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

On top of buying you dinner, I’d like to create a
product that you can later sell or even give away,
perhaps as a list builder.

Watch the video, then click here to register for
NAMS8, then use the second link below to tell me
that I owe you dinner and a product:

Register: http://TheRealSecrets.com/NAMS8/

See discount code at bottom of page above!

Notify my at: http://WillieCrawford.com/helpdesk/

Willie

To get the email plus an analysis of why it worked so
well, please click here to visit the Warrior Forum.

Thank you,
Willie

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

Check it out here.

Willie

Rob Wiser is the client of David Canham, one of the joint venture
brokers that I personally trained (and continue to mentor) in how
to put together large, lucrative product launch joint ventures.

Rob’s product is called “Google Resurrection” and as I reviewed the
product when David first told me about it, I was VERY impressed.

One of the things that I teach my joint venture broker proteges
is to only take on clients with top quality products that work
as advertised, and that the market needs and wants. When David
showed me Google Resurrection, I saw that he had a product that
was going to do very well for him and Rob.

As I chatted with Rob and one of his friends, Zack, there in
the Philippines, I discovered that they were expert enough at
SEO and website traffic generation that they had some very big
clients targeting some VERY competitive terms in one of the most
competitive niches around.

Naturally, I took advantage of the meeting and spent several
hours picking their minds, as we sat under at the covered picnic
table, situated under a coconut tree there about 40 years from
the beach.

The picnic table is made of concrete, and many things around
us were made of bamboo, because where I was sitting is often
flooded when typhoons roll in off the South China Sea.

By the way, to learn more about my joint venture broker
training, please visit: http://JointVenturePhd.com

One of the Rob’s JV Broker, David, is to also travel to
places like the Philippines. Don’t be surprised to see
a video of the two of us together hanging out on one of
these beaches, brainstorming product launches, and just
enjoying our jobs… which as you can see, really isn’t
work

Willie

Here’s the full story…

Yes, you read the subject line right… a magazine subscription
that’s $2000. It’s actually an ezine, and I publish it. It’s
called Willie Crawford’s Social Media Insider, and I do actually
charge $2000 for the subscriptions.

If you’d like to PURCHASE a subscription, just hit reply, and
I’ll request an invitation and invoice. Subscriptions are By
Invitation ONLY and issues are delivered vis Skype.

It’s that exclusive!

This is where I share social media insights that I get from
my contacts across the social media world, including people
who work at/for some of the social media giants, software
developers, and names that I’m sure that you would recognize.

The thing about social media is that it changes FAST, and
having a hint at where things are headed is priceless.

Several years ago, my friend Dr. Mani first told me about
this micro-blogging platform that he was “tweeting” on and
encouraged me to check it out. That’s how I first stepped
onto the Twitter stage.

At about the same time, my friend, the late Andy Bourland,
watched my activity on a discussion forum, where I had about
9000 posts, and told me that I was a natural for this new
unfolding medium… social media.

Andy encouraged me to check out Facebook. So did Dr. Mani,
who pointed me to Mari Smith, “The Pied Piper of Facebook”
at the time.

Today, I do VERY well, for myself, and for clients, using
social media. I do well enough that I’m a contributing
editor to the 14.8 million circulation Social Media Mags.

As I keep my finger on the pulse of social media, I like to
watch what new platforms are emerging that merit your time.
I notice which platforms are on the decline, and I look at
how businesses are successfully leveraging social media.

When I discover something truly newsworthy, I send a newsletter
to subscribers to my private newsletter, “Willie Crawford’s
Social Media Insider.”

For the next several HOURS, I’m actually GIVING subscriptions
to my $2000 magazine to those who join The Ultimate
Social Media Challenge through my link here:
http://yourbizzlinks.com/go/16k606Eqpn41

I have embraced social media in a HUGE way because it is not
just the future, it’s the present! Facebook is on it’s way to
having 1 BILLION users by mid-summer.

That’s where your customers are going to be and so you need to
be there too. If you don’t get Facebook, first of all I
recommend you join The Ultimate Social Media Challenge, at the
link above. That challenge is orchestrated by my social media
mentor.

Join the challenge, then I encourge you to check out this month’s
issue of FB & Business. It’s normally an $8 per issue magazine,
but I’ve arranged for you to grab it for free here:
http://TheRealSecrets.com/FreeFBAndBusinessSubscription/

You’ll notice on page 9 of that magazine that I’m running a
full-page ad. If you check their rate-card, you’ll see that a
full-page ad is EXPENSIVE, so I have to make sure that what
I’m doing there works. What I’m doing is working, and so I
encourage you to blatantly copy me.

Start with the challenge, and I’ll join you there. After you
sign up for The Social Media Challenge, send me a note
requesting a free subscription to my $2000 magazine. Send that
request to willie.crawford@gmail.com, using the subject “Free
Subscription To $2000 Magazine” and include your Skype ID.

This special offer ends today April 30th, although after today,
you will be able to apply to purchase subscriptions at the
$2000 price.

Get it free now by joining the challenge:
http://yourbizzlinks.com/go/16k606Eqpn41

Success,
Willie Crawford

Joint Venture Phd

If you’d like to PURCHAES a subscription, just hit reply, and
I’ll send you an invoice. Subscriptions are By Invitation
ONLY and issues are delivered vis Skype.

It’s that exclusive!

This is where I share social media insights that I get from
my contacts across the social media world, including people
who work at/for some of the social media giants, software
developers, and names that I’m sure that you would recognize.

The thing about social media is that it changes FAST, and
having a hint at where things are headed is priceless.

Several years ago, my friend Dr. Mani first told me about
this micro-blogging platform that he was “tweeting” on and
encouraged me to check it out. That’s how I first stepped
onto the Twitter stage.

At about the same time, my friend, the late Andy Bourland,
watched my activity on a discussion forum, where I had about
9000 posts, and told me that I was a natural for this new
unfolding medium… social media.

Andy encouraged me to check out Facebook. So did Dr. Mani,
who pointed me to Mari Smith, “The Pied Piper of Facebook”
at the time.

Today, I do VERY well, for myself, and for clients, using
social media. I do well enough that I’m a contributing
editor to the 14.8 million circulation Social Media Mags.

As I keep my finger on the pulse of social media, I like to
watch what new platforms are emerging that merit your time.
I notice which platforms are on the decline, and I look at
how businesses are successfully leveraging social media.

When I discover something truly newsworthy, I send a newsletter
to subscribers to my private newsletter, “Willie Crawford’s
Social Media Insider.”

For the next several days, I’m actually GIVING subscriptions
to my $2000 magazine to those who join The Ultimate
Social Media Challenge through my link here:
http://TheRealSecrets.com/UltimateSocialMediaChallange/

I have embraced social media in a HUGE way because it is not
just the future, it’s the present! Facebook is on it’s way to
having 1 BILLION users by mid-summer.

That’s where your customers are going to be and so you need to
be there too. If you don’t get Facebook, first of all I
recommend you join The Ultimate Social Media Challenge, at the
link above. That challenge is orchestrated by my social media
mentor.

Secondly, I encourge you to check out this month’s issue of
FB & Business. It’s normally an $8 per issue magazine, but
I’ve arranged for you to grab it for free here:
http://TheRealSecrets.com/FreeFBAndBusinessSubscription/

You’ll notice on page 9 of that magazine that I’m running a
full-page ad. If you check their rate-card, you’ll see that a
full-page ad is EXPENSIVE, so I have to make sure that what
I’m doing there works. What I’m doing is working, and so I
encourage you to blatantly copy me.

Start with the challenge, and I’ll join you there. After you
sign up for The Social Media Challenge, send me a note
requesting a free subscription to my $2000 magazine. Send that
request to willie.crawford@gmail.com, using the subject “Free
Subscription To $2000 Magazine” and include your Skype ID.

This special offer ends on April 30th, although after that
date, you will be able to purchase subscriptions at the
regular price.

Get it free now by joining the challenge:
http://TheRealSecrets.com/UltimateSocialMediaChallange/

Success,
Willie Crawford

This is a frequent topic of discussion as I interview potential
clients to decide whether or not I will accept them, and
orchestrate their product launchs.

In fact, I had a 30-minute discussion this morning with a client
where I made it very clear that I would require a six-figure
commission from him, which he happily agreed to… because he knew
that it would be worth it!

Anyway, you can download that MP3 by clicking here:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/1-1/TheMillionDollarJVBrokerMindset.mp3

After you download the MP3, please take a minute to check out The
Ultimate Social Media Challenge. Social media is one of the tools
that I leverage very effectively, and that enables me to deliver
the results that my clients rightfully expect. Please check out
The Ultimate Social Media Challenge by clicking here:
http://TheRealSecrets.com/UltimateSocialMediaChallange/

Thank you,
Willie