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Local Marketing Vault Review

This is a stub review of James Bonadies and Jason McKim’s lead generation training: Local Marketing Vault.

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James and Jason’s сourse aims to teach you how to make money online with local lead generation.

Local Marketing Vault – Key Points

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A course that aims to teach you how to get started with lead generation.

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About our 31-factor editorial review processHow does Local Marketing Vault help you make money?

Local Marketing Vault aims to teach you the business of lead generation.

Lead generation is when you find customers online which are called leads. You then sell these potential customers to a related local business for a fee.

You can find these customers via SEO or paid ads. In this case it seems like you will be finding leads with Facebook ads.

Learn more about lead generationHow much does Local Marketing Vault cost?

We have seen unverified reports that the price of Local Marketing Vault is around $5,000.

Keep in mind that you’ll probably need extra money to spend on paid ads to make full use of the course.

Local Marketing Vault Discount?

Sorry, there doesn’t seem to be any discount available for Local Marketing Vault.

Refund Policy

We haven’t been able to find any information about a refund for this course.

Local Marketing Vault Alternatives

Here are some other affiliate marketing courses you may want to consider…

Top 10 Lead Generation Courses

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Published on January 18, 2022 04:41

Lead Lightning Review

This is a stub review of Todd Gross’ lead generation system: Lead Lightning.

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Todd’s system aims to help you make money online with lead generation.

Lead Lightning – Key Points

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A system that aims to teach you lead generation.

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One payment of $7 (more details)

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About our 31-factor editorial review processHow does Lead Lightning help you make money?

Lead Lightning aims to teach you how to start a lead generation business.

The idea appears to be: find leads online and send them offers. You earn a commission for every sale of the products that you offer. It appears that Lead Lightning is one of the offers itself and you can earn $6 for every $7 sale.

Learn more about lead generationHow much does Lead Lightning cost?

The price of Todd Gross’ system is $7.

There are probably further upsells that you need to pay for after that.

Keep in mind that you’ll probably need a little extra money to spend on email marketing software and paid ads to make full use of the course.

Lead Lightning Discount?

Sorry, there doesn’t seem to be any discount available for Lead Lightning.

Refund Policy

There appears to be a 7-day money-back guarantee for this system.

Lead Lightning Alternatives

Here are some other lead generation courses you may want to consider…

Top 10 Lead Generation Courses

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Published on January 18, 2022 04:38

FullStaq Marketer Review

This is a stub review of Keala Kanae’s marketing training: FullStaq Marketer.

FullStaq Marketer may have been formerly known as AWOL Academy.

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Keala’s training aims to teach you how to make money online with digital marketing.

FullStaq Marketer – Key Points

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Training that aims to teach you affiliate marketing.

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One payment of $39 (details)

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FullStaq Marketer aims to teach you how to become an affiliate marketer.

Affiliate marketing is when you promote other people’s products or services and collect a commission for every successful referral.

Learn more about affiliate marketingHow much does FullStaq Marketer cost?

The current price of Keala Kanae’s affiliate marketing training seems to be $39. This is for his training weekend as his other programs appear to be closed.

Keep in mind that you’ll probably need extra money to spend on marketing software and web hosting to make full use of the training.

FullStaq Marketer Discount?

Sorry, there doesn’t seem to be any discount available for FullStaq Marketer.

Refund Policy

There appears to be a 14-day money-back guarantee for this training.

FullStaq Marketer Alternatives

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Top 10 Affiliate Marketing Courses

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Published on January 18, 2022 04:35

eBiz Weekly #158

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The Entrepreneur Operating System$3,141/month browser extensionAudience FirstGet Unstuck 10-Day WorkshopGet Leads From Your CompetitionHis Microstartups Make $500/DayThe Day You Became A Better WriterTop 100 Companies For Remote JobsDecember Finance Report$500 GiveawayThe Entrepreneur Operating System

Dickie Bush breaks down the key lessons from Jack Butcher’s book: Build Once, Sell Twice.

Dickie calls it “THE operating system for the 21st-century entrepreneur”…

Here’s the operating system:

1. Start sharing ideas
2. Attract like-minded people
3. Figure out their problems
4. Build products that solve their problems
5. Extract proof you’ve solved their problem
6. Document/share your process along the way (which becomes a product)

Dickie dives deeper into each in his Twitter thread

Note how that thread is Dickie practicing step 1 of the OS himself.

So the ideas don’t have to be your own. Just share whatever you think is useful.

$3,141/month browser extension

Tony Dinh shares how he recently boosted the monthly revenue of Black Magic – his browser extension for Twitter power users – from $2,164 to $3,141

(He mainly leveraged a big Twitter following to boost his launch on Product Hunt)

Another interesting browser extension is PocketTube, for power users of YouTube.

Looks like it’s built and maintained by a solo developer and monetized via Patreon ($2,486/month).

What other popular websites could use a browser extension for power users?

Audience First

Back to that Twitter extension: creator Tony Dinh credits a lot of his success to building an audience first…

Before the launch. Even before the beta program. Even further than that. I built an audience on Twitter… I had 13.9K followers when I started the beta program 2 months ago… the success of the beta program and the launch are heavily affected by the existing audience I have. That’s what you should do, even if you don’t have any product at the moment: building an audience.

This fits in with the aforementioned framework: you first attract like-minded people (ie. build an audience). That helps you figure out what products or service to create, and makes it easier to market them

If you want to build an audience on Twitter, Trung Phan shares the approach he used to go from 10k to 310k followers in a year: “Smart threads. Dumb memes.”

Get Unstuck 10-Day Workshop

Shane Melaugh is the guy who built up Thrive Themes and a few other successful online businesses.

He’s currently doing a free 10-day “Get Unstuck” workshop to help you get 2022 off to a strong start

You can sign up here and immediately access the first several days of the workshop.

Shane doesn’t hold back on his free content so give his 10-day workshop a look if you’re struggling to get going this year.

Get Leads From Your Competition

of how he started a $100,000/month branding business from his basement

I work with companies worldwide to create new names for their businesses, products, and services. One of the names I created was PODS – Portable On Demand Storage.

With a business like this, I’m always curious to hear how he found his first clients. And unsurprisingly it was the usual networking stuff that worked well for Phillip…

I kept costs to a minimum and focused on referrals, networking, word of mouth, and a limited amount of pay-per-click ads.

But he also did something unusual, contacting his direct competition and asking them for leads…

I found other naming agencies at the time that did larger projects for big corporations. I figured that they must turn down smaller projects all the time. Rather than spend money competing with them, I wrote to them and offered to pay a 10% commission for any smaller leads they sent my way. I got one $20,000 naming project right out of the gate and paid my “competitor” a $2,000 referral fee. It was the proverbial win-win.

Are there big competitors in your industry that you could try this with?

His Microstartups Make $500/Day

A chap calling himself Hari Krishna recently posted on Hacker News: My Microstartups make $500/day while I’m sleeping

He lists three websites that made up the bulk of his $117,000 in revenue last year, with only $3000 in expenses.

The three sites:

Visa List – $50,000/year, travel visa infoAnExplorer – $50,000/year file manager appACrypto – $10,000/year crypto price alerts tracker

A few commenters call out Hari for self-promoting on HN, but it seems to be working well so you could probably learn from his example.

This comment might also resonate with you…

I’ve had ideas over the years… and the title of this post makes me wonder if my ideas are too big and that’s a reason why they never got to implementation. The concept of a bunch of small/micro things that make hobby level money is interesting.

In other words, instead of trying to launch the next big thing, it may be better to make lots of little bets.

The Day You Became A Better Writer

A short and classic article from the creator of Dilbert. It will teach you “80% of the rules of good writing.”

Naval Ravikant said of it:

This one blog post right there will change your writing style forever if you put your ego down and absorb it properly.

Top 100 Companies For Remote Jobs

FlexJobs looked at the 57,000 companies that posted on their remote job board last year and came up with the 100 who hire the most.

The top five, and the areas they typically hire for:

BroadPath – call center, insurance, operations, sales, medical & healthLiveops – medical & health, customer service, sales, insurance, call centerSYKES – customer service, call center, marketing, computer & IT, salesWorking Solutions – customer service, call center, consulting, project management, salesSAP – computer & IT, software development, HR & recruiting, sales, accounting & finance

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December Finance Report

My latest monthly finance report is here, detailing everything I earned and spent in my business last month.

$15,013 income$5,198 expenses

Final numbers for 2021:

$208,536 income$57,431 expenses$151,105 profit

That’s a profit margin of 72%, but it doesn’t factor in how much I paid myself.

I tracked 971 work hours for myself throughout the year. Dividing the business profits by those hours results in a $155.62 hourly rate.

Not bad, but it doesn’t take into account untracked hours – I definitely worked more than 19 hours per week – and the previous months and years I spent building up the business.

Still, a good year overall, with revenue and profits increasing about 50% from 2020

How did your business do last year?

$500 Giveaway

Quick reminder about the $500 Giveaway we’re doing at eBiz Facts this month.

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Published on January 14, 2022 00:54

eBiz Weekly #157

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$500 Giveaway in JanuaryYouTuber’s $4.79 Million Income BreakdownRelease an NFT drop without code+$500/month side projectsBetter Than Positive ThinkingSimple tool picks up 200+ backlinksThe Copywriter Who Quit Social MediaBest way to make money online this weekLatest Momentos$500 Giveaway in January

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YouTuber’s $4.79 Million Income Breakdown

Ali Abdaal has 2.5 million subscribers on YouTube and recently revealed his earnings from 15 different income streams in 2021.

Not including his offline income – eg. working at a hospital, real estate earnings – here’s the breakdown…

Twitch streaming – $92Mentor for online course – $1000Nebula streaming – $6,478Podcast sponsorships – $26,750Freetrade investments (including free shares awarded for referrals) – $14,860Vanguard investments (including returns pre-2021) – $38,172Charles Stanley investments (including returns pre-2021) – $77,1742 book deals – +$100,000 eachCrypto investing – $132,377Affiliate marketing – $208,201YouTube ads – $372,900Sponsorships and brand deals – $432,000Skillshare courses (royalties + affiliate) – $716,691Part-Time YouTuber Academy (Ali’s own course) – $2,595,306

His total revenue = $4.79 million, about $3.5 million more than he earned the previous year

Some notes:

Ali started working online at age 13, and it was 7 years before his first business success.His first video was posted in 2016, and he made almost nothing his first year on YouTube.He now has 17 full-time staff, 4-5 part-time staff, and a bunch of contractors.The breakdown above doesn’t include some of Ali’s earnings in Nov/Dec 2021.

Ali has another video breaking down his expenses for 2021, including more than $500,000 spent on salaries and wages.

From the comments on that video:

Your revenue is $4.79M and expenses is around $1.5M. The before tax profit is $3.29M so after UK corporate tax (20%), you made roughly $2.6M in total net profit after-tax. I’m not sure if its accurate but that’s a 55% after-tax net profit margin which is incredible.

Release an NFT drop without code

Nacho Iacovino put together an in-depth guide

The collection Nacho creates in the tutorial hasn’t done very well, even though he has quite a big audience (43K followers on Twitter), but the guide is all about how to create an NFT drop.

Marketing one is a whole different story.

+$500/month side projects

A goldmine of a thread on Hacker News: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell

A few that stood out to me…

Magic Lasso Adblock: +$500/month freemium Safari ad blocker appTradytics: $120,000/month “analytics based platform that uses data analysis techniques to generate trade ideas for retail investors”Wandering Labs: “making more a month than the day job”, scrapes campground websites and alerts people of availabilitiesEscape Team: $800/month printable escape roomAlgeo Graphing Calculator app: $500/month, “used to bring in much more but the heydays of apps are over”Forward Email: freemium email forwarding service, “several thousand per month now just one year in”Place Card Me: $1000/month “app for making wedding place cards”SaaS Pegasus: $5000/month “boilerplate for making SaaS apps with Python/Django”

The last two are by the same guy. He keeps track of all his projects here, breaking them down into an hourly rate.

Place Card Me has earned him $115 per hour invested. SaaS Pegasus is at $90/hour. Note how his hourly rate is abysmal the first few weeks/months he’s working on a project. Takes a hefty dose of patience and persistence before these things pay off

Better Than Positive Thinking

You know that whole positive visualization thing, where you imagine you already have the life you desire and try tune in to that quantum frequency or whatever thereby attracting good stuff into your life?

Yeah, that may actually do you more harm than good.

A book called Rethinking Positive Thinking explains why, written by a professor of psychology at New York University.

No need to read the whole book: just watch these two video summaries on YouTube

Both of them break down the WOOP framework, a core concept from the book which works much better than positive thinking alone…

Wish – Figure out what you want.Outcome – Think about how you’d feel if that wish came true. What would be the #1 benefit?Obstacle – What is the main thing holding you back from making it happen?Plan – Make a plan for handling that obstacle when it arises.Simple tool picks up 200+ backlinks

Poet.so is a free tool that turns tweets into nice shareable images

It’s also a great example of link building. At the bottom of the page you’ll see that it’s powered by and links to Reviews.io. They probably got a developer to code up Poet.so in a few days. Then they promoted it successfully on Product Hunt (#1 product of the day).

According to Ahrefs, the page has since picked up backlinks from 200+ domains, including ~20 backlinks from DR70+ sites. That’s some nice link juice flowing through to Reviews.io.

The Copywriter Who Quit Social Media

Freelance copywriter Alexander Lewis writes that he quit social media for all of 2021.

Giving up social media as both a writer and online business owner seemed like a big risk in an already-volatile industry. Could I maintain an online business without the supposedly most powerful networking and promotion tools ever built?

Turns out he could…

My social media break has paid off so well for my personal writing and business that I now consider not using these platforms to be a form of unfair advantage for my writing and business… My business not only stayed afloat in 2021, but also grew by more than 50% despite not having social media for marketing and prospecting purposes.

Alexander acknowledges though that he was already well established as a freelancer when he quit social media, with other channels he could rely on to keep his calendar packed with paid work

My takeaway is that social media can be helpful to launch a business, but once established the costs can quickly outweigh the benefits.

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