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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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What about affiliate link theft?

There are terrible rumors flooding the Internet about affiliates being robbed of hard-earned commissions. While I believe this may occur on some minor frequency, our testing and experience has identified that it just isn’t as bad as many
would have you believe.

Truth is, the bearers of the “gloom & doom” of affiliate link theft can usually be found to be thoughtfully including a link to a product that they claim will eliminate the theft problem completely.

Let me explain why by using a situation and challenge that I used at a recent affiliate marketing conference I attended.

While speaking with a small group of fellow marketers on the perceived threat of ClickBank affiliate link theft, I put the challenge to each and every one of them.

I challenged them to walk out the door of the hotel and find any one on the street that wasn’t attending the conference that knew of ClickBank.  I told them if they could find anyone that knew what ClickBank was, I would pay them $100.00

By the end of the weekend following countless interrogations of restaurant staff and passers-by, my $100.00 was still safely tucked away in my wallet.

You see, the web has billions of potential customers. These are the potential buyers from your website. ClickBank has only about 200,000 affiliates. Pretty safe bet that most people out there don’t know what an affiliate url is, let alone how, or even why to cheat it.

Even with the absolute BEST anti-affiliate link theft software out there, there is no way to completely eliminate ClickBank link theft.

Why? Because as soon as you transfer the customer from your site to ClickBank’s, the affiliate has no control over what is displayed or revealed in the web address or the pages to follow. Most ClickBank affiliates know how to cheat a ClickBank affiliate url, but don’t do it anyway.

But there are the unscrupulous few out there that will, but they are the exception and little can be done to deter them.

Did You Know? 1stPromotion has still elected to protect all of your search and browse links from affiliate theft? Even though we know that link theft is more a fallacy than a threat, we have integrated multiple security features to maximize your link security and your “feel-good factor”.

These security measures are also included in all of 1stPromotion’s search boxes and plug-ins.

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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Can my commissions be pirated??

We discussed what ClickBank is, and the basic numbers involved. Surely you are beginning to see that there is considerable possibility here…

In this lesson, we will take you though how a ClickBank transaction takes place with respect to links, cookies, and other good stuff. You will see the steps and measures taken at ClickBank to be sure that the right person gets credit for any affiliate sale, and that cheating is minimized.

Let’s get to it.

Normally, when a ClickBank affiliate sends you to his site by whatever means (banners, etc.), he has employed what is called a “hoplink”.

This is a “jumping step” that is embedded in a URL created by ClickBank to connect affiliates with a vendor’s products when a sale is taking place.

A hoplink can look a couple of different ways:

1. The original hoplink looks like this:
   http://hop.ClickBank.net/?AFFILIATE/VENDOR
2. The new hoplink looks like this:
   http://AFFILIATE.VENDOR.hop.ClickBank.net/

Both take the shopper to the vendor’s product sales page, and ensure the affiliate gets credited for the commission, should a sale result from the shopper’s visit.

The hoplink accomplishes 2 things;

1. It allows the ClickBank server to put a “cookie” in the prospective customers computer that has the affiliates nickname in it; and
2. It sends them to a “redirect page”, or “landing page”, which is simply the page that the vendor wants them to see first.

By setting this “cookie”, ClickBank is making sure that the referring affiliate gets the sales commission for it.

The “cookie” is just a tiny text file in the visitor’s computer that has this information stored on it. It is unobtrusive when used in this fashion.

The only apparent drawback to the hoplink, is that it limits where the visitor can be sent to the redirect page on record at ClickBank.

Did You Know: At 1stPromotion, we have developed a simple method that allows our store owners to send
customers to any page, or any product category or listing while still employing the security of the hoplink.

We also check EVERY transaction to make sure the person trying to get the commission from a sale is a valid member in our super-fast database. If they are not members, they get “spat out” of the system immediately. ONLY 1stPromotion members can benefit from any of the 1stPromotion utilities or resources.

So, with the hoplink system developed by ClickBank, 1stPromotion built-in security measures, and the ability to send a customer to any product, category, or listing using the hidden hoplink, I think you will agree that your efforts and commissions are safe.

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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