Facebook Quickly Emerging As The Winner

It’s starting to appear as though Facebook might eclipse 900 Million users by the end of 2012! What is most significant about this is that not only will Facebook become the largest influential “entity” on the planet, but also it will have the power to make or break pretty much anyone. What I like about the prospects of having a giant like this around is that it can offer anyone the ability to zero in on a micro market with laser-like precision.

If you are in Internet Marketing right now, or just thinking about getting in, then Facebook is a platform you simply cannot afford to ignore. Facebook advertising is going to become the most powerful ad platform on the planet. So your new year’s resolution should include learning something about Facebook and about how to make it work for you and your business.

This year, Silicon Central is going to focus heavily upon the money-making opportunities that Facebook offers. And the first of killer apps that you need to look at is one that I’ve been working with for almost a year now. They just released version 2 and honestly, it is great!



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Occupy This!

We Stand At The Edge…

Look, the “Occupy Wall Street” group may appear unorganized and generally unruly, but you should consider this.  There are nearly 15 Million unemployed Americans right now.  Every day large organizations announce layoffs and cut backs.  Full-time jobs are being sliced and diced into multiple part-time jobs with no benefits.  The cost of health care is beyond reach for many people today.

Plan “A” – the plan to keep American citizens sick, tired and hungry may have gone overboard.  The Occupy Movement is an example that we may have reached the tipping point.  If you are going to make ends meet, you are going to have to adopt a new plan.  That plan has to include developing at least a portion of your income from daily internet transactions.  It is easier today than it has ever been.  I urge you to put the down cost of a few latte’s and check this program out.  I could be the difference between financial freedom for you and your family, or bankruptcy and eternal poverty.  The world is changing and you must change with it.  Invest a few minutes and check this opportunity out.  You can thank me later.

Get Paid to Share Videos!

I’ve been waiting for something like this for a long time! I should have thought of it! Anyway, here is the overview. People send out videos all day long. Every time you get a funny video, you want to send it to your friends. Now you can cash in on that.

This special program will take your video that you get from Youtube or any other video service and embed it into a page that is fully optimized with your adsense code, your clickbank offers, your CPA offers or whatever! This one is going to rock! Check it out soon. You will be so happy you did. You can be making money within the hour.

Checkout this video – You’ll get a pretty good idea what this can do for you…

Affiliate Commissions The Right Way?

I’ve been affiliate marketing for ten  years, so when a guy like this comes along and does it the “right” way, I stand up and take notice.

Just 8 years ago.. This guy was sitting on his couch of his parents how with just $100 dollars to his name..

And NOW he’s trained over 77,000+ students and profited $16.2Million in affiliate commissions. And he’s SICK AND TIRED of the  way the industry is turning..

Just watch this video and find out why:

Commission Domination

Watch the video start to finish and all the way through, ask yourself: Does this make sense? If you are like the rest of us, you will know it does!


[August 8, 2011]  I will be purchasing the program today to test it.  I’ll run it for a few weeks and report back on how it works … or IF it works.  Nothing else has worked as advertised and I have no reason to believe that this one will be any different.  But Anik has a good money back offer so if it is mostly bullshit, then it will be refunded. And it that is the case, then maybe someday these “nig nogs” will learn to clean it up a bit.  On the other hand, if it does work, you will hear it first from me.  What I am NOT looking forward to is the lengthy run of “upsells” that I am certain Amit will trot out.  I’ll report on those later today after I buy it.

[August 10, 2011 - Post Purchase Review]

Ok, I bought it and tried it.  My opinion.  Not worth bothering with.  At least there were not too many upsells. That always pisses me off quite a bit.  This one seemed to only have one.  The material was passe.  I don’t need to pay for a system to bookmark 10 pages for me.  I already have better tools for finding domain names related to key words and I know about long tail keywords.  It is a simple make money formula that everyone already knows.  The only value in it might be the ping feature.  But.. for $2.97 I can get better ping from Pingler.com.  Overall, it was a real disappointment – given the quality of sales video that pitched it.  I’m out.

Rating:  2.5 out of 10

Use Video or Die

Hey, don’t shoot the messenger. The figures are in. Video is absolutely killing it. There is nothing quite like the power of video today to rank your product or website. The Justin Bieber (My World) video was seen by 500 Million viewers! This smashed all records – including the 11 million people who viewed the last Superbowl.  If you are not doing video or even aggregating video into your YouTube channel, then you are missing the boat!

I recently signed up for a course called “Hacking Youtube“. I am still in the testing phase, but let me tell you – there is no way anyone can compete with the social media power of video. And once you know how to get videos to work for you (even if they’re not yours!), you will drive more traffic than you can imagine!

If you are going to produce some of your own video, I’d recommend the Sanyo VPC-PD2BK Full HD Pocket Movie Dual Camera! It’s got HDMI out and is a full 1080P with outstanding lighting control. The PD2 delivers archival quality 1080 30p HD video, 10MP photos, and 3x optical zoom in a very small compact body style. The Sanyo Dual Camera PD2 delivers excellent results with multiple features normally found on high priced camcorders. The PD2 fit is about the size of a deck of cards, is extremely portable and easy to use. It delivers 3x optical zoom for both video / photos and includes face chasing technology which automatically reads and corrects the focus and lighting of the subjects in view. The PD2′s MPEG4/H.264 recording format, coupled with Sanyo’s built-in software application makes sharing videos and photos via social networking sites including Facebook, YouTube and Picassa a breeze. Capture more than just the moment. The PD2 allows you to easily capture and share memories.

Beware of Gurus Bearing Gifts

We’ve all received those obnoxious emails and squeeze page ads from some chump claiming to have “cracked the code” or “stolen the code from some drunk guru at a party…”.  Three minutes into the video sales pitch, they’re trotting Clickbank screen shots in front of you that show how they made $37,812.59 PER WEEK on auto pilot!  Wow… They are just raking it in!  Do you wish you could do that?

We today I got this email from one of those kids.  Checkmate kid.  Read between the lines on this email:

Grrrr… Ok so gotowebinar got greedy (bad gotowebinar, bad!) and I really really don’t want to pay $500 a month for a 1000 person account (yeah, those are the new rates), so if anyone has a grandfathered gotowebinar account (1000 people for $99 / a month) and doesn’t want it, I’ll gladly take over the subscription.

And if you want to run the occasional webinar, that’s cool too & you won’t have to pay for it.
Just reply & let me know!
Cheers
- [name withheld]

Ok.  It is just me… or if you were making $37,000 bucks a week, would you care about paying GoToWebinar $500 a month?  Would you?  I sure wouldn’t.  Money is all relative.  The only people to whom $500 per month is significant, are the ones that don’t have $500 to spare!   I guarantee that if you were making $37,000 per week, you wouldn’t care a bit.  You’d probably have multiple accounts.

So now that we know those big numbers are bullshit, lets get on with business.  There is some good money to be made, but you won’t do it with any single product they advertise.

I have assembled bits and pieces from what several experts are doing, and I use them all as part of an overall monetization strategy.  You have to start out small and build.  It can take 6 months or more to get moving, but the longer you work at it the faster it grows.  It might take you 6 months to get to $500 per month, but in the next six months it may grow to four times that or more.

I’m just saying… be ware of Gurus baring gifts.

Mobile Mass Money Review

My comments today are short and to the point.  I just got off the phone with a “paid gun” from mobile Mass Money.  Perhaps I’m too old school but I think they have gone to far trying to flog this puppy.

I could tell that the fellow who called me was just some drone sitting in a cubical farm trying to flog top-end support.  He knows that I bought the program and he indicated he wanted to “help me” make big money online.  He lied by saying that he wanted this so that the company could use my “testimony”.  The phone line quality was poor, but not as poor as this “salesman’s” skills.  And I do use the word “Salesman” loosely.

He asked me questions to which he was in NO WAY interested in hearing the answer. He was only interested in directing the conversation down a narrow path that would no doubt end up with me spending a fortune so that MMM could get their testimony!  How stupid do you think people are Frank?

I had a very difficult time trying to keep this guy on track – MY TRACK!  You called ME – remember?  You’ll talk on my schedule, not yours!  When he realized that I have more computer and internet experience than he has had in birthdays, the resorted to what immature brats do.  He became insulting and obnoxious.  Gee, good thing I didn’t bite huh?

The principles that the program puts forward are sound principles.  The system will work for those that want to put the time in.  At the same time, though, it makes you wonder what the real value of the program is when the owners have to resort to flogging help desk programs just to earn a few extra bucks?  If the program was that effective, they wouldn’t it be better to pay those salesmen to just work the program and flog mobile money sites?

These kids may be nice guys, but I think they are a bit dim.  They appear unable to see that their efforts detract from any perceived efficacy that the program might have.

My recommendation:  Proceed with Caution on Mobile Mass Money

How To Make Money On The Internet

You are here because you are looking for ways to make money on the internet.  That’s cool.  You are already ahead of 70% of the market by taking action.  Most folks just dream about what they want.  They seldom take the necessary steps required to actually get somewhere!

We’ve been making money online for about 10 years and we have spent a lot of money on a lot of programs and apps that have promised the world… and rarely delivered.  In reality, 99% of what you buy out there is just a tease.  When you go for that $37 product, you most often face no less than 6 attempts to “upsell” you to something better.  Now I don’t know about you, but that pisses me off.  They never tell you in advance that the product you are purchasing will “technically” work, but really it won’t do much without the $197 add-on or the $69 per month subscription.  People that sell stuff like this ruin it for the rest of us.

Everything you find on my site, has been tested personally by me.  Some of the products unfortunately come with the multiple upsell attempts.  My advice to you is to just ignore that stuff and forge on.  If you take the time to read the articles on this site and to hone your skills, you will be able to develop a long term passive income without having to spend a fortune getting there.  My goal is to bring financial freedom to be within the reach of anyone who has the desire to learn and who is coach-able.  If you are not coach-able, then you won’t go anywhere.

While I try to cover a wide range of tips and tricks for getting where you want to be, I must humble myself and let you know that there is a site out there that I highly respect.  Some would say I am nuts for sending you there, but honestly, this guy is low key and he really knows his stuff.  I am talking about Matt Garrett.  Do yourself a favor and go check Matt’s stuff out.  Take time to read everything he writes.  Like my site, Matt really wants to help you get there.

When you are done, come on back to Silicon Central and use some of my stuff too!  Put it all together and you can’t help but come out on top!

You Are Not Alone! Affiliate Marketers Learn to Beat The Odds!

If you are reasonably new to affiliate marketing, but enjoy the work and the challenge, then you are not alone! That is to say… You are not alone any more!  I started using “Wolfstorm Media” about 6 weeks ago.  I thought that I was just signing on to yet one more CPA network.  But what I found was refreshingly pleasant.

The guys at Wolfstorm Media are ex-affiliates themselves.  They know what it is like to get started and they have an uncanny ability to relate the business to you in terms you can understand.  Without being overly pushy, they are very supportive.  They understand your need for discretion if you are trying to get going while still holding a day job.  Their offers are really good!

I ran one of their dating offers on a PPC network (7Search.com) and got clicks for someling like .03 a piece.  For the newbie, this is affordable!  I was able to play around with multiple ads to split test my own ad copy and find the best result.  And it didn’t cost an arm and a leg like it would have if I had gone with the big elephant in the room!

Instant Cash Empires

WARNING:  POSSIBLE FRAUD!!

I purchased this product three days ago.  On the surface it had tremendous promise.  The site was well laid out and the technical concept was sound.  The system would let me do things that ordinarily would have taken me 2 or 3 days – and reduced the work down to about five minutes.  The software worked for the first site that I did, but would not work on any other site properly.  I have over 70 domains, and I dedicated 12 of them to running an experiment with this software.

Mike Harvey seemed like a OK guy on his promotional video, and they have a good money-back guarantee – which is about to get tested if I don’t hear from Mike in the next 36 hours.  I worked yesterday for 22 straight hours trying to get the software working.  I’ve sent probably a dozen support emails to Mikey – who seems to have vanished.  I guess I’m going to have to do some research on this guy and track him down.  Sadly, it is behavior like this that ruins things for good entrepreneurs out there.

I am most disappointed.  Not so much because Mikey has vanished, but more because the software was so promising.  I really needed this tool.  Now I have to go back and do it the hard way!  Thanks Mike Harvey!

REFUND NOTE:  I requested a refund from Clickbank at 8:08 pm tonight (March 19th).  Despite 12 emails to Mike Harvey, he refuses to respond, leaving me no choice but to cash out.  Old Mikey will never sell me another product again.

Who is Mike Harvey anyway?  And why is he hiding?  If you google the name, the damn guy (or his name) is prolific!  There is a Mike Harvey who’s an olympic Tai Kwon Do medalist from England.  I certainly hope our Mike is not this one or else kicking his ass is going to be more difficult that I first thought.

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