Friday, August 10, 2007

SMCC Mastermind group - Gold Coast

Yesterday I got to meet with the Gold Coast members who have recently joined Stephen Pierce's coaching program too. I found out that I have been extremely lucky to have gotten the PRI$E system. They joined just a few weeks earlier than me and didn't receive it. Remember me mentioning that I had been frustrated with the delays but I felt that everything happened for a reason? Well, this is my proof.

By meeting with the others I got to share some ideas and a solution to a common problem we'd been experiencing AND I got so many ideas and tips from the others. They told me about solutions to problems that I hadn't even come across, saving me lots of time. (Thank you Karen Isitt, you are a treasure!)

What a valuable resource these meetings are. A place to share experiences and successes, get solutions to problems and brainstorm ideas.

To give an unbiased perspective of SMCC coaching, the biggest frustrations seem to be that it does take longer than the 30 minutes a day Stephen indicated and also getting support on problems. My take on this is that you spend a lot of time fiddling with the details but let's just get on with it, get it done and can always go back and perfect it later on. It doesn't need to be perfect, it just needs to work. The second point about support on problems is honestly that people get caught up in one thing not working and waste lots of time and energy when they can be putting their focus on something else. Stephen had a rant on this at one of his training sessions. I wrote a post about this earlier - if you can't do something, focus on what you can do. Stephen's talk went into detail about he'd get frustrated with students hung up on one little thing and let that stop them taking action. He said what about the other 100 things you could be doing.

Yes, support isn't always as quick as we'd like - it might take a day or three if it's a weekend but there's always other parts of the project that can be worked on in the meantime.

During the Mastermind group, I also found that there are great sites just within our own community.

I've been most impressed by Christine & Neil Robin's site http://easymarketinggroup.com
They also have lots of great free resources on their site for internet marketing and personal development. Check it out!

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Day 7 - What has been achieved so far?

Considering I've been part of the coaching program a week and have been working for a just few hours here and there, I'm quite pleased with where I'm at so far. Especially when I compare it to the other coaching programs I've done.

I've now got a website with:
* clickbank feeds
* pay per click feeds
* articles being automatically loaded for the next 30 days

If you're interested in checking it out, I'd love feedback
http://organiclivinglifestyle.com
Please note I am still in the process of setting up the autoresponder and newsletters. Organic living is something near and dear to me. This site is just a starting point so check back in the coming weeks to see how it's progressing.

By the way...
If like me you tried coaching before and months later still haven't even made $1, you might find Stephen Pierce's philosophy interesting... Unlike the others which seem to be focussing on creating a product to sell, Stephen focusses on the internet marketing side first. He says why would you spend all your time creating a product and then discover that you are having problems marketing to that niche? Rather, than that he gets us to check that we can first of all market someone else's product to the niche we've chosen and THEN if we choose to, then create a product.

The big advantage of this approach is that you're making money while you're learning!

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

"How I Went From The Unemployment Line to the Millionaire Line"

I found this online, found it very inspirational & wanted to share it with you!

Greg Poulos- "How I Went From The UnemploymentLine To The Millionaire Line"

Just a few years ago, I was on the unemployment line and struggling to pay my bills. For three years, I tried my best to make money online and to build my business, but everything I tried to do seemed to fail or only have modest success.

Watch Greg's video testimonial===> http://www.profitsrunsupport.com/pierce/

MARKET: Stock trading education.

BEFORE: About $500,000 in annual sales.

CHALLENGE: Maximize the effectiveness of a product launch of a $997 information product. Excellent product and sales copy was already in place. Product launch anticipation was building. We were missing that 'X' factor to really create a buying frenzy.

SOLUTION: One hour strategy session with Stephen Pierce 2 weeks before launch date.

RESULT: $555,000 in product sales in 7 days.

AFTER: About $2,000,000 in annual sales.



My Recipe For Quick Implementation & Success

So if I had to sum up the top strategies for quick implementation to grow your business, they would be:

1. Don't try to figure it out on your own.
2. Hire an expert immediately and study what already successful people have done.
3. Take massive action and put into place what you learn.
4. Repeat.

Sounds simple enough, but in my experience most people are really good at trying to figure things out on their own or really good at spending money on education. But most people suck at implementation. Learn to implement, and you're probably ahead of 90% of your so-called competition.

So, if you are NOT happy with your current business results, quit messing around and take advantage of whatever kind of business coaching or mentoring Stephen has to offer you. But be prepared to implement what you learn.

Read on ===> http://www.profitsrunsupport.com/pierce/

Monday, August 6, 2007

Day 5 - Market chosen & Passive Residual Income System Extreme set up in progress

"Don't let what you can't do interfere with what you can do"

This saying of Stephen Pierce's is deceptively simple. It's been going around and around in my head for the last two days since my last update on the Smart Marketing Coaching Club. It's now day 5

When I was stalled on working on my project I was frustrated because the hosting company hasn't uploaded my new domain. Until then I have been so excited. After going through Stephen and Alicia's mindset and creativity modules, I finally chose a market (one I'm passionate about naturally) and found a great affiliate product to promote. One that Stephen himself has researched and endorsed.

I chose a domain name ($9.05) and set up the hosting ($9.95 a month). I also learned how to transfer the domain name to the hosting company which impresses me. Yes, I am very much a newbie.

I've been going through the new cd, Passive Residual Income System Extreme - PRI$E, (thank you again Roy Phay for your detailed Camtasia videos) and learning lots. Now I have a blog, installed & configured WordPress, installed PlugIns, (whatthe?!) Smart PPC and now I'm installing Smart Profit Feeds. As you can tell, I still don't know exactly why I'm doing some of these steps but I'm just faithfully following each one and it's really coming together. I even felt confident enough to upload files to the server and I installed a different blog template than the standard version. Wow, I'm really feeling like I know some of this technical stuff now.

Only problem is I can't see it!! Agh! I keep getting the message that it will take 24-48 hours to have the domain up.

So this is where Stephen's quote "Don't let what you can't do stop you from doing what you can do." Although I can't see for certain that everything is working fine I can keep going on with the steps and learning. Even if I have made a mistake and something has gone wrong and I have to redo things, I've still learned so much that will make it faster doing it next time. And I always planned on creating multiple sites so this is valuable experience for me.

Who is Stephen Pierce?

From some comments I've received, I realize that not everyone knows who Stephen Pierce is. Some people think that he's an Aussie internet marketer. Well, he's not Australian and he's an extremely successful internet marketer and much more.

To give you an indication of what level he's playing at, he runs a program called "Unlimited Power" in Singapore with Tony Robbins. For info on the program with Anthony Robbins and other live events, go to http://www.stephenworldtour.com/

Stephen is an international speaker and recently completed a World Tour with various promoters including Jay Abraham. His Australian KnowledgeSource presentation was promoted: "Discover How A 35 Year Old Former High-School Dropout Turned His Life Around And Today, Pulls In A MASSIVE $387,065.41 Per Month On The Internet Using His Proven, Easy To Follow, Step-By-Step System…"

While he was here, he was a key presenter at the Tony Robbins' Wealth Mastery event in Melbourne, Australia and he also did a presentation to the Leadership crew (which was not about internet marketing). From friends who were there I can confirm that he really did receive a standing ovation.

Stephen Pierce is an awesome American presenter, coach & internet marketer. His initial success was teaching people how to trade futures and options. When you hear his story, you'll realize he was too broke to profit from the wining trades he was just giving away free to people. He was doing it to feel good about himself and was posting his tips online when someone contacted him and wanted to pay him $5,000 to teach him how to do what he does. That started him into his teaching career. By the way, he was so broke that when this happened he was homeless and it was a businessman who let him use his office washroom and sleep inside who got him started. The businessman let him use a computer. For more of Stephen's story click here.

Now, Stephen, his gorgeous wife Alicia together with their team of great support staff teach people how to do what they've done.

For info on his coaching program, go to: http://www.smartmarketingclub.com/