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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Terry Dean

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
program that I can say has paid me commissions, consistently
for 3-4 years now.

That’s significant!

David Perdew, who set it all up, often talks about “one
and done” product launches. Those are the types of launches
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
types of promotion for two reasons:

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
something that you can honestly promote today, and earn
commissions on a year or more later.

David actually “tags” your referrals in his database in a
way that you earn LIFETIME commissions… and you get credit
even if they delete their cookies because his affiliate
tracking system does not depend upon cookies.

The “creame de le cream” of David’s products is his
Niche Affiliate Marketing System Workshop, which is THE
very best internet marketing workshop that I have ever
personally attended.

In fact, I now teach at each of David’s workshops. NAMS
#8 is coming up in August, and unless I’m mistaken, I will
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
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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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We are all masters at creating websites where the
words are so enticing that they leave the person
who still struggles “just to make ends meet,”
salivating.

It is true… after 16 years as an internet marketer,
joint venture broker, author, platform speaker,
product creator, and someone who has gone through
“the school of hard knocks,” I have figured out a
way to earn an above average living.

I do now live a dream life-style, sometimes taking
exotic cruises back-to-back months, and vacationing
in exotic lands. I do make more most months than
the average person does in a year!

I have a confession to make though…

If you visit my Facebook profile, you’ll see that I
share literally thousands of pictures from my life.
I share pictures of me doing all of those things that
most people feel that they can’t do.

My Facebook profile is at:
http://Facebook.com/WillieCrawford1/

The secret is that when I do share my world, I’m
selling. I’m selling you on the dream that if you do
what I do, or buy my training, then you can have that
lifestyle too.

All of my “guru” friends do the same thing, though they
may not admit it. We might show you a life-style of
just surfing all day, and hanging out with Hollywood
celebrities. You watch that, see that we actually DO
live that way, and secretly ask why can’t you do the
same.

You reason that you are an honest, hardworking person,
who also realizes that you do have to put in a little
effort… but you’ve already put in a LOT of effort,
and it just hasn’t happened for you.

The reality is that practically all of us who have
“made it” had mentors, and did a lot of studying, and
put in a lot of long hours. I personally put in many
16-18 hour days when I was just getting started. When,
I get really excited about a project that I’m working
on today, I can still find myself working 18 hours to
get that project finished… even when I outsource many
of the routine tasks.

So those who have figured it out, show you proof that
we have… somehow… actually figured it out, and we
offer to teach you what we have discovered.

IF you do what we did, and conditions are the same,
then you should get the same results.

There is no arguing with that.

The problem is that by the time we’ve put in all of
those long hard hours, we figure out that our time
and expertise really is very valuable. Many of us
earn more than PhD’s, MD’s, lawyers, and even many
politicians and third-rate celebrities

What we’ve struggled to learn IS that valuable, or the
market wouldn’t pay those prices for it.

Which brings us back to the problem faced by the person
willing to put in the work but who can’t afford it.

Take the case of my Joint Venture Broker Certification
Training. I earn much of my income by helping people
who have product launches to recruit affiliates and
help them have massively successful launches. I do
more than just recruit affiliates, I help my clients
to flow out and manage their entire launches, so that
they will be successful.

The reason that I do all of the thing necessary to
make my clients’ launches successful is that my pay is
contingent upon the success of the launches. I get paid
10% of the gross revenue from all of the sales made
by all of the affiliates that I recruit, plus a
negotiated upfront fee (which is really a consulting
fee).

So, the more successful the launch is, the more I
make. I treat each launch as if it were my OWN
product, and probably put as much time and energy
into the launch as the product owner does. So, I
EARN that 10%.

If I help my client to make an extra $500k in sales,
then my commission is $50k. If I help my client to
make an extra $3 million in sales, then my
commission is $300k.

Here’s my angle… After 16 years in the trenches as
an “internet marketer” and 8 years as a joint venture
broker, I actually AM one of the best. I spent all
that time honing my skills in order to make that so,
and I still study and improve my craft EVERY day.

So when people google terms such as “joint venture
broker” I dominate the search engine results! That’s
because I put in the time and effort to actually
develop the expertise.

I now accept a few apprentices each year, and put them
through a full year of mentoring. I have them first
go through 60 hours of recorded training. Then I
hand them a pre-screened product launch (one that
I am convinced has tremendous potential), and I work
with them side-by-side as they get hands-on training
in brokering the launch.

WE do this over and over again for a full YEAR.

At the end of that year, I will have transferred all
of my PRACTICAL knowledge to my proteges, and
they will be true experts who can easily command the
same fees that I do.

Since I do value my time very highly, and would
actually rather spend it on some exotic beach,
watching my grandchildren play in the surf, I do
charge $10,000 for that training. That’s $10,000
upfront or $997 per month for 12 months.

After looking at the actual time involved in this
training, I realized that I should have priced it
MUCH higher, and so I will increase the price on
my personal mentoring as a joint venture broker to
at least $25,000 next January. In fact, I’ll do that
while I’m on the annual Marketers Cruise, where I’ll
also conduct a small, private meeting with many of
the proteges that I have already trained.

My training will include two annual private
masterminds (one on the Marketers Cruise and one at
a beach-side gathering near my house each June).
These private masterminds are where the experts in
our profession discuss common challenges, and share
ideas. They are absolutely priceless, and are a
part of my “continuing education” that keep my
students learning but also keep me learning.

Anyway, most people will look at my training, see
the tremendous potential, and feel that they can’t
afford it. People who want to do many things feel
the same way.

The young man (or woman) who is really good at
fixing cars, sees that if they could get the right tools,
a little more training, and a physical shop, then they
could easily earn six or seven figure per year. Yet they
see no way to make that happen, so they give up on
that dream forever.

Most people who take a deep look at my training,
do the same thing. They see it as impractical…
some even feel that it’s impossible.

That happens everyday with probably hundreds of
thousands of people who look at training programs
online. They get their hopes up, look at the
tuition, and go back to living a life that they
hate… and feel trapped in!

I asked myself WHY I couldn’t allow a student
to go completely through my training, and then
pay me out of their earnings. If I’m really as good
as I say that I am, and I properly screen students,
then I should be able to teach them to do what I do,
and they should be able to easily pay me out of their
earnings!

Well, that is a nice theory, but the reality is that
most people, unless they do “have some skin in the
game” simply won’t follow through. They will let me
pour all of my time and energy into training them,
researching possible joint ventures for them to
broker, and in mid-stream, when it seem a little
tougher than it first sounded, change their minds.

I try to screen out people who would do that, but am
not 100% successful, since I don’t put them through a
full personality and psychiatric testing battery.

Anyway, against my better judgment, I have decided
to accept a maximum of 10 (TEN) new apprentices
where I shoulder 90% of the risk.

If you are willing to invest just the first $997
payment, that will put you on the monthly payment
plan where you’ll have to pay $997 per month for
12 months.

HOWEVER, your next $997 payment won’t be due until
you earn many times that much from actually doing
what I will teach you to do.

You will have to pay that first $997 because you
do need to have some skin in the game. It’s the
only way that I can reduce the probability of your
wasting my time and energy.

We will step you through the recorded training,
identify a first project for you to actually flow
out and make successful, and then we will do that
launch together. You will do the work, but we’ll be
in constant contact via phone, Skype, face-to-face
meetings at live events, etc.

You will make the remaining tuition payments out
of your actual earnings.

In fact I do two things differently than someone
who just wants your money, and really hopes that
you hand it over and go away…

1) I require an interview so that I know that we
are a match for each other. We can start that
interview with you sending an email to me at:
willie.crawford@gmail.com with the subject:
“Interested In Being A JV Broker.”

If you don’t use that subject line, you’ve already
indicated that you can’t follow simple instructions,
and probably disqualified yourself.

2) I send you an invoice for your tuition each
month. Most programs that you enroll in will sign
you up for some type of automated payment plan,
and then they hope and PRAY that you don’t notice
that payment each month and cancel.

I want that payment, and the commitment that you
have made to me and to YOURSELF, to be at the
forefront of your mind. I don’t want to try to sneak
it by you, I want you to remember that today was
the day that you decided that you would actually
change your life.

By the way, you are the only one who can do that.
I can guide you if you allow me to, but otherwise,
no one can help you. So, you have to take an
honest look at your life and ask if you are really
ready to make a change, or if you prefer living
with excuses.

This note is getting long. If it’s meant for you,
then send that email to me at:
willie.crawford@gmail.com using the subject line:
“Interested In Being A JV Broker” and we’ll see if
we are meant to work together.

If it’s not meant for you, then I hope that this note
has still put a lot of things in perspective for you.

With love,
Willie