I have used different types of payment processors but nothing impressed me more than E-junkie. I have used (or am using) Clickbank, PayDotCom, 1Shoppingcart and somehow I was not as satisfied as using E-junkie.

Recently I tried E-junkie for ReliablePLR.com because I need to sell more than one product on that website. Furthermore, I want to have a “shopping cart” feature which customers can use to order more than one product. And it also has an affiliate management program. Finally, I want a payment processor that will not burn a hole in my pocket. E-junkie seems to be the perfect fit for my requirements.

Features I Like in E-junkie

With E-junkie, the only cost incurred is the monthly fee and you can start using E-junkie as low as $5 a month – to me which is a steal. There are no transaction fees – which most other processors (eg: Clickbank, PayDotCom) charge you and this can turn out to be a very huge expense.

Another beauty of E-junkie is you can protect your digital download and store your ebook on its server. The download link will be expired at a time interval set by you. Or if you like, you can redirect to your own download page after payment is made by the buyers. It’s your choice.

For this website, one feature that saves me lots of time is the inventory tracking feature. Since I am only selling 100 licenses for each PLR article pack, I have to keep track of the sales and stop selling the article pack when the number of orders reaches 100. With E-junkie, this is not an issue and it’s done for me automatically.

If you are selling physical products, E-junkie provides you with VAT and shipping costs calculation on top of inventory management.

Want more? You can create discount codes in E-junkie which you can give to your preferred customers or subscribers. You don’t need to create another payment button for your special offers. Just enter a code and discount price are sufficient to create a discount.

One great way to drive free traffic to your website is to list your products on E-junkie Marketplace. Customers can purchase directly from the marketplace or you can link back to your sales letter on your website.

E-junkie Can Work With These Applications

E-junkie is not a payment processor per se and you need a backend processor to process the payment. E-junkie can integrate with PayPal Standard, Google Checkout, Authorize.Net, 2CheckOut and ClickBank.

Warning: What I Don’t Like About E-junkie

With all the good things said about E-junkie, the only thing that I wish E-junkie had is it can pay affiliates commissions on my behalf (which Clickbank does offer). But it’s not a big deal after all because E-junkie will provide you with a report which you can use to make mass payment in Paypal.

Other than this, E-junkie has other wonderful features and the best part is it does not come with a hefty price tag.

It’s super fast and easy to get started with E-junkie. I have noticed many Internet marketers have embraced this wonderful tool… and even prominent bloggers like TechCrunch.

Click here to try out E-junkie one week for free.

I am very sure you will like it too.

UPDATE May 5th, 2010 (e-junkie discount code): If you plan to sign up with E-junkie, enter EJVIDEOS as the promotion code. You’ll receive 67 days free trial instead of the normal 7 days. The code is tested to be working at the time of writing.

Many gurus have been selling the idea of creating your own membership sites. The idea is excellent because it gives you recurring income.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not against membership sites. But creating a membership site brings some problems, especially to lazy marketers:

1. It involves a lot of work. Many of you can’t even create a single web page (not to undermine your capabilities but it’s a fact), let alone a comprehensive membership site. We have not even talked about the content yet.
2. You can’t set it and forget it. Membership site is not a model that brings in passive income. It requires constant content creation and promotion. Literally, you work till you die or you sell the site.

If you insist on creating a membership site, I urge you to create a membership site with a twist – without the problems above.

This idea comes from a trusted guru: Jimmy D. Brown. He’s simply a genius!

With his membership idea, aptly called Fixed-Term Membership (FTM), all you need is one page of content to begin with and you can take orders within 48 hours.

I must say this is the lazyman’s way of earning recurring income from membership site.

In contrast to traditional membership sites, this takes minimal time to set it up. Once you set it up, you can let it go on autopilot.

You can get quite a bit about the FTM concept from the sales letter on Membernaire. You don’t need to join the membership to find out how he did it. He even shares with you some of the ideas for a fixed-term membership site.

If you choose to join, the length of the course is 52 weeks. That means you’ll receive 52 lessons delivered weekly to you on how to setup and promote a FTM site, and also how to keep your members active – in PDF format.

The membership fee is $27 per month. You can stop the subscription if you find it not up to your expectations within 8 weeks.

I have had a look at the content and oh boy my head is spinning with ideas now.

Want to know what Membernaire covers in the first 10 lessons?

Here you go…

1. How To Setup Your Own Membership Site In 48 Hours Or Less
2. FTM Quick Start 1: Preparation
3. FTM Quick Start 2: Presentation – 4 parts
4. FTM Quick Start 3: Production – 2 parts
5. FTM Quick Start 4: Promotion
6. The Magic Sentence That Keeps Members Paying
7. How To Double Your Profit In One Easy Step
8. Getting New Subscribers Automatically
9. The Backdoor To Keeping Members Active
10. Turning On Your Built-In Profit Streams

Remember these are only 10 out of the 52 lessons you’ll be getting (I hope Jimmy won’t come after me for revealing this!)

Jimmy has helped eliminate the barrier of entry of a traditional membership site. With the FTM strategy, he makes it easy for “normal” people to start and build a profitable membership site.

Seriously, forget about traditional membership sites. It’s just too much work. FTM is the way to go if you want to have recurring income.

I understand that Membernaire had closed its door a while ago when it reached 1000 members. But Jimmy has reopened the door again now. So take a look before he closes his door for the second time.

Visit the site: http://www.abelcheng.com/FTM.html

Oftentimes, you’ll encounter a “guru” promised you the “secret” to making it big online. But if you look closely, the secret promised by the gurus has one problem.

None? I’m not surprised.

Recently, there’s one ebook promised to help you get tones of visitors to your website without paying a dime. And the authors have proof that they had received 1.57 million visitors.

Don’t get me wrong. I have nothing against the authors and I just simply pick one example to illustrate my point. Also, there’s nothing wrong making the claim. But will the approach in the ebook help you?

What I could say is not much unless you have your own products and the prospects you’re looking for are people who are interested in making money.

In short, you’re selling a product to a target audience who is desperate in starting their own business.

You don’t fit the profile? Then the ebook is probably not for you.

Why did I say that?

Because the method only works if you fulfill the criteria I just mentioned. It WON’T work so perfectly if you are in other niche markets like dog owners or pregnant women.

And the method presented is nothing new and you might have heard of it thousand times: recruiting affiliates to sell on your behalf.

For example, if you’re selling an ebook on helping people cure yeast infection naturally, do you think by offering 75% commission to your affiliates will really motivate them to promote your product?

Maybe yes and most probably not. Because these people are not going after the money (as compared to people from money making market). They just want to cure yeast infection. Period. They are not in the slightest interest of promoting your ebook.

You got the picture? This is the one problem with Internet marketing products and it’s a huge one. You’ve got to deal with it or find a bridge if you want to use the product.

But here’s what you can do:

Next time, when you are so damn excited about an ebook and you want to fork out your credit card, think carefully. What you’re going to buy may not be the secret you’re looking for and maybe it’s a better bet to search through your mountains of ebooks you bought previously. Most probably it’s hidden somewhere there. What you need is to dig it out and take action.

Otherwise, you lose your money and become one more frustrated Internet entrepreneur on this planet.

I forgot when was the time Clickbank launched this tool. I wanted to write about it but I’ve been putting it off.

Now it’s the time for me to talk about it. If you’re promoting Clickbank products, pay attention to this closely.

Why?

If you use it correctly, it can:

1) save you money
2) increase your profits
3) pick winning ads

Aren’t these what you’re looking for in your business?

If you could have it all three, do you know how much impact it can have on your bottom line?

Just imagine this: Your advertising money is only spent on profitable ads and you know what ads convert best. No more wasting money on losing ads. For every dollar you spend, you’re going to get it back many times if you do this correctly.

In a nutshell, here’s what you do, you create a link (ie: your affiliate link) by using this tool for your ads (be it ezine ads, Adwords, classified ads, email promotion, etc). At the end of the day, you check your results to see which ads pull in the most sales. And you remove non-performing ads, and just stay with only the winning ads that make you money.

Okay, let’s move on!

What function am I talking about? It called Tracking ID. Below is an explanation taken from Clickbank website:

3. How do I add a Tracking Id(TID) to a hoplink?
The format of the hoplink URL with a tracking code is located below.
http://AFFILIATE.PUBLISHER.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=XXXXXXXX

The tracking code (which is “XXXXXXXX” in the example above) can be 8 characters long, containing alpha and numeric characters only. Any tracking code longer than 8 characters will be truncated. Any tracking code containing characters other than alpha or numeric values will have the entire tracking code removed from the hoplink and order process and will not show in the transaction report. Tracking codes received with upper and lower case characters will be set to all uppercase.

You use the tracking code “XXXXXXXX” to track your ads. That means you can have multiple tracking code with one affiliate product.

How do you use it? Let’s illustrate it with a sample case study.

I am going to use Adwords to promote an affiliate product. Two steps are required for this exercise:

1) Goto Clickbank and create an affiliate link with Tracking ID
2) Put the link from 1) in Google ad

For Step 1, what I need to do now is to go to Clickbank Marketplace to get my affiliate link.

Click on “create hoplink” for the product you want to promote. Let’s say I want to promote Ultimate Wealth Page.

You enter your nickname and tracking ID. Then click “Submit.” I entered “chengpt” and “google1″ in the respective fields.

This is how my affiliate link looks like for Ultimate Wealth Package with my Tracking ID “Google1″ built it:

http://chengpt.imarichkid.hop.clickbank.net/?tid=GOOGLE1

Done with Step 1.

Now Step 2, is to use this link in my Adwords ads. I’ll put the link I’ve just created as my destination URL in Adwords. For example, GOOGLE1 denotes my first ad in ad group 1.

Let’s say I have 5 ad groups with 2 ads each. Then I have to create 10 affiliate links with 10 different Tracking IDs.

Then I will repeat the same process by putting each tracking ID for each of my other Adwords ads.

What am I trying to achieve here?

By having a unique affiliate link in each ad, I’d be able to tell which ads from my Google campaign convert the best, and from which ad group.

There’s no guessing here. If you have sales from your campaign, the Clickbank report shows all. It can be obtained from Clickbank transaction report (After logon to Clickbank, click Reporting > Transactions). And the tracking ID is shown in column TID.

By studying the report, you know which ads convert the best, what you need to do is to stop non-performing ads or ad groups in your campaign.

In this example, I use Adwords to show you. However, you can actually apply this method in other advertising channels like email promotion, etc. You can achieve the same objective: pinpointing profitable ads and stop unprofitable ones.

By doing this simple thing, you are many steps ahead of other fellow marketers. Because many of them don’t even bother to track and they find it too much work.

If you are clueless about using Google Adwords and Clickbank to make money, I can’t find a better guide than Adwords Miracle. It offers step-by-step guide from creating your very first Adwords account to writing ads that pull and convert.

If you are looking for information that would stroke your ego, this is NOT your book. This guide contains no fillers (about 100+ pages) and it only has straight to the point tested info. Here’s the website again: www.adwordsmiracle.com

I wrote about Google Slap II end of last year. If you missed it or you don’t know what the heck Google Slap is, you can read it here.

Last month, just like a movie trilogy, Google came back with Google Slap III.

This time around, I survived and slapped back Google so to speak. It’s not by chance or even luck.

And of course I did something to prevent myself from being slapped by Google.

Here’s what I did.

I employed a strategy I learned from a book called “Affiliate Project X.” The strategy is in the Advanced Tricks section. It’s a very simple technique and it’s easy to implement.

The book is more than just that. If you plan to try your hand at affiliate marketing, this is a great book. It provides amazing information on how to make people buy from you not other affiliates.

There are five methods you can choose from. And you don’t need to create tons of content for your website for that matter.

More info about Affliate Project X.

Have fun,

Abel Cheng

P.S. : Chris has recently launched a book called Day Job Killer.