By Mikael
WOW!!… Because of The Keyword Academy and the methods these guys teach, I have never (ever) been as productive as I have been in the last 3 weeks. I know this might be a strange statement considering that I am running a decent online business already, but what I learned from one of their recent webinars has revolutionized my business.
I don’t want to sell you their program (even though you can get access to everything for $1), but merely explain some of what it is that I have learned through the TKA membership.
More Virtual Real Estate Means More Income
When you are making money online from websites that bases the income on traffic, you will need to focus on getting more of it. Now there are at least two ways to receive more traffic and they are: 1) getting more links to improve ranking and 2) adding more content to your sites so that they can rank for more terms.
Both of these will to a large extent involve content creation and whether that content is placed on your own sites (expanding your virtual real estate) or place on other sites (article directories, guest posting etc.) with links back to your sites, it will increase your traffic.
So what it all comes down to is to create more content. You can write the articles yourself or you can outsource the creation. Only key point is that you must make sure that it is quality content.
Some will argue that any kind of content can work and I agree. The difference between crap content (spun, scraped etc.) and quality content (unique, written by a human) is that quality content will work for you long term.
If you plan on staying in this business and not running a “business” that has to outsmart the search engines all the time, you need to focus on quality and on quantity. Both are needed to grow your business long term.
So what did I achieve in the last 3 weeks? Well, to be honest I am quite proud of having expanded my online business with a total of 100,000 words of quality content (about 70-80 articles). I have had help in the form of VA’s and hired content writing, but I did write a large part of it myself as well.
In comparison this equaled what I did in about 4 months in the end of 2009. Talk about in increase in productivity. And all of this is due to a single webinar from TKA that made me realize what I needed to do.
To Your Success,
Mikael
By Mikael
Have you made a habit out of listening to motivational and personal development talks and lectures yet? What about reading books on personal development and achievement as well as biographies of people that have accomplished great things in their lives? If you answer is “no” then you REALLY need to start making this into a habit ASAP. If you haven’t even considered listening and reading material like this I can only encourage you to stop reading this post right now and go pick up your first book or CD.
But enough “call to action” 
What I really wanted to talk to you about is something I re-learned from listening to a 2004 Jim Rohn leadership event training.
In that training, one of the speakers is the well known Denis Waitley and even though I had heard this lecture several times, then one of the things he talked about hit me and I therefore want to share that with you as I believe it can help anyone that is struggling or who feels discouraged or impatient.
Becoming a Master at What You Do
We live in a world where everything is happening at rapid and increasing speeds and still we’re struggling with accepting the speed (or lack thereof) and most of us feel that things should happen even faster (especially the success we seek). I don’t know about you but I find it to be a very strange phenomenon even though I also suffer from it from time to time.
In the seminar Denis talks about the fact that it will take 7 years and 10,000 hours of practice to become a master of your field. 7 years and 10,000 hours! That will probably seem like forever for most people.
But when you think of it then it probably makes sense. Practice makes perfect and whatever you job or education is I am sure you can agree that you didn’t become a master in that area in a year or two. You will definitely get better and you might even become “good” in a matter of a few years but mastering the skill takes more time than that.
So if you take this as a fact and apply it to your online business or in your search for financial independence, then ask yourself if you have really spent 7 full years and 10,000 focused hours to get to where you want to go and master the skills of that particular area? My personal answer is NO and I therefore know and accept that I am not there yet and that more work, trial & error and education are needed. But when you have a deadline that says “7 years and 10,000 hours” it isn’t quite as difficult to accept as when you work without a definite goal and timeframe.
It will still feel like a lot of time on days where you’re in a bad mood or feeling discouraged but that is when you need to remember that it will take 7 years and 10,000 hours and if you choose to do nothing for a week, you’re only postponing the deadline.
But What If I Can Only Find 1 Hour Per Day?
The short answer is that it will take you more than 7 years but still about 10,000 hours. This might not be what we want to hear but I find that it is even more important that we stop lying to ourselves. Lying to yourself or living in denial is one of the easiest ways to waste your time and end by giving up. So stop doing that. Call a spade a spade and get going.
The more action you take, the more momentum you’ll get and momentum creates the results that will be required for you to stay motivated to keep going towards the 10,000 hours of practice and trial & error. 1 hour per day will not create a momentum in most cases.
If you can’t find more than one hour per day, then tell your family that for the next long period of time you will need to have Saturdays or Sundays for yourself in order to work on your dream. Lock yourself in your room and plug away. If you cut back on sleep and eat fast, you should be able to crank out at least 15 hours of work in one day and that kind of action is what creates the momentum and generates the results that keep you going.
But since I am not always around to remind you, please (for your own sake) go find some motivational tapes or CDs and start listening to them on a regular basis. They are great when you’re driving your car, vacuuming or before you go to bed. 30-60 minutes per day is enough and it will change your thinking in a way that you will not believe until you have tried it. I promise!
To Your Success,
Mikael
By Mikael
I’ve been wanting to write this post for quite some time because not only is this something that I have been victim of myself (and still is at times) but it is also something that I have seen a lot of other online marketers struggle with time and time again. And the sad thing is that there is absolutely no reason for it!!
But let me take you back to where it all a started…
About 6 months again I had come across an absolutely brilliant e-Book by an online marketer that I highly respect. Not just because he makes +$100k per month (profit) from his online ventures but even more so because he tells it like it is. If you are running in circles and spending all of your money buying new e-books he slaps your face (virtually) and tells you to wake up. His name is Chris Rempel and you might have heard about him and his blog called TheLazyMarketer.
Anyway… His e-book is called Conduit Method and is a top notch book with no fluff and hype (except for the salesletter). It costs a mere $14.95 (which I think it ridiculously cheap) and the stuff it covers is simply amazing (and simple). But that is not the point of this post.
The point is that I promoted this little e-book to a group of online marketers and about 12 of these people grabbed the book but only a selected few actually did something with it (no surprises there). Two of the guys that actually took action and followed the instructions in the book has since shared their results with me and this is where the ”beating yourself up” part comes in.
One of these guys told me that he had ONLY had a ROI (return on investment) of 720% in a 6 month period.
SEVEN HUNDRED AND TWENTY PERCENT!
What did you get on your bank account or in your 401k last year?
Seriously people!!!
If you can take an online product like the Conduit Method and turn it into a 720% ROI product then what is the problem? Now I am not trying to pick on this guy because I have been a victim of this myself and do the very same thing from time to time.
What we need is to put things in perspective. I fully understand that generating a 720% profit from a $15 investment might seem insignificant but if you are able to do this quickly and with very little effort, then why don’t you just do more of the same thing? Eventually you will get to bigger numbers but on the flip side you are probably going to see your monthly growth (in percentage) go down.
The reason I bring this up is that I saw about the same ROI with the Conduit Method e-book, but I was thrilled about the results (even though the total profits in dollars might have been insignificant). But when it comes to my monthly income from Adsense and affiliate sales I track both the total income as well as the growth from one month to the next in percentage.
Over the last 3 months or so, I have seen my income from online activities grow more than 80% (and more than 170% since January) but when I looked at the growth from September to October and found that it was a little over 9% I started to beat myself up.
I couldn’t help but say to myself that I had done a poor job and that everything was bad. Have you ever been in a situation where you had some expectations and even though the result you got was phenomenal you were still not satisfied?
If you have ever had a JOB, you would probably be more than THRILLED if you were given a 9% raise in a 12 month period and here I am complaining about a 9% increase in 1 month. Why is that?
See the Big Perspective and Celebrate Results
I hope that the two small stories above have made you think and if you have been acting like my or the guy I was referring to, then think of this story and stop acting this way. Celebrate that you have made improvements and if it isn’t monthly improvements then look at the quarterly improvements or the yearly improvements.
Things take time and as long as you keep doing what you have proven to work, you will get to where you want to go. Surely you can do more, do it more effectively and efficiently but as long as you are moving ahead you are on the right track and you need to acknowledge that and stop beating yourself up (and I need so too).
To Your Success,
Mikael
P.S. Click here to see what the Conduit Method is about
By Mikael
I’m not going to make this into a long blog post because I know your time is valuable and that you probably feel that you have to little of it as it is. I think it is the “disease of online marketers”
But since we all value our time I also feel that it is important that we all learn to outsource as much of our work as we possibly can. This will both free up our time and also increase our online income.
And we all want both, right?
Normally the different outsourcing courses and seminars that are available online will cost you a fair amount of money and will not always be worth it (I recently tried a well known outsourcing course where I had to ask for a refund).
But this time I have come across a series of very valuable videos (as well as a free report) and I am in the middle of viewing and reading it all. What I have gone through so far has been really high quality and I don’t really understand why it is made available for free.
However instead of wondering about why it is free I thought it was better to make all of you aware of it as well. Head over to Mass Outsource and watch the videos and get the ebook.
If you value your time and want to have more of it while making more money, do not hesitate. Procrastination is the worst killer of online success, and when something this good is offered for free, you would be a fool to not grab it.
To Your Success,
Mikael
By Mikael
Not that long ago I wrote a piece about what programs or services I would recommend for people trying to make money by showing Adsense ads on their pages and websites. The program I recommended is The Keyword Academy or TKA for short. If you haven’t read my original post you can find it here: How I Suggest You Best Get Started With Google Adsense
To give you a small recap, the service or membership is run by 2 guys and their sidekick. Better known as Mark, Courtney and Peter (the technical mastermind). If you haven’t heard about them before, don’t worry. Who they are is not important but what they can teach you and what the program can give you is.
In the beginning (we’re talking June and July) I was aware of their membership, but couldn’t quite see the benefits of it and wasn’t quite sure whether it would be the right thing for me. Even though their service is incredibly cheap, I am still not the kind of guys that will run around buying all kinds of stuff that I have no use for (even if it’s cheap)….. Well, at least I don’t do that as often as I used to
Anyway…. Let me start out by issuing a little warning!
The warning is that if you are not trying to make money from Adsense, then this program is not for you. If you’re trying to become an affiliate marketer or a successful webshop owner, then you are not going to get what you need from this program.
Everything is tailored towards making money from Adsense placed on either niche websites or larger higher traffic websites (the idea is basically the same and only the size differs).
What Is Good And What Is Bad
As I try to be a positive human being I will start off by telling you why I find that this program has been extremely valuable to me (and still is) and why I find that it can become extremely valuable to you if you decide to test it out. After all the first 30 days will cost you no more than $1 and you can cancel at any time.
The Video Training
If you are not 110% sure how you should run your Adsense website empire or if you feel that there are some areas in which you would be able to learn methods that would give you even greater success (*hint* there always is), then the video library is your savior.
I haven’t added up the time but I’ve been through most of it and my guess is that there are more than 30 hours of video content teaching you everything from finding the right keywords to setting up your site and start promoting it.
But that is just the core videos…
There you’ll get the monthly 1-2 hours trainings on topics that are in high demand and you will be able to ask questions along the way to make sure you’ll get your answers and be ready to break through. I’ve had so many moments where I said to myself: “Aha… that’s how I should do it!”
But that is not even all…
On top of that there are 3-4 monthly Q&A sessions where you are able to ask any questions that you might have about anything being taught (you do not have to only ask about the monthly topic). And for those of us living in Europe, they’re even offering one of these monthly sessions at a time where we’re able to participate without having to stay up all night
These videos alone have made me a TON of money already and I’m not even getting started I’ve put the videos on my iPod so that I am able to remind myself and motivate myself to keep going when things are tough or when I feel that I need another boost to keep plugging away. A real time saver!
The 50 Unique Link Opportunities
We probably all know (or at least have heard) that getting incoming links is the NUMBER 1 factor when you are trying to get your websites to rank better in the search engines.
You have probably also heard that the more links you can get from sites with UNIQUE IP addresses, the better. If you haven’t heard this yet, don’t worry… you will. Right now you will just have to trust me on this.
TKA offers you a unique opportunity to get links from no less than 50 unique IP addresses and that alone is worth 2-3 times the monthly fee (the normal fee after the $1 trial month). Seriously!! If you want to go somewhere in your online business, you will eventually need to find a way to leverage some of these unique IP opportunities. Obviously you can go and buy your own 50 hosting accounts on 50 unique IPs all over the world, but as you can vividly imagine, this can easily cost you hundreds (if not thousands) of dollars per month and that is without including all the hassle of managing 50 different hosts.
I am not going to go into detail about this awesome tool as we’ve been told not to talk too much about it (because it is so powerful). But you can easily check it out for yourself. The intro price is still just $1 for the first 30 days.
Just Launched – Getting High PR Links
This may sound like yet another “High PR Super Trick” that is sold in small Ebook packages all over the net (and especially in the Warrior Forum). Let me tell you it is NOT.
Just recently Mark and Courtney took over the little known (but very successful) concept called ConnectContent. I was a member of that service before (and loved it) but now it seems like it is going to get 10x better and the best part is that it will be included in the monthly fee, which means that it is free if you’re already a member.
What it does it that it gives you the opportunities to get relevant keyword targeted quality backlinks from related websites to your own sites. Again I will not go into too much detail but it is basically a link trade solution where people are helping each other getting better ranking for specific keywords.
On a side note I will say that I don’t find the link trades to happen as often as I would like them to, but I guess that is no different than not making as much money as fast as one would like to 
The Forum Offers Massive Amounts Of Info
Up till now I have been overly excited and positive about the program but there is one thing that I don’t like about it and that I feel I will need to warn you about and that is the forum.
Now don’t get me wrong. The forum is an awesome place for you to get help and to find business partners and other people with similar interests. But it can also be the thing that keeps you from moving ahead.
Unfortunately I see SO MANY people that spend hours and hours in the forums and sadly enough they don’t even realized that the reason that they are not getting the results that they want, is that they are spending that much time in the forum instead of actually following what is being taught.
If you ask me I think the forum is keeping people from achieving what they could get out of the program. But luckily you are not obligated to participate in the forum and if you don’t you won’t be wasting your time. In my view the forum is there to act like a support function if you have questions or want to find business partners and that is it. It is not meant as a social tool where you can hang out and talk about the weather. That is what Facebook is for
Is This All There Is?
I might have left something out and Mark, Courtney and Peter will keep improving the membership and adding new features to it, but at the time of writing the answer is “yes”.
If you ask me, the service and tools they are providing is worth hundreds if not thousands of dollars per month. And I am not saying this to create HYPE. I have personally increased my monthly Adsense income by $1200 since I became a member about 2-3 months ago.
Would I have paid $1200 per month when I didn’t know what is was? Definitely not! Would I do it know? Well…. I probably wouldn’t but I would definitely be willing to pay more than the lousy $33 they are currently charging for the service.
Should you take their $1 offer?
If you want to make money with Adsense websites there is no question that you will benefit from this membership. Greatly!
But as I said, this is for Adsense earners only. That might change at some point (they have started talking a little about Affiliate Marketing), but right now their core is Adsense and they are damn good at it!!
To Your Success,
Mikael
Mikael Rieck is the author of more than hundred articles on topics of how to make money both online and offline. He has been online since 1999 and has always had a passion for money making opportunities and teaching others how to make a profit.