I clicked the link contained in the email.

It took me to a web page with the following php error:

Warning: get_headers() [function.get-headers]: This function may only be used against URLs. in /home/buildabi/public_html/plc/ck.php on line 0

Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in /home/buildabi/public_html/plc/ck.php on line 0

Out of courtesy, I emailed the marketer back, highlighting the fact that the link didn’t work for me.

I received a 1 word reply from the marketer, ‘Cock’.

Hmmmm, I won’t ever be buying anything from this guy again!

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Is this a great April fools joke that will spread virally over Twitter during the next 24 hours?

Probably the first of many April fools jokes that will be shared and retweeted on Twitter over the coming day.

Excellent marketing behind it though, watch and learn – I know I have.

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Neither do I.

But most people are doing it without even realizing it.

Why?

Because they’re sending traffic to affiliate products without capturing email addresses.

This means these affiliates are flushing about 85%-90% of their profits away.

It’s sad.

But it’s true.

And it needed to be said.

Because the vast majority of money on the internet is made on the back-end (i.e. on follow up offers served up after the initial sale).

This brings us to the key to easy affiliate profits: lead capture.

New and inexperienced affiliates spend all their time building up the business of the product owner.

It’s the product owner that’s capturing the email addresses and if you aren’t capturing emails, you’re building their business and they’re making all the profits with the follow up.

Smart affiliates spend their time leveraging somebody else’s product to build their own business that makes them money 365 days a year!

ALWAYS capture the emails of the traffic you create.

The problem is, most affiliate don’t have a clue how to do it and to be honest with you, I didn’t know how to do it for a long time. So how do you send traffic to another person’s site and still capture the buyer’s email address? It’s a dilemma for most people.

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Your own domain name, I use NameCheap to register my domain names, use the coupon code “SPRINGSUN” without the quotes during March for a discount.

Webhosting, I use HostMonster but you do have to pay yearly upfront, if your strapped for cash then HostGator is the hosting company to go with, loads of my internet marketing friends use them and their customer service is excellent.

Autoresponder, I use Aweber to follow up with prospective customers because it has the best deliverability rates in the industry.

A HTML editor, I use DreamWeaver but Kompozer is free.

Watch the video below on how to create a squeeze page using Kompozer.

All you need to do is build a squeeze page, add in your Aweber code (with either the forward url or confirmation url set to the affiliate site you want to drive traffic to) and upload it to your hosting account, now all you have to do is drive traffic to your squeeze page to capture emails and start building your own business.

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I know Alex, excuses or results…

I have completed my 90 day plan and have got my daily did and to do sheets setup and going.

If you are running or plan to run an online business then I highly recommend you take your time to plan exactly what you are going to do tomorrow, today.  Then tomorrow list all the things that you actually did.  Trust me, it’s quite an eye opener.

So on with the show…

Module 1 of the Alex Jeffreys coaching program was the “Forward to Basics” module which was over 2 hours worth of quality information on the mindset needed and the grounding for our businesses to become successful, we all know what happened to the guy that built his house on the sand…

As Alex says “Fashion Fades but Style Sticks”

After that, there was over 2 hours of Q&A, In the end I think Alex didn’t leave until after 4am, what a guy!!

Unfortunately I couldn’t stay much after the 1am mark so had to listen to the replay.

Yesterday morning I was excited to find the “Profit Pulling Platform with training” in the members area which I promptly went through, I checked out all the training and the website, decided to create a confirmation page to go along with the site (which should increase my double opt-in rate), and uploaded it to my server.

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Yesterday evening Alex hosted the second webinar which I will cover in a future blog post.

All in all quite a hectic day.

Today has been more relaxed, some blog writing, blog commenting and some further planning.  There may even be a product in the pipeline, but ssshhhh!!

Until next time…

…and all I want to do is thank him for it.

Funny that, but it really was the wake up call I needed and you can read all about your wake up call in The Guru’s Dream.  Alex Jeffreys may even smack you around the head a bit!

I read The Guru’s Dream this morning, took a bit of a break, re-read it at lunch time whilst making pages and pages of notes and after finishing this blog post I am going to go back and read it again.

I thought about deleting all of my previous blog entries and starting afresh but then had a better idea, I will leave those posts up to show everyone how not to blog and to remind myself that from this day forward things are going to change.

I have some killer ideas for future blog posts so check back here often.

Thank you Alex!

Now it’s time to take action, hit that publish button and get this oil rig back out in the north sea catching some fish.

If you like this post then feel free to bookmark it and you can comment on it below.

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This week marked a new change in Google Adwords which will be great news to all of us.

Google have actually done something that they said they would never do and it probably spells the end for services like Wordtracker.

Here’s a brief overview…

If you have ever used Google Adwords you will know that they always represented search volume for a keyword with a green bar graph.

Earlier this week they did away with that and started to to show the actual search volume for keywords.

Wordtracker keyword volumes have sometimes been accused of being inaccurate because they make predictions from only 2% – 3% of actual search activity.

Now that Google has made this change, you will be able to get a much more accurate search volume.

Go try it out at

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

Enter a keyword and you will see Google’s estimate of actual search volume.

How will this affect your keyword and market research?

Using these much more accurate Google search volumes you can be much more certain of the size of a niche.

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