I don’t blame them for thinking it’s hard, I recall when I first wanted a website built. I just went to the phone book and rang someone up as I had no belief I could do it, no way! Only computer geeks could build websites! A quote in the thousands put me off and my husband enthusiastically volunteered to learn html. (Let’s just say we never got much further than the excitement of mastering the marquee tag. )

I did end up building my first website with a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) html editing program that came free with my first web hosting account. It took me weeks to work it out and the end result was not very glamorous!

Create a blog in 4 easy steps!

These days, thanks to WordPress, a complete newbie can be set up with a website in a day, however there are still a few steps to follow that could be challenging for a newbie. So to help them navigate their way through more easily I’ve pulled together a couple of reports, Create A Blog In 4 Easy Steps and Setting the Right Foundations for Your Blog which can be downloaded for free at Vred Voice, so now my friends, and other newbies, can whiz through the reports and they’re up and away.

The thing I’ve found myself asking these complete newbies though is what they actually want to do online, what are their goals? Some of them have a little idea in their head about what they can share with others or they have a unique Internet business idea they want to introduce. Many though ‘just’ want to know a way they can make money online – any way.

I wrote in a previous post about making money from home and how there are so many methods to try. My fear for my friends is that they’re going to end up on the same merry-go-round that so many end up on:

1. Buy a product that promises wonderful things
2. Start the project
3. Discover that the method just isn’t that appealing
4. Move on to the next thing
5. And the next thing
6. Leaving a trail of unfinished business behind them.

Unfinished business

We all have them. I have them. I have tens of projects and sites that are half baked and looking back at it all, I know the time and energy that went into those projects would have been better channeled into one or two main focal points.

What inevitably happens when we have all these loose ends is a need to do something with them, to tie them up. Questioning back and forth, will we finally outsource and get things completed or will we sell them off half done for someone else more enthusiastic to take them forward? Will we go back to all those methods that we know really do work that we ‘just’ need to stick to a little while to get things moving?

Spreading yourself too thin?

What that can all lead to is you trying to pick up where you left off from various projects and before you know it you’re trying to be across many things at once. If you end up spreading yourself too thin then nothing gets completed properly anyway and the cycle repeats itself.

Knowing when to let go

If you’ve got unfinished business that is hanging over your head, that you tinker with here and there or that just haunts you with guilt that you haven’t followed through, then perhaps it’s time to take stock.

Clearing your schedule for the projects that matter to you most, that deserve all your attention, will see you being a whole lot more productive than when you’re trying to juggle a variety of businesses. So could you do that? Could you let go of some of your loose ends to focus, and if you did, do you know what it is you would choose to focus on?

What do you really want?

Do you have a good idea of what you really want to do online? What are your medium to long term plans and does what you do each day support those goals?

If you really did take stock and put aside once and for all those minor half done projects, do you know what it is you want to be spending your time and energy on? What sort of online business you want to be involved in?

Asking yourself what you would like to ultimately be doing online, and giving yourself permission to do it, can bring an extremely refreshing change to your outlook on making money on the Internet. Suddenly you are the one determining the destination on the sign posts not the hundreds of destinations being sold to you every day.

Tread your own path

You can tread the same roads everyone else has, go down the road less traveled or be a trailblazer. Don’t be afraid to carve out some new ground and follow your own path. There are benefits to learning from those who’ve trodden a path before you but many times their path isn’t exactly one you’re going to enjoy.

Is it time for you to take stock, tie up loose ends or let them go altogether and decide what you’d really like to do online and blaze your own trail?

As many of you know, my background is in strategic business development, specifically in retail. You’ve no doubt heard the saying “The customer is always right”, and I’d heard that a lot too. But over time I came to the conclusion that no, in fact the customer isn’t always right. Some customers just shouldn’t have shopped in our stores, simply because their expectations were never going to be met.

If you enter a discount retail store and expect to have staff hanging off your every need and giving you a private shopping tour you’re likely to be quite disappointed. Just as if you walk into Harrods expecting to find a designer handbag for less than $10, not likely! So are you right to complain in these instances? If you were misled about what the store offered, then yes, that’s not really fair is it if you were tricked through the front door. But generally, in the brick and mortar world, you can often glean quickly what you’re likely to expect from certain stores, but that doesn’t seem to stop some customers having unreasonable expectations of what the business offers.

During my time in retail we’d receive complaints that there weren’t enough staff on, that the customer had to wait in a queue ten deep and the store was too noisy, too cold and the product range was too narrow. Some changes can be made to a business model to try and appeal to more customers but ultimately, a discount retailer will keep costs down to keep their sell prices down so some customers just need to shop elsewhere if they don’t like it. We don’t want those customers in our store because their expectations do not match our offer, they’re not who we’re trying to appeal to and we cannot please them: we will not deliver silver service with rock bottom prices so they need to be moved along or get in line to pay for their goods like everybody else.

Aldi is a great example: “No Gimmicks, Just Low Prices”. Shopping at Aldi is a pretty ordinary experience to say the least but with great prices and quite a lot of quality preserved in what they sell it’s very popular. If I go to Aldi I don’t complain that it’s cold and that the stock being stacked on pallets on the shop floor is less than pleasing. I understand what their offer is and if I don’t like it then I need to shop elsewhere.

At the end of the day sometimes you just have to fire a customer.

Sounds harsh but this post is already getting quite long so I can’t be fluffing it all out with niceties sorry, and who’s got time for fluff these days anyways!

So does the need arise to fire customers in the online world too? Yes!

In the online world it’s easy for customers to complain, it’s easy for “customers” to steal and it’s easy for a customer to claim that the ‘item doesn’t do what it was purported to do’. The last point is true when it comes to digital goods where the customer has to actually do something to make the purported outcome actually occur. Hey, I could sell you a book on how to win the lottery but if you fail to actually go and buy a ticket to begin with then what hope do you have of ever actually winning?

I’ve seen countless claims from people online that ‘all’ the products they’ve bought ‘don’t work’. I read comments like “Ugh, I’m so sick of buying all this stuff and none of it actually works! I’d love a mentor, someone to keep me on track because I’m so useless at staying focused and following through.” Is it just me or do you see that the individual has not actually completed the said tasks to even see if the various models actually work or not, yet they claim they’re being ripped off?

When people make these sorts of statements in forums and so forth, in the past I’ve tried to help them and discover what the method was they were trying. Interestingly, when you start asking for urls, article marketing links, where did they build traffic or whatever the key levers were for the success of the particular path they took, the forum poster disappears, or more commonly, rewords ‘what they meant’. They either aren’t motivated to follow through or are distracted sucked in by the latest shiny objects that promise the “Internet lifestyle”. This means they never realise that the model does most likely work, they just haven’t actually stuck at it long enough to see. Or, in a lot of cases, let’s be brutally honest, they haven’t even started it.

(Yes, there are some marketing tactics that cross the line, yes there are plenty of massively overpriced products but at some point you have to take responsibility and unsubscribe from everything and choose one thing and do it until you prove it works or not!)

I find it seriously laughable when people buy ebooks and then ask for a refund the same day saying it doesn’t work, or it’s too hard to understand, or it’s just so not going to suit them. I’m continually surprised at how many people think that other people just came down in the last shower. Both buyers and sellers do it. They do things that essentially insult the intelligence of the person at the other end of the email. The good news is that when customers ask for a refund within the first day (or within the guarantee expiry period ) you don’t have to fire them! They’ve already shown that they are not going to be a good match for your products so you can spend more energy with those people who do resonate more with you and what you have to offer.

Here’s where it gets ugly though.

It gets ugly in terms of a waste of your time and energy, when the customer is a poor match but has nothing better to do than stick around, complain, ask millions of questions yet take no action and pretty much try to ‘disprove’ what it is you’re trying to help them with. Questions right up front asking for ‘proof’ ‘it’ works and so on. You can see it right from the get go, they just aren’t shopping in the right store. You’re never going to please them, convince them and get them to take action. They’ve bought a product, they have to do some work and so they decide it’s much easier to pick on the product, try to find holes in it, try to disprove it and so on. At what point do you tell them “You’re fired!”?

Luckily for me I’ve only had a couple of instances where I’ve had to fire a customer online and generally it’s been done by explaining where they’re going wrong and why they probably won’t succeed, whether that be about their mindset or their unwillingness to do the right thing by their customers. Sometimes you can fire a customer simply by refusing to pander to all their unreasonable expectations.

So what sort of customer are you? Do you have a good understanding of what you’re buying and why or do you just buy everything and ask for a refund and sit back in your office surrounded by all the ‘free’ products you’ve acquired. Does that work in terms of building a solid profitable business?

Are you the type of customer who is so scarred from some of your online experiences that every marketer is a scammer that has to prove themselves innocent first before you’ll take any action on one of their products?

Are you the type of customer who, even though you can see some marketers give away a load of stuff for free, you don’t care, you just want more and more for free and just take and take and take some more. Do you expect an endless supply of hand holding, ‘do it for me’ type help and generally place unreasonable amounts of requests on the people you follow?

I’m often talking about sellers needing to think about the buyer in the transaction and I’ve sacked plenty of gurus I used to follow who I’ve seen treat people like dirt, but I’m just as keen to speak out on behalf of marketers who genuinely offer good products and loads of free information who are quite often attacked for not giving enough, for not replying to things with enough detail, to not offering enough hand holding. We are all acutely aware of just how far the free line has moved but at some point we all begin to realise that ‘giving it all away’ and then being asked for unreasonable amounts of ‘more’ and giving it is downright insanity.

It has to go both ways. Not every person who sells something is a ruthless slime ball so be careful because you could get fired by someone who could have ultimately been the person to help you have the best chance of success.

If you have customers in your business who are being unreasonable, who are clearly not a good match then don’t be afraid to fire them. Focusing on those people who are willing to do the work, who are more in tune with you and what you offer is where you’ll find more success and happiness for yourself and your loyal followers.

Have you ever had to fire a customer?

This topic often creates much debate between those who believe all PLR is useless and those who feel it does have its place.

I’ve seen plenty of junk content online, in fact a lot of it I suspect actually isn’t PLR but rather is content that has been spun through a program that spits out complete gibberish. I’ve bought PLR content that doesn’t read well and I imagine very likely to not be well researched either. On the other hand I’ve bought loads of great quality PLR too, some with limited distribution and some in such small markets that no one much else was using it. So from my experience I’ve come to realise that there is low quality PLR around but I can find plenty of quality PLR too when I want it.

In terms of ways to make money with PLR, for me that has been limited pretty much to websites that I build to sell. On a couple of occasions I used straight PLR but decided quickly that I’d prefer to rewrite articles that would pass Copyscape 100% rather than on-sell content that could already be indexed by Google on other websites.

I have certain sources for PLR that I stick to as I’ve come to know them as offering quality in most instances and I feel confident that the content is a good base to work from. On a couple of occasions I’ve included small PLR ebooks in some of the sites I’ve sold too so the new site owner can either sell the ebook or use it to build a list of subscribers by giving the book away via an opt-in form. (Not all PLR can be given away so always check usage rights before you do so.)

When selecting the PLR I’m going to use as research for my content I read over it quite thoroughly and make a judgment as to the quality and accuracy of it. If it’s poor quality I will often do the research myself or look for a better quality PLR pack.

I’ve purchased quality PLR from Peggy Baron in the past and recently Peggy interviewed me by phone and during that 40 minute interview we talked a little bit about the use of PLR in terms of selling websites. I discussed how I really find it difficult to write on subjects I’m not passionate about so having quality PLR as a base to give to writers I outsource to relieves me of the writing task but doesn’t cost me money in outsourcing the research component too.

When Peggy mentioned to me that she was working on a membership site that would help people learn ways to maximise PLR I asked her to let me know when it was launched so I could tell you about it. Well that day has come, Maximise PLR is live. Peggy has teamed up with a gentleman by the name of Alan Petersen to deliver nine modules of content all related to maximising PLR. (And my 40 minute phone interview is included in module 6 so you get to hear my Aussie twang! )

I’ve had the good fortune of peeking inside the Maximise PLR modules and there is loads of content, some of which I’ve had the chance to review and some I haven’t gotten to yet. Peggy and Alan have certainly jam packed in the videos, PDFs and recommended resources! As I mentioned already, there are nine modules and they are all very different. They cover ways to build a list using ‘give away events’ in module one and how to use PLR in your article marketing in module five! There is variety galore so you’re sure to find plenty of new areas to explore when it comes to PLR.

As I said, there are a lot of videos included in the Maximise PLR membership and I haven’t been able to sit down and review them all but I have watched quite a few of them and all were conducted by Alan. I don’t know Alan but what I can say is that he and Peggy both seem to be very down to earth people who are not about to try and wow you with flashy Hollywood style videos, scripted speeches or anything like that. In fact I found the videos quite difficult to sit through in that they were so lacking a script that they felt like they were much longer than they needed to be. My time is so very limited that I prefer things to move quick in very step by step fashion and I don’t want the air filled up with unnecessary words such as um, ah etc. Of course I would be just as critical (as I have been of myself!) if things were too scripted so perhaps Alan and I should mix our two extreme approaches, fully scripted versus no script, and we would have the ultimate video style.

The positive to take out of this unscripted approach is that after listening for awhile you realise that Alan is sharing what he knows, what he and Peggy have experienced at the coal face, rather than theory. They certainly do seem to both offer a ‘what you see is what you get’ style and that can be refreshing in some ways given all the Hollywood style hype we see often. I still would like to see improvements so that people can move more quickly through the videos and if they want to slow down they can simply pause.

There is a lot included and the best way for you to get a feel for whether Peggy’s and Alan’s offer meets your current needs is to have a read through the details of each module that is shared on the sales page. If you do think there are some gems in there that you can learn from, (I learned some things from the few modules I’ve reviewed so far ), then you’ll be pleased to see that I’ve managed to secure a discount for you.

Check out the Maximize PLR offer here and if you feel this is something that could really help you then take advantage of the discounted price while it’s there.

I’d love to hear about the ideas you have to make money with PLR so please leave a comment below.

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Today I finalised my link love policy! The basics of the policy are that after five approved comments your links are followed, there should be no spamming and no affiliate links or links to offensive sites. Pretty easy. You can read the comment policy here.

Commenting on blogs is a great way to network. Not only are you interacting with the blog owner but you can connect with other people who comment too. I mentioned in my last post the value of an Internet coach, and that networking is critical to your success so if you haven’t started then now is the perfect time. Go and find some blogs in your area of interest and then on  the ones that really impress you start networking! Other ways to network are via forums, memberships and courses.

If you really aren’t convinced that networking is worth your time and energy then I can only prompt you to read a recent post published by Yaro Starak. Yaro’s post covers off this subject in a lot of detail and some of his comments might surprise you. Areas covered are: You Are As Good As The People Around You, Your Peer Group Define Your Success, Role Models, Friends And Colleagues, Everywhere At Once, It’s Who You Know and Rising The Ladder Together. Out of all the amazing content in the post the part that really inspired me was on Rising The Ladder Together. Check it out: “You Are As Good As The People Around You.”

You might be aware that Yaro recently launched Membership Site Mastermind. I’d been on the lookout for a mentor to help me learn how to successfully launch and run a large membership site so am really thrilled to be working through the program now. When I invested in this course though I didn’t think of it solely as gaining a mentor on membership site mastery but also as another opportunity to network with other members in the course and especially with people in my own country.

Networking opportunities present themselves often and I know I’m always looking out for people to push forward with, people who are willing to work hard, support each other in our network and do everything we can to ethically help others and ourselves succeed.

If there is only one other thing you read today make it Yaro’s post, it really is full of gems when it comes to your success and the success of the people in your network.

I look forward to your future comments and hope you enjoy plenty of link love from my blog.

Michelle Adams

U Comment I Follow

Today I want to talk about what I consider to be one of the most critical keys to online success, in fact it’s just as critical in the offline world too!

men·tor
n.
1. A wise and trusted counselor or teacher.

Do you need a mentor? Well the definition itself gives you the ultimate clue: ‘wise teacher‘ with an emphasis on wise. A wise teacher is one that has solid knowledge in particular areas of expertise.

Now here’s where this gets interesting in relation to making money online. How many times have you heard this? “The only people making money online are the ones selling information on how to make money online! You can get it all for free anyway!”

The problem with a great deal of the ‘free’ information is that you can never be certain whether you’ve received words of wisdom or a page full of bad advice. I’ve seen many times over people who try to genuinely help others in forums but all they’re doing is sharing the ‘free’ bad advice they’ve received but just don’t know it. —edit There is plenty of bad advice for sale too! Then that person runs to some one else’s aid in another forum or on Yahoo answers or Tweets it and the bad advice circulates virally, but it’s all for free right? Well no it’s not for free, it costs you dearly! You can be so far off track and not even know it thanks to the many well intentioned unwise teachers coming to everyone’s aid.

I have seen over and over and over again a constant stream of well intentioned but nonetheless error ridden advice being handed around helping people like you set your business foundations in quicksand. It is important that you do get out and learn plenty of things via your own investigation but having a point to come back to, that place you know as ‘true North’, well that is priceless. How do I know? Because mentors have helped me achieve every major goal I’ve ever wanted to achieve in my life to date.

I’m proud of the fact that I was one of the youngest ever female Store Managers for a giant Australian retailer. How did I do it? I found myself mentors in the areas of people management, public speaking, training and chairing meetings to name a few.

How did I progress from Store Manager to a National Manager responsible for a $33 million dollar a year business? Again, I watched others who were successful before me in those roles, I networked but most importantly found two mentors who helped me find ‘true North’ and keep me on track to succeed. There were plenty of well intentioned colleagues handing out advice on how best to manage 300 staff but having my own experience and that of my mentors to check back with, well they were the most critical keys of all.

Just like mentors have helped me succeed in the off line world so they have in the online world. If you’ve read my $2000 free report you might recall towards the end I mention the name Josh Spaulding. If you already know of Josh then you might know me too from his coaching forum. Josh was one of the first mentors I employed when I decided to get serious about making money online. I interviewed Josh in my own special way by reading his blog posts, checking out some of his products and asking questions on his blog which he took the time to answer. I knew then that if he’ll answer me for free on his blog then he surely will deliver in the coaching forum, and I was right.

I guess not everyone needs a mentor to succeed but all the people I follow on and off line who are successful have strong networks and mentors within those networks. If you rely on advice from people regurgitating unwise advice then you could find yourself having to undo a heap of errors that are being built into the foundations of your business. Everyone makes mistakes, and some of the biggest mistakes we make provide us with the best lessons however you will achieve success much more quickly if you have someone like Josh to be your ‘true North’ or your ‘myth buster’ as I like to call him.

So who’s to say Josh Spaulding is wise? Well you only have to visit his blog and read through some of his posts to get an idea of just how much knowledge he has and most importantly how that knowledge converts into actual income! Believe me when I say that I don’t employ mentors lightly and when I do I am myself an expert in terms of being a goal orientated person who knows what my needs are and whether the mentor is likely to be able to lead me to success. Josh’s style won’t suit everybody but to be blunt, it mostly won’t suit those people who are probably never going to make it anyway.

If you are the type of person who wants to sit back and be bottle fed then Josh isn’t your man. Like every good coach or mentor, there is a very clear expectation that you take action and when you do you ask for direction and help and put into place the directions you’re given. I’ve seen a few people ‘know better’ than their mentors and fall on their swords. If you employ a coach that you are confident knows what they’re doing, has proven to have had success in the field then you would be wise to follow their advice to a T.

Coaching with Josh isn’t always open for new members, if there are too many members then it’s impossible to answer everyone’s questions. There are places available at the time of writing but knowing Josh, he’s likely to close the doors at a moments notice and he even hinted to the membership becoming invitation only in the future so I wanted to write this post up now to get you in whilst I still can!

If you need someone to come back to, to check you’re on track, to support you for as long as you’re willing to take action, to cut the fluff and get to the point, to impart their knowledge that has given them their success then Josh is the mentor you’ve been looking for. Does duplicate content matter? Do you need to worry about on-site SEO? Are backlinks worth it? What about non-relevant sites, do those backlinks count for anything? Should I join the War Room? Why don’t the customers click on my ads? Do I need shared or dedicated hosting? These are just a few of the questions I’ve seen posted around the Internet with unwise answers being regurgitated constantly. Don’t create a heap of errors that you’ll only have to undo, get to the facts and fast by employing a mentor who is wise!

I’d love to see you at Coaching with Josh, it’s a tight knit community where you get advice not only from Josh but others who have their very own areas of expertise too. Networking is another critical key to success that I’ll cover in a future post but for now just know it is second on my list of must haves and you will certainly be able to network with members like myself and others in the Coaching forum. Oh and of course there is this crazy deal Josh has with his membership! You post 500 times in the Coaching forum and your monthly membership is free for life! Get in now while the doors are still open! You can check it out here.

I have a few other online mentors too and in my next post I’ll be sure to talk about the most recent one I’ve employed. Until then, I look forward to meeting you at the Coaching forum and I’d love to read your comments below about who your mentors are if you have any.

Michelle Adams

Heading North!

As a follow up on my previous post regarding Frank Kern’s Infomillionaire, I thought I’d let you know what I’ve discovered although it’s probably not what you’re expecting to hear.

I guess overall the product itself is good value although it’s very basic. One good thing about basic though is that it strips away the illusion that there is mystery, tricks and complicated stuff you’ve got to do to make money online. If there’s one thing I’ve learned from Frank Kern so far it’s that he’s up front and in fact jokes often about how ‘easy’ it is to make money online but ’shhhhh, don’t tell anyone’. So if you do get the chance to grab a copy of Infomillionaire I’d say go get it, it’s worth it.

What I have to say though is that I ended up being quite disappointed with the service to get a hold of the Infomillionaire product. I ordered in December and it took quite some time to arrive and only after I followed it up myself was there any action. In the end I got billed for a monthly membership I’d canceled so I also had to follow up that and request a refund.

People like Frank Kern and the rest of the ‘gurus’, well they can get away with this type of poor service. My post here and my opinion will not likely make any dent in their massive ‘lists’ but for the every day person looking to make money online or in any business, service can really make or break you. Whether it be a review on a product, a blog post or an ebook, remember to look after your customers and they’ll remain loyal, listen to your advice and eventually buy products you recommend.

Are you spinning your wheels when it comes to your online business? Internet business success won’t come easily especially if you don’t take action. You’re probably familiar with the report I give away here about how being treated like dirt saved me $2000 overnight. Well this blog, my All Hyped Up Video and the report were all created in less than 36 hours!

Yes that’s right, 36 hours! Surprised? I was too! But no longer do I hang around trying to make every last detail perfect or get into analysis paralysis over the best keyword tools. If you have unfinished projects, lots of ideas but none of them getting anywhere or you believe you just don’t have enough time to get an IM business started then be ready to stand corrected!

I’ve written a short report that gives you an overview of how I created an Internet business model in less than 36 hours! You’ll even be able to view video tutorials about the program I used to create my All Hyped Up video.

It’s time to stop spinning your wheels and getting no where fast! Internet business success can be yours but you need to take action first! Get your copy of ‘Less Than 36 Hours!’ here.

And when you’ve taken massive action as a result of reading my report then head on back here and leave a comment below about what you’ve done, I’d love to hear about it.:)

So you might be thinking I’m about to share with you the latest, greatest, beat all your competition hands down keyword tool right? Well sort of but not really. First of all let me get this out of the way; my number one keyword tool of choice is the FREE Google keyword tool. Ok, phew, aren’t you glad you don’t have to buy anything? Aren’t you glad you can just go use it and get started right away? Well I would say yes but would you?

There are so many keyword tools on the market I’ve simply lost count. This one is free in beta, that one is paid for the ‘works’, the other is free but it doesn’t do the job, another says this number, another says the opposite number. The amount of tools available has driven what I see as a ground swell of analysis paralysis. So many people are so busy analyzing all these available tools that nothing much is getting done and when nothing much gets done then there is not much money!

And this is not just limited to keyword tools! No, there are article submitters, social bookmarking tools, wordpress plugins, best themes, best SEO, best link exchange, best affiliate program. On and on it goes. Now of course you need tools! Gosh I have an entire site dedicated to tools for blogs but what I hope to do in this post is remind you that whilst you are analysing everything to the enth degree there are plenty of people who’ve jumped in and are cutting their teeth by ‘doing‘.

Yes there are a mountain of tools that can be of use to your online efforts, I’m not saying they aren’t good or even of great value but try to keep yourself in check and get on with something rather than getting into analysis paralysis trying to be sure you don’t use the wrong tool! You have to make a decision at some point about what you invest in…there isn’t a perfect solution, and not all tools suit everybody anyway. What suits me the most is if it works and it’s free; Google has covered off my keyword tools checklist nicely and I highly recommend it. Many Internet marketers use the free Google keyword tool; remember just because something’s free doesn’t mean it’s not valuable.

Are you getting caught up in analysis paralysis?

In the recent over-hyped AC launch (I can’t bring myself to use more than the AC acronym sorry..) I stumbled across Jerry West’s blog. I was shocked to discover a particular post of his and at the same time delighted by it! Jerry has really put himself out there by speaking out about a launch that one of the high profile members of Stompernet is involved in. So in my view Jerry has guts, integrity and my following.

Check out this revealing post by Jerry and make your own mind up;  you can see one of my comments on his blog on the 29th of December. If you have a minute sign up for Jerry’s free newsletter whilst you’re there; he sends out valuable info that you can trust along with a full review of AC. “Don’t Buy The Arbi…” by Jerry West

Having pulled together my ‘All Hyped Up!’ video and placing it on YouTube I’ve realised the possibilities that YouTube offers in terms of reach. This video, which was only my second YouTube video ever, had over 120 views in its first day online. Now that might not sound like a lot to some but for me it was quite a surprise. I know I’m behind the curve on the value of video marketing, especially YouTube marketing but so are a lot  of other people. Here’s why I think YouTube will be a big part of my online money making opportunity and why you should make it part of yours too.

I know quite a large number of people who make their living online and very few are utilising video. Well if they’re anything like I was,  it could simply be that they don’t realise the potential and or don’t think they can make great videos. Since producing my ‘All Hyped Up!’ video I’ve had several people ask me to create a product that tells them how I did it. And not only how I made the video but I how linked it all back to my free report and this blog; making it an all encompassing launch so to speak.

Well if you’ve read my ‘about page’ and or my free report you will know that it all happened quite suddenly and was born out of sheer anger. Nonetheless I did give the process some thought. Those thoughts took me about two hours and then the actual production of the video, blog and report a little over a day. Is it that easy? Yes!

What are some of the methods to make money online with video marketing? Well I have a video promoting this blog which in turn promotes my optin for a free report. You’ve no doubt heard that having a list of subscribers is a way to eventually make some money online. The other method, which a friend prompted me to think seriously about, is promoting affiliate products through videos. There are endless ways to do that really. You can send the viewer to a blog or static website where you further review the product or send them directly to a sales page via your affiliate link.

There are so many other ways to use video and more specifically, YouTube marketing, to help generate traffic and online money. And to get traffic instantly like my video did is certainly why I’ll be using it regularly in the future.

I’m working on a small product launch that covers exactly how I pulled together my latest YouTube video, report and blog; so keep an eye out for that one…and don’t worry, it won’t be priced at a zillion dollars either!

Even if you’re just starting out looking for ways to make money online or are a seasoned marketer, you’ll know that without visitors to what ever it is you’re promoting the money just won’t flow. YouTube marketing is a free and easy way to get traffic. There is a little bit more to it than just putting up a video but just creating one is a good place to start, experience is your best teacher. If you want to leave a comment about what’s stopping you from using video marketing I’d love to read it.

If you’ve read my account about the day I was treated like dirt and how it saved me $2,000 then this post might have you thinking I’m a sucker for punishment! The very same friend who sent me the link to that over hyped launch sent me a link to a campaign that Frank Kern was running recently. She did acknowledge I’d been upset by internet marketing of late but insisted I check out the link. I did and boy am I glad!

Most people who are searching for online money making ideas have most likely heard of Frank Kern. I’d watched a few of his videos but stopped myself from straying to start yet another ‘thing’ online…I’m sort of sorry I didn’t. I checked out the link my friend sent me and well I was hooked, AGAIN!

There I was producing my latest video about over hyped marketing and yet I was willing to take a risk and put myself through the entire process again. All was going fine, just as that other launch did…then came the dreaded date and time that I had to be back at the page to sign up if I wanted in. I’d received several emails from friends telling me that Frank Kern was giving away a program for free, all I needed to do was get on the list and pay shipping for his products!

So I promised myself that if this launch didn’t go off at the promised time, the time I’d been told to get there or miss out, the time that I would put my life on hold to ‘get in’ on this freeby then I would have to add Frank to my ‘not so wonderful’ list. I knew Frank Kern had a good name as far as I’d heard but I was VERY skeptical that I wouldn’t again be pushed through an unreasonable amount of marketing hype. Well guess what happened?!

I sat there literally rendering ‘that’ video at the very same time that Frank’s launch was due to go live. I’m not against marketing and hype, what I’m against is taking that hype to a point where it begins to treat people with disrespect. I refreshed the screen; delay; nothing. I refreshed the screen again; delay; and then right before my very eyes was Frank telling me ALL about the free product I was about to sign up for! My heart sang, I fell in love! He followed through, he didn’t lie, he didn’t overhype and he did nothing unreasonable!

I quickly signed up for my free infomillionaire product and I await its arrival with great enthusiasm. All copies have been given out but if you head to this link you can get on the list for it if/when Frank releases more www.infomillionaire.com.

I’ll be sure to report back on what Frank sends me and how I put it to good use. What’s your opinion of Frank Kern?

Hey, thanks for visiting my blog. You’ll notice from the title of this very first post that it’s either to do with a hyped up marketing campaign or something I’ve gotten hyped up over. Well it’s definitely both!

Recently I had the unfortunate pleasure of being treated like dirt. That’s how I feel about it, others might not, but my perception is my reality and no one can really change that. So I got all hyped up about all the BS online about making money and how hard it is to find out what can really work. So I’ve written an account of what happened to me recently and how being treated like dirt saved me $2,000 overnight. You can get the report here; you really should grab it, it could save you $2,000 too plus there’s a link in there to a free report offered by an ethical marketer on how you could be making $5 a day in less than two weeks without investing much more than time and a domain name registration!

So out of that one day of being treated like dirt was a saving of $2,000 plus the launch of this blog. So here I am ready to share with anyone who cares to listen some ways to make money online minus the BS.

I hope you find some great advice here and I welcome your comments. Let me know about how you were treated like dirt and also about the ‘good guys’; those that work from an ethical marketing mindset, we need to let the world know about them too.

Here’s to your success.