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I have purchased and used PPC Kahuna, PPC Classroom 2.0, and Commission Blueprint now over the last 6 Months and have tested all 3.  The most recent being PPC Kahuna, the new PPC membership site by the creators of Traffic Kahuna.

I was coaxed into trying PPC Kahuna after I posted a few comments about my negative experience with Traffic Kahuna on the Warrior Forum.  I was offered a Free One Month Trial of PPC Kahuna to see how it stacked up against PPC Classroom and Commission Blueprint.  I am a current member of PPC Classroom and have been one since October 2008.  I purchased Commission Blueprint when it was first released and I value both programs and think they are very complimentary to each other.  I will get into the specifics shortly.

I didn’t like Traffic Kahuna, the much heralded traffic and SEO generating program.  I didn’t like it because it didn’t have a lot of automation to it.  It was very expensive for a monthly “limited” membership and I felt that members of that service were being ripped off.  I still think SENuke is the single best SEO and traffic generating software membership package you can buy, bar none, but I digress.  Let’s talk about PPC Kahuna.

I wasn’t thrilled with trying PPC Kahuna initially, based on my above stated experience with Jason Katzenback’s Traffic Kahuna.  Jason convinced me to try PPC Kahuna and asked me to write an unbiased review on it.  I decided to take it a step further and compare it to a few other PPC Tools that I value.

As I said previously, I have been an active member of PPC Classroom since it released it’s 2.0 version in October.  PPC Classroom has a few keyword tools and some nice bonuses which include a One Month Free trial of Speed PPC, which is an must have program if you are serious about getting into Pay Per Click Advertising.  The membership is an actual series of classes with tests at the end of each module.  After you finish the classes, the main reason to stay with the membership is the continual Webinars and Case Studies which showcase multiple techniques for using not just Google Adwords, but other Pay Per Click Services as well.  The PPC instruction is fairly basic, but it needs to be if it is catering to everyone.  The benefits lie in the added and very constant webinars and case studies as I mentioned previously.  As with all of the programs listed here, this one focuses primarily on making money via PPC with Clickbank.

Commission Blueprint is a value added PPC instructional tool.  It is a little more advanced and not a program for complete novices.  It teaches a single technique for making money with PPC and Clickbank.  It is very well structured and it is laid out in a very organized manner.  This was the first PPC instrucitonal program I had ever purchased and I had some immediate success with the technique.  I wrote a few reviews here about it.  I still use quite a bit of the technique I learned with Commission Blueprint, but it has morphed with other things I have learned since.  The main thing to recognize with Commission Blueprint is that you will pay one price for this product.  No monthly fee is required and it is a great and highly recommended PPC product.  It also provided me with a technique for building Landing Sites that I still use.  The reason I say Landing Sites as opposed to Landing Pages, is because I believe Landing Sites are the only way to have real success with PPC versus just having a few Landing Pages.

PPC Kahuna on the other hand does focus on creating Landing Sites, which is the first thing that caught my eye when I began going through the material.  The videos are very well done and I believe they have even gone back and redone a few of the videos to make them better.  Much like Commission Blueprint, PPC Kahuna has a very specific technique they teach in their training modules for doing PPC (again) with Clickbank products.  It is a very solid technique, but that is not the strength of PPC Kahuna.  The strength of PPC Kahuna lies in the base PPC Kahuna keyword research software.  The software will help you immediately find if specific keywords are profitable ones by telling you their click to conversion ratio.  This is a monsterous help when doing PPC.  Commission Blueprint has something like this, called Market Samurai, but you have to pay extra for it.  Market Samurai and PPC Kahuna’s keyword software are very much alike, the main difference being that with PPC Kahuna, you have to pay a monthly fee to keep using it and Market Samurai, you pay once and it is yours.  PPC Classroom has a few keyword research tools they promote, like Traffic Travis and Hexatrack, but you have to buy these tools separately.  PPC Kahuna also gives you Traffic Travis as part of the membership.  PPC Kahuna’s suite of tools is pretty impressive and I love the user friendly interface. 

Overall, when you compare the 3 programs, they all have their strengths and weaknesses.  As a complete beginner, PPC Classroom is where I would start with a month or two of the membership.  It depends how fast you digest the material.  If you are on a tight budget and want to see if you can take PPC to the next level, I would recommend buying Commission Blueprint/ Ad Grenade (which is a Speed PPC knockoff)/ and Market Samurai.  Ultimately though, if you want to take your PPC and Clickbank money making to the next level, you want all the tools and software in one location, and a solid technique for making money with PPC and Clickbank; PPC Kahuna is one of the best memberships for doing that. 

Even though I didn’t like Traffic Kahuna, I am a firm believer in PPC Kahuna.

It seems like every 5 minutes my Inbox gets hit with another PPC WebSpy affiliate promotion.  Usually when a product is overpromoted it burns out rather quickly and I ultimately ignore it.  After surfing the usual forums and talking to a few friends I decided to try it out to see what all the hype was about.

Is PPC WebSpy just another PPC Tool?  Yes and No.  For Affiliate Marketers it can be both a great tool and a great Viral Marketing tool, but it has some serious limitations.

First off, PPC WebSpy is a great tool for those of us who use Google Adwords to make money via our own websites and Affiliate Marketing.  With PPC WebSpy you can litterally “SPY” on the competition like never before.  You can see up to 100 Keywords that each advertiser is using in their current Adwords campaign (an invaluable tool) and you can tell if they are promoting products through Clickbank, Paydotcom, or Amazon and you can see what landing pages they are using.  It would be nice if we could also see their Conversion Rates and other data too, but you can’t do that with this tool.  All of these features are great for your own Adwords research, but you cannot get all of these features with the Free Standard edition of PPC WebSpy.  You still have some of the features, like being able to see 10 of the keywords Advertisers are using, but other than that you are fairly limited.

The Viral Marketing feature of PPC WebSpy is that Gold and Platinum users can add their Affiliate accounts to the program for Clickbank, Paydotcom, and Amazon and then when a user has PPC WebSpy active in their browser (you have to use FireFox to use PPC WebSpy) the first 2 positions in every Google Search they make will be products or services which have the Affiliate Link of the person they were referred by.  It all sounds good on paper, but in reality I don’t think this part of the program will yield a lot of results.  I read the testimonials on the site and I’m not buying they hype on the Viral aspects of the program, but it could have potential if you are marketing this to a ton of newbies who don’t mind clicking on your affiliate links for everything they search for.  I rather doubt that seasoned marketers will fall into this methodology, but I guess it might work if you have a solid newbie market to exploit.

Overall i do like this product and I purchased the full Platinum version.  I purchased it during the One Time Offer and was glad I did being that you will pay a full $50 more later if you don’t take the OTO.  It is listed at $97 on the OTO and $147 on the inside of the site in the upgrade section.

If you are an avid Affiliate Marketer and use Google Adwords quite a bit and want an edge on the competition, this is a great product for you.  i don’t suggest buying it strictly for the Viral Marketing aspects, but if you have a good market for this, then it might be a cash cow for you.

Update:  After talking to Brad Callen in the Warrior Forum yesterday (02/10/2009), he said that he agrees that the Viral aspects of the program are not what drives the program and he is minimizing those aspects and focusing on improving the PPC research aspects of the program.  He has just added the ability for Free Users to disable the Affiliate Links they see from their Upline if they want to.  Great work Brad.  This software just got a lot better!

For more information on PPC WebSpy, click the link here: PPC WebSpy.

There are a lot of Google Adwords hawking Internet Marketing Products on the web and this is definitely not Black Hat by any means, but if you wanted a seriously Plug N’ Play program for making money, then this is the one.  CopyNProfit. 

I purchased this product a short while ago and while I did not get the One Time Offer, the main program was more than enough.  What is CopyNProfit?  It is simply 20+ Adwords Campaigns and Article Marketing Campaigns built, fine tuned, and then handed to you to use.  You can litterally start making money from each campaign right away if you already have an Adwords account.  I also suggest using the Free Google Adwords Editor with this program will make it easy to build your campaigns in minutes versus hours.

Inside the members area there are videos which show you how to succeed with each campaign.  Plus, each campaign is rated by how much traffic the keywords receive, the conversion rate, and how expensive the keywords are.  You then get your campaign laid out to you with specifics on all Adwords campaign settings, keyword groups, bid amounts, and fine tuning.

This program made me money almost instanly as I have included it in with my Commission Blueprint strategy.  The only thing it is lacking is a landing page generator.  But, this is where they recommend using articles for landing pages via Blogger, EzineArticles, and GoArticles.  They even show you in their videos how to maximize your Blogger landing pages for increased sales.  Each campaign also comes with specific do’s and don’t for making the most money.

Multiple Niches are included and most of the products promoted are through Clickbank, but not all.  Overall a very solid product which is actually what it says.  A copy and paste method for making fast money.

For more information on CopyNProfit, click the link here.

Missed out on Commission Blueprint 2 via the short one week launch?  Now for a limited time you can get both Commission Blueprint 1 and 2 for one low price via the original CB 1.0 site.  Take a look at the reviews here and if you decide to buy, you can get my huge $2500 Bonus Package if you buy through any link on this site.  You don’t have to do anything, it is all automatic!  Check out the reviews below now.

This Review goes over the original Commission Blueprint (Version 1).  If you are looking for information on Commission Blueprint 2, go to the bottom of this article.

As promised, I have completed my 1 Month evaluation of the Commission Blueprint Make Money with Clickbank and Google Adwords Program.  The first thing to understand is that this program is not for beginners.  As I worked through the methods taught in this course I realized 2 things.  Commission Blueprint is not for a Google Adwords PPC novice and to do this program you will have to be prepared to spend money.  Pay Per Click (PPC) is a spend money to make money enterprise.  Steve Clayton, the creator of Commission Blueprint recommends that for each campaign you create, you should budget at least $500.  That is a lot of money for a novice.  I budgeted $200 for my tests, but I will get into that in a minute.

If you are a novice and want to get into PPC with Google Adwords, I recommend buying the Adwords Miracle course.  It was written in 2007 and recently updated, but is the essential guide for learning the ins and outs of how to make money with and use all of the tools provided with Google Adwords.  Commission Blueprint is a program on how to make money with Google Adwords, but it teaches a specific and advanced series of techniques which for the beginner might be overwhelming.  Plus, I don’t want to set any newbie up for failure because they didn’t undersand the complexity of Steve’s technique.

If you are an Affiliate Marketer and you are not using PPC to make money than you are really missing out.  Commission Blueprint has shown me the light, but I did have to spend a little cash up front to make it happen. Here’s what I did:

The first thing Steve talks about is how to select the right Clickbank products to advertise with PPC on Adwords.  Steve lays out his process for finding products that with give you not only the best chance for success, but also the best chance at not losing money right from the start.  Clickbank Affiliate Programs are picked based on their actual payout for afiliates and their overall gravity (see Clickbank for details on Gravity).  You receive an Excel spreadsheet with a formula already embeded which shows you if you can make money from the programs you select.  All you have to do is import the information from Clickbank and BAM, you know if a program has profit potential.  I selected 5 Programs from Clickbank that looked good and then I started my keyword and SEO research.

SEO and Keyword Research is critical in this program, but Steve once again provides a great spreadsheet for importing a few critical values in that will help determine what keywords have potential for converting for your Clickbank programs.  I used the free Traffic Travis SEO and PPC analytics tool for most of this research, but I also used the free Google Adwords Keyword tool to obtain more information on the highest traffic’d keywords for each of my programs.  Commission Blueprint recommends that you only use 10-20 high payoff keywords to start your Adwords campaign, so I identified between 10 and 20 for each of my 5 programs. 

The big thing with this process is that keyword conversion tracking really comes into play and you have to be able to separate each keyword into its own ad group with its own ad.  After working through around 4-5 keywords and burning the better part of 2 hours, i decided enough is enough and broke down and bought Speed PPC.  Steve Clayton recommends it in his program, but I thought I could get away without using it.  The answer is no way.  In fact, I could write a review on Speed PPC by itself.  I had seen tons of ads for it in the past, but never really realized what the program did until it was described in Commission Blueprint.  Speed PPC will literally create all of your ads, the ad tracking, the keyword groups, campaigns, landing pages, and more and do it for you in 15 minutes for as many keywords as you want to use.  I always wondered why it cost so much (between $397 and $497) and now I can see why. The Pro version is incredible and it works with 12 different Pay Per Click engines, not just Google Adwords.  You can setup all of your campaigns and then blast them into Yahoo, Microsoft AdCenter, Miva, Looksmart, etc. in just a few minutes.  The bottom line is this, if you are doing PPC and want to make money fast, you have to use Speed PPC. 

I know I went off on a tangent there, but it really is must have software and they have tutorials on how to use everything which helps alot.  Anyway, on to my test.  After using Steve’s spreadsheet and picking my keywords for each Campaign for my 5 Clickbank Affiliate Programs, I pumped the info into Speed PPC and generated my 5 campaigns (you also use the free Google Adwords Editor in this process) in Google Adwords.  I set my daily limits, but overall I didn’t want to spend more than $200 per campaign during this test. So you can see what I mean about having to spend money to make money here.

I didn’t start my campaigns until I had created all of my landing pages.  This was a process in itself, which is also detailed pretty well in the program.  The thing that is stressed here is creating landing pages that will garner a high Google Quality Score.  If your ads, keywords, and landing pages do not relate to each other properly (in Google’s eyes), you will not get a good Quality Score and this will affect your PPC cost per click amount.  You can litterally go from paying $.05 a click to $5 a click if your Quality Score isn’t any good.  There are a lot of things that factor into this, but Steve Clayton goes over this nicely in the program.  After spending 4 days building landing pages, I finally felt that my setup was good and my ads were ready to be activated. 

After 5 days I had acumulated a decent amount of data and stopped one of my programs outright.  I had spent around $85 with no sales and the bounce rate on my sites versus clickthroughs on my Clickbank affiliate link did not equate to spending anymore money on that particular program.  This is where the conversion tracking that Speed PPC and Steve’s keyword tracking system really come into play.  If you don’t know what keywords are converting into sales, you don’t know how to take advantage of it, or in this case, stop it. 

The 4 additional campaigns continued running and I found that after 7 full days I had spent $378 on all the programs combined in PPC costs (this does not include the program I dropped). In Clickbank, using the tracking methods Steve provided, I found several keywords for each program had generated sales, but one program was really not performing well.  I had made just 2 sales, but my costs equaled the profits, so I decided to drop this Clickbank product as well.

So here I was with 3 products remaining and I had made $922 in sales total from all of the Affiliate Programs I had started.  Not too bad for a week, but I had spent $463 total in this test, bringing my total profit to $459.  Using the techniques provided by Steve, I now expanded on the keywords that worked for me and converted well (again, the program has a way to calculate this effectively so you know what is working and what isn’t). 

Now, after doing all of this for 4 continuous weeks and continually checking ads, making small changes here and there and scaling the process; I have made a total of $6833 in sales.  I have paid $2545 in Google Adwords pay per click costs.  This brings my overall profit to $4288 in one month of using this program.  It is key to note that I also paid $97 for Commission Blueprint and $497 for Speed PPC, so I guess you could say my profit was a little less. 

The bottom line is this, Commission Blueprint works and it works great, but you will spend money on this program and oyu might even lose a little at first.  It is important to note that this is not for beginners and you should not rush into using the technique in this program without studying it all th way through and not jumping into it without finishing the entire course twice.  It is excellent in every way, but you have to be carefull not to jump in too quick.

For more information on Commission Blueprint, click here.

For Information on the New Commission Blueprint 2, See My Review here:  http://www.blackhatsoftware.net/make_money/commission-blueprint-2-review-an-affiliate-marketing-masterpiece/

If you thought that you missed the opportunity to get the new Commission Blueprint 2 product package, well you are in luck.  I received an email from Clickbank last night saying that Commission Blueprint 2 will be offered through the Commission Blueprint Version 1 site for an undetermined amount of time.  Here’s the kicker:  Buyers will receive both Commission Blueprint 1 and 2 for one low price.  Read my reviews on Commission Blueprint 1 an2 and if you buy through any link on this site or my other sites, you will get my $2500 Bonus Package automatically emailed to you along with your Commission Blueprint order.

Listed below is my Review of the Original Commission Blueprint (Version 1) program.  If you want to see my review of the new Commission Blueprint 2, click on the link at the bottom of this article.

As with any new Ebook or Video series I am always skeptical about whether or not it is just another set of recycled information.  After doing some research on the newly released Commission Blueprint, the Clickbank and Google Adwords How to make a gazillion dollars in a year Guide, I found some very interesting information.  The product was released by the esteemed Tim Godfrey and Steven Clayton.

If you don’t know who Steven Clayton is, Clickbank recently proclaimed him as the king of Clickbank marketing.  They even published a case study on the Clickbank website about his enormous success using Clickbank and Affiliate Marketing.  Yes, more successful than Mike Filsaime.  He quit his job as a VP for a Fortune 500 Company and now his private business manages over $1 Million a month in Google Adwords advertising.  Steve paired up with multi-millionaire Ted Godfrey and put together this Step-by-Step guide as to how you can make thousands of dollars a day with a single Clickbank product and Google Adwords.

After learning this, I realized that this product was not your run of the mill, guy in his basement, ebook package.  It might be the real deal.  I then went to the website, read the standard Sales pitch there (and it is a good one) and found that the product package only cost $97.  I was shocked.  Ussually these type of packages are at least $297-$497 when big players like this put a product package like this out there.  On the site it says they plan on raising the price to $297 soon, but you can never be sure if this is true or just marketing hype.  Mike FIlsaime ussually does this and it drives sales for him, so they might do the same with this package.

Yes, I took the plunge and purchased Commission Blueprint and was completely overwhelmed by the depth and amount of information provided to me. 

The package includes:

3 PDF’s

• Opt-in Page Secrets
• Pre-sell Page Secrets
• Review Page Secrets

14 Videos

• Video #1 – Introduction
• Video #2 – How To Use This Program
• Video #3 – Picking Profitable and Highly Converting Products
• Video #4 – Indepth Keyword Research & Advanced Tools
• Video #5 – Domain Name Secrets and Hosting Setup
• Video #6 – Creating Your Story…The Essential Element
• Video #7 – Setting Up Your Landing Pages For Maximum Conversions
• Video #8 – Setting Up Your Campaign
• Video #9 – Managing Your Campaign
• Video #10 – Picking A Winner & Milking It
• Video #11 – Scaling For Profit (Step from $100’s to $1,000’s in Profit)
• Video #12 – What Can Go Wrong and How To Fix It Fast
• Video #13 – Cash Flow and Business Management
• Video #14 – Wrap Up

Templates

• The Review Page Template
• The Presell Page Template
• Opt-In Page Template #1
• Opt-In Page Template #2

Plus, you get a slide Presentation with key points to remember from each and every video!

I have only begun to engorge myself with this program, but I can honestly say that I have not seen anything like this at this price, ever!  I purchased the Traffic Secrets 2.0 package and have loved it for its same type of quality information and Step by Step guides.  The key difference here is Steve and Ted are only telling you how to make money with a single Clickbank product (of course you can sell any number) and Google Adwords and they are showing you how to make thousands of dollars doing it.  Step by Step with hours of Video!  This puts Adwords Miracle in the dust.  The initial question was Does it Work?  The answer is a definite YES!  I plan on posting hard data on my results with the program in the near future so either Bookmark the site or Subscribe to the RSS Feed here for instant updates.

Learn more about Commission Blueprint here.

For my Review on the New Commission Blueprint 2, Click here:  CB 2.0 Review

It doesn’t matter if you are a Black Hat enthusiest or all of your websites are stricly White Hat platforms; there are only a few ways to really make big money on the internet with any consistancy.

• Affiliate Programs (Affiliate Marketing)
• Google Adsense
• Google Adwords

With Affiliate Programs, the profit margin and finding the right program and/ or niche is always a tough process because there is always a hot new item or product which comes on the market.  Services like Clickbank and PayDotCom solve a lot of these problems because the majority of their programs provide anywhere from a 25% to 75% commission on sales.  You can’t get this time of money from your top tier affiliate programs. 

That’s why Affiliate Marketers like selling to other Affiliate Marketers.  Bottom line is this:  If you are not selling products from Affiliate Programs sponsored through Clickbank and PayDotCom, you are missing out on some serious cash. 

Second, Google Adsense is arguably the highest paying advertising service on the internet.  Nobody else is paying out thousands of dollars each month to individual affiliates like Google Adsense is.  There are some competitors trying, but until they get the market share of search that Google has, no competitor will touch their level of profitability.

With these 2 things in mind, Affiliate Programs and Google Adsense, there is no doubt that there are tricks to the trade that only a few people have.  By few, I mean several thousand savvy internet marketers.  It’s not that many really when you look at the big picture.  So if you want to make the type of money that the select few are making on the internet, you don’t need a new ebook every other month that says its the next best thing.  What you need is professional advice from real professionals showing you how to do what it is they do to make “REAL” money on the internet.

Then you have the tool which is making this all happen each and every day for thousands of Affiliate Marketers:  Google Adwords.  Google Adwords is the tool through which you can instantly bring guaranteed and targeted traffic to your Affiliate or Google Adsense links (through Arbitrage) which can make you three times more money through these programs than by normal SEO and other advertising alone.

So, if I am starting out in this very complicated business, what tools should I use to BEST learn how to make money with Affiliate Marketing? 

Let’s take a look:

1. The Super Affiliate Handbook - What makes this product so special?  Easy.  It is written by a marketing profesisonal.  It comes with a Handbook, but more importantly it provides you a roadmap to actually making money from Affiliate Programs step by step.  This product is updated regularly to keep the information current.  Screenshots are provided to show you what you need to see, so oyu aren’t just reading about it.  Plus tons of other tools are provided to aid in the different techniques that are gone over in the handbook.
2. Adsense Videos - The name says it all.  You won’t find another Google Adsense product like this on the internet.  A comprehensive video guide where the author actually tells you and simultaneously shows you exactly how to “DOMINATE” with Google Adsense and make tons of money.  What you will receive is the only Adsense product on the market worth using.  This product even has a money back guarantee with the sale.  Nowhere else will you find a better product.  You can look up other reviews on Google and you will see the street credit this guys has from this product.  Definitely a must have.
3. Adwords Miracle – This originally came out in 2007 and I was told by a friend that it made him $400 in just a few days off a Clickbank product he was promoting.  I jumped on it and here going on two years later, I still haven’t found a better Adwords product.  Everything you need to know and more about maximizing your ability to instantly make money from Adwords.  In fact, I’d say if you can’t make money with Google Adwords after using this product, then you need to give up internet marketing completely because you are beyond hope.  Over 200 pages of information and 50 minutes of videos to show you exactly what you need to do.  No B.S., no fluff, just answers, not to mention, another money back guarantee.  Don’t jump into a Commission Blueprint or Google Nemesis/Shadow program until you have learned the basics, intermediate, and advanced skills taught here.

If you take these 3 Products and you put them together and use the techniques taught in each one, you have everthing you need to know to start making ridiculous money with Affiliate programs and Adsense.  You can maximize your ability to find and profit from Affiliate Programs.  You then can learn how to make money from Google Adsense while marketing your Affiliate Programs.  Finally you put it all together and market both with Google Adwords and become one of the few thousand savvy internet marketers I talked about before, who are actually making thousands of dollars each and every month from Affiliate Marketing.

UPDATE:

I wrote this Post quite awhile ago.  Since then I have found 2 programs that really focus on the affiliate marketing side of the house with Clickbank as the focal point.  Both use Adwords and Affiliate Marketing and are great “Graduate Level” tools/ techniques to use after you learn the basics with the other programs I outlined here.

• Commission Blueprint – An incredible single techniques for creating massive profits from just one Clickbank Affiliate program using Google Adwords for promotion.
• Google Nemesis – After learning the Commission Blueprint technique, this tools was like a godsend. This program automates 90% of what is talked about in Commission Blueprint and provides everything you need to profit.  No additional tools required.  One of the best money making programs I have ever encountered.

Try them out and let me know what you think!