Hey guys, its been a while since I posted and I have pretty good reason for it.

I’ve been swamped with the launch preparation of Profit Instruments.

But its been a wild ride that I’m really proud of because:

• The product is awesome and its got some REALLY great reviews from whoever I’ve showed it to. Many big name marketers are actually hiring people who will just follow my strategy and build sites for them.
• A lot of  big names are already on board and we have over 150 JVs who will be blasting it out to their lists. So, obviously its going to be huge.
• The pre-launch content is KILLER and is definitely set out to generate a whole lot of buzz in our market.
• Most importantly, I’ve met some really cool marketers and created invaluable relationships with many JVs. I look forward to a great future.

If you want to promote Profit Instruments, please check out the JV Invite page.

I’m all geared up for the pre-launch which begins on June 1st and the launch on June 8th.

Talk soon… and wish me luck

Its been almost a year since I’ve posted anything to my blog, and I want to make it a point to keep posting good stuff regularly from now on.

Its so damn hard to actually sit down and write content for my blog (cause I’m so freakin’ lazy), but I’ve so many ideas buzzing in my head that its time I took them all out.

I love video. You love video. Everyone loves video. So, I’ll use Video for most of my posts.

In today’s post, I’ll show you how you can search and filter results using the new Clickbank Marketplace interface. Many people have found the new interface to be a bore, but I personally found it quite interesting as it offers so many more options than the plain ol’ search box used since clickbank-knows-when.

So peeps, here’s the vid. Watch it, and comment below. Thanks

Here is what’s written on their home page:

ClickBank is the online retail outlet for 10,000 digital product vendors and their 100,000 active affiliates. We’ve paid our clients on time, every time, for 10 years. Over $1 billion thus far. Now with weekly payouts!

They haven’t updated these facts in real time, because they have way more than 10,000 products and 100,000 affiliates. They have paid out way more than a billion dollars thus far. And the best part is, YOU can get a slice of that pie easily.

On of the problems affiliates face with Clickbank is “Which products to promote?” The whole idea of choosing the right product to promote is quite simple once you get an idea how to do so.

Watch the video below, as I explain HOW to find the most profitable products to promote.

Click here to watch the video

As a recap, here’s what you do:

• Go to the Clickbank Marketplace and choose any category (except the ‘make money’ ones). Sort by: ‘High Gravity’. Show: ‘50′ results per page.
• Focus on products with gravity between 20 and 100. The product should also have a decent $/sale (more than $20).
• Open the sales page and go to the affiliates panel. Look for articles, emails, banners, etc that the product vendor provides for the affiliates.
• Go to Google and lookup the most obvious keywords related to the product and do some research as explained in the video.

This tip is not exhaustive and does not guarantee success. With time and experience, you will know which products to promote. But in any case, you need to TEST before coming to conclusions. In the next post I’ll focus on one of the free traffic methods.

Yesterday we covered some of the basic categories in IM. Of all those categories, you’ll be mostly involved in something called: ‘Affiliate Marketing’

Now, an affiliate is someone who promotes something and gets paid if the visitor takes action (sale, lead, signup etc)

In Affiliate Marketing, you’ll be promoting products online using a unique link that will be given to you. If a visitor clicks your link and takes action, then you get paid a ‘commission’.

I have arranged a free report for you which you should read immediately:

http://ritoban.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/affiliate_intro.pdf

Click the link above and read the small pdf report to get an idea about affiliate marketing. After you’ve done that, continue reading…

Now, you need to join a few essential websites in this business:

1) Paypal: Paypal is essentially an online bank where you can store, add, withdraw funds and much more. You can use Paypal to sell items online, or to receive your affiliate commissions. If you haven’t joined yet, Click here to Join Paypal

2) Clickbank: Clickbank is a heaven for affiliates who want to earn money by promoting digital products (such as reports, software, ebooks, etc.). You definitely need to join Clickbank. We shall be covering it in detail in the near future. For now, Join Clickbank

In fact, in the next post I shall cover Clickbank’s Marketplace (where you’ll find all the goodie products to promote) and help you research and choose some high converting products.

For today, just read the report, and join Paypal, Clickbank.

I promised I would write down some basics of IM in this post, so here I am doing so.

Every person has his forte. YOU need to choose yours to begin with. You cannot focus on every aspect of IM all at once . Its a gradual process.

What I can do is tell you what options you have. Many of these will seem alluring, but you don’t need to wander about trying out everything imaginable.

Below mentioned are the different types of Marketing that you can get yourself involved in:

- Affiliate Marketing (Over and above)
- Article Marketing
- Email Marketing
- Ezine Marketing
- JV Marketing
- Product Marketing
- Direct Marketing (you’ll definitely be involved in this)
- Video Marketing
- PPC Marketing
- Podcast Marketing

These are the ones that came off the top of my head. There are definitely more ways of marketing, and we will discuss them when the need arises.

But, for now focus on the ones listed above. Most of them are self explanatory, and you can always lookup in google for the ones you don’t know much about.

I’ll be really lame now, but here’s the thing:

- If you have money now and you’re willing to invest it for traffic, then go in for the Paid Traffic marketing methods. (PPC, Ezine)

- If you want to try and get free traffic, then you’ll need to put in a few extra hours of work and have some patience because the traffic slowly builds up (unless you release something that goes viral)

For the last two days, I have been talking all hi-fi with you guys and I’m sure many of you are cursing me. But from the next post, all that is going to change.

We shall begin on the real journey in the next post and you shall start building your online empire.

Watch out for my post tomorrow . Do post your comments below…