Ask Bob The Teacher

I’m sitting in my room at the Wayside Inn - an 18th century bed and breakfast in Ellicott City, Maryland owned by my parents - thinking about gratitude and impact.

These are two themes that played out over and over again this weekend at JV Alert.

It reminds me how grateful I am to have you as part of my life. Taking the leap one year ago when I left the history classroom to teach online full time was pretty scary.

But with your help I’m happier than I’ve ever been and helping more people pursue their own ambitions.

Wednesday, Joanna and I fly to Poland to visit with her family (all still live there), and we wouldn’t be able to do this without you being part of this.

So I want to say thank you sincerely.

I also hope that you can have similar experiences (if you don’t already) to what I had this weekend in Philadelphia.

I enjoyed being a panel expert during the hot seats and Q&A sessions; loved reconnecting with old friends; and meeting new people that I’ve never known before.

But what really sticks in my memory from the weekend is meeting students of SquidooSecrets, DiscovercPanel.com or TeleseminarFormula.com (and others) who came up to me to thank me for what I’ve done for them and how I’ve helped them understand all this stuff.

Ken McArthur, the host of JV Alert talked about the Impact we all can have in our lives, and we need to pursue that impact with gusto.

The conversations I had with Bonnie, Denis, Tom, Keith, Carrie, Chris, Cyndi, Charlie, Odinn, Stacy, Kevin, Cheri, Steven, Rich, and so many others revealed just how much of an impact I’ve had on their lives.

More importantly, knowing that their success will impact so many others has me feeling very grateful.

When I initially set out to “make mcney” online, I was chasing after opportunities. And nobody knew who I was and if they did, they didn’t care.

Once I decided to impact my subscribers/clients/partners with my specific area of expertise (teaching complex things to make them simple), people took notice and the gratitude and impact began to grow.

I hope you are focusing on what you are good at and special ways you can serve your customers, too, instead of chasing after dollars and opportunities.

It doesn’t really matter what you know - somehow with creativity and perseverance, it can be used to help someone else get more time, save money, improve their lives, take a more fun vacation, take care of their loved ones, or help a child who doesn’t know how to read too well.

Dig deep into what makes you unique, and let people know what you’re good at - you’ll be surprised how much more fun you will have and how much more you will attract people you’ll love to be around.

Thank you again for being here for me - and allowing me to impact your life, and the lives you will impact in turn.

Have a great week!

Bob Jenkins

p.s. Please share with us how something I’ve done for you has helped you improve your situation and how you are impacting the lives of others as a result (comment below)…

p.p.s. I believe the best impact I can have for you is in person. Watch this quick video to see what I mean.

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After the first training session and live question and answer session with the inaugural class of the Eight-Fold Path To Affiliate Profits, I have received some awesome feedback.

I’d like to share it with you, and then give you access to the first session for free.

First, here’s what they’re saying about The Eight-Fold Path To Affiliate Profits…

Meredith Eisenberg (www.banabu4u.com) says…

“The course does a fantastic job of taking you step-by-step through what you need to do to start a successful affiliate business.

Bob Jenkins is a gifted teacher. This is one of the best organized classes I’ve taken.”

Tom Likes (Colorado) says…

“After the 1st Intro session, I feel that I have NOT thrown money down another hole. Bob is well organized, direct, and showed me exactly what to expect to get the most out of this course.”

Robert Dismore says…

“I had a good feeling this was going to be a well worthwhile course. I needed more than a bunch of tapes and e-books and stuff that collects dust. Bob has something the other gurus don’t have and that’s his presentation and teaching style. Plus he has the element of really caring about me building a successful business.

My opinion is, the 8-Fold Path Affiliate Marketing Course is the most valuable learning and taking action course that’s available today.”

Val Spangler (www.TheOldFartGolfer.com) says…

“As you would expect of a quality teacher, Bob is thorough, well organized and presents his material both clearly and enthusiastically.”

Mike Logan (www.All-About-Excellent-Retirement.com) says…

“I am so excited about the chance to learn a process with others that takes me deep into the affiliate process!”

These are just a few early comments from some of the students of my unique affiliate marketing training course.

Want to know why they are so positive? I’d like to give you access to the first session of the course absolutely free. In fact, I’m even going to give you the slide handouts and the 3 homework assignments that I gave to the class (no — I will not give you extra credit for doing them, but they will help you learn what I teach!).

If you like what you see, please join us in class before the doors shut for good October 7. After that, you’ll only have access to the recorded version of the class. Still a great training, but as much fun as being here live with all of us.

Check out why they’re so excited by experiencing the first session for yourself.

Bob Jenkins

p.s. By the way, this is not a watered down version of the first session. It’s the complete training in a 90 minute MP3. I will not be leaving that online for long, so please listen to it now.

With the launch of a ton of affiliate marketing training programs from great people over the last few weeks, I thought you should know how the approach I take to teaching affiliate marketing is different.And in a moment, I’m going to tell you the specific 8 steps you should be doing to be successful with this type of business building.First and foremost, the approach I am taking with the Eight-Fold Path live course starting next week gives you plenty of live training and Q&A opportunities to answer your specific questions. I have found that this provides the most value in any learning process. If you have to digest everything on your own, it’s unlikely that you will see results nearly as profound. The only other person I have seen do this effectively is Matthew Glanfield, whose mentoring (when available) I highly recommend.Most of the other courses out there are completely recorded (with no live interaction) and/or they hand-off the personal Q&A time to somebody else.

Second, I don’t teach people to go out and find where the top niches online are. I teach how to build a business that promotes you as an expert in what you already know, even before you have your own products. You already have to learn business building strategies — why complicate things by learning new niches at the same time?

Third, you won’t learn from me how to rely only on pay-per-click methods that require a lot of fine tuning and guesswork while spending quite a bit of money. If you have a lot of money to spare, then that is an okay way to go.

But for the people I’m teaching, I stress the lowest cost, longest effect processes that keep you generating sales long after you set them up. Some call this BUM marketing, but I think it’s much more active than that. However, once set in motion it does tend to last quite a while even if you don’t return to it for months.

Now a lot of people are going to call me crazy for doing what I’m about to do…

I’m going to tell you exactly what you need to be doing to be successful with affiliate marketing — right here on my blog for free.

Most people would charge (and are charging) for giving you this information. But this is too important to hold back from you, so I’m going to give you a very specific (although concise) roadmap of what steps you need to take.

So here’s what I believe to be the best way to approach affiliate marketing, what I like to call….

The Eight-Fold Path To Affiliate Profits
Combine each of these steps together for maximum results every time…

Step 1: Find A Niche That YOU Can Excel In
Over the long term, I expect affiliate marketing to make up about half of your income online. And the other half, eventually, should be from your own products. So the first thing you should be doing is focusing on promoting products in the area of your own expertise.

Doing so does two things.

First, it builds on your own experience and credibility, resulting in more sales because people will trust you know what you are talking about.

Second, it connects you with that industry so when you do make your first product, you will skip over the hurdle of being an unknown.

The additional bonus is the people you have promoted as an affiliate are likely to reciprocate the favor when your product is ready.

Step 2: Set up your links professionally — and measure the results
Most people fail to use the right types of affiliate links because they a) don’t know how, b) are lazy, c) think it’s too expensive.

But if you want the real results people talk about all the time, you need to set up better looking affiliate links.

This usually comes in the form of using php or html redirects within a domain name, which takes just a few minutes of your time when you know how to do it.

I also recommend setting up a unique domain name for each affiliate program. Although this sounds expensive, at just $9 per domain per year, it’s a great investment that yields much better results.

And as many of the people know that I promote, I have a knack for coming up with great domain names to promote products. I have never shared my top strategies for this publicly, but I’ll be doing so in the course.

You also need to track your results, which means setting up the right scripts and services to give you the data you need to make good decisions. I’m talking about knowing the number of times your links have been clicked on, where are you getting higher conversion rates, what is your cost per sale, etc.

The good news this is also very inexpensive, and in fact you can do some of this for free if you know where to look.

Step 3: Set up your traffic net
Although I love free services like Squidoo, ultimately you must have your own website in order for you to capture leads into your own autoresponder, set up the best affiliate links, and provide a place for your product reviews for long term results.

So the third step, before you promote anything, is to get used to the process of setting up squeeze pages and connecting them to an autoresponder.

If you are under a constricted budget, or you want to save time, then you can initially skip the hosting part by using the great service at Your-SqueezePage.com, but your first revenue should be turned into getting your own hosting and domain.

Then you connect your squeeze pages to your autoresponder so that you can follow up with the people who are asking for information. You know as well as anyone that people rarely buy on first introduction.

By setting up your traffic net, and using the autoresponder to give valuable information, you multiply your chances for success.

And again, since over the long term you want to have your own products, setting up the traffic net gives you a ready supply of customers when you’re ready.

Step 4: Use Free Web 2.0 Services For Long Term Promotions
Times have changed where you can set up a static web page and expect good results. Using Web 2.0 traffic methods encourages interactivity. And set up properly, this can add to your credibility as a source of recommendations.

So the fourth step is to create Squidoo lenses, develop articles (and post them to the right places), and utilize the power of blogs in multiple ways (I’ve already helped over 10,000 people learn how to improve their business with Squidoo at SquidooSecrets.com).

These three particular methods are effective because they get more people involved in the process than just you. So when people comment on your lenses, articles, or blog posts, they give you third-party validation. Without this, people don’t know if they can trust you.

But with just a single comment (you’ll get plenty more eventually), your credibility sky rockets.

Step 5: Write A Special Report About The Product
When people search online for information, they are looking for information first, and the chance to buy second. So by writing a special report, you are giving people what they want in two ways.

Even if you hated to write, you are able to communicate about a product that you enjoy. Just think about the last time you recommended some kitchen gadget you used, or a new toy you got in your garage.

Writing a special report simply puts those ideas from words into writing — but you can keep what you say very conversational.

Then you give this report away for free in exchange for people’s name and email address. When they click on your affiliate links inside the report, you’ll be making money.

The steps of making your report into a PDF that can be delivered 24/7 is cheap and a lot easier than you may be afraid of.

And I’ll show you how to do each step of this process. And I’ll also teach you how to get your report into more people’s hands so you get maximum exposure of your review and affiliate promotion.

Step 6: Use Video To Get Their Attention
I learned from Todd Gross the importance of using video online to stand apart from the crowd. Todd competes regularly with other marketers with 10 times the size of a list. So I recently sat down with Todd and had him teach me more about online video.

And yes, I was smart enough to record the interview with Todd and it’s included in the Eight-Fold Path training course.

The bottom line is this: you have personality that is not showing in text. And when you use video, whether something you have created or something you get from the product owner you are promoting, using video gets people in a good mood.

Done right, video explodes your results, and with Todd’s help, you will learn how to maximize this powerful tool.

(By the way, Todd gives away free stuff every month at FreeGiftOfTheMonth.com) 

Step 7: Teleseminars For Profits
It’s unlikely you don’t know what a teleseminar is, because you’ve probably been invited on a call where an expert and his/her guest talks for an hour or so about a subject area you want to learn more about. These are valuable teaching calls in and of themselves, but at the end, they usually promote a related product to learn more.

As an affiliate, holding teleseminars of your own can be a very lucrative process — they can also fail miserably.

In my course, I teach how to hold the teleseminar at little or no cost to you, and how to get the best long term results. You’ll learn even more with Matthew Glanfield’s advanced course on the topic (when it’s available again), but you’ll get plenty to start with from this part of my course.

These seven steps make up the bulk of the Eight-Fold Path To Affiliate Profits, a system that I use again and again for great results.

The eighth step is something I don’t share publicly – it’s too powerful and too rarely used. So to protect the investment of the people who join the course, I can’t tell you about it here.

However, it remains my favorite (and most lucrative) way to promote those products that I want to be connected to for a long time. And I’m going to show you exactly how to do it for your favorite products, if you join the course.

After reading this far, you may be wondering why you need to take this course from me — I’ve already told you what you need to do in order to succeed with affiliate marketing.

Simply do each of these eight things and you’re all set.

However, you’ve always known at some level what you need to do.

My Eight-Fold Path To Affiliate Profits Multi-Media Training Course Goes Beyond The “What To Do”, And Teaches You The Complete “How To Do It”

It’s the how to do it that trips you up. That’s where having a personalized training course comes in very handy. I’ve paced the course over an 8-week time period (it finishes before Thanksgiving), so that you can complete each step with me showing you exactly how to do it.

And if you don’t get it at first, you have the opportunity to ask for help from me and the others in the course, as my advanced training courses are set up as communities, not just simple download areas. And all the training is recorded and downloadable so you can learn at the pace that works best for you.

To enroll in the course, here’s what you need to do….

1) Purchase the Four Noble Truths Of Affiliate Marketing at www.DiscoverAffiliateStrategies.com.
Consider this a required textbook purchase, as I must know that you have the fundamentals down. I’ve kept the cost low (under $10) during this enrollment period for the course, but it will be raised later. The Four Noble Truths is an interview between me and Matthew Glanfield, simplifying the key essentials of affiliate marketing. You may have heard some of this before, but getting it completely right is imperative to your success.

2) Enroll In The Eight-Fold Path To Affiliate Profits
After registering your purchase of the Four Noble Truths, you’ll see the complete details of the Eight-Fold Path To Affiliate Profits Multi-Media Training Course (most of which was outlined in this article). Until midnight, September 29, the price of the course is $197, then it goes up to $297 (many of my mastermind members tell me I should have it at $497 or above, but as a former teacher, I know you’ll show your appreciation for the easier access by becoming a great affiliate of the course later when the price is higher).
Special Note: If you prefer to pay in 3 installments, you can decline the offer, and you’ll see the 3-payment plan immediately. You also have a “Silver” option, where you can receive all the recorded content of this course, without the live interaction for half-price. This option should only be chosen if you have a very limited budget, as the value in the live interaction is easily 10 times higher than the cost.

The truth of the matter is you can get some results doing it on your own. But if you’ve struggled, and you recognize that you are in need of more personalized guidance over a short time span, then this course is your best bet.

And with the payment options and 100% guarantee after the course is complete, you have absolutely no risk.

I want you to be successful. Not just because I’m a good natured person. In fact, I hope you become great at affiliate marketing so that you can become a super affiliate of my products, too.

Like you, I’m a big fan of “win-win” situations. With my live 8-part training course, your success goes from maybe to definite.

See you in class!

Bob Jenkins

p.s. While I’ve been in Poland this last week, I’ve earned over $2000 as an affiliate while on vacation because of using all 8 of the pieces I teach in this course. Let me show you how affiliate marketing is done.

p.p.s. Were these 8 steps helpful to you? Tell me which step you want to master the fastest with a comment below…

If you’ve been keeping up with Joel Comm’s Next Internet Millionaire program, you won’t want to miss Episode 5.

Here it is…

Tell me what you think about this week’s challenge with a comment below!

Bob Jenkins

I’ve been trying to recover from the 3 hour time difference I got used to while in San Francisco this past weekend for the World Internet Main Event, but this afternoon, I’m off to Poland, where another 6 hour time difference awaits.

Joanna and I are flying over to spend time with her family (all of them live in her native country) before we move in a couple of weeks to North Carolina.

Last time we went to Poland, we saw a wild boar in the middle of the road, so who knows what we’ll see this time.

In any case, there’s a lot to tell about San Francisco, but unfortunately, I need to get ready for the plane.

So I’ll just give you one highlight.

**Internet Marketer Lost His Butt **

Although Chris Morris and I had met online before collaborating on our cPanel How To Videos, we had never met in person. Turns out he’s really shy in groups of people. And virtually petrified of public speaking.

At least he was.

Travelling and new places seem to bring new horizons in people, and for Chris it was no different. He used the opportunity to get out of his shell.

One way he was helped was by being hypnotized on Saturday night. Luckily, I had my camera in hand.

This was no joke, although you’ll laugh your socks off when you watch it (it’s at the bottom of this post).

Okay, I need to get to the airport.

**DiscoverAffiliateStrategies.com Launched** 

But in case you missed it, I opened up a new training site a few days ago. It’s called DiscoverAffiliateStrategies.com. It has two parts.

The first part is an interview with Matthew Glanfield, an affiliate marketing superstar, and good friend. It’s called the Four Noble Truths of Affiliate Marketing. It’s designed for the eager novice, or for those that have still not hit the $500 mark in a month.

The second part, only available to you after downloading the Four Noble Truths, is an fast-start training course I’m holding live over the course of 8 weeks. It starts October 1. This is called the Eight-Fold Path To Affiliate Profits.

In this course, you’ll learn the top ways to promote products in such a way that it benefits YOU more than the person you are promoting. I’ll be showing you how to harness Web 2.0, teleseminars, video, and more.

If you want to see the same kind of success that I have had over the last year, this is the best way to learn what I’ve done to make affiliate marketing a chief component of my business — and since I know how to teach, you will definitely come away with a much stronger business.

Your first step is to get The Four Noble Truths, and read the foundational knowledge you need.

Off to the airport!

Bob Jenkins
www.DiscoverAffiliateStrategies.com

p.s. The best price for everything is right now. In a few days, when I return from Poland, the price will be going up. I offer a complete refund policy, and an even quicker way to get your money back even if you love what you learn.

p.p.s. After watching the video of Chris Morris below, be sure to leave a comment.  Remember, he was petrified of being on stage before being hypnotized by Scott Lewis (www.vegashypnotist.com).

From this page last night, new questioner Ray Painter asked…

“What is the fastest way to get started and see results (money) in an internet business?” — Ray

I can’t say that’s the first time I’ve heard that question. But I can say it’s one of the most important questions that I should be able to answer for you.

First, I’d say, there’s no real get rich quick scheme that I’m going to teach.

However, if you want to make some money quickly, and grow with the profits, then you have a few legitimate choices.

1. Resell rights products
2. Affiliate Marketing
3. Network Marketing

Eventually you want to create and sell your own product. And truth be told you can do that really quickly, too.

But if you have no list, no product, and no clue what you want to actually create, then these are your best bet.

Now on Tuesday, I’m going to reveal a new training mini-course to help you understand the fundamentals of affiliate marketing.

I can’t say much about it, other than it involves the core truths of affiliate marketing… and you’ll definitely want to make sure you look for my email on Tuesday.

As for network marketing, you should definitely listen to the first part at least of my seminar I held last Thursday.

I did focus on a specific company during that session, but the first 25 minutes are really just about whether network marketing is right for you.

As for resell rights, there’s definitely a right and a wrong way to do this. What most people don’t understand about resell rights is the complete process you need to follow in order for you to actually start taking orders.

Most of the people selling resell rights products conveniently leave that part out, but you probably already knew that…

So I’ve got a video for you that goes through the process…

After watching this intro video, you want to learn the complete story of how to make money quicker with resell rights products, I encourage you to pick up one of my remaining in-depth training courses I created and compiled in this area. In addition the other 3 parts of the video you just watched, it includes a 3 part ebook series and several products you can “practice with”.

I’ll be taking it down after the weekend (if they last that long) to focus on what’s coming out on Tuesday.

If you know what you are doing, resell rights are a great way to get the cash flowing, and the doubting spouses off your back a bit. Then work your way towards making your own products. Once loaded, resell rights packages make a great upsell or back end offer for your own products or membership sites that you create later.

Enjoy your weekend!

Bob Jenkins
www.AskBobTheTeacher.com

p.s. Membership sites are great, too. If that’s something you are interested in, then check out www.DiscoverMembershipSites.com.

p.p.s. Got your own question? Post it to the blog below…