Before I start I want to get into a story first about some of the interaction I get regularly.

Some thing came up this past week in the weekly seminar I do for Get Referrals Fast. After the standard presentation we always have what I call an open session. Rarely does it follow the topic we were discussing and quite often it goes into multiple directions.

This week it went into the topic of focus or rather how the lack of it

The person that was asking was a relatively new marketer that wanted to build a list (a good thing) and be a powerhouse.

He had been buying a bunch of IM products and not getting results from them except for one but that did not continue. He was on a buying spree and not spending enough time to actually see if he could make them work. Now he wanted to change focus again.

Can we get him on our list pretty please. Love people that buy everything.

In all of the products he had bought only one worked a bit for him. He had a little success with Google Sniper but dropped it and went on to the next thing when his pages started to drop.

Instaed of following the instructions and building more links to keep the page up in the rankings (you know that w thing again)…

He was into instant gratification. Still looking for the holy grail of the big red EASY BUTTON.

I want one too.

Now the problem with hopping from thing to thing is that you never get good at anything. He did the minimum with each thing he tried and when it did not get a ton of money on to the next thing.

Instead of taking the little success with the one program and focusing on it to continue to increase how well it worked he jumped to the next thing.

We really need more people like him on our list and then send a lot of promos. Oh yeah I can hear the Kaching already.

Despite what my evil twin would like, this is where being on too many lists can be a killer to your focus. Seeing all the new shiny objects that arrive each day keep you from improving what is working and get you off on tangents.

Changing your business model for the new latest and greatest secret will kill you. You never get good at anything and as competition increases being good at specific things will become more important.

You really need to do two things.

Manage your email properly. A topic I will be covering this coming Thursday at the Get Referrals Fast seminar. This way if you are on a bunch of lists for swipe file purposes you can still keep them but not have them be enticing you. Just check them when you are looking for ideas.

Start unsubscribing from lists that talk about things that don’t fit your current business. If that is one of mine that is fine because you won’t be interested in what I am saying anyhow.

What do you think and no answers allowed from the evil twin? We all know what he thinks

Technorati Tags: email lists, Google, holy grail, instant gratification, marketer, shiny objects

Two things that I like to use for building my subscriber base are list builders and JV Giveaways. Instant List Empire combines the two together in a single program.

Add in an owner, the most important piece when looking at list builders, that understands and will grow the membership and you usually have a winner.

Now it is too early to say that this is a winner yet as it just launched on Sunday but the early signs are there that it will be.

Then why aren’t you waiting to do this old bald one?

Because list builders work best when you get in early oh evil one. Add in the fact that my gift I added has already added subscribers, the membership is expanding quickly and I trust Guido to make sure it will continue to grow.

Looks like he should hit his 5000 member launch number quite quickly and then the bonus of 1000 advertising credits will end.

Almost makes sense but I am not sold yet.

Well, would you like it better if I told you that you can earn instant payments when people upgrade. You have numerous other ways that you can advertise such as login offers, text links, banners and solo ads.

Instant money! I always like instant money.

Yeah figured you would but it is the value of the advertising that you should be excited about. You always look just at the money and not as close to the value of programs as you should be.

He is offering an additional 1000 advertising credits for people that join during the launch phase so there is another reason to join sooner rather than later.

I guess so but tell me more about the money.

It is a free program evil one but he does offer an excellent upgrade when people join that can’t be matched later inside the program. So people can use it as an adverting resource. That is the key even though you can make some cash with it. Quality advertising is always the reason for joining. Making extra money is secondary.

Not to me it is not. Think you are going soft in the head talking about value and quality. Talk money.

Well you have seen both sides and if you want another quality advertising resource and the chance to make some cash from it (put that in for the evil one even though the advertising be good is where the real money is)…

Check out Instant List Empire today.

Technorati Tags: giveaway, launch, list builder, quality advertising, solo ads, subscribers

Occasionally there is something worth getting excited about and Dr Mani’s launch on Monday of his 47 Hearts book to the Kindle is one of them. Grab the book if you use the Kindle and you can get a ton of bonuses.

I loved the book but all of the above is not why I get excited about this.

Then why not old bald one?

Very simple old evil one. Call me old and see if it is not returned.

The reason is that all of the money generated goes to funding a heart operation for a child. None of this is being done for personal gain.

The only one that gains on this at all is Amazon. See every dime that Dr Mani gets will go towards funding these surgeries. Helping children get the care they need is what gets me excited.

Even I can get behind something like that and it is damn rare that we agree on anything.

So if you want a quality book and you use the Kindle check out 47 Hearts and grab your copy on Monday the 14th. If like me you don’t use the Kindle you can download a free app to read the book on your computer.

Details are here at CHD Awareness.

Less than $3 can get you a nice package of gifts and help a child at the same time. Lets add even more children that have been able to have life saving surgeries to the 70+ that have already been lucky recipients.

Make sure to Tweet this post, mention it on Facebook, bookmark it at your favorite site or write your own blog post to promote this launch and lets get as much awareness as we can.

Even the evil one agrees with me for once. (And yes I am writing this date down becuase it is a rare thing.)

Technorati Tags: 47 Hearts, amazon, heart operation, helping children, launch, lucky recipients, quality book, surgeries

Got an email today from a list I am on and it discussed a topic that got me thinking. Always a dangerous thing. It is something I have seen over and over but never registered properly.

The discussion was on why people ignore free or low cost resources.

But that is what everyone wants.

That is what people say but you can give them proven systems for free, walk them through it step by step and it will never get applied. Now there are exceptions but if everyone wants QUALITY free information why don’t they take advantage of it.

Because they don’t believe it is why.

That may be so. Will have to think about it a bit before deciding on that.

Either that or they have become jaded. Yeah that is it everyone figures anything for free is just a pitch to suck them in.

That might be a bit closer. There are any number of teleseminars and webinars each week which are supposed to cover a topic and end up being a tease for a pitch at the end.

Now there are exceptions to that but it may be a big part of it but it was happening before the current spate of teleseminars and webinars.

Well if that is not the case maybe it is just laziness. People want it done for them and don’t want to expend the effort.

Well we have come up with three potential reasons for it.

• Non-belief
• Jaded
• Lazy

Will be coming back to this topic because I have a couple ideas I plan to test out first but both the evil one and I would love your input on this topic.

Why don’t people use quality free resources?

Yeah we want to know what you think about that.

Technorati Tags: free resources, perception, pitch, tease, teleseminars

Adsense Alive Pro is a new release from Doug Champigny. Now some have said that Adsense is dead. You have seen the reports but those are always from someone that has something to sell. Like a lot of things it is easy to poke at something if it gets people to want what you are selling.

Adsense is still viable and I get regular direct deposits from Google to my bank account.

Yes ,we like deposits to the bank account. Oh yeah! But what is included in this package.

Good question evil one. Doug has put together a great package with everything to get someone started.

The silver package includes…

• 30 Adsense Alive WordPress Themes
• 2 videos as a bonus
• • How to install the Adsense Alive themes
  • How to install a Secure WordPress blog
• 300 PLR articles on 30 different niches
• Instant Adsense Profits video series
• Multi Niche Power Blogging video
• Affiliate Marketing with Adsense blogs video
• WP Stealth Links Plugin

Everything you need to get started creating your own Adsense empire and add affiliate offers too.

Sounds good what is the catch? Nothing is that easy for sure.

Clever you are my evil friend. Yes you need to do work and you will need to create or buy additional content. You will need to take the time to create backlinks. These are covered in the videos but yes this is not copy and paste instant money.

Despite what the various hypey sales letters tell you, it takes effort to be successful.

The key is that Doug has supplied the training, a starting point with the article package and the WordPress themes to make it easy to get started properly.

You will need hosting and to buy a domain or two.

Damn! Why don’t you ever find anything that doesn’t take that WORK thingy. I just want instant money.

Well anyone that is like you and does not want to put in the effort should save their money. Of course that goes for any product for sale.

This will make it easy and supply the knowledge people need but it is not a big red easy button. It does cut the learning curve and make it easier for someone to be successful but only with effort.

Now Doug has added a gold option too. This is personal use of all of the above items and the resell rights to..

• Adsense Alive Theme Pack
• Instant Adsense Profit
• WP Stealth Profits pluigin

So you can set up and sell each of these products as your own product. He even added a special bonus for Gold purchasers for resell rights of Blog Flipping Secrets. Another way to make money by selling off the blogs once you have created some income from them.

So who should get what? You are confusing me and that gets me pissed. You don’t want me to be pissed.

When are you not pissed oh evil one? Good question none the less.

If you are looking for an income stream using Adsense and affiliate marketing the Silver package is all you need.

If you have a list already, understand how to set up a product online then the Gold package gives you some additional ways to generate money.

The choice is yours but if you are not in the latter experience area, the Gold version could lead to information overload as your focus should be on creating your Adsense blogs and taking time to learn another skill like adding and promoting resell rights products can lead to confusion.

For me personally, the Gold package would work because I have a list of potential buyers for the products and could get the products up for sale in an hour or two.

For someone with less experience, the set up time would be much more and would keep them from actually getting the Adsense sites up and running.

Check out Adsense Alive Pro Bundle and grab the one that will work best for you.

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Jon Olson, Tim Linden, et al released a new program for new traffic exchange users called Click Track Profit. They actually have a very good idea and are doing some things I like. However…

The concept behind the program is excellent but the execution on the front end is confusing at best.

Yeah confusing is an understatement. Too much like a pig in a poke. Something I rant about quite frequently.

Well I have to agree. I know the people behind it so I wanted to take a look at it. Quite truthfully if I did not know the people involved I would not have even signed up.

Initially after signing up I stil wondered why I did.

Yeah but we are not the target audience so they say but..

If we have trouble understanding it how will their target market which is new marketers that just started?

I agree and did not really understand what the program was until talking with the owners in a conference they held. In trying to be different a few mistakes were made on the front end.

With all of those complaints though they have a great idea and the implementation once you understand what they are doing is good.

Another downline builder mainly for the owners programs is good?

If that was all that this was, and that is the impression you get on the front end, I would agree with you. There is more. A lot more but it is not explained well.

They targeted this to help new people effectively use traffic exchanges and at the same time not overwhelm people and confuse them. They failed that step on the front end in explaining what they were offering.

Once you get inside and start doing the steps that changes.

You really don’t find the stuff that makes this helpful until you have added your referral ids into the downline builder or joined the programs that you don’t belong to already.

A big thumbs up for that. I run from any program that makes you sign up only under your referrer.

I agree 100% with you there. After you finish those steps and each step has a video explanation to make it easy for people to follow through then you get training.

The training is the good part and they have set it so you only get it dripped to you. This makes it quite easy to avoid being overwhelmed which is one of the problems new people have. Information Overload.

They have made it easy to just apply one lesson at a time and because you don’t get the next lesson until the next week you can grow your knowledge gradually.

For someone brand new this looks to be a solid addition. The upgrade and the OTO have more to do with random referrals and follow through for people that don’t add their referral ids so that part depends on what people are looking for.

They did not launch it with a big JV push so it should be easy to get referrals for new people if they follow what is taught and if they improve the explanation on the front end.

Yeah I agree which is damn rare. Not something for me to get excited about personally, but a solid starting spot for people new to using traffic exchanges.

Yes good for brand new people looking to learn and not get overwhelmed or as a referral item for someone who targets those people.

Better for the experienced person to do their own training and build a better relationship with people but not a bad replacement if you don’t have the time to set that up.

Does lack a good affiliate tool box which would be a help and I am sure will be added in the future.

Check out Click Track Profit here.

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