Pardon my french. But you really need to read this email Peter just sent out to his list. There are three things I want you to get from it:
- the email structure itself. It’s a GREAT presell and attention getter.
- you HAVE to watch the Vishen presentation that Yanik put up. That’s the first link Peter gives you.
- TAKE SOME ACTION and look at the posts and structure of Vishen’s site. That’s the second link.
Really look at the posts in Google Reader. DECONSTRUCT his business.
Seriously. This is one of the most powerful videos and exercises you can do. Full stop.
Hey – it’s Peter,
When I wrote Nanobloggers last year, I did it with the intent to help create better personal businesses for people. The model obviously works, I’m living proof of that and so are the many people who REALLY put NB to work.
The NB concept is easy – but it requires work. Every solid, long term business requires work. I don’t deal in one-hit-wonders and neither should you.
I find it quite amusing to see that some NB buyers have pimped out Facebook profiles where they yap all effin’ day long with their 2,000 or more “friends” …
but when I visit the Nanoblog they build 5 months ago, I see nothing but virtual tumbleweeds and hear nothing but the sound of crickets.When I ask them why that is – they say that they didn’t “get” Nanobloggers, that it’s too difficult for them.
NOTE: Click on the link below to keep reading. I have some killer commentary that’ll help your business apply this very notion after Peter’s email finishes up.
Listen, Einstein … has it occurred to you that “Facebooking” and Nanoblogging are VERY similar? Just saying!
Do me a favor – go read up on the original NB manual again. Go read up on the oodles of mile-long posts I put up in the forum. Maybe this time a lightbulb will go off in your head. Maybe this time you’ll notice the difference between traditional “internet marketing” and the Nanobloggers concept.
Had to get that off my chest – onwards…
Here’s a guy that totally gets the concept I desperately tried to bring to y’all with Nanobloggers. He gets it to the tune of a cool mil in a year (like one of the guys in my Golden Six group).
Now – he is not explicitly talking about Nanobloggers but the concept is exactly the same. (he even uses the “fake” persona – grin).
The video is 28 minutes long and there’s nothing to buy – just listen to his story. THAT is what NB is all about!
Here’s the video -
http://lin.sh/VLY (no affiliate link)After you’re done watching the video, check out the blog he is referring to in the video -
http://lin.sh/VRV (no affiliate link)Now do this – grab the feed URL of that blog and plop it into Google Reader. When the feed loads, scroll down and you’ll see that the message says (loading more items…). Keep scrolling down until the total feed items show up. I’ll tell you how much there are — 200 posts … that’s it!
200 posts and a cool mil in his pocket. Got that?
Hopefully you heard what Vishen said in the video – he took other people’s posts, added a bit of value and politely linked back to the original author. Sound familiar? It should!
He is merely curating other people’s work and “fattens” up the content with his own stuff. Brilliant! I told you guys this 6 months ago. Remember?
Did you notice what “Michael” is doing on that blog? He’s taking names, baby! He has built a big, fat list of over 70K people.
I call that leverage – no no no, I call that genius!
THAT is how you build a business – you don’t build a business by pimping Russian brides CPA offers on Plenty of Fish! I hope I made my point clear to you and, if I haven’t, scroll all the way down now and unsubscribe because I will keep repeating this same stuff to you over and over again.
I’m persistent like that
Another guy who immediately snapped up the importance of NB was John “X” Barker. He actually bought NB the day it came out and he told me a couple of times that it changed his view on business. To be totally honest – it didn’t happen at first, I had to nudge him a little bit.
When John said he wanted to run a couple of webinars for his peeps who bought NB through his link, I immediately jumped on board and said I wanted to be on those webinars to help and offer more insight.
The result was .. well .. kinda unexpected.
Of all the Nanoblogger webinars – I missed one. I think there are 5 or 6 total. The ones where I’m on – we kept going for around an hour to an hour and a half each. Nothing was sold on there, it was all about NB “insights” and conceptual strategies.
At the end of the webinar series John said to me: “I learned a lot…”
For a hard core marketer like X to learn a lot, that must mean I delivered quite a bit of goodness.
It’s about how I use Nanobloggers. If you’ve ever listened to my, now notorious, BTS audios with Keith Baxter – well, the ones with X are similar but have much more “meat”.
Remember that we offered the bonuses from the other affiliates to y’all for free? They were good but not great. John’s webinars are not great, they are flippin’ killer!
Today – John (finally) allowed me to tell you about the webinars. He put them up on his blog and you can get them for $50.
http://lin.sh/NBX (affiliate link)
That link takes you to roughly 7 hours of conceptual Nanobloggers insights. No frills, no fluff. Good stuff that can easily help you build a business like Vishen talked about earlier in the video.
What do you want to do? Build that long term business or do you still prefer to advertise Russian bride CPA offers on Plenty of Fish? Which one seems more viable to you?
If the first, go here -
http://lin.sh/NBXIf the latter, unsubscribe below – there are LOTS of other lists available that cater to your needs. Go join those instead.
Respect,
Peter
PS: Later this week, you’ll receive another email from me that highlights a nifty, little, kick-butt tool. Using this in combo with NB is dyn-O-mite. Watch out for a message from me in a few days.
One of the take away lessons you HAVE to get here is that Vishen’s whole model here is about lead capture. There’s NO SELLING going on in the blog. It is purely a lead capture and engagement device.
Go through the blog posts. Most of them are just “newsmastered” — an introductory paragraph or two and then an article or story (with full credit given) from somewhere else. Vishen calls this a “Roger Ebert” type of site. Whether you think of this as a variation of Nanoblogging, Goobert, Affiliate Piloting, Newsmastering, yada yada DOES NOT MATTER. This is very powerful and this is a real business here.
What I love about this is how clean it is. It’s a long term view – build a list (asset) and sell through that asset. So it’s a softened direct response model – the optin box is in the upper right and not “shouting” at anyone like a typical sticky post or presell include with WhatWouldSethGodinDo?
Now, I know full well that action messages and presell stickies shouldn’t scream at visitors. But too many of the ones I see do. And then people wonder why their bounce rate is 99.999%.
Shit you can take this model, do lead capture and then go over to LeadPile and make some bank selling them direct. (affiliate link)