We know that a lot of PPC marketers might have tried 7search in the past and may have failed, but that’s simply because they were NOT doing it right.  There’s a couple special steps you need to take in managing your campaigns with them and that’s what we show you.

First you must make sure you’re blocking bad sites.  Bad sites are just sites that are not converting for you.  That will depend totally on the campaign you’re running and the niche it’s in.  It doesn’t mean 7search allows bad traffic, it just means that some sites will work with certain niches and others won’t.  So make sure you do that, there’s a special request you have to make and some tracking tokens necessary to do this.

Second is something that a lot of people get confused with.  7search has “click free” traffic from some keywords.  Those keywords still do charge you per click, but click free means exactly that, they’re redirects from broken links based on the keywords you have in your account.  We’ve found that most of the time, these to do not work well for direct marketers.  So we suggest deleting them all from your account.

That’s the two main things, but sometimes it’s best to see all this in action, that’s what we provide on the PPC Coach site.  We almost FORCE our members to take action so that we can coach them, (that’s why we’re called PPC Coach!).  So our members try things, get stuck, get solid advice and guidance, then succeed.  We’ve been doing this coaching for over 4 years now and are getting very good at it.  In fact we got so good at it that a lot of other sites started popping up trying to do what we do.  That’s fine we love competition as it only makes us stronger.

So take advantage of this awesome offer right now by going to this link: $25 7search free advertising  Free money is a great thing and if you’ve got that and our help, you cannot help but succeed!  Please help me by spreading the word about our special deal with 7search, just send people to this post so they can take advantage of the offer as well.  Just to be clear, you do have to deposit $50 in order to get the $25 free, but that’s fair in my mind.  I just want to put that out there so people do not think we’re trying to trick them at all.

If you have any questions, post them and we’ll help you out.  If you’re looking for a great mentor/coach, give our $1 trial a try right now!

Make sure you view it in full screen mode and yes I am aware the for about the first 15 minutes my screen was frozen.  Something was glitching with Gotowebinars interface, but I did fix it and the screen does show properly after that.  I apologize for that glitch.  The audio does work fine for the entire webinar.

Even on the webinar we had request for a replay that people could pause and rewind as they built out their campaigns. Well here you go. It’s on youtube so you can view at anytime and pause and rewind it as you please. If you have any questions on anything in there, let us know in the comments below.

I’m hosting a webinar in conjunction with MaxBounty and here’s the stats so far, (my account can hold 1,000 users at a time):

There’s a lot of interest in this and we’re excited to offer it completely free to all registrants. A lot of marketers think 7search doesn’t work, well it does if you do it right and that means taking 2 steps to ensure you’re only getting good traffic that converts. I’m going to walk through the whole campaign setup in excruciating detail. It should take me approximately 30 minutes to get this campaign up and running.

Will it make money? You never know until you actually try do you. I’m not guaranteeing anything, but I will guarantee you’ll be motivated to try your own after seeing how to do it correctly on the webinar. I gave up caring if things don’t work out a long time ago. You miss 100% of the shots you do not take and in our business, mindset is the most important aspect of success. The technical side can be learned. Offers can be found. Traffic sources can be mastered but if you have a negative mindset, you’re dead from the start.

90% of the keywords I test will fail. I know that. 70% of the campaigns I try will fail. I know that too. So why bother? Simple, the 10% of keywords that work in the 30% of campaigns that work make more then enough to cover all the losses I had in testing in testing in the first place. It’s never a one shot deal with CPA marketing. You’ve got to make at least 10 solid attempts to find your first winning campaign. You might get lucky and have the first one be the one, but that’s just luck.

Speaking of luck, I am a firm believer that you manufacture your own luck. It doesn’t just appear out of no where. Look at anyone who has won the lottery. They didn’t have the money simply appear in their account, they had to go out and buy a ticket first. Now that’s not much work, but the amount of luck is typically directly proportional to the amount of work put in. I run a luck factory, I’m the owner, manager, salesperson, receptionist and janitor at my luck factory. Nobody else works there but me and if I take a day off or don’t do any work, the production of my luck drops off dramatically. Next time you find yourself saying “oh he’s just lucky”, ask how he or she GOT lucky? Odds are they have a luck factory in the same industrial complex as mine. Do you want one? They’re selling vacant land right on the PPC Coach site right now. You can buy yours for as little as $1 for 14 days.

Anyhow, enough of my mindset mumbo jumbo, this is your invite too!

It’s going to be Wednesday February 8th at 9pm est.

I’m going to do a live campaign setup of some email submits using 7search with MaxBounty offers.

If you want to join us, please do!

Click the link below to register, there’s under 200 spots left and I’d love to hit the 1,000 maximum!

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/859881178

*** UPDATE ***

Well we hit 1,003 registrants! That is huge. I’m very excited about this one and can’t wait to show you guys what we’ve got planned for you. If you missed it, sorry, we might run another in the future for you. Here’s a screenshot:

Anyhow, I made this post on Warrior Forum, which is a great free resources for learning internet marketing:

Is $___ Enough To Start With Pay Per Click, Facebook Ads, Plenty Of Fish or PPV/CPV Marketing?

I originally made a post about this on the PPC Coach members only forum and I seemed to have scared some people away with it. They quit after reading it realizing that they really do need to spend money to make money. So the above post clarifies this for everyone. You can start small as long as you reinvest back into your campaigns. You don’t go from zero to $100 per day overnight unless you have a large budget and a high risk tolerance. Most take it one step at a time. It’s the walk before you run thing.

So my goal is to have anyone who asks that question in the future to go read that thread. I answers it as clearly as possible. I thought I’d post it here on the PPC Coach blog because it’s worth a post of its own. I hope you get some value out of it and please do particpate in that thread or post any questions you have here. Going from $5 per day to $100 per day is possible. But if you want to make $100 per day, you’re going to have be spending at least $200 per day to get there. $200 would be in revenue and $100 profit, $100 to cover costs.

Everyone has to start somewhere so if you’re new to the pay per click or buying traffic game, go slow and build your budget up over time.

• A platinum pass to Affiliate Summit West.
• 2 nights hotel accommodations paid for at host hotel.
• $500 Airfare Reimbursement.
• $2000 to gamble on 1 hand of blackjack (can you handle the pressure?).
• Roll with me at Affiliate Summit.
• A pass to the Epic Advertising Playboy Mansion Party this fall.

Now I don’t know if I qualify or not, but I didn’t see anything against it, so here goes my entry.  (I don’t see why I wouldn’t as I’m nothing special, just another dude who makes a living online.)  First I think Jeremy is the real deal, he’s not afraid to speak his mind and he’s been attacked online countless times by countless morons.  But instead of that draining him, he spins it into a positive thing.  He uses any negative attacks to further his brand which is what a smart guy would do.  I really respect him for that.  I know him a bit, but have never met him in person.  To say I know him means he’s personally repsonded to a couple emails over the past couple years and we ALMOST did a major deal in the past.  Anyway, here’s my reasons for them awarding ME the winner of the contest.

1. I’ve never been to any Affiliate Summit ever.  When I started online I was trying to hide my identity from everyone.  I started this site as quietly as I could.  I didn’t want anyone to know who I was.  Looking back I don’t know why I did that, but I did.  Now I’m the opposite.
2. It would be cool to just meet Jeremy in person and hang with him a bit.  I wouldn’t annoy him with a million questions about making money online, I already know how.  So that would save him some headaches if he took a complete newbie!  (No offense to newbies btw, you’ve got to ask if you want to know).
3. I need to network more with more affiliate marketers.  I know it’s a necessary thing to succeed in the affiliate space, but I’ve never done it.  I spent my previous life as a financial advisor being forced to network and frankly I didn’t like it.  I think I didn’t like it because the other person KNEW I just wanted to manage their portfolio.  It felt dirty to me.  But now I see the value in just putting faces to names online and developing more connections.
4. I love Vegas!  I’ve been there twice and loved it both times.  It’s just an escape from reality and a fun time.  I’m not the party animal I used to be anymore, I’ve got 4 kids and when you do, your Friday and Saturday nights are spent falling asleep on the couch watching T.V.  (Mainly from the exhaustion of having 4 kids)
5. I have no problem slapping down $2,000 on blackjack.  I’d probably be the first one in years to actually lose it, but that’s ok, it would make a good blog post for Shoe and John Chow too.

That’s my five reasons.  I haven’t seen any other entries yet, so I encourage nobody else to enter this please!  If I won, I think it would be cool to just experience one of these summits for once and who better to have as a go to guy then Jeremy?

When you earn a badge you feel proud for accomplishing something new. You then get to show off that badge to everyone else on the site. The more badges you have the more respected your opinion and contributions will be on the site. Every post you make on the forums will proudly show the badges you’ve earned. This is something that is completely unique to the internet marketing & training world. PPC Coach is known for constantly evolving and bringing new and unique innovations to the membership site training model. This is just another one from us.

It works like this:

1. You select the lesson you want to take.
2. You watch the short 5 to 10 minute video of that lesson.
3. You complete the 5 to 10 question test.
4. You earn a badge for every lesson you get 80% or higher on.
5. Your badges then display on your forum profile whenever you post, showing everyone how many lessons you’ve taken successfully.

The competition is going to be scrambling to copy this, but it won’t be easy. We’ve custom coded this to work with our amember system and the vbulletin forum system which is where the bulk of our training currently resides. We’re very excited for you to try this out as there’s nothing better then being the “top badge earner”. It turns learning into a bit of a competition and allows you to brag without bragging.

If you’ve ever been on the fence about joining our site, now is the time. We are also happy to take requests for new lessons and we can even accept lessons done up by members! Our goal is simple, break down the complicated world of Pay Per Click internet marketing into little bites. It’s easier to learn from a 5 to 10 minute video then a 25 part, 3 hour monster session. Enjoy the new system and please give us your feedback. If you want to do a lesson, all we need is a 5 to 10 minute video and 5 to 10 questions. We will then post it on the site and give you full credit.

Go give it a try!

Ethical Affiliate Marketing Explained

Ever since the idea of Internet marketing took hold, marketers have been divided into two major camps – white hats and black hats (take a guess which one is considered unethical). Let’s consider some of the characteristics that divide these categories:

White Hat (Ethical)

1. Telling the truth, all the time
2. Avoiding spam (articles that are spun for mass distribution, for example)
3. Honest reviews
4. Focusing on natural SEO
5. Creating valuable, link-worthy content

Black Hat (Unethical)

1. Relying on the quickest link building methods (paid links, comment spam, etc.)
2. Lying about higher paying affiliates to make more money
3. Tricking website visitors into conversions (fake pages, misrepresented links)
4. Sabotaging competitors’ websites
5. Creating garbage content

At about this moment, you’re probably starting to wonder about a few things. You might be thinking that there’s nothing wrong with link building by actively seeking links (instead of waiting for them to come to you). You might also wonder about paid links – are they ever legitimate? Well, yes, of course they are. Do you think major offline retailers sit back and wait for people to find out about them? Absolutely not. Every business has both the right and responsibility to bring their ideas, products and services to the public in order to show customers why they need to be interested. That sounds a lot like link building to me. And what about affiliate marketers that purchase 2,000 paid directory listings to hide their important links from their competitors? What’s really wrong with this?

There are even some niches where you really don’t have much of a choice besides buying links and actively seeking link opportunities (online gambling comes to mind). You have almost no chance of catching up to the big players in those niches without some form of unnatural link building. In the marketing community, we call this the gray area, or gray hat marketing.

Ethical Product Reviews

I have a challenge for you. Try to think of one product that most people will only buy once. Leave a comment under this post if you can think of one. It’s probably pretty difficult (there are some, but not many). People tend to be multiple consumers. We buy more than one car, more than one album, more than one book, and the list goes on. So, why would you ever try to deceive a customer into purchasing one product, when you can be honest and sell multiple products at the same time? That is ethical affiliate marketing that also pays off.

Product reviews are some of the most common havens of unethical affiliate marketing. The temptation is almost always to pick the products that offer the highest conversion payouts, give them stellar (often completely made up) reviews, and hope that the uneducated saps that come to your site will buy what you tell them to buy. But ethical affiliate marketers know that building a trusted brand is important. Don’t assume that a few negative aspects of a product will turn customers off. For example, if you are writing a review about clear 4G internet, tailor it to your audience if you must be biased (would your readers value the low price tag over the connection speed, for example?).

For Whom Are We Actually Optimizing?

Ask yourself one simple question: are your SEO techniques driven more by what the robots scrape, or what the humans read? There’s an age old argument, especially with article directory submission (think Ezine and Squidoo) that the content is not meant for human eyes – its only purpose being to appease the search engine robots as they move swiftly along their daily grind. Now, it’s not that the articles you use for the purpose of article submission have to be Pulitzer prize winning pieces, but writing a single article, spinning it 100,000 times, and submitting it to 10,000 article directories isn’t helping anyone.

The Internet is (sometimes hilariously) flooded with garbage content. Unmonitored blog comment sections are littered with comments like “you do well content on your blog, but not as good done as GREAT MOVIES FOR FREE.” Article submission sites are full of articles that either give horrible advice, are remarkably poorly written (if they were written by a human), or both (usually both).

You might see some quick SERP results by spamming content all over the Internet. The SEO company J.C. Penney hired sure did. The major retailer was suddenly ranking for such competitive terms as “bed covers” and “gas grills.” That is, until Google found out about it. Don’t make the same mistake. Make every traceable link back to your site valuable, and you’ll see your hard work pay off, either because people read your content somewhere else and want more, or simply because you’re keeping your image clean.

It Pays to Be Ethical

Not just figuratively. I’m not preaching being an ethical marketer so you can sleep at night. I’ll be the first to admit a few black hat stains on my past. But being an ethical marketer really does make a difference. As Google tightens their algorithm to focus more on quality content and links, the difference will become even more obvious. Providing high quality content helps gain trust from your readers, and trusting readers tend to be more likely to click your affiliate links. Other marketers will also notice your efforts and will be more likely to link to you on pure merit.

It’s cheap to advertise online and anyone can launch a robot driven marketing campaign, complete with ads destined to only be clicked by accident. Are you willing to add to this mass betrayal of the American consumer? Or, are you ready to make a larger investment, confident in both your products and your worthiness as a marketer? If so, you truly qualify as an ethical affiliate marketer. If not, CONGRATULATIONS, YOU’RE THE 2000TH PERSON TO VISIT THIS SITE! CLICK HERE TO RECEIVE YOUR $2 BILLION CHECK!!!!

Join us for a Webinar on Saturday October 22, 2011 at 10:00 am est
Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:

https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/669679962

This webinar will introduce you to the PPC Coach Local Agent program. It’s an off shoot of the PPC Coach training program meant to get you as a Local Agent in your city promoting PPC Services in exchange for LARGE monthly recurring income.

In this webinar, I’m going to do a lot of things including introducing the concept, showing you some different sales funnels you can put prospects into and show you how I would do it. This can be a very lucrative opportunity for everyone involved as you set the price for the services and keep anything above our standard rates.

For Example:

You want to sell ppc campaign services to a chiropractor. You price it at $1,000 to setup and then $1,250 per month to manage it. However, you don’t set it up or manage it at all, we do it all for you. We charge $600 for the setup and $1,000 for the monthly management. That means you keep $400 for the setup and make $250 monthly recurring without doing anything else except being the face of our company in your city.

Setup 10 of those and that’s 10 x $400 = $4,000 plus 10 x $250 = 2,500. That’s $4,000 + $2,500 = $6,500 monthly income if you set up 10 relationships in a month for us. If you do another 10 the next month, you’re at $13,000 per month for 20 accounts. If you then totally quit doing anything, you’ll still get the $2,500 recurring from the first month you sold and then another $2,500 recurring from the second month which is $5,000 recurring and not lifting your finger again.

We cannot do this without you because we cannot be in every city in the world, (our target market).

So join us for this unique business opportunity and we’ll walk you through it all. Training and support for Local Agents will take place on a dedicated section of the PPC Coach forums.

Title: PPC Coach Local Agent
Date: Saturday, October 22, 2011
Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM EDT

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.
System Requirements

PC-based attendees
Required: Windows® 7, Vista, XP or 2003 Server
Macintosh®-based attendees
Required: Mac OS® X 10.5 or newer

See you soon!

Will

P.S. Yes this will be recorded if you can’t make it.

I wanted to do this without affecting the existing PPC-Coach.com site. I like to keep things in niches. So this was a perfect solution. Now if people want ppc affiliate marketing training, they can still get it right here at PPC-Coach.com. However if someone owns their own product or service or wants to advertise their business online using ppc, now they can use PPCTrainer.com for this.

Introduction To PPCTrainer.com

Martin Voelk is my partner at PPCTrainer.com. He’s been running it for almost a year now and has had some great success. I wanted to partner with Martin for several reasons, including the fact that he speaks German fluently, is located in the United Kingdom and allows us to have a truely international company serving anywhere on the globe with training, consulting, management, lead generation and product sales. Not to mention he is an Adwords wizard who has the knowledge and experience to help any business succeed online.

Training

While PPC-Coach.com will continue operating as is, (with a couple excellent additions), PPCTrainer.com works a bit differently. Instead of a membership site with training modules on the forums, PPCTrainer.com offers webinars, videos, consulting and even on site seminars to businesses around the world. We will deliver our training right in your boardroom to your employees if requested.

PPC Account Management

Another service PPCTrainer.com offers is Google Adwords account management. We have a flat rate option that suits most businesses perfectly. Business owners tend to be interested in one thing, the bottomline and that is what our pay per click account management service provides. We take the frustration and worry of managing their own account away and do it all for them for one reasonable flat rate fee per month.

PPC Consulting

We have a couple options available here as well. We offer phone consultations and one day Adwords fixes for clients. Our one day fix program is very popular as we login to your existing account, analyse it and report back to you with any fixes or updates we recommend. This is great for the do-it-yourselfer business person who doesn’t need full account management but likes to have a second opinion on the state of their pay per click campaigns.

Lead Generation

This part of PPCTrainer.com is being implemented as we speak. This is also the part where PPC Coach members will benefit. Having access to a large pool of affiliate marketers gives us a huge advantage over any other PPC Agency. We can not only train, consult and manage PPC accounts, but we can deliver leads right to businesses who want them on a small or large scale. We are currently putting this program into place where the business owner decides what exactly they want, then we will pay our PPC Coach members to generate the leads for us and sell them to the business owner. This means exclusive private deals en masse for PPC Coach members and getting into local lead generation without the hassle of actually finding a business owner to sell them to.

We are going to be bringing in the best of the best software solution for tracking everything. The software we are looking at can allow for the affiliate to have the form on their own site and have it automatically post to our database. This means 100% white label sites can be built. White lable landing sites tend to convert best as you integrate them with the theme of your site. When I personally started in 2004 doing UK secured loan leads, this is exactly what I did. I am going back to my roots with lead generation and have a ton of knowledge and experience in this field.

Product & Service Sales

In addition to the lead generation service we will be offering a product sales and service sales aspect to all PPCTrainer.com clients as well. Again we’re in the unique position of having access to a very large pool of affiliate marketers. So this will provide even more exclusive private offers for PPC Coach members to promote and get paid for.

Summary

Martin and I have really thought through this whole process and both feel that combining forces is going to benefit every involved, including PPC Coach members. Maybe you’re getting tired of CPA networks dropping offers without notice. Maybe you’re looking to get into lead generation but have no idea how. That’s where PPCTrainer.com and PPC-Coach.com come into play. On the PPC Coach site I’m constantly evolving and keeping up to and in most ahead of the changes in the affiliate marketing world. This partnership with PPCTrainer.com is just the next logical step in my master plan.

I hope you’ll support Martin and I in our newest joint venture and look forward to providing you with even more to promote as an affiliate marketer. Meantime if you are a business owner or know anyone who is looking for a great PPC Agency, we love referrals!

For years, (well since I opened the site in September of 2007), I’ve only taken Paypal as the means to pay for subscriptions here on PPC Coach. Now, that has changed. I’ve finally added in several more ways to pay for a subscription to PPC Coach. You can now pay by Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Paypal OR even a Telephone Order! This is big news for people who don’t have a paypal account or don’t want to use theirs. It opens up the site to even more members that I had to turn away in the past.

I think I just got complacent in not adding in a new payment system. I’ve finally found one that I trust and I kind of like the idea of people being able to phone them too if they want. I think it really adds to the trust factor for those that do not want to enter any information over the internet. Now they can just call it in and a real live person can process the order for them. Sure I’m paying a bit extra for all these extra options, but I think in the long run it will be more then worth it.

So if you’re one of the people who had emailed me in the past and asked for something other then paypal as a way to pay, now your wish is granted! You can create your subscription right now under any of your credit cards or even phone it in. I look forward to seeing how these new options perform and have put them in place for another reason as well. I’ve been training affiliates for a long time now and am expanding PPC Coach into the business world as well.

PPC Coach is already the largest PPC dedicated forum on the internet with over 142,000 posts, but now I want any business person who wants to advertise online to join up too. I can coach them and show them exactly how to get their product or service up and running. One thing I’m on the look out for is doctors, chiropractors, dentists, plumbers, lawyers, caterers and anything in between to be able to do a case study for them.

So here’s my plea. If you are one of the above or know one of the above who would like to volunteer for a case business case study here on PPC Coach, then hit that contact form now and let me know. I’ll review their existing account or put together a campaign for them as long as I can then use it as case study for others to view here on the site. I haven’t decided if I’m going to charge for that case study or not yet, but most likely I’m not if they give me rights to use it here.

So enjoy the new payment options and help me spread the word about my new venture into the business world! I’ll see you on the inside, I hang on out the forums daily and am very active in the site.