This is an actual screenshot of one of my student’s affiliate accounts with the retailer Explodely.

This is a great example of what I am proud of. I have spent hundreds of hours teaching webinars to folks and throughout the years I have become incredibly confident as to what works and what doesn’t.

So if you want to make money online and you have a creative bone in your body, listen up!

Two years into it.. I started to do what others weren’t doing. I created videos and put them on my site. All my competitors were pretty ticked off that someone “was making it harder.”

Now they all had to add videos to their sites as well. This is when the “VSL” was born. Here are the screenshots from the WayBack machine, which doesn’t lie. 

I modeled this graphic based on my student feedback (and when someone sends me a testimonial) throughout the years. It represents different online “business models” from easiest to hardest, (And from less money & time needed to more money & time needed) 

Note that you could look at these like “skills,” but this is assuming your entire operation revolves around them as a “skill.” So for instance, with Email marketing, this is for example if you sold solo ads. So you are constantly in your Aweber account, etc.

And remember that there are many more business models but these are the ones I myself have experience in. I teach ALL of these in my webinars and have been since 2011. So which business models produce the most testimonials? Well, after 14 years.. the “Staircase” was born. Agency is the easiest, quickest, less money and time needed etc. Domains come second. PPC is the hardest “skill” or in the case of you spending all your time on it and making money on your own without anyone? = Hardest business model.

Now creating an Industry software + using PPC to promote it, plus an affiliate program + a ton of other stuff.. SUPER HARD! You get the drift. 

Now here lies a societal problem: “GURUS” sell instruction on the “black belt” or difficult models to newbies. :O This is why so many newbies cry “scam” or cannot replicate the results they see the “experts” achieving. 82 year old women in my class are having success with Ebooks. That’s the stage 3 model, or in other words, very easy compared to the ones at the top. Now you’ll end up combining them. As I said, they are skills! But obviously you can start one at a time. Like with Domaining? Quick grabber method, Flippa, use DM’s to accelerate your sales etc.