Learn How To Blog
(1) Comments So Far... What do you think? January 30, 2007Just finished up a 2.5 hour marathon call on blogging and why you should be doing it for fun or profit.
You can listen in for free to the call by visiting my page.
Enjoy the free audio, I won’t leave it up for that much longer so get it now, as this is priceless stuff.
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I Lost My Shirt In Home Based Businesses - I Need Help!
(6) Comments So Far... What do you think? January 23, 2007I was a poor Youth Pastor $40,000 in debt from Seminary loans and also some major consumer debt on my credit cards.
I was the typical average American, leveraged to the hilt on credit with no place to go.
Well…. I did have one place to go, and that was the internet. I knew this medium would allow me the ideas and the opportunities to have more time freedom, financial freedom and time with my family.
Ministry can chew up and spit out its pastors as damaged goods, and for all the love of serving people and helping people find salvation in Jesus, it can be a thankless job, for little pay. It’s not that way for all Pastors, and I did have many great people to serve alongside with when I was working in the church, but let me give some people and pastors some advice….
Pastors don’t take a vows of poverty. Priests do. Look at some of the richest people in the world, during the Biblical times… King David, Solomon & Abraham. They served and had great financial blessings.
You can change your situation and become financially free too, no matter what your profession. Many of the nations pastors make a great living from serving too, but far too many struggle financially, like I did.
So, the first money making opportunity I found, was the now famous “Send 5 Dollars” in the mail, chain letter scam. And guess who fell for it? Me! I put my $5 in 5 envelopes and mailed them out, and I actually got 2 letters from other people, 5 weeks later, one from some person in Europe… and never anything more. It was my first international business opportunity! :).
Next, I became an affiliate. I learned I could sell someone else’s product. But who would I get to buy this stuff?
I spent tons of money throwing my ads out to places on the net where people told me others would see my offer, but no one bought anything.
They would click to check out my offer, but would not click to buy. And I had no method of follow up since they would leave my site and I did not know who my visitors were and I did not capture their info, and build a list.
I bought tools and ebooks and I went to conference calls, but still, I was spending way more money than I was ever making. Thank God for tax returns each year, where I would get some money back… but soon, I’d blow that wad too.
I discovered this advertising and marketing technique called a “safelist” and I joined and told everyone to join and buy my product by sending out 1000’s of emails to people who gave me “permission” to mail offers to them.
But what I did not realize was all the members of the safelist, were going to mail me an offer to buy their product too. And my mailbox filled up with 10,000 emails a month of people trying to get me into their deal. Pretty soon, everyone just sent offers, no one was reading anything.
Here is where I had my first epiphany and did something right…
CREATE AND CONTROL MARKETS
I learned from Matt Bacak, who learned this from a billionaire mentor of his, that if you want to get rich, then you have to CREATE and CONTROL markets. You have to DOMINATE and be the top and be the best in your niche, even better, create the niche!
So, I planned to create and control the safelist market. I bought a safelist for myself and I told everyone I could to come and post their ads to each other on my list.
And it worked.
1000’s of Network Marketers, stay home moms and dads, college students, grandmas and grandpas were posting their ads to my list members. Then I started charging them a fee.
And they paid it. Wow! 
And then I realized, “Hey, I am the owner of this list, these people just email out to junk email accounts, and no one reads each other’s offers. But I have their REAL sign up email, and I’ll make it a policy that I can send out emails from ME toTHEIR contact, or main email, and they must give me permission to mail to them, or they cannot join my list.”
And that was the first really smart thing I did to make money on the internet.
I would simply put together a rather short email, make some interesting copy, that people enjoyed reading, and then hit the “SEND” button and blast this ad to my member’s contact emails, where I was sure people would read them.
Guess what happened?
People read them, and they took my advice because I was perceived as an “expert” simply because I owned my own safelist. I started to actually make little paychecks. We were on our way finally making money on the internet.
I transitioned out of the safelist market, and decided, after attending a live internet marketing conference, that I needed to build my own list a new way, and build value to people who visit my sites by teaching them things and in return, I’d ask them to join my list, where they would get tips, tricks and special offers on the latest and greatest programs on the net.
And that worked too.
Over the last 3 years, I built a very large list of people, one email and one permission based opt-in at a time.
If you are not building a list, you need to start using powerful list building resources like AWEBER to help you.
And I am now at a place where I can often make $10,000 with just one mailing to my list in one day. As a matter of fact, there is hardly a week that goes by now, where I am not at least making $5000 on autopilot because of the emails I am sending out back to my list and people are responding.
I learned the power of SYSTEMIZING my business.
I learned that a marketing a business is like moving oil through the Alaska Pipeline.
You have an entry point where the lead first discovers you (your ad, or your website) and then from there takes action to become either interested or not in your product.
Your goal is to move the lead to from becoming a suspect, to becoming a serious evangelist customer. You move them (automatically with more information and follow-up) from suspect to prospect and you want to convert the lead into a buying customer. Once you have a happy customer, you want that person to become your evangelist, promoting you and your product for you as an affiliate.
Here is the pipeline in action moving the lead from the start to the finish.
Suspect --> Prospect –> Customer –> Evangelist (affiliate) You must systematize your business to move people through the information pipeline. (knowing how to do this will make you very rich).
How?
I came up with a fun acronym to help you see the pipeline.
I call it TGIF (no…. it’s not Thank God it’s Friday, or Thank God I Fish)
T + G + I = F
T - is Take Action
G - is Generate Leads
I - is Incessant follow up
F - is Fortune
Let’s break down the formula for each section.
Taking action
This is where most businesses fail.
95% of all small or home based businesses fail after 12-18 months. And it is my opinion it is because there is a lack of action or activity that ceases the flow of sales, and the money simply runs out. Some people do take action, but they are putting their focus on old, outdated traditional types of media or advertising and blow their money, so it’s important to TAKE THE RIGHT ACTION, using the right tools and resources. Having a mentor share these important and working resources is one of the keys to success.
Generating leads is the key.
A website online needs traffic to create leads. A great looking site, with no visitors is just a great looking site, not making you money. So, you need to become a lead generator. This, in my opinion is one of the easiest things you can do. Generating traffic to websites, and sending quality and qualified visitors takes time to learn, but when done right, will lead your potential clients to buy from you, right on your website, without them ever talking to you!
Incessant Follow up is vital.
My philosophy is to build an email database by creating lead capture pages, websites, and blogs to do one thing only - capture leads. Once you have the lead, you need an email autoresponder to follow up with those leads. I send email to my leads who opt-in for 7 days straight, then I begin to back off a little and space it out every couple days, week, then months. BUT.. I never stop emailing people on my list.
I will email these leads until they buy, die or unsubscribe off my list.
This is the secret to success with follow up.
Most people send back ONE email follow up, and are not personal, and then end all communication hoping for a one time hit sale.
Almost all your sales will come from the follow up sequence where a few buy with the first offer, but I see many more buying after touch 4-9. That means it takes 4-9 follow up messages to build trust, value in your offer and help your leads see value in parting with their hard earned money to buy your product, solution or coaching program.
Don’t End with ONE Product Another big secret with incessant follow up is that once you have a person as a customer, teach them to consume your product or service so they immediately feel the value of owning it and then want to tell others about it as an affiliate.
I have 54 follow emails that go to my customers who join my Coastal Vacations Club business to teach and train them on how to market the membership to other home business opportunity seekers.
Then I also follow up with periodic backend offer, tools and resources to help them grow their business. Many of them join me in other ventures like our Mortgage Elimination Program as well, that allows them to pay off their home mortgage in 7-12 years, not 30, saving up to 70% on interest payments.
When you follow the TGIF Formula, the last letter is “F” for Fortune. You’ll simply create a pipeline of profits from automated sales and can build little follow up systems for an unlimited amounts of niches and products.
Here is one more secret. Don’t try to figure out how to do this alone, learn from a mentor, like Jeff Mills and also hire someone who can build websites, who knows how to write HTML code and how to integrate autoresponders, and who has some basic understanding of website copy, autoresponder copy, and such, so that your words are selling prospect on your pages to take actions, and in your emails HOW to become customers, by taking action immediately. Use words like, “buy now”, “download today”, “order today”, “get started immediately” - create urgency and people will follow your orders and do what you tell them to do… eventually… or they’ll bail off your list and someone will soon replace them, who really wants and needs what you have to sell.
By using a TGIF system, you don’t have to go out there and spend a ton of money buying leads and talking to leads. You make the leads or let the leads come to you, talk to you when THEY are ready and collect the money, all the way to the bank.
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Free Midwest Super Conference Videos
(0) Comments So Far... What do you think? January 21, 2007I am getting ready to launch a small set of DVD’s and CD’s (50 sets only) from my popular and very well receieved Midwest Super Conference.
We did it back in late September 2006.
I posted some free videos, go check em out, and consider if you’ll be one of the first 50 people to snap up these rare and powerful marketing DVD’s.
You’ll get 16 DVD’s in all! Wow!
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Pipeline Profits from Pipeline Prophets, BIG TIME!
(0) Comments So Far... What do you think? January 17, 2007Yesterday, I sent out an email to my whole list letting them know about a lead generation system about to come out… called Pipeline Profits.
http://goldmills.pipeline-profits.com
There is great controversy about their product cause some people are not sure if their lead generation system will work for them.
Well, I got some inider info, from people already using the system, and I was able to listen to a private call recently that helped solidify with me that I will be one of the 500 people to own this prodcut…
Here is why….
(remember their list is over 38,000 people and only 500 will get one of their lead generation systems.. and I have no idea what the price will be yet.)
They push out their launch tomorrow, Jan. 18 at NOON, and I feel within 2 hour of launch they will sell out all 500 kits.
If you noticed how they did their launch, (which is formulatic of a Jeff Walker “Product Launch Formula”, they followed it to a “T” very nicely) and have me buying in hook, line and sinker… here is why….
Brock and Buck originally used this CO-REG lead generation system for a HIGH TICKET BIZ OPP that cost $1295 with a $1000 commission.
Sound familiar?
Many of you all know I specialize in the high ticket offers.
Many of you on my list specialize in this too! 
AND….
Brock’s sister who they build a system for, generated about 3000-4000 leads in just a few months… for this high ticket and I heard from someone that she was getting somewhere to about 8 sales a day on average… at $1000 commission per pop!
Now are you getting excited?
AND…..
She recently generated about 38,000 new leads and those leads absolutely flooded her so much, at so little cost to her, that she called Brock and said, “Shut it off! I cannot handle all these good leads!”
What would happen if you used their knowledge of lead generation and delivery and plugged it into your high ticket biz opp or regular product online and got a 800% increase in your sales?
Would that be worth it to you?
I would think so, there is a new video released on their site today, if you have not checked it out…. you need to watch it.
There are millions of leads generated everyday, and there is no “SCARCITY” of leads. There is enough for everyone to have some and still be leftovers.
Question is… do you want to feast with us and be one of the 500 sitting at the table or hear about this later or even worse…
try to figure out how this works on your own and lose your shirt trying… or kick yourself for not getting in when the getting in was good?
Listen, this tool is NOT for everyone, but it might be the lead generation system of a lifetime for you.
If you have not watch thier many videos, do it today.
WHY?
Time is running out, launch happens tomorrow and only 500 people off a 38,000 list will get this and I know many are foaming at the mouth to get it. It’s gonna be a feeding frenzy.
It’s gonna be wild to watch, so don’t miss it.
http://goldmills.pipeline-profits.com
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Pipeline Profits or Pipeline Prophets?
(0) Comments So Far... What do you think? January 16, 2007See http://goldmills.pipeline-profits.com for 7 excellent videos explaining how to use “Co-Reg” leads to build a business and not lose money in the Pay Per Click game.
Pay per click leads can amount to like $2.50-$10.00 a lead
Co-Reg leads can amount to like .05-.50 a lead and make MORE sales. HOW?
Brock and Buck are telling their secrets, as a matter of fact, you can get a free 47 minute video, where these dudes, explain exactly how Co-Reg works and how they made over a million bucks in 90 days, and how they do it over and over.
Go watch all the free videos where they explain it all.
And watch out for their launch on Thursday, Jan. 18. It’s gonna be a feeding frenzy, EVERYONE will be maling their lists on this one. WHY?
The product looks so dang good, I hope it lives up to the hype. Did you go watch the video yet?
If you have seen the videos, what is your opinion? Post here in the comments.
http://goldmills.pipeline-profits.com
Here is a free interview you can listen to with Frank Kern interviewing the Pipeline Prophets.
http://http.vitalstreamcdn.com/smartmarketing_vitalstream_com/pipeline/audios/frankkerninterview.mp3
Check out their blog, it explains all.
And get ready for Jan 18. You’re emailbox is gonna get lit up bigtime.
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The Power of “asking” with Askdatabase for $1
(0) Comments So Far... What do you think? January 14, 2007I use the ASK DATABASE all the time to survey my clients and cutomers about their needs.
Things I have used it for:
- Getting tele-seminar questions
- Writing ebooks on podcasting
- Finding out what time of year to host my internet marketing conference
- asking my list the biggest question about making money online
- asking my customers when they want training calls
- asking my list how I can serve them better… and on and on.
Well, you’ll never know what your customers and prospects want unless you ask. Then once they tell you, find a way to offer them a solution and you’ll make money! Yes!
Now, if you want to learn how the ask database works, try it out for 21 days for only a $1!
You can afford a $1 trial right? It’s fun, and the info you can gather from people and learn from is priceless! You’ll be lead by the hand with audio and video tutorials, show you how to add forms to your sites and build very complicated ones or very simple ask forms.
Sign up for ASK DATABASE today! It’s only for 21 days and it only costs $1.
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Special Joel Comm Instant Adsense Templates Monthly Program Video
(2) Comments So Far... What do you think? January 11, 2007Visit www.joelsadsensetemplates.com
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Why Adsense or Yahoo Publisher Network Templates are Essestial for Your Business
(0) Comments So Far... What do you think? January 9, 2007
Joel Comm is one of my good online marketing friends.
www.joelsadsensetemplates.com Joel Comm’s Instant Adsense Templates Monthly Program.
He has really contributed some killer content over the last couple years to help people passively earn money from sites that have “contextual ads” on them. You’ll see many happy client testimonials on his site.
For example.
You have a site about boating. You can have Google Adsense or Yahoo Publisher put ads on that site about things related to boating and when people click on the ads, you get paid.
Imagine if you had a popular site, visited by 5000 people a day and were able to get a small % of people clicking on your ads each day, you could make a hundred bucks a day, on that one site, easily.
So, the goal is to develop content sites, that have contextual ads placed on them and get visitors to come, read, buy or click off your site.
Once you build one site, automate it somehow, then build another. You keep doing this, get traffic, get clicks and soon your $100 a day empire turns into a $1000 a day passive cash generating empire. And you keep going and building and can generate over $10,000 a month.
I have seen people who do over $100,000 a month with contextual ads and that is really amazing, cause that is $1.2 MILLION a year! - Keep in mind this is PASSIVE INCOME - Set it and forget it stuff.
But the drain is that it is time consuming to build these sites. Making blogs is great for this type of thing, with wordpress or blogger, but it is still time consuming to set up blogs. You have to write orginal content, make sure designs are working properly, etc.. it can be a ton of work.
So what is the solution?
Templates Joel Comm’s Instant Adsense Templates Monthly Program
Joel has built templates that he shows you how to add content, and provides you with the content and has a step by step plan for how to make passive money online.
He is launching this program on Jan. 10 and you need to learn more about it and see if it might fit into your marketing strategy.
Go there now and see if Joel Comm’s Instant Adsense Monthly Program is for you. If you want massive passive income, Joel’s program is the best. I know, cause I am a customer of his and am using his templates now to generate large sums of money.
Joel Comm’s Instant Adsense Templates Monthly Program
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Joel Comm’s Instant Adsense Templates
(0) Comments So Far... What do you think? January 4, 2007Wouldn’t it be nice if you got a paycheck or direct deposit in your bank account from Yahoo or Google with some passive income which you did just a little bit of work and then…
“set it and forgot about it?”
I am presently doing this building blogs, and putting content and affiliate content on those blogs and monetizing it. (I’ll share about this soon too…)
http://www.joelsadsensetemplates.com
So far, it looks like I’ll be in a monthy 4 figure position in Jan and Feb. and I only started just 3 weeks ago.
Not too shabby huh, and I am hardly doing anything…
How would you like to have this specialized knowledge?
Just four months ago I told you about my friend Joel Comm.
Some of you met him on my podcasts, tele-seminars or you saw him speak at my internet marketing conference.
Maybe you bought his New York times best selling book, The Adsense Code?
Did you miss getting those Adsense Templates he was promoting at the time?
Don’t feel bad. Thousands of people did.
On October 10th, Joel’s Instant AdSense Templates VRE Building System hit the web with a fury, and became one of the most-talked-about and valuable products of the year!
On October 15th, the product was no longer available…
(sold out in 5 days!!)
… and thousands were shut out of the program!
I had dinner with Joel, shortly after the close of his launch and he told me how many products he sold and how many people he helped learn how to build massive passive income with this template system and my jaw hit the floor, once he told me the results.
So, I have some good and bad news.
The bad news is that the original VRE Building System is no longer available. 
BUT…
The GOOD news is that Joel is giving you another opportunity to build your Internet business starting Wednesday, January 10th, 2007 at 12 pm EST!
Here’s what people were saying after getting a look at Instant AdSense Templates VRE Building System…
“This is simply a VRE marketers dream come true!”
- Jeremy Gislason
“You have made it so mind-numbingly EASY for people. You have created something here that is absolutely, totally muppet-proof. The phrase ‘no brainer’ doesn’t even come close.”
- Michael Cheney
“You are such a stud! You’re setting a new standard for Internet tools and templates. Your VRE Building System is truly awesome and it’s so easy to use. I just watched the videos and I was able to quickly understand everything so I could get started right away.”
- Shawn Casey
“Joel really over delivers on this package… But if you have ever purchased any of Joel’s products in the past then I guess that won’t surprise you!”
- Jeremy Burns
“If I had to pick one guy to teach me about Google Adsense, it would be Joel Comm. In a heart beat. 7 days a week and twice on Sundays.”
- Mark Joyner
… and that is just the tip of the iceberg!
Now, for the FIRST TIME EVER, Joel is opening his ground-breaking Monthly Templates program up to EVERYONE…
And you will not BELIEVE how incredibly valuable this package is!
For those few who were able to reserve a spot in the Monthly Templates program three months ago, congratulations! Your space is locked in and reserved. No one can take it away from you.
But for the tens of thousands who missed out on the opportunity to acquire the world’s most valuable and comprehensive virtual real estate building system, mark your calendar appropriately and get ready to be blown away. Just wait till you see what Joel has put together this time!
Wednesday, January 10th, 12 pm EST
If you aren’t on the notification list, be sure to get signed up now.
http://www.joelsadsensetemplates.com
Every big name marketer is gonna send you an email about this, so get ready to be bombed sign up today. Before someone else takes you spot on the notification list.
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Start Your Day, by Speaking Truth Into Your Soul
(2) Comments So Far... What do you think? January 1, 2007Here is a simple audio message to use to begin your day with affirmations.
If you loved the Secret Video in the post below, you’ll love these affirmations too.
http://playaudio-234.com:80/play.asp?m=371640&f=SCCMPJ&ps=13&p=1
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