I wanted to take a minute and invite you to The Masters Of Sales – a free teleclass being put on by one of my business partners, Phil Kerner.

The idea of The Masters of Sales is quite simply, to provide top notch sales training to small business owners and professionals looking for an extra edge in this troubled economy.

In fact, guess how much the training is to attend?  FREE!  That’s right!

So here’s a quick rundown of the speakers:

• Todd Natenberg – Bad Economy? Sell Your Way Out Of it!
• Lisa Cherney – The ‘Juicy Marketing’ Expert
• Jeff Mahoney – Get In The Door
• Forbes Riley – Secrets of an Infomercial Superstar

I’m also going to be putting on a very special "How To Sell On The Web" Private Training for anyone who downloads the transcripts and audio files!

Let me know if you have any questions…  I am definitely looking forward to the Masters of Sales series!

CPA marketing, or cost per acquisition (action) marketing, is much like affiliate marketing has a few subtle differences.  One, it’s adopted by big league companies and Internet marketers.  And two, the payouts can be awesome!

The beauty of CPA offers is that there are usually two levels, leads and sales. The good CPA campaigns will offer some kind of a bonus if you provide a lead, and will pay out even more (sometimes a lot more) if you send a sale.

One of my favorite CPA marketing offers to promote is InfusionSoft. With Infusionsoft, the offer is structured so that if I provide a lead I get paid $5. If I send a sale, I get paid $100. The beauty of that is Infusionsoft makes it easy. They provide a downloadable PDF that I can market to my list or my readers which really adds value to the sign up itself. That’s really the bottom line, providing value.

There are all kinds of CPA networks out there. There is Commission Junction and LinkShare, two of the big dogs in the CPA marketing arena. Each of them have thousands of offers for you to choose from that you can promote on your site or in your e-mail marketing list. Quite a few of those pay top dollar for leads and sales.

For example, some hosting companies will pay as much as $100 if you send a new customer to them… And that’s right away!

One of my favorite Internet marketing mentors is Mike Hill. He’s taught me a lot in terms of Internet marketing – but he commands a hefty $25,000 a day for his time!

Mike Hill has put together a program called CPA Tsunami (Sales Tsunami) which teaches you all about making money on cost per acquisition or CPA offers.

The reason I made this video was to tell you about one of his supersecret Internet marketing tactics called Value Trojans. What value Trojans are is a tiny, micro continuity type system that he employs directly after somebody signs up for one of his programs.

In essence, it’s a sale after a sale but these particular offers are designed to keep you making money over the next 10 months or so. If you can offer these small Value Trojans to every person who signs up for your newsletter or product over the next year, pretty extraordinary revenue starts happening!

For more information on Mike Hill and his awesome Internet marketing tactics, make sure you visit Sales Tsunami. There you find lots more video training by Mike Hill himself, including his Value Trojans formula – all for free!

If you’re at all familiar with Jeff Walker or his Product Launch Formula, you know the tremendous value that this guy gives to anyone looking to succeed in business. Basically, what he did was take product launches to the next level on the Internet.

Before Product Launch Formula, if you had an idea to put something together, it might be difficult to come up with a lead generation strategy, joint venture partners, traffic, offers, price points and all of those other product launch type things.

In the product launch formula training, Jeff sat down and put together an entire program that served as a blueprint for product launch guys like me! For now, Product Launch Formula is closed.  It has been for a while.  And Jeff is not like a lot of other gurus who let people in after the fact.

The good news is he’s venturing off into a new project, product launch manager training.

What product launch manager training is is a strategy guide for those looking to run product launches for clients, associates, partners and anyone else who is looking to launch their next product.

The beauty of it is that the products don’t need to be Internet-based. Off-line businesses can use the product launch formula for tremendous success in their own markets. Really, it’s a concise strategy of offering valuable content, products, or services and building up to the point where the offer is made.

Anyway, a product launch manager would be able to implement the product launch formula into a clients business in a matter of days – with huge paydays at the end! 

I highly recommend checking out Jeff Walker’s product launch manager training if you’re interested in launching products for clients.  You can either turn it into a secondary income stream or add it to your portfolio as an added service.

I went through the product launch formula myself, and I’m jazzed about the product launch manager training that he’s talking about. Definitely check it out!      

I wanted to take a quick minute and let you in on a new program I’m really jazzed about.  It’s The League of Extraordinary Minds. 

Rich Schefren has joined forces with Jay Abraham to launch the Extraordinary Minds program – both of which are experts in their own right!.

I actually got a chance to take part in a preview call that outlined what’s going to happen.  The League of Extraordinary Minds is going to feature top experts (50+ actually) who take part in discussion groups and panels, all surrounding a certain business topic. 

The topics are yet to be announced, but I expect that they’ll range from social media marketing, internet marketing, phsychology and business processes.

Here’s just a few of the League of Extraordinary Minds players:

Some of them you might have heard of.  Some you might not have.  There are authors, CEO’s, entrepreneurs, marketers and industry leading consultants…

• Steven Covey
• Michael Gerber
• Dan Ariely
• Jack Trout
• Jay Conrad Levinson
• Gary Vaynerchuk
• Robert Cialdini
• Brad Smart
• Lou Adler
• Neil Fiore
• Brian Tracy
• Fran Tarkenton
• Paul Zan Pilzer
• A special 70 minute long message/session from Tony Robbins!
• Plus many more in the 50+ great minds on the team.

Here’s a quick summary from the League of Extraordinary Minds website:

"Two of the biggest names in marketing, Jay Abraham + Rich Schefren are hosting a series with the most powerful (and impressive) collection of world-famous experts to help entrepreneurs tackle their biggest, most immediate and important business challenges, issues, problems and opportunities."

Personally, I think The League of Extraordinary Minds is going to be more educational than the 5 years I spent in college!

I will be bringing you more news about the League of Extraordinary Minds as the training starts.  Maybe I’ll do a blow by blog recap of the discussion panels as they happen..  We’ll see though!

Make sure you go to the

League of Extraordinary Minds

site to site up!

So, we finally come to it.  The infamous question, "How To Twitter People?"

Long ago, we were amazed that the expression ‘Google’ was added to the dictionary.  How could one company, a startup at that, take a phrase like search and somehow build a product so compelling that their brand name became synonomous with the verb?

Years later, we come to another milestone.  To Twitter. 

Twitter, in just a few short years, has become the dominant player in the micro-blogging space.  Well, I guess it could be argued that Twitter took microblogging mainstream.  Really, bloggers were ‘micro-blogging’ in terms of publishing ’side posts’ for years.  Then, there weren’t any 140 character limits though.

What exactly does it mean to Twitter someone?  What the answer to the question "How To Twitter People?"

Well, that’s easy.  It means to sign up for a Twitter account, find your friend profile, and send them a ‘mention’ or a ‘reply.’  You can even take that a step further and send them a direct message!

To understand those terms though, we need to get some basic Twitter coaching out of the way.

When you first log in, you see your standard Twitter feed.  That, my friends, is all the info that’s flying around Twitter.  In fact, everyone that you’re following will show up in your feed.

Take that a step further, and check out the mentions.  A mention, or a reply, happens whenever someone uses your Twitter name to identify you.  The naming convention is @jasondrohn or @ryanpaugh.  When someone types that into their tweet, everyone can see it but special attention is paid to it by the recipient (in this case, you).

A direct message is a bit more like an email.  It’s a private message between you and someone else.  To signify a direct message, just type DM @jasondrohn.

That’s it.  That’s the quick breakdown of the ‘how to twitter people’ process.  Nothing fancy.  Nothing complicated.  Just plain old Twitter 101!

If you’d like more information on how you can use Twitter to market your business and brand yourself, sign up for our Unlocking Twitter mini-course!  There’s lots of free training and even a free DVD there!

In today’s economy, oftentimes your contact list is your most valuable asset.  I’m going to teach you how to ramp that up and use it for marketing purposes!

The class is going to be about 1 hour.  In it, you’ll learn:

• How to get your list started so you can start gathering leads from your website and social media.
• What services are best for what industries and how you can get started with them.
• List Building best practices including 7 bulletproof tips that quadruple your opt-in leads and prospect counts.
• The single most important thing to consider when you’re trying to build trust and loyalty with a prospect on your list.
• Advanced techniques and strategies to build your list in a fraction of the time it would take most people online to do (including your competitors).

To sign up, just go to the email list building teleclass page!

In it, I talk about the process I use to build out businesses from start to finish. It’s affectionately coined B.U.I.L.D:

• B – Brainstorm and find niches
• U – Unlock Resources and Experiences
• I – Innovate and Create
• L – Level the playing field (Marketing)
• D – Develop and Distribute

There’s lots of ways to check out this content, so take your pick!

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By all means – let me know what you think! There are a ton of resources weaved into the presentation!

For the most part, the content is going to be delivered through webinars and video training sessions, that way I can interact with you throughout the presentations…

I’m looking for business owners who are willing to join me on the 6 week journey that will walk them through – step by step – setting up social media so that it serves as a marketing tool.

The only real prerequisite is that you have a business or have something that you want to strategically position (it could be the company you work for too). And I’m also looking for your feedback as we build out the course!  You know, asking questions, providing comments, all that stuff…

The first webinar is going to take place on Tuesday, August 11th at 3PM EST. If you can’t make it, sign up anyway and I’ll make sure you get the replay as soon as we’re done!

Anymore, I haven’t been able to work directly with clients much, so if you want some serious free coaching and instruction on you social media marketing journey – this is your ticket!

Jason Drohn
@jasondrohn

Right now, the world is wrought of unemployment, increasing poverty, helplessness and despair. To turn on the news is to instantly put yourself in a bad mood.

I want to help out with that. I want to lend a hand and show you a path of abundance that leads to you building something you can be proud of.

This teleclass is going to be approximately 1 hour long and cover a lot of topics. Sitting here, I can tell you these are some of the things we’re going to talk about:

• Brainstorming creatively and extracting knowledge and experience you already have
• Researching potential markets and seeing where you can establish ‘Blue Oceans.’
• The one advanced technique that will ensure your success BEFORE you spend any money on implementation
• Building out your business idea using the market you’ve already gathered
• And much, much more!

This is a topic I could go on and on about (and oftentimes do) but I wanted to invite you into my world for an hour or so. I want to give you some tools that can promote lasting change in your life and in your profession.

To register for the call, all you have to do is fill in your email address below. You’ll then be taken to a page that give you call in information. (And you’re also going to get access to all my past teleseminars and webinars!)

For more information, signup for the mini-course at 10 Business Ideas.

Here is some of the stuff we covered:

• How organizations who rely on promoting their through the newspaper should be marketing in new media.
• Info on an easy uploader for video.  Upload it once – have it stream to all the video sites like Viddler, Youtube, DailyMotion
• The secret of promoting video through social media
• How and why you should be engaging customers through all sorts of mediums – audio, video, text
• How to sell 1-to-1 through social media
• How to create ambassadors for your business
• Setting yourself apart from your competitors through social media
• How your blog should integrate with your social media stream
• The simple tactic you can use to pick titles that get great clickthrough rates on Twitter
• The strategy behind developing a plan for social networking
• What you shouldn’t do to promote your business with social media
• What the true cost of social networking is
• Hiring a social media marketing firm and what you can expect to pay
• What you need to be careful about concerning brand management
• The truth on what Twitter marketing is actually about
• How to combat the large corporation = bad mentality
• How to find clients and business through Twitter
• How to cross promote everything – Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Youtube, etc.

Like I said, we got pretty deep :0) Check out the recording below or go ahead and purchase the download.

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Also, check out Rebecca’s book – Getting Started With Social Networking For Artists And Arts Organizations. Definitely a good read!