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Learn How Super Affiliate Bronwyn Bamber Turned Her Business Around
with James Martell’s Proven 8-Step Approach (Part 1)

When Bronwyn Bamber joined James and countless other merchants and online publishers for Affiliate Summit, little did she know her life was about to change.

It took a chance meeting in Halifax, Nova Scotia at a small Alexander Keith’s
pub, for Bronwyn to realize that she was on the wrong side of the field, so to speak.
So, after talking to James, Arlene, and a handful of their students, Bronwyn made
the life-changing decision to resign from her job as an affiliate manager and start
her own online business as an affiliate/publisher.

Bronwyn tells listeners all about the mistakes she made as she painstakingly built her first
site and how she used James’ Affiliate Marketer’s Handbook to bring her back around
to the 8 steps, which she applied to achieve her own online success.

Listeners also hear how Bronwyn and her partner started out by working around-the-clock to get nearly 20 sites (and 5,000 pages of content) on the Net before realizing
they were doing something wrong. Frustrated and questioning her decision to workfrom home as an affiliate, Bronwyn called James.

Ready to throw in the towel, she found information in James’ Handbook about linking and refocused her efforts. She also quickly signed up for James’ Affiliate Marketer’s BootCamp, which was held in James’ hometown of White Rock, British Columbia and got the clarification on the 8 steps that she needed to “get back to the basics” and build two new sites which now generate earn her a substantial monthly income!

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Bronwyn talks candidly with James about the trials and tribulations and even the hard lessons she learned, such as success on the Net is based on quality and not quantity. Proof, she points out, is in the fact that two of her websites (the two she built after referring back to the Handbook and attending the BootCamp) are what bring in her jaw-dropping income.

And she credits James’ training and her work on creating high-quality links to her
site’s pages that she needs to “rank” as the real difference.

As someone who has been in the trenches and found her way to financial freedom,
what does Bronwyn advise to those of you who are just starting out and to those
of you who need a bit of help? And what does Bronwyn suggest you never, ever do?
Listen in now and hear these insider’s secrets and more – all from an online publisher
who has succeeded, despite never having built a website and having absolutely no
technical skill at all!

Way to go Bronwyn! :)

Listen to the Bronwyn Bamber interview here: Listen Now

For more information on James Martell‘s affiliate marketing training, including additional complimentary Coffee Talk interviews,
click the link:

http://www.work-at-home-net-guides.com

About James Martell

James Martell, a successful affiliate marketer and natural search expert has published many dozens of sites over the years, and uniquely derives most of his traffic through natural search at the major search engines. James shares this knowledge with other webmasters in the THIRD EDITION of his highly acclaimed Affiliate Marketers Handbook,

his twice monthly Affiliate Buzz audio newsletter and his online Affiliate Marketers BootCamp where he holds classes via the Internet for those wanting to learn how to start an online business from home. James resides in a seaside community south of Vancouver, BC Canada with his wife Arlene and four children, Adam, Justin,Shelby and Victoria.

Comment from Listeners (38)

  • Bronwyn is a great example of hard work. It’s motivating to hear her success and to know that if you workhard and stay determined, you will succeed. Joe Minneapolis, MN

  • Very inspiring talk, I feel I am on the right track.

  • Most helpful. Combining James’book with “real experience” is invaluable to me! Its nice to hear her say shemade some of the same mistakes I’ve made or am making and yet succeeded beyond
    her wildest dreams! you go girl!!! Randy Rhodes, Westerville, Ohio

  • Your question for adding commentsis did I find this talk with Bronwyn Bamber interesting, informative and helpful?
    Yes, yes and yes. Interesting because I haven’t lost my scepticism and all the main strategies of a few years ago are now said to be reversed. Informative because the redirection to scale down and focus on refocusing the tactics and strategies seem sound though without serious detail. And helpful due to the fact that the only sure thing is that if you get other super affiliates and high quality incoming links to link to you you will probably earn a dime, perhaps a living… we’ll see. Rick, San Jose, USA

  • Bronwyn, thank you so much forthis valuable information. Now I can see that “PAD technique” is very importantstep to make the whole business work. I really enjoyed the coffee- talk interview.
    Thanks again. Alexander Vershinin

  • Thanks Bronwyn for sharing whatis working for you. It has pointed me in the right direction. Scott, Ladner BC

  • Bronwyn’s story is so inspiring.
    There have been many times I’ve felt like “I’ll never make it” but listening
    to Bronwyn I know that sticking to the basics I can and will! -Don Conner

  • Refreshing. Bronwyn’s honestand straight talking style is a testament to her. Like James, she is open, honestand the story she tells is pure gold dust. Thank you James, and thank you Bronwyn;
    this interview is a real pleasure to listen to and learn from. Paul GB

  • I just want to say that Bronwynwas very inspiring and confident. I myself have over 100 sites online and Ihave kind of lost focus, especially with merchants. But this call has really
    given me a boot in the right place. Writer Unknown

  • Just the information we needed.
    Bronwyn gives us a great model to follow – fun, sharing, and successful with
    her site-building…. Mike and Beth, Port Townsend, WA

  • It was terrific that the interviewwith Bronwyn was not long after her getting started. It was extremely helpful in giving insights to the start-up phase, along with the mistakes as well as the potential. I know this will shorten my learning curve tremendously. I‘ll surely be listening to this interview a number of times. James is right on target in getting to the fundamentals by asking Bronwyn to discuss the pitfalls to avoid and take the audience through a process step by step.
    Often in interviews of people who have become successful in affiliate marketing a lot of the steps
    may not be as fresh in their mind. That is not the case in this interview. By James asking for an example or to clarify a process it becomes understandable. He recaps to make sure the audience understands and by doing so reinforces the point. That is so helpful and appreciated .I came away with a much clearer idea of the process and what obstacles might be encountered and hopefully avoided as well as expectations and amazing possibilities.
    Well done I forward to the
    other Coffee Talks. Denise, Cedar Grove, NJ

  • The interview was useful and gave clarity to the issues associated with getting inbound links to a website. It was useful to hear about mistakes and how they were overcame and the importance
    that was given to trial and error as a method of learning. Clayton Palmer, Shanghai

  • This would have to be the most inspiring interview. I listen to it regularly and in fact I am listening to
    it again now. This interview keeps me focused. Paula, Australia

  • I was a bit overwhelmed with all the information in online bootcamp. Then I attended the first Coffee Talk with Bronwyn and became inspired again. I love her story, and I appreciate her sharing her insights, particularly about launching a site with 18 pages and growing it from there. As Bronwyn said, and as James has often stated, “just get that first site out there.” Regina, Denver, CO

  • The number one tip I took away from the interview that changed my PAD prospecting strategy forever, was to target similar but non competing sites. My current list is in the hundreds now
    and growing. Thanks James and Bronwyn. Leanne Tremblay, White Rock, BC

  • After going through a whole lot of second guessing myself and listening to this it seems to have gotten me back on track and instilled new confidence in myself. John, Sechelt, BC, Canada

  • Very inspiring, thanks Bronwyn.
    I have been online for a little over 12 months now and started out down the AdSense track. Twenty four sites later and just into the four figures a month I thought I was doing well. I have always said James’ Affiliate Handbook is the best product I have read since being online. Duh! Bronwyn has just re-emphasized to me I need to start practicing what I preach! Thank you Bronwyn for sharing
    your story and to you James for being one of the trustworthy guys out there.
    Dean, Atlanta, GA

  • All of the interviews in the Coffee Talk series have been great and each helpful in its own way but these two interviews with Bronwyn are really where the rubber meets the road for affiliate
    marketers. Don, Barrie, Ontario, Canada

  • A final reason for to not give up. Refreshing and straight forward. Thanks again! JT Bo, Norway

  • The interview with Bronwyn has left me with two important things to remember. One, that a regular “non-guru” person can do it if she applies the correct methods to her site building and
    promotion. Two, that I should focus my efforts on just a few proven methods – e.g. using PAD for back links. I have been hearing and reading about so many tricks and techniques that it’s so difficult to determine what actually works. Thanks, James and Bronwyn. Willie B

  • Thank you so much Bronwyn for your infectious enthusiasm, openness, and wonderful insights. One of the biggest hits of your coffee-talk series to date, James.

  • I loved this interview. Bronwyn’s story is inspiring. I appreciate her candour and her energy is infectious. Thank you. Charlotte Bradley, Ottawa, Ontario

  • As a relative newcomer to the Affiliate Marketing business, this interview was extremely informative and encouraging. Thank you for bringing folks like Bronwyn into our loop. I so enjoy listening and learning from people succeeding in this interview. Lord willing, maybe you’ll be interviewing me
    in the next few years. :) Keep up the great work! Tim W – Virginia, USA

  • The timing was awesome. I am in the middle of building my first sight and this interview was encouraging and pointed out some things I hadn’t thought about or overlooked. Great interview!
    Writer Unknown

  • Great Coffee Talk! We had the opportunity to met Bronwyn at the first Bootcamp, so we knew she is a work-holic. It is great to see that she has come so far in such a short time. She is one
    to watch. THANKS Bronwyn for sharing the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Really
    do appreciate you putting it all out there for us to learn. Gerald & Linda,
    Lafayette IN

  • Very inspiring talk, Bronwyn has definitely got this figured out. This was a real eye opener as to where
    to invest my time & effort and more importantly where not to waste my time.
    Very timely and relatable…well except the income part. Dan, Surrey BC

  • I very much enjoyed this interview with Bronwyn. I would say the biggest thing I took away from this interview, is the fact that a site could be put up in March and be so successful in November.
    I was also inspired by the story of someone who would take out a second mortgage
    on her house and then give herself a year to “do or die”. This lady has the guts of a river boat gambler. I realize that Bronwyn is a good business person and would probably be a success at anything she put her mind to. I also realize that any one of us could duplicate this success if we are only willing to do
    what she has done. She’s been kind enough to share exactly what she’s done.
    To sum it up I was inspired by Bronwyn’s story. Tony Pompano Beach, FL

  • I found the interview HIGHLY effective. I always appreciate it when James will ask the person he is interviewing to reiterate certain points, and in some cases request concrete real life examples
    of how certain techniques are performed. The interview with Bronwyn was particularly helpful in this manner. Sometimes I need a visual perspective so that I may grasp the concept thoroughly. I want to make sure that I have the correct “mental model” of how the technique is performed. I find that his interview process reinforces the proper “mental model” of how to go about executing various techniques.
    So far the Coffee Talks have been well worth the investment! Thank You! Christian
    Chapa, San Francisco USA

  • Refreshing, honest insight by a student who has “grabbed your training by the throat” and forged a successful affiliate publishing career. Best information: It’s all about the links first,
    then quality content. Think fewer sites, pages, & merchants, but do it “right”
    (follow the 8 steps). This is not & never will be a “static” business. Thanks
    so much Bronwyn for being a positive role model. Ed P. Chambersburg, PA, USA

  • Bronwyn’s enthusiasm is infectious!
    It’s apparent that she has worked very hard and is a “student of James’ 8 steps”.
    It sounds like the “magic pixie dust” is working smarter and following the system.
    I am looking forward to future interviews with Bronwyn and James. Congratulations
    to you both! All the Best, Joel Smith

  • I can relate to her original focus on building huge sites (that have no traffic). For me this comes from
    the fact that building a site is completely under my control. But, the best site with no traffic makes no money. She emphasized the key point, product pages on my sites need inbound links to get traffic, and then make money. I got great encouragement by hearing how Bronwyn experienced many of the same things I experienced.
    It was a great Coffee talk. Mike R. Sunrise, FL, United States

  • I just want to let you know, this has been the greatest positive shot in the arm for me since I started my online business as an affiliate. Some two months in, mainly researching day and night with my site still not seeing any page rank, and having only made $1.36 from Google’s ad sense, some doubts were starting to appear. Even though in your manual James, you warn of this likelihood. So for me the discussion between James and Bronwyn has been very timely, and I plan to trot it out again
    if ever any doubts appear again in the future. Bronwyn has blown away all the clouds of doubt for me, and reinvigorated my motivation completely. I really hope someday to be in a position financially to come across to the States and meet you all, hopefully with a success story like Bronwyn’s. Cheers, Pete, Australia

  • Bronwyn is someone worth keeping an eye on to learn, even borrow some of her special techniques. Anyone who has reached the plateau Bronwyn has in such a sort time-span is to be highly commended and watched closely. Cool interview. Writer Unknown

  • I can’t thank you enough for the invite to the Bronwyn coffee-talk. It’s exactly what I needed at this point.
    My story is very much like hers so far, having the fortune to meet you both at bootcamp, building a site, and watching it mature. Just a few weeks ago I received my first page ranking of 4 on my site. Woohoo! I’m hoping now that things will pick up and my success will increase. Hearing Bronwyn’s successes AND failures have both been equally important to me, giving me direction and
    warning simultaneously. I can relate to some of her struggles, having fumbled a few things here and there. Her knowledge, personality, and experience shared is like a beacon to me in the midst of sometimes overwhelming circumstances in progressing this business. Thanks Bronwyn! And thanks to you James and Arlene!
    All the best, – Eric Nunamaker

  • Great interview. Way to go Bronwyn…
    Ted, Issaquah WA

  • At my next visit to an affiliate related event, I’m looking for the table full of food and Bronwyn Bamber! This is one of the most helpful coffee-talks in the series! Thanks, Bobbie Grennier
    (Affiliate-Blogger.com)

  • The best coffee talk to date!
    Very inspirational and informative. It proves James point that if one is persistent,
    works hard, and pays attention to detail good things happen. Writer Unknown

  • Bronwyn is someone worth keeping an eye on to learn, even borrow some of her special techniques. Anyone who has reached the plateau Bronwyn has in such a sort time-span is to be highly commended and watched closely. Cool interview… Darryl Ruff, Kelowna, BC, Canada

Having always lived in an area where the internet connection is lightening fast and with unlimited internet downloads, I haven’t had to give any consideration to anyone who may have a slow internet connection.

Well haven’t I just received a rude awakening!

Having just moved to a rural area has certainly pointed out to me the problems faced by anyone who is doing Affiliate Marketing and who suffers with a slow connection.

When I first moved to the country, the service provider I was with assured me that I could have a broadband (cable) connection. This turned out to be incorrect as the line is too noisy. So it was back to a dial up connection.

To start with I thought “Hey this isn’t too bad.” But eventually I had to stop deluding myself and finally purchased a satellite dish.

Now the satellite connection is faster than dial up until I use up my 2gb allowance and then it is shaped back to dial up speed and as I can’t get an unlimited access plan this happens very quickly. In fact I use my 2gb in approximately 4 days so I spend the next 26-27 days being able to make a cup of tea, doing a bit of gardening, lighting the fire etc between downloads and uploads, you get the picture.

I find this extremely frustrating and I now understand how others in the same position feel.

As those of you who are involved in Affiliate Marketing will appreciate, we need to have a number of windows or tabs open so that we can access data and merchant networks quickly.

Unfortunately, this is one situation for which I have no answer. I have contacted all the major players who provide internet access and none of them are able to assist. And forget about the minor providers as they aren’t interested in or do not have services available to rural areas.

So if anyone has an answer I would certainly like to hear it.

Okay that’s my whinge for the day.

Now I hope you have taken advantage of our ‘Squidoo Course’. This is something that will help you start making money online really quickly, unlike my internet connection.

The Key to Ranking Well in Google

Contrary to common belief, it is not necessarily websites with a high page rank that dominate the top space in the Google rankings. It is not uncommon to see a website in the number one position that has a lower page rank than the website in second position. So why do so many people place so much emphasis on the little green bar?

I have the Google toolbar installed and when I am looking for websites on the internet for backlink purposes I always check the little green pagerank bar. I see the value in it even though it may not be that accurate or up-to-date as it gives me a basic idea of what Google thinks of a particular website. But this is what those obsessed with the little green bar fail to see – it really is just a basic representation of that website, nothing more.

How does Google rank web pages?

One of the main criteria Google uses to rank web pages is through the number of good quality links coming into it. So if another website decides to link to your website or blog and they are considered important in the eyes of Google, then it will in turn help to improve the importance of your website.

The keywords or anchor text used in those incoming links is another key factor that can help improve your ranking in Google. The following exercise will illustrate this perfectly. Go to Google.com and type in the words ‘click here’ and see what comes up – the first result should be Adobe.com. Now go into that page and see if you can find the keywords ‘click here’. You will find that those words are nowhere to be seen on the page. So why do they rank so well for those particular keywords? It is because there are hundreds of other websites linking to Adobe.com using the keywords ‘click here’ in their anchor text.

Now if that doesn’t get you thinking about how important anchor text is then nothing will!

Relevancy is also another critical factor. A reason that many websites do not rank well is because they have hundreds of websites linking to them that having nothing to do with their topic. Their website might be about dogs but they have a link from another website that relates to credit cards or something else totally unrelated. These links have less value in the eyes of Google.

Quantity vs Quality

In essence then, it is not so much the quantity of backward links that you have coming into your site that is important but the quality of backward links.

Be selective with your linking strategy. Look for sites with content reasonably relevant to your site that have a good pagerank and good quality backward links. This is the key.

Are We Crazy?!

There are times in a person’s life when they realize that they need to change direction. Well for us that time is now….we’ve made the decision to finally become serious about [tag-tec]Internet Marketing[/tag-tec]. Don’t get me wrong, we’ve have been doing this for a couple of years now and we do make money from what we do but it’s not always as consistent as we would like. It’s also not in the region of what the super affiliates make.

We want to become serious players and strengthen the backbone of our business. This has been building up for some time now and a few different factors have moved us into this direction:

1. We have previously focused solely on organic search and although we are damn good at it, it is a slow process and neither of us are finding the work enjoyable anymore.

2. We have recently joined the ‘Wealthy Affiliate University’ program. They promote money making techniques that are new and exciting and what I personally find fun to do. Their methods are focused on speedier ways to [tag-tec]make money online[/tag-tec].

3. We have been reading quite a few different eBooks written by some of the best in the business and we see consistencies amongst them that we would like to duplicate.

All of these combined have pushed us forward to where we are today and that is at the point where we are completely overhauling this blog, and I mean completely overhauling. The only thing that really remains as I write this blog post is the domain name. We have totally deleted all of our blog posts – over 200 of them and numerous articles and reviews of affiliate products. Some might say we are crazy to do it but we need it to be a completely fresh start. Out with the old and in with the new as they say.

So we are taking the advice of the blog mavens out there and we will be developing this blog to provide strong well written articles that over deliver in reader expectation.

We will provide you with information to help you succeed because in doing that we will also succeed.

We will listen to what you want and develop friendships with you as we all try to improve our Internet businesses.

We will teach you what we know without concern that we are giving away something of monetary value for nothing.

And most of all we will provide overall value to make your life as Internet Marketers that much easier.

Remember we have had success doing it the hard way, so now we can all concentrate on succeeding by doing it the easy way.

Join us now in our endeavors to reach Super Affiliate status.

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