Yes, my promotion for Marketing With Alex 3.0 was a huge success! First thing, I want to congratulate all of Alex's new students! You have taken a big step towards being successful. Having a mentor is going to make a huge difference in your results. That is of course, if you listen to what Alex teaches you and take action on it.

Of course, I wanted to sell as many as possible but I set a goal for myself at 10. I picked this number based on the amount of bonuses that I was going to offer. Actually, I would have offered more bonuses but my bonus included one on one training and I was planning on using my GVO conference room which has a 10 member limit.

I was able to make my goal just barely, with the last sale showing up the next morning after the sales video was taken down. Must have been a delay with the payment processing or something. Anyhow, it was a pleasant surprise. I thought that I had fallen one short of my goal and low and behold my 10th sale had come in while I was sleeping.

Now I am not trying to brag here. I am just really excited because this is one of the most lucrative promotions I have done so far. I am telling you about it because I want to you to see what is possible if you just take action using a proven tactics and strategies.

OK, what tactics and strategies might that be?

I have decided to create a report that goes into detail and lays everything out in a step by step blueprint that anyone can follow. For now, I will give you an outline of the major steps that were involved and then I would like you to give me some feed back as to what steps you would like to learn about the most.

1. secure a domain name PRODUCT NAME + BONUS
2. keyword research to find relative tags that you will use on your blog posts and video submissions
3. set up WordPress blog on domain and optimize with SEO friendly plugins
4. make first blog post (the sooner the better)
5. create feedburner RSS feed and submit to RSS directories
6. claim your blog at Technorati, MyBlogLog, and Blog Catalog
7. create a YouTube channel: username =PRODUCT NAME + BONUS
8. optimize YouTube channel with your tags and make at least one video announcing your bonus
9. submit your video using Traffic Geyser (can use Tube Mogul)
10. create a Squidoo lens, and Hub page about the product and link back to your blog
11. make as many relative blog posts as you can during prelaunch
12. encourage comments on your blog
13. embed your videos in your blog posts
14. make sure that you book mark all of your blog posts and videos
15. Digg, Propeller, and Mixx are the kings for getting you indexed quickly
16. create a bonus that compliments the product as much as possible

OK, that looks like a lot of work…and it is! But well worth it.

What you are trying to accomplish is to go after the bonus seekers. You know that if you are ready to buy a high ticket item, there are going to be some serious bonuses out there. People will be going to Google and searching for "product name bonus" or "best bonus for product name".

When they do, you want your blog to be staring them in the face!

Go to Google now and type in Marketing With Alex 3.0 Bonus.

Yes that is me. Not only am I number 1, but I have a double listing. I guarantee that this had a lot to do with me making my 10 sales. This little system works. I am in the process of doing it for 2 more products that are launching this week and next week respectively.

We will see how they work out. The only downside that I see is that I don't have the "perceived authority" that I had when it came to Alex Jeffreys coaching, seeing how I am a former student. It will be more difficult for me to create a relative bonus that will compliment the products. I will give it my best shot and let you know how it works out.

Meanwhile, I would like to hear your thoughts and ideas on the matter. I am going to start writing my step by step blueprint and want to make it about the things that you need help with. Leave me a comment so I can know where to concentrate my efforts to best help everyone.

There is a new program that is launching today at noon called Viral Bars. Viral Bars is an advertising platform that uses small unobtrusive ads that sit at the top of your website called "marker place ads". The ad looks like a toolbar and is configurable to match the style of your website. These ads are a passive affiliate marketing medium that can earn you money and drive tons of traffic to your website.

I explain how the system works in detail on my Viral Bars Squidoo lens and my Viral Bars Hub page. Take a few minutes to check them out. i recommend joining as a JV partner as soon as possible because this one is probably going to grow really fast once the word gets around. Did I mention that it has a 2 tiered affiliate program that pays 40% and 5%?

The second installment in Andrew Fox's Dominating Clickbank series is definitely worth having a look at. The first Dominating Clickbank was designed to show a complete beginner how to start using clickbank to promote other people's products as well as your own. Andrew makes some good points about the SEO benefits of using Clickbank to sell your product.

Imagine 100's if not thousands of affiliates promoting your product. Everyone using an affiliate link that points back to your sales page. Talk about back link heaven! And you didn't have to lift a finger. The reason I am even mentioning the first Dominating Clickbank is because Andrew is throwing it in as a bonus, when you get the new one.

Dominating Clickbank 2 is all about advanced techniques using pay per click advertising and landing pages to build a list and then grooming that list into a well oiled machine that you can use to generate cash on demand. It consists of 6 lengthy videos and I have done a review of all of them on my Squidoo lens. You can see my review of Dominating Clickbank 2 here.

If are wanting to start using clickbank in your affiliate marketing efforts, you can get a complete blueprint ,designed by one of internet marketing's most successful super affiliates. It is easy to follow and broken down in small chunks that allow you to take action as you go.

Affiliate XFactor is a new product from Andrew Fox that is going to launch in 3 weeks. I know that this has nothing to do with web 2.0, but I felt obligated to tell every one about the unique opportunity to make some easy money here. Andrew is givng away a free report as a pre-launch teaser and is going to have some more free content up before the launch.

Here is the kicker. He is paying $1.00 per lead and $.50 per second tier lead. Yes, I said per lead. That means everyone you referr to download the free report earns you a dollar and everyone they referr earns you fifty cents!

I have participated in deals like this before and had huge success. Talk about easy money. The cool part is that you can also make 50% commisions if any of the people you referr end up buying the product when it launches. I purchased Andrew's product, "Dominating CB" and it was very good. I cannot vouche for his other products.

The free report itself is pretty good but like all free reports, lacks a lot of detail. We all know that the purpose of free reports like this is to entice the reader to buy the product so you know from the beginning he's not going to give away the farm in the free report.

That is not why I wrote this. Read the free report if you want but make sure you go here and get your Affiliate XFactor link and start getting those $1.00 referrals.