Over the last month or so I’ve been learning a lot from Vic Franqui at Blogger Unleashed. He’s largely video-blogging now, rather than writing … it’s always entertaining, and I suspect I learn a lot more this way, but I do regret that it’s hard to search his content by keyword.

He focuses on making money online, but not via the tired path of selling “make money online” products. That’s a whole aspect of online marketing that I’ve always found slightly sleazy, and it’s refreshing to find an expert voice who encourages selling to the other 99.99% of the world who aren’t looking to enter the IM arena.

His style isn’t always “comfortable” to watch, to say the least. Vic can be very aggressive, and he doesn’t hesitate to call out people he thinks are teaching faulty techniques. But he clearly has a tender side too: It’s obvious when he talks about his family, and it came through loud and clear when he described a particularly bad time in his life.

He’s pushed me to take another look at BANS, a package that helps you to build ebay affiliate sites very quickly; my first is up & rolling, and there are more to come.

He’s currently running a contest to become part of a select group of newbies who’ll get to work directly with him and learn the basics of building an online income. The grand prize winner will get join him for an expenses paid trip to Vegas for the BlogWorld conference in September. I wonder if he’ll be willing to pick up an international ticket?