It’s happened a couple of times in the 5 years I’ve been online and I’m sure it’s happened more in the history of online marketing as a whole…

But it’s certainly happening right now.

That is, a resurgence in the popularity of “CPA Marketing”. In other words, marketing CPA offers. What we’re really talking about is a resurgence of hype about CPA marketing, the reason for which we can only guess.

I was asked last night if I’d gotten much into “CPA” and I caught myself saying something that should be the subject of a blog post…

An expanded version of what I replied was…

I don’t know what all the FUSS over “CPA” is.

What people are calling “CPA” is simply promoting affiliate offers where you get paid for a person signing up and giving some of their contact details rather than making a purchase.

But the WAY people talk about it, is as though CPA itself is a STRATEGY. It’s like saying “affiliate offers” is a strategy for making money on the net… of course it’s not… it’s one component of a strategy!

“CPA” is not a method of generating traffic… it’s not a method of building websites… it’s not a method of converting more visitors to people who earn you money…

It’s just monetization. That’s it. It’s the last step in the process of making money with the affiliate marketing model.

What SHOULD be recognized is that there is tremendous opportunity in CPA offers. There are some killer offers from reputable companies that are being sold through quality landing pages in markets of relative low competition to targeted audiences of interested buyers. This equals high conversions; any affiliate’s dream.

But if you don’t know how to build a site and get targeted visitors to it, CPA itself is nothing. It’s not going to help you.

So remember that the next time you get a pitch for a “cpa secrets” course.

Whatever the content, it’s pretty likely that to implement it you’re going to need the same old skills of online marketing , building sites and driving traffic that everyone should learn and that all they can say will relate to the monetization, the final step of the process.

I hope this post helps you avoid shelling out a couple of extra unnecessary dollars

Just when I thought I’d had enough of airports for a while…

Elysia and I will be heading out to The Big Apple this morning for a bit of touristing, and hopefully catchin up with some marketers and peeps we met in DC while we’re there.

I’ll be most interested to see central park, a Broadway show, and ground zero (which I learned recently is strangely slow in being rebuilt, and that the chinese built something like 9 buildings in equivalent size to WTT in just one year leading up to the Beijing Olympics…)

Any recommendations on what else we should do with 5 days there are welcome and appreciated

Oh and if you’re in the area and interested in catching up, let me know!

You know how much a fan of Article Marketing I am right?

I wrote this post about article marketing and how I’ve used it to achieve both fast and long term traffic and I managed to convince Darren at Problogger to run it over there…

Great Success! (any Borat fans out there?)

Check it out here:

Smart Article Marketing

By the way, this is the exact strategy Elysia uses for her members at ArticleBlitz – she was my partner on the site mentioned there!

Chekui!

If in no other way, I want anyone who reads this blog to make more money this year by WASTING LESS of it on products they don’t need.

I was lying in bed the other night and I came up with the perfect way to combat this problem of opportunity hopping that so many of us face.

But I need your help…

Here’s what I want to do.

I want to create a review community at AndrewHansen.name

I want to create a place where people can come to  get REAL reviews on IM products without a sales pitch AND from people who are near to their own skill level.

You know what I mean right?

I, Andrew might buy a product and find it to be boring and a waste of time, but Joe Newbie might read the same piece of info and say “damn that was helpful!”

And what’s more, I hate going to places like the Review area at the Warrior Forum and having to scroll through pages of comments trying to work out who’s actually bought the product, whether it’s really good, and whether there’s even one decent review.

So here’s what I propose.

I want to start a community where for as many products as possible, or as requested, we have real human reviews.

In fact, each product will have more than one review. It will have three reviews – one from an Advanced Marketer, one from an Intermediate Marketer and one from a Newer Marketer.

These reviews won’t be by me (sometimes the Advanced Marketer review will… excuse my arrogance) but by YOU.

I will start a list of reviewers – it’s free to become one.

Each time a product is requested I will email this list and ask who’s bought it or wants to buy it and review it.

Then I’ll post the reviews here on the site for our whole community to check out… whether the recommendation is good OR bad!

What’s in it for you the reviewer?

1. If it happens that the product is good (I will also judge your review so you can’t just submit good reviews for the sake of it) and worth buying, you the writer can include your own affiliate link so readers of andrewhansen.name can click through to it and purchase through you. Potentially big dollars IF the product is good.

2. If it’s not good – I’ll pay you! If your review gets chosen as one of the 2 or 3 we provide, I’ll send you some cash via paypal It won’t be a gigantic sum, maybe $30 or so, depending on the quality of the review.

3. Good or bad, you can include a link to some website of yours in the review ie “this review provided by xyz at abc.com”

4. And most importantly you get to help a whole community of readers to SAVE MONEY on products that suck.

Be clear, these are not the kind of reviews you find on the web when you search some current product. I want REAL reviews – if it sucks, we’re gonna say it sucks. If it’s great, it’ll be recommended by the corresponding experience level.

This way we’ll have a GENUINE review area that anyone can come to at any time to make sure of their purchase, or avoid it completely, free of charge.

Together we will make opportunity hopping a thing of the past and combined, focus our energy for massive profits in 2009.

If you’re keen on the idea, let me know your thoughts here and I’ll try to get this underway as soon as possible.

Here’s another social network bandwagon I’m plenty late in jumping on buuut…

Now you can join me on Facebook here:

Andrew Hansen

Look forward to connecting with you all!

As I mentioned in my last post, I’m waging a full scale war this year.

A war against the killer of success amongst most people trying to make money online and that is the mindset of opportunity hopping.

I’m going to be doing everything I can to make sure the people who read what I say are focusing, concentrating their efforts, and turning that effort into profit. It’s going to save you money, make you avoid the frustration of overwhelm and lead you to a truly successful online business.

My first mode of attack is the report I mentioned a couple of days back – you should be seeing that pop up pretty soon

The next is this…

I was on a call last night that introduced a service that I think is a phenomenal idea.

Basically it’s a membership where for a small fee, you get the opportunity to ask questions to a team of online experts; more than 50 of them so far – names like Willie Crawford, Mike Ambrosio, Matt Garret, Ross Goldberg, Michelle Macphearson, Phil Wiley, Chris Freville, and myself.

You can ask a question, as many questions as you want  for month, and have a panel of experts answer them for you!

I’ve not seen anything like it before, and it fits perfectly with our fight against opportunity hopping because…

1. Instead of buying every new product that comes out, you can ask the right people, exactly the answers you’re looking for online! You don’t have to buy every new report HOPING that your answers will be in there…

2. Heck you could probably even ask them IF “xyz product” is worth buying considering that I want to know “xyz” – I’m sure they will be able to provide guidance.

So it’s something that not only will help answer your most important questions but also, save you thousands of dollars in products that you didn’t need too!

I’ll be sharing more about this with you over the coming weeks. I’m pretty excited about it so be sure to keep checking back for updates if it’s something you’re interested in.

The fight against opportunity hopping continues!

There’s a “global economic crisis” – just listen to the “news”…

Petrol prices are sky high, companies are filing bankruptcy left and right, people are getting laid off, the economy’s in recession…

My question is, how is it affecting you?

How do you feel about the current situation of the economy?

I’m genuinely interested in your opinion on this…

My personal perspective?

I’m not the best person to ask since:

1. My age and the cyclical nature of economics means that whatever crisis occurs will be corrected long before it’s a major factor in my life…

2. I’m not from the US (though the AU economy’s not what it used to be either)

Having said that, my point of view is that I have no concern about the issue for myself because I believe no one is in control of my financial destiny but me, but at the same time, I have concern for alot of the people who haven’t yet taken this mindset… I have concern about how it will affect them.

Looking forward to your thoughts.

Well I’ve been through what was no doubt the hardest week of my natural life…

This project was so enormous and required so much work that even we didn’t realize it til the last minute.

The five nights prior to launch, me, Elysia, and our other in house employee Steve were hammering away on the keyboards til all hours of the morning… Drinking 4 “V” drinks per day…

I’m not sure if we actually slept, as I became delirious after a certain point and didn’t know whether I was awake or asleep!

But after everything, we got there! Firepow went off without a hitch, and so far it’s a BIG hit!

Our members are loving it, we’re excited to finally be showing this thing to the world – and it’s only just the beginning!

My goal is that eventually, if you’re reading this post, you’ll be a Firepow member

Even with how powerful and potentially profitable it is now – you’ll take a look next month, it’ll be better again – month after that – better again.

EVERYONE will know about Firepow pretty soon – you wait and see.

Oh… and of course if you haven’t seen Firepow yet, click the link to it now!

Anyhow, just letting everyone know that I’m back to a normal routine – we’ve (that’s me and YOU) got a couple of very exciting months ahead, and I look forward to sharing more great info with you soon.

Andrew

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FINALLY…

If you’re one of the people who’d been coming to this blog wondering why the feed subscription hadn’t been working, you can fear no longer.

After some much appreciated help from (an albeit random and hidden) Feedburner support team, the issue is resolved.

Subscribe away.

By the way, if you’re trying to get in touch with Feedburner for support – it is actually possible! Contact them at feedburner-feedback@google.com

Enjoy my feed!

Andrew