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Rubbing Shoulders With Some Internet Marketing Guru’s

I have been rubbing shoulders with some internet marketing gurus over the weekend.  I attended Alex Jeffreys ‘Marketing With You – Live’ event in London.

The biggest revelation to me was that I did not learn much new about internet marketing!  That may sound like a negative comment but it really isn’t.

Alex outlined his simple business model – it really is simple.  I’ve heard him talk about it already in a number of his webinars, which is why there was no new content.  I don’t mind that because, if this is his real business model that is earning him a lot of money, then why talk about anything else?

From this, I have come to the conclusion that I am over-complicating my business – so this is perhaps the biggest learning point for me.  I am still looking for the magic secret and there really isn’t one.

This realisation alone is a massively important one because it means that I am well and truly beyond the ‘learning’ stage and the focus is now firmly on implementation.

I also met some really great people at the event:

Alex Jeffreys

Alex Jeffreys
Dean Holland

Dean Holland

Rob Cornish

Rob Cornish

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rob Cornish is an internet marketer that I really admire – his content is real gold and he is building a really nice business for himself.  He is one of the few internet marketers whose emails find their way into my inbox.  It was a genuine pleasure to meet with him (as you can see from my face!).

I also met and had lunch with Devon Brown – didn’t get a picture damnit!  Devon had travelled all the way from Atlanta to be at the event and was going on to tour France and Spain over the course of the next two weeks.  His business is called Renegade Success (mine is called The Business Renegade) so we have that in common.  I instantly liked Devon who was very open and easy to talk to despite his obvious success – no airs and graces.

I also met and chatted to a number of students who will be stars of the future – Richard Gledhill, Malcolm Simmonds, Sherry Bualy (from Oman!), Andy Lindsay (shortly launching Config WP – a piece of software to help to launch WordPress sites faster), Catherine Toops, Kevin Ashbridge and many more.

I feel re-energised and re-motivated to get some products out into the market place as quickly as possible and to start a fixed-term membership site.  I need to make some money so I can attend every event that I can – it really is a life-affirming experience to meet with other people who are on the same journey that you are.  They are all positive people who want to help each other realise their dreams.

As you can tell I am excited about this experience and only wish I had found the time to meet many more people at the event.

I have also ordered the following recommended books on my return home:

  • ‘Ready, Aim, Fire’ by Michael Masterson
  • ‘The Obvious Expert’ by E Eldridge
  • ‘Abundance’ by Peter H Diamandis

These books were all recommended by Alex Jeffreys and I am ready and willing to learn from the best!

It has taken me a long time to attend my first live internet marketing event – I was put off from attending events when I attended a marketing event by Chris Cardell in around 2006 that was nothing but a pitch-fest.  However, Alex’s event was quite different – he did promote his own coaching but it was not offensive and there are plenty of success stories in his coaching group.

I am currently being coached by two of Alex’s students – Marc Milburn and Dean Holland and in due course I may turn to Alex if necessary if I need help to get to another level.  For the time-being I am well-satisfied with my current coaches.

If you have yet to rub shoulders with the internet marketing gurus by attending a live event, then it is an experience that I can thoroughly recommend because it is lonely trying to figure this stuff out by yourself!

 

 

 

 

 

My First Internet Marketing Seminar – My Golden Ticket

Before I bought Marc Milburn’s coaching course, I booked to attend Marketing With Alex – Live which is being held at Heathrow, London on the 18th and 19th May 2013.  Hopefully, this will be my ‘Golden Ticket’!

I am writing this blog post just before I leave for the event.

Here’s what Alex has promised to cover over the weekend:

  • how to double, triple or even quadruple your business.
  • how to launch your first information product and make between $2,000 and $55,000 in your very first week (no experience needed)
  • how to get an endless stream of traffic so you never stop making money on the internet
  • how to make $8,000 in 90 minutes on the internet, without a website or a product
  • how to add 1,213 people into your membership in the first few days without any of the content created
  • how to make $9,587 per month working just 3 hours per week
  • how to launch your own software product (without even knowing a line of code) and still bank $3,431 in the first 7 days
  • how to create simple sales funnels (and bank as much as $75,321 per month) on complete auto-pilot
  • how to make $67,241 in the first month you launch a back-end coaching programme.  even with no experience and while just working one afternoon a week.

In addition to this seminar content, Alex has invited some of his big affiliates – I am hoping to meet as many as possible in view of the products that I want to launch shortly.

Also, Dean Holland, another of my mentors, is attending so it will be great to meet him face to face for the first time.

The Oompaloompas Want My Ticket

Even The Oompaloompas Want My Ticket

I am really looking forward to this event because it will be great to get out from behind my computer and meet some of the major players in internet marketing.

Internet marketing is all about relationships and this is a golden opportunity to network with some like-minded people and who knows what will come of it in the future.  In any event, whatever happens, I’m going to enjoy the experience.

I think I have probably been over-complicating my internet marketing – this was discussed on a coaching call with Dean Holland last night.

Michael Young, another internet marketer, was mentioned.  I have followed Michael for a while now – most of his products are pretty sketchy and short but he has a very engaging and likeable manner.  His strategy has changed from creating and launching his own products to re-launching other peoples products at a discount to their normal price. in 90 days he has generated $340k in sales with having to work very hard.

It’s all about working smart rather than working hard and Michael seems to have cracked the formula.

However, I listened to a webinar by Peter Garety yesterday, and it is quite evident that he is running his business using some sophisticated management information.  He has a product called WP Campaign Manager that allows you to track and segment your customers buying behaviour which enables him to be very targeted with his email marketing.

So there’s the dichotomy, one marketer is saying that it is easy and you can do it with other peoples products , working just a few hours a day, and another marketer is working hard to manage his business using sophisticated management information systems.

Next week I am ringing John Robbins, a fellow student of Dean Holland’s to discuss Michael Young’s strategy in more detail.  It will also be a chance to get to know John who is an expert in video marketing.

I am also interested in developing a relationship with Sergio Felix, a fellow student of Marc Milburn’s.  I think Sergio will go far because he is not afraid to put himself out there on video and he seems to be well connected.

I am inclined to think that working hard is the only way but it is always beguiling to dream that there is an easier way.  It will be interesting to see whether my opinion changes over the course of this weekend with Alex Jeffreys.

So wish me luck with my first internet marketing seminar and I’ll report back on how I got on next week and tell you if it really was one of life’s golden tickets.