I’ve been having a look at the free reports and software that Ryan Diess has been giving out this week in the build up to the launch of his Perpetual Traffic Formula. I didn’t bother downloading his Cherry Picker software as I already have the full version of market samurai which does everything and more that Cherry Picker does. I’ve read people saying that these two software programs give different results, and asking which is most accurate but seeing as you can’t get fully accurate results for this kind of thing anywhere anyway, it seems a bit pointless to worry about that.
The two reports that have come out contain a few interesting stats and some solid bits of content, but most of it wasn’t new to me and won’t be news to anyone who’s done much search engine optimization. He starts with the ‘Perpetual Traffic Report’ showing some stats on the decline of pay per click traffic and a switch back to organic traffic which was (if true) pretty interesting, I have to admit I didn’t realise that sponsered ads got such a small percentage of clicks these days although I don’t do much PPC so that’s not surprising.
Getting to the meat of the first report, he claims that a combination of content, backlinks and activity will boost your rankings but that you MUST do all three and most people just concentrate on the first two. He emphasises that if google doesn’t see activity on your site in the form of comments, feed subscriptions and changing content then they will not rank your site highly. I’m not sure whether this is true, he talks about a google algorithm shift but seeing as google never realeases information like this I am currently taking his claim with a pinch of salt. It seems his course will teach you how to use google tools like feedburner to make it look like your site has a lot of activity, although he’s making the assumption that google uses these tools in it’s website search engine rankings.
Of course, results are king in my book. I’m looking forward to seeing what he comes up with in his course next week and if implementing it shows the massive gain in traffic that he is claiming it will then he obviously knows what he’s talking about!
The second report, the authority codes, is useful if you don’t know them but they’re not really secret codes they’re just search expressions to find high PR blogs that you can comment on to get links. If you don’t know how to do this then download them by all means.
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Earlier this month I was fortunate to get invited for an inside look at Chris Freville’s latest product, Dominating Niches. As we are approaching the pre-launch in a couple of days I thought I’d tell you my thoughts on it.
Chris has been making money online for 4 or 5 years now, and in Dominating Niches he reveals exactly how he has been doing it. With the very reasonable $97 ($77 at launch) price tag, you’ll get the exact formula for locating the most profitable niches, how to infiltrate the niche and totally dominate it in only 30 days.
Anyway, I have written a more detailed review (DominatingNiches Review) where you can read more about the product and also see the bonuses I am offering to you if you join up with my link.
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For those of you who didn’t already know, I was a part of Alex Jeffreys coaching course that he started at the end of last year. I had spent the previous two years going round in circles trying to make money online, and failing every time. Joining the Alex Jeffreys coaching program was the pivotal point in realising my goals and I am now a full time internet marketer.
The good news is that Alex is about to launch his second coaching program and have no doubt, as Alex himself is still learning all the time, this will be much better than the first one.
The price tag on these coaching program always used to seem a little high for me but I can tell you now it was worth every penny and more. You NEED a mentor to succeed in this competitive business and I was lucky enough to find one who really cared about the success of all his 500 students and went above and beyond in the material that he delivered.
If I’d taken the plunge and forked out a little more cash on finding a mentor earlier in my marketing career, there’s no doubt I would have saved myself tons of money in the long run, and would have been making more money by now. So regardless of whether you decide that Alex Jeffreys coaching is the program for you I would urge you to find someone as a mentor. Alex is an enthusiastic and likeable character who I couldn’t imagine anyone not getting along with, and he will personally see to it that you succeed in this business.
The new Alex Jeffreys coaching program will again have a capped membership and the last one sold out in less than a week, as Alex has now raised his profile since this year I imagine this will sell out much quicker. If you would like advance warning and instant notification of when the course goes live then enter your name and email below.
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We’ve all heard people telling us that we’ll never make money online, it’s all a waste of time, it’ll never work and many other negative things about internet marketing.
But it does work. Some people become rich and others make nothing at all, even lose money. So what’s the difference between these people? The people who succeed know the lies in this business and do not believe them.
Here are 5 big internet business lies:
Lie #1: Starting and running a internet business is expensive.
You can actually start an internet business with very little cost. There are many high quality affiliate programs where all you have to do is concentrate on marketing. The follow up, product delivery and support are all done by the owner of the affiliate program.
Lie #2: You can make easy money on the internet.
People still have a tendancy to believe that they can make money on the internet overnight by doing hardly anything. We are constantly being bombarded with systems that have made people millions in just a few days. Which may well be true for that particular launch, but it takes months even years of work to get yourself in a position to use a system that will make you millions.
Lie #3: You must know HTML, web programming and graphic design to start your business.
You don’t need to know all of these at all. Or even any of them. There are marketing guru’s out there that don’t even have the first clue how to put up a website. The trick is in finding the right people to work with. You can outsource jobs that you can’t do yourself, or joint venture with other marketers to combine your skill sets.
Lie #4: You don’t need to know how to sell on the internet.
Many people hate selling, and these people get attracted to ads that claim ‘no selling necessary’ or even ‘this product sells itself’. Usually these products are unfeasible and run by fly-by-night marketers. Do you really think it’s possible to have a successful business by doing nothing at all? The trick is not to try to sell to people, but to educate and inform them. Show them the benefits to their life if they owned your product.
Lie #5: You don’t need to build a mailing list.
I know you’ve all heard the ‘money is in the list’ mantra. There’s a reason you’ve heard it so often though, because it’s true! But more importantly, the money is in the relationship with your list. Deliver value over and above their expectations and you’ll be well on your way to success.
The above 5 are just a few of the internet business lies out there. Remember, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
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Wow, I have been pretty busy over the last month or so.
As you may already know, I live and work in Koh Samui, Thailand. After finishing off the coaching course with Alex Jeffreys I’ve been busy putting his blueprint for a successful online business in to practice. One thing I didn’t expect to end up marketing though was iso 9001 quality manuals!
Over here in Samui you meet lots of diverse and interesting people. I love the island life, you find a real sense of community as everybody tends to know or know someone who knows everybody else. Anyway, I was chatting to a friend of mine, Tony Connor, whilst watching the saturday full premiership program down the pub and we got talking about what we used to do back in England. It turns out that Tony is an expert (guru?) in iso 9001 quality control and has been working in the industry for the last 15 years. He also mentioned that he has been thinking about writing a bunch of iso 9001 compliant manuals that he feels would be invaluable to many companies in many different industries, he just didn’t know how he could go about profiting from them.
Now this is where the light bulb went on in my head and I saw the potential to market a high quality product, carrying a fairly high ticket price in a niche that I thought we could compete in well. We continued our discussion over the next few weeks and came to a business agreement we were both happy with. The website (ISO 9001 Manual) is almost finished now, and I’m looking forward to making some sales for us both.
The rest of my time has been taken up recently on another joint venture with 3 students from the Alex Jeffreys coaching course. This month myself, Garry Parkes, JT Martin and Gary Simpson will be launching our own JV giveaway event. I’ll be releasing more details about this closer to the launch date but we will be looking for contributors fairly soon so stay tuned.
Exciting times!
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