Why is it that successful marketers and online entrepreneurs seem to have this virtual "6th sense" when it comes to pinpointing hot, hungry, and highly profitable markets they can sell products to?

We see this again and again and again.

They seem to have this "Midas touch" when it comes to selling online. Any product they launch sells like gangbusters. Every promotion they do balloons their bank accounts. Every new market they enter becomes a surefire winner.

But ask them how they tap these hidden goldmines with an almost impeccable accuracy, and the likely response you will get is, "I don't know, it just feels right."

There’s a reason.

(Stay with me, because in a moment I’m going to show you how you can do this yourself, and you don’t have to be psychic or shell out a lot of money!)

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I have been crazy-busy getting our newest product ready. It’s an all-in-one membership site that shows you how to create a moneymaking business online in just four steps.

We call it “Success Chef University.”

It covers everything. Every business model, traffic type, and marketing strategy. But do you know which ones you really need and why? What about outsourcing any of it?

Like following a recipe, you need to use the right ingredients in the right order. Success Chef simplifies it all for you with step-by-step video tutorials.

Success Chef is still in the pre-launch phase. However, we decided to invite you to join right now — long before we do launch — with a massive discount.

Limited to the next 50 individuals only.

The salesletter is also interactive, too. We’ve also recorded a special hour-long video to help you. That video is an education in itself! In it, we share those four simple steps to generating income on the Internet.

Check it out if just for the learning experience.

It seems there’s a flurry these days of Internet marketers releasing “free reports.” (Admittedly, I’m just as guilty.)

But there’s one report I highly recommend you read right now. My good friend, Armand Morin, has just released his free report. In his no-nonsense, no-B.S. style, Armand explains how he made millions online.

When I read the first draft, the first thing that came out of my mouth was, “It’s about time!”

(When you read it, you’ll understand what I mean.)

Forget the fluff and the purported “secrets” some marketers spout. Unlike so many of the “death of” manifestos of late, in this 50-page report nothing is sugarcoated. Nothing is secret. And more importantly, nothing “died.”

Warning! This report contains strong language, obvious truths, and moneymaking strategies some might find irritating. Even offensive.

If you want to learn how Armand built his multi-million dollar business online, or how we quadrupled our business using the same strategies Armand offers, then you need to download this free report and read it.

Click here to grab your free copy of “An Obvious Truth.”

Just a little note to let you know that I’m in Raleigh, North Carolina all week, as I’m recording a new product with my friend Armand Morin on blogging.

We literally go step by step through the process of setting up a blog, adding all the plugins, tweaking it, driving traffic to it, and of course, monetizing it properly.

I will return next week, and have a few new articles for you. In the meantime, did you check out my coaching program? A few openings are left. At least take a moment to read it. There are some great copy lessons in there, too!

(I also added a few extra pictures, including one of me playing my new drumset — like the photo at top of this post, which was taken at my 40th birthday party gig in a local watering hole in Ottawa, Ontario.)

Click here for the complete details.

I am not a copywriter. I make my fair share of sales online, but I have to assume that most people buy from me because they know me and like me. Either that or they really want what I am offering, and just roll their eyes and hunt for the order button. Because my copy skills stink — and they stink bad.

Over the years I have read everything that I can get my hands on about copywriting, and I’ve even made some substantial improvements. But just recently I found a much better (read: easier!) way to write sales copy.

It’s a backwards fill-in-the-blanks strategy, but it works.

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To celebrate Independence Day, including the independence from being a slave to your business, I wanted to pass this very special note to you.

As you probably know, for close to a decade my wife, Sylvie Fortin, owns an outsourcing and project fulfillment services company, Workaholics4Hire, Inc. Her client list reads like a venerable who’s who in the marketing world.

Recognizable names include Shawn Casey, Yanik Silver, Frank Kern, and many more (including yours truly), who use her services regularly and have done so for many years. (For instance, her company was featured in John Reese’s Traffic Secrets, in the “Outsourcing Mastery” video.)

Her company offers a variety of services to fit most outsourcing needs that allow you to focus on growing your business rather than micro-managing it…

… From conducting research, creating products, and designing websites, all the way to handling emails, managing customer support, setting up PPC ad campaigns, ghostwriting articles, and much more.

Well, I don’t normally talk about my wife’s services (her doors have been closed to the public for a long time), but just recently she changed her business model RADICALLY. (And it’s not what you think.)

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Just two days ago, my friend and copywriter John Riskowitz published one of my articles on long copy to his list, to which one of his subscribers protested.

Coincidentally, his protest points out the fact that commodity products, like soap, do not require long copy. The coincidence is that I agreed with what this person is saying, and in fact I actually posted another article just last week on the very topic of product categories, and the different approaches, including copy length, required for each one.

Academia labels them as convenience products, shopping products, specialty products and unsought products. (Soap, among others, falls into the convenience category.)

However, John’s reponse to his subscriber not only made sense but also offered a powerful lesson I wanted to share with you today. In fact, to add more chutzpah to his reply he used an example originally created by another top copywriter, Drew Eric Whitman, on — of all things — soap!

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