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Blog Talk Monitor is a free software released by Jack Humphrey of Authority Site Center. It is a great tool for keeping up with the latest happening in the blogging community.

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I have been a member of Authority Site Center. I will be part of the new Blog Success that is being launched by ASC. ASC has provided me with a wonderful learning experience that is comprehensive and complete. Now it is adding more features and taking a new shape as ‘Blog Success’.

I have already heard about the wonderful plans for the new membership and the great new features that are being added.

The existing members of Asc are doing very well and each case study is different. The common underlying factor is the great authority site they have built based on Jack Humphrey’s teachings.

Jack Humphrey recently conducted a case study interview with Rusty Moore, one of the ASC members.

Rusty is one of Jack’s members and needless to say he has taken the ball and hasn’t stopped running with it.

Rusty Moore has been with Jack since May 2007.  His site, FitnessBlackBook, gets around 3000 unique visitors per day. Just one of his pages makes him over $300 per month. Other pages and posts more or less than that.

He attributes his success to the training and examples he’s gotten with Jack, the people he’s met because of his powerful presence and following in the fitness niche, and the content he puts up on his blog.

In this short interview he outlines how he is doing with his blog, what has made the difference 
for him in building the blog, and his plans for future growth. 

This is a must-hear interview for anyone wanting to generate free traffic using a blog

Listen to Rusty Moore’s interview.

The economy is really getting to most people now. This is not an American problem anymore. It is affecting the entire world.

Yesterday, Lehman Brothers closed their doors and as I watched the news, I saw executives with boxes of personal stuff coming through the doors for the last time. Some say, when interviewed, that they did not see this coming.

Wealthy Affiliate Marketing Tools.

Once the housing market started going down, it was a certainty that this too would follow. So people are frantically looking for a means to replace their income and the Internet is the driving force. But what do you do when you have relied on a weekly income by a company to now rely on something so much more uncertain.
If you are new to the Internet, you will have to know that there are Internet Marketers that have already secured their place in the market. However, that does not mean that you cannot find your own niche. In fact, that is how you will be successful online and finding your own niche is the key.

Your next step is to become an affiliate, which means that you are going to sell somebody else’s product. You have no time to create your own especially if you are at the point of desperation.
However, there are 5 simple questions that you must ask yourself before you begin to tread on this holy ground:

1. What kind of value does the product have?

You want to sell a product that you can put your reputation on. You don’t want to sell something that you cannot stand on. So do your research and find out if the product owner has a valid refund policy and how many average monthly refunds have been received.

2. Is this an automated program?

You want to be involved with an affiliate program that you don’t have to provide any type of customer support. You also want to have good marketing resources from the product owner. You want to market a digital product that customers can easily download upon purchase. You want to get paid automatically and be rewarded for the sales that you make.

3. Is it possible to earn residual income?

I do market other programs that are not residual, but I find that these are only one time purchases. You may not see that customer again. However, residual income, which is also called passive income, is better because once you get that customer and the customer is satisfied with the product or service, this will be your customer for as long as they stay subscribed and you get commissions from what they pay monthly over and over again. It is quite similar to an insurance salesman. Once he or she sells that policy, they gain residual income for the lifetime of the customer. The Internet also has affiliate programs with residual income opportunities.

Life Time Commissions is an affiliate directory that lists a variety of different residual income. You can search for the name online.

4. Is the product something that I would enjoy selling or believe in?

If you have knowledge about something, you are more apt to want to present it to someone. It is like watching a movie and loving the movie so much that you tell everyone you know about the movie and you are not even getting paid to do that. Can you imagine getting the word out for something that you really enjoy or like? This is how you should choose your affiliate product because it will make you want to stay committed and focused in your marketing efforts.

Affiliate Earning Program.

5. Is there any assistance or support provided?

A lot of affiliate product owners do not provide email support, but they provide a log in website that you can go to find marketing materials as well as post a support ticket with any questions or comments. Not all of them do this. So if you are the kind of person that wants to be hand-held, you may want to look into other means of support such as specific niche forums. You can actually go to forums and post your questions and there are always people who are willing to answer them. You will also learn a lot from the forum and get great marketing tips and advice in your online business.

So if you are a newbie affiliate and want to enter the Internet marketplace for the first time, you don’t have to be afraid. There are a lot of willing marketers that want to give back because they have been where you are at right now. The search engine is a good tool for you to search for whatever you need. Explore the horizons of the Internet. It may be that the door that was just closed end up to be a blessing. Sometimes, we get too comfortable in our JOBS and doors have to be closed for us to take chances and grab other opportunities for growth. This might be one of them.

If you would like more information about how to become a successful Affiliate Marketer, Download the Newbie Affiliate Earning Guide here at Affiliate Earning Program.

AffSphere affiliate marketing is unique in many ways. You can earn money, get traffic to your sites and build quality backlinks.

In many article directories you are not allowed to put in your links in the article. In AffSphere you are allowed to hyperlink keywords and link them back to your blogs or even affiliate products.

Anik Singal’s article marketing training through a series of videos and blog posts is free. You can join AffSphere for free. So you get training how earn through article marketing and at the same time have the opportunity to implement what you learn and start earning money right away.

You earn credits for each article you submit. You earn credits for the articles your downline submits. You can use these credits for advertising your blogs, sites and products.

You can earn even without a website.

FirePow is not a blogging software. It is a complete system with everything avaialble on one screen at the click of a button.

So far I have not seen a system as complete as FirePow. Now Andrew Hansen has added free hosting to make the system unbeatable.

I have been using FirePow for a month now. I can create one site per day. I get quality content from article directories, RSS feeds, Youtube videos. I can add my own original content too. I can add images to my articles. I can ping RSS directories as well as social sites.

I open the FirePow backend and without leaving that page I am able to accomplish everything. I can access the WordPress dashboard too right from within FirePow.

I get ready-made themes to use for my blogs. If I don’t like the themes of FirePow, I can generate my own theme by clicking a few more buttons. Or better still I can upload my favorite theme into FirePow.

I can promote my blog by submitting articles to FirePow’s exclusive blog network. I can check my SEO stats. I get training through reports, videos and special forum where Andrew actively participates. The training covers everything from Niche research to blog monetization. Andrew has created a blog himself through FirePow and shows every step of the process involved through a case study.

I can manage my blogs easily through a task manager that sets the blue print for me with exact time settings. Andrew has automated all that can be automated in blogging and at the same time has kept every option open for unique creations.

For example, ready-made themes, ready-made articles, ready-made pinging facility are all integrated, You need not even activate the plugins. They get activated automatically.

At the same time you can have your own WordPress theme, your own articles, special plugins that are available only to FirePow members and all the customization opportunity you might ever want to have in a super WordPress blog.

I was a beta tester for FirePow and I can tell you with 100% assurance that Andrew takes every bit of feedback seriously and takes immediate action to fix any and all bugs.

Here is a sample FirePow blog I created on the first day within an hour: http://getpaidtowork.com/blog

I spent a little bit more time and created a WordPress theme of my own for another blog.

Here is the direct link for FirePow: http://getfirepow.com

Here is my affiliate link for FirePow: http://getfirepow.com

Want to sell something? Give away something valuable for free. And use the best words you can think of that will convert the people who download your free gift to feel like buying your product.

We have had many valuable reports and audio-video resources given away for free. These are things that have sold well in the past, updated for the present and given away for free as part of an excellent marketing plan.

Whatever the plan might be we have nothing to complain so long as the free content is not crap. If the free report teaches us something valuable and we have nothing to lose by downloading it, why not?

The latest report you can benefit from is SBI’s report. This SiteBuildIt report sold for $29.95 earlier. How do you know this report is valuable?

1. This is not a 5 or 10 page report that repeats information avaialble on thousands of websites for free.

It is a 140-page report with solid content.

SiteBuildIt team says, “Make Your Content PREsell! (MYCPS!) shows you how to write to communicate and connect with (i.e., PREsell) your visitors. It covers that critical period of relationship-building before the sale”.

Complete your “writing” education. Click here for your free copy of MYCPS!

There is no registeration or sacrificing your email and peace of mind. You can right away download and start reading. That is the type of free content I love.

What do they cover in 140 pages?

Just have a look at the topics covered and you will understand why it is necessary to download and read the report immediately.

Make Your Content PREsell: How to Build Your “Brand of One” And Build Income Through Content

Preamble - “Preselling is the online version of relationship-building. Preselling warms up and builds trust and respect…

1. “I can’t Write Like That”

1.1. Big #1: Look & Feel

1.2. Big #2: The Words

2. Words Rule

2.1. The #1 PREselling Reality

2.2. Before You Write Your First Word Know Your Customer

2.3. How Do You Spell “Content”… It Starts With Two Letters… L & F

2.4. The PREsell Is In… The Words

2.5. OVERdeliver

2.6. PREselling Leads to Selling

2.7. Anguilla As A Metaphor

3. The 1-2-3 “Forget Grade 3″ Mechanics of Writing to PREsell

3.1. Unfreeze… Thaw… Right Now

3.2. From First Thought… To VPP… To Monetization

3.3. So… What’s Your Spin?

3.4. So… What’s Your Voice? You DO Have A Personality, Right?

3.5. OUTline Before ONline

3.6. The ABC’s Of Simple, Solid Writing

3.6.1. A = Activate It!

3.6.2. B = Brush It!

3.6.3. C = Clean It!

3.7. Get It Right… And “The Spin Spins”

4. Your PREselling Masters Degree

4.1. The Pivotal Home Page

4.2. Content Pages That OVERdeliver!

4.3. E-Zines — The Repeated PREsell

4.4. How Many Exposures Does It Take To Get to M?

4.5. Integrate Your Offers… Without Spoiling The PREsell!

4.6. Protecting Your Content From Thieves

4.7. Words Of Wisdom From SBlers

5. Words Of Wisdom for SBIers

5.1. Jewels From Rena

5.2. Greg on Romancing

5.3. Robert Off The Beaten Track

5.4. Don’t Forget to Thank Jim & Fiona For This…

5.5. And Send Erwin A Big Thanks, Too…

5.6. SiteSell.com,,, Nope, NOT Like Us

6. Putting It All Together… “Hey I Can Write Like That!”

7. Special Supplement… For SBIers - The Seven $5000 Lessons From Chicago

Summary… Key Points At A Glance

Ok this is what you get in the 140 pages when you download your free copy of MYCPS!.

Remember no registration required.

Just click, download, start reading and start implementing… right NOW!

After I wrote about Authority Site Center and Authority blogs I received a lot of emails. One question that is often repeated is: whether it is better to build a site or a blog.

It is possible to argue that blogs are an absolute necessity for building a lasting business online. It would also be possible to argue with equal conviction that blogs are difficult to maintain and keep updated and a good site is what you need to build a business online. SiteSell argues blogs are not needed at all to build a lasting business.

Personally I have sites as well as blogs. I have also joined ASC. You can read my review of ASC.

I think the answer whether a blog or website is good for building a business depends on the type of person you are. If you want to set up something and do not want to bother about adding fresh content frequently if not everyday, I think you will go for websites. If you want the interactive capability of a blog to keep in touch with the latest happenings in your market, get the hottest feedback from your customers, etc. you may want to consider maintaining a blog. Or some of you may be like me - you might want both a website and a blog.

I want you to read the arguments on both sides and watch some video which will help you decide.

By the way, SiteSell has announced a Mother’s Day Special Offer. So if you plan to go for the site, this is the right time. For $100 extra you get two sites. If you are considering blogs, this is the right time too, because Authority Site Center has released a super software called “Utility Posts”. This software will save you tons of time in keeping your blog updated with fresh content.

Here is an excellent argument in favor of websites. I am sure this will convince you even if you are the most motivated blogger.

Should You Blog or Build a Website?

You can watch this SiteSell TV program to help you decide:

	Wait until The 3 Minute Shortcut has finished, or pause it, before touring these visual links… Tube It! Tour It! Join It! Tortoise It! Doubt It? Try It! Videos From The Heart How SBI! Makes You Succeed SBI! Family Bulletin Board SBI! Business Philosophy Ask Anything To An SBI! Owner Risk-Free Test Drive (The middle four links above open a new browser window.)

This post is not complete. I am sure there are many questions you would like to send me. Or you may want to send your own review of sites or blogs which is necessary to build a lasting business. Please feel free to post a comment and to send your reviews.

Many have been overwhelmed by the thought of writing ‘authority content’ for an ‘authority site’ day after day. This was one of my problems. I was not sure of my passion and I was not sure I would be able to create a site worthy to be part of “Authority Site Center’.

How do you find stuff to write about day-after-day?

Jack Humphrey demystified this crucial challenge faced by many, on Day 10 of “16 Steps to Success’ free webinar training program.

Jack Humphrey gave a number of cool, easy-to-follow, down-to-earth practical tips. Jack is busy with a number of projects but still finds time to keep the 10,000 unique visitors who come to his “Friday Traffic Report” every day. By showing how he manages this task and how he is able to give what the visitors want without taking too much of his precious time, Jack was able to demystify the content development process.

I always believe in not what people say but in observing and learning from what people do. If anyone is able to set an example, show how he is doing it themselves and tells you this is how you can do it too, I find it more believable.

I have got a special offer to check out “Authority Site Center” for three months at a discount. I have got all my questions answered. I have been told what I am letting myself in during the “16 Steps to Success” program.

It is as if I have already got the program for free, got tons of free resources I can use whether I join “Authority Site Center” or not.

This has convinced me to check out “Authority Site Center” for three months at a discounted price. I am mentally prepared to take action in the way the “16 Steps to Success” program has laid it out for me in such an extraordinary detail.

If you could not attend the 16 Steps program you missed something priceless. But you can make up for it just by downloading the free “Authority Black Book” and subscribing to the RSS feed of “Friday Traffic Report”.

“Authority Black Book” is free to download.

I am not completely convinced about ‘Authority Site Center’ but the minus points are far too few compared to the plus points.

Here is my review of Authority Site Center:

If you don’t know what an ‘authority site’ is and what I am talking about it is right time you downloaded the free Authority Black Book.

Jack Humphrey’s Authority Site Center has about 200 videos - all of excellent quality and superb content.

Right from Marketing Research to Monetization of Blogs, CPanel Videos to WordPress Optimization - everything is covered.

I have been using WordPress for quite a while now and I know a little bit about Market Research and monetization of blogs. But I have never seen such a thorough knowledge base in one place.

One-Stop Learning Center

It is really a one-stop learning center that can take an absolute newbie (smart working newbie who is willing to put in the required effort) and turn the person into an authority not only in the topic of the chosen niche but also blogging for monetization.

The case studies and the sites that have been created by members prove the success of the intensive course taught. More videos are being added and more training materials are continuously added in a variety of forms, PDFs, audios, videos and webinars.

Get Started, Get Going

The most important part is the newbie orientation webinar which are untiringly conducted twice a week to introduce each and every member to the various resources available on the site.

Sam Clark is a webinar expert. You should listen to him to believe the energy he exudes that is contagious.

After the orientation new members are taken through the ‘16 Steps to Success’ program to create their site and then the superb 60-day marketing plan.

Sites created by members get expert evaluation and peer feedback and at whatever step problems are faced, solutions are suggested. The forum is a buzzing place with thousands of posts by members. The help desk is really prompt in responding to queries.

Members get a WordPress blog created for them with a unique header graphic designed by in-house designers. Software are created to promote blogs and given to members free of cost. Special Plugins are created for ‘Authority Site Center’ WordPress blogs.

But… Here Comes My Reservation

Having said all these I have a reservation about Authority Site Center. The membership fee is $97 and the site will be in ASC server. Whenever I decide to discontinue with the membership I will get my blog back but I will have to shift everything to my server. I will not be able to use the software unless I pay for them. I will not be able to use their plugins.

So to use the facilities and avoid the nuisance of shifting my site I will have to continue the membership even after I become an expert and have learned a lot about creating an authority site.

So what makes Authority Site Center membership worth the price?

The elite group of members at the Authority Site Center who participate in forum discussions and help each other, the JV opportunities, the software that will be created in future keeping in mind the changing reality of the virtual world and the growing knowledge treasure resulting from the experiences of everyone involved in improving visitor experience…

<b>Updates</b>

The latest update is that you need not host the websites in ASC. You can use your own webhost if you prefer it that way. The WordPress and the special header will be created for you even if you want to host your blog on your own webserver. More software will be made available to members that will help them get more back links, more traffic and make it easy for them to manage their blogs.

If you don’t know what an ‘authority site’ is and what I am talking about it is right time you downloaded the free Authority Black Book.

Digg It: ‘Authority Site Center’ - A Review & Some Reservations |

Here is a video of XSitePro website builder and this page is created with Affiliate Video Brander

This is a review of both products.

XSitePro makes it super easy to SEO optimize websites, add AdSense codes and other scripts to websites. Without HTML / JAVA script knowledge you can create websites that look professional and that are fully optimized. I have just tick mark and choose the option “Site Map” and my site map is ready. I can check how well my pages are optimized for SEO by clicking another button.

Affiliate Video Brander is an important tool that helps me brand videos with my affiliate link and earn more. Videos are the in-thing now and people would rather watch a video than read a long review of a product. And if the review can be branded with my affiliate link, I would not ask for anything more.

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