written by Michael Kwan on May 22, 2013

When you take a look around the Internet marketing community, you’ll quickly learn that there is only a small percentage of gurus who are actually making a sizable amount of money while the majority continue to struggle. Some people may chalk it up to luck, but there is definitely more to it. The people who have found success have “figured it out” and the key is to really understand this “secret formula” for raking in the big money.

And that’s how Vick Strizheus has now come into the picture. His new product is called the Big Idea Mastermind and he wants to share his specific techniques with you for free. Let’s dive into today’s review and see what you can expect from Vick.

Over $700,000 in Under a Month

There are Internet moguls out there who are pulling in five or even six figures each month, but I doubt there are very many that are able to earn over $700,000 in under a month. But that is exactly what Vick was able to achieve not that long ago.

The strange thing is that he almost did it by accident. He was simply performing an experiment to see if this system would work — not unlike the “experiment” that John conducted to see if his blog could make a full-time income from part-time work and look at where John is today — and the results blew him away.

With zero marketing dollars and a modest mailing list of just 1,300 subscribers, Vick Strizheus generated $710,000 in 28 days. He posted up an introductory video where he briefly goes over this story, and then he encourages you to watch his free video series to see how can achieve the same kind of success by “doing the polar opposite of what everybody else is doing online.”

What’s in the Free Videos?

After you provide Vick with your email on the webpage above, you gain access to some free videos that describe his “secret formula.”

Vick starts out by going a little more in-depth about his story and why you should listen to what he has to say. My initial impression was that this was a lot of fluff and it was meant to “sell” you on his dot com lifestyle. We see him driving around town in a Ferrari and then he pulls up to a rather impressive-looking house. Thankfully, the first video then proceeds to have Vick dive into some real material.

Standing poolside, Vick proceeds to talk about his secret formula in more concrete terms. He doesn’t go into great detail, to be sure, but he does provide you with a quick overview of the three key components to his secret formula: vehicle, engine and fuel.

You can watch the video for yourself for further explanation (there are sadly no real video controls on the site, aside from being able to pause it by clicking on the video), but the crux of it is as follows: the vehicle is the offer that you want to promote, the engine is the system you’re going to use to promote that offer, and the fuel is getting traffic to your system. You need all three parts to work in unison in order to achieve any real success. And surprisingly, the fuel is not the hardest or most important part.

Get Ready for the Big Idea?

When I clicked through to watch Vick’s videos, I found that only the first video was immediately available to me. It seems that you need to sign up for his email updates and that’s how you gain access to the other videos over time. Video #2 should tell you “how to get money now” and video #3 describes “the biggest opportunity ever.” I’m not entirely sure what is the “big idea” and what is the real secret in his “secret formula,” but I suppose that’s why you need to sign up for this free video series to find out.

CLICK HERE TO LEARN ABOUT BIG IDEA MASTERMIND

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written by Michael Kwan on May 21, 2013

As you know, there are many different methods for monetizing your blog. While private advertising has the potential to bring in the most money, it can be quite the challenge to attract the right advertisers unless you are already a very large and well-known website. That’s why turning to a platform or marketplace can make a lot more sense.

What you’ll find, though, is that many of these platforms will specialize in only one kind of monetization. That is not the case with teliad, which serves as the subject for today’s review. Here is a platform that offers you several options to make money from the Internet, all under one convenient and potentially lucrative roof.

What Is Teliad?

The main idea behind teliad is to connect the right ad buyers with the right ad sellers. You have a blog that you want to monetize and teliad gives you the platform to get in front of a large number of advertisers.

The good news here for blog owners is that they don’t have to stress out about page views, click-thru rates or conversion rates. This is because all the advertising sold through teliad is on a flat fee basis. The advertiser pays one price, regardless of the relative performance of the ad. That’s why teliad says it is “this easy to earn consistent income” when you “register yoru blog on our marketplace.”

Text Links, Post Links, Blog Posts and Presell Pages

As far as blog marketing, teliad allows you to monetize your blog with four different types of advertising: text links, post links, blog posts and presell pages.

These all get listed in the marketplace for the the advertisers to peruse. The offers include all sorts of pertinent details — which you provide as the ad seller — like the language, PageRank, Alexa rank, description, number of external links, age of domain, relevant keywords and so on.

For the text links, you can choose the placement location (header, sidebar, footer, etc) and this is indicated in the offer. A post link can utilize existing text or new text in an existing blog post, hyperlinking that anchor text to the advertiser’s URL. A paid blog post is what you’d expect it to be, adhering to the advertiser’s instructions, whereas a presell page has a “fixed position in the website structure of the domain.” This calls for a higher price. Remember that this entire process, for both ad buyers and sellers, is done manually.

How Much Money Can I Make?

As with everything else that has to do with running a blog, the amount of money that you can make through teliad is going to vary quite widely. If you already have a reasonably popular website, you have a higher potential to earn more money. You can set your own price, but there is a price calculator to help you determine what should be fair market value.

For perspective, I used the tool to see what would be the “automatically determined average price” for a couple different ads on a few sites. A sidebar text link on DotComPho.com, for instance, came up as just $11. By comparison, a blog post on Beyond the Rhetoric was calculated to be $76. The same blog post on JohnChow.com would be $148.

Interestingly, when I tried to get the estimated price for a text link on JohnChow.com, instead of getting an actual estimate, I got this message:

We have determined that your URL has a very high quality. Your site has e.g. an above-average RankingScore (Google.com) of 640.49.
A fair market price for this offer is very individual and can hardly be determined automatically. The price can vary from 85.- US$ to theoretically some hundred US$

A Money-Making Marketplace

There will always be some concern about getting punished by Google for selling backlinks, but because the entire process with teliad is manual and the links are designed to be as relevant and natural as possible, this risk is minimized. Furthermore, because of the different types of offers available, teliad can prove to be a valuable tool for bloggers who want to make more money from their sites.

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