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Joint Venture with Rich Schefren, Jay Abraham and The League of Extraordinary Minds

Valeriu Popescu — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:39:05 +0000

If you’re like most other entrepreneurs, you’ve seen definite downturn in your business over the past year or so. Profits are under whelming… sales goals are far from being reached… and the outlook doesn’t look to get any better soon.

So what’s the answer? How are you going to reclaim your business? And who’s going to help you? Well, I’ll admit – I don’t know of one particular business and marketing expert that has all the answers…

I know FIFTY FOUR.

And they’re all in one place ready to share their most results-certain strategies for getting any business (and every business), large or small, back on track again fast!

And the best part? It’s all FREE!

With the League of Extraordinary Minds, you’ll join famous marketing legends Jay Abraham and Rich Schefren for six full weeks of expert interview sessions featuring 54 of the greatest business minds on the planet.

The League of Extraordinary Minds features the most influential, most respected, and most recognized business advisors in the world joining forces to launch a monumental business initiative.

This program will help every business owner, start-up, Netpreneur or aspirant on your list become MORE successful, with access to the biggest group of world-class business experts, mega-bestselling authors and famous icons that has ever assembled.

There’s no selling and no pitching whatsoever. It’s simply the most powerful business-building content you’ll ever hear, all focused on helping you and your business get back in the black.

It’s true – this unprecedented gathering of business minds will dispense their highly-concentrated expertise on how to catapult a struggling or under performing business to prosperity in today’s volatile market (using very little or even no extra capital, time or risk).

How does that sound?

I can absolutely assure you that their ideas, recommendations and brilliant advice will be unlike anything you’ve ever heard, read, studied or experienced before.

Because these aren’t fly-by-night “experts” that pop up one day and disappear the next. They’re real, world-class experts whose clients gladly pay up to $250,000 per day (each!) to tap their inventive original, authoritative minds.

And when Jay and Rich asked them to open up the floodgates of their genius for those entrepreneurs who are struggling, they not only eagerly agreed… but they said they’d do it for NOTHING!

But there is also a GREAT opportunity here that doesn’t come around pretty often!

You can actually became a Joint Venture Partner! As a partner, this is the opportunity that you’ve been waiting for a long time! Just look at what you’ll receive…

- Residual Monthly Income For Years To Come… You Do The Work Once And Get Paid Forever…

- A Viral Process That Multiplies Your Prospects And Income – So You Make More While Doing Less…

- Boosted Credibility By Associating With Unrivaled Experts Never Available Before In Any Promotion…

- Over $250,000 of (never seen before) Affiliate Prizes Certain To Grow Your Business – For Partners At Every Level…

- Profit From Each And Every One Of The 24 Touch Points So You Keep Making Money Even After The Program Has Begun.

And much more!

As you can see, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. However, time is of the essence. The pre-launch already starts on Thursday, October 15th… but it isn’t too late for you!

So to take advantage of this amazing opportunity and become a Joint Venture Partner with Rich Schefren, Jay Abraham and The League of Extraordinary Minds!

Valeriu

P.S. Here are some names you partner with: Jay Conrad Levinson, Stephen Covey, Michael Gerber, Brian Tracy, Jack Trout, Robert Cialdini, Tony Robbins, Michael Masterson, Barry Schwartz, John Kotter, and more!

P.P.S. Make no mistake about it – this six week, no cost series of full length interview panels promises to reveal insights, correlations, and the shifting purchasing motivations of the marketplace like nothing you’ve ever seen before.

The experts will help you identify key trends (and marketplace methods) you need to start focusing on, as well as wildly profitable breakthrough thinking that’s never before shared publicly, anywhere else.

But remember – it’s costs nothing to get inside, which means there’s literally hundreds of thousands of people who will rush to get inside.

Make sure you’re one of them by registering NOW!

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Affiliate Sites That Makes Money – You Gotta See This!

Valeriu Popescu — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 12:42:12 +0000

Something pretty INCREDIBLE is going on with the latest Affiliate Classroom 2.0 launch.

While launch day isn’t until next Tuesday, August 11th at 12pm est – people cannot wait!

They had reached their goal of raising $20,393 for charity but have just decided to increase their goal to $30,000 for educating children in need!

How Can You Help?

You can help them reach their goal by getting your Free Report and Episodes and they will donate $1 in your name. Just go here – no catch!

They have already released Episode 1 and 2 of their free Case Study and it has received 564+ comments on the blog!

These case studies show you how to maximize the value of your site and even create a steady revenue stream with just some simple tweaks!

Don’t make the mistake of leaving money behind that your site could be earning you…

You honestly have nothing to lose! You don’t have to enter any credit card info or anything and here is what you get:

- Case Study Episode 1 on the “Opt-In Wizard” Makeover!

- Case Study Episode 2 on the “Easy Blogging” Makeover!

- Case Study Episode 3 on the “Sneaky Review” Makeover!

- Templates & Traffic Magnet Report – FREE!

- 1 HOUR “POWER” WEBINAR with their Makeover Students!

The webinar already has 2,213+ people signed up and I don’t know when they will be capping it off – but it will be soon and I want you to be in there!

I can’t wait to check out the rest of the Episodes!

See you inside Affiliate Classroom 2.

Valeriu

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How To Become A Joint Venture Master In Niche Markets Even When You’re Broke

Valeriu Popescu — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 16:54:23 +0000

Over the past years, website hosting has grown bigger than it used to be. With more companies getting into this business and finding the many benefits it can give them, the demand for website hosting has never been higher.

These seem to be the trend of today. And to think, majority of those sites will be offering different affiliate programs for people to choose and participate into.

This only means one thing. It is easier now to find the right website host for your application. The possibility of quality web hosting companies separating themselves from the rest of the industry is anticipated. If this is done, the unprofessional and incompetent ones will suffer (trust me, I know a few “dudes”! They suck my brain for the last two days… but I don’t want to give names).

Support will be the number one consideration for people when choosing a website host. It will be obvious that traditional advertising will become less and less effective. Most people would rather opt for the website host based on things that they see and hear. Also based on the recommendations by those who have tried them and have proved to be a successful.

Speaking about customer support, here’s an email I receive this morning just when I was writing this article:

**********

Dear Valeriu,

In May of 2007 you placed a ticket with SiteName.com about
affiliate payments due to you. We recently found your ticket and
realized that we never completed this.

We audited your affiliate account and found that we owe you $xxx
for payments that were made to your Paypal account before it was
created, that were subsequently returned.

We have just made a payment to your Paypal account YYY for $xxx.

Let us know if you have any further questions on this.

[First Name Customer Support]
SiteName.com

P.S. If you have additional comments/questions about this issue,
please don’t hesitate to reply to this ticket which will reopen
it. If you have another issue you would like to talk to us about,
please open a new ticket.

**********

Can you believe THIS??! It was more than two years ago… they found my email… and send me the money. To be totally honest, I completely forgot about this issue. Now this is what I call a superb company with EXCELLENT customers service. I give them 10 out of 10!

So always remember that when choosing a website host, choose the one that is known for its fantastic customer support. But don’t limit ONLY to this. Check my Everything You’ve Been Taught About Web Site Hosting Is All Dead Wrong — The Shocking Truth Is Finally Revealed! report and you’ll discover 14 critical elements of a reliable hosting service.

This business is a great opportunity for website hosting affiliates and resellers alike. There are hundreds of website hosting and programs to choose from that the difficulty in finding the right one for them is not a problem anymore.

How does one become a successful joint venture marketer in the niche markets using website hosting?

If you think about it, everyone who needs a website needs a web hosting company to host it for them. As of now, there is really no leading hosting industry so most people choose hosts based from recommendations. Usually, they get it from the ones that have already availed of a website hosting services.

With the many hosts offering affiliate programs, there is the tendency to find the one which you think will work best for you. Think of the product you will be promoting. Pattern them to the site and see if they are catering to the same things as you are.

When you have been with one host for quite some time and seem not to be making much despite all your effort, leave that one and look for another. There is no use in trying to stick to one when you would be before off in another one. Things will only have to get better from there because you already have been in worst situations.

As competition is getting a bit bigger, you may need some ways to distinguish yourself from the rest of the online marketers. For the major reason that many of your competitors including you are promoting the exact same program, in the exact same zone or on the exact same websites perhaps.

Now here are some tips that you may consider in order for you to stay in this business and have the chance to outwit and outplay other competitors of yours.

The first thing is for you to have your own website. It is very essential for you to have your own website in considering JV marketing on website hosting. Secondly, potential customers primarily go to websites in order for them to search and sometimes purchase items they were looking for.

For the same reason that it is much easier to remember than a certain URL that you may be using and you can just point to your visitors the JV page in your website. Besides, having your own website nowadays is very cheap.

Another thing to remember is to have your own promo ads. A lot of times online marketers have published the same ad made by advertisers (hosting companies). In this case, you may email company asking to allow you make your own ads.

This way people may not become “immune” to ads, because sometimes seeing the same ads over and over again may just make your potential customers to just skip it all together. Besides, your primarily purpose is to attract or encourage people to click and read your ads and be curios enough to click through your website.

Step three, have some products of your own which are only available through your website. For example, you can have a special report about the good and bad things on website hosting.

Once you have your website going, it is very important to have some products/services that your customers can’t find with other affiliate’s site. You want your customers to keep coming to your site and the best way to do that is to have something on your site that they can’t find on others.

Being a hosting JV marketer, you must then choose a certain market segment where you can have a potential leadership or at least a strong challenger role!

The fourth step is to build a strong relationship with people who already buy your product/service. Now, in order for you as a joint venture marketer to fully answer the query of your potential customers, it is best to try and buy the hosting package you recommend for yourself. With this particular action you can better sell the hosting that you are trying to market.

You can share to your potential customers what a great experience you had with the hosting company, and this can make them interested enough to buy the package. You may also be able to provide a support if necessary or you may provide a confident tutorial or steps on how to use the hosting that you are trying to market based on your personal experience.

Entailing this idea is to be totally honest about the package that you are trying to market. If you find out that the hosting program you were promoting is a scam, stop promoting it and inform your readers about it. This will help you build credibility with your lists! We all make mistakes and admitting your mistake will boost your reader’s confidence in you.

A fair warning: don’t try to market everything you see. With so many offers on the market, it is easy to become overwhelmed and try to market everything, to everyone, on the same place (your website). That is not a good idea. It’s better to focus on one market, with “hungry” buyers and market a webhosting product that they would want. After all, that’s why we call it niche marketing.

Lastly, try this out. If you are quite happy and satisfied with your website host, try to see if they are offering an affiliate program you can participate on. Instead of you paying them, why not make it the other way around: let them paying you!

The process can be as easy as putting a small “Powered by” or “Hosted by” link at the bottom of your page and you are already in an affiliate business. Why choose paying for your for your website hosting when you do not have to? Try to get paid by letting people know you like your website host.

There are many hosting affiliate programs on the Net. Some are offering you a residual affiliate program. This is the program wherein you get paid a percentage every month for a customer that you refer. This can allow you to have a steady monthly source of income. With perseverance, you can even be quite successful in this field.

Want to know more ways to set apart from the crowd?

Consider offering coupons!

As customers, we’re more likely to return and do business with people who give us freebies (or coupons) and we’re more likely to tell other people about our positive experience.

The Law of Reciprocity states that “If you give someone something or do something for them – they will want to repay you, to give you something back“.

Why don’t you think of some little unexpected coupons you can offer your customers that’ll encourage them to accept your hosting offer and also tell others about their positive experience? And while we’re at it – why not try the same thing with members of your staff (if you have)?

A few hosting companies gives you coupon codes that entitled new customers to reduce prices for hosting. Why not offer an extra $20 if they buy from you? Let’s face it, if they will buy and the hosting is great, they will remain clients for many years.

Search customers offline!

Most of the internet marketers seem to think of website promotion as just submitting to search engines, directories, link building and advertising in ezines or banner exchanges.

It is a known fact that most people in the world use most of their time offline. They read newspapers, magazines, listen to radio and watch TV, talk with their friends, neighbors and family. Not all the time is spent surfing on the Internet. To ignore the value of offline marketing is to leave 65-70% of the money to be made from your websites on the table.

I am sure you can think of many ways to use offline marketing, other than sticking notes on lamp-posts to create an awareness of your hosting offer. Think about: your competitors are missing out on something… always! Dig around until you discover what it is, and get a corner on that market niche.

You can check out offline venues for free advertisement like local newspapers, television stations, radio stations and the like. Often times these mediums are looking for new local businesses to highlight in their business sections and/or discussions. This is free advertisement and something you should take advantage of immediately.

Use Web 2.0 social marketing strategies!

According to Courtney Holt, head of new media and strategic marketing at Interscope Records, “This generation is growing up without having ever watched programmed media. They don’t think in terms of the album, and they don’t think in terms of a TV schedule. They think in terms of TiVo, P2P, AOL, and of course MySpace“.

Let’s see how your business could grow… you create an account on multiple social networks and start to talk about your product/service or hosting offer. You blog about it and search for others that may share your interests.

You then invite them to be your friend. When they become a friend you start your “soft sell” pitching your offer to them. As they grow to appreciate it, they start blogging and sharing it. If done correctly, soon hundreds or even thousand of people are talking about you.

Don’t think this will work? Let me give you an extreme example. There are many bands who have gotten their start on MySpace. Simply by hosting some of their music online and blogging about themselves they developed a following. Soon they had record deals and contracts lined up.

Of course to use services like MySpace you need to come up with something this target market needs. If you don’t, then you probably shouldn’t put too much effort into MySpace. But that doesn’t mean other social networking opportunities should be overlooked. LinkedIn is more of a professional introduction service. If your product or service fits here then by all means explore it further.

And there are others as well. Services such as Yahoo!s MyWeb, Flickr, Facebook, Delicious, Technorati, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and more… ALL can give your business a boost!

So if you’ve ever wondered what other online opportunities could be out there, consider social marketing.

It is the greatest online marketing channel of the moment.

But if you feel uncertain about social marketing, help is at hand. My book called “Web 2.0 Joint Venture Secrets EXPOSED” includes hundreds of practical, nitty-gritty tips, tricks and techniques.

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* How to start your joint venture business right now
* The biggest and most profitable JV opportunities
* Write an email proposal that get read and responded to
* How to write a kick-butt social networking profile
* How social networking websites works and helps you
* Where and when to use a social bookmarking strategy
* Start a community website within minutes with only $100
* Dominating ANY market using promotional videos
* Expanding your business using gadget marketing
* How to combine different marketing channels
* Market your JV deal using offline methods
* List of thousands of resources you could use
* How to spend less than 20 minutes a day running your business
* Sources of FREE or dirty-cheap advertising and website traffic

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Conclusion

There are a lot of niche markets out there just waiting for the right JV marketer to penetrate to them and make that dollars dream come true. Knowing which one to get into is being confident enough of your potentials and the good results you will be getting.

Website hosting is just one part of the market you could try out and make some good and continuous income. Just remember that to be successful on your endeavor also means that time, effort and patience is needed.

Good luck to you in your new venture!

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Make Money Online Using The Instant Profits Toolkit

Valeriu Popescu — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 13:41:20 +0000

The worst thing about struggling to make money online is thinking there’s nothing you can do about it. That’s completely wrong!

Have you ever wished that someone would sit down and explain the entire online marketing game to you, from top to the bottom? The fact is when selling online most folks approach marketing backwards and fail miserably.

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Strategies for Successful Joint Ventures

Valeriu Popescu — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:27:44 +0000

This article is written by Michael Masterson and MaryEllen Tribby. Thank you my friends for allowing me to publish this great article.

When we began publishing Early to Rise online in December of 1999, we didn’t have an e-mail list… we didn’t have products… we didn’t have much in the way of internal resources or a budget… and we weren’t even sure what our target market was.

Now, nine years later, we have figured all of that out… and much more.

Along the way, one of the best and most profitable marketing techniques we’ve employed has been joint ventures (JVs).

Joint ventures may be the best way to stimulate growth when, for whatever reason, you have limited resources and skills that you are willing to devote to a particular channel of marketing. Joint venture marketing deals should be a part of the thinking of every executive who wants fast, impressive growth.

Agora Inc. – ETR’s parent company – skyrocketed its growth by combining direct marketing on the Internet with multi-channel marketing. That happened in the late 1990s. But it wasn’t the first time Agora dabbled in multi-channel marketing.

Way back in the early 1980s, when the company was just starting out, it achieved fast growth by combining direct-mail advertising with joint venture marketing.

From about 1980 to 1995, for example, Agora grew its investment newsletter business from $1 million to $60 million, primarily through joint venture marketing deals. The proposition was pretty simple.

Agora was very good at direct-mail marketing (, but its employees had very little investment expertise. Rather than attempt to develop financial gurus in-house, Agora went out into the media marketplace and found investment writers who had newsletters with a small number of subscribers.

Agora’s proposal to them was as follows: They would form a joint venture, with both sides as 50 percent partners. The partner would continue to own his subscribers and his editorial product, and would continue to have all the fulfillment obligations. The partner would hire Agora to act as his newsletter’s marketing agent. Agora would take all the risk with the marketing efforts and keep the revenue stream. The partner would get the new subscribers risk free. In turn, the partner had to ensure that the deal worked for Agora, as well.

For a financial writer with limited marketing resources, it was a no-risk, all-reward proposition — an impossible deal to refuse. For Agora, it was an efficient way to attract first-rate writing talent — some with established reputations and great track records. If Agora’s marketing worked, both partners would be very happy. If it failed to work, the joint venture could be dissolved, and both partners would then be free to go back to what they were doing before.

Agora used this joint venture strategy to develop more than a dozen newsletter franchises during the first 15 years of its existence. In that time, it saw revenues climb from $1 million to more than $60 million.

“I don’t think we could have grown that much so quickly without these partnerships,” Bill Bonner, Agora’s founder, said.

They allowed us to market some of the best people in the investment advisory business then, which gave us an advantage our competitors lacked. As our company grew, we developed in-house editorial expertise. Most of our writers nowadays are employees or freelancers under contract. So we don’t use that kind of joint venture deal anymore. But we do employ joint venture agreements on the Internet marketing side — and these are proving very valuable in terms of growth.”

In 2001, Katie Yeakle, president of American Writers and Artists Inc. (AWAI), decided she wanted to sell her products in Germany. One option was to set up a branch office in Bonn and hire a local manager who would then hire translators and find service bureaus to publish AWAI’s products in that country. The other option was to locate a German publisher who was already marketing to the kind of customers AWAI favored and make a joint venture deal.

She chose the latter option. AWAI entered a joint venture with Germany’s largest direct-response publisher. Because the publisher already had an existing operation, they were able to take on the new project without adding extra personnel or office space. Costs were thus reduced. And profits were increased dramatically, because the publishing company was able to market to its own list of buyers. Perhaps most important, AWAI and its German partner could combine their skills and knowledge to take full advantage of the German market quickly, thus avoiding any concern that another enterprising business would fill the gap.

To make matters simple, the contract established AWAI as owner of its product line, established the publisher as the line’s sole marketer in German and Germany, and stipulated a fixed royalty (a percentage of the sales) for AWAI.

Had Katie decided to make a go of the German operation herself, AWAI might have made more money, since it would have kept 100 percent of the profits. But it would surely have taken many years and would have had a greater chance of failure. By going with a joint venture, the German business was up and running in less than a year, and was very profitable in less than two years.

Joint Ventures Are Perfect for Start-Ups and Small Businesses

Many small-business owners don’t like joint ventures. They don’t like the idea of splitting revenues. They like selling their own products because they get to keep 100 percent of the revenues.

This sort of thinking simply misses the mark. When a joint venture is executed properly, it doesn’t subtract from a business, it adds to it.

There are many ways to do joint ventures. But for a growing small business, the most lucrative type of joint venture usually involves at least two of three key elements: a product, a promotion, and a market.

Yanik Silver, an Internet marketing specialist who regularly writes for Early to Rise, says that joint ventures have been “very, very good” to him. He suggests that small businesses should consider not only JV deals but also all the ways there are of selling products and making money that they aren’t already doing:

* Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising
* Direct mail
* Direct e-mail
* Print advertising
* Website advertising
* Telemarketing
* Search engine optimization (SEO)

One of the best ways to expand your marketing base is by adding on new marketing channels… and one of the fastest and most efficient ways of doing that is to form joint ventures with colleagues and competitors who have expertise that you lack.

Yanik talks about one information marketer who entered a joint venture with a telemarketer. He paid the telemarketer a large percentage of sales for events and other high-end products he was producing. This joint venture brought in millions of dollars in extra revenue, Yanik says. And it did so without “the headache of babysitting and training a bunch of telemarketers.”

Instead of hiring employees and running a mail shop himself, Yanik gets all his direct-mail marketing done on a joint venture basis. “My partner does all the little things necessary to get a direct-mail piece out,” he explains. “He’s also a good copywriter, so he writes envelope teasers, lift notes, and so on, too. I pay him based on the results of each mailing. We are both in it together. If I do well, so does he.”

One of the key secrets to joint ventures, Yanik says, is not to be greedy. “I give all my partners a fair percentage of the sales they help me make. It has to be significant. I want them to be happy.”

He also recommends getting the joint venture agreement in writing, “even if you are best friends with your partner. Memories fail, but a simple written agreement (which could be nothing more than an e-mail outlining key points) will clarify any discrepancies or misunderstandings that might crop up in the future.”

Strategies for Successful Joint Ventures

Joint venture marketing relationships can be extremely valuable. Every ambitious entrepreneur and marketing director should be open to them. Making them work, however, does take time and consume resources. And because you don’t have unlimited time and resources, it makes sense to be strategic in selecting your joint venture partners.

• Make sure that your contribution to the deal is equal to your partner’s. An unbalanced partnership is not good for either party.

• Avoid partners you don’t trust.

• If possible, limit the scope of the venture in the beginning and extend it as trust increases.

• Make agreements simple, but put them in writing.

• To avoid costly misunderstandings after the venture has begun, identify the value of each partner’s contributions at the outset. These should include skills, intellectual resources, marketing resources, capital, and so on.

• In determining the value of those contributions, remember that fairness is not an exact number, but a range. Try to be flexible – and favor partners who demonstrate the same flexibility.

• Establish clear protocols at the beginning for amending or unwinding the relationship if it fails to meet expectations.

• Goodwill is essential for success. Goodwill means that you want your partner to benefit from the relationship as much as you do.

The idea is to develop joint venture relationships that are easy to maintain, financially profitable, intellectually rewarding, and long-lasting. After a necessary period of negotiation and implementation, you want the relationship to grow well and quickly and painlessly.

If you pick a weak or untrustworthy partner, the joint venture will eventually fail. If your partner sees you as weak or untrustworthy, the venture will also fail. If, on the other hand, you develop a reputation for being a good, trustworthy partner, good people will come to you and be happy with the terms you suggest.

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Follow More Internet Marketers on Twitter

Valeriu Popescu — Thu, 14 May 2009 15:15:00 +0000

After my previous article, I receive a lot of requests to continue finding more internet marketers that uses Twitter.

OK, vox populi…

I compile a new and final (!) list below. And DON’T trust people who claims that Twitter is DEAD! As a matter of fact, Twitter is stronger than ever.

Enjoy reading…

http://twitter.com/jeffjohnsonseo (Jeff Johnson) – welcome buddy to Twitter!

http://twitter.com/JoeJablonski (Filsame’s Affiliate Manager)

http://twitter.com/nicheprof (Dr. Ron Capps) – sorry, but never understood WHY people add “Dr.” to their name!?

http://twitter.com/samstephens (DLGuard developer) – hey mate, follow me!!

http://twitter.com/simongrabowski (GetResponse owner)

http://twitter.com/kenevoy (welcome to the “T-club”!)

http://twitter.com/gauher (Gauher Chaudhry)

http://twitter.com/mariaandros

http://twitter.com/stephen_pierce (great to see you here!)

http://twitter.com/dannysullivan

http://twitter.com/JonathanGunson (Traffic Cafe Internet TV Channel – nice job!)

http://twitter.com/NotGodinREPOSTs (Seth Godin)

http://twitter.com/craigperrine

http://twitter.com/rickbutts

http://twitter.com/StephenRCovey

http://twitter.com/MarkVHansen (Mark Victor Hansen)

http://twitter.com/rockethelstrom

http://twitter.com/WarrenWhitlock

http://twitter.com/MikeKoenigs

http://twitter.com/kevinrose

http://twitter.com/garyvee (the wine guy – cheers!)

http://twitter.com/Scobleizer (Robert Scoble)

http://twitter.com/tonyrobbins

http://twitter.com/TechCrunch (Michael Arrington)

http://twitter.com/barefoot_exec (Carrie Wilkerson)

http://twitter.com/MariSmith

http://twitter.com/mrfire (Joe Vitale)

http://twitter.com/vishen (Vishen Lakhiani – 1/2 of the MindValley “Shining Stars”)

http://twitter.com/jasonmoffatt

http://twitter.com/harrisfellman

http://twitter.com/rossgoldberg

http://twitter.com/timkerber

http://twitter.com/BillHibbler

http://twitter.com/PerryMarshall (yeap, the Adwords guru)

http://twitter.com/tombeal

http://twitter.com/simonleung

http://twitter.com/kevinrose

http://twitter.com/perrybelcher (thanks for the order button!)

http://twitter.com/jim_turner

http://twitter.com/JPolish (Joe Polish)

http://twitter.com/ezSEONews (Dr. Andy Williams – another Doc!)

http://twitter.com/quityourdayjob (Jeremy Palmer)

http://twitter.com/leslierohde (developer of OptiLink, OptiSpider)

http://twitter.com/mikeliebner

http://twitter.com/aaronwall

http://twitter.com/jeffmulligan

http://twitter.com/videoguy (Mike Stewart)

http://twitter.com/tferriss (Tim Ferriss – do you work 4 hrs/day?)

http://twitter.com/webuildpages (Jim Boykin)

http://twitter.com/mattcutts (most well-known Goog’ guy)

http://twitter.com/danthies

http://twitter.com/johncow (Jason Katzenbac)

http://twitter.com/MarketingProfs (Ann Handley, MarketingProfs.com)

http://twitter.com/zappos (Zappos.com CEO – Tony)

http://twitter.com/mashable (Pete Cashmore)

http://twitter.com/ShermanHu

http://twitter.com/EmailCopywriter (Kenneth Yu, author of Twitter Salvation System)

And as a grand closing, here’s a few popular Tweeters:

http://twitter.com/OHHDLInfo (Dalai Lama)

http://twitter.com/Schwarzenegger (The Terminator!)

http://twitter.com/sirdickbranson (Richard Branson)

http://twitter.com/BarackObama

BTW, if you see Bruce Springsteen on Twitter just let me know, OK?

Finally, don’t forget to follow me! I’m on my way to become a guru…

http://twitter.com/ValPopescu

Valeriu

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Top Internet Marketing Gurus to Follow on Twitter

Valeriu Popescu — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:39:50 +0000

Do you Twitter? Are you visible? If your answer is yes, continue reading.

As you know by now, Twitter is one of the most revolutionary messaging systems of the moment. You’ve probably already heard about some amazing Twitter stories.

So if you Twitter, follow people who knows what they are talking about. Here’s a list of 55 top Internet marketing gurus you should follow:

Where are you Jeff Johnson??!

Do I miss someone? Probably, but this list is opened for new entries. Just let me know about their Twitter link…

At last but not least you can follow me! I’m not a guru (yet!) but I spare some of my free time to pick up this list.

http://twitter.com/ValPopescu

Valeriu

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The Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Business on the Internet Review

Valeriu Popescu — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:06:32 +0000

I checked my email this morning and there it was…

A message from the Internet Marketing Center’s Derek Gehl, one of THE smartest Internet marketers I know, telling me he’s retiring.

I’m still in shock!

At first, I was actually a little confused. Now more than EVER, (think ‘recession’), people need some SERIOUS help making money online…

… and he just up and quits?!

But then I checked out the special web page he posted explaining in more detail why he’s retiring, and it all made sense…

He’s NOT leaving everyone high and dry. As a final “farewell” he’s actually putting together a complete braindump of everything he knows about making money on the Internet!

That’s $100 MILLION worth of experience, strategies, and moneymaking secrets!

I know that the website where you can find out about Derek’s entire collection of internet marketing strategies is only going to be available for a short time, so you need to check it out RIGHT AWAY!

In my opinion, this is by far the Most Comprehensive Easy-To-Follow Online Business System available!

“The Insider Secrets to Marketing Your Business on the Internet” course is fully updated for 2009, and for the FIRST time is available in an Electronic, Web Accessible format that guarantees it will never be outdated!

The course is everything you’d expect from a beginner’s guide to starting an online business with over 1,250 pages of detailed, moneymaking strategies and techniques have been carefully laid out in bite-sized, easy to grab-and-apply sections, making it dead-easy to determine what you need, apply it to your business, and move onto the NEXT step.

The “Insider Secrets” system carefully guides you through all the critical steps:

Helping you decide what you should sell…

Easily get a sales website live…

Attract your first visitor…

And take your first credit card payment!

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Automate your business to be “hands free”

Here is a small sample of what you will find within this amazing online course…

- How to use powerful automated research tools to quickly multiply your hobbies and interests into HUNDREDS of potential business ideas!

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- How to get paid BIG commissions by recommending other people’s products on your website!

- How you can quickly become a “Super Affiliate” and earn a full-time, six-figure income — without EVER selling a product of your own!

- Plugging NEW Revenue Streams into Your Website to Incrementally Build Your Online Income by $1,500 to $8,000+ Per Month!

- Secrets for Squeezing WAY MORE Sales and Profits Out Of Your Existing Traffic, Subscribers, Products, and Website!

- And a ton more…

Some additional benefits of the course:

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– “The Foolproof, Procrastination Busting, Goal Setting DVD and Workbook“… is also shipped free of charge!

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Access to the Course is granted for one year. The course comes with a 90 Day 100% Money Back Guarantee.

I give Insider Secrets VERSION 2009 a perfect 10 out of 10 without hesitation. The Internet Marketing Center continues to be the leader in helping people go from nothing to big money online.

If you want to make money online I highly recommend you get access to this tremendous online business building product now.

Valeriu

P.S. If you’ve been struggling to make money online, this last “hurrah” from Derek is the EXACT kick in the pants you need to FINALLY start your own successful website.

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Find Uncanny Success Using Online Marketing

Valeriu Popescu — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 06:30:44 +0000

It’s been quite some time since my last post here and even more since I host a guest writer. But I was really busy with my new product launch.

Anyway, here’s a great article…

Last night I had dinner with Joe Vitale and Pat O’brien.

Pat wrote “The Portable Empire” book published by Wiley Press. Joe has written 30 best sellers and, most recently, took his fame to another level by being featured in “The Secret.”

Joe’s one of those guys who could have an ego bigger than New York, but doesn’t. He’s one of brightest, most giving individuals you’ll meet. And puffs on a mean, Cuban cigar.

I won’t reveal his secret here.

But Joe has banged out 30 books and he literally can’t type! He hacks away at the keyboard. Joe turned his “cant’s” into “dones”. He didn’t let excuses stop him.

Pat used to be a blues musician. He toured Europe a lot and had a nice following.

But all that changed when he bartered guitar lessons with Joe Vitale in exchange for a ticket to his Spiritual Marketing seminar.

Pat got inspired.

In one weekend, he created his first product.

I tell people this all the time. Creating a product doesn’t need to take forever. 99% of creating a product is in your head. It’s in the decision to do it.

Pat sold more copies of his first product in a few days than he did CD’s all month long on his tours. And he could stay at home and not have the grind of travel.

So Pat got into this business.

Later, he penned his book Portable Empire that has been a big hit. He also holds “unseminar” seminars on marketing. Which are his own laid back version of seminars.

One of the things we did last night was brainstorm a new USP or big promise for Pat.

I explained to him that you can break sales letters down into direct and indirect leads or formulas, a tidbit I learned from Michael Masterson at awaionline.com.

Anyway, we figured a direct lead would be best for Pat. The two direct leads you use most often are problem/solution and big promise.

Neither Joe nor I really like or specialize in the problem/solution lead. So we use the big promise.

I reckon we spent 20 or 30 minutes noodling around, fishing for a big idea or promise for Pat’s product.

See, the concept of the portable empire is to create digital products and sell them over the Internet. But lots of people teach that. What I explained to Pat is that he needs to have a specific promise.

Then take that promise and carry it through his blog, boot tiles and everything else.

We finally came up with a pretty good idea for Pat.

So here you are.

If you’ve been following me, you’ve broken down your bills into daily amounts. You know you need to generate leads via ppc, seo or an affiliate program.

What’s all this talk ’bout Pat and Joe got to do with YOUR bills? Or what does it have to do with all this Twitter talk I’ve been dishin’ out?

TWITTER: This is how I reconnected with Pat and Joe. I’m met both a year ago at Pat’s UnSeminar. But we lost touch.

On Twitter, within a week, we reconnected. And that’s how we ended up doing dinner.

Here’s my video on Tweet Deck if you haven’t seen it yet!

BILLS: I told in the story above how Pat created his first product in a weekend. And he sold more of it in a few days than he normally did CDs in a whole month of touring as a blues musician.

What about YOU?

If an ex blues musician can create a product in a weekend, don’t you think YOU might be able to?

And if you DO that, now what kind of impact do you think that’d have on you paying your bills?

Let’s say you sell your product for $50. And you sell one a week. That’s a $200 bill erased.

Let’s say that you promote affiliate products to the people who buy your main product. That might be another $50 or $100 a month there. So you erase another bill or two.

And what happens if instead of selling 2 a week, you sell one a day.

If you convert 1% of visitors to buyers, to sell one a day, you need 100 visitors a day.

If you were on my Ateam call last week, you know how to use Twitter to get a lot more than 100 visitors a day.

If you follow the system for converting leads to sales in rows 4 and 5 of Promo Dashboard, you’ve got a good shot at turning 10% of your leads to sales.

That would mean you only need 10 or 20 visitors a day to get the sale a day.

Or, if you bid on keywords on Google that have LESS than 7 ads, you’ll get clicks for whatever the minimum bid is. With a great quality score, you can get clicks for a penny to a nickel. It’s possible. People do it. I won’t say getting a great QS on Google is easy.

It isn’t.

But it can be done if you focus on it.

At dinner last night, I told Joe I thought you could get good at about anything you put your mind to. He being big into the law of attraction and such agreed.

One of the things I noticed last night is that I kept bouncing around from idea to idea as I’m prone to do. Joe kept coming back to the point we were discussing.

Focus.

It’s why I created Ockham’s Razor. You can’t see, move and finish unless you focus. You can’t focus unless you simplify.

Once you simplify, you can document your systems and outsource to the Philippines as John Jonas teaches.

Or, if you only want to do the SEO Lies method, Justin Brooke can teach you how to outsource that.

Do you see how all this fits together? That’s why I call it Marlon’s Master Plan. It all fits together.

Need to pay your bills? How ’bout following the steps in Ockham’s Razor to start? How about using Product Dashboard to create your own product and Promo Dashboard to promote it?

Just a thought.

People say, “Marlon, I don’t have money. I can’t afford to buy what you’re selling.”

But the people who post to my blog who DO have money, all have their own products! They DO what I teach.

Watch that. Notice the difference in the blog posts between the people who HAVE money and the people who don’t.

You’ll find most of the “haves” have because they HAVE their own products. And that’s why they have.

Now, nothing wrong with building your list to start and promoting affiliate products. Nothing wrong with that at all. But eventually you wanna fall in the “have” category.

It’s interesting to see the number of people coming back to my blog saying, “Marlon, I strayed. I followed the bright shiny objects. I tried to take the easy route. But I’ve come back to your teachings and wish I’d never left.”

Read the blog. You’ll see those comments.

This is the straight and narrow path. It isn’t always the easiest. My Ateamers, my folks, they follow the path less taken. Let me hear YOUR feedback on my blog

Marlon Sanders is the author of “The Amazing Formula That Sells Products Like Crazy.” Check out all his products here!

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How to Keep Visitors Coming to your Blog

Valeriu Popescu — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:48:46 +0000

Blogging is a perfect way for people to share their thoughts with others. When people blog, it means they keep an updated online journal or diary. Weblog and blog are the same things.

Companies might also blog to help increase the amount of business on their web sites. For many bloggers, increasing traffic to their blogs is not the only goal.

Most people that blog want to keep their visitors coming back for more. The following are four ways to keep visitors coming to your blog site.

Blogging is a phenomenon: Some blog writes choose to keep their blogs personal and do not share their thoughts with others. These are more like online diaries.

Other wants to share with everyone what he or she has to say.

Blogging is a big business and many websites offer free blog hosting. In addition, many companies choose blogging as an inexpensive way to advertise their products or services.

Blogging on the Internet is often much cheaper than maintaining a web site and is usually more interesting for readers and clients.

Update your blog: The easiest way to keep visitors coming back toyour blog site is to update your blog on a regular basis.

Readers will stay loyal to blogs that are updated daily. Some blog writers even updated several times a day. Readers will tend to loose interest in your writing if they have to wait several days for new material.

Be loyal to your readers and your readers will be loyal to your blog. Also, there are literally thousands of blogs available on the Internet.

If your blog is not updated on a regular basis, you will loose your readers to another blog site.

Another fun way to update your blog and keep your readers interested in your site is to include something fun for your readers to enjoy.

That could be as simple as a joke or maybe a link to a humorous story you have found on the Internet. You might also try including a trivia game or polls for your readers to enjoy on a regular basis.

Participate in web communities: Participating in web communities or discussion forums and mentioning your blog whenever possible will help keep readers coming back to your site.

In addition, you can gain new readers when doing this. You can also be loyal to the blogs of other writers and ask them to visit your site.

Leave nice comments about their site and invite them to your site. If you have mutual interests and the same type of readers, you can even share your blog links on your site.

This helps everyone. Your reader will appreciate interesting reading while you benefit from readers from the other site.

Not lastly, take advantage of this new service called Google Friend Connect. You’ll see my box at the bottom of the right side panel on this blog – so let’s connect, what do you say?

My friend Chris Lang has an excellent tutorial on how to use Google Friend Connect. Chris is a top networker an social media mogul and here’s his five part Google Friend Connect Tutorial, tactics and insider knowledge that only he reveal until now.

Understand who reads your blogs: Another great way to keep blog readers coming back for more is to understand who reads your blog and write content that is directed towards them.

This does not mean that you have to write on only one particular subject, though.

If you are a stay at home mom and write about your life at home with the kids, your loyal readers may not appreciate it if you write about cutting edge topics or use a lot of foul language in your writing.

If you generally write humor, do not bog your readers down with sorrowful woes and tales. Your readers will be interested in the things that attracted them to your site in the first place.

That is usually what you are more interested in writing about.

You can gain a better understanding of your readers interested by including places for comments and encouraging your readers to contact you by email.

Include keywords: You can gain readership and help keep your current readers by including certain keywords in your blog.

If you have entered your blog on a search engine, these keywords that point to your blog will come up after a search. This is a great way to get readers interested in your blog.

This is also a good way for companies to increase the traffic to their blog.

Final thought: blogging is increasingly popular for companies as well. If you want to make your blog stand out against the thousands of other blogs, keep your readers interested and coming back for more everyday by updating your writing, participate in online communities, understand your readers and include keywords.

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