Have you seen claims like these on sales pages before…

“Make a ton of money while you are sleeping”
“Hands off money making”
“I made $50,000 while taking a vacation”

I am sure that you have seen those types of statements before, but how true are they? Can you really do what they say? From when I was a child I remember being told that if something seems to good to be true, that it probably isn’t true.

But what if I said that those statements really can be true?

There is one major tactic that all good marketers use that really can bring in automatic hands off income. But before I tell you what it is, I want to stress that what I am about to share is nothing new at all and you probably have heard about it before, but for some reason a lot of new marketers do not use this tactic.

I think the reason that a lot of beginners don’t use this is simply because they don’t understand how it all works, and for some, because they will have to spend some money on it. But in order to build your online business (even just to make a part time income), you will need to learn new things and will probably need to spend some money, so why not spend the money in the right places?

So what is this tactic? Build a list and set it up to automatically mail for you!

Yes, if you have a newsletter that you send out, then you can probably set it up to automatically send emails to your subscribers! (as long as you are using a good autoresponder like GetResponse)

Here’s how to do it…

Start a free ecourse that people can join and set it up to automatically send emails to those subscribers every few days until the ecourse is finished. Throughout the ecourse you can be promoting your own products or affiliate products, and if the readers like it, they may purchase it!

Guess what can happen if you go on vacation when you have this set up? That’s right… automatic hands off income!

It really is a true “set and forget” system that can end up paying you for years to come. In fact, I am about to set up a new ecourse myself to make this happen for me! All that you need to do now is to start building your list! This can be a lot easier then some people make it sound.

You can start receiving new subscribers onto your list very quickly when using the right tactics.

Note: Please understand that you DO NOT need a list of thousands of subscribers in order to start making money with that list.

But you do need to start building it, and “My List Work Shop” can help you do that. My friend Jim Miller has created a fantastic list building site which provides just about everything you need to start adding more subscribers to your list.

Jim has even added special pricing to help those who may want to test drive “My List Work Shop” (with full access).

Please understand that the longer you wait to start building your list, the longer it will be until you can see automatic hands off income.

To your list building success!

Sadly, deceptive advertising on the Internet is nothing new and it is still going strong even to this day. But are there degrees to how deceptive a sales page can be? Or is one little deceptive headline just as bad as the whole sales page being littered with deceptive advertising?

Here is what has got me thinking about deceptive advertising online…

A new Internet marketing related product was recently launched that I first visited the sales page for last week. It is a new product by a relatively popular marketer (not a big guru, but popular enough). When I saw who the marketer was, I remembered that I was cautious about them before, but I couldn’t remember why. But as soon as I went to close the page, I began to remember why I didn’t like this marketer that much.

Using one of those pop overs that you can not close very easily that keeps popping up, the marketer gives the visitors a chance to get in on a trial to their new membership site. This is the specific text on that pop up that caught my attention; “Remember, this trial offer will NOT be available tomorrow“.

Because I have been online for several years now, I can generally spot a scam or deceptive advertising quite easily, but I always try to give the benefit of the doubt. So I decided to visit back to that sales page 24 hours later when the trial was suppose to be over. I think you can guess what I saw 24 hours later right?

I visited back and guess what… the same pop up with the exact same text was still there showing. I would like to think that I am a nice guy, so I decided to simply email the support staff of the site to simply ask why the same offer was still there.

To my surprise I actually got a reply! But not to my surprise, they did not admit to deceptive advertising. But the support person did say this… “I think it was a typo“. Although I was laughing a bit inside, I decided to still give the benefit of the doubt. So I waited a few more days (about 4). I emailed back to say that it was still there and that I thought it would be edited by now if it really was a typo. They have not replied yet to that second email.

I has been a few more days now, about 1 week since I first saw that pop up saying, “Remember, this trial offer will NOT be available tomorrow”. I am quite confident that it WILL be available tomorrow, unless they read this blog post.

My question to you is… do you consider small marketing messages like this deceptive advertising?

Please note that I am in no way stating that all gurus use deceptive advertising tactics. Most are honest and trustworthy people, but unfortunately it is often the few bad ones that make a bad name for everyone.

Over the years that I have been working online and promoting affiliate products, I can only think of two products owners that have truly helped me promote their products. Just to be clear, I am not simply talking about affiliate promo emails or banners… I’m talking about real personal help.

What does this say about the majority of affiliate product owners? Do they really want to help you promote their products? I assume that they would want to, even for the simple reason to make themselves more money. But sadly, many product owners don’t really care what help their affiliates might need.

This brings me to those two product owners who are doing a GREAT job at helping their affiliates;

- Jimmy D. Brown - Through his amazing affiliate manager Nicole Dean, he has helped me along with many of their other affiliates with great tools and more then great personal support.

- Doug & Teri Champigny - Starting this month they are re-launching their affiliate program and starting new. They are providing personal support through their affiliate team members and team leaders, all targeted towards helping every affiliate of theirs to make a good income online.

In the life of affiliate product owners, good people still do exist.

Well I sure hope that the world doesn’t end soon, but who really knows what the smashing of atoms together will do to the earth as we know it? If you are not sure what I am talking about, search Google for “Large Hadron Collider”. But before I continue I want to make sure that you know I not trying to be too serious in this post, but I guess there is a serious side to it.

I am not a scientist by any means, but from what I know and understand about this huge science project is that some top scientists are ultimately trying to discover how the world began (how the “big bang” happened). What they are going to do in a few weeks (they just started up the 17-mile long machine today) is to basically start smashing and colliding atoms together to “see what happens”.

I don’t know about you, but that sounds just a little bit dangerous to me, trying to re-create the “big bang”. But what do I know, I’m not a scientist.

But today I wanted to tell you about a different kind of fusion, not the atom kind that could create a black hole or something :)… but a kind of fusion that could fuse a bunch of traffic to your web site. If you have not yet heard of Mike Filsaime’s Traffic Fusion and his amazing HyperJava software, then you may be really missing out.

I was able to watch a demo video of HyperJava and I am truly amazed at how simple yet how great of an idea it is, and how no one else thought of this before. Mike has now released the demo video to the public, so you can check it out to see for yourself.

To put it simply, it allows you to place your ads on your joint venture partners web sites, on their download pages or just about any page they have. But the cool part is that it makes it effortless for your JV partner to place the ads, just a single line of code. What the problem usually comes down to when asking a partner to JV with you is that it takes work for the partner. You have to make it as easy as possible for them, and HyperJava helps you to do that.

But don’t think that’s all HyperJava does… no it allows you to do much more and bring in amazingly targeted customers to your business. Watch the video as to how it does that.

With Traffic Fusion and HyperJava, you should be able to see a nice increase in sales. But I’m sorry, the effect won’t be as big as if two atoms collided and fused the universe together.

Watch the videos here, then take what you learn and put it to use, even if you don’t use this specific software. While you are at it, make sure to watch the other available videos as there is another type of fusion that almost occurred in one of them (Hint: the fusion of two cars).

How many times do we hear on the news about people driving while talking on their cell phones, eating, or even doing both at the same time? How safe do you think it is to be doing anything but driving when you are driving?

I can understand that most people can have a quick conversation while driving, but does that include looking into a camera and creating a video while driving? How many of us can do that safely?

This blog post isn’t so much about driving laws and what we should or shouldn’t be doing, but I guess I had to bring that up since it’s a pretty obvious issue with a current video that a marketer has released.

Have you seen Mike Filsaime’s Traffic Fusion video that he released today? In it he starts driving while talking to the camera, doing what it seems like more and more marketers are doing these days to “be different” in their video (which isn’t so different anymore). Well, he almost got in a car accident because of the video, something that you can clearly see in the video and Mike actually points it out

If you can get past this issue of potential car accidents, what Mike actually talks about is something that can dramatically boost your online business. Go watch the Traffic Fusion videos here… and also to see the close car accident (I know that’s what you really want to see isn’t it?).