SorenJordansen.comInternet Marketing Revealed, Reviewed & Discussed

First of all thanks for the massive amount of feedback on last weeks post about the stock trading robot scam. I truly appreciate all the comments, plugs, diggs, links etc.

I got quite a few emails from people requesting more of the same - or to be more specific - requesting that I find and review good honest affiliate programs and pass them on to my readers. That set my head spinning - but not spinning for long. You see I have been wanting to do this for a while anyway.

I got the idea from my good friend Matt Garret, and another friend Todd Gross was a whisker ahead of me in setting it up - so thanks for the idea and inspiration guys, and sorry if I nicked a few ideas along the way

I have a lot of contacts in internet marketing and I guess you could say that I’m in the loop - I get a lot of JV offers, review copies etc. and I often know about launches well in advance of everyone else. If you want to be in the loop, I would love to share this info with you.

Anyway… I’ve spent today setting up a special JV list for this purpose and I’m inviting you to join it. There are a couple of reasons why I have set this up on a separate list. I only want people who are genuinely interested in JV’ing and I don’t want to clutter this list with anything else. Basically this JV list is going to be used for 3 purposes only:

1. You will receive updates when I find a good JV/affiliate opportunity, that I think you would benefit from promoting
2. You will be the first to know when I launch a new product/program and you will get a chance to promote it before everyone else.
3. You will get my tips and step by step action plans on how to profit from these JV opportunities.

So, do you qualify for JV list?

Well most likely you do. I don’t really have any requirements for joining, but you’ve got to ask yourself if this is a list you need to be on. There are certain things you need to have (or do) in order to benefit from this:

1. You need to have a list you can promote to.
2. If you don’t have a list yet you need to be willing to follow my steps so you can build one and/or be willing to use my other recommended advertising resources.
3. And finally you need to be willing to take action - tire kickers will get absolutely no benefits from being on this list.

So with that being said… I would love to have you on my JV list, you can go ahead and sign up below.

=> Join My VIP Joint Venture Notification List Here!

In fact the first JV is ready for you right now - when you sign up you will get instant access to a massive list building opportunity. With my 5 step action plan that will really help you benefit from being on my list of JV partner’s.

I’ll see you on the other side
- Soren Jordansen

A couple of weeks ago I decided to purchase and test Marl the stock trading robot (doublingstocks dot com). I fully anticipated it to be hogwash, in fact if you do a search on Google you will find plenty of people complaining about these scam artists. But I decided to test it anyway, here are the 3 reasons why (remember I did this so you don’t have to):

1) Marl the stock trading robot is currently the number 1 selling product on Clickbank and I have seen a ton of affiliates promote it on various advertising venues - as an internet marketer this of course got my attention, I wanted to check their sales process to see why they were selling so well, getting people to promote them etc.

2) I routinely reinvest a part of my profits on the stock market and I’m always looking for good information and tools that can help me make the right decisions. The notion of finding cheap penny stocks that are very likely to double is of course something that will give most investors wet dreams

3) The Stock Trading Robot has a very compelling sales page that really sucks you in - Of course it is of the “too good to be true - run away fast” nature, but for testing purposes I decided to let myself be “sucked in” and give it a test.

So what is Marl?

The background story: a young computer geek develops a computer stock trading model, while contracted to Goldman Sachs. He then goes on to develop a piece of home computer software to predict the stocks future direction by analysing a stocks past price movements. The story is plausible, however if you search on Google you will find that a number of people have already shot it to pieces e.g. he was never contracted to Goldman Sachs.

The real problem is in the premise that his new software can predict stock prices based on past price movements. Yes you can use such a model as part of your analysis, but as you can imagine it takes a lot more than that to predict stock movements e.g. overall market trends, news and most importantly reports from the companies in question. Furthermore such a technical analysis of price movement requires and ungodly amount of data an calculations - plus you still have to make your “educated” decision based on the data and the other factors.

What you get (or don’t get) when you buy!

So, my alarm bells where already ringing at this point, but as I said I had decided to go ahead and purchase it anyway.

The main product is a subscription to their newsletter and it has a $47 price tag. Supposedly you will receive a weekly newsletter with a couple of recommended stocks as calculated by Marl. I paid and entered my name and email - I promptly received an autoresponder email from Michael Cohen (the developer). The email thanked me for signing up and told me that I would get my first newsletter on Sunday - well two Sundays later I still haven’t received anything. Again if you search on Google you will find that this is the most common complaint (and I can guarantee you 100% that this was not a junk folder issue on my end).

Bottomline: $47 wasted on getting a thank you email. The so called stock prediction newsletter might have been worth $47 if they actually bothered to send something - Of course if they did I would highly doubt it was based on a technical analysis by a stock trading robot

But it gets worse!

After you subscribe to the newsletter you get presented with an offer to buy your own version of the stock trading robot. It sells for $97 and sounds like a very good deal - you can then “predict” as many stocks as you like instead of getting 1 or 2 in your weekly newsletter… Yeah right LOL, but of course I also had to test this option.

I got my download right away and it was easy to install - a few minutes later I burst out in hysterical laughter…

1) You are supposed to download EOD (End Of Day) files from the various stock exchanges and to analyze movements you, of course, need as much previous data as possible. The stock trading robot offers these EOD files from their website and they are nicely formatted so it’s easy to import into your database. Problem: I have checked on a daily basis and they only have EOD’s available for April 18th 2008 - they do not update this and of course you can’t analyze movement from a one day data set.

2) Big deal, you can get EOD files from hundreds of websites including Yahoo Finance. Problem is that this “state of the art” stock trading robot does not support the conventional formats for the EOD files and it took me forever to get some valid data in there… No worries, afterall I was ready to get rich now.

3) The stock trading robot does not predict a damn thing. It has a range of filters you can use to analyze the stock movements, but nothing you can’t find in your own stock trading platform e.g. etrader. In fact the tools and interface in Marl is the worst I have seen in a long time and the documentation is virtually non-existent.

Conclusion - Run Away Fast!

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that this is a scam. They have a highly optimized sales process, but deliver absolutely nothing of what was promised. The only saving grace was a couple of PDF’s with decent content, but nowhere near the $47 and $97 value. I have seen this a hundred times, their concept is to push enough sales through and then hope that people don’t refund (either because they forget or because they don’t want to admit that they got robbed)… I got my refunds from Clickbank today and if you have purchased this piece of junk I suggest that you go there and ask for yours.

My recommendation

There is nothing wrong with wanting to earn a significant ROI on penny stocks. But here’s what I suggest, take your $47-$97 to Amazon or your local bookstore - there are hundreds of great books on small cap investment strategies. Follow the market news both online and offline and do your own research on the companies you want to invest in. If you don’t want to do all the leg work, put you money in an investment fund that specializes in penny stocks - trust me that is far better than wasting your hard earned $ on a scammy stock trading robot.

Are you promoting Marl?

Are you one of the thousands of affiliates who are promoting Marl? I can understand the lure, it sells like hot cakes and pays some great commissions - to be honest that was one of reason why I decided to test it, had it been any good I would have been all over it. But you may want to take a step back and think… is a few quick bucks worth risking your reputation? I have seen people destroy their internet marketing career in a single email blast! And can you live with selling a known scam? The decision is yours.

Please Help Me Spread The Word

I strongly believe that these scam artists should not be allowed to get away with their shady business. First of all it’s just plain wrong, but at the end of the day it will also hurt the reputation of the rest of us, who are selling quality products and services. Help me spread the word so we can put these guys out of business… Here’s what you can do:

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And finally… Please leave a comment below if you have any questions about this article, any comments or maybe you could share your own experience with Marl - thank you.

I hope this post was helpful - I any event you have been warned

Have a great day,
- Soren Jordansen

Hi everyone,

I hope you have been enjoying Derek Gehl’s 4 day video course - you did sign up right? If you didn’t you can still access all 4 videos from the link below. I honestly have no idea how long Derek is going to keep the videos online, so I recommend that you sign up right now - better safe than sorry

=> Get Free Instant Access To All The Training Videos Here!

I have been enjoying the videos so far and I’m completely by the amount of content Derek has been sharing with us. Over 3 hours of free video training is almost unheard of in this day and age. I know originally I said I would post my own video here to compliment Derek’s work. But since he has been doing such a great job, I thought I would add some meat and potatoes instead - yep that means gold old fashioned writing. So what I’m going to do is walk you through the new BeBiz software Derek has been using in the videos.

So what the heck is BeBiz anyway?

BeBiz is designed to be a one stop platform to take you from idea to product and beyond. It’s all broken down to steps with checklists, tips and tutorial videos. It’s extremely powerful and the fact that you can do it all in one program (and do it well), will save you a ton of time and money. I know I have a new favourite toy

But let’s take a quick look at the key components BeBiz

1. Market Research
BeBiz contains a full keyword research tool. I have used a lot of different tools including Wordtracker and Keyword Elite - BeBiz absolutely knock their socks of. You can do all your research with the simple point and click system inside BeBiz and you don’t even have to leave the members area to check on your PPC and SEO competition, the in-built browser is perfect. This is the the most comprehensive (and easy to use) market research tool I have ever seen - and in my opinion reason enough to use BeBiz. I know I will be using it all the time, because it will give me a huge advantage over my competition.

=> The Market Research Tool Is Covered In Video 1 Here.

2. Product Setup.
You can use the BeBiz platform to sell any kind of product (and even just to generate leads). You simply specify what kind of product you are selling e.g. electronic product, physical product, subscription product or just lead generation. Then enter the product name and select an image (or upload your own). Based on what you enter into the product setup wizard, BeBiz will automatically handle your product delivery including bonus products - that’s a huge time saver because you don’t have to fiddle around creating thank you and download pages.

3 Sales Copy.
Writing good converting sales copy can be a challenge, but not with BeBiz. The sales copy wizard breaks the process down to small easy to do steps. You will be following Derek Gehl’s own powerful templates. In fact most of the writing is already done for you, you just have to fill in the blanks.

=> The Sales Copy Tool Is Covered In Video 2 Here.

4. Website Setup.
Next step is to set up your website. First of all hosting is included in the BeBiz package - so obviously that will save you a lot of money, but also a lot of time… You simply point and click to select your template, header, footer etc. Fill in the blanks and since your sales copy and product setup was done in the steps above, your sales page will be up and running in no time.

=> Creating Your Website Is Covered In Video 3 Here.

5. Payments Setup.
Next step is to set up your payment processor. BeBiz is completely integrated with Paypal, and has it’s own IPN system, but you can use any form of payment for you like. Of course you get full sales tracking and automated product delivery.

6. Your Contacts.
In the Website section you set up an “opt-in” offer to capture the email addresses of potential customers who visit your site but don’t purchase right away. You can use email management software to follow up with these contacts by sending them newsletters, autoresponders, or other email messages. You can of course integrate this feature with a service like AWeber and the delivery of your bonus product is handled by BeBiz.

7. Traffic.
When you reach this step you have your product, site and the whole sales process set up and it’s time to get some traffic to your site. BeBiz has a very in-depth step-by-step guide you can follow to start getting traffic yo your sales page. They will even give you $250 worth of free PPC advertising to get started.

=> Traffic Generation Is Covered In Video 4 Here.

Is BeBiz For Me?
BeBiz is a complete platform for setting up a profitable internet business from scratch. However this is not a get rich quick thingy - the steps you follow in BeBiz are steps you would need to take anyway. It requires WORK (I know, what a nasty word), BeBiz just makes the process a lot easier and saves you both time and money. It is for people who want to sell a product online, it does not have to be your own though. The process will work with affiliate marketing - however you won’t unlock the full potential until your start using it to sell your own product(s). Here are a couple of scenarios that will help you decide whether BeBiz is for you:

1. Your are relatively new to internet marketing, but you are serious about building a business and not afraid to work and follow the necessary steps. In that case BeBiz will dramatically cut your learning curve and allow you to build a successful business within weeks. And the power in BeBiz is that you don’t have to know html or possess any other technical skills, you just have to follow the steps and do the work.
2. You are already a seasoned internet marketer and you want to streamline your whole product creation and sales process, by having all the necessary tools in one place.
3. You are like me and you want to use the powerful tools inside BeBiz to simplify what you are already doing. And more importanly you also want to be able to crank out profit pulling niche site at the rate of one a day.

=> If One Or More Apply To You, You Need To Check Out BeBiz Here!

I hope you have found this post informative. As you may have noticed I highly recommend the BeBiz software (yes I know, that one was pretty obvious). But check out the videos and see for yourself whether it can help you build your internet business. I know it’s perfect for me and I’m off to build my 2nd product with it

=> Watch The Videos Here & Look For The Special 28-Day “Build a Biz Challenge”!

You have probably noticed that I have been recommending Ewen Chia’s new “Work From Home” ebook. I’ve gotten quite a few emails about it. Mostly positive feedback from people who grabbed the ebook, but also enough questions to warrant a post here.

I consider Ewen to be one of my internet marketing mentors. I always grab his stuff and I usually end up recommending it to others. So yes I have read the “Work From Home” report and all the bonuses. And there was absolutely no way I could pass on recommending it to my members and readers. The report is very solid, filled with good content - and as always Ewen over delivers on a massive scale.

Which brings me to the most frequently asked question: “At only $9.97 can this report really be worth anything?”

It most certainly can and here’s why… The “Work From Home” report itself will give you 3 ways to start making money on the internet. And as always Ewen delivers the content in a very straight foward, step-by-step manner. So even if you are a total beginner you can take action on the steps and start making money. Now the report itself is easily worth the low $9.97 fee, but take a look at what you actually get:

• 1) Secret report: 51-page report
• 2) Bonus report: 36-page ebook
• 3) Mystery gift: 84-page blueprint
• 4) Instant Income System tools

PLUS these extra bonuses…

• 1) Affiliate marketing: video training
• 2) Affiliate marketing: audio MP3
• 3) Copywriting: audio MP3
• 4) Traffic generation: audio MP3 - And more to come…

So you tell me, Is this “worth” it? The entire package is worth hundreds of dollars (and I’ve certainly seen other marketers sell this amount of content for that). But you get *EVERYTHING* for just one-time $9.97… Price goes up on April 29th though, so grab yours now:

=> Grab Your Copy Of The “Work From Home” Secret Report Here!

I’ve also gotten a few emails from - shall we say more experienced marketers, who have asked whether this ebook would be worth anything to them. I would say that the main ebook is mainly for beginners, but everyone can pick up some golden nuggets from it. All the bonuses are however great for everyone, right from beginners to seasoned veterans.

If you are a more experienced marketer you will probably want to take a close look at Ewen’s one time offer and the home study course. The *Complete Home Study Program* is available at a MASSIVE discount. It’s not the usual $997 but way lower, and it’s
extremely under-priced for the huge value you get. However this is strictly a time-limited discount so grab yours fast…

=> Check Out The Work From Home Report & All The Bonuses Here!

Hey everyone,

Today we are going to talk about JV giveaways… I have been using these things for years and as a result I have added thousands of new subscribers to my lists. Contributing to a giveaway is one of the fastest and most effective list building techniques I know, however it can be a bit tricky to explain how to get started using them. Thankfully I don’t have to, because my good friend Derrick VanDyke has just done all the work for me.

Last year in August I ran my yearly 15 Days Of Summer Giveaway, and I convinced Derrick to give it shot. This was actually Derrick’s first ever giveaway event and he proceeded to do very well. In fact he was my top affiliate, added over 1.000 new subscribers to his list and made a whole truckload of money. Derrick recently released an ebook called “My Giveaway Secrets“, it’s based on his experience with my giveaway and sprinkled with his own extensive internet marketing experience. Because 15 Days of Summer was his first event, “My Giveaway Secrets” is an excellent step-by-step guide for people who want to start using giveaways to build a profitable email list.

=> My Giveaway Secrets

Derrick, being the savvy internet marketer he is, has of course also put some very neat affiliate twists on his ebook. If you can accept payments from PayPal, I have some good news for you… My Giveaway Secrets is selling like hot cakes and my PayPal account is loaded with sales for $7, $17, and $27. Here’s how YOU can get in on the action…

Become an Affiliate:

100% Profit sent straight to your PayPal account (93% of the sales have been $27).

=> My Giveaway Secrets (click on Affiliates)

Become a Reseller:

Build a profitable customer list with the built-in affiliate program…

Here’s what you can do with this product:

• Brand this new report with your own affiliate links
• Sell the report at any price you like
• Sell the resale rights at any price you like
• Sell the branding rights at any price you like

Here’s the extremely interesting and potentially *very* profitable *twist* that you’ve never seen before…

This unique system also includes a built-in affiliate program. So you can get other people to promote your site and the money goes straight into their PayPal account. And unlike the typical $7 scripts that many people use to build a customer list, this new technology is 100% compliant with PayPal’s terms of service!

Get it! Brand it! Build a customer list and profit!

And it gets even better because…

You don’t even have to edit ANY HTML files!

Just edit ONE little configuration file in any text editor, upload the files and you’re done. It’s NEVER been this simple to build a customer list and profit from other people’s efforts.

=> My Giveaway Secrets (Click on Resale Rights)

If you’re just interested in the report, you can get it for just $7 here!

JV with the Greedy Giveaway

Jason James and Brian Edmonson are getting ready to launch a new version of the Greedy Giveaway. This is one of the best giveaway events around, last time it added almost 1.000 new subscribers to my list and I expect it to do even better this time. The Greedy giveaway is an excellent place to get started and to apply the steps from My Giveaway Secrets

Below you will find the JV partner sign up link for the Greedy Giveaway, but before you go… There are a few simple rules you need to follow. You must have a list of at least 500 subscribers (or be able to mail in other places equivalent to that) and you must agree to promote the even twice. If you can do that, I highly recommend that you sign up below.

=> Greedy Giveaway JV Partner Sign Up

That’s it for now, thanks for reading and good luck with your list building.

~ Soren Jordansen

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

I have a short video for you relating to my email earlier today. It features my good friend Robert Puddy talking about the launch of the new Rip2It.com (actually a merger of Adsense Real Estate and Rip2It with a lot of new bells and whistles). Anyway I recommend watching the video - and it you are into niche marketing and content sites I definitely recommend that you take a good look at Rip2It.

Being St. Paddy’s day and all, I’m sorry I couldn’t equip Robert with a Leprechaun costume - The pink shirt will have to do

Click Here To Read More About The New Rip2It!

Hi everyone,

As you may know I have been very busy with the launch of my new Floating Action Button, in fact so busy that I never got around to posting about it here at my own blog - Yeah I know that’s horrible

Over 3000 people have already secured their access to this powerful new script - and we are getting some excellent feedback from users. It seems like the script is doing exactly what we wanted it to do… increase conversion and response rates. Anyway I’m not going to write a novel about it here, instead I’m going to show you the script in action, plus show you a couple of videos.

First of all you can see the script in action right here at the blog. To the left of here is a Floating Action Button offering you a free ebook download - notice how the script will float and follow you as you read this blog. We did not actually create it with blogs in mind (at first), but the more I’ve used it the more certain I am that Floating Action Button and blogs are the perfect combo. By the way you should go ahead and download that ebook, I just finished reading it and it’s really good.

My good friend Todd Gross has made a nice video showing how easy it is to use the Floating Action Button. You can watch Todd’s video here. And below you can see my own FAB video.

But hey… of course I have nice things to say about my own product. Here’s a video I just randomly picked up while grabbing the link for my own video above. It really gave me the warm and fuzzy feeling… Steph I don’t know if you read this, but if you do - thank you very much.

We set the price for Floating Action Button at a very low $7 for the first week. You still have a chance to grab it at that price but at 10am EST on Thurday March 13th we will be raising the price. Grab your copy today!

Ok, so now it’s your turn. Have you bought Floating Action Button? What do you think? What are your results? Do you have any questions etc. Just put in a comment below - thank you

As you know I have several internet marketing products and services, and I generally operate in that nice - selling to other marketers. I really enjoy my work and I’m certainly not complaining about results.

But to be honest the real money is in taking what you know about the internet marketing niche and applying it to other niches. The competition is rarely as fierce and quite often you can dominate your niches + your potential customers aren’t marketers, they are just regular people looking for the services you offer.

Of course this it not something I (or other internet marketers) talk about often - simply put, when we find a niche we can dominate we don’t really want to share

That changed a bit today… JD Swanson has teamed up with my buddy Jason James to bring you Mafioso Marketing. I have been reading and re-reading the ebook over the past couple of days. I can honestly say that this is one of the best and most complete niche marketing guides I have ever seen. I know it’s still early, but I have a feeling this will be one of the absolute best products launched in 2008.

=> Mafioso Marketing

It’s not so often that something NEW hits the internet marketing scene. You know why that is? Because when you get right down to it, people are people, marketing is marketing, and that just doesn’t change.

But sometimes information is EXPLAINED in such a completely new, innovative, and EYE-OPENING way that you just have to sit up and take notice!

JD Swanson is that kind of guy. He has quietly been making a mint in obscure niche markets like “crab cake recipes,” “backyard landscaping,” and some that you just wouldn’t believe.

JD let me have a peek at “Mafioso Marketing,” which is why I’m writing to you about it today. It’s simply TOO GOOD to not point it out.

JD takes you step by step through the process of finding a niche to dominate, all the way through wringing as much cash as possible out if it in the shortest time imaginable.

JD has started to build up a name for himself in the internet marketing field, and he’s doing it the right way: by developing TRUST with his partners and customers. In fact, he’s paired up with one of the top Internet Marketers in the world, Jason James, to bring Mafioso Marketing to you. Take a look at what some people have said about him here, and you’ll know what I’m talking about:

=> Mafioso Marketing

These guys seriously overdeliver, and they’re taking it to a whole new level with Mafioso Marketing. There’s just one catch… they’re trying to make a big splash right now by offering an introductory price for Mafioso Marketing… but it won’t last long!

So if you’re tired of trying to sell internet marketing products to internet marketers… I suggest learning how to dominate niche markets from JD and Jason:

=> Mafioso Marketing

So I highly recommend grabbing this course, but is it for you?

Well first of all it’s about applying internet marketing techniques outside the IM niche - dominating other niches for instant cash. If that holds no interest for you, then Mafioso Marketing is obviously not for you. It is however a step-by-step guide complete with video instructions, making it as easy as possible for you to take action and apply the strategies.

P.S. Even if you aren’t interested in niche marketing, you should take a good long look at the sales letter… In my opinion it’s a beaut

=> Mafioso Marketing