If you are looking for a great Online Business Opportunity then my opinion is go with affiliate marketing and if you wanted to boil affiliate marketing down to its simplest, you are essentially trying to attract traffic to your website and then send them through to an affiliate program where if they buy anything, you make money.

It sounds simple enough. Set up a blog about fishing, dog training or mp3 players, plaster it with adverts from Commission Junction or Share a Sale and cross your fingers that you'll make money.

Some sites work, others don't but over time if you keep on building your profits slowly rise.

But the problem with this process is best described as "missed opportunity".

You see, you will often find that one affiliate program converts better than another, even for the same product. Send 100 visitors to each one and it's very likely that you will make considerably more money from one than the other. Strange but true.

Taking it another step, if you do some testing you will also normally find that some of the adverts on your website get far more clicks than others. And that adverts in certain places on your website get more clicks than adverts in other areas of your website.

So if you could find which affiliate program converts best, which advert converts best and where to place that advert on your website for best results, then got rid of everything that *didn't* work so well, as I'm sure you can imagine you're likely to significantly increase your affiliate marketing profits.

And remember that you don't have to write any more content, build loads more links or spend your life trying to build up visitor numbers.

All this extra money is simply as a result of some smart testing to reveal how best to monetize your affiliate sites. Surely this is leverage at its best.

By now I'm sure you can see the potential of this method and are wondering how best to actually go about the testing phase.

There are two ways to go about it. The first way is to simply make manual changes to your websites and see how the results change. However not only is this not exactly scientific, but it also takes quite a bit of time and effort to constantly move adverts around, keep an eye on clickthrough rates of adverts, affiliate profits and so on.

However Richard Adams just released a tool called WP split tester which will do most of this for you. It will make all the necessary changes to your website and track the results. Let the script do all the "heavy lifting" and you can just pull out the top-performers from the statistics area of the tool and make the necessary changes to maximize your profits.

I'm a stats and split testing junky, I test even the littlest button or graphic, I 'play' with titles and text to increase my search engine rankings and you're not doing any testing on your blog or sales page your missing out on profits.

WP Split Tester will make testing a whole lot easier and I highly recommend that you buy this plugin. If you buy this plugin and you have questions about it or you would like to request a new feature or something, catch me on Twitter. I'm planning on publishing more video's reviews and interviews and Richard will be on in a couple of weeks so be sure to try the plugin and send me your feedback in the comments or via Twitter.

If you want to make some money online then blogging is a great option. This is how I started my online adventure and as I’ve mentioned before on this blog; almost all our sites are based on WordPress except for our shops.

I’m not alone using WordPress for everything. WordPress is probably the most used platform amongst Internet marketers and Jason Gazaway is also one of those marketers.

This is the reason why I’m writing this short post. The story of Jason Gazaway is mind blowing. He’s a guy that lost everything; fights back and makes more than $200k in his first 6 months. He made in 1.5 year almost 2 million dollars.

Jason just released a course called Bloggers Payback and as a promotion he now offers a completely free ebook called Blogging Pitfalls and Solutions and this guide is awesome. You can get his free book here.

And here comes my cleverly disguised sales pitch for Bloggers Payback. Bloggers Payback is awesome and if you don’t buy it today; the sky will come crashing down on you and you’ll be doomed forever…

All kidding aside; Bloggers Payback is a great product and Jason Gazaway is the real deal. Blogging is one of the best make money online business opportunities and I highly recommended this product.

Just grab the free book and let me know in the comments what you think of it.

To start this review off with I first want to explain with what programs I compared it with and how I looked at the Howie’s Apprentice Program. There are a couple of other high end Internet Marketing courses and training materials I’ve purchased in the past and that I’m currently enrolled in. I purchased John Reese’s Reese report Collection and I recently signed up for the Mike Filsaime VIP Coaching Club. They are both high end couching programs (if you are looking for a $100 course this Apprentice Program is not for you) but all 3 courses are completely different. The Reese Report Collection is “static” information and the Mike Filsaime VIP Coaching Club is a customized program for each participant created for their own online business.

Who Is Howie Schwartz?

Howie Schwartz is one of the big guys who are making millions online. He is known as one of the aggressive marketers, if not the most aggressive online marketer. He often says; “What if the money you can make goes to your competitor instead of to you and your family. You need to crush your competitors!!” This is what me attracted to the course, I love what I’m doing but it’s not charity. Howie is also known as the marketer with the most released Make Money Online products. Howie’s Apprentice is the flagship of all his Make Money Online products.

Howie’s Apprentice Review

As I explained above, the Howie’s Apprentice program cannot be compared with any of the other big and valuable make money online courses and Howie’s Apprentice isn’t suited for everyone. So in short; what is Howie’s Apprentice then all about? Howie’s Apprentice is a 12 – 16 week training course where Howie and his group of project managers lay-out a blueprint with strategies of many different techniques in order take over a complete market. This taking over the market is done via an online collaboration system, 2 – 3 weekly webinars presented by Howie or his project managers and your own personal resource center.

Starting the Howie Apprentice Program.

The Howie Apprentice Program starts with determining your market. Each Apprentice program targets a specific market. We went in Howie Apprentice 2 for the Christmas market but this can very well be Clickbank, Halloween or something else. You will learn how to pick a profitable market and how to dominate it.

The next steps in the program.

You will learn each week a new aspect of Internet Marketing. Each week a new section will be opened in the resource section that accommodates the webinars that are held that week. You will learn how to position your money site and how to build one that converts. How to make use of Web 2.0 sites and how to create mini nets around your money sites. Howie’s project managers will teach you techniques how to get the most out of Bookmarking and RSS submissions, these techniques are mind blowing and I never seen them in any other of the Make Money Online ebooks and courses and we bought allot Make Money Online products.

Howie’s Apprentice program also teaches you to excel in article marketing and video marketing. You will be teached how to use tools that are often found for free and how to fit them into your IM strategy.

I hope you understand what I mean with Howie’s Apprentice isn’t suited for everyone and why it’s different from any of the other high end courses. Howie’s Apprentice isn’t about Article Marketing, how to easily create Marketing Video’s or how to use the numerous tools. Howie’s Apprentice program is a 12 – 16 week training program to dominate a complete market. It’s a blueprint of tools and techniques to destroy your competitors.

I’m a launch partner of Howie and there are a ton of extras for all subscribers and apprentices. The bonuses that you can expect are reports, videos, online tools and downloadable apps. Howie’s Apprentice program is an “earn while you learn” program and you will earn every dollar back before the end of the course even if you’ve never made a dollar online before.

If you are serious about making money online but only if you are really serious then I highly recommend joining his group of highly successful apprentices. The course comes with a no questions asked satisfaction guarantee but it’s not a cheap investment in yourself or in your business but if you are really serious about Making Money Online you will get so much more out of it then a blueprint or some techniques to take over a market.

Howie’s Apprentice program is a great business opportunity and it will take your online business to the next level. If you want to know more about the bonuses you can apply for the program here (not everyone is accepted).

Good luck with your online venture, it’s time to make 2010 your year.