I write a lot in the course of a year.  I write blog posts, ezine posts, reviews and emails to my customers.

You Replied?

I sent out an email this morning to all of my subscribers, people who for one reason or other asked to be on my email list because of a product or service in which they were interested.

What was weird about this email was the reply I received.

One lady (I give her the benefit of the doubt) replied to my email with an advertisement for a shady Bernie Madoff type ponzi scheme that was guaranteed to double (no triple) my money in a few days.

There was no greeting, like: “Hi Micheal, thanks for the great download link to Mr. Ebay’s call from Monday night, I will be listening to it later tonight.  But in the mean time, I thought you might be interested in looking this over and letting me know if you think this is a legit opportunity.  I already invested some money in it, but I thought that since you are already doing well enough to have left your job, that you might have some idea as to whether I am on the right track with this.”

No, the subject made it look like a reply, but the email launched right into the sales pitch for the scam without acknowledging that I might be interested in this or that it was something she was doing.  BAM! In my face with the full marketing power that instantly attracts my fingers to the delete button.

So I emailed her back…

What do you think I told her?  Right, I said:

“The fact that you subscribed to my ezine does not give you the right to spam me.”

I did add a little more, like that I do my best to offer advice to my students on how to go about contacting others and building relationships in order to find people to partner with, to joint venture or to find prospects and leads.  But nowhere in my training is spamming the people whom I register to get information from a viable method.  Somewhere, someone is teaching this.  I know, I remember the ebook about 10 years ago.  Written by a marketer who no longer has ANY credibility in the marketplace.

Want To Be Like That?

I don’t want to rant about this.  But I want to warn you.  If you want to be known as the person to avoid, keep doing that.

I teach that you want to be known as a person of integrity, that your relationship with your readers is number one in your mind when you start your business.  Your community is your goldmine, because they will be your best affiliates, your best prospectors and your best friends!  A raving fan is what you want to develop out of everything that you do.

So when you sign up for someone’s ezine, this is someone that right now has a resource that is useful to you (or at least potentially so)…  They have information that can help you.  They have a list to whom they can recommend you.  That alone is worth thousands of dollars!  One strong recommendation can build your credibility 100 times better than an autoreply…

Epic Failure

When a new marketer hits the scene, what do you do before you buy what they are selling?  Google.

When you see the raving reviews from everyone, then you say, ok, this person is legit, I can invest my money with them.  But what happens when that person is spamming everyone who is anyone - like people with huge lists?  Do you think their name is going to be associated with raving reviews?

Who Brought The Rants To The Picnic?

More like a bunch of rants…  The web is a place that will quickly and effectively kill the chances of anyone succeeding by the simple post of one’s name associated with a negative comment.  Say Bernie Madoff were to try and start a new matrix online… promising a return on investment of 20%.  Would you buy into it?

I would sure as heck look up his name and see what people are saying about him.  The suicides from people who lost everything they had should be enough to warn you away from him.

But do we want to have our names associated with negativity?

Correction…

Try fixing a negativity barrage on the Internet.

Do you know how many people you have to get to post positive things about you to make even one negative comment about you disappear?  Ask the ebay powersellers who have to start over when they screw up.

The Morality Of The Story

The point I am trying to make is easy.  Don’t screw up your chance at success by pissing off everyone who has the ability to make your life a living hell online.

Become the person that everyone wants to work with.  Learn from the people who are where you want to be.  Find a mentor who is already where you want to be, not where you are or below.  You will be known as someone who is teachable, polite and ethically sound.  Much better than ethically challenged!

So as you make your plans for 2009 and beyond, remember that relationships are the key to opening the door to a more complete life.  Without friends, you are going to be lonely.  Without customers, you are going to be broke.  Without a good reputation, you will find it difficult to find friends and customers.

PR: wait… I: wait… L: wait… LD: wait… I: wait… wait… C: wait… SD: wait…

Tellman got run over by a reindeer,
Running in the streets last Christmas Eve…

You may think there’s no such thing as Santa,
But as for me and Tellman, we believe:

http://secretstocking.com/?e=signup

He’d been running in the snowdrifts,
And we begged him not to go…
But he’s training for cross country,
So he ran off in the sleet and driving snow!

Tellman got run over by a reindeer,
Running in the streets last Christmas Eve…
You may think there’s no such thing as Santa,
But as for me and Tellman, we believe:

http://secretstocking.com/?e=signup

It’s not Christmas without Tellman…
Cuz he gives us all so much,
Now he’s got a Secret Stocking
And the price goes up with every sale…

Tellman got run over by a reindeer,
Running in the streets last Christmas Eve…
You may think there’s no such thing as Santa,
But as for me and Tellman, we believe:

http://secretstocking.com/?e=signup

What can you do in the next 30 days to build into a 5 or 6 figure business?

Creating products that sell requires knowing what it is that your customers are looking for!  I often find myself wishing I knew what they were thinking and by the time I create a survey, I have lost the excitement that I had for getting a new product ready.

What would it be like to be able to read your customer’s minds?

What if you knew exactly what products or services people would buy?

And what if you could make this happen in a matter of minutes?

I’ve got some exciting news for you, because what I am about to show you is better than a crystal
ball!

http://nexurl.com/Instant-Form-Pro

I’ve just discovered Instant Form Pro, a brand new software tool from world-renowned Internet business expert, Joel Comm.

Joel knows online marketing, and once again he has released a tool that absolutely EVERY online marketer is going nuts over!

Instant Form Pro is easy-to-use software that helps you discover what your customers REALLY want.

You’ve seen other survey and form software, but you’ve never seen anything like this before!

Imagine being able to create simple questionnaires, complex surveys, contact forms, testimonial generators, feedback forms, file uploaders, test and quizzes, and collect virtually ANY kind of data by using a unique drag-and-drop interface that turns you into a marketing pro in minutes!

That, and much more, is why serious Internet marketers are downloading their copy of Instant Form Pro right now.

Instant Form Pro was created with marketers in mind.  That’s why one of my favorite features is the ability to customize your own “thank you” pages!

You want to talk about an unfair advantage?

If your competition gets a hold of this, they will learn more about your customers than you already know.

In this competitive world, you can’t afford for that to happen.

You need Instant Form Pro.

- No programming experience is needed.

- Software installs in minutes

- Form and survey creation couldn’t be any easier!

http://nexurl.com/Instant-Form-Pro

Hurry and grab your copy of Instant Form Pro now so you can get started reading your customer’s
minds.

When you know what they want, you’lll be able to effortlessly increase your traffic and sales!

Instant Form Pro is being offered at a special price and it could go up at any moment.

Don’t miss out.  Get your copy now at:

http://nexurl.com/Instant-Form-Pro

Have an amazing day!

Micheal Savoie
http://twitter.com/michealsavoie

PS - Smart marketers know how to find out what their customers want to buy.  They ASK!  Instant Form Pro is hands-down the easiest way to create unlimited surveys and more so you can increase your bottom line quickly!

http://nexurl.com/Instant-Form-Pro

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As you know, I am in the process of revamping Extreme Product Explosion and I am getting ready to launch My Blogging School! This is a lot of work, but I am having a blast, because I am home with my family!

But my work is not done… many families are struggling with the state of our economy.

On a side note. I am not one of these guys who will preach to you that our economy is in a recession or heading into a depression.  But oil prices were a serious drag on the economic ability of a lot of businesses to continue operating the way they had been.

I walked through the Crystal River Mall today after watching Quantum Of Solace and saw a lot of empty shops.  The first businesses to be hit by high gas prices are those that are paying the high rent of a mall.  People do not go out as much, and when they do, they have a little bit less to spend than they usually had, because their gas tank sucked their wallet dry.

Business has to be able to adapt to a changing world.  Many companies are laying off workers that are now irrelevant, because they have phased out an entire division.  Companies are firing people that they used to hang on to, because they could afford to, even if those workers were non-productive.

Part of my business model is to help businesses adapt by harnessing the power of the Internet to increase customer loyalty and add to revenue in unexpected ways.  If a business creates a blog to bring awareness to their cause, they are generating word of mouth advertising, but if they also have infoproducts that they can sell online, and those products happen to be viral, all of a sudden you have a huge cashflow coming from an advertising source!

Businesses don’t always have time to create their own infoproducts,

Mother Of All Firesales…

You don’t have to resort to eating bugs to make it online!  You can tell I am somewhat successful, because I spit the bug out… If I had been really having hard times, I would have kept that baby… gotta get nutrition any way you can, right?

Vince Tan contacted me about a Firesale that he is having.  He assembled a LOT of marketers to submit products that they are actually selling… PLR, MRR and personal use products that you can use immediately. It took him over 4 months of wheeling and dealing to get that many partners.

What I am talking about is well over $9000 worth of products in one location that you will be able to buy for less than 1/10th what you would pay if you went to everyone’s site and purchased.  And none of these are crap.  I mean we have people like Donna Fox, Paulie Sabol, Michael Green and more big names all on board with this because they want to help make history when the Biggest Firesale goes live on Tuesday, November 18th!

Since I want to make some big waves in the JV Contest, I am planning on giving away some BIG BONUSES to the first 50 who buy The Biggest Firesale via my link!

1. Your choice of products FREE from this page:
   http://productinaweekend.com/bonus-time/

2. Your choice of 2 more products for $5 from this page:
   http://productinaweekend.com/bonus-time/

3. 6 Months Silver Membership to Extreme Product Explosion and then reduced subscription price of only $10 per month! Normally $17 per month.
4. A Coupon For $30 off the price of the Back To School Firesale (reopened only for the duration of the Biggest Firesale) you can see the August 18th end date! I reopened it, because with these bonuses, you are going to have a major business ready to go!
5. 2 Months Of FREE Coaching from me personally! AND, if you choose to continue having my guidance in your business, you will save $30 per month ($67 per month instead of $97 per month) for continued coaching.

So lets add this up:

•  The price of the FREE product #1 is and average of $37 (depending on which one you choose).

• The savings from the 2 $5 products is approximately $50 (it depends on which products you choose).
• 6 x $17 = $102 for 6 months of Extreme Product Explosion Silver Membership plus an additional savings of $7 per month after that. Let’s say another $21… so this bonus is worth $123!
• The next is worth $30. But the product value is unlimited…
• And finally 2 months of coaching is worth $194 plus $30 per month after that.  So let’s assume $90 for a total coaching package worth $284!
• $37 + $50 + $123 + $30 + $284 = $524!

So this is a huge bonus that has the potential of taking your business to the next level and beyond, because the only way you could fail with this many products is if you did absolutely nothing!

This is the closest thing to a recession buster bonus that I have ever put together.  In fact I am exhausted after spending the last few days trying to find these bonuses and figuring out whether you could use them!

Have an amazing day!

Micheal Savoie
http://twitter.com/michealsavoie

PS - You can claim your bonus by using my helpdesk at
http://traf-x.com/helpdesk

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I have something to show you today which is totally going to blow you away.

http://ourwiz.com/likes/Project-Archimedes/

It is something that has been put together over the last few months having been perfected for years.

You may have even heard about it already…

Project Archimedes is the new course which has been created in order to show anybody at any level how to make easy money on the internet by taking advantage of the difference in prices between two marketplaces.

Ben Shaffer has made a fortune doing it, and has created a step-by-step course which has simply stunned anyone who has taken a look at it and used it.

You may be surprised by the number of testimonials that are on the salespage, but the truth is, that these tactics work extremely well and are here to stay.

http://www.projectarchimedes.com

If you have seen the prelaunch videos, then you will know that Ben generally doesn’t approach the market place in the same way as other people and that is what gives him a competitive advantage.

Throughout this course, he has tried to let you into his brain to show you tactics and techniques that you may have not seen before.

But it is not rocket-science!

In fact, I showed the members’ area to my daughter to look through it and view the videos and reports. She then went on to use her skills in the real marketplace!

He has set everything out very step-by-step and easy to follow both for people just starting out on the internet and advanced marketers who are already using some of the tactics but not all.

http://www.projectarchimedes.com

Project Archimedes was so named because of the desire to create a course which employs scientific methods in order to profit online.

Using a scientific method means that nothing is left to chance, and that it can be repeated.

So, if you are looking for just an extra $100 a month or several hundred thousand Dollars a year, then I would seriously advise you to go and take a look at this course.

http://www.projectarchimedes.com

Often, online marketers are scared at sharing their secret money-making tactics for fear that a marketplace will become too crowded. Or perhaps they only share them once they are no longer effective.

That is the opposite in this case . Competition can actually be used to your advantage.

The reason is, because the more competition there is, the greater the marketplace and therefore the greater the amounts of profits to be made.

As you can tell, I am very excited about Project Archimedes because it is something that is truly worth being excited about. Not only that, but because I know that it will change a lot of people’s lives in finally being successful online.

If you want that to be you, then go to:

http://www.projectarchimedes.com

Have an amazing day!

Micheal Savoie
http://twitter.com/michealsavoie

PS. What the course is about, is making use of all the knowledge that you may have obtained from other courses and finally putting it to use.

Project Archimedes, Ben Shaffer, website flipping, domaining, buying and selling somains and websites

You probably know that in order to run a really profitable online business you *should* have your own product. But that can take a lot of time and money, so you may shy away from the thought.

Not to worry!

Now you can create your own products quickly and easily using Private Label Rights Products and following the step-by-step plan in this new video tutorial series…

http://productinaweekend.com/Product-Ideas

You’re probably thinking that using PLR products is nothing new. But what many people don’t know is that the profitability of ANY product is based on how unique it is.

Yet only a small percentage of marketers take advantage of that fact and create their own unique products from the PLR on their hard drive.

And that’s where this video series comes in…

It takes you by the hand and shows you step by step how to create a unique product that not only sells, but increases your profit margin several times over!

http://productinaweekend.com/Product-Ideas

You’ll also receive TWO new Private Label Reports to get you going fast, so head over and grab your copy now…

http://productinaweekend.com/Product-Ideas

Remember that buying PLR is one of those things that you really have to follow through with! Otherwise that investment is wasted, because you will never get back what you invested in that product unless you take it and make it your own.

Remember that I can give you my creating products with free tools software if you head over here:

Creating Products With Free Software

Products are a reflection of you.  If you decide to leave the products as is, you are going to be competing with hundreds more people than if you convert PLR products into your own creations. 

Have an amazing day!

Micheal Savoie
http://twitter.com/michealsavoie

Virtual Real Estate (VRE) sounds cool, doesn’t it?  Thing is, a lot of us have absolutely no clue what it entails.  We brandish the word around and expect people to understand what we are talking about.

Ask 15 different people what they think it means and you will get 14 different answers…

In a broad definition, Virtual Real Estate is the buying and selling of domains and websites. Basically you are buying a domain or website in the hopes of adding value to it so that other people will want to pay you more for it than you paid.

This means more than just parking a domain.

I have friends like Mark Ress who make a good living just “domaining” where they look at domain auctions for names that have potential, buy them and set up a website on them that adds even more value and then then reap the rewards of reselling them.

If you park a domain, you are basically allowing the traffic that normally occurs for it to get routed to adsense or affiliate ads, without giving value to the reader.  Search engines penalize these and so do the courts of law.  If one of your domains that you have parked is a product, brand or company name, the company owning the name can sue you for control of that domain and win in most cases.  Because you are not placing any value on that domain.

Same situation, but if your domain has a website and you can document earnings from that website, a court is likely to allow you to keep that domain (or let you sell it at a premium).

Flipping Domains!

With the success of Flip This House on the Discovery Channel, people are investing time and money to upgrade homes that they purchased at a deflated price (because of the need for repair) and end up reselling for a much higher price after the renovations and improvements!

Now bring that concept into the VRE world!

Buying websites that have been around a while, not really performing, and fixing them up to resell at a better price is another VRE method that is very lucrative if you do it correctly.  My friend Ben Shaffer from Israel is developing a training course on Website Flipping that he calls Project Archimedes.  This will revolutionize the market, because it will teach many new site flippers the real way to make  money from flipping sites.  I am training my oldest daughter to flip sites, since she has a natural design ability, and I am using Project Archimedes to show her how to do it the right way.

I suggest you get on Ben’s prenotification list so that you can take action when Project Archimedes goes live. 

I am assembling a membership site that you can use to learn the skills you may not have right now (like how to do graphics using either GIMP or Paint.net), how to upload via FTP and cpanel, how to make a paypal button, how to use clickbank (for affiliate products) and how to use Kopozer as your HTML editor.  This membership site will be selling for $47 per month when I release it next week, but anyone who gets on Ben’s prenotification list and buys Project Archimedes on November 11th will get 180 days access for $1! (6 months should be more than enough time to pick up the skills you will need to do a professional looking job with websites so that you can flip them and make more than you invested in both the website and Project Archimedes).

Click Here To Get On Ben’s List

Dark Forces Stir VRE World
 
Someone you should be checking out in the Virtual Real Estate field is Howie Schwartz.  He uses white, grey and black hat techniques to build massive traffic to his VRE sites and affiliate programs.  By simply adding a blog to your domain and building a whole lot of Web 2.0 websites all pointing to your blog, you can increase the value of a domain 100 fold in a matter of days!

Simply increasing the page rank of a website can mean the difference between selling a domain for $27 or selling it for $27,000,000!  Think about it.  You have a domain like http://4aweber.com and instead of just redirecting it to the aweber website, you create a blog that discusses the pros and cons of aweber.  Then you build the pagerank (I use the term pagerank loosely, because it does not necessarily need to be Google’s PR, you can have it show up on the first page of all the search engines, to me that is ranking) for that website via a campaign of Web2.0 sites and article publishing.

Momentous Occasion!

Once you build a tremendous momentum for that site, you are in the driver’s seat as to the price you can sell that domain/website combination.  You can use ebay or a private reseller to get the highest price for the site.

Ben Shaffer reveals a lot of the mechanics for making the sale and getting the most for your site in Project Archimedes.  You will also see a lot of great resources for finding these sites and locating the owners.  One of the side effects for this is that you can actually get the current owners to pay you to pimp up their website (often more money than you would have gotten for flipping it) to help increase the value of it for them!

That is all I have to cover with you on VRE for now, but I will be covering more before the launch of Project Archimedes.

I hope that now that you are armed with a little bit more information about Virtual Real Estate and Website Flipping, you can become more aware of opportunities around you.

I can tell you that finding a  domain with a PR 3 and adding a website to that domain can be really exciting, since the traffic is already coming.  Many times domains like that have 2000 visitors a month coming without having anything there!  Imagine what can happen when you put your own website with your own products in place!

So sign up for Project Archimedes Early Notification so you can qualify for my 6 Months for $1 deal on my skill building membership site.  If you have additional questions you would like me to address on this topic or anything else, leave me a comment!

Have an amazing day!

Micheal Savoie
http://twitter.com/michealsavoie

PS - Howie Schwartz is opening up his Black Hat Is Back website for a limited time, so you should be getting in on it to blow away the competition for free traffic!

Technorati Tags: VRE, virtual real estate, property flipping, domaining, Mark Ress, Ben Shaffer, Buying and selling domains, domain black market, black hat traffic, howie schwartz