Rob Toth’s Dear Employee Reports and Bday Promo

Here’s an overused model in internet marketing: (this is a version of Frank Kern’s Hometown Boy Makes Good): Hero makes a lot of money. Hero then sells a book explaining how they made a lot of money.

Now, I have no problems with the above as long as:

1. The person did, in fact, create the results BEFORE they started selling how-to information.

and

2. The information they provide is useful and actionable.

The core of the offer is 4 reports where he explains online income models, presents some of his own philosophies (some new, some bold, some just puts a different spin on what I’ve read elsewhere), and he shares some of the ways he made quick cash in the past. Plus plenty more.

I’ve read his reports. They’re well written and he doesn’t skimp on content… trust me, he is crazy, gives too much for too little.

He also added video tutorials directly in some of the reports to further explore his ideas.

The 4 reports I’m talking about are:

1. “Dear Employee, Your Job Sucks: Create New Income Streams Through Automated Marketing Without Quitting Your Job … Yet!”
2. “Freelancing: The Real Work At Home Job Opportunity … Trade Your Time and Skills For a Paycheck Working From Home”
3. “Ridiculous Income Goals… And How Others Are Turning Them Into Reality”

and

4. “My Quick Money Ideas That Worked: What I Did To Pay Off A $1200 Loan In 36 Hours, Finance A $2700 Event In 3 Weeks and Earn $331 For 2 Hours of Work”

Rob has hundreds of testimonials from his readers, many of them are on his page. I know marketers that recommend his stuff, which is quite rare, because he is a competition. He has been a guest experton many guru calls.

He’s quite an authority, and if his Canadian accent doesn’t drive you up the wall :-), he is worth listening to. The accent bothers me, but the stuff is good… so I chose to put up with the accent.

By the way, when I first heard him speak, I was very surprised. He has a voice very firm and authoritative in writing, and in person he sounds like a pussycat… but I think it is only because of the accent… Anyway, I am very partial to him, he was born in Hungary like myself… so that makes me both more critical and more tolerant… wow, this came out quite complicated… darn.

Oh, and he did make his money before he started selling these reports. :-)

I recommend his stuff.

The Birthday Sale package also includes his traffic course which sells for a lot more than the price of his bd package… and then he has bonuses too, so he is giving a lot away… I guess you don’t celebrate your birthday shabby if you make a ton of money, right?

Oh, he asks $8 for all this. Honestly I would have bought it for more, it is good stuff. Worth a few hundred bucks, if you ask me.

Here’s the page:
http://www.sophieslist.com/28

This is a limited time offer.

Affiliate Marketing Success and other Stories

Did you miss me? :-)

I haven’t posted on this blog in a while. Not because nothing was going on… au contraire… too much was/is going on.

I don’t know about you, but just like no one is a prophet in their own land… you are never going to be able to see the value of your stuff like other people do.

Even if you think a lot about yourself, familiarity breeds contempt, and your work is going to be “just what you do”, even if it is/would be of tremendous value to others.

This is why I value what has happened in the past 2 weeks.

You may not know, but the bulk of my income comes from marketing affiliate products.

One of the things I have been marketing, ever since I first started to use it some 2 years ago, is the Healing Codes package, a unique energy product where you use your innate energies to heal the cause of disease… I had a cancerous growth fall off my right arm after a few days of using The Codes… so I am a believer.

I signed up to be an affiliate. I made a few sales here and there, but every month I learned a little bit more about marketing, google adwords, etc. and every time I learned something, I immediately put it into practice with the Healing Codes affiliate program. I watched a webinar 5 months ago, and the rest happened:

The past 4 months the commission, grew $400 every month. Why always 400? Beats me. So I have gotten accustomed to the income, they paid directly to my checking account… until the 8th of this month, when, instead or the money, I got an email telling me that my affiliate status was withdrawn and I wasn’t even going to get my last commission.

Why, you would ask. The answer came right in the email: I violated the affiliate agreement: I did not get my ads reviewed by the 3 people assigned to review marketing material… But the email said, my violation was that I used the product name in my advertising… hmmm. How am I supposed to sell something I can’t name?

I made a quick calculation, and saw that I lost $35K just in the first year (calculating the growth trend also). They lost 140K net, for the first year. Interesting. I wonder if they have heard of the expression: “Do you want to be right, or do you want to be rich? Choose!”

Anyway, let’s see what I have learned from this incident that is worth for you to read:

1. Before you invest so much time and energy into marketing a product, check if the company really wants you to market their product, or secretly they hope that you will share with everyone, but they will buy from the company directly, cutting you out of the loop.
2. The processes I employed to go from zero to substantial income could help a lot of people out there… so maybe I should find a way to tell people. If I had had a roadmap like that two years ago, I could have started to make money much sooner, and that would have been worth for me to buy. I forgot to say that I used exclusively PPC advertising, my return on my investments was consistently 10-fold, i.e. with a $3500 a year budget I could turn a 31,300 dollar profit. And some of my keywords ran at $5 a click. Which means: this market is competitive, baby.
3. It will be interesting to watch how the Boomerang Principle will play out.
4. I’d love to train an army of affiliates for the Healing Codes company… if I could do it, anyone can do it.

Another thing that happened since I last wrote, is that I did my first “Craft Your Public Persona” presentation. It needs more work, but I am over the hump. I have worked with a client today, who was praising the knowledge he gleaned from our session, and that felt really good.

I am just wondering how to reach all the people who would be interested in that: coaches, consultants, bloggers, marketers, realtors… anyone, who makes a living selling themselves first, an product second. Everyone, who need repeat clients, repeat sales, etc. Everyone, who needs to influence people. Any ideas? If so, please write a comment. I would appreciate it.

And a 3rd thing: I have built a small video sharing site on blogging but you can put the topic in a search box and it finds videos for you… really great… want to check it out? It is at http://www.mavencentral.com/videos

That’s it for now. Please give me your ideas about how to reach my target audience, and if you have any idea what to do with my lost affiliate position story, so that it can make a difference for others.

So long.