Some people are reporting over the last few weeks, a dramatic loss of traffic, some 80-90% less traffic. While others are reporting no differences from before.

Watch the video below from Matt Cutts, who works at Google, as he explains what Google actually did and how it effects people.

The reason they say people shoveling this stuff are losers is because people doing that make it look so easy, but then, when people try it, they fail.

Hmmm.. That seems to simply mimic REAL LIFE – most people fail at everything. Does not matter if it’s MLM, Internet marketing, social media, local biz marketing, etc… The common denominator is not the niche or method of the niche, it’s the PERSON behind the niche.

For example – there are two people in MLM – the one that does and the one that doesn’t. Which one is more successful? The one that does.

There are two people in local main street marketing businesses, the one that does and the one that doesn’t.

Just because people have been selling local main street marketing tools for a few years, does not make it bad.

Just because people have been selling home based businesses or MLM model businesses does not make it bad.

What makes it bad is not the tools or the methods people use.

What makes them bad is the people doing the work and fulfillment don’t have a clue what they are supposed to be doing.

People – Please don’t believe the hype. This stuff is serious business and you need to treat it as such.

Some gullible marketers think since they got a few sales doing marketing for themselves or for a ‘friend’ that they are instantly geniuses and that they can get a #1 ranking on Google within a few minutes of video blasting through Traffic Geyser, and ya… maybe they will get that coveted #1 ranking in Google, but guess what… it’ll be gone before the paint dries.

The bottom line is, there are infact MANY good and viable systems for growing main street marketing business, with systems that do produce favorable results for local business clients. But you need to know how these tools and systems work, and you have to do it again and again and again to really get it. It’s hard stuff.

Let’s face it, the truism here is that too many local business owners out there don’t have a clue what they are supposed to do to get a website, set up a blog, or set up a PPC campaign, and they are getting KILLED by Yellow Page salesmen that sell them $500 a month Yellow Page Ads, that they promise will get delivered to locals, but in many cases are SO DELAYED, are sitting on printer’s shelves months from hitting the consumer’s shelves and the fact that NO ONE even looks at the yellow pages anymore… well.. in my opinion, it’s a waste of money. That’s the real scam eh? Yeah, I do know a few people use yellow pages still, but it’s not the way to make your money work for you.

The other day I heard about a Limo driver who bought yellow page ads, but the yellow pages found in his local community were from 2008. Most of the local area businesses, did not even have the most recent version of the book on site – wow, buying ads in a book that no one sees…. amazing marketing strategy.

There are plenty of good ways to spend that money on online marketing services, with people who DO know what they are doing and who CAN get favorable results for clients.

And that leads me back to the HUMANS doing the work.

Would you agree, if you plugged into working viable systems and tools, that you could now go to a local business, using scripts, templates, sales literature and make a case for a local business hiring you to help them navigate the complex online waters?

You should say “YES! JEFF!” but it’s not that easy still. It takes time and practice.

The secret is that ONE PERSON cannot do all this work alone.

You must build a team.

You must hire employees or hire virtual assistants or have a staff of BOTH working hand in hand with each doing what they do best to create happy client experiences.

I am sick of people knocking the local business models, since they are “old and tired” ideas or “bandwagoning” business models because they are Hot right now -  Shut up!

This is a huge business model and with the right coaching and the right tools, I honestly believe anyone who has the will and energy to succeed, and build a proper business that can grow and scale in this industry will be living the high life, seeing wealth and rewards come from their hard work.

But… whatever you do… don’t try to go this route alone.

You need mentors and coaching. You need specialized knowledge of the things that actually do work, and you need some luck and some good keywords that give you and your client a chance to penetrate those listings so you get traffic, which converts into sales.

The Bad SEO companies out there say, “Sure… I’ll get you top rankings for the keywords [Make money online] and [Home Based Business] … No problems!”

Then they take your money and the results never show up because it’s impossible to rank sites in those keywords right now, but the buyer was duped into believing it.

This is what gives our industry a bad name, companies with no ethics, who sell just to sell, knowing they won’t get a good result for the client, but they do it anyways.

So, don’t listen to the Pooh Pooh salesmen out there “hating” on local business models. All they are doing is bashing this bandwagon, so they can switch you to buy into their own services and bandwagons. Honestly, that’s all it is.

Everyone’s selling something, and through a lot of negative crap, people like to bash, and then switch you over into their way of living, trying to convince you their “products” are the best. I guess that’s marketing, even if it sucks.

So, with this little rant, let me just say this… the amount of business out there in the local communities are outstanding.This market is WIDE open, it truly is and I do believe you can get rich in the next 2-5 years doing this kinda stuff. But I also know… it’s not automated or easy.

If you’ve never worked for clients before… wow… they can be tough as nails and never are pleased with the results you’ve provided to them.

EVERYWHERE I go, I find new clients Offline who have great services, results and happy client experiences, but no idea how to get on the web to bring their products to the local masses.

Just the other day, one of my Chiropractor clients told me and showed me his new weight loss system which blew my mind. No one knows about it, but it helps people lose 3-7 inches a week and it’s never NOT worked, it just works.

But, he does not know how to tell people with blogs, videos, lead capture pages, he has no clue. So, I told him, I’d help get his story out there. I told him I’d do the work, the marketing, and the publicity to get people looking at what he has so they can achieve the health results they are looking for. It’s about a $15,000 contract.

This is a legitimate business model, run by very legit people who want to help people succeed and run profitable businesses online and offline.

The best place to start is not by attacking but by trying to learn to see how one can better themselves through self development and continuing education in the areas needed to get one to the ideal place where that specialized knowledge can come with a price that people will pay to access it.

That’s why Doctors and Lawyers make big bucks when they are specialists, they know how to create a result.

It’s no different with search engine optimizers, search engine marketers and home based business peddlers. If you are good at what you do, and you get results, you should be paid top dollar for it.

It does work, it can work for you, you just have to be willing to put in the work and time yourself to master skills and tools and then the fortunes will follow. You won’t get a half a million dollar deal overnight, but, over time, it could come in smaller chunks.

4 Figure deals lead to 5 figure deals. 6 Figure Deals lead to 7 figure deals. They are definitely out there. And while most people can live comfortably on the 4 figure monthly deals, the sky is the limit and we are still in the Wild Wild West of the internet goldmine where any and everything DOES happen, good and bad.

I am providing a way for people to prosper in the Offline to Online marketing channel/niche by providing a 3 day marketing conference to help people see and discover if offline to online marketing can be a profitable venture for them.

It’s called the Profit Offline Seminar, where 9 speakers will share from their experiences, hearts and knowledge to help you evaluate how this market might work for you. I hope you can attend the LIVE VIDEO stream we are offering to the world.

The information we are providing is worth $1000′s, and we’re not charging $1000′s to access it. We want it to be affordable for all.

I made a short 8 minute video on the site, which explains it all, in a nutshell, so you’ll know if attending our online video stream is something you would like to invest in or not. It’s up to you, and if you choose a different route, no worries, I wish you all the best anyways.

Ask youself, “is main street local business marketing for me? Am I willing to do the hard work and learning?”

If it is, join us and view the live video stream June 18-20.

WATCH THE 8 MINUTE VIDEO HERE about Profit Offline Seminar

Sign up for the Profit Offline Seminar – Tickets are $69.95 and prices increase to $1997 on June 13.

Click here –>> www.ProfitOffline.com

My good friends over at Unique Blog Designs, have released a new premium theme which focuses on list building with wordpress.

It’s called the Squeeze Theme. Squeeze is a reference to “squeezing out” someone’s name and email address to build you own marketing database.

This theme would work great for niche affiliate sites where you sell 1, a few, 100′s or 1000′s of products and want to try to capture leads.

It’s a VERY innovative and clean theme, which ties into main stream autoresponder accounts like AWEBER and Get Response too.

I made a video showing you what’s in the back office and what’s “under the hood” here. It’s like getting a sneak peek at the product before you buy it!

Click here to view the embedded video.

Here is a video overview so you can see more what it’s about.

Click here to view the embedded video.

Let’s see… Who all do we know that makes a CRAZY TON of money via email collection and squeeze pages…

• Tony Robbins (yes, THE Tony Robbins)
• John Reese
• Frank Kern
• Rich Schefren
• Yaro Starak
• John Chow
• Zac Johnson
• ME – Jeff Mills
• this list goes on forever…

So now you know, and YOU HAVE NO MORE EXCUSES!!!!!

No more waiting or putting-off this opportunity. Squeeze Theme now makes it simple and SUPER FAST to create and setup email collection sites (squeeze pages). There is no reason why you can’t crank pages out all day long, send tons of traffic, and get tons of new email subscribers to promote to.

Build Your Lists With Squeeze Theme

Now, for a very limited time, those who also take advantage of the Squeeze Theme, will also get an opportunity and chance to participate in Nate, Josh and Matt’s new training on wordpress called – Squeeze Camp.

There are a ton of WordPress Tutorials floating around out there, and to be honest, most of them suck and are really old.

The WordPress platform has changed like 6 times in 2009 alone, and most videos are showing dashboard and interfaces that wordpress does not even USE anymore, which makes them outdated and obsolete not to mention frustrating new users who buy PLR crappy products that don’t even LOOK , FEEL or ACT the same way as the current updated dashboard in wordpress does now.

So the guys at Unique Blog Designs have also brought in the BIG “RELEVANT” GUNS to make sure you come off this wordpress training ready to ROCK  and ROLL this sucka in a big way.

Squeeze Camp is a 12-week training course that will teach you how to build a website, using Squeeze Theme , setup an email list, and drive traffic to your site. Over the course of twelve weeks, you will learn the fundamentals for earning money from an email list and blog. The bottom line is that we built Squeeze Theme and Squeeze Camp to help you make money online through growing your email lists.

Going through the “OLD” steps to build a squeeze page can be mystifying, and a whole lot of NO FUN sometimes. Manual editing of CSS/HTML? No, thank you. We fully understood this “barrier of a problem” while designing and crafting Squeeze Theme and Squeeze Camp. Squeeze Camp will take you through every step towards a successful email list, right from zero. Rest assured, you will be able to build Squeeze Pages and email lists like the pros, by the end of our course!

It’s really no secret to those who are successful online. Building an email list is one of the critical marketing pillars for the vast majority of successful businesses and affiliate marketers. A well-served list of only a several thousand opt-in members can result in HUGE amounts of revenue over the course of YEARS. Just ask people like Frank Kern, John Reese, Yaro Starak, etc. Those guys are the ultimate masters, and it’s seriously their #1 marketing tip!

The guys at UBD want to keep the classes focused, and very personal. To do this, they have to both limit the number of students and the window for enrollment. They want to make sure that the connection you make with them (your coaches) is as effective as possible. Not to worry, though. If you would like to enroll in their course, but missed the deadline, they’ll be starting a brand new class in 14 weeks from the current start date!

So, what’s in the Squeeze Camp curriculim? See for yourself:

If you really want to excel with wordpress and DOMINATE, get their excellent TWO FER package, which is their theme and squeeze camp built together.

Affiliate Disclosure: I am compensated a commission if you buy these products from my link. I have been given a free product to review from Unique Blog Designs.

I am hosting a 1 day Boost Seminar in St. Paul, Minnesota on November 7.

It’s a full day on Saturday from 9:00 am until about 6:30 pm.

5 speakers on topics such as:

1. Social Media Marketing (Twitter, Facebook, etc)

2. Proper use of Online Video for Marketing

3. Niche Stores with Ebay

4. How to Use WordPress Blogs to get traffic & Make Money

5. How to use Virtual Assistants to Make You Money!

go here to get all the information now, including the location we are hosting the event at:

Jeff Mills Boost Seminar – St. Paul Minnesota

We can only hold a very limited amount of people in the room, so you need to RSVP if you want to attend.

What is the cost? It’s FREE!

Bring some friends and if you cannot come, make sure you share this with others!

In video number 6 of 11, I take you to the website where you can actually find all the really cool addons for Firefox.

Before I had shown you actual websites that provided tools.

But in this video I show you where the real mother load is for firefox plugins and addons.

To get to the Firefox Addon Library, just click on the link!

Next Video: (will be posted once I get back from a nice vacation in August)

Using SEM Rush to spy on popular keywords people are using in Google Adwords

I’m really excited because I have just heard about a new service that the guys at PLRPro have just launched to help you get first page google rankings and distribute your articles to high quality sites all at the same time.

This has got to be one of the largest breakthrough’s they have made in letting you automate your marketing efforts.

Quite simply this is big…. Really BIG

Its called Article Marketing Automation and you can visit them at Article Marketing Automation

The basic idea is this… you have site owners who regulate the quality of content being syndicated on their blogs, and they are letting marketers post quality articles into this blog network of high ranking, high pr sites.

You’re allowed to post your article, as though you are basically a guest author on someone else’s blog with their complete permission.

When you do this, usually the links you drop are keywords or phrases you would like some link juice for and in which you make sure to anchor text link back to your site.

I’d recommend dropping 3 URLS in each article.

It even lets you promote your YouTube videos as well as standard sites.

If you haven’t been hiding under a rock lately, you will know how powerful YouTube videos can be.

AND if you have been watching the SEO scene you would have also seen how YouTube videos are getting first page rankings for EXTREMELY
competitive terms very easily.

See Google wants to include extra media in its search results, it also appears that YouTube videos are not competing on the same level as the rest of the index.

It is MUCH easier to get a first page ranking for your own YouTube video then it is for the main keyword.

So they have that entirely covered all within this new system.

In Article Marketing Automation, when submitting an article you can now also include a YouTube URL (your YouTube video that you created, or another one if you just  want your post to look better).

Then you input some extra YouTube anchor text keywords (the terms you want your YouTube video to be in Google for)

And that’s it.

Now Article Marketing Automation, when it submits your article, will also include your video as well as link back to YOUR YouTube video, with varying link text, Helping you get better video rankings.

COME ON this is huge.

Nobody is doing this right now, and certainly not as easy as this. Linvana is doing it, but they charge 6 times more money to do it.

What a powerful feature for just one part of what the system really does.

Help you distribute your high quality articles to real sites giving you an instant marketing advantage with your website.

They have even been able to get first page rankings for normal (not video) competitive keywords with over 400,000 competitiors.

What would it mean to you if you could do this exact same promotion to your very own money sites?

But that’s not all this little puppy can do…

It also allows you to spin your articles with a simple interface. Spin it a bunch of times, adding new links into the articles and new anchor text and get even more backlinks.

Go review the site. I think I’m gonna add this service to our Trafficmills SEO Minnesota Internet Marketing Services

Article Marketing Automation