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!

"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/

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/

SMCC Day 3 - The Whole Truth

Ok, if you've been following my posts you'll see that I'm only 3 days into Stephen Pierce's Smart Marketing Coaching Club.

I'm excitedly planning my strategy and working my way through the steps and I'm about to get back into but I wanted to let you know what's happened, just in the past 2 days since I last posted...

• I've received detailed videos guiding me through the membership site. I thought I'd gone through it pretty thoroughly but I soon realised there's even more than I first thought! On the forums are lots of tips and links to great free resources
• Newsletter with updates, tips & bonuses including a great guide to managing virtual teams (I've recently been working with a virtual assistant and realized just how valuable this information is)
• Received answers to questions I sent Stephen's coaching manager, Laura
• An intro to the new SMCC blog
• Received an unadvertised bonus, one of Stephen's programs and I just have to share a snippet with you from the accompanying email:

"Stephen had no established email list, joint venture relationships, name recognition, etc. in this market base before the release of this book.

As a result of 1 advertisement that cost $750 USD placed on 1 page for 1 month, we generated 1200 affiliates and over 1/4 million dollars in total sales and a high Alexa ranking:
http://www.the-whole-truth.com/alexa.html

(I'm telling you this to get you excited for the strategies Stephen wil teach you in the program you just signed up for!) ============================================="

Cool, huh?!

Did I mention that when we signed up Stephen and Alicia said all we'd need to pay for is -

• domain name $9 (one off)
• hosting $9.95 a month
• 1Shopping Cart $29.95 a month (free for the first 2 months)

At last!! I was so sick of those Derek Gehl Internet Marketing Centre crap products that just tried to upsell me into their own shopping carts and affiliate managers. I spent over $300 on their Warp Speed Wealth about 18 months ago and worked out I would have needed to spend at least double that again just to get started. I really felt ripped off. That's why I was very wary of it happening again when I saw Stephen's program. Yes, I paid a lot more than Warp Speed Wealth to get into Stephen's program but I'm get invaluable support. By the way, I checked out the resources to make sure that everything we need is available and it is eg website creator, squeeze page manager and lots of other things that I don't even know what they really are yet like RSS announcer.

Finally, I really feel I've found found someone (well actually a whole team) I can trust. And no, I don't get paid to endorse Stephen's coaching program. But if this becomes available you can bet I'll be the first to sign up as an affiliate!

Intro to SMCC Smart Marketing Coaching Club

Woohoo! I'm finally in!!!

I am now able to access all the online info on Stephen Pierce's "Smart Marketing Coaching Club".

Wow, in a way I'm kinda glad I had this delayed introduction. I have to admit I was a bit annoyed that it took so long to get started but now I'm grateful it happened that way. Everything happens for a reason, right? This way I've been able to really get to explore everything in stages rather than being overwhelmed. There is SO MUCH info on the website. The highlights are:

• Coaching calls & events
• 12 Modules with the first module has the theme Mindset
• Resources - just the info in this is completely overwhelming, there are so many resources broken into categories but it's still HUGE!
• very active Forums

I've only just gotten a grasp on the info that's on the DVD/CD and there's so much more yet for me to do. I thought there might be a double up on the info that's on the DVD and info that's online but it looks like the DVD is just an intro before even getting started! OMI!!

To start, I've been busily posting on the forums, introducing myself and sending messages to people in my area. Looks like there's a group that meets regularly here in Brisbane (Australia) which is so awesome to be able to network with people who are doing the coaching program too.

Next step is to decide what niche I want to work in, what market can I win in (as Stephen puts it). I could easily procrastinate on this indefinitely so I'm making a decision that I will choose a market by the end of today. Even if it's not the absolute perfect niche for me, at least I'm taking action and I can learn and apply what I'm doing to a more perfect niche later if needed.

PRISE Coaching program first impressions

It looks like I will be all set up ready to go from tomorrow. I can't wait!

I received a pack in the mail, a beautiful black leather compendium with a DVD and a cheap looking photocopied information.

PRISE - Passive Residual Income System Extreme

I'm currently still going through the DVD. It's got so much information on it & is perfect for newbies. Roy Phay, a man with a strong Singapore accent takes us through step by step the video tutorials (Camtasia) through the initial "Phase 1: Getting Ready" which includes how to set up a domain (Cheapcheapdomainnames.com), set up hosting (HostGator.com) etc. It's all done in great detail so even a complete technophobe would be able to follow it. I think it will be boring if you've already done it a few times though but the videos are quite short.

The focus initially seems to be on setting up a Blog. There's no real overview to give the big picture of what we're doing or why but I think that's very likely a deliberate decision by Stephen Pierce.

Phase 2 is the Installation stage where it goes through setting up Wordpress. My criticism here is thanks for showing me in detail how to do this but what is it and why am I doing this? Ok, I'm still a bit of a newbie - I have created my own website using website builder templates (thanks to GoDaddy.com's Website tonight). I'm slowly figuring out the benefits but I'm a great coachee and I'm just following instructions and not questioning anything or trying to improve on the system.

Stephen said to follow it like a recipe and that's what I'm doing.

Phase 3 is Set-Up and Roy Phay again patiently takes us through setting up PPC accounts, smart PPC (software provided by Stephen), setting up ClickBank account and Smart Profit Feeds. Then it gets into the more creative side which interests me - modifying the Wordpress templates and setting up Autoresponders.

There are still 3 Steps to Go:
Phase 4: Promotions - gathering and submitting articles, writing posts, promoting on blogs and forums, RSS Announcer & Social bookmarking),
Phase 5: Cash Injection System
Phase 6: Help

Now that I've gone through most of the tabs I'm going back to the first phase which is picking a market and a domain name. Still not sure what I'm going to focus on there.

My overall first impression of the PRISE system - Stephen's 'recipe' analogy seems very appropriate for how he's built this coaching system.

I would have liked a bit more of the bigger picture but I gather after watching the camtasia videos that we're being taught how to set up information sites, no single page sales letters sites for us. That's a bit different from what I was expecting because I gathered that Stephen was going to teach us exactly what he does and I haven't really seen any of his sites look just like blogs with ads everywhere. But hey, I have only just started and I'm not even on the main part of the coaching yet with the website access so a lot more will be revealed soon.

Coaching Program - preliminary impressions

As you might have seen from previous posts, I have signed up Stephen Pierce's coaching program. I delayed the start as I was moving and I learned from past experience last year when I unsuccessfully did Bill Hibbler's ebook coaching program, it's best to start a coaching program when you can give it your full attention and focus.

I will be starting any day now, am just waiting for Laura who looks after Stephen's coaching program to get in touch with my logon details and I'll be posting my progress along the way.

What impressed me is that Stephen seems genuinely passionate about helping people experience success. In the private session after signing up a guy in our group asked Stephen if he offered a guarantee. Stephen said no guarantee is needed because it works. He told us about the group from HK that went through. He said that only three didn't make money and that was because they didn't follow his recipe. (He says that success is a recipe and he's got a great recipe that he teaches step by step and every one who follows the recipe will get results. He says the people who don't get results are the ones who mess with the recipe and decide that they can do it better.)

Do Your Sales 'Suck'? (Video)

Do your sales 'suck'? Stephen Pierce says You do have the power to create profits.

According to the Small Business association, over 70% of businesses do not have a marketing problem, they didn't have sales because they had either:
- Idea problem
- Product problem

Stephen says your ideas, product and services and marketing needs to be in alignment, they don't have to be perfect." Stephen talks more about this in his You Tube video below.




Saw The Secret on Oprah?
Discover the missing ingredient to
turbocharge the Law of Attraction

Momentum Mix Music MP3s (Freebie)

Wow, I just realized I haven't shared these! This is my absolute most favourite Stephen Pierce freebie ever.

Stephen created music incorporating dance music and key lines from his presentations and turned them into some awesome tracks. I love to listen to these when I'm exercising.

You can get the following three tracks for free at his Fundraiser site.

Change - You Are Genetically Engineered to be Successful
Getting There
We Succeeded

If you make a donation you'll get another bonus track. You can't buy these on itunes, you can only get them at this link http://www.foragreatercause.org/

Video - You Are Genetically Engineered to Become Successful

When people sign up for Stephen's coaching program, we're told to go to You Tube and watch his videos (search for 'sapierce').

If you've got Stephen's awesome music mp3 "You are genetically engineered to become successful" this explains more of the story:



Discover how events on December 17, 1903, at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina can give you a new perspective on success and strengthen your resolve to succeed.

Optimize Radio (Freebie)

I've just joined Stephen Pierce's coaching program (am waiting for my login so haven't started yet) & found out about the Optimization Series Radio Show podcast community (It's free and you access it through itunes.)

Topics (so far) are:
- 7 Ways to Optimize Niche Websites for more profits
- How to Breakthrough to Buzz
- 3 Ways to Optimize your mind for Business Growth
- 3 Ways to Optimize your Personal Performance
- 3 Ways to Optimize Virtual Real Estate on the Internet

Here's what Stephen Pierce has to say about Optimization Series Radio Show podcast community:

Getting started listening to the show and claiming your bonus of my "52 Facts About Marketing" is easy and starts right here.

Just click on the "Subscribe in iTunes with One Click" button on the page (click here) and follow the instructions.

Once you are officially subscribe in iTunes you will see a message scrolling across the top of iTunes when you are playing one of our podcast, that will tell you where to download your bonus of my "52 Facts About Marketing."

Thank you again for joining us and we look forward to providing you with amazing shows, facinating guest, impactful content and an all around great experience to...

"Help you get the most out of what you put into your business."
Optimizing It,
Stephen Pierce

Favorite Stephen Pierce Quotes (Happy Birthday Mrs Pierce)

Stephen Pierce was presenting again in my home town tonight and it was again a pleasure to hear him present. I wasn't sure if it was going to be the same as the presentation I saw just a few weeks ago but I need not be concerned. It was another great evening full of inspiration and lots of good information.

Today is also Alica's birthday so Happy Birthday Mrs Pierce! I hope you have had a wonderful time here.

Here are some of the gems from this evening:
Remember, you miss 100% of the time if you don't take the shot.

It's not how hard you can hit, it's how hard you get hit (lose everything etc) and keep moving forward. (Rocky Balboa)

It's not just what you do, it's how you do it.

Having a why, a powerful, compelling reason is the one thing no one can give you.

I knew it was possible but I had no idea how...

Are you focussing on what won't work, what resources you don't have?
Never let what you cannot do stop me from doing what you CAN do!

People keep looking outside themselves for the money. It's inside.

Ask yourself "Where can I win?"

Terrain is the most important element of success.

Life is about Patterns.

How many ways can I capture opportunities for this one product?

The sale process is a system / formula with 4 offers
GOOD free information (the bait)
Offer 1 - $29.97 product
Offer 2 - $47.97 product
Offer 3 - $69.97 product
Offer 4 - $14.97 product

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

OptiMINDzation... Is it a monthly program?

When I first heard about OptiMINDzation and Attraction Accelerator, I wanted to find out more. I had a look at the critics who said it was a trap into a monthly program. That got me very wary! Especially as his site didn't mention anything about Attraction Accelerator & Attraction Activator being the first in a monthly course. I was not interested in a monthly commitment at all. I followed their links and it showed a less professional website that did genuinely seem to be a Stephen Pierce program. I don't know maybe it's an older, out dated version because they didn't even offer mp3s!

Eventually I decided to buy Stephen's Optimindzation but I found the link had been hijacked by the so called critics and it no longer showed the bonuses that I was most interested in (Attraction Accelerator, Results Accelerator and Visual Velocity report). So I picked up a tip from one of the critics / competitors, cleared the cookies and found thank goodness I could access his real site again: http://www.1shoppingcart.com/app/?af=618373

Update: I wrote the above last week and held off posting because I wanted to see if I'd receive something from Stephen Pierce that would show whether the monthly cd series was (still?) endorsed by him. It is only now, several weeks later, that I have first seen mention of the monthly audios so I was wrong. I would point out to all those scare mongerers though that I'm glad I didn't listen to them. I'm very glad I got the Attraction Accelerator. I've definitely noticed how much easier it is for me now to visualize what I want or - everything is so much more detailed, moving and in color and is so much less effort too.

Before I thought "oh, I guess I'm just not a visual person". I'm quite strong in the other areas, particularly AD and kinesthetic and I've always had to work at visualizing. Now I just pop on Attractor Activator on my ipod for 30 mins before I go to sleep and let my subconscious be retrained.

Stephen Pierce - Do Not Quit on You (Freebie)

Hi Yuri & thanks for your feedback

I'm very happy to keep you posted with my testing of Stephen Pierce's Attraction Accelerator. At the end please see the link for REAL
CONTENT from Stephen Pierce - it's motivational, not internet
marketing so it's great for everyone.

Day 2 of using Attraction Accelerator & Attraction Activator and I'm
a little tired but noticing lots of shifts. Lately I'd noticed
myself worrying quite a bit & was relying on willpower to change my
focus, sometimes not all that successfully. Now something has
definitely shifted. I'm still aware of the weeds in my garden but
I'm no longer worrying. YAY! I still want to experiment with this
for a whole week though.

And another thing... When I first listened to the MP3s - especially
the Activator, I felt strangely disorientated and almost nauseaus.
That has now gone.

If you are interested in doing this experiment with me (it costs
only $30)
you can get it at OptiMINDzation Attraction Accelerator

Kerri

PS Yuri, because you've been a bit disappointed with lack of content from Stephen,
I thought you might like this... it's a report by Stephen "DO NOT
QUIT ON YOU" - I found it very timely after just coming away
from a course. (There's no upsell- it's a gift & I have permission
to share it with friends.)

Stephen Pierce - Do Not Quit On You!

Day 1 review of Stephen Pierce's Attraction Accelerator & Attraction Activator

Hi guys

I just caught up with my friend Warren who arrived back this afternoon from Wealth Mastery. Boy is he on fire now!

For the past few weeks, I'd been raving on to him about Stephen Pierce so I was keen to hear what he thought of him. I was disappointed to hear Warren report that Stephen's presentation was 'just a sales pitch' and that it didn't have any real content. Keep in mind, he also said that he wants to do Stephen's course so it must have had an impact, despite his criticisms.

Warren also mentioned Stephen Pierce had talked about a CD for helping with your mindset and he was disappointed again that it wasn't for sale at WM.

Right away I knew what Warren was talking about, I'd heard about it a few weeks ago and ended up buying it. "It's like my brain has been reformatted" I told him, thus forever sealing my geek-ness reputation (lucky I'm gorgeous, right?!). Still, the reason why I can't stop telling people about it is because I haven't been this enthusiastic and positive since I last did UPW! (For other technology lovers - if you like the Pzizz, then I think you're going to love this - it's far more advanced than Pzizz and uses the latest learning technology.)

Stephen's OptiMINDzation Attraction Accelerator and Attraction Activator are mp3s so you get them straight away (there's some cool bonuses as well). I only bought it yesterday (Wednesday) and noticed a huge shift already today. I seriously think this could be even more powerful than the $15,000 NLP 9 month coaching program I invested in. My plan is to use it every day for the next week - a 7 challenge to see what it really does. I'll let you know what I think of it after a week. As an AD type, I've always found it hard to visualise so it will be interesting to see if this program changes that.

bye for now
Kerri

PS
Having recently spent 3 days at KnowledgeSource's Internet Marketing Secrets seminar, I recommended a different internet marketer's course to Warren as he really wants to use ebooks to further his passion, coaching. Seeing as Warren's not a geek like I am and all that interested really in search engine optimisation, viral marketing etc, I suggested he check out Chris Guerriero's Best Seller coaching because I believe it's a better fit for him because Chris is big on results and integrity and lots of support to make things happen, he doesn't focus on the internet marketing details which Warren really isn't that interested in.

BTW, I'm not knocking Stephen Pierce's course - far from it, I'm actually so impressed I've signed up to do it myself and he has continued to deliver more than he promised.

PS 2 - If you are interested in doing this experiment with me (it costs
only $30)
you can get it at OptiMINDzation's Attraction Accelerator