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Tuesday, September 7, 2010

AffiloJetPack – “Easy Assembly”

Posted by kristinewirth on June 25

OK OK, I know what you’re thinking….why in the world am I talking about something called an AffiloJetPack on a website that talks about affiliate marketing.

Well, it’s not a JetPack like something you’d strap onto your back and fly to your j.o.b.  (although, weren’t we supposed to have those by now?)

The AffiloJetPack was, at first glance, hard for me to really understand what this product is all about.

UPDATE!  Since this original post, Mark has added a second free e-book.  Click the link below to get this resource.

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Free E-Book #1

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“The 5-Step Formula for Earning $10,000 a Month Online”





Free E-Book #2

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“How To Make Piles of Cash Online by Giving Away FREE Content”


Here’s what I do know, it’s created by Mark Ling (someone I’ve LONG respected in the affiliate marketing field – and a super-affiliate to boot), the industry as a whole respects him, and his previous products like AffiloBlueprint and Affilorama Premium have been praised over and over again.

But I’ll be honest, when he told me about this new product called AffiloJetPack, I was 100% totally and completely confused.

I mean I get the “affilo” part – having to do with affiliate marketing but the JetPack part really had me raising my eyebrows.  I mean I actually said “Really Mark?  This doesn’t make any sense.”

On the one hand, it looked to be targeted to complete beginners to affiliate marketing.

On the other hand, it looked like it was pressing some hot-buttons for the more experienced affiliate marketers.

So, after a little bit of investigation, here’s what I found:

Mark has worked with a LOT of people who are new to affiliate marketing.  And from this, he’s found a number of hurdles that are standing between the BEGINNER and really making it as an affliate; and he wants to change that.

Hurdle #1: Choosing a niche. This really trips people up and I can’t disagree with that.  I’ve seen affiliates spend WEEKS trying to figure out what niche to get into.  So what AffiloJetpack does is gives you 10 niches right off the bat.  These are literally hand-picked by Mark and PROVEN to already be winners in their industry – so that’s one hurdle out of the way.

(There might even be some more experienced affiliate who are looking for their “next” niche as well).

Hurdle #2: Making a Website. This really stumps a lot of people because it CAN be very intimidating.  What Mark has done is put together his very own WordPress theme and designed it so that even the most inexperienced website designer can tweak the layout of their site.  It also has some other functions built into it that only someone with experience in affiliate marketing would think about – like a squeeze page generator so that you can use Mark’s own successful squeeze page layouts in your own promotions.

And with the theme, Mark has also thrown in free web hosting.  Very nice!

Hurdle #3:  THE CONTENT! Writing content for a new niche site can be very frustrating.  So, Mark gives you the content for the site, 20 articles of very high quality that you can just plug-n-play into the site as-is or re-word it yourself to get the full SEO benefit.

So the bottom line is, AffiloJetPack is everything you need to build a website in a limited amount of time without a long learning curve.

But “that’s not all!” as they say…actually it starts to get just a little advanced here…

Personally I think that this is really good “as is” but…and this isn’t even the “main event” as Mark puts it.

The main event is what comes next:

A 80-part autoresponder series that you can plug into a service like Aweber and use to start collecting email addresses and building a relationship with people who sign up.

Mark says that the thing that disappoints him the most is when affiliates don’t add an autoresponder series to their websites, because this is the thing that will earn them the most money.

And I admit… I’ve been guilty of that myself. Sometimes you just want to see a site making money before you invest even MORE money in building a follow-up series. Or sometimes you’re just so exhausted by the time you finish putting your site together that this goes on the back burner.

An autoresponder seems more like “extra credit” for an affiliate site, but Mark is adamant that it should be the main focus. To the extent that you might not even promote affiliate products on your website at all!

So this autoresponder series comes with about 65 “informational” emails, and about another 15 “hard sell” emails written by Mark himself. He also tells you WHEN you should be sending these out to get the best response from your list, since just emailing someone once a week in the first month or two isn’t really going to cut it.

I was quite surprised at the quality of these emails… they’re far beyond PLR quality.

You could even put these on your website if you wanted an extra 60+ articles!

They’re the kind of thing that’s going to get people on your list trusting your opinion… at which point you can promote products to them and watch the commissions roll in.

One other aspect that made me think that this maybe isn’t purely aimed at newcomers is Mark’s view that while SEO is low-risk, the bigger risk that newbies face is that they’re not going to see results quickly enough, and they’ll give up.

Because of that, as part of AffiloJetpack he’s also offering training on a variety of other traffic generation methods. You can still do SEO… but he’s saying that if you want to see fast results (and faster cash) you should look at these other methods.

The final verdict? AffiloJetpack is great for newbies who can’t get past the nitty gritty of building a site. It really makes the whole process laughably easy compared to the weeks or months it might take a newbie to put together a site on their own.

More experienced affiliates are probably going to see the real benefit in the huge amount of high-quality content that Mark has put together. Even to put together ONE newsletter series of this quality is going to cost you at least double the cost of this entire product.

And with AffiloJetpack you get FIVE of these niches and newsletter series’, so to my budget-conscious ears, thats ridiculously good value.

Whatever way you look at it, and whatever level of experience you have, this product is a winner. Even if you don’t want to follow Mark’s strategies… do yourself a favor and grab it just for the content.

Very highly recommended.

If you click here right now, Mark is giving away “The 5-Step Formula to Earning $10,000 a Month Online”.

The Market Samurai Affiliate Program

Posted by kristinewirth on June 14

Well, it’s been a LONG time coming but Market Samurai has finally made their affiliate program open to the public.

What does this mean for you and how do you qualify?

First, you MUST be an owner of the Market Samurai product.  Click here to get it today.  <=== This link takes you to the free trial download page.

With this program, you earn 48% commissions.

Your leads are locked to your affiliate code with lifetime hard-coded affiliate tracking. So it doesn’t matter if they buy today or a year from now, you still get the commissions.

PLUS, between now and June 27, 2010 every lead you sign up qualifies you for some awesome prizes like:

  • The New iPad 3G
  • The yet-to-be-released iPhone 4G
  • And many, many more.  BUT to view the entire prize package they have, you have to own the program and promote it.

Second, they don’t just let “anyone” into their affiliate program.  If you intend on marketing their affiliate program using “scam” ads, spam, if you lie, cheat, steal or deliberately misrepesent Market Samurai’s features or ANY of their offers to get sales, use black hat techniques (like cookie-stuffing), use dirty tricks, or do anything else to damage their good name, you’ll get kicked out or reject you.

But, if you’re one of the “good guys” – someone who has integrity, then the program IS for you.

As they state on their site “”This is the whole reason we chose the name “Noble Samurai” – not “Evil Ninjas” (because our integrity is important to us)”.

Again, you MUST own the program in order to promote it and qualify for the prizes.

If you’re unfamiliar with Market Samurai, here’s a little video that explains it:

Click here to Buy Market Samurai (I own it, I suggest you do too).


No More “dofollow”

Posted by kristinewirth on May 27

After a little bit of internal debate, I’ve decided to make this blog a “nofollow” blog – or in otherwords, put it back the way that it was.

For many, many months, perhaps even a year or two I’ve used a plugin which disabled the default “nofollow” on WordPress blogs to help folks out; give real people who are trying to build a real business online a little bit of help by providing them a real, honest-to-goodness link to their site.

But…alas, no more.

The amount of spam that I get has quite honestly gotten way out of hand.  And I’m tired of performing maintenance on comments.

The last straw was when I received a comment that still had the spin tags contained within it! How’s that for professional?

It’s just taking up far too much of my time and I feel bad for those who are truly trying to build a business online and really need decent “dofollow” links.

So, hopefully, this will help reduce the amount of spam I get on a daily basis.

Just for the record, I’ve received over 400 spam comments in the last 30 days.

I ALWAYS check out the site that’s being promoted and while this used to be a way of dealing with spammy comments, I obviously can no longer take the time to deal with them.

Maybe at some time in the future, when things settle down a bit and I’ve been taken off whatever “dofollow” blog directories I’m on, I’ll re-implement it but for now, it’s all “nofollow”.

- Kristine