ContentPress Review – Attack Of The Autoblog

Posted on June 27, 2020 by jr

Hey There! Its been a while since I’ve posted mainly due to this ContentPress Review. I had to check out the software to make sure it was even worth reviewing and seeing as I’m posting this you should know that it is. There’s a lot to talk about so lets dive right in.

So, what is ContentPress?

By this point you’re probably wondering what the heck ContentPress even is. Well the short description would be that it’s a content generating plugin for WordPress. This likely leaves you puzzled right? I’ll go into detail a little bit so that you can actually get what’s cool about this software. The first thing about it, is that it allows you to search it’s database for article post that you can use on your blog. Just doing a search for affiliate marketing netted me 80 posts. This is where the magic begins. ContentPress then allows you to make these posts even more unique by spinning the content. After this you can schedule the post, and like clockwork ContentPress will drip your blog posts at the interval you selected.

What’s so good about that?

I had this reaction at first as well, until I let it run for a couple of day. If you select your niche correctly, this auto-generated content allows you to focus on other parts of the posts. You can tailor the SEO and wording. You can add pictures and fine tune the post to your liking. ContentPress honestly makes things that much easier, especially if you’re suffering from writers block. You can literally do a search for a topic in your niche, get ideas from that and write your own post, or spin the article and post that. ContentPress saves your most important resource, your TIME.

Are there other bells and whistles?

The answer to this is a resounding YES. This tool allows you to turn any of your articles into PDFs. If you’re looking to generate a guide or any kind of PDF type content to add to a lead magnet, ContentPress has you covered. Along with all of this, ContentPress also allows you to share to social media, and do 1-click indexing to Google. At this point you’re probably thinking this is just a sales pitch, and I understand where you’re coming from. There are some negatives about this product, and I’ll go into those shortly, in the Pros and Cons section of this post. First lets take a look at all the Pros.

The Pros

Content Generation and lots of it
Niche specific content
Unique content, made even more unique with the spin function
1 button posting from imported content searches
Autoblogging via scheduled posts
1-click indexing to Google
1-click linking to social media
Built-in PDF Generator
a HUGE time saver

The Cons

The software is fairly new so there’s bugs
There’s a bit of a learning curve with this product, it’s not much, but it’s definitely there
The articles aren’t always 100% good for SEO or readability (some need quite a bit of fixing)

My Final Thoughts.

At first I was really skeptical of this software, but over the last week or so of testing it, I’m impressed. It still needs work, but the developers have already released updates for it, which is a good sign. It comes with plenty of perks and is a real time saver. If you would like to see it in all it’s glory, the Audacious Autoblog is located at https://autoblog.audaciousaffiliates.com. I’ve got it running on an 80 day campaign, and in all honesty will likely keep it going until it runs out of content. At this point it’s become a ContentPress test case which in and of itself is priceless. If you would like to pick up ContentPress and check it out yourself feel free to use my affiliate link right ==>HERE<==. This is just one of many upcoming reviews as lately I’ve been testing out plenty of software, courses, and programs. Stay tuned for more content, and remember to be bold, be AUDACIOUS.

Marketing Without A Product

Posted on May 25, 2020 by jr

How Do You Start Marketing Without A Product?

Over the last couple of days I’ve learned something interesting and have decided to share it. Being new to the marketing game I’ve come to realize that I don’t have anything to actually market. This appears to be an issue that plagues most new comers to the game. Most online gurus will tell you how easy it is to start an online business, but rarely where to start, or the pitfalls you’ll run into along the way. These are a couple of things I’ve come across that I hope will help anyone who’s new, with some questions about where they can get started if they don’t already have something to sell. Hopefully this will help out with the topic of how you can start marketing without a product.

There’s got to be something.

As I continued to make my way through this One Funnel Away challenge, I came to a bit of a problem. I had begun to understand how to sell, but didn’t have a clue of what to sell. I knew I wanted to be an affiliate marketer, but I didn’t have anything to offer up front. So I did what any good newbie would do in this situation, and googled the heck out of the problem. This lead to a plethora of guru videos and blogs advising me to shoot a YouTube video collection of how to’s and reviews.

Let’s be honest people. There’s a reason I’m choosing to blog and not do YouTube videos. Don’t get me wrong, I plan to eventually venture out into that wasteland at some point, but I’m choosing to progress in a different fashion for now. I like blogging. I can put my ideas out through a blog, in a way that I can’t quite do yet in video. So while I work on that part of my short comings, I’d much rather focus on my blog as my outlet.

More Then Just A Bit of Camera Shyness.

This also leaves out the fact that, as a newbie you have to start building yourself up socially, you don’t just start with a following. I believe this is where most people start to slow down and some possibly quit. I just refused to let that happen, so I continued searching for options that would allow me to stay comfortably behind my computer screen, rather then yelling into my phone. Although the more I talk about it, I may actually have to do that after I post this.

After some pretty in depth searching I hit pay dirt. It turns out there are several ways to create offers around existing products, in the case of affiliate marketing. As an affiliate marketer, the product is already taken care of. In most cases the creators of that product even provide you with material to sell the product, like email templates, pictures, sales videos, and heck even already built funnels. All you really have to do is focus on getting customers to these pages.

At this point you’re probably thinking. Hey if everyone gets this stuff, won’t I look the same as everyone else? How will I compete? This is where crafting your offer comes into play. You stack other perks on top of what the customer will already be getting. You blow them away with value. I bet you’re thinking, doesn’t this take me back to square one? The answer is no, this actually gives you a lot of options for marketing without a product.

Time to stack some options.

So here’s some ways you can add some value to someones already existing product. In my case I picked a couple of really good, really old books. The good thing about really old books, is that they are public domain, which means they don’t have a copyright. There’s some really old gems out there, that are awesome for this, and the kicker is that their messages are just as relevant now, as they were back then. If you do this, make SURE the book is public domain. Scan the book, or if it’s downloaded check it for any errors. Add a nice E-cover to it, and you’re good to go. You just added value.

Don’t stop there. After you have a shiny new E-book, run that bad boy through a text to speech editor, and now you have an audio book to go with your E-book. Another value add. At this point you can always take the gurus advice and record some quick how to videos and make your own private course. Depending on who you’re selling to you could also create your own share funnel and provide that as some added value as well. To do this you’ll need Clickfunnels and if you want to see how it works check out this link here. If you click that link and already have click funnels it will automatically share the funnel to your account, and if you don’t it will give you a preview screen and give you the option to sign up for a 14 day free trial. Just to be transparent, if you sign up using that link, it will credit my affiliate account.

An Outside of The Box Idea For Marketing Without A Product.

At this point your brains are likely oozing out of your heads, but I still have a couple ways you can add value to your offers. Remember how I told you about public domain? Well this next process is similar. It’s called PLR and stands for Private Label Rights. These are products whose rights are for sale, or sometimes for free. So basically once you pay for or acquire the free product, whatever rights are being sold with it are now yours. Sometimes this is the right to resale, others it’s the complete rights to the product. This means that you can change, sell, give away, as well as other things. I could write a whole article about all the things you can do with PLR products but for now just know that it’s an option.

If you’re interested in PLR products and want to see what’s available as something you may want to use to add value to your offers, check out this affiliate link here. Some people frown upon using PLR products, but if you take some time to really make them shine (if that’s allowed in the licensing) they can actually be pretty good value adders.

If You Don’t Want To Create, Maybe Someone Else Can?

The last option for adding value is coming up with the idea and having someone else do it for you. Hiring someone through Upwork or Fiverr is always an option. So rather then you taking the time to create the added value you can have someone else do it for you and then pay them. Doing this could free up your time for working on other things, that suit you better than being a creative.

I hope you find this post helpful in learning how to start marketing without a product. It can be confusing when you’re just starting out and know nothing. Anyways it’s getting late, this post took longer to put together then I thought it would, so there will be 2 posts today. Have a wonderful night, I’ll catch you all a little later on today.

OFA Challenge Review: Are You Really Just One Funnel Away?

Posted on May 25, 2020 by jr

An Overview of The OFA Challenge.

The OFA Challenge, also known as the One Funnel Away Challenge is a program that has been setup by Clickfunnels to get customers acclimated to the system. It also gets them to create their first sales funnel and goes over the principles of creating that funnel. It doesn’t just cover funnel building, it also covers mindset, storytelling, and the process of creating an offer. Lets take a look into the different parts of the challenge, to get a better view of what it actually does.

A Challenge To Your Mindset.

The first thing this challenge takes on is the funnel builders mindset. The instructors of the course really go deep into how much mindset has to do with what holds people back in internet marketing. The main goal they have before going into anything further in the challenge is changing the participants mindset. They tell their own stories of starting out, and the hard times they went through when they were new to the game. By the end of the first part of the challenge participants should have a good understand of what can be achieved if you follow the blueprints laid out by the instructors.

A Challenge To Your Offer Building Skills.

Next the challenge moves on to what it takes to create an offer. It outlines how to create a good offer, by stacking value. This is where things get really interesting because it turns out most people have problems when trying to create and offer, let alone start stacking value. Plenty of ideas and information are thrown at you during this part of the challenge. Once completed though, participants should have a decent offer created, or at least a good idea of where to start with one.

A Challenge To Your Storytelling Game.

After learning how to create the perfect offer, students are tasked with learning how to tell the perfect story. In internet marketing, grabbing and keeping a customers attention is key to making the sale, and this portion of the challenge is all about learning how to do this. From learning what a hook is, to figuring out how best to use it, this part of the challenge floods attendees with info. After taking part in this bit of the challenge storytelling shouldn’t be a problem.

Finally A Challenge To Build A Funnel.

At this point the funnel building begins. Thankfully due to completing the previous steps, students should have a lot of what they need to create a good first funnel. The offer building skills that were learned allow for easy filling of the various steps of the funnel. The storytelling skills allow for putting together great sales copy. The mindset that is bestowed upon students at the beginning of the challenge allows them to know that this can be done. By the end of this section of the challenge, a complete sales funnel is ready to be unleashed upon the world.

A Challenge To Go Live.

The last portion of the challenge is learning about traffic. This subject is crucial as without traffic, nobody gets to the funnel. Several types of traffic are discussed, all of which a worth dozens of articles a piece. From displaying how to create ads, to discussing the use of social media, no traffic source is left out. Funnel audibles are also discussed in this section. This is the process of switching out parts of a funnel on the go, even during a launch if necessary. The Clickfunnels software allows for these types of quick maneuvers.

Was it worth it?

In short, yes. This course covers a ton, and for relatively cheap. The $100 entry fee is nothing compared to the content gained. All that this course covers could be sold for many times over that price, and often times is. Results may actually vary due to many reasons, but lack of education is not one. There were plenty of students that shouted about the income they were making just days after setting their funnels out into the wild.

The Pros.

There are plenty of benefits to this challenge. For one it helps in understanding the Clickfunnels software. There are a lot of things that can be confusing until seeing them covered in a video. The most helpful part of this challenge is the mindset portion. This really helps students to get their minds right before jumping in to a seriously challenging process. Without the right mindset, attendees fall off or completely out of the program. If a participant is new to marketing, this challenge is a great way to learn what it’s all about. It really gives an understanding of the psychology that goes into sales as well.

The Cons.

One downside of this challenge is that it’s a ton of information. It can be a bit overwhelming depending on the person. While the pacing is good, students with attention issues may get a bit impatient. That’s about it for the cons, this program is really well thought out, and is a very solid learning experience.

The Verdict On The OFA Challenge.

All in all, the OFA challenge is great. If you take it seriously, you only stand to gain from it. At the very least it will change your concept of internet marketing. It will challenge your current beliefs and show you what’s really possible. From changing your mindset, to teaching you how to stack an offer, and tell an epic story, this challenge will leave you in awe. It may seem like it’s too much to handle at times, but if you stick with it, it will prove that it’s definitely worth it. When it’s all said and done, this challenge has already left it’s mark, so it’s really up to you to decide whether it’s right for you. If you feel like you’re up for the challenge, you can follow this link here. That link will get you bonus access to the Audacious Affiliates marketing membership site.

The main thing to take away from this challenge is that you really are just One Funnel Away.

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A Brief Introduction

Posted on May 24, 2020 by jr

Hey There!

My name is Jr and you’ll be seeing a lot of me from now on. The reason… I made a promise and that’s something I’m serious about. I’m currently taking part in what’s known as the One Funnel Away challenge, and promised Russell that I would post here everyday for the next 365 days. In all honesty, I can see the benefit in doing this, and will likely continue after those 365 days are up. With this being my first post and all, I feel I owe you an introduction, so without further adieu.

I guess I’ll start with where I’m from.

So I was born and raised in Phoenix Arizona and I’ve remained here my entire life. It’s not bad considering it’s a desert. My parents were middle-class at best, and damn-near poor at worst, but I still had a great childhood. Lessons came fast and I learned the benefits of intelligence at an early age. My thirst for knowledge was insane and quickly turned me into what most would consider a “hustler”. I would try to sell anything to anyone. From yard sales to car washes, homemade barbecue sauce to a milkshake that made my older brother sick to his stomach. My desire for money was partly due to what most people now would consider a video game addiction, hell back then I think they considered it that too. The other part of my desire for money came and still comes from my desire to give my parents what I feel is the life they’ve always deserved. You see, due to money issues, we always had to move, or live in someone else’s house. We rented several places both apartments and houses, until finally my Dad was able to get us into a house of our own. Things were good for quite awhile, but then he got laid off. He was forced to take out payday loans and still was falling behind on house payments. He filed bankruptcy in an effort to keep the house, but then he got a call from someone who said they could help. They advised him to drop the bankruptcy, in order to seal some other deal on the house, and as soon as he did, the bank sold it out from under us. This crushed him and my Mom. This was the last straw for me and put me on a path that would change my life forever.

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

After the foreclosure, we bounced around from living with family to renting several times. During this time I picked up talent for Hip-Hop and even had my own group for a time. I also got into a party crew, then created my own party crew, and started promoting house parties. It was during this time that I nearly died 3 weekends in a row. This was the era in Phoenix where people seemed to enjoy shooting up house parties, since I don’t know, having a good time was just too boring for them. After the 3rd weekend of almost losing my life, I decided a change of occupation was in my best interest. Off to trade school I went with a promise of fortune in my future. I figured if I could get that 6 figure salary that I was told graduates get, that I’d be one step closer to getting my parents into a nice place, and really being able to take care of them. I wanted to be a programmer and the recruiter had sold me on getting into the Computer Networking and Information Technology department. It wasn’t until I was half way through, that I was told there would be no programming in this department. So what did I do? I finished my work for the IT classes early, so that I could go and study programming in the programming department. I managed to graduate valedictorian and had the highest GPA in my graduating class. Guess where I ended up for my first job out of college? Tech support. I was less than thrilled, but I hung in there, until I couldn’t hang in there anymore. From there I started trying to work my way up the corporate ladder one contract at a time. This also didn’t work out for me too well. The last contract job I had broke me, I felt useless and that my education was worthless. This was right around the age of 24, and I would spend the next 6 years stuck in that rut.

Tempered by fire.

6 years of nothingness. A complete void of depression and self loathing. It’s actually really hard to describe, but then something just happened. I had been studying every thing I could to find a way out of the funk that I was in. I read books on mindset, philosophy, and god knows what else. Then I just snapped. My Dad had lost his most recent job, because the employment program he was in said that he had out stayed his term or something. He went to go work at FedEx as a dock worker loading packages and I refused to let him do that by himself. 1 day. That’s all it took. That job damn near killed my Dad, and after I was yelled at for not stacking boxes correctly, that was it. I drove my heat stroked Father home, and started setting a course to a new job. I got back into tech support, in fact it was at that first job that I had left. I didn’t last there long, but it was much needed money. I kept jumping jobs, shooting for higher and higher pay, to the point where I’m at now. I’m able to take care of my parents. It’s still not the life I believe they deserve, but who says I’m finished. As I write this I’m embarking on a new journey. I don’t know where it will take me, but with what I’ve been through, I refuse to let anything break me again. The darkness I experienced, changed me on a level I didn’t think existed. So as I stated in the beginning of this, you’ll be seeing a lot of me from here on out. I’m not sure what I’ll be writing about, but I’ll be writing about something. Whether it’s where I’m at in the challenge, how I feel on any given day, or just the things that get to me. Here’s to the next 365 days and beyond.