TKA Pro has set the goal to help 1,000 people reach a minimum of $1,000 in monthly earnings from their websites by June of 2011. Watch our progress on this page.

What’s this all about?

Thousands (maybe tens of thousands) of programs claim to help people make money online. Court and I have decided to create a different kind of transparency and accountability for our program: we’ve set the goal to help 1,000 of our members reach $1,000 per month in online earnings by June of 2011.

It’s a big goal. Will we get there? Who knows. But we definitely like a challenge, and we believe our members are up to the task.

If you’d like to get on the path to earning $1,000 per month online, consider taking a free and completely unrestricted 30 day trial of The Keyword Academy Pro.

Watch the blog for updates on our 1,000 x $1,000 goal.

*Earnings are verified when members of TKA Pro submit screenshots of their income streams. Participation is purely voluntary; there’s no compensation for submitting verification of earnings.

**Both current and previous members of TKA Pro are included in the count of $1,000 earners. The only requirement for a person to be included is that you feel TKA Pro’s guidance, support, and/or tools contributed substantially to your income.

We thought we’d give a higher price a shot, and it has taken very little time for new subscribers to send us the message that $67 per month is just too much to handle when you’re trying to get a new internet business off the ground.

So without any delay, we’re switching price of TKA Pro back to $33 per month.

Hopefully this teaches us a lesson about fixing things that clearly are not broken.

The good news is TKA Pro is as strong as ever. Here are a few stats:

• TKA Pro has over 1,400 active subscribers.
• over ten million unique keywords have been researched with the help of our Niche Refinery keyword tool.
• over 140,000 original articles have been submitted through our PostRunner content distribution hub (available exclusively to TKA Pro members).
• A brand new TKA Pro tool will be unveiled within in the next 30 days. (Hint: Niche Refinery makes it easy to find keywords; PostRunner makes it easy to promote your content with high quality links….there’s a gap between the two called “staying organized, keeping track of you work, and knowing what to do TODAY to move your business forward.” The new tool fills that gap. Can’t wait to release it. Maybe I should go tell our programmer I just promised it would be ready in 30 days…)

And you get access to all of that for $33 per month.

If you’ve signed up for TKA Pro since April 7th, we’ve made it easy for you to switch to a $33 per month subscription.

Follow this link to switch your subscription from $67 (or $59) to $33 per month.

Not a member of TKA Pro yet?

Check out the benefits here!

Let me introduce myself:

* I am a student of The Keyword Academy.

* I signed up for the 1 dollar trial at TKA back in April of 2009, so I have been in the program for a little over a year now. 

* Before joining TKA, I worked very hard on a single website for 3 years, but it was not making much money to really speak of.  Some days I would make a dollar or even less in Adsense earnings.

Let’s cut right to the chase: after about a year of learning and applying new knowledge, my results can speak for themselves.  This money shot is for the last seven days, not an entire month:

Now obviously, $199 for a week in Adsense earnings will translate into some nice monthly earnings.  $800 dollars or so each month in passive earnings is not to bad for 10 months worth of effort, right?  It is certainly the best investment that I have made in quite a while.  I mean, what would you be doing with an extra $800 in cash every month?  I have it flowing into my life right now, with almost no additional work to maintain it, and let me tell you….it makes a huge difference! 

Please keep in mind that I work a full time job in the real world and do not possess amazing internet marketing skills or anything.  I am just a regular guy who was looking for an additional stream of income, and started looking for a way to learn more about how to make money online.

You are probably wondering how I was able to produce $800 per month in passive earnings using the Keyword Academy program.  I’m going to break it down into the key areas where I think the real value comes from, and how I make more money because of it:

* Extreme focus
* Support and community
* TKA Tools
* Leadership and challenges

Extreme focus

Making money on the internet can be absolutely overwhelming.  There are so many different methods you could test out, so many different techniques you could try.  This might include anything from selling stuff on eBay, to writing freelance articles for extra cash, to attempting what Court and Mark teach to develop a passive stream of income from search engine traffic.  Some people get overwhelmed before they even choose a direction to go in! 

On top of the confusing options, the market is littered with scams, especially in the make money online world.  It is a rare treat to find someone who is willing to give you 100% full access to everything for a measly one dollar test drive….not to mention that they make this offer for an entire month. 

A big part of what helped me in getting to my income goal was increased focus.  Court and Mark actually harp on this concept quite a bit, because it produces results in the real world.  They have a detailed system for generating traffic and then making money from that traffic, and they are fanatical about cutting out the extra fluff that does not lead to increased income.  Every single action you take when working on internet marketing should be driving you towards your income goals.  The TKA program has a number of ways that they go about enhancing focus for students.

Part of the success of the TKA program is in the focus and the simplicity.  Court and Mark are teaching you how to generate search engine traffic, period.  Yes, there are a million little details to pile on top of this.  Is the topic profitable?  Do searchers for a certain keyword tend to click ads or ignore them?  Is there enough income potential with a keyword to make it worthwhile?  Could we make more money by ditching Adsense and selling affiliate products instead?  And on and on.  But the core program sweeps everything aside and shows you how to answer all of these questions, and more, with focus and simplicity.  In fact, the program allows for plenty of expansion and flexibility, in that once you learn how to choose the optimal keywords for your topic and start generating traffic, it then becomes quite easy to test different methods of monetization, optimize for different keywords, expand into other keyword categories, and so on. 

Also, once you learn how to focus on the actions that produce traffic and income, it becomes so much easier to replicate those actions and scale your efforts up.  With so much clutter and junk in the world of internet marketing, it is nice to be able to sweep 99 percent of it aside and learn how to engage in the actions that can grow your passive earnings.

How focus has helped me make more money:

 At one point in my internet marketing career, I was checking my earnings once per day, and was always devastated when it was not higher than it was the day before.  Both Court and Mark helped me achieve a mental breakthrough–both in different ways and in slightly different areas–that allowed me to truly separate what made a day successful for me or not.  Once I was able to separate my earnings for the day from the amount of work I was doing, I was able to rapidly accelerate my marketing efforts and my income started to jump.  This mental conditioning led to some pretty big action for me, and helped me to move beyond a plateau that I was stuck at for months.  As a result, my income pretty much doubled over a period of 90 days, and it has been steadily rising ever since then.

You may have a website, or a couple of websites, and you put in some tough work and you get to a point where your earnings sort of levels off for a while, and you can’t really see the next major leap to make.  I have been at this point at least twice in the last 10 months.  Each time, I was able to break through this point after listening to either Court or Mark during a live webinar.  I came away from the live session with a spark of inspiration and an idea, a feeling of “I can do this!”  And thus I would start taking massive action on my web properties, somehow putting in a ton of hard work in such a way so as to seriously boost my earnings in the long run.  And both times that this happened–when I attacked my business with renewed focus–I always saw a substantial leap in earnings within the next 90 days. 

Focus is such a huge part of internet marketing, because the hard work that we put in today will not pay dividends from an SEO standpoint for several weeks or even months.  So my breakthroughs have always occurred when Court and Mark were able to convince me to take it on blind faith that “If you do X, you will get Y.”  Rinse and repeat.

Support and community

In my opinion, the forum alone is worth the price of admission.  Ask an honest question or request some feedback or opinions, and you get it right away, within an hour or less.  Instant guru help. In nearly every case, people who are earning thousands of dollars per month in internet marketing are jumping in left and right to help you with questions.  It really is an unbelievable community.  And of course, Court and Mark themselves are active on the forums, and this provides huge value as well.

Beyond the forum, there are other forms of support as well, and one of the biggest perks is a programming ninja named Peter that is on staff with Court and Mark.  He is a delight to work with, can resolve just about any technical issue, and provides incredible insight and new tools to the community. 

Participation in the private forum can be a double edged sword.  If you hang out there all day and fantasize about making money online, then you obviously are not taking the actions necessary to grow your income. 

Luckily, the TKA members help to keep each other in check with this a bit.  There are at least two nifty tricks built into the forum that make it more useful: a karma system and a badge system.  You can glance through a thread and quickly find the people who can speak with real authority, because these things are already in place to provide you with instant information.  This is not to say that the newcomer gets drowned out in the crowd, however.  Anyone can ask a question in the forums and instantly get expert advice and quality feedback within minutes.  I have never seen a question go unanswered.

How TKA support has helped me make more money:

Every couple of days I get an idea and I write up a forum post and bounce it off the community.  This is priceless.  I get ideas, other people weigh in with their ideas, and we all help each other to make more money.  I have hired people in the forums for various services, such as article writing, keyword research, and even link building, but this is all besides the point.  The instant feedback from dozens of professional internet marketers is what really keeps me coming back.  The reason I stick and stay is because I have this professional, high quality sounding board to test my ideas with. 

Tools

Here is what Court and Mark did: they hired an awesome programmer, explained the biggest bottlenecks in making money with their system, and then demanded that this guy come up with brilliant solutions that could automate nearly all of the grunt work.  What he came up with is fantastic, and there are least two major tools in the TKA program that more than make up for the price of admission, over and over again.  One tool helps you to find profitable keywords, the other helps you to rank well in the search engines.  Both tools are extremely powerful and are market leaders in their category.  Since they are private tools used only by the community, they may not be recognized as market leaders, but they are (I know because I have tested the market!). 

Really, these two tools are so good that Court and Mark could have easily justified commissioning their existence, even without ever sharing them with the community.  They are so powerful that just one person could benefit tremendously from them….so you can imagine how much value they add to an entire community.

How TKA tools have helped me make more money:

Without going into too much detail, let’s just say that roughly 90 percent of my efforts rely exclusively on tools that I use from the Keyword Academy.  Sure, I use some outside resources for things like content creation, creating and building links, and even finding keywords, but all of this has continued to shrink as the new tools at TKA have integrated most of my old methods.  The tools just automate everything and make it a “one stop shopping solution.”  No need to go elsewhere right now, as my income is steady rising with the tools I am working with.

Don’t get me wrong…the tools are not magic.  They do not make money rain down from the sky.  Ultimately, some bottlenecks still exist when it comes to increasing your income.  You still need lots of original content, you still have to find keywords, and you still have to create links.  The tools at TKA do a good job at making a serious dent in at least two of these areas.  But you will still have to put forth some real effort, and it always takes a bit of time to get things moving along as well.

Leadership and challenges

Part of the TKA program includes weekly webinars.  These are live audio and video broadcasts that you follow along with.  It is pretty impressive that you can actually ask questions during these broadcasts and get direct answers as well. 

Part of the challenge that Court and Mark face is in dealing with repeat questions, as well as newcomers to their program and people who have serious doubts about how it will all turn out.  Most students of internet marketing would much rather think about making money online rather than put in real work and effort….and this is exactly the sort of block that Court and Mark have been learning how to overcome in the minds of their students.

It has been impressive to watch these guys evolve as teachers.  You can tell that they have had moments of extreme frustration.  Yet they really have been able to push beyond that and use this as an opportunity to delve into the mind of the frustrated internet entrepreneur and make it into a lesson that can help everyone.  Their leadership, in this case, has pushed them to really learn what kinds of challenges are blocking their students, and how they can design challenges and goals that will produce real action and real results. 

A big part of this comes into play when Court will make a breakthrough of his own, and then share it with the community, challenging them to put in the same work to replicate his efforts.  He continues to push his students by pushing himself.  And now, many TKA members have come up with challenges of their own in the forums, and this is the type of atmosphere that helps to incite action and promote income growth.  

How TKA leadership has helped me make more money:

Like I said, I have experienced at least 2 major breakthroughs that have spurred me into action and drastically added to my bottom line.  One of these was inspired by Court and the other was inspired by Mark.  Each of these guys brings something unique to the table when it comes to teaching and instructing students.  Obviously, Court makes his own breakthroughs in the internet marketing world and then shares his success with others, pushing them to take action and duplicate his results.  Mark brings a business prowess to the table that is very professional and has actually shown me how to take my flagship website to the next level, something that I did not really believe could be achieved at first. 

I don’t just subscribe to Court and Mark because I think they are nice guys or because they like my website….I do it because they have taken me all the way to $800 per month in passive income!  For me, the continuing education that I get at the Keyword Academy is simply part of my business.  It is a lifeline that I would be crazy to go without, as the experience thus far has multiplied my income many times over. 

I am excited beyond words to look forward to the next year in internet marketing.  I am so grateful that I have this level of support as I transition to a full time income online. 

I know I’m already guilty of this…which is why I’m making this post. I need to remind myself every day of the goals I have for myself, my business, and my family. If you want to get ahead you should be doing the same.

In the spirit of helping you set and achieve some big goals in 2010, Court and I wanted to give our readers a free recording of the most recent webinar we did for the members of TKA Pro. The whole session is dedicated to goal setting and achievement as it relates to internet marketing.

In the webinar we covered topics such as:

• how to set concrete income goals for your online businesses
• how to make sure those goals have the power to get you to take meaningful action
• what I learned about financial success from about 35 personal interviews with millionaires and multi-millionaires
• how to identify the key activities and daily tasks you must achieve if you want to grow your income online

When you download the zip file linked below you’ll get the webinar in both .wmv (Windows movie) and mp3 audio formats.

Enjoy, and here’s to the achievement of all your goals and dreams in 2010 and beyond!

Click here to download The Keyword Academy’s December Webinar: Goal Setting for 2010

There are three big reasons you should become one of over 1,400 active subscribers to TKA Pro:

1. The Method

After you register we’ll start you off with our Core Videos – nearly six hours of “over the shoulder” instruction where we explain our entire income generating method as you watch us walk through the process on your screen. What is that process?

If you feel like you already know everything you see there, think again. Take Keyword Selection for example – do you have a tried and tested method for comparing the profit potential and competitiveness of one keyword to another? What about comparing an entire family of keywords to another completely different set? We do – it’s called The Formula, and our students rave about it. Don Lawson – a full-time internet marketer who joined TKA Pro back in February – had this to say about The Formula:

All I have to say is OMG! This is exactly what I was looking for when I bought the course. I got my money’s worth the fist half of the 1st video! The formula for evaluating keywords is the missing link that I’ve needed for years. This explains why some of my sites make money while others don’t even though I get the traffic. I’ve often felt like my Keyword research was one of my weak areas even though I’ve tried most everyone’s method of finding keywords. This formula proved to me that I was leaving money on the table. – Don Lawson, AffliateWatcher.com

2. The Community and Support

After five years of teaching people to make money online, we know the biggest reason people fail (other than a lack of a proven method to follow) is a lack of support and encouragement from knowledgeable, experienced people who can get them through the rough initial learning curve.

From the minute you join TKA Pro you’ll get answers to any question you have – quickly – inside our members only forums.

Isn’t it nice to know you won’t have to fumble around in the dark anymore when you have questions about building your online income?

But our support structure doesn’t end with the forums. Every Thursday we hold a live webinar for our members (one of which is scheduled to accommodate our European and other international students). That’s four webinars per month. Three of them are open Q&A sessions where we show up and our members are able to ask us anything they want about how to make their sites more successful. These Q&A webinars last about an hour; we’re able to answer a lot of questions in sixty minutes. The fourth webinar each month is a New Content Webinar, and during these sessions we lay out new angles on our method, as well as teaching principles from the core videos more in depth.

Here’s a quick list of our last six New Content Webinars:

“August ‘09 Webinar: The Anatomy of a $5000 Per Month Super Site”

“July ‘09 Webinar: Winning the Mental Game and Creating Momentum”

“June ‘09 Webinar: Hubpages – Who knew this would be such a solid money maker?”

“May ‘09 Webinar: Google Changes, the Trend Toward Quality, and Protecting Yourself from Adsense-related Penalties”

“Running Your Business Like a Business…April ‘09 Outsourcing Webinar”

“March Webinar: Multiply Your Income by Targeting Multiple Keywords on Your Posts and Sites”

(By the way, during your 30 day trial to TKA Pro you’ll be able to download all six of these sessions in both windows movie format and mp3 audio format. Same goes for the most recent Q&A sessions. Call it a thank you for giving our program a shot.)

3. The Tools

The most difficult and time consuming part of getting the search engines to trust your website and send you traffic is getting quality links to your site. When you join TKA Pro you’ll get immediate access to two powerful link building tools. That’s all we’re going to say about that, but trust us that these tools are worth a look.

This isn’t your typical sales page.

Rather than bombard you with all caps red font, double exclamation points, and artificial “expiring offers,” we’ll let the program speak for itself, because the truth is it’s awesome. Here’s what some of our 1,000+ members have to say about it:

(These quotes are taken from a thread we started in the forum, asking students to tell us why they joined and why they stayed after their trial membership expired. We’re grateful to these students for sharing their thoughts and letting us publish them.)

Hi Mark – I’m only about a month into this membership…I don’t even think my first payment has been processed….but it should be soon. I’m happily going to pay it and just so you know, I’ll be staying. I’ve learned more here than dozens of other courses. (And dozens is not an exaggeration.)

As to why I joined:

1) I’ve seen this “low initial price” offer before – it’s quite a popular tactic these days. I look at these offers with a skeptical eye. I’ve been scammed before, but I thought I’ll take this offer for the 30 days and cancel if I’m not happy. If I don’t like it, I’m not out a thing.

2) I didn’t know you guys from any other “guru” membership site, so I was going to let your product be the determining factor in whether I stayed subscribed. I liked the fact that you didn’t use any screenshots of earnings, big claims of making money online, or anything like that. If I felt you had something different to offer, I’d keep going. If not, I’d leave.

What I think now that I’ve been subscribed a while:

1) This is a great site full of high quality information. Those intro videos finally made Adsense and other Internet marketing make sense for me. That’s after I’ve spent thousands of dollars on other courses and software.

2) The forum seems to be a genuine place that good people hang out. I haven’t participated much yet because I’m still working through my keyword research. (I’m slow I know.) But there seems a genuine willingness to help others and some of the students here are quite successful AND still help the newbies. This is VERY different from most other sites.

3) You and Court seem to care and take an active role on the forums proving that you have a vested interest in your students success vs. having a vested interest in only selling more memberships. I’ve seen responses from the TKA folks quite a bit in the forum postings and that is encouraging. Many other membership site gurus sell the customer on joining and then disappear never to be heard from again.
That’s my thoughts. Thanks for offering a great service.

- John H, Illinois, USA

Mark,
I actually looked at joining you guys last winter but I wasn’t willing to spend the one time fee [when we had a program that cost around $600]. You even offered to talk to me but I didn’t want some high pressure sales pitch. Now that I’ve seen your integrity I know that wouldn’t have been the case but back then I figured it was just another internet marketing gimmick to get my money.

When you came out with the free trial offer I joined – I figured it didn’t cost anything, so why not see what the program was about.

Once I saw a few videos I liked what I saw and I starting putting the steps into action. I had a few sites from last winter but had never made any money and I knew I had to try something new. I liked the step by step method as it really helped me to get focused.

The forums have really added a lot to my understanding and they’ve allowed me to feel like part of a community of like minded people. It is hard to find anyone who is not online to discuss this with because they don’t understand what we are doing.

For me it was really important to not risk a lot of money to see if you guys had a clue – which you do.

Here’s a timeline that shows my income:

Aug 08 -Dec 08 $0

Jan 09 – mar 09 $44 total for 3 months

(Realized I had a lot more questions and joined TKA Pro)

Apr 09 $50
(Wife said it was a scam.)

May 09 $126
(Wife gave a little smile at check.)

June 09 $155
(Wife nodded at check.)

July $439
(Wife said, “we’ll see.”)

Aug 09 $634
(Wife strangely silent.)

All I did was take the basics and then get focused by Court and Mark. This system makes money if you actually apply it.

- Andy B, USA

I joined on the recommendation of someone I trust, and with a free trial I didn’t see anything to lose. I was looking for a program like this – one with good support, where questions would be answered, and where there was a fairly detailed program to follow to get started.

My hesitation was that this would be one of those programs, like I found [program name removed] to be, where there were too many people giving conflicting advice, too much information and a lot of people into methods that didn’t interest me at all. I was also concerned that it would be too ‘big’ and impersonal to the point that a total newbie like me got lost in it all. Thankfully it was nothing like that.

Since participating in this, I feel the strengths are the good support, the on-topic forum where help is freely given, your active participation in the forums, continued progress and advancement, new tools to use being developed, and the opportunities for networking with others via contact on the forum. A big plus for me when initially joining was that all the training and information was available right from the start, unlike [program name removed] where they give you one dose a week, and it’s an 8 week course so if you want to learn ‘all they have’ you have to stay on 2 months (and the last week’s stuff isn’t worth it anyway).

What’s keeping me here is the forum and the link building tools, and the feeling of being in touch with what’s happening in the internet marketing world a bit as in new challenges you undertake, and being privy to your ‘experiments’ etc. All a fantastic learning experience.

- Robyn W, an American living in Taiwan

I almost got sucked into an internet marketing scam just before starting this course. The pricing structure was similar, but they required the first payment in full, and didn’t really give you any idea of what you were getting until you paid. I got all fired up, because I’ve wanted to make money online for years. I really needed a specific set of instructions to follow (that’s just the way I am).

The group I signed up for (who will remain anonymous, mainly to save my own embarrassment for falling for them in the first place) had absolutely no idea, and were just trying to make money online themselves. Lucky for me, I had done some reading over the years of some really trustworthy bloggers, and knew to a certain extent what was right and what was wrong.

In my frustration over being scammed, I started looking at the your site as well as some others I trusted, and was elated to find TKA Pro. I had no hesitation in signing up for a trial. I’m still not sure whether I’ve been lucky or not, but I’ve covered my costs as I’ve gone. I’ve just paid for my 3rd month and have earned over $100, doing nothing but following the steps.

I can’t imagine leaving any time soon. This business is so damn fluid, that you need to constantly stay on your toes, and this is the best place to do that. With the monthly webinars and the knowledge in the forums, I see it as being a necessary expense in order for me to succeed at this business…

Some people need to be pushed, motivated and assured that they are doing it right. I am one of those people. Every time there is an announcement of a new Earners’ Club** badge in the forums, every time someone starts a thread saying that they don’t know if they are doing things right, the support from the regulars in here is overwhelming. Some people may not need this type of support, but for me, it’s what keeps me buzzing.

- Josh B, Australia

**The Earners’ Club is a progress tracking system we’ve set up for our members. When members reach certain income levels, they privately submit proof of earnings to us and we award them the corresponding earnings badge. The badge displays alongside their name when they post in the forum. Not all members choose to participate in the Earners’ Club, but we’ve found it really helps people stay excited about working toward their goals, and it’s fun for us to be able to publicly congratulate our members as they progress. A side benefit of the Earners’ Club is that it makes it very easy to identify exactly who knows what they’re talking about when they answer questions in the forum.

Speaking of the Earners’ Club, these comments are from a student who’s earning over $3,000 per month after working with us for a little over a year:

For me, the strongest part of your program is that it gave me a plan to follow – everything laid out for me in a step by step fashion. Of course in the beginning I thought you were holding things back, but I was lucky in that I realized early on that you were giving us the whole picture. I knew if I followed this plan (and didn’t allow myself to get distracted), I could be successful at this.

I just checked my traffic stats and my top five sites have received just under 2,500 visitors since yesterday, which is pretty typical for me at the moment. I’ve promoted all five of these sites using the principles you teach. One of those sites I’d started in another program (where they really had no clue about how to get traffic to a website), and it’s now earning over $900 per month thanks to what I learned from you guys.

I know I have said this before Mark, but I think what you and Court are doing is truly life-changing for some people. The income I make from this now would be enough for many people to quit working the 9 – 5. Unfortunately I’m still caught up in it until the end of the year, but only because I have a wife with expensive tastes (you can print that, she will never read this)!

- Ray B, United Kingdom

Here are some answers to commonly asked questions about TKA Pro:

1. How many hours per week do I need to invest to see results?

We’ve been teaching people to make money online for a long time, and we always tell new students the same thing:

If you want to create progress and momentum you need to be able to dedicate 10 to 15 hours per week. It doesn’t matter if it’s ten hours in one day or about an hour and a half each day. You just have to put the time in.

We’re all busy. We often get emails from students who are canceling their membership because “I just don’t have time to fully dedicate myself to this right now. I love your material; I’ll be back in a few months!”

Let’s be real. They’ll never be back. Life happens and you’ll always be busy. The problem is the weeks, months, and years fly by and you’re still not making any money online. It’s tragic.

Besides, we’re not trying to give you a full-time job. If all you can put in is 15 or 20 minutes per day, you will still make some progress. The students who are sporadic in their effort and generally flaky….STILL do better then the students who say “I don’t have time but I’ll get back to this in a few months.” Trust us, we’re saying this after five years of coaching people. You can not afford to keep putting off your goals while you wait for the stars to align and timing to be “perfect.” That’s a fantasy. Start today, do the best you can, and look to all the other busy people in our community for support and motivation. Taking action always pays off.

2. What’s the deal with this ‘free for 30 days and then $33 per month’? I don’t want to be locked into some lame subscription I can’t control.

Yeah, we know this whole teaser price deal is one of the most abused tactics in the internet marketing world. But here’s why we do it:

• There’s no way for you to see the full value of our program until you get inside and tinker with it. We’re not going to ask you to pay full price to take a test drive.
• Our content and community are awesome. If you’ll just get in there and give it a serious look you will be pleasantly surprised. We give 30 days of access for free because we know plenty of people will be so impressed that they’ll keep their membership active for a long time to come.
• YOU control the subscription. We run everything through Paypal, which means you can log into your Paypal account and cancel anytime you want. And if you don’t know how to do that you can just contact Paypal and tell them to cancel this subscription. Not that you’ll need to – we have a wonderful support gal named Lisa who will take care of canceling your subscription the very first time you email her about it.

The point is we have no interest in trying to keep you subscribed to a program you aren’t excited about. If we can’t impress you enough during your free trial membership, you’re always free to leave and there will be no hard feelings.

4. How much money will I have to spend (outside the membership fee) to make this work? What hidden costs are you not telling me about?

Running an internet business is cheap, but it isn’t necessarily free. If you’re going to make this work you should be prepared to invest around $10 per month in a web hosting account and $10 on a domain name for your website. If you have no idea what web hosting and domain names are, don’t worry – we’ll teach you what they are and show you how to use them.

Down the road you should be prepared to reinvest some of your profits back into the business so it can grow more quickly. There are tools we’ll recommend once you get going, but initially all you’re going to need are the web hosting account and the domain name.

5. How long will it take me to start making money with your program?

The answer, of course, is “it depends.” Every student is different – some have more experience than others, some have more time than others, some have more motivation than others. We have seen students create a nice income within a few months of joining our program. Unfortunately, we’ve also had students let months pass without applying what they learn, so their income takes much longer to develop.

It may not sound sexy, but we tell everyone who makes an investment in our program that your second year in internet marketing will be a lot more exciting than your first year. You can get some results in the first few months, but if you don’t have a long term perspective – if you aren’t committed to sticking with your goals for over a year – don’t join this program. Get rich quick scams are called get rich scams for a reason. Success comes to those who will persist longer than all the people who lose interest when they don’t make money within three days of starting a project.

6. How much can I really earn with your method?

We can’t make any claims or specific promises about how much money you will earn in the program.

What we can say is when we started the program we asked ourselves “How can we show people a way to create an extra $1,000 per month online without having to live in front of their computers?” The method you’ll learn inside is the answer to that question.

We’ve been happy to watch as many of our students have taken our “$1,000 per month” method and used it to earn quite a bit more. We have students earning $1,500 to $2,500 per month, and we’ve even had one student get let us know he’s earning in the neighborhood of $9,000 per month using the techniques we taught him.

We’ll sum it up like this: If you take a trial membership of our program, we’ll show you the steps these successful students used to create their income. After you’ve seen the method and experienced the support we provide, we’re pretty sure you’ll want to hang around after your trial is over.

7. How will I get help with my problems and answers to my questions?

A few ways different ways:

• When you join as a Premium Member (free for your 30 day trial, and then $33 per month), you’ll have access to The Keyword Academy Forums, where you can get fast answers to any question you have about any part of our method. We participate actively in the forums, and so do many of our more experienced members. You never have to worry about getting stuck when the community is right there to get you back on track.
• Each month we hold multiple live Q&A webinars where we don’t bring any prepared material; it’s just an open forum for the students to ask any question they want. We hold two Q&A sessions in the evening, and one in the early afternoon. With this schedule we’re able to get accommodate most of the time zones around the world. For students not able to attend the live Q&A we make the most recent three sessions available as downloadable recordings in two formats – windows movie files and mp3 audio files.

The bottom line is you’ll have the support you need. There’s no “read a book and struggle through it” in this program.

8. I don’t have a website, and I’m clueless about web design and programming. Are you sure I can make this work?

Yes. Our students use free software to build their websites, and we provide some extra instructional videos that walk you through the site setup process. It will take you about 20 minutes to have your first website online.The reality is you’re going to be a lot better off as an internet marketer if you have some basic web publishing skills (being able to set up a simple website and publish content on it), but we’ll show you how.

9. Is this program for beginner, intermediate, or advanced internet marketers?

All three groups will benefit from TKA Pro. Beginners and intermediate students will get the most from the program because they’re most likely missing a specific method to help them build momentum and actually create some cash flow. Advanced internet marketers (those already making a good income online) will find that they know a lot of what we teach, but they’ll still get new insights from the forums and Webinars. Not to mention the link building tools, which will benefit anyone no matter how much they’re already earning.

If you’re making less than $1,000 per month online you are crazy not to take a trial membership of The Keyword Academy Pro.

We hope to get to know you better on the inside!

Mark Butler and Courtney Tuttle

Compare Memberships	Basic	Premium
The Keyword Academy Pro Core Videos
Monthly Live New Content Webinar
Weekly Live Q&A Webinars
Linkbuilding Tools
BONUSES
Webinar Recording Downloads (both movie and audio format)
Access to the TKA Pro Forums

Basic Membership (free for 30 days, then $29/mo)	Premium Membership (free for 30 days, then $33/mo)

At the same time, we’ve realized that there’s a whole world out there we’ve ignored – the world of the small business owner looking to find new customers and clients through the search engines. So we’ve decided it’s time to establish a new brand that gives us a chance to reach out to that market. We’d like to introduce you to SEO Educators (http://seoeducators.net – the site is under construction at the moment). SEO Educators is looking to help the small business owner that knows she could be pulling customers and clients from Google and Yahoo! every month, but doesn’t have thousands of dollars to pay an SEO firm to help her get ranked. Our goal is to give this kind of entrepreneur an SEO plan she can implement with the resources (time, money, and staff) she already has.

But the point of this post isn’t to sell you on SEO Educators, so I’ll stop there. You can check out the site in the next week or so when the copy is written if you’re interested.

So what is the point of this post? There are actually three:

1. Help Us Out with Our Logo Design Contest

Court and I are notoriously bad when it comes to design. Not only do neither of us have a shred of design ability, we can’t even really say what we like or don’t like in a design. Some friends of ours turned us on to 99designs.com. For somebody as design-impaired as me 99designs.com is an absolute heaven-send. In a nutshell, you sign up to run a design contest, write a brief about what you need, and then tens of thousands of designers have the chance to submit an entry in hopes of winning the cash prize you established at the beginning of the contest. Seriously, this is brilliant. You can read more about what 99designs can do for you here.

Court and I would really love to have feedback and suggestions on our logo design contest. Pop over and check it out if you like. We need all the help we can get.

2. Do You Have Access to Small Business Owners? Join the SEO Educators Affiliate Program

We need affiliates! 99% of our traffic is geared toward making money online, and we need to talk to small business owners. If you’re a web designer, developer, marketing consultant…or anybody else that knows some business owners, send me an email (mark[at]thekeywordacademy[dot]com) so I can get in touch with you about becoming an affiliate. We’re tentatively planning a lead-based affiliate program where your job will be to get people to reach out to us, and you’ll be paid healthy commissions when we convert those leads to clients.

3. Sales Experience? Become An Independent Sales Rep for SEOEducators.net

Some of you may know I spent four years as an inside sales rep and sales manager before quitting to work full-time with Court. I miss sales and I’ve looked forward to creating a product with Court that would give us the chance to partner with a solid group of independent sales reps who could take our product to market and earn a great living at it. We know there are quite a few corporate sales types out of work right now, and we’d like to give a good opportunity to a few people who want to make a full time living talking to small business owners about our SEO educational products.

Initially, we’re looking to work with three or four people who’d like to earn upwards of $50,000 per year as a rep for our business. Wow, did that ever sound like an MLM pitch, so let me clarify. This will be commission-only sales; you’ll be paid one commission if you prospected the client yourself and a different commission if we generate a lead and you make the sale. The reason I say upwards of $50,000 per year is not because we can make any guarantees about your earnings, or the number of lead you’ll get etc. I say $50,000 because we’re looking for people to work full-time on this, and I don’t think it would be worth it if you were going to make less than $50,000 for your trouble. Ideally I’d like to see our reps making in the $75,000 to $100,000 range.

As I said, I was in commission sales for years, so I don’t throw those numbers around ignorantly or lightly. If you have sales ability and confidence, get in touch with me and we’ll talk about whether this could be a good fit. I can tell you this would have been my dream sales job when I was in sales – working from home (or wherever I wanted) making as many sales as I decided to make, and not having an annoying sales manager bugging me all the time because he’s trying to beef up his bonuses. We’re looking for some independent spirits with the ability to explain value and close. Most people reading this just shuddered in semi-horror. We’re looking for the three of you who think that sounds friggin cool. Again, email me if this has any appeal at all to you and we’ll talk about the details.

And that’s it! Check out our logo contest, become an affiliate for SEOEducators.net, and let us know if you’re interested in an independent sales job.

Have a great one everybody.

A little over two weeks ago we launched The Keyword Crash Course membership community, and the response has been fantastic. As of this writing we have 444 people enrolled in the community, 1,318 posts in 310 different threads in the forums, and concrete plans for two solid new content webinars.

I just wanted to put up a post with a few program updates and some detail about this Thursday’s webinar on outsourcing.

First I want to mention how impressed we are with the caliber of people who have signed up for the program. Before we launched one of the things we debated most was whether to include a forum in the program, and it was a point of big debate for us. Why? Two main reasons:

1. Forums can be the biggest time waste in the world. We’re dead set on seeing our members get results, and we’ve always been hesitant to create a potentially huge distraction that significantly delays the accomplishment of the individual members’ goals.
2. The quality of answers given in open internet marketing forums is usually….well…suspect. You usually see a lot of blind leading the blind, pointless debate among theorists, etc.

We were leaning heavily away from having a forum, that is until our buddy Jesse of YouNeedaBudget.com (where he provides personal budgeting software) got in on the conversation. I told him Court and I probably weren’t going to offer a forum, and Jesse said “Listen, I’ve been running my business now for over four years, and I can point to a couple of major events that took it to a completely different level. One of those events was the launch of the YNAB forums [an active community of his users]. If you guys don’t give your members a forum, two things are going to happen. One, your members won’t do nearly as well working on their own than if they have a community to lean on. In fact, most of them will fail without some kind of support structure. Which leads to the second point – if your members fail your site will fail.”

With that advice ringing in my ears I went to Court and said “We have to give them a forum. The benefits to the members outweigh the risks, and we’re just going to have to carefully manage the forum culture so people have a great experience in there.” Court agreed, and we nervously told our developer to integrate a forum into the membership area.

I tell that story because I want you to realize how hesitant we were, and how our fears evaporated within a few hours of launching the site. The morning after launch, Court caught me on instant messenger and started rattling off names of members…”Hey do you know Dave O? Do you know Arno? Have you seen how much Lissie has been posting in the forums? Man…we have some really smart people in those forums. This thing is going to be awesome.”

So consider this a public thank you to all of you who have joined the program, and especially to those who have taken the time to share their knowledge and experience in the forums. It’s quickly becoming an amazing resource. We’re working every day to on ways to make the members’ area more useful.

Speaking of making the program more useful…here are a few things we have coming up:

Thursday, April 23 at 6:00pm MDT we’re hosting our next webinar. When I announced the session a couple of weeks ago I said it was going to be on the subject of outsourcing, and that’s still mostly true. However I’ve been thinking about how to give people maximum benefit in the session and I’ve decided we need to go a little deeper than outsourcing. Here’s what I mean…

Success with your niche sites (and any business) is mostly about the intelligent allocation of your scarce resources – time and money. So, yes, we need to talk about how to wisely leverage money to save time through outsourcing. But that’s not the whole story. We also need to talk about how to plan a site start to finish – including how much time and money that site is going to cost before it’s ready to earn. Every step in the process involves a decision about whether to spend time or money, and you need to have a guiding set of principles to help you make those decisions consistently and intelligently.

We have two sections planned for Thursday night:

1. We’ll be talking about the nuts and bolts of planning an entire niche site from a business planning perspective, breaking down the cost (time and/or money) start to finish. We’ll also be providing you with a planning and task management tool.
2. We’ll be doing a full case study where we talk about what outsourcing decisions we’d make given different dollar budgets and time budgets to complete a site. This is where we’ll get into how to spend your outsourcing dollars wisely at each stage of site development, how to intelligently reinvest your profits, and how to approach your business when you really can’t spare a single dollar to get help from outsourcers.

Members, watch the members’ area and your inboxes for webinar registration information.

We’re excited to announce The Keyword Crash Course Earners Club. Two of the central elements of all goal achievement are motivation and accountability. We want to provide you with both. Starting early next week (barring any programming delays), Premium members of the Crash Course will be able to go into their forum profile and place yourselves in different earnings clubs. These are the clubs we have planned at the moment:

• N club (for new online marketers)
• $100 Club
• $200 Club
• $300 Club
• $400 Club
• $500 Club
• $1,000 Club
• $2,500 Club
• $5,000 Club

Each level carries an associated badge, and your badge will be displayed in two places: on your forum profile page and next to your name in your forum posts. We’ll also provide you with some code so you can display your Earners Club badge on your blog or website if that’s something you’d like to do.

Every time you see your badge (whether you’re in the N club or the $2,500 club), we hope you’ll feel a spark of motivation to knock off that next level.  We want you to be accountable to the entire community (because we all tend to perform better when we’re accountable to other people instead of ourselves) to achieve your goals, increase your income, and earn those badges. And yes, of course we all know it’s not about the dumb little badge – it’s about the accomplishment the badge represents. We’re excited to have the chance to publicly congratulate you every time you achieve a new club level.

One more thing about the Earners Club – we’re committed to the integrity of the system, so you’re going to have to prove you’ve earned each level before it will be displayed to the community. We’ve programmed our system to let you choose any level you want, but your club level status will show as “pending” until you submit some proof of earnings. We want everyone who sees your badge to know you earned it, and we verified it. We’ve programmed in a handy little upload feature on the forum profile pages where you can send us screenshots of your Adsense, affiliate, or product sales information so we can certify that your earnings are the real deal. Of course all proof will be completely confidential and never publicized in any way (beyond the badges).

We’re ALSO excited to announce weekly Open Call-in Sessions for Premium members. I’m loving the fact that we now have over 400 people in the community, but I’m worried that as the community grows Court and I will become disconnected. To try to stay in touch with your questions, needs, and feedback I’ve decided to open up the phone lines for a few hours each week and give Premium members the opportunity to call in. I’ll provide a phone number and Skype contact information in the members’ area. The Open Call-in schedule (for the time being) will be Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 10:30am to 12 noon, Mountain Time. That’s 12:30pm to 2pm Eastern Time, and 5:30pm to 7pm for many of the folks in Europe.

These calls will involve some real “quid pro quo”….I”ll answer any question you have about your sites and in return I’ll be taking the opportunity to ask you a few questions about what you’re liking, hating, and missing in the program. I’ll try to make sure calls last less than 10 to 15 minutes so I can maximize the number of people I talk to each week.

And that’s about it for now. We’re working every day to make this site a premium internet marketing resource; thank you for helping us get there!

- Mark

There are three big reasons you should become one of over 1,400 active subscribers to TKA Pro:

1. The Method

After you register we’ll start you off with our Core Videos – nearly six hours of “over the shoulder” instruction where we explain our entire income generating method as you watch us walk through the process on your screen. What is that process?

If you feel like you already know everything you see there, think again. Take Keyword Selection for example – do you have a tried and tested method for comparing the profit potential and competitiveness of one keyword to another? What about comparing an entire family of keywords to another completely different set? We do – it’s called The Formula, and our students rave about it. Don Lawson – a full-time internet marketer who joined TKA Pro back in February – had this to say about The Formula:

All I have to say is OMG! This is exactly what I was looking for when I bought the course. I got my money’s worth the fist half of the 1st video! The formula for evaluating keywords is the missing link that I’ve needed for years. This explains why some of my sites make money while others don’t even though I get the traffic. I’ve often felt like my Keyword research was one of my weak areas even though I’ve tried most everyone’s method of finding keywords. This formula proved to me that I was leaving money on the table. – Don Lawson, AffliateWatcher.com

2. The Community and Support

After five years of teaching people to make money online, we know the biggest reason people fail (other than a lack of a proven method to follow) is a lack of support and encouragement from knowledgeable, experienced people who can get them through the rough initial learning curve.

From the minute you join TKA Pro you’ll get answers to any question you have – quickly – inside our members only forums.

Isn’t it nice to know you won’t have to fumble around in the dark anymore when you have questions about building your online income?

But our support structure doesn’t end with the forums. Every Thursday we hold a live webinar for our members (one of which is scheduled to accommodate our European and other international students). That’s four webinars per month. Three of them are open Q&A sessions where we show up and our members are able to ask us anything they want about how to make their sites more successful. These Q&A webinars last about an hour; we’re able to answer a lot of questions in sixty minutes. The fourth webinar each month is a New Content Webinar, and during these sessions we lay out new angles on our method, as well as teaching principles from the core videos more in depth.

Here’s a quick list of our last six New Content Webinars:

“August ‘09 Webinar: The Anatomy of a $5000 Per Month Super Site”

“July ‘09 Webinar: Winning the Mental Game and Creating Momentum”

“June ‘09 Webinar: Hubpages – Who knew this would be such a solid money maker?”

“May ‘09 Webinar: Google Changes, the Trend Toward Quality, and Protecting Yourself from Adsense-related Penalties”

“Running Your Business Like a Business…April ‘09 Outsourcing Webinar”

“March Webinar: Multiply Your Income by Targeting Multiple Keywords on Your Posts and Sites”

(By the way, during your 30 day trial to TKA Pro you’ll be able to download all six of these sessions in both windows movie format and mp3 audio format. Same goes for the most recent Q&A sessions. Call it a thank you for giving our program a shot.)

3. The Tools

The most difficult and time consuming part of getting the search engines to trust your website and send you traffic is getting quality links to your site. When you join TKA Pro you’ll get immediate access to two powerful link building tools. That’s all we’re going to say about that, but trust us that these tools are worth a look.

This isn’t your typical sales page.

Rather than bombard you with all caps red font, double exclamation points, and artificial “expiring offers,” we’ll let the program speak for itself, because the truth is it’s awesome. Here’s what some of our 1,000+ members have to say about it:

(These quotes are taken from a thread we started in the forum, asking students to tell us why they joined and why they stayed after their trial membership expired. We’re grateful to these students for sharing their thoughts and letting us publish them.)

Hi Mark – I’m only about a month into this membership…I don’t even think my first payment has been processed….but it should be soon. I’m happily going to pay it and just so you know, I’ll be staying. I’ve learned more here than dozens of other courses. (And dozens is not an exaggeration.)

As to why I joined:

1) I’ve seen this “low initial price” offer before – it’s quite a popular tactic these days. I look at these offers with a skeptical eye. I’ve been scammed before, but I thought I’ll take this offer for the 30 days and cancel if I’m not happy. If I don’t like it, I’m not out a thing.

2) I didn’t know you guys from any other “guru” membership site, so I was going to let your product be the determining factor in whether I stayed subscribed. I liked the fact that you didn’t use any screenshots of earnings, big claims of making money online, or anything like that. If I felt you had something different to offer, I’d keep going. If not, I’d leave.

What I think now that I’ve been subscribed a while:

1) This is a great site full of high quality information. Those intro videos finally made Adsense and other Internet marketing make sense for me. That’s after I’ve spent thousands of dollars on other courses and software.

2) The forum seems to be a genuine place that good people hang out. I haven’t participated much yet because I’m still working through my keyword research. (I’m slow I know.) But there seems a genuine willingness to help others and some of the students here are quite successful AND still help the newbies. This is VERY different from most other sites.

3) You and Court seem to care and take an active role on the forums proving that you have a vested interest in your students success vs. having a vested interest in only selling more memberships. I’ve seen responses from the TKA folks quite a bit in the forum postings and that is encouraging. Many other membership site gurus sell the customer on joining and then disappear never to be heard from again.
That’s my thoughts. Thanks for offering a great service.

- John H, Illinois, USA

Mark,
I actually looked at joining you guys last winter but I wasn’t willing to spend the one time fee [when we had a program that cost around $600]. You even offered to talk to me but I didn’t want some high pressure sales pitch. Now that I’ve seen your integrity I know that wouldn’t have been the case but back then I figured it was just another internet marketing gimmick to get my money.

When you came out with the free trial offer I joined – I figured it didn’t cost anything, so why not see what the program was about.

Once I saw a few videos I liked what I saw and I starting putting the steps into action. I had a few sites from last winter but had never made any money and I knew I had to try something new. I liked the step by step method as it really helped me to get focused.

The forums have really added a lot to my understanding and they’ve allowed me to feel like part of a community of like minded people. It is hard to find anyone who is not online to discuss this with because they don’t understand what we are doing.

For me it was really important to not risk a lot of money to see if you guys had a clue – which you do.

Here’s a timeline that shows my income:

Aug 08 -Dec 08 $0

Jan 09 – mar 09 $44 total for 3 months

(Realized I had a lot more questions and joined TKA Pro)

Apr 09 $50
(Wife said it was a scam.)

May 09 $126
(Wife gave a little smile at check.)

June 09 $155
(Wife nodded at check.)

July $439
(Wife said, “we’ll see.”)

Aug 09 $634
(Wife strangely silent.)

All I did was take the basics and then get focused by Court and Mark. This system makes money if you actually apply it.

- Andy B, USA

I joined on the recommendation of someone I trust, and with a free trial I didn’t see anything to lose. I was looking for a program like this – one with good support, where questions would be answered, and where there was a fairly detailed program to follow to get started.

My hesitation was that this would be one of those programs, like I found [program name removed] to be, where there were too many people giving conflicting advice, too much information and a lot of people into methods that didn’t interest me at all. I was also concerned that it would be too ‘big’ and impersonal to the point that a total newbie like me got lost in it all. Thankfully it was nothing like that.

Since participating in this, I feel the strengths are the good support, the on-topic forum where help is freely given, your active participation in the forums, continued progress and advancement, new tools to use being developed, and the opportunities for networking with others via contact on the forum. A big plus for me when initially joining was that all the training and information was available right from the start, unlike [program name removed] where they give you one dose a week, and it’s an 8 week course so if you want to learn ‘all they have’ you have to stay on 2 months (and the last week’s stuff isn’t worth it anyway).

What’s keeping me here is the forum and the link building tools, and the feeling of being in touch with what’s happening in the internet marketing world a bit as in new challenges you undertake, and being privy to your ‘experiments’ etc. All a fantastic learning experience.

- Robyn W, an American living in Taiwan

I almost got sucked into an internet marketing scam just before starting this course. The pricing structure was similar, but they required the first payment in full, and didn’t really give you any idea of what you were getting until you paid. I got all fired up, because I’ve wanted to make money online for years. I really needed a specific set of instructions to follow (that’s just the way I am).

The group I signed up for (who will remain anonymous, mainly to save my own embarrassment for falling for them in the first place) had absolutely no idea, and were just trying to make money online themselves. Lucky for me, I had done some reading over the years of some really trustworthy bloggers, and knew to a certain extent what was right and what was wrong.

In my frustration over being scammed, I started looking at the your site as well as some others I trusted, and was elated to find TKA Pro. I had no hesitation in signing up for a trial. I’m still not sure whether I’ve been lucky or not, but I’ve covered my costs as I’ve gone. I’ve just paid for my 3rd month and have earned over $100, doing nothing but following the steps.

I can’t imagine leaving any time soon. This business is so damn fluid, that you need to constantly stay on your toes, and this is the best place to do that. With the monthly webinars and the knowledge in the forums, I see it as being a necessary expense in order for me to succeed at this business…

Some people need to be pushed, motivated and assured that they are doing it right. I am one of those people. Every time there is an announcement of a new Earners’ Club** badge in the forums, every time someone starts a thread saying that they don’t know if they are doing things right, the support from the regulars in here is overwhelming. Some people may not need this type of support, but for me, it’s what keeps me buzzing.

- Josh B, Australia

**The Earners’ Club is a progress tracking system we’ve set up for our members. When members reach certain income levels, they privately submit proof of earnings to us and we award them the corresponding earnings badge. The badge displays alongside their name when they post in the forum. Not all members choose to participate in the Earners’ Club, but we’ve found it really helps people stay excited about working toward their goals, and it’s fun for us to be able to publicly congratulate our members as they progress. A side benefit of the Earners’ Club is that it makes it very easy to identify exactly who knows what they’re talking about when they answer questions in the forum.

Speaking of the Earners’ Club, these comments are from a student who’s earning over $3,000 per month after working with us for a little over a year:

For me, the strongest part of your program is that it gave me a plan to follow – everything laid out for me in a step by step fashion. Of course in the beginning I thought you were holding things back, but I was lucky in that I realized early on that you were giving us the whole picture. I knew if I followed this plan (and didn’t allow myself to get distracted), I could be successful at this.

I just checked my traffic stats and my top five sites have received just under 2,500 visitors since yesterday, which is pretty typical for me at the moment. I’ve promoted all five of these sites using the principles you teach. One of those sites I’d started in another program (where they really had no clue about how to get traffic to a website), and it’s now earning over $900 per month thanks to what I learned from you guys.

I know I have said this before Mark, but I think what you and Court are doing is truly life-changing for some people. The income I make from this now would be enough for many people to quit working the 9 – 5. Unfortunately I’m still caught up in it until the end of the year, but only because I have a wife with expensive tastes (you can print that, she will never read this)!

- Ray B, United Kingdom

Here are some answers to commonly asked questions about TKA Pro:

1. How many hours per week do I need to invest to see results?

We’ve been teaching people to make money online for a long time, and we always tell new students the same thing:

If you want to create progress and momentum you need to be able to dedicate 10 to 15 hours per week. It doesn’t matter if it’s ten hours in one day or about an hour and a half each day. You just have to put the time in.

We’re all busy. We often get emails from students who are canceling their membership because “I just don’t have time to fully dedicate myself to this right now. I love your material; I’ll be back in a few months!”

Let’s be real. They’ll never be back. Life happens and you’ll always be busy. The problem is the weeks, months, and years fly by and you’re still not making any money online. It’s tragic.

Besides, we’re not trying to give you a full-time job. If all you can put in is 15 or 20 minutes per day, you will still make some progress. The students who are sporadic in their effort and generally flaky….STILL do better then the students who say “I don’t have time but I’ll get back to this in a few months.” Trust us, we’re saying this after five years of coaching people. You can not afford to keep putting off your goals while you wait for the stars to align and timing to be “perfect.” That’s a fantasy. Start today, do the best you can, and look to all the other busy people in our community for support and motivation. Taking action always pays off.

2. What’s the deal with this ‘free for 30 days and then $33 per month’? I don’t want to be locked into some lame subscription I can’t control.

Yeah, we know this whole teaser price deal is one of the most abused tactics in the internet marketing world. But here’s why we do it:

• There’s no way for you to see the full value of our program until you get inside and tinker with it. We’re not going to ask you to pay full price to take a test drive.
• Our content and community are awesome. If you’ll just get in there and give it a serious look you will be pleasantly surprised. We give 30 days of access for free because we know plenty of people will be so impressed that they’ll keep their membership active for a long time to come.
• YOU control the subscription. We run everything through Paypal, which means you can log into your Paypal account and cancel anytime you want. And if you don’t know how to do that you can just contact Paypal and tell them to cancel this subscription. Not that you’ll need to – we have a wonderful support gal named Lisa who will take care of canceling your subscription the very first time you email her about it.

The point is we have no interest in trying to keep you subscribed to a program you aren’t excited about. If we can’t impress you enough during your free trial membership, you’re always free to leave and there will be no hard feelings.

4. How much money will I have to spend (outside the membership fee) to make this work? What hidden costs are you not telling me about?

Running an internet business is cheap, but it isn’t necessarily free. If you’re going to make this work you should be prepared to invest around $10 per month in a web hosting account and $10 on a domain name for your website. If you have no idea what web hosting and domain names are, don’t worry – we’ll teach you what they are and show you how to use them.

Down the road you should be prepared to reinvest some of your profits back into the business so it can grow more quickly. There are tools we’ll recommend once you get going, but initially all you’re going to need are the web hosting account and the domain name.

5. How long will it take me to start making money with your program?

The answer, of course, is “it depends.” Every student is different – some have more experience than others, some have more time than others, some have more motivation than others. We have seen students create a nice income within a few months of joining our program. Unfortunately, we’ve also had students let months pass without applying what they learn, so their income takes much longer to develop.

It may not sound sexy, but we tell everyone who makes an investment in our program that your second year in internet marketing will be a lot more exciting than your first year. You can get some results in the first few months, but if you don’t have a long term perspective – if you aren’t committed to sticking with your goals for over a year – don’t join this program. Get rich quick scams are called get rich scams for a reason. Success comes to those who will persist longer than all the people who lose interest when they don’t make money within three days of starting a project.

6. How much can I really earn with your method?

We can’t make any claims or specific promises about how much money you will earn in the program.

What we can say is when we started the program we asked ourselves “How can we show people a way to create an extra $1,000 per month online without having to live in front of their computers?” The method you’ll learn inside is the answer to that question.

We’ve been happy to watch as many of our students have taken our “$1,000 per month” method and used it to earn quite a bit more. We have students earning $1,500 to $2,500 per month, and we’ve even had one student get let us know he’s earning in the neighborhood of $9,000 per month using the techniques we taught him.

We’ll sum it up like this: If you take a trial membership of our program, we’ll show you the steps these successful students used to create their income. After you’ve seen the method and experienced the support we provide, we’re pretty sure you’ll want to hang around after your trial is over.

7. How will I get help with my problems and answers to my questions?

A few ways different ways:

• When you join as a Premium Member (free for your 30 day trial, and then $33 per month), you’ll have access to The Keyword Academy Forums, where you can get fast answers to any question you have about any part of our method. We participate actively in the forums, and so do many of our more experienced members. You never have to worry about getting stuck when the community is right there to get you back on track.
• Each month we hold multiple live Q&A webinars where we don’t bring any prepared material; it’s just an open forum for the students to ask any question they want. We hold two Q&A sessions in the evening, and one in the early afternoon. With this schedule we’re able to get accommodate most of the time zones around the world. For students not able to attend the live Q&A we make the most recent three sessions available as downloadable recordings in two formats – windows movie files and mp3 audio files.

The bottom line is you’ll have the support you need. There’s no “read a book and struggle through it” in this program.

8. I don’t have a website, and I’m clueless about web design and programming. Are you sure I can make this work?

Yes. Our students use free software to build their websites, and we provide some extra instructional videos that walk you through the site setup process. It will take you about 20 minutes to have your first website online.The reality is you’re going to be a lot better off as an internet marketer if you have some basic web publishing skills (being able to set up a simple website and publish content on it), but we’ll show you how.

9. Is this program for beginner, intermediate, or advanced internet marketers?

All three groups will benefit from TKA Pro. Beginners and intermediate students will get the most from the program because they’re most likely missing a specific method to help them build momentum and actually create some cash flow. Advanced internet marketers (those already making a good income online) will find that they know a lot of what we teach, but they’ll still get new insights from the forums and Webinars. Not to mention the link building tools, which will benefit anyone no matter how much they’re already earning.

If you’re making less than $1,000 per month online you are crazy not to take a trial membership of The Keyword Academy Pro.

We hope to get to know you better on the inside!

Mark Butler and Courtney Tuttle

Compare Memberships	Basic	Premium
The Keyword Academy Pro Core Videos
Monthly Live New Content Webinar
Weekly Live Q&A Webinars
Linkbuilding Tools
BONUSES
Webinar Recording Downloads (both movie and audio format)
Access to the TKA Pro Forums

Basic Membership (free for 30 days, then $29/mo)	Premium Membership (free for 30 days, then $33/mo)

I also want to say thanks to the majority of you who were so thorough and insightful in your answers. I was really surprised at the number of people who said “Yes, I’d be happy to talk with you – here’s my phone number.” Very kind of you to be willing to do that.

I’m trying as we speak to send personal thank you notes to everyone who gave me an email address, but I’ll be traveling all weekend and may not get around to those emails and phone calls (to those who left numbers) until next week. Consider this an early and less personal thank you.

Have a great weekend.

Mark

We’d be pretty stupid and shortsighted if we didn’t occasionally ask you how we’re doing as teachers, and how we can improve our site – everything from the free blog to the paid programs.

Will you do us a favor? I’ve set up a short survey (I promise it will take about 3 to 6 minutes to complete) that will help us get to know you better and help us direct this site for the next few months.

Follow this link to fill out the survey:

Court and Mark’s Feedback Survey

Thanks in advance for taking the time. We’re not really interested in running a blog just “to hear the sound of our own voices,” so your answers will ensure the site stays useful.

And while we’re at it, Court and I do have some plans for a new twist on our paid programs, and I’m hoping to get some feedback on the idea. I’m wondering if some of you would get on a webinar with me (free, obviously) to discuss it. I’m planning on holding the session this coming Tuesday morning, my time, which means it would be early afternoon on the US east cost, late afternoon/early evening in Europe. Use the comments below or send me an email (mark[at]thekeywordacademy[dot]com) if you’d be willing and available during that time.

And about the webinar – I’m really looking to interact with some of you who’ve never joined any of our paid programs before. I say that because I already have a pretty good sense of how our members feel about us; I’d like to talk with some of the skeptics, the cynics, and the folks who’ve only recently found our site. That being said…the more the merrier. If the session fits your schedule let me know and I’ll get you an invite.

Thanks everybody, and have a great day.

- Mark

NOTE: I messed up question 6…it forces you to choose “I’ve never spent any money on a make money online program.” even if you have. Please just make a few notes about any programs you’ve bought in the past. Cut me some slack okay? I’m a survey rookie. Thanks to everybody who has filled them out.