Introduction to the Internet Marketing Advantage

The Internet Marketing Advantage, or “IMA” for short, is a membership resource center provided by the internet marketing company Blueprint Information Products headed by veteran marketers Steven Clayton and Tim Godfrey. They are also the creators and producers of well-known affiliate marketing courses such as Commission Blueprint, Niche Blueprint, IMEye, Dropship Blueprint, and Blueprint Project Black Edition. They have a solid reputation and a large following of beginner to expert marketers who actively subscribe to and use their products. The IMA is the flagship product they offer and purports to provide every software tool, template and explanatory course to their subscribers that they use to generate over $10 million in revenue per year.

What is included in the IMA?

Once you log into the IMA website, you will be presented with Steve and Tim’s entire database of tools, training and resources to help you get started with your online business. The full courses they currently offer to subscribers are…

Full Courses Offered in the IMA:

• Commission Blueprint Evolution – This is a brand new course devoted solely to affiliate marketing. Steve and Tim outline exactly what they do to make money selling other peoples’ products for commissions. The course provides step-by-step training on keyword research, competition analysis, choosing the right affiliate offer to promote, how to build a list, how to design a profitable affiliate website, and much more. And of course, this brand new course is free to IMA members.

• Commission Blueprint 2.0 – This is the older version of the new “Evolution” course and contains worthwhile training and several profitable affiliate marketing templates and marketing software tools.

• Niche Blueprint 2..0 – This course is a step-by-step guide to setting up your own ecommerce store online. Tim & Steve teamed up with ecommerce expert Dave Hermansen in developing this product and it was one of the best-selling marketing products of all time. The course includes everything from PDF guides to video tutorials. The course also includes an ecommerce shopping cart platform so all you have to do is register a domain and upload the software, and you will instantly have a fully functional store ready to be populated with products. This course utilizes the dropship method of sourcing products, and Steve & Tim provide a database of suppliers and products who will accept your orders and ship directly to YOUR customers. So… you accept payment from your customer and then turn around and order from the supplier only after you have been paid!

• Dropship Blueprint – This database comes complimentary to IMA and Niche Blueprint 2.0 members. Simply enter a product you are interested in selling and the database returns contact information for suppliers willing to work with you. Dave Hermansen has personally reached out to these suppliers and secured them for IMA subscribers.

• SEM Business Blueprint – This course is a step-by-step guide on how to start your local search engine marketing business. Steve leads the course with several video tutorials and PDF files that guide you every step of the way on how to find clients, reach out to clients, and how to close the deal. He even includes two fully operational website templates that you simply upload and advertise to your potential customers. He also included a radio commercial that you are free to use or modify as you wish! With the current going rates for local SEM, Steve advertises that acquiring ten local clients would equal $100,000 per year in profit from this business model alone.

• Businesses In A Box Series – Several times per month, the Blueprint team add smaller businesses in a box to the IMA database. These include mini courses on mobile marketing, Facebook marketing, product launch techniques, etc.

Tools Available to IMA Subscribers:

• Keyword Blueprint 2.0 – Keyword Blueprint 2.0 is a free keyword research tool developed by Steve & Tim, but IMA members get a special “PRO” version of this popular marketing tool. (Note: You can get Keyword Blueprint 2.0 Standard Edition for free by CLICKING HERE). The “PRO” edition differs from the free edition because Keyword Blueprint 2.0 PRO includes “Robot Mode” which basically allows the tool to perform keyword research on autopilot while you sleep. Simply input a seed keyword and select whether or not you want to find relevant “low” or “moderately” difficult competition terms, and the Pro version will run continuously analyzing batches of keywords that meet your criteria. Set it before you go to sleep and wake up the next morning with an entire list of relevant, viable target keywords!

• Blog Blueprint – This tool is a competitor to services like BuildMyRank or Linkvana. Basically you load blog posts into the system and Blog Blueprint will automatically publish these posts (and your optimized backlink) to the IMA private network of high Google Pagerank blogs. Similar services charge $147/month for this feature so this is definitely one of the best perks of being an IMA member. This tool guarantees up to 20 blog posts per day for an unlimited number of websites… and best of all, you control the content and anchor text links!

• Article Blueprint – This is an article distribution service offered as a part of your IMA membership. Simply load up an article (with spintax if you wish) and include up to two backlinks. Then schedule how many posts you would like to be distributed per day (10-50/day). The tool will then spin and distribute your article at the speed you specified to approximately 500 private article directories owned by the Blueprint team.

• Link Blueprint – This is a link exchange service available to IMA members where you place other members’ links on your website to build credits in the system. When you earn enough credits, you can request that your link be placed on another member’s website. The great part about this tool is that you can specify the pagerank of the page you want your link to appear on, and only members with that pagerank page will be able to fulfill your link request. The tool is also designed to prevent reciprocal links, which provide less benefit.

• Site Blueprint – This is a web based tool that acts as a HTML editor / WYSIWYG editor for the IMA affiliate marketing templates. You can edit any of their templates live on screen and then simply hit the “upload” button to send your changes directly to your hosting service.

• HippoJaw – This is a web based tool that allows you to track visitors to your website and, more importantly, to optimize your Adwords campaigns. This tool is better understood by actually seeing it in action, but it works with the Google Adwords Editor to show you which of your campaigns are profitable, which ones could be improved, and which ones are a wash. Eliminate the campaigns that are costing you money to ensure you are maximizing profits.

• Free Hosting – Steve & Tim offer free website hosting for an unlimited number of domains for all of their IMA subscribers.

Other Services Available in IMA:

Video Tutorials – Steve personally outlines exactly how to make money in a variety of ways in these mini-tutorials. These cover everything from Adsense to PPV to paid advertising to article marketing to Facebook marketing, etc. There are videos detailing how to maximize on-page SEO, how to properly build backlinks to optimize your off-page SEO efforts, and much more.

Conclusions…

I have been using the IMA for well over one year and feel that it delivers value for the price. The regular rate is $97/month but still saves me money that I would otherwise have to spend if I purchased their competitors’ tools individually. If you are on the fence, I recommend you click here to sign up for a $1 trial of IMA for 1 week. (The $1 goes to charity). If you think it might be for you then the best thing to do is try it out for a week, and if you do not like it, simply cancel.

Personally, though, I actively use and recommend this product.

CLICK HERE TO START YOUR $1 TRIAL OF THE IMA