The Internet Millionaire Recipe is a report by Jason Fladlien and is a refreshing change from a lot of the hyped-up internet marketing products that are out there.

If Jason fitted into the normal “internet guru” model, this report would be sold at around three times the price and you’d be getting bombarded with special deals to buy it now, this instant.

Instead, it’s an excellent product with a very affordable price tag.

The emphasis of the report is doing things rather than spending hours and hours of research as an excuse for not doing things.

You’ll also be pleased to know that it mostly avoids all those “Web 2.0″ things you’ve likely been avoiding. So there’s no need to spend your time social bookmarking or tweeting on Twitter. Just solid ideas that will get traffic to your site regardless of the latest fads.

So what does the recipe involve?

In a nutshell, it’s based around sending targeted traffic to a squeeze page and then marketing to them using an autoresponder.

What makes the recipe different is that it gets down to the nuts and bolts of what to do – and at least as importantly, what not to do.

You’re encouraged to create your own give-away for your squeeze page. Don’t panic when I say this. It’s not essential that you create your own product and if you’re really too scared to do this, that’s fine too. But Jason explains in easy to follow language what you need to do. Following his techniques, I created one for my trial site, Hypnosis Secret Tricks, and it took me less than 4 hours, spread out over three sessions of just over an hour each.

The good part about creating your own giveaway is that you know the quality is good – no matter how bad a writer you are, it’s likely you’ll write something that’s better than over 80% of the PLR ebooks out there – and it’s completely yours.

It’s important to note that apart from this giveaway, you don’t need your own product. You’ll be promoting other people’s products for commission and Jason will be showing you how to choose these for maximum results.

Jason also teaches that your chapter headings will double up as the bullet points on your squeeze page, which takes most of the work out of writing your squeeze page. All that’s left is a headline and a call to action. Jason gives three different methods for creating a good headline, so that shouldn’t take you many minutes to sort out.

The call to action is simply getting your prospective customer to enter their name and email address, which should be easy enough as you’ve given them lots of “reasons why” in your bullet points.

OK so far.

Next up, you need traffic.

The best squeeze page in the world means zilch without traffic.

Jason describes getting traffic as being similar to eating a bicycle. If you tried to do it all at once, you’d fail. But the guy who really did eat a bicycle (and got into the Guinness Book of Records for it) spent 3 months on the task and ground the bike up into lots and lots of small pieces, making the job long but the final result near enough a certainty. The same goes with Jason’s traffic system.

You’ll get nine different traffic generation methods. Nothing particularly new or earth shattering but all simple and workable. On their own, each one will get you a little traffic. Cumulatively, they’ll get you lots of traffic. Likely enough that you can get close to replicating the $50,000 Jason made over the course of six months.

There are also some bonuses that come with the Internet Millionaire Recipe.

The best bonus in my mind is the report on taking massive action. Too often, I’ve been guilty of starting something and then getting distracted and moving on to something else or plain just not doing much after my initial enthusiasm wanes. This report is good for getting over that kind of procrastination.

The other top quality bonus is an audio on how to become a money magnet. This is possibly more important than the course itself. Most people act as though money is in limited supply. This audio will help explain why this isn’t the case and will help you get over any limiting beliefs that you have about money. You could easily spend more than the complete cost of this program just on a product to help you become a magnet for money – I know, I’ve done that!

So, what’s my verdict on the Internet Millionaire Recipe?

It’s one of the best value internet marketing products I’ve bought in recent years.

The system is accessible and easy to implement.

If you can write – or can pay someone to write for you – and follow a few, very simple, instructions then you can follow this system.

Can you make $50,000 in six months with it? If you follow all the steps (or even just most of them), I don’t see any reason why not. But even if you don’t there’s nothing to say you have to stop at just one squeeze page. You can produce as many as you want although it’s important to follow the promotion steps for your first one before starting the next. There’s no point in leaving a trail of “almost finished” sites – they won’t make you any cash if they’re not finished.

You could produce one of Jason’s style sites in a weekend. Easily. And still have time to watch your favorite ball game and hang out with friends or family. Then a few hours a week to give it the momentum to carry you through to the kind of income goals the system promises.

What else will you need?

• A domain name. Go to Namecheap and get one for under $10 for a year. Support is excellent.
• Hosting. I use a mixture of 1&1 and Hostgator for my hosting. If I was starting over again, I’d only be using Hostgator.
• An autoresponder. The one I use is AWeber. They’re not the cheapest but they are the best I’ve found.
• An account at Ezine Articles. It’s free unless you want your articles published super fast (most people I know don’t sweat about the small delay in publishing using the free option)
• A few other items which are free or where there’s the option of using free until you can afford a paid-for service. It’s all explained in the report and there are support videos to make sure you know what you’re doing.

If I was starting over again, this would be an excellent place to start. You can get your copy of the Internet Millionaire Recipe here.

The Brain Evolution System is a binaural beats meditation system.

This makes it a competitor to some other systems that I’ve reviewed, such as Centerpointe and the Meditation Program.

I got sent a review copy of Brain Evolution in early November 2008 and have listened to each of the six CDs (obviously not for the recommended month per CD!) in the set.

As you may know, my previous favorite binaural beats system is the Meditation Program. And that’s still the case.

That said, there are a number of points in favor of the Brain Evolution system:

• Each CD is only 30 minutes long. This is actually a big advantage if you’re short of time and find that the hour taken up by the other systems is simply too long to set aside.
• The background sound is typically heavy rainfall. Sometimes there are church bells as well. And sometimes the rainfall turns into a full blown storm. That means if you’re unfortunate enough to be afraid of thunderstorms, this isn’t the program for you. But if you find that the gentle sounds of the other programs sends you to sleep, the Brain Evolution System will almost certainly ensure that you’re alert enough to get the full benefit of the meditation.

The system also comes with a “brain food supplement” called Acuity. You’ll get a one month pot when you purchase the system and the option to continue receiving it each month. The supplement is claimed to help boost your mind power and the ingredients list includes:

• L-Glutamine, one of the few amino acids that can get transferred from your bloodstream into your brain.
• DHA, a fatty acid that is useful to your brain.
• Ginkgo Biloba, which can help with brain function (but if you are taking anything for your blood circulation, check with your doctor first)
• Various other herbs designed to help boost your brain power

The other good news about the Brain Evolution System is that – unlike the main competitors – they offer a free 21 day trial. When you take out the trial, you’ll get access to the first level of the Brain Evolution System and you can listen to it for three weeks to check that it’s right for you.

So if you’ve never tried a binaural beats meditation system before, it’s well worth checking out the free trial. This will give you a good idea of how well binaural beats work even if, like me, you’re not totally happy with the noisy rainfall that’s used in this product to disguise the binaural beats.

So, what’s my verdict?

I like the idea of binaural beats meditating. It’s easy and doesn’t require any complicated preparation.

Personally, I’m staying with the Meditation Program for my regular meditation.

But if you find yourself drifting off to sleep with that system or if you find that your schedule doesn’t allow you the luxury of an hour a day to listen to a meditation track, then the Brain Evolution System is certainly worth examining.

The choice is yours – this is a top quality product and you can sign up for the free 21 day trial so you don’t have to take my word for it!

And if you’re still not sure, I’ve done a comparison chart below covering the three different systems. I think I’ve got all the main points but if there’s anything I’ve missed, please let me know.

	Brain Evolution System	Meditation Program	Centerpointe Holosync
Session length	30 minutes	60 minutes (*)	60 minutes (*)
Technology	3-Point Dynamic Entrainment Audio Process: binaural beats, isochronic tones, temporal brainwave entrainment	Binaural beats	Binaural beats
Number of levels	6	8	12
Demo available?	21 day free trial	Listen to sample online	Demo CD
Headphones required?
Silent subliminals?			After introductory level
Time to complete program	6 months	8 weeks	Several years
Soundtrack	Natural soundscapes	Specially composed meditation music	Natural sounds, mainly rainfall and temple bells
Support	Online support sessions, regular newsletters, support team access	Online support guide, 24/7 support service	Comprehensive support materials, regular newsletters, hotline access to support team
Guarantee length	7 months	12 months	12 months
Cost	$297 Payable in 3 monthly installments	$85 for downloadable version $125 for CD version	$179 for first level additional levels at various prices according to the deal you take
Payment includes all levels?
Retreats			at extra cost
	Brain Evolution System	Meditation Program	Centerpointe Holosync

* Some early sessions take less time but the majority are this length

Article Marketing Automation is a hidden gem that I’ve only just discovered.

It has two sides:

• A system to publish quality articles to your blogs, either automatically or after you’ve approved them.
• A system to publish your articles to other people’s blogs.

Both are really easy to implement and you’re in control, so you don’t get rubbish on your site.

Publishing articles on your blog

Let’s look at publishing articles on your blog first:

This works with self-hosted WordPress blogs, Blogger blogs plus any blog that can be posted to using services like ScribeFire or Windows Live Writer. You can’t use it with free WordPress blogs due to their non-commercial nature.

Once you’ve told the Article Marketing Automation system your blog’s url, you proceed to select the correct category or categories to receive articles for. The list isn’t quite as wide as the one at EzineArticles but it’s pretty close, so you should be able to get a good match.

You then set up another author account – it’s in the Users section if you’re using WordPress – and give this “writer” a name and password. (Don’t use your regular password for this – use a service like Random Password Generator instead).

Then there are two tick boxes – one to auto-approve new articles, which I’ve personally unticked so that I get to check the articles before they are posted; one to open links in a new window.

There’s also a box to enter the maximum quantity of new articles you’d like per day. Set this at something “normal” so that it doesn’t look like an automaton is posting. I’ve set mine at between 1 and 3 per day. Experiment to see what works for you.

If you’ve got lots of different categories in your blog you can set the articles so they’re posted in the correct category.

That’s it, apart from checking and approving the articles if you’ve chosen to do that.

There’s no limit on the number of blogs you can have. There’s no page rank restriction. You could even use it to kick start a new blog to test an area before spending any real cash on it. The choice is yours. Or you can ignore this side of the system altogether.

Publishing articles on other people’s blogs

This is the flip-side. After all, the articles have to come from somewhere.

You can publish articles on as many different topics as you want. The category selection is the same as for the blog side of things.

Ideally, you should be publishing good quality articles. Either ones you’ve written yourself or ones you’ve had written for you. Some publishers (like me!) will check your articles before they’re published, so you stand a better chance of getting your article published if it’s written well.

The other plus on writing good articles is they’re more likely to get read.

Unlike an EzineArticles article, there’s no resource box. So you need to entice your potential reader to click the links in your article.

You’ve got three links to play with. You choose the keywords and where the links go to.

One thing to remember is that in the same way as links in ebook you have absolutely no control over the links once they’re on other people’s sites. So don’t put a regular affiliate link in the article unless you’re 100% positive it’s never ever going to change.

Instead, put a link to a file on one of your sites. A site you intend to keep.

Point the links to a php file on your domain. Just open a file in Notepad, save it as YourFileName.php (making sure that Notepad doesn’t add .txt to the end of it) and upload it to your site,

The contents of the file should look like this:

<?php
header( ‘Location: http://trevsreviews.com’ ) ;
?>

Change http://trevsreviews.com to wherever you want to send the traffic to. Then if the affiliate link changes, it’s a simple matter of changing it on your site.

Your articles will be drip fed to other sites in the network. So you’ll build up backlinks over time and start getting targeted traffic for the keywords you want to rank for.

The other thing you can do is offer up alternatives within your article. A bit like article spinning, except this actually turns out readable articles.

Once you submit your article, you’re given the option of adding up to 10 alternative titles. Take the time to add at least one or two alternatives here.

You then also get the option to add re-worded copies of each and every sentence in your article. Up to 10 alternatives again. So, if you’re dedicated enough, your article can have totally different versions out there.

This bit takes time. You don’t have to add alternatives – if you don’t, the sites that publish your articles may (or may not) get penalized for duplicate content if they don’t edit your article themselves.

It’s your choice.

You can also go really deep in “spinning” your articles – there’s a full tutorial with lots of explanations if you want to go down that route. It’s something you could always outsource anyway.

So, that’s the Article Marketing Automation system for you.

Well worth the low monthly subscription fee in my view.

You can trial it for 30 days with a money back guarantee, so check it out here.

Unless you’re a politician, you probably think we’re in a recession: gas prices are through the roof, food prices are on the up, energy prices have risen, everything seems to cost more.

Which is where the Recession Rescue System comes in.

It’s a series of audios, videos and transcripts that will change the way you think about running your business.

I’ve recently downloaded it and it’s a world away from the usual re-hashed stuff that passes for internet marketing advice.

They start by talking about the different industries that thrive in a recession. You likely already know that businesses like coffee shops aren’t recession proof (even though they’re high margin, so they fit some of the other business criteria you’ll learn about).

Some guides will spoon feed you and tell you precisely which products to sell and which keywords to use. The Recession Rescue System doesn’t do this – for the very good reason that you’re not the only person who’ll be buying the system and if they gave you a shortlist of products and keywords, the market would be swamped in no time and you’d be back to square one.

On the plus side, this means you’re unlikely to be squeezed out by hundreds of other competitors. On the negative side, if you’re ultra-lazy then this isn’t for you.

They talk about the kind of industries to look for. Sure, there are specifics here but not down to the “go to Clickbank and choose product X” detail.

The material is good. The main bulk is a series of audios between the three authors (Shawn Casey, Tellman Knudsen and Harris Fellman) and transcripts of the audios as well. So you can pop them onto your MP3 player and listen to them whilst you commute to work or you can read through the transcripts. Whichever works best for you.

The other thing you’ll be taught is how to build your own list. Sure, products like Google Cash make promises that you don’t need a list. But I know that I’d  be making a lot more money now if I’d concentrated on building up lists when I first started internet marketing. The course goes into great detail about how to build up and nurture your lists, even if you haven’t even got any email contacts at the moment. This section alone is worth more than the price of the complete guide.

As is normal on the internet, there’s a 60 day money back guarantee. So you can check out the Recession Rescue System with no risk.

Overall, I wish I’d come across (and implemented!) some of the ideas here sooner.

Check out the official Recession Rescue System website here.