I am only accepting 30 members and as I write this it’s already half way full.

Please don’t join if you are looking for a pleasent, tip toe through the daisies kind of place. If you are the kind who wakes at 3am wth an idea burning your brain and jump out of bed to blog it, then you are the kind of person we are looking for.

When I say don’t join if you don’t like hard work, it’s not a marketing trick. I really mean it, only the exceptional few can succeed.

***Update***

Linkbait Coaching is now closed.

But I will be releasing a low cost, building killer content course.

Lyndon Antcliff interview at Distilled – regarding linkbait
Lyndon Antcliff interview with Michael Gray aka Graywolf – regarding local search
Lyndon Antcliff interview with Hobo SEO regarding linkbait and social media marketing
Lyndon Antcliff interview with Kelvin Newman regarding social media marketing and linkbaiting

Most of the interviews are about my linkbaiting exploits. If I find any more I will add them.

Those Born 1930-1979!

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930’s 40’s, 50’s, 60’s and 70’s !!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant. They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn’t get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking. As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank koolade made with sugar, but we weren’t overweight because WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING !

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day.

And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo’s, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD’s, no surround-sound or CD’s, no cell phones, no personal computer! s, no Internet or chat rooms…….WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn’t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

If YOU are one of them . . . CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good. And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn’t it?!

• www.converstations.com
• www.instigatorblog.com
• copywritingmaven.com
• heehawmarketing

I love the style of heehawmarketing. They all reek of passion and quality. When people are juiced up about a subject it really shows in the writing.

All of them need a thorough read through and ingestion into the brain.

The question isn’t “how do I make money on my blog”, it’s about how best can I use blogging to communicate what I care about most effectively. These bloggers are not simply about money, it’s about the fact that their drug of choice is communication.

And, that is what this blog should be about.

People who I will keep getting emails off include
Mike Filsaime
Mark Joyner
Perry Marshall
Rosalind Gardner
Dan Kennedy
Michael Gray
Andre Chaperon
John Carlton
Russell Brunson
Andrew Wee

Here is a clip from the site.

Recently, I polled the members of just one of my coaching groups, and they reported combined personal income increases over the past 2 years of $19-million to $22-million. My best estimates of my Platinum Members, ‘private clients’ and members of Bill’s coaching groups would easily take the total beyond $150-million to $200- million. There’s simply no way of estimating the total of all Inner Circle Members, but it undoubtedly exceeds a Billion Dollars.

Dan Kennedy is a master marketeer. If you can get hold of any of his free podcasts that are floating around the web I suggest you grab them and listen. Dan is old school, he was selling when the Internet was only used by scientists to send birthday messages.

Dan Kennedy is a whirlwhind of energy and verve. A speck of his dandruff contains enough marketing skills to launch anyone on an amazing marketing career.

I’m not selling anything in this post, it’s just what I think. Maybe I should.

Adventures in Net Marketing
Kaizen Marketing
WHO-1
Andre Chaperon
Andrew Wee

Why have I chosen these guys instead of the big names like Seth Godin, Marlon Sanders, Armand Morin. Actually my favourite for podcasts and articles is Perry Marshall.

These guys are cool because they are fighting in the trenches. Unarmed combat, tooth and nail stuff. They have not made it to the top of the mountain yet, but they have sturdy hiking boots and a good map.

They do not bullshit.
They do not oversell any of their products.
You know you are getting the juice from these guys.

Andre has it down for writing good copy, what he is doing is a blueprint to success.
Andrew Wee is a master at networking, and should be watched as the next big guru.

The others have provided me with info which was useful and hopefully profitable.

As a newbie to the Affiliate marketing game, particularly the Adbank marketing game (adwords/clickbank) it’s good to be plugged into honest providers of information.

They are close enough to relate to, but ahead of the game to be worth paying attention to.

Go check them all out now!

What I noticed is that lots of people posted but only a few posted original comments, which leads me to belive either they didn’t have a strong enough opinion to write them down or they didn’t read the ebook and just chose to post the supply copy.

This is stupid on a number of fronts.
People like to hear other peoples opinions, even if they don’t agree with them. (Check the Dead Trout post)
Posting suppiled content makes you look lazy.
Google will not love you and you will trigger the duplicate hammer.

Even though I liked Death of marketing and agreed with most of it, the post I most enjoyed reading was the Kick Start Daily Meanderings dude. Most because it was contrarian and he sounded like a grumpy old man, and that tickled me. And you absolutely and utterly knew he was speaking straight from the heart with no bullshit.

Guess what? I am going to visit that guys blog a bit more often.

Marketing is persuasion. It’s not about getting someone to like you. It’s not about making friends. It’s about getting someone to do something you want them to do.

So todays blog of the week is Kick start meanderings.

products at no cost
frugysler
Kickstart daily meanderings
Entreprenuers Journey – Yaro Starak
A Myspace blog (strange the things you find on Technorati)
www.canimakebigmoneyonline.com
www.internet-marketing-toolman-blog.com
Copywriters Board

Here are my notes from it.

Lack of vision is a short term strategy. Using techniques that are short lived will not build a long term business.

Infinate opportunity overload is distracting you from success.

The Internet is very efficient, but if you are paddling up the wrong stream it doesn’t matter how efficient your canoe is. What you need to be is effective.

Marketing a niche is still a cash cow. If you become an expert in your niche people will still flock to you. The big boys are too bloated to move quickly into a niche.

“You decidism” rules the web. Dig, delicious, reddit, you decide what people read. YOU, not some DJ with poor jokes and bad breath. Youtube.com gets more views than most TV channels.

Build a business that will last and last and last. Short term is stupid term. Get with it and build your house on rock, not sand.

Create tight, kick ass, loyal groups of like minded people who trust and support each other. One kid in the bedroom business plan is finding it harder and harder. Your clan/group/posse/society/homies can take on the world and make your reach more powerful than it is.

Small strategic, well thought out moves may be better than a huge, kill em all product launch. You get to learn from each phase. People do not get swamped. A far more intelligent way to market an informational product.

Watch the legal stuff, failure to read the small print and avoiding copyright battles can pole axe you.

Click here to get Mike Filsaime’s The Death of Internet Report

The ebook, written by Matt Levenhagen, was talked about on another blog I like so I thought I would take a look.

First thing, todays date is shown as if the sales letter was written on the very day you read it. Sigh! Is there anyone out there who actually thinks that. To me it’s an instant turn off and although I am an affiliate marketing virgin I have been Online marketing since 1998, so I may be a bit jaded as know that the reason the days date is shown is because of a little script. And I bet most people know as well.

It’s a little thing, but do we really gain anything from insulting the inteligence of our readers.

OK rant over.

I didn’t feel very excited whilst reading the news letter, I don’t know if Matt wrote it or paid 5 grand to some expert copywriter, but it doesn’t grab me by the cahonas like a good sales letter should.

Not sure who the ebook is aimed at, as it teaches you how to register a domain. Are there really people out there considering starting an adwords/clickbank business who do not know how to register a domain.

Perhaps quite a few, but I doubt it.

It may be that the product suffers from a poorly written sales letter. At first I was quite pleased there wasn’t the usual 18pt bright read headlines with quotes around them, screaming at me to pay attention or they will come round to your house one night and wake you with a large, dead trout. But found myself not grabbed by unquenching irrationality to purchase said product.

Nor was there the relentless bullet point lists of the benefits and advantages of the ebook. The ones that plug straight into the primeval savage part of me bypassing thousands of years of civilisation and rational thought.

No, the product is probably good. It’s the sales letter that does not do it for me.

Well Matt, if you are reading this and want me to review the ebook you will have to send me a copy as I’m just not juiced up enough to reach into my back pocket and hold that cold plastic credit card in my hand, and punch in those numbers.

But that’s just me.