So, you think you know how to sell affiliate products?

For years, it's been one of the most popular and most useful guides to selling affiliate products available.

Not only best of breed, but free.

And now ... there is a new kid on the block that simply knocks its socks off.

What am I talking about? Ken Evoy's Affiliate Masters course. On both counts.

Ken has just released a complete update to the 'master' guide, and it's an eye-opener.

I cut my teeth on the original back when it was only available as a 10-day email course. I hadn't looked at it for quite a while, but I thought it had held its age really well in this fast-moving Internet marketing world.

Sure, there have been technical advances of all sorts in the four or five years that have passed, but the course is rooted in principles.

And principles never change.

How often do you hear the successful people in any field say they are that way because they mastered the basics... and then just kept repeating them.

Frills come and go, principles go on forever.

Well, it looks as though Ken has mastered that one, too.

If you are atempting to sell affiliate products of any sort, go grab a copy of the new Affiliate Masters course ebook now and see what I mean. (And yes, it is still free!)

Have You Learned How to Milk the Net?

Marlon Sanders has created a low-volume roar on the Net these last couple of weeks with the re-launch of his Milcers site.

(No, I didn't get it either - which is probably why he keeps putting (pronounced 'milkers') in brackets all the time.)

Anyway, this week his new Milcers Private Site skyrocketed, virtually overnight, to position 3,526 out of more than 5 MILLION websites ranked by Alexa!

What makes this so exciting is the that the Site had only been in Pre-Launch mode for LESS than 24 hours when it happened.

I think that's testament to the genuine skills of the man.

And the key to that is that Marlon is one of the few who has bothered to create - and then package - what he does into a system.

And the older I get, the more I believe that without a system, every one of us is beating our heads against a hard and jagged wall.

So much of the 'training' available for Internet marketing is a tip, or a technique, or poke or a prod, all of which adds up to cheesecloth that doesn't hold water.

And is one of the reasons so many people waste their lives running around in circles, working hard, but getting nowhere in their drive to build a profitable home based business.

With the wisdom of hindsight, $1000 spent years ago on something like Marlon's Clockwork system or Dashboard (had they been available) would have been the cheapest education going.

The businesses would have been built. On solid foundations, systematized, and - holy grail - auto-pilot. Instead of still chasing loose ends, patching poor original designs, and generally working much harder than necessary.

I haven't seen inside the Milcers site - heck, I'm not even one of the 1673 people on the priveleged pre-launch list!

But if you're struggling, if you're a piecemeal junkie, or someone with your eye on the future of your online home-based business, take the time to have a look at what Marlon is offering at the Milcers site.

If you can get in, you just might find yourself saving years.

Time to Ban Firefox

There's been a lot of huffing and puffing to promote Firefox as the 'browser of choice' over the past few months. But that may be about to end.

The impetus was a general dissatisfaction with Internet Explorer. Both a perceived 'anything Microsoft is bad' and the 'sitting duck' syndrome - as the dominant browser, every self-styled hacker found it a wonderful target for security 'games'.

I installed it and found some very useful extensions that made light work of some of the Internet marketing drudgery. However, it had a few shortcomings that kept me going back to Maxthon.

Now, it seems, the techies that drive Firefox have put themselves on a direct collision course with marketers.

The Firefox site has published code that will enable any user to block the ads that are the lifeblood of our Internet home businesses.

Not only the spammy ad equivalent, but banners and graphics issued by legitimate and honorable enterprises. Even Google Adwords.

Check it out here: http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/adblock

After you go through that lot, you might just start your own anti-Firefox campaign!

Quality Rising

I don't know whether it's just me, but lately I've been taken with the quality of a lot of the new products streaming onto the market to help Internet marketers.

Not so long ago, a very large chunk of it was junk. Suspect purpose, and even more suspect code. Unless you paid big bucks and went for enterprise-class stuff, you were generally throwing your money - and perhaps more important, your time - down the drain.

The current crop, though, seems to be much better thought out. Sure, there's still some rubbish and a lot of 'me-toos', but a wide variety of tasks that were boring and meaningless - but effective - have now been automated.

They not only take the drudgery out of your day, but they make the bottom-line results more predictable and more polished.

And the lateral thinking that is emerging has to be better for the entire Net economy - suppliers and consumers.

A part of this may be due to the networking that goes on at some of the more exclusive seminars and forums. People whose names you may never have heard of before are flying up the earnings chart, well under the radar, and are not only making new discoveries, but are actually sharing their discoveries.

Very heart-warming! Long may it continue.