Strategic Marketing At Warp Speed

I got a little goodie package the other day from Zac Johnson. Sorry for the delay, I just been super busy here in December. However, no good deed EVER goes unnoticed. Zac has been a true inspiration and I’m subscribed to his feed, and I visit his blog daily. Zac got to meet Mark Cuban at BlogWorld in Las Vegas. From recent posts it looks like Zac will be attending AffiliateSummit West 2008 at Las Vegas ( Feb 24-26). Unfortunately I won’t be able to make that because of my third child is due really close at the first of March. Zac is going to be on the panel “Super Affiliate Strategies that Work” along with Kris Jones (CEO of Pepperjam), John Chow (JohnChow.com) and Amit Mehta (SuperAffiliateMindset.com) who is also part of PPC Classroom in which I am currently enrolled and participating in.

Thanks for the package Zac!

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I caught a post over at Josh Spaulding’s titled Link Building Campaigns - Do You Need One?. It really reminded me of all my travels throughout forums and seeing people write about “doing this” “don’t do that” and all that other mumbo jumbo. It seems like almost every-time I seen someone step up to the plate and portray them-self as a “knowitall”, they end up writing something that doesn’t even make sense. Josh was quick to point out that when people tell you that if you make good content, then you don’t need to build links, they are most likely (in my own words) full of shit.

I recommended this post because I have actually read almost everything Josh has put out on his blog and the Warrior Forum. The guy is a real class act ETHICAL marketer. I find myself hanging onto his blog during my time of reform. Whether he knows it or not, or ever finds out, he has written a TON of great content that has made me stop and take a long, hard look at myself. I’m not saying that I will ever stop my aggressive marketing tactics, but I have definitely taken a lot of what he says and does and tried to apply it to myself. I don’t know if I will ever completely stop some of my aggressive (aka blackhat) marketing, but I have definitely slowed down.

Go read his article and he also posted a link to another great ACCURATE post about proper link building.

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I read a lot of blogs and I understand the importance of building a readership…for the most part. It seems that most blogs online dealing in the “make money online” niche are mainly their to use their blog as a cash machine. Sure, I can understand that. I have some programs and post affiliate links as well from time to time, but lately these blogs are starting to become dull and boring. Nobody is innovative anymore. Could it be that they rely on their blogs a little too much?

Personally, if I didn’t have this blog, I guarantee you I would make more than I am making now. That’s not a douche bag, or offending comment either. It’s plain and simple. I make money in other areas online that exceed my living expenses and laid back lifestyle that make blogging is a blast for me. It’s my escape, my getaway if you will. It gets me away from talking on the phone to article writers, it gets me off IM chats with fellow marketers and bloggers, it gets me away from optimizing web sites and blogs, it gets me away from………….everything.

So without going off on a rant here, I traveled the blogosphere today after responding to all the posts in the new Cash Tactics Discussion Forum. What I saw was pretty pathetic to say the least. Most bloggers hold these contests where they give away shirts, (their brands woopie doo). Although I have nothing against this, the contests are really something that takes away your focus online. Focus is important, it’s critical. Your here to read up and gain the advantage of getting yourself on the quick track to better wealth and well-being and these damn “make money online” bloggers are trying to get you to take a few minutes out of your day and participate in their contest for a measly gift that is no way going to further the effort you already have and are putting forward.

The new forum is now open. You can visit and join up here if you like. It’s up and running but will continue to improve over time. It’s 5:00 am here and I think I slept some yesterday but I am not for sure. However, I am off to get 2 hrs and 30 minutes of sleep and then I have to head to town and get a machine worked on. Feel free to hop in there and fire away and will be getting back in there around 10:00 am. (I hope).

Want to thank everyone right now for the encouragement for this idea. I know it’s been a long time coming and have met a ton of great people but I look forward to communicating with you more exclusively on the blog and throughout the forum.

Another heads up. It was spur of the moment but I booked a flight to Orlando on the 26th - 29th of this month. What, one day after Christmas? Yep, absolutely. No rest for the wicked. In all seriousness, I guess we are celebrating our Christmas on Sunday and at the urgency of getting down there, I got to hurry my ass up.

Anyway, catching a nap and then going to town, and then we going to get right to it. See ya there!

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I thought about this a little bit last night and decided I would try to do something different. I am opening my own forum later this week and it will cover a variety of topics but the main thing is that it will contain sub-sections for every Zero To Hero Series concept I roll out between the 60 Days To List Building and whenever I decide to finish. Currently their is a total of 4 concepts to be released. However, I think I will just write a PDF for the “How To Rock Out With An Affiliate Site” and take all the questions in the sub-section.

This I think will prove to be more efficient. Of course, if you do not want to join the forum, I will be happy to answer any questions as well. With a dedicated sub-section to each concept, I will be able to help out more with questions and even a little hands on support to get you going. A few people asked how much this was going to cost, and that hurt my feelings. This is not some Internet Marketing Membership Site. It will be an open forum to anyone that wants to discuss Internet Marketing and Making Money Online with me. I have found myself getting stretched pretty thin lately, so this is my most efficient option.

When is it due?

I have decided to release the “How To Rock Out With An Affiliate Site” on Christmas Day. I am doing my Christmas on Sunday so anytime after Christmas Day you can come download the PDF here and then hop over into the forum and ask any questions that you need. I have a lot going on right now and this will give you plenty of time to prepare for what we have already covered.

I took the weekend off from blogging even though I am neck deep in delivering some (IMO) great posts of how to utilize Parasite SEO the RIGHT way and not the wrong. However, I think before I begin I got to address something I seen entirely too much of in the forums I frequent this past weekend. Here’s a pretty good recipe for failure trying to make a buck online. Remember though, failure does not have to be a long term thing, I fail at something almost every week but when your repeating failure without ANY success it’s like quicksand. The more you try to move, the deeper go. Look over these and if your having a rough time, try to figure out what you can cut out to make you more efficient in your daily routines and schedule.

1. You have absolutely no idea what your doing or where to start so you read 15 forums looking for a break. This in a way is a tough choice to keep yourself from doing. However, you don’t need to know everything to gain some success online. Check Andrew’s Podcast To Be Smart Or Rich? The Internet Marketing Truth. Andrew goes over almost exactly what I want to put into this paragraph, but it’s just as easy to hear it straight from him.

Parasite SEO is basically the methods of piggybacking high authority sites thru gain of links, branding and traffic. You could come up with a hundred different variations of Parasite SEO but it all comes down to “If your utilizing high authority sites specifically for your own gain…your a parasite”. Sounds rough right? Who really gives a shit. This game is cutthroat and if you don’t have the twinkies to suck it up and utilize some of these services you can rest assured that others are. When your crying about why your site is not ranking in the Search Engines you can count on that your little whitehat is bearing WAY too much wait for you to even have a chance against people like me. I would consider myself moderate though, there are thousands of webmasters that are more into than I am.

Leeching off high authority sites has been around forever and will continue to be around. Sure Google may bitch-slap these sites from time to time but all they are really doing is weeding out the gnats. See in Parasite SEO you also have gnats. These are people that sit there and make one paragraph posts to their Squidoo lense or a blogger post and hope the world of high rankings and money fall into their laps. Good thing for us that we are Parasites. We have two distinct advantages here.

1. We eat the gnats. Basically we are using the same principles as they are, but we do it better to keep us out of the “shit runs downhill” effect.

2. Since we are parasites we may not be as smart as Google but we don’t have to be. We MASSIVELY outweigh Google in terms of algorithmic changes and learning how to keep gaming their search engine after each new change. How many employees they got? How many webmasters are there gaming the SERP’s? Exactly.