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A Million Dollars From Blogging Or Just Another E-Book With Big Claims?

This is the third installment of Rob Benwell’s Blogging To The Bank book, which teaches his method for making money with blogs.

More details about the book are here -

www.bloggingtothebank.com

What’s compelling about Rob’s story is that he’s made over a million dollars using blogs and there’s very, very few people who can claim this. His book has massive appeal just because we all want to find out exactly what he does different - what’s his secret?

I reviewed Rob’s second version this book back in August of 2007, where one thing was quite clear - Rob uses blogs in a much different way to make money online to how I use blogs. You can read my original review by clicking here - Blogging To The Bank 2.0 Review.

Niche Marketing

The strategy Rob applies is about leveraging multiple blogs in multiple niches to make a lot of money. This is not about becoming a dominant player - an expert - in one niche subject area that you are passionate about, which is more the “Blog Mastermind school of blogging”.

Although the overall strategy might be quite different between what I teach and do and what Rob does, if you break things down, the fundamentals remain the same.

Rob’s system for profitable blogging still relies on the same principles to make it work, which are -

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As a blogger with some exposure in my market one of the “perks” is an endless stream of freebie books sent my way from authors and publishers all trying to score publicity for their latest releases. This is one of the first benefits you can enjoy once your blog starts to build a readership (sometimes you do need to ask for free stuff for reviewing purposes though).

Unfortunately in my position - especially now as I travel - I rarely have time to finish all the possible books that come my way, so I tend to say “no thanks” to books rather than waste the paper. However I do say “yes please” to a few that really catch my eye and today I have such a book, one that I knew I wanted as soon as I first heard about it.

The book is called “Click Here To Order” by Joel Comm - Stories of the worlds most successful Internet marketing entrepreneurs.

Joel told me about this book back in July 08 when it was slated for an early August release. It was pushed back to September 2nd and I was sent my review copy a few weeks ago. I’m almost done reading it and it has been a thoroughly enjoyable romp through what is obviously a big focus in my life - Internet marketing. I can really plow through a book when I enjoy the subject matter and this is definitely such a case.

A Trip Back In Internet Time

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I just had a great weekend. It was the Australia day public holiday here on Monday so I hosted a traditional Aussie BBQ housewarming party at my place. It was nice to have friends over, eat some good food, play some cards and then head to the park for some running around.

Now of course, it’s back to work!

With the profile of this blog I’m constantly sent reports and e-books to look at and unfortunately nowadays I have little time to read them, but I try to squeeze some in when I can. Today I picked out a few of the best to recommend to you and they are all free!

5x Profits Secrets by Dr Mani

Dr Mani is blogging like crazy on his Money Power Wisdom blog. He knows his stuff, so it’s worth adding his feed to your readers if you are interested in blogging and Internet marketing, the Doc has been in the game for a long time.

Dr Mani is a real doctor and much of his Internet business profits are used to fund heart surgery for under-privileged children in India. That’s a pretty noble cause and one worth supporting.

His new report - 5x Profits Secrets - reveals some of the fundamentals of successful marketing, including:

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Fran Kerr is my web assistant and helper with Blog Mastermind and a partner in a new eBay lead generation venture we are working on (can’t talk about this one yet!). She’s also a guru at natural skin care and runs a blog, High on Health.

Earlier in the year I asked her to have a play with the social bookmarking software Web2Submitter to see if it’s worth using as a tool to help bloggers get more traffic from social marketing. Here’s what she had to say about the program…

Automate your social marketing activities with Web2Submitter - Submit your content to Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Propeller, etc automatically with this software from Jack Humphreys.

Product Name: Web2Submitter
Creators: Jack Humphreys and Brandon Hall
URL: http://web2submitter.com/
Price: $47.00 USD
Reviewed by: Fran Kerr

I was really excited when I received a copy of the Web2Submitter, because it promises to make social bookmarking so much easier.

Web2Submitter is a software package that has the intention of saving you time and increasing your traffic by automating most of the process of submitting your blog or website articles to social bookmarking services. The idea is to submit to as many services as possible, with very little effort.

So, How Does It Work?

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Web 2.0 Wealth System is a series of training videos by Alex Sysoef designed to teach people how to create profitable blogs, with the claim that if you follow the step-by-step instructions you will begin earning money within seven days.

Product: Web 2.0 Wealth System
Creator: Alex Sysoef
Website: www.web20wealth.com
Purpose: This product is intended to help you increase or start generating blog income using a simple system that takes minimal time to implement.
Price: $67.00*
Reviewed by: Bryan Clark

* Until December 1st 2007 Alex has offered a $20 discount to readers of Yaro’s blog, so you can get his product for $47.

Alex created this product with the intentions of making sure that anyone who bought it wouldn’t be a member of the “one and done” blogging group. Statistics show that most bloggers blog consistently for approximately one to three months before giving up. Why do they give up? They are overwhelmed!

I’ll tell you, as a newer blogger myself (that’s me, Bryan Clark, not Yaro), there are many ways to get overwhelmed when it comes to trying to decipher all of the blogger “code” that comes with the territory. Simple things to experienced bloggers can be a headache to the newbies. Terms like RSS, SEO, PPC, Affiliate, CPC, and more, can all seem like a foreign language to a new blogger.

Alex Sysoef stepped up and has offered a product designed to help people new to blogging get over the beginner curve quickly. His product is the best I’ve tested so far when it comes to guiding beginner to intermediate bloggers down the path of Internet income.

Who Is It For?

This product is easy to follow, and you can use it regardless of your skill level. Alex has a pretty heavy accent, so you’ll need to listen closely, but it’s not too difficult to understand.

Web 2.0 Wealth System was created for the beginner, but I would recommend it for the intermediate blogger too - you will stumble across a few gold nugget ideas that you didn’t know before, even if you are familiar with blogging. Advanced bloggers will probably find much of the training redundant, so if you are familiar with how to set up a WordPress blog, install critical plug-ins and the best monetization methods, you probably don’t need this product.

I was pleasantly surprised by some of the tips Alex talks about in the videos, in particular the monetization suggestions, as he offered a few ideas I had never heard of before. For example, the section where he covers using AssociatedContent.com was particularly refreshing. Not many other blog trainers talk about this service as a way to make money from a blog and it’s interesting how Alex leverages the site within his system to generate multiple sources of income from the single stream of content.

Why Would You Need This Product?

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