What is the most important quality in a person that has been successful online?

Well, many of the online gurus of today will tell you that they have a monopoly on that answer and in doing so, will make you pay $47, $97 or $147 in order to find out. The way in which products are inflated in price online is a bit ridiculous, especially when you consider that the vast majority of them are useless.

I’ll tell you free what others might make you pay money to learn; the most important quality in a person that has been successful online is perseverance.

Just as it is in the offline world, so too is it in the online world. If you want to be successful online, you need to be able to keep at it. Even if you are only working an hour a day, every day, you need to do that. Maintain forward momentum in the creation of your business and eventually you will start to see some success.

Huey Lee is perhaps one of the more successful of what people call an “internet guru” and the owner of the NoMonkeyBusiness website. While I have never tried the product on the website, I have been on his mailing list, and every second or third e-mail that he sends out talks about keeping yourself working in order to get better results.

Additionally, one of the most popular programs in the history of the internet is Simpleology and part of that program is exclusively focused on persevering through difficult times. There is no question whatsoever that those who are best in the business got where they are through hard work and perseverance, rather than by having some secret magic bullet formula.

If you decide that you are going to be defeated from the get go, then even the simplest of circumstances can beat you. But, if you pledge to yourself that you are going to work a little every day until you see some results, then you are going to eventually get results. Even if you don’t, you will have proven to yourself your own personal ability to persevere and that is going to do nothing but help you later on down the road.

This blog (www.ViralKing.com) is only just launching now, a brand new blog that I will be working on building a Brand on. You see, “I Have A Dream…” no, seriously, a new network is coming and in fact has already begun with ViralUrl being the first site that is part of the ViralKing brand.

This blog will be the center piece to the brand, and you now have a chance to grab some quality advertising positions at a very cheap price. We have not even launched yet (only soft launch so far, no promotion) and already we have 2 advertisers.

The First was a while back 2 days after the first mockup of the blog came online and the second has just joined us.

This post is a shout out to Andreas Stoy to thank her for taking this opportunity to grow with us. If you too want to get some prime real estate at a cheap price. Please see our Advertise Page, or you can simply visit our Advertising Rates Card to place an order.

Why would you invest in this new blog?

* I run a 6 figure business online and know what I am doing
* I am launching a new product in a few days that will link back to this site
* Future sites in the network will link to this site as the ‘hub’ the home of the ViralKing brand
* I will be investing all income this blog produces in advertising
* I will match it $ for $ for the first few months. Every $ That comes in advertising, I will add that amount from my own pocket towards promoting this site to ensure that this blog grows and with it your advertising exposure!

Welcome Andreas Stoy and to anyone else reading this, the push of this blog is just around the corner, so grab your ad space now!

One of the things that you will see a lot of on the internet are people who have managed to build up businesses that are now making them six and seven figure incomes.  While those figures are a rare occurrence, they are a reality to some. So many people are struggling to try and earn even $1,000 in a single month. The dream of thousands or millions is just that, a dream.

However, when you think about it and look at all the similar money making programs available, and the people that are successfully earning seven figures, chances are they are using the same techniques that people making $50,000 or less a year from the internet are using.

There is one obvious difference between those two cases; the money that they make. But what are they doing that is so different? Is there really even a difference?  After all, if they are using the same methods, is it simply a matter of luck that a factor of one hundred separates someone from making thousands instead of millions if the two people are doing the same thing?

Actually no, it has nothing to do with luck at all.  There are many little differences, which we look at in blog posts at ViralKing. One of the differences is something known as diversification. 

If you come up with a content site, paste AdSense all over the place and then sit back to admire your work (and update that one site) for the rest of eternity, you might do well for yourself but at the same time you are never going to get to the point where you really take advantage of what you have available to you. 

This opens up a very big point. Adsense is not nearly what it was before and now with them changing the click spaces to only headlines and url’s many top publishers are suffering. Plenty of Fish is a very large dating website, in fact bigger than all the free dating sites combined. He runs Google Adsense and has noticed a shocking result. His income is down 60% in the last 2 months, and this is a guy that makes well over $100k a month from Adsense, we are talking big money!

That scenario is something you would see from someone making $50,000 or less a year.  Someone making $5 million a year would add ten other revenue streams, all completely different to the one website in order to double, triple or even quadruple the results and then build dozens of other websites exactly like it. The step after that is to then find another method that works and build dozens of those sites too.  Diversification is the key to making money online; just ask any of the experts, from John Chow in blogging (Who is on track to make over $300k this year from his blog) all the way to the Rich Jerk in content websites.

I wrote this as I see so many posts these days from people who have tried MLM’s and making money online and simply haven’t. They then ask: “Is it possible for me to make money online”, here is my answer:

When the internet was first implemented, nobody ever thought that it would be the big thing that it is today. The internet has truly revolutionized the way that we do just about everything, from paying our bills, to shopping, and even working. Making money online is a bit taboo these days; there are so many ads out there and so-called ‘companies’ that are promising to help people get rich, if only they will shell out $14.95 for some so-called ‘training materials.’ These ads are meant to appeal to the desperate and the ambitious alike; after all, fifteen dollars is nothing when you can make that back in just a day, right?

There are a few things to consider. First of all, you should never, ever have to pay money to make money if no noticeable ‘real’ value is provided in return. Perhaps spending money on a new outfit or a better computer or something that will help you in your working endeavors, but paying for access to information that may or may not be useful in the real world—is ludicrous. If you are going to look for ways to make money online, do so in a way that is not going to cost you money up front for no benefit, money that that person offering the service should know that you probably cannot afford. Advertising is different all together, there are billions of sites and hundreds of millions of people online, advertising is required to get you eyeballs, but paying for access to a compensation plan, like many of the so called ‘mlms’ out there today is NOT the way to go.

This goes for everything—typing ads, taking surveys, writing product reviews. If you are going to do it and get paid for it, then there is no reason for you to have to pay to do it. If it sounds like it doesn’t make sense, it’s usually because it doesn’t. Use your best judgment when it comes to investigating ways to make money online, so you don’t lose out on valuable dollars of your own that you can use to put towards something else—perhaps a more worthy online money-making endeavor.

Just because there are folks that collect fifteen dollar payments in exchange for destroying a person’s dreams doesn’t mean there are no legitimate ways to make money online. If you have the time and the energy to look for opportunities, there are plenty of ways to make money online as long as you find them. Making money online is possible—but you won’t get rich overnight. Sorry, folks—nothing worth having comes quite that easily in life.

I am writing this from experience and have been there, having my dreams dashed. I have since got over this ‘get rich quick’ and now prosper promoting affiliate products and running my own sites (Like webhosting etc.)

If you have a dream of making an income online, don’t give up on it, but make sure you are not misguided and focus on the things that really matter and will really build up an income for you

Anyone who has a website and does any kind of marketing, their main concern is search engine optimization (SEO).  Are they however, overlooking something that may be just as important as or possibly more important than SEO – Internet branding.

What is Internet branding you ask! Branding is not something just done to cattle anymore, as an Internet business person, it is important to brand yourself, or your company so that you are recognized. Designing a recognizable logo for your company is one of the first steps in branding yourself.

When Ray Kroc worked for the McDonald brothers, he had a vision. He wanted those golden arches to be known around the world. He was successful in branding not only himself but his business since the golden arches of McDonald’s are the most well known and recognizable logo in the world.

You are probably wondering how you can do the same thing Ray Kroc did with McDonalds to your online business. If you have the time, the dedication and the persistence you can succeed.

Think of Google®. Can you see those colored words in your head without having to go to their webpage? If you can, they have done their job at branding themselves. What about Yahoo!®. What comes to your mind when you think of them? For me it’s the Yahoo!® sound. Next time you are on their home page, click on the exclamation mark, if you don’t know what sound I am referring to, you will after that. These online businesses have done a great job in branding themselves. They are recognizable, which is the entire reason to brand yourself since branding isn’t just about the logo or the website itself, but it is something you think of when you think of that company.

Since both branding and SEO are both great marketing concepts, when combined together could literally take your business places you only dreamed about.  There are some who will argue that SEO is more important than branding while others will argue the exact opposite.  Why should you have to settle for just one form of marketing when there are clearly 2 that work? You shouldn’t, which is why both branding and SEO are equally important forms of marketing, both online and off.

If you’ve been around money making circles for any length of time, chances are that you’ve heard of the law of attraction.  Some people don’t give it a whole lot of credence but there are others that live their life by it and therefore it behaves a money making blog to devote at least some time to discussing exactly what it is.

According to John Chow, one of the dot com moguls of today’s world, the Law of Attraction is simply a concept that illustrates that whatever you may think about, you will bring about.  It is a “like attracts like” law that states that if you can conceive of something and then believe in your own ability to get that particular something, you will definitely be able to achieve that it.

There are a number of case studies that show the effectiveness of the law of attraction, one of them having to do with a man that was chased every single day down the street to work because people knew that he was a homosexual.  The law of attraction asserts that he was visualizing people picking on him and therefore that is exactly what ended up happening each day of his life.  However, one day he was determined not be picked on and started to visualize himself getting to work each day with no problems.  Lo and behold, that is exactly what happened!  His problems with being chased as he walked to work were over through the power of the law of attraction.

This is just one of thousands of different cases where people have seen changes in their life once they learned about the law of attraction.  There are people who believe in it firmly and people who don’t believe in it at all.  It is up to you to make your own determinations as to what is good for you and if you want to learn more there is a ton of information available around the internet.

Note: There is a product called ‘the secret‘, it is a widely popular DVD well worth checking out. I have seen it a few times and it is good.

Viralurl is a site that I founded. Frank and I teamed up and launched the site exactly 3 months ago today! We launched on the 23rd October 2007 whilst I was in France watching the Rugby World Cup, which my team, South Africa, won! It was an amazing feeling being there to witness it live and the amazing feeling continued when Viralurl proved to be such an amazing success.

It is hard to review your own product from a neutral standpoint but when coming up with the concept, I wanted to create a truely Viral tool that would benefit everyone that used it. The concept was to cover the important aspects of marketing online:

* Protecting Your Affiliate Link

* Building a List and Downline

* Opening up a new stream of income

I feel that we really managed to achieve this and if you look at what our members are saying, the feedback has been nothing short of exceptional with many claiming we offer the best upgrade value for money they have ever seen! That is a big claim and whilst it gives me a warm, tingly feeling inside to hear people say that, it also re-affirms my own belief that this site truly is for all Marketers!

Visit ViralUrl today and get started, it is free, but as mentioned above, it has an amazing OTO offer that you can’t go wrong taking. For all members it will perform the above main features as well as secondry methodsof advertising your product through text ads on the Viralbars of fellow members and the option to add text ads and banner ads to your site. This site really will help you, free or upgraded and really only takes 5 minutes or less to get going with:

Visit Viralurl Today

What Viralurl does it cloaks your links to protect your commissions from being stolen, whilst, at the same time, placing a bar at the bottom known as the ‘Viralbar’ that has your built in affiliate link and opens in a new window. So you promote your affiliate links to other programs as normal, but cloaked with the Viralbar, it opens up the list building and income stream for you Automatically!

When a user joins under you, you are able to mail them, and when a user upgrades you are paid a commission. This system uses a mass amount of LEVERAGE so please check it out

Visit Viralurl Today

We stated in our last post that we were waiting on our mascot, the face to our persona, and that it would take two more days. A Whole week later and FINALLY things are moving forward again! Looks like the blog is on track to be launched next Monday.

We wanted to show you the transformation that took place before we finally arrived at what we consider ‘adequate’ of how we should look. Feel free to laugh at some of them, I know we did:

Yes – We are not Arabic

We are NOT a Female

Nor are we King Henry 8th!

We Are Not Made of Candy!

AH – My Man! Finally we get the look we feel is deserved of our name!

The Butterfly Marketing Manuscript is a product that was created to educate purchasers on the goings on of membership sites, viral marketing, managing joint ventures, creating buzz, in fact pretty much all the important things you need to know to run your own successful site!

Butterfly Marketing Manuscript even includes case studies of the websites, author, Mike Filsaime owns. The information in this product is really great and well worth the price tag. As I mentioned in my review of The 7 Figure Code home study course, the techniques and information in this ebook played a huge role in the success I have had with my sites and in particular my very public site in the make money online niche, Viralurl.

As you might know Viralurl did over Six figures Income in less than 2 months! Yeah, 6 figures income means more than $100,000 in less than 2 months. That is just from 1 site that we applied the knowledge gained from the Butterfly Marketing Manuscript.

Click Here To Get Your Copy Today

There’s more though! Now that you have made the decision about if you feel it is worth investing a bit in your education there is a sneaky back door way to own the amazing Butterfly Marketing Script (this is NOT the manuscript, this is the membership site software and course that costs $1,497!)

Viralurl membership side is handled by this software that costs $1,497 – BUT… When you Buy the Butterfly Marketing Manuscript you will see an offer straight after, to get your hands on this awesome membership software for only $497 or so. Thats almost a 70% discount!

If you went this route, I of course don’t earn any commissions on that backend sale if you take up the offer. I could always suggest to you to purchase it at $1,497 in which case I would earn $700 in commissions, but rather than do that, I want you to buy the manuscript. It is more affordable for everyone, and those that then want to get their hands on the script can do so at a 3rd of the price!

Will the manuscript work for you? I personally am so glad I got a copy and would have paid 5 times the amount or more for the information I have learned. To get the most out of it you need to take notes, then after each chapter think about how it will help you, how can you translate this information into income?

Click Here To Get Your Copy Today
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The 7 Figure Code is a DVD home study course created by Mike Filsaime and Tom Beal. There are 16 (Sixteen!) DVD’s and 2 thick binders with all the transcripts of the DVDs as well as the power point presentation slides. In other words this is a BIG course and not for the faint hearted.

I purchased this when it first came out, as soon as I could get my hands on it, I grabbed it. I know what both Mike and Tom have achieved online and with these process they look set to take it to even the next level and smash their income records of last year. I knew that it contained DVD presentations from other leading experts in their field such as Rich Schefren, Stephen Pierce and many others!

Another thing I knew was that just months earlier people paid $10,000 to attend this event live, here I had the chance to grab the info on DVD’s that I could watch at leisure and implement into my business.

So, was it worth it?

Now, as you can see it is in my ‘Recommended Money Makers’ section so it’s unlikely that I am about to tell you it is not worth it, but it is important to write this section as it might help you decide if it will be worth it for YOU or not. At the end of the day, it can be worth it to 10, 20 or 5,000 people but if you don’t see value in it then you should not make the investment.

Once I got my hands on the DVD’s I watched them (Still haven’t seen the last 2 yet) in sequential order and took notes as I heard something that I found interesting. I then at the end of the DVD re-read my notes and thought, ‘how can I use this information to benefit me and my business?’ I then worked on putting my plan into action.

Honestly, some of the DVD’s I didn’t get a whole lot from in terms of new information because I have been marketing online for 4 years now and spent a lot of time educating myself in this industry. More than that, some of the information is common sense… When you think about it! I still got a lot out of those DVD’s though, because it made me think about it, it made me take action!

That was only the DVD’s I didn’t get a lot out of, now to the other 10!

There were many ‘golden nuggets’ in so many of the DVD’s that information gathered from this course allowed Frank (my partner at Viralurl and also a 7figurecode cheerleader) and I to setup a Six Figure Business! in fact, we passed 6 figures within 2 months of launching the site!

It was the principles from The7FigureCode and from the Butterfly Marking Manuscript (another product I recommend) that enabled us to do so. Without those products I am confident we would not have done 1/2 as well! So what this information means to us, on just 1 website (remember, we have this knowledge and information for life now!) in just 2 months, made us an extra $50,000 in revenue!

Was it worth it for me? Hell Yeah!

Will it be worth it for you?

If you are going to watch every DVD, at least once, (no time limit) write down and take notes as you go and after each DVD read your notes and think about ideas, how can you implement this, how can you sue this new found knowledge, then it could very well be worth more than the $50,000 I estimate these products to have been worth to me.

If the above is what you will do with this course, then it will be a great investment for you to make that I highly recommend!

Click Here To Visit The7FigureCode Now!
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So the logo is the main thing the King is waiting on to start things off for 2008 with a bang and establish this blog as the ultimate viral and affiliate marketing blog online. We don’t want to edit our footer and sidebar until we have our logo so that we can get images made by our banner designer.

It is a case of 1 thing effecting the next and my designer says it will be 2 more days. Honestly, 2 more days is nothing, but we are rearing to go here, ready to make our mark!

I have done well marketing online but have never created a blog that has a unique design and I am ready to just into this with both feet. It is not an investment as such, or not a very good one by my reckoning as the time required in blogging far out weights the income derived, but it has many other uses and we will be exploring those in the coming months!

Please join our RSS feed as we are very keen to start off with a Bang in a few days (now looking like Monday next week) and would love for you to help make that happen!

Anyone who has a website and does any kind of marketing, their main concern is search engine optimization (SEO).  Are they however, overlooking something that may be just as important as or possibly more important than SEO – Internet branding.

What is Internet branding you ask! Branding is not something just done to cattle anymore, as an Internet business person, it is important to brand yourself, or your company so that you are recognized. Designing a recognizable logo for your company is one of the first steps in branding yourself.

When Ray Kroc worked for the McDonald brothers, he had a vision. He wanted those golden arches to be known around the world. He was successful in branding not only himself but his business since the golden arches of McDonald’s are the most well known and recognizable logo in the world.

You are probably wondering how you can do the same thing Ray Kroc did with McDonalds to your online business. If you have the time, the dedication and the persistence you can succeed.

Think of Google®. Can you see those colored words in your head without having to go to their webpage? If you can, they have done their job at branding themselves. What about Yahoo!®. What comes to your mind when you think of them? For me it’s the Yahoo!® sound. Next time you are on their home page, click on the exclamation mark, if you don’t know what sound I am referring to, you will after that. These online businesses have done a great job in branding themselves. They are recognizable, which is the entire reason to brand yourself since branding isn’t just about the logo or the website itself, but it is something you think of when you think of that company.

Since both branding and SEO are both great marketing concepts, when combined together could literally take your business places you only dreamed about.  There are some who will argue that SEO is more important than branding while others will argue the exact opposite.  Why should you have to settle for just one form of marketing when there are clearly 2 that work? You shouldn’t, which is why both branding and SEO are equally important forms of marketing, both online and off.

The Blog (ViralKing) Officially launches next week. Please Join our feed for great information and articles to come!

This is a brand new blog and we are still waiting on the logo/mascot to place in the header and make a few custom images and buttons for around the site.

We have been sent 8 different versions and The ViralKing is still not happy that he is being portrayed as he would like to be seen. We are promised a much better and ready mascot on the 4th and we are hoping to be able to add them to this blog then.

Mascots are very important as they build up a brand and an identity, my King image is to me what the golden arches are for Macdonald’s! With Ebooks coming out, new websites in the pipelines and plenty of ideas and content to be shared, the ViralKing needs to be looking his best!

There is still a lot of other things to do before the blog is ‘ready’ for the limelight, so anyone reading these posts, you are going through the birth with us whilst the rest of the world are in the waiting room!

We expect to have the blog finished and all the ‘To-Dos’, ‘To-dones’ by the 5th of Jan 2008 and will then look to sell our advertising inventory and spend that (Plus plenty more) on getting the word out.

Lets face it, you can have wonderful information to share, which the ViralKing has, but if you have no one to share it with, then what’s the point?

The above statement is not implying ‘give up’ it is stating, DONT give up, with good promotion you will get the readers, then it is vital that you have good content.

Really looking forward to getting this blog ready and building a great community! See you soon world…

ViralKing

Bloggers will make mistakes, that is a given. We are all human and we often don’t notice we are making a mistake. While my English is very good, often my grammar is poor but I double check and try and get it right. Bad grammar is also not going to cost me a lot of money. I was reading a blog post the other day that mentions how Match.com has deadlinks in their system ‘wink’ emails as you can see from the screen below:

Source: Revenews

That might cost them a fair bit of income if it is not fixed as this most likely requires members to upgrade to respond. We see it in the blogging world a fair bit and this one from Shoemoney isn’t going to cost him any money, but is funny:

Shoe is a serious domainer, yet in his post the site he states that you have an account at, is spelled wrong, you can see the correct version in the email he pasted in the post below. Either it was a mistake and the person parking dnforums will be quite happy, or shoe is sneaky and actually owns the domain and wanted to drive people there (Although that evilness is more a John Chow action):

The moral of this post is to always double check things you do, especially those that can cost you money! We will always make mistakes and I know that in the coming months and years I will make plenty, but try not to make simple mistakes that can cost you lots of money….AKA Match.com

We have our first Advertiser and the blog is still not out of beta yet! Only launching tomorrow but already we have someone coughing up the cash (the ad spots are very cheap as we are new) to grab his spot in the 125*125.

We would like to welcome the fat man from Fatmanunleashed Dot Com who has seen the huge potential that we have and wanted to get himself locked in at the low price.

There are still plenty of ad posts remaining but we expect them to fill up quick so be sure to grab yours now!

We look forward to launching tomorrow and hope that everyone had a happy new year!