October 2nd, 2006 at 7:25 am
This Challenge Needs You!
You’ve seen the Challenge that I’ve been set (to create a step-by-step course teaching you how to become a Champion List Builder) but what do YOU think?
Is there something you would like me to include in the course?
Do you think there is too much hype on the internet and not enough honesty?
Just make a comment below and join in the fun!
I’ll be posting DAILY updates, audios and behind-the-scenes videos to show you how I’m getting on with the challenge so don’t forget to subscribe to this blog by clicking on the ‘DON’T MISS OUT! SUBSCRIBE TO BLOG NOW!‘ link on the left hand side of this page..
Speak soon.
Michael
I hope that this will help me to more money with adsense. Actually it is 3 USD a day, but lets see, if you can make it more.
Thank you.
Hi Michael, how ya doing?
many of the list building courses and programs etc, seem to mention, but never seem to go into “HOW” to use JV’s correctly, for list building and traffic. Maybe, this is an area you could look at.
regards
David Barnard
You don’t make life easy for yourself, do you Michael? Then again, those who make the effort will reap the rewards.
Looking forward to following your progress and seeing the results.
Tony,
List building IS a great way to get people to click on your AdSense ads.
You can get LOTS more AdSense revenue if you focus on REPEAT traffic (by building a list) rather than just on the endless process of pushing through-traffic.
Michael
Great Idea Micheal. What better way to help us than to show a step by step example. I’m excited for you and believe you can do.
David,
I will try to include something about using Joint Ventures in there as you are right 0 leveraging other people’s lists is VERY important in this process.
It’s one of the major things I did to get my list of over 47000 people.
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Andrew & Dustin - thank you for your kind comments. I can sleep in December I suppose!
Michael
So what is the first step that you are going to take? I would love to try to keep up with you in the process.
I would like something that is simple, consistent and that can be duplicated. If it means keying in data, I’m willing to do the work. But these “data entry” listings focus on placing ads, which is conveniently omitted in the sales letter. (In my opinion, most of these “data entry” listings are the Internet equivalent of “stuffing envelopes” in mail order, i.e., the critical element to make it work is omitted.)
Other sites mention that one only needs to place ads using juicy keywords, enhance SEO and do RSS, and that’s all there is to it. Say what?
Good Idea Michael… at last someone who’s doing what’s needed! Best of British to you!
Looking forward to hear your progress and of course the final result.
What are the pro’s & con’s of using a squeeze page to build the list? I’m finalising my website & am considering using one of these as opposed to having an opt-in box (suppose I could have both though!)
Forgot to mention this earlier,
the main reason that I have found, for people to stop building their lists, is that they are not getting any return (as in Money) within the first week or two. What is the best way to generate a quick return within the first few days?
regards
David Barnard
Dustin - thank you! The first step is to map out the curriculum based on the what you have all told me you want to find out!
Everett - I will make it clear if additional cost is incurred in any of the steps but will also go out of my way to find methods of doing as many of the steps as possible for free!
It will DEFINITELY be something you can duplicate!
Andy - thank you. Squeeze pages are cool, so are optin boxes. I will address both these things in the course so thank you!
Hi Michael.
Fantastic idea I know there are a lot of people like myself who struggle to decipher some of the written advice out there, yet if we see it done and can follow along and pause the video we are able to duplicate the advice. So thank you very very much for taking the time to put this together and help us achieve the success that we are all striving for.
PS As they say if you dont ask you dont get– I only live a few miles from your office so if you need a “dummy” to test any of this on then I am more than happy ( I would actually be delighted ) to drive out and test anything in front of your eyes so that you could see if even a non techie like myself can follow your directions.
Warm Regards
Dave
Despite everything, I’m finding myself only making 1 USD a day… Oh well. It’s a packet of fruit pastles.
Thanks Michael! I hope this helps me make a bit more!
David - that is one of the hardest things. That’s why I’ve decided to make this course possible to complete in ELEVEN days so that you can see return on investment VERY QUICKLY.
I know that we all want to make a LOT of money quickly but to me, as long as the process is quick and profitable it can repeated over time and also scaled up.
The important factor here is to get a PROFITABLE list quick. That’s why I’m calling the course ‘11 Days To List PROFITS”.
So can’t answer your question here as it needs a lot of steps and more thought on my part as I start to plan out the curriculum and start recording the videos.
Thanks,
Michael
Michael,
I’m in the process of building themed pages now that will include Google AdSence.
Just what are the rules/methods to properly and “legally” develope a squeeze page for visitors as they hit various landing pages and/or progress throught the site contents?
Your challenge to yourself and us is great!
Thanks! Sincerely,
John
Thankyou for rethinking what is needed before beginning your membership site. As a “newbee” I look forward to becoming a champion and a productive member of your upcoming membership site.
Hi Michael
I am looking forward to seeing the videos. Will you be actually building a list from scratch?
I have a small list from one of my other sites but I have made very little money from it because I only want to sell stuff that I truly believe in. Most of the hundreds of lists I am on just sell crap and I don’t believe they actually use the products themselves.
It seems to me just having a list is not enough, so will you be showing us how to monetize the list?
Kind regards
Jeff Cowtan
Please make printable transcripts available also! The ability to refer back to them instantly, concisely highlighted, lets me add them to my “Reference Book.” I don’t like audio/video presentations because digesting them and taking notes is less efficient. Also these eat up so much more time than quick-scanning pages of print. “CONCISE” is my favorite word, and recordings tend not to be.
Thank you.
This is a brilliant idea Michael! Step-by-step instructions by video is exactly what I need for areas of internet marketing that I struggle in. Look forward to what’s coming…
As a newbie I hope your system works.
I love my morning coffee. I’d love to be able to enjoy my morning coffee while analyzing my traffic stats from the previous 24 hours of business. So far, it’s just enjoy the coffee
(if you get my drift).
Adsense is a fickle machination that requires an inordinate amount of savvy, a bona-fide marketer’s mindset, and constant attention. Forget about the auto-pilot myth if you’re a newbie.
Content and product creation are the two areas in which I’m most interested in developing my skills. Ideas for products, and sources of relevant content for AdSense pages are scarcer than well documented Alien Abductions, so it’d be nifty to see some commentary on those issues.
Exciting project, Michael. I’m eager to see how it progresses.
Hi Michael,
I really look forward to promoting this course to my members, as well as studying it myself
Its going to be of great value to all of us.
Glad to see you had a nice time state side and
I look forward to meeting you at a BIG event soon.
Take care
Many thanks Michael
Alex
Hi Mike - well done on this - very interesting
One thing you might want to do is to change your wordpress permalinks to something more seo friendly - go into options/ permalinks in your wordpress admin.
In my SEO blog at http://www.seoservicesdirect.com the structure there is developed by adding the following code into your options:
/%category%/%postname%/
good luck
Peter
Hi Michael
I must say you were spot on about the confusion faced by an internet novice like me trying to emulate success stories like you!! I really really would whole heartedly appreciate a STEP by STEP guidance on this whole process. I am a big ZERO right now, however I would love to be a ONE followed by many many Zeroes. Thanks a million for trying to understand people like me. Eagerly looking forward to hearing from you. All the very best to you in this noble endeavour.
Regards,
Jimmy
Great idea, Michael!
I think step by step instructions/videos would be very helpful. The only thing is that I think newbies need to realize that there is no free lunch. That this is a fabulous opportunity but you DO have to DO work. No one makes piles of money for doing 10 minutes work. At least not legally.
Newbie here with no website as yet but know how important the “list” is. Too many use the abreviations that we do not know what they are or what they mean. Need help with those.
Hi michael, I am a newbee so right now i haven’t any questions .You are right it all is overwhelming in holland we say “i can not see the trees through the forest anymore”but I really want to be succesful on the net.I think there is a large market here in holland and also in germany.so if I have the right mentor I will be abl to succeed. thanks upfront.
Thank you all for your best wishes! This will keep me going tonight as it’s going to be a late one!
Jeff - I WILL be building a list from scratch using the processes I actually end up recording in the videos.
Sharon - I will keep things as concise as I can though this is a cast area so there will be lots of videos. What I will be doing though is just making it a single-track process so you can follow me exactly rather than getting lost by taking any wrong turnings!
AdSense stuff - building content JUST for AdSense is never a good idea as you’ll know if you went through my AdSense Videos.
But from what you have all told me it’s the making money, and not the method, that is most important. The really cool thing is that building a list can help you in ALL areas of internet marketing - AdSense, affiliate marketing, selling your own products etc.
Michael
Hello Michael!
Quite the undertaking!
Looking forward to following your progress!
Thanks for ALL you do!
Don
Michael,
Hats off.
I run a very good offline consulting business.Bringing it online and trying to diversify with some online income streams has been a nihtmare! But this,buy that,do this, come here,join us is the most frustrating experience I have encountered in 30 years in business.
My Offline motto is you don’t have to be an expert you just nee to trust someone who is or knows one.
Hopefully you can become the online version.
Cheers from Canada.
Rick
hi michael, i have many emails from u - many videos and many insights - i actually subscribe to many opt ins and see what i get in my box - i get lots of hype and lots of good ideas - ill be watching this blog to see what you can really do
im sure you wont fail
thanks for the friendly voice - guiding us throught
ps - better be careful you may end up on my lost soon
:)
dave
Hi Michael,
I have been trying to get into Internet Marketing for a while and there are now only 2 main people I listen to: (you’re one of them).
I’m a member of Mike Liebner’s Article Undeground, (i’m sure you know of each other). I hope that with both HIS and YOUR expertise I will Change from newbie to champion in the near future. I have been building websites for a 2-3 months now and focusing on one main one: www.InternetBankingRevealed.com.
My main problem with all my attempts is that i’m not getting any traffic! I have thought about list building but don’t know where to start and as I don’t actually sell anything on my site, (just offer advice) I don’t know what I can offer subscribers.
Good Luck with your challenge!
John.
Well, judging by my smoking keyboard it seems like you are excited by this as I am! It’s great to hear that you are all with me on this.
This will keep me going!
I think it is totally crucial to build a list first - if I could start out again it would be the very first thing I would do.
John - as for monetizing it, I truly believe that this is the easy part if you get everything else right. I will be devoting a lot of time to this step though but ultimately, once you have a list of people that you can help out with your advice, you just need to keep giving them what they want at a reasonable price.
I’ve got some videos to go and record now but can’t tear myself away from replying to your comments on here!
Michael
I have seen a lot of courses, bootcamps, seminars advertised about list building some are step by step some are not. So I don’t agree with your comments that there aren’t courses of this nature about. What I haven’t seen yet is a step by step list building exercise in a niche that is not a internet marketing niche. It would be good to carry out you step by step list building exercise in a niche you know nothing about but there is a gap in the market. That, in my opinion is a
more relevant example to what people are actually faced with day to day. In my case for example my problem is not getting people to subscribe to my newsletter but getting people to confirm the subscription. Fewer than 50% confirm even with incentives. I don’t work in an internet marketing niche and a lot of my subscribers can’t understand why they have to double opt in. With thanks for this opportunity. Ken.
Michael
That is just great. I will have 3 new ebooks ready to go live by Christmas but with no list - I feel lost. Hopefull your ‘11 days’ means that I will start to see people on my list within a few weeks from the 1st Nov.
Big thank you.
Your Marketing Bible was outstanding. Top that information by going into greater detail with how to built your list using your own articles, not that outdated PLR garbage you have to rewrite. How to use your list effectivly. In other words: When to e-mail only content, when to introduce preselling, and when & how to sell. How and where to locate in your e-mail, links to landing-sites. Where to locate links you want your list to click on out of curiosity.
Michael
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Ken,
There are many ways you can improve double optin rates (or you can choose a provider that doesn’t require them).
I personally have never used double optin and it’s never harmed me.
If people really want your messages they will optin as many times as needed.
Maybe posting a picture on your thank you page of what the confirmation email looks like or telling them it’s on the way would help?
Changing the wording of the confirmation will also help from the standard set up to a real carrot / bait approach if they confirm “Click here to get started with your amazing XYZ..”..
Thanks,
Michael
Hi!
Michael, when I did a short series of Yahoo/Google searches for your marketing endeavors, your name came up on top, but not what you’re all about, traffic generation, adsense marketing, and marketing in general.
Here’s the strings i used:
Searches for Cheney’s sites on Yahoo/Google
Adsense #30
michael cheney #1
michaelcheneytop500 #2
create web site traffic ??
generating web site traffic ??
web site traffic ??
traffic ??
marketing ??
Being fair minded, some of the sites returned may have been yours, but your name was not associated prominently with the site.
My point? If building site traffic and web marketing in general are to be the focus of your video guide, what would I gain for my enterprise, if exected search results for my businesses were the same as the searches I just ran for the focus on business you have?
Last month I lost my employment, and I do not drive anymore. Replacing a job is out of the question, both for my age, and for the transportation issue, as we live in a rural setting. Therefore, my decision to apply what little online maketing knowlede I possess, and a determined search for Real Successful online marketing guidance has been frustrating, to put it very mildly!
In fact, just last week, after almost 60 days of searching up to 15 hours daily, seven days a week, I had a great idea: When this all comes together for my business, I will set down and produce a clear, easy-to-grasp, inexpensive online marketing and traffic-generating guide, for the average Joe Blow who wants desperately for a satisfying, Profitable, online business!
Then, I bump into your site, as I read some marketing guide info where your URL is placed!
OK, you’re onto something HUGE!
You’ve experienced a Whole lot more online marketing than I have, and you’re Hearing the same frustrations I Am Experiencing!
Go For It, Brother!
Also, at my tiny-just-started-last-week-site, with the URL provided here, you can read my own frustrations and, I hope before I lose my apartment to lack of income, progress with my own online marketing!
See you there!
Claude Armstrong
Michael,
I was wondering if this process will include how to build a list in a niche market. It seems to me that most of the current products/instructions, etc. are based on doing JVs with internet marketers as the main focus. I don’t think that a bunch of internet marketers-to-be would be a good list for dog training or for woodworking, etc. How do you build a niche list from scratch.
Another question that goes along with list building is how to use the autoresponder. I have played around with that, but I need more nuts and bolts of how they work…For instance, do they email you when you have a prospect? Do they automatically add to the right list, etc,etc.
Lots of information for you to cover. I wish you the best of luck and am anticipating a very fun ride.
P.S.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Claude
Michael -
Good to know that someone finally is listening to what us “newbies” need. So many are trying to get us to make sustantial $$ purchases for their “Programs” that are mostly “greek” to many of us. After buying so many things that simply do not work for us, why would we continue to spend the BIG $$ just to be going in circles with alot of information, but no guidance as to how we are to use it!! Looking forward to watching you sift through our comments, and thank you for your genuine interest in wanting to give us what we finally need!…..I am excited to see the results….
Michael,
Brilliant Idea and once again you’re raising the bar for the rest of us. Can’t wait to learn from you as you go through the process.
If you need any help at all, just drop me a line.
Again, love and keep it up. You rock!
fabman
Waiting to see if you come through with your promises and meet the challenge. I’ve got enough hype to last me a lifetime and only enough bread crumbs to feed the birds. Here’s to hoping your gonna provide the entire loaf this time :O)
Hi Michael, I’m a complete beginner, but have enjoyed watching your previous videos. I know building lists is an essential part of an internet marketing campaign and am looing forward to what is in store for us.
Thanks
Leon
Michael,
Thank you. Will help out a lot of folks.
Michael,
I have a website with more than 200 products to offer. It is not an information or download site - just hard, everyday objects. Would your info profit me and, if so, how?
Show us some love, so we can show you the money!
I have read alot about list building so I am glad that you are covering this subject. People on the net say it is in the list and I can see the sense in that but to build a list its seems that you have to have a newsletter or some kind of course.This frighteds me to death as I can,t write a word,sorry this is so long but it is something that holds me back. Best of luck with want you are doing.Les Barton
Very curious what this is all about. Having had bad experiences with internet marketing companies am resolved to learn to do it myself and cut out the bullshit. Just need 25/8 week and everything will be fine! Hehe! Will watch this space with interest.
Hello Michael,
Count me in the bunch that are sick of opting into a newsletter or something similar just to find a bunch of “look how much money I make!” shock bait followed up with “give me YOUR money and I’ll show you how I did it”. Then they show you techniques that you already know and just keep trying to bait you into buying something else. I’m surprised that marketers have found so much success selling to marketers!
I’ll be following closely and hoping that this is the way I begin to really make money. I am a professional with valuable information that I share at http://explaintome.blogspot.com. I’ve learned how to drive some traffic to the site thanks to you. Now I just need to learn how to turn my info into dollars. I’m hoping that your information isn’t all geared toward internet marketing cookie-cutter sites.
Thanks for your help and best of luck!
Kevin
Nice to hear a down-to-earth British voice for a change. I hope you come through with your promises as I do indeed think that building a sufficiently large list is the key to network marketing and I’ve heard all the JV recommendations - you need at least 50,000 visitors a day to interest most of them! - but how do you get visitors from people you don’t know without costing a fortune in buying lists that have already been bought by others? I look forward to seeing the results of your challenge! Good luck.
Hi Michael,
Great idea…glad you didn’t do the membership site!! Will there be a cost attached to the final product and if so, how much?
Regards
Peter
Goodday Michael,
I see everyone has about the same questions, and you have answered most. Looking forward to getting started November 1. Don’t forget, all the newbies do need to know how to build their own website…at least this one does!
Get plenty of rest…you’re going to need it.
Judith
Hi Michael,
It will be a very big test for you , but I
think you will able to pull it off.
Dan
Hoping for the best, for both you as you produce it and me to be able to actually apply it.
Hi Michael
Im really looking forwarding to seeing the progress you make and Im sure it will be a success and hopefully we can all learn lots of great information along the way.
I have eagerly digested all your other videos and Im seeing definate improvements so Im looking forward to more freebies from you.
Best of luck (not that you need it !)
sally neill
Its not a great secret to building a list. To build a list you have to swap an email address for something that someone wants. So the first thing that you need to create is an opt in sales page that offers somekind of ‘opt-in’ promotion. The real problem that people tend to have is getting traffic to their website. One of the best ways to do this is by buying cheap traffic using Google Adwords and converting this click in to a high paying product using a well made sales page offering genuine inducements.
Its one thing selling info products to other money making wannabies, who have a natural urge to buy these reports and guides but another thing to reel in those people who want to grow prize winning marrows or how to repair your push bike, its these people in these niches that need targeting more as there are literally hundreds of profitable niches.
Really its all about finding how to get in contact with people. A good place to start is in your newsagents in the magazines - see what people are taking about, go to the local library see whats been lent the most, visit Nichebot.com and type in things like ‘how to’, ‘report on’ ‘growing a’ etc, its all about research. Once you find your niches list building will follow your information products.
Simon
I am thrilled at this Michael. I have been looking a ways to build a list and I hope this is a stepping stone to a wealthy future.
Just in time Michael! October 15 I am officially starting a new website which will be where I focus the majority of my energy for the forseeable future. The revenue streams for this website will be primarily through Adsense and affiliate links, but the subject matter is very near and dear to me.
It will be great to follow your instructions to the letter to see where it takes me! Like Kevin above, I hope this information will be applicable to more than just marketing type sites.
Michael - you offer the best quality and the best value of any website marketing guru I have ever come across (though Rosalind Gardner is right there too in the honesty and encouragement categories!)
Hi michael
Just waiting for the real stuff. Is there anything that I should do in the meantime? I really need that step by step help.
thanks,
Jeff
Hi Michael, I would just like to see a video on exactly how you yourself are making $19,000 US Dollars per month with Adsense and your websites.
In your videos you made a big step from just a couple of dollars a day to $19k. how is that humanly possible? Speaking of hype on the Internet, don’t you think you are at the top of that mountain?
I have been online for five years, own six sites and cannot even aspire to anywhere near that kind of revenue if I worked 24 hours a day seven days a week. I don’t imagine you will respond to this. My question is how do you go from $2.00 per day to $19,000 per month?
Hi Michael,
Good luck on your escapade, lets hope you don’t chew for too long
This isn’t so much of a ‘help me’ post but more of a ‘I have to query what you suggest’ post. Relating to opt in and double opt in methods.
While both options are available to anyone building a list, surely it is always better to have a ‘qualified’ list?
The real problem with single optin lists are the ‘robot’ generated emails requests.
If people don’t confirm, your list builds up with this garbage and at some point it reaches the point where delivery is affected.
And if nothing else … big lists eat bandwidth .. why waste it?
I’m sure we’ll all be learning lots watching you.
Kev Polley
There is little question that it is overwhelming out there understanding it all. I look forward to seeing how you do.
Michael, I’m a fan of what you have shown me in the past. I look forward to seeing what you have to show me on November 1st.
Following your many suggestions through your videos and publishings, I have become a student of the game. As you have suggested, I have learned to play by the rules of the game instead of trying to reinvent the wheel–probably the most down-to-earth advice I have received to date.
I look forward to seeing how I can apply this to Professional Web Design, http://www.eyoucandoit.com.
Best Regards,
Bradley G. Smith
Hello Michael,
I fall into the newbie category. I appreciate your willingness to slow down and go step-by-step for some of us. Videos are a great way to learn, and I can watch one several times over until I “get it”. Thanks again! Regards, Jim
Michael,
I got so excited I forgot to mention what I really wanted you to focus on.
I want to put together information products…eBooks and video products, stuff that can be downloaded or sold on CD.
I want to be able to sell them on eBay and Yahoo, and convert traffic from those sites back to a site of my own. (I have no clue how to make a site of my own either).
I want to learn how to make a one-page web site with the sales letter and testimonials, just like this one looks.
I know you gave yourself a short deadline. I hope you can do it too. Regards, Jim
Michael,
Great stuff, I am always astounded at the response to your marketing campaigns, you’re a clever chap. If I learn only one tip from your site then it’ll be worth it, my sites are not bringing in that much from AdSense and if I can increase (or preferably tripple) that income I’ll be a happy guy.
I look forward to hearing back from you.
Best regards, Dave.
PS: Always nice to hear a clear British accent amongst an American-flooded market.
Claude - you might not find me on Google for certain terms but that is partly my point in all this. Because I know how to build a list and get traffic without having to pay through the nose for it or worry about how the search engines rank sites it makes it a much better long term model.
Sarah - I will tell you how to find niche markets and apply this process to them, yes.
Larry - the videos will be aimed at helping you regardless of what your market is, so it doesn’t matter if you have e-products, physical products or (what I’ll cater to most) - if you have NO PRODUCTS at all!
Les - don’t be frightened!
I will make this as far from ‘writing’ as possible so that even a child can do it. That is my challenge!
Peter - you asked if there will be a cost attached to the final product. What do you think?
Yes, there will be a cost. I’m probably looking at, at least 20 videos here - it will be an entire step-by-step system from scratch to site-built, list-built, sales made. So yes - I will be looking for a modest investment from you to get access to all the videos.
Judith - plenty of rest is a good idea but every time I look at the calendar and the clock I get other ideas! Like starting to record the list building videos themselves!
Jeff - on the meantime, just keep checking back here every day as I will post my progress, give away sneaky peaks etc.
Brian - you can get access to everything I know about making money with AdSense at http://www.adsense-videos.com
Kev - I hear you but for me I’d rather just focus on giving away quality material and not lose sleep over the single vs. double-optin debate. It’s never done me any harm.
Jim - I will be showing you how to build your very own web pages so don’t worry about that!
Michael
also how do I make money with the list once I have it???
JB
Hi Michael
It is a great idea that should be done in stages so we can all be building a list along with each lesson. The problem I have is lack of time, I have family commitments and do not even have the time to find out about USM and RSS to even get started. Why not a normal blog for easy access?
Regards
Terry Cummings
Hi Michael,
Here’s my most important question: what exactly is your understanding of what step-by-step means? I’m asking because I am trying to decide if I should spend the time following along with this challenge. Time is precious you know
What step-by-step means to someone really depends on what level of detail they are shooting for. Step-by-step instructions is used fairly loosely I think, by some probably because it gives an impression of a duplicateable, safe, and fail-safe process to make money. Does such a business concept really exist? Most often when a whole bunch of people start doing the same thing they actually create a new situation, a new reality if you will and the step-by-step process no longer works effectively.
You used the phrase step-by-step about your Adsense videos as well in the sales letter. However, although I enjoyed the videos and found them helpful they were not what I consider step-by-step and did not, in my personal oppinion, complete the picture of what it takes to become successful with Adsense. They gave vital and important pieces, but not the whole (detailed) story of how you make so much money with Adsense.
With this list building challenge — are you really going to reveal all the (very important) nitty-gritty details in order that someone can do exactly what you are saying they will be able to do and in the same time as you did it? If yes, why on earth do you want to create a whole bunch of competitors for yourself?
Forgive me for playing the devils advocate and I do appreciate what seems to be an honest concern for us wannabe online entrepreneurs. It’s just that I have been fed so much b.s. and wasted so much time in the past I admit I have become a bit cynical.
Good luck with the challenge.
Best wishes,
Martin
Hi Mike
You Brave ,Brave, man.
I really believe you can do this and provide something the others never do!
“PRODUCE AN END RESULT”
many have started the journey but none to date have fulfilled their intentions to produce a consice working model for an A - Z success system. Most provide “bits” to get you going but miss out important parts which can take years of experience to complete the jigsaw.
I have great hopes for your challenge as you have turned the tables on everyone else by asking the questions before producing the answers and my friend Dr Spock would say “That is a logical method” shame some of those guys who charge $100 for info letters did not think your way.
All Power to you Mike. Be the one who makes a difference!.
Well Michael I am glad you have taken up the task. Saves us all the hassle of looking in the wrong places.
It is a challenge but I reckon it just makes it all the more intresting.
All the very best.
Hello Michael,
I am looking forward to seeing your videos. I’m learning that to succeed, you need to visualize what you are going to do in your mind first to make it happen. However, if you don’t know how to do something, step by step, it’s nearly impossible to visualize it. I have been working on the internet for a few years now and read alot of how-to books and they just don’t get me as far as a good video. I have been using Paypal for years and I just learned how to setup the payment button on a website due to a video and that has been a struggle for me along time now.
Keep up the good work Michael
Kimerlee Rice
Michael,
If it is simple so all can understand. You will be king. Leave no stone unturned. Remember everybody don’t know what you know. Make it elementary. If the upperclassmen already know it. they will breeze thur it.
Thanks for your time.
Bill
hi Michael,
spot on.
the step-by-step building of an opt-in list
thus leading to at least 4-digit revenue
from Google’s adsense. WOW! i’m excited.
cheers,
Bob Mendoza
www.helloworld.com/mbaglobal
www.biz-e-web.com
Hi there Michael,
Looking forward to your product release
I’m eager to find your real-life opt-in landing page examples, along with tips, tricks and tactics to build super responsive opt-in list of *buyers, that’s what I want to find out more about…
Cheers.
Codrut Turcanu.
Michael,
A world first;absolutely brilliant,mate….your right on the money and you will draw masses of folks - presently struggling through the maze of ‘half baked’ too ‘highly priced’ programs - to you like bees round honey.
As to how I can help,well all I can do is cooment as follows…………
It seems to me at the moment that traffic via the SEO/Google system is getting tougher by the minute and that ’social bookmarking’ is perhaps the way of the future(at least for the forseeable future) that is socialbookmarking in conjunction with Blog and RSS feeds?
These 3 systems supplied with unique-content-keyword-targetted articles would allow the spread of quality information,which along with quality comment from others,might just be the means by which newbie strugglers like me might be able to make a few extra dollars.
My problem Michael is that I dont understand RSS feeds and howto set them up or add them to blog pages or bookmark sites - though I’m now reading that these are the type of systems I should be using;I simply dont understand how to use them?……….hope this helps explain why so many of us need the ’step by step’video-look over your shoulder ‘click by click’ tutorial to learn how its done SUCCESSFULLY….
Respectfully,
Laurence Chilcott
Hi Michael, the video I bought was well worth the money, I actually doubled my daily adsense income from .90 to $1.80 and above
. hey! I’m not complaining, my business is a very tiny niche…keep up the good work!
Hi Michael,
Wow!I’m so thrill and exciting that you’ll challenge yourself on “to create a step-by-step course teaching newbies how to become a Champion List Builder” for us.Thanks.
As I’m infact a newbie in the internet marketing world,the first I want is to get some business ideas and market.
Good luck with the challenge,
Adran
Looking forward to the info.
Hi Michael,
I have to say that all of the information and videos that you have produce so far have been very detailed and helpful. I have personally learned an ton of useful tips from each of your newsletters and video.If your listbuilding videos are equal to any of your previous educational videos,Then we will all be anxiously awaiting your video instuctions.
“Best of luck with your new challenge”
Rich
First there are too many lies and deception tactics to manipulate the consumer about building a business.There is not much help and assistance from the people that bring you into. The top dog who started is making all the money and getting all the customers.All of us are just little splinters.We get the superceded model whilst they have their little inner circle meetings creating something new and with update software.What’s the old saying,’buyer beware!. They are many honest and upright marketers however, very few give you the hand to hand assistance…actually this part is the most necessary aspect of being a newbie,’where do I start?.I will being very grateful to see what you have in store. Don’t overdo yourself.Warren
Michael,
You are one of the first online marketers I believed in enough to actually buy his product (Adsense Videos) and found it to be exactly the thing I needed to begin my online marketing career anew. I don’t know what it was, I think your video personality is what makes people immediately like you. That and the accent is kinda cool…lol. So when something like this comes up where you are going to be using videos again to help us create a list from scratch in an 11 day series, well you can bet your VCR I am going to want to be included in it.
It is inspiration that I am getting from you that I launching my HTML Website Creation Ecourse this week! It is going to rock. I may use some video… I don’t have a cool video voice like yours, tho.
Here’s to the inspiration that you give all of us here in the USA!
Thank you,
Micheal Savoie
http://michealsavoie.com/welcome
This sounds like just what I have been looking for. Everyone is willing to tell you what you need to do or sell something that will supposedly help you, but I am completely new at this and sure could use some basic help and instructions. Video would be even better; I find it easier to learn to do something if I can actually see how to do it. I am looking forward to your challenge!
Everything else I have learned from you has been priceless so I’m sure this will be too.
I have to tell you that I am beginning to feel like such a phony sometimes because I have associates that come to me for advice on how to do this or that and know that more than likely I will have the answer and they act like I’m some kind of marketing wizard when actually it’s just advice that I have learned from you and your peers over the years.
Oh well, thanks for being a mentor.
Hi Michael,
Will you also be teaching us how to get traffic and increase our convertion rates for our opt-in page? Because so far, my convertion rate has been really poor for my ezine.
Thanks
Stanley
Hi Michael,
I like your challenge to yourself. I believe you can do what you have set to do. I like your idea. We need more honest approaches to building a list. It takes a lot of work for someone new to filter thru the crud to glean some knowledge for starting an internet business.
Regards,
Phil
I would be interested to know if list building is a good idea to be incorporated into adsense site. Also, what would the best way be to build and maintain multiple lists such that the least amount of time can be spent?
Hello Michael,
Just wanted to ask where can I get an autoresponder that will allow me to submit Names and e-mail addresses by hand. ‘Get Response’ will only allow opt in responses from an online form. I advertise in an on-line Franchise opportunities website. I receive names addresses phone numbers and e-mail addresses of interested prospects from the franchise company. Customers have to fill out an online form at the franchise site requesting more information from me. Their IP addresses are not recived. I am e-mailed all customer contact information, now I would like to input this information manually on a autoresponder, message announce site. Can you reccomend a site that would allow me to input my customers information manually, without an online opt in form on my website?
Also will you supply products, merchandise, website building, and SEO with this list building course. We all need somthing to sell our lists.
Can you include detailed instructions in writing a series of autoresponder letters and message announce letters, the psychology behind the writing, and the big picture to capture sales from our customers. Letter writing may be as important as our lists. After all,what good is a Mercedes if we don’t know how to drive?
Thanks,
Eric
hallo Michael,
I’m totaly new in this business. But I’m hungry to learn(from the very beginning) all items.
Hope you can help me.
Thanks
Henk-Holland
Finally! Thanks Michael. Everyone keeps saying the money is in the list but nobody tells you how to get one and how to use it properly.
Everything I get from you is more than worthwhile. Once again I thank you and look forward to what is to come.
Josephine - I will be showing you HOW to monetize the list, don’t worry about that!
Terry - you will need some time to follow the videos but I will keep them totally jargon-free. My aim is to make them so simple a child could watch and follow what I do.
Martin - YES, I am going to give you EVERYTHING, all the steps in all the detail I know, nothing left out. Why create the competition for myself?
Because it’s not competition - when you go through this and build your own list you may end up promoting my products and sending me more business.
There is more than enough room on the internet for more list builders!
Stan - yes, traffic generation methods and conversion rates will ALL be covered in the videos.
You NEED a list - that’s the power in this. When you have a list you can send people to your adsense pages, send them to buy your products, send them to buy other people’s products - whatever way you want to make money! That’s really why list building is so important.
Right - best get back to creating the product!
;-)
Michael
Will you be providing the essential PHP scripts to build the essential members only website?. This forms the core of any major list building exercise. If you dont then only half a list will be built, and a major part of the list building arsenal will be lost. The scripts should build the MYSql backend which holds all the contact details of your new list of contacts. If you can do this and show newbies with very limited web experience how to do it well done.
Looking at these posts here, I get tired of people looking for the silver bullet approach that will do all and everything to build there money making empire. You make it sound too easy, but it takes a lot of work, research and dedication, most ‘gurus’ just say I made 20K dollars last week- you can too! - pull the other one. Those people already have responsive lists.
People need to realise that one of the best ways to get rich in this game is to have your own ebook, or series of ebooks and info products - something that you have mastered.
Hi Michael
I think you are going to do something without precedents teaching people how to make money online step by step, but You should include how to set up an autoresponder that is something very important when you have a list.We are waiting for you.We truth on you.
Hello Michael,
What am I chopped liver?
See above question, Thanks in advance for your help…
Eric
Steve - thanks for your comments. You can make a TON of money with a list and no membership site. I have never owned a membership site and it’s never harmed me.
These videos are going to show you how to get the subscribers, get your own domain and website to capture the subscriber and how to email them and make money from those emails. You don’t need a membership site to do this.
I have also kept it purposely low-tech so there won’t be any need for techie codes or anything like that.
Eric - sorry about that! I don’t know of a service where you can manually enter people’s details to add them to a list because it is open to abuse from spammers.
>Also will you supply products, merchandise, >website building, and SEO with this list >building course. We all need somthing to sell >our lists.
I have already recorded the videos that show you how to get the best products to sell and how to build your own website. I won’t be going near SEO (search engine optimization) because you don’t need to do it to build your list.
>Can you include detailed instructions in >writing a series of autoresponder letters and >message announce letters, the psychology >behind the writing, and the big picture to >capture sales from our customers.
All done.
>Letter writing may be as important as our >lists. After all,what good is a Mercedes if we >don’t know how to drive?
I couldn’t agree more! So yes - all the above is in the course, I recorded those videos yesterday.
Speak soon and keep your comments coming!
Michael
Michael,
There are people who would like to help themselves to your “gift”, some for purely selfish reasons. And then
again there are some to pass on the good they learn.
How are you to decide on a “winner”?
How odd is this giveaway?
I have your AdSence Videos and they are truly valuable, as are the tidbits found in the pre-release videos of this “11 day series”, and I thank you… but really on what basis can you decide a winner?
How many of these masses would be willing to burn the same hours of time you have spent on this project just
to help others out?
But, are your efforts for the money or for the good?
Hmm! I think it is a little of both. Your wife is probably a little upset with you though.
How are the bags under your eyes??
I know I’ve chased the rabbit, trying to learn and apply the knowledge for months now, bought this, bought that, looking for the simple straight answers.
My wife has supported the long frustrating hours and expense. I’m still trying to get a website up and running… I know your videos would help immensely.
But still what on earth would be your ultimate criteria, the absolute reason for you to say “Ah ha! This guy/or gal really needs/deserves your hand-holding course “free”, just one person, out of all the others?……..
Hmm. I suppose you must have already pre-determined how to target your winners answer. The Ultimate Post.
And though I feel the Video series would greatly benefit my wife and my efforts to succeed, and yep, I’d like to win the Series….. More important, I would like a look into your mind/heart and hear the answer to what makes a winning post based on your background and knowledge.
What could it be that sums up all the serious, fun, emotional and hard-luck stories that, all together, congeals into a single person winner?
Gosh! For as straight forward and sincere a person as yourself, and for all the time and effort expended, you have elected to dangle a “carrot” in front of a mob of
people to chase after, and singly (I suppose) make the final call.
I very much hope that the person you choose will have the softness of heart to truly appreciate, not the “winning” alone, but also your effort to teach and help.
And I hope that, that Winner will be able to make you proud by not slipping back into a hole of head-spinning confusion and non-movement because of any lack of application from your efforts.
You will after all, “freely” give whom ever wins, a very real valuable break in growing their business and expanding their dreams, and that will be directly through your teaching.
A lucky bloak, as you may say, indeed!
Solomon only had to choose between two professed mothers, and he won acclaim.
Lots of luck Michael! And thanks for your efforts!
May your best person win!
May it help change their life for the good, to be able to turn around and also help others, and maybe even make them “rich-enough” to be able to travel to meet you, and say “thanks” in person.
Sincerely,
Bize0ne