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How Much Is AI Hype And How Much Is Real In Near-Term Predictions

 

I’m presenting this idea today in relation to this blog and its readers and within the perspective of making money with your blog – or future blog – and one particular AI product (software package) and its assertion that you can make more money with its use. Thus my title How Much Is AI Hype And How Much Is Real In Near-Term Predictions.

 

Here is an overview of AI if you would like that.

 

I am going to share with you a brief discussion of AI Whisperer, a hypy-sounding app purportedly designed to make you a lot of money per day. I am a skeptic, and yet I hope I’m wrong when I think something just isn’t going to work that way.

 

I also try to give my readers (mostly senior citizens and others wanting to make money from home) a heads up about things that may waste all their time in their efforts to achieve a more comfortable retirement lifestyle.

 

The AI Whisperer product (not to be confused with AI Whisper) is worth looking at in theory, yet at close scrutiny I’m not sure what the value is. It claims:

 

“FINALLY! AI that actually makes money

 REAL LIFE $100-400/day case studies

 CHAT-GPT SOFTWARE! + hacks pre-loaded!

 PROFIT WITH the AI Goldrush of 2023

 WHISPER to Chat GPT, MidJourney & more

 50x AI HACKS you can just “cut-and-paste“

 UNLEASH THE T-1000 on ClickBank, Google, Shopify, W+, GetResponse & 23x mega-sites!”

OK, but what does all that mean? 

 

What is AI Goldrush of 2023 

 

What is THE T-1000 and all that other stuff mentioned above?

 

Is artificial intelligence overhyped technology?

 

So far this looks like hype to me, but I will look further.

 

The reason why I’m so careful with these kinds of promotions, is that blogging for money is a real job (self-employed, the best, right?) and many bloggers do make a full time income. It’s not difficult, with good training, and it takes consistent work and patience, but it CAN lead to financial independence. I was lucky a few years back because I got a chance to learn how to blog the proper way.

 

I found a place where I could view the training for free and decide if I wanted to move forward and become a pro. I signed up for the free account, decided I couldn’t afford not to proceed with paid training, and I’ve never looked back. Would you like to do take a look at that opportunity? (CLICK below)

 

 

 

 

The AI Whisperer product promo says:

 

“AI is here, it’s dangerous, and people like me…

ARE ABOUT TO DESTROY YOU UNDER THE COLD GLAZE OF OUR NEW CYBORG OVERLORDS!…”

 

Wow that’s dramatic! This is kinda hard to get into for me.

 

Is artificial intelligence overhyped technology?

 

A cognitive science and computing systems researcher, Robert Stone, says “Oh hell yes. There are so many people with a stake in presenting it as more that it currently is. So many ambitious overachievers out there spinning BS to get money.”

 

I know AI is new, for some, and exciting (for some) and of course it’s real, and it’s not truly that new. Yet, new applications are popping up every day. 

 

So if you have a blog, how is this going to help? If you intend to have a blog, and during and after you create that blog, how is AI Whisperer going to help?

 

If you’re a retiree looking to make some income by working at home online, how will this software package going to help you?

 

Will it relieve you of hours of research for content ideas on your blog?

 

Maybe, if you’re that short of ideas. Most bloggers aren’t. In three seconds, any day, you can find related ideas for blog articles on a search engine.

 

It’s an easy technique that is taught in the training (“free account”) I alluded to above.

 

And, no matter if you get lists of blog ideas with an AI tool, you still have to:

• Research the competition
• Research the keywords you want to use as a title
• Find appropriate headline titles for your sections in the article
• Write appealing content for your target audience

 

One pro blogger weighs in…”Some want to take the easy way out because they do not want to do the research. They rather let an AI write up junk articles that goes nowhere! It takes a lot of work. Anyway, readers ain’t dumb. They know!”

 

From other comments by professional promotional (affiliate) writers online, AI can help with an initial exploration into topics related to your niche.

 

But after that, it’s business as usual, in completing and publishing a typical informative blog post where one’s readers may follow a link, make a purchase, resulting in a commission for you.

 

Yet, AI Whisperer claims to “automate 94%” of your work.

 

With one click, the training community I discovered a few years ago, can give you access to a list of topics, perhaps hundreds of phrases, for writing prompts.

 

As I’ve mentioned, you then must proceed to evaluate the competition showing on the search engines before you proceed to spend a couple of hours or more, writing a quality and engaging blog post.

 

You can get your money back if you purchase AI Whisperer, if you want to take a look at it and try it out. How do you proceed to make money? You can retrieve search phrases for any topic, all writing prompts.

 

You can get content for an article, which will need editing. After all, others will be searching as well and you want your articles to have your voice and your style, that your readers are used to.

 

One video I heard introducing GPT 4, before it was released, emphasized “you can not expect factual results”. Wait – what?

 

This reminds me of when I bought a bunch of PR articles – pre-written for my editing and customization – some on health, coconut oil benefits, and related topics.

 

I spent so much time editing them because this article seller has many customers. I didn’t want my articles to resemble hundreds of others. I ultimately stopped using them, as writing my own from scratch took the same or less time.

 

This trend (real or imagined) of throwing up articles, landing pages et al with a template retrieved in seconds, and publishing instantly to make hundreds of affiliate commission dollars a day – is that the BS our expert quoted above referred to?

 

The app hasn’t been around long enough to determine that.

 

But the training I have had and still enjoy for the constant updates and new developments of working online, has been around for over ten years and has proven its worth time and time again.

 

I could write a lot more about this (and I have) but if I’m going to save you time, I urge you to click below, and take a look at the training for yourself.

 

It is the very back-bone of business oriented blog writing. It can take you in whatever direction you want to go.

 

I’ve given you a very brief peek into the hype aspect of AI. A proficient marketer may find ways to take advantage of it, but I personally can’t see how a beginner blogger can.

 

There’s a lot to learn, but if you’re leaning toward this adventure…Just click below!

 

 

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Is ShareASale Worth Using For Affiliates?

 

What is ShareASale? Is ShareASale worth using for affiliates? Meaning, those bloggers, and maybe You, who promote products made by other people for a commission.

 

Here is a little info and history about ShareASale. 

 

And below is a short video about ShareASale:

 

 

This marketer explains that she makes money with ShareASale in two ways:

• Commissions from product sales
• Promoting the network to others who sign up, and a portion of their % goes to the person who referred  them

 

Amazon is the most visible, but not the most popular affiliate site. This is because payouts and terms are too low / poor for most marketers who have weighed in on this, and many niche products have better deals and promotions being sold directly from merchant websites instead of Amazon.

 

Amazon kind of took itself out of the competition when it slashed commissions and really upset its affiliates. Imagine working on a successful blog for a couple of years, to have its value marked down 90%!

 

And there is one key point, about joining ShareASale or a similar network of retailers. Your blog. What if you don’t have one?

 

Can you somehow get one?

 

You can buy websites that some other marketer has started, and has designed them for business. Those will sell for thousands of dollars if done well. And the purchaser needs to know what to do with it! How to keep adding content and building it out.

 

With a small budget, you can start your own site. I started mine with a free account and got to take a close look at the training its site offered. Would you like to do that now? Click below and see what you think.

 

 

 

How Can I Be Approved On ShareASale Easily?

 

“The most reason of get declined from ShareASale is to not have a running website.” –

 

I read the recommendations about ShareASale by successful bloggers to see if any one of them would not recommend this network. None did not.

 

And every single one states that you must have a web site or video channel in order to qualify.  

 

The network wants to see that you have a marketing venue in place (thus the button to click on above) that has some longevity online and can draw readers to its retailers’ products.

 

And I would say that is fairly easy to achieve IF you have the information to follow and create your web site properly.

 

It’s not difficult, but there is no guessing, you need to know how to build a business blog. 

 

Once you have applied and been accepted by ShareASale, you can view the many products and decide on one or more that you would like to promote. Also one that fits your blog focus.

 

At that point you will apply to the specific retailer(s) of the products you can promote easily. So you are going to do best choosing products, or a product type, that you have interest in and can write about

 

A lot.

 

Building a blog means adding content in order to gain readership. Do you have a favorite product – household, or a hobby product – that you can’t help talking about to anyone who will listen because you love it so much?

 

That is an ideal choice for an affiliate product, because you won’t burn out writing about it. Your enthusiasm will be contagious, and will add energy to your informed information.

 

The quality of the information you provide will help a reader decide to buy that product. 

Top Affiliate Marketing Products

 

ShareASale helps its members by providing a data base of its retailers, and the top selling products. This is the market, and it is fluid and changing. Up to date information is vital.

 

How Can I Benefit From ShareASale 

 

Most ShareASale reviewers share my view. Be Prepared.

 

By that we mean, build a marketing venue – a blog or vlog (eg a YouTube channel).

 

Plan on a few months of work before you see revenue appearing. And then keep going! You are building a real business. It may take 3-5 years before you make a full-time income, one you can live on.

 

If you’ve retired are or approaching retirement, and will need more income than you expect to have, why not start learning how to blog now? Learn the ins and outs of affiliate marketing now.

 

You can’t know what you’re getting into without some exposure to professional online marketing training.

 

You haven’t bumped into the scams and get-rich-quick offers.

 

You haven’t seen the hundreds of “no skills needed” systems that you can view the basics of for under $20.00 and then purchase more access for hundreds of dollars.

 

You haven’t seen the done-for-you packages where it turns out you need a lot of training to put the package to use.

 

I would like to save you some time and agony by providing you with a no-cost look into a training web site where you learn how to build a marketing venue, that is yours to develop, that you will own.

 

Not something that is part of a system that you’re dependent on for support or updates that may never appear.

 

You want a business that you have control over and will grow for years to come. It will depend on you, and that’s the advantage, right? 

 

 

   

 

One of my more popular posts about success in affiliate marketing:

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What’s The Easiest Way To Make Money Online

 

When I talk about internet marketing with friends they ask me what’s the easiest way to make money online? Is it easy? It was for me because I love writing and sharing information.

 

But how did the making money part enter in?

 

Another blogger referred me to a site where I could learn all the professional requirements for a revenue earning blog and I started with a free account that gave me access to an overview of the training.

 

Are you ready to look at something like that? 

 

 

 

This is a blog post I’ve written about an easy way to make good commissions:

 

ClickBank Affiliate Marketing System

 

I won’t repeat the details about how the ClickBank system works because you can click on that and read it in full. You can also read an overview here.

 

What’s the easiest way to make money online at home in 2023?

 

Whether or not you’re a senior or disabled person working at home, or a younger person, I will mention the key benefits of earning income with a web site:

• No age discrimination – no one can lay you off for being not young!
• No gender discrimination, getting paid the 73 cent FEMALE dollar
• No discrimination if you’re overweight or have medical problems (yes that happens! In hiring and lay-offs)

 

I wrote the article above in 2019 and I still say ClickBank digital products are the easiest to start off with. Why?

 

• Best commissions to be found
• Products can be instantly downloaded
• Huge variety of products
• The vendors have done the optimization for products to be found
• ClickBank provides the popularity of the products to help you pick

 

Here I refer to experts on the topic of earning money with a website: 

 

“Zeroing in on a problem you can solve is more important than fancy logos or expensive software, says Satya Purna, a cognitive behavioral money coach and founder of Infinite Minds, LLC….

“…“The most important thing to consider is: ‘What problem can I solve?’ Then go find people who need to solve that problem…” – Satya Purna

 

““I would say the first thing is to create a website, as everyone wants to see a website. ” – Neha Gupta, founder of College Shortcuts

 

If you learn how to start a proper professional blog and begin earning ClickBank commissions after a few months, you can pay for the business costs:

1. Domain name (get one free if you choose the pertinent membership level)
2. Monthly membership for the training (you can choose annual for a discount)
3. The costs of your internet service provider

 

You can now add products of similar categories to that blog and promote them too!

 

How do I earn money online for free without hard work?

 

I hope you’re chuckling along with me on this one. Have you ever started a new business for free and didn’t work hard? Hands up! 🙄

 

We’re talking about the easiest way not the easy way – because there isn’t one. It’s not difficult either, and you’re biggest initial investment is your time. If you’re retired you can put in 40-60 hours or more a week, right?

 

Many bloggers are working jobs and still make money from their blogs working 20 hours a week (maybe more if they have no kids, no pets, no long commute).

 

Speaking of no long commute, that’s one of the benefits of blogging at home. And there’s more!

• No using up gas and continuing to wear out your car
• No putting off medical or other self-care appointments because of the work schedule
• Learn to grow your own veggies, grow sprouts on your countertop and grow blueberries in pots

 

And why would I mention any of those last things? Because they are popular topics and I will bet you can find a digital product on ClickBank about how to do those survival-ish things to write about and promote, and earn commissions from.

 

From my linked article above, go to ClickBank and view the marketplace. There are thousands and thousands of products to promote and earn with.

 

You will find one reflecting your interest and expertise gained from your hobbies or past career(s).

 

This will enable you to write the volume of content needed to gain visibility online. To write about 35-50 articles in a few months and start making commissions.

 

You can see some discipline and consistency is required, but that’s a lot easier if you love this thing, right?

 

And there are so many things on this earth to love! And learn more about! And share! Your readers who will make purchases are the ones who love -or are fanatics about – 

• Woodworking
• Fishing
• Gardening – many categories!
• Sports information on how to improve
• Muscle building
• Nutrition
• The Law of Attraction
• Your favorite hobby

 

I truly believe – have tried and succeeded – that promoting ClickBank products is the easiest way to make money online. It is the easiest way to start because of:

• The thousands of products to pick from
• The best commissions you’ll get from affiliate marketing

 

And what do you need to start? A well designed, legally set up, attractive web site.

 

You can learn how to make one, starting with a free account (no payment form asked for)

 

 

What Is The Best Way To Do Affiliate Marketing

 

I’ve had questions about what is the best way to do affiliate marketing. Different strategies work best for different bloggers, different niches (your audience for the item(s) you love to promote).

 

And can TurboLists help?

 

TurboLists purports to automate email marketing.

 

This marketing system caught my eye, because ten years ago I was on a successful blogger’s email list myself.

 

And she introduced me to a professional internet marketing training community that I got to examine, for no money asked.

 

A free account! If you landed here because you are looking for such an opportunity and are ready to inspect the possibilities for your internet business (real or hoped for as of yet) just click below.

 

 

 

“With a foundation of opted-in contact information stored in their database, marketers can send out promotional materials automatically using autoresponders—known as drip marketing. They can also segment their promotions to specific market segments” – wikipedia

 

What is the best way to start affiliate marketing for YOU

 

Bear in mind, before any system works for you, you must have a website that is attracting traffic, or readership, where folks can opt-in and to which you can send your email recipients promotional links, or informational newsletters.

 

From where they will make a purchase and you will get a commission for that. 

 

How do I make my first income in affiliate marketing?

 

…before any system works for you, you must have a website…

 

…and how do you build a website that is professionally designed, legally set up, easy to read and will bring in income from affiliate sales?

 

Would you be willing to spend 4-6 months developing and gaining visibility on search engines before you see any revenue? (That would be the norm but you may go faster depending on how much time you have to learn and develop).

 

That activity will consist of writing content and choosing the optimal words (titles, headlines) that result in your articles showing up in search engines.

 

SEO, or Search Engine Optimization. You can learn how to do it, and with practice you can get really good at it.

 

Is email marketing easy for affiliate marketing as a beginner?

It is not difficult but you have to learn how.  There are some details to understand about email marketing.

 

In the training I recommend, you will be walked through those step by step.

• With classrooms on video
• With a weekly live webinar on related elements
• With a legacy Q&A below each class
• With access to a live feed for your queries
• With additional training offered by experienced members

 

Note, that’s after you’ve started building out your blog. 

 

Only then can you decide whether you want to start and monitor email campaigns.

 

Many successful high income bloggers only use content marketing and don’t use email marketing at all. 

 

How do I make a email list for affiliate products?

“Permission marketing” is another name for this method. Within your blog content, you will have a specific page where your readers can provide you their email address, giving you permission to promote to them.

 

This is your “opt-in” page. You will have an auto-responder set up to do various things:

1. Sending each opted-in reader a thank you
2. Dripping, or sending out carefully timed emails or newsletter articles to keep them interested

 

Professional marketers will recommend using a paid for auto responder. Those provide technical support and update support for technical and legal issues.

 

TurboLists offers:

• Start today and see results in as little as 24 hours from now!

 

red flag…before any system works for you, you must have a website…

 

• Get Facebook, Google, Twitter, Yahoo & Amazon BUILD your turbo lists for you with a 1-click!

 

red flag…before any system works for you, you must have a high volume of followers on social media platforms…

 

• Get REAL, targeted, buyer leads that are HIGHLY ENGAGED with your offers!

 

red flag…before any system works for you, you must have a website…

 

Is TurboLists A Scam?

It could be called a scam because of this one claim: 

 

“TurboLists gives you the power to generate 100% FREE traffic and leads from Google, Facebook, Twitter and more”…but…

 

red flag…before any system works for you, you must have a high volume of followers on social media platforms…in other words, you create the followers first, then you can promote to them.

Who Can Benefit From TurboLists?

 

Established marketers who already have:

• A developed web site or a few, drawing high volume readership
• A high volume of followers on social media – thousands

 

Experienced email marketers could take advantage of TurboLists. They could further automate their already automated email campaigns and maybe attain better speed of responses.

 

They would have to take the time to test it, and compare returns, perhaps spanning over a few months.

 

What is the best way to do affiliate marketing for you?

 

Once you start building a blog, you can determine your preferences, you can get a feel for the direction you want to go in.

 

Without professional guidance, how can you know? Take a look at the possibilities…

 

 

Here is some more information about internet marketing:

 

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What Is Solo Ads Marketing Is It Worth It

 

A friend asked me what is solo ads marketing. Is it worth it? So to help them, I did some research. 

 

I found this on Quora, a reputable site with tons of information – about Everything.

 

“Solo ads are email-based advertisements you buy from other email list owners. They’re typically sent as dedicated emails – so the entire message is all about your promotion. While other businesses can make use of solo ads, they’re most popular among affiliates and information marketers.” -Sawdik Pro on Quora

 

I came to this topic while reviewing 1K Profit Partnership.

 

I’m always scouting for any system that might help a senior who wants to work from home in their retirement years, to add to their income. Also, to help disabled folks who need to work from home too.

 

I mean, who can live on Social Security benefits, or Social Security Disability benefits? Not that those don’t help, but you can’t pay your rent or bills with that income. You need more.

 

I focus on helping people who want to work online (Senior Citizens) and build a business that they can work from home, or from their RV, or in any way that can match their lifestyle.

 

How can solo ads help? If solo ads are email-based advertisements you buy from other email list owners, how much will you have to spend?

 

How do all these email list owners find each other?

 

And, of more concern, wouldn’t the users of the 1K Profits Partnership all be buying the same email lists? Would the recipients be deluged and simply start unsubscribing?

 

In reviewing the pro critique of this system, this professional marketer states right up front that you will need additional training (not provided in the package) to generate traffic to your web site – the done-for-you site that you will need training to use.

 

Isn’t that a contradiction right there?

 

That’s a big red flag

 

Serious professional blogging students  take months to get good at generating traffic, meaning they compete well for visibility online.

 

There are different techniques and you just get better at it as you go along.

 

So, right here I’m going to recommend the best training.

 

And you can take a free look at it. A test drive, so to speak. You only need a user name and password, no payment form.

 

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If you want more information on 1K Profits Partnership – it is a system that looks like it can help people benefit from affiliate marketing. Which is…?

 

Affiliate marketing is a way of making commissions on sales for products – products that you didn’t create – but products that retailers sell.

 

Retailers like Amazon, Target, Best Buy – many.

 

There are a lot! If you were to write articles reviewing:

• Coconut oil benefits
• Bullitt Proof Coffee
• Prepared Food Delivery Programs/Fresh Meal Kits
• Farm To Table/Home Grown information

 

…you would attract readers who are specifically interested in those types of products. Likewise,  you could focus on

• Pet Supplies
• Dog Supplies
• Cat Supplies
• Birds
• Fish and Aquatic Pets If you look onto any retailer’s web site, you will see thousands of products!

 

The creator of this package says:

 

“What’s more, you don’t need to have experience in affiliate marketing or any online marketing to succeed. The 1K Profit Parnership will take care of it for you.”

 

But the presentation goes on about how you’re going to:

Collect email addresses for your marketing emails

Link them and some provided marketing emails to your auto responder

Direct your readers to a webinar selling a high ticket item (you make money here)

Keep marketing to those who don’t buy

 

The key to success here is getting traffic to your site in the first place.

 

Here’s Another Little Red Flag 

It is stated in the promo that you don’t use solo ads. Yet, inside the instructions, the preferred type of traffic generation is  – solo ads!

 

You pay for those.

 

Most people I’ve talked to about affiliate marketing online are willing to pay for training, within limits. They love the free account test drive to real instruction.

 

But because I’m marketing this training to senior citizens and perhaps disabled folks, I know they, or you, do not have money for buying ads.

 

And I must add here, that within the system I use, other pro marketers are financially successful and they:

• Never buy adds
• Don’t have an email list

 

What they do have is a well designed, friendly to read web site(s) providing information targeted to:

1. Readers who are interested in the topic of the site
2. Readers who are ready to buy something to do with the topic of the site

 

The other very important thing they have is the ability to drive traffic organically (without paying for ads) to articles designed for the interested readers, or the purchase-ready readers.

 

This is considered a good “user experience” (UX)  by the search engines, which results in better visibility to your site.

 

The other vital element for the blog creator – You – is a strong interest if not passion about the blog’s topic(s).

 

This element is vital because You – the creator – will need to write up to 50 blog posts, with your traffic-finding skills improving as you go, before you see commissions coming in.

 

You may write up to 100 posts before you have the money to hire other writers or buy ads.

 

I am talking about a senior with not enough retirement money, or someone who has to work from home.

 

A Quick Demo Of Affiliate Marketing

 

And here I’m going to take an affiliate marketing opportunity, to illustrate what you could be doing.

 

Let’s say I have readers who want to get started in making money online. They need a new computer – a good updated desk top or laptop. Yet, funds are short.

 

I am going to hop over to Amazon (could be  Ebay or Best Buy) and find some help. Help being, low cost refurbished computers. You don’t need to spend full price!

 

As an Amazon affiliate, I am obliged to disclose that I will make a commission if you make a purchase after following a link from my blog. So, I just did that. The two images below with a link, are advertising links. Here we go: 

 

 

 

Amazon provides those images with links. Once you have a web site set up that gets some traffic, Amazon will let you be an affiliate. And there are many more affiliate opportunities.

 

So to wrap up, 1K Profit Partnership may make you some money, but you will put considerable time into setting it up, and you’ll have to get through the training too.

 

The training I recommend will cost you a predictable monthly or annual (always saves a few dollars!) membership, the site will host your site(s) as part of the membership costs, and provide classrooms and within-the-membership training.

 

I don’t think I need to add more here, as you can go and see for yourself. 

 

 

Here is some information about internet marketing. 

 

Here is another article I wrote about the all-important traffic issue: 

 

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