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I know that It’s been awhile.  I’ve been hard at work on a DIY SEO video series over at BoneheadSEO.com that is nearing it’s completion and have been working my tail end off lately getting it finished.

I know, I know, you probably don’t care so much about that…but what you might care about is something coming out tomorrow.

It’s VERY likely that over the past week or so you’ve heard about Commission Blueprint 2.0 that’s coming out tomorrow…now hear me out on this one.

I actually own the first Commission Blueprint product (unlike what a vast majority of others can say) and it was hands-down one of the BEST products I’ve ever owned.  And we’re talking about over 13 years of online experience here…so when I say that, it’s a big deal.

Plus, I’m one of a pre-selected group of people that were allowed to get you in on this product.  (I think that’s kinda cool.)

Now I know that if you’re like most people (including myself) you just roll your eyes when it comes to some product that’s being promoted over and over again by everyone and their brother.

And I promise you that tomorrow will be one of the biggest days in “pushing products” you’ll ever see because EVERYONE wants to jump on the 9/9/2009 bandwagon.

But…if I can have your ear for a second…I highly encourage you to at least head on over to http://commissionblueprint20.com/cb20.php and watch the three videos they have there for you and make an educated decision for yourself.

If you’ve ever wanted a way for someone to walk you through step-by-step the entire process of Affiliate Marketing and in such a way that it’s understandable for even the greenest of newbies, (and even for those who consider themselves advanced affiliate marketers), then I highly recommend you at least give it a chance.

Don’t simply ignore it just because you’ve seen too many product promotions lately – I truly feel that would be to your detriment.  (and I’ll be the first to admit that I am completely guilty of that).

When you first visit the site there are three videos.

The first one that you’ll get to is one that explains “How is this different from the first Commission Blueprint product?”

As you scroll to the bottom of the page, you’ll see two additional videos:

• The Game is Changing
• The Keyword Revolution

Again, I highly encourage you to watch those videos which are full of great content that you can start to use in your online business.

Watch the videos:  http://commissionblueprint20.com/cb20.php

Steve gives you access to a report (no charge of course) that is already making people some money (as verified in their forum) – again, you can get to that forum by clicking the link on the page.

I highly recommend you watch everything right now and, as soon as the doors open tomorrow, I will let you know.  Here’s the link to the site again:

http://commissionblueprint20.com/cb20.php

Oh and before I forget, they’re taking it off of the market on September 16, 2009 – so it’s only available for a few days.

*YES, this is a promotional post!* 

2 days ago myself, along with all U.S. AdWords Advertisers received a notice that Google was being sued for $20 MM (million) because it was alleged that AdWords advertisers were being charged just above their daily limits on their AdWords campaigns.

As an example, if you had set a daily budget of $20 for a Campaign, at the end of the day your total cost might be $20.73 or $21.12 instead of just $20 or a few cents below that figure.

Just pennies to one individual but overall a huge income earner for Google.

Consider this for a moment.  Let’s say for the sake of argument that there are 300,000 (and I’m being conservative here) campaigns running every day at a set budget of $20.

That grosses Google $6,000,000 dollars a day.  However, let’s say that each of these advertisers were only charged $.20 over their daily budget.  $.20 doesn’t seem like much does it?  Not to you or to me as an individual, but as a whole, that same $.20 on each advertisers accounts grosses Google $60,000 a day.

Now consider that same $60,000 over the course of 30 days.

$60,000 x 30 = $1,800,000.  Quite a little added “extra” in income isn’t it?

Google claims that regardless of what the minor fluctuations are each day on a campaign (and I’m paraphrasing here), will still only add up to the advertisers monthly budget.

So regardless of the pennies here and the pennies there, if you had set up a budget of only spending $400 in a month, then your cost would not go over that $400 regardless of what the daily minute charges were.

All this being said, it is interesting to note that literally the day after I received the lawsuit email, my daily budgets were pennies BELOW what I had set whereas prior to receiving the lawsuit information my budget was pennies ABOVE what I had set as my daily limit.

Coincidence?

Here’s the official gist of it:

“The Court has certified a Settlement Class defined as: all persons and entities residing in the United States who have paid Google for advertising pursuant to Google’s AdWords program who (a) became AdWords advertisers between June 1, 2005 and February 28, 2009, inclusive, and who were charged more than their per day Daily Budget on any day during that time period; or (b) paused their AdWords advertising campaigns on any day during the period from January 1, 2002 to February 28, 2009, inclusive, and during the same billing period when their AdWords advertising campaigns were paused, were charged more than the product of their per day Daily Budget times the number of days that such Class Members’ advertising campaigns were not paused during that billing period.”

Now, this has been going on for some time as many of you might know – it tends to move in and out of “buzz” since the time periods between what’s actually going on is very long.  However, Eric Goldman’s blog gives you all of the history you need to know regarding this case as well as all of the information on the most current Class Action Settlement.

So if you’ve been wondering what all the buzz and noise online is about, this would be it.

Talk soon!