20 days into the endeavor (partly in response to questions
and comments on the Warrior Forum), I shared Lesson 20 on
the forum itself.

I also gave affiliates, who are helping to spread the word
about the WSO, permission to share that sample lesson in
their marketing.

I chose this lesson BECAUSE it allows me to give you a
peek inside the training, without giving it all away.

At the same time, it does provide some valuable
insights that I hope you find useful.

To tune in to the entire course, you need to register
here: http://WillieCrawford.com/100kInJanuary2012/

Here is the actual text from Lesson #20:

Diary – $100k In January 2012 – January 22nd, 2012

Welcome to Day 20… the day that I arrived home and got to
play with my impatient new grandchild for the first time
(she was born six weeks early)

This issue is heavily-influenced by feedback that I’m
getting from you guys… especially your wanting to
see more RESULTS!

Up to this point, most of my efforts have been laying the
groundwork for those results… for reasons that I’ll explain
today!

On the airplane on the way home, I actually flowed
out 23 articles in notepad on my iPhone. My wife
would occasionally glance over at my phone, notice the
smile on my face, and ask what I was doing.

After being home for about two hours, and playing
with the baby most of that time, I felt the time
pressures, and started turning those notes into articles.

Here’s the first one that I published:

Begin Article:

Pretend Internet Marketing Experts, Dreamers, And Doers
Copyright 2012 by Willie Crawford

In internet marketing (the niche that I know best)
as well as many other online niches, it’s often
difficult to tell who the genuine experts are.

That’s important because it makes it difficult to know
who to take advice from.

The danger is that you will spend months, or even years,
following the advice of someone who either sells you
his theory, or who just makes up something that sounds
plausible, and doesn’t even care if it’s accurate… as
long as it sells.

Yes, there ARE people who will sell you anything and
don’t care if it works, but I very strongly believe
that they are a tiny minority.

There are also those who believe that you will not
buy their products unless they “fake it until you
make it.” Many of these people may actually have
really good intentions, but since they believe that
they have to pretend to be something that they are
not, they can be a real threat to your success.

The fake it till you make it types often blur the
lines as to what they are actually qualified to teach
you. Their perceived dilemma is that they feel that
they HAVE TO fake it.

Several years ago, in an interview, I asked my friend
and mentor, Rich Schefren, how one overcomes this.
Rich explained that it’s as simple as being your authentic
self. Identify what you ARE qualified to teach, identify
the audience that does want to learn that, and sell to
them.

Rich’s advice really boiled down to merely acknowledging
that your potential audience members are at all different
levels along the learning curve, and you just need to focus
on the ones who need the level of guidance that you are
genuinely qualified to deliver.

The next pretend expert that you need to be aware of
is “the dreamer” who understand on a certain level but
have never DONE anything and therefore isn’t 100%
certain that what they offer to teach you WORKS. They’ve
STUDIED a lot, but they haven’t physically verified
what they believe to be true.

These are you armchair quarterbacks, your armchair
copywriters, and your armchair marketing experts.

I honestly think that many of the armchair experts
are most dangerous to themselves. I’ve encountered
dozens of them over the years who had studied the same
materials that I had, and knew it well enough that they
frequently quoted the same people that I did… and
often even finished my sentences when I tried explaining
something to them.

I say that they were a danger to themselves, because
they never moved beyond the knowing stage into the
implementation stage, so they could never earn a living
even though they understood how! I honestly believe that
they were afraid to actually do something, or they were
dabbling in too many different things to take any one
thing through to completion.

Either way, these are the experts who, based upon being
old-timers who have put in the time learning, should be
very successful. Yet, they are STUCK at just knowing and
won’t acknowledge that they MUST move beyond that.

Then you have the newbie who listens, learns and applies.
Some of them move up the ladder very rapidly, and are at
the top of the “expert ladder” in 1/10th of the time that
others take, and they ARE genuine experts.

Two quick examples of these “doers” are Russell Brunson
and Ryan Deiss.

I remember when Russell was a college student, wrestling,
and then starting to raise a family. He was on the
Warrior Forum, aggressively learning, testing, and DOING.
Not that much later, I could see that Russell had hit
six-figures, and then seven-figures.

I first notice Ryan Deiss in December 2002, when he was
an attendee at the very first seminar that ever attended
(and spoke at). I don’t believe that he was even 20 years
old yet, and he sat there taking and organizing copious
notes. He asked deep, relevant questions.

Ryan has now probably surpassed most of my fellow
speakers who graced the stage during that era. Ryan now
has other very successful guru’s working for his
companies

I’m compelled to warn my readers to be aware of the pretend
experts and dreamers, but I’m equally as compelled to point
out what sets the doers apart!

The “snakes in the grass” will always exist, and part of the
reason that they will even thrive is because of customer
greed. Greed causes people to make very poor choices.

FEAR also causes people to make poor decisions, and I
believe that is what keeps more people who have the
knowledge from becoming doers!

To become one of the successful doers, you have to actually,
REALLY believe that it is possible. Then you have to
believe that it is possible for you.

For me personally, I grew to believe that it was possible,
after spending a lot of time hanging around with, and even
masterminding with, others who actually walked-the-walk.

I grew to believe that it was possible for me after
observing that many of the ULTRA successful people that I
hung around were really quite ordinary in most respects.
I would even dare say that some were of below average
intelligence… and I even know that they would say this
about themselves.

The differences are:

1) You have to give yourself permission to actually become
successful.

2) You need to work on your mindset, because “going big” is
largely mental. Once you have the correct mindset, then it
JUST HAPPENS.

I know this to be true because that has been my experience.
I grew up on government subsistence (welfare) surrounded by
poverty and no real mega-successful role models. I did have
several teachers who lovingly challenged and inspired me.

I had my big breakthrough after hanging around the ultra
successful, and being bathed in their mindset.

They also taught me that the rich and ultra-successful were
not necessarily “evil”

That “flow” started me and many of my friends along a path
that made success destined to happen. It also programmed us
to always be successful even if we occasionally suffer
setbacks… because we now understand the path and have that
essential mindset.

The final ingredient for me was being actually mentored by
an individual who showed me how I was really the ONLY
person who could hold me back, and then how to get out of my
way and allow unimagined success to flow into my life.

That mentor’s name is Brian Ridgway, and he branded his
mentoring Level 5 Mentoring. It’s so-named because it
shows you how most people operate at one of four lesser,
flawed paradigms, and how by simply examining our world,
you clearly see the mistakes that 99.9% of people are making
that severely limit what they allow themselves to accomplish.

Brian, very generously, offers a free webinar where he shifts
many people’s thinking right on the webinar. Yes, on a free
webinar, you learn how to get out of your own way, step up
your game and no longer need to be a pretend expert, or a
dreamer.

When you see how easy it is to actually become a doer by
merely getting out of your own way, and allowing it to
happen, you’ll smile from ear to ear. So, will those that look
to you for guidance.

You can tune into Brian’s free mentoring at:
http://timic.org/Why/

Another shift that Brian’s free mentoring causes in many
people is that it causes them to see how harmful the first
two pretend experts are to themselves. Those first two
personality types CONDEMN the individual to failure, the
third personality type makes success happen relatively
effortlessly.

Now that you know, what are you going to do about it?

——————————

Willie Crawford has been teaching others how to build thriving
online businesses for over 15 years. To watch over his shoulders
as he demonstrates how anyone can earn six-figures in a mere
30 days, visit: http://WillieCrawford.com/100kInJanuary2012/

=====================================================

End Article:

Notice that that article is fairly emotionally charged. It’s
very difficult for a person to read the article and not feel
motivated to take some action, even if it’s to fire off an
email to me telling me that they disagree.

I could sense shortly after publishing the article that it
did indeed “piss off” many readers. It had that effect
because it no longer allowed them to blame others for the
results that they’ve gotten in life thus far. Most of the
world tells you that it’s not your fault because they know
that’s what you want to hear. I was deliberately using a
little “tough love!”

People respond to this type of article, they comment on it,
and they share it with others, so this is the type of article
that I will be publishing a LOT of over the next 10 days or
so.

That article is engineered to generate an emotional
under-current that people HAVE to respond to!

I published that article to a tiny list of about 7000 general
internet marketers whom I also felt would “get” that “mindset”
is a major part of the game. It’s what allows you to actually
follow-through with doing the other things that you need to
do in order to have extra-ordinary success.

Developing that mindset and following through DOES often
mean doing things that you are slightly uncomfortable with.
I shared with you earlier that even I have to do that. I
also shared with you my zip lining experience, where I
actually FORCED myself to REPEATELY step off the edge of cliffs,
attached to tiny cables that I didn’t really have that
much faith in. My point was NOT that I was on an exotic
Caribbean cruise, but that I purposely FORCED myself to do
something that I didn’t really want to do, but knew that it
would force me to grow in the direction that I wanted to
move.

In case you missed it, the tactic that I used to keep me
from backing out was to publicly state on my Facebook profile
(and to my wife) that I was going to do something that I
feared. I turned them all into powerful accountability
partners… and it worked!

That article is designed to make people really examine their
online marketing (somewhat bridging the gap between internet
marketing and personal development).

I AM at a tremendous disadvantage in the Personal Development
Niche, and since I’m not known there, needed to create a logical
bridge that people might be willing to step across.

When I’m reading an article, the first question that I
personally ask myself is “What makes this person qualified
to write this article?” I want to know “What makes them an
expert!” If we fail to answer that question in our own
articles, we lose the reader and your article will be largely
a waste of time.

My over-arching goal is… hopefully to get lots of people
re-posting the article, and it’s primary purpose is of course
to get people to check out the Level 5 Mentoring program… where
I’ll earn a commission when people actually benefit from the
free webinar, and because they do benefit, they want the paid
product that goes deeper.

Since the article covers an emotionally charged topic, and I
used the title as my email subject line, I do expect a very
high number of readers.

I will also submit that article to EzineArticles.com and to
IdeaMarketers.com, and will also bookmark it using the tools
that I mentioned to you yesterday.

I’ll share it in the other places already mentioned.

I can see this ONE article generating thousands of visitors
WHEN it goes viral, or gets a lot of commentary from the
right people.

I would also like to explain at this point WHY I
chose personal development or self-help as a niche
to focus on.

First of all, I’m not known AT ALL in the personal
development niche, so I feel that this is a great
test of my methods. I AM starting at the SAME point
that a newbie would be starting at… one of getting
people who don’t know me as an expert in that space,
to listen to me.

Given that people buy from people that they know,
like and trust, that means that I have to figure
out how to get potential customers in that niche to
know, like, and trust me.

Anyone in this situation has two choices… you
can either develop the know-like-and-trust factor,
or you can borrow it.

I chose to do both!

First, I chose to develop it by pushing out a TON
of content that rapidly proves my actual expertise
in this area. Given that I am a newbie in the niche,
that proof has to show that I not only understand
the theory, but that I actually LIVE the principles.

PROVING that I understand and have actually harnessed
the principles is why my writing focuses so much on
my lifestyle. That proves that I live what I’m
teaching day-to-day and as a result, I gain the
benefit… implying if you copy my application of the
principles exactly, then you’ll get the same results.

My readers need to see that I get above-average results
from my applying certain principles. I need to
unequivocally PROVE that.

Given that most authors, in most niches online, generate
little more than a lot of theory, IF I show practical
examples of the application of what I cover, then I can
quickly go from an unknown in the niche to a
much-respected authority

That’s what you need to do too.

YOU, as a subscriber, even have to see my doing that or
you quickly tune out, and don’t stick around long enough
to see how massively effective what I’m doing really
can be.

The second way to get that know-like-and-trust factor,
is to borrow it. That’s where solo ads come in. In placing
solo ads, I’m approaching list owners who already have that
relationship with their list and asking them for a direct or
indirect endorsement.

I also shared with you in an earlier lesson that I’m
actually reaching out to a few friends and asking them
to share my content-rich Facebook posts and events with
their followers.

I’m merely sending them private messages, asking them to
please share a post or Event.

I’m only asking them to do that with content that I feel
that their “Friends” will enjoy or appreciate.

I submit that we ALL have a few close friends that we
can ask a favor of, but also admit that asking favors
of even close friends can feel uncomfortable.

If you want extra-ordinary results you DO have to force
yourself to do things that people willing to live with
ordinary results simply won’t do. I can do that because
I honesty feel that my content is changing lives.

So, I am borrowing credibility. You need to do the
same thing!

You do have friends. They ARE willing to give you a
break especially IF they expect you at some point in
the future to reciprocate.

How well is this working for me?

In the Self-Help Giveaway that I’m using as a case-study,
I’ve moved from not even being in the top 20 (based on
over-all referrals), to where I expect to be in the top 5
VERY soon, and then to fight my way into the top three,
where I WILL earn a free solo mailing in my new niche…
with the #1 position offering that solo mailing to 250,000.

You may feel that you DON’T need a “pep talk” but I hope
that you do see that it’s worth the monumental effort, and
that after you make that initial monumental effort, that
the rest can simply fall in place.

I entered a new niche, made a monumental effort doing
things that I feel slightly uncomfortable with, and after
30 days, I should actually have made over $100k, largely
from soft-selling a product in my new niche, and from
leveraging the credentials of others who are long
established in that space.

I am going up against GIANTS in that space, and because
I am willing to do more, I will prevail, but I will be
doing things that you CAN do too.

My focus the rest of the journey is on buying solo ads
(buying endorsements), but even there, I’m largely
spending money earned from other efforts that I shared
with you in previous lessons.

I have arranged 32 solo ads that will start running as
early as today. For each of those ads, I am using a
unique tracking url, so that I know where my results
came from, and I will share that with you (unless I
was specifically prohibited by the ad seller for some
strange reason).

In the last lesson, I showed you how to set-up for this
solo ad barrage with as little as $25… but that… starting
with that little meant that it would take a few days longer.

Now, thanks to your patience as I laid the framework,
you’ll get to watch it all unfold, and even be able to
use my EXACT solo ad sources if you choose to, and if you
act fast. Of course, over 1200 others will be reading
these same notes, so if you are not fast, you may be in
for a bit of a wait.

Moving forward, I’m going to make the lessons less
verbose, since hopefully by this time, you’ve gotten
the mindset part.

I will add that this IS all an inexact science. There is
a lot of testing and tracking involved, and even the top
marketing experts have to admit that the outcomes are not
always exact.

In fact, in a recent discussion, a friend shared with me
a conversation that he had with a guy who has often
billed himself as “the godfather of internet marketing.”
He shared that this guy taught him that email marketing
is hit and miss. It’s a matter of market-to-message-to-
medium match.

Even at “the very top” this guy sends out mailing some
days that produce a mere trickle of orders, and other
days he hits on just the right combination, and hundreds
of orders flood in.

He tries to be scientific about it but has discovered that
if he keeps making little tweaks, and keeps mailing, that
in the long run, he has a lot of home-runs but even more
singles

In that market-to-message match, I believe that the most
critical ingredient is the words that you use to connect
with your audience one-to-one, and that no one has an
advantage over you in that arena, because it’s an actual
bond/connection “felt” between two individuals.

Willie

In case you haven’t noticed, I personally do pretty well
just sharing my opinions online. However, up until now,
it’s been mostly in my writing.

I honestly feel that we live in one of the greatest
times in human history. Any of us can quite literally
earn a full-time income just from sharing our thoughts
and opinions.

If you keep telling yourself that you have nothing to
sell the world, I respectfully disagree, because we
all have opinions and ideas.

You CAN get paid for sharing those, and to me that is
totally amazing!

I do a lot of writing myself. I’ve always dreamed of
being a writer. Even in my teens, I read magazines like
Writers Digest, and regularly submitted articles and
short pieces to newspapers and magazines.

Back then, many publications paid a penny per word…
or LESS. Still, I liked the idea of having my name
in print, so I wrote and submitted a lot… and got a
LOT of rejection slips

Fast-forward 35 years, and today, the internet makes
it easy for anyone to be a published author/writer,
AND to earn a full-time income doing it.

Three days ago, a friend commented on Facebook that
I write what seems like a book… every day.

I smiled but admitted that all I’m doing is thinking
out loud. To me, writing is no harder than explaining
how to do something (or why to do something) to a
friend.

Done properly, that can generate a full-time income.
If you didn’t feel like writing, you COULD just talk
it out, and publish your audios, but that feels even
more intimidating to some people.

I actually believe that you should write it first, and
then turn it into other formats. That way more people
get to see your content since different people like
“consuming” your content in different modalities.

Here’s the secret…

Writing great content that people will happily pay
your for, or that will cause people to buy things from
you, is only a matter of practice.

Two days ago, I did a webinar with my good friend
Jeff Herring on this very topic.

Jeff is a content creation MACHINE!

In fact, Jeff has been creating and publishing content
practically every day for much of the past 15 YEARS.

Yes, I did say that he has been creating content
practically every day for many, many years.

That has allowed Jeff to live a dream life-style. I’ve
spent time hanging around Jeff and picking his mind at
seminars. He’s the real deal!

The man lives and breathes content creation. He is
the master

He does have a secret though. He uses formulas or
templates to speed up the writing process and make it
literally EFFORTLESS.

Check out the recording from the webinar that I did with
Jeff here: http://contentcreationspecial.com/willie/

There’s no opt-in or other silly hoops to jump through.

You just go to that page and click on the play button

Right during the webinar, Jeff explains his system, and
then steps you through the process, actually pausing and
allowing you time to do each step… complete with a
little focus music

I guess “webinar” is not accurate for describing what Jeff
shared with us. It’s more of a workshop since he is teaching
you how to create great content, that people will happily
pay you for, right on the call.

Go ahead and check it out now.

He teaches a very simple, proven method for creating great
content that has been making him a great living for as long
as I’ve been online.

Check it now, and by the time you are visiting family and
friends over the holidays, when they ask,

“So what are you up to these days?”

you can answer

“I’m a professional writer.”

That will impress them, but more importantly, it will feel
good saying that because you will know that you have finally
discovered a way to earn a nice living from the comfort of
your own home.

Here’s the url for the webinar again:
http://contentcreationspecial.com/willie/

Make today the day that you finally take charge and start
living the life of your dreams.

To your success,
Willie

When it comes to marketing strategies, content marketing has
just been crowned king, far surpassing search engine marketing,
public relations and even print, television and radio advertising
as the preferred marketing tool for today’s business-to-business
entrepreneur.

Think about that: bigger than print, radio or television. Bigger
than SEO marketing or PR. Don’ you want your share of the
prospects and profits from content creation and content
marketing?

And since you do, here are 3 reasons you need to be able to
do it yourself (at least in the beginning):

Reason 1 – Prospect are attracted to your voice – Whether
you have a golden voice made fo radio or just the opposite,
prospects are attracted to your voice. Because what I mean
by “your voice” is the unique way you approach problems.
Prospects come on the internet searching for solutions to
their problems. When they hear your voice – how you
approach and solve problems – they will be drawn to you like
a magnet.

Reason 2 – No one else can deliver it like you – Here’s the good
news and the reality (nice when those two go together): There
are more people out there, eager to hear your message, who
can only hear it in your voice, than you can ever get to in
your lifetime.

No one else your unique perspective, life experience,
knowledge and wisdom. No one else. And there are people out
there who need to hear your unique message, who can only
hear it from you. To not get it out to them is selfish.

Create your content and get it out to them.

Reason 3- Must learn to do it yourself – In the beginning of
your business, like so many of us when we began, you will have
more time than money. Use that time to learn how to quickly
and easily, and with impact, create your own content
whenever you want or need. In this way, later on, when you
have more money than time, you may want to outsource some
of your content creation. Then you will know what to look for
when you are looking for someone who can “write in your
voice” – which is very hard to find.
———
Article by my friend Jeff Herring. Check him out here:
http://timic.org/JeffHerring/

Our new venture the “Start Your Internet Business” book series
through McMoodyCrawford brings webpreneur ‘superstars’
together to share our collective wisdom with anyone and everyone
who will listen — hopefully keeping up and comers from making
some of the same mistakes we made so early in our careers.

This first book “36 Things You Need to Know Now!” is a great
combination of business and life lessons we all felt could have
made our businesses so much more successful if we had only known
or had only done sooner.

Whether you’re a beginner who needs to get down to basics, or an
experienced marketer who has lost your “mojo” this book serves up
hearty helpings of inspiration, practical advice and a to-do list
of ideas to implement in your business TOMORROW.

Want to know what the legends do? You’ll get it here: no holds
barred. Sneak peek access to every one of our authors “typical
day.”

Need to know how to get off on the right foot? You’ll know
exactly what these author experts wish they would have known when
they started out – the things that would have impacted their
productivity and profitability BIG TIME.

These aren’t self proclaimed “experts” that we’re all so sick of
hearing about. These are REAL experts, who walk the walk, have
the success and bank accounts to back them up, and won’t sell
their soul for a fast buck.

These are the people you want on YOUR side, giving you tips and
advice.

And that’s what you get in our new book: Start Your Internet
Business: 36 Things You Need to Know Now!

The authors are Marlon Sanders, Connie Ragen Green, Dennis
Becker, Rachel Rofe, Jane Mark, Nicole Dean, Reed Floren,
Dr.Mani Sivasubramanian, Tahir Shah, Susanne Myers and
myself… Willie Crawford.

The diversity of the range of stories are amazing too. You’ll
hear horror stories from Jane Mark and her partner Phil; you
laugh out loud when you read Nicole Dean’s chapter; and you’ll be
inspired when you read Marlon Sanders and Dr. Mani’s chapters.

My prediction is that when we look back at all of the books
released in 2011, teaching people the FACTS about starting an
online business, this will easily be voted internet
marketing book of the year!

Grab your copy now.

If you prefer the printed book, please get it here:
http://WillieCrawford.com/PrintVersion/

If you prefer the kindle version of the book please get it here:
http://WillieCrawford.com/KindleVersion/

HINT: The Kindle version lets you preview the table of content
and the first chapter

BONUSES:

But WAIT, there’s more

The authors have all banded together to provide you every
incentive to buy – and to buy DURING THE LAUNCH.

We’re offering more than $600 in bonuses designed to help you
in establishing your business, building your list, capitalize
on social media…. you name it. Take a peak at what we’ve
cooked up! http://www.mcmoodycrawford.com/36thingsbook/#

And still more! When you get through the sales process – check
out the one time offer…there’s two super bonus buys:

* If you want to get a behind the scenes, back stage pass to
hearing more from all of us — there’s an awesome 4+ hour
recording of interviews with the various authors!

* There’s also a 47 page workbook that will walk you through
putting all of the authors’ advice into action in an organized
way.

These are bonus buys – 50% off during the launch. At the end of
the launch, the prices go up! But you’ll only get access to
those offers after you buy the book!

So here’s what you need to do…

1) Go buy the book:

If you prefer the printed book, please get it here:
http://WillieCrawford.com/PrintVersion/

If you prefer the kindle version of the book please get it here:
http://WillieCrawford.com/KindleVersion/

2) During the checkout process save your receipt number

3) Go to the sales bonus reward page:
http://www.mcmoodycrawford.com/36thingsbook/# and enter your
name, email and Amazon receipt number

4) That will trigger an email with your bonus download link.
While waiting on that email, check out the bonus one-time offers
(we know you’ll love them)!

5) Download your bonuses (an email will be sent to you with your
bonus download link – so be sure to check your spam filter and
use an email you actually use!)

6) Visit Amazon.com and leave YOUR review of the book. It’s
actually great exposure for you and we really appreciate it!

7) And then: don’t sit on this information and great stuff — get
out there and IMPLEMENT it!

Feel free to share this email with an online friend who could
use a little help… or post it to Facebook even… just post
the main part as a note.

Thank you,

Willie

You do realize that it will continue as long as
we insist upon seeking pie-in-the-sky ways to
make money.

You “know”…

Many of the major product launches on Clickbank
are just the same individuals using different
names… don’t you?

They promise you the moon, don’t care whether
the product works or not, and just go for the
quick buck.

They don’t care if they lose their Clickbank
accounts, because they can just open another one
under a new identify, using a different legal
entity.

They are so successful because so many people
are lazy, and want to believe you can get things
fast, simple, easy, and make a million dollars
in a day.

You actually can do things fast, simple and easy…
but you’re NOT going to make a million in a day.

I do things fast, because “money loves speed.”

I do things simple, because the KISS principle
has proven best for me. Complicated things just
bog you down.

I believe in easy, because your banker doesn’t
ask you how hard you worked to earn that money.
Why work harder than you have to?

You can easily and ETHICALLY make a few hundred
bucks a day… it’s greed that destroys though

Here’s a method that I’ve personally used…
starting from scratch, that consistently produced
$500 per day:

http://timic.org/FastSimpleEasy/

I tested that method out because the friend who
created it is “one of the good guys” who refused
to play with the unethical marketers whose model
is to just roll out a new magic button once a month.

If you’re ready to get serious, and stop enabling
the rips-off gurus, then this works:
http://timic.org/FastSimpleEasy/

Stop wasting time and other resources – get this now.

To your success,
Willie

When I first started marketing online in 1996, one of the
first marketing tactics that I adopted was “article marketing.”

I wrote 800 – 1500 word articles that described a problem,
discussed several solutions, and then suggested an affiliate
product that I was promoting as the recommended solution.

Often that recommendation was made in the resource box at
the very end of the article.

This model worked beautifully, and I’ve even had a single
article make over $10,000 in immediate, measurable sales. That
happened when John Reese released his famous Traffic Secrets
course, for example.

Back then, I wrote an article called, “Amazing Secrets Of A
Traffic Generation Expert” where I described how I generated
MOST of my website traffic. Near the end of the article, I
indicated that I had only shared a couple of the ways that
I generated website traffic, and told them that if they wanted
the “encyclopedia” on the topic, then they needed the “Traffic
Secrets” course.

In the article, I not only told them what I was doing, but
provided them with proof. I showed them my search engine
positions for some of my most important keywords. It was
hard to argue with indisputable proof, so the article was filled
with credibility, and that is probably why it worked so well.

That one article, which took me less than an hour to write,
went on to generate over $25,000 in sales (of several products).

In 2009, I updated the article and republished it as “Amazing
Secrets Of A Blackbelt Traffic Generation Expert!” That
article did very well too

Fast-forward to today, where tons of people are doing article
marketing in some of my primary niches, and we wonder if it is
as effective as it once was.

My statistics suggest that it IS just as effective, but that
it may take more articles to break through the clutter. You may
need to produce more content to achieve “critical mass.”

As someone always looking for more effective marketing tactics,
I’ve actually shifted, to an extent, from article marketing to
focusing more on webinars.

Why webinars?

Well, where the goal is to sell an item directly, few things
compare in results to a live webinar. On a webinar, where you
feature the product owner proving his expertise and that his
problem works amazingly well, the audience interaction also
adds an extra dimension.

Web 2.0 and social media has us now more openly seeking
interaction (and feedback) before we purchase a product.
The only venue that allows this better than webinars is perhaps
face-to-face meetings, but they are not cost effective for many
people.

Recent webinars that I’ve shared with people that did well for
me (and that you can study) included:

How To Publish Your Books On Amazon Kindle (where I actually
interviewed a friend making $20,000 per month on Kindle)
http://WillieCrawford.com/Kindle/

How To Be A Local Offline Consultant (where I featured three
gentlemen who all earn their full-time living from doing
local offline consulting). Yes, they offered a course at the
end of the webinar that included over 70 videos, swipe files,
etc., but they wanted less than $100 for the entire package!
http://WillieCrawford.com/LocalOfflineConsulting/

A Webinar Featuring A Super Affiliate Making $60k Per Month
From Selling Physical Products
http://WillieCrawford.com/Physical/

You get the picture. Webinars have proven to be a very effective
selling tool for me, so I am using them a LOT today.

That may lead you to wonder what other methods this “Blackbelt
Traffic Generation Expert” uses.

I do still use articles, since they DO still work very well.

Search engines read and catalog words, and that’s how they
determine what a webpages is about, but that’s only part of
the formula.

Today, I actually use over a dozen different traffic generation
tactics. If you’d like to know which ones are currently the
most effective for me, I share them in their recorded mastermind
session: http://williecrawford.com/TopTrafficTips/

That link is to a 3-HOUR recorded mastermind session, where my
friend Doug Champigny (who has been doing the same type of
online marketing that I do) and I discussed FIFTEEN tactics
that still work amazingly well for us.

Check it out: http://williecrawford.com/TopTrafficTips/

However, don’t just check it out. Pick the technique that makes
the most sense for you, and start using it. Then gradually add
more. That’s how we did it, and continue doing it today!

————-

After 15 years of teaching Internet Marketing, Willie Crawford
is considered by many to be the leading industry expert. You can
read more of the things that are working amazing well for him in
his free newsletter. Subscribe at: http://WillieCrawford.com/

=========================================================

Note: You may reprint this article in your ezine, on your websites, etc.,
provided you print it unchanged, to include the author’s resource
box at the end.

It sort of sparkers that old inter-service
rivalry

Tim’s course is EXCELLENT, and I highly
recommend you check it out…

and no, he doesn’t advocate being underhanded.
He’s one of the most honest, ethical, and
caring people that I know.

Just don’t tell him that I said that.

check out his course here:
http://timic.org/Soldiers

Module 5, part 2 is where the blackhat stuff
is mentioned

Willie

Used properly, you can get an endless supply of very
targeted traffic coming to your website, and they arrive
pre-sold on you and your products

Watch the video:

I also invite you to join me at my next workshop in
Las Vegas, May 23rd – 27th, 2011 You can get all of the details
and register by clicking here.

Willie

In it we cover all of the major traffic generation methods,
but focus on joint ventures (getting those with the attention
of your ideal customers to send you their traffic).

Here’s the interview:

In the interview I mentioned being a joint venture broker.
Here’s where you can learn about begin a joint venture
broker, and even have me mentor you through the process,
even holding your hand as you carry out that first joint
venture project that I hand you.

http://imotionvideo.com/jvacadamy

My next JV broker certification training in May 2nd – 6th,
in Atlanta, and only has room for 15 students, so please
check that out now. JV Broker Certification Training

If you have any questions regarding the training after
reading the webpage, feel free to contact me with them.

Willie

If so, you may have heard of a powerful technology called
“auto posting”.

Auto posting creates a series of posts for your blog
automatically, posting them at regular intervals, such as
once a day, or once a week.

With auto posting, you set the system up once and then leave
the auto poster to handle everything on autopilot. This
means you don’t have to keep updating your blogs manually,
saving you loads of time and effort.

However in order to use auto posting, you need some special
auto posting software – and most auto posting solutions are
both expensive and difficult to use.

But today I’d like to tell you about our new WP Post Bot
software, a low cost solution which makes it quick and easy
to auto post to any blog.

Check out WP Post Bot here…

http://timic.org/AutomatedBlogPosts

WP Post Bot takes an ordinary set of text articles, which
can be articles you create yourself or just a package of
private label articles, or just notes that you want to post
to your blog on a spread out schedule.

The software creates a special plugin that automatically posts
the articles to your blog at regular intervals, such as one
article a day, or one article a week.

You set it up once and then walk away, leaving the plugin to
take care of everything. To anyone visiting your blog, it
looks just like you are manually creating new blog posts
every day. But in fact, you never need to touch the blog
again.

Doesn’t this sound like something you should be using? Take
a look here…

http://timic.org/AutomatedBlogPosts

WP Post Bot is quick and easy to use. It fully automates the
auto posting, but still gives you full control of the
process.

It posts at random times, so it looks like you are manually
updating your blog. And it even comes with a quick and easy
uploading tool.

Check out this powerful software now…

http://timic.org/AutomatedBlogPosts

Wishing you success and saving you time,

Willie

PS: You can use your copy of the software to auto post
to ALL your blogs, without paying any extra.

At just $27, this has to be one of the best investments
you can make in your business.

Take a look and grab your copy now:

http://timic.org/AutomatedBlogPosts