After creating the MindMap I decided to post it on Facebook and the feedback has been incredible. You can check out the post on my Facebook wall here.

It seems this MindMap has been a revelation for a lot of people, something I never planned but if it’s offering tremendous value and can help others then that’s something I am proud of and want to share, hence this blog post.

If you check out the MindMap you’ll learn 3 things that you must do to ensure a successful WSO.

1. Your WSO must offer incredible value
2. You must put tools in place to recruit affiliates
3. You must have an effective sales funnel

You can download the mindmap from the link below, check it out and if you have any questions please leave a comment and I’ll reply on the blog.

Also, I am thinking of putting together a pitch free webinar where I talk about what is covered in the mindmap in great detail, if this is something you’d like to see me do please let me know by leaving a comment below.

Download the MindMap here

Before I came away I had a play around with a new software tool I got from Randy Smith (Randy works for me part time helping with my Partnership Program, and as he credits me with his own success over the last 6 years – he always gives me access to his latest products)

I have to say that this latest product is pretty amazing, and I’m sure Randy wont mind me saying it’s beyond his technical ability to write the software! What he did was team up with a coding expert he actually met at my office.

Simon Phillips came up for the day as part of a bonus package for something I promoted,  Randy was there that day for our monthly meet up, and the rest as they say is history!

That in itself shows how taking action and putting all those bonuses to use can have a serious impact on your business. By making the trip to my office to claim his bonus, Simon met Randy, Dave Nicholson my Son Alex and myself.

That lead to Randy & Simon beginning a project together which has resulted in an amazing tool that I’m now using myself!

It’s essentially a Link Cloaking & Redirection software, but what makes it stand apart from all the others I’ve used over the years are a few special extras that they gave serious thought to when coding it.

You see Randy always claims to be non-techy, and even though he seems to cope well these days, he’s managed to keep hold of the ability to break most things by treating them as a newbie would, whereas Simon is so tech savvy, Dave and I had him recode parts of our own software to improve it for our last wso.

Between them they have both played to their strengths and developed the EASIEST to install software I’ve ever seen. It really is SIMPLE with just ONE file to upload.

No cPanel, No Databases, Usernames, passwords etc. to mess about with, and yet so powerful and with so many added extras – I couldn’t resist using it myself!

They also added a feature to make ‘Social Sharing’ a one click function to help promote all our links and hot pages, and all this as well as having the option to create cloaked or uncloaked link redirects. Add to those the hit tracking feature, SEO friendly editable links & pages and the simplicity of how it all works, and you end up with Professional Looking, Click Friendly links that will undoubtedly maximize your commissions, get you more traffic and brand your domain!

As I wanted to make sure you had the chance to check out Randy & Simon’s product while I was on vacation, I also wanted to make sure you got a great deal on the software!

So I spoke to Randy about putting together some special bonuses. Before we cover those, I want to take a moment to explain why I’m promoting a product in
this post:

At the end of the day, I always try to encourage all my subscribers & students to make sure their products offer great value, and by doing so – they become honest ethical and professional marketers!

So when I ask which looks more professional:

Links from an online URL shortener like -

http://bit.ly/5y6dfh3 — http://budurl.com/RandysBlog — http://tinyurl.com/7s9pdsk

Or raw affiliate links like -

http://a9fda24k-8ggj07mws3jg74o2t.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=SSLC

Or the ones I prefer to use with my own domain and a recommends link attached at the end, and I’m sure you’ll agree branding your own domain always wins!

What has always stopped a lot of my readers from using their own domain was the tech side of setting these folder and redirects up in the first place, well with Randy & Simon’s software and the ease of install and use, there is no reason for all my readers not to start reaping the benefits today!

http://linksupercharger.com/johnspecial

When the guys launched this last week, I knew it would do well but I already had emails I’d promised to send out, hence Randy & Simon launched it without my help whatsoever and their results were ‘Smokin Hot’ (that covered my title now – the weather here, my Hot Page, and their results )

They had other big name affiliates jump on it due to how well the software does what it’s supposed to do, and how simple they made everything to install and use. Along with a complete set of videos explaining all the functions so even a green behind the ears newbie can follow along easily.

So much so that on top of the sales they were already getting – they achieved “Product Of The Day” on JVZoo for the 28th March and have been featured in the top ten products for the week and in the daily stats!

With quite literally several hundreds of buyers grabbing a copy at the discounted price!

So if you’ve been struggling with the technical aspects of link cloaking and redirection and you’d like to take advantage, here’s the special Randy has agreed to allow me to offer you.

1. He’s kept the 70% discount open for a massive saving.
2. He’s added an extra hundred places to an exclusive training webinar he will be holding (see page below for details)
3. He’s authorized me exclusively to give access to his ‘VideoSalesLettersABC’ course as an extra bonus for my subscribers only!
4. He even twisted my arm to add my Affiliate Promo Formula AND the Affiliate Alliance Upsell (Over $200 Value)

I highly recommend you jump on the page below and follow the link to watch the demo videos of just how SIMPLE it is to both install and use the software!

http://linksupercharger.com/johnspecial

And if nothing else – take on board the lessons here:-

• You don’t have to do it all alone
• You do need to take action
• You should always create products you can be proud of

Basically, what I always say about keeping things honest & ethical!

Now if I have timed this email right and weather permitting I’d better go check that BBQ before it turns everything into black crispy lumps, and maybe get another beer out of the cooler

As Always feel free to leave your comments

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I have known about Facebook Groups for quite some time although I’d never really gave much thought to creating my own group. That was until Omar Martin showed me the power of creating your own Facebook Group. So thanks Omar, I owe you one.

What is a Facebook Group?

In a nutshell a Facebook Group is basically a group of people who congregate on Facebook to share a particular interest. There are 3 different levels of group privacy.

1. Open – Everyone on Facebook can view the group and join.
2. Closed – Everyone on Facebook can view the group, but anyone who asks to join must be approved by an administrator. Only group members can view the content within the group.
3. Secret – No one can see the group apart from members, access to the group is via invitation only.

Why would I want to create a group?

Simple, it gives you another platform for you to market your products and services. If you have a group of people interested in a particular niche or product it makes sense to create a group so you can offer additional products and services.

Let me give you an example.

I created a closed group for all of my WSO Domination customers. The main reason I did this was because my members forum was becoming very quiet.

So I set the group up and posted a link in the members area. I now have a group that has become extremely active and is providing value to each and every member.

However, more importantly, I also have a platform to announce any WSO related ventures as every time a new post is made to the group all members are notified, as long as they don’t switch off notifications in their settings. This is a massively powerful feature.

So if you have an existing product or service why not try adding a Facebook group. Or do as I am doing via this post and add a general group from your blog.

If you do create a group make sure you add value, get involved in discussion and overall make the whole group experience a positive one. I am active in my group, I add polls, generate discussion and above all make the experience positive.

Setting up a Facebook group couldn’t be easier. Simply go to your Facebook account.

Look on the left hand side of the page and click ‘create group’.

Then give your group a name, decide the level of privacy, add at least one friend and click ‘create’.

Give your group a description and click save. Feel free to add more friends at this point.

You’re done!

There you go, 2 minutes work that can lead to more business, more leads and more traffic. Remember! If you want to make your group a success make sure you add value by getting involved in discussion and contributing.

If you want to find out more click the banner below to check out the group I have just set up, feel free to join and see how things work.

As always feel free to leave your comments.

Would this be a bad thing? Well actually I think it would but that post brought up some interesting discussion. It’s clear to see that listing a Warrior Special Offer using PayPal as a payment processor can put your account at risk and here’s why. Imagine this scenario?

You’ve been doing well online, putting around $500 – $1000 through your PayPal account each month. Things are looking good and your business is growing each month.

You then decide you want to create a Warrior Special Offer to teach others your skills. So you list your offer and set up an affiliate program, your Warrior Special Offer becomes a huge success and makes WSO of the day and you generate $10,000 in sales within 48 hours.

You are celebrating, you’ve made it, this is it, the big one, champagne all round, let’s book a vacation, I think I’ll look at buying a new car, the new iPad 3, woooo hoooo.

Later that day you login to your PayPal account to check your balance only to be greeted by this message …

… Your PayPal account has been limited.

Why would this happen? Well first of all if you’ve just gone from a $50 day to a $10,000 day flags will be raised as PayPal want to know what’s up. There’s a chance you’ll have some refund requests as you’ve just processed a ton of sales and you may even have the odd charge-back, and at this moment in time PayPal have no idea what’s going on. So it’s inevitable that a member of staff will check this out.

And what do they see? An outrageous title, crazy income claims, promises of instant success and automated wealth, (yes, I know not all WSO’s are like this but many are) and a payment button that tracks back to an Internet Marketing forum. Put yourself in the reps shoes, what would you do?

Of course you would limit the account pending further investigation.

This is happening time and time again because so many WSO sellers are too inexperienced to know better. They don’t think for a second that they may be breaking PayPal’s TOS. In fact most WSO’s are breaking at least one of PayPal’s terms by not having a privacy policy in place.

This is where the problem lies, most Warrior Special Offers don’t go through any form of approval process, you could be making tons of mistakes and you would never know and the first you would know about it is when PayPal terminate your account. It’s a very dangerous game to play.

So how can we stop this happening? Well the simple solution is to use ClickBank.

I have already given you 10 reasons why ClickBank is the perfect platform for WSO’s and there is one reason I actually forgot about, here it is.

When you list a product via ClickBank it has to go through an approval process. This reason alone is a reason to use ClickBank, they will tell you if you need to change any income claims, titles, statements, testimonials and in fact anything else that may be against their terms.

However, once your product is approved you are free to list it on the Warrior Forum as a Warrior Special Offer

But John, how do I list a WSO using ClickBank?

Simple, you invest a measly $10 in WSO Domination. This walks you through everything you need to know, step by step.

With more and more people losing their PayPal accounts people are looking for a solution, ClickBank is the solution.

Remember where you heard it first.

1, It’s real easy for affiliates to promote a WSO via ClickBank, all they need is their ClickBank ID, there is no need to approve affiliates and no worrying about approving affiliates you don’t know.

2, ClickBank takes care of refunds, paying affiliates, taxes, vat, everything.

3, If you run a WSO with a partner you can set up a ClickBank JV Contract and not worry about splitting payments, again, ClickBank takes care of refunds, paying affiliates, taxes, vat and it’s all split with you and your JV partner.

4. You can use the ClickBank JV feature to recruit more affiliates by offering them a slice of all your profits. EG. Dear mr big guy, if you promote my WSO I’ll give you 10% of everything it earns for the next 7 days.

5. You can integrate multiple one click upsells, downsells, recurring billing products, etc.

6. With special software you can have your main hoplink going to your main product at the regular price and your WSO re-directing the discounted version of your discounted product to your WSO. If you want to see this in action note how this hoplink goes to our main sales page:

http://thornhill.mpmonthly.hop.clickbank.net

And this hoplink’ goes to the WSO:

http://thornhill.mpmonthly.hop.clickbank.net/?page=wso

Here’s an example of one of our WSO JV pages that uses ClickBank, this WSO has done over 50k in sales:

http://www.multiprofitmonthly.com/super_jv

7. More and more affiliates are refusing to promote WSO’s via Warrior Plus because of the risks associated with PayPal and this figure can only grow.

8. I know I’ve mentioned ClickBank takes care of refunds but this can be a real issue with Warrior Plus and other affiliate platforms that rotate payments. Affiliate platforms that rotate payments send one payment to the product creator and then one to the affiliate on a rotation system.

If someone wants a refund they usually go to the WSO seller but more often than not the payment goes to an affiliate, I think you can see how this can lead to problems. How many threads do you see go bad because a refund doesn’t get processed in a timely manner? With ClickBank you are in control of refunds and you never ever have to worry about an affiliate not processing a refund.

9. ClickBank is super reliable, I’ve never seen it go down, ever.

10. The biggest reason of all, you will never be looking over your shoulder waiting for the email from PayPal telling you your account is limited. This alone is a reason to go with ClickBank.

As more and more WSO sellers see their PayPal accounts becoming limited ClickBank seems to be the perfect alternative. I’d love to hear what you think so please feel free to comment.

You’ve heard it until you’re sick of it. I know, because I have too. In a sea of confusing, conflicting and sometimes downright incorrect information, one constant always seems to rise to the surface. So get ready to hear it one more time: To greatly increase your chances of building a successful Internet marketing business, YOU MUST BUILD A LIST.

When just starting out, it seems like a daunting task. You must start from zero and entice thousands of strangers to surrender the address of an inbox that is already besieged with email from friends, family, and SPAM servers. Every day billions of emails fly around the globe, bloating inboxes and junk email folders until mail servers groan and overheat. What can we possibly say in the subject line that would even prompt someone to pick ours out of the avalanche of email they receive on an hourly basis, open it, and then read the darned thing? Most people, and seemingly rightly so, just give up on this.

* But Isn’t Email Dead?

Another chant we’ve been hearing a lot lately is that EMAIL IS DEAD. After reading the description above, you might be inclined to believe that one. I mean, come on. We’re all suffering from a bad case of email fatigue. Some days we hit the delete key without even thinking about who the sender is or reading the entire subject line. Surely everyone else must be doing the same thing. Is it true? Could email really be dead?

I’m here to tell you that nothing could be further from the truth. Email is alive and well, but at the same time things have certainly changed. Because of the constant assault on inboxes everywhere, we have an incredibly small window to slip our message through. And due to many factors and outside distractions, such as MP3 players, and cell phones that can play games, send text messages and also access Facebook and Twitter, our email can really get lost in the noise.

* Separating Yourself From The Pack

So what will be the one thing that will make your email stand out from all the others? Why should anyone sign up for your list, and then open your emails once they start to flood in?

Incredible value, that’s what. You have to offer incredible value to get an email address, whether it’s a free report or a training series or some other enticement, and then continue to deliver even more value through outstanding content. Forget about saving your best stuff just for your blog. Yes, that has to be top notch as well, but all your emails need to contain your very best writing.

You must capture your reader’s attention and hold it, beginning with the subject line and not letting go until they read your signature at the bottom. You must test different subject lines and monitor open rates for various word combinations, culling those that don’t produce well. You should be using every possible method to capture an email address, including all forms of social media, web forms on your blog or site, list swaps, etc.

If you’re thinking that this sounds like a lot of work, believe me it is. But it’s absolutely one of the best investments you can make in your online business.

* Autoresponders Can Help

Additionally, the importance of a great autoresponder service cannot be overstated. Pick a reliable one and get to know it intimately. I use Aweber, but there are others out there that Internet marketers swear by. I mention Aweber because it’s where I started and I know it well, but whichever service you choose, be sure to exploit all the metrics they have to offer. The insight they provide is very valuable when it comes time to fine tune your campaigns. Learning everything there is to know about your autoresponder is well worth the time investment.

Opinions differ as to what your email should say, but the recent trend, which my testing bears out, points to the fact that longer emails seem to get a better response than short emails with a link to click through to your website. The less clicks a reader has to do, the better. Once you grab their attention, your enthralling content will keep them reading.

* Short And Sweet? Size Matters…

And what keeps people reading? Just be yourself. A few short introductory sentences about your day or what you’ve been up to recently can give people a sense of who you are and give them the feeling that you’re a real person. Hook them with your intro, then hit them with your best stuff in the body of the email. Wrap it up with a call to action, and you’ve got the makings of a great email and lots of very satisfied readers.

Remember, never miss an opportunity to capture an email address. No matter how folks find you, they should have the chance to sign up and receive your emails. Building a list will give you the best chance at growing a successful Internet marketing business.

This is a guest post written by Mike McMillan. If you’d like to find out more about Mike Feel free to check out Info Product Earnings Exposed.

Can you spot the difference between these two Warrior Special Offers?

WSO Domination – The Program That Can Teach Anyone to Create a WSO That Sells

Don’t List Another WSO Without This

You got it, they are both for the same product.

However, while the product is the same I am using two different affiliate programs, one uses ClickBank and the other is using Warrior Plus.

By doing this I am effectively putting my product in front of two sets of affiliates via their marketplaces.

I actually never planned to do this but I wanted to test how Warrior Plus works out and so far I’m happy with the results. However, it struck me that by doing what I did, I am now getting my offer in front of more affiliates and getting affiliates on board is the key to a successful product.

I could even go one further and use other affiliate programs such as JV Zoo, if I did this I would be taking advantage of their marketplace as well.

This isn’t hard to set up as you will already have a sales page, thank you page and affiliate page. Just remember if you do this you’ll need to keep everything separate by having completely different thank you pages, autoresponder messages and sales pages as you obviously want to make sure affiliates get rewarded for their efforts. So if an affiliate generates a sale via Warrior Plus I want to make sure that I only promote the Warrior Plus version of the upsell.

Here are my two different upsell pages. Note the different payment processors.

ClickBank

Warrior Plus

So if you already have a product for sale online consider using an additional affiliate program and you will attract more affiliates, how do I know this? Because I’m doing it

Product creation is hard work!

I would also like to bet that 90% of people who create a product only get as far as the idea stage and don’t know how to progress further.

I mean how would you get past the idea stage? What knowledge do you have on product creation? We weren’t taught it at school? The last time I looked there were no college courses for online product development. Do you just go it alone? Maybe I can help you out a little.

Choose your passion

Why would you create a product in one niche if you weren’t passionate about it? Could you immerse yourself into a product? Could you live it and breathe it if you didn’t like it? How could you give that product 100% 24/7 if you didn’t love it and love learning about it? With the world as your audience and the internet as your shopping mall, there aren’t many niches out there that you can’t provide a product for.

I guess by now you may have a niche idea in mind, so let’s move on

Planning is the key

Without prior planning you are dead in the water. Yeah sure you can create a product on the fly, you can wing it, you can scrape it all together and create it with post-it notes. But would it be as cool and as awesome as it could be if you just planned your full product before you even started?

Are you asking yourself the critical questions, such as:

• Do I have enough knowledge?
• Can I learn this knowledge?
• Is my niche profitable?
• Am I in the right niche?
• Can I monetise my product?
• What sales flow should I have?
• What payment processor will I use?
• What format should I have?
• What format is going to work best for me?
• What is the purpose of my product?

These are just some of the questions you need to ask yourself before creating your product. If you have your bases covered then your product is going to CRUSH IT. I have no doubt.

The first stages of product creation start with an idea of what could be. Ask yourself the question, what do I need? What do others need? What can I provide to help people? These questions provide you with the grounding for the start of your product development plan.

You don’t have to reinvent the wheel when creating your own product, your new product just needs to work and provide good information for the end user. For example, how many traffic programs are out there? How many FaceBook programs have you seen? If something is working for you then you can create a product. If you have something to teach, then why not teach it? If you have a software idea then why not create it? Like I said you don’t have to reinvent the wheel, just provide some great info that works and helps others.

Break out the mind maps

Below you will see an example mind map about product development (You can click the link to look at the map in full). As you can see there are a lot of angles to cover when creating a product and a mind map is the perfect starting point.

Mind maps allow you to see things clearly and effectively build on ideas to create the perfect idea. By building mind maps for your future products nothing should be left on the table and no critical parts should be missed.

By creating more than one mind map for each module of your product, you can break your product down, and then bring it all back together again. With all avenues accounted for, it’s time for product creation.

Play to your strengths and outsource

Lets take a few things into account, such as what are you good at? Are you a good writer? Are you articulate? Do you have confidence behind a camera or using screen capture software? Are you awesome at graphical content?

By playing to your strengths you can make product creation very easy indeed. I mean how easy is it to do the things which are second nature to you? Very easy!

Unless you have the time to learn all aspects of product creation, it’s time to get tough and outsource. If you have problems with certain aspects of your products e.g. graphics, is it not time to outsource and save time and quality rather than struggle along with poor quality? Outsourcing is a must for a professional look and feel.

Here are 6 things you may want to remember when creating your product in the future.

1. Niche – Love your niche and be passionate about it. Your knowledge is power.

2. Format – Decide on your format and create the best product to your ability. eBooks, video and audio all have awesome power. Master these techniques.

3. Pages – Get your website pages down before hand. The last thing you need is to miss one when it comes to the end and launch day.

4. Sales flow – Plan your sales flow and how you want your product to flow. Do you want upsells, down sells, exit pop etc.

5. Payment processor – Plan your payment processor and who you are going to use. Can they accommodate the sales flow?

6. Test, Test ,Test

By using the techniques above you can create a great product easily and more efficiently with a lot less effort. By mind mapping and structuring your products, you can use the same model time and time again creating a fail safe structure which you can use over and over again which works!

Your turn

Did you find this helpful? Is this your first product? When it comes to product development and product creation, how do you do it?

About the Author:

Dan Sumner loves to create great free helpfull content at his on blog: www.dansumnerblog.com. You can also catch up with him on Twitter @danielsumner. Don’t be afraid to slide over and connect with Dan he really is a nice guy…

In this video we show you how we took an original product from a PLR site and everything we did, step by step, to get it online and making money!

You get to see everything we did to turn an ordinary product into a successful product that will go on to generate us an income for years to come.

This is 100% pure content that can help you get the most from the PLR material sitting on your hard drive.

Now go ahead and duplicate exactly what we just did to make YOUR OWN income stream!

For me things are pretty much going to plan. I mentioned in this blog post in late December 2011 that I planned to launch 3 products in January alone and I am still on course to do that.

After the successful launch of 30 Day Traffic Flow with Dave Whitworth I launched a developer version of Like Page Builder with Dave Nicholson as a Warrior Special Offer on Saturday, so far it’s going very well and people are delighted with our offer, if you still haven’t checked it out you can do so here.

Basically if you join at the pro level you will receive a developers license worth $197 free. This license enables you to build Facebook pages for an unlimited number of clients. Let me tell you this is a highly lucrative marketplace and it is an area I am already looking into, I will of course keep you posted.

I also created another blog last week called fivedollarwso.com, it is another site that uses the Flexibility 3 Theme. I’m just sort of messing about with it at the moment but the plan is to fill it with $5 Warrior Special Offers and provide some free WSO training. If you have been following my WSO Domination training and have launched a $5 WSO please let me have the details and I’ll put it on the site for free. Incidentally if you like the look of fivedollarwso.com and this blog you can create one just like it by checking out the ‘copy this blog’ tab at the top of the page.

So far I have mentioned 2 of the 3 products I planned to launch this month. I’m not going to mention the third product I will be launching just yet but let me tell you that it will be my biggest and most intense product to date. Before I reveal any more I have compiled a 30 second survey and I would appreciate it if you could help me to help you by filling it in. It’s completely anonymous and you only have to answer the questions you want to, I’ll be sharing the results and my thoughts and more details about this very soon.

You can take the survey here.

So that is January in a nutshell and let me tell you this is just the beginning, I already have another launch with Daniel Sumner planned for February and I am going to dedicate the month of February by putting together a series of free training videos and webinars for my subscribers. I am going to make sure that no matter what level you are at that I provide you with something that can help you move forward.

Sidenote! Have you noticed how many products I have released recently, it’s a lot isn’t it? Well you haven’t seen nothing yet as I plan to launch a lot more this year, some will be highly successful, some maybe not so but all will make me money and help build my business.

I have said from day one and I will say it again that product creation is the number one reason for my success online and once you get into the habit of creating new products there really is no stopping you. The most important thing you can do online is put buy buttons and opt-in forms in front of people, never forget that!

That’s it for now, as always feel free to share your thoughts and also let me know how your plans are going so far this year.