Who is Andrew Collinson?

I recently bought an internet marketing product and have decided to share with you what challenges and victories I have with it as I go through the training.The course is said to run for 12 months with one tutorial a week delivered via a pdf file I get via an autoresponder email.

You might guess that I am now an affiliate of this product.This is true.But rather than go and put an affiliate link on this site straight away I am going to resist the urge until I actually start making money with it.Then and only then could I say in all honesty that it is worth buying.

I think many people put up affiliate links,I admit I do it,for products they have never tried and tested and wonder why they get no sales.

I should add the affiliates on this blog I have used: Perry Marshall’s Guide to Google Adwords,and the products of Ann Sieg and Mike Dillard.

But anyway back to the course.

The course is a membership site and costs $27 per month so $324 over 12.

I am up to week 7 and have hit my first problem.

Back tracking first the first 5 tutorials are about getting ready to set up a sales page which means learning how to buy a domain name and set up a hosting service.I knew most of this already though I had not heard of the domain name service before Namecheap ( no that is not an affiliate link though it could be!) slightly cheaper than say Godaddy which I have used up to now.

As for web hosting I have gone with Hostgator I find the dashboard better to work with than Godaddy.

I also had a few technical problems about uploading files via FTP .Hostgator have a messaging service where you can chat with someone about a problem you have.I only had to wait about 30 secs before someone came on and had a solution for my problem immediately.
One problem was uploading pdf files.If it won’t work with Firefox try Safari.( i am a Mac user of course).

Once I had the domain registered and a host in place it was time to upload some web pages.

The course advises you to buy what are known as PLR ebooks. These are information products that someone has written which they then sell and you are allowed to change the books around a bit and then sell them again under your name.This is legal.

The trick is to get a product that is about a subject that there is interest in ,and it should come with a sales and thank you page.

The sales page is the one you upload to your web host and then and have Clickbank take the orders.

I have a HTML editor in Dreamweaver and was able to change the ebook and the sales page so that it was acceptable to Clickbank.

Yes a real person at Clickbank will check your site and see that it meets their standards.One of the things that I picked up was that you must offer a 60 day money back guarantee if the buyer is not happy with the product.
Now my guarantee was was 90 days but Clickbank wouldn’t accept this, they wanted 60 days, no more no less, even though my offer was better! So just make sure it’s sixty days.

You as a vendor with Clickbank must pay a one off registration fee of $49.95.I have paid this but my product is still not live as yet.So just be patient.

Now the problem I mentioned right at the start of this post.

The course recommends I offer a free ebook just to get names on my list.To do this they recommend I create a lightbox pop up page.

This is a page that appears on the sales page for my main product after after ten seconds.Now the course recommends we use Aweber as the autoresponder but I use Getresponse.

Now aweber have a good pop up page creator that allows quite a bit of copy to go on the pop up.The Getresponse one has only limited functionality .You can add a bit of text and that’s all.

Getresponse have told me that I would have to create my own code for a longer pop up page.

I’m not techie enough to do that so I am going to go over to Warrior forum and ask for a quote to do it.

That is where I am at now.Anyone got any other solutions for solving this problem?Let me know.

Thanks
love and peace

Andrew

Thanks for coming back,please feel free to post any comments you may have.

A good way to get information on internet marketing is to sign up to forums .These forums are the places where you start to ask questions but in time as your knowledge grows,you can become the person who answers the questions.
In this way people start to see your leadership qualities and this is where you can start to monitize either through your own products or by people joining your business ,be it direct sales or MLM.These forums are a great place to brand yourself.

So where are these forums?

Well the daddy of them all is Warriorforums.com You will be mixing with some really big earners here.Read posts about SEO,copywriting,Adsense.If you have technical questions there are people here who are experts on HTML and CCS.

For an extra,one time only $37 you will get access to the War Room the inner sanctum where the really great content can be found.No pitching and spamming here, just pure gold.

Next BetterNetworker.com which is primarily aimed at the MLM business but again there are some top experts here in the areas of PPC and SEO.You can create your own profile and then start reading the forums.Again this is a great way of building your own brand.You can link with others on the forum.Who knows some may join your business in the future.

This forum is linked to Magneticsponsoring where you can become an affiliate of Mike Dillard’s attraction marketing products such as Building on a Budget and Black Belt Recruiting.Yet another source of income for you.

Robert Kiyosaki he of Rich Dad Poor Dad fame has a forum atRichDad.com full of people looking to build an online business.So start hanging there and help people out.

That is the key,to learn and to teach at the same time.Remember you just need to know a little more than people starting out in internet marketing and you be regarded as an expert.So don’t worry if you think you don’t know enough to teach,read a book and you do know more.Teach that knowledge to others.

What forum do you hang out on and why?

Leave a comment and let us all know.

You would think that with all these online lead generation techniques like social media,ezine articles, and blogs that signing people up is an automatic process.

It’s as if you never have to talk to people who join your business.They just sign and start recruiting their distributors themselves, and you laugh as your commission checks get bigger.

Well I am sorry to disappoint you, but it’s not that simple.

You still have to covert people from prospects to distributors.That means talking to them.

Does the thought of that fill you with fear?Are your hands getting sweaty just thinking about picking up the phone?

Well these is a way of overcoming those fears.It involves a mindshift from the way you think about your business.Instead of praying that someone will join your team,think of it as a job interview.

In this interview you are interviewer and the prospect is the interviewee.They have to convince you that they are good enough to join your team.

Think in this way and you will never have any fear when you pick up that phone.Remember it is your business not the business of your opportunity.If you had your own bricks and mortar business,would you recruit anyone who came knocking on your door looking for work?

To hear more about the techniques you must have to recruit in big numbers watch this free video of  attraction marketing guru Mike Dillard in conversation with the man who recruited him into his primary business opportunity.

It’s a one hour video packed with great advice, and it’s free.

Have a great day

Andrew

Mike Dillard change the MLM business when he released Magnetic Sponsoring,which introduced the concept of attraction marketing.

Now he is updating his formula to reflect the explosion in social media and web 2.0.

He has released a 36 minute video which you can get access to here .It sets out his formula for creating an online business that is owned by YOU not your MLM company.

With an MLM business you really own nothing as the product and how it is marketed is owned by the company.

MLM companies can go out of business,or they can kick you out if you do something they don’t like.

You need a strategy that will create a list of subscribers who have a relationship with you not your company and that you can market to.

Mike sets out how this is achieved so go grab his free video now

When starting out in internet marketing,you are bombarded with gurus from all angles telling you what you should be doing.making videos,posting blogs,posting on forums,writing ezine articles.Where do you start?

Having gone through this process myself,the important thing is to focus on just a few key areas and not try to spread yourself too thinly.Right now social media is very hot so get your profile up on Twitter,facebook,Myspace and YouTube.

If you don’t have a blog at this time drive people to a funded proposal such as Mike Dillard’s Magnetic Sponsoring or Ann Sieg’s Renegade University

You will get leads this way.

The second thing to make sure of is have a set time each day when you will work on your business,no more than 90 minutes at a time without distractions.In particular resist the urge to check your email constantly.Do it twice a day and not before 12 noon.

In between these 90 bursts do something kinesthetic such as going for a run or walk,anything that get you moving.

Do meditation as least twice a day,just for 10 minutes each if you are starting out,it will clear your mind.

Ensure all that you do has the end of putting valuable content out there.This will make you a person of INFLUENCE and people will be attracted to you.

Do this now.

Here is a video I did looking at Mike Dillard’s Black Belt Recruiting.This is a book and 6 cd set in which Mike talks to the man who signed him up to one of his first opportunities, Mark Wieser.There are great tools out there to generate leads but they all must eventually be converted into distributors or at least customers.

Mike and Mark take through most of the common objections heard when talking to prospects and how to deal with them,like “how much money do you make?” or “mlm is a pyramid scheme”.

In essence you need to start thinking of your conversations with a prospects as a job interview, with you asking all the questions.Don’t be needy and think ” I must get this person in my business”.As Mike says ” he who cares the least wins”.

If you want to get some free videos from Mike first go here,they are great in themselves.
Anyway here is the video

Here is a video I did on Mike’s product Building on a Budget which is great if you are needing to generate leads but money is tight. There are lots of free resources you can tap into such as Ezine articles which you can submit at Ezine.Com or press releases through 27-7Pressrelease.com.

Google Adwords is something you should stay away from at this stage because it can eat up your monthly budget in days if you don’t know what you’e doing.

Anyway here is the video,let me know what you think.