Wow! What a weekend!

I don’t make it to many internet marketing “events”, but this weekend I had the chance to help out Tim Brocklehurst with one of his TheFreedomClass workshops.

The workshops are designed to get people totally up and running with their own MyViralSpiral3.com site, including a blog, their own info product and affiliate program and show them how to start getting traffic in to build their list virally.

So by the end of the weekend they’ve got everything in place to start building a REAL online business that will last.

I’ve had MVS3 for a while now as I recognised how powerful it is when I saw Tim present it at Robert Puddy’s BritPack seminar last year, but hadn’t had time to get to grips with it properly, so the weekend was also the ideal opportunity for me to do the same as the students, get it all up and running and building me a list virally.

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These are just a few of extra JV tips that I thought of while writing yesterdays post, but couldn’t work in to the flow of the post, details of the $100 competition are at the bottom: -

1. The simplest way to start a “relationship” with a potential JV partner is to get on their newsletter, read it for a while, and when something comes up that you don’t understand or that you could help them with (i.e. have a genuine reason, don’t just make one up), get in touch.

note: being on a marketers newsletter for a while will also give you an idea of the sort of things that they promote to their subscribers. Don’t waste your time (or theirs) getting in touch with someone who only promotes a particular type of product or service if your offer is totally unrelated to it, focus on those who are likely to be intrested in what you have.

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JV Partnerships are one of the most powerful tactics for getting traffic and building your list in internet marketing, but where do you start..?

If you’re just beginning and don’t have a list or product then that’s really where you need to start.

JV’s are usually based on a relationship that you’ve built up with the prospective JV partner, but you still need to be able to offer something of value, good JV partnerships are never “one sided”, and you want to make them as good an offer for your new partner as possible, as it should be seen as the start of a long term relationship/friendship, not just a “one off” thing…

Just writing an email saying “promote my product and you’ll make a bunch of money” is simply not going to work, unless you have something new and exceptional, which is rare, and it’s more likely to stop that potential JV partner from ever wanting to work with you.

So Step 1 of your plan should be to start building a subscriber list/newsletter.

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Discussion of twitter seems to be all the rage at the moment, so I thought I’d chip in, again.

I posted something a while back about “getting” twitter, and I have to say that whilst I am finding it worthwhile for myself, I can still understand why some people think it’s just another time sucking social black hole.

I now spend more time than I would prefer each day keeping an eye on my twitter feed, I use Twhirl.org, so it “beeps” me when there is something new, which does help.

Neil Shearing posted an “anti twitter” post recdently on his blog: -
http://www.neilshearing.com/2008/05/02/is-twitter-just-bird-chat-for-people-with-add/

and the ironic thing is that most of the replies he got to the post came from someone posting the link to his post on twitter…

Now Neil does fire of some fairly strong points about why and how twitter can be a waste of time, but if you read his post, and the replies you’ll notice that he actually mentions one of the reasons I enjoy twitter: -

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Wow!

I can’t believe I haven’t made a post to this blog since the start of the month!

It shows what can happen when we get some sunny weather here in the UK!

I know us Brits are supposed to be “obsessed” with the weather, but that’s because a lot of the time it does rain or get “cloudy”, so when we have a week or so of summer weather in May we tend to want to enjoy it, just in case it’s the only summer we get…

That may sound negative, but you have to remember that last summer I had to leave my home for several weeks because the flooding was so bad there was no power or fresh water, that was a serious exception to the norm, but we don’t have great summers here that often, so when it feels like summer, we have to rush out and enjoy it while it’s there…

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I’ve bought 2 products today, one of which is a relatively “high ticket” item, although it’s half price until midnight tonight.

and when I say I “bought” them, I do mean that, there not freebie products that I got a copy of for “reviewing”, these are ones where I’ve put my hand in my pocket, and one of them I bought mostly for one of the bonuses on offer…

Dan Kennedy’s Info Riches Course went on sale on Tuesday (29th April) and for some reason the launch had gone under my “radar” until today, but I received a few emails about it today, as the price is going up at midnight, and I just had to go take a look…

It didn’t take me long to dig out my credit card and stump up the cash!

The resale right bonus to “Info Millions” 12 CD Audio Course is (imho) worth the price of this product alone, as it will add a significant amount of profit to my business, without me having to spend months and thousands of dollars preparing my own higher priced up sell for my own products!

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I received an email a few weeks ago from a fellow internet marketer, Sean Mize, asking if I was interested in doing an “adswap”, which is basically where we each send a promotion to our lists with details of a free offer from the other person.

The idea is simple, we both get some new subscribers to our list and increase the size of our subscriber base.

I’d not done an adswap before so I was interested to see how effective it would be.

We both ended up getting over 200 new subscribers on our lists, so I was pretty happy with the results.

I got chatting with Sean afterwards and he let it slip that he had added over 1,800 new subscribers to his list with adswaps in the last month, a pretty impressive number of new subscribers, especially as they’re free, which got me to thinking…

I ended up setting up a new site with a forum for fellow marketers to request adswaps here: -
http://www.imadswaps.com

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Just spotted a very interesting post on one of the blogs I follow!

It’s on Matthew Glanfield’s BBO Institute Blog and you can read the whole post about a very dodgy (imho) Wholesale Dropshipping Directory Site Here

What started as a free trial, turned in to a $1 trial, and ended up costing over $100!

Matt’s been kind enough to share the details with his readers so they can steer clear of a company who seem to have a somewhat unethical way of doing business…

I recommend checking the full story out..

Wholesale Dropshipping Directory Site Here

Popularity: 90% [?]

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Alex Goad’s new Players With Money was released today and although it’s been promoted by a whole bunch of marketers, I’ve only seen a couple of bonuses on offer.

I’ve even seen a LOT of people using the default email for this one, in fact one marketer had even left one of the “LINK HERE” place holders in the email..
lol!

here’s the bonus offers I have found, in alphabetical order: -

Guru: Rob Benwell
Bonus Offer:
1. Rob’s 12 weeks to niche annihilation coaching course
2. Rob’s new report “37,827 Backlinks In 21 Days!”
3. The Perfect Online Business Blueprint Video (value $197)
More Info Link: N/A
Purchase Link: http://www.bloggingtothebank.com/players.html
Clickbank Nickname : bttb1
To Claim Bonus: email receipt to
Bonus Offer Limit: 1st 48 hours only

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Guru: Jordan Hall
Bonus Offer: copy of Jordan’s conversion software IMUrgency 2.0 ($37 Value)
More Info Link: N/A
Purchase Link: http://www.JordansTips.com/Players
Clickbank Nickname : jordanh
To Claim Bonus: email receipt to
Bonus Offer Limit: Today Only

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I posted on Tuesday night that I was about to have a play with a new Website Stores system to see how easy it is to get up and running before potentially promoting it to my subscribers, as it’s been a couple of days I thought I’d post a quick update…

The system is a real nice bit of kit and in under an hour I was able to get to grips with it and pull in a LOT of targeted products from ebay, amazon and clickbank for different markets as the tutorial videos are very easy to follow, but..

Having “published” my site I discovered that the ads and pages weren’t displaying correctly at all, and whilst it’s quite probably something I’ve done wrong or not set up, I’m still waiting on their support to get in touch to help me out with it, so I guess I’m not the only one who’s had some sort of problem getting up and running.

Now there’s a couple of important points to mention here, before you get the wrong impression: -

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