Video: How To Find Out What Your Members Want Before You Launch
I’ve got a short video for you today, following up on the Masterplan release. In the video I explain how I used a simple survey to determine what my members wanted in my very first training program launch.
This is a very powerful technique because not only does it help you isolate the needs of your potential customers, it also gives you an insight into the type of language they use to describe their problems.
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As you will see in the video I used a basic email survey and transcribed responses via pen and paper. You may decide to use a more sophisticated solution like SurveyMonkey or a GoogleDocs form as a better way to collect and analyze the data.
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The Membership Site Masterplan Is Now Available
Again From March 2010
My coaching program on how to launch your own information product online is opening for a new intake of members from March 2010
If you want to work with me to launch your information product online and you have some money to invest in your education, click the link below
It’s been a long time coming, but my latest free report is live and ready to download.
The Membership Site Masterplan is a walk through of all the ingredients necessary to make money with an online membership site, based on the model I used to launch two six-figure membership sites in the last two years.
You can download your complimentary copy from here -
What Is In The Masterplan?
The Masterplan is a content report. By that I mean I wrote it to be a standalone document that provides real value, and is not just a light lead-in report that essentially only promotes a product, and isn’t going to teach you anything helpful.
Of course the reason why I invested so much time to produce this report and give it away for free is because I expect many of you to read it and then decide that you would like to take my membership site coaching program too, but that’s entirely optional.
The Masterplan is a solid guide to my system for launching successful membership sites. In the report I take you through the following process:
- How to find topics for a membership site
- How to develop preeminence, which means people choose to join your membership site over all the other options
- What sources of traffic I use to bring members to my site and build my list
- What technology I use to deliver content (this is so simple, anyone can do it)
- How to make money from a membership site BEFORE you create the content for it
- How to fill your membership site with hundreds of new members in a matter of days by conducting a powerful, yet simple, launch campaign
and much more…
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My Simple Formula
The Masterplan shows you exactly how to set yourself up with the right conditions so when you launch a membership site you have a crowd of very hungry people ready to join. It will teach you how you can get started quickly (you can open before you create most of your site content), how much you should charge, how you can conduct a strategic launch, and so much more.
There is one key difference, and I believe this is the real power behind my system, which makes what I do different from most other membership site trainers.
Most people get caught up with the technology they can use to deliver their site. Technology has been the biggest roadblock for me and I expect for you too. Because of this over the past two years I’ve been constantly changing parts of my membership site process to make it as SIMPLE as possible.
I like simple. I’m not looking to get everything perfect or have all the cool features that membership site scripts can offer. I just want to deliver value to as many members as I can get as quickly as I can with as little hassle as possible. Plus I’m focused on setting it up to be an automated system so once it’s created I don’t have to work hard to make good money.
If you’re looking for a program that makes the technology challenge as simple as possible, you want the quickest path to success and you’re committed to finally creating a long term stable business, read this report.
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Isn’t It Time You Produced A Product?
One of the biggest mistakes I made with my online business was waiting so long to release a product of mine own.
The next mistake I made was taking so long to realize that a membership site is the best product to sell online.
Learn from my hindsight, commit to releasing a product this year and make it a membership site.
If you’re a blogger, then you are in a particularly good situation since you can use your blog as a launchpad for your membership site. Since you are already familiar with blogging tools like WordPress, which is what I use to store the content of my membership sites, you have another advantage.
You don’t need to have a blog to make this work of course, but if you’re into blogging and you’re going to create your own product, then this is definitely the best product-creation training to take since it’s created by a blogger (that’s me).
Membership Site Mastermind Next Class
I’m opening the doors again to my training program, Membership Site Mastermind, inviting you to participate in an intensive course to get your membership site or information product up and running.
As preparation for the class, please read the Masterplan and leave me your feedback as a reply comment to this post. I’d love to know what you think of the report and I want to see you succeed with your own product this year.
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Video Interview With Fran Kerr: 3 Tips For Driving Traffic To Your Blog With YouTube Videos
I had breakfast last weekend with my good friend, Fran Kerr who blogs at HighOnHealth.org. Fran has enjoyed some pretty amazing results, growing her audience to over 6000 daily subscribers, and much of that growth has come thanks to YouTube video marketing.
In this video Fran offers three quick tips for improving your results marketing with YouTube. Keep an eye on the background in this video and you will see all kinds of things going on (see if you can spot the ibis!).
Dominate Your Market: How Self Contained Communities Create Permanent Barriers To Entry
Some of my early readers may recall that I was a Magic: The Gathering card player as a teenager. No, that’s not dungeons and dragons or role playing or anything like that. It’s closer to poker combined with chess with a little bit of lord of the rings story telling thrown in. It’s a “mind sport” as far as the PR people at Wizards of the Coast, the company that produces the game, are concerned, although I’m not sure that’s the most accurate label.
Whatever the case, “Magic” as we call it, is a serious game for some people, and besides the first two or so years where I played for fun, most of the latter years in my career as a card gamer, were about trying to win tournaments.
Tournament Magic is big, with millions of dollars given away in a pro tour that travels around the world. Some guys even play the game professionally as their full time job. I never won big money as a gamer (my highlight was representation on the 98 Australian national team at the World Championships), but I did get to visit Japan, Singapore and the USA thanks to gaming. I look back on those years as a lot of fun.
Magic Cards Are Money
Magic cards, like baseball cards, are collectible. Each card has a value, and for a long time I made my lunch money by trading and selling the cards I won at tournaments. As a typical entrepreneur, I often enjoyed the business of running a little card shop as a teenager more so than playing the game itself (unless I was winning a tournament of course!).
Wizards of the Coast (let’s just call them “Wizards”) made some very smart moves with Magic. It became a serious cash cow for them.
In case you are wondering how they keep the cash coming in, each year Wizards produces new cards so the pool of cards people play with at tournaments is constantly cycling over. This makes the playing field very dynamic, but it was also a brilliant business decision as they keep making new cards that players need to purchase in order to stay up to date.
It’s fair to say that effectively, Wizards produced a new form of currency, at least within the realm of their customer’s universe. As long as the cards have value to players of the game, they can print money simply by printing new sets of cards.
Wizards Goes One Better
I thought that Wizards had a good thing going already, but when the Internet came along, the did something really clever – they ported Magic over to the virtual world.
Online Magic is pretty much the same as offline, or real world Magic. You challenge people from all over the world to a game, you can play in tournaments to win more cards and cash and you can buy and trade cards virtually with other people.
The kicker is that the online digital cards have roughly the same value as the physical cards. You can buy packs of cards for the same price, but instead of receiving little pieces of cardboard with pictures on them, you receive digital cards with pictures on them that are stored on computers.
In other words, Wizards can now print money online, with the cost of production and distribution drastically reduced. All I can say is that is one heck of a good business model.
The Power Of A Self Contained Community
Podcast: How Did Jeremy “Shoemoney” Schoemaker Get To Where He Is Today?
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Jeremy Schoemaker, otherwise known as “Shoemoney” thanks to his famous blog, Shoemoney.com, is a serial Internet entrepreneur.
I looked forward to doing this interview for a couple of reasons. First I wanted to connect with Jeremy directly, as I had not personally ever spoken to him but obviously knew about his blog for a long time, and secondly to hear the crazy stories from Jeremy’s previous business experiences.
Whether by divine chance, or orchestrated intention, Jeremy has enjoyed some tremendous success online. He has followed his passions and turned them into money making web properties, including a site dedicated to cell phone image and ringtones, an online advertising network based on eBay which he sold within four months of starting, and of course, one of the most popular blogs in the make money online space.
This podcast is an interview, but it’s really a story. Jeremy takes us from day one of his Internet career, all the way up to the present. He includes the background story behind the projects that haven’t gone so well and all the inside details and emotions involved during the entire “ride” of every successful business.
It’s a great story, and I’m sure you will find it inspiring just as much as you enjoy the unique insights into why Jeremy has been able to make so much money online.
Show Notes
- Jeremy begins with a look at his early history where he managed to get through school with the help of his mom
- We discover how Jeremy started his first big successful website based on mobile phone backgrounds and ringtones
- How Jeremy’s ringtone site NextPimp.com became a serious AdSense earner including the story behind the $130,000 AdSense check
- We learn about the birth of the Shoemoney.com blog
- Jeremy talks about his experience starting and then selling AuctionAds, what he calls the wildest four months of his life
- After a successful exit from AuctionAds, flush with capital, Jeremy moves on to his next project, Shoemoney Tools
- We talk about Jeremy’s live event, the Elite Retreat
- Jeremy ends the interview with advice for people just starting out in the Internet business game
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