John Thornhill’s Marketing MasterClass 2010 Bonus

Welcome back!

You may or may not have heard of John Thornhill, but he is doing very well on the Internet. He has a subscriber base of over 100k, earned $750,000 from info products last year and expects the hit $1.5k this year.

Lee McIntyre, who from school teacher in 2007 now commands a $100k a month info business says about John:  “I can still vividly remember some of the advice you gave me when I was first starting out, and everytime I implemented one of your ideas I always made more money, more quickly. I think that says it all really.

Omar Martin, who works with Mike Filsaime also attributes a lot to him: “If you seriously want to make money online, I suggest you stop wasting your time and just learn from John as I did. He will never steer you wrong, I am living proof and forever grateful.”

I have had the pleasure of consulting with John recently, in fact it was recorded, which is part of my bonus for purchasing through my link.

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And take your time to watch the video and read the sales page, it really is a pleasure just to do that, whether this is for you or not.

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The Art of Selling

This weekend we opened up our house to the public as part of an ‘art trail’ with close to 1000 people coming in to see our exhibition of work. You may or not know but I draw cartoon illustration and this weekend put on my work on show along with other artists as part of the Bristol Art Trail.

This was a great opportunity to talk with people interested in my work and hopefully sell some. Just as any online selling, building the relationship with your prospect and sharing your story is a vital part of making sales. People wanted to know about the background to the work and my first sale was based on, obviously a liking of the artwork, but also the background story to that work.

I also made sure I had a sheet so interested punters could leave their name and email updates and news. So we had the traffic (500 people on Saturday, and around 400 on Sunday), an email capture form and a variety of products (my artwork) some of which is based on a story book I will be publishing. Blowing up images to large prints from the upcoming book certainly grabbed interest and now I have a list of people gagging to buy when it is published!

Google Social Media Slap Hell

Michelle Macphearson has been discussing a social media slap from Google in her latest video.

This is affecting all those sites that have all their backlinks solely from social media and bookmarking sites…and this is where all those who have put all their eggs in one basket, flogged the dead horses etc etc are probably going to cry. This isn’t a social media slap on anyone using social media, and doesn’t mean social media is dead by any stretch of the imagination.

One word: DIVERSIFY

If you have all your links from one type of site it will be a problem, always combine the solid old school seo stuff: articles, press releases, remote content as well as the new: social media sites, video and vary the content you post on them.

Actually a great combination is Social Media Press Releases, how’s that for combination of old and new!

Social Media Press Releases include video, pocasts and all the functions of a blog. One idea worth looking at if you want to avoid the high prices involved with social media press releases is link from your normal press releases on the wires to a specialized multi-media newsroom section on your blog which acts like a social media press release. This would give you a lot more SEO benefit as well.

Sorry but I couldn’t think of a greater way to tie this in with the launch of our new new media world product
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Twitter Squeeze – A New Strategy

A thunder storm is raging as I write this and the rain pounding the streets..maybe I shouldn’t have the computer on, …..anyway I need to tell you about this.

I’m talking about Twitter and tweeting, making connections, building friends or followers – this is what social media is all about. There has been great debate amongst marketers about how to monetize twitter.

Well if you build enough followers you can build a funnel stream that could be very profitable. We’re talking about your true fans. A true fan meaning anyone who will buy anything you produce and follow your progress avidly – artists, writers – creative people take note…but it applies to anyone with something to offer. You can read more about that at Kevin Kelly’s blog.

Internet Marketer Rick ‘Call em as I see ‘em’ Butts has come out with some eye opening and sublime training on Twitter and how to leverage this so if you see the potential power of Twitter, and you should, this is available for a measly $20…(until 1st Aug at which point it will more than double … I assure you you will be impressed by the whiteboard videos and the upcoming stuff Rick has promised…

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A Marketing Twitter Apocalypse?

There’s an interesting debate raging about Twitter and using it for the purpose of marketing. Recent blog posts about an email John Reese, well known Internet Marketer and creator of Blogrush, sent out recently caused Mark Hopkins of Mashable to write the post: Is Twitter Vulnerable to Marketer Attack?

Another post at the Equisitor Pending Sign of the Twitter Apocalypse:
It’s Being Talked About By Internet Marketers tackled the same subject and John Reese’s retort can be read here: Wake Up Call: Web 2.0 Wouldn’t Exist
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Newbie Hell

For newbies to setting up a viable business on the Internet, the information available must be daunting to say the least. I recently spoke to several people new to Internet Marketing at the World Internet Summit in London recently and there was major confusion as to which way to turn.

Speaker after speaker gave their version of massive Internet success with a ‘juicy course’ or ’solution’ presented at the end rarely priced under a grand.

One guy bought into a program and then immediately purchased the next pitch presented to the audience with exciting passion no doubt. Somehow I wasn’t sure he needed it.

Don’t get me wrong we all need to make money, but there was a nasty taste left in the mouth akin to being sold a toilet house by an over zeoulous real estate agent.

We were sitting in the cafetia chatting to a couple of guys that ran IM workshops in Holland and a woman who sat down with us hadn’t a clue what she had just bought except, ’something to do with Google or something.’

Stupid? maybe. But it makes you think.

Focus Focus Focus! Easy to say….I’m guilty of being distracted by this or that flopping into the inbox. I recently had enough and did a mass ‘unsubscribe’ purge and it felt great. I’m sorry but most of the information is crap, just selling me something I don’t need. Any marketer worth their salt should have a blog feed anyway, if there’s any decent info to be had it’ll be on there, use Bloglines to keep them all together.

Stick to the plan and if someone is offering software or products that fit into that plan then fine, check that you will start using it inside the week, that’s true investment in yourself and your business.