Mark Hendricks made the most difference in my online business!

My relationship with Mark has become much more than just a business coaching relationship. He’s a trusted adviser and a good friend. When Monday morning arrives, that’s my official Mark coaching time. But I can call him any time to go over specific problems or just to ask his opinion about anything.

He’s been instrumental in building the Niche Affiliate Marketing System workshop by pitching in whenever he can without any expectations.

And it goes way beyond the advice and support. When I started NAMS, I used his projector, his screen and his sound system that made the first one possible. He sat in the back of the room and ran the sound for the entire 3 [...]

March 16th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: General, Motivation, Niche Affiliate Marketing System, Workshop News | One comment

How To Choose A Profitable Niche

Last August, I met a woman at NAMS2 who quietly sat in the back of the room and absorbed everything. I knew she was a sharp cookie just by the questions she asked and the people she hung out with.

Last week, Nicole Dean sent me a note to tell me that I should take a look at Susanne’s Affiliate Niche Packs – they fit right in with my Niche-Mall storefront. (I’m always on the lookout for high-quality products to drop into my mall – hint, hint.)

And she was right; these are excellent. I bought them all. But more than that, I realized Susanne Myers really understood how to find profitable niches. One of the things she includes in her niche pack is a marketing checklist that shows step-by-step how to start promoting in the niche.

So, I ask her to write a guest blog post giving you a lesson in finding your niche. So, I’ll turn it over to [...]

March 8th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Affiliates, Guest Post, Niche Affiliate Marketing System, Oursourcing | 3 comments

Am I a lone nut?

NAMS was a hair-brained scheme. But after watching this video I stumbled across on the web the other day, I finally realize what’s happening

This is a pretty silly video with a really profound message.

What do you [...]

March 4th, 2010 | Tags: , , | Category: General, Motivation, Niche Affiliate Marketing System, Workshop News | 3 comments

Marketing lessons from the tractor - part 2

When we last heard from farmer David – that was me last weekend – I talked about how important it is to find people who already know the tips and tricks that help you move through problems quickly.

What is that great quote? I think it’s something like this: The smart man learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from other peoples’ mistakes.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve made plenty. And finally, I’m ready to make fewer.

The problem I was trying to solve was how to use the big Kubota tractor – my dream machine – with a Box blade and a front end bucket to smooth my washboard driveway.

And with my friend’s advice (let’s call him my driveway mentor), I had the answer to smoothing my drive – drive backwards and drag the front end bucket to scrape the driveway smooth. And it was working very well [...]

March 3rd, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Affiliates, General, Motivation, Niche Affiliate Marketing System, Workshop News | Leave a comment

There's got to be a trick to this...

Man, I was really frustrated this morning.

I had a great farm day planned at my house. My driveway was like a washboard even though we’d put nearly a 120 tons of gravel on it just 3 months ago. Yep, that’s a lot of gravel, but I’ve got a lot of driveway.

My truck – and more importantly, Charlsa’s Jeep – was bouncing all over the drive even though we practically crawl up to the house. And it was only getting worse.

So, I rented a tractor with a box blade and a bucket, and planned to level out the drive myself. How hard could this be, I thought. Just need a blade to drag the drive and all will be well again. And besides, this would be an opportunity to show Charlsa that I really need a tractor to [...]

February 27th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: General, Motivation, Niche Affiliate Marketing System, Workshop News | 2 comments

Do you exist? Not if you don't have a domain!

Unless you have a domain and some webhosting space where you can put your stuff, you really don’t have much of a web presence.

I love Twitter, Facebook, and all the other social marketing sites. But are you being “social with a purpose”? If you’re not driving your social friends to your own links – your personal webspace – you’re not really building a business.

That’s one of the first premises of online business. The “asset” is in the list. If you’re building a targeted list, you’re building a valuable asset. If you’re not, you’re just treading water.

Why am I bringing this up now? Tomorrow, and every week for the next several, I’m [...]

February 20th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: Affiliates, General, Niche Affiliate Marketing System, Niche Mall, Niche Simple SEO Hosting, SEO for Niches, Social Marketing, Tools I love, Traffic Generation | One comment

Keep the NAMS 3 Workshop momentum going with training webinars

Keep the NAMS 3 Workshop momentum going with training webinars

Stuff happens fast in the internet world. So, we should be ready to respond. That’s why I’m setting up a couple of last-minute webinar training sessions.

The first is part of an ongoing series I’m starting about profiting from NAMS as an affiliate. Yes, this is late notice, but I wanted to let you get started as quickly as [...]

February 3rd, 2010 | Tags: , | Category: Affiliates, General, Niche Affiliate Marketing System | Leave a comment

Saving lives at NAMS3!

At the workshop, we arranged with Dr. Mani to create fund for performing open heart surgeries in his pediatric practice in Chenai, India. The deal was simple.

I gave each of the attendees Dr. Mani’s outstanding book called: Think, Write & RETIRE: How To Turn Words Into Wealth – Easily!

If the NAMS3 workshop students donated more than $25 to the Dr. Mani fund, students would get a $300 copy of his home study course. See [...]

February 2nd, 2010 | Tags: , , , | Category: General | Leave a comment

And the winner of the sales competition is...

It was a live 60-minute panel discussion with Kevin Riley, Willie Crawford, Jeff Herring, Maritza Parra and Joey Smith revealing their secret – and best – tips for driving traffic using social marketing.

We took the mp3, created the sales page in 90 minutes using tools and techniques that we taught studnets, added some great bonuses and started a 24-hour sales contest. Seven people made first-time sales including Rafael Sanchez who killed the competition with 26 sales. See his video [...]

February 2nd, 2010 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Affiliates, General, Motivation, Niche Affiliate Marketing System, Workshop News | Leave a comment

Why do I have to sign an NDA and release?

Newcomers who walk into the Niche Affiliate Marketing System workshop are often surprised that they must sign a Non-Disclosure form (NDA) that includes a release to use your picture, testimonial and audio comments.

The release part of the document isn’t the part that scares people. It’s the non-disclosure paragraph that gives people pause.

“I also agree that I may be hearing proprietary information during the conference, and I agree to not plagiarize the work of others, or share this information with competing parties. However, the concepts and strategies I learn may be assimilated, emulated and modeled from others into my own project, but I will not steal or disclose proprietary information to others, it just wouldn’t be [...]

January 27th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , | Category: General, Niche Affiliate Marketing System, Workshop News | Leave a comment
 
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