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		<title>My Final WSO &#8211;  The Process I Used To Create It</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I released my final ever WSO, There are a number of reasons for this and I&#8217;ll go into depth about them in a week or two. It was quite a hard decision but sometime the bitterest pill is the best in the long run. In the past my WSO&#8217;s have earned me between $6000 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yesterday I released my final ever WSO, There are a number of reasons for this and I&#8217;ll go into depth about them in a week or two. It was quite a hard decision but sometime the bitterest pill is the best in the long run. In the past my WSO&#8217;s have earned me between $6000 and $15000 which is a good reward for a week or two&#8217;s work.</p>
<p>I thought long and hard about what product to release, I was actually halfway through a series of Videos about Authority Blogging, what it is and how to do it when I changed my mind and decided to do something &#8220;epic&#8221;, but what, I wasn&#8217;t sure.</p>
<p>So I loaded up with a few bottles of water and went for a long walk to clear my mind , (when you are half way up a steep mountain you tend to find that you don&#8217;t think about trivia) after about 12 KM  which is about 7.5 miles It came to me.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d write 20 or 30 of the best tips I knew from my 7 years in marketing (check out mondays post for one of them) In the end I actually got to around 90 tips . Wouldn&#8217;t 101 tips be a nice number I thought&#8230; truly epic!</p>
<p>So I emailed some of the most ethical marketers I know, and asked them for their best tips before I knew it I had 101 great tips to share with the world but would they like it? The list finally got to 103 but I left  the title at 101,  The full title is actually  &#8221;Internet Marketing Braindump &#8211; 101 Must Have Tips for Online Marketers&#8221; not the catchiest title I&#8217;ve come up with!</p>
<p>To actually write the e-book was easier than I thought which is why I went from 30 to 90 tips easily. The first thing I did was to set myself a word count target of 5000 words a day, in the end the book is over 14,000 words and took me 3 days to write. I used Pages to write it, it&#8217;s the first time I used it and I really liked it, it made the task of writing much easier as it handled the table of contents and the font types automatically.</p>
<p>I first laid out the sections I wanted to cover by adding a chapter and a header, I chose 6 of them  SEO &amp; Traffic, List Building, Affiliate Marketing, Keywords &amp; Site Building , General &amp; Finally Product Creation.</p>
<p>The initial idea was to write the same amount of tips for each section but it didn&#8217;t turn out like that General had 30 while affiliate market has about 13 I think. Once I had the sections I just started writing tips, I found that one tip would naturally lead to another . At this point I made sure I had a notepad with me at all times as I&#8217;d think of tips at the strangest of times.</p>
<p>I wanted each tip to be a mini WSO something that would make people think so I avoided 1 line tips and focused on getting at least a paragraph from each tip, as you&#8217;ll see if you have the book some are several paragraphs and a few take up multiple pages</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t actually write them in any particular order just jumping between sections as a tip came into my head, I got a lot of ideas for the tips by reading back through the blog to find things i&#8217;d written about in the past.</p>
<p>Once I was finished I tested changing the font sizes initially it was 14 point baskerville so I tried 16 and 18 point which increased the book to 980 and 100 pages and both looked fine in pages but when they were in .pdf format they looked way too big so I went back to 14point.</p>
<p>So I had a product how was I to launch it.</p>
<p>The first thing I did was to let the members of WPGoldmine  know it was live, (Tip 104.. always support the people who support you by ensuring that they get the best offers). After that I created an email and sent it out to my list telling them it was live.</p>
<p>You&#8217;ll notice that no where in the list of things (well 2 things) I did did I mention contacting affiliates or JV partners. One of the better features of WSO Pro is the fact that it generally emails people who have promoted your stuff in the past when you release a new WSO (unless the opt out) I have some really great affiliates so I knew they would get notified.</p>
<p>I avoided all the JV hoopla that people feel obliged to do by offering bonus&#8217;s, gifts  &amp; prizes.(been there, got the T-shirt and the bad taste in my mouth) I really have tired with all that stuff. I believe that people should promote a product based on it&#8217;s merits not on what they&#8217;ll make. I know I create good honest ethical products and so do my affiliates if they choose to promote some rehashed crap over my products because the have the change to win an iPad well thats thier issue not mine.  (did i sound a bit bitter there? I didn&#8217;t mean to)</p>
<p>So thats it the eBook is live it&#8217;s making sales,(268 so far)  the buyers are loving it which is really all it comes down to in the end.</p>
<p>If you don&#8217;t have it you can check out the thread at: <a href="http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-special-offers-forum/536680-my-final-warrior-special-offer-lets-go-out-bang.html">http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-special-offers-forum/536680-my-final-warrior-special-offer-lets-go-out-bang.html</a></p>
<p>If you would like to promote it you can sign up at: <a href="http://www.warriorplus.com/affiliate/offer/9635">http://www.warriorplus.com/affiliate/offer/9635</a></p>
<p>Below you&#8217;ll find some of the great comments i&#8217;ve been getting, thank you to everyone who took time to comment in the thread and to buy this and my previous wso&#8217;s</p>
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		<title>Monday Tip &#8211; Look OutSide The IM Fish Tank</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am currently putting the finishing touches to a book I am releasing this week that contains 101 tips I&#8217;ve learned in IM in the past, I decided to share what I feel is one of the most important of them with you. Get yourself out of the fishtank you might be surprised.. &#160; As [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://mjthompson.net/1224/monday-tip-look-outside-the-im-fish-tank/goldfish-jumping-out-of-the-water/" rel="attachment wp-att-1228"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1228" title="Monday Tip - look outside the fishtank" src="http://mjthompson.net/wp-content/uploads/Photoxpress_6997918.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="189" /></a>I am currently putting the finishing touches to a book I am releasing this week that contains 101 tips I&#8217;ve learned in IM in the past, I decided to share what I feel is one of the most important of them with you.</p>
<p>Get yourself out of the fishtank you might be surprised..</p>
<blockquote><p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>As Internet marketers we can be very insular, We go to the same forums, read the same blogs, buy the same products and as a result we tend to do the same things and believe the same crap as everyone else.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Broaden your horizons and read blogs and listen to podcasts from people outside of IM. The very best brains in the online marketing business don’t spend their time writing posts on Digital Point or the Warrior Forum.</p>
<p>Listen to and read stuff by people like <a href="http://garyvaynerchuk.com/">Gary Vaynerchuk</a> and <a href="http://sethgodin.typepad.com/">Seth Godin</a>, Read blog posts by people on the bleeding edge of SEO. Read Techcrunch and follow what Y-combinator are investing in.</p>
<p>Get a subscription to a site like Mixergy and see how entrepreneurs got to where they are today.</p>
<p>Set aside a day where you do nothing but watch videos or listen to podcasts by people not in niche marketing or affiliate marketing.</p>
<p>There is a whole different world out there and you can learn from it!</p></blockquote>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>It really is very easy to become focussed on what you are doing and what people in the same line of business to you are doing.  One of the things I try to do in Wp Goldmine is to bring in ideas from other areas. There are hundreds of startup companies that are basically trying to market themselves and build their brand that have never seen the Warrior Forum or Digitalpoint. In many cases they are using or creating sophisticated tools and starting from a blank canvas.</p>
<p>How many of you have looked at what Buzzstream are doing?  If you have have you either used them or tried to create a similar system for yourself. If you&#8217;ve not seen them they build back link networks via relationship building and provide the tools to do it. You could probably create something similar (albeit at a lower level) for your own use by using google and a relationship management app.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Thats it for today I have a brilliant interview I did with a Personal Branding coach in tomorrows  podcast so keep your eyes peeled for that…</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Have a great week!</p>
<p>As ever I welcome your comments so let me know what you think, Also if you like what you read on the blog please consider subscribing to my newsletter and get you hands on some of the free reports I produce on a regular basis<br />
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		<title>Have you Got a Personal Blog?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you got a personal Blog? If the answer is no then why not? I understand that you might think that you have nothing to say but by starting a blog you do start to track your online journey and leave a record there for the future. The more you blog the better you writing [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://mjthompson.net/1198/have-you-got-a-personal-blog/ancient-letter-and-ink-feath/" rel="attachment wp-att-1199"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1199" title="Writing a blog" src="http://mjthompson.net/wp-content/uploads/Photoxpress_2907328-200x300.jpg" alt="" width="200" height="300" /></a>Have you got a personal Blog?</p>
<p>If the answer is no then why not?</p>
<p>I understand that you might think that you have nothing to say but by starting a blog you do start to track your online journey and leave a record there for the future. The more you blog the better you writing skills become and the easier you&#8217;ll find it.</p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter if you only talk about how you only made $10 and spent $40, lay out your successes and your failures. Talk about the tools you use and what works and what doesn&#8217;t . Believe me people are interested and 2 or 3 years down the line when you have a few hundred posts and are making $500 a day before you get out of bed people will be reading your blog for insights and inspiration.</p>
<p>I regularly look back at my posts from the past and marvel at how much i&#8217;ve learned, when I made that first blog post on August 4th 2006 did I think i&#8217;d still be blogging 5 and a half years later .. NO!  But a blog is more than just a collection of posts It&#8217;s actually like having your own Psychiatrist, putting things on a public blog focus&#8217;s your mind and helps you realize what you want to do and what you want to achieve.</p>
<p>Internet Marketing is all about dropping seeds everywhere, some never sprout but others grow into fruit bearing trees, and a blog and your blog posts are just a few more seeds that you drop. I could bore you with long lists on people who make money online who wouldn&#8217;t be where they are today without their blogs.</p>
<p>A blog can also be a stepping stone to a much better place.  It can open doors for you that wouldn&#8217;t normally be opened.  Do you think that Pat Flynn thought to himself  &#8221;If I start blogging I&#8217;ll be asked to speak at Blog World&#8221;  when he wrote his first blog post in 2008  <a href="http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/why-i-will-quit-my-job-for-a-passive-income/">http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/why-i-will-quit-my-job-for-a-passive-income/</a> ?  When he was writing that first blog post do you think he thought that he&#8217;d be earning $60,000 a month in January 2012.</p>
<p>I am equally sure that if you asked him he would say that updating his blog regularly has kept him on track and driven him forward, and it&#8217;s without a doubt the corner stone of his current business.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s the same for me, A personal blog helps to keep you focused and make you accountable to yourself and your readers, and future readers.</p>
<p>So get out there and start a blog,  at the end of the post you&#8217;ll see links to some of the members of WPG who have created blogs and who are documenting their progress…check them out you&#8217;ll be wiser for doing so!</p>
<p>Finally  huge congratulations to everyone who has completed month 1 of the 2012 challenge ($0 to $10,000 a month with a new business) The first target was $100 and a big lump of Kudos must go to Paul Nicholls who more than doubled this months target.  Next months target is $200 and I am sure we&#8217;ll have some great results to report as several income streams are starting to come online.</p>
<p>If you have a personal Blog then why not leave a comment below and make sure to click on the comment Luv button, that will then dispaly your last post for everyone to see&#8230;  Don&#8217;t bother if you are a spammer, I check each comment personally!</p>
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		<title>Podcast Episode 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this podcast I reveal a couple of really cool tips i picked up to help get you ranking on well on you tube.  I also look at some of this things i&#8217;ve been doing to shed some weight and get myself fit. But perhaps most importantly I talk about some of the process I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://mjthompson.net/1186/podcast-episode-3/podcastlogo/" rel="attachment wp-att-1187"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1187" title="podcastlogo" src="http://mjthompson.net/wp-content/uploads/podcastlogo-298x300.png" alt="podcast" width="298" height="300" /></a> In this podcast I reveal a couple of really cool tips i picked up to help get you ranking on well on you tube.  I also look at some of this things i&#8217;ve been doing to shed some weight and get myself fit.</p>
<p>But perhaps most importantly I talk about some of the process I use that help me get tasks completed on time even when i don&#8217;t really fell like working.</p>
<p>I round off the podcast by talking about comment spam and by outing the company that spammed me this week.</p>
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		<title>Why I am Changing My Business Model</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 09:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can you imagine going to one of your AdSense sites and seeing no ads appearing? Then going to another and seeing the same, and another , and another? How would you feel? Well this is what happened to me earlier this week. On over 100 sites Not 1 AdSense ad was appearing. How did I [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://mjthompson.net/1158/why-i-am-changing-my-business-model/faith/" rel="attachment wp-att-1159"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1159" title="freedom!" src="http://mjthompson.net/wp-content/uploads/Photoxpress_1137680-229x300.jpg" alt="" width="229" height="300" /></a>Can you imagine going to one of your AdSense sites and seeing no ads appearing? Then going to another and seeing the same, and another , and another? How would you feel?</p>
<p>Well this is what happened to me earlier this week. On over 100 sites Not 1 AdSense ad was appearing.</p>
<p>How did I feel?</p>
<p>Elated! Yes seriously and that feeling shocked me.</p>
<p>I felt elated because the first thing that went through my mind was that I was finally free of having to update my sites, free of having to worry about what google was doing. That feeling shocked me as I had never thought about my beloved AdSense sites like that, I&#8217;ve had some of them since the first week I started in IM.</p>
<p>Unfortunately that feeling of joy and release didn&#8217;t last&#8230;. the ads came back along with an email from AdSense</p>
<blockquote><p>This morning we had a brief outage for AdSense for Content that affected a small amount of publishers, and we apologize for the inconvenience. Our engineers worked diligently to identify and fix the problem, and all ad serving should now be resumed for your websites. If you&#8217;re still having issues seeing ads on any of your websites, please feel free to reply to this message and I will be happy to help you investigate.</p>
<p>Sincerely,</p>
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<p>I guess that was a bit of a wake up call to me and showed me my real feelings about one of my businesses. Over the next few months I think I am going to bundle up my AdSense sites and sell them off in groups of 10 or 15.</p>
<p>I say one of my businesses because that is how I treat each aspect on my online endeavors. Before this I had decided to change the way I worked in 2012, I am developing and focusing on 1 new  business for the first 4 months of the year, you&#8217;ll no doubt here a lot more about that in the weeks to come because it&#8217;s big and something completely different.  I talked about it in the <a href="http://mjthompson.net/1150/new-podcast-series/">podcast I released yesterday</a> which you can find on the blog or on <a title="podcast on itunes" href="http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/mjthompson/id496835558?l=en">iTunes </a>if you want to subscribe to it.. just go to podcasts and search for &#8220;mjthompson&#8221;.  That podcast is another key aspect of my new business model.</p>
<p>For me 2012 is going to be the year of reaching out, I&#8217;ve decided that I am going to reach out to subscribers and other internet marketers in a number of ways, the podcast is only the start I&#8217;ll be sharing the ups and downs of life as an internet marketer in it. I intend to fully document the new business in a series of monthly reports that will tell you exactly how I got the idea and how I generate the income and even what the income is&#8230; total transparency.</p>
<p>I really have had enough of some of the directions that Internet Marketing is going, and if I don&#8217;t like something I am going to try to do something about it&#8230;.. stay tuned it could be a Interesting year.</p>
<p>Finally my Friend Andre Chaperon and his partner Steve are releasing their new &#8220;<a href="http://0b466nz5fecem7u5u658umoopg.hop.clickbank.net">Tiny Little Business&#8217;s</a>&#8220; training course , It&#8217;s only available for 7 days and it comes with the highest recommendation possible from me. Even if you have no intention of buying it I urge you to look at the sales page and study it. You&#8217;ll learn more on the sales page than you will in many products I could name.</p>
<p>It really is a great way of marketing a product, the total opposite of the &#8220;Magic Button HYPE&#8221; type sales pages that most marketers think are necessary to sell their crap products.</p>
<p>Right I am heading back to the Batcave to continue my plans for world domination (sort of mixing my metaphors there!)  How would you have reacted if you&#8217;d lost your Adsense? Let me know below!</p>
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		<title>Monday Tip &#8211; Christmas &#8211; Time to Change your Marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 10:08:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is cyber monday, supposedly the best day for online buying of the year, can I assume that you&#8217;ve changed your marketing for today and the next 4 weeks? If you haven&#8217;t  then you&#8217;ve missed a a big trick, and it&#8217;s all to do with the buying dynamic. Spend a moment to think about what [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://mjthompson.net/1118/monday-tip-christmas-time-to-change-your-marketing/buy-www-background-3/" rel="attachment wp-att-1121"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1121" title="buy www background 3" src="http://mjthompson.net/wp-content/uploads/Photoxpress_1296648.jpg" alt="online shopping" width="300" height="225" /></a>Today is cyber monday, supposedly the best day for online buying of the year, can I assume that you&#8217;ve changed your marketing for today and the next 4 weeks?</p>
<p>If you haven&#8217;t  then you&#8217;ve missed a a big trick, and it&#8217;s all to do with the buying dynamic.</p>
<p>Spend a moment to think about what happens in the first 11 months of the year, we generally buy online for ourselves. We know what we want, we are looking for the best deal and we are looking for information about the products and what they will do for us.</p>
<p>Now consider buying for christmas, what are we looking for now?  Ideas for gifts, we don&#8217;t really care about what they will do for us and we aren&#8217;t all that interested in information we just want something that will be appreciated by the person who receives the gift.</p>
<p>You can make this work in your favor by adding images  and test that say things like  &#8220;Perfect Gift for Grandma&#8221;  &#8220;What every Woman wants This Christmas&#8221;</p>
<p>The buyers aren&#8217;t telling us what they want to buy they are relying on us as online sellers to tell them. So tell them that head massager that you&#8217;ve sold 1 of in the previous 11 months is a great gift and will be treasured, tell them what to buy, give guidance and advice.</p>
<p>Change the wording on your site and target different keywords,  words like Gift,Present and Christmas should be liberally scattered around,  guest posts , press releases and articles should target the christmas period and nothing else. If you have testimonials or reviews , try to find ones that mention how the gift was received and mentions the christmas keywords.</p>
<p>Also allay fears, what does everyone fear about online buying at christmas?</p>
<p>Non delivery before christmas, so tell them it&#8217;s guaranteed delivery in 48 hours or 72 hours.  Tell them they can order up to December 20th to guarantee delivery or what ever day is the deadline.  If it&#8217;s a downloadable product tell them they can even buy it on Christmas day if the need to.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t forget to include items like gift vouchers, whats the perfect last minute gift for someone you forgot to buy for?  I don&#8217;t know  but  tell the shopper it&#8217;s a Digital gift voucher!</p>
<p>If you&#8217;ve built a list… you have build a list haven&#8217;t you ?&#8230;ohhhh please tell me you have! Well now is the time that all those people who bought nothing throughout the year are going to thank you and become a customer for life because you are going to remind them via an autoresponder series that they need to get started with their christmas shopping and that you have some great gifts and you are also going to send them ideas for gifts …along with the links <img src='http://mjthompson.net/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Consider a few simple changes to your product review sites and you&#8217;ll reap the rewards.</p>
<p>I&#8217;d really appreciate your ideas for marketing over christmas and comments so leave a comment below and don&#8217;t forget to make use of the comment luv feature to get a link back to your latest blog posts.</p>
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		<title>Monday Tip &#8211; Why You Shouldn&#8217;t Ignore WSO&#8217;s</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 08:33:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the interview I did with Rob Stafford Yesterday I made an off the cuff comment that I thought every marketer should do a WSO, In this post I want to expand a bit more on that. There are 3 aspects I want to cover, Buying WSO&#8217;s Selling WSO&#8217;s and Producing WSO&#8217;s. Whether you hate or Love [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://mjthompson.net/1098/monday-tip-why-you-shouldnt-ignore-wsos/sales-plinth-green-arrow-up/" rel="attachment wp-att-1099"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1099" title="wso" src="http://mjthompson.net/wp-content/uploads/Photoxpress_1937039.jpg" alt="warrior special offers" width="300" height="292" /></a>During the interview I did with<a href="http://mjthompson.net/1084/the-sunday-interview-rob-stafford/"> Rob Stafford </a>Yesterday I made an off the cuff comment that I thought every marketer should do a WSO, In this post I want to expand a bit more on that. There are 3 aspects I want to cover, Buying WSO&#8217;s Selling WSO&#8217;s and Producing WSO&#8217;s. Whether you hate or Love WSO&#8217;s I&#8217;d welcome your comments</p>
<p>Let me say this first as I am sure some of you are readying your negative comments already… I&#8217;ve heard it all before … WSO&#8217;s are all scams , WSO&#8217;s are rehashed crap, WSO&#8217;s have no value. Thats like saying all baseball players are fat tobacco chewing hillbillies, or that all women are bad drivers,  it&#8217;s a stereotype that is just not true.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll tell you what WSO&#8217;s are they are edgy, they are fresh, they are in short the rock and roll of the Internet marketing business. I know you probably all think I have gone mad or been out in the sun too long I can assure you I&#8217;m as sane as always and it&#8217;s been raining here for the past few days.</p>
<p>In the past year you&#8217;ll probably have found more scam products released on Clickbank than in the WSO forum, why do you think Clickbank are desperately trying to clean up house ? Unfortunately It&#8217;s a bit like shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted. People have lost confidence in Clickbank as they ignored all the scam products  and overly hyped ones and were happy to let the crap be sold there so long as they got their fees. For the past 18 months or so people who have released deceptive WSO&#8217;s have been removed from the Forum and banned. The WSO Guys have been cleaning house long before any other network even considered it.</p>
<p>Over the weekend a WSO was removed because it was a bit too similar to the vendors previous one, which didn&#8217;t deliver on what it promised.</p>
<p>Then you have the Dinosaurs still releasing their $2000 products, I believe Product Launch Formula XIV is due for release soon.  A Product Launch product, about product launches being promoted by people who will all promote each others product launches using methods from the old product launch formula products.  Lazy lazy lazy marketing. There is nothing and has never been anything that you&#8217;ll learn in any $2000 product that you can&#8217;t learn elsewhere for considerably less.</p>
<p>So lets get back to WSO&#8217;s or Warrior Forum Special offers as they are officially called, don&#8217;t let the name confuse you they have long moved on from being solely special offers for members of the warrior forum they have developed into a full blown product marketplace.</p>
<p>Not only does it mean that you can pick up products for a fraction of the value you&#8217;d have to pay if it was a product on clickbank you also get ideas and techniques that are generally working today and not a year ago when the clickbank product was first released. Want to learn about Facebook marketing and using a new feature released yesterday? They&#8217;ll be a good quality fresh product along very soon, Want to see how to attract offline customers, they&#8217;ll be a product by someone genuinely earning a few thousand dollars a month in their local community.</p>
<p>If you want it you&#8217;ll be able to find it in the WSO forum..</p>
<p>I often get people comment and say, &#8220;But why would anyone share a method that really works?&#8221;  There are lot&#8217;s of reasons some financial some personal plus creating and marketing your own product is a real Buzz!  Why didn&#8217;t Steve Jobs just make awesome MP3&#8242;s players, phone and computers for himself and his friends? Why do people In forums happily share methods that work for them?</p>
<p>Another Reason WSO&#8217;s deserve your attention is that WSO&#8217;s also tend to be less full of filler , if you are producing a $10 product then you don&#8217;t need to add a load of filler than is so common in products that need to justify their $97 price. So you get just the facts that are important. There are still things I don&#8217;t like, particularly the tendency for too many One Time Offers, this seems to get people very upset but don&#8217;t lose sight of the fact that we are marketers (and I mean you too dear reader!)  and what we do is market , so if you don&#8217;t like it just click the no I am not interested link and grab the product you just paid $7 for.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s been a long time since I saw a WSO that was a scam and a quick look at the comments will usually tell you all you need to know about it,  I generally ignore any comment posted within 4 hours of the WSO going live as they will probably be from reviewers, after that then the comments are usually from buyers.  If I spend $10 on a WSO and it&#8217;s not good I generally just write it off to experience and don&#8217;t buy from that person again. $10 is a much sweeter lesson than $2000.</p>
<p>You can get refunds of WSO&#8217;s although I generally don&#8217;t bother unless it&#8217;s something that has been misrepresented in the sales page and even then i&#8217;ll often not bother if it&#8217;s less than $10, My view is that if I buy a WSO thats is as described in the sales letter and I find I know the method I don&#8217;t refund. It&#8217;s down to me for buying it there are usually enough clues in the thread if you look.</p>
<p>Another reason why you shouldn&#8217;t ignore WSO&#8217;s is that it&#8217;s a way for you to create and market products cheaply, for under $70 you can have a product in a marketplace where thousands of dollars a day are spent on products, and that&#8217;s only going to get bigger.  Don&#8217;t expect to make money with your early WSO&#8217;s they are mostly about building a name for yourself and getting a few subscribers plus learning how to market properly.</p>
<p>I generally don&#8217;t like doing Free WSO&#8217;s as  you generate a list of people who will expect free stuff in the future but if you are starting out a free wso or a WSO with 100% commission is a good way to get your list started. However if you have no list then give a free WSO a go. But make sure you have a back end sales funnel in place first.</p>
<p>You will find that you can pick up affiliates much easier in the WSO forum than somewhere like clickbank and if one of the affiliates with a big list promotes you thats a few hundred sales and a few hundred buyers on your list. Thats more valuable that you probably realize.</p>
<p>Whether you just need information or learn a profitable technique, or are an affiliate or a product creator then WSO&#8217;s can be a valuable addition to your marketing.</p>
<p>As an affiliate you can head to the Warrior Plus site and see all the stats for products that have been released, hunt back a few weeks I guarantee you&#8217;ll find products that are converting at 15-20% and earning an EPC of $1.50 or more those are stats that many marketers would bite your hand off for.</p>
<p>Watch how the guys who market WSO&#8217;s on a regular basis work and you&#8217;ll learn more about marketing than in a week than any $2000 course can teach you, I got an email from Chris Munch last week that was a great example.</p>
<p>He noticed that lots of people were promoting a WSO for PLR videos , so he directed people to another product that no one else was promoting, in the process he explained exactly why the other offer was better, in one email he informed, educated and marketed. Definitely not your typical &#8220;Buy This&#8221; email and an example of why Chris who emails offers daily has a good retention and open rate on his lists..</p>
<p>These products will also not have been sent to every email list in the known universe. You&#8217;ll probably be the only person that will have promoted it to your subscribers, while other less enlightened marketers are pitching the latest high priced crap that everyone is trying to sell you&#8217;ll be pitching a good quality low priced product.</p>
<p>So if you haven&#8217;t checked out the WSO forum for a while check it out today, whether you just want to learn, or are an affiliate or product creator you will find that it can be if great benefit to you.</p>
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		<title>The Sunday Interview &#8211; Rob Stafford</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 10:39:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I had the great pleasure to interview Rob Stafford, Rob Is an internet marketers originally form down under who now lives in the UK. You probably won&#8217;t have heard of him until now but rob is one of the new generation of ethical marketers coming to the forefront at the moment. Put simply [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://mjthompson.net/1084/the-sunday-interview-rob-stafford/microphone-connected/" rel="attachment wp-att-1085"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1085" title="Microphone connected" src="http://mjthompson.net/wp-content/uploads/Photoxpress_1681552.jpg" alt="Rob Stafford Interview" width="300" height="200" /></a>This week I had the great pleasure to interview Rob Stafford, Rob Is an internet marketers originally form down under who now lives in the UK. You probably won&#8217;t have heard of him until now but rob is one of the new generation of ethical marketers coming to the forefront at the moment. Put simply he&#8217;s a No Hype , No BS marketer</p>
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<p>I decided to interview Rob After I went through his Latest WSO called <a href="http://www.warriorplus.com/linkwso/hfvvs5/5319">List Smasher X</a> which shows you step by step how to build a list today and then make money from it within a few days.  It&#8217;s simple straight forward and it works ( and at the moment it&#8217;s less than $9  No Brainer!!)</p>
<p>I initially Intended just to do a quick 20 minute interview with Rob, but finally had to cut it short at 40 minutes, so I suspect we&#8217;ll be doing a follow up sometime soon.  In the interview we cover a number of topics such as psychology, testing , wso&#8217;s and marketers who email twice a day among other things!</p>
<p>You can listen to the interview above or <a href="http://dz465knlukmy7.cloudfront.net/Robstafford%20interview.mp3">Download the Interview</a> by clicking on the link and choosing save as.</p>
<p>If you have any questions then please leave them in the comments section and myself or Rob will answer them for you.</p>
<p>If you want to build a List quickly and profit from it check out Robs <a href="http://www.warriorplus.com/linkwso/hfvvs5/5319">List Smasher X</a></p>
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		<title>Is it Time You Changed Your Mindset?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past 7 days I&#8217;ve had the pleasure to meet 2 very successful Internet marketers who are living life on their terms,  On sunday I had Dinner with Noel Swanson who created Unique Article Wizard and is currently sailing around the world in his Catamaran Life part 2. I&#8217;d like to think he crossed from the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://mjthompson.net/1078/is-it-time-you-changed-your-mindset/golden-lagoon/" rel="attachment wp-att-1081"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1081" title="golden lagoon" src="http://mjthompson.net/wp-content/uploads/Photoxpress_690775.jpg" alt="Change your mindset" width="300" height="169" /></a>In the past 7 days I&#8217;ve had the pleasure to meet 2 very successful Internet marketers who are living life on their terms,  On sunday I had Dinner with Noel Swanson who created Unique Article Wizard and is currently sailing around the world in his Catamaran <a href="http://lifepart2.info/">Life part 2</a>. I&#8217;d like to think he crossed from the Caribbean to the Mediterranean just so he could have lunch with me.</p>
<p>The 2nd was Shola Adiboye who currently travels around Europe working online as she goes, summers In Sweden , winters in Spain, the occasional trip home to the United States and she throws in a few weeks in London and Budapest for good measure.</p>
<p>During both chats the talk turned to mindset and how some people have the right mindset and others don&#8217;t and really struggle to get their minds to a place where they can make a real success of Internet Marketing.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ll freely admit that it&#8217;s only recently that I&#8217;ve almost got the right mindset but there still is a few steps to go.  Thats the thing about the right mindset to make (a lot of ) money online it&#8217;s not something you can change overnight it&#8217;s a gradual process.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve been trying to find a decent allegory to demonstrate what I mean and I am struggling, I suppose the closest I can get is that it&#8217;s like growing up,  when you are born you need your parents to look after you, they feed you and nourish you and make sure you feel safe.</p>
<p>Then as you get older you get more adventurous and you need a little less security , then you eventually leave home and think you have it made, but then you find you occasionally need advice and help from your parents, it&#8217;s only when you get to your 30&#8242;s and 40&#8242;s that you are truly  confident and live life on your terms.</p>
<p>Thats how the IM Mindset develops, it can take quite a while for you to be totally confident and not needing any type of security.</p>
<p>I think the younger you are the easier the change of mindset is, If you are in your late teens and early twenties then you don&#8217;t know what it&#8217;s like to have the security of a Job and a mortgage. You find that people in their late 30&#8242;s and 40&#8242;s know what it&#8217;s like to &#8220;have a job for life&#8221; know what it&#8217;s like to know that in 25 years the house you live in will be yours so it&#8217;s often a difficult step from that security to committing to earning you lively hood from Adsense, clickbank and products etc.</p>
<p>The problem is today there are very few Job&#8217;s for life, Things have moved on dramatically in the past 10 years,  Internet marketing is probably as secure as you&#8217;ll get but you need to embrace it. You need to embrace the IM Lifestyle, Many banks won&#8217;t lend to you on the basis of online income so if you want the security of a roof over your head that you own you need to buy it in cash or at least a big percentage cash.</p>
<p>In the meantime you rent, and if you are going to rent you might as well rent somewhere that suits your lifestyle, The current economic climate means that you can get amazing value for your money in most places in the world. Even at the hight of my corporate career I could never have hoped to live where I do now, then I paid a similar amount to lease a car than I now spend on rent!</p>
<p>But first you have to change your mindset and you start do that by making decisions.</p>
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<p>Am I going to Watch TV or Am I going to Do something to build My business?</p>
<p>Am I going to drive a flash car or choose something practical and use the money I save to expand my business</p>
<p>Am I going to Build a list or just create another Adsense blog?</p>
<p>Am I going to work 9 to 5 until I get made redundant or am I going to create my own income.</p>
<p>Am I going to take responsibility for my decisions or am I going let others dictate what I do</p>
<p>Am I going to be a consumer or am I going to be a provider</p>
<p>Am I going to take action on the the stuff I read In that report or am I just going to let it sit on my hard drive.</p>
<p>Every single one of you reading this can make a full time income online, you can decided what you want to earn.  Do you want to earn $50,000 a month?  You can.  Do you want to earn $100,000 a month?  You can.</p>
<p>You have got the tools and knowledge to hand you just have to want it, be prepared to step out of your comfort zone …and want it bad enough that it hurts.</p>
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<p>Oh and one more thing….    <strong>BELIEVE</strong></p>
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		<title>Monday Tip &#8211; Provide More Consume Less</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 18:21:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I sent out an email last week about how things stay the same in the Online Marketing World despite the hundreds of magic bullet products that we see every year. I had several positive comments about the theme of providing more and consuming less, so I thought it would be good to expand it some [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://mjthompson.net/1069/monday-tip-provide-more-consume-less/one-in-a-crowd/" rel="attachment wp-att-1071"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1071" title="One in a Crowd" src="http://mjthompson.net/wp-content/uploads/Photoxpress_2049855.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a>I sent out an email last week about how things stay the same in the Online Marketing World despite the hundreds of magic bullet products that we see every year.</p>
<p>I had several positive comments about the theme of providing more and consuming less, so I thought it would be good to expand it some more here.</p>
<p>First off the email will be at the bottom of the post, it was the 2nd of a 2 part email.  It did go on a bit too long and I had to cut it so i&#8217;ll flesh it out a little here.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Firstly what do I mean by Provide More Consume Less, If you&#8217;ve been in Internet marketing for more than a few months you probably know most of what you need to know. There really is very little new that you need to know. Granted things do change , For example what worked in SEO 3 years ago doesn&#8217;t work now and Facebook Marketing wasn&#8217;t a blip on the horizon 3 years ago.</p>
<p>However the basics are just the same.  You need to know 3 things</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>How To Create</strong></p>
<p><strong>How To Market </strong></p>
<p><strong>How To Monetize </strong></p>
<p>Whether it is an Adsense site, an Amazon site or a product on Guinea Pig Racing the principles are the same.</p>
<p>If you become a provider you are creating the sites, you are selling things or facilitating the sale to the consumers.  Recently I sold 5  Clickbank products about creating a specific type of business that earned me $90 each in commission.  That is  $450 was simply on the back of me spending time  and creating the environment where people would buy the products.</p>
<p>They are the Consumers &#8211; You are the Provider. At least thats how it should be.</p>
<p>To start to make more money today is simple</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>1. Provide more ,</strong></p>
<p>Give consumers more opportunities to pay you money.  Add more sites, Add more products, Add more free reports.  If you create products they don&#8217;t have to be award winning huge products. In the past year I&#8217;ve made much more by simplifying things.  Got sites that make you $100 a month?  Tell people how you do it. If their sites make $75 a month they&#8217;ll be interested.  Look at what Bethany did in the email below, 2 months to make enough money to be a full time Intent Marketer, just chasing the stuff others assume isn&#8217;t profitable</p>
<p>I was chatting with a group of about 20 people today who had a challenge to make $50,000 in 3 months  One smashed that figure into oblivion, one doubled it and several broke it or are close to breaking it… Nothing they created or sold was for more than about $17.  The ones that are succeeding just got their heads down and did it. They aren&#8217;t superhuman, they are no different to anyone of us.</p>
<p>You can do it as well….</p>
<p><strong>2. Consume Less</strong></p>
<p>Just buy what you need, even if it&#8217;s just something that will refresh what you already know it will be of far more value than if it&#8217;s a shiny hyped magic button that will just sit on your hard drive. Focus on what will make your sites/projects make more money.    (Maybe that should have been buy more wisely)</p>
<p>Thats it,  2 steps only and it will work. I guarantee it.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now Go and Do it&#8230;. Set yourself a target to provide more before friday.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<blockquote><p> Yesterday I told you about how I read a report and how the</p>
<p>things that work now are exactly the same as the ones that</p>
<p>worked when I started out 7 years ago.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Despite all the hype and magic buttons that get hyped</p>
<p>Internet marketing is no different from the marketing thats</p>
<p>been done for centuries.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>There are 2 classes of people providers and consumers</p>
<p>your target should be to become a provider not a consumer.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>If you create a website with information and someone buys</p>
<p>from you you are a provider. If you create a product and</p>
<p>people buy it, once again you are a provider.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Now this is where things get sticky!</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>When you start out in IM you are a consumer, you buy products</p>
<p>that teach you how to become a provider. When you are a</p>
<p>provider you buy products that help you become a better provider</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Believe it or not people who we look up to as guru&#8217;s</p>
<p>(is that an Oxymoron? ) even at times buy products from those</p>
<p>higher up the marketing food chain.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>The Secret  = Consume Less Provide More</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>So what should you be doing to make money today?</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>There are 2 things that you can start to do today that will have</p>
<p>an instant impact.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Provide More</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Look at your business and work out where you can</p>
<p>provide more.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>If you have a site that getting 1000 visitors a month.</p>
<p>Build a list around it.  Create products a round it.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>If you are selling a clickbank product, commission your own</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>20 sales a month of a $7 report might not seems much</p>
<p>but when you have 20 sites running on autopilot doing</p>
<p>similar sales..it soon mounts up</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>In yesterdays blog post (<a href="http://mjthompson.net/">mjthompson.net</a>) I talked about</p>
<p>people making $30,000 a month as affiliates from low cost</p>
<p>products.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Thats something to aspire to!</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Target the Easy Money.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>How many here would not bother with a keyword that</p>
<p>has 500 searches per month?  Probably most yet you&#8217;ll</p>
<p>rank easily for it, and 2 or 3  pages of easy ranking 500 search</p>
<p>keywords, sure beats struggling to rank a term that lots</p>
<p>of people are targeting</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>In fact the report I read yesterday is about just that.</p>
<p>It reveals how one of the members of WordPress Goldmine</p>
<p>(yes i did buy it!)  went from a J.O.B to Full time IM in just 2</p>
<p>months , by just targeting easy to rank keywords.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>It&#8217;s currently selling at less than $6 and comes as a report and</p>
<p>a check list to follow</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.warriorplus.com/linkwso/2tvrps/5319">http://www.warriorplus.com/linkwso/2tvrps/5319</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Even if you don&#8217;t buy it look at how Bethany marketed it,</p>
<p>How she took exactly what she was doing and created a product</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>It embodies everything I would like to see everyone who is</p>
<p>reading this do.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Be a Provider</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Nothing would give me greater pleasure than to see</p>
<p>everyone reading becoming full time IM&#8217;ers.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.warriorplus.com/linkwso/2tvrps/5319">http://www.warriorplus.com/linkwso/2tvrps/5319</a></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Sorry that went on a bit long!</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Mark &#8220;Just Do It&#8221; Thompson</p>
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