Once upon a time, there was an amateur marketer looking for ways to achieve financial success.

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He stumbled upon a cave named WF, with legions of wise old men and women, and hordes of people who looked like wise old men and women.

They were all peddling gems and treasures that they claimed to be the key to wealth and riches.

Just buy  this, and $100000,000,000,000,000 will be deposited into your bank account before you can even say “Woo hoo I have $100000,000,000,000,000!!!”.

For some reason, stuff like these sell incredibly well in the caved named WF.

Though amateurish, this marketer was wise enough to know that these peddlers are mainly

1. Scammers
2. Stupid.

The next peddler he stumbled upon, though, looked really smart, really wise.

He wasn’t peddling a gem.

He was selling a shovel.

And a manual that told you where to go to dig for gold.

For same cost that people were selling for the “keys to wealth” that were worth up to $100000,000,000,000,000.

Something told the amateur that this peddler was onto something.

Unfortunately, this amateur was dead broke and had no money to buy this shovel and manual.

Disappointedly, he approached the wise old man and told him his story and motivations; that he would come back to buy the shovel and manual once he has saved up some money. He was dead broke because he was still schooling!

The wise old man looked kindly at the amateur, smiled, and handed a shovel and a copy of the manual to the amateur.

“There you go, little one. Use the gold you find to buy some textbooks. Consider it my way of giving back to the world.”

Elated, the amateur goes out, follows the manual, finds gold, and succeeds in the cutthroat world of gold-digging.

Life is good.

He has since purchased many other types of shovels and manual from the wise old man.

Then it dawned upon him; maybe the wise old man already knew this would happen!

That the amateur would get the gold and thus come back to him to purchase more expensive shovels!

He wasn’t being altruistic afterall..

That sneaky bastard!

But then again.. What a deviously smart way to do business.

The amateur has been a fan of the wise old man ever since.

And he lived and is still living, happily ever after..

P.S. The wise old man is Paul Myers. The amateur is yours truly. The shovel he gifted me was “The Thud! Report”.

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Gauher Chaudhry is the man behind PayPerClickFormula.com.

He just released a free report about CPA (Cost per Action) marketing; I’ve been wanting to get into CPA marketing so it was pretty timely. akon beautiful

Pretty good information if you’re new to CPA, though I think the extensive introduction of the many keyword tools etc wasn’t entirely necessary; don’t doubt his intentions though, because they aren’t affiliate links.

Click here to check out the free CPA report.

I bought AffiloBlueprint 1.0 when it was first released a couple months ago.

I really liked it, and since AffiloBlueprint will be released in a couple days, I thought I would do a quick review for it so my readers can take advantage of one of the better infoproducts out there on the market.

Just a little background information about Mark Ling; he’s one of my favorite gurus because he really does walk the talk.

Other than the fact that the things he teach makes sense, I also know for a fact that he’s a hugely successful Clickbank merchant. SitStayFetch, one of the most popular products on Clickbank, is actually owned by him; so are a few other less popular, but certainly successful ones.

In AffiloBlueprint 1.0, the site-building part was mainly taught the XSitePro way.

I don’t use XSitePro and I’m a wordpress fan, so I had Keshia create a custom theme that would look exactly like the case study Mark created.

In AffiloBlueprint 2.0, you’ll actually get a free wordpress theme that would probably be easier to customize, plus you save yourself the hassle of having to get one created yourself like I did, PLUS you get to use this theme on unlimited sites, so I think this by itself is worth the entire cost of entry.

I’m too easily distracted so I’ve only created one AffiloBlueprint site myself, since December of 2008, because I’ve been busy with other projects. It’s a very, very viable business model though, and is one I plan to replicate over and over in the very near future.

Essentially, the process is as follows.

1) Market Research
2) Outsource content
3) Create site, build a list 
4) Build links
5) Drive traffic through article marketing
6) PPC
7) Expand, and so on.

Might look like the content page of a $27 ebook but Mark explains it so well that if you’re able to get your hands dirty implementing it, you WILL see sales fast.

Heck, if you’re still stuck after going through the entire course, just email me and I’ll try to help you sort things out.

So what have my results been like from the one AffiloBlueprint site I built?

From December till today, I’ve made about USD$900 from sales, and have sold the site for USD$1300 so I can use the influx of cash to re-invest in other parts of my business.

Spent about USD$200 on having articles written and sending some PPC traffic, so net profit was about USD$2000.

Considering the fact that..

1) Much of the work was outsourced
2) I will be able to churn out these sites much faster now

I think AffiloBlueprint is a great learning experience, even without the wordpress theme. Heck, with the wordpress theme, I think it’s a no-brainer if you plan to make any income from affiliate marketing.

Even as a relative newbie, a successful AffiloBlueprint site will pay for the entire course in a week once it’s been setup properly.

I’m not trying hard to sell you on this, but if you buy it through my link, there are a couple things I can offer you as a gift:

1) Email support – I’ll give you some advice with building your first site; I don’t know how valuable you deem this to be, but in my opinion, there is something very wrong if you can’t even get an AffiloBlueprint site up with my help.

2) To be honest, I didn’t follow AffiloBlueprint completely; I skipped the tedious article marketing part almost completely, and still made a fair number of sales. (What, you didn’t know I’m lazy?)

I’ll tell you how I built links the lazy way to get my site ranking number 6 on google for my primary keyword.

Disclaimer: The method isn’t free, but I’ll work something out for you if you buy through my link.

So here’s the link:

http://www.affilorama.com/affiloblueprint?aff=kangwei

Yeah I’m not even trying to mask it or anything; you already know it’s my link.

Right, it’s 4 a.m. my time, and I have an exam in 2 days’ time, so I’m off to bed for now; just wanted to give you a heads-up about this great product