Tales of a cyber-hippy running an online business from home
I got quite a few emails asking how I was hosting my video – it seems that you’d noticed that it was significantly faster and more reliable.
You’re right because I have recently moved up to a better hosting solution for my vids.
So I put together a quick 4 minute vid showing you all about it.
As usual I’ll answer any questions you might have so feel free to post them on the blog. Click the video below to get started.
479 New Subscribers, Over $1,000 In Revenue, Over $11,000 Added To My Annual Income.
All in 13 days – using NONE of my own traffic or my lists.
Pretty Cool – here’s how YOU can do it too….
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I may have told this story before and due to my dodgy memory it probably changes each time, but here’s another version….
Some years back – quite a few years back actually – when I thought I knew everything about running a business and ‘portfolio working’ (that wonderful thing where you derive your income from a collection of businesses or jobs) I learned a lesson about how to sell.
I was part of a recording team working at The Royal Festival Hall in London, recording a three day classical music event. I was a freelance sound engineer and I’d never recorded a live orchestra before so I took the job although I do remember the money wasn’t very good.
(I actually forgot to turn on the main microphone and a the BBC Radio 3 announcer looked like a complete t*t as he started to speak and nothing came out, because I was busy chatting up a harpist but there you go).
We stayed in a nice hotel and were wined and dined by the company we were working for every evening, and everything went on the company bill so the grub and the booze flowed freely.
The comany was owned by a serial entrepreneur who I learned a lot from by just listening to, and especially during a car journey the two of us shared back up North after the event was over.
After the first day of recording, our entrepreneur boss took the whole recording crew – 5 of us I think – to an Indian Restaurant – a proper ‘curry house’ .
Because the food was on expenses some of the lads ordered crazy meals such as ‘lobster curry’ and farrr to much to eat, but the boss just watched with a smile on his face.
He watched as food was wasted, pints were ordered that just sat on the table becuase their owners were simply too p*ssed to drink any more.
Quite honestly the amount of food wasted in front of us was scandalous and while I’m no saint I’m proud to say that I only ordered what I wanted (and maybe a couple of beers too many!)
Nothing was said – the bill was settled, the recording finished and we went home.
A few months later I got an invitation for another job from the same company. It was a much better deal – much better paid, more fun and a lot of experience.
I’d expected to be working with the same team but found only one other bloke there that I knew from the Festival Hall job.
That night after a few beers I asked the boss why he hadn’t used the other engineers – they were good at what they did and were available.
He told me that he’d never forgotten the ones in the Indian Restauarant who’d taken the mickey and thoroughly abused the expenses.
He just leaned across the bar and said to me
….’In business, people remember’
And they do – they REALLY do.
If you help people out when they’re starting in business they remember. And what goes around comes around.
This is no mushy sentimental crap – it’s very true.
I know a lot of people in this business, some high fliers and some just starting out. The guys who ask your advice one day are the same guys who are earning millions years later, and they remember who’s been helpful and who’s not.
Even if you’ve got to tell someone ‘no I can’t JV with you’….
If you treat them with respect and explain your reasons they’ll remember your honesty.
Yet I’ve seen top marketers be so dismissive with newbies and people who have come to hear them speak even that it makes me cringe. It’s not hard to just say hello to someone even if you don’t have the time to speak to them.
And why am I blogging about this right now?
Because I’ve just looked at one of my Clickbank accounts and seen a shedload of sales come in from a new affiliate. I didn’t recognise the nickname so did a bit of digging.
Guess who it is –
Someone I helped out a while back.
It’s too good a chance to miss out on a blog post about it – so that’s why you’re reading this.
But remember the old adage – sh*t travels downwards.
It does.
And the time to remember that is BEFORE you’re snotty or offhand with a newbie because you’re making $5,000 a month.
Because chances are at some point – HE’S going to be making $50,000 a month and then you’re realise that the brown stuff does indeed travel downwards –
YOU’LL be on the bottom and HE’LL be pouring a large bucketload on the top of your head.
And it sticks.
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First of all – the late night marketing info Ive been promising you IS on the way – it’s just taken me a while to put it together even though it’s just a short report.
Secondly – I’ve finally worked out how to grab top rankings for my niche sites!
Below is a copy of an email I sent to my subscribers about how I did it, and below THAT is the proof – I show you exactly which site I’m talking about!
Are you like me?
I usually stop reading when anyone emails me about ‘top
ranking’ or ‘long term keyphrase’ because I find it PAINFULLY
boring and I’d rather be doing something else!
But you **MUST** read below to find out what I’ve just done!
I’ve put up a new review site – cost me $9 for the template –
and two weeks later….
I’M TOP OF THE GOOGLE RANKINGS FOR MY PHRASE AND GETTING
TRAFFIC AND SALES FROM IT!
I did this without using a list, afflilates or ANYTHING,
as though I was a total newbie.
By using the most effective yet SIMPLE and user-friendly SEO
software I’ve personally ever seen in IM.
What exactly did I do?
I TOTALLY dominated a keyphrase (I have TOP GOOGLE PAGE RANK)
in one of the most competitive niche markets online (Forex
Trading) with a VERY simple review site.
I did it in TWO WEEKS – Just by using Martin Avis’s non-techy,
10 seconds to install, MASSIVELY user-friendly software –
What this pretty remarkable software does is to ‘spy’ on the
top-ranking sites in any niche and tell you EXACTLY which
keywords they use the most, and which ones to put into your
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their noses!
And I’ve tried it and it WORKS – end of story.
I spent days getting my site ranked before I used Keyword LSI
and my site fell in the rankings within a day or so.
But after I used Keyword LSI I got top ranking and I’m still
top at time of writing. Solid as a rock!
But it gets BETTER….
You can use KeywordLSI when writing articles.
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give them the keyword list to include, generated by Keyword
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And **EVEN BETTER – Martin’s been an online friend of mine
for a couple of years but I met him in person only recently.
And I’m glad I did – you will be too!
I asked for a trial copy of Keyword LSI so I could review it
and put it to a SERIOUS test for you.
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Don’t miss out on this….
Cheers,
Tony
And if you Google the keyphrase ‘forex online income’ you’ll see my review site at the top of page one! (Each piece of software links back to a clickbank affiliate link – that’s how it’s monetized)
The title of this post doesn’t leave much to the imagination eh?
A quick intro vid about what I’ve got for you in 3 or 4 days time. The page isn’t live yet but I’ll let you know when it is by email (subscribers only). DON’T miss this free info.
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If you’ve never spread a coat or blanket out on the grass, on a village green or in a park, and sat down next to a ‘keep off the grass’ sign, then you’re really missing something. It’s better if you’re older than 30 because it disturbs people even more.
Try it – then look directly at the people who follow the rules and keep off the grass. Watch their faces as they stare at you. You’ll see emotions ranging from open hostility right through to (and these are the best ones) those people who almost look to be in physical pain because they’re THAT uncomfortable with you breaking the rules.
Sometimes people will even speak to you – usually from a distance because they won’t step on the grass – and say (especially if you’re in England) ‘err excuse me – and gesture towards the sign’
The more you smile the more they get frustrated.
‘I want to sit on the grass’
‘But you’re not allowed to’
‘Is it YOUR grass?’
‘Well no but the sign says you should keep off’
‘I decided to ignore the sign – it’s just a sign and I’m not hurting the grass’
‘But what if EVERYONE walked on it?’
‘They won’t’
….and on and on.
I don’t walk on grass I shouldn’t very often but that’s not the point. There are far too many nasty little rules in force that are pointless, and unless you give yourself a slap very often you find yourself blindly following them without thinking.
I hate people who park in disabled parking spaces at the supermarket, but when I got shouted at by some t*t at 5.30am one morning for parking in one for 3 minutes while I went to the cashpoint, and there’s wasn’t another car on the whole car park, I think he deserved the bollocking I gave him back. Common sense.
Petty beurocrats are everywhere these days, enforcing rules that just plain old BUG normal people.
Enough of that though….
I think rules are there to be tested – to be bent, flexed, stressed and sat down and thoroughly bounced on.
In all areas of life too, but since this is an IM blog I want to relate that to IM.
There are people who get downright angry when other people break rules. I think it’s because they perceive it as cheating in some form – giving themselves an unfair advantage.
And in IM that’s exactly what I want – an unfair advantage that helps me to make money where others might not be able to. If that involves breaking the rules then that’s cool.
The last couple of videos I put on my blog are horrible shaky efforts. The wind is blowing so hard onto the mic in one of them that you can’t hear a word I’m saying and on the other there’s just ….me…..looking distinctly scruffy and un-professional.
But I thought I’d break some rules and post these unprofessional vids anyway.
And to the bloke who emailed me to say they were shaky and unwatchable, I sort of agree.
But to the rest of you who emailed – next time please comment on the blog 🙂 to say they found them interesting to get an insight into me, how I do things and what I get up to, thank you – because it’s you lot who keep me going and encourage me to try things that perhaps I shouldn’t!
Which brings be finally to the REAL point of the blog.
In a few days I’ll be bringing you the first one my ‘late night marketer sessions’ and revealing (and I really CAN use that word for this info) some of the things that came out over a few beers with other marketers.
I was writing some up tonight and quite honestly there’s some stuff that I’m not sure I should include – it’s going to shock a few people and upset a few more – and that’s no exaggeration.
But it’s also going to give your business a big kick in the ass if you take this info on board.
It’s only going to subscribers too………
Still playing with my Flip vidcam – in the middle of nowhere this time!
This is where I’m working on the ‘Late night marketer files’ I mentioned in my last post. Apologies for the wild wind noises and even worse, the tinkling ‘fade out’ music at the end of the vid, which actually comes from my netbook screensaver that you can see on the window sill at the end of the vid.
I had to test out my new Flip Video (actually Flip number 2 but we won’t go into what happened to number one!) so I thought I’d do a vid-post instead of writing it. Sorry for the shaky footage…..
