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Will you need a NO Phd in “BS” ?

You know, it’s not that long ago that Ron and I walked in your shoes, or some just like them.

You see, we don’t have a Phd in B.S., but what we do have is the sum of all of our successes and  failures, and we are going to share these with you if you are willing to listen, and willing to  learn.

You’ll find no hype, and no empty promises here. Just facts that will educate and motivate. I won’t tell you that it is “my way or the highway”. There are all kinds of excellent marketing methods out there. It will be up to you to decide the means that interests, motivates, and is successful for you.

We won’t leave you high and dry. We know that when you succeed, we succeed.

Each new member to 1stPromotion receives a copy of an “Income Accelerator Guide”, outlining exactly what they can do to promote their business on the web . We also provide you with the same resources that we use!

For a very limited time, we’re including a free copy of our “Idiot’s Guide To Web Marketing” , a HUGE 306-page lexicon ebook on everything you wanted to know about web marketing….and then some!

The “Idiot’s Guide To Web Marketing” sells every day on ClickBank for $47.00, but it is yours free when you join us. This is a great reference for any website owner, not just affiliate marketers.

If you know nothing at all about marketing today, don’t expect to “know it all” tomorrow…

Marketing can be a bit of an elephant to swallow, so keep in mind the old joke…

“How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time.”

If it seems overwhelming, put it down for a while push back from the table and revisit this later. If we can build up anything at all in you, let it be confidence!

You won’t catch me quoting web marketing “gurus” or success phenomenon here. While many of them are great, too many are great in their own minds only. I personally have been burned by too many “experts”, and had my wallet emptied by them more times than I care to mention.

The Internet is a daily learning experience. Even the most savvy of marketers must continue to learn on a daily basis. Happily, I am not savvy. I much prefer to be known as downright unpolished.

Yep, add a little hype and polish and I could retire sooner…. probably much sooner. However, I told my wife Donna not that long ago that “Yes, I want to be rich, but I want to be able to sleep at night too!” The tactics used here are not
“guerilla”, just “learned” common sense.

But wait you say…. you can’t learn common sense, it is just in you! Well, yes, you are right. But given the fact that there is too much hype, and too many claims about miracle products from too many self-proclaimed and virtually unknown gurus” and “marketing gods”, we have been amputated of our ability to use our common sense on the web. So, I like to call it a “learned common sense”.

When you are face-to-face, everyone has a built-in “B.S. filter” that will give off all kinds of warnings to warn you of high-pressure, questionable sales pitches. This BS filter allows you to make informed and knowledgeable purchases or commitments. On the web, though, we are frequently blinded to this “gut feeling”, and can’t use our common sense.

The speed and convenience of catch-phrases like: “Activate Your Account Now”, and “Put your payday on Auto-pilot!” have numbed our common sense’s ability to prevail.

If you could, you’d be hearing warnings going off on a lot of offers. What I mean by “learned” common sense is that I will basically allow you to borrow mine for a while.

Think of me as a B.S. filter for you. No, I won’t make the decisions for you, but I will try to show you the truth in what I have faced so far as far as opportunity on the web. A chance for you to learn from my mistakes.

I much prefer a “belly-to-belly” approach to doing any kind of business, but it is a little tougher when we are talking global neighborhoods. If at any time you feel you need assistance, drop me an email to rick@1stPromotion.com and I will
respond to you. Include your phone number and I’ll call you directly.

Remember what I mentioned about not quoting web marketing “gurus” or success phenomenon’s here? Well, it doesn’t mean I won’t be throwing the odd quote in here and there. Here’s one from a winner pretty much anyone in the world can identify with!

“I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” Michael Jordan

What 1stPromotion Pro Is Not!

Ever try pushing a car with a rope? It just doesn’t work, but try pulling that car with a rope and it is a whole different book of possibilities. I am not saying you can pull it, I don’t know you and I don’t know your motivation.

Ron & I provide great resources and marketing tools with your 1stPromotion membership. We won’t leave you high and dry. As I stated above, we want you to succeed.

With the tools and shown how best to use them makes the whole “making money on the web” idea a lot more possible!

Looking for guarantees?

We have one, and its the best one in the business. 60 days unconditional, and you KEEP the tools, software, ebooks, and everything else. keep the whole lot!

How can we afford to offer such a guarantee? It’s easy. It’s because we have so few refunds! We are going to do out VERY BEST to make sure you are not just HAPPY with our product, we want you to be ELATED! We want you to tell all your friends so they will join us too! Get it? :>)

If you provide people the BEST tools available, you don’t need hype or bonuses. (we still offer bonuses too though!…just cause everyone loves a freebie or two!)

To Your Health, Happiness & Prosperity,

Rick & Ron Davies

QUICK TIP: If you’re already a ClickBank member, use this mini-course to make money for you right now! You don’t even need to be a 1stPromotion member! It’s just our way of showing we’re sincere. All of the product links in the message will be embedded with YOUR ClickBank nickname so you get paid for referrals through ClickBank instantly!

Simply introduce others to this web page address: http://1stpromotion.com/cbgurusub.php?nick=XXXXX

NOTE: Remember to replace the XXXXX with your own ClickBank Nickname!

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ClickBank looks after you.

The number of people that are hesitant to spend their money online is quickly declining, and purchasing anything online is quickly becoming the “norm”. With more and more companies popping up on the web every day, it’s tough to know which companies to trust and which ones not to.

Let’s face it, a company is only as good as its products and its return policy.

And ClickBank knows that…

With ClickBank currently providing their affiliates the opportunity to sell the wares of over 5,000 vendors, there is no way for them to keep all the companies in check……but their policies can.

ClickBank offers a 60-day 100% no-questions guarantee on each and every one of the products sold by all of their vendors.

That’s right, 60-days!

I know, now you’re saying;

“but what’s to stop a person from buying an ebook and getting a refund right away”

Some vendors (like 1stPromotion) can disable their products if refunded, others can detect if they are still being used and take appropriate action.

Of course, ClickBank strongly prohibits the theft of information products, and maintains a nuisance list of people that habitually purchase and then refund products . They lock them and their credit cards right out of the system. If they’re a
nuisance, it isn’t for long.

Most buyers are good honest people like you and I, and the systems in check seem to keep cheaters to a minimum.

To Your Health, Happiness & Prosperity,

Rick & Ron Davies

QUICK TIP:

If you’re already a ClickBank member, use this mini-course to make money for you right now! You don’t even need to be a 1stPromotion member! It’s just our way of showing we’re sincere. All of the product links in the message will be embedded
with YOUR ClickBank nickname so you get paid for referrals through ClickBank instantly!

Simply introduce others to this web page address: http://1stpromotion.com/cbgurusub.php?nick=XXXXX

NOTE: Remember to replace the XXXXX with your own ClickBank Nickname!

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A closer look at ClickBank

Not so deep in detail that you will run from the room screaming because your brain hurts, but deep enough to REALLY get you excited about the opportunity for absolutely ANYONE to make a hockey-sock full of money.

First and foremost, ClickBank is an online retailer. They handle online financial transactions for clients, called “vendors”. ClickBank has about 40,000 clients, but only about 5400 or so of them are of any value to you as an Affiliate Reseller. (more on this later)

That’s because only about 5400 vendors have set themselves up to allow other people (Affiliates) to sell their products in exchange for a commission. The other vendors just use ClickBank to process their online transactions for them,
without offering an affiliate opportunity.

I am not sure why a vendor would not accept affiliates, as it is like opening a few thousand franchises for free, but some vendors nonetheless choose not to do so.

These 5400 or so vendors that do offer the affiliate sales opportunity represent thousands of products and services upon
which affiliates can earn commissions of 1% to 75% on.

Most are in the 40 to 60% range….pretty exciting! These products, (or most of them), are found within an area of the ClickBank website called the Marketplace.

Now, you could spend a heck of a lot of time browsing through the different categories trying to locate a certain product, (if you have time to kill.) but, if you want to find what you want, when you want, (and want to pass on the same courtesy to your visitors), you would need some type of search feature.

Matter of fact, if you wanted to build a link to promote each of those 11,400 products or services you are in for quite a task!

Let’s say you could find each of the thousands of products and each product’s vendor’s user name and then build a link you feel confident enough to promote in 3 minutes each.

That would work out to 33,000 minutes or 550 hours. That means if every thing ran smoothly and you actually found every product and service within 3 minutes that to make a link for each of these would take 550 hours or almost 23 days
working around the clock!

Now, why did I say most of these products, not all are in the Affiliate Marketplace?

Well, if an item is new to ClickBank, it will not appear in the Marketplace until it has had a valid affiliate sale. This means at least one copy of the product must be sold by an affiliate, and not the vendor, to qualify for entry to the ClickBank Marketplace. It may take up to 30 days after this happens to appear in the Marketplace.

The Marketplace is actually updated weekly. If a product or service in the Marketplace has not had a valid Affiliate sale in more than 30 days, that product will fall out of the Marketplace, but will go back in on it’s next valid sale.

If you would like to promote any one product, the “hot sellers” and the most marketed are the top results in the Browse Marketplace section of ClickBank.

BUT…

don’t think for a moment that it implies that they are the best products, or even the best value, in many cases it just means these products are marketed more vigorously.

Since they are marketed vigorously, chances are your visitor has seen them advertised dozens of times by other sites and marketers, and probably have literally hundreds of cookies set to make sure that someone else gets paid in the event of
the sale, not you.

We’ll have more info later on why you should NOT just stick to popular items, and why many top affiliates avoid them almost entirely.

When you make a sale, ClickBank for credits you that sale and it is added to your other commissions on account at ClickBank until it reaches the minimum you establish for a check to be mailed to you.

ClickBank sends the checks out every 2 weeks, and I know for a fact we have never had a late check in 4 years. You can set your clock by ClickBank’s prompt payments. (if in the USA you may also choose to receive direct deposits instead of
checks!)

As I said earlier, ClickBank is an online distribution center for over 11,400 digital products and services that are delivered via the web (via web pages, files, or email). If they cannot be delivered via the web, ClickBank does not handle them. Every product sold by these vendors can be promoted through the ClickBank network of over 140,000 marketers (affiliates).

Vendors inform ClickBank of the commission rate they are willing to pay affiliates for selling products on their behalf. Affiliates promote the vendors’ products by referring interested customers to the vendor’s web site via a special
tracking link called a ‘hoplink’. This means you don’t really even need a website.

The vendor’s web site describes the product, and passes the customer directly to ClickBank for the actual credit card transaction handling. ClickBank pays the vendor and the affiliate.

Affiliates may freely promote any product and be assured that they will be paid for sales they generate. Vendors can freely accept new affiliates without fear of fraud or misrepresentation.

So, what does this mean in plain English?

Once you send a customer to the vendor site and they make a purchase, ClickBank & the vendor handle everything, including:

• the customer receives the product they ordered;
• the vendor receives his payment; and best of all..
• ClickBank ensures you receive the commission due to you!
• Remember, commissions from ClickBank range from 1% to 75%, but typical commissions are in the 40 to 50% RANGE!!

In short, ClickBank is a virtual goldmine for those that make the effort to promote the thousands of products and services offered. There are ClickBank affiliates out there making well over $20,000.00 a MONTH!

We know that 1stPromotion is helping others right this minute to attain the online incomes they desire. Using the leverage of 1stPromotion and the power of ClickBank combined into the most powerful system anywhere, you can too!

Did You Know: As a member of 1stPromotion, you are instantly tied to each and every one of ClickBank’s products from over 5400 vendors all through a single web page? As a matter of fact, with 1stPromotion, you can also place the complete ClickBank Marketplace on any website using our Search Box Generator Many of our members find that these little search boxes generate more revenue for them than Google AdSense ads.

Sound good to you? Why not give it a try. Get the 1stPromotion System now and be up and running in under 5 minutes!

To Your Health, Happiness & Prosperity,

Rick & Ron Davies

QUICK TIP:

If you’re already a ClickBank member, use this mini-course to make money for you right now! You don’t even need to be a 1stPromotion member! It’s just our way of showing we’re sincere. All of the product links in the message will be embedded
with YOUR ClickBank nickname so you get paid for referrals through ClickBank instantly!

Simply introduce others to this web page address: http://1stpromotion.com/cbgurusub.php?nick=XXXXX

NOTE: Remember to replace the XXXXX with your own ClickBank Nickname!

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