Jeremy Palmer is moving away from information products and making his ebook, “High Performance Affiliate Marketing” a free download!

I have a lot of respect for Jeremy, he authored a great ebook in “High Performance Affiliate Marketing”, and has an informative web site.   He’s also a terrific example of someone who knows when he’s overloaded and admits it.

Here’s what he blogged the other day:

After careful consideration I decided I no longer want to sell “info products”. Quite frankly, I hate the “business opportunity” category - I think it’s filled with too many get rich quick scammers selling hype-filled ebooks with no real substance.

The fact is, making money on the Internet isn’t easy. It takes a lot of knowledge, hard work, and above all - persistence. But it’s hard to get people to understand that on an e-book sales page. Many think that if they just buy this one product or service all of their financial problems will be solved. This thinking is completely unrealistic and a recipe for failure.

The new goal of Quit Your Day Job will be to educate and support serious online entrepreneurs who understand the time and commitment required to be successful.

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It’s a bit ironic, before launching QuitYourDayJob.com (and related endeavors) I had the “Quit Your Day Job” lifestyle. But after launching the sites I created a new full-time job for myself. My increased workload created a lot of unwanted stress and caused me to drop a lot of balls. Juggling my own affiliate business and two other projects was too much.

Holy cow! An internet marketer that admits that making money online is a difficult endevour! Now that’s impressive. Pardon my cinicism, but most “gurus” gloss over the fact that they have to “work” at their business. Some have to put in a lot of long days to keep the balls in the air.

When I first started reading about internet marketing, it sounded like all you had to do was throw up a web site, grab some affiliate links, and run to the bank to cash your checks. (That may have been the case in 1998, but it is NOT the case now.)

Read Jeremy’s full post at http://www.quityourdayjob.com/blog.

I’ve enjoyed and learned a lot from Michael Cheney. Each of the products I’ve tried has always been first-rate.

Now he’s started another video series titled “Confessions of a Marketer”. You can view episode 1 here.

Talk about big goals.  Here’s some internet marketing training you may want to consider.   It’s called Ken’s Project.  I know, it’s a catchy name.  But, it has some catchy goals.

Ken’s Project has three objectives:

1) Create one million new entrepreneurs

2) Help each entrepreneur build a million dollar business

3) Generate one million dollars a year for charitable causes

I’ve listened to Ken’s first lesson about becoming an online entrepreneur.  I think it’s something every new person to internet marketing should hear.

He provides some eye-opening exercises that will help you develop better focus and help shift your mind set so that you are more likely to focus on what’s important rather than what’s urgent.

Based on his description of the goals of the course, he’s trying to teach long-term business success by focusing on the characteristics and methods that need to be developed.  Strategies by themselves won’t build long-term success.  Just having a strong interest in an area or marketing niche won’t build success.  And most importantly, just having a passion about a topic or market won’t build success.  Every marketer’s advice is “begin with what you’re passionate about and what you’re interested in.”

There are thousands of starving internet marketers who are very passionate and very interested in the markets they serve.  It takes more than passion, more than interest and more than strategies to build a successful home-based business.

I don’t know if Ken has all the answers, but if his first lesson is an indication of what’s ahead, I told him to count me in.   That’s at least till I find out it’s a $10,000 seminar or has an $800/month membership fee.  Then I’ll have to re-think the whole proposition.

You can sign up for Ken’s Project at http://www.kensproject.org