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Affiliate Marketing Teleseminar Question and Answer

Friday, March 5th, 2010

You may have heard people mention Ken McCarthy, also known as the “Godfather of Internet Marketing.”

I’ve been following Ken since 2005. In fact, he helped steer me out of my nine to five job with his free Internet marketing material. I’ve been attending his big event each year called The System Seminar. This year, he invited me to share a presentation on what it’s like to be a successful Affiliate Marketer.

This Saturday Ken and I are doing an Affiliate Marketing Q and A. You can call in and ask us anything.

Get the Ben Moskel and Ken McCarthy Call in Details Here

Greetings from Chicago Seminar!

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

We had a great group for our seminar in Chicago this year.

Where else can you learn about Affiliate Marketing, network with some of the brightest minds in the industry, AND have a bonding experience like this?

Ganga Ramdas, Andy Greene, David Blough, Janus Gorzawski, Steve Goyette, Simon Strachan, Nancy Ngyeun, Dave Clabeaux, Ben Moskel

Ganga Ramdas, Andy Greene, David Blough, Janus Gorzawski, Cambiz Gholamshahi, Steve Goyette, Simon Strachan, Nancy Ngyeun, Dave Clabeaux, Ben Moskel, Rick Bewick,

Marketing Tips from High Performance Fighters

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

This weekend at the SEO conference I met and spent time with three trained killers.

Lloyd Irvin, Frank Camacho, and David Hogan are mixed martial arts specialists and also avid students of Internet marketing. Lloyd is a World Champion several times over in various mixed martial arts disciplines. Frank Camacho and David Hogan have both had nationally televised fights and are actively training. (see pictures below)

Team Lloyd Irvin

Team Lloyd Irvin

Mixed martial arts is also known as cage fighting. Two fighters are put inside a steel cage and beat each other until submission. They wear no protective gear and almost anything goes. It is raw, vicious, and as real as it gets.

David "King David" Hogan

Controversial or not, cage fighting requires mental and physical training like none other. When you’re in the ring you are as exposed as you’ll ever be. Make one mistake and you’ll be knocked unconscious within a split second.

It is kill or be killed.
Cage fighters cannot afford to be lazy, neglectful, or apathetic in their training regimen. After spending a few days with these guys it was inspiring to see they apply this same attitude to their website businesses….and you should too.

Ben Moskel and Frank Camacho

Ben Moskel and Frank Camacho


In fact, one of them is so aggressive that he occupies the entire first page of Google for his most profitable keyword!

Simply put, if you want a six-figure website, you cannot afford to be lazy. You can’t treat it like a fun hobby if you expect to make any money. You cannot spend hours watching reality tv every night rather than doing real work on your business.

The good news is that most of your competition is lazy and apathetic. They whittle away all their time on mindless text messaging, pointless gossip, celebrity magazines, and updating their Myspace profiles. They do that while you are building new landing pages, scoping out the hot affiliate offers, and discovering new traffic sources.

This means that there is a TON of online real estate available for the taking.

Here is More good news: if you work on your online business as if your life depends upon it, the money will naturally follow. Just like the fighter who relentlessly trains and gives 110%. Once he gets into the ring on fight night he acts upon his instinct. The right moves naturally flow and victory appears effortless. The same is true here with Affiliate Marketing. Do the work and the money will take care of itself.

Marc Attwood and Ken McCarthy Blogging Seminar in Manchester

Monday, November 16th, 2009

The Manchester blogging and SEO seminar is underway. Marc Attwood began by posting a blog to demonstrate how quickly you can rank in the search engines.

The results: The blog post was ranked #1 in Google in less than 14 minutes.

Meeting UFC Fighter Brandon Vera

Saturday, November 14th, 2009
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I’m writing you from Manchester, England where I’m getting ready to head downtown for tonight’s UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) event between Randy Couture and Brandon Vera.

The event is completely sold out and they are expecting over 18,000 fans…and I’ll be sitting ringside (Row C).

It’s a long story as to why I traveled all the way from Rochester to the UK. Suffice it to say that it was a mixture of networking and luck. My marketing mentor Ken McCarthy is close friends with Lloyd Irvin who is Brandon Vera’s trainer.

(Brandon Vera is fighting in the main event tonight)

I didn’t come to the UK just for the fight however. The fight is an awesome “bonus” of this trip. My primary reason for the trip was to attend an SEO conference by one of the best in the UK and to rub shoulders with other internationally recognized Internet Marketing Experts.

What have I learned so far?

I’ve learned that you cannot possibly ever underestimate the power of face-to-face networking. Last night we spent hours (over drinks of course) discussing Affiliate Marketing, SEO, website traffic, twitter, and just about everything else under the Internet Marketing sun.

The nuggets of information are things you could not possibly get from any ebook.

Plus, this late night face-to-face networking is INSPIRING!

Lloyd Irvin lives by a mantra of absolutely zero tolerance for excuses in business. The members of his mastermind club fiercely enforce the mantra. (In fact, if any member makes an excuse – for anything- they are required to do push ups on the spot).

It was fun to see people’s reaction to a few of us doing push ups in the middle of the bar last night!

Ken McCarthy’s Blogging Conference in Manchester

Monday, October 19th, 2009

If you are on Ken McCarthy’s list then you probably discovered that the blogging/SEO conference is now open.

I’ll be heading to Manchester to attend. Ken did a quick video on how the conference came to be here:

Ken McCarthy – Marc Attwood Conference in ManChester, England

Greetings from Ben Moskel @ The System Seminar Intensive 2009

Sunday, October 4th, 2009
Ben Moskel at The System Seminar

Ben Moskel at The System Seminar

I just returned from my journeys abroad and cannot wait to share the experiences and marketing lessons with you.

This year I presented at The System Intensive, the longest running Internet Marketing Seminars in the World. Ken McCarthy, a friend and mentor, invited me to give a one hour presentation on Affiliate Marketing.

Download my Power Point Presentation Here

I must confess that I had not planned on making the trip to London. To do so meant that my wife and I had to cut short our Italian vacation.

Plus, getting to London was no easy task. It meant that we had to leave the tiny 12 mile Island of Capri the day before the seminar to make it in time for my presentation. We took no less than 5 different modes of transportation to make it there on time including a bus, a boat, car, airplane, and several trains.

However, we ultimately arrived late into London, exhausted, but just in time to get 4 hours of sleep before the next morning’s presentation.

Let me tell you it was worth the effort.

The presentation was much appreciated by the audience which included business owners, multi-millionaires, and individuals considered to be pioneers in the online marketing circles. I decided to speak about my story, how I got my start, who we work with, and the most important advice I would give to somebody getting their start with an affiliate website.

After the event we all had dinner which went late into the evening with conversation about business, the Internet, and our goals for the next few months. I met some really interesting people including Mike Mindel, the creator of Word Tracker. I also met Marc Attwood. Marc took a break even business and used his websites to turn it into an 8-figure per year business (this means his business makes more than 10 million dollars per year).

I also got to spend more time with Greg Davis, an affiliate marketer in a league of his own. (Greg makes about $50,000 per day from his affiliate websites). Greg shared with me his latest websites and the product he believes is going to be the next big affiliate product.

Overall, it was well worth the trip. I took home some new marketing lessons and newfound inspiration. Specifically, I learned that you should always pursue information and knowledge with great enthusiasm. Had I been lazy, and not made the effort to attend the seminar, I would missed out on invaluable networking, public speaking experience, and marketing secrets (which I intend to share with you during the coming weeks and months).

Any successful entrepreneur will tell you the value in seeking knowledge. That is why any efforts to educate yourself by way of books, seminars, conversations, experiences, and mentorship, ALWAYS pays dividends.

The old saying: “You don’t know what you don’t know” is especially true with affiliate marketing.
Here’s to pursuing knowledge and achieving success.

-Ben Moskel