Years back I emailed Seth after reading a blog post of his and he actually replied, with a pretty awesome and in-depth answer. I can’t remember now what the question or email was about but I do remember him actually replying and that struck me as pretty cool. EDIT: I vaguely remember the email exchange was something about mustard and the branding of yellow mustard….

I’ve emailed other people I’ve respected, studied and learned from over the years but only two ever replied personally, Seth Godin and Guy Kawasaki.

I’ve read most of Seth’s books but I haven’t read Tribes yet. I’ll be doing that over the Holidays.

Today however I saw some twittering going on about a pretty unique opportunity posted by Seth Godin. I’d be willing to say this is truly an opportunity of a lifetime for the chosen ones.

Seth has decided to offer the chance for some very lucky people to come work alongside him for the next six months in New York City.

Seth is calling it the Alternative MBA and frankly, this to me sounds a whole lot better than a real MBA. Did I mention it’s Free?

I’m not going to go on and on with details because I think you should read it for yourself. I also think this is the perfect opportunity for any entrepreneur. I can’t think of anything more worth a little time over the next ten days then applying for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Me? Applying? I wish. Sadly I don’t think my wife will take to well to me leaving for 6 months to live in New York City.

Honey, I’m moving to New York City to work with a fellow named Seth Godin.

Who??? Who’s Seth Godin?

You know that funny looking purple cow book on my bookshelf. Ya….. That guy…

I do all the cooking at our house. She’d be lost without me.

Check out this AMAZING opportunity HERE.

Let me know if you’re applying or if you have any creative ways to talk your spouse into allowing you to take on this opportunity!!

Noah

“Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. Our aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion.”

This year the focus is on Poverty. I’ve decided to participate today after reading through the site and the suggested ways to participate. One in particular was to donate to Kiva. Many members of my private sites know that I’m a big advocate of Kiva and micro-loans to entrepreneurs.

You can check out my lender page here. To date I’ve only made three loans but I do believe these loans have made a difference in someone’s life. I plan to make another today.

What I really like about Kiva is that it revolves around entrepreneurship. Millions around the world have that same drive that each of us have. They wake up in the morning and have the desire to work hard at being their own boss, creating a future on their own terms and doing whatever it takes to achieve those goals.

Of course, in North America and other developed nations, the ability to start our own business or venture is relatively easy. In fact, online you can start your own business for practically nothing.

But what about people that don’t have access to the Internet? What about people living in war torn countries like Afghanistan?

That’s where Kiva.org comes in. Kiva is working to bring funding directly to the entrepreneurs on the ground.

For example, check out Abdul Bashir, living in Afghanistan. Abdul has a shoe store in Afghanistan but needed funds to bring in new styles of shoes and have more stock so he can create a better life to his family. In just over a month, Abdul has paid back 8% of his total loan $1,075.00 of which my investment was $25 dollars.

I call it an investment because I don’t ever plan to remove the funds paid back into my Kiva account but rather the funds are then provided to another entrepreneur and the cycle continues. We can continue to help entrepreneurs grow and create ventures which in turn will allow those business owners to feed their families, create jobs and help end poverty.

So how can you help?

Make a donation today to an entrepreneur. As an Internet Marketer I invite you to join our Internet Marketing lending team here.

Take some time today and read through the various loans being requested and if you become motivated as an entrepreneur to help another entrepreneur than I urge you to take action today.

Your small micro-loan will go a long way towards helping someone achieve their goal.

UPDATE - It seems as if the surge of traffic from BlogActionDay has resulted in every active Kiva loan being funded. Hopefully we’ll see some more loan opportunities today.

Due to the emails I’ve gotten from people looking for old and archived posts, I’ve decided to restore them back into the archives.

If you’ve been checking in here and there, please continue to do so as I promise the updates will become more and more frequent and focused on your business success. I’ve got a ton of quality information to share with you and you’re going to want to stay tuned….

Cheers & Welcome, again!

Noah

Many have asked so I’ll respond.

If you’ve been living under a rock for the past few weeks then you might not know what’s going on today.

If you’ve been above those rocks and frequently check your email you know that Traffic Secrets 2.0 is being released today at 12:00 NOON EST.

For me, I finally started really watching John Reese over the past few years and  I’ve had a few discussions with him on various forums. Many years back I used to place John in that same old pile of marketers (the ones who view US as Bank Machines dispensing our hard earned cash on a whim) but after talking with John for a while through PM’s and Twitter, I’ve realized, John is the real deal. John kind of reminds me of Paul Smithson of XSitePro (another marketer who truly cares that your investment is actually valued)

These are the types of marketers I’ll promote and stand up for. Similar to my Membership Site (Rich-Jerks.com) which was started at a time where we saw “The Rich Jerks” telling us what a bunch of baboons & losers we were! Rich-Jerks.com was started as the “anti-jerks” of Internet Marketing and for 4 years now the site has been jam packed full of amazing members.

Back to Traffic Secrets 2.0

Myself, I do plan to order a copy since this is one of the most reasonably priced IM courses I’ve ever seen hit the market and I do believe it’s going to be a staple course in our Internet marketing Arsenals.

Some people asked me to do a bonus offer. While I’m no Russell Brunson or Mike Filsaime and I don’t have a slew of 5000 products to offer, I do have a special offer for those who which to receive my bonus.

I actually can’t believe I’m going to offer this…

For a few months now I’ve been working on a training program called for Membership SItes - The program is planned to launch in the next few months and will sell for $497 bucks. The program is awesome.

It’s a 60 day training program where you’ll go from start to finish of building a profiting Membership Site. I know how to create these. Like I said, just one of my sites has been rockin for 4 years now. I’ve seen a hundred people try to clone and copy my site in that time and all fail. I’ve purchased other Membership Site training which have cost me up to $2500 and NONE of them compare to this course.

Anyways, this course is geared at creating a real Membership Site with the actual intent of profiting at the end. We’re not building cookie cutter sites or “Instant Drip Feed” Membership Sites. We’re building sites to make long lasting profits.
Surprise surprise right?

Well here’s the kicker. I’m guaranteeing to Members it will be making money at the end of those 60 days. And if not, or you decide the programs not for you, I’m going to buy the site off you.

Why not? Guarantees should be made that way. After all if the creator believes in what they are offering, there should be no questions about the end result right?

Just as much as Reese believes in TS 2.0

So back to my offer. When you purchase TS 2.0 through my link you’ll be one of the first 50 people invited to take part in my Membership Site School System when we launch.

I’ve limited this to only 50 people since I’m giving away free access ($497 bucks free)

So there you have it. You must order from this link below. Only 50 spots available.

Just in case my launch takes me a little longer than planned, you’ll also get access to Rich-Jerks.com FREE until the system is launched.

http://noahfleming.com/recommends/TrafficSecrets

The course should be launching within a month or so , so you’ll have time to devour up the TS 2.0 course before we begin.

But what makes TS 2.0 so exciting?

Well just keep reading…

First, it doesn’t matter if you’re a beginner, intermediate, or advanced
marketer. And it doesn’t matter what business ‘model’ you may be
using (i.e. ecommerce store, affiliate marketing, infoproducts,
blogging, etc.).

It also doesn’t matter what niche market your business is in. The
course can take you by the hand and have you generating an increase in
traffic. Period.

Traffic Secrets 2.0 is all about…

- Social Media Marketing & Strategy
- Advanced Content Syndication
- Cutting-Edge Video Marketing & SEO
- Leveraging Software & Widgets
- Setting Up Automatic ‘Content Factories’
- Building An Affiliate Army
- And so much more.

And Here’s A Real ‘Shocker’…

Traffic Secrets 2.0 (for those that move fast and get ‘grandfathered’
in) will receive the following…

- LIFETIME UPDATES To The Course
- Private Coaching & Mastermind Community
- Web-based ‘Action Tracker’ Learning System
- And more!

Once you buy your license to Traffic Secrets 2.0 you don’t have to buy
it ever again! Even by the time that “Traffic Secrets 11.0″ comes out
you’ll have gotten all of the other versions FOR FREE. (What an
amazing offer.)

You *know* that traffic generation techniques will continue to change
over time so it’s great to know that you’ll be getting all the updated
information and strategies for free. (This is truly an INVESTMENT in
your business.)

You’ll also get access to John, his staff, and all the other TS2
owners in a private community. You’ll get unlimited, lifetime access
for ZERO monthly fees. It’s all included with your single purchase of
the course. (This makes it a no-brainer offer that every serious
marketer should take advantage of.)

But you’ll need to ACT FAST and get your copy of the course right away
so you can be guaranteed to be ‘grandfathered’ in and never have to
pay any additional fees to access the course updates or the private
community site…

Order your copy of Traffic Secrets 2.0, all subsequent copies of Traffic Secrets for life, FREE access to MembershipSiteSchool.com when we launch using the link below.

http://noahfleming.com/recommends/TrafficSecrets

P.S. It goes on sale today at 12:00EST.

See the latest installment here!
And the comments continue to pour into John’s blog.

Some of Mark’s comments today are pretty wacky.

“affiliate marketing world works is to liken it to a spyware infection.

When you’re infected by one piece of spyware, it often opens the floodgates for a host of other virus, malware and spyware infections. Similarly, you talk to one affiliate marketer, who may be a decent guy and wants to sell you something you need or sell something for you. Unfortunately, just by talking to that one fellow, it seems you soon have (no exaggeration) have hundreds of marketers beating down your door and flooding your inbox with ridiculous offers, pie-in-the-sky schemes, get-rich-quick scams and often outlandish conspiracy theories theory .”

This guy is off the wall. I’ve purchased products from Amazon through affiliate links, signed up and bought products off eBay through affiliate links, much the same as an offline referral so to speak. Generally in the INternet Marketing world most regular people don’t even know when they are going to Amazon through an affiliate link.

Once this happens, the original author or creator has no way of contacting you, let alone trying to sell you “get-rich-quick” schemes. Really bizzaro commentary if you asked me.

So bizzare it’s gotten me to post on my blog two days in a row. In a way, John couldn’t have asked for better advertising only a few weeks before the launch of Traffic Secrets 2.0

At first, it may have been bad if Mark’s comments were left unscathed to sit and influence the minds of readers worldwide this could have been “bad publicity” for John, but the backlash to the comments both yesterday and today has provided enough Social Proof for John Reese to launch him to the moon with Traffic Secrets 2.0

The posts from bloggers around the globe, the videos being created in support of John, people like me who go months without posting, posting two days in a row! This is social proof at it’s finest. Make no mistake, the comments made by Mark Hopkins will have a DIRECT influence on the sales of Traffic Secrets 2.0 and that will be selling more copies and more people being sucked into the world of John Reese.

Noah

For example…

We create information products and sell them online.

We help people market their offline businesses online.

We help people better there Search Engine Rankings.

We help people advertise on Google Adwords.

We build membership sites.

We help local businesses develop an online presence.

This is an extremely small example of things Online Marketers do.

We utilize and work with some of the newest and greatest tools and services hitting the web! We embrace them like no other, we learn the in’s and outs and we use them to disseminate quality marketing information, lke twitter for example.

Well known marketer John Reese has been “attacked” for his use of Twitter, being called a prolific e-book salesman, although the blog posts pretty much whittled him down to nothing more than a Nigerian Spammer.

Now many of my members know, I’m more than outspoken on a few Internet Marketing “gurus” who really don’t deserve that title. But over the past few months I’ve really learned to respect John.
You can see and read about what’s causing the uproar in the Internet Marketing community.

FIRST HERE

AND Here (the latest mashable attack)

Why? Because I’ve learned from him. I’ve learned things through him and his twitter posts that have helped me become a better Internet Marketer. I’ve changed my views and philosophies online becuase of John Reese and with that said I’ve learned to respect him very much.

Now, that doesn’t mean I still won’t say things like I see them. One, John’s BlogRush.com to me wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. In fact, I wrote about it in a post called the Blog Rush Disaster. But what I respect about John is he tried! He launched a massive Web 2.0 blog application and while the end result for promised benefits may have been shortcoming, the blogrush widget can be found on millions and millions of blogs. I can’t call this a total failure…

Back to the topic.

Here’s the kicker. John is about to release Traffic Secrets 2.0. John is best known for being one of the first Internet Marketer’s to make 1 Million Dollars in an 18 hour time frame with Traffic Secrets 1.0 back in 2004.

Does mashable realize they have just launched a great INternet Marketer into hyperdrive only weeks before his launch.

John’s rebuttal shows his class and coolness in light of such ridiculous remarks. I’ll be honest I started using Twitter because John told me to. During that time because of John’s twittering, I’ve learned about great books (which I’ve purchased from amazon) found amazing blog posts, been pointed to cool resources (always free) literally watched alongside while John developed and worked on Traffic Secrets 2.0… I haven’t seen John try to sell anything on Twitter.

No to mention, the comments from hoards of marketers and disciples responding to the outlandish blog posts by Mashable and the Inquistor are proving what disastrous choices they have made with such silly attacks.

Great copywriters like Michael Fortin publicly stating that Mashable has lost both a fan and a reader.. But it goes on.. The troops are rallying.
Normally, I’d never write a post as such. Heck, look how often I post. But this I felt deserved the post.

P.S. You can follow me on twitter at http://twitter.com/noahfleming

Can you create a product or service in only 7 days and actually make sales from it?

For sure.

Do you think it can happen?

I do.

In fact, I know it’s possible. But just to be sure, we’ve got others doing it with us over at this site…This is a 100% Free site. NO forced continuity, no hidden sales pitches, no monthly fees. Nothing, Nada, Zilch.

http://theinternetmarketingalliance.com

Interested in giving it a try? Join the site above. You’ll be amazed at how many other marketers are taking the challenge. Sometimes all it takes is a good kick in the rear! I only started making an income online because I simply started “doing” as opposed to sitting, reading, learning, watching, buying, procrastinating.

Read the latest report on the 7 to 10 day challenge. Pretty awesome stuff.

I’ve been working on my 7-10 day product and I fully plan to profit from it. Read more about it inside the site.

Cheers!

I’ve also deleted a bunch of old blog posts I wasnt happy with. When I first started this blog I had some great intensions of delivering some amazing posts. I did have some excellent content but then as usual life happened, businesses happen and we get busy. I need to get blogging into my daily routine

Anyways, I’ll try and keep you guys up to date on whats going on. I’m sure you can expect the look of the site to change about 600 times as well
I did buy those slick Revolution Themes..

Cheers

Noah

“According to the August 2007 edition of Target Marketing Magazine, “…research indicates that the average conversion rate - that is the ratio of orders to overall site visits - is 2.9 percent.

Since this research didn’t include smaller online marketers, I suspect that the actual average is lower – probably closer to 1% or 2%.

Of course, these studies could never tell us whether 1% is good or bad, because it depends what you’re selling.

For instance, if you’re selling a $50 million jet engine, then 1% would bring in a lot of money! You only need 100 visitors to make a $50 million sale.

However, if you’re selling a $50 product, and your site converts 1% of your visitors into customers, then every 100 visitors will earn you $50. How much of this is actual profit will depend on your costs. If it costs you $40 to get these visitors, then you’re making a profit of just $10

o you’ll need a lot of traffic to make a lot of profit!

For instance, if you wanted $1,000 a month profit, you’d need at least 10,000 visitors a month (assuming that your costs per visitor remained the same).

Creating that many visitors can be hard work!
You could, of course, reduce your costs by finding cheaper sources of traffic – but pay-per-click advertising is generally rising in cost, and besides, cheaper ways of generating traffic often have a different cost – the cost of your time.

However, watch what would happen if you were able to go from converting 1% to 2% of your visitors into customers.

This means every 100 visitors now generates 2 new customers, which earns you $100 in revenue ($50 per customer). Your costs haven’t changed – it still costs you $40 to get the same amount of visitors. Your profit is now $60.

Did you notice what happened? By getting your site to convert more of your visitors into customers, your profit has gone from $10 to $60 for each 100 visitors – that’s an increase in profit of 500%, without spending an extra dime!”

Want to keep reading this interesting study.. Read below!

What I just shared with you is nothing more than the first paragraph of Paul Hancox’s “Small Changes - Big Profits 2008 Edition.”

Paul is the great believer I’ve ever met in testing and split testing any offer you place online. The problem with most split testing is its confusing as anything! None of it really makes much sense. I mean, how do we exactly split test two different headlines or a difference background color, or the color of a headline or even “buy now” buttons.

The truth is, most don’t. The problem with not testing is that you’re losing sales and Paul wants you to know it. I recently read of one marketer who started split-testing the color of his headlines. After a few years of using a red headline with daily sales he decided to start split testing a blue headline. Guess what happened?

Well, long story short, the blue headline converted better on a daily basis. Do you know what this means? This SMALL change resulted in big profits. HAD the user implemented this testing years ago, he would have had these sales for the past few years. So over the course of a few years, who knows how many thousands of dollars was lost. Well, the marketer believed that if the headline would have been blue since day one, and converted at the same rate as his split testing, this would have resulted in over $90,000 in more sales…. Or $30k a year.

Crazy right?

Now don’t get me wrong this isn’t some silly little E-Book. This is a whopping 178 Page monster! If you purchase I recommend sending this to your local Kinko’s and having this thing printed in full and bound!

Paul explains everything in clear english and these changes can easily increase your online profits by the thousands.

Without a doubt one of the best books I’ve ever read when it comes to Internet Marketing. And don’t think for a second this book applies only to Internet Marketers, this book applies to everyone including big and small businesses trying to make a stronger presence online.

Anyways, don’t let me waste any more of your time because you need to read this report now. If you want to check out a 20 page sample of the book you can do so by clicking HERE.

It’s a free download for the first 20 pages and you’ll see why this book comes with my highest recommendation.

If you want to purchase the full version after reading through the sample for only $47 bucks, you can do that too. CLICK HERE.

I’ve added the original sales page online if you want to give that a gander. CLICK HERE

To your online success,
Noah

OK I know but I think I need to make a quick note about Google Gadget Ads.

Yesterday, Google launched Gadget Ads.

According to Google,

Gadget Ads are "

Gadget ads enable advertisers and agencies to engage audiences on the Internet’s largest ad network with a rich and interactive new ad format.

• Beyond Rich Media Advertising with "Websites within Websites"
  Think of gadget ads as mini versions of your website in any AdSense ad size.
• Dynamic and Creative Advertising
  Truly useful applications incorporating data feeds, maps, images, audio, video, Flash, HTML or JavaScript in a single creative.
• Largest Global Advertising Network
  Reach over 75% of unique Internet users in more than 20 languages and over 100 countries with no serving or hosting costs.
• Community of Engaged Users Around Your Brand
  Users can post and share your gadget ads anywhere.
• Full Interaction Reporting
  Receive site-by-site interaction reports tracking dozens of actions."

Here are some sample ads. I’m a firm believer and "proven tester" that Ads as such are far more powerful than a basic text ad. Much of peoples AdSense success comes from the blending of ads into web text. Many times the ads are click unknowingly to the visitor.

Gadget Ads are essentially banner ads but they are cool because at least your visitor should know they are clicking an Ad and thus you’ve got a better chance at converting the sale. I for one will be testing Gadget Ads in both sense, both as an AdSense publisher and an advertiser.