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Planet Wealth have had another great month across their portfolio for the month of  May. For a brief look at the months Trading Results please watch this video from John Howell.

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Remember: Planet Wealth allows you to change your subscription to any other strategy at any time, without penalty or cost, should you decide another strategy is more suitable for your risk profile.

The AllOrds and the S&P500 were both up again for the month of May and the trend to date seems to be continuing through to June. We may have seen the worst of it but we are still not convinced the global economy is out of the recession. However, we believe with our portfolio approach to risk and diversification amongst strategies we will see some good profits. That strength of diversification is starting to demonstrate itself with the results we are strating to see and we think that some of the losses from 2008 will start to be recouped over the coming months.

Collars: Renting AU Shares

A solid month for Renting AU Shares and Renting US Stocks.

We achieved 7% return for the month and all up we are showing a Cumulative Gross Return of $9,700 or almost 14% return on our total capital.

Our portfolio in the US has recovered from some of the earlier losses and for the month of June we achieved a return of almost 4%. We are getting closer to break-even, and looking forward to catching up over the coming months.

Refer to the detailed spreadsheets for further information.

Option Spreads

As mentioned, we were taken by surprise by the resilience of the financial sector in April, which resulted in our account being down slightly overall. The biggest surprise was CBA, however we stuck to our view and rolled that trade to May and ended up breaking even on that trade. We have a couple of nice trades on for June and expect this account to recover quickly.

Share Purchase Plans

There is plenty of action in the area of SPPs at the moment. One small realised profit for May with a ROI of 7% but plenty of potential for June.

Remember the subscription to SPP’s is FREE if you join the HC Securities AutoTrader service. We use A$20,000 so that we can participate in several trades at a time, but you only need a few thousand to participate in one. That makes this a great, low risk, high return portfolio – even for those with small banks.

E-mini Live Trading Room & E-mini Trading Diary – in Pre-launch!

We are close to launching the E-Mini Live Trading Room and Trading Diary, which will give members the opportunity to participate in this potentially very lucrative and profitable strategy. For those of you who don’t know, John Howell successfully trades the S&P 500 E-Mini every night, and actually makes the bulk of his income from doing so. His results are very impressive, with recent returns of over 450% achieved from Jan 2008 to the present. We have made available a lot of free information to those that are interested – just click on this link to sign up to the VIP list now!

To find out more please go to our website at www.planetwealth.co.uk and go to the Trading Results page.

Today I want to talk about a really important resource that I have been using that has seriously helped me to fine tune my Internet Marketing skills. It’s an AFFILIATE MARKETING BOOK by Sean Rasmussen, called Year Of The Affiliate. Many of us know Sean and how successful he has become from Internet Marketing in Australia and so I want to really focus on what Year Of The Affiliate can do for you. To start with, have a look at this video that I recently made. It was just a bit of fun as I was playing around with my camera and iDVD software, but it came out quite well and is a great introduction to the book.

As an Affiliate Marketing Book, Year Of the Affiliate is such a great read. It explains in laymans terms, exactly what you need to be focusing on when getting started in affiliate marketing. Some of the topics covered are things like:

  • Where to find products that sell
  • Do you need a website
  • Social Media
  • Networking
  • Keywords
  • Search Engine Optimization

…and a whole host of other topics.

When I first started affiliate marketing about 2 years ago, I was getting nowhere fast! I couldn’t drive traffic to my site, I was losing A LOT of money on Google Adwords Campaigns and the clicks that I were getting, simply weren’t converting to sales.

Please excuse me if this blog post looks like a deliberate attempt at directly selling of a product. I guess in a way it is, but I actually have an alterior motive. What I really want to show you is:

1. How to optimize a post or article, to increase your chances of getting a sale. Have a look at the layout that I have used and what I have done to help the search engine spiders find my article. I’ve used my keyords in the title, I’ve repeated the keywords throughout the post and made them stand out in bold and italic. I’ve used links, bullet points, video’s and images. All of these strategies need to be used in every single post that you write. OK maybe not all of them each time, but the more the better.

2. Why this book is so affective?by looking at what I have done in question 1, hopefully you will see how it can help you to be making money online - FAST.

And if you still need more proof, then check out these results. Recently, I wasn’t even ranked in Google in the top 200, for the search term Wealth Academy. Now I have the top 4 listings in Google out of 323,000 search items.

google-seach-for-wealth-academy

So there you have it. As they say the proof is in the pudding and I hope this shows how you can be achieving the same results if you follow the correct strategies. From my point of view, Year of the affiliate is an absolute must. Get your copy today and then go to my free forum to become a member and get online support.

Click here if you would like to download  YEAR OF THE AFFILIATE

AND

Click here to sign up for FREE membership and support at the WEALTH ACADEMY

Many thanks and I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Yours sincerely,

Stuart Ginbey

Have you submitted your site to the relevant Search Engines? Once you have a website or blog set up, it is important to make it easy for the search engines to discover. One way of doing this is by Search Engine Submission and it’s important to do this as soon as possible. The reason I say this is because it can take up to 8 weeks for the submission to be approved. There are also quite a few search engines these days so it is important to think about your target audience. By this I mean whether it is geographically targeted. If you have a product or website that is only relevant to  a UK audience then you might want to look at submitting your site to local directories like google.co.uk or yahoo.co.uk. You can even go one step further by submitting your site to search engines in your area (like somersetsearch or netlondon).

Here is a quick look at some of the most popular Search Engine Submission directories.

google90.11% of Global Internet Searches

Google has a well deserved reputation as ‘THE’ Search Engine of choice by most people on the net. There are many reasons for this, which range from it’s stability and relevancy of it’s crawler-type searches, to it’s features and applications which make it a joy to use.

5.77% of Global Internet Searches

Launched in 1994, Yahoo is considered one of the ‘oldest’ Directories on the web today. There are two main fetures that we wolud like to bring to your attention regarding Yahoo. These are:

Yahoo Search-http://search.yahoo.com/

This is a FREE listing where you can submit your site to Yahoo. You can also setup RSS Feeds so that new content is automatically submitted. All sites will require authorization by either uploading a file to your server or adding a ‘META NAME’ to the Header Template in your Appearance Editor Script (wordpress.org).

Yahoo Directory-http://dir.yahoo.com/

This is a PAID subscription to the Yahoo Directory and is highly regarded throughout the Professional Internet Marketing World..

1.48% of Global Internet Searches

Live Search, formally known as Windows Live Search is Microsofts Search Engine designed to compete in the major league against Google and Yahoo.

Some other popular directory’s to submit to:

All The Web

AOL

HotBot

Altavista

Gigablast

Looksmart

Lycos

Netscape

DMOZ

So what you need to do now is go and submit your Site URL (Domain Name) to each and everyone of these Directories. This will make your site more visible and by using your Search Engine Submission, will Increase it’s ‘Spiderability’.

bloggingNow that you have found a product that relates to your chosen topic, it is time to start spreading the word and begin promoting your affiliate link. There are many different ways that this can be done.  Some of these methods range from adding it to an email signature or email marketing, to article submissions and blogging about your chosen topic. This last strategy is the one that we want to focus on today and to get started, most people will look towards a FREE BLOGGING PLATFORM.

UWCblog.com

www.uwcblog.com is the brainchild of Sean Rasmussen from Webvision 2020. Together with Shaun Stenning they have formed an alliance and created Smart Online Profit Systems. They are amoungst Australia’ leading Internet Marketers and love to give things away for free so please check this out. On top of that, it is a great platform for SEO purposes and specifically targets traffic for wealth creation and affiliate marketing.

Wordpress.com

www.wordpress.com is another favorite of ours. Although we do prefer the host your own www.wordpress.org as it has more functionality, the .com FREE BLOGGING PLATFORM is certainly a great place to start. It is easy to use and offers a detailed support forum where practically all of your questions can be answered. It also has some pretty funky themes and plugins that allow you to get creative and produce an interesting and attractive blog that will help to keep people coming back for more.

Blogger.com

www.blogger.com is owned by Google and is very easy to setup and use. We also like the functionality it offers with the other Googles applications, like GoogleReader and Google Blog Search.

As we mentioned earlier, their are many different types of FREE BLOGGING PLATFORMS that are available to help you get started straight away. We have chosen the 3 platforms mentioned above as our favorites because of their ease of use and also SEO capabilities. Having said that, there are many more available and some of these should not be ruled out either. Take a look at : Facebook, Ecademy, MySpace, LiveJournal and StumbleUpon and you might find that they are more suited to your needs.

Yours sincerely,

Stuart Ginbey

Download “Year Of The Affiliate” today.


So you want to get started in Affiliate Marketing. Well let me start by saying that at every stage of the journey, the choice is always up to you. You can do it the hard way and try to do learn by yourself or you can make it easier and start by reading something like Year of the Affiliate by Sean Rasmussen.As I’m sure you know, the internet is an absolute abyss when it comes to the amount of knowledge that is available. This obviously has two sides. It means that you can always find the information that you need, but it also means that it is pretty easy to get inundated with information and lose your way pretty quickly. It’s important to stay focused at all times and have a plan on how you are going to promote your Internet Marketing.

So the best place to start is with research. Think about what you are passionate about. This is very important as it will become evident in your blogs and online articles. Once you have decided on what you are passionate about, think about what types of products would be associated with your passion. Work out who will be your main competition and perhaps find a niche market to target. Once you have worked out a strategy have a look at some of the following sites where you will be able to find products and start earning a commission in a matter of days. All of these sites are free to join and should cover just about every product that you would ever need to sell online.

Here is our Top 5 Affiliate Program Directories

Commission Junction

Commission Junction is one of the most popular sites on the internet for affiliate programs. Its free to join and sells just about any product you would ever want to sell online.

Amazon

Amazon is a fantastic site for affiliates. There is practically nothing you wont find for sale in Amazon. They offer direct links to Amazon pages, Astores that you you can incorporate into your website and a whole world of product links and banners. Most important of all is that they have a brand name and reputation that people trust.

Clickbank

Clickbank is on a par with Commission Junction in terms of popularity however they mainly focus on ‘e products’ like books and audio.

Tradedoubler

Tradedoubler is a fantastic UK based affiliate directory that supports a lot of the major brand affiliate programs and still maintains a good commission rate.

Affiliate Window

Affiliate Window is very similar Tradedoubler and is another great site for finding the products that you need.

There is literally thousands of online affiliate programs that will cover most of the products you will ever need to succeed online. Simply do a Google Search and choose something that you are passionate about.

And remember, if you want to save your self a rediculous amount of time and effort then you must have a look at Year Of the Affiliate.



yearoftheaffiliateAffiliate Marketing is quite simply the ‘Real Estate’ of the future. Untouched by the Global Recession, Internet Marketing is now largely recognized as a way to subsidize your income and even replace it. It doesn’t take any capital to get started (well, very little) and you don’t have to put up with tenants, fluctuating markets, etc. Most importantly, once your set up, it works for you 24/7 with an entire world as your client base. Children as young as 8 and 10 yrs old are submitting video’s, writing blogs and networking on a global scale. 60,70 and 80 year old are doing the same. As well as everyone in between. Here lie’s the information age and it’s Affiliate Marketing that’s creating quit a storm. Simply put, Affiliate Marketing is where you get paid a commission for any leads that you generate which then convert into a sale. It has become a massive industry and one that can be difficult to navigate in order to be successful. That’s why Sean Rasmussen came up with “Year of the Affiliate“. Not only will it save you time by giving you a procedure to follow, but it will also save you money. And quite possibly lots of it! To check it out, CLICK HERE and we can get you started with your Affiliate Marketing Future.

In this book, Sean Rasmussen breaks down step by step, how to be successful at Affiliate Marketing.

Here’s just a few of the things that you will learn:

  • How to find products that sell,
  • Social media
  • Networking
  • How to sell your products with or without a website
  • Why the internet is the real-estate of the future
  • Blogging
  • Web 2.0
  • How to build effective links

And much, much more…..

Even if you have already started in the world of Internet Marketing, then this book will help you to be streamlined and focused, to ensure you get results straight away. I can’t recommend this book enough. If 2008 was the ‘Year of the Affiliate‘ then this is the year for you.


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