Internet Marketing Ranger

Sorry I haven’t written or posted to my blog much lately…

But it has been for a very good reason!

It pretty much comes down to *3* little letters…

F-L-U.

Ahh yes, the wonderful flu.

I had it… and had it BAD.

A nasty version of a flu bug has been making its ’rounds’ all over the world this year and it made sure to stop by my life.

I was sick, on and off, for about 5 WEEKS!

5 long, stinkin’ weeks.  Ugh.

And each time I thought it was finally gone and I was about to return to ‘normal’ it would come back.

Evil stuff.

But I’m happy to say I’m back to 100% now.

Unfortunately, I got very little work done during all those weeks.  All of my major project deadlines were missed, postponed, or rescheduled.

And I’m just ‘now’ getting back to work full-speed…

Many have been anxiously waiting for me to release “Traffic Secrets 2.0″ and I was hoping to have it out by now.  But due to that lovely ‘plague’
that I caught, I still have some work left to finish the final CDs and get it into production.

It’s now looking like it will be released some time late next month.

Thanks to everyone for their patience.  It will be well worth the wait.

The big Income.com site is coming along great.

Our team encountered some tech-related issues but we’ve pretty much solved them all now.  We’re still doing some testing and additional development.

We’re also working on a lot of the CONTENT for the site.  So thanks to my ‘downtime’ it has set us back several weeks on our schedule.  Oh well, it happens…

But I’m not going to rush it.  This project is extremely important to me and I’m only going to release it when it’s 100% ready.  So everyone will just have to continue being patient.  And, yes, I know it’s been well over A YEAR since I originally announced that I was working on this.

I’m dying to ‘let the cat out of the bag’ (even some of it) and post “spy photo” shots or other info about what Income.com is all about, but I just can’t do it yet.  I’m not yet ready to let the world see what I’ve been cooking up.

More news soon.

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Why I ‘Reversed’ My Policy On ‘No Affiliate Links’
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A few months ago, I made an announcement to my list that I would no longer being using affiliate links.  That I would no longer recommend products with an affiliate link unless it was for a project that I was involved with marketing-wise.

My thinking was that I really wanted to make people realize that when I recommended a product to them that it was my sincere recommendation for something they could benefit from.  And if I was being compensated for the recommendation that it was somehow less ‘trustworthy.’

My announcement created a firestorm of feedback.

I was actually a little surprised at some of the comments I received…

“Is this hypocritical????  You’re advising us to use affiliate links and play both sides of the game as you call it but now you aren’t going to do it yourself.  I’m confused.”

“Are you implying that anyone that uses affiliate links is unethical or dishonest?”

“John, you don’t understand, I WANT you to use your affiliate link.  It’s my way of ‘thanking you’
for the information you share when I happen to buy something you recommend.  I’m afraid if you no longer promote affiliate products you won’t have as much of a reason to spend the time telling your list about new stuff that’s worth looking into.”

And those were just the tip of the iceberg.  I received TONS of comments from people — and everyone had interesting points of view.

Let me first clarify something… there’s nothing unethical or ‘wrong’ about promoting something with an affiliate link.  The ‘wrong’ part, in my opinion, is when marketers are promoting products just for the sake of GETTING PAID.  They really don’t care if someone benefits from investing in the product or not.

And to me, this is WRONG.  Very wrong.

But after thinking about things, I realized something…

If you’re honestly only promoting affiliate products that you believe will help your customers, then it ultimately doesn’t matter if you’re being compensated or not.

BECAUSE…

If you BURN PEOPLE by promoting a CRAPPY product, it’s going to come back to you.  It’s going to hurt your credibility and damage your reputation.  It can actually kill your business — I’ve seen it happen to other marketers.

The other ‘issue’ that really made me reconsider my original decision was the fact that many people CALLED ME OUT (like the “hypocritical”
remark above) and made me realize that if I no longer promoted affiliate products that I wouldn’t be PRACTICING WHAT I PREACH.

And I really *do* think all marketers should incorporate a revenue stream from promoting other people’s products and services.

I’ve said it for YEARS…

“Your customers are going to buy from others whether you like it or not, so you might as well get paid for it.”

Affiliate marketing is a great way to monetize lead generation costs and can even be a business in and of itself.

So consider me an affiliate marketer again.  But just as it was for many years before, realize that I’ll only promote products and services that I truly think are TOP-NOTCH and that you’ll benefit from.

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        My Kids Apparently Hate Italy (A Lot)
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So just about the time I was ‘finally’ feeling better, I got a nice surprise…

Let’s just say I decided to leave the house for an entire day (after having ‘cabin fever’
for weeks) and when I came home I found
something I wasn’t expecting…

My two “kids” (aka Baron & Betty my English Springer Spaniels) decided to have some ‘fun’ in the family room…

They literally DESTROYED a $5,000 Italian leather sofa.  D-E-S-T-R-O-Y-E-D.

I still think they somehow called over about 200 other dogs from the neighborhood to help them in their fun because they sure did a lot of damage in a very short amount of time!

(I wonder if they were ‘plotting’ this for weeks…)

Here’s a photo of the culprits caught in the act.
They thought they were being ‘cute’ as you can tell by the looks on their faces…
http://www.income.com/images/couch.jpg

When I first saw the ‘wreckage’ I just stood there STUNNED.

And then, for some strange reason, I started to laugh about it and thought to myself…

“Well, at least I’m not sick anymore.”  

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   Is A ‘Product Launch’ Just A Bunch Of Hype?
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By now you’re probably sick to death of hearing about “Product Launches” (I know I am!)

BUT HERE’S A “REALITY CHECK”…

-> A semi-successful product launch in your
business (or re-launch of an existing product) can make you more money in a shorter amount of time than *ANY* OTHER MARKETING STRATEGY.

I don’t care if you have $100,000 CASH to go drop on PPC.  If you know what you’re doing, a product launch campaign can bring in more immediate sales than anything.

Want to make a bunch of money?  A successful product launch is most likely your best bet.

And the ‘beauty’ of a properly executed product launch is the MOMENTUM it builds for your business long after the ‘launch’ itself.

I know this all too well.  I’m *still* generating millions of dollars in sales in my business based on the momentum from doing a successful product launch back in 2004.

And you probably know what I’m referring to…

My “Million Dollar Day” when I launched
my original “Traffic Secrets” course and pulled in over $1,000,000 in sales in less than 24 hours — which at that time was completely unheard of.

That day definitely became a part of
Internet Marketing history.  And I’m extremely PROUD of that accomplishment.

But doing a massive product launch like
that (that does millions of dollars in sales) takes a solid TEAM of talented people.

I had a lot of great friends and talented marketers that helped me out during that historic campaign…

MICHEL FORTIN - he wrote the core sales letter and did a fantastic job.

JAMES SCOTT - he wrote all the intricate bullets of the sales letter. James actually watched every single second of every DVD and CD-Rom and “pulled out” every possible ‘bullet’ he could make for the sales letter.  He did an amazing job.

FRANK KERN - he gave me killer ideas for the email copy that was being written for the JV partners.
I, ultimately, wrote all the email copy myself but his “crazy ideas” really helped.  (Frank is a ‘magician’
when it comes to email copy as most now realize with his “mass control” success.)

KEVIN MILLER - he was a Flash and Video
whiz that brought my ‘dream’ of having imbedded video previews of each DVD right in the sales letter — which at that time was not being done.
(We almost didn’t pull it off either!  We realized it wasn’t going to work when we launched at 9am
– we didn’t get the videos to work until 3pm.)

And countless other marketing friends that were “along for the ride” and contributed their valued feedback and ideas…
like Stephen Pierce, Jim Edwards, Yanik Silver, Jeff Mulligan, Jason Potash, Jimmy D. Brown, and many, many other people. (Too many to list.)

It was truly a COLLABORATIVE team effort and I will always be eternally grateful to all of the people that helped out (as well as my valued JV partners and customers, of course)…

BUT…

When it came time to “Tell The World” the earth-shattering news that $1,000,000 (from an internet marketer) was made in less than 24 hours, I sat down to write a special PDF report explaining the principles behind HOW I DID IT…

I wanted everyone in our community to be able to not only LEARN from what happened but to also go out and have their own “million dollar days” — or at least super successful days…

But in this special report where I revealed
*HOW* I went about making it all happen
there was only ONE MAN that I publicly
recognized.

And I didn’t recognize just this one person to take anything away from all the other people that helped with the campaign, but I wanted to publicly recognize him because I know that he had more to do with the success and achievement of that “Million Dollar Day” than anyone else…

And that man is JEFF WALKER.

You’ve probably heard of Jeff’s now
somewhat famous, “Product Launch Formula.”

It’s THE GOLD STANDARD for doing product launches online.

And, sure, other marketers have had success with product launches.  But you know what?

NO ONE has produced more successful
product launches for “the average marketer”
than Jeff Walker.  He has truly changed
a lot of lives.

Jeff Walker has more case studies and
success stories from people that used
his formula (in crazy niches from scrapbooking to fly fishing) than anyone else on the planet.

And that’s a FACT.

I would be willing to bet that nearly every major launch that you’ve seen online in the past 5 years either had Jeff consulting for them directly or they were “borrowing” some or all of Jeff’s formula.

Traffic Secrets.
StomperNet.
Mass Control.
Pipeline Profits.
Butterfly Marketing.
Annihilation Method.
Strategic Profits Coaching Program.
7-Figure Code.

What did those massive launches ALL
have in common?

Yup.  Jeff Walker was brought in as a strategic consultant on the launch strategy itself.

If you want to succeed in basketball you give Michael Jordan a call.  If you want to succeed with a product launch it’s Jeff Walker.

And that’s only a partial list of launches you’ve probably been exposed to online.

Jeff continues to evolve and fine-tune
his amazing formula.  It’s pretty much
his full-time job.

In fact, Jeff’s about to release…

“Product Launch Formula 2.0″

The first major update to his original course that changed the industry.  And I’ve seen his new course — it’s UNREAL.

A lot has changed since his original course was released and now he has MOUNTAINS OF TEST DATA from many of his students’
launches that he has used to make his
‘formula’ even more powerful.

If you want to experience a major CASH FLOW WINDFALL in your business there’s no better way than to do it with a product launch — even if you do it only to your own small list with no JV partners.  (Jeff shows you how he does this all the time.)

You can get more information about
“Product Launch Formula 2.0″ and see
some VALUABLE VIDEOS he’s just giving away:
http://www.income.com/productlaunch2.html

When you watch his videos you’ll quickly discover that it’s not just about “Million Dollar”
launches… the first video shows how a
‘regular guy’ literally went from FOOD STAMPS to Six Figures.  Seriously.  See for yourself:
http://www.income.com/productlaunch2.html

More news soon.

*** We just launched TrafficJam.com in a public beta version.  It’s an incredible RESEARCH TOOL for you.

I’d appreciate any mention to your list or on your blog to help get the word out. (Thank You!)

http://www.trafficjam.com

* Sorry if the formatting of this email is a bit off.  I copied and pasted this announcement from my blog.

Here’s Why You Should Definitely Visit TrafficJam.com, Bookmark It, And Visit Often…

For marketers, this is the ultimate research tool. You can monitor blogs by niche and keep up with what type of posts are getting the most interest across the Web. This will make it incredibly easy for you to know what type of blog posts you should be making to get more traffic, interest, and popularity for your own blog.

Now you’ll never run out of ideas for new blog posts!

This research data can help you identify untapped keywords and other opportunities.

This site is essentially a LIVE HEADLINE TESTING MACHINE!!! (by topic)

You can use ideas from the data to increase click-rates on AdWords ads and more.

You can use TrafficJam.com to find great blog posts for your niche. You can share links to these posts with your readers and they’ll appreciate it. (The nature of the blogosphere.)

You can also discover some new blogs in your niche that you never knew existed. These can turn into potential joint venture partners, or simply just another site to occasionally share some traffic and links. You’ll want to consider participating (properly, of course) on their blog comments to drive traffic to your blog.

But either way, TrafficJam.com can save you TONS of your time and constantly ’show you’ what your target market is most interested in at any given time.

TrafficJam.com is powered by the BlogRush Network. It uses some unique technology to analyze millions of blog post title impressions, average click-rates, session times, and more to come up with it’s live ‘ranking’ system.

We’re still tweaking our algorithm but it has already proven to be a fantastic “filter” to determine the most popular and interesting blog posts (by topic) from across the entire network. (Which continues to add new blogs everyday.)

This was a major piece to the BlogRush puzzle that took a lot longer to develop than originally planned. But this is yet another ‘addition’ to help BlogRush members get more free traffic to their blogs.

Some people were disappointed by the traffic results they received when testing BlogRush, and it’s completely understandable…

And as promised, we’re working hard to improve things.

TrafficJam.com is just one of many services we have planned to help our users drive more free traffic to their blogs. And we’re not done yet.

So go check out TrafficJam.com. Bookmark it and prepare to visit often to keep up with your niche. Initially we’re only going to be updating the rankings about once per day — but that will soon move towards an hourly update.

We don’t want the site to update too frequently or users will miss out on certain posts. So we’re trying to find the right balance of how often to update the rankings.

Want your posts to appear on TrafficJam.com? If you have the BlogRush widget installed on your blog it will happen automatically when any of your posts ’score’ well with TJ’s algorithm.

A big ‘key’ for scoring well, which is the same key to get traffic from BlogRush, is to learn to write powerful, yet specific blog post TITLES. Poke around TJ and notice the titles. Almost all of them are very SPECIFIC.

For example, rather than having a post say, “Today Was A Really Bad Day” it’s more effective if it says, “Why I Almost Smacked My Boss Today” or “Ever Split Your Pants At Work?” etc. etc.

Compelling, interesting, specific titles are what get people to CLICK. Not only on the BlogRush Network but across the Web in general. Write more effective blog post titles and you’ll also get more traffic from Google and the other search engines — because people will be more likely to click on your titles when they show up in the results.

http://www.trafficjam.com

Yours For Online Profits,

As you probably know by now, I think it’s incredibly valuable for Internet entrepreneurs to attend seminars and conferences.

The friendships and business relationships you can make at these events can last a lifetime AND…

Can make you a small fortune.

Of all the successful Internet marketers I’ve ever met, or read about, 95% of them have something in common…

They attend Internet marketing events.

THIS IS NO COINCIDENCE.

At these events attendees not only start incredibly lucrative relationships, but they also discover some of the latest ‘working’ strategies and tricks that they can immediately apply to their business the second they arrive home.

Tactics that they can literally “copy and paste”
to INSTANTLY…

- Generate Tons Of Web Site Traffic
- Squeeze More Income From Every Visitor
- Take Advantage Of New ‘Untapped’ Opportunities
- And much, much more

Marketing events are truly a GOLDMINE for your income if you’re serious about making a lot of money from this business.

BUT…

Many marketers (for whatever reason) don’t care for the “large” conferences and seminars.
They’d prefer a smaller, more ‘private’ event.

Smaller events where there is a better
teacher-to-student ratio so they can get more individual help.

i.e. a place to tell someone exactly what their challenges are and have the expert sit-down and just TELL THEM (and SHOW THEM) exactly what to do.

For example…

Teacher: “What do you want help with?”

Student: “I would like to know exactly what to do so my web site gets more search engine traffic.”

Teacher: “No problem.  Let’s look at your site…  Okay, the first thing you need to change is ‘this’…  Then you need to do these FIVE things…  after you do those, here’s exactly what you need to do next if you want to rank for ‘this’ main keyword…”

Etc. etc. etc.

So I am often asked…

“John, do you know of any REAL ‘hands-on’ workshops?”

Unfortunately, my answer is usually…

“Not at the moment.  Sorry.”

Well, that has just changed and if you’re interested in some serious HANDS-ON stuff that can dramatically and instantly provide results, LISTEN UP…

There is a very RARE and special event happening in San Francisco, CA on April 3rd and 4th.  The event is limited to a MAX of only 35 people.

Yep, just 35.  That’s it.

It is being kept small for a reason — so the teachers can give each student lots of personal help with whatever they need help with.

There are many reasons you should strongly consider attending this event…

But I’ll give you just ONE for starters…

I don’t care what you’re doing online.   I don’t care what
niche you are, or are interested in, selling to right now.
TRAFFIC is the key to your success and we all know it.

Well, one of the biggest “segments” of Internet marketing traffic is SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION.

At this special event there will be some of the top “SEO” experts in the world — and I’m not talking about the ‘usual suspects’ of speakers you see at practically every Internet marketing seminar you come across.

These aren’t people that travel from seminar to seminar and make their living by speaking.

These are true experts that make a fortune by applying what they know — and by making big money by doing consulting for others.

So if you have any interest at all in generating more traffic from Google and the other search engines, THIS special event is where you should be.

And this event goes way beyond the latest SEO techniques.  It goes into CONVERSION tactics and even many ‘opportunities’ that exist for you tap into.

Interesting in blogging at all?  Why not rub shoulders with some of the top bloggers on the entire Internet.
They will be at this event — many of them teaching their secrets to how they got so popular in the “blogosphere” and how you can do the same.

This event is called, “The Elite Retreat” and it’s being put on by my good friend Jeremy Schoemaker.

Jeremy’s blog is one of the Top 100 blogs on planet earth.
In fact, I think it’s in the Top 50 now.  This is out of MILLIONS of blogs.

This guy definitely knows a thing or two about blogging and making tons of money from the Internet.  And Jeremy is “well connected” and has relationships (typically close friendships) with some of the most influential bloggers and successful marketers online.

He definitely knows his stuff and the team of experts he has put together for this event is amazing.

If you want more traffic, higher conversions, and ways to scale and grow your income, you should attend this very private event - BUT YOU NEED TO MOVE QUICKLY.

I am recommending this event to my entire list and I imagine the remaining spots will be taken FAST.  (So please don’t hesitate.  At least check it out right now and decide if you want to go or it will be too late.)

*** AND LET ME GET YOU A HUGE DISCOUNT ***

I don’t make one penny by telling you about this special workshop — I just really believe in it.

I asked Jeremy if he could setup a special deal for my customers and subscribers as I told him I really believe in what he’s doing and I want as many of my students to attend as possible…

So he setup a special coupon code that can get you 20% OFF the workshop tuition fee.

When you register for the event just use a coupon code of “INCOME.COM” and you’ll get the 20% OFF savings.

Again, this isn’t some tricky affiliate code or anything else.  I don’t make one dollar if you decide to go to this event.  I just think it’s an amazing workshop that any serious Internet marketer should consider attending.

Get All The Info About “The Elite Retreat” Here:
http://www.eliteretreat.info

Use the “INCOME.COM” coupon code
to save 20% OFF.  But you do need to hurry since the demand for this event is SKY-HIGH and I’m mailing this out to my entire list.

Yours For Online Profits,

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This Is A TIME-SENSITIVE Message.

WARNING:  Don’t Buy Frank Kern’s
“Mass Control” Program without
reading this first.  It could save you
a small fortune.
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By now you’ve probably felt that
MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE…

…how could you have missed it?

I’m talking about all the marketing
that’s happened in the past few
weeks that was about Frank Kern’s
“Mass Control” thing.

You Ready To PUKE or IMPRESSED?

It’s hilarious, I’ve seen tons of people ranting and raving about this marketing.  People are saying how sick and tired they are of getting emails about it!

And this is coming from other
MARKETERS.  You know, people
that are (or trying to) make a living
from their marketing efforts.

THAT is how good Frank Kern’s
campaign has been for this product
whether you are interested in it
or not.

THE IRONY here is that this campaign
is actually just a small part of what his “mass control” method is.

It obviously works.  Like nothing people have ever seen before.

No wonder his method has documented
proof of directly creating $24 MILLION+
ONLINE recently.

You gotta hand it to Frank.  The guy
is an incredible marketer.

As you probably already know by
now, Frank is one of my best friends.

In fact, I’m known to his daughter, Nora, as “Uncle Monkey.”

Seriously.

The first time I ever met his family
(several years ago)
his oldest daughter, who was only
about 3 at the time, pointed
at me during dinner and asked…

“Who’s That?”

I smiled at her and just replied…

“I’m Uncle Monkey.”

I don’t know why I said that, I was
just  teasing her.  BUT…

SOMETHING UNUSUAL HAPPENED.

To this day, several years later,
she only knows me as
“Uncle Monkey” as Frank and
his wife only refer to me as that
when they mention me to their
daughter!  Hehe.

It just sort of ’stuck’ all this time.

You should see the look on people’s
faces in a restaurant or somewhere
out in public when she’s talking to
me and starts with..

“Hey, Uncle Monkey…”

It will be fun to see how many
years it will last. 

But back to all this ‘marketing’ stuff…

Frank’s releasing “Mass Control”
on a first come, first served basis
at exactly 9AM PST (12PM EST) on
Friday, February 1st, 2008.

(Which should be today unless
there was a deliverability problem
with this email.)

*** BUT YOU SHOULDN’T BUY IT ***

At least not yet.  Because if you read
the words that I’m about to tell you
you’ll be glad you waited…

This “Mass Control” program will be
without a doubt one of the BEST
Internet Marketing education products
released in 2008.  I know that for
a FACT.

I can say that with absolute certainty
because I’ve been privvy to the creation of this entire course and know all the inside details.  (I’m one of the few that
does.)

I also say this because I’ve used his
method to make a TON of money. 

It absolutely works.  Almost ‘too’ good
at times.

And the beauty of his program is that
it can be applied to practically any
niche market and any online business
model.

It’s very close to a “cut and paste”
or paint-by-numbers type of process
that’s easy to apply and fast to get
results from.

I’m not kidding, it’s one of the best
marketing methods ever created.
I am *strongly* encouraging ALL of
my customers to get the program.

I really think it would be nearly
impossible not to have your
business (and income) be BIGGER
if you experience it for yourself.

There are very few Internet Marketing
products that are MUST-HAVE resources
for any serious marketer’s “Education Vault”
but “Mass Control” is one of them.

You just watch.  This thing will become
a ‘legendary’ product in this industry’s history.

AND THERE’S *ONE* OTHER COURSE
YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT…

“Mass Control” is definitely going to
be one of the best IM products of
2008 (I stake my reputation on it!)

But there’s another one coming soon…

It will be one of the most ‘Anticipated’
courses ever…

It’s the much awaited SEQUEL to the
most famous product launch of ALL-TIME…

“Traffic Secrets 2.0″

This is my massive multimedia
course on generating tons of traffic
to any web site that’s been updated
for 2008.  Its completely NEW and
will no doubt ‘rock’ the industry like
the original version that created the
first known “Million Dollar Day.”

This jam-packed course reveals all
the REAL working online traffic-getting
strategies that I’m using RIGHT NOW…

The same ones that had my Web properties reach over 2,000,000 people…

****** YESTERDAY ******

You read that right.  I currently
reach OVER TWO MILLION PEOPLE
PER DAY.

So I can teach you a thing or two
about generating traffic.

“Traffic Secrets 2.0″ will definitely
be another MUST-HAVE just like
“Mass Control.”  It’s due to be
released in a few more weeks.

SO HOW ABOUT THE DEAL OF
A LIFETIME?

**** BUY ONE, GET ONE FREE! ****

It doesn’t get any better than that.

If you’re one of the lucky few that
is able to successfully beat the rush
and get “Mass Control” (using my
affiliate link) I’m going to GIVE YOU
a copy of “Traffic Secrets 2.0″
FOR FREE the second it rolls
off the production line.

In fact, you’ll have it in your hands
BEFORE the rest of the general public
that will be dying to get their own copy.

This is probably the BEST DEAL
ever offered to online marketers.

BUT…

There is ONLY -ONE- WAY to get this
SUPER DEAL so pay close attention…

Here’s How It Works…

STEP #1:  Click on this link and successfully place your order for Mass Control:
http://www.income.com/masscontrol.html

STEP #2:  Email a copy of your receipt to Andy Hussong (andy@income.com) and make the Subject Line say “SPECIAL DEAL.”

IMPORTANT:  In the email you send
to Andy you must include the following
so we can express your “Traffic Secrets 2.0″
freebie course to you as soon as it’s
ready to go out the door:

- Your Full Name
- Your Shipping Address
- Your Phone Number
- Your Email Address

That’s it.

You’ll get the two best IM courses
of 2008 in an amazing deal.

I wish you “Good Luck!” in your quest
to grab one of the available spots for
Mass Control.

Yours For Online Profits,

A lot of folks are kind of tired
of seeing what I call the
“Poor man’s video” which
is usually just a Camtasia
recording of a PowerPoint with
some voiceover audio…

And I don’t blame them!

While I have used those types of
videos myself, and have made a lot
from them, I’ll admit it… they can
be a bit boring.  Especially compared
with what VIDEO is capable of.

Well, take a moment and enjoy
something a lot BETTER than
what you’ve probably seen recently…

Frank Kern just released a great
“interview show” style video where
he gives a little tour of his office
and then sits down for an informative
chat with another expert.

This is a GREAT use of video marketing
and we’re bound to see a lot of more of
this in 2008…

Check it out:
http://www.income.com/kerninterview.html

If you’re in the “Internet Marketing” game for real (i.e. you are serious about generating your income from your online efforts) you ABSOLUTELY MUST take 45 seconds and do something…

My good friend and ‘ninja marketer’
Frank Kern is in the middle of a major
product launch but this has nothing
to do with his product (which, however,
I think is going to be possibly the best IM product of 2008)…

You *NEED* to review the information
that he’s giving away during his
promotion.  VALUABLE stuff.  Info that
you can actually go apply to boost your
income as soon as you’re done watching
or reading it.  (Honestly.)

Take a few moments and join his list
and watch all his videos and other
stuff.  You’ll quickly realize that what he’s GIVING AWAY is worth more than 95% of the “Internet Marketing”
products currently being SOLD.

Take A Moment And Check It Out Right Now:
http://www.income.com/frankkern.html

Yours For Online Profits,

As many of my long-time customers and
subscribers know, I haven’t released a
NEW product (to the IM niche) in
OVER THREE YEARS.

During that time I’ve received tons of
emails asking…

“When’s your next product coming out?”

OR

“Why haven’t you released anything new?”

Well, I haven’t put out any new products in the past three years because I’ve been really busy.  I’ve been traveling around the world (one of my passions) and I got busy working on other business projects.

Yet during all that time ‘off’ I still generated millions of dollars in residual income from my old ‘marketing’ products as well as from affiliate commissions for products I recommended to others.

HOW COULD I COMPLAIN?

I don’t know many businesses where
that would have been possible aside from selling to the “Internet Marketing” niche — at least not the amount of money that was made during my ‘down’ time.

And that’s probably why I realized that
this IM niche is most likely the best niche on the entire planet.  It just has so many advantages over other niche markets — especially online.

- The information regularly changes
so customers need to keep spending
money to keep up with the changes.
(Rather than spend hundreds of
hours trying to track down all the
changes themselves.)

- The information has huge VALUE
and can be sold for high prices –
it’s worth a lot since it can generate
thousands of dollars (sometimes millions) in return. (Massive ROI)

- The market is MASSIVE.  It seems
like millions of people want to either
start a new online-based business
or grow their existing business
using the Internet; and that won’t
change for 20+ years and beyond
most likely.

* Google is technically in the IM
niche.  That’s reason enough to
pay attention to it.

- There are more affiliates in the
IM niche than any other market
because all affiliates are essentially
Internet marketers.  So there are
THOUSANDS of people to partner
with that already get a lot of traffic.

- And there are *many* other elements
that make the IM niche incredibly
LUCRATIVE.

All of these reasons are why I’m personally going “full-speed ahead” in this niche and getting out of all my other business interests.

I’m only going to be focusing on building ONE *BIG* business and that will be in the IM niche.

Everything I’ve done so far in this
IM niche has truly been “part time.”
And sometimes I felt like I neglected
the business so much that it felt more
like “sometime” or “whenever I feel
like it.”

Yet it still made me a small fortune.

But all that’s going to change in
a BIG way in 2008.  Income.com
is my new main business and I’m
excited about my plans to grow it
as quickly as possible.

SO IF I’M GOING “ALL IN” IN THIS MARKET…

…SHOULDN’T *YOU*?

If you watched my recent “shocking video”
then you know exactly what I’m talking
about with all of this.  I finally brought to light something that almost no other IM guru or “educator” in this market has done — I’m encouraging you to build your own thriving business in the IM niche and COMPETE WITH ME.

For years all the “gurus” and seminar
speakers advised people to STAY AWAY
from the IM niche…

DID THEY WANT IT ALL TO THEMSELVES?

Or was there a legitimate reason why
they gave that advice?

I think it might be a bit of both.  I know I personally encouraged my students not to start in the IM niche because they had no experience to draw on.
And so anything they attemped to
market or sell would most likely have
very little VALUE, and that’s just
unethical and not doing the world
any good.

But things have changed a lot in the
past few years.  It’s now very possible
to build a thriving business in the IM
niche even with very little experience
(or none).

HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE?

It’s because so many ‘real’ experts,
in a wide-range of sub-topics for
Internet Marketing (Adwords, social
media, testing/tracking, copywriting,
video marketing, email marketing,
infoproducts, affiliate tactics, and
more) are publishing a lot of great
information that anyone can use
on their own sites or in their own
newsletters, autoresponders, etc.

* If the person using it links back
and gives the original author credit,
of course.

Because of this, there’s a tremendous
opportunity to simply ‘point’ people
to the real experts online and generate
an income from affiliate commissions
in the process.

But there’s a much greater opportunity
beyond just that.  (Even, though, there’s plenty of money to be made that way alone)…

There are numerous ways to generate
your own products using other people’s
expertise — and there are opportunities to create your own products once you do have valuable experience that others would love to know about.

And because the Internet Marketing market is SO BIG and because there are endless opportunities to generate income, you really need to SERIOUSLY consider doing business in this niche.

Thousands of other people make their
living from this niche for a good reason!

There is a lot of competition in the
Internet Marketing niche, but I’ve been
saying it for years…

(If you own “Traffic Secrets” you’ve heard me say it…)

“Competition online is not only a ‘good’
thing, it’s the BEST thing.”

The fact that there is a ton of competition in the IM niche means it’s an extremely HEALTHY market.  Tons of customers.
Tons of affiliates.  Tons of potential people to partner with and share traffic.  Tons of products and services to promote as an affiliate.  And just tons of opportunity.

SO FINALLY… MY NEW ‘PRODUCT’

If you watched the video I just released until the end, then you already know I’m about to release my first ‘product’
offering in OVER THREE YEARS.

Next week, from January 29-31, I’m
teaching a very special LIVE Webinar
class online.  It’s an intensive 3-day event that will outline the exact step-by-step plans for anyone to get started on the path to building a thriving business in the IM niche.

This intensive class will “cut right to
the chase” and just tell you everything
you need to do.

I could have ’stretched’ the class out
to be several weeks (or months) but
I know you just want to know
EVERYTHING RIGHT NOW
so you can get started right away in
this new year and make 2008 your
best year yet.

This class will benefit someone if
they have no experience selling
to the IM niche, or even if you are
already generating some income
from the IM niche.

In fact, if you are ALREADY active
in the IM niche you definitely don’t
want to miss this class and learn
all about the important ‘trends’
and changes that are happening
right now — things that threaten
some of the existing businesses
in this market. 

This is CRITICAL stuff.

WHAT YOU ABSOLUTELY *MUST* DO…

Give this IM niche some serious
thought.  Do your own research.
Poke around online a bit.  You’ll
quickly realize that THIS is probably
the HOTTEST MARKET to build a
business in and I don’t see that changing for many years to come. (If ever!)

“How To Build A Successful IMA Business”
is the name of my class.  You’ll need to watch that entire video (maybe more than
once) to understand what ‘IMA’ is and
how it all works.

Im, if you have any interest at all in
this IM niche, for a new business OR if you have an existing business in this niche, you don’t want to miss this class — because many of your competitors will be taking it.

SO HERE’S THE DEAL…

Spots in the class are limited and available on a “first come, first served” basis.  I originally planned to open the registration to the public yesterday but I received a lot of emails asking me to push it to later in the week because of the national holiday in the US; many were going to be out of town and away from their computers.

The new “Open Registration” for this
class will happen this Thursday, January 24th, at exactly Noon EST.  I’ll make the registration page live and as soon as all the spots are taken the page will come down.  That’s the only fair way to do it.

You snooze, you lose.

You need to start by adding yourself to my “Priority Notification List” for the class:
http://www.income.com/imapriority.html

If you add yourself to this list you’ll receive all the important updates about the class including the URL to register on Thursday.

If you haven’t yet watched the entire
“Shocking Video” you should go and do
that right now:
http://www.income.com/shocking.html

Then after you watch the video add yourself to the priority notification list:
http://www.income.com/imapriority.html

* As mentioned in the video, one of the
reasons for putting on this class is to
‘groom’ a group of people that will be
doing business in the IM niche that
Income.com will be able to partner
with.

I realize that Income.com, no matter
how good our marketing is, will never
reach the entire IM market — it’s just
TOO BIG.  So I want to build some
relationships with people doing business in this niche for the LONG TERM to be able to possibly share traffic, promote each other’s products, co-create products, and much more.

There’s a TREMENDOUS amount of
opportunity in this market and lots of
money can be made by working together
with like-minded entrepreneurs.

So I hope you’ll give this class and
this niche some serious consideration.

I look forward to seeing you in the
class next week, Im, and
working with you to help you grow
your thriving IM niche business!

Here are those links one more time…

THE VIDEO:
http://www.income.com/shocking.html

THE NOTIFY LIST:
http://www.income.com/imapriority.html

As expected, my “Shocking Video” has
created quite a bit of controversy…

People are blogging about it and talking about it on forums all over the Web.

I’m talking about this one:
http://www.income.com/shockingvideo.html

I have received a ton of emails from
people that watched the video.  I can
tell there is a lot of EMOTION behind
most of the emails people are sending
me.

It seems like this “topic” is really
something that many people have
been waiting for someone to FINALLY
come out and shed some light on.

Most of the emails are similar to how
this one starts (name removed for
privacy reasons):

“Hey John, this is [edited] in Phoenix.

Hey I want to thank you for putting out that video.  You are the first real marketer to come forth and tell it like it is.

I went through a range of emotions as I
listened to you…from getting very angry at all of the lies and outright deceit being told to people, to being encouraged by the fact that I still can live my dream.”

AND GUESS WHAT?

Do you know how I know this video
is really stirring some heated emotions?

Because many people (those mad about
me creating competition for them in
the IM niche) are finding ways to ’spin’
my words and use them out of context
to try and bash me and the video so
people won’t pay attention to it!

I’ve already seen some people
saying that I am encouraging newbies
to put out false/inaccurate info or products based on something they know nothing about etc. etc.

That’s NOT what I said at all if you
watched the video.  And the ironic
part is, I bet some of these newbies
that I’m going to help are not only going to end up making more money in their IM education business than these people bashing the video, but they’ll also end up helping more people (their customers) have success; and that’s what’s really important at the end of the day.

If you haven’t watched the video
you can still see it here:
http://www.income.com/shockingvideo.html

Yours For Online Profits,

Here’s the video I told you to look out for…

You absolutely *need* to go and watch
it RIGHT NOW.  That’s all I can say…

http://www.income.com/shockingvideo.html

Yours For Online Profits,

John Reese

This is an extremely IMPORTANT message.

Be on the lookout in the next 48 hours for an email coming from me that has the subject line of “THE Shocking Video.”

I am going to be sending you a video that you ABSOLUTELY MUST SEE if you already are or are planning on making a living online.

And, no, this isn’t just some marketing hype.

HERE’S WHAT IT IS…

This is something that’s going to turn the Internet Marketing industry on its head.

I’m dead serious and GUARANTEE IT
100 MILLION PERCENT.

Many will be upset and outraged.  Other
marketers will be sent “scrambling” as a result of what I reveal in this video.

What I am going to reveal (in great detail) is many years OVERDUE for this industry.

It’s about something that a select few
have tried to keep quiet for a very long time.  (Honestly.)

Well,

TIME’S UP.

This can greatly affect your income
in 2008 - run from it or embrace it at
your own risk.

* This is something that EVERYONE
will be talking about.  You just wait
and see.

So be checking your email a lot during
the next 48 hours.  You don’t want to
miss this.

(And the mayhem that follows.)

Yours For Online Profits,