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  Website Helped One Million Internet Entrepreneurs To Turn Their Passion Into a Successful Affiliate Marketing Business

Wealthy Affiliate (WA), a website that was created as an initiative to help other people succeed online, has announced that it has helped more than one million internet entrepreneurs to become successful affiliate marketers.

Since the site launched back in 2005, the WA platform (http://www.wealthyaffiliatefree.com) has continued to evolve and innovate at a pace that is faster than the industry. Unlike most portals of that kind, this one is different and unique in many ways – plus, there are even free plans available to individuals interested in getting started.

Individuals simply follow WA’s simple three step plan to get started. Step one is as simple as picking a topic one is interested in. When a topic has been selected, step two comes into play – creating a simple website. While this might sound complicated, WA makes this process very easy. Their portal enables their members to create a ready-to-go website within seconds. No knowledge of web design or programming required.

Step three is getting people to visit the newly created website. This is where WA also helps its members. The site provides lesions and explains the most current traffic techniques to help members drive traffic to their new site. This means learning how to rank well in search engines such as Google, Bing or Yahoo! Search.

Last but not least, step four is all about generating income. By promoting products from vendors such as Amazon, Microsoft, Nike, Walmart, Target and many other famous brands, members of WA are now able to turn their traffic into earnings. The best part about this is that members of the WA community do not even have to deal with handling products, shipments or even payments. This is all processed automatically with no additional work required. The only thing WA members have to care about is driving traffic to their website. It’s that simple.

About Wealthy Affiliate
When you approach success with anything you do in life, you need to make a concerted effort to make tomorrow a more brilliant day than you experienced today. We treat the service like that at Wealthy Affiliate. Our motivation is getting others to feel the same way about their situation. A brighter day is always ahead. We are driven by projects that will further enhance the way people do business online and the efficiency in which they can do it. Through our design, technology, marketing and support, we will continue to shoot for the stars. Our services get better with every single day that passes and this is the team that makes it all come together.

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Published on: 2015-10-24

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MailChimp: We helped feds foil spam scam

MailChimp, the fast-growing Atlanta email marketing company, unwittingly played a part in an international cybercrime that recently led to federal indictments against three men.

The company was among several whose legitimate services, prosecutors say, were used to send spam to millions of email addresses, occassionally luring recipients into paying for bogus products, such as fake security keys for software access to software suites (think: Adobe).

MailChimp helps customers reach large groups. The alleged schemers used addresses stolen from other such companies, along with sometimes bilked billing information, to set up customer accounts and transmit malicious email, said Valerie Warner Danin, MailChimp’s general counsel and privacy officer.

MailChimp is an Atlanta company that offers email services to clients that want to reach large audiences.

“To be clear, our system was not breached, no data loss occurred, and no servers or databases were compromised,” she said in a statement.

Warner Danin added that MailChimp, among other victim companies, helped the feds uncover the alleged scam after noticing supsicious activity. The scheme netted roughly $2 million dollars in ill-gotten gains, the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Atlanta said this month.

Two of the men indicted — one described as a hacker and the other a skilled spammer — are Vietnamese but operated at some point from the Netherlands, according to the indictments. One has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit computer fraud after being extradated to the United States. The other is a fugitive.

The third, a Canadian who helped on the financial end of the scheme, was recently arrested at Ft. Lauderdale International Airport. He was arraigned earlier this month.

At least one other email service provider in Georgia got caught up in the deception, the U.S. Attorney’s office said. The indictment did not name any of them.

Warner Danin told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that MailChimp believes that between 2008 and March 2012 someone used its services to send spam to at least 2 million email addresses.

It worked something like this, according to both the indictment and Warner Danin:

First, tens of millions of email addresses were stolen from several companies — one of which was Texas email giant Epsilon, the blog KrebsOnSecurity recently reported — through phishing attacks against employees. They enabled one of the suspects to gain access to some of the companies’ computer systems and email addresses.

The crooks then started to send out spam. In the process, they created legitimate MailChimp accounts using convincing customer credentials, enabling them to send emails via the service.

“When we detected the illegal activity we stopped sending the emails immediately,” Warner Danin said in the statement. “The accounts in our system that these messages were sent from were either fraudulently created or taken over through the end user.”

Email service provider customers, such as auto makers or retailers, upload lists of email addresses they collect. The providers then send marketing emails on the clients’ behalf to tell customers about promotions or deals, and they are adept at making sure getting such messages past spam folders and into inboxes. The AJC uses MailChimp to distribute email newsletters on Georgia politics and Atlanta air travel to people who sign up for them.

Such a service can be valuable to retailers and consumers — but also enticing to spammers.

“When you think of an email service provider, people don’t automatically think that we have value. But the truth is: if you have a list of email addresses… then you have a market there,” Warner Danin told the AJC in an interview.

She cited the 2011 case in which Epsilon notified its customers — Kroger, Walgreens and Honda among them, according to KrebsOnSecurity — that hackers had stolen email lists.

About that time MailChimp tightened some of its security controls, providing its customers with text message and email security alerts, as well as multifactor authentication, among other such services, according to the cyber security blog NakedSecurity.

Warner Danin said spammers can easily fool consumers if they expect to get emails from a certain place they’ve shopped.

“If you hear (regularly) from a large company and you get an email from a large company, than maybe you aren’t checking the header, you aren’t checking the URL. If it’s close enough, you’ll click,” she said.

One reason MailChimp was able to help shut the scheme down, Warner Danin said, was its abuse prevention initiative, Omnivore. The system involves machine learning algorithms constantly churning through emails to gauge the likelihood that they are legitimate.

MailChimp also maintains an email genome project that evaluates new companies looking to send marketing emails as they sign up. Warner Danin said MailChimp has prevented hundreds of thousands of emails from being sent through both its computer tools and an internal review department that has final say on whether to block customers.

In 2013, after the indicted men’s alleged last attempt to use MailChimp, the company turned over its customer logs to law enforcement after they were subpoenaed, Warner Danin said.

“We’re obviously very glad that this investigation has brought some of these individuals to justice,” she said. “And, hopefully, it will indicate to people that these types of crimes have repercussions. That being said, sending spam is something that we’ll always have to deal with.”

MailChimp: We helped feds foil spam scam

How one author raised $11000 to publish the book that has since helped nearly triple his income

Ryan HanleyRyan Hanley with his book and his one-year-old son, Duke.

In early 2013, Ryan Hanley decided he wanted to write a book.

Outside of his career in the insurance industry, he had been writing about content marketing on his website and running a podcast on the same subject since 2011.

“I started to hear the same story over and over again,” he remembers. “There were all these great books, but there was a step missing — they were tactical, here’s-how-you-do-it-and-make-it-work books. I thought they were missing the first step.”

To raise the money he needed to self-publish an appropriately professional-looking book, using professional cover editors, interior designers, and story and copy editors, he estimated he’d need $8,000-$11,000.

He was earning about $55,000 a year living in Albany, New York, and left his job to focus on his own business the same month his campaign went live: July 2014.

To get the extra cash, he turned to Publishizer, an online fundraising platform specifically for authors. In only 21 days, he’d raised the $10,000 he asked for, finishing the month and the campaign just shy of $11,000.

As to what made his fundraising so successful, Hanley credits the philosophy behind the book: That a content marketer is always building his audience. 

“The whole philosophy is that you’re always building your audience, whether or not you have a product that exists yet,” he explains. “You need to provide as much value as you can.”

Ryan HanleyThe book that Hanley self-published.

Hanley started the campaign with a simple picture of his as-yet-nonexistent book and a blurb about what it would be, then bulked up his appeal with a video, and a “blooper reel” with outtakes from the first video shoot.

“It’s not super professional,” he admits. “My wife helps me and is making fun of my pink shirt, which showed ‘here’s an actual human being, not someone who is untouchable."” He then included a fully edited section of the book “so people could get a feel for what they were actually purchasing.”

A lot of the campaign’s success, he says, is due to his audience: an email list of about 5,000, 10,000 followers on Twitter, 12,000 connections on Google Plus, and a podcast audience of about 10,000. “The podcast is an unbelievable platform,” he explains. “I don’t have a direct metric, but I can tell you from going through the 157 people that contributed, at last 60% are podcast listeners.”

In part thanks to his now-published book, ‘Content Warfare: How to Find Your Audience, Tell Your Story and Win the Battle for Attention Online,’ Hanley estimates that his income has nearly tripled since the days before authorship. He once again holds a day job — in fact, he was only on his own for a month and a half before he got an offer to capitalize on the knowledge he shared in his book doing content marketing with an insurance firm.

It was an offer he couldn’t refuse. “It allowed me to leverage up from a 15-person, one-location agency to this national organization,” he explains. “It’s been great because now I’m putting all the concepts in the book to a scale that’s helping a lot of businesses.”

On top of that, Hanley speaks about content marketing around the country (he has nine events scheduled over the next few months for $1,000-$2,000 each), which he estimates makes up 15%-20% of his income. He makes another 5% through affiliate marketing, and about 10% directly from the book.

He’s just starting to make plans for another one — and he’s considering funding it online.

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