Remember when everyone was building “portal” sites for quick and easy Adsense income? Contextual advertising was the “in” thing with newbie and experienced internet marketers alike. This was before John Reese made the term “virtual real estate” popular and you had folks like Armand Morin charging $2000 for a “make money with Adsense” seminar series and Ken Giddens with a $500+/mo. private membership site focused mainly on the Adsense gold rush.
So what happened? And why do I give a shit?
Well… it’s really an easy explanation but indulge me if I take a bit to get there…
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This has to be one of the most entertaining pieces of content I’ve read in a long time.
Lisa Barone’s six steps to “surviving” the recession are great and a little Oprah and Ashton Kucher bashing is never a bad thing.
Another TREND I am seeing (and doing) – use your twitter profile as your website name.
Beyond all the “branding” stuff it makes a nice aggregation point if you’re in a market and want to drive traffic to where you communicate with people.
Read Lisa’s post “It’s Not The Recession, You Just Suck”.
Goodness all around. Even if you suck.
Content Is King right? I mean how many times have you heard some wanna-be marketer tell you this in the lastest hot information product about how they made $2,679 in bed without pajamas? In fact, we hear this SO MUCH we just assume it’s true.
Remember what Tony Randall (or was it Jack Klugman) said about ‘assume’? When you assume you make an ‘ass’ out of ‘u’ and ‘me.’
If I lost you with that one I’ll cut to the chase. Content is important. It serves a purpose — selling, preselling, or otherwise getting a click. Now, if you’re branding yourself or your company then content serves the “branding” purpose as well. But branding is not direct marketing and it’s not the focus of this post. read more…
Come on… tell me you don’t see it.
Before you hit the back button here me out…
Hey, I wasn’t trying to offend you in any way. Seriously. But my point is true – more than 80% of you won’t “make it”. You’ll fail to reach your goals online.
So here’s what I want to do about this…
Over the next week I am going to give you three things:
1. A new set of reports on building a internet BUSINESS
2. Some great videos from my friend Ryan Deiss on the power of continuity
3. The chance to partner get in with Ryan and partner with him
You’ll be getting posts and emails from me to read the reports as they become available but for now
START HERE –> http://0toCash.com/go/cb1
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A few years ago a guy who goes by the name of “X” released the Adwords Black Book – a $197 ebook. A lot of people laughed at the idea of selling an ebook for 200 bucks but X proved them wrong. The product did great and spawned other offers, videos, and general guru-dom.
John (his real name) is a good marketer. Really good.
I actually once signed up to work for him just to get some “inside” knowledge of what makes his brain tick.
Copies of Adwords Black Book are hard to find right now but John is just starting a launch – Affiliate Black Book – that should get you up to speed really fast. He could have called it version 2.0 but instead took the text in an entirely different direction and focused more on the psychology of affiliate marketing and what you need to really succeed in this business and not get sucked dry by competitors and merchants.
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It all started innocently enough… i was reading Aaron Greenspan’s post on HuffingtonPost.com where he talks about how he sued Google and won. It was a fun, feel good post about a little guy (ok, he’s a corporate CEO but it’s a small company) taking on an evil corporate monopoly and winning.
At the bottom of the page was a medium box Adwords ad about stay at home mom Marla and how she was able to $3500 from home with a simple 2 step plan.
Now if that’s not compelling I don’t know what is so I clicked the ad… Hey, I figured my wife was doing so well on her Acai + ColonCleanse regimen if we could strike gold a second time we’d be able to fund our own stimulus package.
Along the way this led me straight to Redmond and if you want to know more…
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Automation.
The writing is one the wall. The shit has hit the fan.
Why? It’s the economy stupid.
Actually, I have no idea if it really is the economy or just the internet marketing version of peaks and valleys but there is little doubt that we’re seeing an uptick in IM products that promise mass automation and profits will little investment and effort. Whether it’s direct linking with Google Shadow or mass (outsourced) site building with The Minisite Formula the trend is AWAY from content writing and toward content generation.
If you’re a wanna-be guru, jump on the train while the going’s good.
The Minisite Formula - Adsense sites without the Adsense?
This has to be the most BALLSEY upsell I’ve seen online for a internet marketing product. The base product is $97 and the upsell is $1900!
Now, let’s face it – SOME people will take the offer. Even if the main product is about building automated minisites and outsourcing the process so you can scale.
Some people WILL BUY this.
And that is a lesson for all of us.
You have to see this –> http://0toCash.com/go/minisiteformula.
Scan the page. The basic offer is a good one so give the salespage a look. Then click on the greyed out button above the Belcher button.
Here’s an email I got from Harlan Kilstein this morning. There’s so much going on here it’s probably worth it’s own report but I wanted to share this with you right away since you may not be on Harlan’s list.
Well, if you’re not – fix that.
Head over to http://SixFigureCopy.com and subscribe.
While you’re at it, follow @drkilstein on Twitter. Harlan always has some fun and direct things to say. read more…
