Finding extra income opportunities online is not that difficult. The problem is that there are so many out there, and many of them are outright scams. Many of the make money programs online have been slapped together by people who have never made a dime on anything other than teaching others how to make money.

With all that, it is no wonder real online business owners have trouble. People just don’t know who to trust anymore.

For those of you who have been  coming by to see me for a while, you will know that I don’t jump on every product launch, and in fact often mock many of the big name Gurus online, because of the crap they teach and sell.

So, when you see me talk about extra income opportunities that a big name guru like Mark Ling is offering, you should perk up and listen a little.

I have been a student of Mark’s for over a year now, and although I don’t follow all his training and techniques, I still follow about 80% of it myself. I use many of his tools like Traffic Travis Pro every day in my business.  The major difference here I think is that when I say that something is one of the best affiliate marketing products, it is because I have used it myself.

Now, does this mean that I continue to use them every day? Of course not. For example, I highly recommend marks Affilorama premium, although I canceled my premium membership. This is nothing against Mark though. Because of other deals I have elsewhere, I have comparable tools elsewhere that I get for free.

Now, all that being said, the purpose of this post is to talk about Mark’s latest project, AffiloJetpack.

You see, I have been a student of Mark’s, and I know the quality of his products. But, due to what I had heard in the promos, and what little I was able to read earlier, I mistakenly stated that it was a content package. It is that, but it is also much much more.

Mark has spent months listening to his students, and finding the barriers that keep people from succeeding. His primary goal at Affilorama is to help his students make money online in the easiest way possible. After months of talking to his students, and testing things with his staff, he has put together a complete system that ANYONE can use. This is quite simply the easiest extra income opportunity that you will ever find.

Check out the free report that he has available today and see the secret that he has come up with to finding a sustainable income, and how you can bypass the roadblocks that stop most people from succeeding online. This report is well worth it’s weight in gold alone. I have seen people charge big money for less quality information.

Now, does it really work? How fast can you make money with the affiloJetpack? Well, there is really no way to say how fast it will work for you. This is because i cannot garuntee you will follow through. If you don’t follow his steps, then you may not make things work. Of course you can always get lucky.

So, let me share with you my results. I got my review copy early this week, so that I could check it out and let you all know how well it works before it goes live.  Within 4 days, I am already seeing traffic, and hops to my clickbank account. I went with a niche that I knew little about, and am not cross promoting it with my other sites yet, just so that I don’t muddy the waters here.  And all of this is with only 4 pages on my site. I haven’t finished rewriting the content yet.

That is the one drag to the system. There is no way he could put together a package like this and have all totally original content, but he does have some really high quality articles. You can easily build a full website, just with the content he gives you. Personally, I don’t see how you could fail to make money with this system.

Don’t forget, Launch is July 28. I have an pretty awesome bonus pack  so check out my Affilojetpack review. Its limited to 50 people, since I am giving away some of my services. it will take a few months to finish that part as it is.  This is the best extra income opportunity that I have seen in a long time. You don’t want to miss out.

Over the last few days, I have been observing some huge online marketing blunders by a lot of  people. Sometimes, I can’t believe some of the things that I see when I am looking around the web. Just so that I can save you from looking like some of these other fools that I see online, I am going to share with you the biggest marketing blunders that I see online. Now, if you make just one marketing blunder listed here, then please, stop and think about what you are doing.

Now, The Top 5 Marketing Blunders to Avoid Online:

5. Over Analyzing Competition

I spend a lot of time helping new marketers on forums, through emails, and pretty much everywhere that I go online. One of the biggest marketing blunders that I see is people spending so much time analyzing the competition, and worrying about whether or not they will succeed that they never do anything.

Now, knowing what your competition is doing  is important. It is a great way for you to know what you are doing wrong. However, too much analyzing leads to analysis paralysis.  Take a deep breath and plunge in. You will never really know if something will work until you try it for yourself. Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Try it for yourself, and see if you can do it.

4. Over Promotion

I see this on everywhere online, especially on the social networks. This doesn’t mean don’t promote. It means provide valuable advice first. I am more willing to consider buying a product or service from someone who took the time to give me some free advice first.

Your “free report” that is nothing more than an advertisement for a product that I don’t want does nothing to help me. If you are going to run an email list,send out informative emails instead of just promoting products. Otherwise, I will unsubscribe faster than you can blink.

If you are on Facebook  or Twitter then post useful tips and advice. Socialize and ask questions. Don’t just post advertisements, and links all day.

3. Excessive adds

Now, this could have been lumped in with the other one, but it gets its own category.  This is a common marketing blunder, which I atribute to the many fake marketing experts selling crap ebooks.There are actually products for sell teaching people to build sites this way.

I had someone ask me to review his site, and was offended when I told him that it was total trash and he needed to go build a website. I told him to write some articles on a specific topic, and post them on his site. His answer was that he couldn’t write them. So, I offered my writing services. He refused, and broke contact. Oh well its his loss. In a few months he will be complaining that this make money online stuff is nothing but a scam because he built a crappy site.

You see, his site had no niche, and literally no content. He built a horrible affiliate marketing website that was literally nothing but about 20 banner ads. There wasn’t even any connection to the ads he had. There were banners for make money products, dating books, and even World of Warcraft Strategy guides, all on a one page site.

This wasn’t so much a marketing blunder as a train wreck. And it is a common hurdle for marketing newbies to get over.

I was stuck between being pissed at seeing that crap, and laughing my butt off that he thought this site was actually valuable to anyone foolish enough to land on it. Since he couldn’t even be bothered to write an article for the page, I have no idea how he planned to promote it and get traffic. Building an affiliate marketing business is possible, but not with that crap on your site.

IF you can’t research and write at least 20-30 articles, or pay someone to do it for you, go get a job, and quit wasting your time here. Content is what makes or breaks a website. If you can’t create the content, or hire an article writing service, then you need to quit now.

2. Lack of promotion

This one always makes me laugh, but you would be surprised at how many people do it.  I was answering emails the other day, and I had one from a frustrated newbie that I met in a forum that we both frequent. He was struggling because nobody was coming to his site. He had a few visitors, but that was it.

So, I asked him how many links he had built, and where he was posting them. His response almost made me cry. He hadn’t done any, in over 3 months, and wondered why nobody was coming to his site. Now, this is just one example, but I see it every day.

WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!!

If you don’t do anything to let people know your website exists, they can’t find it. The best websites online are not the ones with the best content.  They are the ones that get promoted the most.

Look at Ezine Articles. 80% of the articles in that directory are TRASH. They are the most worthless drivel you will ever read. However, they are the biggest directory online. This is not because of the quality of their information, but because people know they are there.

That is called marketing, and that is what we do here. You are going to try to market a product with your site, but the first thing that you have to sell is your own site. Not for cash, but for a click on a link.  If you don’t have links, or they are not where your potential customers can find you, then your site is dead before you even get started.

Ok, so now the wait is over, the biggest, most terrifying  marketing blunder that you can make online is…..

#1 Marketing Blunder: Relying on one site for all your traffic

How many times do you have to lose all of your traffic because Google makes a change before you get this one? This is probably the most common of all the marketing blunders that I see.

There are so  many great places to get traffic. you can link up with bloggers, and get guest posts. You can post to social sites, build some relationships, and gain the trust of people before sending them on to your site, you can join a bookmarking community, or a forum within your niche. These are just a few places that you can get a lot of great traffic.

I have said this a lot, especially since the latest Google update, but the saying is still valid

“DONT PUT ALL YOUR EGGS IN ONE BASKET!”

Did I shout it loud enough yet?

Google is great, and you should work to get the Google rankings. However, if you give them complete control over your traffic then you deserve to lose everything in an instant.  And, it isn’t just Google. I talked with a guy the other day that lost everything because he got banned from Facebook for spamming, and all of his marketing was done there. Well, first of all, he shouldn’t be spamming. Facebook is a great place to share information, articles, and network with people. But, Don’t get caught posting affiliate links or you are going to be banned. Also, you are not allowed to have more than 1 account there. I know one guy that had 6 accounts, all with his first name. He just got banned too.

Ok, so my rant for the day is over. I hope you learned something from my short post here.  Now for the question of the day.. of course it will be related to the post ….duh…

What are the worst marketing blunders that you see online?  Share the silliest mistakes that make you go  “DUH!” Don’t forget, you will be entered into the blog comments giveaway that we are having.

Affiliate marketing is one of the best ways to make money quickly online. You can begin with a simple website and build it into a full time business. Whether you have a website and just want to make  a little money off of it, or you want to go into running a full time business, you can easily begin by affiliate marketing.

To begin you do not even need your own website. With free blogs such as blogger.com and web2.o sites such as Squidoo and Hubpages, you can build simple pages, promote a few affiliate products, and start making some sales.

To start, write or get someone else to write about 30 articles on your given topic. Spend some time doing some research to find out what your niche wants. then you can begin to write good information that they want. Once you have done that, find a few affiliate products that compliment the articles on your site. Once you have these products, you can put a simple banner or ad on your article pages. build some links to that page and start getting traffic. If you have products that are well targeted to your traffic, you will find that you start making sales.

You need to make sure that the products you are promoting are targeted to your article. For example if you have a site on weight loss and your article is about loosing pregnancy fat, you would not want to promote a product about muscle building. Although it could be related, the product needs to be more targeted to the topic of your article.

Another simple affiate marketing strategy you can use is  PPC marketing. PPC is pay per click advertising. You set up small ads with a link back to your website. Set up specific pages for your PPC ads with a short review of the product you are promoting and your affiliate link. By choosing highly targeted keywords for your niche, you will get much better conversions than by ranking in search engines for free traffic.

By running some simple strategies to get traffic to your website, you can build a business within just a few weeks using affiliate