21st century academy. Should I join?
21st century academy. Should I join?
2 years ago I discovered 21st century academy. I was introduced to the academy by my brother who was already a member.
My brother is an electrician and quite liked his job but like a lot of us he thought he was underpaid for all the hard work he put in.
I had notice something different about Josh for about the last year. He was a lot more confident and he never seemed to complain about money problems or the price of things like the rest of us. I asked him “Josh, what’s the deal?” He told me about how he had joined 21st century academy and he had earned a lot about how to make extra money in his spare time.
He gave me a DVD to watch. I sat down and watched, it went fro 3 hours. This bloke Jamie McIntyre came on the screen and explained what 21st Century academy is and what they do. There was also some footage from a 21st Century 4 day seminar called “Education for life”. It outlined over 15 strategies that anyone can use to create wealth.
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The next step for me was to go to one of these 4 day events. My brother, being a member already, got to take along a friend free to one of these events that they hold all over Australia.
We attended the Melbourne event held at the Bayview Eden Hotel. 4 days, heaps of different speakers, all with their own specialty. This event blew me away. I came away with ideas and detailed strategies on property, the Internet, the stock market, even how to earn more and get a pay rise at work.
The next week I joined the academy. Josh even got paid $600 for introducing me to the academy.
So what did I get for joining?
About a week later I received a package in the mail. It contained:
- Over 40 DVDs (over 80hours) that covered every possible strategy on how to make money.
- A checklist on how to get started.
- 5 books authored by Jamie McIntyre.
- A work book to help me make sense of the information contained on the DVD’s
- Tickets to the next 4 day event plus the opportunity to take a friend along.
- 5 years of support.
Since then I have watched all the DVD’s, and completed the home study. I did have questions along the way and the support was great. I could call the academy or even visit their office and ask the people who know the strategies to point me in the right direction.
Another great thing about the DVD course is you can complete it in your own time and if you don’t quire understand something you can go back over it as many times as you like.
So should you join 21st century academy? My personal recommendation is yes. So far in 12months since joining 21st century academy I have only implemented 1 of the strategies and am making as much out of the stock market each month as I do at my job. I have doubled my income.
I am now looking at another of the strategies that they teach to purchase my first investment property. Exciting times.
My story began with watching the DVD and making up my mind from there. You can get a copy of the free DVD here. Yes it goes for three hours, but if you are really serious about creating wealth in you life. Its 3 hours well spent.
What Successful Affiliates All Have In Common
The key to affiliate success
Whenever we set out to do anything we want to succeed. We never set out to fail. What is the recipe for success? A lot of different things work for different people. In any given field you will find that those at the top share certain attributes.
So what is it that most successful affiliates have in common?
Successful affiliates share these attributes:
- Successful affiliates don’t pick products at random. They Concentrate on something that interests them enables them to be sincere and knowledgeable about the product.
- Successful affiliates research their market. Ever heard the expression “It’s like flogging a dead horse?” It’s no use jumping in and promoting something that nobody is buying. Successful affiliates give each niche they wish to target its due diligence.
- Successful affiliates plan for the long term. They implement strategies that will stand the test of time. Affiliate marketing is not a get rich quick scheme and those looking for one should look elsewhere. Hard work and constant effort are rewarded long-term.
- Successful affiliates keep their finger on the pulse. They never stand still. They are always looking for new ways to promote their current affiliate programs or products. There are a lot of people with great ideas. Successful affiliates have the ability to spot a good idea and ask themselves ‘how can I use that idea to my advantage?’
Long-term Success
There are stories of affiliates who claim to have made mega bucks virtually overnight. And this is still possible. But the days of easy money on the internet a virtually over. It is a much more transparent market nowadays with web 2.0.
These days lying, or misleading your customers in any way will see you shut down very quickly. With the invent of sites like Twitter and facebook word of mouth and bad publicity travel very fast on the internet. So stay true to yourself and your customer base and you will succeed.
Being successful in general requires hard work and dedication. The same goes for affiliate marketing. Those who are prepared to roll up their sleeves get dirty and put some work in will reap the rewards down the track.
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Affiliate Marketing Without a Website
Why affiliates don’t need a website
Save on costs
The best thing about stating out in Affiliate marketing is you can do it without a website and avoid any start up costs at all. We will discuss exactly how in this article.
When you find your feet and begin to make a few sales and build up a bit of a bank you can expand your efforts. One way to expand is to get a website to add an extra facet to your promotional efforts.
Connect with your audience
Affiliate marketing is about making a connection with your audience. No matter which audience or niche market you choose to target.
Sure it helps to have a website. It will only add to your online presence. However there are other ways to build a profile online and get people to believe in what you have to say. And now in the age of Web 2.0 offering quality content and advice is the only way to make a good living online.
Web 2.0
You may have heard the term Web 2.0 and wondered what it means.
Basically it means version 2 of the internet. The old internet was static. Basically the webmaster would create a site with content for people to look at. People might come here to buy something or just get some useful information and click away from the site onto another static site. In essence, one way communication, from the webmaster to the website visitor.
Fast forward to now and the web, like anything, has evolved. Web 2.0 offers one great advantage. That is interactivity. All the new social media sites, blogs and forums that have sprung up over the last 2 or so years have given the internet a whole new way of sharing information. It is real time, viral and a very powerful concept.
Social Media
I’m sure you have all heard of facebook or twitter. Facebook and other sites (click here for a list) are a great tool for any affiliate marketer to start to build a profile online. All yon need to do is participate, grow your friends list and you can offer you opinion and insert your affiliate links directly to people who you know will be interested in them.
There are literally hundreds of these them have popped up over the pas couple of years and all of them have their uses. The trick is to find the ones that will service you best. Create a profile be active in them on a regular basis and in a short time people will begin to know and trust you. This will give you a great advantage when you try to sell them something.
Social media is a long term strategy. Don’t expect to join a dozen of these sites on day and see instant results. It will take time to build up relationships with people. Give it time to develop. Truth is it won’t seem like work. But the more you participate the stronger your relationship and online presence becomes. If you have something interesting to say people will find you on their own.
Squidoo
Squidoo is a godsend for affiliate marketers starting out. It’s like having a website without the cost involved.
That’s right it’s free and you can publish any of your own content and even make money directly from squidoo. You will need to sign up for an account and from there the sky is the limit. Talk about and promote whatever you like. Use this in conjunction with the social networking sites linking back to each other and you have a very powerful tool for promotion of your products.
You can build as many pages as you like on the same or different products. These pages get noticed by Google and all the other search engines and they can give you great traffic and exposure.
Forums
There are thousands of forums out there. About almost any subject you can think of. A great way to stamp your presence as an authority in your chosen niche is to regularly participate in these forums and offer real answers and quality feedback.
People will become to know you as an expert and trust what you have to say. Throw in a few affiliate links in the mix and you will be surprised at how many sales you can generate this way.
Best Affiliate Recourse
These are just a few of the methods that I have discovered and that worked for me when starting out affiliate marketing. They are a great starting point for any aspiring affiliate marketer.
One of the greatest resources I have found is Sean Rasmussen’s book, Year of the Affiliate. All of these strategies and more are covered in depth in the book. He gives step by step examples of how to implement all of these strategies. Well worth a read. His years of experience as a successful internet marketer are in the pages. It will save literally hundreds of hours of research and put you on the front foot.
As you can see I have implemented all of these techniques discussed in this article. Please click the follow me on twitter icon or digg icon on this page for a live example of how social media can work. See my profiles I set up long ago when I was starting out affiliate marketing. Join or follow me and I will follow you as well.
until next time
Lets make millions together.
Nickquinlan
Welcome to nickquinlan.com
Hi, my name is Nicholas Quinlan.
Welcome to my personal blog nickquinlan.com. Internet marketing and making money online is a passion of mine. I have had some success over a relatively short period of time, mostly through selling digital products as an affiliate marketer across several different niche markets. I have also tried my hand at drop shipping over the internet.
Here’s a short history of Nicholas Quinlan.
Now I already told you that one of my passions is making money online. The other great passion of mine is travel.
I was born in Australia in the small town of Bungaree in Victoria. I’ve lived in Canada, Greece and England and have travelled all over the world.
Some of the places I’ve been include North America, Mexico, and Central America, The UK, Ireland and almost all of the countries in Europe and Eastern Europe. I’ve also visited Thailand and the list goes on and I’ll probably never be finished.
After school I went to University and got myself a degree in IT, Mainly because of my love of computers and the internet. All the while I worked as a manager in the hospitality industry which I love.
This work gave me a great understanding of people and how easy it is to make them happy. Great friendly service is the key.
Once I had finished my degree I began work with a large company putting my skills to work. I always felt that that there was something missing. I guess I’m just not the type to be stuck behind a desk (the same desk) all day long, day in and day out. I was going stir crazy. So I packed up and went on the road.
I found myself in Canada. Where I could be outside in the nature, snowboard everyday and meet new people. I loved it. I took another job behind a bar and proceeded to have the greatest time ever. I didn’t want it to end.
I started to think of ways that I would be able to keep travelling without having to find a new job everywhere I went. That’s when my research into internet marketing began. Sure I have a degree in IT but I didn’t know anything about marketing. And guess what. All my computer knowledge means next to nothing in the world of internet marketing.
Through my research I found that even somebody with no knowledge of computers would be able to set up an affiliate marketing business.
I continued on my trip through North America and down through Mexico and Central America. All the while building my online presence. It took me a long time to learn some of the things I know about being an affiliate marketer. I did some things the hard way. There was a lot of trial and error involved.
I got my business to a stage that I was happy with. I was making enough money to travel around without having to find a job in any country I wanted to go to. The best thing about it was I could do it anywhere a wanted. Anywhere there is an internet connection of course.
I carried my laptop everywhere and worked form the beach in the Greek islands and in the cafes of Paris. I’ve worked from my flat in London. On the odd day with nice weather in London I moved my office to the park.
That’s the beauty of affiliate marketing and making money online. You are not tied to any one place of office and you don’t even need a physical product. You basically sell information, digital products. No need for a warehouse to hold your stock. Although you can do it this way if you wish through a method called drop shipping.
After doing a lot of travel I started to miss my family and being so far away so I decided to move back to Melbourne to be closer to them. I had a lot of friends that I hadn’t seen in a long time either.
I’ve been a professional internet marketer for a short time and have been growing my income all the time. I was looking for new products one day when I stumble across a site by two Aussie bloke’s names Sean and Shaun. They claimed to be internet marketing millionaires and they were putting on a seminar not far from my house in Melbourne. And they were inviting me to come.
So I thought why not? I might learn something from them. After all they have made millions doing the same thing I am trying to do. And boy, am I glad I went. It turned out the best thing I could have ever done.
Sean Rasmussen and Shaun Stenning are their names. They were true to their word and were in fact millionaires, all from online efforts. If only I had met them about 12 months earlier. They teach all the things I had learned through my own research and a whole lot more.
They are the reason I’ve started this blog. They have made millions as affiliate marketers and now want to give back and teach others how to do it. I think that’s a great idea. I haven’t made my first million yet but with a positive attitude, some luck and their help I’m sure I’m going to do it, sooner rather than later. Follow me and I’ll pass on every tip I know and everything I learn along the way.
We can all make millions, together.
