compelling call-to-action, that not only ties in to the content, but also is really enticing to your audience.

And whenever you’re linking through affiliate links, you are legally required to make sure it’s really obvious. You know, the FTC implemented that a long time a go. A lot of people implement this by just kind of trying to bury it in their terms and conditions, and that is not the blatant label that the FTC requires – this is for U.S.-based companies. But other countries also have their own requirements, you need to familiarize yourself with them if you’re getting into affiliate marketing.

But it’s also a good way to forge that trust and that relationship. And typically, what I’m going to do, because I am promoting things that are of value to my audience. I just make it really clear: “Hey! This is an affiliate link and this is how we stay funded. These commissions are what keep us going. They’re what keep us doing this, so please support us by purchasing through our affiliate link.”

And because I am pitching things of value, I’m not just trying to take them for every dime they’re worth. It’s a highly compelling way to increase your conversions and get people supporting you.

Because there’s no reason for them not to support you and purchase through your affiliate link if you’ve really gone out of your way to create a high-quality content that helps them. It’s just a click of a button, they’re going to pay the same amount either way. So they might as well just buy through you.

So, again, Conversion Optimization 101, it’s usually best to push one offer rather than spread your visitor’s attention across several different offers.

And you can find a lot of CPA offers, pretty much no matter what your niche is, through sites like OfferVault or AffPlus.com. If you want to read reviews from really established affiliates on which CPA networks are the best, there’s AffPaying – A F F… and I can’t remember if there’s a hyphen or not… A F F – Paying. And if there’s no hyphen, it’s just AffPaying, one word… P A Y I N G. AffPaying. Just google it. I can’t remember if it’s a .net or .com.

But they’re the go-to resource for if you’re looking to apply for a CPA network. Kind of… and read reviews on CPA networks, whether they stiff their people on commissions, how helpful their affiliate managers are, how great their selection on offers, and how great their pay-outs compare to other CPA networks. That’s a really, really good resource.

And one of the reasons you want to wait until you’re getting, at least, 75-100 visitors per day, especially when you’re talking CPA marketing, is because any reputable CPA network is going to want to see you have existing traffic.

You know, it’s really hard to get approved for any good CPA network if you’re just getting started. You know, you can get approved for Amazon but their commissions are pretty low compared to a lot of those CPA networks that have pay-per-free-trial giveaways, pay-per-lead, pay-per-email submit, all kinds of stuff like that.

So, that’s just another reason to wait until you’re getting to the point that you’re getting 75-100 visitors per day. Because you’re just not going to get approved by most reputable CPA networks otherwise. And for a lot of them, that even may not be enough traffic.

But if you pick up the phone and you call a lot of those CPA networks and you get in touch with an affiliate manager, you can get approved, a lot of the time, even for a brand new website. If you call them, you talk to them, you prove that you’re trustworthy and you prove that you know what you’re talking about, a lot of the times those guys will approve you just because you went to that extra effort. So keep that in mind as well.

But hopefully, somewhere down the road, I’ll be able to create a more extensive lesson about how to apply for affiliate networks and get approved even if your traffic numbers aren’t as high as they may usually like to see.

Okay. Physical products that you own or dropshipping – this is something I started doing a lot of in my business in the last year. And it’s been really, really helpful to diversify my streams of revenue.

If you go this route, you’re likely going to start off with dropshipping and expands into managing your own inventory, sourcing your own products, or even possibly manufacturing your own products as volume increases. Because, again, 75-100 visitors per day, you’re probably not going to get a massive amount of conversions.

You may be lucky to get 1 or 2 sales per day, pushing physical products, unless it’s just a really, really targeted piece of content – which that does happen, where you would get 5-10% conversion rates compared to in the industry standard of 0.5% or 1%. But anyway around it, you’re probably going to start off with dropshipping.

And for those of you who don’t know what dropshipping is, I apologize. It’s where you never manage inventory, you just receive the order from a customer, you pass that information along to a supplier somewhere else and they ship directly to your customer. You never touch the inventory.

And typically, you’re probably going to be marking up your products at least 2 or 3 times. So maybe someone pays you $20, you buy it from someone else for $5 and they ship it directly to your customer. And now you’ve made $15 profit. So, that’s a pretty cool way to make money if you know what you’re doing.

AliExpress.com – a lot of products source from China there – is kind of the go-to for cheap products. And you just want to make sure you pay attention to the reviews when you’re sourcing products from there, and how many purchases that product has, and how many purchases that supplier has, when you’re looking on AliExpress.

Because if you’re not ordering the product yourself and verifying quality first, which is the ideal thing to do, you at least want to make sure that it has a lot of reviews, a lot of purchases and a lot of happy customers. Otherwise, you’re really likely to get something shipped to your customer that’s a total piece of crap. And that’s going to hurt your reputation and your relationship with your subscriber, again, and probably burn a bridge that you can never make money off of them again. So be careful with that.

And I actually discussed this extensively – how to evaluate products, how to source products, how to even automate the process whenever you receive an order… just kind of one-click their software, that will go in and fill-out all the customer information – their name, their address – and pass that, all of that, onto your supplier that you’re using to dropship to the customer. Rather than you having to do all of that manually, which is a pretty big pain in the butt.

So, I go through all of that in the article on the screen right now. It is a very, very, very extensive lesson. One of the most extensive on StoppingScams.com. And I think you’ll find it’s very helpful and very high-quality.

So, if this is something you’re interested in doing and you want to start with dropshipping, once you get to 75-100 visitors per day and it starts making sense to integrate some of these things to your content, that is a very, very, very good article for you to check out. I think you’ll find it really insightful.

So, it’s based on experiences in my own business where I got a dropshipping site, up to a little over a hundred thousand dollars of revenue per month.

So, yeah, it’s not to be overlooked. It’s not like I’m some chump that’s just speculating at these things. Whether you believe me or not, that’s up to you.

But it was an adventure, for sure. And it’s something that I’ve really enjoyed, again, expanding as an extra stream of revenue in my business. Because I come from SEO, I come from affiliate marketing. So to get into the kind of the e-commerce world and crack dropshipping – which I always frankly thought was kind of a myth that product publishers kind of made up, was really, really fun and adventurous.

So, all of my experiences are documented, and everything I learned are documented in that article. So, I highly, highly recommend it.

In time, once you’re getting to the point that you’re consistently selling, you know, 100, or 200, or 300 of the same item through your site, you might consider either going directly to the manufacturer. Because most of those suppliers on AliExpress aren’t the manufacturers, they’re just middlemen that buy in bulk.

So they’ll go and they’ll buy from the actual manufacturer. They’ll mark it up, and it’s still super cheap for us in a way that we can mark it up to our consumers. But they’re probably marking it up 1-2 times, at least, themselves.

So, you can kind of cut the middlemen out, go directly to the supplier or start manufacturing yourself and ordering bulk inventory – where you’re buying 500 or 1,000 of these units at once. And fulfilling yourself from your own home or office. Or also there’s the ability to partner with a… oh, I’m having a brain fart… fulfillment facility.

So, you can kind of ship all of your inventory there. Amazon does this too. But there are a lot of companies out there that, you know, you’ll pay a dollar per product, per order that comes through. And they will ship it to your customer.

So technically, you’re still kind of dropshipping even though you’re buying inventory in bulk.

And again, this is something that I’d really like to dig into, really in-depth, down the road. But for now, just know that this is an option and you’re probably going to start off testing the waters with dropshipping. Because it’s really high-risk to buy a thousand units of something, even if it’s only $5 per unit. You’re still paying $5,000 out of pocket before you even know how well it’s going to sell.

So it’s kind of the equivalent of, you know… I’ll talk about digital products here in a second. But typically, you don’t start off just releasing your own digital product. You kind of test the waters with a similar affiliate offer. Some kind of CPA offer first. And then once you see it’s established, you start getting a lot of traffic and you perfect your funnel, then you spend the time to create your own digital product.

And the same is kind of true with physical products. You want to kind of test the waters with dropshipping. That minimizes your risk and minimizes your investment. And then as time goes on, you start supplying, sourcing from your own manufacturer or manufacturing items yourself.

So yeah, I think this is… I don’t think… I know this is one of the most often overlooked ways to monetize a website. People will create a website on brewing… you know, brewing beer or something like that… and they’ll try to monetize it by creating a digital product or by affiliating with certain other info products. The thing that makes the most sense there is if you’ve got the traffic to manufacture or source your own brewing supplies from China. Because they’re super cheap and just dropship them directly to your customer.

Once you get enough going, start building your own brand and start shipping your own branded products. Because when you’re buying in bulk and you’re buying, you know, 500 or 1,000 units at once or manufacturing your own products, they’re going to have your own brand on them, and your own custom packaging and stuff like that. And that’s where you can really get into something that’s incredibly valuable.

And even potentially down the road, a sellable asset that you could sell to someone from 10 to 20 times, even up to 35, 40 times your monthly revenue.

So yeah, worth noting. Just kind of getting off-track there.

But this is, I think, one of the best ways to build a really, really, really big business in internet marketing that most people just aren’t even looking at.

So, again, I hope to get into it more in-depth down the road and kind of create it’s own section. But probably, it would ultimately be at least 2 or 3 sections to really do this topic justice. But know it’s an option. On a high-level, those are kind of the steps you go through. Check out that article I linked.

I just mentioned this, I kind of spoiled it, Digital Products that you own. This is going to be one of the most time-consuming things to do, if you want to do it with any degree of quality. I can tell you right now.

Of course you know I’ve spent several weeks just putting together these first few sections for Free Internet Marketing Project. It is not an easy thing to do. It is very time-consuming, very tasking. And if you want to put out any degree of quality, there is so much you have to learn, and so much time you have to dedicate to it to do it well.

So, if you’re going to go this route, I recommend at least getting to 200-300 visitors per day. And monetizing through CPA marketing until you’re getting to that point. And even two or three-hundred dollars a day is kind of… what?! My brain has gone out the window again.

Even when you get to the point that you’re getting 200-300 visitors per day, it makes a lot of sense to wait longer, in most cases. Because, again, if you release your own digital product and you’re getting a 1% conversion rate, you’re still only getting 2 or 3 sales per day. And it’s just so much time and effort. I mean, to put together a really good digital product is probably going to take you at least a few weeks of full time work. So just keep that in mind.

You can continue promoting CPA offers until you get to the point taht you can really dedicate the time to doing that well. Because again, your reputation is on the line here, your brand is on the line here.

If people buy something from you, and they’ve been your follower for a long time, and it’s not the quality that they’ve come to expect from you, they will never come back to your website. They will unsubscribe from your e-mail list and they will disappear into the dark, okay?

And if you continue fostering a really strong relationship there, and growing your relationship with customer, increasing your credibility in their eyes – that relationship can last, in theory, forever. For years, and years, and years. So just keep that in mind. Always have the long-term play in mind. Don’t just burn your readers and your subscribers for a quick commission.

So, you know, once you’re getting at least 200-300 visitors per day, I would probably say more along the lines of at least 700-1,000 visitors per day, it’s probably time to start considering your own digital product if you’ve kind of tested the waters with CPA marketing and seen what your market is really interested in, what your audience is really interested in.

And you have a really good idea about at least starting market research, where you can e-mail your subscribers and see what their biggest concerns are, what their biggest struggles are, and start to build your product around those.

So, whether that’s an e-book, a video course, or something else – there’s so much potential there. You know, audio tracks, video stock footage, photography stock… by the way, to say that, would be stock photography – you know, selling really high-quality professional bundles of photos. All different kinds of ways to release your own digital products.

So, at that point is when I would kind of start considering doing it because before then, it’s just going to be way too time-consuming for the amount of money it going to produce for you.

Typically, these are going to grow into sales funnels that can really increase revenue. It’s a totally other section but… you can start doing things like selling a bundle of photos for a dollar, right? For 20 super high-quality or 50 or a 100 super high-quality photos, just way overdelivering on value.

And then maybe there’s an upsell for $47 on how to take their own really high-quality photography so they never have to buy stock photography again.

And then after that, maybe there’s another upsell that’s $100 a month membership to ongoing education and growing.

And beyond that, maybe there’s a thousand dollar, two thousand dollar course on exactly everything they have to do, step-by-step super high-quality training on how to start a local photography business.

So that’s kind of what a sales funnel looks like. A really simple example, totally off the top of my head but you can do this in pretty much every industry. And that’s when you start maximizing your value, you maximize your income, your revenue, your profits when you start kind of building the sales funnel that stair steps up – which referred to as a value ladder.

You get them in really early, you overdeliver, you show that you’re reputable and that super credible and trustworthy. And you continue doing that every single tier until you’ve possibly increased your average lifetime value per subscriber to $100 per subscriber.

And if you’re doing paid traffic and you’re paying, on average, $10 for every subscriber to come on board… and based on your value ladder, from everything, from the dollar sale to the up to the two thousand dollar course with continuity – which continuity is like a monthly recurring membership. With continuity in between, you’re getting to the point that you’re paying $10 for a new subscriber but you’re making $100 lifetime value for every subscriber, that’s $90 profit per subscriber.

If you’re getting, on average… if you’re getting 10 subscribers per day, if you’re getting 100 subscribers per day, you’re making some pretty serious money, $900 per day. And then beyond, that’s where the potential really blows up in this industry.

So I’m sorry if I’ve totally lost you just by talking numbers. They’re really clear in my head as they sound but I realized they may not be that way for everyone. But just know, again, I would really like to expand on this with its own section or two.

But when you talk about creating funnels and kind of engineering a really profitable value ladder, if you’ve got the traffic, things get really, really crazy in this industry when you start focusing on that.

So… whew! Okay! I told you it’s going to be a heavy lesson.

I want to kind of wrap up here and recap when and how to monetize your content. You’re probably going to start off with some form of CPA marketing or dropshipping when you get to that 75 or 100 visitors per day level.

Like I said, I’ll (a lot of the time) kind of lazily wait until I’m getting to 200 or 300 visitors per day before I start monetizing my content really actively. But you’re probably going to start off one of those routes.

A lot of people start off with advertising. And again, it’s just not a good idea. You can make a lot more money doing CPA marketing or dropshipping physical products than you will with advertising, unless you’re getting a ton of traffic.

Another important take-away here is don’t just spam your content with a bunch of links and banners and hope for the best. Remember to kind of focus your calls-to-action to one thing in a funnel.

And then after they convert on that thing, you know, kind of move them up to the next thing. And start practicing that value ladder – where you get from making, you know, or possibly losing $5 per every one that subscribes to making $10, or $15, or $20+ every time someone subscribes over the course of their lifetime value. Okay?

And that’s just done by testing, testing, testing. You want to… data is your friend in this industry, it is your absolute bestfriend. You want to make sure that you’re constantly testing. You’re testing new headline, you’re testing new graphics, you’re testing new e-mail messages, new subject lines.

Because every time you get a little 3% bump, or a 5% bump, or you know… say your prayers and get a 10% bump. That has a huge effect across your entire revenue for that funnel, for that website. Because they stack on top of each other. If you get a 10% bump in your opt-ins and then you get a 10% bump on how much money you’re making per opt-in, those things combine. They multiply one another, okay?

And over time, that becomes exponential and you start to, you know, kind of tweak these things. You get these 3%, 5%, 10% increases. And if you get them at multiple points across your sales funnel, they really stack up on one another and kind of, again, become very cumulative and… you know I feel like we’re talking really abstractly here, and I apologize for that. But just know that that’s where the potential is in this industry.

You know, a lot of people would just continue grinding, grinding, grinding on content and pushing out content. There’s a lot to be said for that, because it keeps things simple.

But at the same time, if you begin when it makes sense to focus on some of these other things, you can amplify your income so much faster – if you start focusing on conversion optimization, building funnels, and stuff like that. So, just keep that in mind.

One of the most common ways that you see across every industry, every niche is to use a giveaway – which is what I’ve referred to throughout this video as a lead magnet (very common term for it).

You give something really high-value away for free, you start building your e-mail list, and then you focus on building your relationship and over time, improving that lifetime value. Which again, you do best by just continuing to give them the value that they need – whatever their struggle is, whatever their problem is, help them overcome it. Continue to help them overcome it.

And whether you’re doing that through free training, or whether you’re doing that through paid opportunities along the way, if you’re always overdelivering on quality, you will continue building that lifetime value. And in time, potentially make a metric crap ton of money. So again, that’s where the money’s really at in this industry.

But I want to focus very extensively on e-mail marketing and then building funnels, and stuff like that down the road. So hopefully, I’ll get the opportunity to do that.

So this really is what makes a difference between a $1,000 a month website and a $5,000 a montt website.

I’ve known people that got five times as much traffic as I did in the same niche and they made the same amount of money as I did. And it’s just because I was so much smarter with my traffic. I focused more on conversions and I kind of hit those key points and got those 10% increases, those 5% increases across my entire sales funnel.

And before I knew it, you know, I was making just as much money as someone with 5 to 10 times as much traffic. You know, competing for the same keywords, the same level of qualified traffic. I was just being much smarter in how I built out my funnels on my sites.

So, remember that this makes the difference, alright? This can make a huge, huge, huge difference. And that’s before you even get into… if you’re converting a lot more and your traffic is really high-quality, you can make a lot more money just by negotiating with your affiliate manager. Because you’re one of their top affiliates, you’re producing some of the best revenues, some of the best money, they will actually pay you more per conversion. Whereas, you know, they may pay a standard of $2 per conversion.

I’ve negotiated up to $4 and $6 per conversion because I drove a lot of really high-quality traffic and my conversions were really, really good.

So that’s another way. Again, you just kind of tweak that little thing and you multiply how much money you’re making and how much profit you’re producing.

One little tweak like that has taken me from making $1,500 a month off of one of the affiliate offers I’m pushing to over $5,000 a month. Just because I negotiated a tiered (T-I-E-R-E-D)… so kind of steps up a tiered commission for myself. Because my traffic was converting so well and it was such high-quality.

So, anyways, hopefully we can really dig in to a lot of that stuff down the road. Because that’s where you go from I’m just getting some traffic and making some money to just really boom! Like, stepping it up to where you’re making a really ridiculous and very lucrative full-time income even from one simple authority website.

So anyways, that’s that. I hope I haven’t just totally overwhelmed your brain with way too much. I hope I’ve shown you some of the potential that… you know you’re not going to hit those points when you’re only getting 75-100 visitors per day.

But once you start getting to 300, 500, 1,000 visitors per day, if you’re in a good niche, you should be making a full-time income off of that traffic. You just have to get creative and be committed to testing. Always testing and trying new things.

Alright. So once again, I talk about a lot of things that I want to build extra sections out about in the future. Hopefully I get that opportunity. Hopefully Free Internet Marketing Project does really well, and it’s received well, and we can keep pressing forward with a lot of this, and continuing education.

So, if you have any questions, as always, please feel free to post them to the Facebook group. I’ll keep an eye out for them there. And otherwise, I will just see you in the next video.

7.6 Other Excellent Resources (AF)

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7.6 Transcript Below

Okay!

Let’s talk about some other really excellent resources that can help you tremendously if you are okay taking on a little bit more complexity. You don’t feel like you’re going to be really easily overwhelmed and you’re kind of saying: “Yeah, I want to spend some time writing or producing really high-quality content, but I also want to supplement it by promoting it other ways. And hopefully seeing results a little bit faster.”

So, I wanted to talk to you really quickly about some other really excellent resources and further reading, in case this is something you want to dig into more.

So, as I mentioned, this section, in particular, is something that I would really like to grow and expand into several sections down the road. Where video marketing gets its own section, pay-per-click advertising on Facebook gets its own section, pay-per-click advertising on AdWords gets its own section. You know, talking really extensively about e-mail marketing if you already have existing traffic and stuff like that.

I would really like to expand into these different areas, individually, in the future. But for now, these are kind of some go-to-guides and great resources for supplementing your content creation efforts with some promotion that can help you see traction a little bit easier.

Just remember, again, there’s a lot to be said for keeping things a little bit simpler and simplifying the equation if this is your first time, sort of, around the block and you haven’t ever had a really profitable internet marketing site before.

So, now that I’ve kind of given this disclaimer, let’s throw caution to the wind and just talk about a few of these resources.

So, Expert Roundups can be a really good way to start seeing traction a lot faster, say you do one of this a month. Because what you do with an expert roundup is you come up with a provocative or an interesting question that you send out to other experts in your industry and it helps you form relationships with these experts. It helps you, kind of, get on their radar for future partnerships or guest blogging, et cetera.

And it also, most importantly, when you quote an expert in your expert roundup, most of the time, those guys are going to share your post with their following. And sometimes they’ll have thousands, or tens of thousands, or potentially hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter, on Facebook, on Pinterest. And that can be very, very helpful to kind of siphon some of their followers over to your website.

It’s just important that your website looks pretty established by the time you do this. You know, having, at least, four or five really high-quality posts. Again, probably better to have seven to ten because when they come to your website, you don’t want them to see a bare skeleton. You know, they can’t tell what your content is like yet.

You want to be able to demonstrate yourself as an authority, as someone that’s credible. So that when they come and read things, they may join your e-mail list or they may add you to their bookmarks and check in on you regularly, okay?

So, expert roundups can be an excellent way, especially early on, to establish yourself as a credible authority in the industry you’re trying to establish yourself in. And this is a really, really good guide. This Smart Blogger guide is a really excellent guide for how to do this step by step. Just carries you through everything.

So, it may feel like I’m kind of, you know, shoveling you off and kind of putting the burden on someone else – which again, to a degree is not inaccurate. I just don’t have the time to teach a whole section on expert roundups right now – which is what’s required to teach it well. But this blog post and this guide on Smart Blogger will help you tremendously in doing that. It’s everything you need to know, okay?

Another thing that’s really helpful… we’ve talked a lot about On-page SEO, but Off-Page SEO is also a very important component to rankings. Arguably, it plays a much bigger role in whether or not you do get rankings. And I won’t even say arguably – I’d say if anybody you spoke to that really knew what they were talking about, would tell you that off-page SEO is much more important than on-page SEO.

On-page SEO is an important requirement to get rankings. You have to have it as, kind of, a foundation.

But off-page SEO is where the battle is really won. And that, mostly, centers about getting high-quality links to your pages that you’re trying to rank. There’s a lot that goes into it.

There’s anchor text… and you have to be really careful these days because you can get penalized by getting… you know, over-optimizing your anchor text. Or getting a lot of really low-quality links instead of fewer high-quality links. The algorithms are so much more complex than they were even three years ago, two years ago.

So you have to be very, very careful if you go this route. Pay very close attention to it. Because this is one of the aspects of internet marketing that is most like playing with fire.

You can see a lot of growth by doing it well. You can also completely torture website by doing it poorly and not paying close attention. And it does get very, very complex and overwhelming.

But if it’s something you want to pursue and you’re interested in off-page SEO, Neil Patel – who is the owner of Quick Sprout and KISSmetrics and all kinds of really, really cool internet marketing services and blogs – for the most part, he’s a pretty legit guy. I’ve seen him push some things that are kind of questionable. But at the very least, this off-page SEO guide is excellent. You won’t get much better than what Neil has put together at this URL, okay?

And another thing that can be really helpful to build authority – and technically, this is a form of off-page SEO – again, you don’t want to abuse it is: Guest Blogging and securing yourself Guest Blogging positions.

And these things can kind of like go hand-in-hand. You can use Expert Roundups to get some traction and get some followers and start establishing relationships. And then, use your relationships that you formed through doing a few expert roundups within your industry to start reaching out and saying: “Hey! I’d love to do a Guest Blog Post on your site” you know, or “I’d love it if you did a Guest Blog Post on my site”.

But you’re more likely, especially when you’re unestablished, to get a Guest Blog Post on someone else’s site – as long as you can prove you write really, really high-quality content. And then, you can link back to your site. And that serves a big benefit in off-page SEO. You just want to make sure you do it well. Because, again, you can torture site doing this the wrong way.

So, this can be very high ROI for your efforts. Again, you’re going to do fine. You’re going to gain traction if you just focus on what I referred to as the “Post and Pray” method – where you pick high-quality keywords, you write really high-quality content and you focus on on-page SEO, you will see results in time.

But if you want to accelerate your results and kind of gain traction a little bit faster, you can do that potentially by doing expert roundups, off-page SEO and guest blogging. Alright?

For further reading… on StoppingScams, we actually have an incredible very, very in-depth article for 60 Way To Promote Your Blog – and they’re all free traffic methods, every single one of them.

So, the best thing I can do without digging into each one of these topics with its own section is refer you to a really, really high-quality article. I believe that article is something like… it’s almost 15,000 words.

So, that is an incredibly in-depth guide that gives you a lot of different ideas and kicks up a lot of different ideas. And you may pick two or three, and say: “Hey! These really played to my strengths. These are things that I’m really interested in.” And just focus on doing those two or three things on top of picking good keywords and writing high-quality content and optimizing on-page SEO. And that could accelerate your traction and kind of shorten your growth curve to success, alright?

So, I’m so sorry that I can’t do more of these topics justice. I’m frankly disappointed that I can’t. It just doesn’t make sense for me to invest hundreds and hundreds of hours in creating these different sections until I know that Free Internet Marketing Project is valid. And that is not just going to be some huge time suck that I go broke because I’m neglecting my other businesses instead of focusing on them. I need to make sure that Free Internet Marketing Project is going to make up for the time I take away from those businesses.

So, I’ll dig into it later as much as I possibly can if FIMP turns out to be something that people really enjoy and find helpful. But between now and then, these resources that I’ve discussed – not only in this video but in the previous videos in this section – should be good enough to get you headed down the right track and get started, if this is something you’re interested in pursuing. Okay?

So, as always, if you have any questions, feel free to post them in the Facebook group. You know, I know a lot about these things. I can answer your questions when it comes to all of these things. I just can’t afford to teach them really in-depth right now because they’re just way too time-consuming to teach well.

I hope to get into it later. I look forward to the day that I can. But between now and then, if you have questions, I’m more than happy to field them. Just post them in the Facebook group and I’ll see you there. If I don’t see you there between now and then, I guess I’ll just see you in the next section. Talk to you then.

7.5 A Brief Discussion About Paid Traffic and Who Should Pursue It (AF)

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Let’s talk about paid traffic really briefly. This is any form of paid traffic you can think of. Whether it’s pay-per-view, whether it’s pay-per-click on YouTube, pay-per-click on Google, pay-per-click on Bing and Yahoo!, pay-per-click on Facebook, or any other form of paid traffic. Including direct mail (mailing things via post to someone’s home), and even getting into more traditional things like media buys (where you’re buying television or radio space).

Obviously, just by the nature of all of those different things I just mentioned, there’s a lot of complexity and so much to know about each one of those things. And personally, I only know about half of them in a way that can actually generate income from my projects.

But I don’t really get in to traditional media buys, even though that’s what my education was in college – buying TV space, radio space, direct mail, stuff like that. I focus more on the digital media and do pay-per-click and stuff like that.

So, I just want to talk really briefly about who should pursue pay-per-click or paid traffic of any kind and who shouldn’t.

And I really want to emphasize the key word in this is “brief”, right?

I want to have an entire section or multiple sections for paid advertising in the future.

It’s something that I don’t know of any courses that teach it truly well right now.

There are a couple of really good books. One of them, if you’re looking to learn Google AdWords is Advenced Google Adwords by Brad Geddes (G-E-D-D-E-S is his last name), I believe. Just make sure you get the latest edition because it’s updated fairly regularly. But outside of that… and that’s a hard read… outside of that, there isn’t… I haven’t ever seen a course that taught it really, really well, unfortunately.

So, I’d like to come back and teach it someday. But for now, what I want to really emphasize… because this is going to be enough information for most people watching this training, especially if you’re looking to minimize expenses for your internet business.

The people that should pursue pay-per-click and start researching it through free resources online… and there’s some really good Facebook groups dedicated to pay-per-click and other types of paid advertising, you know, whether it’s reading a book or trying to find a product on it.

The people that should pursue this are people that have money to lose. And when I say money to lose, I mean at least a couple of thousand dollars that you can afford to just burn while you’re learning the ropes.

I’ve seen people go as high as $10,000 before they started turning a profit and really cracked pay-per-click for the industry that they were entering. There is a lot of money to be lost in pay-per-click advertising. There’s a lot to be made too.

But the other thing that kind of stinks about pay-per-click advertising over search engine optimization is that there are a lot of spying tools out there.

And as soon as you get a profitable campaign that runs for a few weeks, people are going to be able to see that pattern and see that you’ve been running a campaign for several weeks, which implies that you’re profitable. And they can just rip you off and start underbidding you and building out funnels that have higher lifetime value (LTV) for their visitors than you do, and push you out of your own market that you cornered.

And that’s harder to do with search engine optimization because there’s a lot more that goes into earning those results, whereas you can just pay for a spot in pay-per-click or other forms of paid advertising. And so, just keep that in mind.

You know, you should have at least a couple of thousand dollars that you can afford to lose. Probably safer to have three or five thousand dollars that you can afford to lose before you crack it. And still, there’s no guarantee that you’re going to crack it within that amount of money.

A lot of people get into pay-per-click and they think: “Okay, I’m going to spend $5 a day…” – and I did this, I’m not judging anyone, I did this myself when I was first getting started in affiliate marketing – “I’m going to spend $5 a day, and I’m going to spend $10 a day, and I’m going to crack this and then I’m just going to scale my campaigns and then I’m going to get rich”, and it doesn’t work that way.

You need a lot of money that you can afford to lose because very, very few people launch profitable campaigns right from the start. I mean, I’m talking like, maybe five to ten percent of people. But it’s probably more like one to three percent of people that launch campaigns when they’re new to paid advertising, launch them profitably without having to do a ton of tweaking and paying for a lot of data that they interpret and pay attention to.

And over time, by tweaking their ads and tweaking their landing pages, they finally turn profitable. But by that point, they’ve spent several hundred, if not several thousand dollars just buying all of that data. I’ve done it myself.

So, and the other thing is “thick skin”. Because even for me, it’s so unnerving sometimes to get up to $2,000 spent, $3,000 spent and I’m still not even break even or I’m just barely break even. And it just feels like so much work.

There’s nothing like a profitable pay-per-click campaign. It’s incredible because, you know, you can ramp up for making a hundred dollars a day to making a thousand, or two thousand, or three thousand dollars a day profit in the course of a week. So, there’s nothing like that rush. But at the same time, it can be swept right out from underneath you.

My last pay-per-click site that was… it was an e-commerce site that was doing right around a hundred thousand dollars total revenue a month, sometimes a little bit more. And that was right around 25 to 30 thousand dollars a month profit. I was spending about 20 to 30 thousand dollars a month on Facebook advertising.

And it was… it fizzled. You know, it came and went in the course of about four months because the competition increased so much, I got pushed out of the industry. And still, presently, as I record this, I’m trying to… I’m testing new things and trying to crack back into the profitable side of that niche.

So, just know that’s who should pursue. To give you a very realistic understanding of pay-per-click, you know, I can’t teach it without digging really, really, really deep and spending like two or three weeks writing lessons and taking you over-the-shoulder and taking you through different ad networks, like AdWords and Facebook.

I’d love to do that down the road but I just can’t commit to doing that until I’ve determined the viability of Free Internet Marketing Project.

But just know, for now, you shouldn’t even look into it much further, unless you have several thousand dollars to spare and really thick skin. And you can visualize yourself seeing $3,000 lost, $4,000 lost, $5,000 lost and you’re still not profitable. Because it’s going to be important that you don’t panic and act out of panic in your campaigns. You have to stay very level-headed and just work the system, keep improving until you turn over a new leaf and become profitable.

The people that don’t have a lot of money and they’re just looking for something easier, you know, they think this is going to be a much faster way to break into the industry, but they don’t have the money to invest in it.

Pay-per-click is going to take you just as much time to crack in a lot ways as search engine optimization. It’s just developing a different skill. And anytime you develop a new skill, it’s going to take you a lot of time, a lot of research, a lot of effort, a lot of crunching data, looking at spreadsheets, looking at analytics. It’s not easy, by any means. Not remotely as easy as a lot of people in this industry would lead you to believe.

So, it can be a lot of fun, it can be a rush when you see tremendous growth in a week or two weeks. But it takes a lot of money to get there, and a lot of patience, and really thick skin, okay?

So, I think for the vast majority of people watching these videos, that’s going to be enough information to just rule out pay-per-click at this stage.

But if you are still interested in pursuing it, hopefully it’s something that I’ll have the time to teach really extensively. And kind of show a lot of the things that I’ve learned the hard way by basically just blowing a lot of money on AdWords, and pay-per-click, and Facebook, and Instagram in the past.

But for now, that’s all I can offer up. And hopefully, that’s enough insight to at least get you started in the right direction, okay?

So if you have any questions, as always, feel free to post them in the Facebook group.

Again, I hope to revisit this somewhere not too far down the road and teach it really extensively. But first, I just need to see if Free Internet Marketing Project is going to kind of catch and it’s going to be something that people enjoy, and use, and share. Because if it’s not, I just can’t afford to take all of the time away from my existing business to teach this really in-depth.

So, hopefully, Free Internet Marketing Project is a hit and people share it, and people love it, it gets received well, et cetera. But until then, I just can’t spend all that time teaching these really complex issues individually.

So, hopefully I’ll be able to revisit it someday. But at the same time, hopefully that’s enough information to get you headed in the right direction, okay?

So, thanks so much for watching. I’ll see you in the Facebook group. And if I don’t see you there, I’ll see you in the next video.

7.4 Discussing Automated Traffic and Traffic Networks (AF)

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7.4 Transcript Below

Okay!

I want to make a quick video for something that people ask about fairly often when they’re new to this industry, and that’s Automated Traffic and Traffic Networks.

And just flat out don’t use them. They’re a waste of time. I could make this video probably 15 or 20 minutes explaining why. It’s all going to amount to don’t use them. They’re just a total waste of time and money.

Automated traffic does not work in almost all cases. It’s just bot traffic that someone has sent to your website. That little robots that spike your analytics and they try to make them look as organic as possible by making them click a few pages on your site and linger for a little while.

But the vast majority of the time – and I’m talking like 95%+, if not 99%+ – these are going to be a total waste of time because they’re bot traffic.

So the same thing goes with social media likes or buying video views on YouTube or, you know, buying some kind of software that spams people via e-mail. They’re just… all of these automated things are a total waste of time.

People sell them to make money. They make a bunch of sales claims so that you’ll buy them. But you’ll find quickly that those sales claims were totally false.

And so many people that buy in to these things, they go: “Why am I not seeing any results? This guy said I’d be able to flip a switch two hours a week and make 10 to 20 grand a month.” – it just doesn’t work that way.

And… these guys have been around forever, perpetuating these… just crap sales claims and rumors just so they can sell more products. Do not buy in to them.

There is not a shortcut to making money online that is remotely that simple. Okay, if you try to take shortcuts in these industry, your business will pay the price. It will.

There are not copy-paste things, there are not shortcuts where you can flip a switch and get a thousand visitors to your site a day, within the first 2 weeks. It just doesn’t work that way.

And not only will it slow your success because you’re focusing on these kind of shiny objects that are distracting you from things that will actually generate results, it could actually take a complete opposite toll on your business.

And some of these things, some of those automated traffics, those automated software will get you punished by Google and other search engines. Or completely de-indexed, so that you’re taken out. Or destroy your ability to land in someone’s inbox whenever you send an e-mail from your domain name – anything associated with your domain name.

So, just don’t do it. Flat out, don’t waste your time on them. I know they’re really attractive and some of them are very compelling – I don’t care how compelling it is, how attractive it is, how many fake testimonials they bought off of Fiverr and written up on their website – these things do not work.

I’ve reviewed hundreds of them through NoMoreBSReviews and StoppingScams over the past several years. Do not buy them. They’re going to be a waste of your time, a waste of your money, and they’re just going to distract you from things that actually could deliver results, like the other things we’ve discussed in this section.

So, I just wanted to visit this topic very head-on and directly. And if you have any questions, as always, you can post them in the Facebook group that’s free for registered members, and I’ll keep an eye out for them.

But at the end of the day, just don’t do it. Anybody with any credibility in this industry will tell you: do not use automated traffic, do not buy likes, do not buy video views, it’s all a waste of time and money.

And anybody that’s telling you the opposite probably has some vested interest to try and get you to buy one of their crappy products. And you should just look at it with that lens of “how biased is this person that’s giving me this advice”, okay?

So, that’s that. Like I said, feel free to post your questions in the Facebook group. Otherwise, I’ll just see you in the next video.

7.3 Video Marketing (AF)

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  • More importantly, what you DON’T need to succeed with video marketing
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7.3 Transcript Below

Alright! Let’s talk about one of my favorites, which is Video Marketing.

This is, in my experience, a great way to crack a lot of niches that are very high competition, otherwise. Because you get to leverage, like the domain authority of YouTube is 100. On the scale from 1 to 100, it’s absolutely maxed out. And I think there’s a lot to be said for that. And a lot of the time, you can kind of leverage that. And if you just regularly create videos doing keyword research the same way I taught you to do it for writing blog posts, you’re going to see a lot of success over time.

So let’s talk about this pretty quickly, kind of a high-level overview. And then I’ll refer you to some resources to get started and execute everything that I talk about in this video.

So, the first thing to take note of is that most people really overcomplicate video marketing.

They think they need all of these fancy editing skills, these, you know, graphics that slide in and out and flash and do all these fancy things.

It’s just not the case, you know. Of course right now I’ve got a green screen behind me and I’ve got this graphical around this video, right? And I have five point lighting in here with me right now. I have two lights in front of me, two behind me and one directly behind me as a backlight. And a giant green screen covering the back wall.

You don’t need that. You just, flat out, don’t need that.

My early video marketing was atrocious. I mean, absolutely atrocious. Low-quality lighting, really horrible audio from the built-in microphone on a crappy webcam. I remember one of them, my ceiling fan was spinning overhead, which just makes people want to have seizures.

It’s just not… it was so far from where I’m at today. And it’s just been a natural progression over time.

It was funny, I was on YouTube on our smart TV the other day and I got really deep into the suggestions. And a couple of the suggestions were a couple of my old channels that I’ve had in a couple of industries over the years.

And to see the progression, it was just astonishing. Because it starts off so crappy and it just gets better and better over time. And again, it’s a natural progression, just like anything else.

So all you need, all you really need… you can get a really good video set-up that is going to be better than 80% to 90% of what’s on YouTube just by buying three point lighting, which would be two in front and one in back.

And paying attention to getting high-quality video, which these days is super easy because a lot of our iPhones and other smart devices have incredible cameras – up to 4k cameras in them.

And decent audio, you know, like getting a… I don’t want to touch it because it makes so much noise… but getting a lapel or a lavalier microphone, like this. This thing cost me like 20 bucks off of Amazon. And it’s not the best, you know… it’s certainly more sensitive than it needs to be, at times. But it does the job.

And just getting something like this will cut out a ton of the echo. Because if I were using any other kind of microphone… you know, if I were using a shotgun microphone, or if I was using kind of a radio microphone, or if I was using my computer’s built-in microphone, it would be so echoey in here right now. But that’s just fixed by a little $20 microphone off of Amazon.

So, as I mentioned, consistency is key, just like with writing. If you’re focusing on video, try to do one or two or three videos, at least, per week and target the keywords the same way.

And as I mentioned, as always, practice makes perfect. I did not start off with the ability to, you know, put up this much lighting and get a green screen going and create a graphic around it that refers people up to my website. I didn’t have the ability to do any of that when I started this. Just been a natural progression over the years.

But just because this is where I’m at now, doesn’t mean my videos weren’t any less effective. The horrible videos I was talking about earlier, I guess that was probably somewhere around… that was at least 10 years ago. So it was around 2007… 2007, 2008.

And those videos ultimately got traffic to my site that ultimately helped me get rankings in the search engines. And that project, that niche site was making me… at a point, about $3,000 a month. And of course the climate has changed a lot since then but there’s a lot that still holds true. And those were horrible, horrible videos.

So, I know a lot of people are intimidated on camera within a lot of the super affiliate groups that I’m a member of. People kind of joke around and give me a hard time for being the guy that’s comfortable on camera. I was not when I first started. I stuttered, I swallowed hard, it was awkward. Whatever. You just learn. You practice, practice, practice. And you settle into it and you get very comfortable with that camera built into your computer or the webcam as time goes on. It just naturally happens. You get desensitized, I think.

Everything you need to know about starting or about how to do what I’ve listed above… you know, good lighting, high-quality video and decent audio is in this particular article on entrepreneur.com. This is a very, very, very good guide to getting started with video, and the right equipment you need, and to do it cheaply – or at least with spending as little money as possible.

And like I said, this can be a really great way to supplement your written content on your website even. Because it will get traffic through suggested videos on YouTube and by ranking in the search engines just due to YouTube’s domain authority that you would not have the ability to rank for with your regular website.

So, I highly recommend it, if it’s something you can fathom doing. Because some people are just petrified and they can’t even fathom doing this.

You know, every time you write a post, create a corresponding video. And instead of doing two posts per week, do a post and a video per week. Or do two posts and two videos per week instead of three or four posts.

And cover the exact same information, just cover it a little bit differently. And you will find, in time, that people will click through YouTube and start following your website and reading your other contents and stuff because they found your video – which would not have been possible otherwise.

And this can also be a really good way to start seeing results within, you know, three to six months. Instead of only seeing results eight to twelve months out, on average.

Because you’ll start seeing people watching your videos and commenting. And that gets that kind of… it gets you over the hump a little bit quicker and makes you feel like you’re making progress, which can be (as silly as it sounds) very helpful, psychologically, to continuing the long journey.

So, the only other thing that I’ll mention – you can look up video SEO, YouTube SEO – you’ll just find that it’s very, very similar to what you find for your website. You want to make sure your keywords and your title, you want to make sure your keywords and your description, you want to make sure your keywords and your tags on YouTube if it all possible, stuff like that.

And if you embed that video on the post on your website (you know, if you have a video and a post about the same thing and you embed that video on that post), in time, as that post gains authority with the search engines, your video being embedded in that post will also boost your rankings on YouTube and in Google when they’re presenting videos with the search listings. You’ll find that that also builds the authority for your videos. So it kind of boosts your video to have it embedded on high page authority pages on your website.

So anyways, we’re getting a little deep now. You don’t have to worry about it all that much.

But just doing it alone and doing it with good lighting, high-quality video and decent audio is more than enough to get started in internet marketing. And it can act as a great supplement to build your presence, build your credibility, build your authority and start getting traffic through to your website. Okay?

So, that’s that. That’s what I’m going to say about video marketing.

Really, you don’t need to overcomplicate it, you know. Treat the SEO just like you would for a post. Google it if you want to. You know, “YouTube SEO”, like I said. And get a good lighting set-up, get a decent camera and a decent microphone – that’s all you need.

Don’t overthink it, don’t overcomplicate it. There’s so much more that you can do. It’s not necessary. Just start doing, putting out high-quality content that’s really high-value for your audience, and that will be more than enough to get you off and running.

And then as times goes on, just like I have, you’ll get better and better and better just naturally as you kind of elevate your game 5% at a time. And before you know it, you’re 300% better than you were a couple of years ago. Alright?

So, that’s that. That’s all I’m going to say about video marketing here.

Again, check out this article if this is something you’re interested in because it’s an excellent guide.

If you have any questions, as always, feel free to post them in the Facebook group.

This is a topic that I would really like to dig into in the future and give its own section. So know that I have every intention in elaborating on this later. It’s just not something that I can do just yet, we have other important material to cover. And I just still need to determine the viability of this project, if it’s something that people are going to enjoy and use and share, et cetera, before I dig that deep into individual topics.

But this is something that I want to revisit. And I promise I will go in to more depth later – if the Free Internet Marketing Project works out. Okay?

So, I’ll see you in the Facebook group. And if I don’t see you there first, I’ll see you in the next video.

7.2 Social Media (For What It’s Worth) (AF)

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  • My confession of hating social media
  • Exactly how important social media is for your website’s success
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7.2 Transcript Below

Now it’s time to talk about Social Media.

And what I’m going to say on social media is going to run very contrary to what most people say about social media.

And this is going to be a fairly brief video as a result.

I just have to come clean about something. And I don’t know why it’s not something you don’t see more people in this industry coming clean on.

And the fact of the matter is I hate social media for my websites. There have been Facebook pay-per-click websites that I’ve had to do social media because it’s through Facebook pay-per-click.

But outside of that… my goodness! I just hate the… you know, writing a post and then having to take it over to Facebook and Twitter and Google Plus and maybe now, Instagram and soon to be Snapchat. Who knows which one’s you’re supposed to post it to? Pinterest on top of it all. Creating different sized images for them all and then writing up a catchy tagline that entices people to click.

It’s just, for me… it’s so much time spent that I could be spending better in my business and doing things that I know are going to make me more money, like finding new keywords and writing more content. And I know all of those things are going to come together in the end. And the social media, you know the social proof and social signals are going to happen if I focus on all of that. And so, yeah, a lot of the time, flat out I just ignore it.

I know that almost sounds unbelievable compared to what other people have said in the industry. But, I mean… I have had, for my niche sites, 5-figure monthly websites that have no social media presence at all. And I don’t just mean like: “I post to it every once in a while and I just mostly ignore it”. I mean they didn’t even have a Facebook page, a Twitter, an Instagram, a Snapchat, a Pinterest set up, they weren’t even created.

So, I don’t know why you see so many people like… insert niches that makes a lot of sense. You know, there are… if you have a lot of content that could go viral, that’s just… gets a lot of engagement, a lot of people sharing and commenting and tagging friends, it could make a ton of sense.

Don’t get me wrong, there is value to social media. But I think for the vast majority of our niche sites that people are building in this industry, it’s just not necessary. And it’s a waste of time. You’re time could be better spent elsewhere.

And I think it’s important to kind of balance that and kind of figure that out: “Is social media a really good fit for this? And if not, my time’s probably better spent focused on SEO or building my skills or becoming a better writer or interacting and engaging the authorities in my industry, et cetera”.

So, who should pursue social media?

Because I know a lot of people enter kind of this industry and go: “Should I do it? Should I not?” I would say the people that are really, really trying to build lifestyle brands. Things like supplements and… where you think about really cool-looking images that are very sleek and stylish. You know, things like fashion, a lot of the times.

You’re trying to build a brand that has a very specific persona that is only really accurately conveyed through photos and videos, and that makes a lot of sense on Facebook and Instagram, and even possibly Twitter or Pinterest. So, I’d say that could make a lot of sense. You know, there are a lot of mom bloggers that do Pinterest very, very, very well and it’s a staple in their business.

But, yeah. I mean, I would just say if you already have a knack for social media and you enjoy it and you’re good at it, and it appeals to you, there’s a lot of potential there. There are a lot of people out there that are going to teach it really well, I’m just not one of them.

And I have a feeling that a lot of people watching this video are less disappointed that I’m not teaching it really extensively here and more relieved that I’m basically giving you permission to say: “Screw it! Spend your time on something else that’s less confusing and less intimidating to you and just focus your efforts there”.

Because at the end of the day, if it drives you nuts, just let it lie and focus on things you know you can do well that don’t confuse you, that don’t overwhelm you, that don’t feel like a totally inefficient use of your time (like social media does to me in most of my niche sites). And focus on things that can actually going to make you money, okay?

So I apologize that that’s disappointing. Again, you can find plenty of people out there teaching social media very, very well. I am probably never going to be one of them.

I’m going to teach the things that I know well. And if I don’t know it well, I’m going to tell you how I’ve overcome it in my own business, and not try and teach you extensively.

So if it is something you choose to pursue, the best advice I can give you is to do what I said: find the social media profiles or the social media networks that your target audience is in.

For Instagram, you’re going to get a lot of younger people, if your target audience is younger. Same thing with Snapchat.

Facebook is not a super young audience anymore. It’s more people you know… a lot of the times, it’s people my age (I’m 29 as I record this) and older… are going to be the people on Facebook. Like my sister-in-law, she’s 18, she’s just starting college, she barely ever uses Facebook. So she sticks to more Instagram and Snapchat.

And you know, same thing with Pinterest, kind of around that same age group – my age group and older.

And Twitter – God knows what Twitter’s good for these days. There are other people out there that can tell you – when people would watch this video, and go: “this guy’s insane to think that Twitter is worthless”. But, personally, in my experience, Twitter has been totally frickin’ worthless.

So, like I said, there are plenty of people out there teaching it well. But the best advice I can give you is find out where your target audience is, if it’s something you want to pursue. And make sure that you craft images for the right sizes for Facebook and for Twitter and for Pinterest and for Instagram because they all have different image sizes. And then just write a catchy tagline, you know… a catchy little description, brief summary or whatever that gets your people to click, to come over to your website and read that post. And you could do that every single time you create a new post.

Again, I just personally feel like my time is better invested, I can spend that hour or two hours that I would spend going around doing social media so much better in my business.

So when I do have those tasks in businesses these days where I need to post two or three times to social media per day, I outsource it to one of my team members that I hire out of the Philippines for usually around $3 an hour.

Just for me, it’s tedious work that I can easily hand off to someone else. And if I absolutely have to do it, I’m going to hand it off. So I hope that’s helpful. I think it’s probably a relief to a lot of you.

And again, I’m sorry if that’s not satisfying. If it’s something you want to pursue, you can research “social media marketing guide”, and you’ll find a lot of people out there, and a lot of companies like Hootsuite and Buffer. A lot of these companies that have software in the industry put out some really, really good contents, and some really helpful tips and tricks. And I would follow their advice long before you followed mine in social media.

Anything I gave you would just… it just wouldn’t be the cream of the crop. And again, if I can’t give you the absolute best training in the industry, I’m just not going to teach it.

So I’m sorry, I wish I could’ve been of more help. But hopefully, a lot of you are relieved to hear like: “Okay. This guy’s had a lot of success and he just completely ignored social media” – which is not an exaggeration at all. So hopefully it’s a relief to more of you than it is disappointing. Alright?

If you have any questions, as always, feel free to post them in the Facebook group. And if I don’t see you in the Facebook group before I see you in the next video, I guess I’ll just see you in the next video. Talk to you then.

7.1 The “Post and Pray” Method — The Simplest Time-Tested Path to Success (AF)

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7.1 Transcript Below

What’s going on people?

I guess it is time to continue with the lessons. And today we’re starting a brand new section. And I want to make sure that I’m enabling you and at least pointing you in the right direction to explore other ways to promote your website and potentially, if you do it correctly and you don’t overwhelm yourself with too much, see results faster than you would just by posting high-quality content repeatedly.

Before we really dig in to this section, as I have it planned right now. I think there are six videos that I’m going to put in this section. I want to be very clear that this is one of the absolute first sections I want to revisit and really dig in a lot deeper.

But even with that said, what you’re going to learn in this section is more than enough to get you pointed in the right direction and headed down the right track. It’s just going to require studying some external resources that I’m going to refer you to that I know are very high-quality and accurate, more so than the other sections that we’ve covered so far.

Because I think, so far, I’ve done a pretty good job of giving everything you need in this material. And I would like to do that for free traffic methods, in general, as well. But for now, I can’t do it just yet.

But I do want to dig in to a lot of these, even deeper as time goes on. Just know that.

But again, with all of that being said, there’s more than enough here to get you started. And we’re going to start with: The “Post and Pray” Method – which we’ve already discussed pretty extensively, especially in the last section. So I don’t really want to beat a dead horse here, but I do want to call your attention to this one last time and kind of emphasize a few things. And then we’ll move on to some other methods as well.

So the Post and Pray method it’s actually… I find that term a little bit empowering. It’s typically used as an insult to people that take this path in the internet marketing, which I think is kind of ridiculous because it’s truly one of the most sure-fire paths.

Again, even Google has said in the past, very specifically, that this is a way to build an authority website. It just takes some patience.

But the other nice thing about this is it’s kind of penalty proof. As long as you’re not doing anything trying to game Google, you should never see any kind of penalties come on to your website and just destroy your business, which I’ve had happened to me in the past. And it is not a fun thing.

So the nice thing about this method is not only is it simple, it’s time-tested. But on top of that, it’s probably the absolute safest way to build a sustainable authoritative brand in whatever niche you’re aiming to establish yourself in.

I’ve mentioned this before but… humans like simple.

It’s one of the reasons that people that are looking to lose weight will succeed a lot more often – we see this in studies across the board – people are more likely to succeed with diet plans and exercise plans that are simple rather than things that are super complex and require watching different food groups and carbs versus fat versus sugars versus et cetera.

People like simple. End of the day, humans like simple. We’re wired to like simple.

And the simpler we keep it, the higher percentage chance of success. And it’s one of the reasons when you look at diet plans (again going back to that), many people will emphasize: focus on your diet, don’t even worry about exercise because you can lose a ton of weight just by focusing on diet. And when you start introducing new elements, it complicates things and it really lessens the chance that a person is going to succeed with that diet plan.

And internet marketing is the exact same way – the exact same way. I’ve seen it over and over throughout the years that the more people complicate things, the more they overwhelm themselves, the less likely they are to succeed. Because they get all of these moving parts going, they’re spinning all of these plates and they can’t keep them all straight. And they just find it all overwhelming and it all crashes down to the ground.

So there is a lot of merit to the post and pray method. Again, that’s usually used in an insulting way. But I’ve built many businesses in this industry very successfully using the post and pray method.

And so, like I said, I like it. I think it’s got a good ring to it and it does describe what it is. Because sometimes you go nuts just trying to get the site established. But if you keep doing it and you stay consistent and you see it through, you will ultimately find success as long as your posting high-quality contents.

So, as I mentioned, it’s just doing everything you’ve learned in the previous sections. We’ve gone over these three things time and time again, so I won’t repeat them but there they are… If you haven’t heard them a billion times by now, it means you haven’t watched the previous sections, which I’m saddened by.

But again, there will be many times that you feel like you’re going crazy if this is the path you take. But it is very, very effective and how the vast majority of early-stage bloggers kind of make it. And then they start learning if they want to… more things in time and experimenting and reinvesting the income that they already have in new strategies to grow or pursue other projects.

But I, personally, highly encourage you to focus on just this path if you’re new to this whole thing and you’ve never had a profitable website because it’s the simplest. And the less complex it is, the more likely you are to succeed. As long as you just keep focusing on doing these things.

It can take several months before you start to see any degree of traction, but it will come. You just have to stick with it, okay?

So I guess that I don’t want to beat a dead horse. I won’t talk about this anymore.

But I do believe if you have a fairly low budget and you want to minimize expenses, this is by far and away, the best path to take. At least until you start making a couple or $3,000 a month. And then start exploring other things that you might explore for your current project or future projects to build on that momentum. Alright?

If you have any questions, as always, feel free to ask them in the Facebook group. And other than that, I will see you in the next video.

6.8 When Do the Rankings Come? (AF)

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6.8 Transcript Below

Okay!

One more quick video to tie things off. Even though I’ve probably emphasized these things, I want to, again, call your attention directly to them.

So a lot of you are going to be asking: “when do rankings come?”

As we’ve talked about when you get rankings, you get traffic. When you get traffic, if you’ve picked a good niche, you’ve picked good keywords according to the training, you should be able to start making money by offering up affiliate offers and putting affiliate links in your content and stuff like that.

So you may be asking yourself: “when do the rankings come?” Alright, that’s what this video is all about.

So as I discussed, it depends on a lot of different “moving parts”. That’s why you just can’t say: “Oh! It takes 6 months to see success in this industry.” You have to give kind of a range based on averages. Maybe for some people it’ll take 4-6 months, for others it’ll take 18 of the same amount of effort and the same amount of work and doing the same amount of quality work. It just… they could be in totally different niches and one have a lot more competition than the other. It really just depends.

So the only thing I can say with complete certainty is if you do the things that I’ve emphasized over and over again: pick good keywords according to the training, optimize on-page SEO (the elements we talked about in this section – the most important ones), and you make really high-quality content and focus on putting value into your audience member’s lives more than anything else, that is going to get you results much faster than someone that wasn’t doing any of those things. If someone isn’t doing one of those three things and your doing it, you’re going to see results much faster than them.

So I cant overemphasize, pay attention to those three things. And as long as you keep doing it, you will see results. Even Google themselves have said publicly, if you focus on content and you keep putting out really high-quality content, it doesn’t matter what industry you’re in, it doesn’t matter what the competition is, eventually you will get picked up and start seeing rankings. They’re algorithms are designed to do that. It just takes longer in some industries than others because sometimes the competition is just so, so, so stout.

Beyond that, pumping out more content without sacrificing what I just mentioned above (one of those three elements) and other promotional methods that we’re going to talk about in the next section.

And I know a lot of you maybe glaring at your computer screen and going: “but how long does it take?”.

And as I’ve mentioned, I think it was in the third… maybe the second section… there’s really no way to answer that question. I would say approximately a good average, if you’re posting at least 2 to 3 times a week, you should start seeing results within the first 8-12 months. Unless you’re in a really high competition niche.

But even with that, if you’re picking good keywords like the training teaches here and you’re sticking with it, you’re not ever sacrificing quality and you’re focusing on doing those three things well, within 8-12 months you should start seeing some really serious
momentum.

And then you can start shifting just some of the things that are more about how good your website looks and how well your website is converting, building an e-mail list, and a lot of those things that people obsess over in the first 3 months. And as a result, they put a bunch of time into things that just don’t matter at that stage because they don’t have traffic anyways. And then they end up overwhelmed and washing out and giving up.

So focus on these three things and that’s enough, okay? And if you want to mix in some extra promotional methods, we’ll talk about that in the next section because there are a lot of options. But if you want to keep it simple and you recognize that if you keep it simple, you’re more likely to succeed. Every little element you add that extends beyond the simplest form is going to increase your chances of getting overwhelmed and giving up. It’s really important you recognize that.

You may be thinking to yourself: “oh, I can do it. I can take on all these different things”, we know that’s not the case. Us humans, we suck at multitasking. We’re finding more and more and more data showing that in the studies that are looking into how our brains work and how they work best.

And the less you complicate things, at least until you learn them really well, the more likely you are to succeed. So I recommend at least practicing this for the next several weeks. Getting really good at it and kind of falling into a groove before mixing in other promotional methods.

But if you want to ignore that advice, and you say: “No, no. I want more results faster. I know I can take it.”, or you already know a lot of this and you want to stack on top and kind of take your internet marketing to the next level. Or if you have been doing this now, you followed this training, you’re starting to see results, you’re like: “Alright! I’m ready I’m ready to do the next thing, I’m ready to add to this, I’m ready to do more and take it to a next level.” – next section we’ll talk about some extra promotional methods that I think are going to really help you do that.

But you know, generally speaking… how long does it take? On average I’d say about 8-12 months, if you’re posting 2 to 3 really high-quality articles per week. Again, factoring in all of the other training. Some people may see results in 5 or 6. I’ve seen people that within 6 to 7 months were making $2,000 or $3,000 a month. That’s really rare, really rare – very exceptional results but it’s happened. And then I’ve seen people that put in that much effort and they get to month 12 and they’re like: “where’s my traffic? where’s my traffic?”. I’ve been there myself. Just stick with it, keep working the process, it may take 18 months for your niche instead. It just… it really depends, okay? But as long as you’re following the training and you stick with it, you will see results. It’s only a matter of time.

So, okay. Hopefully that gives you as concrete of an answer that is honestly possible. I could say something that wasn’t truthful, like so many other product publishers do out there, but I just don’t have anything to sell you. I want to set you up for success. I want you to change your life through an internet marketing business the way I was able to change mine. Best way I can do that is to be honest with you, and that’s just the honest truth. Okay?

So, as always. If you have any questions, feel free to post them in the Facebook group, it’s free for registered members.

That wraps up section 6, right? Yeah, section 6… I don’t even know where we are anymore.

We’ll get into section 7 here pretty soon and I look forward to seeing you there. And we’re getting pretty close to finishing the core content, that is everything you need to know to… actually, right now there’s everything you need to know to build a profitable internet marketing business. But I want to build on that a little bit and give you some options in case this just isn’t quite enough. And also kind of talk to you really clearly about what the next steps are after you start getting traffic and how to build on the business, how to start making more money, et cetera.

So, with all that being said, I will see you in section 7, alright? Talk to you then.

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