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!
I decided some time back that I would promote Steve Clayton and Tim Godfrey’s new release – The Blueprint Project: Black Edition……although that’s a hell of a mouthful and just waaaay too much typing for my liking
I thought I could probably add to the debate a bit since I own their last big product – Niche Blueprint 2.0 (see how that trips off the tongue in comparison!)
I really like Steve’s teaching method and found the last one to be a great training course and the new one takes that material to the next level.
As a result, I will be giving a 32GB iPod touch as an incentive for folk to buy through my link. This will apply to all who stick with the course – I don’t hold by the idea that you might get some kind of lesser bonus just for being a bit late to the party. If you want to jump straight to the product, you can find it here:
Check for my affiliate id (martinpcb) if you want my bonus. You can find that at the bottom of the first clickbank order form….and I’ll need to see your clickbank receipt for validation purposes.
If, on the other hand, you want to see why on earth I’d go with a physical bonus like this, you can check out my review and ideas over at:
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?
It’s been an “interesting” year – sometimes in the sense of the Chinese curse – but not bad overall and I have promised myself that I will update you all on the progress of the grand experiment before the end of the year.
In the New Year, I’ll be putting up a promotion for Steve Clayton and Tim Godfrey’s “The Blueprint Project Black Edition” (phew – someone has to have a word with them about that name!). I’ve decided to give an ipod touch to everyone that buys through my affiliate link and I’ll be doing some reviews as I bought their previous Niche Blueprint product at the start of this year (and like it a lot).
If you want to see the start of my site, you can find it here, but in the meantime, check out Steve explaining what the new release will cover in the first of his pre-launch videos. He talks about some of the mad things people have sold to get their business going – you can find it here.
Watch out for more details on my other site, or sign up to be informed as I think it all through. In the meantime, I wanted to wish you all an incredible Christmas, no matter what you are doing or who you are with. I hope Santa brings you something incredible in your stocking…..or maybe somone incredible in stockings
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.
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