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What do you tell your friends and business contacts when they ask you how they can get a website online?

Do you start getting into the nitty gritty details of registering a domain, picking up hosting, hiring a designer, working on SEO, and getting traffic?

Do you even feel comfortable enough with your own success to educate others on these topics?

Well, here is the best way you can help other businesses get online, do very little work yourself, and get paid well for the recommendations: Become an affiliate for the picks and shovels of websites.

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In less than 45 pages, one of my top affiliates of all time has packed in the most comprehensive starter guide for internet marketing.

And he’s letting me give it to you for free (no opt-in required).

You’ll learn about squeeze pages, list building, free traffic, paid traffic, product creation, joint ventures, article marketing, JV Giveaways, tracking & split testing, and a lot more.

This is a starter guide, and an excellent overview of the pieces of the puzzle to consider.

And I think you’ll enjoy learning from it.

However, there’s another reason you can benefit from this book.

The book contains recommendations to the top resources online, and as you can imagine these are affiliate links which allow profits to be shared.

For a small fee, Soren will let you rebrand as many of the links inside the book as you want, and then give the book away from your own blog, website, Squidoo lens, or whatever. In fact, you don’t even have to have a website of your own, you can link directly to the file from Soren’s website. It will look like this:

http://imsuccessformula.com/pdf/IMSuccessFormula-29.pdf

But it would be a great thing to use to build your list with also.

Details about rebranding are on page 39.

And if you don’t want to rebrand the links, you can still give the book away. Just copy and paste this code on a download page, blog, or squidoo lens:

<a href=”http://imsuccessformula.com/pdf/IMSuccessFormula-29.pdf”><img src=”http://imsuccessformula.com/getimg.php?id=10″></a>

Enjoy the read!

Bob Jenkins

p.s. If you are an affiliate of DiscovercPanel, TeleseminarFormula, Aweber, ViralUrl, for example, your links could generating commissions when you give away your own rebranded version. See page 39 for details.

On this episode of Bob The Teacher TV, I answer questions from the mail bag.

Included in this episode:

Who has the best Hosting services for the best price. Do Host Services help
you build your site? If not, what do I all need to build a site and where do I
go to find it? What is the advantages and disadvantages of becoming an
affiliate? — Donna

Great videos! Bob I have so many ebooks and programs that I bought on my
computer. How do I know which ones have PLR rights and which ones don’t? Thank
You - Len

How many blogs does it take to start bringing in a realistic income using
affiliate marketing? - Annette Hallowell

Bob, I am a bright, well educated individual who works for a gentleman in the
internet marketing field. I want to start my own company, but I am bogged down
with the basics! Help! How do I build a website? Create lead gen pages? Build a
list? All those good things (oops that more than one) but you get the idea?
Ineed to start at the beginning. Many many thanks! - Jackie

What is an autoresponder? - JL

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Tonight we had the first “official” Ustream broadcast and it was a lot of fun sharing affiliate marketing strategies with all who attended.

If you missed out, here’s your chance to watch the recording.

In addition to affiliate marketing, we also talked a bit about autoresponders, cPanel, webhosting, and general business growth strategies.

Most of the products of mine referred to during this training are listed to the left on this blog.

Comments are always welcome!

Bob

p.s. Not sure when the next broadcast will be - but it will be announced primarily on Twitter.

p.p.s. If you’d like to work with me live in person during a 3 day mastermind workshop, please visit the 2008 Success Workshop page.

Joanna and I are off to Poland for two weeks!

We’re both pretty excited to make the trip, although she’s petrified of flying. She keeps asking if we can take a boat instead. :)

We’ll be flying to Warsaw via Atlanta and London. After a day visiting with her brother in the capital, we’ll make the 6 hour drive to Debrzno on Friday.

As you can imagine, I’ll be trying my best to stay “unplugged” on vacation. So I’d like to remind you of how I can still help you while I’m away.

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I’ve been quietly testing out a new software script (actually two - I’ll tell you more about the other one soon).

If you’ve been reading my blog for the last two weeks, you’ve likely already seen it. And in fact, by the time you read this very word, the script will be doing it’s thing over to the right side of this page!

Do you see it?

It’s called a Floating Action Button, and I bet it got your attention.

In fact, for the last two weeks, I’ve been using it to promote my own product DiscovercPanel. In doing so, I earned an extra $564 that I would likely have not earned without it.

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Are you stumped with the very first steps of getting online Bob?

I mean — you know you want to be in business, but you haven’t figured out what those initial steps are.

So you have no website at all?  If that’s the case, read this post.

If you already have a website domain name and it’s on its own hosting account, then you have no need for this letter (but perhaps you know someone who would need it?).

My survey results are telling me that a large number of my clients (perhaps including you) have several things in common:

1. They have no website, but they want one
2. They don’t know how to put the pieces together in order to have a real website that people can find on the internet
3. They are way too much in debt after spending too much money on all these ebooks and such but can’t move forward without 1 and 2 being fixed.

I want to help you, and I’m going to do something I’ve never done, for a really low price.  I’m going to hold a live webinar that won’t end until everyone on the line has…

Registered their own domain name properly

Set up their hosting account properly

Connected their domain to their hosting account so that the site can be seen

Added content on the homepage of your new website.

Would this interest you?

Even if it takes a full 3 hours, I’m going to teach you with a live webinar the precise steps — then make sure you follow them while we are still on the phone.

This means by the end of the session you will have your own real estate on the internet so others can finally find what you have to offer.

I may hold this webinar this Saturday or it may be next week.  It all depends on if I’m right and you really want me to hold you by the hand on this.

You can let me know by going to this page and asking to be on the notification list.

I’ll even let you tell me how much you think this training should cost - seriously!

I’m here to serve your business needs,

Bob Jenkins
www.AskBobTheTeacher.com

p.s. This is an experiment, and your desire to attend this seminar will let me know if these types of sessions are going to be well-attended.  The more that attend, the lower the price I’ll set.  See more details at www.FirstWebsiteTutorial.com.

p.p.s. You can also post a comment below about how this seminar could help you. 

Wondering where you should put your energy when it comes to making your business known on the internet?

AskBobTheTeacher member Matt Geib asked me a very important question after my last post, that I would like to give a more detailed answer about.

He asked:

“If I have a blog (which I do) can it not serve the same function as a ‘mini web site’ ? Do I really need both as I start out?”

This question raises a few different issues that I’d like to take on today.

First, what are the differences between a blog and a mini-site.

A mini-site has just one purpose, and that is to either generate leads (then it’s really just a squeeze page), or sell a product.  A mini-site has three real pages that guide a visitor from information seeker (landing page), to buyer (sales page), to satisfied customer (download/thank-you page).

Mini-sites are perfect for creating revenue with a specific product.

Blogs, however, are designed to build a conversation with your customers.  Because blogs allow comments and easy updates, they are fresher and more immediate.  As you can tell from my blog here, for example, keeping it up to date and asking for you to respond helps each of us know that we’re in this together.  Mini-sites are pretty lonely, but still needed.

So my answer to Matt is that a blog can’t really serve effectively as a mini-site.  A single page of a blog can act like it, but because of the structure of most blogs (the themed template, to be more specific), they are too distracting to serve as a mini-site.  They have too many links and can be confusing to a new visitor.

The truth is, you can use either one to start out, but it depends on what you are trying to achieve.

If you want to get a specific product to market, or publish a report that generates leads and sales, then a mini-site is perfect.  And each different product/service can be on its own site.  Also, mini-sites are the better way to go when working with joint-venture partners.  They allow you to partner with someone who can promote something specific of value to their list, and perhaps generate affiliate commissions in return.

But if you want to establish credibility in a specific niche with what you have to say, then a blog is better.  You can begin posting right away, the technical skills are minimal (although you do need a little bit), and whatever you say is going to stick around longer.

Another advantage of a blog over a mini-site is search engine results.  Blogs are much better at serving as SEO magnets than mini-sites are.  This is because every single time you post, you are actually creating a completely new webpage.

You can also build your list with a blog, as long as you give people a reason for signing up through your opt-in form.

To get a blog going, you just need a good web host (with cPanel preferably - I recommend HostGator), a MySQL database, and the WordPress installation pack (cPanel hosts usually have Fantastico for one-button installations).

So which should you go with?

If you can swing it, do both.  Use your blog to get to be known and trusted, while having a place for your community members to buy products or learn from you.  And they can both be hosted on the same website.

Now yesterday, I gave you an extensive lesson on Mini-Sites in the form of an interview with Dan Kelly (it’s free, did you get it?).

Today, I’d like to share with you another excellent resource from a good friend of mine, and blogging expert, Mike Paetzold.

In my Eight-Fold Path To Affiliate Profits course (open for enrollment right now), I just had Mike join as a guest teacher this week.  This is a guy who really knows blogging inside and out.

He’s created a beginner’s How-To Blog guide that I recommend for your learning.  It’s called Get Your Blog Going, and features an audio interview between Mike and one of his customers (who asks the same types of questions you would if you had the chance).  Although it’s not free, it will pay for itself quickly with what you’ll learn to do with your blog.

More traffic, better connections with your audience, and a lot more.  I especially like what he reveals about getting Google to index your pages faster.

If you are like Matt, and you want to make your blog the center of your marketing efforts, Get Your Blog Going is a great place to start.

Whatever you decide (mini-sites or blogs), starting is the most important thing to do!

Bob Jenkins

p.s.  I’ll be sharing my top resource for managing your blog soon.  But Mike’s audio training is a must for knowing the big basics first.  Get your blog going now, and be sure to post the a