Rich Schefren is considered the Big Daddy of Internet Marketing as he has been able to bring his very successful offline business skills to the Online Community. In doing so he’s gained himself a very good reputation and is highly respected. If you dig deep enough you’ll find he’s the mentor behind the mentors.

54 of the Worlds Top Business Advisors

It’s no mean feat to be able to get the attention of one or two of these individuals. To get 54 of them to participate in a program such as this, well I’m guessing they are either getting paid well, have a high regard for Rich or both.

What is on offer is a series of 9 Sessions. Each Session will be about a particular aspect of Business consisting of 6 of these Experts on each panel. They will be given a series of questions which they will give their answers too. This, I imagine, is going to be like an interview of old but on a much bigger scale covering a very large range of business related topics.

From it all I’m guessing, there are going to be some real gems come out of this.

So the dangling carrot is these 9 Sessions

Yes, and it’s a very big carrot as you would expect from the like of Rich and co.

These 9 Sessions being held over the 6 weeks are Free once you drop your name and email address on the website ( via my affiliate link ). That’s the carrot.

What’s the catch ( the good part)

Once you’ve signed up, you’ll be presented with an Exceptional One Time Offer. I say exceptional as it contains Rich’s and Jays Latest Home Course ( sold for $4000 USD) , plus the 1st month Free in the members area all for $67USD ( at the time of writing). They also say that if you decide to continue with the membership you’ll be locked in at $49USD per month.

So yes there is a catch, one I would consider a very good one. Being able to get into the membership at the “reduced” price is also a bonus. That is something you can decide after spending your first month there.

The home course is a very good dangling carrot. The whole point being, you are getting a whole lot for very little considering what Rich Charges to let you just say hello to the him.

So we have a very attractive Free Offer which will benefit both the Offline Business World Plus the Online Business World. Along with some very attractive offers to get things going via access to the home study course, it will be highly sought after.

The Joining rate on this will be HIGH!

This is going to be of great benefit to both the Offline and Online Business community. There is going to be whole lot of very useful information being made available and it will undoubtedley change the way many people operate.

Along with the huge respect factor Rich Schefren has in both communities and his ability to over deliver as his is reputation, it’s going to attract a lot of people.

And I can tell you right now that it is… I’ve just sent out some advertising on this and out of 57 hits so far in the last couple of hours, I’ve had 10 opt-ins. But I’ve only just started.

I highly recommend that you join up to the program  and that you definitely become an affiliate as this will be highly useful for such a wide range of people both online and offline.

I recommend you do both and start advertising this as soon as you can.

And don’t forget that Rich and Jay have a lot of experience in monetizing their programs. I’m not going to bore you with all the compensation plan stuff for no other reason that I’m not going to duplicate a whole page of what it’s about. Let’s just say, it’s a map others should follow. Join as an affiliate and find out for yourself.

The Affiliate back office is very well setup. It’s how I’m tracking my results, generating my links in a manner I’ve not seen before.

In the resources section,

I’ve also just discovered there are a number of nicely written Tweets in the resources section. Now I’m using Sokule, I can schedule upto 25 Squeaks to send out over the next day or so to a few social sites, including Twitter which has just come in very handy.

GVO incorporates a Number of Services under the one Membership.

I’ll refer to GVO as Kiosk as it currently stands until the official launch which occurs on 20th Oct 2009.

Kiosk started out as a Hosting Company with the aim of helping the everyday business and online marketer grow their business. Which is still their business model and one which has served them very well.

Over the years they’ve been able to develop a number of programs/services aimed solely to help you and I build whatever business we might be in.

So there is Hosting.

You do have to  do your homework when it comes to hosting and the differences between them. There are a lot of good hosting companies out there. But that is all they are - just hosting companies.

Now with Kiosk to date, they have a Hosting Package that gives you 70Gig and it comes with a Web Hosting Manager. This is not not be confused with a 200Gig account with unlimited domains ( there is always a limit ) that uses the one CPanel account and Add on Domains.

A Web Hosting Manager lets you Create individual hosting accounts each with their OWN CPanel account. So you can resell these or set them up for friends or give away hosting accounts to people in echange for their name and email addresses or as a bonus etc. You get full control and it’s something that would normally cost you quite a lot to get something similar.

An Autoresponder Service.

Included is an Autoresponder Service with Unlimited ( meaning more than you’ll ever use ) accounts. The new one provided with GVO is not too shabby at all.

Online Conferencing.

This was once out of reach of the everyday person. It’s now apart of the membership. Even though other conferencing programs have reduced in price over the years this is still more afforable and it’s flash based.

Which means, your attendees don’t have to download any software and they can be on any operating system. The older version was only useable on Windows Machines. A restriction they’ve now overcome which is great news.

Online Video creation and hosting.

Got a webcam? Now you can create your very own videos using their Video creation software - again webbased and have it hosted on their servers as part of your membership. Video is fast becoming a very effective means to advertising your opportunity. And you don’t need any technical skills or fancy software installed on your PC.

They Understand Marketing.

GVO understand marketers. And they’ll help YOU create your first website with their own Website generating software and also show you via their live online classes plus help vidoes in the members area. Everything is there to help ypu learn every aspect of marketing online. It’s the A-Z or everything you’ll ever need to learn.

Want to know how to List Build?

You’ll be shown how by a number of top Internet Marketers and Business Builders. This was one of the major attractions to myself when I first joined 7 years back.

 The best test is…

If the product and or services benefit the user. Now I personally know that what has been on offer in the past has benefited myself and a number of others that I know.

With what is on offer now with GVO, bundling all these services and training and social networking makes it a very attracive opportunity.

The market for something like this is vast. It’s something everyone uses including a few things that alot of people wished they could, but could never afford.

As an Opportunity…

It’s got a very high attraction factor for a lot of people. Being Internet Marketers themselves they’ve structured the compensation plan to be very attractive. Now to date their compensation plan has had a payout of approx 90% which would make you think is not very sustainable. But they’ve been doing this of over 7 years and Growing each and every year because their customer base just keeps building.

Customers don’t lie! If they don’t like you they leave you. The Attrition rate is Low. Yes , they’ve had a few teething problems over the years and just recently that upset a few people who have since bailed out.

I’ve not been one of them basically due to their no BS customer support and their abilty to get things fixed. One important factor in all this is that they own and operate all their hardware in their own data center. Which is now in Dallas, Texas so they could overcome one of their major problems they had - which was running out of bandwidth. They outgrew their Local Telcos available bandwidth in Canada.

So here is a business opportunity that solves many of the problems the majority of people have. A good reliable hosting company. Outstanding Training and support and a vast range of services never been provided by any hosting company to date.

Joining a company like this from an affiliate point of view makes a lot of sense.

They understand affiliate marketing and have structured the membership to be a profitable affiliate program in itself PLUS they’ll provide all the training and tools to help you build your list(s). You can start from knowing nothing and learn the ropes all from the one place.

Join in the Prelaunch.

You can watch the short Video and leave your name and email address to be notified when the official launch happens ( in about 1 day and 12 hours from writing this) OR you can register now

It’s sparking a lot of interest out there in Marketing land. The number of the “bigger” marketers are jumping onboard. GVO have done their homework in providing what the average person needs to build their business, regardless of what it is.

Definitely worth a look at both as a Customer and an Affiliate.

Sokule is now officially launched and it’s looking more and more like a powerful tool.

Actually, I just about live on there now when I want to Tweet. I do it from Sokule. Because now I can also post to my Blogger site.

One Key Feature with Twitter

When used with Twitter, Sokule has a great advantage. Twitter allows Mini Blog posts, posts of less than 140 Characters. Which is nice but sometimes it’s just not enough.

So one of the Key Features Sokule allows ( and this primarily for any of the paid membership levels.) is that you can do Your Squeak, which can be much longer than a Tweet. When you post it, and it’s sent along to Twitter, the Tweet is shortened and an short URL is attached allowing the Tweet reader to click on it and read the rest of the post on your Sokule Page.

Once they are on your Sokule page it’s highly likely that they’ll be impressed and join it as well. You’ve got a new Follower on Sokule so they get to read all your Sokule Squeaks.

But you also now have a New Downline Member.

So if you get people from Twitter to end up on your page and they join, they become a member of your Downline.

If they ever upgrade to any of the membership levels, you’ll earn a commission.Most likely a recurring monthly one as the One Time Founder Positions are quickly dissappearing. The Founder Positions are a one time payment, and you’ll get everything that is added plus you get a cool little icon on your page saying you are Founding Member. You’ll see it on my page at http://www.Sokule.com/postit/TimBrownlaw

You Sokule Page can have Links to your Programs.

Again, depending upon your membership level, you can enter in a number of links to any of your programs you are associated with. With the aim, of course, of getting people to your pages where you can entice them to leave you their name and email address. Or “List Builidng” as it’s called.

The Alexa Page Rankings for Sokule are on the rise. Last look it was about 42,000. Twitter had moved to 14th most visited site.

If you Tweet, then Squeak as well.

The plans are to have at least 40 different social platforms updateble from Sokule. We are upto 3 so far with Twitter , Blogger and Live Journal has just come online. Of course FaceBook and MySpace are looming in the near distant future.

It’s still very new

But it is maturing at a steady pace. It’s not yet that well known, but like Twitter, word is slowly spreading.

You should join it for Free and try it out. Then let everyone you know about it. Twitter is a proven tool for assisting in List Building and increasing brand awareness ( if done correctly ). So Sokule is well and truely a very likley candidate to follow from Twitters success and build upon it and more importantly, help you make a few dollars as an affiliate.

Many products have sprung up on how to make money using Twitter. For one thing, It’s a great way to list build.

So What is SoKule?

SoKule is a new concept devised by Jane Mark and Phil Basten, which is very similar to Twitter in that it allows people to “Squeak” to each other, make friends and business partners.

But that’s where the similarities Stop and the Unique features of SoKule begins.

Look Mum, No Hands!

For one thing,  you can Squeak on SoKule and have your Squeak automatically Tweet the same post on Twitter. It is planned to have this kind of facility available for many other Social Bookmark sites that you are a member of.

Affiliate Program

Ok so we have a Viral Social program like Twitter that has a range of different membership levels that have various “other” tools available.

These “Other” Tools are still on the way as the program itself is still in Beta. It has been announced that these tools will be implemented over the next 60 to 90 days. Which is what you would expect for these extra functions to be released.

Which raises the question?

Was Sokule released too early?

It seems the answer is No! There have been a few glitches I’ve seen but the development team have been quick to jump on them.

The other interesting aspect of Sokule is it’s cal for founding members which entails a rather expensive one time layout. Which makes you think, is this just an attempt to grab some money and run!

Well Phil and Jane have not been known to do that so I would say not. But it is a very clever way to raise capital.

But it works both ways!

High Traffic Sites Attract High Paying Advertisers because High Traffic Sites Attract Buyers!

So if you can get in early and guarantee your own spot where you can advertise your Business, well that has to be able to justify the expense. Plus you get the highest commision rates, which could work out to be very profitable.

So can Sokule ride the Twitter wagon and make millionaires?

Well it’s hard to say. There is definitely room for more programs like Twitter added with the desire of people wanting to make money.

I can see this attracting a very large audience and if it does start climbing the rankings like it presently is it’s going to get noticed by the big business advertisers.

For the not so “big business advertiser” ie the home business owner, this also has to be an attractive deal.

With a Catchy name, Unique tools and created for marketers and business world it has to do something interesting.

Still In Beta but being launched soon.

At the time of writing, the program itself is still in Beta. BUT the main functions of the site are up and running. You can Squeal and Tweat at the same time. You can find people to follow ( called Tracking ) and have people Follow you ( called Trackers ).

I must have a good bio on my profile as I’m getting a very solid stream of Trackers. Much more than I’ve ever got on Twitter!

Anyway, It’s definitely worth a look and if it does have the Mass Appeal factor it’s definitely one to promote as an Affiliate Program. But don’t forget the advertsing potential this offers.

Check out Sokule Right Here and make up your own mind.

My gut feel is - it’s a winner!

Creator: Michael Jones

Product Description : Affiliate marketing using Clickbank.

Review:

If you’ve bought any other of the many Clickbank “How To’s” some of “module one” will be repetitive, and rightly so. This is aimed at anyone who has no idea about Affiliate Marketing, Clickbank and all the of the many “Terms” that are used.

But, it’s fresh in it’s presentation, and MJ does a very good job at explaining the basics. I’d probably go as far as saying it’s one of the best I’ve come across to date. He’s very “oh by the way, just in case you are not sure what this means….”.{Paraphrased} Which is something I do a lot with my students in my live online classes. And it’s effective in not leaving you “head scratching”.

One objection though and it was one of those - “this is a great thing to do, but I’m not covering that in this course….”. Which is a great opening for a new product/bonuse to fill the gap!

One Huge - “Well done” was the quick “let’s do a campaign and use the spreadsheet to see what happens.” This is not a new thing, as a few other CB “How To’s” also use a spreadsheet system. But again, MJ goes over it in some detail and it’s really important to get into doing something like this when tackling this kind of marketing.. The spreadsheet is supplied as part of the program.

So the 1st 6 Videos in Module 1, might tempt you to start “doing” and get up and running… DON’T. It’s tempting, but there are 5 more Modules. I’m just into the 2nd set and  It’s covering Keywords in a whole lot more depth than was shown in the campaign overview.

Rating:

I’ve gone through the complete course and I’d give this an overall rating of 9 / 10.

What is Not Provided: While there is a lot of meat in this course, it is lacking in a lot of the “implementation how to” that is required to achieve the desired results. Which, in all fairness, would be hard to include in such a course. So the warning here is, “There is more to learn and do”.

For what is included in this course, the cost of this is well worth it. There are some Gems in there. But having reviewed other CB How to Courses, I get the feeling that MJ has been a student of theirs in the past. (update: revisiting some of the other products I’ve yet to write a review about, what I heard MJ talking about in the TheCBCode was in fact from one of his other products and NOT any other “CB How To course”….Silly me!)

This course covers as much of the A-Z of “What is required” to be done but not so much on the “How to do it”. Remember, if you are completely new to affiliate marketing, websites etc, you may be left wondering “Yeah, but how do I do that…?” So keep that in mind if you purchase this. I was under the impression that a lot of the “Actual” implementation of websites etc was going to be included. I may have missed that, so I stand to be corrected, but having not found it, I feel a little dissapointed.

To his credit, MJ does note those parts during the course, so he’s not trying to hide the fact that there are things you’ll need to learn outside of the course.

Overall, for the price and what you get, it’s definitely a good deal. But if you are totally new, there might be more of a learning curve than what you are expecting. I’ve not seen to many courses that would give you everything, in this price range and in the amount of time the course goes for. You are not going to learn how to be a brain surgon in 6 hours.

The advice that is given in this course, is good, straight and honest.

I suggest that you go and take a look at the Website and view the sales page and watch the video yourself.

ExitSplash by Dave Guindon

Description:

This a package of 3 php scripts plus 8 bonuses which are totally targeted to the scripts. The Bonuses are really “Extras” which makes them very useful and worthwhile.

Who is it aimed at

This is aimed at people with websites, whether they contain sales pages or lead generation pages.

Skill level:

From total beginner to experienced webmaster. Everything is explained through some very well produced Videos.

Product Rating:

I give this a 5 out of 5. The reason for it being so high is due for a number of reasons.

1. It’s very well thought out and a lot of effort has gone into both the videos and the website itself. The Website is setup to include the required “Code Generation” Forms where the user can select from a range of settings and have the code - generated. Then it’s a simple matter of copy and paste of the code into the required pages.

2. All the Videos are downloadable.

3. There is a simple main page where the user can download the scripts, access the videos and the code generation pages.

4. The Bonuses are actually very useful extras. One being a simple HTML Course (14 Videos) that you get full PLR to plus the sales page. But the fact is - they are there for those that have no idea about HTML so it’s very relevant.

5. I’m highly annoyed I didn’t come up with this.

Affiliate Rating:

The entry level price is very reasonable. After having bought it and gone through it, it’s definitely going to have a high “After Sales” happy feeling. So refunds should be very low.

65% Commisions: On all levels. There is the front sale and two levels of OTO offers. If the first OTO is not purchased, there is a reduced cheaper option. Again reasonably priced and highly related to the main product.

Overall View.

This is has been implemented and presented in a very user friendly manner. Support is on hand for those that require it. The product itself should get a lot of attention for anyone with Sales pages or Lead capture pages. It’s clever in its implementation in the way it actually works. It leaves the website owner a number of options on how to utilize this system. The fact you can send a visitor to another page is a great bonus. Plus there is the Video and Audio implementation (optional) and fully explained.

You can find out more by Visiting the website and seeing it in action.

Watch the video, close the page and see what happens. It’s very intriguing and shows the power of this one script. Plus you’ll get a full overview of the bonuses.

You get to see so many “how to be a big Poo-Bah Affiliate Marketer” courses that don’t offer anything too new. It’s the same ole, same ole. It get’s a bit tiring and not to mention the wrong direction of cash flow it creates!

I’m not going to write a lot about this, mainly because I don’t know where to start. (gosh I’m lost for words!)
I will say, it’d be pretty darn difficult not to make some money from using these techniques.

So all I can do is give you the link to this program and let you take a look for yourself.

Just before you do!

before you run off, just remember after you get there and you’ve read the page (and it’s long but worth it) take a look at the affiliate program offerings. There is a link at the bottom of the page.

What impressed me with that and why I am telling you about it, is because it’s one pretty full on bells and whistles affiliate tools section. If you take anything away from this, it’s how to give your affiliates the tools they need. Anyway I was impressed!

Ok now the link….Affiliate Justice So go and give your Affiliate Marketing the Justice You deserve.

Rating :

This would score very high, but the price of this course is quite high. But you don’t go away from this feeling that you didn’t get your moneys worth. It’s information packed and covers a lot of areas not covered in other similar courses. So having said all that, this gets a 8.5/10.

It’s kind of strange how things pop up when you’ve been thinking about them yourself.

I have seen this concept mentioned in my past travels and had bought some domain names with using these techniques in mind. So the timing of this couldn’t be any better. This InfoProductKiller course covers everything to get you up and running.

• How to create Killer “Call to Action” Web pages.
• How to create affiliate accounts with Merchants
• How to get massive Free Traffic to your pages.

Just to name a few of the things that you’ll learn from this. It is all about making High Converting Pages and Driving Lots of Traffic.

And this is for anyone at any level of experience.

Now What do buyers do this time of the Year!

Buyers this time of the year are the Mums and Dads, the Uncles and Aunties and the Grandparents and not forgetting brothers and sisters. Which is just about everyone.

What are they doing? Well simply, they are out looking for bargain gifts to give at Christmas time.

The internet now provides an ever growing selection of very good priced gifts, and the major manufacturers and Wholesalers are right on top of this.

Affiliate Marketing of physical products.

So using affiliate marketing methods, these products , while being available Online, are just there waiting for any affiliate to promote and earn a commission on each and every sale.

So how do you do this?

Well I was trying to nut this out myself, which at this time of the year is leaving it a bit late. So when I took a look at InfoProductKiller, the cost of purchasing this compared to how long it was going to take me to work this out made it nice and cheap.

And I’ve been through some of the videos and ebooks so far, and this is definitely one of those courses you can feel happy about buying. It is definitely Value for Money!

It isn’t just all about physical products.

One of the major bonuses, as I would call it, as it’s an extra from the main information, is the OPSEO (On Page Search Engine Optimization) and it’s got everything you’ll need to know about how to get your websites “poking out” on the1st page of search engines.

So you can use these techniques for anything. In fact this is a crash course on getting a ton of Free Traffic with a “How to increase your Conversions”.

At Christmas, the urgency is high!

People have not had time to go shopping, or cannot get to the shops. What ever reason they end up looking online, when they see what they want they are much more likely to Buy than people just browsing. The Urgency is HIGH to get something. And you want to be out in front of these people.

Everything is covered in this. This could be considered an “All you need” course.

I highly recommend this if you are serious at becoming an affiliate marketer especially for the promotion of physical products.

You do need to put in a lot of time into this.

There is lot to do to get this up and running and NOW is the time to be doing it.

If you do follow every step , you will have great success. Everything is explained step by step.

Have a look for yourself by going to InfoProductKiller

Actually I have seen this before - of course it’s how I found out about this before - BUT Jonny is going over this much much better.

This alone is a golden nugget if you want to get in with the Big Product producers and be their affiliate before they go “Public”.

Now I do have a success story regarding this! I had visited the site that Jonny talks about and signed up as a JV with one of the marketers.

I got the affiliate info and I sent out a few emails during the pre launch!

Well to cut a long story short, a few days after the site had gone live to the public, I had an email in my inbox.

One sale had just made me $997 USD. Yes, that’s Nine Hundred and Ninety Nine Dollars USD!

This was a limited number of seats of 500 and lil ole me, snagged a sale in competition with all the big players by just trying it out.

So if you want to get in the action really early on before “Everyone Else” gets to know about these launches then that alone is worth the cost of the Money Siphon System

Anyway, back to the videos. Lots to learn from this course.

Affiliate Program :  I would imagine that this will be a big seller. The Sales page is quite compelling and it doesn’t come across too heavy! Well I spent my money on it!

Listening to the videos, Jonny sounds like a guy that means what he says and is down to earth. (Jonny you can pay for those comments later!)

I was getting back to the videos wasn’t I! Ok I’m sure I’ll be talking more about this later!

Money Siphon System

Luckily the people over at StatsJunky have come up with a product that will let you see all your stats, commissions etc from one simple location.

Now this all works with a program you install on your PC and to date this will only run on Windows. Which, unfortunately, is the case with many other applications.

But despite that, it will, for some, be a very big time saving.

There is a monthly cost involved which I suggest will probably be in most peoples budgets for the benefits they are gaining.

Now, this program - StatsJunky - knows about a number of different affiliate programs. Like Adsense, Clickbank, Paydotcom to name a few. If your particular program is not yet accessible via StatsJunky, they do say that if you let them know of it, they’ll get in contact with the affilaites Programs Owners and try to get it implemented. That’s fair enough.

Going back to the cost! That’s a matter of you weighing up if the number of affiliate programs you have to log into to see whats going on is worth the price.

Don’t forget, there are a number of other benefits you get from a system like this. At a glance you can see your costs vs your profits. Which is always nice to know!

There is an amusing video on there as well which kind of shows what it is like, before using something like StatsJunky.

Better yet, instead of me rewriting everything on their webpage, go and take a look yourself. Oh and I must mention that the ability to have your stats sent to your Cell Phone or PDA is a neat service. It’d be grand to have a message coming in showing you the latest commissions you’ve made.

You can visit StatsJunky Here

They have a 30 day Free Trial so you can see for yourself if this is going to help you get a handle on all your affiliate programs.