More money generated today? Don’t know! Not much on the challenge was mentioned today, other than getting another ticket entry for coming in early. May get another ticket tomorrow for coming in early but bad me, I won’t know because I must go to the hairdressers. I am looking like the cat that got kicked by the e-marketer! The venue is a fair distance from my place so we’ll be staying there tomorrow night. Phew -it’s true; Sydney is more spread out than Los Angeles!
Regarding the challenge, I approached Steve Essa to offer him the error message workaround so he can mention this to his audience and generate some sales but he kinda fobbed me off, “Yes yes, we’re dealing with it,” pretty well telling me to go away. Hmm, guess he felt a little embarrassed. Lucky for me I get the opportunity to see both sides of an ‘upbeat’ presenter, smiling -and stressed.
Having worked in the software development field at an engineering level, I have to stress that testing applications in various browsers and operating systems is crucial, otherwise a particular section of the buying public will feel neglected.
Today’s Speakers
Speakers included Roy Carter, Brittany Lynch, Vince Tan and Chris Howard.
Roy Carter offered some sweet tips on generating sales by promoting other people’s e-books that one has modified, and complementing it with articles that then pad out the acquired e-book. He offers a PLR Mentoring program. PLR is Private Label Rights – not to be confused with Public Lending Right (in this case I get a library payment for the books I had published, every year). At a heavily discounted price of $4,000 -okay $3,997, he will one-on-one mentor you to financial success online. I’ll talk more about this in a future post.
Brittany Lynch is an ex-Google employee who has used the power of Adwords and Facebook to make $40,000 dollars per month. She showed some neat ways to advertise via Facebook. Yes there is an investment in the ads but the returns are worth it for the right product. She shows you how to pick that product and how to promote it. Again, her training program will set you back several hundred dollars with a promise to ‘almost guarantee’ success. I probably would have chosen the words, ‘practically guarantee’.
Vince Tan was next up and he’s my kinda dude -the geek who broke from the cubicle to make megabux by creating and launching e-book products, thoroughly researched by validating the marketplace in one’s personal interest areas via keywords. The annoying moment came when he sold one DVD to someone in the audience, then gave away another DVD to someone else (worth $40.00) and then told the audience that there were free DVDs up the back to which a stampede occurred -the herds soon finding out that there were no DVDs remaining. Talk about mass drivers!
Next up, Chris Howard. He’s a motivational speaker from the Academy of Wealth. There was a period where the lights went low, we were told to close our eyes and then feel the universe and our own presence down to the gluons and quarks, and then asked to give each other a hug. It was kinda moving, only because for me my thoughts drifted to my late husband. Such stuff can make or break a person and I almost fainted due to hyperventilating as per his deep breathing instructions (I also suffer from asthma). There was an element of hypnosis, the positive subconscious thinking kind. Well, whatever floats your boat -and yes this stuff works well for many, particularly the American market. Still, a couple of e-book ideas floated into my head and that was a good thing.
Shopping Carts
Finally, getting back to worldinternetoffice.com, I had a quick look at their home page and the thing that struck me was their shopping cart system. Yes you have to pay for it but there is an introductory low price period. Some of the cart systems out there are quite expensive.
With all the talk of ClickBank, cheap web page builders and carts, no one so far has mentioned WordPress. Yes you can add a shopping cart to your WordPress page. Your sites don’t have to have that tacky look (which frankly puts some potential purchasers off) and the cart I use is free. It’s called eshop and it’s really easy to set up. Have a look at one I’ve set up, paperplanebooks.com. There are others too, like wp-ecommerce, plus entire WordPress themes catered for e-commerce, such as Crafty Cart.
You don’t have to rely on someone else’s clunky software!
I’m guessing that if WordPress is not mentioned in this weekend’s event, then domain stuff won’t be explained in any detail either. There’s a lot one should know about domains, using CPanel and so on. I’ll show you in a future post (yawn) -it’s late; time for my booty sleep.
KarinG
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I love word press! It’s not just a blog, I sell my car radios on it!
had a friend who went to that seminar and said some speakers good, some terrible and wondered if the speaking circuit was more profitable than the plans they sell -lucrative even if speaker not that good
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