Make Money Online with EZ Niche

It all started late one hot August night when I was cruising along on Ebay. I was selling Real Estate, but my market in South Central Florida had come to a screeching halt. I was looking for a way to make some money on-line, with a home-based, Internet-based business of my own. Admittedly, I have a weakness for "Make Money From Home" programs, most of which turn out to be nothing but scams. But, there was something about this particular Ebay ad that caught my attention. Maybe it was the sincerity, honesty, and unselfishness of the seller. Maybe it was how he told us that he wasn't out to just sell an e-book and disappear. He was looking for people whom he could train to make money on-line.

Thus began a business relationship that has enabled me to earn money doing two things that I love, which are writing and selling. Duane Tomko, a renowned Internet Marketer and Software Designer, founded EZ Niche to teach "the little guy/gal" what he has learned during his many years of on-line affiliate marketing, product creation, software design and production, and mentoring.

So, for my initial outlay of $14.95, I received an e-book about Duane's "Simple Three Step System" for making money by writing articles and promoting other people's products as a Click Bank affiliate. This opened up a whole new world for me. I had been on-line for nine years, but had never heard of Click Bank or Commission Junction. Click Bank is an on-line marketplace featuring thousands of digital products; mainly, e-books and software. It cost nothing to set up an affiliate account with Click Bank and begin promoting a virtual smorgasbord of products ranging from e-books on diet and health, to more ways to make money at home and/or start your own business, to software.

Now, the e-book was just the beginning! I also received, for my $14.95, approximately 150 hours of live instruction from Duane Tomko himself, on such topics as SEO, Google Ad Sense and Ad Words, blogging, article marketing, affiliate marketing, product creation, and how to set up and maintain a web site. I paid an extra $14.95 to upgrade my membership and received even MORE perks, such as two more e-books, several different software programs to help me with my business, and the chance to create and sell my own e-book about Internet marketing, under Duane's guidance. My only criticism about the classes was that Duane is sometimes too compassionate and altruistic for his own good, and for the good of others in the class. First of all, new people were joining the program constantly, which made it redundant for me after a while, as the same "newbie" questions were being answered, and the same information was gone over again and again. Also, there were a few "bad apples" with their own agendas. One man was there strictly to sell his own products to the class members, and took up much of the class time trying to get specialized mentoring on ways to promote his own web site. He would not do the work assignments, such as article writing and blog construction, and tried to trick members of the class into doing his work for him, either for free or for pennies on the dollar. Another man thought he was going to get the "lion's share" of the money from a team web site project that the class was working on as a group by providing some cheesy-looking templates and claiming that he deserved most of the money because "he built the site". Right! After many complaints, Duane shut the project down, and the bad apples left. Just like with anything, you get out of it what you put into it, and you must be willing to do the work yourself, not just coast and socialize, and see how you can get others to do it for you. As a result of this, now the classes are much better controlled, and people are not allowed out of the beginner class until they have completed certain requirements.

To say that Duane Tomko really cares about his students and takes a personal interest in their welfare is an understatement. During one tough stretch this past winter, when I was between jobs and my husband's job reduced his work hours, Duane arranged a ghost-writing job for me that put food on the table until I was able to start the job that I have now. This is incredible when you consider that Duane and I have never actually met in person! In fact, it was through another person whom I met in one of Mr. Tomko's classes that I found out about the company for which I am now working. But, my real dream is to go full-time with my writing, creating products and selling them on the Internet, and also teaching others how to do the same.

Duane packs a tremendous amount of value into his offerings, and is always creating new tools to empower his students. Recently, he has developed two new tools: the My Money Magic Program, which enables your blogs to grow; and the Easy Site Buddy, which enables anyone who can write an email to put up a web site. There are more tools and innovations in the works, which I am not at liberty to discuss in this article, but I am very excited at the prospect of making a lot of money with them. As the Internet is not stagnant, neither is Duane. He is always getting new ideas and working on new ways to help his students make money.

Anyone looking for a mentor who will teach them how to make money on-line should check out the EZ Niche System. There are classes for beginners, and intermediate level classes for those who have proven themselves. Advanced level classes for on-line marketers with a steady income from affiliate products and Ad Sense will be starting in the future, along with classes on specialized topics such as writing and Internet marketing using social networking sites.