I’ve been talking about the Empower Network a good bit here lately. It can work as a lead generation system for another business. It can be a straight affiliate marketing opportunity for some additional cash. It can be a funded proposal for a network marketing business.

The Empower Network can also be a stand-alone internet business. It’s really set up kind of like a network marketing opportunity. You can build a multi-level team that you earn commissions on and there is a compensation plan that defines how you earn those commissions.

Before I get into that though, I want to talk about one more thing. In the title to this post I called the Empower Network an “internet business-in-a-box.” It really is. You have the blogging platform already set up for you that you will use to sell the system to your prospects. The affiliate system handles payment processing for you, so you don’t need an outside merchant account. The training provided, both with the weekly calls and with the upsells, are all there to teach you how to sell the product.

It’s all there. And everything that you learn from selling the Empower Network can then be applied to selling anything else you want to sell on the internet. It’s really a powerful system.

How You Make Money

OK, back to the compensation plan and how you make money with the Empower Network.

You have to buy a product to be able to sell that product, so you start off buy purchasing the blogging platform for $25 a month and sign up as an affiliate for $19.95 a month. Now you can sell the blogging platform for $25 a month.

You make 100% commissions on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th person who signs up under you. The 2nd, 4th, and 6th people pay up to the person you paid. From there, you get paid on the first 4 of every 5 who sign up under you and the 5th goes to the person you paid.

There is a separate structure created for each product that you purchase.

For example, this is how it is for me. I signed up in the Empower Network under Robert but I landed on one of his powerline slots, so Raven receives my $25 payment for the blog every month. I make $25 on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th person I sign up and Raven gets it for the 2nd, 4th, and 6th. I get paid on the next four (7, 8, 9, and 10) and Raven gets paid for the 11th. It will keep going like that for as many people and I can get to join me. It has unlimited width.

Wendy is the first person to sign up under me and she signs up six people. She gets paid on 1, 3, and 5. I get paid on 2, 4, and 6.

The second person under Wendy, is Bill. Bill was the first person under Wendy who I was paid on. He signs up six people. He gets paid on 1, 3, and 5. I get paid on 2, 4, and 6.

I can keep going for an infinite depth. This is better than any network marketing or affiliate marketing opportunity that I have ever heard of.

I create a whole new structure when I buy the Inner Circle program for $100 a month. This time I don’t land on a powerline slot, so Robert makes the $100 a month and he will make the money on my 2nd, 4th, 6th, 11th, … person who buys the Inner Circle from me. I make the money on the rest. Raven doesn’t factor into the picture here.

Some people are making an absolute fortune with this system, and I don’t mean just the founders.

Oh yeah, one more thing. The Empower Network doesn’t make anything from the affiliates selling the product. The founders, David Wood and David Sharpe, are also affiliates and they sell it themselves too. They also keep the $19.95 affiliate fee every month to pay for the infrastructure to keep several thousand blogs running

So, here’s my challenge to you. Sign up for the blog for $25 a month and the affiliate fee for $19.95 a month. That’s only $44.95 a month total. Make a commitment to see how much money you can make with this for 3 months. That’s an investment of less than $150. When you see that it works, get all in and start making some serious money online with me.

BTW, the most expensive product in the Empower Network so far sells for $1,000. Sell a few of those a month and you’re doing OK. Sell a few of them a week and you will really see what it’s like to be Empowered.

Wayne Woodworth

PS. My Empower Network blog is here.

Internet affiliate marketers depend on websites to market their affiliate products, whether through simple little landing pages or by blogging like I do. So, if you are an affiliate marketer, then an obvious affiliate program to get involved with would be one for a hosting company or other service that provides a system to place your offer.

I want to share two such different possibilities and compare their potential benefits.

Web Hosting Affiliate Program

The first is HostMonster. They are the hosting company that I use for all of my websites and I have used them for about 4.5 years I think. I have been very pleased with how stable my websites have been, which is important when you depend on your sites being up to generate revenue. I rarely need it, but when I do, there customer service is awesome. It isn’t hired out to a third party so they can get you real answers and sometimes fix your issues while you are on the phone with them.

HostMonster’s affiliate program is very good too. You make $65 for every new sign-up through your affiliate link. That’s the majority of what they collect for the first year of hosting, so they count on customers staying long-term. That shows a lot of confidence that they will be able to keep customers. The affiliate program is free once you have your hosting account.

Owning your own website gives you a lot of control in your online presence and marketing and gives you a central location to direct people from multiple sources, like the social media sites – Facebook, Twitter, etc. It’s also a lot less expensive than other systems that will enable you to get your content online, especially if you want one friendly to affiliate marketers.

Empower Network

The Empower Network is another system that I use. This is a system put together for network and affiliate marketers by network and affiliate marketers. That means that they are very friendly to affiliate marketers. As long as you content and offer are legal, you can put it up.

There are four significant benefits to the Empower Network.

1) Their entry-level offering is a blog system. There is very little setup to do unlike with a website that you own yourself, like through HostMonster. With that comes less control over how your website looks and functions.

2) They have up-sells. Up-sells equals more opportunities to make money. The up-sells in the Empower Network are valuable training programs. You could almost call the Empower Network a business-in-a-box. You buy the blogging platform and have a place to advertise. You buy the training and they teach you how to sell, then you can sell the training too.

3) 100% commissions. That’s right, for every product you sell, they pay out 100%. They don’t make any money from you selling their system. They are active in selling it themselves to generate their income.

4) A continuity program. Their blogging system and first up-sell, the Inner Circle, are monthly subscriptions. When your customer subscribes to the blogging system and stays with it, the $25 fee collected every month gets back back out every month. In short, you have a residual income.

Those are two systems that I use. HostMonster is for serious websites where you want more control of the appearance and functionality. Empower Network is for those things where a series of blog posts will work and for people who are newer to internet marketing and can make good use of the training they offer.

Which one will you use? Like I said, I use them both.

Wayne Woodworth

PS. This should be pretty obvious but I have to say it anyway. I am an affiliate with both of these companies and if you click on my link and buy, then I may very well make some money. Making money by recommending the services that you already use is the whole point of the post and I’m suggesting that you do the same thing I’m doing.

I received an email this morning from David Wood, co-founder of the Empower Network. He and his partner, David Sharpe, created the Empower Network to help regular people make money on the internet. Read the message below and let me know what you think.

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Wayne,

I wanted to connect with you.

Tonight (friday) at 9pm EDT, Dave Sharpe and I are going to pop on a live stream, and help you make some money.

Look, these numbers aren’t messing around – over the last few days, we’ve had at least 6 people a day make over $1,000 – all by deciding to get ‘all in’ and follow the simple daily marketing assignments in our Facebook group.

Here’s what happened today, though:

10 people made over $1,100.

Yes – ten. Today. In fact, this month, over 11 people have already made more than $10,000. All by getting simple, direct 100% commissions by selling our products.

I’ll tell you something, Wayne, there’s nothing like selling a $500 info product – and instead of this ‘wussy’ 10, 20, and 30% commissions – you just get $500 deposited into your bank account.

Almost like you’re the danged guru who made the product.

(lol – and you could live in a van, just be getting started – and just make the money. It’s almost cheating.)

Tonight, Dave Sharpe and I are going to unlock a ‘new level’ of marketing science in your business… and, we’re going to show you how to create ‘resistance free’ upsells in your team.

In fact, we’re going to show you the ‘way of the jedi’.

You’ll feel like Obi Wan Kenobi… You’ll literally command them, and say:

“Buy Everything…”

…and they will.

The first time you unlock this mystical power, it will feel like you have the power to literally (any time you desire) command your prospect to make deposits into your bank account – you’ll be that good.

How?

By learning “The Magical Science of Up-Selling”

Tonight, Dave Sharpe and I are going to show you how – get you team there, by attending with this link:

“Learn the Secrets that will attract Prospects to you – credit card in hand… at 9pm EDT tonight!” http://www.getwealthyinwellness.com/see-empower-network/live-training/

Tonight, the game changes…

…be there.

Get your team there.

Empower Network is rising to a new level

Are you ‘all in’?

If not….

….let’s take action.

Let’s do it.

Let’s lock arms, and fight the forces of evil.

Be there tonight:

“How to ‘Magically’ hypnotize them to buy…” http://www.getwealthyinwellness.com/see-empower-network/live-training/

-David Wood EN Co Founder

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BTW, if you get in there early you can watch the video from Wednesday night’s training. It’s 2.5 hours long so give yourself enough time. Great stuff. If you miss tonight’s training, the recording should be up until Saturday night’s training at 9PM EDT.

Wayne Woodworth

This website is about diversifying your income and affiliate marketing is a great way to do that. I don’t know of any other business model where you can spend so little, have little to no risk, and have the potential to generate so much income.

An ideal affiliate opportunity is a product that appeals to a wide audience, has a low cost of entry, plenty of upsell potential, and pays a high commission percentage.

I was recently introduced to a fairly new affiliate marketing opportunity that I want to share. It is a product that appeals to a wide audience – a community blogging platform. It has a low cost of entry – only $25 a month for the blog. It has plenty of upsell potential – they offer upsells to internet marketing training programs that they have put together. The current all-in cost approaches $900 and they are saying that it will soon approach $1500. Finally the commission percentage – how about a 100% payout?

The Empower Network was created by David Wood and David Sharpe, two people experienced in the online affiliate and network marketing niches, back at the end of October 2011. They say that they have paid out more than $4 million in affiliate commissions since they have started, and not to the usual cast of gurus. Honestly, in the month since I signed up I have not heard one guru’s name that I recognize other than the two Davids themselves.

What is the Empower Network about?

The entry level product is a WordPress blog for a small $25 per month fee. The blog is set up and ready to go the first time that you log in. The Empower Network is a high ranking website (Alexa rank 1,203 as I write this), so any links you create in your Empower Network blog to another website will be high quality and have a strong potential to help you generate traffic. That’s worth $25 all by itself even without the affiliate opportunity.

Just about everyone has something to say these days, so a blogging platform has a wide appeal.

The upsells are training programs that the founders have put together from live events they have done in the past. I admit that I have not looked into these programs yet. Based on the live training that they have provided so far to the affiliates, these programs must be worth their weight in gold.

The affiliate program has an additional $19.95 per month fee. This is the only way that the founders generate revenue, other than selling the system as affiliates themselves, to cover their costs of maintaining the hardware to support so many blog sites. Did I mention that they pay out 100% commissions?

Empower Network Affiliate Compensation Plan

The Empower Network’s compensation plan is more like a network marketing comp plan than the typical affiliate comp plan and it can look a little complicated at first.

The first thing to be aware of is that you only get paid on product that you already own. If you have paid for the blogging platform and 2 of the training programs then those are the products that you can get paid on. The commissions from the rest of the products will go up the chain to the first person who owns them.

There are “PowerLines” in the comp plan to promote team building. The best way to explain it is with an example. Robert Scheinfeld introduced me to the Empower Network and I bought the blogging platform for $25 a month. I landed on one of his PowerLine slots, so the person who introduced him (Raven Starre) received the commission, which was the full $25 less the merchant credit card processing fee.

I receive the $25 from everyone I introduce except those who land on a PowerLine slot. Those are the 2nd, 4th, 6th, 11th, 16th, and continuing with every 5th person. Raven receives the commission on those because she receives my monthly payment. Robert Scheinfeld will likely get the $100 commission when I upgrade to the Inner Circle product and he will receive the commission from the 2nd, 4th, 6th, 11th, 16th, etc. person that I get into the Inner Circle. There is a separate PowerLine structure for each product.

I keep everything else. The structure can go infinitely wide and infinitely deep, so there is huge income earning potential, essentially infinite.

Skip the opt-in form. Skip the video. Go straight to the sales page and JOIN. Then share it and start making money.

Wayne Woodworth

Disclosure and disclaimer: In case it isn’t already obvious enough, if you purchase something through the links in this post then I may earn an affiliate commission (unless you fall on a PowerLine slot in which case someone else will get the commission). There are no guarantees of any specific income level.

Have you watched Bob Proctor’s Secret Income System videos yet? In the 4 videos he talks about one way that you can live a life of financial freedom if you want to. The videos are amazing and have a lot of good content that you can apply to whatever you decide to do.

The first video is about Freedom. What does freedom mean to you? For me it is about Time Freedom – being able to take the time to be with my family when I want to without having to get anyone else’s permission. For other’s it might be about money freedom – having the money to do what they want to do at any given time. Maybe for you it is just not having to worry about time, money, or whatever it is that you have to worry about.

The second video is about what Bob Proctor calls MSIs or Multiple Streams of Income. I have sometimes seen it written as Multiple Sources of Income. Either way, it is about having several income streams or income sources set up that pretty much run themselves without you having to monitor them continually. In other words, he’s not talking about having a second or third job because a job requires your presence in order for you to make money.

One example of someone with multiple sources of income would be an author who has written several books. Take Jack Canfield for example. There are many different titles in the Chicken Soup book series that he started by co-authoring Chicken Soup for the Soul. Each one of those books can be considered a stream of income and Jack Canfield collects a check every so often from the sales of those books, regardless of whether he is actively promoting the books or not.

Of course you don’t have to be an author to have multiple streams of income. There are many ways that you could set something up.

The third video is about Fear. Fear is what keeps us in our place. I love to listen to Bob talking about fear and the Terror Barrier. If you aren’t familiar with the Terror Barrier then for now you can think of it as the boundary around your comfort zone. However you want to look at it, you fear of stepping outside of your comfort zone and through your terror barrier is what keeps you from reaching the freedom that you want.

Check out the videos. I promise you that if you watch them and pay attention to them, they will be well worth your time.

You can register to receive access to them here.

When you have watched them, come back and tell me in a comment below what you thought of them.

Wayne Woodworth

I received a link to this video not too long ago with Mike Maloney of goldsilver.com talking about the soon to come greatest wealth transfer in history. Check it out.

Gold has become very expensive over the last few years, so I like silver. Silver, while getting more and more expensive, is still affordable and regular people still have the opportunity to build up a small stock pile as a hedge against whatever may happen.

It has become very difficult to get a good idea of what is really going to happen with the economy and our currency. What I do know is that our currency is a fiat currency, meaning that it is just paper not backed by anything of real value. I also know that the Federal Reserve is printing more and more currency all the time. One more thing that I know is that there has never in history been a fiat currency that didn’t eventually fail.

That is why I am making sure that I have at least a little gold and silver hidden away somewhere for a rainy day.

One good place to learn how to safe-guard your wealth is with Mike Dillard’s Elevation Group. Mike is learning a lot about how the wealthy grow and protect their wealth regardless of the economy, and he is sharing that information, and his access to the experts, with everyone who wants to learn.

Mike will be doing a webinar soon where you will be able to learn more about what The Elevation Group is all about and how you can gain access to this information. The Elevation Group is how I learned about Mike Maloney, and he is just one of the experts that Mike Dillard has met. Check out the webinar and decide for yourself.

Go here to register for one of The Elevation Group’s upcoming webinars.

Wayne Woodworth

I’ve heard it said many times and from many different people that the Great Depression represents the greatest transfer of wealth in American history. I have also heard, again from many different people over the past few years, that we are facing another transfer of wealth, possibly even bigger than the Great Depression.

What they mean when they say transfer of wealth, at least in this case, is that as the value of one form of wealth declines (the unbacked US dollar) the value of other forms of wealth increase (like gold and silver).

There is a lot of talk right now about inflation, hyperinflation, and deflation. All of the experts are speculating about what is actually going to happen this time around.

This creates an incredible opportunity for people with the right kind of knowledge to position themselves on the receiving end of that wealth transfer. The trick is to get the right kind of knowledge. It isn’t just about buying up all of the gold and silver you can find.

While I have heard many so-called gurus talk about this information, there is only one who I have heard actually talk about how to do all of this. How to buy gold and silver, how to position yourself to take advantage of the things that are going on in the economy, how to protect your wealth. He has been researching the knowledge that he needs to succeed and is sharing it with the rest of us.

Check out Mike Dillard’s 90 minute video that introduces his new Elevation Group program. Mike has also created a sneak peak into the Elevation Group website so that you can see what you have access to. They are taking the videos down tomorrow night, Sunday December 19 at midnight CST, so make sure that you check it out today and see if this is right for you.

Wayne

Elevation Group – annual membership
Elevation Group – monthly membership

Did you know that? The United States Government cannot print its own money. It borrows money as a loan from the Federal Reserve, which is a private bank with its own investors. The thing with the Federal Reserve is that it is the only bank that can print money, so there is absolutely no possible way that our government can pay back the loan.

There are billions of dollars in circulation, but for the sake of this discussion let’s say that there is just 1 billion dollars currently printed in the US. To get that money printed under the current system, the US government had to borrow the money from the Federal Reserve which can print however much they want because it isn’t actually backed by anything. Let’s even say that Government got the loan at an extremely low interest rate and only has to pay $10 interest on it every year. Once they took possession of the money, The US government will never be able to pay off that loan because all that exists is that 1 billion dollars. The only way to get the additional $10 is to borrow more money from the Federal Reserve. It creates a never ending cycle of expanding debt owed to a handful of private citizens.

That is what they mean when you hear people say that we have a debt-based economy. All of the “money” that we use in the US every day is actually a piece of the debt that our Federal Government owes to the Federal Reserve.

Now that the US government has doubled the amount of currency in the market in the past 24 months, some experts are saying that the system is nearing the point of collapse.

In case you haven’t heard yet, Mike Dillard is hosting a webinar about this and other things that are going on with the economy right now and what he is doing to protect his money. The best thing that you can do for yourself right now is get the information about what is going on so that you can make some educated decisions about what to do for yourself.

Wayne Woodworth

I watched a video that Mike Dillard created to launch his new program, The Elevation Group. In that video he makes many interesting points, and here is one of them that really stands out.

He states that when people reach retirement age, 65, they are required to start withdrawing 6% of their 401k. A financial advisor friend of mine told me that his numbers are wrong, it is actually about 3% at age 70.5. Either way, the point is still valid.

What this could mean as the Baby Boomer generation passes through the age at which they are required to start taking money out, a large number of stock shares are going to be sold on a regular basis, increasing the number of shares of these stocks available on the market. The Law of Supply and Demand states that as this supply increases, the price of these stock shares will fall.

The Baby Boomers right now range somewhere between 46 years old up to 64 years old based on the definition that Baby Boomers were born between 1946 and 1964. The oldest of this generation will have to start pulling out their 401k  and IRA dollars in just 6 years.

As they start to pull out their money, as I said, the stock prices could fall because there will be more shares available and there aren’t enough people in the younger generations to buy them up with their 401k and IRA investments. As this happens, the people at the younger end of the generation will see their retirement funds start to just evaporate into thin air. A more extreme result could be a stock market crash. Kind of scary.

I guess my parents are lucky to be in the older half of that generation.

Mike Dillard is offering a new program to make the financial practices of the wealthy available to people like you and me. That’s what The Elevation Group is about. Register for the webinar here and see what else Mike Dillard has to say.

Disclaimer: I am not a financial advisor and I do not closely watch the financial markets. I cannot and will not tell you what you should do with your money. I just found this interesting and thought I’d share. Check with a real financial advisor to see how this might affect you.

Wayne Woodworth

This post is about personal financial matters so I want to be very clear right here that I am not a financial advisor and cannot give you financial advice. Honestly, I’m not even going to tell you directly how to do this, just how to find out how to do this.

Mike Dillard recently launched a new business called The Elevation Group where he is making critical financial training available to everyone who wants to participate. One of the things that he talks about is the benefits of creating your own personal bank. Sounds intriguing, doesn’t it?

Mike Dillard says it gets better.

He said that if you do it right, your personal bank can earn 6% or more tax free. Unlike a 401k or other retirement plan, you can invest as much money as you want and you can withdraw as much as you want tax free and without penalty.

This is one of the ways that the wealthy protect their money into their retirement years. Dillard says that he is learning this technique from the same financial advisor who set one up for Donald Trump.

You can learn how to do this the same way that I am. Just watch this short video and register for the webinar that Mike Dillard will be hosting about the current global financial situation and introduce The Elevation Group.

Wayne Woodworth