Bootstrapping Your Business

That's the important thing, Tea…not whether something works or not or is trying to give you a low-risk way of doing business…but if there's a typo or grammatical error.

This site has over 2000+ pages written mainly by ONE person each of between 300-500 words – plus I answer dozens of emails every day helping people out and discussions on the blog where sometimes there are as many as 500 posts that I have to go through as you can see In this discussion where I was helping people file complaints.

But you're right…a typo…oh no!!!! Horrors!!! It's the end of the world!

Hi Topi,

Yes, you'll be fine doing it from Canada.

I suppose there are a few countries that might have problems, like Nigeria as they tend to get blacklisted quite a bit, but in general you can do it from anywhere.

Hey, Patrina

I just remembered seeing your email via feedback and I must have forgotten to respond.

I don't have a formal full review up of Niche Blitzkrieg up yet, but I do have a lot of information that I can direct you to from questions I've been answering about the program.

Let me know if you want me to do that.

But I think there's another newer one that will be better suited for someone new to online business. I'll post that by start of next week. However, a beginner can certainly work their way through NB, it's just that there may be a steeper learning curve for some people when it comes to the basics of setting up a site – but there's a great forum for help there.

Jane and all, here's the new product:

If you are looking for training in running an online
business Michael Brown has set up the first
14 videos of his AffiliateMoneyRevolution
system for free here:

http://www.affiliatemoneyrevolution.net/go/FreeTrial

No CC needed. Just name/email to get access to
the videos.

While a beginner can certainly tackle Niche Blitzkrieg, this new product provides a great deal more video instruction in a lot more of the basic steps of running an online business.

Once you're going through the free training videos and decide you want more you can upgrade for a one-time fee of $67.00 and get access to the forum. I've volunteered to help out in the forum, by the way.
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Jane, for most of the products recommended here, I'd say 45-90 days to really master the basics. You'd probably be on the lower end of that.

It's hard to predict how fast you'll earn money. There was a guy recently who was completely new to online marketing who earned $225 his first month in Mega…BUT…

EVERY online business (or I suppose business in general) is about increasing your odds of having "winners" and cutting loose your losers.

For example I know Michael has at least one Niche Blitkrieg type blog that does around $1,000/month, but there are many others that might only bring in $50 to $100/month and of course there are the duds that bring in no money – it happens. Anyone who tells you EVERYTHING works ALL THE TYPE is B.S.ing you.

So with a system like Niche Blitzkrieg or Mega Classified Millions the MOST important step is the competitive research step to QUICKLY gauge how likely you are to succeed in:

• Conquering a niche and selling products (OTHER people's products that pay you commissions) OR
• Selling products (again via an affiliate set up where the merchant/vendor takes care of all the processing and pays you a commission)

Hi Al,

I covered that in the March 14, 2009 post I made in this discussion.

I don't recommend SixFigureYearly for the reasons I discuss here:

SixFigureYearly – not recommended.

I've not heard much bad about ProfitLance, but I haven't reviewed it directly. It's probably fine, but without reviewing the actual product I can't say much more than that.

I do talk about how to get a refund on it if you don't like it here:

ProfitLance discussed.

Chris,

Maybe you could do work for people for free and if they like your work they'll pay you?

Also, why don't you start with the free information at this site? There's 2000+ pages of free articles and a free forum here:

http://www.WorkAtHomeTruth.com/forum.

I have sites making money in various markets like piano lessons, dating, coffee. It sounds like you've been looking in the wrong places.

Hi Evelyn,

On #1: Russ Dalbey's program is outside my area of expertise. I'm working on bringing someone on who can help out with those types of programs, but it's been a few years since I started looking. One possible place to look is the Creonline.com forum dedicated to cash flow notes. I can't say if it's the best place to ask the question, but it's definitely a better place to ask it.

On #2. I'm not sure which Google Payday program you mean as there are a few around that – none of which I would recommend at this point.

You should know that the programs aren't from Google or Endorsed by Google, but merely use Google in their product name. Sometimes that can be fine, but with many of these new products, the name is being used to confuse the public into thinking the products are endorsed by Google.

Also, you should know that the $39.00 is most likely a $39.00/month fee – not a one time fee. Also, some of these companies make it very difficult to cancel. Without knowing which one you mean, I can't say if that's the case with the one you're mentioning, but it's alarmingly common right now for companies to make it very difficult for you to cancel.

If you know the exact title of the product, I can check it for you. One thing that's easy to do is to look in the Terms and Conditions to see if the country Cyprus is mentioned as that's currently a big red flag.

Hi Kevin,

That's fine. You can use the Feedback form here.

Also, you might consider joining the WorkAtHomeTruth forum here as there are a few full-time online business owners that have started to hang out there along with other experienced business people.

Hi Elena,

Niche Blitzkrieg would be the one that would be best if you're not worried about a steeper learning curve. Michael continues to refine and update the course to make it even easier for beginners to get through.

Also, it has a really great support forum, which is almost unheard of for a product with a one-time fee.

Nope, I don't guarantee success. I leave that for the scam websites to do. That's not the real world – that's the fake world of "magic money falling from the sky".

I do guarantee that I review each product carefully and find the best products that are suited to the target demographics of this website which tend to be people new to running businesses and more specifically online businesses.

I also do make sure the companies I refer people to honor their refund policies.

One of the reason I've referred a lot of people to Niche Blitzkrieg is because for a ONE-TIME fee you get access to an excellent and helpful forum that focuses on ONE specific process – the process of researching a niche market, analyzing the competition quickly, and getting up sites and getting them ranked high in the search engines in order to generate income from site-advertising and affiliate product sales.

I do guarantee that you will get a tremendous amount of help from the forum members and Michael at Niche Blitzkrieg (he checks the forum daily for new questions) should you get stuck on anything and that you can get additional help if needed through the forum I've set up here:

http://www.workathometruth.com/forum/

I do guarantee that what most people need to focus on isn't "guaranteed success", but how to cut their losses (in terms of time or money) quickly and focus on their "winning" income producers – no matter HOW they're generating their income.

That's what I guarantee.

Hi Melody,

That's a tough question to answer, but what I would say is that you should have at least 10 to 15 hours per week where you can really focus on learning the system.

So part of that is going to depend on how tough your classes are and how physically or mentally exhausting your part-time job is.

As with any new skill it will be tough to learn the system efficiently unless you are fully alert while doing it…however, once you master it there are quite a few pieces you can do even if you aren't totally alert at the time as they are somewhat mundane or better yet can be automated (eventually).

Whatever you decide I suggest you do learn how to set up your own website/blog at some point just for the ability to stand out in your career field.

Hi Alaa,

Michael said he'd answered this by email, but in case you missed it for some reason here's what he said:

"Alaa,

You can no longer buy Easy Shopping Ads Profits because Shopping Ads is no longer a good service too use (sorry). So I pulled my product on that.

Niche Blitzkrieg is the way to go as it doesn't rely on any one program."

Hi Aunuk,

I've copied an answer I gave in the forum to a similar question:

It's a good question and one I've been thinking about lately as I want to make it clearer that Niche Blitzkrieg should be considered a STARTING place and not the ultimate goal.

In my opinion the ultimate goal for most people should be to eventually:

A. Develop out a large authority site in a more competitive market.

OR

B. Develop out their own products to sell by themselves and/or through affiliates.

OR

C. Both "A." and "B."

The reason why Niche Blitzkrieg is a good place to start for most newbies is that it covers the basics of what you need to know to go into a very competitive market, but it is MUCH simpler.

For example, to determine the competition in a very competitive market there may be 20+ factors you need to consider whereas with something like Niche Blitzkrieg there are typically only a handful or so.

Once you understand the Niche Blitzkrieg process it's easier to move on to more competitive markets than if you just tried to go into a competitive market from the beginning.

As to how much money you'll make, the best I can give you there is to think in terms of "increasing your odds of success". One thing I try to hammer home is that it doesn't matter how good a process is, there will always be winners and losers, so the right mindset is to look for ways to increase your ODDS of success, which is something that Niche Blitzkrieg does through the way it has you do competitive analysis.

Of course the more experience you gain the more you learn from past mistakes and improve your odds of success.

So the best way to approach your question is with "what if" analysis.

Assume conservatively that a "winning" site will make $50/month. Sometimes you'll hit one that will make $1,000/month, but for these purposes I'd not even consider those and think conservatively and just base your calcuations on $50/month per WINNING site.

Then you need to play around with what percentage of sites are likely to be winners (i.e. get to the point where they're making $50/month).

i.e., if 4 out of 10 are winners
or if 6 out of 10 are winners.

The biggest lesson I learned early on was from Marlon Sanders – one of the early offline marketers to go online when he said that about 1 out of 7 of his product ideas would really take off. Also, even though I've never done trading in my life, reading books about how the successful traders think helped me with that mindset.

Just taking a look now, Bo.

One thing I noticed off the bat is that their BBB is non-clickable, which would be a violation for BBB members.

I also found one of the testimonial pictures on this site:
http://www.whitehousenannies.com/servicesNewborncontact.php

KD,

Your comment seems to be out of context. What are you referring to?

Ha, interesting about the the changes.

Thanks for the update.