As I run a fairly large blog in the internet marketing niche, I tend to get a lot of questions about what people should promote online. Today I’ll discuss a potential affiliate program you guys can try related to earning money by directing people to a website which they’ll find very useful.

Most of you reading this post will have travelled on an airline and booked a hotel at one point in your life. With online searching being so easy, many of us tend to look online for the best deals. Now, imagine if you could make a commission on referring other people to good hotel deals – saving them money and making you money.

Hotels Combined is one such website which is used by over 80,000,000 people every year. With 200,000 hotels in its database, it’s worth a bookmark just so that you can save yourself some money. However, it also has a travel affiliate program which you should definitely look at.

The way its affiliate program works is that you get paid for every lead you send to the website. I asked the owner for a rough idea of why – here’s what he said:

There is a common misconception that you stand to earn more by selecting a hotel affiliate program that pays on a CPA (per booking) commission model, rather than by choosing HotelsCombined’s CPL (per lead) commission model. I hope to explain here that the overall earning potential is approximately the same, and each method has other pros and cons to consider.

Let’s take an example where you direct 100 clicks to a hotel affiliate program.

Under a CPA program, you may make 1 or 2 hotel bookings out of those 100 clicks, each with a value of around $20. This yields an average revenue of around $30 over the 100 clicks. But since the exact value of each booking tends to vary greatly, and since it is very easy for one of those bookings to cancel, your actual earnings per day can be as erratic as a gambler’s winnings. Also, the commission is only credited to your account once the end-user actually stays at the hotel, which may be as much as 6 months after the original booking was made.

Under the HotelsCombined Affiliate Program, your 100 clicks may convert into around 60 leads, with an average value of around $0.50 each. These leads may still only convert into 1 or 2 hotel bookings, but now your $30 average revenue is much more stable. If a few clicks don’t convert into leads, your overall average remains relatively untouched, and booking cancellations never affect your accumulated earnings. Also, your commissions get paid into
your account as soon as they occur, so there’s no wait to find out how much your traffic earns you.

So at face value it appears that both types of commission model pay an average of around $30 per 100 clicks (in this example), but HotelsCombined offers more stable cash flow on shorter payment terms. Speak to your accountant about your Risk Profile before making a decision between these two models.

Personally, I’d rather get paid per lead for something like this as like the above mentions, you don’t know when people are going to book their hotel for. Also, many people sign up for the website but book after weeks, if not months – you get paid for the lead nevertheless.

I played around with the site looking at it from the eyes of a user that would be interested in booking hotels – I tend to travel a lot, so a website like this definitely helps. Here’s my search for hotels in Hong Kong:

The search found over 240 hotels and above you can see some of them (sorted by Price). For me, this has everything – price, pictures, reviews, a high quality search function so I can specify exactly what I need.

Here are some of the benefits of the affiliate program:

• Payment monthly through Paypal, cheque or bank transfer
• 12 month cookie so you get paid for repeat visits
• Variety of hotels for your visitors – over 200,000
• Multiple affiliate tools – banners, search boxes, private branding
• Real time online reporting

My favourite is the Paypal payment option – I hate waiting around for cheques or dealing with bank transfers.

Basically, you have a website which people that you send to it will find useful – which means it’s easier to make money. If I sent friends to this website, they’d thank me for it – I’ll definitely be using this to book hotels in the future.

Now, how do you promote this and make money with this website?

Niche website. Think about setting up a niche website (use Google Keyword Tool to find keywords) for country specific hotels. For example, “Mexico cheap hotels”. On your niche website you could review the top five hotels in Mexico (or the best value for money ones), redirect your visitors to the website and earn a commission on each booking they make.

Offline flyers. If you hired someone to hand out flyers where people that travel a lot tend to be – around office buildings or airports, for example, you could buy a domain, redirect it to your affiliate link and advertise this domain on flyers.

Pay per click. You can generally get very cheap clicks on travel / tourism websites using Adwords in content model as that niche tends to pay poorly (for whatever reason). So spend a day on Google looking for travel websites using Adsense, buy clicks at $0.1 and send them to your cloaked affiliate link.

You could also try Adwords search for various keywords but you’d have to go more niche as that could get expensive. Lastly, you could also look at buying banners on travel websites, or any that would get a lot of buying US traffic (Facebook, for example) as most people tend to need a hotel at some point in their life.

Good luck with referring people to HotelsCombined, and at the very least you’ve found a high quality website you yourself can use. I’m in contact with the affiliate manager and will ask him to check out this post every so often, so if you have questions feel free to leave them below!

Why? For the owner, if it’s promoted well enough, his/her users will do all the work – creating content, interacting with others, moderating the community and even promoting the website. For the users, it’s a place to hang around, enjoy the benefits of a (x user large) community and promote themselves. Win – win.

With that, I bring you Bloggers Base.

Bloggers Base describes itself as “a content discovery platform for bloggers and readers alike that is bringing the concept of quality over quantity to the Web“. Basically, it’s a blogger cross version of Digg and Facebook, with the added bonus of you being able to earn some money out of the whole thing.

You submit your content, people vote it up (or down) and you earn money if you’re chosen as the top blog. Of course, the money isn’t the important thing here – the site is growing fast, and an indirect benefit of the cash rewards is that people will be looking at it more in depth – meaning that if you do hit the front page, you’ll see a decent amount of exposure.

As the site is new, it’s easier to hit the front page than it is for sites like Digg, Delicious etc – sure, the exposure may be less, but these things often have ripple effects and at the very least you’re getting new eyeballs to YOUR content.

Signing up is free, of course, as any community driven website should be – once you’re signed up you can start submitting your posts (choose your best to have the greatest chance of doing well). You can even setup RSS feeds, so that your blog content is automatically turned into drafts – you only select the stuff you feel should be pimped on the front page.

How are posts selected for the front page?

The success of your posts depends on others – the more people that like it and vote it up, the more likely you are to hit the front page (and earn a cash prize).

Luckily, Bloggers Base has an easy way to invite people – you can invite friends by email, or even easier by using accounts on social networks like Facebook or other sites like Twitter. You promoting your content can generate a burst of publicity, and cash (you’ll see why below).

The main way you can make money on Bloggers Base.

Although you do get paid for hitting the front page, at the moment it isn’t that much ($40, which is better than nothing but not exactly an amount you’d plan to achieve).

The real money in Bloggers Base is by referring other people.

For each user you refer, you get 100% of their earnings for the first ten times they win.

You probably know a few half decent bloggers. A lot of them will not be signed up to Bloggers Base, simply because it’s so new.

If you invite them, and they sign up and hit it large… you can earn a shitload of money.

As each winner gets $40 (so do you), say you refer Big Blogger A. Big Blogger A has a following of 10,000 users, and those users love his content so much they publicize the crap out of everything he puts out.

Big Blogger A hits the front page ten times, he and you bank $400.

You get the idea. At the moment, there are a few bloggers that aren’t signed up to the program… have a try, see if you like it and if you do, politely pitch them the benefits. It never hurts

You can earn a maximum of $400 per user. Of course, this won’t be easy – the users need to have content good enough to hit the front page. If they do though, hitting it is definitely possible and so is getting a decent payoff.

The good thing about Bloggers Base is that they pay by Paypal (none of this cheque rubbish) whenever your balance exceeds $20. They pay monthly.

By looking at the homepage, the main thing on the site seems to be tech related stuff (user susan is doing quite well for herself, having four of the entries currently on the homepage) so any of you that run tech blogs… have a go, you should do well. Tech isn’t the only thing though – there’s also a bit of stuff about entertainment, lifestyle and world opinions.

At the moment there doesn’t seem to be much content about marketing related stuff but as more users find out about the network (through these types of paid reviews) interest will surely increase.

It’s a new site, but there is potential – check it out, you could have some fun.

If you have questions or need something clarified, have a look at the FAQ… and check out the Quick Tour to find out more about how to use the site.

What do YOU think?

This is a paid review, however it’s one of the best kinds of paid posts you’ll see – one informing you about a quite easy (to be honest) contest with sweet prizes up for grabs.

Direct Agents are a fairly new affiliate network and one of the best ways to promote yourself when you’re new is by running a contest… one with awesome prizes. What’s up for grabs?

MAIN PRIZE – Weekend getaway for two to the Caribbean

Everyone could do with a holiday (or two)… and what better place to go than to the Carribean? Beautiful beaches, a place to relax without stress… that’s what you’ll get if you make first place in the Direct Agents contest. Take a look:

SECOND PLACE – 42″ Flat Screen TV

I was actually thinking of buying a 42″ flat screen TV for my room (to watch football and the like)… if you hit second place in this contest, you’ll get one free. How cool is that?

Last but not least…

THIRD PLACE – $300 Gift card

The third place winner will get a $300 gift card. $300 can pay for a lot of things – a few years hosting, a couple dozen computer games… and it can be used anywhere, so it’s entirely up to you how you spend it.

What do you need to do to win the competition?

The affiliate that drives the most leads to Bidz short form campaign will win the main prize.

Bidz is a jewelry auction type website, and their offer is one of the easiest to promote out there – it’s a 3 field form, and the payout ranges anywhere from $1 – $7 (which is pretty sweet for the amount of work.

As this is only one campaign, and Direct Agents is relatively new (although growing fast, of course), this is probably one of the least competitive contests out there for you to enter. So get in there and win yourself and a friend a vacation.

Now, here’s an idea of how you can destroy the competition with very little expenditure.

You’ll need to find jewelry forums, ones that discuss it – nothing too niche, but use Google and the other search engines.

Approach the owners, tell them about the benefit of Bidz and ask if you can sponsor a contest. It doesn’t have to be a lot – it can be something small, like $50 to spend on jewelry… but in exchange, ask for banner space or even a pinned thread.

It is incredibly easy to get advertising for dirt cheap on non-IM niche forums (auto forums are another one you can target for other offers – unrelated to this contest). Sometimes you can even get advertising for free if you promote well enough.

Of course, the advertising banner will be your affiliate link, and as Bidz is fairly well known and its a quick signup, you’ll find quite a few people will check out your offer, even if they sign up, browse once and never check the site again. Of course, as you’re promoting to targeted users you’ll find a few of them convert into users of the site too.

This strategy is one I’ve used with success in the past – although I offered a PLR information product in exchange for incentivized allowed signups – try it out.

You could also promote this in the usual ways – a landing page, Adwords, buying reviews on blogs… if you live in the US you could even try some offline advertising. Be creative.

The contest runs until March 31st. You have more than a month to get started and get promoting, so get cracking! You need to sign up with Direct Agents to participate of course, but that’s easy enough.

Even if you’re not going to participate in this contest, Direct Agents is a network I’d recommend you try out – they have a few offers you can profit on. One of the main reasons I like them is the personal touch – they sent me a Christmas card via post, despite the difficulties with the postal system in this region.

JOIN THE CONTEST HERE.

I’ll try and get a rough figure of how many leads the current leader has, and will post this in the comments section when I know it. Feel free to ask any questions – whether you want to know about the contest, or if you need help

Retire at 21 is an old advertiser on this blog… so when Michael (its owner) asked for another review I was hardly going to say no. You can read their first review on this blog here.

This isn’t necessarily a review as such, more a post to bring all of you up to date – R@21 recently underwent a redesign and relaunch and to build buzz they’re ordering quite a few reviews, banners etc so you’ll be seeing more of them.

The point of the site? Inspiration. The whole website consists of becoming successful… and stories and interviews with those that are already. If you’re feeling like you can’t cut it online, and you need something to drive you forward, there are plenty of posts that you’ll find interesting.

Some of the best advice is given by those that are successful… they’ve made it, and they know what it takes to get there. Sure, you won’t get there by copying them directly, but if you listen and learn from there strategies there’s no reason you can’t.

Check out the interviews section – here’s a few good ones:

Han Sup Yoon – the 15 year old tech kid who recently sold his forums for a pretty awesome $62,500. The forums had only $1,000/month in revenue, yet managed to sell for that amount… why? Take a look and find out.

Stanley Tang – I’ve actually met Stanley (one of the few online marketers I have met) and he’s a cool guy. He’s only 16, but has already written a gripping book about those that have made millions of dollars online. Here’s his interview.

Dean Hunt – popular buzz marketing legend which a lot of you will have heard of.

Matt Mullenweg – founder of Wordpress.

There are seven pages of interviews, all of which with people that are successful – many of which are making more than $1,000,000 per year. You should find something that interests you.

Another thing Michael wanted me to mention is their forums… it’s still fairly new but there’s a reasonable amount of discussion going on from young entrepreneurs that are making or trying to make a living (online and offline). You can talk and ask questions on topics ranging from blogging to direct selling, or just chill out if you want to take a break. At the moment the forums have around 8,000 posts which is a reasonable amount of activity and if they carry on promoting it like they’ve promised there should be a fair bit more

Last but not least, there are various other sections of the site that should be checked out. Although it targets younger entrepreneurs, it’s main objective is to be a resource for marketers / bloggers online, no matter what age.

The front page is constantly updated with latest happenings in the MMO world… happenings you may not find in the other blogs you read. For example, the article about the 9 year old iPhone app developer, or about Dell’s Social Innovation Competition – one offering a $50,000 prize.

There are also pages targeted at trying to go viral… for example, the top blogger’s list or the all too common rich list.

All in all, it’s a resource I’d recommend you bookmark and check out every so often, as it is one that contains content that can keep you engrossed. Don’t spend too long though – remember, action, not reading makes you money

I will be getting involved with this blog a bit more over the next few weeks after a short hiatus… and will announce the winners of the flip contest too.

If you have any suggestions for R@21, let them know through a comment on this post or in their forums. You can subscribe to their feed or join their forums if you want to get more involved with the site.

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When 99% of blogs fail to stand out, discovering a unique blog is rare and refreshing.

RantBlogger is a good example of this. They pay their readers to write rants on whatever topics piss them off and then publish the best ones. They call it Cash for Rants and here are the details:

• Submit rants about whatever you want
• Humorous and serious rants are accepted
• No minimum or maximum length
• Wait about 1-3 days for rants to be reviewed
• PayPal payments of $5-$10 per published rant

The rants are read by a small review panel and then voted on to make sure only the best rants are paid for and published. Humorous rants are especially favored. Although a lot of the rants on
RantBlogger are great (e.g. the douchebag husband rant and the thong rant), there’s definitely room for more variety. Plenty of topics are still left to be ranted about.

And while the pay is by no means enough to live off of, who’s going to complain about getting paid to complain? More than anything, RantBlogger is a place to kickback, read some heated articles by angry people, and occasionally join in on the ranting.

OK, so this sounds like a lot of fun, but where do the owners get the money to pay for this and how are they going to monetize it?

Here’s the story: RantBlogger was started by 18-year-old Harvard freshman, Ahmed Belal, after Harvard reimbursed him for extra scholarship money that he had earned. With a couple thousand dollars and the help of a few colleagues, RantBlogger was born. Since its launch in September, RantBlogger has received over 500 rants from disgruntled users all across the web.

And the business plan behind the site? Top secret, at least for now. The RantBlogger team is building a new Web 2.0 site (not a blog) called WriteBite that they say is going to take the “get paid to write rants” concept to a whole new level. A better design, 5X bigger payouts, and a more community-driven rant site is on the horizon, with a beta scheduled to launch in the next 4-6 weeks.

Oh, and as for RantBlogger, they’re currently running a $100 comment and email subscription contest for the holidays. There’s no excuse not to check this site out.

Unlike most affiliate networks out there, T3Leads have decided to go “niche”… namely the finance niche and stuff related to it (credit cards, pay day loans, insurance and debt are some of the offers they have). This means that although you may not find some offers that you like, if you do want to try and attack the finance niche (which is hot right now, because of the recession) you have plenty of variety all in one place.

Another thing that is different about the T3Leads affiliate network is that the leads that you generate do not have a fixed payment amount, but vary between a range depending on how well you do promoting the offer and how high quality the leads you generate are. Depending on how you promote your offers, this could be a huge positive or negative for you.

You can see the range of payment amounts on their leads pricing page – for some offers, the range is quite large (the payday loan offer can pay anywhere between $5.34 to $45.45) on others, not so much.

The offers are not taken from other networks (like a few other affiliate networks get them) but by directly contacting and communicating with various high quality banks and finance related institutions.

After registering at their website (which was instant) I logged in to check out a few of their offers. Each offer has a wide variety of banners (which you can use on your blog / website to promote them) in all sizes and you get a similar affiliate link for all offers which is very easy to use. However, the interface is slightly confusing – offers are under a section called ‘Websites’ (something like Campaigns would be easier) and banners are in another location.

T3Leads claims to have some of the highest conversion ratios in the industry – I have not personally tested this as I don’t work in the finance niche anymore, but their leads pricing page lists a few offers that have a conversion ratio of 1:12 all the way to 1:4 (which is very high for targeted traffic). I’m not sure how accurate this but you could run tests with banner advertising on similar blogs or even pay per click.

One of the BEST things about T3Leads is that they have the option of paying out through Paypal (minimum payment $100). Personally, I dislike affiliate networks that pay through cheque… mainly because over here the postal system is utter shit and it’s difficult to receive mail, especially from the US (my first Google Adsense cheque of around $500 took eight months to arrive from the day it was sent). Other than Paypal, they can also do bank transfer, ePassporte, Web Money and company cheques.

They also have a forum that is pretty easy to use should you need help with your affiliate marketing efforts and they reward top performing affiliates with pretty slick prizes – I’m not sure how much they needed to earn to receive them, but bonus prizes already given out range from a Sony Vaio and Cybershot camera to music players and high quality sound systems.

In conclusion… I’d suggest you check them out, as they look a reasonable enough network to me and some of the payouts on their offers are quite high and they do have a wide variety of promo tools to work with. I have a decent idea of how to promote them that I will be trying out (buying advertising for dirt cheap on high traffic finance blogs… I will update on this when I have time).

If you have any questions about T3Leads, feel free to ask them… or you can sign up!

This is a paid review and not really influenced much by me getting paid. If you’re interested in ordering advertising on this blog, check out the advertise page.

When you think of setting up standard niche affiliate sites, it usually strikes me as a boring activity… especially if you do it yourself. Finding products, tweaking the template, getting content, just setting it up really – it can take a lot of time. When you’re starting out, it can be difficult to outsource if you want to go the bulk option, as you don’t really have the money to do so.

This is where StoreStacker comes in. StoreStacker is basically an affiliate product store script, created with the newbie in mind. No longer do you have to struggle for hours with code that you don’t get – all you need to do is use their interface and you can generate niche stores on the fly.

Claiming to have more than 10,000,000 products, StoreStacker already have the likes of Clickbank, eBay and Amazon available for integration, which means that you save time. Of course, the more time you save, the more profitable you are and the more money you can make.

It currently costs $97 for an unlimited domain license, however addons cost extra ($25 apiece). Of the addons, I’d recommend getting the Clickbank one and the article one, so even with them that’s only $150 total, and you can use it on as many sites as you want. To encourage people to purchase the addons, perhaps StoreStacker should run a promotion – buy one addon, get the second at half price / free.

What StoreStacker aims to do is help you better your affiliate experience – and they definitely do that, with you getting full control over how you want the site to look like (12 different templates), what products you want, and what kind of content you want (articles or videos, or both) that will help your stores rank easier in the search engines.

You don’t have to work on search engine optimization on your own though – the backend comes with SEO features that are important but will pass many newbies by – keyword tags, google sitemaps and so on. Get one of these on the front page of Google for a competitive term, and you’re making money.

If you want to see what it looks like before you purchase, they have a set of Camtasia videos showing you the interface – both front and backend. There are also videos instructing you exactly what to do after you purchase the product – everything from how to install it to how to tweak it so that you can get the maximum amount out of your store. Lastly, there is a member forum (which looks reasonably active) and a support centre so that you can get any problems you have sorted out, as well as ask for advice on how to best use it.

In conclusion – if you do like working with affiliate marketing, and want a simple way to generate a lot of high quality ones, StoreStacker is definitely worth the purchase. $97 is nothing for an unlimited domain license, as you could build up traffic to your sites and sell them for a hefty amount. You can purchase it here if you feel it would help grow your business.

What do you think of StoreStacker, and do you have any feedback for the creator (Scott)? Let him know through the comments section below.

This is a paid review and only a little influenced by me being paid to write it. If you are interested in ordering a review for your company, please do so through this link.

There are dozens of affiliate networks out there… some bad, some good, some great, and publishers can often find it difficult to decide on which one to use.

Motive Interactive recently gave their network an entire revamp, and ordered a paid review on this blog to let people know about it – they’re already one of the trusted affiliate networks in the industry, but with this advertising surge it looks like they’re aiming to become the best.

Dubbed Advent 2.0, Motive Interactive’s interface definitely has the futuristic look – they’ve gone for web 2.0 and its worked, with their backend one of the best I’ve ever seen. I logged in and had a look around, and they appear to have a fair amount of offers, ranging from your standard email / zip submits to offers that pay around $30 – $50.

However, I’m not here to talk about aesthetics – here’s three things that I saw in the email I got about them that YOU should be interested in, as they’re three reasons why Motive Interactive should be looked at before other affiliate networks.

Highest Payouts. Of course, all ad and affiliate networks tend to offer the ‘highest payouts’… but with Motive Interactive, this is actually true. If you find that another network is offering you a better price, all you have to do is let them know and they’ll beat it. With offers specifically hand picked for you by one of the most experienced networks in the business (they’ve been around since 2003) you should be able to make money with them if you’re willing to make a go of it.

5.5% Referral Commissions. The previous highest was around 5% from Market Leverage… however Motive Interactive offer you 5.5% commission on anyone you refer to their network, as long as they don’t go more than a year inactive. As an example, this means that if you refer someone that goes on to make $100/day, you’ll net yourself $165 per month for doing nothing.

Reliable and Negotiable payment schedule. Motive Interactive offer weekly and net-15 payments – now for the former, this is probably for top affiliates only… but the latter isn’t too bad (that’s two payments per month). Other affiliate networks tend to be net-45 or even more, and although they do make it quicker for the top affiliates, you’re not likely to be one of those starting out. Here you can invest comfortably into your affiliate marketing efforts, knowing that if you perform, payment will come to you right on time.

Those are three major things that I liked, but there are some others – they have an easily searchable interface, which you can categorize based on payouts, niche, distribution type and so on. Their rewards program starts at 1%, but raises to 2% if you do well – when you’re making that much money, the rewards don’t tend to mean much but anything extra is always nice.

The last thing (but certainly not the least important) thing that I’m going to mention is their real time tracking… something that is extremely important when you’re running pay per click campaigns or email marketing ones. Basically, your stats update in real time, that is clicks, revenue and so on – you can use this and compare it to the figures that they supply you with (like how the rest of the network on average is doing with certain offers) to supercharge your affiliate marketing efforts.

Here’s a screenshot of their offer search panel:

As you can see, using it is fairly easy. What Motive Interactive also allow is for you to ‘feature’ certain offers on your homepage of your affiliate account… so you can keep the offers you’re interested in running firmly in view.

You can watch the below seven minute video for a video tour of their backend… do let me know how sweet you think it looks

If you are interested in signing up for Motive Interactive (and I suggest you do so, as they’re a trusted network and having more options is always good) you can sign up through this link.

If you’ve got any questions or doubts, feel free to leave a comment – an employee of Motive Interactive will probably check this review from time to time and be more than willing to answer anything you want to ask them.

Luckily for me, I managed to get a holiday today, due to it being the first week of Uni. Along with being able to finally write this paid review of Publisher Spot and the updates made to it, I’ll also try and get a post or two written for the next few days on here.

Publisher Spot is the project of webmaster Tyler Cruz – someone that most of you will have come across. Tyler runs an entrepreneur blog as well, and tends to order a whole host of paid reviews whenever major updates are made. To find out more about Publisher Spot, including my thoughts and ideas on how it could be improved, feel free to read its first review on this blog.

Although I’m not supposed to talk too much about what it is, and concentrate on the features, doing so is essential to the review. Basically, Publisher Spot is a place where users review affiliate and ad networks, meaning that you can go there if you’re uncertain on which one to join and check up on feedback, ratings etc. At the moment, there are forty five different networks reviewed – how’s that for variety.

Some of the new features include a member system where one username works for all – all you have to do is sign up once and you’ll be able to use your account to not just rate networks up or down and review them, but also comment on the blog and forum. However, the forum is currently dead – maybe some paid posting could be organized or a contest run so that more people would be apt to join.

Another feature added is the ability for you to advertise on Publisher Spot. Now most of you will not find advertising on there useful, however those of you that run or are involved in running affiliate / ad networks… that offers you the chance to feature your brand in front of targeted traffic that will convert. There are currently three advertising options – the banner above the fold on the front page, a network spotlight on the front page and featured network status, which puts you at the top of all browse and search pages.

The good thing about the commenting / rating system is that people have to be logged in to comment, which prevents networks going through 1,000 proxies and rating themselves 10/10 on each one. However, this also means that there is no incentive for people to sign up and rate networks – the general theory is that a person who is happy with a product or service will tell just one person, but a person that is unhappy will tell the world. This means that you could have only those with negative thoughts taking the time to sign up and rate networks. Although the feature is fairly new, there also seems to be few comments of networks – for example, the review of Pay Per Post has more than 100 users that have rated it, but zero comments.

How could this be fixed? A contest of sorts perhaps – giving out a cash or some other prize to a random person which has rated and commented about their rating on more than X networks (I’d say ten). Incentives always help getting people to participate, and once they get involved they may continue to do so even after the prizes stop being offered.

On the whole though, Publisher Spot is a valuable resource, one that Tyler has invested thousands of dollars to develop – all it needs is that bigger resolution and it’s perfect. Help him (and potential affiliates) out by checking out the site, leaving your ideas as a comment on this post on how it could be improved and what you think of it.

Other than that, if you prefer watching some video to take a look at the major improvements of Publisher Spot, there is a fifteen minute video you can check out with them all listed.

I have however had a few people ask which products I do recommend – here’s one. A lot of you know my opinion on information products – I don’t mind them, as long as they contain useful information that will help newbies. Anyways, I buy most of the latest eBook / product launches, just to take a look at the marketing behind them. Most are a load of crap, but Four Tier Annihilation definitely isn’t.

If you’re earning less than $1,000 monthly, you probably don’t need this. There are ways to get around that figure without having to spend a dime, some of which I’ve covered on here.

If you’re earning more than that though, and want to take your income to the next level… Four Tier Annihilation is a product I recommend.

It retails at $77, but is well worth the investment. How do I know this? Because I’ve tried one of the methods and actually made money.

Launch date was June 10th I believe… I was approached by one of the organizers behind the launch, a pretty cool guy. Anyways, being pretty lazy I did not start until six days later. Bear in mind this was a method (there are a few in the report) that I had never thought of before.

Income statement shown below. I setup a new Paypal email specifically for this.

If you do some quick adding up, that is over $700 in income shown over two days (there’s still another page for June 17th…) on a brand new idea. One I hadn’t known about before.

That’s what I love about the product – there are just so many ideas, that even if one doesn’t hit off, others will work for you. There are around half a dozen methods that you can use to generate income for yourself, and as for the amounts of ideas you can take from the report… this will blow your mind.

A large part of the product is eBay annihilation, but there are other methods, including affiliate marketing, domain flipping… the complete product is more than 100 pages long. Very little fluff.

There is also an upsell… you don’t need the upsell. I haven’t even looked at it, that’s how happy I was with the product itself.

It is written in a basic, engaging style that newbies will understand, and best of all it’s been proven to make money. Not just on the sales page (most will be skeptical of anything on a sales page…) but also from myself, and from others I know that have bought the product. Some have done as well as me, some have done much better… most have made more than what they spent on it within the first week or so (by taking action).

This is one of the few reports that actually revealed stuff to me that I hadn’t know, hadn’t even though about before. Most ‘reports’ released, especially in the internet marketing niche are rehashed, overhyped crap that doesn’t work anymore. This one does.

I’m still using the methods in Four Tier Annihilation to make money, even now, two months down the line. These are not methods that will get outdated or oversaturated.

Let me mention this again – if you’re not making a lot of money at present, you don’t need this. If, however, you are making enough where buying this will not put a large dent in your balance, this is a great purchase.

Remember, that this is a Clickbank product – and if you don’t like it, or feel that it’s as good as I claimed, ask for a refund. I doubt you will though, because it truly is a top notch product, one of the best I’ve ever read.

Here’s my bonus – buy this product through me, and I’ll spend thirty minutes with you discussing the methods in Four Tier Annihilation and help you decide which is the one for you to best start off with. Rather than give you another product as a bonus, or private label rubbish that’s of no use to you, I’ll give you personal support that will make you money.

This is one of the few products I recommend – I promise, heck; I guarantee you that it will be one of the best products you’ve read too. So check it out!