sue-french’s internet marketing journey

I had serious doubts. Surely by now, with great marketers constantly running bootcamps, holding seminars and creating coaching programs, with all the gazillion internet marketing information products there are now, surely there can’t be any secrets left that we don’t know about?

So how can this guy, Craig Beckta, whom we’ve never heard of, right? (well, I haven’t, anyway, and I think I’ve bought just about every affiliate marketing product that was ever created!), how can he be claiming to have found secrets we didn’t know about?

I was curious, couldn’t resist taking a look. The sales page itself is a pleasure to read, drew me in straight away. I reckon that this Craig Beckta must know something about marketing, because the quality of the salescopy and the whole sales process are an education in themselves.

It turns out Craig is just an average guy who was able to secretly join the ranks of the super affiliates and gain the respect of internet marketing gurus at the same time. All with free traffic methods and without a mailing list…Really?

Free traffic? No mailing list? That sounds like me… so I purchased the Secret Affiliate Code.

I’m so glad I did. I can tell you, you don’t want to miss this. If you’ve been struggling to find the missing bits of the affiliate marketing puzzle, or if you’re up and running but would like to do better, this is for you.

The Secret Affiliate Code has got to be one of the best marketing systems out there; it’s a carefully crafted, detailed, step-by-step affiliate marketing battle plan and also an ongoing educational resource. Among the material there is over an hour of step-by-step “video footage” of Craig, showing exactly what he does and how he does it. Since he somehow managed to make 6K in one week using only free traffic methods, I don’t know about you…but I think that makes it well worth looking into his secrets.

And Craig holds nothing back: he exposes the inner workings of a $6,484 landing page, shows us the very best methods to turn Blogs and Squidoo lenses into cash hungry machines, discloses four “closed door” methods to make super affiliate sales, and undercover tactics to get red hot, ready to buy traffic that will convert into paying customers. If that was not already enough, there are over 2 hours of bonus audio interviews with Willie Crawford, Eric Rockefeller, Alex Goad and Charles Kirkland, where Craig prises a few of their secrets out of them.

Yes, there is a One Time Offer, and this one is cleverly priced to seem like not much to add to the price of the initial product. I went for the OTO and I promise you, it’s incredibly valuable. In fact, the OTO on its own is well worth the price of the whole package.

Now, I know you are probably thinking this is going to have a large price tag, but no, it’s a steal, really! I’m not allowed to reveal the price of the Secret Affiliate Code, but I promise you, it is affordable. In fact, it’s ridiculously cheap, and there’s a secret code hidden on the sales page that knocks $20.00 off the price -  if you can crack it.

Sorry, I can’t reveal how to crack the code… that would spoil your fun.

But if you want to have a go, click here: Secret Affiliate Code

So much has happened in my little internet world this past week. I seem to be back to my old habit of signing up for stuff before I have thoroughly exploited the things I have already. There are just so many enticing free offers out there at present…

You must know by now what happens when you sign up for a free offer? Yes, that’s right, you eventually end up on a sales page, which is only to be expected. We are all here trying to make a living, and to do that we are selling stuff. It’s just that this week in particular, I seem to have overdone my signups and I’m not going to have time to give each of them the attention it deserves.

One of them does stand out though, and I’m really glad I stumbled onto it. It’s The Secret Affiliate Code, the first product from a new marketer, Craig Beckta. The Secret Affiliate Code has come into my life at exactly the right time - its just what I need right now. I signed up for the product, and for the OTO (believe me, I have become pretty good at resisting the beguilement of salescopy, so that’s how good the sales page is). The price is very reasonable, and I reckon this will be a valuable resource both now and for a long time to come.

There’s a large pdf manual. After a quick look at it, I was so excited, I printed the whole thing out so that I can read it sitting comfortably in a chair, or in bed. There’s heaps of other material as well, that I haven’t had a chance to look at properly yet, but right now, I’m setting out to write a review of the product to submit to article sites.

I won’t go on about the Secet Affiliate Code here; I’ll be posting my review on this blog so you can read more about it there. In the meantime, I recommend you go take a look at it for yourself. Here’s the link Secret Affiliate Code

Oh, and there’s a secret code on the sales page. If you can crack the code, you  get $20.00 off the price if you decide to buy.

Afterwards, feel free to come back here and write a comment. I’d love to know what you think.

Even if you are a total “noob” to this Internet Marketing world, if you’ve been online at all in the last week or so you will have heard about Mike Filsaime and how he is giving away his highly acclaimed Butterfly Marketing manuscript and a host of other free stuff -   Go here to see if you’re in a hurry - I heard about it from my mentor, John Thornhill.

I have just recently completed the first run of John Thornhill’s Personal Coaching program (which I highly recommend, by the way). I wasn’t planning on taking Mike up on his offer of all this free stuff, because I figure I’m not advanced enough for all that yet. But on John’s advice to “watch and learn”, I went through Mike’s sales process, signed up for all the free offerings, resisted all the upsells and one time offers (because I thought I’m not ready for them yet) and I learned a lot (including that I wish I had purchased Mike’s one time offer – it is a bargain!)

If you’ve been undecided about whether to look at Mike’s offer, I urge you to do so right away, before it closes on Sunday. And don’t do what I did and miss out on the one time offer – it could be the best investment you’ll ever make for taking your online business forward.

Drop whatever you’re doing and go here right now. Watch the video; read the whole page; follow the instructions. You’ll thank me for it in time to come.

As of today, I am officially a grandmother! My first grandchild, Theo was born last night (or this morning, depending on where you are in the world).

It’s only just now sinking in, after months of concern (due to a problem with the pregnancy) that he would be born prematurely, worrying about my daughter, worrying about how small the baby would be if he was born very early, he’s here. He’s fine, only a month early and doesn’t need to be in an incubator, and my daughter is well too!

Geographically, I am on one side of the world, and they are on the other, about as physically far apart as it is possible to be. But, thanks to the wonders of modern technology, I have a photo already.

I am pondering a puzzle, though. On my side of the world, he was born on June 2nd; on his side of the world he was born on June 1st: what date will his birthday be?

The course has finished; the 16 weeks have fairly flown by. Time to consider how much I have learnt and the progress I have made.

I’ve been dabbling online for about three years, joined John’s “Powerseller Challenge” about a year ago. It was just one of many products I spent money on but did not apply myself to. I was an Internet Marketer’s dream customer, buying every new thing to land in my inbox and focusing on none of them. They say “the money is in the list” – this is surely true if you have people like me on your list!

Over the months, John began to stand out as someone who knew what he was doing. I liked his honest, friendly approach, so when his Coaching Program became available, it was an easy decision for me to sign up. I thought the price was fair, and I was pretty sure I would get value for money. I was right.

In 16 short weeks I have gone from being technologically incompetent to having two blogs up and running (go here to have a look at the other one), a product created (you can view sales page here) and listed on clickbank, a bonus product and a 7-day minicourse related to my product, complete with its own landing page ( minicourse opt-in ). I had to start a second blog, because the niche I chose for my product had nothing to do with Internet Marketing, which was the subject of this, my first (and now somewhat neglected) blog.

The Coaching Program has certainly been intensive, but I loved the fact that I could follow along at my own pace. My technophobia slowed me up a bit at times, but it didn’t matter. All the material I needed was there, and if I struck a problem (as I did several times) John and Daniel were easily available to sort me out. At no time did I ever feel that I was left to flounder along on my own.

The main presentation of course material was by video. Each video was short and devoted to only a single, small step, which made it easy to find what I wanted when I needed to go back to refresh my memory about something. A handy checklist provided each week made it easy to be certain I’d completed all the work necessary before advancing to the next stage.

I have progressed from being someone who could barely do more online than press the “BUY NOW” button, to being someone who has researched a market and chosen a niche, chosen and purchased a domain name, can set up and manage a Wordpress blog, create material and upload it to the internet, manage an autoresponder account, list items on clickbank, create material for affiliates, create my own product, write a sales letter and create a sales page, write articles and submit them to article directories and much more besides. This all feels to me like an enormous achievement. My confidence level has soared.

I can thoroughly recommend John Thornhill’s Personal Coaching Program to anyone who is ready to learn the Internet Marketing ropes.

Another week has gone by and I am slowly making progress. I have been held up a bit by techie issues, all of which were easily solved with help from Daniel (John’s technical support department). Each time it happens, I am delayed by 12 - 24 hours, due to the time difference. Daniel is in the U.K. and I am in New Zealand, so generally, when I write to him it is the middle of his night, and when he replies, it is the middle of mine!

I have plenty of other stuff to get on with though.

My big triumph this week was getting my sales page finished and uploaded. That was so exciting! It actually looks like a real one - LOL.

How do other people ever get everything done, I wonder? I have been so focused on the sales page, not forgetting that life in the physical world must  also be maintained , that I have fallen behind with posting to my two blogs. I suppose when you actually know what you are doing, you get more done more quickly.

Well, it’s week 9 for most of the others on the course, but I’m still behind, and working on week 8 stuff.

Week 8: we are supposed to be creating our sales letter (Did I mention I had finished my ebook?). John warned us we might find this difficult. Well I can tell you, I have really struggled. We have good course material, and goodness knows, I have read through enough sales letters during the last three years - I should be able to write one no trouble.

And I am, really. It’s just taking me longer than I imagined it would. I’m used to just writing like you would speak. I mean, you don’t think about every word or sentence you are going to say when you are talking  (well, there are times when maybe we should, I know…) to someone, and that’s how I generally write best. The words just come, and I write them down.

Now, I am having to stop and ask myself if my words will be having the effect I want them to have on the reader. I am having to think about what I am saying. Once I have to stop and think, the words don’t flow.

Perhaps there is my answer: I should just write, then go back and edit afterwards. Meanwhile, I am firmly of the opinion that once I have some income from all of this, someone else will probably be writing my sales letters!

It’s Easter, a time when the roads in New Zealand, as in other countries that observe this holiday, are clogged with traffic and drivers are hot, frustrated and irritable.

Not me! I’m happy as a mouse in the pantry, head down at my computer. I’m in catch-up mode now. My product (an ebook) is almost complete - just needs finishing touches, and I’ve been creating my second blog. This one is on the topic that matches my book.

I’m happy because I am so much enjoying this course, I feel I am learning a lot and that I have made some progress at last.

It was a good exercise to repeat the blog building process. I went back through all the relevant class material and naturally, it was all much easier the second time around. I did make one serious mistake, though. I was careless, and I managed to delete an important file from my blog template! My blog looked very strange after that!

An email to Daniel (John’s techie support person) soon had me sorted. It took me less time to correct the problem than it had to create it in the first place!

If you are new to the internet and thinking of buying into a “how to” course, I can’t stress to you enough the importance of good support for your queries. In this regard, John and Daniel have never let me down, always replying promptly, even over a holiday weekend. 

I hope they both found an opportunity to have some “time out” from computers and coaching students.

To a rewarding internet journey

Sue 

I’m still behind the program! My problem is the length of time I am taking to do the research. The more I discover about my topic, the more questions I have, therefore, the more research I need to do.

John is very reassuring, saying it won’t matter if any of us are a bit behind, as we will easily be able to catch up. I do like it that I can work at my own pace. It would be much more difficult if I were having to keep up with live lessons. I want to produce the best product that I can, so it does not make sense to me to rush this part of the project.

Another problem I have is that this blog is about my progress on the coaching course, but my product is totally unrelated to anything to do with internet marketing, so I really need to create a whole new blog.

With that said, I had better get on with it.

Toward a rewarding internet journey,

Sue

I have been so engrossed in writing my ebook that the whole week has flashed past without me posting to this blog. I have to say that even though I have been researching my topic for the last year, there seems to be an endless amount of information to amass, verify and sort out (the oats from the chaff, so to speak). Much of it is conflicting, which rather suits my purpose in writing on my chosen subject (nothing to do with internet marketing, by the way). But I must decide what is sensible  and logical, what is biased towards promoting a product, and what is completely contrary to my own opinion. I must decide how much to put in, and what to leave out.

In short, I am running out of time. I’ll bet I’m not the only one.

Therefore, this post is not only late, it is short. There’s no point in waffling on if you have nothing much to say.

So for now, I’m back to my book, and a few more hours of reading, note-taking and, with any luck, some writing as well.

Toward a rewarding internet journey,

Sue