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I have not recently posted to my blog because I have been troubled with the technical difficulties we have had making the Google Cash Detective the efficient competitive intelligence software that it is today. I staked my reputation on the software’s success, and we have faced challenges that made me question my judgment.

The Internet is a wild frontier where great ideas attract the time and energy of skilled people who make these ideas a reality. The Internet changes rapidly and the technical requirements needed to survive in this changing environment crush all but the most determined entrepreneurs. I know because I have faced these challenges head on.

As most of you know I marketed the launch of the most powerful competitive research tool to be used on the Internet today. The Google Cash Detective has been a long time in the making, and we have had our share of challenges.

The Google Cash Detective has been designed and redesigned from the bottom up to deliver the most reliable competitive intelligence information in the affiliate marketing world. This type of growth and change is never easy, and when such growth and change occurs under the pressure and scrutiny of a wide audience, one must rely heavily on his determination to survive.

In my post today, I will tell you exactly what over 500 people are doing with the Google Cash Detective and what they are learning from our web training seminars. For the technically minded, I will describe how powerful our technology is compared to other alternatives, and most importantly for those who might be spared similar follies, I will tell you some of the problems that we have had along the way.

It has always been my both my personal and business mission to educate and inform. My time spent today is no different than when I dreamed up the automation that the Google Cash Detective and Automator make possible. I am sharing my knowledge to help people to help themselves, and I am sharing my experiences to educate and inform.

What is unique about today’s post is that I am going to highlight some of the things that went wrong in addition to what you usually hear which is how everything went smoothly and according to plan.

So let’s cut to the chase. Every day, the Google Cash Detective crawls Google, noting every PPC add, the display and destination URLs, and each ad’s running duration for nearly 2 million keywords. As a cluster of dedicated servers record the critical data, a complex parsing system imports this data into a database that all of our customers can simultaneously access.

As customers add new keywords, they are fed into our global database, and these keywords are subsequently entered into Google three times a day to deliver a very accurate description of what is happening in your niche market. One of the most amazing benefits of this behemoth task is that you can search for keywords that are being used by your competitors, keywords that you haven’t even thought of, keywords that are the missing link between you and your future customers.

This solution is incredibly powerful because it leverages the knowledge of all those who are in the Google Cash Detective Community and it places that knowledge literally at your finger tips. For the sake of comparison, SpyFu.com, which offers a similar approach to competitive analysis, maintains a comparable number of keywords in their database, but the data is only updated once per quarter. That’s 4 times per year. We are updating daily!

When we built the Google Cash Detective, we had no idea how many people would start using it and how their combined keyword data would create such a unique and sought after resource. In fact, we first envisioned the software to be used by individuals with access to nothing more than their own data. After all, I was just trying to automate my research process, and expedite the rollout of my new campaigns.

Our first release was somewhat problematic. We launched nearly an hour late, causing a deluge of inquiries, and we had people on the other side of the world unable to purchase because their address was not accepted by our payment processor. We had a bug in our latest version of the software that we launched with, that was causing problems on our recommended host, and I was getting nervous.

Despite these problems, we quickly realized that we were on the cusp of something very big. We outsourced an installation team from YBrandt in India to address our installation difficulties on the variety of servers found around the globe, each running different software versions and configurations.

This brute force approach only helped in some cases. We realized we were not going to meet the needs of our customers. The technical support to keep everyone running was too much. We had no choice but to face these challenges, alter our approach, and expand our scope.

n the mean time, refunds were belabored by a predatory payment processor, Card Service International (CSI), who would not release any of the funds that we had taken in, and further informed us that refunds were being processed when they were not.

We literally had to refund people from our own money without having access to the money we had collected from customer payments. To make things worse, our shared hosting solution fell apart when the flood of orders placed numerous customers on the same servers causing resource overages, ultimately shutting down service.

So there we are, sold out in less than two hours, with only a few successful installations and numerous people requesting refunds. We had an error in an affiliate script that ultimately required us to spend days correlating orders to the JV partners who had promoted us. Some cards were charged more than once, and I was scrambling to correct as many problems as I could.

We had over 3000 people on a waiting list for the software, so we wanted to keep everyone happy and refund those who didn’t want to wait for the software to be fixed. My reputation was on the line, and the last thing I wanted to do was tarnish it!

Unable to stomach the delays with our payment processor, I bucked up and paid all of the JV partners who had brought in the customers, prior to being paid for the software myself. Sadly, some of those customers refunded, so I ended up paying JV partners for sales that I never collected on. As a result, I lost a significant amount of money.

As I stewed about the losses, the Google Cash Detective was being redesigned to run as a hosted service. We could operate the software more effectively on a server that we controlled more easily than tweaking it and providing updates to the numerous server types we had encountered after the first sale.

To our programming teams’ credit, we had a new version operational in less than a month. We also had a new payment processor (Power Pay) that assured us that we would not encounter the same problems that we had with CSI. Despite the problems with our first sale, we sold out again in less than 3 days.

We created a script to migrate data to the new platform for those who had already begun to use the software, and we made every effort to quickly identify and correct bugs in the new system. For those of you who waited for refunds from the first sale, I apologize for the delay. I personally made sure that everyone who requested a refund from that sale has received it.

Although the second sale went smoothly, we still had technical challenges supporting our customer base and the rapidly growing keyword database. Those who requested refunds on the second sale received them immediately because Power Pay was a dependable and honest payment processor.

So, here we are today. We’ve finally tamed the beast! It would have been nice to have waited until now and then launched with our current version, but hindsight is 20/20, and I learned so much along the way - lessons that I’ve tried to pass along with this post.

The Google Cash Detective is now an amazing competitive intelligence research service that offers specialized internet marketing training to hundreds of individuals no less than 6 times per week!

Currently, over 500 people are actively using the software and some people’s results are nothing short of spectacular. We are turning novices into pros, one at a time, all across the world.

The Google Cash Detective is not for sale at this time, yet I get requests for new trials every day. I promised that I would first take care of my current customers, and I am still trying to do exactly that.

For those of you who have been refunded, you will have another opportunity to try the software again. I don’t hold a grudge, and I can’t blame many of you who tried valiantly to use the software when it contained critical programming flaws.

Many of you were very helpful in identifying bugs, and many of you who stayed the course have contributed to the powerful working version we are using today. Thank you for all of your help and understanding.

I’d like to close this post with a reference to the mythological Phoenix. Mythology helps us to understand and cope with problems that we face in every day life.

“Only one Phoenix may exist at any given time, which makes it a solitary bird. It does not reproduce, which adds to its loneliness, as only its death will bring on another of its race. When the Phoenix feels its end approaching, it builds a nest with the finest aromatic woods, sets it on fire, and is consumed by his own flames. From the pile of ashes, a new Phoenix arises, young and powerful.”

The development of our software has followed a similar path, and with courage and determination, we have persevered and created the most powerful competitive analysis product available on the Internet today.

I know all of you face challenges, and I encourage you to build and rebuild until your objectives have been met. Setbacks are a part of life, and if you maintain your ambitions, setbacks aren’t that big of a deal. Simply, aim high and stay the course, however windy it may be.

The Google Cash Detective will again sell out, and I will continue my mission to spread cutting edge Internet Marketing Knowledge to all those who can use it. Further, the Google Cash Community will continue to grow and develop, providing opportunity to all who embrace it.

Stay tuned. The best is yet to come!

Best wishes on your success,

Chris Carpenter

Wow!  I appreciate the overwhelming interest that we received for the Google Cash Detective yesterday.  It was very refreshing to see such a large response to a project that has been so long in development.

Currently, we are rapidly adjusting to the unexpected demand and have made significant improvements to handle the incredible response.  For example, this morning we have added 3 full time staff members who will be assisting with downloads, installations, and technical support.

We have received very helpful feedback from customers, and we are making adjustments to serve them better.  Additionally, we still have two full time staff members who are focused on the business building applications of the software and who will be able to help you as you start to use the Detective.

For those of you who were able to purchase yesterday, congratulations, and I humbly apologize for anything less than a perfect experience.  Honestly, we were not prepared to deliver to the scale of interest that we received yesterday.  Having more than doubled our staff in 24 hours, we are doing everything we can to catch up.

I am extremely grateful that so many people understand the power of this tool.  I am aware that many people could not get their orders through.  In particular, I apologize to customers from Australia and the UK where we seemed to have a number of processing problems.

I had no idea that we would sell out so quickly.  I thought it would take several days.  People were ready at noon, and our servers were at absolute capacity.  At one point for nearly half an hour, I couldn’t even login myself.  I’ve never seen that happen.

There were lots of surprises for me yesterday.  That is just the nature of the new world that we live in.  Please don’t be discouraged if you were unable to purchase.  We will respect the waiting list and will contact you when space becomes available.

For those of you who have emailed asking when we will release more copies of the Google Cash Detective, please be patient as we must wait until we are sure that we have properly taken care of our current customers.

I am absolutely committed to achieving the highest level of customer satisfaction that is humanly possible.

Because customer satisfaction is so important to me, we will delay selling more copies of the Google Cash Detective until we have satisfied our current customers and are prepared to deal with a rapid response like the one we saw yesterday.

Please be assured that when we are ready to sell another limited quantity of the Google Cash Detective, we will proceed in a way that is fair to everyone.

Thank for your continued interest in the Google Cash Detective.

Sincerely,

Chris Carpenter

The Google Cash Detective will be available starting today, Monday, June 4th at 12 noon Central time for one week or 500 copies sold.

As we neared the release date for the Google Cash Detective, we received some thoughtful feedback suggesting that we might be changing the PPC Industry too fast for its own good.

After much deliberation, however, we are certain that this type of competitive intelligence is the future of PPC marketing.  With the information that the Detective makes available, best practices will soon be even better.  We feel that there is nothing to be afraid of as affiliate marketing opportunities are expanding every day.

But, to be absolutely sure that we don’t ruin this for everyone, we are going to limit the availability of the Detective to 500 Copies or 1 week, whichever comes first.

The Google Cash Detective is worth many times more than what we are charging, and we are going to limit sales in order to protect that value for those who purchase it.

We want to make sure that those who purchase the Detective will be getting more than their money’s worth.  To protect your investment, we want to see how this new technology affects the industry before we release too many copies.

Again, the Detective will be available at this price for 1 week or 500 copies, whichever comes first.

You can be sure that in exactly 1 week, there will be no more Detectives for sale.  In fact, this could happen faster. 

We are going to play this safe and try to protect everyone’s interests.  We aren’t going to rush this.  We will stop selling the Detective after 500 copies and observe the effects that the Detective is having on the industry.

Don’t miss your opportunity.  Join the Revolution today!

Sincerely,

Chris Carpenter

http://www.gcdetective.com

Thanks again for submitting your questions and comments! In this blog post, I am going to answer several of them.

As most of you know, I live down in southern Mexico on the beach, twenty minutes from the nearest town.

Hurricane Barbara, touched down yesterday and knocked out our power.

The power is still out, but I’m back online! I went to town (driving through torrential downpour, frightening winds, and near zero visibility) and borrowed a generator from a friend to power my satellite internet connection and my laptop.

As if the launch wasn’t enough excitement, Mother Nature decided to pitch in a little too.

Thankfully, I’m back online now - full systems go! Wooohooo!

So, here I answer some great questions that I recently received:

1. Is the Google Cash Detective easy to install? Can a beginner install it?

The Google Cash Detective is simple to install, and a beginner can install it. It can literally be installed in 5 minutes. You follow a short video that shows you step by step how to do it. You can pause the video while you execute the steps and then continue.

We also offer a free install for those who would rather have someone else do it for them.

2. With the Google Cash Detective monitoring so many Google ads, could this eventually trigger some type of a ban from Google?

The Google Cash Detective uses a proprietary method of querying Google which to this date has never resulted in a single ban on any of our servers or beta tester’s servers.

For the last several months, I have been monitoring thousands of keywords several times per day from all kinds of different servers – dedicated servers and shared servers like iPowerWeb, and GoDaddy. Also, we’ve had many beta testers monitoring thousands of keywords per day on hosts like hostmonster.com that cost $4.95 per month.

In the entire time that Google Cash Detective has been monitoring these keywords, Google has never banned any of our IP addresses or URLs.

Also, to use the Detective, you do not have to go through captchas - those little annoying pop-ups that come up in some programs and ask you to type a series of letters or numbers in a box to continue. There are no captchas with the Google Cash Detective!

3. Are there any extra costs associated with getting click data or cost per click data from Google?

Google Cash Detective comes with an optional feature for collecting click data. Specifically, click data is the number of clicks per day that a keyword receives and the cost per click for the number 1 and 3 positions.

The Detective works with or without the click data. The cost is around 5 cents per keyword. At any time, you can enable or disable that feature. I only use that feature about once per month, and I find it to be a valuable add on.

Also, you don’t need a Google API for the Google Cash Detective.

4. Will this software keep working as things change with the Internet?

The Google Cash Detective will be updated for a long time to come and will adjust to the latest Internet developments. We already have several new features in the works for version 2.0, and The Google Cash Detective will be the flagship of our Google Cash Software Suite.

5. Is the Google Cash Detective software hosted by you, or do we host it?

We do not host the Google Cash Detective Software. The Google Cash Detective installs on any hosted web server. You can install it in just a few minutes, or we offer free installation if you prefer.
It can be installed on any hosted web server like godaddy, ipowerweb, hostmonster, etc.
Some similar products to Google Cash Detective host their software on their servers, and you login to their server. All of your keywords and data lives on their servers and they have access to it. They could take a peek at your data if they wanted to.

With the Google Cash Detective, only you have access to your data. You install the software on any webhost of your choice and you own the data.
6. Will training cost extra?

No. Everything is included. There are training videos that you access from inside the software. And all of the training is included. Also, we’ll be adding more training videos going forward.

The software is a one time fee. That includes free installation, free updates and free support from a full-time staff in a dedicated web conference room. It also includes all of the training videos.

So that’s it for now. Keep posting your comments and questions on my blog and have your keyword lists ready. The revolution begins Monday.

To your success!

Chris Carpenter

P.S. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised!

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.

Google Cash 3rd Edition is ready for you to download.

If you are a Google Cash Customer you will have
received an email from me with the download information.

If you are not a Google Cash Customer yet, now is
the time to purchase Google Cash. I will be raising the
price in a few days, so get in now at the low price:

http://www.googlecash.com

Updates are Free for Life, and I update the material often.
In this update I have included lots of new material.

Checkout the Getting Started Guide, the GC 3rd Edition
eBook, the 10 Day Action Guide, The Landing Page Brain
Dump Audios and Special Report, and The Adwords Rumors
Crushed Audios and Special Report.

I am constantly working on improving Google Cash, so
your feedback is greatly appreciated.

Please leave me your comments below.

Thanks again for being a Google Casher!

To your success,

Chris

Happy New Year!

It’s been great to get to know so many of my Google
Cash customers.

This week I will be sending you the Google Cash 3rd
Edition. I already sent you several parts of the
update. Now I will send you the rest. Look for an
email from me in your inbox real soon.

Food for thought for 2007:

You create your reality with your thoughts. Thoughts
become things. What you think about the most, becomes
so.

Decide what it is you want in your life. Then focus on
it, and by focusing on it you will attract it. Practice
dismissing your negative thoughts and replacing them
with positive ones. Ones that make you feel good!

You are the only one who creates your reality. You have
all the control. You are a magnificent creator. Go create a
great 2007 one thought at a time!

Thanks again for being a Google Cash customer. I’m
looking forward to having a great 2007 together!

Chris

Today I sent out the 3rd Part of the Google Cash 3rd Edition to Google Cash Customers: The “Google Cash Google Slap Retort”.

If you are not yet a Google Cash customer, become one now so you can get the “Google Slap Retort” as well as the many extras I’ll be releasing over the next couple of weeks.

http://www.affiliatejackpot.com