In the main forum, I notice and responded to a thread
with the title “Are Coaches/Mentors Really Even Necessary?”

The majority of the respondents seem to feel that since
you really can study what others are doing, and then
try to copy what you observe, that hiring a coach or
mentor is not 100% necessary.

The predominant sentiment seemed to be that you can save
money by learning via trail and error, even though it may
take a little longer.

I happen to value my time too much to want to grow my
business via trial and error.

I also want to ensure the results that I get enough to
be willing to pay someone to share with me what they’ve
spent a lot of time and energy learning.

As I reflect back upon my life, I realize that I’ve
actually spent my whole life paying others to teach me
things that I could probably learn on my own… if I were
willing to put in months… or years, experimenting.

I spent 12 years in grade school, and then spent a small
fortune to got to college (for five years) and earn a
degree. The college degree that I earned was in Business
and Economics, but I then went into the military for 20
years.

Do, I consider those five years in college a waste?

No… You needed a college degree to become a military
officer, which wasn’t even a goal that I started out
with. Initially, I wanted to be a medical doctor. A few
chemistry classes told me that I didn’t really have the
background preparation for that. In high school, I wasn’t
guided along a college prep path. Most kids who grew up
on welfare as I did, had no real hope of going to college,
and most of those who did were so poorly prepared that
they flunked out.

I discovered after 2 1/2 years that I probably didn’t
have what it took to be a doctor, so I switched majors.
That’s part of why it took me five years to graduate!

I also worked as many as three different part-time jobs to
be able to afford college, and I consider the “mentoring
and coaching” that I received in college to have been an
excellent investment.

After college, the military NEVER stopped putting me
through mentoring and coaching. I was first trained as
a navigator, then to do airdrops, then to be an instructor,
then to be a staff office, and then to manage a budget
in the tens of millions of dollars, and then to test
computer software and manage software tests.

In all of those things, I was first instructed, then
watched as I did what I was taught, then had someone
give me at least one formal evaluation each year.

Lives often depended upon my mentors being able to transfer
their knowledge and skill-set to me. I dropped people and
tanks out of airplanes, so there was no room for cutting
corners in my training. Lives literally depending upon me
actually KNOWING what I was doing.

I actually think of my online training as being just as
critical. Since most new online businesses fail, I
considered it essential to get the best training practical.

Incidentally, most new offline businesses fail too.

As I started my online business, I didn’t spend a lot
of money on learning for my first SIX years. I largely
just subscribed to every free newsletter that I could
find, and bought a few books.

That led to a period of painfully slow growth.

After six years online, I was successful enough, selling
a physical cookbook, that I was invited to speak at an
internet marketing seminar. At that seminar, the other
speakers suggested that we jointly create and market
a few products.

At that very first live seminar, December of 2002, I
discovered that we all grow our businesses a lot faster
by cooperating, and by sharing information.

Most of the other speakers at that first seminar
developed into my informal mentors and coaches. One,
Ramon Williamson, developed into a more formal coach
when I attended one of his weekend workshops, and wrote
my second physical book under his mentor-ship.

Two years later, I was really enjoying being a platform
speaker and getting invited to speak at lots of events.
However, I noticed that many of the other speakers were
MUCH better at selling things from the platform, and so
I decided to let Armand Morin’s mentor, John Childers,
coach me in being a better speaker.

I attended John’s “$30,000 Speaker Training” and developed
skills that I probably would have not developed in another
five years of trying to figure thing out on my own.

Today, I get invited to speak at so many events that I
turn down 80% of the invitations. Many of the event hosts
do base their invitations on how well speakers sell from
stage, and whether or not they have been professionally
trained.

So, investing in professional mentoring and training has
paid off for me hundreds of times over.

As I look at the mentoring available to internet marketers
today, I’m convinced that the very first thing that most
aspiring internet marketers need to do is get to a live
event. That WAS the first significant thing that I did
that was a tremendous growth catalyst for my business.

Not all live events are the same though. Out of ALL of
the live events that you can attend, I recommend the
Niche Affiliate Marketing System (NAMS) Workshop to
practically anyone who asks me.

The reason that I recommend NAMS is because NAMS provides
actual classroom instruction. It’s a workshop where any
of approximately 40 instructors teach you how to do things,
and then have you actually do them right then and there,
to confirm that you actually understand how to do them.

NAMS divides the students into four different groups, based
upon experience levels, and the instructors teach
experience-level-appropriate topics. It’s an actual workshop
rather than a “pitch-fest.”

The next NAMS is August 3rd – 5th, 2012, in Atlanta, Georgia,
and you can register here: http://goo.gl/aMtDo

I can’t recommend NAMS enough. In fact, I loved the quality
of the instruction so much that it’s the ONLY workshop that
I currently teach at.

If you wanted to avail yourself of my personal mentoring,
you could go here: http://WillieCrawford.com/mentoring.html
and sign up for $50,000…. and if you made it through the
application process, I’d happily teach you everything that I
know.

Alternatively, you can attend NAMS, for less than the cost
of a night out on the town and I’ll happily teach you what I
know, but so will dozens of equally qualified instructors.

Getting back to the question, “Are Coaches/Mentors Really Even
Necessary?”… I’m anticipating a high seven-figure year
myself,
and I still have mentors. I don’t think I would be anywhere
near as successful without them.

So my answer is YES!

Go ahead and register for the NAMS workshop here:
http://goo.gl/aMtDo

Send me a note after you do via my support desk at:
http://WillieCrawford.com/helpdesk/ and I’ll treat you to
dinner in Atlanta in August.

By the way, one of the things that I learned at my very first
seminar was the easiest way to get lots of time, for free, with
one of the experts… You offer to buy them breakfast,lunch or
dinner.

No, I’m not fishing for you to buy me dinner. I just offered
to treat you

Willie

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That product was one that I helped my online accountability
partner to launch, several years ago

It caused me to go back and look over my own numbers, and
based upon what I discovered, this is the ONLY affiliate
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That’s significant!

David Perdew, who set it all up, often talks about “one
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where you do one or two promotions for a product and then
it’s pulled off the market.

David Perdew

I don’t know about you, but I personally DISLIKE those
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1) It means that as an affiliate marketers, even if I am
successful at selling my customers that products, I need
to look for something else to sell them a week later. The
big DISCONNECT there is that that means I can’t really
even give them time to benefit from what I just sold them
before I’m suggesting that they buy something else.

I honestly don’t think that’s fair to my subscribers who
would really benefit from that first product IF they would
just take the time to go through it and actually APPLY what
it teaches. I shouldn’t be distracting them from being able
to do that.

2) With many promotions that we do, our subscribers may
not even get around to reading an email, or being ready
to buy, until a week or more later. With the one-and-done
promotions, by the time they are ready to focus on the offer,
it’s too late.

So, we waste all that effort. Those are two reasons that
I’m focused on the product that Terry recommends. It’s
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David actually “tags” your referrals in his database in a
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even if they delete their cookies because his affiliate
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The “creame de le cream” of David’s products is his
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very best internet marketing workshop that I have ever
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In fact, I now teach at each of David’s workshops. NAMS
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have only missed teaching at one out of the eight.

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Oh, here’s part of Terry’s email, that caused me to go back
and take a hard look at my numbers… edited slightly so that
we can track responses:

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Subject: affiliate payout $4.68 per unique click

I’m a numbers guy.

Either something works or it doesn’t based on the numbers.

Track everything.

Measurement eliminates argument.

Many affiliate programs will hype you up by claiming huge
payouts.

They’ll talk about the prizes you can earn in the new contest,
or they’ll have their affiliates compete with each other to be
the top of the scoreboard.

Nothing wrong with any of that.

But when it comes down to it, it’s about the numbers.

And it’s also about delivering value to the customers.

This morning I was running through some of my affiliate
accounts.

And I took notice of an affiliate program that I haven’t given
much attention to, but sends me money through Paypal every single
month.

I promoted them in September 2011, so less than a year ago.

And did some other minor mentions of them, but haven’t done
anything heavy.

What jumped out to me from the stats is they have paid me $4.68
per unique clickthrough so far.

And they’re not finished yet. Each month they send me money for
clicks I sent 8 months ago.

That $4.68 per unique click for me has been increasing each
month.

You can find out more about this affiliate program and register
for free here:
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It is a two tier program so you’re also paid off JV referrals.

What’s unique here is they pay:

- Commissions on their entire product funnel from $5 to $500

- Multiple free eCourse link bait for driving new members

- First click referral tagging – get paid forever off a referral
today (that’s what I like)

Basically you earn more money every time they send out an email
to those you’ve referred.

Awesome deal!

At least I think so. Seeing the numbers this morning means I
will be promoting for them more.

And I haven’t even mentioned the quality of the products yet.

The reason those commissions keep growing is because members
STICK with them.

They receive value.

And once they see the quality of what is offered, they buy more.

This program is run by David Perdew who runs the NAMS events
(Niche Affiliate Marketing System).

That’s where my initial promotion came from. I attended the
event as a speaker and was impressed with how it was a
step-by-step workshop to help people at any level…from beginner
to advanced.

In addition, they have a membership program with 17 ways to give
you better training, content, and tools for your online business
today.

Check it out:
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Make sure to use the coupon code MyNAMS80 to get the best price.

Your Marketing Coach,

Terry Dean
“The Internet Lifestyle Mentor”
Earn More. Work Less. Enjoy Life!

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For example, you might send a small contingent of
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When I flew airdrop aircraft we might drop down to
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enemy think that we were dropping paratroopers in
one place, then climb back up, and actually release
out paratroopers at high altitude, MILES away.

I enter a lot of affiliate sales contests, because
I enjoy friendly competitions. Sometimes, I use
tactical deception in these contests so that my
competitors don’t see exactly what I’m doing to win,
or even that I’m trying to win. By the time that they
notice, it’s often too late for them to do anything
about it.

I share some of the things that I do to win affiliate
sales contest in this interview that my friend Michael
Worthington did of me not too long ago.

You can download the MP3 of that interview, in a .zip
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Willie

For example, you might send a small contingent of
soldiers, or a few ships, to one point to make them
think that you are attacking there, when your main
attack was somewhere far away.

When I flew airdrop aircraft we might drop down to
“drop altitude” and “drop airspeed” to make the
enemy think that we were dropping paratroopers in
one place, then climb back up, and actually release
out paratroopers at high altitude, MILES away.

I enter a lot of affiliate sales contests, because
I enjoy friendly competitions. Sometimes, I use
tactical deception in these contests so that my
competitors don’t see exactly what I’m doing to win,
or even that I’m trying to win. By the time that they
notice, it’s often too late for them to do anything
about it.

I share some of the things that I do to win affiliate
sales contest in this interview that my friend Michael
Worthington did of me not too long ago.

You can download the MP3 of that interview, in a .zip
file, 100% free, without any type of opt-in, from here:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/1-1/WinningAffiliateSalesContests.zip

If you benefit from the interview, you could do me a favor
in return. This will also benefit you too.

Check out this free webinar on getting unstuck in all
areas of your life… including financial, health,
relationships, etc. It’s a real eye-opener… and you
don’t need any tactical deception there, just a basic
understanding of how and why you do the things that you
do.

That webinar is here: http://timic.org/Why/

Willie

I’ve been marketing affiliate products since 1996, and, when
I choose to, I often do very well in these contest. In this
interview, I reveal some tips that I have NEVER shared anywhere
before.

To listen to the interview, just click the link below, but to save
the MP3 to your computer, you need to right-click the link, and
follow your browser prompts.

No opt-in is require for you to access this great information, but
I don’t know how long I will leave this up since my competitors
can access it too. So please snag it now:

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By the way, in the audio I also tell you where to find some
amazing affiliate opportunities, such as one that pays $5000
commission per sale, and another one with a contest where the top
prize is $100,000.

So, go ahead and listen to the audio now, before you are too
late to take advantage of those.

Willie