Merry Christmas from Wealthy Affiliate Insider

Just wanted to say Merry Christmas to all Wealthy Affiliate Insider readers, visitors and supporters.

Hope you have a good one and a very profitable 2010.

Here's a video that I found amazing. Its kinda old but if you haven't seen it you'll enjoy it.

Wealthy Affiliate Holiday Bonus (Beating Adwords, Insider the List & Who Loves Money Bundle)

First of all, happy holidays from Wealthy Affiliate Insider. Kyle and Carson, would also like to extend their holiday wishes to you also and they're offering one of the best deals they've ever given in a while.

For one week, starting from Monday 21st, December at 12pm to Monday 28th, December at 12pm, they're giving away a copy of each of their books, Who Loves Money, Beating Adwords and Inside the List. So you receive all three guides when you become a Wealthy Affiliate member. 

This is the kind of deal that I wish I had before I purchased each of these guides. In total I think I may have paid about $240 for the guides before they started offering them to Wealthy Affiliate members. You can have them free of cost when you sign up to Wealthy Affiliate to become a well paid super affiliate marketer.

Currently, you can chose one of the guides when you sign up to Wealthy Affiliate and you can read the details here as well as reviews of each of the guides that you will be receiving.

Basically, the reason you want to have these guides, besides the fact that you save over $200 is that they're packed with information about three different marketing methods that can lead you to create a very solid and successful online business.

Overview

Beating Adwords has long been regarded as one of the best Adwords guides in the internet marketing community. Its NOT a book about Adwords fads and short termed tricks but rather a solid look at PPC marketing built around the basics ie. the type of stuff that doesn't get dated regardless of all the changes made by Google.

The perfect compliment to Beating Adwords or any Adwords guide for that matter would be a community like Wealthy Affiliate where you can stay on top of all the changes and developments with PPC marketing.

Inside the List is another value packed guide centered around email marketing. With all the recent changes going on in the internet marketing world, its very important to build a list of customers who you can sell to over and over. List building has been proven to be more profitable than most other marketing methods so there is no reason why you shouldn't start collecting names and email addresses.

Inside the List is the perfect guide to learn how to go about doing this the correct way.

One of my favorite guides by Kyle and Carson is Who Loves Money. This guide will help you save a lot of money in your affiliate marketing endeavours as it is about low cost and zero investment techniques. You will see how to save money on tools, hosting, and even PPC marketing just to name a few.


Grab your Wealthy Affiliate holiday bonus and kick off a very profitable 2010.

Stay At Home Mom Makes $100K a Year Doing it All Wrong

This is an amazing and inspiring story that I just had to share.

The video, like the title says is about an affiliate who is also a stay at home mom who does $100,000 a year in earnings. Trouble is, most gurus would say that she is doing it all wrong.

There's also a secret technique that might be responsible for her success and Travis discusses this in the video also.

Resources mentioned in the video are:

Wealthy Affiliate where Travis teaches this secret technique on an ongoing forum thread that at the time of this writing is 4 pages.

InstaCash Keywords which is a service that sends you highly profitable but low competition keywords every single day. You can get a 7 day trial here. 

Tip From Travis Sago: Double Your Article Marketing Traffic [video]

Here's a cool tip from Wealthy Affiliate's Travis Sago that can increase your article  marketing traffic.

If you've been using EzineArticles, you've probably heard about their "war with affiliate marketers." Although, the point really is to eliminate marketers who write crappy articles just for the sake of getting a backlink or leeching on Ezine's search engine rankings to redirect affiliate links, they're not the only game in town.

However, if you use EzineArticles correctly and use the following tip, you can easily double your article marketing traffic.



Was that helpful? Hopefully, you go take action and ramp up your article marketing traffic.

One Week Marketing Review - A Marketing Plan Ideal For Beginners

As you many know, One Week Marketing is an article marketing plan written by a very well respected member of Wealthy Affiliate who goes by the name Pot Pie Girl.

One Week Marketing first got my attention when I saw how many members at Wealthy Affiliate were reporting their success with the plan. Many even follow the guide religiously so I got it to see what the fuss was all about.

I already have an SEO, article marketing plan of my own and it was quite similar to the one in One Week Marketing but I still managed to pick up a few tips that I could add to my own plan. Pot Pie Girl is good at what she does and regularly drops gems of knowledge inside the Wealthy Affiliate forums.

The plan is ideal for beginners but it you know absolutely nothing about affiliate and internet marketing you might want to check out Wealthy Affiliate first.

The benefits of having a guide like One Week Marketing is to give you a focused, step by step guide that will force you to take action.

Wealthy Affiliate + One Week Marketing = Super Affiliate Success

Now, I rarely recommend anything besides Wealthy Affiliate unless it really does help your marketing efforts in some way. One Week Marketing is one of those rare guides that will be helpful to anyone struggling to make money online especially if you want to concentrate on free methods to getting website traffic.

Combining a plan like One Week Marketing with Wealthy Affiliate can help you in many ways since Wealthy Affiliate has a lot more to offer. There's the support of the forum and other One Week Marketing users, not to forget that Pot Pie Girl herself is also a member there.

Then there are tools and resources that can be a nice compliment to One Week Marketing such as NicheQ, the keyword research tool, the Clickbank research tool and many others.

In conclusion, One Week Marketing is a plan that works and is a nice compliment to a Wealthy Affiliate membership.

Check out my full review of the One Week Marketing Action Plan on my product review blog.

Win $1500 Cash and Other Prizes in 2009 Affiliate Improvement Contest

Another great contest is on again at Wealthy Affiliate. This time the prizes are even more attractive than before.

The previous contests, the $500 and $1000 Challenges offered cash prizes for making posts that added the most value to the forum and help other affiliates with promotion ideas, respectively.

This time around the focus is on improving your super affiliate status within the community and how you can motivate yourself to improve your affiliate campaigns.

Criteria

Any affiliate, whether old, new, inexperienced or advanced can participate and win and will be judged by Kyle and Carson on the following:

• Sales Improvement
• Traffic Improvement
• Conversion % Improvement
• Web Page Improvement
• Affiliate Creativity
• Affiliate Progress Report Activity

The way it works is that each affiliate who participates must create a thread in the special contest forum and keep a progress report that will help Kyle and Carson determine the winner.

Now for the cool part and why you would actually want to get in on this....

The Prizes

The most improved affiliate as judged by Kyle and Carson, will receive the following prizes:

1. $1500 Cash
2. Specialized Support Package from Kyle & Carson (Value $500)
3. Custom Website Developed (Value $500)
4. A One Hour Phone Call From Kyle & Carson to Discuss Their Affiliate Business (Value $1000) 

As you can see, these are all really great prizes and the only way for you to receive this $3500 package that can turn your affiliate marketing business around is to become a Wealthy Affiliate member.

The contest runs until January 31st, 2010.

Wealthy Affiliate Forums - Reloaded!

The Wealthy Affiliate forum is the heart of the Wealthy Affiliate community. It is where people go to get their questions answered, seek support and chat about the latest developments in internet and affiliate marketing. 

The forum is comparable to other quality forums such as the Warrior Forum but since it is a private forum members feel a lot closer and more comfortable in sharing information.

There is also a wealth of notable posts bursting at the seems with quality information that could make you money or make a difference in your marketing efforts.

This month, the forums went through an overhaul to add or merge sections that were being requested by members. Below, I'm going to give you a peak at some of these forums and some of the gold available within them.

Success Posts

This forum, formerly the WA Success Forum, as the name suggests is where members can go and post their successes with their marketing. I can be your first sale or your first $100 day to being #1 on Google. 

Success posts are added by members every single day attesting to the effectiveness of Wealthy Affiliate's training.

Here's a brief sampling of some of the most recent successes:

• Another First Sale Story - kmdguy
• 1st Clickbank Check! Pic Too! - cld111
• Hit First $1000 Goal Since Joining WA 6/21/09 - WildwindE

General Marketing

The General Marketing forum is the main discussion area for marketing topics. This is quite a busy forum with topics ranging for affiliate networks, CPA, backlinks, etc. One of the reasons for the new forum overhaul is because there were topics that were talked about more than others that needed their own forum.

Some recent topics in this forum:

• EA waging war on Affiliates - this topic discusses EzineArticles.com's recent policy changes on authors who submit content as part of their affiliate marketing campaigns. 
• Amazon links question - A user gets help with Amazon's associates program. 
• Should I Bail on this Niche? - A member seeks help on a very important decision.

Article Marketing 

This is one of the newly added forums requested by users as article marketing is one of the most discussed topic on Wealthy Affiliate. Sample discussions include:

• Increasing your Article CTR's - helpful answers include suggestions to this often overlooked problem on getting bio box clicks.
• Squidoo - HELP, my lens won't get indexed!! - I'm sure there is a reason and a solution. Members help out a Squidoo user.
• Where Is Your Best Place To Outsource Article Writing? - A question about taking article marketing to the next level. He could always use WA Jobs. 

Google Adwords PPC Network

PPC is another widely discussed topic on WA and this forum is a merge of the old Google Adwords Discussions and Google Adwords Campaign Management forums. All topics concerning Google Adwords go here.

Sample topics:

•  Newbies: AdWords Graveyards Littered With Your Souls! - Travis Sago warns PPC users about the dangers of some niches. A great read if you don't want to 'lose your shirt' early in the PPC game.
• 1000+ Impressions.. 1 Click-Through = 0.1% Ouch! - He's obviously doing something wrong but by asking he's sure to learn what he should fix. 
• First adwords campaign ???? - A member gets help with their first Adwords campaign.

Yahoo, Bing, And Other PPC Networks

They're just as important as Google Adwords when trying to expand a profitable campaign. Discussions for advertising on these networks come under this brand new forum which was formerly only for Yahoo Search Marketing discussions.

Sample discussions:

• Yahoo SEM webinar - A member shares a great webinar with the community.
• Very very very confused with Yahoo PPC - A member is about to get some clarifications about this search network. 
• Yahoo content advertising -  Question about advertising on the Yahoo Content Network.

These are just some of the sections that are contained on the Wealthy Affiliate forum. There are also the private Niche Q forums, WA Product affiliate forums, archived forums, an offtopic forums, feedback forums and one for member recommendations.

The Wealthy Affiliate forum is a great place to discuss internet marketing. Of course, there are also a lot of great free forums (I'm a member of some of them) but you also have a lot of great marketing and networking tools, resources and training available free to members that you would otherwise have to pay for.