I have been a part time Local Marketer now for over a year. The story behind it is actually kind of odd because I did not set out with the intention to work with local companies. It just kind of fell in my lap.

I have a full time job at a specialty welding company that pays me well enough so that I am not scrambling to become a full time internet marketer. The money I make online affords me more of the niceties of life with not too much effort on my part.

The reason I am telling you this is because I got my first client while I was at work. I normally spend my lunch hour sitting in front of the computer working on my online biz. The owner of the company I work for rents out part of our building to another company.

The owner of that company happened to walk by while I was on the computer at lunch and asked me what I was doing. I just happened to be setting up a website which was going to be a "bonus" site for a high dollar affiliate product. I explained to him how I was going to get the site ranked #1 in Google so that any one searching for a review of that product or a bonus package for that product would see mine first.

He immediately started talking about his companies website and asked me if I could get his site ranked #1. We made a hand shake agreement and he gave me $500 to get started. The main keyword we were aiming to get ranked was not geo targeted so it was not an easy one.

I should have charged a lot more then $500 but I wanted to show him that I could do it. He is a respected business man in the area where I live and I was sure that he could send some business my way. Especially since I knew his wife owned a small marketing company here in town.

It took me 3 months but I managed to get his website ranked #1 for "race car rentals", without the quotes. He was impressed and all but 1 of my clients that I currently have because he steered them my way. So it turns out that the initial $500 turned into a substantial amount after all although not from my first customer.

So you see, I was very lucky when it came to procuring my first few customers. Unfortunately, it usually doesn't work like that for most people that I have talked to in this business. I belong to a local SEO "meetup" group and most of the people struggle to get those initial customers.

Once you get a few clients, and do a good job for them, you will get more via referral. I can assure you of that. But what can you do to get to that point?

I ran across something the other day that answers that question better than any solution I can give you.

One of the most successful local marketers in the country, Laura Betterly, has developed an easy to implement, fool proof method for securing new clients. The cool part is that the clients will call you!

Laura has been teaching local marketing for over a year now. She had mostly been concentrating on the "how to" part of running a local marketing business. I should know because I am one of her students. : )

She discovered that the most frequent problem that her students were having was not about how to do things but how to acquire new customers. The truth of the matter is that the "how to" can be easily and cheaply outsourced and that the key to becoming successful and making a lot of money is a steady stream of new clients.

Through years of experience, trial and error, and trying everything under the sun, Laura has put together what she calls Instant Local Traffic. Instead of trying to explain it to you, I want you to go watch a video that explains it much better then I ever could. Plus, I don't want to screw it up and explain something incorrectly. LOL

Click here now and go watch the video. Make sure you watch it all because even if you don't get Laura's training, she has an awesome free report for you at the end. Also, I want to make this an easy decision for you. Laura's training has helped me tremendously and I know she can help you too.

If you get Laura's training via my link, I will give you lifetime access to my Local Marketing Institute (normally $47 per month) and I will through in a one hour consultation where you can ask me about local marketing, internet marketing, lead generation, SEO, or what ever you want for that matter.

Leave a comment here (using a good email address) and I will get in touch with you to arrange your bonus.

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5iphon Hardcore is a viral list building system created by Bryan Winters. I started using the system around the beginning of October and my results so far have been absolutely stellar.

The concept behind the system is quite simple and yet incredibly effective. The goal is to build a list. *Your List*, not someone elses.

This is accomplished through the most common and effective way that most marketers use. Give away something in return for a prospects email address.

Then you monetize with an upsell or one time offer of sorts and continue to monetize with follow up email offers.

Simple and effective, but yet sometimes difficult to implement, especially if you are a beginner with no technical skills.

5iphon Hardcore gives you the tools you need to start building your list right away, even if you are a beginner. The only thing you need is an autoresponder account.

What you are giving away is a free membership to use the system. You promote your affiliate page which has your auto responder code in it so you build your list and not someone else's. That is what makes this different from other affiliate programs.

Here is the really cool part that makes this viral list builder deadly. Everyone that you refer, and joins for free, sends their first 5 referrals to you. Look at the photo above and you can see that I have *directly* referred 984 subscribers. But, thanks to the "Send 5 Viral Platform", I have a total of 1499 subscribers!

That's a whopping 35% extra subscribers that the system sends you for free!

But there is even more. When you upgrade to the Extreme membership, you don't have to give away your first 5 referrals and you get 50% commissions on any of your subscribers that also take the upgrade. The upgrade converts like crazy and is an easy way to make some nice *recurring* commissions.

Yes that's right, I said recurring. The upgrade is an initial $40 payment and then $20 monthly. That means that you get $20 upfront and then $10 per month afterwards as long as your referrals keep their membership active. So far, I have had awesome results! Take a look at the picture below to see the commissions I have made in just 19 days.

So, I have over $800 in commissions in less then 3 weeks. Next month when all of these people pay their membership dues of $20, I will get another $10 for each one. Minus the small fee that Clickbank takes. I will continue to get these recurring payments until a member cancels.

Can you see why I love this 5iphon Hardore so much?

I get 35% more subscribers for my efforts and recurring commissions on my one time offer sales. I highly recommend that you join this program and start promoting. I am using this for my regular adswaps that I do on a daily basis. I don't get to use it all the time because some of my associates are doing the same as me.

But that's OK. I am still having great success and so can you. Click on the link and join 5iphon Hardcore now. It's free but I highly recommend that you upgrade so your Clickbank account can look like mine too.

Congrats to the 3 winners! I am looking forward to working with you so you can get on track and start making some money online. If you haven't watched the video, please do so now. It's the only way you're going to find out who won.

I am going to work something out for all who have participated and left a comment. I really appreciate your effort and wish that I could have picked everybody. There were a lot of great responses and of course everyone is deserving but I just couldn't make that happen.

I will try to contact you tonight when I get back. Please sign up for a Skype account if you don't already have one. It's free and we will be using it to communicate. Add me to your account and I will look you up later. My Skype ID is "onlineventures" with out the quotes.

Make sure you leave a message stating who you are because if I don't know who you are I won't add you to my contacts. (there are too many hackers out there)

For those of you who did not win, make sure you watch your emails because I am going to do something special for all who have participated. I am at least going to hold some special webinars for you to show you how to set up your own list building system.

Once again thank you everyone for the comments and make sure you come back and visit because I am going to be posting a lot more then what I have been doing the last few months. (which won't be hard to do since I went 3 months without making a post LOL)

Yep, that's right. Your not dreaming. Go ahead and pinch yourself to make sure!

I am going to give away a complete list building system that will be set up for you so that you can get behind the wheel and start making money online right away.

Just about everyone in Internet marketing has heard the phrase "the money is in the list". The reason you keep hearing this over and over again is simply because it is true.

There are many ways to build a list but probably the most common and effective method is to give away a free report, software, or service in return for a name and email address via a lead capture page or "squeeze page" as it is often called.

This sounds very simple and it is for those of us who have the technical skills and experience that we have come to take for granted.

Things like:

• registering a domain name
• setting name servers
• using an FTP program
• editing HTML
• using an auto responder
• writing email copy that encourages readers to click on link to your page
• creating a squeeze page that converts
• creating the free offer to give away
• a way to monetize your efforts

All of a sudden it doesn't look so simple anymore. As a matter of fact, the lack of knowledge to accomplish these tasks is what keeps your average beginner from doing them and there fore never making any money online.

But the items listed above are just the basics required to get started. Once you have your system in place then you need traffic. Where are you going to get the visitors to feed into your funnel?

Well…I have the answer to all of the above and I am going to give it to 3 lucky people.

Not only am I going to hand you the tools you need, I am going to set everything up for you so that all you have to do is "turn on the switch". I'm even going to kick start your list building by adding 300 subscribers.

I am also going to set you up so that you will have plenty of traffic coming to your site by using the same methods that I drive traffic. This way you will be able to keep building your list and making money online when I hand the reins over to you.

Last but not least, I will make video tutorials of the entire process while setting up your system. That way you will have a step by step guide to follow when you are ready to set one up on your own.

Here is a breakdown of what you will get:

• one year free hosting with domain name
• free offer to give away
• squeeze page (with second version split test)
• download page (optimized to make you money)
• auto responder setup with follow up messages
• 2 email swipes to use for adswaps
• one time offer to monetize your list building
• 300 subscribers (I will send your offer to my list of 20k)
• introduction to JV partners and my best resources
• video tutorials of the entire process

Ok, here's the catch. The lucky 3 are going to be determined with a little contest. All you have to do is leave a comment below and I will pick the winners on September 1st. Here is what you need to put in your comment.

1. What has been your biggest challenge so far in your efforts to make money online?
2. What most would you like to learn about? (internet marketing related)
3. Tell me why I should pick you.

That's it. Should be easy enough. I would also appreciate it if you would use your favorite social service to "like", "stumble", or "+1" this post. See you on September 1st when I announce the winner.

This Friday night I'll be hosting a webinar that will cover some Internet marketing basics like how to use FTP, how to register a domain, how to set your name servers, and more of the technical things that can become huge stumbling blocks for a beginning marketer.

I am setting the time at 10pm EST to try and help you West coast dwellers get a chance to get settled after work. Everyone down under will have to get up by 10am Saturday morning so that shouldn't be too bad.

If you live "across the pond, I guess it sux to be you. LOL

I'll either hold one more time friendly for you or give you access to the replay. It will be better if I hold an other because I am going to have a Q & A session at the end where you can ask me about any Internet marketing topic you want.

I realize this is short notice but I had to wait to make sure that I was going to be able to do it. I just have a lot going on right now with my family life.

With that said, please don't hold it against me if there is a little background noise or an occasional interruption by my 6 year old daughter.  I will be watching the kids while the webinar is going and my daughter likes to be the center of attention.

Maybe I can rent a movie that will hold her attention for an hour or two. We'll see. LOL

Any how, here is the link to join the webinar at 10pm EST tomorrow.

http://www.gvolive.com/conference,imtraining

Please help out and spread the word. Use the buttons to "like", "Digg", "Stumble", or "+1" this post. See you on the webinar tomorrow night.