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Power of A Mentor For Affiliate Marketing

Here is a great Article by the President of Mastermind Pros, Frank Terranova.

Power Of A Mentor For Affiliate Marketing
 By: Frank Terranova

What is involved in working with a Mentor?   Why do you need it for getting started in Affiliate Marketing?  There are many things that a Mentor can help you with, but the best Mentors follow a very specific process that has proven results.   While they may have various names, there are three basic Stages that all good Mentors should follow.   Each Stage can be broken down into smaller pieces depending upon the need of your Affiliate Marketing Business.  

1. Involving – the idea here is to clarify the purpose of what your expected outcomes are.   This includes goal setting.   You can have one goal or several goals, depending upon your situation.  You need to have long term goals and short term goals.   The short term goals need to support the long term goals.  They need to be as specific as possible.  For example:
a. Short Term:  To make $500/day with AdWords within 3 months.
b. Long Term:   To make $1,000/day with all business processes on a continuing bases; to be updated and reviewed every 3 months.

2. Developing – once your goals are set, an implementation plan needs to be put into place.    Keeping the long term goals in mind, you will begin putting together an implementation plan for all the short term goals.  For example:
a. Short Term Plan #1 – research and find profitable keywords in 3  days
b. Short Term Plan #2 – implement 1 AdWords campaign per day for 2 weeks.   Monitor daily, making improvements in keywords and testing various ads.
c. Short Term Plan #3 – take top 2 AdWords campaigns from STP#2 to design and implement landing pages.

3. Resolving – this is addressing any issues that may come up during the implementation and/or developing Stage.   This is where the experience and advice of your Mentor will really benefit you.    For example:
a. AdWords campaigns are not profitable – your Mentor will be able to help you analyze why they are not profitable and help you make changes.   Understanding why your campaigns are not profitable is a learning curve that is shortened with the support of your Mentor.
b. Finding profitable keywords and products.   If you are struggling in this area, your Mentor will be able to provide you guidance as to where to look and what to look for in matching up profitable keywords with good quality products.  Again, the experience of your Mentor will shorten your learning curve and soon you will be able to do this analysis on your own. 

So where does success start?  Planning is the cornerstone of all successful people.   Many people look only at today or tomorrow.  It goes back to us being an “instant gratification” society.  We want it now.  But those who succeed, those who make the good money, they know planning and do planning effectively.

So how do you put together a plan?  Look at it beyond the money.   What is it that you want in life?   Do you want to pay off a few bills, buy a new house, buy a new car, or put money away for retirement?  Without understanding what it is you want setting goals can be difficult.   This is where a Mentor can help you focus on what your wants are and develop plans on how to get there.

Overall, the Mentoring process is a support system to help you achieve the goals that you desire.   While many people believe that they can do this on their own, those people who are achieving the best results in Affiliate Marketing will tell you that a Mentor made all the difference in their success.

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Contest Results for January 11, 2008

Masterming Pros had a contest where a commenter to this blog won Ten Dollars.

Congratulations Dan S. for taking time to comment on one of the posts and to win the contest!  We hope you were able to use it for something other than gasoline.

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Do You Leave Real Comments on Blogs?

What do I mean by this question, “Do You Leave Real Comments on Blogs?”  What is a Real comment?  Is this important to know?

Well it is important to know about leaving comments on blogs that will actually make it past the spam filters and get published.  The sad part of being a blog owner is putting your content out there for the general public to view, and then finding out that the only ones leaving comments are the Viagra sales people or the Stay at My Time Share people.  Then you learn that they have automated posting systems set up somehow.

Just like SPAM emails there are spam commenters.  It is just junk!  However Word Press has pretty efficient plug ins and filters so those posts never even get seen.  Plus with a Word Press Blog you can even set it up so you are notified of posts and then you can choose what you want the world to see on your blog.

What are the advantages to leaving a real comment on a blog?  Well why did you visit the blog?  Did the blog satisfy your reason for visiting it?  Was the content valuable? Did you enjoy the content and the graphics?  Will you return to the blog?  The blog publishers want to know this.  Comments help the publishers to adapt their content to what visitors are looking for.

Leaving a comment is a Win-Win situation.  When you leave a comment on most blogs you are asked for your web URL.  This is good (why do the spammers send out all their automated comments?).  Back links are good.  I personally have followed a commenter’s link just to see what their site looked like because I enjoyed reading their comment.

The more positive relationships you can establish on the internet the better it is.  Positive relationships can begin by just leaving a comment on a blog.  Sometimes the blog owner will even send you a follow up email thanking you for your comment.  Blog owners really do enjoy getting feedback.  They will usually visit your website or blog, too, just to see what you are doing.

Comments do not take very log to leave.  Give it a try and see what happens.  I have been to blogs where the comments are more fun and interesting to read then the original article.  Some really good discussions and information sharing can start this way.  Most blogs will  allow you to subscribe to comments, too. 

Let me know if this article was helpful.  Find the link at the end of this article and add your comment!  If it says No Comments, that means you can be the first!

Rocque

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Training Schedule for January 7,2007 and More

Conferences – week of 12/30/07
ALL TIMES CST

OPEN CONFERENCE ROOM
 
GCD/GCA ALL TIMES 7:00 PM CST

TUES – GCA- The “Automator” will help you to manage your campaigns and
 maximize your income while minimizing your ad cost. 

WED – GCD- Get into the features and functions of the “Detective”.
 Learn how to make it work for your profit.

TH – Basic Affiliate Marketing  -

MASTERMIND PROS CONFERENCES

ALL TIMES CST
MON – CLICKBANK 8:30 PM – Ann has all the insider Clickbank data you
 need to manage Clickbank to big income
WILL BE ANOTHER TEST RUN IN THE ALTERNATE CONFERENCE ROOM
go to — http://www.instantpresenter.com/moss1

TUES -  EBAY 8:30 PM- many people make alot of money on eBay- learn how
 to get started.

WEDS – INTRO TO LANDING PAGES – 8:30 PM -

TH – AUTORESPONDERS – 8:30 PM -

FRI – BLOGGING PUZZLE – 8:30 PM- Rocque will have you blOgging for dollars in
 just about an hour

SUN – MASTERMIND CREED 6:00 PM

SAT – ADWORDS 7:00 PM – Last week we learned about “keyword use
 within your ad copy”- This week we explode your campaigns with bigger sales
 results

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Beware the Fake Pay Pal Scammers!!

I do use Pay Pal.  I have used Pay Pal for years with great success.  Other pay services have come and gone and Pay Pal is still here.  However, every now and then I get one of those scam letters by some group posing as pay pal.  BEWARE!!!

WHEN YOU GET EMAILS LIKE THIS PLEASE SEND THEM TO

SPOOF@paypal.com

Here is an email I received today from the scammers.  Notice their email address.

Original Message Follows:
————————-

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: PayPal Security Service <security@service.net>
Date: Jan #, #### #:## AM
Subject: Security Alert – Please Confirm Your PayPal Information
To: my email address was here
     ** *Security Update Notification*

*Dear Valued Customer :

*
*We are unable to activate your account because we have just upgraded
our
online security parameters to make your PayPal account and informations
more
secured from online frauds,so we request that you reconfirm your online
account details with the one we have on file before you will be able to
send
and receive money online.
Your account may be place on restricted status. Restricted accounts
continue
to receive payments, but they are limited in their ability to send or
withdraw funds. To lift this restriction, you need to login into your
account, then you have to complete our verification process. You must
reconfirm your credit card details and your billing information as well.
All
restricted accounts have their billing information unconfirmed, meaning
that
you may no longer send money from your account until you have reconfirm
your
billing information on file.

Click here to Sign

in<bogus URL was given here so I just had to click on it….YEAH RIGHT
n-=_security-center-outside_home-merchant&nav=#/inedx.htm>to
your PayPal account to reactivate your account now.

Thank You.
*

——————————

Because your reply will not be transmitted via secure e-mail, the e-mail
address that generated this alert will not accept replies. If you would
like
to contact PayPal with questions or comments, please sign in to your
PayPal

account<ANOTHER BOGUS URL GIVEN HERE …
in-run-=_security-center-outside_home-merchant&nav=#/inedx.htm>and
visit the customer service section.

    PayPal, N.A. Member FDIC. Equal Housing Lender[image: Equal Housing
Lender]
(c)#### PayPal Corporation. All rights reserved.

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Do You Stay In Hotels? Beware The Glasses!

Well it seems that it is easier and easier to have those weekend getaways, and go off for some fun in the sun.  However after viewing this you will be taking your own plastic cups with you I hope.  Either that or some disenfectant.  This is not meant to gross you out but as a wake up call of a different sort.

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Hey, It Is True, Frank Is Giving Away $10.00!

Yes Frank is giving away $10.00 but there is a catch to it.  LOL.  There is always a catch.  You have to be a member of Mastermind Pros, and you have to post a comment on this blog.  That is pretty easy.  I would have made it much more difficult to win.

The winner will be drawn at my next blogging class to be held at a time not yet specified.  So you have a few days to get your comment in to be eligible.  Only one drawing, only one winner.  Will it be you?

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Starting The New Year Off Right

Happy New Year Everyone.  Wow 2008 is off and running.  Whether or not we were ready it is here.  New Years bring so much hope and promise even though it is nothing more than another day.  However it is good to have starting points.  We have a time to reflect on what was right and learn from what was wrong and then move on.

One of our goals at Mastermind Pros is to get more and more people out there (or here) blogging.  Bloggers are an interesting group of people who find time to write and post articles.  I believe most bloggers are interested in helping people with what they have to say.  Some bloggers just rant on one topic day after day.  However this is a great outlet for it!  Wouldn’t you rather they do this in a constructive way.  Plus many of us have the same rants but just resist the urge to broadcast it.

Make 2008 a memorable year.  Take time for you, and if starting up a new business or looking for a way to add some extra cash to your life is something you want to do, then consider starting a blog.

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