Entrepreneurs-Journey.com Down-To-Earth Advice For Bloggers and Internet Marketers

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This is the third in a series of case-study podcast interviews with successful Blog Mastermind students, where we look at what they do right in order to achieve above-average results.

First it was Mitch, who’s blog exploded in popularity ramping his traffic quickly beyond 5,000 daily visitors. Leigh’s interview was extremely popular as she explained how she went from making $20 to $4,500 a month with her online business. Today I interview Leslie, who made almost $32,000 in 2008 working part time online (he’s a full time teacher, and we all know how hard teachers have to work!), and has an interesting story to tell because of the unique way he makes money.

How To Make Money Giving Away Freebies

Leslie’s market is freebie offers and rather than explain how it works here, you should listen the podcast. It’s interesting that you can actually make money by offering freebie giveaways that other companies provide, and that’s how Leslie makes the majority of his online income.

Leslie has taken his expertise and transformed into into a thriving blog called The Freebie Guy. His next step is to launch a membership site and in preparation for this, he just released a new free report called - The Freebie Report - which teaches how Leslie does what he does with freebie offers.

In this interview you will learn…

• How exactly freebie trading works and how Leslie made $70 in his first DAY doing it
• How Leslie experimented with different methods to make money online and eventually found something that worked
• Why Leslie decided to start a blog and join Blog Mastermind
• What were the biggest lessons for Leslie as he grew his business
• Why Leslie wants to position himself as an authority in his industry

Leslie is not only a Blog Mastermind student, but he’s taking part in every single coaching program I have on the market as I type this. What I love about this is every week I see more evidence of how much effort Leslie is putting into his business and how much output he creates every day, DESPITE having to work a full time job.

Leslie is proof that, with discipline and enthusiasm, you can juggle your salary job as you need it to pay the bills, while you build up your online income. I expect in Leslie’s case that sometime this year (2009) he may say good bye to his job as his online income grows.

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Yaro Starak
Loving Success Stories

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After Mitch’s interview hit the airwaves recounting how quickly his blog grew to 3,000 daily readers in his niche of college football, another success story emerged in the Blog Mastermind private members forum.

A Simple Change To Leigh’s Blogging Made A Big Difference

Leigh runs a blog called The Fat Loss Troubleshooter, and also joined Blog Mastermind during July 2008. Since then her blog has enjoyed huge growth, getting as many as 5,000 unique visitors per day AND - here’s the really good news - she’s making about $4,500 a month now.

This is one of the screenshots she posted into the Blog Mastermind members forum showing her biggest income source - her Clickbank account. As you can see she’s doing between $500 and $1,000 a week from Clickbank sales.

When I hear success stories like this from my students I have to find out what they are doing right and learn what techniques are working for them. I asked Leigh to join me on a case study interview call to find out how she is getting such amazing results so quickly with her blog.

In this interview you will learn…

• The change she made to her blogging style that made the big difference
• How she is now able to learn what her audience wants, rather than guessing what she thinks they want, which means more sales for her
• The techniques Leigh implemented to build her audience, in particular how she uses interviews to drive traffic to her blog
• What exactly Leigh sells to make money from her blog
• Her opinion of how a coaching program like Blog Mastermind can change your blogging and present a clear path to success
• Leigh’s plans for world domination

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What I found particularly powerful about this interview was the way Leigh explained how her content writing changed.

The formula for a successful blog goes good content = more traffic = more money, so you can see how changes to Leigh’s content style made such a difference to how much money she now makes.

Success Is Not Guaranteed, But People Do Get Results

I’m never going to tell you blogging for money is easy. Every person I speak to who’s ever made good money from blogging talks about how much work they do, especially during the early days, however they also look at the work in a different angle - it’s fun.

When a passion is driving your work and you see results coming in, all you want to do is work some more. Positive reinforcement fuels passion and passion fuels work. It’s possible to get into a wonderfully positive cycle, if you are just willing to take the steps to move past the challenges and the naysayers.

Here’s to your blogging success,

Yaro Starak
Blog Coach

I had the Conversion Blogging video transcribed into a text document for people who prefer to read.

You can grab it right now as a free PDF download from here (right click “save as” to save it to your computer).

In case you can’t remember, the Conversion Blogging video explains my system for combining blogging with a traditional email marketing system to create a $100,000+ Internet business.

Grab the transcript and you can read all the details, but of course if you want to actually see my examples, you need to watch the video (which is still free).

Update: Jack from VidSummary.com has also put together a summarized version of the Conversion Blogging video. He’s stripped out the best bits so you can consume what you need quickly, however he does charge $7 for the summary. You can take a look here.

400 Students Strong

New people are joining Blog Mastermind every day and we’ve almost hit the 400 student mark, which is awesome. We’ve already done the first of many live group coaching calls and the questions came flying in. The forums are hot and the feedback from the students is fantastic - I love you guys.

If you haven’t jumped on board what I consider the best blog coaching program available today, please come join the party -

http://www.blogmastermind.com/coaching/

I just sent this notice to my email newsletter. Sorry for the copy and paste below, but it’s a little busier than usual today at Yaro HQ and I think you need to know about this too, in case you are not on my newsletter.

If you haven’t joined Blog Mastermind yet, I have good news, I’ve extended the deadline on the bonuses to all members who join within 24 hours of opening. You have until 10 AM Eastern USA time, Wednesday July 30th.

You can sign up at the link below and as long as the clock is before that time, you qualify for the fast-action bonuses -

http://www.blogmastermind.com/coaching/

Here’s my explanation for the change…

I said I would update you on the status of the fast action bonuses you receive if you joined Blog Mastermind today and were one of the first 100 people to do so.

Unfortunately I didn’t think we would get to the first 100 so fast - we made it there shortly after lunch time, after a 10 AM start. That was quick and I’m thankful we have so many great new students in my program.

However, what this means is that all of the people on different time zones to where I am presently (Toronto, on Eastern North America time) never had a chance at the bonuses. They woke up, got their email about Blog Mastermind opening, and were already too late.

I’ve already had one person from New Zealand complain about the problem.

Now, as an Aussie myself (I know I sound like a strange Hybrid-Aussie-Canadian - blame the parents for that one! - I was born in Brisbane, Australia), I totally understand what it is like to miss out on things because of the time difference.

So, because of this and because I’ve realized it’s crazy-hard for me to figure out exactly who made the top 100 cut-off I’ve decided to make the deadline a full 24 hours from when the doors opened.

My email system has a time stamp on all emails, so as long as your order confirmation comes in to me with the time stamp within that 24 hour period, you qualify for the bonuses.

That gives everyone a chance to join and qualify for the bonuses, no matter where on this planet you are.

As a reminder of what bonuses are on offer, you can see them here - Fast Action Bonuses Breakdown

If you are reading this and it’s not yet 10 AM Eastern USA time on Wednesday July 30th, then you can still make it.

This is the link to sign-up -

http://www.blogmastermind.com/coaching/

As clarification, Blog Mastermind remains open and does not have a closing deadline. You can join when you are ready after reading all about the program at the order page. It’s only the fast action bonuses that have a 24 hour cut-off.

Yaro Starak
Working Hard Today

Update: The deadline on the fast action bonuses has been changed to 24 hours from the time of opening. You can read more about this here - Extended Deadline On The Blog Mastermind Fast Action Bonuses

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It’s ready. If you want to join my blog coaching program, go here -

Fast Action Bonuses If You Make The First 100

If you are one of the first 100 people who sign-up for Blog Mastermind today you will claim all of these fast action bonuses.

Bonus 1: “Conversion Blogging Revealed” - Live Teleconference With Yaro Dissecting The Conversion Blogging System

I presented the strategy in the Conversion Blogging video, in this teleconference I’ll break it down so you can directly apply it to your blog. I’ll also take your questions live in a special Q&A session just for the first 100 new Blog Mastermind students.

You will learn -

• How to craft a compelling offer to convince people to join your email list
• What incentives work best to maximize the number of opt-ins to your email newsletter
• Where to put the newsletter opt-in box for best results
• What type of email messages you should send to your newsletter to build relationships
• How to use your newsletter in tandem with your blog for big profits
• And a whole lot more, completely dedicated just to Conversion Blogging…

Bonus 2: “How To Use The Power Of Video To Market On The World Wide Web” - Live Teleconference With Gideon Shalwick PLUS six brand new videos from Gideon, the man behind the fantastic BecomeABlogger.com videos

Gideon is the guy who has taught me everything I know about online video so far, and he’s a lot better at it than I am. Video is obviously an important part of the strategy for Blog Mastermind and it’s amazing how good a marketing and teaching tool it is. You simply have to get on top of this aspect of Internet marketing, and if you are one of the first 100 people to join Blog Mastermind, Gideon is going to help you get started.

Gideon’s offering six brand new videos and will jump on a teleconference with me to teach us -

• Exactly what kind of equipment you’ll need to record perfect video
• The secret formula for creating powerful video scripts
• How to setup your shooting area to increase the quality of your videos
• How to capture and record your first video
• How to edit your video using a free and easy to use editing program
• How to get your new video onto your own blog or website
• Plus you can ask Gideon any questions you may have about video marketing

Bonus 3: “How To Boost Critical Conversion Points In Your Blog Business” - Live Teleconference With Will Swayne on testing elements of your blog and email newsletter to improve conversion rates

Will Swayne and his company, Marketing-Results.com.au, are my conversion specialists. They help by testing my opt-in forms and sales pages to increase conversion at each point in my business process.

In this live teleconference with Will, only for the first 100 new Blog Mastermind students who join today, we will review the critical conversion points of a blog business, including -

• What are the critical elements of a blog post to test to make more sales
• How to sell more affiliate products by improving upon what you already do
• Simple tweaks you can make to your email newsletter to improve open and click-through rates
• How to change your newsletter opt-in form to boost how many people join your email list
• And lots more simple tips to improve your conversion rates…

You get all three of these bonuses if you join Blog Mastermind today and are one of the first 100 people to do so.

You will receive the details for the teleconferences and video downloads after you join Blog Mastermind, and if you can’t make them live, don’t worry I’ll have downloadable MP3 audio files and transcripts of the calls made available.

So don’t wait, go sign-up to Blog Mastermind now, here is the link again…

I’m off to welcome the new students into the program.

I’ll see you on the inside…

Yaro Starak
Blog Mastermind Coach