Sometimes I wonder…

29 Oct 2006 @ 1:30 AM

Other times I write.

The latest floggings of the gurus are becoming a blur. They are creating products faster than I can keep up. My credit cards have reached their limit and now I see something else I absolutely have to have.

I give up.

While certain products are amazing and I would love to have them, at some point you just have to say, what good is it going to do? I purchased a good number of products since me re-entry into the Internet Marketing arena last June. I had taken a 3 year break from it all when I first installed Diablo II on my computer and disappeared from the marketing world and into the dank smelly caverns beneath the Blood Moor.

Upon my re-emergence I found that I had missed out on Butterfly Marketing, but if I purchased another product, I would get it as a bonus. So I got it.

Next I found myself totally enthralled with MME2 and I signed up for that. I will admit to the rest of the world that I made my money back with MME2.

Next was Extreme Biz Makeover, which I found to be a disappointment. A lot of great information, but a LOT of repetition. While Mark Joyner is an idol of mine and I would love to spend time with him and learn everything he could teach me, the product quality was not very good, although the quantity was high. The tons of bonuses were cool, even though I am not really happy with the VIral Marketing Blueprint Audios, which were of terrible quality (2 CD’s were blank) and the same material was repeated on the remaining 8 that Mark Joyner had stated in the Extreme Biz Makeover. But the Hypnotic Library Bonus that I received for paying off the balance I owed for the product, that was worth the entire price of the Extreme Biz Makeover Package. Every single Hypnotic item that Joe Vitale has put out until 2005 appears to be in it. I am not even close to having read all of it, there are just so many ebooks, and the physical books are HUGE!

So I had spent $1000 on the above course, and I am just inundated with material. I am learning a lot, but there is no way I will be able to recover my investment in this material until I get a product out the door and actually launch it. BUT, I fully intend to do so. If nothing else, Mark Joyner is a genius, and his teachings will make you money if you have money to put into your projects. Unfortunately, now that I am cash poor, I am struggling to get a product ready to sell. I am forced to sell other people’s products in the mean time and most of the summer, I was doing very good. I had purchased AdWords Miracle, and I put it to good use and tripled my investment in it in four weeks time. Then I purchased Affiliate Project X and found my sales increased a short while and then fell suddenly off as hundreds of new affiliate marketers all began to use the same techniques.

I don’t know about you, but I get turned off by waves of people promoting the same things with the same tactics. That is when I launched Your Directory Website. I am not making tons of money, but I have seen a sharp increase in my traffic to other websites (some affiliate websites, some adsense websites). If you want to create a complete traffic turnaround to your website, get your own Directory Website. You are basically just paying for me to set up the website hosting and your link directory and your blog. And you aren’t paying very much, because I have been told by Dan Lok that I am WAY undercharging for both the hosting and the package itself. I even offer an upgrade that includes an Article Directory as well. The best perk of being a Your Directory Website owner is the inclusion of your website in our Master Link Website Directory that will soon be promoted to thousands of eager SEO enthusiasts. Remeber that inbound links are the holy grail of search engine optimization, and we provide that service on our link directories.

I am getting way off topic, sorry about that shameless plug for my business.

Now I have spent another $697, and I am getting ready to be totally impressed. First of all, because I am going to get to meet some of the people who have been mentors of mine (indirectly, I cannot afford to have them be my personal mentors, because their time is worth more per hour than my annual salary) for the last few years (before and after Diablo II). This is a workshop that is limited to 100 people and I have two tickets. Since my spouse thinks I have lost my mind worse than when I delved into the caves of Diablo II, she will not be attending this workshop. I will be willing to sell my other ticket for $500 or $1000 (and I will share the hotel room at the $1000 price). Want to know what this is all about? The workshop details are at http://michealsavoie.com/presents/workshop and it tells you who the speakers are and where the event is being held. What I find cool is that not one of the speakers has tried to sell me either of the last few product launches. And if they do pitch a product, it is never using the stock emails that you see fifteen of from 15 different people. They will give you their honest opinion about the product, and whether it is right for certain individuals or not. Needless to say I respect them a lot more than the affiliate commission ho’s that are out there dancing around with whoever is launching the latest product!

I have really lost respect for some of the people I had once looked up to in the IM world.

I hope to never be seen as one of those ho’s… I apologize to you right now if I have made myself out to be one of them.

I think once your bank balance reaches a certain level, your mindset changes, you really do not need to promote everything that comes around. You then can focus on promoting those things you believe in. Which is actually a lot easier to do.

This post has gotten a lot longer than I wanted it to be. I had just finished writing a long comment on John Delavera’s Blog, and I wanted to mention the insights I had gleaned from it on here…

But I got sidetracked again!

I will say one thing about membership websites.

If you want to make money with a membership website, deliver more value than the price you are selling the membership annually ( the annual membership cost…) every single month. Then you will be getting wealthy. People who deliver value tend to do that.

I am going to leave you with that. If you go to John Delavera’s Blog, you will see my in depth comment on that topic. If I had the link I would include it here.

DOn’t forget to change the clock. I am doing it right now.

Micheal Savoie

Posted By: Micheal Savoie
Last Edit: 29 Oct 2006 @ 01:30 AM

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