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The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent anyone else's view in any way, including those of my employer.
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I received the following email from a subscriber who was frankly sick and tired of the hype machine that is most of the marketers’ newsletters out there (mine included). I only used the initials, but this could have come from one of hundreds of disgruntled subscribers on anyone’s list.
The bottom line, Michael, is that if one of these offers would actually do what they claim, I would only need that one, however, the offers keep coming because they do not work as advertised.
You know as well as I do that even the best of these offers are hyped and most of them outright mislead people with claims that there are only x copies left and that it will generate thousands of dollars in a short period of time. Even useful products are buried under an avalanche of serine hype that will never come close to being the truth.
I would love for this to not be the case and I would offer my heartfelt testimony to products that work as advertised and there are some such as Tweet adder. But if the majority of these products actually delivered on their promises and hype you wouldn’t need to sell them to your list because you could use them yourself to make your money. I have grown tired of financing other peoples lavish lifestyles by buying these products.
If you feely am wrong then tell me which product can help an unemployed man like myself avoid bankruptcy. I have tried for a year now and I will keep trying, but I can’t afford buying things that then just try to sell my 5 more things even before I get to the product I just bought.
Show my what product to use and if it works you will have a flood of gratitude and testimonies. Sadly at this point it needs to be pretty inexpensive and as far as hard work goes, I have put in 60 hours a week at this.
I wish you the best,P.T.
You are right about a good 75% of the offers out there. They really
are too good to be true. Many of them only worked for the person
who created the program because that tactic was new. Once the
beta testers and the JV Partners use it and flood the market with
these tactics, they often become useless (or become less effective
to the point of not being worth the money spent on them).
But another thing you have to think about it whether it fits into your
business plan. If you do not have a plan, you should not be buying
products anyway.
If you decided to start an online business, you should have written
down what it was you wanted to accomplish. Earning $10,000 per
month is not a business plan (I learned that after ten years of not
getting anywhere near my goal).
It wasn’t until I wrote down that I wanted to help people help
themselves that I really started getting somewhere. A lot of times
you get close to succeeding, but something may get in the way.
I totally understand where you are coming from. I retired from my
job before I had an income that was stable enough to keep my
business going. It took me an extra year to reach the point where
cash is not a problem. But I learned the hard way.
Now that I am at a point where I am free to help others, I have
made some changes to my marketing. I do not promote stuff
unless I know the person can deliver on their claims or I
have actually used their product. I never expect the product to
be the "be all – end all" because it may end up being a good
product, but unless I have the right combination of Offer,
Conversion, Proper Funnel, and Targeted Traffic… I won’t be
able to truly duplicate their success.
That is why I am leery of copy and paste systems, because if
they’ve made a lot from one ad, it will not necessarily translate
that it will continue to make a lot of money (especially now that
250 other people are also doing the same ads)…
But the techniques that these people use are valid, I just don’t
buy into the fact that they will work if everyone uses the same
copy for the same products.
If I can give you any parting words of wisdom, it is to first make
your plan, then work that plan. If a tool comes out that really
makes that task easier, then buy it, your time is worth more
than money, because you can always make money… not so
with time.
I may use this email as a blog post to help others too, because
a lot of people are feeling the way you are.
Anyway, even if you aren’t getting my emails anymore, feel free
to email me when you have a question, or need help moving
through a tough area of your plan. I was where you are, and
thanks to some great friends that I have made along the way,
I was able to get through a lot of tough patches.
You can always catch me at my help desk:
http://replytomicheal.com
Have an amazing day!
Micheal Savoie
The very first person to believe in me when I first made a decision to pursue Internet Marketing full time was Ross Goldberg. He was behind me during the good and the bad times. He always knew when I needed that swift kick in the pants to get me out of a slump, and he always encouraged me to keep going when things were not going my way (or I did not see far enough down the road to know that I just needed to keep going).
I remember the phone call I received in July of 2008, the year I finally walked away from my job. Ross was in Chicago getting set up for his Masters Seminar, and he told me “you need to get up here, bro!”
I was wallowing in the crap that surrounded me at home, and I did not know how I would be able to swing a trip to Chicago, let alone get a hotel room. Well, when I got that call, I had been pretty down, so I told Ross, “I really don’t have the money for a trip to Chicago… I took the time off from work, in the hopes that my commissions would come in, but nothing… I have $50 in my Paypal.”
“Listen, I really need you up here, don’t worry about the hotel room, I’ll make sure you have a place to stay, just get up here, bro!”
So I checked my frequent flyer miles, and I found I had enough miles to book a flight, but the only flight that was available was in less than 2 hours, and I was not ready… but I booked it anyway, because I knew that Ross was counting on me. It took my last $50 to reserve the ticket, because it was less than 24 hours to fly out, but I was able to get the flight.
I sent an email out to my list between shower and packing, telling them about my trip and how I had my coaching program available at an outrageous discount and that they could score it while I was flying to Chicago. Then I drove like the wind to Gainesville Airport, and of course I missed the flight, because it takes an hour and a half to get to Gainesville, but I knew that a second flight was leaving from there an hour later. As soon as I arrived in Gainesville, the ticket agent said I had missed my flight, but that they had gotten me a spot on the next flight, so I ended up getting to Chicago that same evening!
During my layovers, I advertised a couple of products that I had on Rapid Action Profits and found that I had made a couple of sales netting me about $30, which helped pay my lunch and dinner. But I arrived late that night, and I couldn’t catch up with Ross. his phone went straight to voice mail, which told me he was crashed, because he was running pretty hard all day, getting set up for the event the next morning.
I hung around the hotel lobby for a while, and finally settled in for the night on a loveseat in a (somewhat) quiet section where all the conference rooms were, and stretched out to sleep a while. Around 2AM, I still hadn’t slept, and I looked at my email via my phone and noticed that I had made a sale of my coaching program. I was excited, because that was $200… so I quickly went to the front desk and told them I needed a room. The clerk said they were sold out, but she pointed me to the hotel across the street! I went across the street and booked a room for $179 for the night – I needed to sleep, the music in the lobby at the first hotel was too perky for me to sleep…lol.
The rest of the weekend continued to be filled with miraculous experience after miraculous experience,, as I found just enough money to get what I needed – either lunch, dinner, parking fees and I bunked with Ross in his room along with two other marketers who slept during the day and worked most of the night on graphics and other projects (they usually didn’t get into the room until Ross and I headed out, so we hardly ever saw them…lol).
I would not have met Felicia Slattery, Tracy Repchuck and James Lee there, which would have made it much harder for me to become friends with them at a later time (each of whom I have seen multiple times since that event). I doubt I would have been chosen for the Impact Action Team, had I not made that leap of faith. And I would not have solidified my friendship with a certain Yvonne Lyon, whom I had first met in person at the first Masters Seminar. We had lunch together with Willie Crawford, dinner with a huge group and of course, she was helping Ross with the seminar as I was. So I managed to talk with her quite a bit throughout the weekend.
That Chicago Masters Seminar was the turning point in my business, too. I now had a coaching client, who went on to become a speaker in his own right, not even one year later. I had developed relationships with many of my favorite marketers, who are now some of my best online friends – Lee & Robin Collins, Alan Bechtold, Erik Stafford (who spoke for the first time on Ross’ stage) and of course Donna Fox, who I was bumping into at almost every event I attended or helped at in 2007 and 2008.
Because of Ross Goldberg, I never gave up on my dream. I hope you have a friend like Ross in your life. Someone who will not give you everything, but will believe in you and help you become your best. I think there are times we take a friendship for granted, and I feel like sometimes I took advantage of my friendship with Ross to get access to his training and tools – even though I would gladly work for Ross on whatever he wanted done if he asked.
But because of this access, I was able to develop on online presence that makes it very difficult to erase. Ross revealed everything he knew about web traffic in his first ebook, Traffic Masters. Then his Traffic Manifesto updated the Traffic Masters to include much of what is taught today by the other marketers. It is no surprise to me that Ross is releasing his first print book: The Web Traffic Book. He has been the guy that the experts talk about when they are discussing traffic strategy. And his software is designed to work without leaving a footprint, which Ross explains in detail on his blog.
When you get his book, keep it next to your computer. You will find yourself referring to it time and again as you plan out your SEO. You might want a couple copies if you have a staff, because having everyone on the same page is crucial in getting your message out there.
Since today is Ross’ birthday, tell others about his book. Either you can send them here to read about the man behind the legend, or send them to his website:
Then tell my friend Happy Birthday!
If you’re trying to build an Internet business, you have gotta’ see this…
For the first time EVER, you can get a huge jumpstart with a business PROVEN to generate over $734,216, that THEY setup for you…
And you get the software to create as many of these business as you want…
You even get Private Label Rights to offer the software to others for quick profits…
AND they’ll even TRAIN you with live webinars in 2 of the most important areas of marketing–how to get search engine traffic for no cost, and how to recruit JV Partners to promote for you!
This is a COMPLETE, done-for-you business with the ability to scale it up as large as you want–there’s no easier way to get rolling.
Whether you are just getting started or just need to get over the hump in your marketing–this is the ticket:
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As a bonus, Yvonne and I will offer our technical assistance in setting your sites up and help you market your services.
Buy now and then schedule your first conference call with us so we can discuss your next step…
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Use the help desk link to set up your call:
You can’t go wrong with this, unlimited traffic sites that you can sell or run yourself.
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So I was waiting for my new DSL modem to come…
I was sick of Dimhouse… their stupidity was unmatched over the last few months, and I really had my fill when they turned off our service because we returned an extra cable modem that the technician had told us to return when we were moved into our new place.
So I signed up for Century Link…
I was hoping I had not made a mistake, but then, how could anyone top Dimhouse?
When I received the package from Walmart… I quickly set up the modem, but I didn’t have a username and password that the modem tells me I absolutely need. So I call Century Link. I ask them for the information that my modem is certain that I need.
I am directed to the support team. I am happy, they will tell me what I need to know.
The very first thing they ask me is if I had gotten the modem from them. I answer that I had not. “Well, I am sorry, but we do not provide support (basically this sounds like FU to me) for any modems but our own.
“But, all I need to know is what the username and password for my account is, so that my modem can connect to the network!”
“Sorry, sir, we do not provide any technical support for any modems but those that you lease from Century Link.” She is very determined to not tell me anything.
“Look, you are not providing support to the modem, you are providing support to one of your valued customers… All I need is to know what this username and password is to access the network.” I am not to be denied, my feet are firmly planted in the kitchen, fighting stance… except for the fact that my cell phone is up to my ear and I am looking at my laptop on the kitchen counter – the only place I could place the DSL modem, since that was where the phone outlet was located.
“First of all,” she started in on me. “If you were using one of our modems, you would not need a user name and password, since they operate via DHCP. Which means you do not have the right kind of modem.
“Second of all,” she chimed in, almost full of glee that she had gotten me good this time, but with a belligerent voice that told me that if I kept this up, she was going to come over to my house and beat me to a pulp. “If you connect our modem to a router that is not one of ours, we won’t help you with that either!”
I was fit to be tied… I could feel the flames shooting out of my ears… steam coming out of my nostrils. Good thing I had just trimmed my hair that weekend. Choking back a load of venom that would have left her in tears, I calmly said, “Well, if this is the kind of technical support I can expect from this company, you can keep your DSL AND your modems. Put me back on to customer service!”
Armed with the little piece of knowledge that the support person had unwittingly given me in her attempt to not help me, I was going through the settings on my modem and looking for something that had something remotely to do with DHCP and was not finding anything like that. I did see something in the settings that was not PPPoE or PPPoA, so I selected it, and when I restarted the modem, I was connected to the internet.
Lesson to be learned #1
Listen to everything that people tell you. Sometimes they will let something slip. The DHCP thing was exactly what I needed. I was able to get connected.
But the story doesn’t end there.
The speed I had purchased for my DSL was supposed to be 10 MBs (megabits per second…) but when I ran a speed test, I was only at 2.9 MBs… one third of what I was paying for. Hmmm. That is when the customer service person came back on. By then I had my offended voice, and I told her everything that had transpired. She agreed that I had been treated rudely, but that Century Link did not support any other equipment but their own. Then she offered to send me the modem and told me the lease fee would be offset by a $5 credit each month. So I told her to go ahead and send me the modem…
Lesson to be learned #2
Listen to your clients, and do something to help them, even if you can’t help them.
This customer service lady knew the difference between a customer and a former customer, and she did what she could to keep me as a present customer. I am still limping along at a slower speed, but you can bet that the second I get the modem from them, I am going to run speed tests and then I am going to be on the phone with that technical support person and I am going to get my speed back up to 10 MBs! Count on it!
There’s this guy I know, and every couple years when he
releases something new… everyone takes notice.
In the “inner circle”, we have a name for Gary, we call
him the “disappearing guru”.
That’s because, every couple of years he’ll release one
new thing, and then, he just disappears. Hides in his
”Batcave” and works behind the scenes.
But…
He doesn’t really go anywhere. Even though he has the
ability to go anywhere he wants!
Gary just doesn’t release new products, or new anything
for that matter, as often as I think he should…
Whenever I’m stuck on something, need clarity on things
in my marketing, or just want to talk shop, Gary is one
of the few guys I’ll call.
And, that’s why I wish he’d release more stuff…
But he’s never going to change.
That’s why I need you to drop whatever you’re doing and
go watch the video he just released…
The last time he “disappeared”, he took a break from any
new releases for more than three years…
So please, hurry…
You’ll thank me later.
Thanks,
Micheal
PS – If you thought I was going to have a bonus for
anyone who bought this from me…
You would be right!
I am giving the people who buy through my link
(I might receive a commission – which is why
I am offering the bonus):
It is your choice how you market these products, but
I will have a webinar to show you how I would
recommend marketing them.
So if you are ready to start your own membership
sites, then this could be the best decision you could
ever make:
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