Thread: Introduction to Vortex' 40-Day Tutorial 2020/2021

Having been a newbie myself, and having assisted numerous newbies on this forum, I know that the biggest cause of inaction is not knowing exactly how to get started, because there is so much decision-making involved.

Do I get hosting? If so where? Which affiliate network? What kind of offers? Which tracker? Which country? Which traffic type/source? Etc. etc...

This is why many people are stuck in a perpetual state of reading, never reaching the point of taking action.

So I thought it was about time we tried a different approach - DO FIRST, LEARN WHY LATER.

If you're learning paid traffic for the first time, and have no idea how to proceed, then this step-by-step course is for you.



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The course is divided into multiple lessons that will require approximately 40 days to complete. My intention is for each lesson to be long enough for you to learn something significant, but not so long that it will overwhelm you. Most lessons will contain the following sections:


ACTION - Just follow step-by-step - I've tried to leave out thinking / decision-making as much as possible to avoid procrastination or inaction.


EXPLANATION - This is where I'll explain the "Why" for what we did in the ACTION section of the lesson.

Knowing this information, you will be able to make better decisions on your own when you're ready to venture outside of this tutorial - which, while they are the best "one-size-fits-all" solution I can come up with, may not the best approach for every specific campaign.


READING - There are TONS of valuable posts on this forum, but many new members are lost in the sea of information, not knowing which posts to read first.

To remedy this, I will be suggesting valuable and relevant threads for you to read in some of our daily lessons.



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You may be tempted to just implement the "ACTION" sections and skip the "EXPLANATION" and "READING" sections - please DO NOT DO THIS! Without taking the time to understand WHAT we are doing and WHY we're doing things a certain way, you won't have the knowledge to make your own decisions later. And I certainly won't be around to hold your hand forever!

If you only implement the "ACTION" sections, you'll end up with a few campaigns at the end of this course, but won't know what to do after that. If you also spend time learning the information delivered in the "EXPLANATION" and "READING" sections, you'll also have the skills required to launch additional campaigns, and be able to understand more of all the other posts on the forum, as you will already have a foundation of knowledge to assimilate the new knowledge into.

In the end, of course, how much you want to get out of this course is up to you.

This course takes almost all of the decision-making out of the process. Within the first few lessons, you will have set up your very first pop-traffic campaign. We will be doing what's called "direct-linking", which means the visitors will be shown popunder/popup ads (or "pop ads" in general) containing the offer we'll be promoting.

In later lessons, we'll cover how to show a landing page - aka lander, or pre-lander, or bridge page - to the visitor to pre-sell them first, before sending them to the offer.

As the Nike slogan goes, "Just do it!" Best of luck, and do post questions if you get stuck!




Amy

(DISCLAIMER: None of the affiliate networks, traffic networks, or service providers mentioned in this or any subsequent lessons, are endorsed by STM. Please sign up at your own risk and discretion.)

Originally Posted by aliesa

@vortex, Thanks for the information; I'm going to follow the strategy step by step, and I'm hoping to be successful in this journey.

Sounds great! Please feel free to ask questions if you're stuck! Parts of this tutorial may contain steps that need to be updated because the various platforms have changed a bit since last year - I'll need to update it again soon. In the meantime if you come across something that has changed, just ask and I'll do my best to update it on the fly for you.


Amy


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Originally Posted by dienmykieugro

@vortex, thanks for you great introduction and the lesson, really meaningful for newbie, and I find out that the whole STM are using principles of Napoleon Hill，such as mastermind, vision board，the attitude of solutions which you and other successful people using and so on，it's amazing！！！
I'm so grateful to be a member here，I love here~

And I'm also a little confused that I want to promote products by YouTube and Facebook，I don't have plan to use Pop，which trick should I take while learning 40-Day Pop Tutorial？
I think I need this tutorial， because I want to grow experience of AM，at the same time I must let myself know what I am doing，what's going on and why，these lessons are useful and meaningful for a newbie who want to establish his/her business，I need your opinion to make my actions and results on track by using these lessons effectively

Thanks a lot

So sorry I saw this post so late!

Thank you for the nice comment! We're grateful to have you with us as well! It goes both ways.

And great question!

If you don't have plans to use pop, the 40-day tutorial can still help introduce you to stuff like:

-how to apply to affiliate networks and offers
-how tracking works and how to use a tracker
-how landing pages work, where to rip them, how to edit them
-how to perform split-testing and use statistical tools to determine winners
-campaign optimization

Note: For FB and YT, using a tracker isn't a must.

For Facebook, you can actually just start by going through my FB newbie tutorial. No need to finish the 40-day tutorial or run pop. You can always just read parts of the 40-day tutorial that you need. For example when you need to prepare a landing page for your FB campaigns, just check out the landing page lessons in the 40-day tutorial.

For Youtube we don't have a newbie tutorial. But we have a section on video which has posts about Youtube:

https://stmforum.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?55-Video

So you can browse that section to look for posts that are about Youtube, and then do your own experimentation.



Amy