This $2,500 Affiliate Website Course Is A Shocking Waste Of Time

I've just finished reading a 50-page website sales letter, and it's a shocker.

Because for the princely sum of $2,500 and 6 month's continuous learning, you can have the dubious honor of finding out:

- how to find the right profit-making niche

- how to build a website

- how to set up an email account

- how to select a domain name

- how to set up and run your own blog

- how to research the right keywords, and use them

- how to use social media to build your online business

- how to use video marketing to build your business

- how to use forums to build your business

...and so on, in mind-boggling detail. And maybe you'll earn a few thousand. Maybe.

All this, probably hundreds of hours of study, just to build a website business.

And at the end of it, you're faced with millions of competitors to battle because everyone wants to do the same thing... make a serious amount of money without much work. So the competition is fierce, even before you start.

There are simpler ways that I use and recommend, and that's my emphasis... SIMPLE, and they work universally. The simple ways that have built a $21 million/yr empire for a weightloss website will take work, but "simple' trumps everything because once you're on the way, it just requires Relentless Focused Action.

The basics of what you do are easy, but not many people have the stickability needed to build even a small business. Most give up far too soon.

If YOU continue, you will do well.

Let's face it, my way of building a solid business does NOT need great skill. Just Relentless Focused Action and some time each day.

Let's make a comparison. Their way is to give you a Harvard Business School education. My way is to write an article with a link that sends readers to my Silver Lotto products, several times a day.

Easy and simple.

You don't need any of the skills list in the $2500 course that takes months of work and has an uncertain ending.

With my system you KNOW that your effort is going to have staying power and will ultimately build your mini empire of affiliate commissions.

And you don't need any of these courses that will cost you an arm and leg and cause your brain to wilt from overuse. Look, you really want to spend time with your friends and family - NOT staring at screeds of technical jargon that barely makes sense.

Take a look at my previous posts here below. Everything is there, laid out for you.

Don't get taken in elsewhere with the promises of wild & easy wealth, because I can assure you - if there was an easy way, I would have found it!

I'm basically lazy by nature... everything I do I want to take the path of least resistance so I can spend my time polishing my exotic sports cars, traveling or visiting family whenever I want.

So I would have found the solution... and I haven't yet. But my way is the easiest, simplest way of building a sustainable affiliate business I have found yet, and the proof is in the sales I get.

My own sales figures came in from several sources, and I'm able to get a split of around 60:40. My affiliates get the 60% share. (Don't confuse that with the commission... it's still 75% of sales).

My own work gives me 40% of all sales... and that comes directly from my keyboard, writing articles and getting them out into the big wide world.

Take a look back at the last few posts, get to work and resolve to make 2011 your best year yet!

Happy Winning!
Ken Silver

The Most Important Factor In Getting Affiliate Success

From time to time I've come up with a number of what I consider essential statements to help you succeed as a lottery affiliate. For example, there's RFA... Relentless Focused Action. 

And "Volume" is another big one. Doing more of whatever works is essential for growing your sales.

These are both important in their own way, but another essential power phrase for getting things done is "Single-mindedness."

The most important part of Single-Mindedness is the way you need to concentrate on one single action that leads to success.

You'll notice that my Lotto Affiliate Center has a multiple number of ways to promote Silver Lotto products. When they are faced with these many options, affiliates try the ones I recommend first. But if after a while it doesn't seem to be working for them, they move onto the next one. And so on.

You'll never get real affiliate success this way.

It's more important to find the promotion or action that works best for you, and concentrate ONLY on that - to the exclusion of the other methods.

Now, as a main strategy I recommend article writing. There are a number of reasons, but the main one is that useful articles on any topic are valuable because they last for years. If you go back through any of the article directories, you'll see many old articles still pulling in readership.

On the best article directories, like Ezine Articles, the older an article is, the higher the readership numbers.

I only have about 65 Ezine Articles articles at the time of writing this, but over the last 3 months I've watched my reader figures climb to nearly 40,000. One article has 12,000 views alone.

And they continue to grow.

So it's a question of get writing as soon as possible so you can build the number of articles up. As they naturally age, they'll attract a growing number of readers from search engines and viral promotion without any more work from you.

You must understand that using this form of promotion means that you'll do quite a bit of work at the beginning before you see results. 

I often liken it to a number of barges floating down a river. At the loading dock you put in your payload on each one in turn as it berths. That's when you write an article.

Then it goes on its way, and you follow it up with another. Before long, a little way down the river each barge will arrive at its destination and be unloaded to the reader.

The important part of this strategy is to keep writing, even when you don't see immediate results. That's because the barges are still in transit and haven't reached port. 

But when they reach their destination - your readers - then it becomes a relentless flow of information that never stops.

Happy Selling!
Ken Silver

The Only 3-Step Lottery Affiliate Secret You'll Ever Need

What you are about to read is the basis for the upcoming Lotto Code. The manual will explain the process in more detail, but for now you can get started - and get a lot accomplished - right from the information I'm giving here and from a previous post.

If you have a little writing ability, a huge determination and the ability to scale up and work hard, the rewards from being a Silver Lotto System affiliate are enormous. 

And the process is super-easy. 

Just write. 

I earn about 40% of my multi-million dollar income simply by writing an article a day. I've done that for years, and that's where the success is... continuity and volume.

Volume is the main key. 

Just think - if I wrote 12x the amount I currently do each day, that would give me the Million-A-Month goal I'm aiming for in 2011. Since I write less than 20 minutes a day right now, the potential to scale up is huge. 

You can do the same. Just write more, and you will boost your affiliate in.come massively. All you need is determination and 3-6 month's worth of writing to start everything rolling.

You've already got the product you need to promote - my Silver Lotto System - so you don't need to check out any other kind of source. Sure, in other fields there are plasma TV's, mobile phones and expensive audio products that might give a higher affiliate payout. But the competition for these is enormous, and will take you years to break into those markets. They are only for highly skilled Super Affiliates with a big mailing list or massive advertising budget.

Most affiliate training courses and books go on about the product selection process, marketing trends and making sure the affiliate stays ahead of the game when one product or another falls out of fashion. In fact, if you've chosen a long-trend product like mine, there's no need to keep up with anything. 

My products have lasted for the past 20 years, sales are still growing and show no sign of easing up. The perfect product is my Silver Lotto System, and it ticks all the profit boxes in every way:

- low refunds

- universal in demand

- easy to use

- started 20 years ago

- it works

- still growing

Stick with what works.

So let's concentrate on the second part, the lifeblood of any business... visitors and traffic.

Getting visitor traffic my way requires some skills, but not much. All you need is a basic writing ability and to be able to follow a set plan. It takes some work - mental work mainly - and  if you are not a natural writer it can be boring at times. I enjoy it immensely, but then most writing is fun for me.

The concept is simple, and I revealed part of it in some detail a couple of posts back.

Each day, write 5 or more original 400-word articles on any subject, and put your cloaked affiliate link for the Silver Lotto System in the author's resource box. Then post your work to an article directory.

That's it. If you can do this regularly for 6 months, you will have the strong and permanent beginnings of an ever-growing affiliate in.come.

Where people come unstuck is trying to do too much at once in different areas. There are a huge number of ways to promote a product in the market place... blogs, websites, forums, online advertising, offline and more. And to do any of that effectively you're going to need WordPress knowledge, keyword research knowledge, e-mail marketing and writing skills, niche research, search engine optimization, web hosting with C-Panel, redirection, html... the list goes on and on. 

Forget it!

It will take you months or years to learn to a point where you make a living. And I can tell you after years of trial and error, there are many, many traffic methods like these that are a complete waste of time. 

Take for instance, black hat methods. Every single one of these dubious promotional tools will get you into trouble. The problem is, no one ever tells you that. And you're left wondering why you are constantly losing the battle. 

Even moderately effective programs like SENuke don't work for the majority of people. Just take a look at their public forum and you'll see that only a tiny fraction of the people who use that program are getting any sort of results. 

And every day they risk losing all the hard work they've put in when their strategy is discovered and sandbagged. 

I'm also a member of a Black Hat website, just for the experience and to see what to avoid. Day after day the forum posts reveal one strategy after another failing - being combated by the search engines. A BH'er can be wildly successful for a short time (and getting shorter), then all their hard work goes down the drain. 

That's not a basis for a sustainable business. And the opportunity loss is massive... you can be blacklisted and never know how to get back.

You can shortcut all that and just concentrate on one hugely productive method - article writing for directories. 

An article gets archived and lasts forever. It gives valuable information that can be used by others, and the concept has never been slapped by Google. I won't even bother listing the advantages of article marketing over any other form of marketing or promotion... the fact remains it is an initially slow but eventually extremely lucrative way to get visitors to your affiliate link. Coincidentally - just how Google likes it!

Do just 3 easy steps:

Daily:

#1. Write 5 articles on any subject, 400 words in length.

#2. Add your cloaked affiliate link at the bottom.

#3. Send the articles to Ezine Articles.

Rinse and repeat.

What's the barrier? For most people it is the writing. if you are not a natural writer, you'll find this hard. But it takes very little practice to increase your skills to a point where you can write effectively and with speed. That's true... it will take not more than a few weeks for you to get into the swing of things, and you'll be on your way.

Happy Selling!

Ken Silver

New Banner No.13

I've added an exciting new banner at the Lotto Affiliate Center... No.13.

It's a big swing away in design from the other banners. As a 160x600 (skyscraper) it dominates the page, and if you get a high position I think you'll get great results from the unique look.

All you have to do is insert the line of HTML code in the web page code, and the banner will appear automatically. Make sure you have first placed your ClickBank ID at the top of the Lotto Affiliate Center (Automatic Affiliate Link Insertion), then your affiliate link will be automatically inserted into the code.

Banners are good if you have your own website, blog or forum. You can also request other webmasters to place it on their web pages.

Happy Winning!

Ken Silver

How To Successfully Use Articles To Promote Your Affiliate Link

The best way to get visitors through your affiliate link to the Silver Lotto System is to:

- Write an article

- Provide your ClickBank affiliate link at the bottom.

- Spread the article around to as many article directories as you can.

There are several ways you can do this, and here's one of the easiest ways to start...

1. Write an article of 400 words on any topic. 

The quickest way is to adapt articles that have already been written. Rewrite existing articles in your own style from article directories such as EzineArticles on the most popular subjects:

- Dating

- Health & Fitness

- Relationships

- Weddings

- Celebrities

- Weight Loss

- Food & Cooking

Follow the guidelines at the Lotto Affiliate Center on how to change your sentences (the "Rewrite Articles" link). It's important to make the article entirely original by rewording ALL the sentences. To increase the chances of it being fully original, use several articles and from them merge parts of several sentences to make your article completely different. 

The more original your article is, the higher it will rank in the search engines, and the more appeal it will have to your readers.

2. Write an effective Tag Line for your Resource Box.

Here is the secret on how you can use any kind of article to promote the Silver Lotto System. In the author resource box at the bottom of each article, first write a bit about yourself in relation to the article. For example, if you were writing on dating, say something like:

"Fred has been successfully dating for three years."

Then follow it with one of these lines containing your affiliate link:

"Fred also uses this unique lottery system that gets him winning the lottery up to 9 games out of 10."

"Fred also discovered this unique lotto system that allows him to win the *********** Lottery for up to 9 games out of 10."

You can either insert the name of a popular lottery to help you in the search engines - or you can simply leave the name out and use "lottery" as a generic word to appeal to a wider audience.

Another typical tagline might be:

"Fred is an expert on dog training, and in his spare time wins lottery prizes in up to 9 games out of 10 with this amazing lotto system."

Or:

"Janice is an expert on Mediterranean food, and in her spare time wins lottery prizes every 9 games out of 10 in the Arizona Lotto using this successful lotto system."

3. Embed Your Affiliate Link.

Use your ClickBank affiliate link (as shown in the Lotto Affiliate Center), and link it to the lottery words in your resource tag line. The words you are linking to are often referred as anchor text. 

For example, if you used your link in the text "successful lotto system" in the previous tagline for Janice, then, using the sample affiliate Tinyurl at the Lotto Affiliate Center, the code would look like this:

<a href="http://tinyurl.com/lottopicks">successful lotto system.</a>

And incorporated into the tagline, it looks like this:

"Janice is an expert on Mediterranean food, and in her spare time wins lottery prizes every 9 games out of 10 in the Arizona Lotto using this <a href="http://tinyurl.com/lottopicks">successful lotto system.</a>"

- Replace the Tinyurl with your ClickBank affiliate link. 

- Make sure you only have one link - the anchor text that leads to your affiliate link. Any other link will only distract the reader. You want to provide only a single funnel for them to use that leads directly to your commission!

4. Send your article out to the Article Directories.

Use the list shown in the Lotto Affiliate Center. For best results, change the heading of the article each time for each Directory.

There are many methods to promote your affiliate link to the world. But unlike blog or forum comments, articles are longer lasting because they can be sent to many different outlets.

Remember... volume is key. The more articles you can get out to the world, the better.

Let me know how you get on, and if there's any way I can help you improve your article skills - just ask me!

Happy Winning!

Ken Silver

How The Simple Lottery Affiliate Life Translates Into Profits

In my search to bring you better affiliate knowledge, I have to kiss a lot of frogs (female, I hope!). That means each day I search - and sometimes buy - information that I think will be useful in helping you sell our products.

But mostly I don't find any princesses... nothing better than what you get on my Lotto Affiliate Center website, for free.

The internet affiliate business has involved into a hugely complex machine. Each area of Pay per Click... Adwords, Adsense, incentivized traffic, lead generation, content gateways... and so on - have their own techniques, secret language and closed communities.

And all it adds up to an intricate business structure that sometimes takes a beginner years to figure out, and a heap of dollars to buy.

The good news is that you don't need to know most of that stuff. That's because over the years I've discovered that only a few methods really actually work for my products.

There are some promotional methods we actually can't use - we can't advertise lottery products on Google for example, but that's good for us because Adwords and Adsense are actually the most inefficient and expensive methods around. Only the very rich can afford to get the best results from these.

So don't take any affiliate courses or buy Super Affiliate books... they will not help you nearly as much as the tested & free material at my Lotto Affiliate Center.

The expensive courses will tell you how to set up your own squeeze page... which I do for you far more effectively at a small cost. They tell you how to build a opt-in mailing list... which I do for you with no work, free. They'll tell you how to write and give away your own ebook for leads... days of work, which you get free in a few seconds!

And best of all, my methods are time-tested and are designed to work for our products - not some obscure dating site or rubbish weightloss system that everyone follows and has to fight for recognition.

The best methods for promoting our products are:

- Articles on how to win the lottery.

- Blogs that give lottery results.

- Blog articles.

- Specialized websites that promote one lottery game.

- Squeeze/landing/mini-site pages.

- Free Reports.

There are a number of other promotional methods which can be effective depending on how they are used:

- Forum posts.

- Blog comments.

- Signature links.

- Banners and graphics

... but in general stick to the first list. To help you, they are indicated on the Lotto Affiliate Center with a star system so you know which one to start first.

My suggestion for a simple way to increase your sales commission - concentrate on the method that works for you, and when you see results, expand it as quickly as you can.

If you get a good response from a lotto results blog, then build 1 a day and create some volume. If you get results from 1 article, ramp up your effort and write 5 a day.

In each case, a successful method can be expanded and sales growth will follow.

Make it suits your business style and personality, because that way you'll continue when others find it too tough. As an obvious example, if you enjoy writing, articles are the way to go. Don't worry if the method you use appears not to be as fast or effective as another.

The best promotional methods are the ones you enjoy - and that will show in the results.

To sum up, whatever you do, make it simple:

Write an article.

Take a quick break.

Write another.

Answer an email.

Write another article.

Before you know it you will have 5 articles on the go and you will be setting up future sales with each one.

But do it! Resolve to start something today to begin building your affiliate empire.

Happy Selling!

Ken Silver

How To Boost Your Lottery Affiliate Sales With This Free Rebrandable Report

If you're looking for a simple and free method that packs a big sales punch, take a look at my rebrandable report at the Lotto Affiliate Center: 

It's called "Lottery Secrets" , and you give it away. Whenever somebody clicks an article link in the report, they will be locked in to your affiliate link. When they buy, you get the commission.

It's very simple to set up. 

1. Just put your ClickBank ID into the box on the website, and click the "Rebrand" button.

2. Within seconds, your book is produced with your ClickBank affiliate link embedded into each link contained in the report.

Simply save the file as a PDF to your website. (If you don't have a website, keep reading). You can use http://tinyurl.com to shorten the link. When a visitor clicks on the link, the PDF file will automatically open for them.

There are numerous places you can distribute the "Lottery Secrets" report.

- If you have a website, use this free report to build your mailing list. Simply offer it in return for their email address. 

- Do you have a lottery blog? Use a link at the bottom of each post so that readers can get the report immediately when they click on the link.

- If you write articles, include the link to the free report in your author resource box.

If you don't have your own website, get your own mini website from my http://www.freelottobook.com. It is ready to go, which makes it all very simple for you.

But whatever you do, do something to get started! If you've been waiting for the perfect affiliate solution to magically appear, let me tell you the best opportunity is the one you start on right now.

If you don't have the resources right now, start by buying a mini-site here where it's all done for you: http://www.freelottobook.com.

Happy Selling!

Ken Silver

ClickBank Affiliate Link Answers, And A Successful Affiliate Sales Figure

I want to talk today about your ClickBank affiliate link, and how some issues can affect your sales.

First I want to tell you about a scenario that many affiliates can encounter from time to time. It's sometimes common to find affiliate 'experts' who freely talk about getting ripped off by the product vendor. These guys will say commission is not given to the affiliate because it is being illegally redirected or concealed by the vendor. 

That kind of deliberate cheating doesn't happen here at all. We don't use any form of redirects, cloaking scripts or frames which may cause ClickBank to lose track of their affiliate ID. I want to make that quite plain.

In case you get confused about exactly what you can get commission on, there's 35 Silver Lotto System products that are commissionable. But some are not. I'm talking about the Lotto-80 membership site which at the moment doesn't provide a commission. 

The reason is that the process for a membership site is complicated to set up and administer. For example, I give an extra month gratis to every renewal, and that has to be done manually. With the number of vendors we get signing up daily, that is quite a job. And unfortunately because I have ultra tight security issues, I'm not able to outsource this task.

You can easily see which products attract the commission at the Lotto Affiliate Center. Remember that you can always check this information at the Lotto Affiliate Center as part of my transparent affiliate business practices.

On another issue concerning affiliate links, it seems Google has been recently downgrading websites that have a ClickBank affiliate link going to the order page. They are discovering them by looking for the unique hoplink that ClickBank provides in every affiliate URL.

In some cases a ClickBank hoplink website with high page ranking of #1 - #3 has been downgraded to position #30 or more. Looks like Google is promoting their own cause by downplaying affiliate websites and dropping them out of SE sight to favor their own advertising.

So it's important that you check your affiliate link and make sure it is cloaked or protected in some way. At the Lotto Affiliate Center I show you how to protect it using Tinyurl.com, and that's a good first step. There are many other methods to protect your affiliate link. If you're an expert in HTML or php you could write your own code. ClickBank.com also shows ways you can protect your link, but again they are for advanced users.

Use Tinyurl.com and you'll be protected for most problems. Don't forget to check your affiliate links periodically to see that you're still receiving commission. You see how to do that test at the Lotto Affiliate Center too.

And congratulations to an active affiliate who has just made themselves over $7000 in a the last couple of days. While I can't reveal the exact methods the affiliate used, it's important to realize that scaling up is the solution to bigger commissions. If you find that one thing you do works well, concentrate on expanding that method as fast and as far as you can. Volume is the answer!

I try to do my part each day in aggressively increasing conversions and time-sensitive offers, and reducing refunds. In each of these fields we are improving... sometimes dramatically in the case of bringing our refund rate way down in recent weeks.

As always, I want to help you ramp up your sales as fast as you can, so feel free to contact me at the email address in the Silver Seller newsletter with your questions.

Happy Winning!
Ken Silver

How Volume Increases Your Sales

Hard question: what's stopping you growing to be a successful affiliate?

I'll tell you...

Volume. 

Or more specifically, lack of it.

For example, take the most successful method of creating affiliate sales for the Silver Lotto System - article writing.

Most people can write 1 article a day if they are pressed.

Several can write 2-3 a day.

A tiny motivated few can push out 5 articles a day, regularly, for months on end. That's rare however.

Then there are the masters... writers who create a dozen or more original articles a day. 

They do this because as the volume of articles increases, so do sales.

If you want to grow sales, you need to write more.

At Ezine Articles, the net's most highly rated article directory, Sean R Mize is the undisputed master at the top of the writing production tree. Today, 16 November, I counted 11 articles he had authored or had ghostwritten under his name. Yesterday it was 12.

And so far Sean has gotten over two and a half milllion views from his nearly 24,000 articles, over 4 years.

One of the advantages in having a large mass of articles is that readers are highly targeted buyers. 

In Sean's case they find his articles from the search engines through the keywords he scatters through his paragraphs, and if they are interested they click through to his website via the resource box at the bottom.

As a result, maybe 1 in 10-100 will buy from him. It's a hugely effective strategy because buyers are presold by the article, and so it takes less work to generate a sale from the website.

Now, it's usual these days for only 1 in 1,000 visitors to buy cold from any website. So to achieve the same result as Sean with other traffic building methods like PPC (Pay per Click - not available for lottery systems), or search engines, you'll need to find 2,500,000,000 visitors. 

Yes, that's 2.5 billlion visitors. Very few websites achieve that huge number.

So you can see how writing articles is actually more productive in many ways.

The best part of this method is that it is deceptively simple. And as I explained in a previous article on this blog, you don't even have to write about the lottery... it can be any subject that interests you. Or it can be an existing article that you rewrite in your own words.

Either way, if your article is totally original, you have a tremendous advantage over most other article writers. The power of your words will have a compounding effect, and the search engines will love you for it.

The best way to succeed on the internet as an affiliate is to increase your volume of articles.

Now here's an insider's secret... the reason why a few people succeed and most fail. 

Failures choose to take an easy path.

Trying to decide between taking a walk or watching television? Instinctively you know one is better for you than the other. No contest. But the successful person will take a walk... they will choose the hard option because very few others do this, given a choice. 

Most others take the easier route and wonder why they don't get the same measure of success. By taking the hard route, the competition is less and you get better results.

Writing articles in bulk can be hard work until you get the hang of it. You can take some shortcuts by visiting Sean at 

http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Sean_R_Mize and studying how he does it. 

More importantly he has written a number of tips there on how you can replicate his method of promotion.

Take a look, it's a valuable resource.

And don't forget, more writing means more sales. Get that volume up!

Happy Winning!
Ken Silver

How To Conquer Britain As A Lottery Affiliate - Even If You Live There!

Today I want to talk about the massive opportunities ahead of you - no matter where you live in the world.

Britain has just unleashed the most far-reaching job cuts that country has seen for decades... over half a million government servants will be losing their jobs over the next four years.

If you just shrugged your shoulders and said, "so what?" - you are completely missing the point.

Because along with job cuts in UK and the ever growing population of retirees, there will be millions more people desperately needing what we sell. Not only do they need an increased income to cover their retirement expenses, but to escape the boredom that has become their life they are more likely to buy tickets in something that promises to improve their lives.

And that something is the lottery. So far, this is nothing new... people have been trying to escape reality all over the world.

I'm saying that now is different. The division between rich and poor is growing, and with job losses and recession in many countries it's getting harder for many people to achieve a more comfortable life. That's why what the Silver Lotto System offers is so important.

The most exciting opportunities I provide are these...

1. A system that improves their lottery winning odds.

2. A passive income business that anyone can start.

I offer both these opportunities. And today I'm going to tell you where you can make the most income from them.

The first stop is a western country where our Silver Lotto System sales are lowest.

Britain.

USA is the country with the highest amount of traffic to our website. 

Britain has barely 3% of that traffic.

Yet the population difference of both countries... United States with 307 million, Britain's 61 million... means that UK should be getting at least 20% of that traffic instead of a mere 3%.

Add to the fact that the British have a reputation for being a nation of gamblers - and you can see that the potential for sales of the Silver Lotto System to Britain are huge.

Even if you live outside Britain, you can offer my system to them. With the internet, distance is no barrier. I want you to think seriously about targeting Britain as having huge potential for your enterprise. You can do this by:

- writing articles with a British appeal.

- building mailing lists in that country.

- registering domain names for their lotteries with ".co.uk" suffixes.

And don't forget, it doesn't matter where you live or what currency you deal in as an affiliate. It always gets converted back to your own country's currency.

I can't begin to explain how much potential there is for the Silver Lotto System in Britain. In the next issue I will talk about how you can offer my business-building products to them.

Let me know how I can help you conquer Britain (even if you live there!) and become our top-selling affiliate!

Happy Winning!
Ken Silver