How’d you like to attend Amish Shah’s Magic Bullet Seminar for half price?

One of my LPGen customers contacted me and is going to be unable to attend the live seminar.  He plans to keep his Hexatrack software license, he just won’t be able to get to San Diego and would like someone else to take over that “half” of the event.

This means if you are someone who doesn’t care about the software, but would like to be able to be there live and in the flesh for half price, contact me ASAP or leave a message here on the blog, and I’ll put you in touch with the person splitting their ticket.

Amish has already been contacted about this and said it was no problem, so there’s nothing shady going on here.

The seminar dates are getting closer so if this interests you, speak up right away!

Jonathan

Well I’m finally back from Austin, the Traffic and Conversion Summit was absolutely mind blowing.  It’s going to take me a while to fully digest and implement everything but wow… those guys know their stuff!

Only real downside was my flight home on Sunday evening got canceled, and there were no others.  So I got to spend an extra unepected night in Austin.  I was so completely brain dead that all I wanted was to get home.  Alas, I got home today at long last.

So now that I’m home, I’m catching up on things like support tickets, LPGen2 bugs, emails, etc.  And then I realized that I have to have a presentation ready for this coming weekend!

In case you’re in the SF Bay Area (or want to come out here), come check out the Internet Income Summit (why is everything a summit lately?).  I’m speaking along with one of my main mentors, Gauher Chaudhry.  It’s not a real specific event, more of a “sampler plate” of things in my opinion, but I’m looking forward to getting to meet a number of people in person for the first time, and others once more.

Come check it out if you can, it’s extremely cheap as these things go:

www.tooltrainer.com/summit

If you come, make sure you grab me and say hello… I’m speaking on Saturday as of the last schedule I saw.

And now, back to support tickets!

Jonathan

WOW.

I’m in Austin at Ryan Deiss and Perry Belcher’s Traffic and Conversion Summit and my head is set to explode with ideas and things I need to execute immediately (and some things I’m kicking myself for NOT having been executing for months or years…)

I had a weird notion that I needed to be here… wasn’t really sure why, and though I’m on Ryan and Perry’s lists I really haven’t bought anything from them or followed them  closely before.

I sure as heck will be now.

Today was day 1 and I could head home right now and be TOTALLY satisfied at having spent a grand to attend plus travel costs.

AMAZING stuff.  These guys are mind blowing.  Seriously.

Time to digest both today’s content, and a little food as well…

Jonathan

P.S.

I’ve taken a few videos with my Flip cam but can’t keep an internet connection up long enough to post them!  So my “video blogs” will probably get posted long after this text post.  SIGH… technology.

We did the StatsJunky webinar last night and it was fantastic… it went over 2 hours just so everyone could get their questions answered.  Billy was a TROOPER!!!

Now here’s the obnoxious part.  Camtasia is flatly refusing to render the ginormous resulting movie file.  Apparently this is a known bug that’s been around forever and the only known workaround is to convert the movie to an AVI and use THAT in camtasia instead of the GoToWebinar-generated .WMV file.

Can you say, TIME CONSUMING?!?!?!?

So now I’m converting the movie to an AVI file, which I will then import back into Camtasia again and hopefully render out to something I can post to the blog.  It’s going to take around 3 more hours JUST to convert to an AVI, then probably another 3 hours to render out to a finished postable movie.

UGH!!!

Sorry for the delay on the replay everyone, especially since this deal only lasts another day.  I hoped you’d all have plenty of time to listen to all the Q&A and have them help you decide if SJ is right for you.

Oh on that note, one thing that came up a few times during the webinar and again in a blog comment here, was about people who already bought SJ previously.  Here’s the answer as I understand it:

If your previous SJ subscription (monthly, annual, whatever) has met or exceeded $297 then you’ve ALREADY been upgraded to lifetime and that’s that.  You’re set!  If you purchase a license now at the $297 price you’ll actually have TWO licenses and the ability to run two totally independent copies of SJ in two places.  If you don’t want this, you can get a refund for one of the licenses if you’d like.

If you just bought a month or two ago for example, and haven’t yet spent $297 on your copy, then my understanding is you were NOT upgraded to lifetime, which is pretty easy to understand.  Bottom line though is get in touch with the SJ folks and I think they’ll do right by you.  Get on one of their daily webinars if you’re having any trouble reaching them by email.

OK back to rendering for me!  Well, for my computer anyway… 

Jonathan

OK it’s just too small of a world.

Backstory:

I have many LPGen customers & users that I’ve gotten to know only through email or maybe on a webinar at some point. Many of them are beginners at all this “make money online stuff” but some are extremely advanced underground marketers that make outrageous sums of money. Obviously I especially like talking to those people.

Anyway, one of these is a guy I’ll just call “J”. We’ve never met in person, but we’ve spoken via email and chat quite a lot. Over the couple of years I’ve known him this way, he’s shared a lot of amazing info with me. Tricks, tactics, “secrets”, etc. I know with a high degree of confidence (short of him giving me logins to his accounts) that he makes a TON of money online. Way way WAYYYY more than me or most of the other people working online in affiliate marketing.

I’m talking 5 figures DAILY.

So this is a guy that when he speaks, I listen to what he has to say. Not all of the tricks he’s shared with me are things I’m willing to put into practice… let’s just say he’s willing to push the edge of the envelope a bit farther than I will.

www.tooltrainer.com/styles

But that doesn’t negate the brilliance of the stuff he’s shared with me.

Now, flash forward to this past weekend. I hadn’t heard from J in quite some time… and all of a sudden he pops up again! It had been so long that we had a lot to catch up on. While we were chatting, the subject of Amish Shah’s upcoming seminar came up.

So here’s what completely stunned me:

J: been a long time
J: Amish was telling me he has been speaking with u
Jonathan van Clute: Yeah we chatted the other night
Jonathan van Clute: you guys buds?
J: underground buddy
J: shh
J: lol
Jonathan van Clute: You gonna be at Amish’s seminar?
J: im hosting it
Jonathan van Clute: no way?!
J: im black hat styles
Jonathan van Clute: oh man
J: lol
Jonathan van Clute: I gotta find a way to get my ass there
J: foo sure
J: so yeah its been hectic
J: we got some gangsta stuff in the pipes
J: just insane

So talk about a small world… J not only knows Amish and lives near him, but he’s HOSTING THE SEMINAR!!

This is crazy… these guys don’t generally crawl out of their cash caves long enough to talk to anyone about what they do.

Needless to say, I’m now feeling like I have GOT to be there. Unfortunately I won’t know for sure if I can make it until pretty last minute, as I’ve got some other commitments around the same time. But I’m definitely going to see what I can do to bend my schedule around enough to go.

In case you missed it, Amish just interviewed J “Styles” as part of his promo for the seminar. They blurred out his face so I *still* don’t know what the guy looks like… LOL… but I’m sure I’ll be able to figure out who he is at the event.

www.tooltrainer.com/styles

Check it out… the interview of course doesn’t have time to really dig into specifics, but I think it’s intended to give a taste of what’s going to be taught at the seminar. Sounds like it’ll be pretty good stuff.

They also say they have some sort of massive automated software to run their business, and are giving away 50 licenses for free. That sounds prtty amazing, though I’d have to see it before I could really pass judgment on it.

Oh Styles gives away a pretty slick trick right at the very end of the video so make sure you get ALL the way to the end or you might miss it. It’s regarding international traffic.

Anyway check it out and let me know what you think. I know in the last year there have been a lot more huge money claims being made… gone are the days where $100 or even $1,000 per day seemed like a good earning. Now it’s $50,000, $100,000, or more.

Do you believe these numbers? Are they for real? WHat’s your take on all this?

www.tooltrainer.com/styles

Oh and if you’re thinking of coming to Amish’s event, let me also add that I don’t think you should unless your business is currently earning at least $10k/month in profit. I just don’t think it will likely benefit anyone below that level. I could be wrong but that’s my feeling at the moment!

Jonathan

I dunno about you but I’ve been getting hammered with emails
abut Amish Shah and his $50,000 trick video.

Well of COURSE I went and checked it out… who wouldn’t,
right?  If you haven’t seen it you can opt in & watch it here:

www.tooltrainer.com/amish

Well maybe I’m jaded, or too smart for my own good, or
something… but I wasn’t blown away.

What I saw was a basic combination of cloaking, referrer
cloaking, and iFraming.

Nothing earth shattering to me (and probably not to any
advanced LPGen user either).

I even had an issue with something claimed in the video.  I
have to be honest with you here, I STRONGLY disagree with the
claim in the video that “Google loves this!”  I would say it’s
true that the Google BOT loves it - after all Googlebot is just
a stupid program and can be pretty easily fooled.  But Google
itself will most certainly NOT love this trick.

That’s not to say it won’t work.  I have little doubt that it
would work great (and a creative LPGen user can probably see an
easy way to FAR surpass it pretty easily).  But it’s definitely
not something Google (the company) would be thrilled to have
you doing, in order to game their Adwords system.

So why is Amish even doing this?  Why reveal something so
profitable (and even give away the script to do it along with
20 niches, PPC adds, keywords and all for free)??

Because he’s holding a seminar.  Yep, it’s all a lead in to an
expensive weekend with Amish where he’ll supposedly reveal all
his secrets, blah blah blah.

Gee, can you tell I’m jaded???  LOL

Fortunately for me, I actually have met Amish before and have
direct access to him via chat.  So contact him I did.  I
called him on the guru thing and holding a seminar… I figured
this is just going to be another of those “thin” seminars (I’ve
attended my share) that don’t really reveal a whole lot, and
that convince rank beginners they’ll make millions tomorrow if
they just implement some technique.

Basically, I gave Amish shit.  Hey, I figured I knew him well
enough to razz him a little bit!

But to my surprise, here’s exactly what was said (typos and
all!):

[7/15/2009 11:26:11 PM] Amish Shah: im doing it for the REAL
people
[7/15/2009 11:26:13 PM] Amish Shah: cuz im suck of this guru
shit
[7/15/2009 11:26:18 PM] Amish Shah: and these half ass cpa
products
[7/15/2009 11:26:26 PM] Amish Shah: provide some damn value
[7/15/2009 11:26:26 PM] Amish Shah: shit
[7/15/2009 11:26:31 PM] Amish Shah: so my whole seminar
[7/15/2009 11:26:33 PM] Amish Shah: is my business exposed
[7/15/2009 11:26:34 PM] Amish Shah: inside out
[7/15/2009 11:26:38 PM] Amish Shah: and how i run it
[7/15/2009 11:26:43 PM] Jonathan van Clute: very cool
[7/15/2009 11:26:58 PM] Jonathan van Clute: When is it again?
[7/15/2009 11:28:06 PM] Amish Shah: aug 28-30
[7/15/2009 11:28:08 PM] Amish Shah: u should def com
[7/15/2009 11:28:29 PM] Jonathan van Clute: damn… how much is
it to attend?
[7/15/2009 11:28:45 PM] Amish Shah: $4k
[7/15/2009 11:29:03 PM] Jonathan van Clute: and you swear it’s
real value?  lol
[7/15/2009 11:29:07 PM] Jonathan van Clute: not that I’m jaded
or anything
[7/15/2009 11:29:39 PM] Amish Shah: ya man
[7/15/2009 11:29:40 PM] Amish Shah: the real deal
[7/15/2009 11:29:45 PM] Amish Shah: the second video will talk
more about it
[7/15/2009 11:29:57 PM] Amish Shah: more about business
[7/15/2009 11:30:00 PM] Amish Shah: and strategy
[7/15/2009 11:30:07 PM] Amish Shah: but ya man..everything from
media buys
[7/15/2009 11:30:07 PM] Amish Shah: to ppc
[7/15/2009 11:30:10 PM] Amish Shah: to ppv
[7/15/2009 11:30:12 PM] Amish Shah: to landing pages
[7/15/2009 11:30:15 PM] Amish Shah: to hiring employees
[7/15/2009 11:30:19 PM] Amish Shah: managing them
[7/15/2009 11:30:22 PM] Amish Shah: making your own cpa product
[7/15/2009 11:30:22 PM] Jonathan van Clute: yeah that’s awesome
stuff… I bet you still get plenty of newbies who haven’t made
their first buck yet asking how to get a good QS
[7/15/2009 11:30:23 PM] Jonathan van Clute:
[7/15/2009 11:30:37 PM] Amish Shah: thats why this price point
is $4k
[7/15/2009 11:30:40 PM] Amish Shah: weed out the newb
[7/15/2009 11:31:39 PM] Amish Shah: and my video before launch
[7/15/2009 11:31:47 PM] Amish Shah: im gonna straight up say
[7/15/2009 11:31:53 PM] Amish Shah: if you are new to this
business
[7/15/2009 11:31:55 PM] Amish Shah: dont come

We chatted a bit more about his business, what he’s been up to
(some BIG stuff…) and where he’s heading next.  I gotta say,
he kinda blew me away.

So I’m reconsidering my initial jaded opinion of him holding a
seminar.  Amish is WAY beyond me in terms of business success,
and if he really is willing to share how to build things up to
the kind of level he’s at - and he’s really going to aim this
at the “high level” folks and not those who are just starting
out - then I may just have to take a trip to San Diego soon.

When I met him last year, I instantly liked him because we have
several similarities (not the least of which is the long dark
hair LOL!) including the fact that in high school we both made
a killing selling candy to our fellow students and we both got
into trouble using computers when we were kids (though he got
in a LOT more trouble than me ;).

If you run into me somewhere, remind me to tell you my candy
story.. it’s pretty dang funny.

Anyway, I guess what I’m trying to say is that from what I know
of him, Amish is a genuine guy who is extremely smart and has
made outrageous amounts of money online, and knows about
scaling up, employees, and all that “next level” stuff.

Remember that this isn’t for beginners… so if you’re new to
internet marketing, building websites, or are looking for help
in setting up a PPC campaign, etc. this probably is the wrong
venue for you and would be a waste of your money.

But if you’re in the position where it’s time to move to that
next level, this might just be the right event for you to
attend.

If nothing else, it’s worth getting on Amish’s list as he does
share some pretty good tricks & tips (even if I don’t always
agree about how Google will feel about some of them!

www.tooltrainer.com/amish

Let me know what you think about this!

I just got this, it’s a little short notice but if you aren’t already acquainted with Gauher and PPCFormula, make sure you’re on this call!!!

–

Join us for a Webinar on April 2, 2009 at 8:00pm ET

Hey!

This is da bomb so don’t miss it.

There is one man in affiliate marketing who has earned the respect
of all marketers big and small. His name is Gauher Chaudhry and he
is joining us for our next webinar.

Gauher has trained thousands of marketers with his PayPerClickFormula.com
course. He knows exactly what people need to do to succeed in affiliate
marketing.

Hundreds of his students work with us already and have learned how
to really prosper online.

On Thursday, April 2, 2009 join us as we interview Gauher Chaudhry and
discuss exactly what he does in his affiliate marketing business.

You will be amazed by the creativity, ingenuity and just plain old
smart marketing that Gauher and his students bring to the game.

Crawl over broken glass if you have to, but make sure you don’t miss
this call.

I GUARANTEE that the information shared on this call will change
your online business.

Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat now at:
 https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/79…

Date: Thursday, April 2, 2009
Time: 8:00pm ET to 9:30 pm ET

See you on the webinar.
Be There!

-Harald Anderson
Director of Search Engine Marketing
Clickbooth

Hope you can make it to JVAlert Live - http://www.lpgen.com/jvalert

Oh also, I’ve heard from a bunch of you that you really liked the keyword research trick I posted last night. Glad you found it so useful! In case you missed it, it’s here:

 http://www.tooltrainer.com/adgroups/

Ta ta for now!!

Jonathan

I’ll be there this weekend… How about you?

www.LPGen.com/jvalert