Saturday, November 21, 2009

Build a business Online

The subject line of this email is a classic question, and one Court and I get asked on a daily basis. In fact, I was just reading a friend's article about how much he's making online, and I saw the "how long?" question asked at least a couple of times. If you'd like to skip the rest of this message, here are my short answers to the "How long till I make money online?" question:
Longer than 99% of people are willing to sustain focus.
...and...
Not nearly as long as discouraged newbies think it will take.
Yes, those are vague answers. Let's put it in perspective with a couple of specific examples:
In the last few weeks I've had some great conversations with former one-on-one students of ours. Both of them started effectively at zero online income. One of them is now plugging away at about $1500 per month (we started working with him about five months ago), and the other made over $10,000 last month (he enrolled in late January).
I just couldn't be happier for these two hard-working guys, and couldn't be more proud of the fact that we were part of their success. When I asked them about what it took to get where they are today, their answers were similar, and went something like this:
"Well, the truth is I was up and down for the first couple of months - in my motivation, effort, and results. It's just not that easy to focus when you have a job, and you're trying to have a life, and then you're trying to build a business online at the same time. I just had to keep plugging away at it. I'd put in 20 minutes here and an hour there, and after a while I started to see some results."

Can You Get Excited About $10 Per Month Online? I Hope So.

What did they mean by "some results?" A dollar here, two dollars there - heck, in the early days they were ecstatic if they made $10 one month and doubled it to $20 the next month. After all, that's a 100% increase. I loved what one of the students - Steve - said about his longer term goals:
"People have to realize that making an income on the internet is a marathon, not a sprint. If you get into this game thinking you're going to go from zero to thousands per month in a couple months you're just going to get frustrated and quit. My plan is to increase my income by about 5% per month for the next three years. That will get me to my goals."
Let's work through the math for a second. Let's say you bust your tail for 12 months and achieve an income of $1,000 in the 12th month (although Steve did that in his fourth month). Now let's say you're able to increase that income by 5% every month after that. Three years later your monthly income would be just over $6,000 per month. If you include the first year, it would have taken you four years to reach an income of about $72,000 per year.

Much More Lucrative Than College (or University)

You know how much the average college graduate earns? I did some research and I couldn't find a single example of a college grad earning a starting salary of more than about $60,000, with most starting out between $30,000 and $40,000.
Of course, it's not even a fair comparison. College students aren't making money (typically) while they're in school, and they're definitely not seeing a 5% increase in their income every month. Quite the contrary. In many cases they're going tens of thousands of dollars in debt.
If you become the persistent web entrepreneur in our example you will not only hit $72,000 per year by the end of your fourth year, you will have earned a total of over $101,000 during your four years of "schooling."
I guess some people will say it's not possible to increase your income by a measly 5% per month over a three year period. That's fine. I would encourage those people to settle into a nice corporate job, and hang out there for 30 or 40 years.
Based on my experience, a 5% monthly increase is not hard at all - it's the first $1,000 that's tough. If you can knock out that first thousand per month, the sky is really the limit. You'll have confidence, momentum, and enthusiasm on your side - not to mention the cash. People are attracted to internet marketing because you can get started with very little cash. But I'm here to tell you that internet marketing gets a lot simpler (dare I say easy?) when you've got some money to put behind your work ethic and creativity.
So what's the problem? Why is it that 99% of the people never get to $1,000 per month, let alone $6,000 per month?

Make Money ONline

The subject line of this email is a classic question, and one Court and I get asked on a daily basis. In fact, I was just reading a friend's article about how much he's making online, and I saw the "how long?" question asked at least a couple of times. If you'd like to skip the rest of this message, here are my short answers to the "How long till I make money online?" question:
Longer than 99% of people are willing to sustain focus.
...and...
Not nearly as long as discouraged newbies think it will take.
Yes, those are vague answers. Let's put it in perspective with a couple of specific examples:
In the last few weeks I've had some great conversations with former one-on-one students of ours. Both of them started effectively at zero online income. One of them is now plugging away at about $1500 per month (we started working with him about five months ago), and the other made over $10,000 last month (he enrolled in late January).
I just couldn't be happier for these two hard-working guys, and couldn't be more proud of the fact that we were part of their success. When I asked them about what it took to get where they are today, their answers were similar, and went something like this:
"Well, the truth is I was up and down for the first couple of months - in my motivation, effort, and results. It's just not that easy to focus when you have a job, and you're trying to have a life, and then you're trying to build a business online at the same time. I just had to keep plugging away at it. I'd put in 20 minutes here and an hour there, and after a while I started to see some results."
Can You Get Excited About $10 Per Month Online? I Hope So.
What did they mean by "some results?" A dollar here, two dollars there - heck, in the early days they were ecstatic if they made $10 one month and doubled it to $20 the next month. After all, that's a 100% increase. I loved what one of the students - Steve - said about his longer term goals:
"People have to realize that making an income on the internet is a marathon, not a sprint. If you get into this game thinking you're going to go from zero to thousands per month in a couple months you're just going to get frustrated and quit. My plan is to increase my income by about 5% per month for the next three years. That will get me to my goals."
Let's work through the math for a second. Let's say you bust your tail for 12 months and achieve an income of $1,000 in the 12th month (although Steve did that in his fourth month). Now let's say you're able to increase that income by 5% every month after that. Three years later your monthly income would be just over $6,000 per month. If you include the first year, it would have taken you four years to reach an income of about $72,000 per year.

Keep the Right Perspective About Time Frames

People have completely absurd ideas about how much they can make in their first few months as an internet marketer. I love the quote from management guru Peter Drucker:
"We greatly overestimate what we can accomplish in one year. But we greatly underestimate what we can accomplish in five years."
I would change the quote slightly for you:
"We greatly overestimate what we can accomplish in a month. But we greatly underestimate what we can accomplish in a year."
If you're serious about making money on the internet, be prepared for a very boring first few months. It will be quite a bit of work with not much obvious payoff. The key - the absolute KEY - to success is persisting in the right activities day in and day out for the first few months.
If you're wondering whether it's worth it, just trust me - it's worth it. Your leanest months as an internet marketer will be much happier than your richest months as a corporate monkey (as least that's been true for me).
So, I guess it took me about 1,000 words to say this: If you can persist for 9 to 12 months, you'll have something. Hang in there.
- Mark

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I'll give you an example. My ecommerce site made its first sale in
November of 2006, and finished 2008 with over $100,000 in sales
for the year. There's a lot I would change about the site, but I
suppose you have to call a site that grosses six figures a success.

While the site is doing well, there are a couple of things I'd
really do differently if I could go back to two years ago when I
started. Today I'll share one with you. Here is what I consider
the biggest mistake I made with my ecommerce site:

I only started one.

I guess this isn't a mistake with the site itself, but it's a
mistake I made with my overall internet income goals. Only starting
one site had two major consequences:

1. I had all my plans, hopes, and dreams riding on one site. This
set me up to be discouraged and frustrated when the site wasn't
making me rich overnight, even though it was growing steadily.
You'll always be discouraged if you attach your goals and dreams to
a site that can never deliver what you want - at least not all by
itself.

2. I moved too slowly. A big part of success online is just sitting
around and waiting - waiting for links to index, waiting for domains
to age, waiting for rankings to improve. While you're waiting you
can either obsess over each visitor to your site and each adsense
click you get, or you can start several other sites and get them on
the same growth path as the first.

Think about it - would it make sense for a farmer to plant just one
seed, and then sit and stare at it for months to make sure it grows?

"I better make sure this one pans out before I plant any more."

Meanwhile, there's a whole field of fertile soil being neglected
(by you, that is - your competition is planting seeds all around
you, all the time).

Don't Let Time Pass You By

As we've taught you more and more about keyword targeting I've had
a recurring fear - the fear that you'll do a little "case study"
of your own, with a single site, and after a few months you'll get
that number 1 spot on Google. You'll be elated because you'll feel
like you finally cracked the Google code, you've made it, arrived,
etc...but then the site won't make much. Maybe $3 to $5 per day...
or maybe nothing.

But let's say it does average $5 every day. Personally, I think a
$5 per day site is something to be excited about when it's part of
a portfolio of ten similar earners. But if you invest 6 months into
getting that one site ranked, and then another month or two watching
it get to $5 per day, you're going to be furious, and if you're not
- you should be.

Because in the same eight months you could have created ten or
twenty - or thirty - of those sites. And instead of making $150 per
month online, you'd be making $1200 to $1500...or more (we've had
students blow past $1,500 per month like it's nothing). $1,500 per
month covers quite a few bills doesn't it? Pays off some debt? Might
even cover the rent or the mortgage.

Or...it could pay for an amazing two week family vacation - every
six months.

How Do You Start Multiple Sites Without Spreading Yourself Too Thin?

To avoid starting a bunch of sites and getting nowhere with them,
here's what I advise:

Find ten great keywords, buy the domains and start linking to them
- get them aging from day one.

Set up all ten domains on one hosting account (to save money...we
use hostgator.com - they're easy to use and very inexpensive - you
can host unlimited domains for under eight bucks a month).

Install Wordpress on all ten sites (a two or three click process if
you host with hostgator.com). Create one 300-500 word post (with a
post title that contains your main keyword) for each site and
publish it.

Get all ten sites into Google's index. The fastest way to do that
is to get a few links from other sites already in Google's index.

So now you have ten sites set up, indexed by Google, and aging.

What's next?

Build the Site with the Most Promise While the Others Age

Choose the keyword with the most promise - the one with the least
competition and the most profit potential.

Once you've chosen your most promising keyword, aggressively build
that site. Add ten pages of SEO-friendly content and start building
links like crazy with the right anchor text.

After finishing the content on your first site, move on to another,
write the content, begin building links and so on. After a few
months all ten sites will have content, some age in Google's index,
and lots of solid links.

Not long after your first site starts making a few dollars a day,
the rest of your sites will catch up and you'll be on your way to
the passive internet income you've hoped for.

So be a smart farmer...plant some seeds and get ready for rich
harvest in just a few short months.

Thanks for reading,

Mark

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Keyword Research

It’s time to free yourself from the fog created by free information overload. When you join The Keyword Academy Pro you’ll see (probably for the very first time) a clear path to the stable, low maintenance internet income you’ve wanted. A full 30 day trial of the program runs you just $1…and if we can make a good impression during the month you have to get to know us, continuing your membership costs just $33 per month.
There are three big reasons you should become one of over 1,000 active subscribers to TKA Pro:
1. The Method
After you register we’ll start you off with our Core Videos – nearly six hours of “over the shoulder” instruction where we explain our entire income generating method as you watch us walk through the process on your screen. What is that process?

If you feel like you already know everything you see there, think again. Take Keyword Selection for example – do you have a tried and tested method for comparing the profit potential and competitiveness of one keyword to another? What about comparing an entire family of keywords to another completely different set? We do – it’s called The Formula, and our students rave about it. Don Lawson – a full-time internet marketer who joined TKA Pro back in February – had this to say about The Formula:
All I have to say is OMG! This is exactly what I was looking for when I bought the course. I got my money’s worth the fist half of the 1st video! The formula for evaluating keywords is the missing link that I’ve needed for years. This explains why some of my sites make money while others don’t even though I get the traffic. I’ve often felt like my Keyword research was one of my weak areas even though I’ve tried most everyone’s method of finding keywords. This formula proved to me that I was leaving money on the table. – Don Lawson, AffliateWatcher.com
2. The Community and Support
2. The Community and Support

After five years of teaching people to make money online, we know the biggest reason people fail (other than a lack of a proven method to follow) is a lack of support and encouragement from knowledgeable, experienced people who can get them through the rough initial learning curve.
From the minute you join TKA Pro you’ll get answers to any question you have – quickly – inside our members only forums.
Isn’t it nice to know you won’t have to fumble around in the dark anymore when you have questions about building your online income?
But our support structure doesn’t end with the forums. Every Thursday we hold a live webinar for our members (one of which is scheduled to accommodate our European and other international students). That’s four webinars per month. Three of them are open Q&A sessions where we show up and our members are able to ask us anything they want about how to make their sites more successful. These Q&A webinars last about an hour; we’re able to answer a lot of questions in sixty minutes. The fourth webinar each month is a New Content Webinar, and during these sessions we lay out new angles on our method, as well as teaching principles from the core videos more in depth.
Here’s a quick list of our last six New Content Webinars:
“August ‘09 Webinar: The Anatomy of a $5000 Per Month Super Site”
“July ‘09 Webinar: Winning the Mental Game and Creating Momentum”
“June ‘09 Webinar: Hubpages – Who knew this would be such a solid money maker?”
“May ‘09 Webinar: Google Changes, the Trend Toward Quality, and Protecting Yourself from Adsense-related Penalties”
“Running Your Business Like a Business…April ‘09 Outsourcing Webinar”
“March Webinar: Multiply Your Income by Targeting Multiple Keywords on Your Posts and Sites”
(By the way, when you pay your dollar and register for your 30 day trial to TKA Pro you’ll be able to download all six of these sessions in both windows movie format and mp3 audio format. Same goes for the most recent Q&A sessions. Call it a thank you for giving our program a shot.)
3. The Tools
The most difficult and time consuming part of getting the search engines to trust your website and send you traffic is getting quality links to your site. When you join TKA Pro you’ll get immediate access to two powerful link building tools. That’s all we’re going to say about that, but trust us that these tools are worth a look.
This isn’t your typical sales page.
Rather than bombard you with all caps red font, double exclamation points, and artificial “expiring offers,” we’ll let the program speak for itself, because the truth is it’s awesome. Here’s what some of our 1,000+ members have to say about it:
(These quotes are taken from a thread we started in the forum, asking students to tell us why they joined and why they stayed after their trial membership expired. We’re grateful to these students for sharing their thoughts and letting us publish them.)
Hi Mark – I’m only about a month into this membership…I don’t even think my first $33 payment has been processed….but it should be soon. I’m happily going to pay it and just so you know, I’ll be staying. I’ve learned more here than dozens of other courses. (And dozens is not an exaggeration.)
As to why I joined:
1) I’ve seen this “low initial price” offer before – it’s quite a popular tactic these days. I look at these offers with a skeptical eye. I’ve been scammed before, but I thought I’ll take this $1 offer for the 30 days and cancel if I’m not happy. If I don’t like it, I’m out one whole dollar.
2) I didn’t know you guys from any other “guru” membership site, so I was going to let your product be the determining factor in whether I stayed subscribed. I liked the fact that you didn’t use any screenshots of earnings, big claims of making money online, or anything like that. If I felt you had something different to offer, I’d keep going. If not, I’d leave.
What I think now that I’ve been subscribed a while:
Hi Mark – I’m only about a month into this membership…I don’t even think my first $33 payment has been processed….but it should be soon. I’m happily going to pay it and just so you know, I’ll be staying. I’ve learned more here than dozens of other courses. (And dozens is not an exaggeration.)
As to why I joined:
1) I’ve seen this “low initial price” offer before – it’s quite a popular tactic these days. I look at these offers with a skeptical eye. I’ve been scammed before, but I thought I’ll take this $1 offer for the 30 days and cancel if I’m not happy. If I don’t like it, I’m out one whole dollar.
2) I didn’t know you guys from any other “guru” membership site, so I was going to let your product be the determining factor in whether I stayed subscribed. I liked the fact that you didn’t use any screenshots of earnings, big claims of making money online, or anything like that. If I felt you had something different to offer, I’d keep going. If not, I’d leave.
What I think now that I’ve been subscribed a while:
1) This is a great site full of high quality information. Those intro videos finally made Adsense and other Internet marketing make sense for me. That’s after I’ve spent thousands of dollars on other courses and software.
2) The forum seems to be a genuine place that good people hang out. I haven’t participated much yet because I’m still working through my keyword research. (I’m slow I know.) But there seems a genuine willingness to help others and some of the students here are quite successful AND still help the newbies. This is VERY different from most other sites.
3) You and Court seem to care and take an active role on the forums proving that you have a vested interest in your students success vs. having a vested interest in only selling more memberships. I’ve seen responses from the TKA folks quite a bit in the forum postings and that is encouraging. Many other membership site gurus sell the customer on joining and then disappear never to be heard from again.
That’s my thoughts. Thanks for offering a great service.
- John H, Illinois, USA
Mark,
I actually looked at joining you guys last winter but I wasn’t willing to spend the one time fee [when we had a program that cost around $600]. You even offered to talk to me but I didn’t want some high pressure sales pitch. Now that I’ve seen your integrity I know that wouldn’t have been the case but back then I figured it was just another internet marketing gimmick to get my money.
When you came out with the $1 offer I joined – I figured I could spend a buck and see what the program was about.
Once I saw a few videos I liked what I saw and I starting putting the steps into action. I had a few sites from last winter but had never made any money and I knew I had to try something new. I liked the step by step method as it really helped me to get focused.
The forums have really added a lot to my understanding and they’ve allowed me to feel like part of a community of like minded people. It is hard to find anyone who is not online to discuss this with because they don’t understand what we are doing.
For me it was really important to not risk a lot of money to see if you guys had a clue – which you do.
Here’s a timeline that shows my income:
Aug 08 -Dec 08 $0
Jan 09 – mar 09 $44 total for 3 months
(Realized I had a lot more questions and joined TKA Pro)
Apr 09 $50
(Wife said it was a scam.)
May 09 $126
(Wife gave a little smile at check.)
June 09 $155
(Wife nodded at check.)
July $439
(Wife said, “we’ll see.”)
Aug 09 $634
(Wife strangely silent.)
All I did was take the basics and then get focused by Court and Mark. This system makes money if you actually apply it.
- Andy B, USA
I joined on the recommendation of someone I trust, as at $1 I didn’t see anything to lose. I was looking for a program like this – one with good support, where questions would be answered, and where there was a fairly detailed program to follow to get started.
My hesitation was that this would be one of those programs, like I found [program name removed] to be, where there were too many people giving conflicting advice, too much information and a lot of people into methods that didn’t interest me at all. I was also concerned that it would be too ‘big’ and impersonal to the point that a total newbie like me got lost in it all. Thankfully it was nothing like that.
Since participating in this, I feel the strengths are the good support, the on-topic forum where help is freely given, your active participation in the forums, continued progress and advancement, new tools to use being developed, and the opportunities for networking with others via contact on the forum. A big plus for me when initially joining was that all the training and information was available right from the start, unlike [program name removed] where they give you one dose a week, and it’s an 8 week course so if you want to learn ‘all they have’ you have to stay on 2 months (and the last week’s stuff isn’t worth it anyway).
What’s keeping me here is the forum and the link building tools, and the feeling of being in touch with what’s happening in the internet marketing world a bit as in new challenges you undertake, and being privy to your ‘experiments’ etc. All a fantastic learning experience.
- Robyn W, an American living in Taiwan
I almost got sucked into an internet marketing scam just before starting this course. The pricing structure was similar, but they required the first payment in full, and didn’t really give you any idea of what you were getting until you paid. I got all fired up, because I’ve wanted to make money online for years. I really needed a specific set of instructions to follow (that’s just the way I am).
The group I signed up for (who will remain anonymous, mainly to save my own embarrassment for falling for them in the first place) had absolutely no idea, and were just trying to make money online themselves. Lucky for me, I had done some reading over the years of some really trustworthy bloggers, and knew to a certain extent what was right and what was wrong.
In my frustration over being scammed, I started looking at the your site as well as some others I trusted, and was elated to find TKA Pro. I had no hesitation in paying the dollar at all. I’m still not sure whether I’ve been lucky or not, but I’ve covered my costs as I’ve gone. I’ve just paid for my 3rd month and have earned over $100, doing nothing but following the steps.
I can’t imagine leaving any time soon. This business is so damn fluid, that you need to constantly stay on your toes, and this is the best place to do that. With the monthly webinars and the knowledge in the forums, I see it as being a necessary expense in order for me to succeed at this business…
Some people need to be pushed, motivated and assured that they are doing it right. I am one of those people. Every time there is an announcement of a new Earners’ Club** badge in the forums, every time someone starts a thread saying that they don’t know if they are doing things right, the support from the regulars in here is overwhelming. Some people may not need this type of support, but for me, it’s what keeps me buzzing.
**The Earners’ Club is a progress tracking system we’ve set up for our members. When members reach certain income levels, they privately submit proof of earnings to us and we award them the corresponding earnings badge. The badge displays alongside their name when they post in the forum. Not all members choose to participate in the Earners’ Club, but we’ve found it really helps people stay excited about working toward their goals, and it’s fun for us to be able to publicly congratulate our members as they progress. A side benefit of the Earners’ Club is that it makes it very easy to identify exactly who knows what they’re talking about when they answer questions in the forum.
Speaking of the Earners’ Club, these comments are from a student who’s earning over $3,000 per month after working with us for a little over a year:
For me, the strongest part of your program is that it gave me a plan to follow – everything laid out for me in a step by step fashion. Of course in the beginning I thought you were holding things back, but I was lucky in that I realized early on that you were giving us the whole picture. I knew if I followed this plan (and didn’t allow myself to get distracted), I could be successful at this.
I just checked my traffic stats and my top five sites have received just under 2,500 visitors since yesterday, which is pretty typical for me at the moment. I’ve promoted all five of these sites using the principles you teach. One of those sites I’d started in another program (where they really had no clue about how to get traffic to a website), and it’s now earning over $900 per month thanks to what I learned from you guys.
I know I have said this before Mark, but I think what you and Court are doing is truly life-changing for some people. The income I make from this now would be enough for many people to quit working the 9 – 5. Unfortunately I’m still caught up in it until the end of the year, but only because I have a wife with expensive tastes (you can print that, she will never read this)!
- Ray B, United Kingdom
Here are some answers to commonly asked questions about TKA Pro:

1. How many hours per week do I need to invest to see results?
We’ve been teaching people to make money online for a long time, and we always tell new students the same thing:
If you want to create progress and momentum you need to be able to dedicate 10 to 15 hours per week. It doesn’t matter if it’s ten hours in one day or about an hour and a half each day. You just have to put the time in.
We’re all busy. We often get emails from students who are canceling their membership because “I just don’t have time to fully dedicate myself to this right now. I love your material; I’ll be back in a few months!”
Let’s be real. They’ll never be back. Life happens and you’ll always be busy. The problem is the weeks, months, and years fly by and you’re still not making any money online. It’s tragic.
Besides, we’re not trying to give you a full-time job. If all you can put in is 15 or 20 minutes per day, you will still make some progress. The students who are sporadic in their effort and generally flaky….STILL do better then the students who say “I don’t have time but I’ll get back to this in a few months.” Trust us, we’re saying this after five years of coaching people. You can not afford to keep putting off your goals while you wait for the stars to align and timing to be “perfect.” That’s a fantasy. Start today, do the best you can, and look to all the other busy people in our community for support and motivation. Taking action always pays off.
2. What’s the deal with this ‘$1 now and then $33 per month’? I don’t want to be locked into some lame subscription I can’t control.
We’ve been teaching people to make money online for a long time, and we always tell new students the same thing:
If you want to create progress and momentum you need to be able to dedicate 10 to 15 hours per week. It doesn’t matter if it’s ten hours in one day or about an hour and a half each day. You just have to put the time in.
We’re all busy. We often get emails from students who are canceling their membership because “I just don’t have time to fully dedicate myself to this right now. I love your material; I’ll be back in a few months!”
Let’s be real. They’ll never be back. Life happens and you’ll always be busy. The problem is the weeks, months, and years fly by and you’re still not making any money online. It’s tragic.
Besides, we’re not trying to give you a full-time job. If all you can put in is 15 or 20 minutes per day, you will still make some progress. The students who are sporadic in their effort and generally flaky….STILL do better then the students who say “I don’t have time but I’ll get back to this in a few months.” Trust us, we’re saying this after five years of coaching people. You can not afford to keep putting off your goals while you wait for the stars to align and timing to be “perfect.” That’s a fantasy. Start today, do the best you can, and look to all the other busy people in our community for support and motivation. Taking action always pays off.
2. What’s the deal with this ‘$1 now and then $33 per month’? I don’t want to be locked into some lame subscription I can’t control.
Yeah, we know this whole teaser price deal is one of the most abused tactics in the internet marketing world. But here’s why we do it:
There’s no way for you to see the full value of our program until you get inside and tinker with it. We’re not going to ask you to pay full price to take a test drive.
Our content and community are awesome. If you’ll just get in there and give it a serious look you will be pleasantly surprised. We give it all away for a dollar because we know plenty of people will be so impressed that they’ll keep their membership active for a long time to come.
YOU control the subscription. We run everything through Paypal, which means you can log into your Paypal account and cancel anytime you want. And if you don’t know how to do that you can just contact Paypal and tell them to cancel this subscription. Not that you’ll need to - we have a full time support guy (name is Eli) who will take care of canceling your subscription the very first time you email him about it.
The point is we have no interest in trying to keep you subscribed to a program you aren’t excited about. If we can’t impress you enough during your $1 trial membership, you’re always free to leave and there will be no hard feelings.
4. How much money will I have to spend (outside the membership fee) to make this work? What hidden costs are you not telling me about?
Running an internet business is cheap, but it isn’t necessarily free. If you’re going to make this work you should be prepared to invest around $10 per month in a web hosting account and $10 on a domain name for your website. If you have no idea what web hosting and domain names are, don’t worry – we’ll teach you what they are and show you how to use them.
Down the road you should be prepared to reinvest some of your profits back into the business so it can grow more quickly. There are tools we’ll recommend once you get going, but initially all you’re going to need are the web hosting account and the domain name.
5. How long will it take me to start making money with your program?
The answer, of course, is “it depends.” Every student is different – some have more experience than others, some have more time than others, some have more motivation than others. We have seen students create a nice income within a few months of joining our program. Unfortunately, we’ve also had students let months pass without applying what they learn, so their income takes much longer to develop.
It may not sound sexy, but we tell everyone who makes an investment in our program that your second year in internet marketing will be a lot more exciting than your first year. You can get some results in the first few months, but if you don’t have a long term perspective – if you aren’t committed to sticking with your goals for over a year – don’t join this program. Get rich quick scams are called get rich scams for a reason. Success comes to those who will persist longer than all the people who lose interest when they don’t make money within three days of starting a project.
6. How much can I really earn with your method?
We can’t make any claims or specific promises about how much money you will earn in the program. 

What we can say is when we started the program we asked ourselves “How can we show people a way to create an extra $1,000 per month online without having to live in front of their computers?” The method you’ll learn inside is the answer to that question.
We’ve been happy to watch as many of our students have taken our “$1,000 per month” method and used it to earn quite a bit more. We have students earning $1,500 to $2,500 per month, and we’ve even had one student get let us know he’s earning in the neighborhood of $9,000 per month using the techniques we taught him.
We’ll sum it up like this: If you make a $1 investment and take a trial membership of our program, we’ll show you the steps these successful students used to create their income. After you’ve seen the method and experienced the support we provide, we’re pretty sure you’ll want to hang around after your trial membership is over.
7. How will I get help with my problems and answers to my questions?
A few ways different ways:
When you join as a Premium Member ($1 for your 30 day trial, and then $33 per month), you’ll have access to The Keyword Academy Forums, where you can get fast answers to any question you have about any part of our method. We participate actively in the forums, and so do many of our more experienced members. You never have to worry about getting stuck when the community is right there to get you back on track.
Each month we hold multiple live Q&A webinars where we don’t bring any prepared material; it’s just an open forum for the students to ask any question they want. We hold two Q&A sessions in the evening, and one in the early afternoon. With this schedule we’re able to get accommodate most of the time zones around the world. For students not able to attend the live Q&A we make the most recent three sessions available as downloadable recordings in two formats – windows movie files and mp3 audio files.
You’ll have the opportunity to have at least one personal coaching session with either Mark or Court. The session will last 30 minutes or so, and it’s completely up to you what we discuss. Most students want to talk about their keyword selection, their websites, and how they can get to their goals as quickly as possible. In order to get your 30 minute session with us all you have to do is sign up for your web hosting account through our affiliate link. Your hosting account will still only cost about ten bucks a month, but the hosting company will pay us a nice commission for sending them business. That commission lets us spend some personal time with you to make sure you’re on the right track.
The bottom line is you’ll have the support you need. There’s no “read a book and struggle through it” in this program.
8. I don’t have a website, and I’m clueless about web design and programming. Are you sure I can make this work?
Yes. Our students use free software to build their websites, and we provide some extra instructional videos that walk you through the site setup process. It will take you about 20 minutes to have your first website online.The reality is you’re going to be a lot better off as an internet marketer if you have some basic web publishing skills (being able to set up a simple website and publish content on it), but we’ll show you how.
9. Is this program for beginner, intermediate, or advanced internet marketers?
All three groups will benefit from TKA Pro. Beginners and intermediate students will get the most from the program because they’re most likely missing a specific method to help them build momentum and actually create some cash flow. Advanced internet marketers (those already making a good income online) will find that they know a lot of what we teach, but they’ll still get new insights from the forums and Webinars. Not to mention the linkbuilding tools, which will benefit anyone no matter how much they’re already earning.
If you’re making less than $1,000 per month online you are crazy not to take a trial membership of The Keyword Academy Pro.
We hope to get to know you better on the inside!

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