There are a lot of coaching programs available to help you be successful in Internet Marketing. But there are only two people I would recommend that have proven to me that their methods work.

The first one is Josh Spaulding. He is one of the most honest guys you will ever meet who will go out of his way to help you. All of his material is well thought out and well written… And work!

The second guy is Brian Johnson. I have been following Brian for long time now. Brian was actually one of the first guys to take advantage of video and show how is methods really work. Up until now though Brian has not had a coaching program.

But that’s changing with Halloween Super Affiliate. On June 23rd Brian is holding a webinar where he will give out all of the details of this amazing coaching program that I KNOW will help hundreds of people make a lot of money online.

I know Halloween Super Affiliate works because I have personally used Brian’s methods to be extremely successful over the holiday season and every year I make a killing… And this year will be bigger than ever!

And not only will Brian be there to hold your hand every step of the way to ensure you are successful this holiday season but you get some amazing software tools too!

FREE MICRO NICHE FINDER! Do you want to get Micro Niche Finder for FREE. You get it with Brian’s Halloween Super Affiliate Coaching program

FREE FLEXSEQEEZE WordPress Theme! That’s right! You get this awesome premium wordpress theme when you sign up for Brian’s coaching program too!

3 FREE Months to the UnderGround Link Network. Get 3 months of free backlinks to your new sites to make sure you rank in the search engines

Plus, if you know Brian, you know you’ll be getting a ton of videos packed with some of the most useful information you can have just by being part of his Halloween Super Affiliate program.

From what I understand, this is just the beginning. There is much more where that came from.

I can tell you from my own experience, Brian and helped me be successful and he can help you too. My biggest successes have been through marketing over Halloween and using Brian Johnson methods for successfully launching and ranking my affiliate websites.

Check it out for yourself… your success this Halloween will mean a REALLY MERRY CHRISTMAS for you and your family!

Have you ever played the game solitaire? Its a card game where you play by yourself (hence the name solitaire). The game involves laying cards out on the table with a goal of sorting them numerically. It can be a frustrating game that you certainly loose most of the time. So, if you know your going to loose, then why play the game at all? Is it the thrill of the chase? Is it the thrill of chance? Or is it simply the fact that you KNOW eventually you WILL win? In my mind this is the exact belief you need to have when you start a business.

Starting a business isn’t an easy task. Even as easy and as cheap as it is starting a online internet based business, it can still be very daunting. The fear of failure alone is enough to paralyze most people from even beginning to start a business. And if you let that fear consume you, you never start.  If that happens you HAVE certainly failed.  The key is to just start and see where it leads you.

Like in Solitaire, you know you may loose but if you never start you will never know if you would have won.

I have started multiple online and offline businesses. So far every single one of them have failed. In the late 90′s I started a free web based email service that was similar to Hotmail or Yahoo mail at the time. I had 45,000 email accounts in my system running out of my bedroom on small server I built from scratch. All of this was running through a Comcast cable modem. Well, eventually Comcast found out and banned me from their system. I literally became a server gypsy toting my email server from one friends house to another. I didn’t’ have the money for hosting which at the time was around $200/mo and Paypal didn’t exist, so there wasn’t any way to monetize the site. Needless to say that business was doomed.

Thinking back to when I was kid, I tried to start a lawn mowing business and that one failed too. There were many others too.  I tried to start a hosting business, an IT consulting business, and a software reseller business. Each one failed.  So why did I keep going? Because I knew eventually I would win.

Its not a matter of can you succeed, it is a matter of when you succeed.

Today, I run a small affiliate marketing business. It doesn’t make much much money, honestly last year it made around $6000. Its not much but the business IS making money and every single cent that comes in gets re-invested back into my business.

And this business may eventually fail too. eBay, Google, or Amazon.com may change and those affiliate checks may stop coming in. But that’s okay, because each step of the way I’m learning, and each time I’m getting better.

In business, just like in Solitaire, if I keep playing, I’m patient, and persistent, I know I will win… and you can too. You’ve just gotta play to win.

Lately I’ve been playing around with optimizing my landing pages. This can be a really fun task or it can be very frustrating. The nice thing is there are plenty of free tools to help you split test and experiment to see what works and what doesn’t.

Google Website Optimizer
Google, in their quest for gathering as much information about people who browse the internet as they can, has  lots of free tools to help you also “see” whats going on with your site visitors. One nice tool from the Google Analytics tool box is the ability to split test traffic coming to your site. Google affectionately calls this the Website Optimizer.  Oh and its free of course!

The first thing you want to do is to create an experiment for your split test.  As soon as you do this you will be presented with the option to choose A/B test or Multivariate.  My advice to you is to stick with the A/B test, at least for now.  The A/B test will allow you to test two different pages side by side to see which one performs better.   As you set up your experiment, you will want to compare small changes between two different pages.  For example, test two different headlines and see which one is better, etc.

The multivariate test  – the multivariate test is a much more complex test -where you test multiple changes on a page at the same time.  It’s a very advanced, complex method of testing changes,but until your comfortable doing A/B split testing, I would stay clear of it for now.

To finish up your A/B testing you will obviously need two different pages to test.  Google will ask you to add some code to these pages so that they can detect which pages are getting accessed more.  Also, one of the pieces of code that Google will have you add to your site will do the redirects between the different test pages for you!  Google’s directions are pretty straight forward, just follow them along and you will have your split test setup in no time.

You should probably make sure you are getting some decent traffic to your website before you start split testing things.  I would say at least around 40-50 unique visits a day to be able to get a clear picture of your visitors behavior.

Exit Pop-ups
Another quick and easy trick to add to your website that really improves sign up to your mailing list is an exit pop-up.  Many people really hate pop-ups, but if you use them correctly and not nag your visitors they really provide an added benefit to your site.

One great free exit pop-up is from BigSellingOptins.com from Brian Terry.  Brian has a cool free plugin for wordpress that allows you to add popup optin form when people start to exit your site.   Configured correct, It really improves optins dramatically.  There are lots of options to configure this plug-in. Tune it so that it only pops-up once in a session or maybe even less.  I use it as a simple reminder for people not to forget to sign up for my free mini-course or ebook.  Again don’t overuse it and test to see what works best for you.

Do you have any tips or tricks for optimizing your landing pages?  Let us know!

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Most web sites who make money through advertising do so by simply adding Google adsense and throwing some Pepperjam banners on their site.  But what if things start taking off for you and the next thing you know, people are contacting you wanting to advertise on your site?  You need a good solution for people to PAY YOU to advertise on your site.  But how?  Well I have a couple cool solutions for you.

So there you are… one day,  just working on your websites.  Just a normal day and all of a sudden you get an email asking what your rates are to advertise on your site?  What do you do?  Let out a big cheer?!?  or PANIC?!? or BOTH?

Well lets see… you can just send on email, with some prices you pulled out of your butt and tell the guy to send money to your paypal account.  Simple enough.  Not very professional though.

One thing you can do is hire a service like buysellads.com.  They provide everything you need including, promoting your site to advertisers, working with advertisers, and making sure your current advertisers stay on as advertisers. But of course this comes at a price. Buysellads.com takes 75% on ad sales. To me thats little steep but they do provide a valuable service.

Another option is OIO Publisher. OIO Publisher is a WordPress plugin that will create a very nice backend ad manager for you right on your website. OIO Publisher will allow advertisers to choose an ad spot, upload the image, add the proper URL, and clear it all through paypal!  It will even email advertisers an invoice and create recurring ad campaigns for continued revenue.

OIO Publisher comes a t a price too.  It’s a premium plugin that sells for $47.  It’s a one time fee that allows you to use OIO Publisher on as many websites as you want. Right now you can get $10 off the price of OIO Publisher.  This is good through the end of the month.  Click HERE and use the code FAWKES-MEDIA to receive the discounted price of $37.

This discount code changes every month so if it doesn’t work, leave a comment and I’ll update the discount code so that you can get the $10 bucks off.

All in all – whether you go with buysellads.com or do it yourself with OIO Publisher, any way to manage ads on your site is better than no way. And more professional looking.

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Do you have any other ways to excepts payments for ads on your site?  Let us know here!