But the question you should be asking yourself is…

Am I Taking Advantage Of This Holiday Season?

First of all, you do know that you can bank in a lot of money this holiday season by promoting different types of products… right? If you do, then you’re already ahead of the game and know what you’re doing. If not, then listen.

This holiday season (and every holiday season) is the perfect time to promote all sorts of products. Generally, when you promote these products, you get a commission for each sale. Now think about it… this is the perfect time to promote products now that people actually WANT to buy stuff!

I don’t really want to tell you what you should do since there are an unlimited number of ways to make money this holiday season. Trust me, there are plenty of ways you can promote products and make money from them. If you are really stuck, here are some ideas:

• Start a “holiday deals” blog.
• Create a new niche site on a specific product.
• Use PPC marketing.
• Place banner ads on your blog/site on different types of products.
• Buy banner ads on other blogs/sites on different types of products.
• Sell stuff on eBay.

That small list should be enough for you. The clock is ticking… get started right now!

By the way, check out Joe’s video about this topic over at IMwithJoe. If I can’t convince you to do something, I sure hope Joe will.

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At almost $50 per month, PPC Coach is not cheap. They also don’t give refunds, so that means you will need to be committed to it right after you get started. If you’re tired of losing money through PPC or just want to learn how to get started, then you shouldn’t have a problem. If you apply everything you learn you’ll be able to get your money back within just a few days.

So what do you get by signing up for PPC Coach?

What you need to know about PPC Coach is that you will be presented with new techniques and methods to run every month. Your first month, called Month 1, shows you the method of getting the most money out of easy zip and email submits. Month 2 will then be available for you to look at after 30 days, which is what I’m currently on.

About Month 1, I can’t go into further detail about the method because it’s against their TOS and I don’t want to get in trouble. But what I can tell you is this: it works, and you can easily make $100/day just from this method alone. I never thought that there was money to be made through promoting email/zip submits that give you about $1.20 per lead. Just check out this screenshot below of my AdWords and NeverBlue. It’s on a 3-day interval, starting the day after I signed up for PPC Coach.

If you’re really on the point where you get frustrated with PPC, or if you just want to learn how to get started, then try out PPC Coach. Meanwhile, if you don’t have the budget to spend on PPC or think that the monthly price is too high, then please DON’T join the program. This is only for those who are willing to be committed to the program, no excuses.

Remember, there are no guarantees. According to the Coach, there are only two things guaranteed in life: death and taxes. If you can afford this investment, then make sure you join when you’re ready.

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Where have I been, you might ask? Well, long story short: I am now doing affiliate marketing through PPC (pay-per-click) and I must tell you… it’s a LOT of work! Just ask any other affiliate marketer out there and they’ll tell you that PPC marketing takes more work than blogging. If anyone disagrees, please prove me wrong! I’d love to see how you do PPC marketing the “easy” way.

So anyway, I’ll talk more about affiliate marketing later. Right now I need some rest as I’ve spent the last 3 days learning about PPC marketing. I’ll also talk more about my #1 resource when it comes to PPC marketing: PPC Coach. I’m sure a lot of you have heard about it, but I’ll try to get a review up soon so you can learn more about it and what I think of it. It truly is a treasure.

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What Is Ninja Affiliate?

In one sentence, Ninja Affiliate is this: it’s the ultimate and most complete tool that automatically converts keywords on your blog into affiliate links. Many bloggers out there make money online from their blogs through many different ways, and one of them is by affiliate marketing. If you’re trying to make money from your blog by selling affiliate products and/or services, Ninja Affiliate is what you need.

Why is Ninja Affiliate complete? Simple. Just take a look at its main features below (taken right from the site) with its corresponding functions shown in the image. These features are unbeatable and you will need at least 4-5 different plugins to do all of these things.

1. Easy Affiliate Link Management - You can easily give each affiliate link an easy-to-remember name..
2. Flexible Link Management - Accepts every affiliate link format out there, so you don’t have to waste time with various affiliate marketing tools..
3. Create Professional Redirect Links - Use professional looking redirect links that let your prospects know you’re a pro marketer..
4. Manage Links by Groups - Too many affiliate links? Ninja Affiliate allows you to easily create different groups to manage your links..
5. Prevent “Affiliate Theft” - Cloak your affiliate links to prevent link theft and affiliate sabotage. No one will ever steal your hard-earned commissions again..
6. Insert Affiliate Links Directly - Add your affiliate links directly for your Wordpress blog editor - you’ll never have to hunt for links again..
7. Transform Keywords to Links - Automatically turn keywords in your blog to affiliate links. You can set a limit too, so your posts don’t look like a spam blog!
8. Advanced Display Options - Ninja Affiliate allows you to display any text you want in your web browser’s status bar..
9. Use “No-Follow” Links - Control your link juice and escape punishment from Big Daddy Google with ninja precision. In fact, you can control your links any way you want to.

As you can see, Ninja Affiliate is powerful. It’s the OIOpublisher of affiliate link management. Oh, and speaking of OIOpublisher, remember when they gave a special discount to SlyVisions readers? Well, Pawan (the creator of Ninja Affiliate) has also given me a chance to give SlyVisions readers a special discount for this awesome plugin. For 4 days only, ending this Friday, October 17th at 11:59 PM ET, you can purchase Ninja Affiliate not for $97, but for the discount price of only $77. You will have to use this special link if you want the special discount, so make sure you act fast!

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There’s a lot of bloggers and other people out there that claim that they make money online. Yes, most of the times this is true, but there are who just say things like this to scam people. But the topic of what I’m going to talk about is not about who really makes money and who doesn’t. What this is about, though, is why people fail to make money online because of 3 simple reasons.

Reason #1 - People Do Not Take Action

Let me ask you a question. Why do you come to this blog? It’s because you like the content, right? And because of the content (the pillar content in particular), you plan to apply them right? So when I wrote 30 tip on how to explode your traffic, did you even take the time to apply the ones you have never done before? Or did you just pass up the opportunity to explode your traffic? If this is you, then you know exactly what I mean by not taking action. There are a lot of people out there that want to make money online, read all they can about the topic, and even pay hundreds of dollars to get all the resources and information they need to get started. But what happens? They never apply the information they learned; and if they did, they give it up after a few days knowing that it would take a lot of work to do. Let’s take a look at reality people. Even the top online money-makers out there had to put a lot of work to get themselves in the position they are in now. You can’t succeed without taking action.

Reason #2 - People Don’t Treat Their Online Business As a Real Business

Blogs are a good example. Most people don’t treat their blogs as a business. What do I mean by this? Well, imagine you own a book store in your neighborhood. What will you need to run the business? To name a few, you will need some capital (money), a place to run the book store, a business license, lots of books, shelves for the books, cash registers, and all the other good stuff needed to run a book store. As you can see, it would be impossible to run a successful book store without these things. So how is this related to blogging? Well, to start a (successful and long term) blog, you will need a domain name, web hosting, a brand, a decent looking blog design, some plugins to help run the blog, etc. Again, this all takes a lot of work and money.  

But let’s take things a bit further, so let’s go back to the book store. Say your store has become successful in just a matter of weeks. More people know about it through word-of-mouth and your sales just keep increasing. You then have two things you can do: keep the store the way it is, or upgrade (bigger space, more books and shelves, etc.). Most people would upgrade, right? It’s the same thing with your own website or blog. If you have gained some success and money through it, why not upgrade? Why not purchase a few plugins like OIOpublisher, for example, to help you with ad management? Or if you feel it’s time to upgrade your site’s design, why not spend a few dollars to get a premium theme? My point is, you need to treat your online business as if it’s a real business in the real world. Don’t be cheap. There are some who say that you don’t need to spend money to make money. This is true, but if you plan to succeed and make MORE money, you need to start scaling up.

Reason #3 - People Don’t Learn From Their Mistakes

I’m sure you’ve tried to do something and failed. Then this question comes up:

What Did I Do Wrong?

The thing you need to know is, it’s not about what that you did wrong. It’s about learning and applying the things you need to do so that you won’t fail again.

Have you ever tried flipping domains? What about flipping websites? Or affiliate marketing? Let me tell you that these three ways of making money online are not impossible, and you can even make a living from doing them (yes, it’s realistically possible and people do make a living doing these). The thing is, most people have tried them, failed a few times, then gave up. WHY?!?! If you know there is a lot of money to be made, why would you give up?

Instead of giving up, the best thing to do is learn from your mistakes. If you tried flipping celebrity-related domains, why not try flipping movie-related domains? If you tried promoting affiliate products through websites and blog posts, why not try using PPC marketing? What I’m trying to point out is simple. If you know something works, keep trying. Find a way to fix your mistake and never ever give up. Ever.

Do You Have A Success Story?

If you are someone who is now successful at doing what you do online, please tell us your success story. How did your failures motivate it? What steps did you take to get back on track? We’d love to read about your success story, so go ahead and post it below!

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Awesome Features

With the new 2.0 update, there are now much more awesome features added to the original list. Here is the main list of features that it has to offer:

• Keep 100% of the what you sell your ads for!
• Have complete control over your ads
• Your advertising platform runs on auto-pilot
• Integrate the ad platform with any website (not just Wordpress) that uses PHP
• Purchase/account pages are now templated, editable within the admin area
• Text links are now controlled via zones (like banner ads)
• Performance improvements - various caching options available (more to come)
• Full javascript ad display support
• Entrecard payment option integrated

If you already bought OIOpublisher, great! You just need to download the new version and upload it to your site. If you don’t have OIOpublisher yet and want to get it, I have good news for you!

Special Discount For SlyVisions Readers

OIOpublisher has given me a coupon code that will slash of $17 from the original price. This makes the price for SlyVisions readers only $30! All you need to do is enter the coupon code “SlyVisions” in the coupon field on your purchase. It will automatically remove $17 off the purchase price. Oh, and if you plan to get OIOpublisher, you need to get it now! This special discount is open only until (and including) October 7!

If you decide to pass this up, you are making a big mistake. Any webmaster who owns a blog or any site that runs advertising NEEDS this ad platform. Remember, it helped me make $150 in 2 days. If you do things right, you can make more than what I did.

Click here to purchase OIOpublisher. You only have until October 7th before the coupon code expires!

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OIOpublisher WordPress Plugin

There you have it folks. The plugin is called OIOpublisher. I know that many of you have already read multiple reviews of this plugin since this is actually pretty old news, so that’s why I won’t be writing a full review about it. Instead, I’ll just go over the main ideas just in case you have never heard of it before. So basically, in 10 words, OIOpublisher allows bloggers to put your blog monetization on auto-pilot. All you have to do is set up the settings, install a few codes here and there, and you’re blog is ready to make some money.

Now you might be saying, “But Sly, I’m going to get penalized by Google by selling advertisements!”. Uh, no, you’re not. Not when you have the choice of putting no-follow on the text-links and banners that you sell through OIOpublisher. That’s exactly why this is the ultimate direct-sales platform for your blog(s).

$150 In 2 Days

So how did I make the $150 in 2 days? Here’s how:

1. I bought the plugin, then downloaded it.
2. I installed the plugin on my blog.
3. I set up all the settings and added a simple line of code onto the sidebar.
4. I didn’t do anything else and left the plugin do its job.

Within 48 hours, I received 2 purchases of site reviews ($60 each) and 2 text links ($15 each) for a total of $150. Why? Well, because of the simple line of code that I had installed on the sidebar, which tells the advertisers “Hey I have ____ slots available, get one!”.

Go ahead and click here, for example, to see what advertisers will see when purchasing a site review. As you will see, the advertiser will have the chance to select whether he/she wants a review written by me (the blogger) or by them. Then they can also choose what they want the title of the post to be and also select what category would be best for the review. Finally, if the review is going to be written by the blogger, they just input in a few details on what they want the post to include. All of this done through a 1-page submission, which is significantly faster than what would happen if it was done through the old fashion way of emailing the blogger.

Conclusion

So as you can see, this plugin truly does what it promises to do. It helps advertisers easily see what ad spots are available on a blog, while being able to purchase any ad type with a click of a button. No email was needed and no time was wasted. Meanwhile, for the bloggers, we just receive a message about new purchases and either approve or disapprove the ad. If it’s a text-link, the link is automatically put up by the plugin. If it’s a banner, same thing. If it’s a site review, well, you just need to write the review. But you get the idea of how OIOpublisher makes ad managing easier than ever. For $37, this is easily a bargain that all bloggers should have if they want to make money with their blog.

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Well, here’s a poll for you guys and gals that make money online with a blog (if you even make money online). Do you have other sources of income online? Or is this blog your source of hope? So let’s say you have a blog right now that makes at least, say, $20/month. If that blog had been taken away from you, would you have other ways to make you some money? Let us know by taking this poll below and make sure to also leave some comments.

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More Than Just Affiliate Tips

Because of the domain name, people would think that AffiliateTips.com is just a site that gives affiliate marketing tips. But the real truth is that AffiliateTips is more than just that. The site provides users with the top affiliate programs on the internet. Looking at the first page, users will be able to see right away their top 10 affiliate programs. The link to the affiliate reviews are there as well, which provides users with a quick and easy way to see the description of the program as well as some other useful information.

So let’s take a look at the review page of Globat for example (screenshot below). On the review page, users will see quick facts about the program. From information about commission types and payment details to information about conversion rates and traffic information, people can easily learn about the whole affiliate program right from that one page. It’s like visiting the site of the program itself and reading their FAQs page, but on one single page on one site.

Affiliate Marketing Articles

Other than the reviews that AffiliateTips provides, visitors will also be able to read useful and unique articles that you won’t find anywhere else. Don’t know how to start with PPC? Then check out their guide on getting started with PPC. Need more exposure for your site? Read their article on how to draw attention to your website. Affiliate marketing articles like these complete the site. I’ve never seen a site do this before, so it really makes it stand out from all the other sites on the same niche.

Affiliate Marketing Tools

First reviews, then there were guides and articles. Now we have tools. The one that I really like is their Affiliate Calculator, which basically calculates the monthly revenue of your affiliate business and measure the SEO potential of a site. Then even have spreadsheets that will help you organize and manage your business. All of their tools are a key part to being a successful affiliate marketer, so make sure you check them out.

Conclusion

All in all, the whole site is great. It provides their visitors with what they want, and that’s to teach them how to make money online with affiliate marketing. The reviews and ratings of the affiliate programs are great, but the extra articles and tools they provide are even better. If I was able to rate this site, I’d give it a 9 out of 10. So if you haven’t checked out AffiliateTips.com yet, make sure you head over there right now. That site is already bookmarked on my browser and I’ve already read almost all of the guides and articles. I’m hoping to be able to make over $600/month on affiliate marketing alone with the help of AffiliateTips.com. A few minutes of your time on that site will help you get started on making money online today.

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I’m not really going to go over how to do it step by step since there are already a few great blog posts out there on how to do it. Here’s one from TheNetFool, The University Kid, and SiteFlip U. I’d recommend you check out Site Flip U because the whole blog is about site-flipping. Oh, and guess who the blogger is behind the site? Bryan Clark… yup, the same guy who brought you One Man’s Goal (and sold it for $8,500 within a few months). Anway, here’s the main idea of site-flipping:

1. Buy a domain to make a site, or buy a pre-existing website
2. Get a bit traffic to the site
3. Sell and make money!

It’s actually a bit more complicated than that. Again, it all depends on the site you make and how you make it.

Anyway, I’m already working on my first blog-flip project that I’ll be planning to sell in the next few days (maybe weeks). I’ll post updates once in a while, and I’ll post up the results of how much I’ve made. For this project, I’m looking to get around $200+ for the site. I won’t be telling you what the domain and site is yet, so make sure you subscribe to keep up on my progress.

For those of you who have already done site-flipping, how did your first sale go? Did you make more than you expected or less? Tell your story in the comments below because I’d love to hear it. I’m pretty exited with my first project.

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