Actually it is more like a big fat note book with a bunch of different sized sheets of paper sticking out of it. As I was building my business I wrote down EVERYTHING. Keep in mind that I was a total newbie and I was not very technically inclined either so it would take me 3x as long as the average person to learn something. To make matters worse, I was working with an ancient computer that was slow as all hell. Sometimes if I did a keystroke or mouse movement to fast it would just freeze up and I’d have to reboot! I called it my “Turtle Speed Computer” because it was so clogged up with ebooks and software products that it barely had enough space to operate email!
I kept good notes of everything I did to be certain that I could retrace my steps in case my computer “froze” – that diary basically became the instruction manual to my 6 Figure Online Business! GOOD NEWS for you is… I’m practically giving it away. YES. I’ve created a concise 40 page PDF manuscript out of my notebook and I created 10 videos to go along with it. Now here’s the clincher… you ready for this…. ? ? ? …..I’m even gonna give you 28 products and websites to USE AS YOUR OWN!!!!!!!!!!! C’mon dude! Its a “no brainer.” Just go get it.
The enthusiastic online entrepreneur eagerly inserted his flash drive and fired up his MacBook when suddenly a pale horse rode in from the depths of cyberspace carrying the 4 plagues of internet marketing death…
#1 Shiny Object Syndrome, #2 Critical Information Overload, #3 Paralysis Analysis and #4 Technical Hogwash
A long day of work at the J.O.B. has come to an end and he grabs a quick bite to eat then sits at the helm once more on his quest to make some online coin. As he opens his flash drive directory to access his current website project the wicked horseman toils with his sense of better judgment.
“To check thy Gmail or Not to check thy Gmail that is the question… Whether it is nobler of the mind to suffer the slings and arrows that newbie flesh is heir to by reading emails and being voluntarily sucked into a never ending cavern of email jokes, threads and next big thing promotions… or to stand fast and resist the temptation to keep “informed” by diving into his own project and charge forward….”
What to do, what to do? That is the question.
“There is no component of your online business more important than your email client and there is no component as equally destructive either.”
Think about it… what is typically the first thing we do when we sit at our computers? We check our emails. Consider the powerful emotional clench your email has on you, it can literally set the tone for your entire day. For example, Day #1
You sit down to work and right away you see that you’ve gotten 4 payment notifications amounting to a couple hundred dollars… You’re excited, you’re motivated, you’re ready to conquer the world.
Adversely, Day #2
You sit down to work and right away you see that you’ve gotten 4 refund notifications or 11 support tickets… ugh. What kind of day are you having now???
The worst is day #3
You sit down to work and right away you see that you’ve gotten 16 emails from various marketers promoting a huge product launch… You examine them all for the best bonus offer and get sucked into a 2 hour purchase decision that ends up costing you $197. Whats even more destructive is that now you download the product and spend yet another 2 hours tinkering about in yet another direction taking you further and further away from completing that project on your flash drive. “Ohh Yeah.. Remember that? Read More…
Let me introduce you to my big brother Aurelio Martin. People call him Marty for short but I call him something completely different. (We wont get into that!) LOL
So my big bro came over the house for the Holidays and as usual I tease him about his age and he teases me about my hair. (Or lack thereof!)
For a couple of months now, Marty has been experimenting with some internet marketing himself. Being it that his younger brother makes a decent living online I guess he figured he’d give it a crack. I’ve been helping him here and there and he’s already got a blog up. I think he’s doing great for a newbie starting out. Take a look HERE.
So what about the contest? Well – since Marty and I are always teasing each other, I thought I’d put it on blast for everyone to see! The contest is for a $297 value internet marketing gift… Thats what you win. To participate all you have to do is leave a comment on this post. The question you must answer must be based solely on the picture and that is:
Who’s got the looks and who’s got the brains?
Obviously this is all in good fun and we wont take your opinions personal. However we do want a good descriptive explanation supporting your answer. A video response is encouraged! Please let us know which one of us YOU think got the looks and who got the brains?
The best comment will win a prize valued at over $297. We will decide who wins based on your most original comment. Videos are encouraged. But be sure to tell us WHY you think one of us is either smarter or better looking than the other.
Help us put this 38 year debate to rest! This should be interesting…
10,000 copies of this $1297 course will be given out for FREE on Dec. 15th 2009.
Mike Filsaime and Tom Beal recently made a shocking announcement. They are re-releasing their highly acclaimed flagship product The 7 Figure Code. The 7 Figure code has been hailed by many an internet mogul as being the “Internet Business Bible” and after carefully reviewing the course and personally applying their techniques I am more than qualified to say that it definitely lives up to such an accolade.
144 People paid $5000 each to attend the 7 Figure Code workshop live. The recordings of that even later went on to become the highly sought after The 7 Figure Code home study course and the 7 Figure Secrets manual. The 7 Figure code consists of 16 DVDs that were recorded live by Mike & Tom with special guest like, Stephen Pierce, Rich Schefren, Brad Fallon, Ken McArthur and many more Chances are that if you are being coached or mentored by someone online, they themselves learned from The 7 Figure Code. Here’s a brief overview of the course: Read More…
When I first saw the sales page for The Guru Bypass something struck me immediately…
It stated I could make money first before I had to start spending! Having spent thousands of dollars in the past on various products only to learn I had to spend loads more to make them work, this is something that really appealed to me.
Comparing it to many major product launches, the first thing that stands out is the price. It’s not the usual $107 reduced to $97 and only $77 if you buy it now… type of product. In fact at $47 the creators do seem to have taken note that there is a credit crunch affecting people.
The Membership Area is really well set out and the 1st thing I did was download the ‘system pdf’ and the ‘case studies pdf’.
After reading the case studies – I was certainly inspired to get straight into the product and get it working for me.Never having come across the system before I felt a bit apprehensive and wondered if I would be able to follow the instructions. However after reading the book a couple of times I thought I should be able to follow it through to the end. Then I remembered something……
Back to the Members Area and there before me was a selection of “Step By Step Video Tutorials” that anyone can follow. What pleased me here was that they weren’t part of a One Time Offer designed to get more cash off me before I had even seen the product!
Randy & Anton had included them as part of the package which gives great value to your purchase.
Back to the system:
I can’t give too much away about the system but I can confirm you can use this product even if you have….No website, No Money, No List. and No product….and you will see results within hours not weeks or months!In fact I had ‘results’ within 30 minutes of setting things up, though it did take me a couple of hours to get everything in place!(for future use of the system that couple of hours would be eliminated) –continue reading…Read More…
“How Humor can turn a simple email into a viral marketing tool.”
A study by Sharpe Partners, an interactive marketing agency, revealed that 89% of adult Internet users in America share content with others via e-mail. This is useful information for those of us using “word-of-mouse” e-mail techniques to sell our products.
Alright.. so I’m about to reveal my age with this next question but here goes… Do you remember the old cartoon “Mighty Mouse” ? Well, I sure do! I used to love that cartoon! Wanna know what mighty mouse has to do with email marketing? – Nothing. You see, he’s just a cute and funny little character that helped me play on the “Word Of Mouth” phrase and later transitioned to “Word Of MOUSE” (as in your computer mouse) .. These are just “attention getters” to grab my visitors between the eyeballs and get them to read on. The cute cartoon and funny video below adds some flair to my article and keeps the reader interested. This same principle holds true when you are sending a promo email to your subscribers and will also help your campaign go viral.
The Sharpe Partners study generated some interesting results regarding the type of content that is most often forwarded, as well. The most popular content is humorous material. The second most popular category is news, followed by health care and medical information, religious and spiritual material, games, business and personal finance information and sports/hobbies… in that order. So it is easy to see that humor is the best content for your viral e-mail campaign. Cartoons, jokes and funny video clips are among the things that can be added to an e-mail to insure that it will go viral. People will want to pass along something that makes them laugh.
“Here I Come To Save The Day!”
They are a lot more likely to hit the forward button and send your email to their friends and relatives if it is an “advertainment” rather than an advertisement. Not along ago, about 35 million people got an e-mail containing a picture taken in Disneyland. It took a minute to see it but there was Donald Duck lying prone in front of the famous Cinderella Castle. The title of the picture was “Bird Flu has hit Disneyland”. It was a viral e-mail advertising Disneyland and used the edgy strategy of making light of what’s serious… and it works.
I’d guess that most people who own a computer have seen that picture… and thus the advertisement for Disneyland. The bird flu epidemic is newsworthy and has the potential to attract an enormous amount of attention to any brand that might, for whatever reason, associate itself with it.
Remember that people are much more likely to share a joke or a funny picture than anything else so you would be well advised to include humor in your e-mail campaign.
Just like in the movie “Spider Man”, Search Engines Have Their Own… Friendly Neighborhood “Web Crawlers.”
It’s the search engines that finally bring your website to the notice of the prospective customers. Hence it is better to know how these search engines actually work and how they present information to the customer initiating a search.
Websites are repeatedly visited by robots called crawlers or spiders.
Search Engines use spiders to index websites. When you submit your website pages to a search engine by completing their required submission page, the search engine spider will index your entire site. A ‘spider’ is an automated program that is run by the search engine system. Spider visits a web site, read the content on the actual site, the site’s Meta tags and also follow the links that the site connects. The spider then returns all that information back to a central depository, where the data is indexed. It will visit each link you have on your website and index those sites as well. Some spiders will only index a certain number of pages on your site, so don’t create a site with 500 pages!
The spider will periodically return to the sites to check for any information that has changed. The frequency with which this happens is determined by the moderators of the search engine.
A spider is almost like a book where it contains the table of contents, the actual content and the links and references for all the websites it finds during its search, and it may index up to a million pages a day.
Example: Excite, Lycos, AltaVista and Google.
When you ask a search engine to locate information, it is actually searching through the index which it has created and not actually searching the Web. Different search engines produce different rankings because not every search engine uses the same algorithm to search through the indexes.
One of the things that a search engine algorithm scans for is the frequency and location of keywords on a web page, but it can also detect artificial keyword stuffing or spamdexing. Then the algorithms analyze the way that pages link to other pages in the Web. By checking how pages link to each other, an engine can both determine what a page is about, if the keywords of the linked pages are similar to the keywords on the original page.
Here Are Some Tips to Increase Ranking and Website Traffic
It’s a GOOD IDEA to keep these points in mind as they will lead to increased website traffic and search engine rankings.
Create a site with valuable content, products or services.
Place primary and secondary keywords within the first 25 words in your page content and spread them evenly throughout the document.
Research and use the right keywords/phrases to attract your target customers.
Use your keywords in the right fields and references within your web page like Title, META tags, Headers, etc.
Keep your site design simple so that your customers can navigate easily between web pages, find what they want and buy products and services.
Submit your web pages i.e. every web page and not just the home page, to the most popular search engines and directory services.
Hire someone to do so, if required. Be sure this is a manual submission. Do not engage an automated submission service.
Keep track of changes in search engine algorithms and processes and accordingly modify your web pages so your search engine ranking remains high.
Use online tools and utilities to keep track of how your website is doing.
Monitor your competitors and the top ranked websites to see what they are doing right in the way of design, navigation, content, keywords, etc.
Use reports and logs from your web hosting company to see where your traffic is coming from.
Analyze your visitor location and their incoming sources whether search engines or links from other sites and the keywords they used to find you.
Make your customer visit easy and give them plenty of ways to remember you in the form of newsletters, free reports, reduction coupons etc.
Demonstrate your industry and product or service expertise by writing and submitting articles for your website or for article banks so you are perceived as an expert in your field.
When selling products online, use simple payment and shipment methods to make your customer’s experience fast and easy.
When not sure, hire professionals. Though it may seem costly, but it is a lot less expensive than spending your money on a website which no one visits.
Don’t look at your website as a static brochure. Treat it as a dynamic, ever-changing sales tool and location, just like your real store to which your customers with the same seriousness.
To Your Online Sales Success, Omar Martin, President and CEO
Yes, I kept a diary.
Just like in the movie “Spider Man”, Search Engines Have Their Own… Friendly Neighborhood “Web Crawlers.”
