Day 2 of Adeel’s Internet Millionaire Academy followed on pretty well from the Friday session and since I can’t get to day 3 on Sunday, I’d encourage you to head down there if you have time.

We started the day a little more promptly, which I think was as much due to the presenting team knowing how to get there as the attendees. More thoughts on that at the end, but suffice it to say that the attendance hasn’t been stellar up to now.

First up on the stage was Larry Loik. Larry has obviously had a lot of success in loads of different ventures over the last few years and has branched into IM more recently. His presentation reflected that – slick, full of NLP techniques and a monster offer at the end that just kept piling on bonus course after course to feed the buying frenzy. I have to say, despite all that, that it didn’t make my blood race! There was a brief flicker when he promised a crack at being one of the presenters at an event they will be running this year. My intention is to get back onto stage again at some point soon, so that sounded good, but the rest of it just looked a bit too much like filler.

That brings up a valid point about all these conferences. If you go, don’t expect every presenter to be perfect for you. It won’t ever happen, and you’ll only split your focus in too many directions if you sign up for everything anyway! If you have the chance to decide what you’re most interested in before you even arrive, than all the better. At least you can save your cash till that subject comes up.

Anyway, back to the show.

Second up was Adam Ginsberg – a man whose Ebay achievements are second to none. I have to take my hat off to Adeel again at this point; it was great to get so many genuinely high-powered speakers in one place. Real people with real results.

Adam obviously pitched ebay as a way to make good money and made an offer that very nearly took my cash, but going back to my comment above I’d already committed myself to working with Lee McIntyre and I felt that this would just distract me. Adam was surprisingly candid about some of the other things he sees going on in our industry – so much so, that he got the camera switched off at one point so he could speak “off the record”. If you’re looking for one solid way to make money, I reckon it would be a lot of fun working with Adam and just to give him even more kudos, he even went to bat for the attendees and got us an hour lunch break. Adam, for that alone, you were a standout speaker

After that lunch break, we had Andrew X up on stage. The sheer volume of his Clickbank accounts is staggering…just insane amounts of cash flowing through around 200 separate accounts. Andrew’s big message was to look at low gravity items on Clickbank (rather than high) as the competition is so much lower, and some of them do turn out to be money spinners. He talked though affiliate sales, becoming a product creator and then also running a membership site as three different ways to make $1M in 6 months.

Now, at this point, I got distracted by a few folk turning up that I recognised, so I can’t claim to say that I know who the next speaker was. Sorry whoever you were (blame it on Chris Freville!). In principle I guess this slot could have been set up for Anik Singal, but a colleague of his was speaking about Lurn Inc. What was most interesting was that he immediately talked about going with high gravity Clickbank products…..it really is possible to go in both directions and you need to find what works for you.

I confess that I got “conference chair fatigue” at that point and ran away. One of my blessings is that I live near to all these London/Heathrow events, but that’s also a curse in that I never get to hang around in the hotel bar at the events as I can’t justify staying away (so close to home). I’d still say that this would have been a great addition to the day, but I just couldn’t justify it.

So, what can I conclude for the event so far (as I won’t be there on Sunday)?

I think I’d have to give Adeel a big thumbs-up for the line-up and the way in which they presented (in general). The venue was pretty good in terms of facilities – the usual Heathrow prices taken into account!

I hope it was worth it for him, the attendance was pretty poor on both days, so I imagine the speakers will have been a bit disgruntled at their sales. There just isn’t enough cash sloshing around in a group of 50 to support so many good offers. On that front, I quite liked the £997 cap on the sales – I may be wrong, but they all came out with the same price, so there weren’t any outrageous numbers being quoted.

Will I attend another event laid on by Adeel. Yes I will. That’s getting to be an increasingly rare thing for me to say, so check it out on Sunday and watch out for anything else he lays on. Adeel, well done! Oh, and get the same admin staff next time too

I spent some time last year going into details about conferences that I had attended in the hope that we can all help each other make these events more enjoyable for all concerned and I think I was a little harsh on my last victims.

It’s nice to be able to swing the pendulum the other way with this review for the first day of Adeel Chowdhry’s Internet Millionaire Academy. I’ll even go as far as saying that you should get down to the Renaissance at Heathrow for the next 2 days if you are near enough to do so – tell ‘em Martin sent you

We kicked off with Adeel setting the scene for the rest of the day with a summary of his earnings and some ideas on how to get started, but he passed the baton fairly quickly to a colleague of his called Biku (truly sorry here, I don’t think I ever heard your whole name).

Now, it may be that we had a fairly small audience as a result of it being a Friday, but Biku immediately jumped to a more workshop-style session and got the crowd intimately involved in answering his questions and working through the particular points of his presentation with a few individuals….and yes, yours truly was one of them! This was one of the most impressive, confident and useful presentations I’ve seen in all the conferences I’ve been to -  an echo of Biku’s corporate background, I suspect. This got a big thumbs up from me.

Simon Poulson followed on, with a session mainly focussed on marketing to local businesses…..just another great, solid piece of content with a real list of action items to follow to get started in this space.

After lunch Scott Rewick wowed the crowd with his life as a media buyer and builder of monster companies (in super fast times). I’ve seen Scott a couple of times now and his offer is one of the most compelling and “real” that I’ve seen. Another great speaker.

Finally (for my day anyway), Lee McIntyre took to the stage. If you trawl back almost to the start of this blog, you’ll se how impressed I was with Lee when I first saw him. He’s gone on to grow his business from 110K a month to something which is now around 220K – all in the space of just over a year. I’m still hugely impressed by his integrity as a marketer and the way he goes about selling. His main focus today was on Membership sites and a lot of folk I spoke to afterwards were inspired by the way he broke down the numbers needed to make some decent money with one of these sites.

Now, don’t get me wrong, this was still a selling opportunity for all the speakers….it’s just that they concentrated on the content first and their pitches were both relevant and concise. I can handle that so much better than some of the pitch-fests that I have visited. The usual 90 minute talks with 30 minutes taken up by the pitch are just getting old as far as I’m concerned!

All in all, the day was a big success as far as I’m concerned, kudos to Adeel and the team….including the stunning admin helpers Just one niggle….quite a late start led to lunch being only 30 minutes….the liquid lunch I had worked quite well though!

No, it’s not a pseudo-apocalyptic rant about the world coming to an end in 2011 – although we may all revisit that comment when the FTC have finished with all their little plans for us this year.

It’s more about a line in the Bible that talks about us “doing what we know we should not do, and not doing those things that we know we should”. Of course, in the original sense it all boils down more to the spirit being willing, but the flesh being weak….an excuse trotted out for almost any kind of slightly naughty thing we think we can get away with these days. Cream buns, anyone?

On a more secular and personal level, it hits home at this time of year as we all make and break those incredible New Year resolutions. Who’s stopped going to the gym already?

Where it really gets serious, though, is in our Intenet Marketing endeavours. Here’s a list of some of the stuff I have looked at in 2010:

• SEO
• PPC
• Facebook Ads
• Outsourcing
• Local Marketing
• Social Media Marketing
• Amazon affiliate program
• Adsense

Now, that’s not a comprehensive list and it certainly doesn’t do justice to all the books, courses and WSO’s that I have bought in the same period. So, how many of these things made me money? How many of them should I look at in the light of the quote at the start of the post?

So, what are the things that have been “the things you should not have done” – how have they stopped you getting on with all the things you should have concentrated on and how much money has been diverted away from you as a result.

My promise to myself this year is to get down to turning all this incredible knowledge and “stuff” from 2010 into cash and to do it one step at a time. Yes, the Facebook page will get some attention, but it won’t be my first port of call. This blog and its readers and subscribers deserve first call on my time. So I’m committed to getting back to the near-daily updates on my progress, with reports of what I have learned along the way.

Secondly, my existing Amazon sites are going to get some work and traffic sent their way. They deserve it, the poor wee  orphans!!

Thirdly, my listbuilding will definitely see a new lease of life in 2011. This is one area that I have been woefully poor at and this needs to change for the New Year.

Then finally (for now) I will definitely be putting more work into reviewing the stuff that I have bought, so that others get a chance to see exactly what’s in some of these packages that are sold “sight unseen”. I’m only going to recommend and promote the ones that I have used and like. Others may get a passing reference and maybe sometimes a sneer too, we’ll see.

This is actually one of the things that worked quite well for me towards the end of 2010. I spent some time reviewing and promoting Dan Brock’s Amazon program (Deadbeat Super Affiliate) and I am still seeing sporadic affiliate sales coming from that even now.

For those that tracked my earnings progress through the Summer, I’m pleased to be able to say that the Christmas period brought in a combined total of around $300 for the month of December. Next year I will starting the site creation waaaay earlier!

This number brings my total for the year to an almost perfect $1000 and that’s only starting the counting when I did, later in the Summer. So, not perfect, but certainly encouraging as a start. My next target is to get that earning period down to one month i.e. one month, $1000 and of course to start ramping it up from there.

So, where is your New Year starting? Does any of this strike any chords?

I had a few questions about the details of this course, so I’ve made a quick video of the whole thing to try to clear them up. Sorry for the squashedness of it all….video is still eluding me, despite all the expensive tools!

One thing I forgot to say in my last post (Elite Niche Research Review) was that the course is going to be held at it’s current price for a while, but will be going up in price fairly soon so if you want to check it out, head over here fairly soon.

STOP PRESS – Elite Niche Research price increase.

I got one thing wrong in the video, but it’s pretty important. If you want to get ENR at the lower price, you don’t have until the end of the year as I said in the video. It’s going up in price on the 21st of December, so there’s even more need to get it sorted now.

I wanted to bring you all a quick review of Andrew Hansen and Josh Stanton’s Elite Niche Research before going back to some other updates on what I’ve been up to.

The observant (and not so observant) among you will have seen all the changes that Google has been putting their keyword tool through and have probably seen how that has affected all the niche keyword tools out there. One of those was generating me a bunch of great niche keywords and now it doesn’t work at all.

So, as a result, I’ve been working on newer ways to find niches and affiliate offers. I’ll bring you an update on some new tools in another post, but I wanted to fill you in on Elite Niche Research which has just been released. Andrew Hanson is a genuine super-affiliate and I grabbed a copy of Elite Niche Research to see what his spin on finding niches is all about.

There are four main sections of the product – Foundation Theory, Keyword Research, Affiliate Research and finally Offer Finding Techniques. All in all there are a total of 33 videos, with the majority being in the final section which concentrates on working out where the best affiliate offers can be found that are untapped by the huge majority of affiliates who are out there jumping on every clickbank release.

There is only a single upsell in the sales process and it just takes the theory from the course and applies it, so that you get a bunch of pre-researched niches to get your affiliate earnings kicked off straight away. You can get to these from the course by doing your own research, but this is a kickstart.

Andrew and Josh are also offering an extra live webinar in early January where they’ll be walking students through a case study on the webinar and actually doing some niche research on the call.

All in all, I’d give this a pretty big thumbs-up compared to a lot of the “blind” clickbank sales pages I’ve seen recently and I will be using it to re-instate the keyword of the week part of the blog.

If you want to check it out, you can find it here – Elite Niche Research