Since Jeremy is considered a leader in the Internet Marketing Industry, I have pretty high expectations from his Free Guide!

What is the ShoeMoneyX Internet Marketing Guide

Have you ever wished you had one place you could go to learn how to turn an idea into a successful method of earning a living online? In Jeremy’s own words…

“Jeremy Schoemaker – ShoeMoney”
I recently decided that there is just too much great information in my book to exclude people from reading it. I have now backed out of my major book deal and turned it into a completely FREE 12 week guide to Internet marketing.

Being a regular reader at Jeremy’s site, I couldn’t resist the call to sign up and learn from a very successful force in the Internet Marketing Business. Since he is offering this free of charge, the worse case scenario… means I have to unsubscribe, or opt out of the email only guide.

Features of the ShoeMoney Guide

Once you sign up for this free Internet Marketing guide, you can expect each of the topics below to be delivered in the form of an easily downloaded and saved pdf document each week. At least week 1 was!

• Week 1 – The Beginner’s Guide To Internet Marketing
• Week 2 – Affiliate Marketing 101: Everything You Need To Know To Start Promoting Products
• Week 3 – Market Research: How To Crush Your Competitors And Discover Hot Niches
• Week 4 – Pay Per Click: How To Earn Cash With Each Click
• Week 5 – Advanced Pay Per Click (Cont from Wk 4)
• Week 5 – SEO: How To Rank Higher And Increase Traffic
• Week 6 – Site Creation: How To Build A Site With Zero Programming Knowledge
• Week 7 – Content Creation: How To Create Articles That Attract Users And Increase Sales
• Week 8 – Marketing: How To Use Social Media To Spread Your Brand
• Week 9 – Make That Cash: 10 Ways To Monetize Your Site And Increase Profitability
• Week 10 – Testing & Tracking: How To Optimize Your Site & Make Sense Of The Figures
• Week 11 – Building Your Team: How To Network With Others And Find Long Term Partners
• Week 12 – Launch Day: How To Kick Start Your Business And Manage Your Projects

Week 1 Guide Review – 05/23/09

Once you sign up for the Internet Marketing Guide, you can expect to receive an email from Jeremy, asking you to confirm your request to get email from him. Once you click the link and confirm… you should get The Beginner’s Guide To Internet Marketing, shortly thereafter.

Week 1 can be summed up in one word… “Introduction”! Personally, I’m not much on reading multi-page introductions, but the way Jeremy started from scratch and actually made it interesting to read, it was well worth the time it took to read the 11 page week 1 guide.

You will learn who Jeremy Schoemaker is, his roots, and how he turned a hobby into a multi-million dollar business! On top of learning about the person behind the guide, you will get a very clear preview of the Internet Marketing Industry so you know what to expect, and whether it’s right for you over the next 11 weeks!

Jeremy answers a series of true or false questions in a very honest and enlightening way, even for those of us who aren’t new to Internet Marketing. At the end of the guide, he provides us with a clear action plan to prepare for the next installment! I hope each week has a plan like this!

If the week 1 guide did nothing else, it left me wanting week 2 to get here quickly!

ShoeMoneyX Week 2 Guide Review – 06/01/09

Having followed along with the Week 1 guide and taking Jeremy’s action plan to heart, I was excited when week 2 popped into my inbox on May 30th! Again this week, you receive the ShoeMoneyX IM Guide in the form of a PDF, which makes it very easy to store and read at your own convenience. Week 2 of the ShoeMoneyX Guide is 18 Pages long.

Week 2 is heavy on learning all about affiliate products, websites and affiliate networks, which is good! Even if you think you know all about networks, terminology and how to work with affiliate managers, the guide takes it a step farther and breaks each word, phrase and term, into definitions and how they apply to you. If you don’t know what “Scrubbing” or “Shaving” mean in affiliate marketing, you need to sign up now!

Around page 13 of this weeks guide, you start getting into the meat and potatoes of Internet Marketing when you start to learn about 6 proven ways to promote your affiliate offers! Jeremy breaks each of the 6 methods down into brief paragraphs with the details of WHY they work so well! There is also a section that covers the reasons for cloaking affiliate links, as well as several methods you can use to do so!

One thing I really like so far, that has been in both weeks, is the “Realities” or “True – False” section, where ShoeMoney answers the hard questions in plain and simple truth.

Week 2′s Action Plan is where we really start getting down to business, and you get the sense that next week… you will start putting the methods into action and possibly making our first affiliate sale!

ShoeMoneyX Week 3 Guide Review – 06/09/09

Week three arrived like clockwork, and as Jeremy recommends in his intro email, I DID actually read it twice! Just like previous versions, it is a pdf, 17 pages long, and contains a very detailed action plan at the end of the guide!

For myself, week 3 really started getting into the meat of internet marketing! This week we start learning about finding our Niche! You start to understand things like competition and keyword research, but you also get a slim picture of what you may possibly earn on your new website! As with previous weeks, there is an abundance of real-world examples and walk throughs to get you up to speed quickly!

I was a bit confused reading this weeks segment, since Jeremy talks quite a bit about researching your niche, when in effect, he recommended in week 1 to go out and register an LLC, and setup your new venture as its own buisiness from day 1.  If I had just dropped $200-$400 to have the LLC registered and in week 3, found out that it was not a worthy market to pursue… well, you understand. IMHO, the LLC and legal aspect should come AFTER you know if its worthy or not!

All aside, this weeks guide really gets you primed to make an impact in the coming weeks!

ShoeMoneyX Weeks 4 & 5 Guide Review – 07/01/09

Week 4 came around right on time, and I knew it was going to be a hard week. While I have tried my hand at, and often failed at PPC, I have truly looked forward to this week. To my surprise, week 4 turned out to be more than a single week could handle and Jeremy split it into two parts, Basic PPC Understanding and Strategies (wk 4) and then Advanced PPC Techniques (wk5). For the sake of saving space, I am going to combine the two!

If you don’t have a clue what PPC means (Pay Per Click) week 4 will get you up to speed very quickly! From understanding the various acronyms associated with paid search marketing, to the many different places where you can advertise and walkthroughs of the tools you will find at those sites, week 4 is like a bootcamp of paid Internet marketing!

Jeremy really gets down in to the basics of how to setup campaigns, track their performance and yes… he also gets into the reporting side of it a bit, sharing different examples of measuring success! By the time you are done, the action plan is there to get you even more familiar with everything, since you will be putting it to work in week 5!

Week 5 is where you begin to see it all come together! Jeremy took me through a complete understanding of the science of landing pages! I actually went out and visited a few of my own sites and started experimenting with different page layouts… While I was not driving PPC to one of the sites I made changes to, the conversion rate on an offer increased by more than 500% – just by employing one of his strategies and split testing a few layout changes! (No kidding!!)

A common thread you can expect to see from this point forward… the information Jeremy is sharing is great, but only if you actually use it! Hopefully, you are following along with the weekly action plans, and by now you have a good idea of several methods for putting your ideas into motion!

Pros and Cons of the ShoeMoney Internet Marketing Guide

About Jeremy Schoemaker : ShoeMoney

Jeremy Schoemaker is a web entrepreneur, founder of ShoeMoney Media, and co-founder of the AuctionAds service. (From Wikipedia) He became famous after publishing a picture of his monthly adsense check, which was more than $130,000!

I have been following ShoeMoneys website for more than 2 years now, and he just tells it how it is… no fluff, no bull.

Cost of ShoeMoney Internet Marketing Guide

• Your Favorite 4-Letter Word… FREE!

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ShoeMoney Internet Marketing Guide Review is a post from: Script Critics

Section One: Content (250 unique articles in 25 niches each month)

Section Two: Training  (Four-step process to making $4,000 each month)

Section Three: Site Creation (Create preconfigured affiliate websites using WordPress within five minutes, without any knowledge of how to put up a site)

Section Four: Traffic Generation (gain additional traffic by getting backlinks using ArticleMarketingAutomation.com)

I am very impressed with the changes they have made, and MUCH prefer the PLR articles they are now sending members.

~ Rochelle

Writing content for a website can be extemely time-consuming work.  For some, it is even torture!  Finding pre-written articles that you can legally use on your own sites is the perfect answer for many site owners.  This is why many people use PLR articles.

PLR stands for Private Label Rights.  It means, you can use PLR articles in any way you see fit, within the terms of the articles.  The terms vary from source to source, but typically you are allowed to publish the articles and claim them as your own, but you can’t sell them or give them away.

Enter PLRPro.  PLRPro is one of many PLR membership sites.  For a monthly fee you are given 11 different articles packs, each containing 40 articles, and header graphics that match each pack’s niche or theme.

You might wonder why you would want to pay the monthly price from just a bunch of articles and graphics.  I once thought that, too.  Truth be told, I was a member of PLR Pro in early 2008, and quit a month later.  The articles were fine, but I didn’t really know what to do with them.

What a difference a year makes!

Features of PLR Pro

In late 2008 I rejoined after finding out they had overhauled the site and added a lot of features (with more to come!).  As of this writing I have been a member for five months and have no plans to quit again.  The changes the site owners made has significantly improved the site for all members.  This PLRPro review is based on my most recent experience with them.

First, you still get the article packs and graphics.  Included with the graphics, for those who have Photoshop, are the .psd versions of the graphics, so you can modify them, if you want.  Or, you can use them as is.  They are high quality headers that can be used without modification.

Newly added to the site is a tool that aims to make various aspects of creating and promoting a site as easy as pressing a button.  The reality of this tool is that there are still bugs to be worked out, which is frustrating at times.  The frustration mostly comes from seeing the potential of this tool, knowing that it can do so much more than it sometimes does.  But when it works properly, it can’t be beat!

The tool, called the Project Green Button (or PGB), makes creating a new site a super simple process.  Simply enter a few details about the site, choose a theme for the site and your article pack, and the PGB tool builds the site in minutes.  You can also use PGB to edit any page, or add new pages.

There will soon be a modification to PGB that will allow it to make WordPress blogs, which is very exciting!  I prefer to create sites using WordPress, not HTML.

The PGB tool also has several promotional tools.  From within PGB you can launch:

• RSS Submit.  This will allow you to submit your site’s RSS feed to several well-known sources.
• Social Bookmarking.  This will allow you to submit your site, or pages within your site, to many well-known sources.
• Article Marketing Automation.  This will allow you to submit articles to the AMA site, to help you gain backlinks to your site.

These three tools are incredibly helpful to have.  The services they provide are important for gaining traffic to your sites and getting important backlinks (links from other sites to yours).  Having them as part of PGB is incredibly helpful in that PGB keeps track of your login information, and you can do everything from one location.  This is SO much easier than having to go to each site individually!

PGB does not submit sites to directories.  If you want to do this then you will have to do it on your own or use separate software.

Included in your membership with PLRPro is free access to AMA.  AMA is an amazing resource and will be covered in another review.  I love using AMA and think that this, alone, makes the membership worth it.  Throw in the PGB tool and this is an incredible deal for people who plan on creating multiple sites.

The owners of PLRPro want you to succeed when you join their site.  To accomplish this, they have created a step-by-step blueprint of how to make $2000-$6000 per month within 12 months.  They tell you exactly what to do to achieve this financial goal.

Is the blueprint realistic?  Yes!

There are no difficult steps.  All are easily accomplished.  The most difficult aspect is actually doing them.  And to help you do each step, there is a spreadsheet that you use to track your progress.  The key is to complete each step each week for six months.  You can go beyond six months, but the spreadsheet is only for this length of time.

There were one or two areas that confused me on the spreadsheet.  While I think I know what I’m supposed to do with them, I was not positive.  Fortunately, there is a great forum for members.  I posted questions about what I was confused about and got answers pretty quickly.

In and of itself, PLRPro is a great program.  However, it is not the end-all, be-all of site creation and promotion.  It is my opinion that this site is a perfect match for Crowd Mountain.  What you learn as a member of Crowd Mountain will help immensely with your membership to PLRPro.  Among other things, Crowd Mountain goes deep into explaining about keyword research, which is glossed over at PLRPro.

While it may be tempting to simply start posting articles on your site, I urge new members to actually watch the tutorial videos and read the written instructions.  Even if you think you know a topic, it is important, as you may have been doing something wrong and not even know it.

Pros and Cons of PLRPro

About the Developers

PLRPro is the brain child of Daniel Turner and Marc Lindsay.  Both Daniel and Marc have learned the ropes of site creation and promotion, and are dedicated to helping others achieve the success they now have.  Best of all, Daniel and Marc are accessible to members.  They encourage members to contact them with questions, and they actually answer their emails.  I can vouch for this, as I contacted one of them and got a response within 24 hours.

Cost and Licensing of PLRPro

• Monthly Cost: $149 (expected to be raised to $167 soon, then $197, so get locked in at the lower price now!)
• Cost includes MORE than 20 Site Themes!
• Develop as MANY Websites as you like with your membership!
• Free Forum Access for Registered buyers ONLY!
• Free Access to the AMA site!

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PLRPro Review is a post from: Script Critics

As soon as I heard about Crowd Mountain I became a member and couldn’t wait for the site to become available.  I am happy to say that my expectations, which were very high as I already know what Michelle is capable of, were not only met, but exceeded.

Features

The purpose of Crowd Mountain is to train members in all facets of online business building. Michelle has created an Internet bootcamp, which is the first thing new members will have access to.  Michelle has created 6 different bootcamp training modules:

• Niche the Niche: how to properly do research before creating a new website.  Members have access to a 17 page workbook that you can download and print, and six training videos.
• Optimize for Size: how to build and SEO (Search Engine Optimize) optimize a website for earning money.  Members have access to a downloadable workbook, automatic affiliate profit generating and SEO enhancer plugin,and  five downloadable website themes that are already SEO optimized and good for any niche.
• Content Architecture: how to decide what kind of content to add to your site and how to to publish it.  Members have access to information on what type of content Google loves, a custom-tweaked plugin to make finding and publishing that content as easy as a few mouse clicks, and a private plugin Michelle had built just for Crowd Mountain that will make building your site around a set of long-tail keywords super simple.
• Monetization Station: how to make money with your niche site with advertising, affiliate programs, or your own stuff.
• Search Engine Assault: what you need to do to get Google to love your site and send organic traffic your way.
• Power Networking: how to use social networking to become an authority in your site’s topic.

The above list is just a sample of what Crowd Mountain members have access to.  The rest you can read on the Crowd Mountain website.

What do I think of Crowd Mountain?

At this time, I have only seen and viewed the tutorials found in modules one, Niche the Niche, and two, Optimize for Size.  This is because Michelle is releasing one module per week, to prevent confusion and information overload.  Since the site is just a little over a week old (as of this writing), these are the only modules available.  So, this Crowd Mountain review is based on two things: the two modules I’ve already seen, and my previous experience of Michelle’s training from my time spent with her as my mentor.

Regarding the two modules I have seen, they are outstanding.  Contained in the first module are not one, but three, training videos detailing how to do keyword research.  The three videos cover three different niches (one niche per video), so viewers get a very good idea of how to do keyword research.

The second module is all about how to properly set up a new WordPress blog so that it is SEO’d right from the beginning. Michelle details how to install and setup the plugins she considers most important for site SEO.  I was familiar with some of the plugins, but, after watching her videos for them, realized I had been using them incorrectly.  So, even in an area that I thought I knew, I learned something.

One of my favorite tools, which is exclusive to Crowd Mountain members, is the task manager.  Michelle had this program custom made just for this site.  The Task Manager software keeps track of what has and hasn’t been done on every website you enter into it.  Most tasks are ones created by Michelle, but users can add their own tasks if they like to do things that Michelle doesn’t include.  This makes it fully customizable to each member’s wants or needs.  I am loving this program!

There is also a Snooper program: “The Snooper was made to look inside Google’s algorithm and literally SEE what link building and social media sites Google likes the most. Those are the sites to focus on – if they’re already in favor, piggyback your own sites on them for quick ranking.”  Is it truly as powerful as Michelle claims?  Yes!  Is it really easy to use?  Yes!

Pros and Cons of Crowd Mountain

About the Developer

According to Michelle, “I focus on integrating “Web 2.0? technology – that is, the hip, new, cool stuff all the kids are using – into my marketing, as well as teaching others how to do the same. I believe the internet is turning more and more towards user-created content and grassroots movements.

One of my favorite things to learn about is a new, neat website with some Web 2.0 usefulness integrated into it – and my first questions is, “How do I use this for marketing?”

Cost and Licensing of Crowd Mountain

• Membership Cost: $47 per month
• Cost includes access to modules (one per week), the Task Manager, WordPress blog plugins, the Snooper (an awesome tool!) and anything else Michelle adds to the site!

Special Bonus for Pioneer Members

For those who join within the first six weeks of the site’s launch, you will have the unique opportunity to submit questions to Michelle for each module’s live Q&A, typically held on the Friday after that module’s introduction.  There is only one Q&A session per module, so don’t miss this opportunity to ask Michelle anything relating that week’s module.

As stated on the Crowd Mountain website, “As a pioneer Crowd Mountain member, you’ll actually be able to attend the live session and ask your own, personal questions about the material and get answers directly from me.  Late comers will only get the recorded Q&A and will not be able to ask their personal questions.”

I participated in the Q&A for Module One (as of this writing, it is the only Q&A session that has been completed).  It was an excellent training session.  Those who were not able to participate will be able to listen to the call, and I am sure that it will be beneficial to just about all who listen to it.

Visit Crowd Mountain and decide if it is right for you.  I can honestly say that everything Michelle promises will be delivered, and then some.

Read More and Join Crowd Mountain Today!

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Black Ink Project 2 by Jeremy Palmer IS this type of program.

Black Ink Project 2 Features

Using a combination of downloadable audio, video and written content, the Black Ink Project 2 is the ideal course for newbies and veterans alike. Jeremy Palmer is a super-affiliate with a knack for breaking things down into easy to digest pieces.

• 15 Downloadable Training Sessions-Each one available as a Windows Media, Quicktime or iPod movie format so both Macs and PCs are covered.
• Supplemental Materials-Every session has written guides to accompany the video to help reinforce what is covered.

Pros and Cons of Black Ink Project 2

About Jeremy Palmer

Jeremy Palmer knows what it’s like to be struggling but still have a dream. He started his business part-time in 2003 while still working full-time as a web developer. He knew there had to be more to life.

After researching affiliate marketing, he went on to set up over 100 affiliate sites in many different categories. He quit his day job and his business has grown to where he now makes a six figure income from it.

Throughout all of his successes, he has never forgotten where he came from. He’s made it his mission to help as many people as he can to fulfill their potentials and live the life they only dream of living now.

Cost of Black Ink Project 2

• One time fee of $97.00
  
• No continuity program
• Access to active members-only forum community
• 60-day no-hassle guarantee

Read More and Purchase Today!

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