"On The Road Again"

I’ve always thought my buddy Ed Dale was a bit loopy when it comes to web2.0 and social media sites. And the rest of my pals who are into social media (Howie Schwartz, Jack Humprhey’s, and host of other dudes) I labeled 2.0 crack-pots (gotta love it when you can fit 2 drugs into one word).

My beef was usually because I didn’t think the effort or time needed to utilize these services was a wise choice of time management. It seemed much easier to just get joint ventures, buy pay per click traffic, or buy other forms of traffic then it was to hustle around all day with social media sites.

Plus, most of the social media traffic doesn’t convert worth a shit in many situations.

However, after messing around with the Flock browser today, I’m convinced it’s perfect for a ADHD guy like myself.

While I bash the social media sites for business traffic, I do screw off alot on Twitter, Myspace, Facebook etc. I mostly just like to chat with cool peeps, and am not concerned about building business or building lists. I just like to laugh alot.

But as I laugh at these web2.0 sites, and dismiss them as childsplay, I’m beginning to see some decent income and great interaction from them. And the cool thing is I really don’t do much of anything but continue on in my normal web viewing habits.

People just find me, then add me as friends without me doing a damn thing. And the lists and members keep growing. It’s really got me curious about what could happen if I started really blogging alot and providing content to the world of web2.0.

Actually I know exactly what would happen…

I’d get a TON OF VIEWERS.

Here’s why…

In the last couple of hours I’ve been screwing around inside this flock browser. And on the left “sidebar” it has little windows that are connected to my Facebook, Gmail, Flickr, Twitter, Yahoo, Wordpress, Blogger, and more to come.

Withing a couple of clicks I can have a blog post to my blogger blog, or a Twit to my Twitter page. This post right here is being wrote inside a window in the Flock browser.

The point is, this browser makes posting content to the web super duper fast. So fast in fact that I actually see how damn powerful this web2.0 stuff could be with a plan laid out. And to be honest, you could yield a bunch of traffic with a crappy plan that sucked as long as you just did something a few minutes a day.

In the last hour I’ve made a few Twitter posts, had all my emails checked, edited photo’s in Flickr, loaded a Jack Johnson video to a Blogger blog, made this post right here, and learned a bunch of other stuff inside of Flock.

And I have a feeling I ain’t even touched a fraction of the cool tools in here.

You can aggregate all your RSS feeds you subscribe to, bring Youtube videos into the media browser, and a host of other things I don’t even know about yet. It’s really sick, and a no brainer to see why Ed would want to use this browser with participants of the “30 Day Challenge“.

Just for the record, Ed’s been talking about Flock for a few years now. I tried it out a few times a couple years ago but it didn’t really catch on with me. After uploading the new version though, I’m floored. It makes me actually want to go out and spread a ton of content with people. Heck, it’s downright fun too (which is the most important thing to me).

I have a good feeling that a lot of marketers and social media nuts are going to be making the switch to Flock once they see how easy it can assist your internet browsing habits.

And even though I thought alot of the web2.0 stuff has been hocus pocus marketing with no true proof of results, I can’t deny the few extra thousand bucks it has helped to bring in this month.

Ultimately I realize it’s just about communication and reaching more people through many different mediums. Makes a lot of sense now and I can see serious ways to leverage more of these tools in a larger fashion.

Thanks Flock for making it easy.

If you want to try out the Flock browser, go to http://www.flock.com

And, if you want to learn all kinds of cool things about web2.0 and making money on the internet (even if you’ve never done it in your entire life) then check out Ed Dale’s free 30 day challenge at…

http://www.thirtydaychallenge.com

It doesn’t cost a dime, and there are tons of helpful, friendly, and cool folks to work side by side with. The 30 day challenge is where I got my start on the internet, and is one of the main reasons I’ve had so much success on the net today.

You’ll learn a lot of really cool stuff for nothing, and just may open a ton of new opportunities for yourself.

Peace,

J-Mo

Tags: flockbrowser, ed dale, jack humphrey, howie schwartz, web2.0, social media, twitter, flockbrowser

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Hello folks,

I wanted to personally sit down and write this blog post for a couple reasons.

First, I wanted to apologize if you tuned into my show last night and were not able to watch because of technical difficulties.

With the new technologies of live streaming TV on the internet, it can sometimes be a crapshoot to get it to work perfectly.  Most of the time it seems to work like a champ, but apparently Murphy’s Law crept in last night.

I was pretty bummed about it because besides all the silly shenanigans on my show, I wanted to have a serious session with my pal Justin Brooke and talk to you about our monstrous package we have put together for you.

We tested it all out in the morning and things seemed great.  But once I went live, the connection was shotty, and we had to move the show to another channel.  And that channel doesn’t allow me to bring Justin in as a co-host.

Anyhow, I think it may work for the better anyways.  Justin and I can craft a much better video for you if we just do it on our own without all the distractions of a bunch of live viewers.  We’ll put together that video in the next couple days and get that to you ASAP.

And since many of you missed the content of the show, let me see if I can recap what I wanted to share with you in this email here.

1. Xbox 360  is simply amazing because you can play against people all over the world who are online at the same time.  You can instant message (send email basically) and voice chat with players from all around the world.

What’s even cooler is the ability for Xbox to stream live broadcasts into your game.  For instance when I play Nascar, Xbox has ESPN radio in the background, and they have options to upsell me on other game stuff.

It’s really amazing, and can totally kill your productive time if you don’t watch out.

2. I also was trying to discuss Apple TV, and how RSS content distribution could be the wave of the future.  With Apple TV, you can watch and listen to all your iTunes content, watch videos, buy movies, browse Youtube, and display all your photos stored in iMovie.

Apple TV is a small little hard drive box that stores all this info on here.  And what is really cool is that if you have a podcast and you get subscribers to sign up via iTunes, you can deliver your content right  to their tv.

So imagine how cool it would be to send a customer a Apple TV on their first month subscription and then each month after that they get their new content on their TV, not their computer.

Pretty amazing stuff.

To read more about Apple TV, visit this link…  http://www.apple.com/appletv/

3. I also discussed why I think content sucks much of the time.  Now don’t get me wrong, it’s important to deliver high value content, but the way most people do it makes it nearly impossible
to consume.  No wonder so many people fail at internet marketing.

In order to really penetrate your audience and grasp their attention you need to either be extremely different, insanely resourceful, or super quick.

You can be boring as long as you are super fast and informative.  But if you think someone is going to sit through your 30 minute presentation that is monotonous and boring I’d suggest you rethink the strategy.

People appreciate those that are to the point and pithy.  They will give you a 2nd and 3rd and 4th chance because they know you aren’t there to waste their time.

4. I briefly went over my “Aweber Open Strategy” too.   This is actually really simple and nothing ground breaking, but has really helped me to increase my opt ins and leads.

All I do is keep my Aweber interface open all day and keep an eye on it and watch the leads come in right in front of my eyes.  Usually I only log in to send out a broadcast email and don’t pay much attention to new subscribes or unsubscribes.  I’m too busy paying attention to orders.

However, by leaving my Aweber window open I see each of the opt ins trickle in real time and it gets me curious.  I start saying… “Where did they come from”, and then I am forced to check out my own marketing funnel to see how they got on the list.  I’ll admit, I run the laziest opt in list in the world and I don’t recommend people model my email style.

Yet what I do works like a charm.

But now that I’m leaving my Aweber window open and paying more attention in real time, it’s really helping to me understand where all my leads are coming from, and what I can do to increase it each day.

Like I said, nothing revolutionary, but if I can double my opt ins every day by paying more attention and tweeking my landing pages, I effectively double my business.

So those are a few of the things I discussed on the show, and I know many of you missed it.  Therefore I wanted to apologize and write this to you.

In the next few days Justin and I will lay out our full plan for releasing our ready to go membership program and you can decide if it’s right for you or not.

We are only allowing 10 people from each list so they aren’t going to last long.  And we only want to deal with people who are actually going to use and benefit from this service.  So please don’t be mad if we decline some of you for the opportunity.

The only reason we are doing this is because we want to put this into the hands of the people who will most benefit from it, and avoid wasting anyones time who is looking for the quick pipe dream.

Okay, I’m outta here and heading to L.A. to spend some time with my girlfriend.

Best wishes,

Jason

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Just wanted to invite you over to my live show on Thursday evening at…

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-j-mofo-show

I’ve decided to go with Ustream as the host for the “J-Mofo Show” for the time being. We’ll discuss why on the show.

We’ll also talk about…

1. Why the Xbox 360 is pure brilliant marketing.

2. Why Apple TV is INSANE IN THE MEMBRANE!

3. The member sites and content Justin Brooke and
I are nearly giving away to people on our lists.

4. Why content sucks (Most of the time).

5. The “open Aweber” strategy

6. And some other stuff.

Hope to see you there , and bring some beer (or at least popcorn).

Here’s the page again…

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-j-mofo-show

Cheers,
J-Mo

PS: Do you have a Ustream account? If not, check it out. It’s wicked cool, and you can come in and comment on the show. But you gotta be signed up and add me as a friend I believe for you to chat.

Do that here…

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-j-mofo-show

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I get asked this question almost more then any other question in marketing, and that is…

“Should I sell “How To Make Money” type of stuff on the internet?”.

And my answer is…

“Does a bear shit in the woods?”.

Hell yes you should sell some “money-getting” info!

But pay attention because my view point has changed quite a bit in the last couple years. You see, I’ve been incredibly privileged to learn most of my marketing by being Frank Kern’s sidekick. Whatever I see Frank doing, I just try to emulate that.

Well, a few years ago Frank decided that he was no longer going to sell “Internet Marketing Information” and instead was only going to focus on niche businesses.

There’s just one word for that…

DUMB!

And Frank will tell you the same thing.

You see, the internet marketing niche in itself is probably the greatest niche EVER to sell information in. Never will there be a day when prospects don’t want to make more money. This niche will ALWAYS be ripe with rabid, hungry, and aggressive buyers because almost everyone has some type of financial aspirations with their business.

But it’s a moral dilemma for some to enter into this niche because they say…

“If I am not making money online, how can I possibly teach others to make money online? Isn’t that hypocritical?”

If you asked me that question a few years ago I would say yes. However, when entering this arena of “how to make money” it is not mandatory for you to set yourself up as the expert. In fact, I would recommend that most people not even try to be the expert.

What you should do is this…

LEVERAGE OTHER PEOPLE’S GENIUS!

Then, after you leverage their genius, you align yourself next to them and stack on your social proof to elevate yourself in the marketing niche.

In todays world of internet marketing there are so many resources that you can use and add to your site right this second to become a instant player in the marketing world. And because there is thousands of new people coming online everyday looking to make money there is no greater niche to dabble in… even if you don’t have tons of experience running profitable businesses.

Here’s the deal…

Most of you already know more then 99% of the people out there about internet marketing. The knowledge you have on just how to set up a Godaddy account is HUGE information for some people. Knowing how to set up a simple Blogger page, or submitting a article is all stuff that most people are totally confused about.

Teaching the simplest of the simplest things is where the REALLY BIG MONEY is.

Let me repeat that because it is so important…

Let me bold it too…

Teaching the simplest of the simplest things is where the REALLY BIG MONEY is.

It’s true. The largest market out there just wants to know how to build a website that can sell anything. They just want to learn how to make a few hundred extra dollars a month.

And you can help them. And you should, because not only is it super easy money, but you are providing a service and products that helps people to enrich their lives and businesses at the same time. (Of course this is assuming you are selling good products).

And that’s where I and Justin Brooke come in.

We have created an entire membership program that we want to give to you, help you brand it with your own images and logos, and show you how to funnel in new customers for monthly income.

And the best part is…

“We’ve already done all the work for you”.

All you have to do is point traffic in the direction of the site and you are in business.

And if for any reason you are stumped on how to get traffic, well, we’ve covered that too, and in the biggest way possible(We will reveal on video interview in the next couple days).

We’ve also set this up so anyone can start running the business right away, even if they aren’t a well known person in the IM space, or they are lacking super Guru status. None of that stuff matters anyways. There are hundreds of thousands of people out there right now looking for ways to make money on the internet, and this site we are about to put in your hands will get them on that road.

Here’s a little something that many people didn’t know…

My 2nd product I ever created was a site called “Classified Master”. It showed how to leverage free advertising sites to make money on the internet. That product sold really well, and I didn’t even barely know what I was doing. I had no proof, no experience, no testimonials, no nothing. But, it still made sales.

Why?

Because people desperately want to learn how to make money online.

I ended up abandoning that site because I thought I needed to make hundreds of thousands of dollars before I could morally sell this info. BIG MISTAKE.

That site helped people to make money, and helped them to build lists, and helped them in many ways. It didn’t matter that I was not filthy rich. I simply knew more then the customer, and I leveraged other people’s knowledge as well in my product.

I want to help you leverage all the wisdom Justin and I have put into this product as well. Originally we were just going to sell this on our own. But both of us are so swamped with other projects, families, and activities that it may be months before we get the time.

So we figured, why not sell the licenses to a few copies and let others run with it? It would be a shame to see such a great resource sitting there doing nothing when it could make a few people a ton of money, and help out thousands of newbies.

I’m trying to film a video with Justin either tonight or tomorrow so we can go into more specific details about what we are offering. I can tell you, it’s a freaking steal. Basically, plug in a play, you are in business. We literally set up everything for you.

In fact, here’s a list of just some of the things included in this package you’ll own (and this doesn’t even include the stuff Justin and I are contributing. See below…
The Market
This is your marketplace where you can buy
and sell your stuff to other members.

Action Room
This is our forum and where all the “action” happens.

Video Training
This is our video tutorial library.

Topics Covered…

* Niche Research
* Beginning SEO
* Advanced SEO
* SEO using Social Media
* Google Analytics
* Google Adwords
* Ezine Advertising
* Upsells
* 3 Minute Websites
* How To FTP
* Dreamweaver
* Joomla
* Squeez Pages
* AutoResponders
* Outsourcing
* Website Flipping
* Split Testing
* Business Automation

Audio Seminars
This is where you will find all of our audio files.

Topics Covered…

1. Andy Henry Photo
Andy Henry : automatic page generation tools

2. Charles Burke Photo
Charles Burke : the magic of synchronicity!

3. Mike Filsaime Photo
Mike Filsaime: his favorite marketing tips

4. Gary Knuckles Photo
Gary Knuckles: interviewing tips — including everything you need to know about the tech side of things!

5. Jason Cain: blogging tips and tricks!

6. Joel Comm Photo
Joel Comm: increase your AdSense income.

7. Joe Vitale Photo
Joe Vitale: how to set your book sales ablaze

8. John Glube: Privacy policies? Terms of service? Avoiding The FTC

9. John Reeese Photo
John Reese: how he tracks and tests his campaigns!

10. Lynn Terry Photo Mike Merv Photo
Lynn Terry and Mike Merz: Niche Research and Spotting Trends

11. Marc Goldman Photo
Marc Goldman: secure joint ventures.

12. Marty Foley Photo
Marty Foley: instantly giving yourself a big pay raise any time you want by testing and tracking

13. Phyllis Schwartz Photo
Phyllis Schwartz: lead copywriters at Publisher’s Clearing House? Phyllis shares her thoughts on writing pulling copy.

14. Rosalind Gardner Photo
Rosalind Gardner: Affiliate Marketing

15. Russell Brunson Photo
Russell Brunson: public domain

16. Tam Morris Photo
Tam Morris: getting your ebook turned into a print book!

17. Ted Nicholas Photo
Ted Nicholas: This legendary marketer is a giant in the field and shares his copywriting secrets

18. Terry Gibbs Photo
Terry Gibbs: overcoming obstacles

19. Wille Crawford Photo
Willie Crawford: his favorite pay per click search engine marketing secrets!

20. Yanki Silver Photo
Yanik Silver: his favorite copywriting techniques!

Plus These Affiliate Marketing Training Audios…

1. 3 necessary tools for the high rolling affiliate marketer
2. 5 things you must have to succeed in affiliate marketing
3. 7 ways to drive laser targeted traffic
4. The benefits of being an affiliate marketer
5. building affiliate marketing websites the easy way
6. Creating Multiple Streams of Affiliate Marketing Income
7. Don’t Make These Common 4 Affiliate Mistakes
8. Do you have what it takes to be an affiliate marketer?
9. Finding Hot Selling Products to Sell
10. Google adsense profits combined with affiliate marketing
11. Why you need to use landing pages
12. How many affiliate checks do you want?
13. How to become a clickbank super affiliate
14. How to select the best affiliate programs
15. How to continually grow your affiliate checks
16. How to drive laser targeted traffic using Overture
17. How to incorporate adsense into affiliate marketing
18. How to set your self apart from other affiliates
19. How to use two tier affiliate programs to your advantage
20. How you can become a super affiliate
21. Making money selling other people’s products
22. Overacheiving your way to super affiliate stardom
23. Search engine optimization for affiliate marketers
24. The 3 easiest ways for newbies to start in affiliate marketing
25. The different types of affiliate marketing
26. Top 7 ways writing articles can explode your business
27. Using an ad-tracker is the key to affiliate marketing success
28. Using Google Adwords to drive traffic
29. Website or no website that is the question
30. What affiliate markeing mentors to follow and why
31. What is affiliate marketing
32. What is niche marketing and do I need it?
33. What is LinkShare and do I need to use it?
34. Why so many fail in affiliate marketing
35. Why you should promote residual affiliate programs

Text Library
Tons of articles

* Topics Covered…
* Affiliate Marketing
* Email Marketing
* Subject Lines
* Copywriting
* Squidoo

Juggernaut Shop
Our store where you can by our own products

Downloads
Over 50 Downloads and Most Of Them Are Resell Rights or PLR

Contact Us
Simple Contact Form

Resources
Links to free stuff sections on sites all across cyber space.

As you can see, there is TONS of stuff.

We will update you on more specifics in the video we shoot.

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Hey friends, today I have a very important message. And, if you decide to jump on this today, you can come to San Diego and hang out with me and my buddies, take your business to the next level, and help an amazing charity.

Please watch my video below, and then follow the links below the video to get the full scoop. This is why the internet and my pals truly rock. We can do so much stuff together…

Okay, here’s the page to watch the video with Frank & Michael…

http://justlikemychild.org/paidforlife/lesson.php

Visit that page to get some free content from Frank & Mike, see the Secret Headquarters, and find out how you can help out an amazing charity by coming to San Diego.

Also, I’ve included the email that Michael sent out to his list today that gives a bit of info about his wife Vivian’s charity and passion.  See the attached email and video below…

Dear Jason,

http://justlikemychild.com/paidforlife/lesson.html

For years I told myself “once I make more money, I’ll start
contributing…”

For me, it seemed that no matter how much I earned, I didn’t
make the contributions I dreamed I would because I didn’t
think I could make a difference or I didn’t have enough.

Worse yet, I didn’t know of a place I felt I could trust to
contribute to.

Have you ever felt the same way?

18 months ago my wife, Vivian, went to Uganda, Africa.

On her third visit, I traveled with her.

Together, we found a passion for something much bigger than
ourselves.

We learned how the smallest contribution of time and money
made the difference between life and death for hundreds of
women, children and families who were struggling against
incredible odds.

Vivian started the “Just Like My Child” foundation
18 months ago.

She’s experiencing incredible success raising money for
multiple villages in the poorest regions of Uganda by
partnering with ordinary people from all walks of life who
love what she does and want to help and get involved.

The funds she raises have been used for many life-saving
projects desperately needed, including purchase of an
ambulance to save women from dying in childbirth, power
generator for the hospital that was birthing babies in the
dark, education for young girls, insecticide-treated bednets,
malaria treatments, a CD4 cell analyzer for detecting HIV and
much more.

Her cause received so much attention that she was recently
featured in a new movie, “The Moses Code” by the director of
“The Secret”, Drew Heriot.

She’s receiving support and contributions from celebrities
and authors including Bonnie Raitt, Mark Victor Hansen,
Debbie Ford, Cynthia Kersey and the Clinton Foundation.

I truly believe that contribution is our highest calling in
life.

Please allow me to change gears for a moment…

I have something I’d like to share with you:

http://justlikemychild.com/paidforlife/lesson.html

It’s a video my friend Frank Kern and I put together a video
a couple days ago.

We call it “The Paid for Life System”.

Watching this video could help you make lots of money and
change the lives of dozens of families at the same time.

Let me explain how it works – and ties in with the first part
of this message.

This business model currently makes Frank in excess of
$200,000 per month in semi-passive income.

(In case you don’t know who Frank is, many in the Internet
marketing community consider him to be one of the greatest
direct marketers. He’s also a very generous, kind family man
who has masterminded some of the biggest multi-million dollar
product launches to date.)

I uses Frank’s model with several of my own businesses and
quadrupled my income in less than eight months.

Frank’s business model has given me an enormous amount of
freedom and flexibility in my life – contributing,
vacationing and spending more time with the people I care
about most.

Here’s how the business is tied to saving lives:

Frank and I are doing a workshop July 19-20 in San Diego.

It’s called “How To Create And Market Money-Getting Systems
That Pay You Forever”.

I’d like you to join us.

Here’s a small portion of what you’ll learn:

* How to identify the perfect market for a Paid For Life business
* How to find out exactly what they want to buy
* How to find out exactly what they want to keep buying from
you month after month
* How to create your product
* How to advertise and market your business
* How to build a list
* How to convert that list into customers
* How to make sales
* How to convert those customers into repeat monthly buyers
* How to create monthly content
* How to set up a membership site
* How to keep your members happy

Only 100 people can join us and as of now, 54 seats remain.

Attendance is by donation only.

100% of the donations go directly to the foundation.

100% is tax deductible (the foundation is a registered 501c3
organization).

This event is 100% content and teaching.

It is NOT a seminar. It’s a workshop.

Check out the video. It’s entertaining, informal and informative…

http://justlikemychild.com/paidforlife/lesson.html

I’d be honored if you’d join us for two days.

Note: The last 2-day workshop taught by Frank Kern was
the legendary Serializer class, which sold for $10,000.00 per
person …and sold out in 54 minutes.

You’ll not only change your own life, but you’ll directly and
dramatically affect the lives of thousands of women, children
and families who live in abject poverty.

Mike

PS – there’s a video clip on the page from some of our
travels in Uganda. You’ll learn “why Uganda” and more.

PPS – please forward this to anyone you know who might enjoy
the story or the lesson in the video.
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What do you think I should do with the hour long “Mass Control” footage?

Watch below, and see the “Super Morning Secrets”…

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Hey folks, apologies for no blog posts or updates in last 2 weeks.

I’ve been working on a special little project and only allowing a small group of people to see what I’m up to. I’ll try and update everyone on this blog in the next day and let you know the crazy shenanigans I have been up to since the “Mass Control” event.

Plus, I’ll post some pictures!

Actually you can see some of them at…

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=38014&id=634453082

(You have to be a Facebook friend to see. If you aren’t already a friend, add me and I’ll approve)

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