Happy 4th of July 2009!

I’ll take a slight detour from my usual comments, and present to you work by Jibjab.

Here is a new super hero to save the world…

If for some reason you have problems viewing the video, you may also try clicking the below URL:

http://sendables.jibjab.com/originals/hes_barack_obama

Enjoy.
Rich Sage

Restrict Wordpress Admin Access Plugin Review

As your Wordpress sites get more and more popular, and you’re raking in all the dough making money online, there is a rather nasty issue you’ll have to address from time to time:  Security.  As much as we’d like to imagine that we live on a wonderful world inhabited by altruistic humans, nasty surprises are never too far away.

Here are some suggestions to make things better and avoid sleepless nights.

At the top of the list for of my suggestions is this plugin:  The plugin is LOGIN LOCKDOWN from the website BAD NEIGHBORHOOD!  Nice name…

Login Lockdown

I’ve tested a few plugins to help protect my login page.  However, they mostly involve editing HTACCESS FILE and what not… I kept looking for an effective, yet easier way, and LOGIN LOCKDOWN has to be it.

More as I continue my review and make a few suggestions…

Make Money Online:  A few tips by the Rich Sage on what you should NOT do!

Most of my work day involves working at the PC writing and looking over financial data.  I take time out to listen to music and do some outside reading.  The rest of the time is strictly spent helping building the lessons, membership and the Maxsimo company.

Who would have thought???

That there is a guy who is ON TV, is running on a thread mill and paints at the same time?  For what purpose?  Who knows!  It’s all for the sake of my discussion, here is the video:

I think the video illustrates what happens when we try to do EVERYTHING that we can online without a concrete business plan.

Going back to traffic building basics… THAT WORK…

Flipping a Site, the Rich Sage Way

I have the task of building 3 sites as part of my Rich Sage dot Com Contest 2010. The idea that came to mind was to create a fourth site just to sell to someone looking to make money online.

That is my plan with Keeke dot com, a domain that I had for a plan I made a long time ago, but didn’t do much work on it. Now I am planning to sell it to a worthy buyer who wants to build it to the next level with my promotional plan.

Often such an effort is called “flipping a site” –generate traffic and an income and get rid of the site to the highest bidder. In my case, I don’t feel comfortable doing just a “build and dump”. What I am doing is creating maximum value for the company and the buyer by helping buid the site further with my advice and some outsourcing.

Keeke Supporting the Maxsimo Network

There are two winners when I maximize the sites’ earning: The Maxsimo Network and the Buyer. That’s worth a some extra effort!
More about my global promotional plan…

Maxsimo Network CO-OP Bonus

Today I looked at a realistic timeline for the Maxsimo Network –launch, software delivery, full operations, etc.

Well, the launch took place… I just got things going!  Things are never completely done. I just got things going and called it a “pre-launch”.

Maxsimo Network Co-Op

More about the MAXSiMO NETWORK bonus…

For Immediate Release:  Maxsimo Network Press Release — #1

My automated signup process is set, the bank card order process and membership management is done.  Now it’s time to ramp up advertising and marketing to get the ball rolling.

I created a PRESS RELEASE DISTRIBUTION list, which I will use to send out as many of these posts as I can.  Some of the services are paid, but the effectiveness of a press release cannot be measured in a quick return.  Press release are the beginning to building relationships with many writers –everyone from bloggers, journalists and searchers end up reading the content in various places, resulting in priceless exposure –for months.

Of course, this is also a service the Maxsimo Network will offer via our ADMIN software.  However, until it is ready, I will resort to using as many online press release services as I can.  That will also help me better design our own products.

Maxsimo Network
Herndon, Virginia
USA

RE: Maxsimo Network Viral Affiliate Program Pre-Release until the 7th of Aug, 2009.

The Maxsimo Network is a global network delivering subscriber/membership products and services to the 100 million+ small businesses worldwide via in-house web properties and a network of third-party subscription providers.

Maxsimo Network

All of our products and services are offered via Affiliates worldwide, using direct online sales, 2-tier to a multi-tier hybrid viral marketing campaign, while most products generate recurring commissions.

The network’s primary (launch) membership is the Rich Sage online success lessons that help everyone who wants to run an online business build success. The Rich Sage “Underground” is a community dedicated to using the corporate assets to build online success for any small business.

Discussion of our Products Continues…

Affiliate Quick Start in the Maxsimo Network

I’ve had to make promoting the Maxsimo Network as easy as “cut and paste”, and that is exactly what I’ve done by setting up the affiliate software.

Need to log in?  https://www.biig.com/secaff/affiliates/index.php

You’ll see a screen like the one below:

Maxsimo Affiliate Start

When you reach the login screen (note:  The login and all Affiliate URLS are encrypted.  They use https://)  and enter the affiliate area, you’ll face the above “Affiliate Home Page”.  Note the URL right above the yellow line?

That is your affiliate link, which you can use for all promotions.  Apart from that there are custom promotional campaigns based on EACH PROPERTY that we introduce. 

QUICK START GAME PLAN:  Maxsimo Network Affiliates

Rich Sage Viral Affiliate Program and Marketing Plan

When I launched the Rich Sage Underground Membership in April without an affiliate program, I was not sure what I was thinking.

The membership cost was high for a monthly fee.  The work that needed to be done, even by ‘newbies’ was extensive, and the program itself was new.

IF I had continued, I would have devoted my full time efforts just marketing the program, with no real time spend on building the company nor the base of products.

I had to change all of that, and I did.

Detailed below are the changes I made, and the diagrams I generated to explain better what I am doing and the benefits of it.  I will soon turn these into a video for the Affiliates to see via the Quick Start Program.

Here are the benefits of my viral marketing campaign:

I have not changed “what we do” — It’s more like “how we do it”  –that is the part that has changed.   The main ‘game plan’ is still the same — provide very low cost, yet effective advertising and marketing products and services via a bundled approach to the small business to larget corporations via Affiliates.

Rich Sage Affiliate Program

Major Program Change to Maxsimo Affiliates:

When I devised the Rich Sage Underground and the Maxsimo Affiliate Program, the objective was to find around 3,000 local Affiliates to work with.  But that is not an easy task at all — I actually new this, and thought that I could present an outstanding opportunity and finding the Affiliates would occur organically.

That didn’t occur.  It was not even close.

What I decided to do was to setup a viral marketing campaign and let the Affiliates compete with each other to fill the local positions.

• In my original setup, there was a signup to the Rich Sage Underground.
• Now, the “signup flow” is with the invitation page to the Affiliate program signup to the opportunity to upgrade to a paid membership and all it’s benefits.

Maxsimo Affiliate Program

More about the evolution of the Maxsimo Affiliate Program…

Affiliate Program & Commissions –Evaluating a perfect model

Perhaps, the biggest mistake made by online marketers is to make a one-time sale and no other interaction with the customer.  The quickest example of such a sale is the act of clicking on a pay-per-click ad on this site.  Sure it will pay a buck or a bit less, but then the visitor is GONE!  Perhaps, never to be seen again.

The other end of the spectrum is to create a funnel of income –from the initial visit to the purchase of a product or membership, a stream of income is created.  In this update, I’ll show you the track I’ve taken making money online using the affiliate program that I’ll debut this Monday.

The affiliate program pays commissions on all the monetizing features of the Rich Sage network of sites (when I can track users) that basically drift into two types –Direct and residual commissions.

Make Money Online:  Maxsimo Chart: Income

12 Revenue Channels

My commission payments come down to an Affiliate earning money at every point in the “funnel” –as visitors are taken from a membership (and productivity starts) and they bring in the Clients, commissions are paid at each step.

More about recurring commissions while you make money…