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If you’re looking for a mentor that is beyond talented with his internet marketing skills, then you should be like Mr. Frank Kern when you grow up.

Hey, we have to have a little fun when we’re blogging, right?

I’ve been looking online for mentors for quite some time in order to find strategies and methods in which to increase my game in the digital marketing sphere. 

Since there are so many coaches out there claiming that they know how to make it happen for you and all you have to do is pay them tons of money to make it happen, what they don’t tell you is that they’re selling you information in exchange for the boat-load of cash that they’re trying to get out of you. 

That’s not all of the mentors and coaches out there, to say the least.

There are some really good ones.

When I quit my job in 2015, it was because a mentor named Dan was able to help me learn the high-income skill of local lead generation with free traffic to be able to make $10k in passive, monthly income within a year of starting the coaching program. 

I did it from the same lead gen site that’s still paying me $750 to this day, and it’s real passive income that’s still on the internet using free traffic (see below):

To this day, I’m still using that information to rake in a habitual $45k+ each and every month. 

Why am I putting this out there?

For a few reasons, actually:

1. To let you know that making money on the internet is real, and it doesn’t have to be as hard as others make it out to be
2. That said, you still need to invest some diligent effort, time, and resources in order to get good at something that can help you bring value to the marketplace and get paid for giving of yourself
3. I’m speaking from experience on this blog, and to remind you that you can do this too!

Part of being successful online means being able to have access to the eyes and ears of someone who has paved the way before you. 

For some, they need to learn a high-income skill in addition to learning how to run a business from a laptop by someone who has done that very thing.

For others, especially those that are already successful in their respective entrepreneurial endeavor, they are just looking for someone that can advise and help take their efforts to the next level. 

What does the next level mean?

It can mean anything the individual wants it to mean.

You got into business to be independent and live life on your terms.

Now that you’re here, you get to create the life of your dreams with the vehicle of business taking you to your destination – provided you commit to doing everything you need to do in order get the vehicle in motion. 

Mr. Frank Kern has been known by many as a resource to guide people toward getting their vehicle going when they don’t know how to start or progress at a certain hurdle in their business.

If you’re brand new, then getting started could be your biggest hiccup.

If you’re a seasoned businessperson, there are obviously different hurdles that you’re facing right now and could still use an experienced third-party’s vantage point on what you’re doing in order to progress.

Am I saying that any of this is a requirement? 

ABSOLUTELY NOT! 

As stated before, it’s your business and your life to do with as you please. 

What I am saying is that it’s probably a good idea to get moving forward with a little bit of assistance. 

Since the majority of people get involved with the laptop lifestyle bit of hope for a brighter future that stems from some form of marketing online, what better person for a mentor than the man that has committed to helping you progress in your internet marketing career.

Let’s take a closer look at whether this guy can be a great fit for what you’re needing in your business venture right now. 

Inner Circle by Frank Kern – Review

For a while, Mr. Kern has helped numerous people in digital marketing to figure out a way to achieve what they’ve been hoping to accomplish for quite some time.

And, in that quite some time, he’s actually produced a number of programs with one purpose in mind – to help the marketplace of entrepreneurs. 

It’s not every day that you find someone as genuinely good-hearted as Frank to see problems and find a solution to the problem. 

There’s nothing wrong with charging for the solution – after all, he needs to eat, too. 

However, if that solution can help get someone unstuck in their business and moving in the direction of generating revenue, then their investment in Frank’s solution can actually possess a numerical value that can be best described as a return on investment (ROI). 

In fact, Mr. Kern provides sales principles (among other forms of counseling and advising in marketing online) that may seem old school when you hear about them, but you’ll quickly learn that he’s able to craft them into a sensible and real-life application for our current era. 

I’d like to propose the following key points for your consideration regarding the Inner Circle by Frank Kern:

1. Close-Stacking

If you have an offer, chances are that it could use a little more kick when you’re pitching it to a prospective buyer. 

If you’re an avid follower of Mr. Frank Kern, you might recognize what this actually is that he is referring to. 

In essence, his revelation at the end of the conversation about important points that stir up emotion in the recipient can actually turn the sales conversation from a casual pitch to one that spins the offer into something that the prospective client simply cannot resist but to buy and get involved in what you’re sharing with them.  The Formula for the Ultimate Offer

2. This is definitely a higher level concept.  

In fact, it’s often used or referenced in programs or companies that are trying to close higher-ticket priced deals. 

Another name for this sequence of events is the Pitch Anything – to Anyone. 

While pitching can have a negative connotation to it, let’s take a step back and better understand what role salespeople play in the world of business.

Mr. Brian Carruthers, a person who has been in the Network Marketing and Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) distribution plan of compensation structures for as long as I’ve known him, has consistently pointed out to his marketing team (or any audiences that he’s been invited to speak in front of, for that matter) that when you’re in the world of working for a business – which is everyone, since businesses employ people –

You’re either working to make a sale, or you’re in support of someone who is out there every single day and trying to land a sale. 

They are the gatekeepers of cash flow and the people that keep a business thriving.

As digital marketers, you’re not necessarily the salesperson for a business that you’re partnering with, but you are definitely an instrumental role of responsibility in getting those conversations occurring. 

In order to make more money, you have to prove that you are more valuable than the wage that someone else thinks you are worth. 

By learning to pitch, you are increasing your personal skills to produce more income – for both yourself and the business that you could be lined up to help expand and grow. 

3. Going Big: How to Grow with the Internet’s Help in 6 Easy Steps (what
Frank likes to refer to as the magic steps of business development)

4. Positioning Yourself with Authority

This is something that I don’t think enough people really take the time to think about or realize. 

When you carry…

• Public trust
• Community credibility
• Industry mainstream branding
• The title of published author, or better – bestseller

…there’s a very good chance that the audience you’re targeting will begin to pay a little more attention to you – and may even help to make landing sales appointments even easier (if you do them). 

Those four keys (mentioned above) are what you can acquire within the Inner Circle by Frank Kern.

That’s just one of many things that this guy can offer you to help you improve your business and work ethic. 

In bonus content to the Inner Circle, I think I remember seeing something about mindset training; if you’re new to business it’s very important to get your mind right. 

I think it was the P90X program published by Beach Body that had a fitness trainer named Tony Horton that would always advocate that, during challenging and lengthy fitness training regimens, you really need to take a moment to “get your mind right.” 

In order to persevere in the world of entrepreneurship, nothing could be more spot on than this very claim. 

Even though the information is generally the same, I’m confident that there are several reason for Mr. Frank Kern delivering his Inner Circle Program for a few different barriers of entry:

• $1,000 every month for the biggest package and maximum access to resources you would need
• $750 for the middle-class entrepreneur that is either launched or could use some help but just doesn’t quite have the financing to get the greater package
• $500 in monthly membership fees which caters to those that are seeking just the bare bones of information to get started and move quickly into profit mode

That’s not to say that everyone should only get the $500.00 level membership and call it a day.

Remember, this guy has been around awhile and witnessed a lot of changes in how business operates. 

If anything, we should be knocking on the guy’s door and handing him our bank accounts so we can learn what he did to hit it big – and how he’s helped so many others that are trying to do what we’re doing so we can see the patterns and follow the path of least resistance. 

Okay, so the bank account statement might have been a little overkill, but it’s not too far off from the metaphorical truth to the value that Kern tries to bring to people that are seeking advice and need that extra nudge to move forward. 

When quality is of utmost importance in your efforts to get things going in business, you really can do right by investing in the resources made available through Frank. 

Where was a gentleman named Karl who hosted an interview with Frank Kern; he was actually one of Frank’s clients that was able to move his business from only four or five figures a month (on the left side of the decimal, for anyone who is reading this and thinking of criticizing the conversation here) to well over $5 million in gross revenue for the coaching industry that Karl was serving. 

How did Karl do this?

Simple; he invested in the wisdom and knowledge that Mr. Kern made available in the Inner Circle mentor and mastermind program. 

I’m convinced that Mr. Kern really knows what he’s talking about, demonstrating, and encouraging others in the internet marketing community (which is an all-encompassing umbrella that spans a large volume of sectors in the digital marketing community). 

Those involved in his programs, or have even been exposed to the email messages or marketing videos that Frank has published online, can also attest to the wisdom this gentleman has.

Why would I say that?

Frank has taken his digital resources and web properties from start-up and brand new pieces of virtual real estate – and turned them into the massively influential points of magnetic attraction for his brand that we’ve come to know today, and many of his followers only hope to one-day duplicate. 

Frank claims that it really isn’t that hard, but work is involved and it has to well thought-out, strategic efforts that encompass the 4 keys we discussed just above. 

Here are a few mastery aspects that Frank has utilized:

• Incorporating a pre-recorded webinar in a marketing funnel so he can simply be looked at by the targeted traffic as an authority with significant credible for what he does
• Mastering copywriting on the internet in order to craft an appealing, irresistible message that inspires people to take action on his paid traffic strategies

A student of what the digital marketing animal truly is, he tries to find unique approaches to achieve different and unheard of angles for psychological weapons that pierce through resistance or objections to land deals – over and over again. 

In case you’re wondering about whether Frank’s ideologies can work for you and in your specific industry, I can assure that they are very applicable to a wide variety of digital marketing industries and even the most obscure of sales needs. 

There are other sales mentors across the nation, and Frank just so happened to be ranked among the best. 

In no particular order, even though I’m writing a blog, here’s who I try to take pointers from:

• Jordan Belfort
• Gary Vaynerchuk
• Jordan Knight
• Grant Cardone
• Frank Kern

Those are some notorious names in the internet marketing and sales world, and Frank deserves every bit of street credibility because he’s been in the trenches and earned his stripes just like every other name on that short list here. 

He may play the old-school card upon initial approach, but this clever son-of-a-gun has got the goods on appropriating old information to work to anyone’s advantage if they take action on the advice given. 

What else does he offer?

There’s a lot, but I’ll share with you a few more things:

• Email Marketing Recommendations
• Modern Day Sales Funnels
• Sales Strategy, Techniques and Standard Procedures that Frank Personally Uses (to this day)

When you’re looking to be in the know with digital marketing’s top dogs, people pay attention when Frank talks (notice I’ve often referred to him as Mr. Kern) and people respect him as the marketing giant that he is. 

Just like everyone in business though, he didn’t start out that way; he earned his way. 

Frank Kern’s Client Acquisition System in Review

I had to include another course that Frank offers because it’s just that good.

We’ve discussed that Mr. Kern has multiple courses out, countless resources for you to look into, learn from, and improve yourself upon, but nothing beats the ability to keep a business endeavor alive like learning exactly what it takes to rake more customers by the bushel. 

Here’s a brief look into what you could receive when you join the Client Acquisition System by Frank Kern:

• Backwards Planning – what some call Reverse Engineering

We’re not all engineers that get involved in the world of network marketing. 

From science to art, blue collar to white collar, and everything in between, the digital marketing world is filled with people who are mutually related on one simple thing: they want things better than they currently have it. 

Part of being able to get from point a to point b in the game of life and business is that you need to be able to have a clear understanding of where you want to arrive: business schools call that a vision. 

In a business communication class, I learned how this actually lines up: companies declare their values and mission because they support and drive their business operation to achieve the vision that they wish to see in this world. 

While businesses piece these things together from the early days of launching the company, we need to be able to establish a vision (at the very least) so that we can have a clear and direct line of sight of where to go. 

Once we have that vision in our sights, we need to now recognize where we currently are and begin to map out the exact steps required in order for us to arrive at our destination.

I get it, this is business and not a family road trip. 

However, there’s going to be a lot of deviation and distraction opportunities along your path; by reverse engineering your steps to get to where you want to be (which is also known as “backward planning” your road to success), you can then steer yourself back on to course with achieving your goal when something in the way of life events or unexpected turmoil knocks you off the beaten path. 

It’s more than just a singular achievement, however.

Most of us got into entrepreneurship and business because we wanted a better lifestyle in addition to simply building a business to have more money.  

I remember hearing Mr. Grant Cardone talk about how money shouldn’t be the end result, but what it can enable you to achieve once you have that resource – that’s what should drive our endeavors daily.

• Figure out what your prices are – and set them

• Locate your high-income skill and put it to work to bring in revenue so you can call yourself an entrepreneur with predictable cash flow. 

When I got started in local lead generation, I didn’t make it to $10k and quit my 9 to 5 with a nice passive monthly income at that size by writing down the mission, vision, and values of a company or even registering a company, to begin with. 

If you want to say that you have a business, then you need to have cash flow from customers that you’re providing value for. 

Once you have customers, then every other piece of the puzzle can fall into place because you’re now funding your business with cash flow from clients that you’ve acquired and continue to serve in an ongoing manner. 

What’s cool about my lead gen business model is that I only had to set up a lead gen site one time – like this tree service site in Grand Rapids, MI.  I only worked on that thing for a grand total of 6 hours and it’s been paying me $2,000 every single month since 2014. 

See it for yourself (see below):

The high-level skill that I put to work each and every day is bringing more customers to small businesses so they can pay me for life. 

If you don’t have a high-income skill yet, I’d like to highly encourage that you figure out what you love to do, or you can check out our coaching program where you can see the exact steps I took to not only quit my job inside of a year’s time…

You’ll get to see the same things that I did in that 1 year that I still do (to this day) to maintain my $50,000 per month side hustle – which gives me the time freedom to write a blog post like this for you each and every day. 

• Become the Most Valuable Business Person (MVP) in your marketplace with your high-income skill and you can be sure that you’ll always have people that need what you have to offer – and can afford to pay you handsomely for serving them

• Identify ways that you can connect – and have a conversation – with the people that can afford to buy from you in the method that causes the least amount of resistance for you two to get some quality conversation time and learn more about each other

• Figuring out what it takes – and then actually committing – to shift everyone that is in the marketplace that could buy from you out of the obscure space of not knowing about you or never having heard of you into becoming genuinely interested in your offer, product, or service

• Closing methods to land deals more consistently and some collaborate strategies that have never been seen before

The Client Acquisition System definitely has some meat and potatoes to what it’s dishing out. 

The good things about the Client Acquisition System

When there are good and bad things about everything, it’s worth taking the time to analyze whether the program is actually going to be a good fit for you. 

• With the interview-takeaway approach that you can learn more about in the Client Acquisition System, I really like that and a few other tips to close deals through the telephone (which means fewer problems in actually getting in-person face time – imagine making money from a distance)
• Sound coaching that is rather applicable to most industries – including that of service providers for local markets
• Sometimes it takes a while to work on warming up the people that either won’t be ready to buy from you or just acknowledge that things aren’t a good fit – at first.  Learn the tips and tricks that Frank – himself – uses to get people into a buying mood, slowly but steadily.  

What I didn’t like about the Frank Kern’s Client Acquisition System

• I like the grind as much as the next hustling businessperson.  However, the content seems rather broad to where I’m not sure where to start in trying to take the information and make it applicable to an industry that I would want to use the information for. 
• Maybe a plethora of case studies and more specificity in the illustrations of how this information can work would be a better asset to position this program as the end all, be all of the business development efforts
• Just like Mr. Grant Cardone talks about, the notion of omnipresence – being seen everywhere – is a stellar idea and I hope that most businesses can achieve becoming a name that someone else you didn’t know personally would utter on their blog (see what I did there). 

Since this is an internet marketing course, however, I just think that the ideal clients of this program would be better served if they were given higher-level techniques that they could learn and use immediately.

This included the idea of search engine optimization (SEO) techniques and other things that aren’t just theory but can be used for the long-term when they’re done learning from Frank’s lessons and prepared to implement things into their own business

• Prospecting and lead generation skills could be further expounded upon.

Remember, I was running my own, successful digital marketing company when I stumbled upon Frank Kern’s program and decided to scope it out so I could learn from him and write a blog about the programs that he offers. 

At a base of $50,000 in profits every single month from free traffic in local lead generation for small businesses, you can be certain that I’ve got the time and resources to give Frank Kern’s programs a solid test. 

I just wanted to find out if the content with the course was going to be worth the squeeze and let you know if I would recommend to you to get started with your membership to his mindset mentoring platforms.    

It’s important to me, from a business owner standpoint, to know more than one method to generate traffic online and test them all out for myself. 

I can’t really do that if I were exclusively taking Frank Kern’s advice through his mindset training programs. 

That’s not to insult the guy; he’s done great things and really knows what he’s doing when it comes to working the industry’s techniques to his company’s and coaching program’s needs. 

As for the instructional side of what he provides for his following, I wish there were more. 

It’s that simple. 

You, as a business owner – especially a brand new entrepreneur in the online community, trying to start something from home with only a laptop, an internet connection, and an ambition for something better in your future – need to know what to try in order to get more attention for your business venture on the internet. 

That means being able to learn search engine optimization (SEO), paid traffic advertising in the digital arena (like Facebook Ads, Google Ads – formerly Google AdWords and known to many as PPC or Pay Per Click)…

That way, you can do what it takes to try and get more people into the spectrum of being a lead – or someone that leads to a potential sale for services or products through you and your business.

If you can’t fill up your pipeline, that means you’re not landing meetings or sales appointments; that’s step one for opening a business – you’ve got to be able to make a deal, land a sale, and serve someone to the highest level. 

In that way, you can now develop testimonials and leverage those success stories in order to acquire more customers because you’re not building trust and a good, solid reputation in the community. 

It all begins with one – and that one customer is acquired through digital advertising strategies online, which I wish were taught more in-depth in the Client Acquisition System by Frank Kern. 

Why Local Lead Generation Helps New Entrepreneurs Profit Quickly in 2019

I won’t take anything away from the guy; Frank Kern is a force to be reckoned with and noticed in the world of internet marketing. 

There are tons of things that he publishes and provides to those on the internet – especially in the internet marketing community – that can merit tons of positive value out of the coaching made available from him through digital recordings and online training access to in-person masterminds and other forms of coaching sessions with Frank. 

That said, the majority of his following already has a product or service that they can give value to the local community with – and they have thriving businesses that help to afford the expensive opportunities that Frank Kern makes available to anyone that can afford them – let’s recognize it for what it is; it’s a business. 

If you’re among the people reading this blog that actually don’t have a business quite yet, or you’re sitting on a couch reading this on your laptop and considering options to start a business, then Mr. Kern’s programs may not be the most awesome fit for you.

You’re going to do what you want, and I welcome you to make your own choices in life. 

From an experienced business owner that started from nothing, living in downtown Detroit, Michigan and working a corporate 9 to 5 that expected me to walk in deep snow during blistering cold, heavily laden snowy, northern winter months –

There was a time that I wanted my day job to pay me just a little bit more or advance me some cash so I could drive to work instead… Frank Kern’s programs can wait.

After being told no and being challenged to keep my mouth shut or I can kiss the measly $35k annual salary goodbye for talking out of turn to the owner of the company (all I wanted was to have a better, warmer commute twice a day)…

I wanted something better and started looking online for a way to make more money in a side hustle that wouldn’t interfere with what I already had going on in my work day. 

If you can relate to anything that I’ve just described, and you either want to quit your job, have more money coming into the household, or simply want more time freedom and less stress from how you’re going to afford to turn the heat on during the winter or put food in your cupboards…

Then maybe it’s time to look elsewhere than a program that only seems to work on mindset. 

If you don’t have a skill that you can bring to the marketplace, then you’re probably not going to go very far in the internet marketing world nor generating an income online from home on a part-time basis. 

If you want to learn a high-income skill that you can use to make money from home and try to do what I did – quit my full-time 9 to 5 corporate gig within the time span of a year since starting this lead gen coaching program, then click on those highlighted words and let’s talk about what you’re looking to accomplish. 

What I did to quit my job with this business model was ridiculously simple:

• Found a city and industry that could benefit from having more buyers
• Fixed up a lead gen site really quick and ranked it on search results
• Got free traffic on the web to help me make a ton of passive income
• Rinse and Repeat

This map listing is the byproduct of this method — this is what pays me the passive income I love living with so much, and you could do it to (see below):

This is my #1 online work from home pick to launch your side hustle business on the internet. 

When you’re dominating search results, as you could be (like in the picture above), you can essentially be paid handsomely because you’re doing what business owners already want to do with the internet: use it to bring in more customers!

That’s not just because the business model has been good to me, but because I’ve seen it work wonders for other people just like me – the average, everyday person that simply wanted something more. 

You’ll get to learn from the same guy that taught me everything I needed to know to now be job free and collect over $45k+ every month. 

Money isn’t everything, though.  Here’s what else this business model can give you that masterminds and mindset training – although good content that I wouldn’t shy away from –

It won’t help a brand new business owner to enjoy massive profits and the following added benefits to lead gen for small business:

• A rapidly expandable business model that you can continue to serve more and more clients in any city and any local business industry
• Follow a proven business model to make profits online since it’s exactly what Airbnb and Uber do: use the free traffic from search results (never paid traffic through digital ads) to consistently bring more buyers to local business owners – who pay loads of money and good tidings as their way of begging you to keep bringing them more customers
• PASSIVE INCOME and HIGH-PROFIT MARGINS so you can work less, make more money, and have the time freedom to enjoy the financial freedom (yes, this business model really can do that if you work on it the way we train in the coaching program)
• Mastermind with people who’ve been doing this business model for years with our Private Facebook Group so you’re in business for yourself but luckily never by yourself
• Work in Jammies and skip working for that day if you don’t want to – you’re in charge now
• Work while on vacation or let the passive income go to work in getting you more money while you’re on vacation; with free traffic, you can sleep while you get paid from the internet now
• Rake in more money than physicians or specialized, high-end attorneys in a year’s time – you’ll build up to it like I did if you want, but the juice is worth the squeeze – I’m telling you!

If you want to fire your boss or quit your 9 to 5 job (as I had), Frank’s course may not be the immediate fix to your situation or give you the strategies that you’re looking to put to work for you to make instant cash from the internet.

I’m not saying that the local lead gen business model is going to help you print money from opening your laptop – there’s work involved and the training is rigorous – but it’s still the easiest thing on the internet, and my blog posts have reviewed a lot of mentoring and coaching programs online thus far. 

You can read them if you want, or you can have a conversation with me about what you’re wanting out of your business ventures in the future – and how ranking something like this on Google can help you make more passive income than you’ve been able to in your whole life up to this point (see below)

That was proof of what this coaching program for lead generation has taught me to be able to accomplish.  While no one really cares where something is ranked on Google…

The business who is paying me $750 for limo rental service requests in Lansing, Michigan cares because they’re getting buying customers from that every month out of the year – and that’s why they pay me for my lead gen site that looks like this (see below):

Frank Kern really knows what it takes to break down marketing concepts and theories into digestible bits of information that we can appreciate and gain confidence in business with.  He’s a well-spoken gentleman and with outstanding demeanor, a wealth of knowledge, and guy that I think anyone would be lucky to have as a coach – when they’re successful in reach a good $20,000 in monthly revenue first.

If you’re looking to start a business online in tandem with his training, I think it could be a great compliment to a future entrepreneur; however, if you’ve only got the start-up capital to launch one business model from scratch, my advice is to go with lead gen sites for passive income that you can build upon every single month to expand your passive income on a part-time basis. 

With his tactics, you could probably land yourself some $20k in a monthly deal at some point in your career, but you’ve got to begin somewhere – and that’s what I did only a handful of years ago that helped me to quit the full-time, corporate 9 to 5: I got started with the local lead generation coaching program. 

We’re looking for someone who wants to get started with making money online.  If that’s you, contact me here and let’s chat it up. 

Thank you for checking out my blog. 

For those of you that are new here, I have made a top priority to get involved in coaching, mentor programs, and business opportunities through the internet to bring you the most comprehensive resource and silo of information. 

This has been a great asset for many entrepreneur-spirited people that are seriously considering launching a business or side hustle from their laptop in a very part-time, spare time basis without adding to their already demanding schedule the stress that typically comes from applying for a second job. 

It’s in this particular blog post that I’m going to deliver to you my 3 picks for the best affiliate marketing courses of 2019.

I have personally experienced each of these programs so I will be speaking to you from a source of genuine experience. 

What you’ll get in this episode of my blog articles includes:

• Why I think each program was worth their investment price
• My personal results (including the amount of money I have profited from using the individual programs’ methods exclusively)
• The bottom line for myself with these courses

Yeah, I like to not hold anything back in my blog entries, and anyone who has followed my regular postings is well aware of my style and character when it comes to delivering the goods on each program that I’ve spent my money and time investigating and trying. 

Why would I do this?

Well, for one, it’s nice to give something of value to the marketplace.

What better way to give than to experiment with online business start-up oriented programs that advertise claims of being able to help you to rake in your own sizeable income without much work from your home office – if only you get started with “them.” 

That’s a difficult thing for someone to chew on if they’re brand new to the entrepreneurial world or haven’t even made a buck off the internet.

How do you know that this can actually be possible?

Have these people (who are constantly pitching you) made money with the things that they’re trying to convince you that they can teach you how to do?

More importantly, how come these coaches have decided to open their minds and hearts to teach me a high-income skill? 

Why aren’t they just keeping this information to themselves and going about their day with the possibility of making more and more profits each day? 

Since they aren’t necessarily obligated to become a coach, I know that I couldn’t help but wonder what these people were up to; these were the questions that I had when I first began exploring the use of the internet to try and make some profits online only a handful of years ago. 

If you’ve also found this by simply opening your laptop or desktop computer and you’ve also begun searching the internet for a reliable, credible way to make more money at home, then you’re in good company. 

Here’s some brief insight into who I am and what’s up with me here – it’s always nice to know who you’re having a conversation with and I’m happy to share.

I’m actually no stranger to the world of affiliate marketing, but I once had to start in this industry in order to get to a point where I could competently have a conversation about this industry – to include being able to afford these high-ticket coaching programs that brag they could deliver the goods on what it took to make a responsible income from home. 

It wasn’t until the year 2017 that I had actually begun considering affiliate marketing so seriously that I decided to figure it out and find a way to turn a profit online. 

Now, in order for me to be able to afford the costs associated with this business model AND invest the time necessary to scope out 3 whole coaching programs – all suggesting that they knew what was up and what the right steps were in order to take affiliate marketing to the bank – I needed to have another source of reliable income. 

I haven’t worked for 2 years by this point in 2017 because I had amassed a reliable $30,000.00 in monthly, passive income with the local lead generation business with free traffic; a strategy I had learned from a mentor I hired back in 2014 –

I went through his coaching program where I had learned how to use free traffic to make money online; he’s a guy named Dan and he actually made a lot of money from this business model before ever thinking that this kind of information could have been packaged into a training course to teach others – like you and me – about how to do what he was doing. 

This business has been able to let me generate a passive income of $750 to $3k per lead gen site that I’ve put online to leverage free traffic and pay me monthly, for years, just like this tree service site from Grand Rapids, Michigan. 

Check it out (see below):

While local lead generation for small business is my top choice for working from home, I know you came here to learn more about affiliate marketing, so we’ll get there…

I just wanted to let you know that I’m able to afford the investment of these programs out-of-pocket and experimenting with the possibility of turning a profit while passive income streams continued to pay me as I spent my time learning affiliate marketing from each of these 3 mentors (that we’re going to talk about today). 

Why knowing about the local lead generation business is important is because there’s a huge departure in experiences when you’re generating profits on the internet with the use of paid traffic (in affiliate marketing) and free traffic from search results (like most people do in lead gen). 

It was important to me that I was able to see proof of success in affiliate marketing so I could write a blog about this and identify what has actually worked online. 

However, all that this business model – affiliate marketing – actually proved to me was that I now have a personal preference in not having to pay money in order to get my offer online seen by others, whether they’re going to buy from me or not. 

I get it, everyone’s usually thinking that there’s going to be good and bad aspects to each of these business models; I’d be lying if I ever said there aren’t drawbacks to each. 

However, as a business-minded person in 2019, it’s also vital to ask yourself how each of these online methods for making money can really be sustainable for the long-term. 

My opinion is that free traffic is the optimal choice for a business model for the long run. 

Why? 

It’s not to belittle affiliate marketing; in fact, I have met some people who do the affiliate marketing strategy very well – and I’m sure that I have talked about a couple of them in some other blog posts on this website. 

Unfortunately, by the end of this trial experiment with three different affiliate marketing training platforms, I have to admit that I still wasn’t sold on the process of marketing other people’s products for a fraction of the commission. 

When you’re finally operating your business 24/7 on free traffic and letting the internet go to work for you (instead of having to do your work on the internet), your lifestyle and mindset begin to shift; you start to see the world a little differently. 

• A business that you can run from anywhere in the world (affiliate marketing kind of has that)
• Your assets bring you money all the time (affiliate marketing might have this)
• Lead gen is a set and forget-type of a business (affiliate marketing isn’t quite that high-speed)
• Since the internet never sleeps, I’m getting money while I sleep (good luck letting affiliate marketing do that for you with its paid traffic strategies on an ongoing basis)

I’ve heard before – you can set up a paid traffic campaign and let it run while you sleep. 

In fact, some people even run paid ads and test things for a few days so they can gather more data about the marketplace; then, they’ll adjust campaigns accordingly. 

In other words, this is what you’d be looking at nearly every day if you tried paid traffic in affiliate marketing strategies — lots of blue-colored web browsers for several hours daily (see below):

Accounts getting suspended is just a part of the affiliate marketing experience when pitching your offers with Facebook Ads — if it’s a secret, then it’s not anymore. I’d rather you know this upfront.

I can assure that you that I’ve heard just about all the arguments to the contrary. 

It makes sense to get started with driving traffic to your affiliate offer with paid traffic strategy…

You get to have instant results through immediate traffic seeing your offer.

There’s no need to wait around and hope that people are going to cross your offer someday, eventually…

What’s something you have to do with the paid traffic of affiliate marketing that you don’t need to do in lead gen with free traffic?

Constantly review, monitor, and tweak your paid ads platforms for optimal performance. 

I’ve done both kinds of traffic personally; I’ve been there and done it! 

I’m just not that interested in spending my days worrying about my paid ads campaigns for the affiliate offers I’m running that I can’t wait to get home, open up my laptop, and begin looking at things just to make sure that they’re all okay and running according to plan. 

We can touch more on this in a little bit. 

The aforementioned reasons are why I’m beyond sold with the use of free traffic in the local lead generation business model.

It’s seriously why I make my top pick for 2019 that business model over affiliate marketing in general – regardless of what coaching course someone might decide to invest in. 

Some people have turned to me and suggested that affiliate offers can still reach a point of success with free traffic.

I agree – it’s very possible, and I’ve even accomplished that very thing with free traffic to an affiliate offer that I was able to put together an affiliate review of and rank online to make some okay cash every month. 

The drawback is that it’s become increasingly difficult to do online now. 

How come?

2 reasons:

1. The saturation of competitors who are constantly entering the industry is growing in more density as we progress in time – that’s my complicated way of saying that more sellers are jumping in and attempting to market similar products under the same strategies.
2. As Google – our fluffy and loveable 800-pound Gorilla – has updated their search results programming with the 2016 Panda update, the game has officially changed for affiliate marketers. 

With that, let’s get into my picks for the affiliate marketing courses that have landed the top 3 in my book – and if you’re quick, there still may be room in each of these programs for you to have your go at the training platform today. 

In Third Place, We Have Gerry Cramer’s Traffic Master Academy

Gerry Cramer is notorious for leveraging the paid side of things, especially with Facebook Ads, to get more and more attention to the affiliate offers that he’s looking to promote often and regularly. 

A serial entrepreneur in his own right, Gerry has actually established multiple training courses to help entrepreneurs – both experienced and young – to get their big start online. 

The three coaching courses that I’ve seen out of Mr. Cramer include:

• MentorMe
• Rise Academy
• (His Latest Installment in Coaching Platforms) Traffic Master Academy

In the MentorMe package of learning from Gerry, 1-on1 coaching is key to the success of the individual student. 

I know because I’ve seen one of his student’s success level and it was phenomenal; that same success student I’m talking about was the guy who trained me, named Nick Torson.

What I liked was that I was able to learn some key ingredients to the affiliate strategies that I had already known – and I really enjoyed learning from Mr. Cramer as the program went forward.

What threw me back was – even though I had made some money with MentorMe – my Facebook Ad account that I had opened and ran an ad for one of my affiliate offers with had been banned by Facebook. 

When I first saw it, I thought that this guy was a crook and I want my money back. 

It wasn’t cool or fair that I could pay all this and spend all this time just to get shut down on my very first ad account that I’d opened and ran an ad for under this so-called “guru’s” advice. 

The heat in me began to fizzle away when I discovered that Facebook and affiliate offers seem to be mortal enemies that don’t like working with each other in order to turn profits.

While, yes, Facebook is the owner of the Advertising Platform, it would stand to reason that more people can market affiliate offers because that simply means more people are running ads and paying Facebook for of their ads platform revenue for the year. 

The truth is that it’s a part of the affiliate marketing game in this strategy; your Facebook Ad accounts are going to get banned and that’s all there is to it. 

If you’re serious about working under the MentorMe program, then I’d recommend learning how to acquire more ad accounts, open them, and try your luck again in the affiliate marketing game because it’s just going to occur no matter what you do here with this approach taught by Gerry Cramer. 

To my amazement, and now that I think back on it, the method of opening more Facebook Ad accounts didn’t actually occur to me until it was taught in one of the other affiliate marketing courses that I had picked up along the way.  In other words, Gerry doesn’t even teach this method (at least when I went through his program, “MentorMe,” it didn’t it). 

I would be an ignorant goofball if I didn’t recognize the opportunity before us in affiliate marketing – there’s definitely room to grow and win some cash with marketing online, especially when it comes to paid traffic. 

If you’re looking for the fast money, then this just might be where it’s at for you. 

The catch that I see here – and have personally experienced through this training program – is that you’re entirely, and completely, dependent on generating traffic through the paid methods of the internet. 

In addition to the lack of ease in paying for your traffic (so your affiliate offer can get seen), because without traffic you don’t get a sale with this business model, you also have to appreciate the big risk you’re taking in leveraging the paid platforms; you’re at the mercy of them and when they change something or don’t permit your affiliate offer then it’s time to find another way to get attention online. 

Not to try and add an insult to the injury of what we’ve just been able to uncover with the affiliate marketing business model and the industry as a whole, we have to take into account that the paid traffic that we’re buying is going to cut into our profit margins – and there seem to be no two ways to look at this fact. 

It is a fact; when you spend money on a traffic ad, you are losing your margin for profit because paid ad spend reimbursement expenses are going to come from the profits that you’re generating. 

That’s just a smart way to do business – pay expenses first – but in the affiliate marketing model, your margins are far too low from the start, and they’re only going to get lower as…

• Time progresses
• More competition enters the space
• Prices get driven down in the products you’re marketing due to inflation and competition trying to get the edge over you
• Perhaps a company that you’re working with or for – especially in an affiliate manner – might change their commission structure and never notify you about it until you turn a profit, see your check, and have a problem with why you weren’t paid as much as you had anticipated receiving for all the hard work you did in helping the company to expand the brand awareness in the marketplace
• A quick word of caution: I’ve never heard of an affiliate program paying any sort of reimbursement to the affiliate marketers that associate with the product and push the brand out into the marketplace. 

To me, that last point means that the business really doesn’t care about you and that you’re a number to them. 

If you’re going to come out of pocket for personal expenses to drive somewhere and then be a marketer for a software company as a leader in a sales and marketing industry…

Why wouldn’t an affiliate company do the same thing to help you and demonstrate a sign of good faith or a vote of gratitude for believing in their company and their product so much that you’ve put your own name to their product and publicly went to bat to say that other people should buy this product as well. 

However, that’s not an option in this day and age – and while I hope that changes, I’m not going to hold my breath. 

What was cool about my mentor, Nick, was that he had a direct connection to Gerry and both of them were rather experienced in the industry of affiliate marketing at first.

After a little bit of discussion and demonstrating my willingness to work, I asked if they would come in with me on a side project that I was working on.

As a result, we’ve crafted an ad together – that’s me and two industry-leading experts: take a look at the sample ad for yourself (below):

One of the biggest takeaways that I was able to gather from working with two experts was:

In Facebook Ads, the image is the bread and the butter combined with a handsome piece of meat for an awesome ad sandwich. 

Here’s how we did it. 

First, we chose to pattern our image in the sense of Vector Art – which means segmenting the available space into separate divisions so we had more room to work with and could put more images on the ad. 

Since this is rather uncommon in the industry, this type of style becomes what the marketing industry would hope to coin as a “pattern interrupt.” 

The reason something like that is a key ingredient to Facebook Ad strategy – and the affiliate marketing platform of digital advertising overall – is because when people potential buyers pause to make sense of the unusual thing that they had just seen (even if it’s in a perceived and notional safe space like the social media account that they own), the trend more toward actually taking your desired action for them. 

That means that the clickthrough rates (CTRs) for our specific Facebook Ad expanded increasingly well. 

If you liked that little trick, I’d like to recommend that you give it a go for yourself in your next ad campaign. 

Another big takeaway that I had gained from two stellar experts in the field of affiliate marketing was:

The wisdom behind leveraging vector art for the sake of communicating with the intended audience of the ad. 

As humans, we tend to read in a pattern and attempt to understand what we’re seeing in a similar fashion – that is to say, left-to-right and top-to-bottom. 

What cool about this layout though is that when a person perceives this set of images arranged in this way – provided you’re intelligent with your vector art image choices –

It can be inferred that the person seeing the ad will either:

• spend time on it and attempting to reason what’s really taking place in the flow of the pictures (like a story might be told or a secret message lies within), or…
• they’ll simply click on the ad to hopefully find an answer behind the mysterious design of the Facebook Ad.  

That effort – to try and figure something out – stems from something that you’ve caused which is a psychological concept, known as loop opening for the audience. 

The event of causing dissonance within a person that’s reviewing your marketing might feel unresolved with the situation and take the action of least resistance with the hope of feeling resolved and whole – or simply no longer uncomfortable with what they’ve just experienced. 

In the word of digital advertising, simple strategies can be more effective.

In other words, instead of giving multiple directions in written form that direct the audience receiving the marketing ad to read, understand, and then put work into following the directions that were given, wouldn’t it simply be easier to inspire them to have something that makes partial sense, but it can be simpl to attempt to interpret, and then…

• Present something that will cause a slight bit of discomfort
• Arouse curiosity in the unusual thing they’re seeing
• Press their mobile phone screen or click a button on their computer to hopefully see and/or hear the thing that will resolve their confusion and help them feel good about something that momentarily just didn’t make sense for them

Whether or not the web traffic you’re purchasing buys from you after clicking on through your Facebook Ad, the exciting news is that you’ll know that your marketing strategy is working with its front end component. 

Now it’s important to understand the entire funnel aspect and to be able to compose a completely effective package of a marketing strategy that can effectively land a sale through paid traffic.

As you can see, Mr. Cramer has a solid idea of what he’s trying to accomplish with Facebook Ads and his affiliate marketing approach. 

That said, I am here to also report that I’m simply not running affiliate Facebook Ads campaigns or any form of paid traffic to affiliate marketing anymore. 

However, the tips and tricks that I’ve explored with Gerry and Nick have led me to try and understand what is possible with Facebook Ads in producing referrals for other kinds of business needs – such as:

generating leads for local businesses (like local lead generation but with paid traffic instead of free traffic) or in promoting the lead gen coaching program that I had learned from only a handful of years ago. 

• generating leads for local businesses (like local lead generation but with paid traffic instead of free traffic), or…
• in promoting the lead gen coaching program that I had learned from only a handful of years ago. 

In my own experiments with these types of advertising outside of affiliate marketing paid traffic, I’ve noticed a better success rate for small businesses and coaching programs. 

Why would I say that?

Let’s have a look at a couple of points that I’ve noticed in my campaigns ran long after discontinuing affiliate marketing paid traffic campaigns:

• If you own service company or the product that you’re attempting to pitch for and/or on behalf of, I’ve noticed a significantly higher return on investment (ROI) because the profit margins are simply bigger than affiliate program bits and pieces that you’re facing in the industry
• Bigger profit margins mean that you can continue testing more paid ad traffic campaigns because you’re making larger profits that can additionally cover the ad spend without breaking your professional version of a metaphorical piggy bank. 

Above all of that, just remember that it’s not really fun being compensated in peanuts marketing someone else’s stuff when you could be seeing an even greater return by going across the street (again, a metaphor) for your higher profits at a local service provider’s place of business –

Although, I would go over there just to shake hands; I wouldn’t work in their office when I can do my thing on my own terms out of my laptop anywhere in the world. 

Coming in Second was Stefan James of Project Life Mastery to deliver Affiliate Marketing Mastery

When you can learn a new skill but still be yourself while doing it, I’d say that’s an epic business model worth learning more about. 

With Stefan James, you get to do exactly that; you don’t have to become someone else in order to duplicate the processes that this expert affiliate marketing and digital expert is proficient in both doing and teaching. 

Further, if you’re still interested in — or passionate about — certain kinds of products and still want to make a pretty penny promoting what’s meaningful to you in your affiliate marketing approach to generating profits online, I think that Mr. James’ Affiliate Marketing Mastery is going to be an okay option for the future affiliate marketer inside of you. 

After all, there’s only one kind of you in this world so why not let the you within shine through in your marketing choices; especially if more than 10,000 people market the same product or affiliate offer, the market can still know your style and approach to helping them get the service or offer that they can benefit from. 

What does that really say about the marketing industry online, though?

To me, it means that your personal narrative is a story that others may be able to connect with – and that connection could help you to produce sales through the internet. 

Sometimes your target audience will still exhibit some resemblance of humanity with exploring products online – and therefore, you might stand a higher chance in those prospective future customers of yours buying from someone the trust, like or know, more than they’re going to cater to the other factors that marketing experts in college and high school teach:

• Good product reviews
• Lowest price
• Biggest bang for their buck
• Bonuses, discounts, promotions
• And so many more things that we could talk about, but won’t (at least, not on this blog post)

When you’ve got a personal story – especially a powerful one that can…

1. Uplift
2. Move
3. Inspire

You might be on to something that you can then leverage in order to turn a profit through selling with a deeper connection to people that might not have otherwise heard of you or about you. 

Imagine having that close of a connection with a recorded version of your story that lands you several thousand dollars in commissions – for something that you recorded one-time, long ago.  

I’m more than confident that this must have happened at some time in the past history of the idea of marketing. 

What’s rather epic about Mr. Stefan James’ training is that he actually does what he’s advising his students on – and I’m under the impression that this is a larger rarity these days than I want to believe. 

You can see it in his character and in his marketing; he’s authentic to the core with his affiliate product selling strategies…

It’s actually refreshing to see someone put their business and their own story out there to make sales; it seems less scuzzy and less about the profits and more about soiling goodwill and positivity in the marketplace – especially the positivity portion which is something that I don’t think we see enough of these days anyway.  

It’s pretty clear as to why Stefan has leveled up to close to the top ranks of the elite affiliate marketers – he’s a success because he doesn’t try to do it like anyone else except himself. 

Think of the following accolades and then ask yourself if you seriously wonder how he’s accomplished all of these things –

• Loyal and active following on YouTube, with subscribers numbering in the half of millions (just in one of the brands, Project Life Master)
• Multiple 6 figures – with a business built in his own way
• Playing the long-term game, his blog (which he’s been consistently building since the year 2012) is focused on personal development and can be found online for some common phrases in the self-help business industry with extremely high rankings; feel free to look it up: projectlifemastery.com

This guy steps out of his comfort zone regularly, which is why I believe he’s going places even after all of his current successes right now. 

In his program, he also advises on some nitty-gritty tips in the tactical methods employed with his online marketing choices, like:

• Collecting emails through a WordPress website
• Effective ways to organize your website to capture emails
• Founding a YouTube channel and consistently adding to it
• Leveraging email marketing to increase your regular reach and consistently pitch to a following that knows, trusts, and likes you, and is therefore primed to buy from you when you might ask them (not all of them will buy, but there’s no reason to think why some of them won’t – provided you’re pitching something that’s relevant, of interest, and beneficial or useful for them)

Normally, anyone would want to openly claim the desire to build their own business in an authentic way.

With the digital era, however, there seem to be a ton of shortcuts that business owners, marketing agencies, and the like are all attempting to accomplish and circumvent the journey to building a big company name. 

You don’t get that with Mr. Stefan James. 

A loyal following is a challenging thing to build – and most businesses want to build that but may not be willing to endure the work that typically is associated with such a thing… and it takes plenty of work! 

There are things that you need to do to build that following consistently, regularly, and authentically – and some people just don’t find those things too comfortable to do, so that’s why Stefan James has a loyal following but not a lot of students in his coaching program…

ublic speaking and sharing a personal side of yourself simply isn’t a thing that many people are willing to do these days. 

What does that mean for Stefan, though?

It means that his ability to sell just got a whole lot easier now that he’s put in nearly a decade’s worth of work in building his online reputation, building that following and the responsive email list, and connecting with people that he probably hasn’t ever heard of or met. 

Thus, his customer base could be composed of a vast number of people that he doesn’t know – and that’s okay in business because your reach can often bring about a positive impact to assist people that you may not initially know but could learn about as time progresses. 

When Mr. James aligned his business with what he believed to be his life purpose, money seemed to flow from the offers he made online – and the impact, along with the money, is probably why he’s doing so well online and enjoying the process as he indulges in his journey toward his entrepreneurial goals and endeavors. 

As I’m building this blog, I shift my focus toward some greater appreciation for his tenacity and dedication to building his online presence over time. 

7 years (to this day) is a long time to be writing his blog – and he’s no doubt got more in him to say and share with the world. 

I’ve heard that it’s far more important to have something to say than to follow the prompting or internal notion of needing to say something.

I don’t see that in Stefan James, the founder of Affiliate Marketing Mastery (and Project Life Mastery). 

Instead, I envision someone committed to a journey with a flexible, but clear, destination. 

With this blog – and public thanks to this guy – I’ve become interested, and maybe even a little curious, to find out if my writing and my blog will end up enriching, inspiring, or moving others for the better with entrepreneurship. 

I’ve said it before that part of the reason for this blog is to edify and educate others that are interested in starting an online business so they can get the full story of various programs from one such entrepreneur who had actually bought and tried their program. 

Perhaps my writing will have helped someone to evaluate their life choices and entrepreneurial options to lean toward making a choice that comes with a direction that fits their situation at the time – and hopefully, their future is also evaluated in that decision as well. 

What’s cool about Stefan James is that his approach and mindset in his affiliate marketing training course, Affiliate Marketing Mastery, teaches more than just how to establish a business and turn profits through the internet…

Instead, your laptop lifestyle becomes an enjoyable journey that inspires you, helps you to wake up each day and look forward to the adventure that awaits, and facilitates your ability to own a legacy that can last for a long, long time.

First Choice for Affiliate Marketing Training Online: John Crestani’s Internet Jetset and Super Affiliate

If you’re looking for an all-encompassing approach to learning how to generate web traffic with affiliate marketing, then you’re in luck because there is such an expert that goes after every style of web traffic.

I know… for a while there, I didn’t think there were any coaches that attacked affiliate marketing through more than one avenue of approach either. 

Delivering a more comprehensive coaching program in the affiliate marketing spectrum of training, Mr. John Crestani steps up the game in the industry with specific and clear training steps for acquiring traffic on the internet and getting those hard-to-reach buyers to see your offer from:

• Native Ad Strategies
• Paid Facebook Advertising
• Organic Ranking in Google Search Results / Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

FOR BEGINNER AFFILIATE MARKETING TACTICS:

At less than $50.00 to sign up and begin learning the particulars in his individual strategies, the starting roots of affiliate marketing is best learned through the Internet Jetset coaching course.

However, if you’re looking to get started fast and dish out the goods on your affiliate offer for a maximum return of profits, you’ll need to be seasoned somewhat to know what’s going on in the…

FOR EXPERIENCED AFFILIATE MARKETERS:

Super Affiliate System. 

Yeah, I really wouldn’t touch this unless – and until – you’ve been around the block a couple of times, and landed success online (meaning sold some things) with Crestani’s Internet Jetset training course or another coaching program that taught you the ropes first. 

A down-to-earth person, he is actually familiar with the gentleman that I hired 2 years ago to sit with me side-by-side and educate me on everything he knows to promote affiliate offers with Facebook Ads.

In case you think that this isn’t legit, I’ll report that I paid this friend of his, Mr. Carlos Cruz (pictured on the right-hand side of the photo you see up above here) about 5 figures for his time – meaning, five figures in pure profit on the left side of the decimal. 

Does he deserve that kind of attention and price for such a lofty request?

Well, after working with him, the proof was there and he knew the game better than any mentor I had learned from up to that point in my affiliate marketing career.

It was at this point that my affiliate marketing success through online traffic methods of generating attention to my offers starting to consistently bring in profitable revenue. 

It was actually quite exciting, to say the least.

Take a look at an ad that was quite similar to what we had run when working together (see below):

While money was rolling in with this offer – probably to the tune of $3k to $4k of monthly revenue – it was only anti-wrinkle cream that was getting promoted. 

What effort did this entail on my part?

• A few hours a day – and I’m talking the bare minimum that you could work if you were serious about making money in a strategy like this; I missed one day of staying on top of this and it was practically like starting all over
• Constant monitoring of my ad account, which took up tons of time in my day simply because I was always thinking about it
• Making adjustments regularly in each of the ad accounts that I had set-up through Facebook

Most people who read this have the initial reaction that so little time daily had rendered such a huge, monthly return – wow! 

From my perspective, I didn’t really need the money, per se. 

Instead, I was just running an experiment and learn what the results might turn out to be. 

Frankly, I would have regarded the volume of dedicated work that I had invested in those few hours daily as a full-time job and I just wasn’t about that anymore. 

Try seeing this from my perspective:

• Running a successful lead gen business
• Producing multiple 6 figures annually in passive income (meaning I don’t need a full-time job to survive now)
• One or two lead gen sites – done well – can provide that amount of income, recurring each and every month for the equivalent of less than a full days-worth of a time investment
• No more ongoing concerns about whether my lead gen site is doing its job to make me more money in a passive manner

Truth be told – affiliate marketing requires a person to dedicate a portion of their time – every single day – in order to maintain that steady, monthly income that they desire and earn through their patient and persistent efforts day after day. 

I really think it’s a job, and I have trouble seeing it as a passive side-hustle (even though others do it and speak highly of it all the time).

To keep the level of digital sales that you’re raking in, you can’t simply go off and take a vacation; that time away will be interrupted by your need to keep the money coming in by tending to your affiliate marketing approaches at last once a day – and for every asset that you have put online.

Whereas the lead gen business allows me to step away from my business as I please! 

The passive income allows me to do one project in one month, and then another project in the next month, and I could slowly, gradually, and easily expand my business if I were doing this gig on my own. 

Even though I’ve hired some help already, and they’re doing the habitual, daily tasks that I would normally be doing here, the reality is that lead gen lets me begin stacking my efforts and get results that I can build into a handsome monthly income month after month, year after year. 

In other words, I don’t have to keep working on the same projects day after day to keep that money coming in. 

If you’ve been looking for a true business that you can knock out a task once and get paid for years (for that one task), then feel free to check out our coaching program where we teach you how to do exactly what I’ve done over the last few years to not only escape my 9 to 5 but also develop a nest egg of over $45k per month. 

That wasn’t a dawning epiphany that I achieved on the first day of trying affiliate marketing, however. 

I didn’t know what the whole game was about – and I wasn’t going to until I had put all of this time, effort, and resources into the process to witness what returns were really possible with someone that started out not knowing a single thing about the online business method. 

It took me several different investments into different affiliate marketing training courses to finally realize that this is how much work affiliate marketing took, and it’s a job that I don’t want to have to do every single day. 

Eventually, I was able to see affiliate marketing for what it was and let go of the dream that this could somehow work on autopilot and I really could step away from the daily demands of the industry. 

In retrospect, I paid an expert approximately $10,000.00 for someone 1-on-1 coaching and mentoring to help me reach this conclusion. 

Carlos was great at what he does, and he knew I was serious if I was willing to shell out so much cash in order to get his attention and time on affiliate marketing. 

If you’re starting out in the online business world, most people won’t have a lucrative base of $10,000 that they can just shell out to someone and say “please help me.” 

Adding more to this notion of this not being for beginners is the fact that you really ought to know more about the industry before jumping into your first project and risking money that you probably couldn’t afford to lose in the business venture – since it simply doesn’t guarantee that anyone online will find your product listing and/or actually make a buying decision from what you’re putting out there. 

Why, then, am I still opening up and suggesting that John’s course is the go-to option for all of your affiliate marketing needs in knowledge, training, and strategy for success?

People still make money with this business model; if they weren’t, then a coach like this – an authentic one – may not actually exist or stay in the mentoring business online for much longer. 

Mr. Crestani’s courses are…

• Clear and comprehensive
• Affordable
• Informative on every way that you can – and should – be generating web traffic to your affiliate offers in your marketing approach

I have no doubt that some people are still going to end up giving the affiliate marketing world a try – long after I’ve written this blog and given my two cents worth.

While I’m not promoting the aforementioned programs – which means I doubt I’ll see a dime of the money you spend in any sort of commission when you get started with one of my recommendations above –

I still want you to have the most information of anywhere on the world wide web so you can step up your business decision-making skills with my reconnaissance efforts – and maybe save you money or heartache (or both) in the process. 

Additional Affiliate Marketing Trainings I’ve Explored

I wasn’t kidding when I told you that I’ve been around the block with this gig. 

Of the several courses that I’ve tried, here’s just a short list of the ones I’ve delved into (I won’t name them all – that’s not the purpose of the blog post)…

Here’s the list to simply build some credibility and show you that I know of the other coaches that are floating around out there and attempting to pitch their recommended strategy to future, interested digital entrepreneurs of affiliate marketing:

• Mike Vestil’s Internet Lifestyle Academy
• ODi Productions’ Affiliate Marketing Champ
• Sean Bagheri’s Aversity Gold Masterclass
• Luca De Stefani’s Affiliate Marketing Revolution

In the grander scheme of things, each of these courses provide a large number of the basics in affiliate mrketing that you must know to get started with your business venture from home. 

If that’s all you’re looking for, then I’d still go with my #1 pick for affiliate marketing training because it’s the most affordable, the easiest for people to make a buying decision with, and you can spend as much time as you’d like on it without (hopefully) breaking the bank before you see what’s involved in affiliate marketing and whether you’d want to try your hand at it. 

Even though I’ve disclosed a few more of the courses that I’ve invested lots of time and money into testing on my own, none of these on the short list here quite measure up to the value provided in the 3 courses I’ve listed up above in affiliate marketing courses that were explored. 

What’s Good, and What I Wish Were Different, In Affiliate Marketing

So I will admit that I’m human and can make the mistake of throwing some personal bias in some of these blogs unintentionally. 

Rest assured, I’m doing everything I know how to do to avoid skewing the results here and attempting to sway you in one way or the other on which affiliate marketing training program you’d best go into. 

One of the great things about entrepreneurship is that choices are entirely up to you to make and no one can tell you what’s right or wrong when it’s your show. 

That said, it’s important to get a better idea of what an experienced affiliate marketer sees as good and poor aspects of the affiliate marketing industry.

If you’re still considering participating in affiliate marketing, then be sure to read this section and get some rationale under your belt as to whether or not these are aspects you’re okay with handling prior to shelling out your hard-earned money in the business venture as a whole. 

Affiliate Marketing Pros

• With how everything in affiliate marketing can be set-up for order fulfillment requests by customers, you can focus all your efforts on one thing: getting targeted traffic to your affiliate link and published offer online. 

This means that your business has nearly all hassles that other business owners experience removed from the equation. 

Instead of assessing inventory, hiring and firing employees, dealing with overhead costs, etc., you can work more on the one thing that’s going to be bringing you cash and you would have focused on anyway when you got into business: getting more consumers buying from you and putting more cash into your, soon to be, fat bank account!

• Countless opportunities to find products to market with/for

When you can type in the words “affiliate program” for just about any sort of physical product out there – and some services even make something like this available for you – the possibilities and opportunities are virtually limitless. 

You are welcomed to try it in a Google search (free to you, just for reading my blog).

• Simple business model but challenging to become an expert within

Skill, experience, and some industry wisdom are what’s going to separate the great from the good here. 

Provided you have some guidance and effective training; you can set yourself up for the best possible bit of success that a newbie in affiliate marketing can see. 

Again, there are no guarantees, but it’s nice to know that you can still empower yourself by attempting to do all of the right things from the beginning. 

• Learn High-Income Skills

If you’re concerned about spending all of your time and catering your resources to one industry and lose your ability to become employable elsewhere, you can rest easy that what you’re learning as you train with affiliate marketing can be as applicable – if not more so – in other aspects of owning a business. 

In addition to work ethic and solid business acumen, you can also learn the affiliate marketing trade subskills of:

• Sales funnel building
• Digital mediums of marketing (like emailing)
• Paid traffic strategies (Facebook Advertising & Google Ads Platforms)
• Attempting to reach free traffic through Search Engine Optimization (SEO) practices

If you’re open to expanding the skills that you currently have, that can make you more effective to help and recommend solutions to business owners (especially since you’re going to become a peer among those people now that you’re starting a business of your own – even though it’s online). 

That also means that the value that you can bring to the marketplace skyrockets and you can charge great money for what you know and do for others – or just use these skills to expand your own bottom line. 

If they weren’t working, then affiliate marketers wouldn’t be in the game and the offers would be available. 

Cons to the Affiliate Marketing Style of Entrepreneurship

• The level of competition is astronomical

If you thought other forms of business were cut-throat and difficult, then you can intensify that by infinity to measure up to what all you’re going to face as an affiliate marketer. 

This is a hard truth for new entrepreneurs to grasp – and I’m not entirely sure why. 

My guess is that they believe the internet is so vast and plentiful that there are enough transactions with money going on that they can get a piece of the action from. 

Unfortunately, that line of thinking isn’t enough to actually acquire money online. 

However, you’d better be prepared for the reality check that your marketplace entails the entire world – an international level –

This means that your competition for sales can be affiliate marketers from Russia, India, Australia, and so many other countries that also have internet access and resources similar to the training that you’re thinking of investing in. 

The information is out there and you can take the time to find it, stash it away in an accessible place, and reach in to pull out some more information to learn from as you have the time and see fit. 

The coaching programs out there are nothing more than a compilation of the information and what the mentors believe are in your best interest to know going into the affiliate marketing space – albeit, they’re different because what worked for one person may not have worked for another. 

If you’re not prepared for the harsh reality of the level of competitiveness with affiliate marketing, then you’re in for a rude wake-up call when your first few marketing campaigns and digital advertising efforts may not go your way. 

• The products and services you market may not be the best thing on the market

Think that the product you’re marketing is the hottest thing simply because it’s available for you to market and turn a profit with? 

Sometimes, the things that you’re pushing into the marketplace you probably haven’t tried on your own. 

Unlike the typical drop-shipping business model, where you can sell physical products online (like with a Shopify store, Amazon FBA, etc.), there are some suggestions made on occasion that you could request samples of what you’re actually marketing. 

With affiliate marketing, you’re either a customer or an affiliate – and nothing is for free in this industry. 

When you’re selecting a product, often times the advice you’re given is to find what’s selling really well and do your best to get on that marketing trend before it goes away. 

Also, some of the habits that I’ve seen marketers use can make a newbie feel really scuzzy about what they’re actually doing with their marketing approaches.

If you’re praying on the insecurities of people, is that really ethical or is that simply good business? 

Having someone question their self-image isn’t the reputation that I want in the marketplace when I’m trying to push a product through to buyers.

Some people might read this and think that the bottom line is what matters; making more money is what business is all about, and if you’re getting people to buy then you’re growing and life is good. 

Some people may not think or feel the same one that others do when it comes to this kind of marketing approach. 

If you’re not sold on the product yourself, why would want to tell others about it?

Would you really go after an overpriced product that has never had evidence show to prove that it delivers the results that its parent company claims to? 

I know that I’ve given this a solid try – affiliate marketing, that is – and I think that I would prefer to do something that doesn’t make me sick at night thinking that I told someone to buy something that I didn’t think would serve them at the highest level. 

• Search Engine Optimization (SEO) in Affiliate Marketing is Harder than Ever

If you’re convinced that you’re the next expert in ranking websites to the top of Google search results and you’ll end up getting all of the business – and that customers looking to buy are going to see you first, resulting in your pockets overflowing with cash… think again! 

I don’t mind rocking your boat and raining on your parade here because this blog is about bringing out the truth and delivering an honest review. 

Google launched an update in or around the year 2016 and it severely affected all the affiliate marketers that were trying to game the system and have a secret, strategic advantage in the marketplace. 

While it can still be a valid claim that content is king, the reputation of your website that you’re trying to rank – through backlinks, that act as votes for credibility and trust online –

That is the most key ingredient to being found as the most relevant option for the search term you’re attempting to be found for. 

The less authoritative and credible your brand new affiliate marketing review site is – and brand new websites often are – the less of a chance you’re going to have at being competitive and really getting the chance to see how many sales can come in from being at the top of Google.

I say that because you simply aren’t going to be at the top of Google when other heavy hitters have built their site better (for longer). 

• High difficulty in running Facebook Ads to affiliate marketing offers

Facebook already loathes affiliate offers, so you’ve got an uphill battle ahead of you if you’re still looking at going into this industry and thinking that you’re going to buy your way to the 6 figure income that the newest online entrepreneurs dreamed of prior to getting started. 

In addition, your low margin of profits that you’re already operating on will sink even lower with your choice to spend money on digital advertising. 

Further, this is an expense that you need to factor into your annual taxes, and I don’t know of anyone that seriously wants to factor in more steps between them and being done with the government in any given year of being in business. 

How Affiliate Marketing Measures Up to Lead Generation and Free Traffic

If you had been around in 2014 and learned about these things, then you might have found it more appealing. 

In reality, you could have slapped together a quick site that you could get seen really fast with a little bit of idealized content. 

From that moment on, it was easy to depend on the income coming in from being found at the top of Google…

All that mattered was your ability to get there quickly and become the most authoritative-looking site. 

Welcome to 2019; you’re in the affiliate marketing house of difficulty now. 

You can’t just be found for the long search terms and expect to rake in a handsome helping of profits anymore. 

Google made sure of that with their 2016 Panda update. 

If you’ve got some authority and credibility to you now, there’s a different level of appreciation that’s going to come from the master of search engines (also known as Google). 

In the old days, you could get away with bringing up your credibility by using phrases that were found to infer a reference to the same thing.

Just to illustrate:

• Inexpensive dog collar

Versus

• Affordable dog collar

When you would write high-quality, authoritative web content identifying each of these phrases – especially in two separate articles – you ran a higher chance in the pre-2016 free traffic through search results era with both of those articles that aimed to be found for those two search terms above. 

When it came down to the bare bones of what mattered in those days, people would expand their websites out to add multiple pages, several hundred on occasion, and have each of those pages all talking about that specific subject or topic. 

It worked, too! 

The more relevant search terms you were found for that connected to each of those two ideas listed above, the more credibility your website got – and, as a result, you were found in the top spots online to get all the free traffic that Google could bring you. 

Quality may have lacked in this content writing back then, but quantity seemed to be the name of the game and the person with the most ended up winning. 

This resulted in low-quality search results online and Google wanted to clean up the search results; hence, the Google Panda update of 2016. 

In 2019, you can now take one well-written piece of content and get found for multiple search results with search term phrases that are very closely connected to what the topic of the page is about. 

More importantly, your authority of the website that you’re posting plays a significant role in whether you’re getting seen first (or not). 

When people in the affiliate marketing industry wised up to what’s taking place, their content quality and backlink strategies were things that they went to work on. 

Your ability to get an affiliate review site to the top of Google for any of these highly competitive search terms can require tons of time, resources, and patience as it takes me approximately 12 to 24 months to actually get something no one has ever seen before to the top of my targeted search key terms.  

It’s no wonder, then, that paid traffic for affiliate marketing (or any marketing efforts in 2019) has become so appealing. 

Your results can be instant, and you can immediately begin evaluating what you need to tweak and adjust in order to make more money (or at least keep your profits steady, in some cases). 

Why is this still not a good idea? 

• Your ad, landing page, and several other factors of your process need to be so locked on and dialed in that it’s going to take you some diligent research and time to find a good way to actually pitch your referral link to the market of targeted buyers
• Even then, you’ll not see stellar metrics in the beginning – and there’s no guarantee that any form of your advertising is going to improve
• Every action taken by your desired audience renders your ad an expense that you have to front

No matter what happens – up to, and including, not making any money from your ad spend – you still have to pay Facebook for your privilege of testing your ad on their platform with their compiled audiences. 

Facebook will eat up your ad spend no matter what, so even if you break even or at a loss, your profit margin (had you ended up in the positive for making sales) will continue to be so low in the long-term – with no predictability of your profits increasing (or actually realizing a profit) that burn out will often ensue with newbies in the affiliate marketing space. 

If it were me, I’d stick with free traffic so I can…

• Step away from operating my business for spare time (Facebook ads won’t let you)
• Allow my business to run on autopilot (Paid traffic requires constant attention)
• I can know that traffic will still come into my lead gen sites often (and I don’t have to pay for each and every visitor that comes through the free traffic from search results)

I’d like to invite you to seriously consider the same – and take it from someone who has been there and tried that. 

Top Choice for Business in 2019: Free Traffic with Local Lead Generation

If you want a business model where you can work on something one time and leave it alone to keep paying you over and over, then maybe lead generation is more of a business model that’d appeal to you. 

Yes, it’s true that I’ve been associating myself and spending some of my spare time dabbling in affiliate marketing – and I’ve even seen a little bit of a profitable return on the labor I’ve put into it – the majority of my time for the last 5 years have been invested into local lead generation. 

When you have a lead gen site up on the internet…

• There’s less competition (only 10 to 30 companies – as opposed to a world of affiliate marketers)
• Profit margins are nearly 100 percent of what is paid to you
• Passive income can become a reality

How do I know? 

That’s how I quit my job in the first year of exploring this coaching program on lead generation for small businesses by amassing a whopping $10k in monthly income without having a second job to stress me out every day. 

In case you haven’t seen the value in this opportunity yet – meaning, with local lead generation – take it from one of our coaching program members that are working hard on a part-time basis – and they’re young for the level of success they’re achieving in the online business world (see below):

How easy is this business really?

I’ll give you the rigorous involvement of my daily regimen for the entire first year of this business model.

Here’s what I did:

1. Found a market and industry I wanted to serve
2. Ranked a lead gen site
3. Banked the profits that came in from free traffic
4. Rinse and Repeat

Said another way, there are minimal competition and tons of money in local; the masses simply haven’t caught on to the trend that’s taking off today. 

How simple is this?  Well…

The limo lean gen site that I posted in Lansing, Michigan is getting free traffic to pay me monthly, and it’s been doing that ever since I started my online business with this model in 2014. 

Here’s how the results look when it’s a finished product and working for you (see below):

There aren’t that many digital information resources that people seem to rely on to tell them whether a marketplace or a local service industry is going to be a good idea to enter into business with; the tools are just not credible, but can often be found to carry accurate documentation. 

Often times, people want information that comes from data aggregators online, but the truth is that software is designed by humans – therefore, they’re subject to errors just like we are. 

As a result, some assumptions are made on the numbers that software like this illustrates and claims are made that this isn’t a good industry or market to go into. 

Trust me; if there are a wide variety of local businesses serving that one industry in a market, then there’s a reason that they’re doing well: there’s plenty of business to go around. 

We point out what it takes to find these kinds of these in our lead gen coaching program which we’ve temporarily opened up to share the exciting business opportunity with people like you – serious about starting a side-hustle from your laptop at home.  

How did I guess that?

Well, you’ve read this far, so why not come a little further and get the full scoop for yourself…

In addition to quitting my 9 to 5, amassing a hearty $50,000 in monthly, passive, reliable income, here are just a few more reasons to see the value in what tons of our coaching program members appreciate and get to wake up to every day now:

• A business model that you can expand any time you want – no marketing trends or volume of competition can stop you from doing what you want to do
• Duplicate the Airbnb and Uber model of business: generate leads and pass them off to service providers for a chunk of change that can go right into your pockets
• Help business owners with a real service that can benefit their bottom line and change the life of their family for the long-term
• You can feel good knowing that you’re helping your local community service-based businesses with what they’re already looking for: more customers
• Since most business owners don’t have time to investigate the online world of what it takes to bring in more customers, you can leverage the marketplace for them and profit off the service
• Small businesses always have a marketing budget – and you could be added to that payroll every month, which means your target audience for clients in your business model can almost always afford to hire and pay you for the life of your relationship in bringing them more buyers
• HUGE PROFIT MARGINS from simply bringing more value to a business than what they were making before you entered the picture and partnered with them
• Don’t want to work at 8:00 AM?  Stay in your jammies and wake up when you want.  You’re the boss now, and it’s up to you what you want to do and when you want to do it

There are new students entering our coaching program all the time and landing deals quickly – either because they already know someone who owns a business that they can help or they get to work and get results coming immediately by leveraging the skills we teach them…

By the way, that limo site still pays me like clockwork every month, and has for years, at a rate of $750. 

This is what it looks like (see below):

And it’s the skills that you have that can pay the bills for the long-haul; after all, you can now tell a client that you are the bill that helps them to pay all of their other bills. 

My #1 recommendation for an online business in 2019 is local lead generation and you can check out to begin building a sustainable, long-term, reliable 6 -figures in annual salary from the comfort of your home and the privacy of your own laptop. 

Let’s talk about your goals already: CLICK HERE!

The process of generating income online is something that has always captured my attention.

If you’re reading this blog post, then I’m under the impression that you’ve also thought about building a side hustle of your own with marketing something online.

In the world of selling physical products through digital means (meaning an online store, for example), one such technique is called drop shipping.

A popular and widely used strategy on the internet these days, dropshipping has been known to be an excellent method for generating some cash with…

• very little setup
• minimal overhead costs
• an actual return on your investment with customers really buying from your product listing online

If it’s so great, then how come others aren’t actually indulging in the process today? 

There are many competitors in the drop shipping industry, believe it or not. 

The competition level is actually more fierce than most might anticipate when they’re brand new to the online marketing world and seek to be an entrepreneur from a laptop. 

I know that I was looking for a way to make a side income back in 2014 (not that long ago) and came across local lead generation for small business – and it absolutely changed my life for the better! 

• Minimal competition
• Enormous profit margins (near 100% – really!)
• Extremely mobile – I could do this anywhere

Within a year’s time, I was producing a bigger quarterly income with my side hustle than I was on my full-time, corporate job of $35,000 in downtown Detroit. 

Fast forward to only a handful of years after quitting my job (2019), I’m raking in $50,000 per month with passive income giving me the opportunity to investigate products like Product List Genie and deliver my honest review on it for your edification. 

While you may or may not readily see dropshipping marketers their products online – especially unless you know what you’re looking for to point them out –

I can assure that there are more than a fair share of some that think they know what they’re doing and trying their hardest to be the top competitor in their respective marketplace for a product that they either believe in or think can bring loads of profitable income their way. 

That being said, there are some intrinsic challenges with the model of dropshipping:

• Can you find a product that the market actually wants and will buy from you?
• How can you plan to get the word out that you have a product that you think people need?
• Will your marketing efforts place your listing in front of your ideal customer who is primed and ready to buy – with money in hand, just waiting for your offer to meet them face-to-face?

With the platform of Product List Genie – you can do that with exactness. 

What is Product List Genie Anyway?

Designed specifically for the benefit of those in the E-Commerce and physical products selling space, Product List Genie is a software of sorts. 

What it does is allow you to have your digital-based, online E-Commerce store virtually auto-populated with products that you can find from around the world wide web.

It opens to help you begin to identify what are those ideal products that you may have a chance to market for a profit – especially with the evaluation that the software makes for assessing the interest and market demand trends for each item.

Concerned that this product list produced by the software may not be a good fit for what you need? 

Not to worry!

There are regular updates to the product list provided in Product List Genie! 

As a matter of fact, the content within it – meaning the list of products – is updated every 24 hours (at a minimum). 

In addition, it doesn’t necessarily auto-update your store but it can give you the opportunity to select which products you are more interested in than the others.

While the recommendations are made, you still have full control over your online presence and can choose whichever products you’d like to place in your online store for dropshipping purposes. 

I was worried about that too, once. 

I haven’t seen the software hijack a store so I think your concern can be put to rest. 

The Product List Genie is simply present to help you along in your journey with E-commerce and is simply designed for assistance with product selection so you can increase your chances of selling what you list to those that are actually interested in purchasing them. 

The most serious of today’s dropshipping marketers could be accused of being out of their mind for not acquiring access to the Product List Genie.

It’s even perfect for those who’ve expressed an interest in starting their own physical products marketing store online but aren’t certain of just where to start; the software is as beginner friendly as anything could be in 2019. 

Giancarlo Barraza – The Man Behind Product List Genie

Sometimes this can be the fun part of the blog.

The majority of products, coaching programs, mentor opportunities, online business or work from home opportunities that I have had the distinct privilege of blogging about seem to have some rather interesting people – with an incredible entrepreneurial history – behind the establishment of whatever product or service is being discussed. 

Today, we get to learn a little more about the gentleman who is better known around the water coolers at offices and karaoke microphone of the popular crowds at parties as “Coach Giani.” 

Product List Genie’s successful Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Founder, Giancarlo Barraza has also been featured for another coaching and mentoring program – where he also has leadership positions, including President of the mastermind and Founder – it’s called the Millionaire Mastermind.

Hailing from the city and streets of the Disney capital of the world, Orlando, Florida, Coach Giani – as Wikipedia identifies – has been genuinely committed to the success of internet entrepreneurs around the globe for the better part of 10 years, delivering resources, tools, and mentorship for those serious enough to take advantage of his resources and turn a profit from home. 

Interested in the ever-captivating secret behind the continuously expansive net worth of coach, mentor, software developer, consultant and serial entrepreneur, Mr. Barraza? 

After all, he’s been generous enough to fabricate solutions to common problems that digital entrepreneurs face as they seek to achieve the coveted dream of making money from home (and in a perfect world, without having to do a whole lot of work to earn that money, too). 

His claim to success – in his own credits – are specifically to his winter mindset and desire for massive success:

• The mindset to always win, and never give up
• The desire for more success, and refusing to give in – from establishing the entrepreneurial goal all the way to landing a victorious defeat over the personal demons and self-talk that doubted him

If anyone were to be an example for me, it might be Coach Giani as he’s always gone after what he wanted and never gave in to problems when they arose and stood between him and his aspirations.

A Quick Overview of the Product List Genie

Intended to be an automated software system in and of itself, the Product List Genie was founded for the purpose of helping an aspiring entrepreneur in the physical products marketing space to connect with their Shopify store, identify popular products (which the software highly recommends), and then populate them into the online store –

The intent seems to be in the expedited positioning of the solo entrepreneur to focus less on product selection or technological hindrances in posting to their Shopify platform, and increase their focus on where it matters most – generating web traffic to their Shopify store’s products so buyers can convert (meaning, buy the products) into documented, successful sales. 

It’s as if you have a team of in-house specialists to help you find the trending products that have demonstrated their ability to be bought and sold online. 

The managing team of the software maintains regular and close watch of the products in the market and the important aspects of data that matter to an entrepreneur in dropshipping. 

It’s only when the changes are necessary that new products are added to the list with appropriate and corresponding information so that the marketer can make the best, most educated decisions about what to select…

That’s a lot like what this blog is about – keeping you informed. 

I wouldn’t be doing my job if I wasn’t keeping you informed of the opportunity you had to learn more about various coaching programs and products.

Further, I wouldn’t be doing my job if I didn’t demonstrate to you that it was because of local lead generation for small businesses with free organic traffic from search results that have put into position to continue writing blog posts like this for you – not thru dropshipping, e-Commerce, affiliate marketing, or any other kind of program. 

That includes the Product List Genie, which has a reputation of populating a list of products every single day that have been known to bring the quickest rates of sales delivery if placed in your Shopify store with the best kind of buyer traffic for those specific products – sourced directly from American suppliers. 

The pricing might be a concern – or at least it has been when this product first came out. 

The trend with Shopify stores has been to use an overseas supplier for the products marketing online so that profit margins can be slightly or greatly higher. 

The quality of products hasn’t seemed to suffer and the numbers from the Product List Genie seem to suggest that sales potential continue to be high so fact that suppliers are from America appear to not be any sort of hindrance on sales performance. 

What can Product List Genie Do for Me?

On one hand, as a consumer of a product, this seems to be a very sensible question to ask. 

On the other hand, as an entrepreneur, looking at things in terms of expenses may not be as effective as recognizing what you’re spending money on (especially when it’s for your business) as an investment. 

I hope that the following information can help you to better recognize the benefits and features that are afforded to those that leverage the Product List Genie software in their Shopify store and dropshipping business:

• Perfect Automation

Realize the power that comes from not having to set-up your own Shopify store. 

Instead, appreciate that the software can deliver you the products that are ready, and primed, for buyers to acquire. 

Delivery is also managed by the software – I’d say that’s a huge burden off of our shoulders as Shopify store owners. 

• Top of the Line Products

Looking for information on what trends are coming about?

Concerned over what it’s going to take to get these products sold? 

From the trendiest of trends in product selection to counsel and recommendations on how to go about getting traffic (which will hopefully convert into customers) to see your products and/or visit your Shopify store online. 

Let’s see other products give both data and tips for selling online.

• Support from an Entire Group

A mastermind program in nature, Product List Genie is more than just software for you to use and throw away. 

With intrinsic value, you’ll have access to fellow marketers in the space of dropshipping and the actual leadership team of Product List Genie that you can talk to, connect with, ask questions, and receive guidance when you feel you need it. 

Be fearless when it comes to maximizing your value out of

• the training you’re receiving
• the product you’re using
• implementing your needed systems or recommended tips for sales funnels

After all, what is a team, a mastermind, a coaching program, a product, or a service for if there’s no assistance in implementing those very things to acquire profits from the internet – the whole reason you’ve entered into this program in the first place (or at least, that’s what the company hopes you did it for)? 

• Advertising Strategies and Advice Simplified and Streamlined

Need to find the fastest way to get buyers to see your store?

Facebook Ads are nothing to be concerned about. 

Intended to be simple, your paid traffic recommendations can be powerful if implemented smartly and reviewed both closely and regularly. 

Want attention to your store immediately? 

Pay attention to what is in store with this product and program, and you can learn more about the solutions to challenges you might face, as well as insights from top executing and successful entrepreneurs who’ve already become success stories thanks to the resources provided in the Product List Genie program. 

• Current Product Recommendations

If you’re concerned about being recommended products that are so out of date that your grandparents would have bought them, then you can put your emotions and entrepreneurial heart at-ease. 

Product List Genie can track marketing trends from as early as today and yesterday to be sure that you’re getting fed the most accurate information available anywhere that addresses the most optimal information in dropshipping wisdom.

As stated, their daily updates provide accurate information so you know what products are current and of interest to your store audiences today – not last week or yesterday’s top picks.

Stay up-to-date with the most accurate information around, straight from the experts at Product List Genie. 

Why Product List Genie?

If you’re going to market physical products online, one of the best pieces of advice Coach Giani always gave was to know what people are interested in today, not yesterday. 

He was able to build a routine out of his regular habits of finding the best-performing goods that he could advertise online, and Giancarlo went to work by selling those products in an affiliate marketing fashion. 

Fast forward the timeline of the story to today, Mr. Barraza identifies with a variety of software and programs that are directed toward the success of the online entrepreneur. 

Product List Genie is one of those resources that aggregates his knowledge over the years and combines his trending experience and success with the marketing of products online so you can be successful today. 

Before you miss your chance, Product List Genie has been designed for those in the dropshipping industry to acquire a one-stop shop of a solution for all of their most challenging of dropshipping chores. 

It’s important to remember that sales are the lifeblood of a business; the best way to keep on getting more sales is to do more activity that enables more attention to be brought to the physical products that you’re listing online. 

The Product List Genie software could be for you if you’re open to…

• Less product research
• More automation
• Data on dropshipping’s latest trends and what’s hot for your Shopify store today

Bottom line: if you are looking to make your dropshipping business a success online, meaning you want the best chances available to achieve profits with your physical products selling business venture, then Product List Genie is your go-to resource for everything you could need in an asset while you’re on the grind. 

Why Local Lead Generation is the Right Business Online in 2019

It’s no surprise that many people talk about dropshipping like it’s the best thing since someone figured out how to slice the loaf of bread and package it for others to enjoy in a mass reproducible product form. 

The benefits seem to precede the industry and social circles assume that this is the best way to turn profits online – especially with all the resources available to gather data and automate your work. 

Even dropshipping – despite its great qualities discussed above and in other communities – still has drawbacks and unfortunate lulls in its performance. 

What if, however, your supplier (of the good your marketing) runs out of supply in their stock room? 

You still have orders with timetables that need to be met and you’ve been an exclusive marketer on behalf of one supplier for quite some time. 

You’ve already collected payments from the consumers, sent the sales list to your supplier and they’ve just notified you that they cannot fulfill the product requests. 

Do you refund the money to the customers?

Do you try and find an alternative supplier that can deliver in the same time frame?

What do you do? 

I’ll confess, that’s not a pretty picture and I’m not excited to be discussing this topic. 

However, it’s an important detail to assess – especially if you’re considering entering the dropshipping business for yourself from home. 

While it’s a simple business model and doesn’t take long to put its structure in place, you could easily be ready to drive web traffic to your products in no time flat.  (That’s an exaggeration; it takes some time and learning, but with the automation discussed above, it can take even less time these days.)

Now, what about a price hike that your supplier never told you about, and now you still can’t fulfill the shipment manifest because your supplier is refusing to deliver on the promises you’ve made to your buyers. 

If you don’t control the assets, then any problem can blow your windmill off course and have you heading down a trajectory that is different from the reason you signed up in business – which, as I suspect, was to start an entrepreneurial endeavor that can have you turning profits

• quickly
• steadily
• without adding a second job to your day

If you’re working from the internet and not in control of things physically, then it would be nice to have maximum control of your resources digitally. 

If you were in control of what you were trying to move on the internet, then you’d be able to…

• choose who you would spend your time with (like prospective clientele who pose a serious interest in what you have to offer, meaning you don’t have to waste your time with tire kickers)
• identify your price, negotiate your price with a potential buyer, and even drive discounts or promotions if you really wanted to because you are in control and get to make all the decisions about what you own

When you’re using free traffic for local lead generation, you’re in the driver seat! 

I was able to control the digital properties of what I was working within Lansing, Michigan about 5 years ago, right when I was getting started with this business model. 

I was able to superglue these pieces of virtual real estate to the top of Google and have them generate leads that a local small business was able to buy from me for a monthly rent rate of $750. 

Take a look at just where I thought would be the best place to put them online – the top of Google search results, where they acquire free traffic and turn them into cold hard cash for me (see below). 

As a result, this business model has paid me so well that I no longer have a 9 to 5, I get to write a blog like this (which I love doing and wake up every morning to do at least one blog each day), and I get to wear what I want – which means no more dress code for a corporate job in the blizzard-like winters covering the urban streets of the downtown Detroit, Michigan (where I worked). 

I get to control my time and do what I want, where I want, when I want, and still have passive income from lead gen sites like you saw in the map listing and search results above using free traffic to bring me cash on demand.

After a few years and 45+ lead gen sites spitting off a grand total of no less than $50,000 in monthly, passive income cash flow, I also get to enjoy the luxuries that come from the local lead generation business, including (though certainly not limited to):

• Leveraging an extremely simple business model that requires I only generate leads with free traffic and send them to a business so they can pay me monthly
• This is the same business model Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb have used for years
• Enormous Profit Margins and Passive Income let me make money when I’m not working – and this money continues to come in around the clock, 24/7/365
• I get to make a living helping business owners to expand their bottom line and do so while making a difference in their community as they simply help more customers that I’m bringing them
• This business model gives to business owners what they’re already looking for and have a marketing budget pre-determined monthly and annually in their business budget: customer acquisition strategies
• I could work in my underwear if I really wanted because my laptop and an internet connection are all that stands between me and the ability to run my business

Now that I’m making well over multiple 6 figures in a given year, I’ll say that a handful of years was all I needed to be financially stable and free to live life on my terms. 

If that’s why you’re looking at the dropshipping industry initially, which is my guess in how you ended up finding this blog post, then I can honestly say you remind of my 2014 self who hunted for something better on the internet than what I was experiencing in life at the time as well. 

By the way – that limo lead gen site that you saw in the map listing picture up above, here’s what it looks like; this is what has been paying me ever (since I started this business in 2014) a passive income of $750 every single month. 

I’ve never gone back to touch it up or help it and it pays me like clockwork. 

Take a look below for yourself:

Is this as exciting as it sounds?

I’m pretty chill of a guy, but even I get excited when I’m writing to you about this. 

So yeah, I’d say it is.

In fact, we’re happy to show you how to make your first $10k per month from your laptop at home just as I did in my first year to quit my job. 

We don’t guarantee results, but I’m living proof that it’s a real business opportunity with real results; if I’m not enough proof, then our coaching program of over 3,000 motivated, home-based entrepreneurs could be. 

You’ll learn in our local lead generation coaching program how to leverage free traffic around the clock to build your first 6 figure income, internet-based revenue stream in 2019. 

I look forward to speaking with you more about what you’re looking to achieve in 2019 with a side hustle like this.

Many Amazon FBA (meaning Fulfillment by Amazon) coaching and mentoring programs have seemed to be popping up all over the place.  

While it makes a lot of sense to have a coach or guide – along with a training platform – to help you through your online business endeavor, one can’t help but wonder whether there is a credible source that you can trust.

After all, each coach that is out there seems to claim to have the edge over the competition and that’s why you should join their platform as a member – because they said it’s a good idea.

How about a third-party piece that identifies whether or not the program is credible, well-researched, and understood as something that someone could actually enter into and make money from. 

Unfortunately, that’s not always how the internet works. 

Lucky for you, I’m a successful entrepreneur.  I’m not exactly saying that to brag, but rather to demonstrate that I have the time and financial resources on my hands to check out a lot of these coaches first-hand. 

Thanks to the local lead generation coaching program that I got started with only a few short years ago, I’ve been able to…

• Fire my Boss by leaving my 9 to 5
• Leave the corporate life to wear what I want when I go into work
• Run my business wherever I want, whenever I want
• Outsource the work so I can do less and earn more
• Spend my time writing a blog like this so you can make a well-informed decision about your considerations for starting a business from home

For those of you reading this that actually have made it in your life – as in, you’re already raking in a hefty $10,000 in a month on average, it’s a smart play to go ahead and diversify your income. 

So, thanks one and all for reading my blog and checking out whether this course would be a good fit to add to your streams of income.

Above all, never stop learning. 

That’s partly why I’m doing this blog here…

I’m sort of a business connoisseur that likes to see what’s in the marketplace and explore whether there’s something in each of these programs that I could personally take away.

That said, local lead generation may or may not be for you, but it’s worth taking a crack it. 

All I’m saying is it has served me well and I can now afford to spare the time – and investment required – to give each of these courses a try… and I can do that because of the passive income I’ve been able to generate through the internet. 

Meanwhile, we this young face popping up all over the world wide web and ask ourselves who that girl is that is now the face and representative of the brand Wholesale Ted. 

Running an extremely informative YouTube channel revolving around the work of the Amazon FBA program, Wholesale Ted seems to direct people on the best practices for selling physical products on Amazon. 

What’s in the Name: Wholesale Ted?

There appears to be a dynamic duo at play here in this coaching program.

Especially when it comes to the branding and audience recognition of the name Wholesale Ted, Sarah seems to be going at the marketing rather hard in videos and other aspects of imagery for the course. 

Her mentor – his name is Ted – may have joint ventured with Sarah to bring this product to the marketplace.  

Here’s how I see things breaking down between them…

• Sarah makes the videos and carries the name in all things that are recorded in an audio and visual format
• Ted – the mentor – works all of the words, phrases, and other forms of copy that they intend to leverage and market the mentoring program for more students to buy into

Newsletter or not, the team of expert marketers are simply confident to be working together.

They’ve even spoken up in a reply to a recent comment they had received online inquiring about who Ted is when the spokeswoman’s name is obviously not Ted, but Sarah, in Wholesale Ted.

They were nice enough to be incredibly transparent about their arrangement, their coaching program, and how their respective roles contribute toward expanding the presence and awareness of Wholesale Ted on the world wide web

See what they had to say in the image below: (see below)

There’s a routine pitch that they keep making at the end of the videos that they continue to post on the internet: it’s their mastermind approach to landing a recurring revenue stream of $10,000 in a 30-day plan. 

If you’ve already seen this eBook that they’re advertising, you might still be wondering what most of us who haven’t seen it yet are curious about:

• Is there a catch to the eBook information, or in Wholesale Ted intrinsically?
• Also, how are these two able to constantly generate profits from the volume of attention they’re continuing to grow with their online presence?

Well, there seems to be a funnel approach to those who decide to take action on the free offers that they’re making available to the public. 

For example:

1. You can share your email information in exchange for this $10k/month layout from our eBook – $x.xx value but can be yours if you take action right now
2. Upsell offer 1: You could buy into this membership program for a steady agreement of $67.00 every 30 days
3. Upsell offer 2: you could give Wholesale Ted a 7-day trial for the low price of only $1.00, and then when your 7-days of testing the training are over – if you don’t cancel within those 7-days – they’ll assume that you’re happy to continue your access to the training and will continue to ding your credit card to the tune of the monthly rate listed above. 

I’m not necessarily saying that’s what they do or don’t do, but as someone who has turned profits online for quite some time now, it might be an approach that I would take and I’m guessing this is something they’re either doing right now, have tested in the past, or may one-day implement in their marketing strategy. 

Without further delay, I’m happy to provide to you my unbiased review of the program that I’ve looked into – so that you don’t have to spend your hard-earned money testing the program out for yourself before finding out what’s really on the inside of Wholesale Ted. 

We’ll also attempt to consider whether the actual paid, upgrade aspect to this training program is also worth your time and funds as you go forward in your entrepreneurial endeavors.

If you’re not certain about the Amazon FBA Business model being a good fit for you as a whole, I’d like to try my hand at identifying some of the goods and “not-so-goods” about the physical selling of products in the Amazon marketplace – especially the things that people who sell these training courses just might not want you to know before you invest in their coaching program. 

How could I possibly qualify to discuss the Amazon FBA Business model if I’ve been so successful at Local Lead Generation for Small Business and have quit my job on the $10k that I made in my first year in that business model?

Simple, I’m always looking to diversify my income portfolio and I’m excited to be reaching out to you about my experiences that I’ve gained from having built my Amazon FBA Business from home over the past (nearly) 1 year. 

When someone is in the trenches and doing what you have been considering doing yourself, there’s probably some rationale to the thoughts they’re sharing; I know I’d give them the time of day if they’ve lived the course that I’m considering traveling down.  

That’s just me, though. 

Also, let’s explore a genuine comparison between the online business opportunities on the market today versus Amazon FBA Business.

Of course, I’ll gladly provide you with my top pick online for the #1 business model that newbies should seriously consider – and seasoned veterans in the internet marketing industry as well. 

To start, let’s explore the free eBook of Wholesale Ted…

The Downloadable Wholesale Ted Review eBook that Discusses Drop Shipping for $10k

For a completely free eBook provided by a brand that is known for pushing a training course into the marketplace, it’s not common to see a piece of literature that has this much useful tips and intelligent points about the E-commerce industry and drop shipping overall. 

From the beginning, you are captivated in a riveting, non-fiction page-turner about Amazon FBA, including:

• Identifying products that you can sell profitably
• The necessary to steps to finding and building a relationship with your product supplier
• Although your product ends up getting shipped from your lower cost suppliers (which are typically stationed overseas), you’ll quickly discover why that doesn’t matter – and why the extended shipping times are also an irrelevant factor to producing an income with this business model
• This can be scaled and expanded out, operating this entirely from the comfort of your own home – and it seems to be recommending that you have a genuine ability to make this work for you inside of a daily time investment of only 2 hours

The tips and tricks of the trade that they provide in this eBook are rather stellar, to say the least. 

Of course, the generic aspects addressed in this course aren’t sufficient to get you up and running in your own Amazon FBA business from home; the tactical and strategic steps, technology involved, and other forms of helpful wisdom to get moving are exclusively reserved for the premium members who’ve paid their monthly $67 to be the numbered among the privileged few from Wholesale Ted.

Further Exploring the Private Membership of Wholesale Ted

Upon upgrading your membership to the premium level of $67 – in recurring payments to keep your access to the training section regularly open for yourself to refer back to as you progress in your business venture from home – you’ll get Wholesale Ted’s insider approach on launching a successful Amazon business. 

Of the tons of business coaching programs that I’ve invested in, this is by far the most affordable platform of mentoring and coaching that I have come across for the Amazon FBA industry. 

Let’s think about this as an overall vantage point for making money online:

By the numbers, you can spend $67 in an entire calendar year (12 months) and spend only $804.00 for annual training access – with the prospective notion that you’ll be able to turn this wisdom into a profitable income that they claim (via their eBook) should help you land $10,000 on a recurring, monthly basis? 

For the nature of their training videos – and they’re rock-solid, I must say – sacrificing over $800 in a year for a possible trade-off of pocketing $10k is a handsome proposition.  

It must do well for their marketing of their coaching program as well. 

As someone who has indulged in the Amazon FBA Business personally, I can attest that Wholesale Ted delivers on their claims with some excellent business tips about this model in their training videos. 

One in particular that I’ve noticed Wholesale Ted delivers on is their unique advice on researching and selecting your industry/niche and product that you’d like to push out into the marketplace with your business. 

Why is this such a big deal?

Why is this point of their training something that I’m touching on and embellishing so much?

Well, first off, I’m not trying to affiliate with Wholesale Ted and I’m not going to pitch for them.

Sincerely, I’m not trying to turn a profit and build them up to some extravagant, stellar team that you have to join – and then supposedly give you a link to buy into the training from me. 

This is an unbiased review – and it wouldn’t be so unbiased if I were trying to pitch you here on the Wholesale Ted mentoring and coaching program. 

I wouldn’t blame you for holding that concern, though.  There seem to be a lot of scuzzy review websites that claim to give an unbiased review – then pitch you on the back end to buy. 

Here, that’s not going on.  It’s your business from home and your life to do with what you please; while I have had a successful local lead generation business that has allowed me to review this for you, you’re going to take this information and – hopefully – make some business decisions that can help you for the better. 

My initial is where you think you might be if you didn’t have this unbiased review accessible to you?

Besides, your ability to pick a niche and product that the marketplace not only has a demand for but hungry buyers searching for that exact product, is exactly the skill you need in the beginning in order to try and position yourself best for your initial launch and profits as you begin your Amazon FBA business. 

Since I’ve found some struggle in my early days with the Amazon business venture, I can attest to your needing to really dig in and find something that will be perfect for your business.

Failing to find the right product can result in your possibly not turning any profits in your first several years in business – or ever, as nothing is guaranteed. 

Now, there are some other training platforms that attempt to make things easier in your product research – things like…

• Jungle Scout software
• ASINspector software
• Other tools that are somewhat informative and reliable

They’re information products that you can leverage to gain greater insight on the potential market and products that you’re considering pedaling on Amazon and going through the trouble of putting up a product listing to get seen by prospective buyers. 

Believe me when I say that product selecting is beyond key to this business model! 

After you’ve accomplished that feat, the next steps are rather standard for each product you end up deciding to get involved with…

• Order samples and actual product inventory in large quantities
• Remember: since you’re ordering up front, you need to find a way to store them safely
• Fabricate customized business labels for your products and shipping
• Of course, you’ve got to put up your Amazon listing for your product (that’s a given, though)
• The hardest part of this business – in my opinion – is getting sales through optimizing your product listing to be seen by more buyers for less advertising costs

That’s a brief overview of what you’ll most likely have to face when you get started with the Wholesale Ted coaching and mentor support course about the Amazon FBA industry and the launching of a physical product selling, home-based business from your laptop.

The Pros to Getting Started with Amazon FBA

• An expanding business model that you can leverage to carry more inventory and have more opportunities to make profits as you progress

Upon identifying that one product that you have faith in being an item you can successfully turn a profit with, now all you have to do is take the orders that come in and deliver that list of requests to the actual supplier of the product you’re advertising on Amazon with. 

This is an awesome business model because the Fulfillment by Amazon aspect of the Amazon FBA Business means that arrangements will be made between your supplier and Amazon for warehousing the goods, shipping and packaging logistical concerns will be handled without stressing you out, and this can give you the opportunity to begin researching for – and launching another product online that you could turn into profits with this same business model. 

The exciting thing about this is that the business model is scalable. 

What does that even mean?

This means that – for the very low overhead and inventory requirements that you are expected to engage within Amazon FBA – you can be afforded the chance to put another product on the marketing shelf (metaphorically speaking) which can help you to engage more buyers to get products from you. 

If anything, this is giving you more chances to make sales online and grow your bottom line. 

If you were trying to own a restaurant chain, it’d be hard to try and expand the business much in the way that you’d try and do so in the Amazon FBA. 

You’d have overhead, a lot of resources that you’d have to buy upfront, and hiring staff would just add more paperwork and more complications to the operation that you’ve got going on. 

When you’re working from home and in this online fashion of business, you aren’t required to have hired help or a variety of other traditional investments to start. 

That means – by comparison – you can exhibit some enthusiasm for what you’re doing. 

It’s like shoe stores who have multiple displays of shoes – even though it’s one place, like Amazon is one location on the internet – you still have multiple products displayed for buyers to come in, take a look at what you have available, and they might decide to buy from you instead of a competitor. 

The point is that you can have more products listed online and have more chances to be noticed by your ideal customer. 

• Start your Amazon physical products business with nothing more than internet access and a laptop

Business investments aside – like training programs and more – you can really do this kind of a business model anywhere you can physically access the internet. 

For me, brick and mortar locations that require your constant attention are just not something I’m a fan of. 

I don’t know about you, but before my online profits came about, I was residing in downtown Detroit, Michigan. 

The winters were bad and the local business owners seemed to stress anytime there were rumors of heavy snowfall or other forms of inclement weather. 

With the online business venture that you’re exploring, you can keep things online and never have to shovel another bit of snow as long as you live just so you can hopefully turn a profit. 

Another bonus to having your business online is that you don’t have to worry about bad things happening to your location – like bomb threats, acts of terrorism, robberies, etc. 

Instead, by being online, you have less to worry about and more opportunities for turning profits that you get to focus on. 

For me, that’s a winning formula! 

• Amazon is probably here to stay for the long haul

As one of the top three most visited websites online, just behind Google and Facebook (in that order), do you honestly believe that Amazon – one of the largest digital retailers that can be accessed in nearly every nook and cranny from the world – will be going out of business anytime in the near future?

I didn’t think so; and I don’t believe they’re going to disappear either. 

While growing exponentially – even as the current leader in all things digital E-Commerce – Amazon is attempting to reduce the time it takes to deliver goods and services to the consumers on a regular basis. 

This includes the company’s endeavors for:

1. Deliveries by air (with a drone)
2. Local warehouses that nearby customers can visit for their version of an “in-store” pickup
3. Some cities are now enjoying the luxury of 1-hour delivery from goods purchased online

I’d say that Amazon is continuing to pioneer and revolutionize how goods purchased from a distance are getting sent to the customer, even as the largest growing digital retailer and the third-most visited website on the internet in 2019.

• More everyday citizens are making purchases on the internet as time progresses

If you’re looking to initiate your Amazon FBA Business from home, you couldn’t have picked a better time to get started. 

This is awesome news! 

Ironically, only 13 percent of all purchases made for physical products actually occur online worldwide. 

Where are the remainder of goods being bought and/or sold?

The same old-fashioned way that they’ve always been acquired: physical locations, built with brick and mortar. 

The point here is that society is getting on-board with the ability to make purchases online and wait for deliver.  

Add to that the unique privilege we’re experiencing with technology; to be able to expect our wait times to reduce in the coming years is very exciting – and anyone who is getting in to the selling of physical products online could be able to have a direct profit off of such trends that we’re experiencing right now. 

• Variety of Products to Choose from in Order to Make Listings and Sell

It’s true. 

In addition to the wealth of product research assets and methodologies available to each of us in 2019, there’s always the issue of finding a supplier.

With other places popping up – like Alibaba Express, for example – connecting with suppliers for products that you can retail has never been easier. 

Unfortunately, you still have other issues like language barriers and long distances (most suppliers that are in your ideal price ranges for products to retail with tend to still be the better partners in this business model when they’re located overseas). 

• Establish a Personal Brand that you can Professional Sell for a Profit

Mergers and Acquisitions are a concept that has been around for years. 

The possibility that you have here is that you can open a brand online with this business model that is all your own. 

Why is that a big deal? 

Often times, Mergers and Acquisitions discussions initiate because one business finds value in something that another business has. 

If a partnership can’t be arranged, then offers could be made to buy the business from those in charge of founding and establishing the business from the ground up. 

If your brand becomes a household name or is otherwise doing so well that your competition takes notice of it, offers to buy your brand name could come down the pike and you could be in for an extremely exciting payday with the right offer and economic climate. 

Other Considerations for Amazon FBA

Since Amazon’s website and product listings receive visitors by the swarm on a daily basis – and this is definitely a recurring theme here –

You might be able to find your product on the first page, and in the first search result of products, which can then bring you a wealth of profits month after month.  

In other words, you can win in your market and with your product in your industry if you get to this coveted position on the Amazon listing of products in the marketplace. 

In order to land there, however, you need to have a ton of attention, along with quality reviews that are highly positive, top-rated, and they frequently come to your product listing by the bushel. 

Also, you can rest easy that your supplier and Amazon just might have a good working relationship to where all of the logistical concerns are taken care of. 

That means you could rest in peace and confidence with Amazon and your supplier both going to bat on your business and making sure that the heavy lifting is done – in your favor and in a timely manner. 

The catch? 

Ensure that your inventory is in sufficient supply every single month. 

That’s why discussions are had to order your product inventory in bulk – as you need it – from the supplier. 

The shipping has been a concern, but Wholesale Ted seems to think that it’s not that big of a deal. 

The Cons of Getting Started with Amazon FBA

With opposition being realized in all things these days, you can be certain that not everything is what it’s cracked up to be with the Amazon FBA Business industry. 

How bad can things actually be, though? 

Many people tend to have this perception that buyers will flock to their business listing of products if they simply post them online and make them look somewhat profession and decent – maybe even appealing. 

Appearance really can’t be the 100% most effective and influential option for buyers to want to get their needs fulfilled through your listing…

They have to be able to find you, first and foremost. 

This is a recurring problem for most business and isn’t exactly exclusive to your Amazon FBA endeavor: obscurity can be one of the top reasons that businesses close. 

Reliable sources who’ve studied the search results online have actually found that less than 30 percent of all digital product listing visitors will actually bother to explore the second page (or further, for that matter) of the marketplace. 

That means that your success or failure could largely depend on your ability to place your product listing not only at the first page of Google – but also get it found closer to the top of the first page. 

Why is that also important? 

It’s the nature of the beast. 

This is a cold, hard-to-grind industry – that’s something that people don’t tell you.

It’s frustrating to me that people who are trying to sell you their coaching course don’t advise you that this business model requires an individual dedication that suggests that you’re ready to fight for your income from home. 

With the heat and competition out there – and more people coming in to the Amazon FBA business to do exactly what you’re thinking of doing –

The coveted top 10 or 15 spots that are shown on the first page of product search results suggests that you’ll have a harder time landing in these spots as time progresses and this business model persists. 

Unless you’re ready to play the game and do the work required to be noticed – daily, and frequently – by your perfect customers, who have money to buy what you’re pitching, maybe this really isn’t going to be the best business model (or fit) for your needs or wants in starting a business online from home. 

What Factors contribute to your product listing climbing to those coveted 10 to 15 positions in Amazon product search results?

Amazon has been making changes to what they allow credit to be delivered for in their product listings algorithm. 

Product reviews.

Plain and simple; hard to get in bulk, but it’s necessary and they’re the only thing that Amazon allows in order to maintain the integrity in their marketplace.

Like it or not, that’s what they’ve decided and that’s what you’ll be subjected to if you really want to sell something within Amazon and turn a might hefty profit with it. 

Once upon a time, competition could be so fierce that people have found ways to game the system and attempt to make it seem that good reviews were coming to their listings in bulk – even though it was just the individual Amazon FBA businessperson that phoned in the reviews and made a ton of fake review postings to their product listing.  

It was a shady practice and Amazon began to quickly notice that something was awry. 

After 2016 came and went, the nature of the reviews is now called into question and Amazon has been cracking down on the inspection of your product listing reviews. 

If you’re not getting quality reviews in a very ethical and honest way, then you’re not going to last very long in this business model. 

The opportunity to get fake reviews is now over – and you have to play the game honestly just like everyone else. 

Fail to comply, and try this anyway, and you could get your Amazon FBA agreement banned – which means your investment in the Wholesale Ted coaching course will have been for naught. 

At this point, the Amazon FBA business can be won through doing these things well:

• Select a good product that is in high demand
• Post the product listing and get it ready to be found online
• Optimize the listing and do everything in your power for the Amazon algorithm to read it and give you credit where and when it’s due
• Ensure the branding of your product and business is on-point
• Acquire natural, authentic, top-notch, quality, extremely positive and high-rated reviews for your product listing
• Continue the above aspects for each product listing as you can – daily – to try and be the top option in Amazon search results

What’s at stake?

More buyers for less marketing costs come from being the top search result in the marketplace. 

It’s just an ideal thing to achieve! 

Even after doing all of those things in your power in order to try and be found at the top…

The one thing that Amazon looks at the most to see if you’re worth being shown as the most relevant, top search result for a product query in their marketplace is:

Conversions.

How many people have bought your product?

That’s what will determine where your product places.

How do you get people to buy your product if you’ve never sold anything before online? 

Therein lies the trick, my friend. 

You’ve got to get started somewhere – just like everyone else with a new product and product listing. 

If people aren’t buying your product above your competition’s product listings, then no amount of individual work that you do is going to change the fact that you’re not going to be regarded as the top option for your product’s niche and/or industry. 

Here’s another drawback: how many of your competitor’s product listings are getting the same product from the same supplier?

Now, you’ve got more in common with the other product listings that you’re trying to beat out in the marketplace. 

What do you do now?

How do you stand out?

It’s apparent that some business acumen and genuine creativity are the anomalies that others also don’t tell you are required in order to win in the Amazon Business game. 

Even if your competition isn’t selling from the same supplier, you’re probably going to see extremely close – if not, exact – replicas of your same product listing. 

In terms of performing ethical business practices online, there are still some not so professional things done online that others still engage in the practice of doing for the hope that they’ll gain a competitive edge and increase their conversions.

It’s amazing to me the great lengths that competitors in Amazon will go to in order to see more sales, as well as the opportunity to climb higher in the product listings so their product can be seen ahead of more of their competition — up to and including walking the line of getting their account banned. 

Stiff Competition: Copy Your Advertising Ideas

For example, if you’ve put a lot of time and creativity into your product listing, there are competitors that can also see your product listing (in addition to customers).

What your competition might come in and do is copy what you’ve posted and hope that they can put that into their product listing so they can be a winner in the marketplace and beat out more of the competition. 

Are you seeing how cut-throat this marketing thing online can be in the physical products arena?

Stiff Competition: Undercutting Pricing

Beyond the stealing of ideas that could have been originated by the good people in this game, you also have competitors that can swoop into the marketplace – some of them never having been in the market that you’re currently in – and underbid your pricing. 

With the constant undercutting, lower-level pricing and challenges in the marketplace to keep costs low, doing this in the marketplace by some of your competition can drastically reduce the chances you have of making a sale –

This thereby pushes you further down in the listing of products online and lessens your chances of achieving the profits that you dreamed of when you got started with Wholesale Ted.

As the prices in the marketplace drive down, your desire to compete could result in your willingness to drive your price down so that you can try and stick with the products that are converting and elevate your product listing so you can get seen by more and more customers.

This practice can hurt you because that reduces your profit margins even more – and since you’re retailing, we can all acknowledge that your current profits generated from the products that you’ve decided to sell really aren’t all that great or worth selling after all. 

Undercutting prices can be a great situation for customers because they’ll be happy to pay increasingly lower prices as time progresses. 

For you, or other buyers in the marketplace, it’s one of the worst concepts that could ever come to a digital marketplace – especially for entrepreneurs like yourself that just want to do less work and get paid more money. 

From the sound of it, all this work is turning the Amazon FBA Business industry into a full-time job. 

Is that really why you started looking at an online side hustle in the first place? 

I know this wouldn’t have been a good fit for me when I was looking at business options online in 2014.

What is Better: Local Lead Generation or Amazon FBA?

For those that have been following my blog and reading these reviews of other business ventures that are options on getting trained to begin profiting online…

They know that I also sell on Amazon with my own line of products.

However, the majority of my personal revenue made from the laptop revolves around the local lead generation business that I’ve been full-time in ever since I quit my joke of a 9 to 5 in 2015. 

At the time that I left my corporate gig in downtown Detroit, I was raking in $10k per month. 

Now, in 2019, I’m kicking the entrepreneur’s dream to the tune of $50,000 in monthly revenue – and yes, it’s completely passive income from my lead generation business. 

I can appreciate the business model of amazon FBA. 

The potential exists for people to actually turn a profit and if they have their heart set on running an online business through the leveraging of physical products and product listings inside of Amazon, then this just may be the business for you. 

For me, however, this business model doesn’t really leave much in terms of wiggle room for the entrepreneurial spirit in each of us to really play the game and try and win. 

Amazon, I think, has really stifled the businesspeople of the world that want to get production happening from their marketplace –

After all, you can really only attempt to get more product reviews than your competition and hope that more people buy from you than those ranked above you in the product listing search results (a very unlikely possibility considering that you may not even start your product listing off within the first top 10 to 15 spots). 

I like to concentrate my efforts toward the local lead generation for small businesses because I can get more creative in the approaches and strategies that I implement in order to beat out the competitors. 

The privilege of doing that is what I think divides the good from the great in business – and it’s more difficult in the internet marketing world, but I still like to hustle; it’s where I get my kicks. 

Google – the 800-pound Gorilla that all people involved in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) has to face and work with – has an index all their own that is both often and famously referred to as Google search results…

Now, these are the things that most people wish they could work with and gain control of… as opposed to Amazon, where you really don’t have any control over your product listing. 

If you have greater skill and know-how in the SEO (search engine optimization) game than the next company, you can stand to profit significantly and with greater ease over the others. 

The level of control that you can have over where your product gets seen on Amazon is so negligible that I often get frustrated with the methodology behind it. 

You could follow every step that the Amazon FBA Coaching program (like Wholesale Ted or others) that you’ve invested in teaches, and even have everything down perfectly – including proper metrics of the product, search and buyer volume, etc. – and still not land on the places where your perfect customers are searching. 

That means that you’ll have a harder time competing in the marketplace – even when doing the things that you were trained to do and told were required for the Amazon product listing efforts to bring you an advertised $10,000 per month…

Remember, you paid for this knowledge and the opportunity to be “taught” by a “guru” (or 2) – and you can still end up with not having much to show for your time and other forms of investments into this so-called online business marketing model of Amazon FBA. 

Say the competition for your product’s industry is just far too strong; there’s less of a chance your Amazon listing will return a profit. 

Say your top 15 results that you’re trying to compete within the marketplace of Amazon each have a minimum of over 1,000 reviews that are each rated at 5 stars…

I’m not saying all product listings will have that same marketplace struggle, but ask yourself – how do you compete with something like that? 

More importantly, can you really anticipate catching up to those kinds of results or even surpass them in a reasonable enough time frame to reach that coveted $10k per month in E-Commerce and Drop shipping to make this investment in your supposedly great coaching program worth the while?

There are tons of nuances and details that go into making an awesome product listing even better – especially when it comes to trying to dominate the marketplace. 

It’s tough to dominate with your product listing if you can’t even break into the top 15 to compete in your physical product’s space. 

There’s just a ton of things that you need to overcome as a newbie in the Amazon FBA Business; even if you’re not new to digital marketing, you’re no exception to the rules that Amazon has declared every seller must follow. 

When it comes to local lead generation, your obstacles are must less to conquer and more simple to understand what it takes to win in the local marketplace. 

You have fewer competitors too, so the nature of the competition is really null (at worst). 

What’s great about knowing how to do this is that you can waltz into pretty much any city that you’d like and help out a small business owner in a variety of industries. 

Said another way, your opportunities to land deals and make profits happen are virtually limitless. 

Even better – why compete in the marketplace when you can dominate it and take the majority of the business to the one business owner that you partner with? 

When you dominate a marketplace for a partnering small business and help them win more business from free traffic, you can receive passive income that can pay you for years and years to come. 

Just take a look this tree service site that I set up back in 2014 (see below) which is continuing to pay me for the lifetime that it continues to dominate search results and garner free traffic – and I have never needed to revisit it in the last several years. 

I personally don’t mind the challenge of Amazon FBA and selling physical products in the marketplace. 

That’s why I continue to build it and learn more about the game as time goes on.

However, my survivability and reliable income are where the majority of my attention is going…

When it comes to local lead generation, I can expand my bottom line any time that I please.

It’s the closest thing you’ve got to practically printing money using the internet with a business model!

Conclusion

Between you and me, I really don’t believe that Wholesale Ted’s price of under $70 per month is really as bad as it seems to learn a new skill that could potentially deliver some profitable returns online.

Again, it’s not a guaranteed thing but it’s definitely a start if someone is hoping to turn something out of nothing. 

Those of you still interested in the physical products selling game online and want to break into this industry – learning how the game is really played – but definitely don’t have a lot of start-up funds in order to play the game itself, sometimes just learning the strategies is enough of an opportunity to gain further insight. 

As mentioned before, programs like this often claim to be a business model – which they don’t explicitly state but this implies that you need to have some start-up capital above and beyond the actual cost of the information you’re paying for the training program itself. 

In the local lead generation coaching program that we leverage to teach people just like you and me how to profit from the internet with near 100% profitable returns, we expect people to know what they’re getting into!

Since it’s a business model, there really are additional and ongoing investment costs — beyond the training and mentoring program that they buy into.

It’s hard work, and we’re looking for people that don’t mind working hard up front so they can have a passive income that very well could pay them for life!

If you’re so strapped for cash that you’re counting your pennies to see if you have enough for this training program, I can give some tough love and suggest that you’re probably not going to like this business venture. 

However, if you’re comfortable with dropping less than $100.00 USD in order to learn more about the selling of physical products, then maybe you could consider Wholesale Ted.  

The dynamic duo teams up to bring you some education at a reasonable price – especially when compared to other coaching courses that are rated at several thousand dollars and may not be as thorough as Wholesale Ted.

I know of a guy by the name of Phil who did something a little more in-depth than Wholesale Ted for the Amazon FBA industry – it was called the Ultimate Amazon Seller, and it was marketing as an internet-based training, mentorship, coaching program as well. 

What Phil has done was build a video-recorded set of training modules that dig deeper into concepts and recurring questions that are frequently seen in new entrepreneurs (or seasoned businesspeople) getting their fresh start in the Amazon FBA. 

The types of questions addressed can be really complex, or just some simple and face-value concepts, a few of which that are commonly asked have included:

• Whether a business license should be acquired before, during, or after launching the Amazon business out of your own home
• Whether a post office box, UPS box, or another form of mail delivery system is required to run something like this from the comfort of your home while still protecting your family during your business operations (and other safety concerns that could arise during the exploration of your logistics)
• Haggling with your potential future supplier and building a good relationship once you’ve completed the negotiation stage(s)
• His training even goes so far as to direct what you should – and shouldn’t – do along your journey if you have aspirations of building a brand that can get recognized and prepared for an exit strategy (which goes back to the idea of a Mergers and Acquisitions offer, where someone can offer to buy your brand from you for a sizeable amount of cash)

One thing that I always encourage newbies to the internet marketing space is to ask themselves a simple, but pivotal, question when it comes to wondering if they can trust a coach or mentor with their own coaching course – especially ones that charge high amounts just to have newbies as members:

Why are these self-proclaimed coaches actually hosting a course with a membership base or following when they have this know-how to supposedly continue earning their profits through what they’re teaching you?

It’s a fair question – and it stands to reason that anyone should ask this kind of thing to a mentor or coach because their members are your competitors. 

The people that are supposedly your fellow members in a program like this are also trying to turn a profit just like you –

But what about when there are only 10 to 15 spots on the first page of Amazon search results –

Most likely, there are more than 10 to 15 members in each of these coaching programs (and there are tons of mentoring programs revolving around Amazon FBA) and they might not be so forthright to give you answers that will actually help you if they are also trying to make some profits online just like you…

Especially if they’re a competitor to the same product that you’re trying to pedal on Amazon. 

It’s noble to think that coaches are here to help you, but they’re also your competition in a business model like this – just like all the student members that have bought in as you are considering doing right now. 

In the world of entrepreneurship – especially online – the profitable exchange of information seems to be the one thing that will always keep profits flowing online. 

How can that be? 

For one, it’s the most rapidly expanding and highest profit-margin producing industry that I’ve ever heard of. 

Think about what the coaches are doing – they’re marketing a product that only costs them a couple of minutes to set up a password when a customer and new member that just bought into their coaching and mentoring program is patiently waiting for their transaction to be responded to. 

What isn’t the mentor and coach having to deal with, since the information product isn’t a physical item being sold?

• No order fulfillment (outside of setting up a user account) is required
• The concern of goods arriving broken is unheard of since no physical item is shipped
• Requests for refunds might as well be null and void because you can’t take knowledge away from someone – thus rendering each sale of a membership package essentially a final sale
• Customer service nonsense really doesn’t exist because there’s no need to take questions about shipping times and order fulfillment as nothing physical – yet again – could be shipped
• There’s really no cost of goods sold or other headaches involved with digital products like coaching programs

How awesome would it be to have a digital, recorded program that you do one time? 

Think about it…

You record the videos and examples, put them all together on one password-protected platform, and you don’t have to work on that project ever again if you really didn’t want to. 

You could continue to sell that digital asset of information repeatedly and possibly never have to do any extra work when new orders come in and more buyers come out of the woodwork. 

Additionally, there’s really no limit on the production of the product because you’ve done it one time and can have multiple students accessing the platform at any given time around the world. 

It’s infinitely scalable, genuinely hands off, and a treasure for most people that have information which others seek passionately to acquire. 

This also means that you can keep just about every bit of the money that you collect for that digital product – leading to nearly 100 percent in commissions per sale of your training platform. 

Why am I bringing this up? 

I’m making a point of this simply to bring out the fact that local lead generation requires nothing more than digital real estate that you can rent out to small businesses month after month, and have those businesses – who have a marketing budget – to continue paying you for years after you’ve done something one time for them. 

How Local Lead Generation is the #1 Option for Online Business in 2019

The fact that this lead gen business model is entirely digital is absolutely incredible, severely low-cost, and able to deliver plentiful returns that the selling of physical products could – in my eyes – never compete with. 

Whether a business model can be found as sustainable and evergreen is also an important factor for evaluating if it’s worth your time and investment of entering into. 

Ask yourself about why coaches have decided to start their coaching program if they already know how to turn profits on the internet with what they are claiming they can teach you? 

If the coach was so successful at this strategy of business online, are they still having success with it or only coaching? 

Did they really fail at this business and switch to coaching because things got too hard in the marketplace? 

If I were going to spend my hard-earned money in the trust of someone who liked to tell me that they knew what they training me how to do…

I’d want to know how they’re doing with that program on their own before they actually begin training me – especially if they’re wanting me to pay them several grand to “show me how it’s done.” 

The truth is that local small businesses have a job to do in our day and age. 

• We have electricity, so we need an electrician
• We have plumbing, so plumbers are on-call most of the day
• Attorneys need to find more people that they can help
• New dentists need to establish a base of clientele
• Chiropractors seek to help people with pain but understand that insurance is funny sometimes

These kinds of businesses – and so many more – desperately need the help of someone who knows how to generate leads online using free traffic! 

These types of small businesses are proficient in their craft – and often times don’t have the means (or the time) to go learning about how to use the internet to their advantage and bring in customers from it. 

This means there’s an opportunity for us to come in, solve a problem, and receive a cut of the results – which also means cash in our pockets from the value that we can bring to the table. 

How does small business local lead generation work? 

Well, we have our coaching program in lead generation that we can introduce you to so you can be a part of the community that is teaching people how to succeed in the marketplace with what we do – and can do so from the comfort of their own home if they so wish. 

Here’s a brief overview of how this works:

• Build and rank a lead gen site
• Profit nearly 100% in passive income
• Do it again for the same industry in a nearby city or with a different industry in the same city

There’s not that much more to the situation – and I’m not exactly oversimplifying the process because the whole deal is simple.  

Let’s get a little more specific for those that are skeptical still…

1. Piece together a lead gen site
2. Get it on Google search results
3. Push it to the top of the marketplace
4. It produces sales leads for a specific kind of product or service
5. Send those leads to a local business
6. Local business pays BIG BUCKS to work with you long-term
7. RINSE & REPEAT

Are you prepared to have a future where the technology that nearly everyone in the world is using is leveraged and positioned to work for you and make you some money? 

In addition to giving me the time and financial freedom to build a blog like this – where I buy in, try, and review the courses that are said to give you the means to make a ton of money online – the local lead generation coaching program that I learned from (with the same coach as when I got started in 2014 – his name is Dan; he’s kind of cool) has also given me the following benefits that I enjoy daily:

• Simply little to no competition in the marketplace: since no one else virtually knows how to do what we do, we can go in and help business in any industry and city
• If you want to work in your pajamas, you get to decide what your company dress code is
• No need to ask anyone for permission to take a vacation – if there’s money in the bank and your passive income is going to sustain you while you’re out on your trip, then have a great trip.  If not, then just work this business model a little more until you’ve built up the passive income streams so you can make money while you’re having your vacation (yeah, it’s possible, and it’s pretty cool too)
• If the business owner wants to do it themselves, you could charge a consulting fee and show them what you know; if they want you to do it for them, then you have a great opportunity to provide for their business what they hear others in their community talking about – bringing in more business online – but yet they haven’t found someone who really knows how to do it.  After learning what we do in local lead generation, you can be their go-to person for their digital marketing needs for a very long time
• The business model is exactly like what Airbnb, Uber, and Lyft have done to build their business model: generate leads and deliver them to the business owners that are looking to expand
• Don’t want a second job?  Perfect!  We position our lead gen sites to work off of free traffic all day, every day, so you can rest easy knowing that the internet is truly doing work for your home business.  After we rank our lead gen websites, you don’t really have to do anything else with it
• And tons of many other awesome things that I’d just be taking up space with to keep running my mouth about (well, my fingers, because I am typing this after all)
• Financial independence – no more relying on a company that can deem you dispensable at any given time, with or without warning.  You can learn a new high-income skill in our local lead generation coaching program and ensure that you are prepared for a future where you can generate profits online for yourself (without having to “look for a job” anymore)
• If you think Doctors and Lawyers are the only ones who have the monopoly on large volumes of income, you’d better reevaluate that line of thinking!  I’m pulling in a multiple 6 figures every single year – which translates to about $50,000 in monthly income.  I didn’t get there overnight, but with this business model – I was able to put together passive streams of income all across North America that are now continuing to pay me month after month, for little to no effort.

This is what is possible with local lead generation — you can dominate the marketplace and take all the customers to the small business you partner with (see below)

When the internet is going to bat for and on your behalf, helping you to get paid, you can make better life decisions – like:

• Whether or not that $35k corporate career job (if it’s worthy of that title) demands that you stick with it for 30 years and hope that you get a few cents-worth of a raise every three years… or not. 
• Whether your current vehicle your driving is safe or if you need to go and purchase a new one

When you’ve got financial independence and confidence with time on your side, you start looking at the world differently and thinking about what else you’ve wanted to do in life. 

For some, they like volunteering their time and helping where they can – just because they can.

If you want something out of life, local lead generation can be the vehicle to helping you achieve those things. 

If you’ve been looking for a skill that you can leverage repeatedly to build wealth, we know that every business is hoping to acquire more customers in some way – that’s how they continue to keep their doors open… so why not hire you in a passive, recurring manner for bringing them more buyers?

Consider building a business from home that local businesses not only need but have a budget for and can count on for years to come – because that’s when good things begin to happen in the lives of people in our coaching program. 

Start learning how you can be making $750 a month like what I’ve done with a company that gets tons of business in Lansing, Michigan and has been paying me for years for the 6 hours of work this took. (see below)

Hit me up already so we can talk about your future goals and business venture options!

If you’re looking for a business opportunity that you can work from home – part-time – and be successful with…

You’ve come to the ideal place to get information like that.

With all of the coaching programs, self-proclaimed mentors, and people who believe that they have the “secret sauce” to make you rich overnight, it’s kind of difficult to find someone you can trust.

Not only that, the vast majority of self-proclaimed experts and coaches that want to sell you their course either…

• Haven’t achieved the level of success with what they’re trying to teach you, so instead of doing what they want to sell you on, they’ll just sell the coaching program to people that want to do it

Or…

• Are so absorbed in the business model of being able to rake in near 100% profitable commissions for only the cost of collecting money digitally and sending a password to a website that they really don’t know how to generate honest profits online

If there’s a business model that I appreciate, it’s one that stems from integrity.

I know that when I got started in the local lead generation business online in 2014, I hired a mentor – who had a coaching program – because he had actually been doing what he was hoping to teach me (successfully) for years before he ever thought to fabricate a course that could teach me that same skill. 

What resulted in 1 years-time from starting this business model was being able to walk away from a 9 to 5 corporate job that…

• didn’t do squat for me,
• hated me for arriving late every morning because I had to walk to work during the cold winter mornings of below zero temperatures – which happen every year in Detroit, Michigan – and…
• refused to pay me what I was worth… and it still wasn’t more than $35k annually so I really couldn’t save up to get a car any time soon!

I’m not saying that you’ll be able to have the same results with a local lead generation coaching program, but it’s great to see that so many of our students have done the same thing that I did only a handful of years prior to today. 

Now, I’m helping people to sift through the murky waters of internet marketing and digital products offered online that try to promise massive success with very little work. 

That’s why I have this blog going –

It’s so you can rescue yourself from the arduous hours of research in wading through the information about each program that’s out there.

If I haven’t reviewed a program yet, feel free to reach out and I’ll see what I can do. 

You can have a conversation with me about your future business goals online, part-time, from home, by clicking here. 

Meanwhile, we have all probably heard that generating profits online can be easy if you have something to sell and can get your product in front of the right audience. 

Knowing what to do and how to do it can help, but is it really that easy?

Is the pushing of products on the Amazon marketplace really such an ideal business model?

That’s the goal of Private Label Masters coaching course.

They seek to pave the way for you to go from zero to successful in the easiest method they could think of. 

What better way than to find a product that many people desire and simply share it with them – and get a little chunk of profits for helping them get what they were looking for way…

Of course, you and I both know that things aren’t always going to be as simple as that sounds! 

However, Private Label Masters likes to believe that they are the one-stop shop to have the keys to the kingdom that can deliver you massive profits in the long-run and short-term 

Their ideal training platform attempts to educate anyone who purchases the training (at the admission price, of course):

• How to list products on Amazon “product listings” (yes, that’s a thing – hey, some people might know about this yet so I’m writing this for them as well)
• Attempt to compete for the attention of your target audience and potential buyers
• Build your brand under a private label (which has the potential to become a household name, provided you play your cards well)
• Generate profits from digital assets that you’ve built online and ranked in the product listings

Let’s explore the Private Label Masters mentoring and coaching platform a little further here.

Tim Sanders – Private Label Masters’ Program Founder

Proficient and well-versed in the art of selling physical products on Amazon, this outstanding public speaker, E-Commerce expert trainer, and industry-proclaimed guru (which, when third-parties are crediting you with such a title, can sometimes be a good thing)…

Mr. Tim Sanders diligently explored what it takes to turn profits with E-Commerce in general.

His competency extends beyond generics, and his tactics have proven themselves time and again to yield both up front, high net profits, which has been able to translate such value into an individual (and their business’) high net worth as well. 

As Tim believes, there is a sense of flow, logic, and ease with establishing a brand through an individual, completely new, private label. 

After some dedication, concentration, and a combination of patience and time investment, someone who follows Mr. Sanders advice and works hard has the opportunity to position themselves to bring incredible capital growth into their side-hustle career. 

Bursting with enthusiasm over the things that he has uncovered for himself, he has chosen to get the word out about the possibilities involved with being a seller on Amazon and generating your private label brand individual. 

From authoring numerous books to delivering on requested speaking engagements, Tim is rather passionate about the business model to the point that he has no interest in keeping the ideas of his discoveries to himself. 

On a mission to pass the word on what’s taking off in the E-commerce marketing options, his approach to systematically building a private label through the selling of physical products on Amazon can be available for anyone that has a vested interest in entrepreneurship and seeks to grow an online business:

• Efficiently
• Quickly
• In the simplest manner around

Overview of the Private Label Masters Course

When you’re looking for a program that teaches you a skill set that you can hopefully turn around and implement quickly to make some profits for yourself through the internet, one of the biggest things most people tend to look for is whether or not the training content is simple and organized.

Sometimes a quantity of videos doesn’t do the trick; detailed aspects on what you’re looking at – including some helpful explanations – are what brand new entrepreneurs need to feel confident as they progress in their online business venture that they’re excited to get started with. 

I’m happy to report that the detailed instruction that you receive as a new member of the Private Label Masters by Tim Sanders includes 20 audio-visuals, and they’re well-documented and thorough videos that train you on what it takes to be successful.

We’re not talking generics; when you invest, you’re getting more than the random nonsense that can be researched online. 

You won’t be receiving broad, overarching, theoretical concepts for the implementation of social media accounts such as Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, and others.

When you get introduced to this program, you’re being walked through a series of ideas that only operate as one machine when all components are placed – in their proper position – to work in tandem. 

If you’re prepared for the opportunity of a lifetime that stems from learning – and earning – your ideal income in the comforts of your office at home, then invest the time now to learn from these 20 videos and you can have the arsenal of resources needed to begin pitching products online for digital retail efforts.

Amazon: Features of the Private Label Digital Markets

Amazon is a different animal, though. 

There were things that I didn’t know about regarding the private label style of business ventures until I picked up the Private Label Masters mentoring program, such as –

• Finding winning products through intensive research – you’ve gotta put the time in, first.
• Landing the best deals through strong supplier selection from overseas markets
• Understanding your logistical options to ship products from overseas and through the necessary customs and border inspections, tariff implications (if any), and more
• Expanding your empire of private label retailing in your Amazon business with only top product options that can get sold for high-profit margins and with plenty of demand in the marketplace

Although the Private Label space of E-Commerce can seem daunting from initial inspection, Tim is eager to share with anyone who decides to invest in the training program that a little knowledge can really help the business launch and success therein go a very, very long way.

Mr. Sanders Digs into The Business

When Tim first got started with the E-Commerce business – as everyone does in the digital marketing word, someone always has started along their journey – he knew that he was at the lowest level of knowledge but more excited than ever to be gaining knowledge and skills required to make money online (as I’m sure he hopes you are, too). 

When he didn’t know what he needed to do in order to achieve the goals that he had set for himself in the Amazon marketing spectrum of physical products, he chose to acquire assistance in the form of an expert at their respective craft. 

By the way, let this be a quick lesson for all of us to take away from the example of Tim Sanders: when he wanted to improve on something that he didn’t understand but was smart enough to know he needed to learn and implement in his path toward success, he hired an expert in the field that he was hoping to improve in. 

It seems to have been one of the best choices that Tim had made along his journey. 

He asked the Google AdWords (meaning PPC, or Pay-Per-Click) guru to sit down and outline the exact needs that an Amazon seller had – including how the paid traffic strategy of digital ads can be best implemented for the business model he was attempting to perfect. 

The results of those sit down meetings are now available to you in this coaching and mentoring program; we know it today as the Private Label Masters digital marketing training. 

One of the most important aspects to this training is knowing how to improve your product listing’s ranking on the Amazon marketplace. 

Why would someone want to do this though?

Why isn’t it enough to simply list a product and let that be that? 

Shouldn’t the profits be rolling into someone’s bank account as soon as their product listing is live?

The reason you need to know these secrets is due to your competing with other marketers and sellers on the same platform – who could also be trying to take the same buyers that visit Amazon and search for your type of product away from you. 

It’s a cut-throat game that requires tenacity, knowledge, wisdom, skill, and confidence to win. 

The ideal buyers will most likely be found at the very top of the marketed listings. 

That being said, the closer you are finding your product listing, the less you might be required to spend in the Google Ads platform in order to achieve the same kind of result – or better. 

More attention can often bring more sales into your pockets. 

However, before one can achieve those passive sales, one needs to have their position marked in their respective industry and product type within Amazon. 

To prove all of this, Mr. Tim Sanders has provided – exclusive to members of his program – a demonstration of his process in a recording… where he proves that earning profits with Amazon and the Private Label Masters training is possible. 

That means you’ll get to see, first-hand, how the notion of instant profits can become a reality through the lightning deals that Tim finds and acquires.

Positioning is key in an industry like this. 

That all sounds good and stuff, but there are people who might be reading this – that is sick and tired of being sick and tired in the position they’ve found themselves in with their life choices and are ready to make a change – that won’t really that proficient with computers or tech-savvy overall. 

I’m happy to tell you that everything that you learn and see to implement the technical aspects of this training can be sourced, understood, and acquired through downloads made available through an option to download within the member’s area of the Private Label Masters. 

There’s nothing to be intimidated about when he’s turned this process almost into a simple paint-by-numbers concept. 

Receive an instruction – perform that task, and then move on to the next bit of instruction. 

If you can follow the instructions provided, then you can pretty much run with this system from day 1 of buying into the training course. 

The resources he provides makes the training more of a tool than strictly an educational platform or repository of videos. 

Mr. Sanders has evidently worked very hard to take out the requirements of learning curves when you get started in Private Label Masters; just copy what he has done, replicate his technical aspects, and you can position yourself to get started effectively – and right – in private label selling within Amazon.

If I remember correctly, I think there’s a private Facebook Group that is accessible for everyone who joins. 

It’s been a minute since I’ve gone to look at the resources made available for people who have questions – and just accept this: you will most likely have questions as you progress through the training. 

The important thing is to know that you’re not alone in this program and you can do it, too. 

When you have reached a level of needing more attention for your business, you can reach out to the more advanced, successful students of the program.

It’s here that your confidence level can skyrocket due to the fact that you’re in direct contact with those who’ve been able to take the same things that you’re learning and make a profit online with it. 

Looking for the tricks of the trade and advanced tips? 

Just reach out to the more experienced students for guidance and you’re well on your way to improving your knowledge and skills so you, too, can advance your business online each and every day. 

Addition pointers that the more skilled marketers can provide, if you ask them, can include things like:

• Handling issues involving your business entity, private label brand, and trademark issues
• Acquiring more, well-documented reviews for your product – which is kind of what you need in order to build your online reputation and expand your product’s listing to be found worthy of top position results in the Amazon marketplace
• Tackle keyword research like a professional, and do so independently to find where you can work in the most profits for your independent business model here

If you’re serious about finding a way to sell physical products online, especially with the top retail marketplace on the internet (second only to Facebook and Google – and not in any particular order here), then you can’t possibly go wrong with the Private Label Masters course. 

Why would I claim that?

When you constantly learn more about your business model…

When you are endeavoring to improve…

You can seriously orient your systems to turn Amazon into your Automated Transaction Machine (ATM) to make it feel like you’re printing money when sales are made. 

That sounds like a winning course to me for the online marketing of physical products.

Why Local Lead Generation is the Best Fit for Online Business 2019

It’s no secret; to be successful with the internet, you need to have something to sell and an audience to get your message to (announcing that you have what they’re looking for). 

The Amazon business model can be ideal if you know what you’re doing, are comfortable with risk, and have the strengths in personal skills required to get the job done. 

With all the competition floating around the world in the same marketplace, and potentially the same industry as the product that you’re trying to market, there are going to be numerous product listings online that are all trying to do what you’re doing – improving their product listing’s ranking on Amazon. 

To maintain your competitive edge in this Amazon listings place, your stronger option is to fabricate marketing campaigns with paid traffic online. 

In other words – you need to do what I don’t like doing, and that’s to buy your web traffic and potential buyers to come and visit your product listing so they can consider becoming a buyer of what you are selling. 

What I prefer to do is leverage free web traffic – never buy it – from the organic search results online. 

When you run free traffic with search engines, I think you can’t go wrong.  

Why would I believe that though?

Well, using free traffic to help build a local lead generation business is what helped me to be debt-free, job-free and independent as a successful business owner in 2019. 

Just take a look at what I’ve been able to do with less than 6 hours of work, and it pays me for life!

Those 2 spots in the picture (above) are my lead gen sites that make me money on AutoPilot, all while I’m doing other things in life instead of running my business.

I can still step in and do more things to make more money, but the $50k a month in passive income is enough for me to not have a full-time job and make more time to write blog posts like this for you.

Without the 9 to 5, I was able to build a part-time business that pays me a ridiculously awesome, full-time income – and I started it as a side-hustle when I was still in a corporate job that mocked me annually with $35,000…

Just enough so I couldn’t quit but never sufficient for me to save, invest, or otherwise get ahead. 

With the help of Google’s search results and being able to get lead gen sites producing free traffic, I have been able to turn profits rapidly on the internet while simultaneously improving the quality of life for small business owners. 

Here’s all I really do now to continue getting paid online and expanding my revenue toward unlimited levels of passive income on the internet each and every month…

1. Make sure a lead gen site looks appealing
2. Rank it online so it can bank on generating leads
3. Send those puppies over to business owners so they can pay me month after month

Some of the amazing things that this kind of business model has been able to do for me, in addition to teaching me the high-income skill of local lead generation for small businesses are:

• Help me to realize that my time is more valuable than $35k a year
• I now rake in a multiple 6 figures every year – better than most specialized attorneys and medical care professionals
• I can travel and keep this business going – I don’t have to be present to let the passive income keep paying me out of the business endeavors that I’ve done already
• I can outsource the majority of my work – so my morning routines are now writing a blog post like this and making sure my team is on top of the business priorities I’ve hired them for
• No need for dress codes – I answer to one person: myself
• I can expand this business to service more and more small businesses as time goes on
• There’s hardly any competition – no one really knows what we’re doing except for us (and it’s the same business model that Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb leverage to make profits as well)
• You can help small-to-medium businesses that serve local areas that are in any one of multiple industries and in several cities that this business model works in – and for
• Make a living while making a lasting difference in the lives of the people that you serve – and the people that they continue to help as a direct result of staying in business and growing with your assistance.  That means you get to directly impact the small business owner, the hired help, the local market requests that come to the receptionist’s desk so they can make more sales, and the families of all that are involved in each and every transaction
• Longevity and financial security – since local businesses and the internet are most likely here to stay for years and years, then this business model is definitely going to continue paying me (and whoever else gets into our coaching program) for years to come

Still having trouble believing that this is a thing that is current and plausible?

Here’s proof of something I did that keeps me earning revenue on the internet ever since I started this business model back in 2014… (see below)

You’re in luck, by the way.

We currently have a few more openings in our lead generation coaching program so you can learn how I was able to go from a corporate life of $35k a year to raking in over $50,000 per month and having the time to review online coaching programs (like Private Label Masters) so you can have the most education in the least amount of time and make a good business decision with good information. 

Of all the business ventures that I’ve attempted in my days, Local Lead Generation is my top pick for online business profits from home in 2019. 

Consider whether you are seriously interested in an annual 6 figures, in your spare time, from the comfort of your own home or wherever else you choose to run your business from. 

Click here to give this business a go!