Wealthy Affiliate, Affiloblueprint, Affilorama, or AffiloJetPack?
Filed under: Affiliate Marketing, Affiliate Marketing Products, Affiliate Programs
There are many great programs online that teach you how to become a very successful affiliate marketer. Some of the most notable and talked about are Wealthy Affiliate, Affiloblueprint, Affilorama, and Affilojetpack.
Now, Affiloblueprint, Affilorama, and Affilojetpack are all owned by the same company; thus, the similar names. But while they all have similar names, they are indeed different products.
So let’s take a look at what all of these are, how they’re different, and what people like and dislike about them because when it comes to comparing which “classes” to take online regarding affiliate marketing, these four are the most commonly discussed.
Affilorama was started in 2006 by super affiliate Mark Ling. It offers comprehensive step-by-step videos that can teach anyone how to become a successful affiliate. The company is headquartered out of New Zealand and employs 22 people. It has also received numerous awards.
Affilorama itself offers both a free and a paid membership. As a matter of fact, there are numerous free videos you can watch right now if you want to.
Affilorama Premium offers a monthly magazine, in-depth tips, lots of tools that you can use, and monthly PLR articles.
Offered by the same company who owns Affilorama, Affiloblueprint is exactly how it sounds. Mark takes you through a 12-week course specifically designed to get you up and running as an affiliate. It starts with choosing your niche, to creating your site, to detailing exactly what to do in step-by-step videos. It’s quite literally a “rinse and repeat” product. Start with one niche, when you’re done, move on to another.
You receive the AffiloBlueprint WordPress theme, a teleseminar that contains 10 profitable niches you can use, a super-affiliate webinar where Mark reveals some of his lesser-known tactics, and an exclusive private members forum.
Click here to visit Affiloblueprint
This product, also offered by the owners of Affilorama gives you pre-written emails that fit into a year-long sequence. You also receive a website of your own, hosting for one year, and 20 pre-written articles. Additionally you receive Mark’s own high-converting traffic strategies, and plenty of bonuses to go along with it. You can purchase 5 niche packs or 11 niche packs; your choice.
Click here to visit AffiloJetPack
Wealthy Affiliate is similar to Affilorama Premium. They offer video training for the beginner, intermediate or advanced learner, web hosting, lots of tools to use at your disposal and something that Affilorama does not offer, which is one on one training.
Click here to visit Wealthy Affiliate
Who or What to Choose?
All of the above products have their pros and cons and in all actuality, it really depends upon where your skill level currently is with affiliate marketing.
If you’re looking for a step-by-step, “do this today”, “do this tomorrow” program then I suggest AffiloBlueprint.
If you just want to get your feet wet and check out this whole “affiliate marketing business” then I suggest Affilorama – at least begin with the free lessons and then move on to the premium area if you find it’s for you.
If you’re an analytical kind of person and want to know all of the details of affiliate marketing, then Wealthy Affiliate is for you.
Perhaps the most commentary I read on Wealthy Affiliate was that there is a lot of information to get your head around and it’s more for the intermediate to advanced affiliate marketer whereas Affiloblueprint for example, is a step-by-step process.
I have found that it was incredibly rare to find a negative word about either program. Perhaps the biggest lesson that I learned when listening to others or reading their own reviews was that it really depends upon your learning style. Some people are very comfortable having all the knowledge at hand and making their own decisions (which Wealthy Affiliate offers) while others need more of a hold-your-hand approach like Affiloblueprint.
Perhaps the biggest difference that I could find is that when you register a site through Wealthy Affiliate, and you later decide to cancel your account, you also lose access to your site. Something to keep in mind and granted, this may have changed since I’ve written this so you’ll want to check it out for yourself.
The New (New) Twitter
Twitter recently rolled out a brand new upgrade; their second major upgrade in a very short amount of time.
So what’s new with this new (new) Twitter?
Well, for one the login page looks quite a bit different:
Upon logging in you’ll also notice that your home page looks different as well:
So let’s take a look at this one at a time…
First, we see that our updates have moved to the right of the page instead of as the main portion of the page itself. If you hover over any of the updates on the right you’ll see a few new things:
You can reply, retweet and favorite a post (which all in all is nothing significant) but, here’s something that I really like, there is now an “Open” link which allows you to see the full post.
In this next image, I’ve clicked the open link and can see how many times it had been retweeted as well as the last 7 people to do so.
The @connect button at the top of your feed will show you all of your @ replies.
The #Discover button let’s you discover new content and it’s especially helpful that you can then enter in a hashtag or a keyword to find new topics that interest you.
Twitter has now even introduced Brand Pages – just like Facebook and Google+ have but that’s in a different post.
All in all, Twitter continues to strive to make your experience there more user-friendly and I think with this new update, they’ve done a great job!
Getting too many “guru” emails?
Filed under: Affiliate Marketing, Affiliate Marketing Products, Marketing, Productivity
Here’s a few tips that I thought you too might be interested in, especially if you tend to subscribe to a 
lot of online marketer’s email lists like I do. First off, I am subscribed to dozens of other marketers lists mainly because I want to keep tabs on what they’re doing, how they’re doing it, what’s being promoted, and so on (let me tell you, it’s not easy). Some of the products I see pitched are wonderful, many border on spam and still others can even be classified as downright unethical.
Regardless of why you’re on someone’s list you might find it helpful to organize those emails because, if you’ve ever subscribed to even one popular marketer’s list, chances are you’re getting an email every other day – sometimes multiple times a day (one marketer in particular comes to my mind). Here’s what to do to get a handle on all of these emails.
- Use a Gmail account that is only for the specific purpose of these emails. It helps so much to have this separate email address! I learned this the hard way when years ago I had set up a Gmail account (when Gmail was brand-spanking new) and started to subscribe to many lists. Before I knew it, I had dozens of emails hitting my inbox each day, which eventually grew to the thousands because I simply couldn’t read all of them.What I did (and may what work for you too) is instead of having to go through and unsubscribe to these lists (which I still need for research), I instead created a new Gmail account that is specifically for business purposes only and kept the original one.I then created categories for all of these lists so that whenever these promotions hit my inbox, they automatically head into a folder. (See the next point):
- Categorize these emails and then set a rule within Gmail to instantly place each sender into a specific folder.Under the “settings” within Gmail, there is a tab entitled “Labels”. You can set up as many labels as you want to. Once you’ve done that, and you’ve started to receive emails from the lists you’ve signed up at, you can select the individual email and then choose “Label” from the drop-down list to label so that the sender gets placed under that label. You can also set up rules by clicking on an email, choosing “more” and then “Filter messages like these”. This way, each time that sender sends off an email, they’ll automatically get filtered for you.
- Finally, I received a great tip from Matt Cutts head of Google’s Webspam team. I at one time had so many emails that were just sitting there that I wanted to move out of the way, but I didn’t want to delete them so I followed Matt’s advice.First, select all of the emails in your inbox, and then create a new label such as “Last Years Emails” or “Old Inbox”. Finally, click the “archive” link – this will move all of your emails to the “oldinbox” and you can start fresh (well, sort of) but it at least gives you a clean slate to begin with.
