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Who Is James Denzel – The Go Click Cash Guy?

By Jay on May 18, 2011

"James Denzel"

Since I wrote a review of Go Click Cash on one of my other blogs, I’ve seen people asking the question “who is James Denzel” – the guy from the Go Click Cash video.

James Denzel is the creator of Go Click Cash and is supposed to be the guy in the video but no one has ever heard of him before.

So who is he really? Well, I don’t know either but here are four possibilities. Please don’t take this too seriously because I honestly don’t know who he is.

Possibility #1: An Underground Super Affiliate Millionaire

It’s possible that James Denzel is a super affiliate who spends more time (or very little time) making huge sums of money with Clickbank and Adsense than talking about his efforts on forums and blogs.

This is the explanation Adeel Chowdry, who is very well known in the internet marketing industry, gave in the JV email I received.

The Go Click Cash software was created by James Denzel and Adeel helped him with the marketing? So I guess we have Adeel to ‘thank’ for that big budget production going on the sales page.

And according to Chowdry, they both use the software themselves. Kinda hard for me to believe that Chowdry himself uses this for affiliate marketing and hard for me to believe Denzel uses this to pay for jet fuel.

Want reasons? Check out my Go Click Cash Review.

Possibility #2: A Renegade Marketer Using An Alias

This happens more often than you would imagine.

Here’s the scenario: Marketer Joe Scammer messes up his reputation with a launch so now everyone knows to avoid him. So for his new launch he takes on an alias and releases his new product explaining that this is his first product as an info merchant. He also explains that he’s been an affiliate quietly banking millions after he lost his job as a [insert low paying job here].

So he gets his jvs and everybody promotes for him. Except that his Joe Scammer persona can’t be hidden and his product reeks of BS.

So is James Denzel a renegade marketer using an alias? I don’t know. It’s possible. And if he is, can we know who he was before he became “James Denzel”?

Possibility #3: He’s George Clooney

What?!? No way!

Well, of course he’s not George Clooney but check this out.

George Clooney did this Martini ad back in 2008. Here he is with three fine babes and a bottle of champagne.

Clooney Ad

And about 30 seconds into the video on the Go Click Cash page, we see Denzel with three fine babes and a bottle of champagne.

James Denzel photoshop of Clooney Ad

Kids, when you start photo-shopping stuff, it’s hard to take you seriously. This will put you in the category of scammers.

Are we supposed to trust all those earnings screenshots? Maybe, this is the reason why their affiliate program runs on Plimus and not Clickbank. Clickbank recently implemented some changes for merchants in an effort to stop deceptive practices and verifying earnings screenshots was one of those changes.

Of course George Clooney doesn’t have to verify his earnings with Clickbank. James Denzel is no George Clooney.

Possibility #4: An Actor (For a Character Adeel Chowdry Created)

It’s also possible that Adeel Chowdry just created a character called James Denzel and hired an actor to play the part.

It’s been done before. I don’t follow these launches to much but I knew that guy Chris X created a character called Victoria for a product that flopped a few years back called Duvet Dollars.

And then there is the infamous Rich Jerk who was created by marketer Kelly Felix back in the middle of the last decade. You can kinda see some similarities with this James Denzel guy and the Rich Jerk.

So this would mean that Chowdry is the real guy behind Go click Cash.

And it would also mean that the mansion was rented (or maybe its just a Hollywood set), the jet was chartered (maybe it just sat on the runway while they filmed), and all that other stuff is fake.

So who is James Denzel really? I really don’t know.

But I do know about Go Click Cash and you can see my full Go Click Cash review here.

Sorry I don’t have any bonuses because I don’t recommend it.

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Should You Trust the Better Business Bureau?

By Jay on January 14, 2011

Every year millions of people turn to the Better Business Bureau‘s rating system to help protect them from scams. The BBB gives businesses grades ranging from A to F based on reviews or complaints they get from customers of these businesses.

Apparently the grades are also based on another criteria. ABC News’ 20/20 did an investigation of the BBB and now it’s questionable about whether you should trust the BBB.

How do I feel?

Forget the BBB and look for other independent reviews from people who have actual experience with the business you’re researching. That’s what the internet is for and it’s very easy to find out stuff about ANY business just by doing a quick search for queries such as:

“business” + complaints
“business” + reviews
“business” + user reviews
“business” + scam
etc.

I’ve heard that they’ve since apologized for the ratings system but do we really need the BBB?

Posted in Video | Tagged bbb, better busines burea, consumer protection | 3 Responses

How Much Does It Cost To Fund An Online Business?

By Jay on August 15, 2010

I had a comment on another blog post where a visitor was duped by a popular biz-op company into paying nearly $2000 just to get a website up and running. She knew nothing about making money online and wanted to get into online business.

Here’s a part of her comment:

Hi I am a 20 year old college student who was just looking for an online opportunity for the summer. I wanted to start my own business and was very naive and [suspect company] was able to lie and decieve me into thinking that any online business cost almost 2,000 dollars to fund and keep going.

Saying that “ANY online business costs almost $2000 dollars to fund and keep going” is far from the truth and this company is either misinformed or just trying to sell their service to the unsuspecting. I’d want to believe it was the latter.

The Most Affordable Online Business

How much it costs to get an online business up and running depends on what type of business you’re going to run. Some can indeed costs more than $2000 to maintain but by far the most affordable to start is an affiliate marketing business.

Affiliate marketing is where you would sign up with merchant websites and enter into an agreement to promote their products on your own websites or through your own means and be rewarded with the commissions you make on each sale.

It costs absolutely nothing to be affiliated with merchant websites since you more or less act an an advertising agent for them. The more affiliates a merchant has spreading the word about their products, the better.

Here’s a video by a super affiliate marketer named Rosalind Gardner who wrote her own Super Affiliate Marketing Handbook – a guide to setting up and running an affiliate marketing business. The video explains how affiliate marketing works.

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Costs Nothing To Get Started

One of the many benefits of running an affiliate marketing business is that it costs very little to fund initially. You can get started for under $100 and as little as zero dollars.

Affiliate marketing can net you substantial amounts of money and many affiliates earn full time incomes and are able to quit their jobs. Some affiliates even make in excess of one million dollars per year.

Before I go into how you can get started, lets stick to the topic a bit and allow me to outline the 6 most important costs of starting and running an online business.

Training and Education

The most important cost of running an online business is getting the knowledge you need to run your business. Just like its important to go to college so that you can earn a degree to get a high paying job, its also important to learn in a structured and step by step way how to run an online business.

Without knowing what you’re doing, you’re certain to fail so much emphasis should be placed on getting thoroughly trained and knowledgeable on various affiliate marketing techniques.

I would recommend the Wealthy Affiliate University, which isn’t a real university but an online affiliate marketing training ‘school’ that has been churning out successful affiliate marketers since 2005.

Domains

To run your own website, you’ll need to buy a domain name. The domain name is name of the website that you type into the address bar so that the site comes up.

For example, www.facebook.com is Facebook’s domain name. This site’s domain name is kpfingaz.com. Domains usually end with .com and other common variations such as .net, .org and .gov.

Although you can make money online without a website, you wouldn’t be running a business and I would only suggest you do so if you don’t have any other means to fund your online business. A domain name only costs about $10 for a whole year.

Please do not buy a domain if you don’t know what to do with it. Get educated first (cost #1).

Web Hosting

For the world to be able to see your website, you’ll need to run your domain name on a web hosting server. This is like a big computer that shows your websites files whenever someone types in your domain name.

With website hosting, you can use it to easily install a site like the one I’m using which doesn’t require me to build or buy website. All I do is provide the content and publish it for the world to see.

Web hosting is very affordable and doesn’t cost more than $10/month. You can get web hosting for as low as $3.95 per month although it is important that you choose a good hosting program based on a number of factors.

As a sidenote, you get free web hosting as a member when you join the training site I mentioned above – Wealthy Affiliate.

Autoresponder

An autoresponder is a program you would use that allows you to manage email campaigns if you choose to promote your affiliate programs via email.

Email marketing is used by every successful marketer that I know because it helps you build a relationship with the people who are interested in buying the products you promote. An autoresponder makes the job easier and although you can get by without it, you would be making a lot less than you could potentially make.

Autoresponder software costs as low as $19.99 per month from providers like Aweber and GetResponse.

Advertising

I’m pretty sure you knew this was going to be one. In order to get the word out about the products you’re promoting you have to advertise.

Paying for advertising is one option but you can use other forms of advertising that do not cost you anything at all. I know several people who make a full time income without paying for any type of paid advertising at all which I why I put this so low on the list.

If you have more money than you have time then by all means you’ll probably benefit from paid advertising. However, if you have more time than money, you will still be able to use the free techniques in your promotions.

Outsourcing

Once you manage to get to a point where you’re making money on a consistent basis, you may find that you don’t have enough time in a day to grow your business the way you want all by yourself.

And you may also find that you’re not good at some things and it may be better to get someone who knows more than you do how to manage a particular task.

For example, if you’re not good at writing articles for your site, you may prefer to hire it out. This is called outsourcing and you obviously have to pay for the task to be done.

Although this is optional since you could do everything for yourself, you could use this to your advantage and many of the super affiliates do this.

These are the six major costs involved with running an online business and together they certainly do not cost anywhere near $2000. Some of these are optional and you do not have to use them all at once. Also there are other costs that you may incur, but they’re mostly optional.

The point here however is that funding and maintaining an online business doesn’t have to be expensive and it isn’t.

Posted in Misc. Tips | Tagged affiliate marketing, funding, online business | 1 Response

Internet Marketing Training & Education – Your Most Important Investment

By Jay on August 14, 2010

You do not need a college degree or any other form of qualifications to start an internet marketing business. However, you would not be able to start without someone telling you how to begin.

That little piece of knowledge may be just what you need to get going. If they shared enough for you to go beyond getting started and you end up making money then consider yourself educated.

But how certain are you to make money if your knowledge of how things work is limited?

I often hear people on forums say you can learn everything you need to know for free. Free would be ok if you were presented with a structured training program that teaches you step by step how to build your online business.

Such programs are rare. You’ll find some that can give you a start or teach you a specific technique. One factor you must consider is who you’re learning from – make sure you’re learning from someone who is already successful at what they’re teaching.

With that said, be sure to invest in educating yourself on various aspects of running an internet marketing business. This is the most important step you’ll have to take if you’re considering earning online.

How much?

Getting educated on running an online business isn’t as costly as what you’d have to invest if you wanted to get involved with most other businesses.

How much in tuition fees do you think most qualified professionals paid to attend college just so they could run their own businesses? Most likely in the 5 figure range right?

Learning to run an online business isn’t near as costly. The program that I use costs less than $100 per month and has created many successful internet marketers.

It is also run by two successful internet marketers who each make 7 figures a year.

I’ve used this training site, the Wealthy Affiliate, to help me go from a job that I could barely survive on to quitting my job and doing internet marketing full time.

For me, learning never stops as I still learn new things each day from a community of over 50,000 novice, intermediate and advanced marketers willing to share new ideas.

How to get around it?

As I said before, you absolutely need to get educated if you hope to make money on a consistent basis using the internet so you cannot avoid this.

What you can avoid though is the initial investment and by that I mean you can truly get started without any investment if you just do not have the money.

Then when you do make some money, you can use it to get the education you need to grow. Putting money back into your business shows that you have the right mindset to become a success – a very wise move indeed.

Here’s a way to start without any money.

Recommendations

As mentioned above, if you have no money to begin with then you can start with this free course called The DAM Way.

If you do have some money and would like to start learning how to build an online business then I highly recommend that you come join me and my friends over at the Wealthy Affiliate University.

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Make Money with Hubpages Helpful Health Hubs Contest

By Jay on February 24, 2010

I’ve written before quite a bit of times about the benefits of using Hubpages for article marketing and promoting your website.

If you haven’t yet checked it out as yet, Hubpages is giving you a chance to make some money with their new Helpful Health Hubs Contest. The contest starts on March 1st but not every one can win depending on your location.

However, if you’re a marketer in any sub-niche of the Health industry, you can use this contest to build hubs that point back to your sites, get some adsense money and promote affiliate offers. Even if you don’t win any of the prizes then you’ll still be contributing to your marketing efforts in a big way.

If you’re not an affiliate marketer or you aren’t yet making money online, then this is a great way to get started. The key is not to worry about making money from your hub. Just concentrate on what the contest requires and then you can monetize your efforts afterwards.

Before you know it you’ve already had half of the experience you need to make money with affiliate marketing. The rest is just learning a few other basics.

You can check out the contest details here and sign up to participate.

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Hitler Gets Google Slapped

By Jay on February 11, 2010

I just found this online.

Hitler gets Google slapped in this version of the viral sensation featuring the fuhrer.

If you’re not sure what it means to be Google slapped then I’m guessing you’re not familiar with affiliate marketing or Google Adwords. Nevertheless you might still find it funny.

Posted in Video | Tagged google adwords, google slap | Leave a response

Grab The Wealthy Affiliate Christmas Bonus Package

By Jay on December 22, 2009

Christmas is a time for giving. Kyle and Carson of Wealthy Affiliate realizes this and want to give you a special gift if you come hang out with us and take your marketing to the next level.

For the next seven day ending on Monday, you will receive all three of their highly acclaimed internet marketing guides as a complimentary gift when you become a member of Wealthy Affiliate.

This is a great deal since I had to pay for each of these guides when they came out.

The bonus package includes:

Beating Adwords which focuses on getting paid traffic from Google’s Adwords program. This book has been called one of the best Adwords guides available and is usually mentioned along with Perry Marshall’s Definitive Guide to Google Adwords. It has been priced at more than $100 before.
Inside The List focuses on email marketing and list building and is a very informative guide that I find myself going back to all the time. The importance of building a list has always been stressed and will be even more important in 2010 with all the latest industry changes going on. Inside the list usually sells for $67.
Who Loves Money is by far my favorite guide by Kyle and Carson. It’s focus is on marketing with little to no budget and there are a lot of handy tips and resources in there that will save you a lot of money in your internet marketing business. I bought Who Loves Money for $77 when it came out.

At some point in your learning experience (and even when you’re already making money you never stop learning), you’re going to have to choose a promotional method that fits your budget. You can choose from paid traffic or free traffic.

You can also decide whether you want to incorporate list building into your marketing. While all these methods are being taught at Wealthy Affiliate, having a resource that goes from front to back outlining the method can help to really enhance your focus.

This can help set up up as a serious force to be reckoned with in 2010. With the guidance of Wealthy Affiliate and your focus on a particular marketing method, you will have armed yourself with a good recipe for success.

So visit Wealthy Affiliate today, claim your Christmas bonus and make 2010 a profitable year.

Posted in Promotions | Tagged bonus, wealthy affiliate | Leave a response

Marketing on Hubpages – 3 Benefits

By Jay on December 13, 2009

hubpage Over the past 2 years plus, I’ve been using a site called Hubpages.com as part of my marketing strategy.

Hubpages, a community by user generated content can be very beneficial to any marketer for a number of reasons especially if you’re using SEO and article marketing.

I’ve had a lot of successes using Hubpages and still continue to use it everyday.

If you haven’t tried using Hubpages, or you’re still wondering about it, allow me to give show you three ways that I have personally benefited from using this awesome site.

High Rankings

Getting on the first page of Google or any search engine, is a major goal for any niche marketer. However, getting there with your own site can be a challenge especially when you’ve got a new domain. Sometimes you just want to see results NOW.

Hubpages, because its already an established site in the search engines, has a PR of 6 and tonnes of backlinks and gives Google lots of fresh content on a very regular basis, can get you those high rankings in a short amount of time.

In fact, some of my hubs have gotten to the top 3 positions on Google in a matter of days and a lot of them are on the first page for their respective keywords.

Many of these hubs don’t even have a lot of external backlinks. The reason for this is Hubpages own internal linking which can explain why hubs get indexed so quickly and rank so highly without any extra effort.

With these high rankings, you can get a lot of traffic which you can convert to either direct affiliate sales by linking to merchant sites , affiliate sales through linking to your own website or whatever your end result may be.

Relevant Backlinks

Like most content sites, Hubpages is also do follow when it comes to backlinks.

Whenever I set up a niche site, I’m sure to use Hubpages so that I can get relevant backlinks going to the site. This helps my other pages get indexed and pushed up the search engine rankings in conjunction with the other sites I use for my backlinking strategy.

With Hubpages, you can add your link in the content or use a links module to add related links or even add your RSS feed to a related hub. Hubpages strengthens your hubs backlinking power with its own internal linking by adding your hub to related hubs within the site as well as all the tag pages associated with your hub.

Adsense Earnings

Before Hubpages, I’d only made about $0.10 through Google’s Adsense program. I’ve never really paid Adsense much attention though since I’d rather earn a commission on a sale which would be significantly higher than any Adsense click can earn you.

But since Hubpages is monetized with Adsense, you really can’t opt out of having these ads on your hubs. Luckily, Hubpages has created a win win situation for users by offering a 50% revenue share of their Adsense profits.

Still, I’d rather someone clicked on my affiliate link or visit my website than lose them to Adsense ads. But even so, I’d still earn from that loss which I can’t complain about.

I call it getting paid to build backlinks.

Because of Hubpages, I have been getting a check from Google for anywhere from $200 – $400 per month for a good while now.

So if you’re still thinking of whether or not to use Hubpages or still using that other site, stop thinking. Sign up today and get to hubbing.

Posted in Article Marketing | Tagged adsense, backlinks, hubpages, link building | 2 Responses

My Sister Quit Her Job

By Jay on November 30, 2009

the-broken-chain1 Well, I’m starting to think that my affiliate marketing success is rubbing off on the people close to me.

My sister, who used to work as a pre school teacher used to get up at 6am to get to work for 7:30am. Then she worked all day with only a lunch break and got off at 4:30pm.

And this was for considerably less than I worked for at my former job.

Although she’s not doing affiliate marketing (so I can’t credit it to affiliate marketing), she said goodbye to her coworkers today.

Why?

She’s had enough of the long hours and measly pay. Not to add the stress that comes with working for people.

She also needed a vacation which we’re going to have since we’re traveling to Florida on December 9th to stay with family for the Christmas season. The vacation extends into the last week of January which would not have been possible if she had to go back.

What Next?

Of course, she has plans and they’re very productive. A candy store which is in the planning stages right now.

I’m funding this venture from my affiliate marketing earnings . That to me is sooo cool. I’m an investor in offline business now.

I feel responsible for her freedom and thats why I’m blogging this right now. I don’t think this would have been possible if I wasn’t already making a full time living doing affiliate marketing.

Posted in Success | Tagged quit job | 2 Responses

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