GoogleCash’s Official Blog

Thank you for submitting so many questions about the Detective to my blog. Here I’ll answer some of those questions and announce the launch date for the Google Cash Detective.

Is the Google Cash Detective suitable for beginners?

The Detective is a great tool for someone new to affiliate marketing because it is like having your own personal mentor.  Like a mentor, the Detective shows you what types of ads will perform best for your keywords.  It shows you what merchants are converting.

By studying the results in the Detective, you can clearly see what the best practices of a given niche are.  This keeps you from having to buy ads in order to test and discover these things for yourself.  Ultimately, the Detective saves you a ton of money!

With a single click in the Detective, you can see all the versions of a competitor’s ad that were tested.  You see what keywords they have stopped using.  In minutes, you can scroll through data that would literally take days to gather manually.  The Detective saves you a massive amount of time!

I’ve been making lots of short video tutorials that come with the Detective.  I explain everything that you need to know in order to get started from scratch.  I show you exactly how I use the Detective.  I don’t leave anything out.  It’s as if you were in my office looking over my shoulder as I go through and find profitable campaigns.

As I explain how the Detective works, I can’t help but go on little tangents where I explain things that have taken me years to figure out.  These are the tips that only someone with years of experience can tell you.

I love sharing all of this information, so keep in mind when you watch all of the Detective videos that you are learning about affiliate marketing and gaining the insight of someone who has been working online for years.

With lots of people doing this, will the Detective stop working in a few months?

You might think this is going to be something that you can only do for a while and then the market will be saturated.   I firmly believe this will not be the case.  Let me explain my thoughts.

When I first came up with the Google Cash concept and I told my friends and others about it, everyone always said the same thing.  “That’s great Chris, but too bad it will only last a couple of months before it stops working.”

4 years later, it still hasn’t stopped working.  Thousands of people are doing it, and still I barely feel the competition in my niches.  In fact, I still have several of the same campaigns I setup in 2003, still earning me good money.  Trust me, that’s not what I expected either.

Several things have changed since 2003.  First, the affiliate marketplace is probably a 1000 times bigger and growing faster than ever before.  There are hundreds of affiliate programs instead of dozens.  You can get more work done in a day, and often you can see your results within minutes.  Receiving payment is also faster and easier than ever before.

Using the Detective, you can see what merchants and techniques are standing the test of time.  You can see where money is being spent and profits are being made.  You are literally accessing a global market.  Your growth potential is not limited by your geographic location!

The more people that use the Detective, the more the industry will continue to grow and mature.  The Detective is just one step in the development, modernization, and automation of PPC marketing.  Take this step so that the next one won’t be out of reach.

If you are new to PPC marketing you will be studying those who are more experienced.  Everyone will be growing together.  You will see the profitable business models that are working day in and day out, bringing their owners automated profits.  This is the real world education that can transform you into a super marketer in a very short time.

How much will the Google Cash Detective cost?

The Google Cash Detective will cost a whole lot less than what it is worth.  What is it worth?  This is a question that every individual must answer.  There is so much here.  There is the learning opportunity, the financial opportunity, the opportunity for geographic freedom.  What is that worth to you?

We pay thousands of dollars for degrees that lead to jobs that require thousands of dollars in clothing and related expenses.  We pay thousands of dollars for cars and the gasoline to take us to the places where we toil.  There are so many expenses and sacrifices related to work as we have known it.

Pay per click advertising eliminates the commute, the clothes, the co workers, and the meetings.  Learning to make money online is the most direct route to matching your actions with your desires.  The time that it takes you to learn is time that is being spent directly on yourself, not on someone else’s agenda.

The Google Cash Detective is an investment in yourself, in your ideas, and in your future.  There are a lot of ways to spend money, but none are better than your own development.  Think carefully about what you spend money on and what it ultimately brings you.

The price of the Detective can be made back in a month.  For someone who really knows what they are doing, it can be made back in days.  Can you say that about traditional tools or education?  No way.

Most importantly, you can learn from the Detective for years into the future!  It doesn’t depreciate or need repair.  The Google Cash Detective helps you find geese that lay golden eggs, and how much is that worth to you?

In the blog comments, I have seen several people say that the price of the software is going to be $2000.  It is not going to be $2000.  It is not even going to be $1000.  It will be much less than that.  The Google Cash Detective will be a one-time, low-cost purchase – not a monthly fee.

Thanks again for your continued interest!

Sincerely,
Chris Carpenter

P.S. The Google Cash Detective Launches Monday, June 4, 2007 at 12pm Central Time

http://www.gcdetective.com

You can see the Power of an Idea by the response that it gets when you share that idea with the Internet. For those of you who have read my latest email, you already know that the video I posted on YouTube has been watched 173,998 times.

22,830 people have downloaded the Special Report, “Google Cash Strikes Back”, and Saturday, GCDetective.com had an Alexa Score of 486! This has all happened in the course of 7 days.

What we are seeing here is something more than a successful marketing campaign. We are seeing a paradigm shift. People are waking up. People are now deciding to take control of their lives. People are freeing themselves from the way it’s always been.

What’s stopping you?

Maybe I can help you with that question. We’ve all been told that we need to get a job and work for a living - work hard now and then, if you’re lucky when you’re 60 or 65, you can live. This is a belief so deeply engrained in modern culture that most of us take it for granted.

Guess what. That might have made sense 25 years ago, but today it’s completely misguided. The time to live is now, not later. Turning a dream lifestyle into your lifestyle only requires that you wake up, open your eyes, and stop believing what everyone else is saying.

Today, right now, this instant, THIS IS YOUR WAKEUP CALL!

You too can live your dream lifestyle, now!

I am going to outline 5 steps to free yourself from what most people accept as the only way to live. You will notice that none of these steps are difficult, and 3 of the steps are only mental exercises. I hope that you can follow along and that you are compelled to share these ideas with others.

Before I outline the five steps, I have one general piece of advice. Turn Off Your Television.

I haven’t had a television in over ten years. They are the biggest waist of time, and they are used to propagate negativity. Subjecting yourself to the barrage of negativity really impacts your lifestyle.

Television is the show case for the lowest form of our culture. I don’t want to belabor this point, but if you want to live differently, more freely, more independently, then cut the cable. Walk away, never to return.

Ok, so what is the first step to freeing yourself and living a lifestyle about which others can only dream? It turns out to be pretty obvious, but you won’t hear about it on the television. Sorry, last time to mention that lifestyle destroying device.

Step #1: Figure out what you really want to do with your life. What is your dream lifestyle? I shared my dream lifestyle with you. What’s yours?

If you had no constraints what would you do?

Oh, by the way, having a family is not a constraint. I take my family with me on all of our adventures.

Get a pad of paper and start brainstorming. Start thinking on paper! If you had 100 million dollars in the bank, what would you do with your time? What would you actually be doing?

Don’t figure out what you want to have. Having things just to have things is not important. Make a list of what you want to do, and from there, only acquire things that help you do what you want to do.

Really give this some thought, and think about your passions. What are you living for?

I get so many emails from people telling me that they want to quit their job or that they don’t like their position in life. Feeling uncomfortable is like the alarm going off, but you still have to wake up. You must want more than to simply quit your current job.

You have to have a vision, a passion. You can’t say I hate my job, so I’ll set up an online business instead. You have to have a reason to propel yourself from the mediocrity of the masses. Your passions are the reasons. Your vision is the catalyst. Everything else will fall into place. You have to wake up!

So the first step is to become clear in your own mind on what you want to do in your life. Don’t take this step lightly because it is the foundation upon which everything else is built.

Step #2 is to look at the list of what you want to do and figure out how much money you will need to do those things. That’s your Strategic Objective. For me, I figured I needed $10,000 a month of profits to support my dream lifestyle.

Shift your thinking from some huge lump sum that you need to acquire, and focus on what it would take monthly to enable you to live the lifestyle you want. Go through your list and make sure your monthly sum is enough to pay for what you want to do. Then, make sure that you still have something left over to save and invest.

We are living in a new world! You can make lots of money while you do the things you love!

Step #3 is to identify your limiting beliefs and to get rid of them. Specifically, you need to identify limiting beliefs concerning work and money.

Limiting beliefs limit your ability to accomplish things. They are very powerful. In fact, limiting beliefs are the biggest hurdle for someone new to the Internet to over come. Once you’ve made your first thousand dollars, you won’t have to worry about most of them anymore.

Just in case you haven’t heard of limiting beliefs, let me give you a few examples.

We’ve been raised to believe that work is hard and that hard work is good. We’ve been raised to believe that one day you need to grow up. You need to get a “respectable” job and work at least 5 days per week from 9 to 5 until your 65.

Ironically, jobs that are the most “respectable” often require more time than that, often 6 days per week. We’ve also been raised to believe that people who don’t work are lazy. Let this mental exercise take you back to your earliest ideas of work. Where and from whom did you learn the meaning of “work”?

Make a list of all of your beliefs concerning work.

Next, we have limiting beliefs about money. Some examples are that it is noble to be poor or that rich people are jerks, or if you are rich it is at someone else’s expense.

Think about all of the little sayings about money: “Money doesn’t grow on trees,” “We’re not the Rockefellers.” I bet you can think of several more.

Make a list of all of your beliefs concerning money.

Ultimately, your ability to leave the pack comes down to beliefs. The only thing preventing you from living your dream lifestyle is believing that you can do it. You are not you parents or your neighbors. You are not like the guy on TV.

You are the sum of all of your beliefs.

Get your limiting beliefs out in the open. Get them down on paper. You will immediately see them creeping up on you throughout your day as you deal with work and money. Noticing beliefs that limit your potential is the first step to getting rid of them.

When you notice a limiting belief, simply restate it in the positive, and it will no longer limit you. For example, “I can live any lifestyle I want to.” “Opportunities are all around me.” “Money comes easy to me.” “I can live my dreams today.”

Step #4 is to start building your Automated Online Business. You start by working on the business yourself, and little by little, you systemize the work and outsource it to a specialist. From there, you work on your business and not in it.

Have you read “The 4-Hour Work Week” by Timothy Ferriss?

Stop for a second, and ask yourself how that title makes you feel. If you are noticing a limiting belief, simply restate it in a positive and productive way.

Anyway, if you haven’t read “The 4-Hour Work Week,” run down to Barnes and Nobles or order it on Amazon right way. It’s a must read.

It’s crazy, it’s as if he wrote my book. For the last 4 years, I’ve been living what he writes about – working very little but earning a lot of money, living my dream lifestyle of travel and adventure. In his book, he talks about finding your “Muse,” your income stream that is dependable, scalable, replicable, and can be put on Autopilot.

An Automated Online Business is the Ultimate Muse. Since you are reading this blog, you are already closer than most to finding one.

So here it comes, the last step. Remember, all the technical know how and tools won’t help you unless you have worked out the first four steps in your mind.

Thanks to the Google Cash Detective, finding a Profitable Automated Online Business that fits your personality and interests is easy. You can find examples to educate you on what is current, what markets are teeming with business, and what techniques are working. From there, you add your personal touch and improve upon them.

So here’s what you do now.

Step #5 is to research niches to monitor with the Detective. You might want to go to Yahoo or eBay, and look at all of the different categories. Make a big list of niches. Brainstorm niches that interest you.

For each niche, develop a list of the top trafficked keywords. Your list can be small. It only needs to be the keywords that get a lot of traffic.

If you already have a favorite keyword research tool like Keyword Elite or Keywords Analyzer, then use that to create your short list of high traffic keywords. Otherwise the free Yahoo Search keyword suggestion tool is just fine and can be found at:

http://www.chrispicks.com/recommends/overturekwtool

So for each niche you might have around 50 keywords. Just make a list of the keywords that get the most traffic. You can do the “long-tail” keyword research later. This is the first step.

During the first week of June, when you get your copy of the Google Cash Detective, you are going to copy and paste all of your keywords into the Detective. You will create categories in the Detective for each one of your niches. You’ll enter your keywords into the categories and leave the Detective to monitor them.

Then after some time has passed, like a couple of weeks, you’ll analyze your data.

The Google Cash Detective will show you for each of your keywords, which Adwords Ads have been displayed constantly day in and day out, and which Ads came out for a couple of days and then dropped out.

The Google Cash Detective identifies both profitable direct to merchant affiliate link campaigns and profitable Adwords campaigns in general.

So you have two options. You can go around picking up the low hanging fruit, the direct to merchant affiliate links or you can also look at the profitable Adwords campaigns that don’t use affiliate links. Studying what kind of online business is behind the profitable Adwords Campaigns is a crash course in what is working on the Internet today.

You want to look for automated online businesses. You can then reverse engineer these “Spaceships” and see if you can figure out a way to improve on their offer and most importantly on the customer experience. If you think you can improve it, create a similar spaceship, all the time keeping in mind the customer experience.

Let’s say that you want to start by picking up all of the low hanging fruit - the profitable direct to merchant affiliate link campaigns that the Google Cash Detective has identified.

You could just copy those campaigns and replace their affiliate link with your affiliate link. That works, but it won’t be long until someone else comes along and finds your affiliate link and does the same to you.

So here’s a better way of doing it.

You find these profitable direct to merchant affiliate link campaigns in Adwords with the Google Cash Detective, and you improve the campaigns slightly and launch your campaigns in Microsoft adCenter.

Microsoft adCenter is growing quickly, and many believe it will soon overshadow Google. Right now, Microsoft adCenter looks like Google did in 2003. With the Google Cash Detective, you will find many profitable campaigns on Google Adwords that are not running on Microsoft adCenter.

That tip right there is worth thousands of dollars a month in profits to you.

Let me repeat that, because it is so simple, but so effective. Use the Google Cash Detective to find profitable direct to merchant affiliate link campaigns in Google and then replicate them on Microsoft adCenter. You can also put them on Yahoo Search.

Oh and when you do this, don’t just throw up another direct affiliate link, redirect your link first. In the future, everyone is going to be looking for affiliate links, so you need to hide them. It’s super easy to do. There are numerous free tools to do it. You can Google “Link Redirecting” or something related, and you will figure it out.

The tool I use to redirect my links is Mike Filsaime’s Power Link Generator. As you might imagine it has many more useful features than just redirecting links.

http://www.chrispicks.com/recommends/plg

My blog post has gotten a little long, so I’m going to stop there for now.

Thanks for all of your comments, questions and feedback. I’ll keep trying to address your questions in my next blog post. Also I’m preparing another video that shows how to find profitable direct to merchant affiliate link campaigns and how to find profitable automated online businesses. I will post that video in the next few days.

As always, I really appreciate your feedback, so please leave me your comments.

Talk soon,
Chris

I just released a Special Report titled Google Cash Strikes Back.

You can download it for free at:

http://chrispicks.com/recommends/specialreport

I shared this report with a few well known Internet Marketers to see if they would do a Joint Venture with me. I was shocked at the response. 3 of the guys I contacted told me that I should not release the report and that I should not release the software. They suggested that a small group of us should hoard this information and the tools and make a killing from it.

Sure I could keep this to myself and make a lot more money. But I have enough money to live my dream lifestyle. I don’t need more. Now I want to help you escape the ratrace, quit your JOB (just over broke), and help set you free to live your dream lifestyle.

That might sound like B.S. But it is the truth. I am not doing this just for the money. I really do want to help people live their ideal lifestyle. And this information and these tools can do that for lots of people.

When we release the software in early June we will probably sell under 1000 copies depending on the response and some other factors, maybe even under 500. Of those 500, I would guess that only 300 people will even take action. Of those 300 people that actually do something – I predict that each of them will be earning over $500 per day in profits within 2 months of starting.

Perhaps it might be more people than that, I don’t know. But my whole point of this is that rather than me hoarding this information and these tools and making even more money myself, I can help set free at least 300 to 500 people. Help them setup their automated online business so they no longer have to worry about money, a JOB they hate, etc, etc. Now that makes me feel good! Much more so, than more money in the bank.

I really feel like this is an opportunity of a lifetime and if the Special Report makes even a little bit of sense to you, I urge you to take action.

The software will be reasonably priced, nothing like the ridiculously high priced products we’ve all seen lately.

I also made a video sharing some of the adventures I have been up to so far this year. I almost didn’t post the video, since I shot most of it with a little handheld camera (Canon elph 500). And it is not the most professional video.

But when I had the fire in my house and I had such a nice response from everyone, many people asked about me, and my dogs and what I do, etc. I feel like this video shares that pretty well, so even though it is just something I threw together quickly, I decided to share it.

What do you think?

Please leave me your feedback on the special report and on the video.

Thanks,

Chris

PS I’ll keep you posted here about the Google Cash Detective and how the prelaunch is going, etc.