Win a FREE COPY of Yanik’s “Ultimate A-TO-Z Information Marketing Brain-in-a-Box”
** Update **
I’ve decided to also add another exciting element to this contest. At the bottom you can also refer someone you think might really benefit from this set. And if they win the contest – you’ll win too!
Hey guys – something pretty cool…
Here’s your chance to win a free copy of the complete package that goes on sale September 25, 2007. I am talking about both entire courses – I’m not giving some highlights version but the entire, honking thing. See below:
Attendees paid $15,000.00 for the information covered during the “Info Marketing Players” workshop and the “How to Sell High Priced Information Products & Services” workshop…but 2 Winners will get it all FREE!
You’ll have it shipped to you launch day right along with the people who get in on the first set of courses.
Now this isn’t a random contest… here’s how the 2 winners will be chosen:
Winner #1 – If you are already successful at information marketing let me know your own before/after story. HOW you did it, WHAT you sold, the results, etc. and WHY you think this information will take you the next level.
Winner #2 – If you haven’t already started or are just dabbling selling information products let me know WHY you think selling information is the best business to be in, HOW you’ll use the information in the package and WHAT you’ll be doing with it.
I’ll be picking the winner on September 24, 2007 from the comments on the blog (so make sure you include your email so we can contact you if you win).
Hint for entrants: I like specifics and details.
It’s easy to enter the contest just post your comment below. (Click on the ‘comments’ link and then add your own at the bottom.) Go for it!
September 19th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
After 26 years in the b to b large organization marketplace I am convinced the next huge opportunity arena for infomarketers is business to business marketing and sales. The “selling” to other or newbie info marketers is crammed full, and for folks to be hugely successful, and by that I mean, not as a part time or hobby effort, we all need to look with vision to the untapped b to b marketspace. You ask, how can a one person info marketer sell into large accounts, the answer is you need a proven, easy to implement process for identifying, qualifying, accessing, educating, relationship building, and engaging large organizations. I have develop this process. This is not some rehashed, reworked, warmed over Tom Hopkins/Zig Ziglar sales methodology. This is a tested, proven, easy to implement, stream of recurring revenue products and services that anyone can use to market and sell into the b to b marketspace.
Infomarketers can use my methodology, that I am about to introduce, to not only sell their services to large organizations, but also to position themselves as thought leaders to their clients and list members, providing those on their lists a proven method for the list members to begin selling to major accounts. Until now I am not an infomarketer. I have spent 25+ years marketing and selling tangible and intangible products and services into virtually every industry, in over 30 countries, to all sizes, geographies, and vertical markets. The process I have developed works and anyone can use it.
One of the concepts I teach is Leveraging Multiple Levels of Impact with the premise that there are no end users. My system serves internet marketers, their clients, and their client’s clients. Recurring revenue and everybody wins.
The info marketing arena is the best place for me for a number of reasons. I can help so many people to reach their dreams, not changing what they do today but adding to their success in a measurable way. I will use the information in your courses to augment my process to help clients sell thier products at higher prices, which the b to b world is comfortable paying. I plan to provide group coaching, 1 to 1 coaching and consulting, and have a series of products and services behind my initial offering that will provide more indepth and tailored help to those who need it.
Thanks for the opportunity, Yanik. I look forward to continuing to learn from you and humbly hope that my response is deemed worthy of winning one of your offered sets.
Best,
Max Lambright
September 19th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Hey Yanik!
It looks like I’m breaking the silence here on the comments for this post.
First of all, your videos over the past couple weeks are worth their weight in gold all alone. I can’t imagine what your courses will be like.
A quick 30 second background on me to tell where I’m coming from… and where I am now.
When I was about 12 years old, I finally figured out what I wanted to do with my life. To me, being a doctor was my ultimate dream and that is all I thought about through junior high and most of high school.
Then it hit me in about my junior year of high school that being a doctor seemed to be slipping more and more down my list of priorities. It just didn’t seem exciting to me anymore.
So, I began taking business classes for the rest of high school and enrolled in college on a pretty close to full ride (for baseball and academics) in the marketing and entrepreneurship programs. It didn’t take a whole lot of time to realize that this stuff was exciting and where I my passion really was.
I just love the challenge of figuring out what people want and how to fill that want in some creative and profitable way.
So… (a bit more than a 30 second cliffnote… sorry
I graduated college at the top of both of my marketing and entrepreneurship programs and hit the ground with my feet running… well almost.
When I got into the real world I realized that my academic achievements, my grades, etc. in college didn’t do me a bit of good in the real world.
I basically squandered 2 years of my life after college not getting anything done and making no money (less than $24k a year). Why? Looking back now… because I didn’t know how marketing really worked and I didn’t know how to take action.
Fast forward to today… I’m now 25 and everything seems to be falling into place. I’m still not making any money… but I’m right at the verge of the tipping point and can see what the next 6 – 12 months holds for me.
To this date, my internet marketing projects are coming together. I am a partner in a new company that specializes in educating and training financial advisors (financial planners, CPAs, attorneys) on how to grow their businesses through implementing exit planning services into their business. The beauty of it all is that 100% of it is online!
With the huge baby boomer market ready to retire over the next 20 years, this market will explode.
My partner is the money guy and I’m the one who puts everything together from start to finish… our products, partnerships, marketing, web presence, etc. Next week we are launching our 3rd product (our cornerstone) that will propel the growth of our “high dollar” product (high dollar for us right now is $397) to touch our primary target market of over 2.4 mm people.
Your products, especially your “How to Sell Super High Priced Info Products” is something that can immediately make a huge difference in this business. After I saw your videos, I realized that right now we are missing out on a ton of profits because we really don’t have a high priced product… our “high priced” product is $397.
I will use this course to develop a $3k+ training/mastermind product where our members can mastermind with the highest earning people in the industry and put a proven system to work to build their businesses. Just from responses we’ve had already I know there is a thirst for it… I just need to learn the right way to do it.
As far as profits on this company… it has been rolling out for the past 3 months and has made a total of only about $4k in sales. Most of this is because I haven’t created a solid plan to market our products and how to turn our visitors and opt in subscribers into paying customers. After this big launch we should see some good revenue coming in… but I just feel like something is still missing that will mean the difference between just covering the expenses… versus making a very nice income.
On another front, I am building my own company that focuses on creating meaningful and actionable education experiences for people across a few different niches.
My main focus is on a site of mine called The REI Brain (www.thereibrain.com), which has been in limbo until about a month ago when I began to really push it forward. Currently I am completely reworking the website and using a good CMS to make it easy on me… so what you see right now at that site our old version.
Anyhow, to this date with this business I have been mostly just creating content with a few affiliate sales and some adsense income coming in here and there.
My adsense is getting up to about $100 a month and affiliate to just a few hundred a month… chicken stratch… but I can already see the potential of what I can… and willl reach sooner than later.
But, I am working on 2 big projects with this website including a membership area and another project that I don’t want to let out of the bag right now.
When I first saw your oil well video immediately I began to think of different products, opportunities, and sales funnels that I can place into this business. From membership sites, to high dollar live trainings, to ebooks, to teleseminars, etc. My mind map on this is already crazy.
Your “Players Workshop” course can be huge to help me implement these funnels and “oil wells” to maximize my profits from the start. Not to mention the “High Priced…” course of yours that will help me get past just the $29 ebooks… but up to where the real money is so my wife and I can finally live life without worrying about our mounting credit card bills and her student loans (that are still growing and growing and… well you get the picture)
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Wow, that was a huge ramble!
Anyhow, I’m excited to see what the next 6 months holds for me and my new ventures (that are still in the crawling phase)… and my family.
Some people may look at this and see the lack of money I’m bringing in right now and scoff at it… but I’m looking at it knowing what is in the works and where my companies will be in the next year. I can’t help but smile and get excited about what I can do with the same information and techniques that you and your successful compadres are using to create the lives you want to live.
Cheers!
Trevor Mauch
September 19th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
Yanik,
I think I may have missed it, but how are we supposed to enter? Leave a comment? Send an email? Go to a certain site?
Please let us know.
September 19th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
I’m quite new, and haven’t set up a web site yet. I’ve been trying to find products or interesting affiliate schemes, but haven’t completed it yet.
September 19th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
Yanik,
Went through a mentoring program recently with #12 1-hr sessions, and got me to the point of having a functional web site…yet still need help fine tuning and issues relating to getting traffic for tweaking. I’m really new to online mktg. and could use some honest input and help without taking another huge financial hit. I would look forward to digesting all your information, and applying its wisdom to my current site and any others that I have ideas for! Sincerely, Jim
September 19th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
Yanik,
I’m getting into the information marketing business because of you and Dan Kennedy. As a real estate agent I’ve helped hundreds of real estate investors flip homes and now I’m creating a membership site to teach people how to make tons of money flipping homes.
The reason I feel it’s THE business to be in is because I could help thousands of people achieve the American dream and reach so many more people than I can locally. It scares me when people try to flip a home without the proper education because it could cost them thousands. If done right however, they could make thousands. Being in the info marketing business will also give me a better life for my family and will allow me to spend more time at home with my wife (we’re hoping to have our 1st child this next year but I’d like to be home when it happens
I’ll use the info from your product to make sure I do things right the first time. This will help short-cut my success but also allow my clients more quality results. I’d like to expand the site into workshops where I can hands-on show investors how to flip homes the right way. Your materials will show me how to successful sell a high priced workshop and teach me how to make sure there is tons of value for the customer.
I’ll be using the info from your product to take my business and life to the next level. This information marketing business has been a dream for years, but I’ve wanted to do it the right way. If I win I’ll be able to put all my time, energy, and foucs into putting your ideas into action. I know I could be selling my own high-priced services and products in no time!
September 19th, 2007 at 3:55 pm
Hi Yanik, I am a former waiter who got tired of ‘waiting’ on others give me what I needed, waiting on myself to go out and create the life I know I’m capable of living, waiting on waiting. Last year I lost my job and I made two life changing decisions 1.) losing that job that I hated soooo much was a blessing instead of a curse and 2.) starting my own freelance photography and web design business.
I get a lot of encouragement through your blog and reading many great books from authors like Jack Canfield and Tim Ferris. I’ve learned that my ideas have merit and that I can create information products that will add value to my life and my customers.
Through my work as a freelance photographer and web designer I’m constantly reading about techniques photographers use to become successful. In addition I’ve developed a network of photographers that I network with frequently and the general topic of conversation is about how difficult it is to make a living in this competitive field.
I have been fortunate to have learned the power of personal information gathering interviews and I plan to use your new product Yanik’s “Ultimate A-TO-Z Information Marketing Brain-in-a-Box” to create info products based a series of interviews I’m currently doing with successful photographers.
More specifically I’m working a info course using the ‘Mind mapping’ techniques you taught in previous videos that will include audio interviews, a transcriptions of those interviews, a quick start guide and other lessons that photographers need to market our businesses.
I also plan to offer weekend retreats where photographers can ‘Learn From The Masters’ with one-on-one workshops, portfolio reviews and using my info program as the anchor.
I want to share this collective knowledge with other photographers at any skill level; and to teach others as I’m learning myself that the world needs our gifts and that we can do what we love, create value in the world and yes, be paid well for it.
Thanks Yanik for all the great work your doing, Rodney
September 19th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
Hello Yanik,
Thank you so much for this opportunity. If you don’t mind, I’ll jump right in. I am contestant number two. I haven’t launched my “oil well” info-marketing empire, but I am on the groundworks. I have purchased Instant Sales Letters, and I was a member of YSS (couldn’t afford it). You provide, by far, the best content I have ever seen.
My first “oil well” will be a narrow niche that I am almost hesitant to disclose, but if it means receiving your offer I’ll do it. As a 21 year old married guy I have served as a worship leader for several local churches and regularly travel to do so. This is a musician that leads the band and congregation in songs to begin church services. The niche I will cater to will be rock styled, post-modern churches, that are guitar driven. These leaders are usually males between the ages of 18 and 35 year old. My first product will be a monthly mailed club introducing a new song with a recording, background graphics for media projections, story of how the song was written, bio of the writer, music charts for the band, lyrics for vocalists, chord charts for the leader, a short lesson on songwriting, an interview with the worshipper that wrote it, and a sales letter to move them through the funnel or oil well. To follow will be products such as Worship Band Camp, an annual conference series with critiques, speakers, worship bands, etc. which will all be recorded and packed to sell, (you know, get paid over and over for working once!)
I feel like I may have spilled too much already, so I will move over into the why. As a young married that has served in ministry, I know how hard it can be to go without. First priority, I want to be able to take care of my wife on about $35,000 a year. Sounds small, but that’s literally about double what I make. Sucks, but we try to live for others. Reason two, is I would like to be able to serve locl churches and enrich them, without having to tax the church and have them pay me. I would like to be a blessing. I currently am cooking at my grandparent’s cafe to pay bills to do this right now, which sometimes leaves me being ineffective.
The biggest reason for wanting this, is to fund an NPO that I have wanted to start since grade school. Coming from a small town, I used to notice the lunch patterns of kids. They would say things like, “I’m not hungery,” or “I had a big breakfast,” or “I have a lot of homework,” when asked why they weren’t eating. It would break my heart. My parents had a little money, so I would give them money quietly to save their embarassment. Today, the area still has problems like these. So, I want to buy these families groceries, order them Chinese delivery or pizza, buy them gift cards, and just be there to show them that help is here and they don’t have to go it alone. I would budget about 25% of earnings to this cause and an additional 10% to local churches to mobilize them to do this as well. All of this is a huge vision and can be taxing on such a giving country. So, I want to offer valuable content so that people don’t feel as they’re being milked for more money.
I have not shared everything because, I feel as if I have already shared too much, so I hope you recognize my passion and do what you can to support it.
Thank you for your consideration and support, Yanik!
Jerret Hammons
269-341-0370
P.S.
As a way to build capital, I have a surefire way to blow the roof off any marketer’s bank account. I would love to share this with you offline!
September 19th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
Yanik,
I was turned on to both you and Dan Kennedy by my good friend, Jim Canale, who subscribes to both yours and Dan’s info. Jim has his own info business in the area of real estate.
At Jim’s, not urging, but seeds of an idea that I started, I am moving forward with starting an info product based on my experiences in the investment world. You see, I am an investment manager and also a real estate investor. However, there are not a lot of resources out their for individuals to see the big picture. They are being sold on either stocks or real estate…or gold, or FOREX, or name the investment asset. Why? Because they are being sold by salesmen who look to what they sell as the be all, end all of investing…Buy these stocks/real estate/ gold, because this and this alone will get you rich. Nobody informs or coaches people on how all of these kinds of investments and business opportunities are interconnected and integrated with each other.
My information business would do this. I would have the basics of various investments(free), a blog to help interpret the news of the day(free), interviews with professionals from various areas that GET that everything is interconnected and integrated(part of a newsletter product), links to JVed products, a newsletter(paid subscription), one on one coaching (limited & paid), joint and individual seminars, webinars, and training sessions (periodically, some paid, some not), and on the high end eventually a private investment fund that follows the principles of interconnectivity and integration designated for those that have gone through my funnel and qualify as an accredited investor.
The products would not get rolled out all at once. It would be a gradual roll out as my subscription base/list grew. It would start out with the basic website & blog, move to the newsletter, seminars, webinars , and traing, then the one on one coaching, and finally the private investment fund. Throughout the process JV opportunities would be taken advantage of, particularly as I develop survey to find out what it is that the subscription base wants.
I want to do this because I find that the sales cycle in my stock portfolio business is long and slow and I want another stream of income that provides both continuity income and occasional “income dumps.”
An information product based business would further my journey towards financial freedom. It would allow me to spend more time with my wife and soon to be child that we are in the process of adopting (my wife and I cannot have biologic children), start the process on adopting a second child, and accelerate our plan to form a family foundation that would help educate and motivate those less fortunate to start and realize a path to financial freedom.
Thank you for this opportunity.
Patrick Clark
September 19th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
the best time is now to business and build capital.it good know you care and friendly support so thank yanik. this is fun.thanks
September 19th, 2007 at 4:27 pm
Janik:
Ok, so it’s going to be a sale of No. 1 and No.2.
In which way is No. 2 Course different from No. 1, the Information Marketing Workshop? All new material in No. 2 ????
Christel
September 19th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
Yanik,
You can take me from 10 to 100 TO a 100 to 1000.
I’ve successfully piddled at information marketing, giving
at least 10 times value on my products, but, I’ve been a “small potatoes” info marketer.
Now I want to create a powerful stream, as powerful as a Dan Kennedy trotter, and deliver 100-1000 times value. Your information will help me to take it to a “whol-nutter-lebel” (with minor apologies to MAD TV).
With a very small list of loyal buyers I’ve fiddle-farted around and
had some success as far back as 96 selling “The Chattel Report, the Sprint to Freedom” and more recently, “The Beginner’s Guide to Chatteling” (now owned by my friend Leo Quinn).
My golf information products; Think and Reach Par and How to Play an Unknown Course have been brought into the shop for a tune-up and fresh coat of information and will be joined next Spring with “Geezer Gamesmanship; How to Outfox, Outflank and Outfinesse Today’s Whippersnappers” along with the “J-Swing” video, the remedy for golfers with bad backs.
Your course will certainly provide me with the tools and current state-of-the-art information on how to quit being an information caddy and become a world-class info Tiger.
But the most important reason is: I’m also working on a book for Diabetics, my own war was costly in terms of finances, time and health. I don’t want other people to go through that if it can be avoided.
Your Ultimate A to Z Information Marketing Brain-in-a-Box will be used to get the right kind of information into the hands of millions of people who are struggling with their own personal battles with dastardly diabetes. I am not a doctor nor do I pretend to be one on TV (or the Net) but I fought the good fight with diabetes and I have won.
I know I can help millions of others.
So thems there the detailed reasons. It is time for this dumb old dirt farmer to grow from his “small potatoes” info biz into a “SPUD” (that’s a potato stud, ya know?) Help me go from a 10 to a 1000, the value is there, will ya?
Thanks for your consideration.
Gordon Jay Alexander
September 19th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
Hello Yanik,
I hope you’re doing great! This looks like a solid package. Good luck with it. I know you have another winner on your hands. ;-D
Cheers,
Carlos
September 19th, 2007 at 5:36 pm
Hey Yanik!! I have a funny and a kinda weird story to tell, on the weekend i was fueling up at starbucks. I had you hat on, the one you sent, I wear it now when Im working, gives me some added mojo, or so i’m convinced!!
SO Im standing there ordering my grande mocha, its about 8 am and I havent shaved in fact i just more or less woke up.
The guy behind the counter looks at my hat and says “internet life style”
I say yup,
he asks is that your website?
I said its a fellow webmasters named yanik silver,
he asks, are you a webmaster? ( was expecting him to do the quote end quote thing with his fingers- he didnt though)
I answered yes I am I have six site that earn me just over a thousand a month each.
He perked up and said “really?”
I answered yes its work but it pays the bills and I dont have a boss other than my 7 yr old boy.
So , and this is where it gets interesting!
He asks how hard is it?
I said not that hard if you know what you’re doing,
THEN and get this He asks do you have a card or an number I can reach you at?
I was like stunned and at a loss for words ummm errr ahhh no I’m in my trackpants.
So I gave himn my cell number.
He called yesterday I had actually sort of forgotten about it and was shocked.
I invited him over and showed him around my computer. I explained some very basic stuff tohim, he always just thought computers were for ripping dvd’s and crap like that.
And was shocked when I showed him by account transaction history and paypal balance, he was familiar with paypalbecause of e-bay so that was a good starting point.
He looks around my house and says where do you keep your inventory, thats when the affiliate markeing discussion started. Literally he said this. “You make 6,000/month and you dont have to ship anything?”
That’s when I broke out my my tattered printed copy of 30 days to online profits and a few other manuals I use.
So this guy was all questions? I had to slow him down so I was sure he was getting what I was talking about. Funny actually it was.
So It looks like I have taken the leap into mentorship with this guy.
ALL because I was wearing your hat Yanik.
how cool is that!!
September 19th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
Shane – that’s funny! Very cool. I should make hats with people’s affiliate id# embroidered on there
September 19th, 2007 at 7:32 pm
Hi Yanik,
I am seriously about to begin an exciting journey of creating my very first internet marketing business and am determined to perservere along any rocky path and overcome any obstacle along the way to obtain the financial freedom I so very much desire in my life.
I am now totally convinced that this is the best way to achieve this kind of freedom because people around the world are always looking to buy information quickly online for many reasons and so many smart people have started online businesses from all walks of life and created successful businesses providing the information to these people and in turn releasing themselves from their usual daily grinding jobs and obtaining financial freedom to live their life how they want with their family and friends.
To be able to work from my own home to provide for my young family would be the ultimate situation. If I won a copy of your ‘Ultimate A-Z Information Marketing Brain-In-A-Box’ product, I would surely follow it to the letter (Yanik you are living proof of living a perfect lifestyle), and implement the ideas and work through the information provided to get to where you and other successful internet marketers are today, because it is possible for anyone to achieve outstanding results if they are prepared to educate themselves with the information that is available and to actually act on it to reach success.
I am planning to start off with hobby ebooks and membership sites because they only need to be set up once and then continue running them on autopilot to provide a lovely income year after year allowing me to work on other ideas and products where I can charge higher prices and increase my profits regardless of what my competitors are doing.
Wish me luck!
Marie
marie99@bigpond.net.au
September 19th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
I have only dabbled at info marketing over the past 10-15 years with limited success but have since decided to make a commitment to developing and full-time info marketing business.
First let me define full-time. After reading Tim Ferris’ book on the 4-hour work week, I have a new outlook on things as far as what can really be accomplished with this type of business.
My intent is to take a public domain work that I have been using myself for the past 4 years and create a derivative work from that for a specific niche market.
My objective with the project is to create a course that includes an audio verison so that people can listen to this program whenever and where-ever they want..
Since I have used the original productto gain success in a brick and mortar business and in life in general, I feel like I can just tell my story and that would be the first personal testimonial for the derivative.
The one thing that interests me most about the info marketing business is that it can literally be done from anywhere (if you utilize the internet) and most of what needs done can be automated and/or out sourced.
I enjoy the idea of being able to spend more time with my famliy and taking my son to school and picking him up after.
In my opinion, if my info marketing business is set up properly, it can allow me freedoms that only this type of business would allow..
Not to mention the fact that I would have no employees, the ability to create residual income and the ability to recreate new products when necessary.
This would be similar to making money like a rock star and collecting royalties from your work for years to come..
Being able to do something that you are passionate about also increases the odds of being successful, not just in the info marketing business but life in general.
One of the main ways that I would use this product (especially the How to Sell Super High Priced Products) would be in the area of consulting.
I am currently a investment advisor and am transitioning my business from commissions to fees.
I would utilize this course to sell my services as an investment adivsor and NOT be the “lowest” priced but charge MORE than anyone else does for my service.
I think that about explains what my plan is once I win..
Thanks Yanick!!
September 19th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
Hi Yanik,
I’m one of your “How to Sell Your Book Online eClass” and Underground I & II students.
By the way, I have a young son and younger daughter as well–and both of our sons are named “Zack”.
Anyway…
Thanks to your teachings being one of the main reasons for my success, here’s my story…
I sold my 12 year old $12.95 paperback book as a second edition $27 eBook and it took in 5 figures in the first 5 days.
…on New Years Eve!
We thought the new eBook might sell 200 copies in a few weeks, but we wound up selling 200 copies in the first few hours.
I thought it would be a disaster by launching it over New Year’s Eve weekend, but it turned out to be the best time.
It was very exciting to see orders coming in all during our New Years Eve party.
The experience inspired others at the party to take a serious look at internet marketing and see all the money they are leaving on the table by not knowing how to sell online.
Speaking of leaving money on the table…
All I had to make over $10,000 in 5 days and almost $100K for the year, was my $27 eBook with NO upsell and NO “expensive home study course” yet.
I have a few high priced information product ideas in mind,
…however, I keep talking myself out of them for what ever reason.
I would really appreciate it if you would consider me to win your “Ultimate A-Z Information Marketing Brain-in-a-Box”
…because I know I am standing inches away from an even better testimonial for YOU.
Seriously,
it feels like this…
If you’ve seen the movie “National Treasure” with Nicholas Cage, there’s a part at the end where they can’t go back up the way they came down to find the treasure.
They think thery’re trapped until Nicholas Cage’s character says something to the effect of:
“The only way out is through the treasure room.”
I feel like I’ve gone as far as I can go by following the “cheap” eBook path,
and I need to be selling higher priced information products to make my dreams a reality and give myself and my family the lifestyle we deserve.
…and the only way out is “through the treasure room” of high priced information products.
Thanks,
F.J. Shark
WomenFiguredOut@comcast.net
September 19th, 2007 at 10:38 pm
Hi Yanik ~ thanks for the opportunity to win! What fun!
(And let me say…you’re working that Jeff Walker PLF to a “T”)
I’ve been a business owner for 10 years, successfully for almost 6. Mine has been a “virtual office” format for a service-based business, not truly an internet/information business.
However, I’ve taken my experiences, my knowledge and the requests of my clients and begun a niched membership site that will launch in just a few days…pretty exciting stuff. We’re using a viral movie for list-building an also using some components of Walker’s PLF. (We have combined lists of 20k…not huge, but respectable, for a start)
Anyway, I’d like to be considered for one of your giveaways. I’m on the fence about whether I fall into category #1 or #2…so I’ll just share and let you decide.
My mission and passion (yes, I realize that gets overused) is to teach and mentor women in working at home, if home is where they truly want to be. I’m NOT promoting just internet business…I’m mentoring them in:
1. Finding a business that is a good “fit” for them
2. Using their current skill set to expedite their journey home
3. Raising their deserve level as far as income
4. How to manage their time/family/children/home and juggle business simultaneously
5. What the seriously LIMITLESS options are for them to generate income from home
6. the brass tacks on legal issues, tax code, equipment needs, software reviews, etc
I’m very intrigued by your “High Priced Product” Workshop primarly. I know I will benefit from both…but I heard an audio interview with you and Ryan Lee, I believe, during the Membership Site Bootcamp program (Yes, I’m obviously a student…learning while I’m earning) and you touched on special events, seminars, etc.
I believe that while my membership site will be profitable and helpful for the masses…the apprenticeship/mentoring and/or coaching/mastermind model will be vital to propel the really serious students into a new level of success.
My husband and I are both blessed to work for my business here at the house, raising our 4 children as a team….and I’d love to study your techniques, advice, tools on creating a high ticket item that will be a WIN for the top tier of my list while also ramping up our business here.
Thanks for listening…and more importantly – thanks for being willing to be an “open book” for the rest of us to learn from.
September 20th, 2007 at 12:43 am
My Name is, Mr. Charles L. Walker Sr. I have read All of your messeges and I have come to “Trust” you Words and Skills. I have not been able afford Web Hosting , But if picked I will Follow it Religously. I Mr.Charles L. Walker Sr. mrcharleslwalkersr46@yahoo.com
September 20th, 2007 at 12:47 am
Yanik,
~~~~They All Laughed At Me When I Said I Was Going In To The Information Marketing Business Until I Opened My Books And Showed Them The Massive Profits~~~~
Here are the dots to my info marketing empire; all that is missing is the pencil to connect them in the form of the “Info Players Workshop” and “How to Sell High Priced Information Products & Services”.
Niche:
Small Box Gym Owners – This is actually a franchised system, much like Curves for athletes instead of housewives, which has been operating since 2004. I can provide the name of the company upon request. The system of affiliates is growing rapidly from 1 in 2004 to 254 today with at least 50% of the growth in the last 12 months.
Need:
This system is dominated by athletes who become trainers who open their own facilities. Since most have little or no business background and even less marketing training, they struggle to grow their businesses at a pace that allows them to achieve an income that supports a nice facility and comfortable living. The few owners that do “get” the business and marketing side of it experience rapid growth. Two examples were able to grow their facilities from 0-300 clients, paying at least $150 per month, in less than two years. Each expects to exceed 500 in the next year which will take gross income over $75k per month. That should correlate to net revenue of over $500k annually for the owner.
By way of the affiliate community message board, owners are clamoring for this service. Here is one post out of over 20 stating the same request:
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I know this isn’t the point of *******, but I seriously think that someone with a highly successful business system using the ******* model should develop a business system, similar to a franchise, but not quite. I don’t know, but hear me out.
The product is there obviously, the support is in place, the information is readily available, but there’s STILL a need to get people off the ground. A good “franchise” type business system will take an average Joe off the street with nothing but desire and a couple bucks to buy his cert & affiliate fees (and some to buy the business system training, maybe even run a “******* Affiliate University” type program where all we teach is how to run a successful affiliate) and teach him how to run a successful affiliate. Trust me, we all know someone who’s a great carpenter, or electrician, or doctor, or whatever, and they think “man I’m great at what I do, I should open my own business” and they TANK. That’s because being good at doing “A” does not make you a good OWNER of a *business that does* “A”. The aim of an affiliate university (I’ve got tons of ideas on how to make this work, I’m living under a similar implementation already) would be to provide any “new guy off the street” the training to run a good affiliate. Period.
Ideally they would charge a small percentage of gross sales, and the affiliates they train would have to follow a specific set of guidelines to maintain the good name of ******* (no doing stupid stuff like pestering and annoying people, etc…)
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I couldn’t have said it better myself. So here is my system to fill the void.
Info Products:
Small Box Gym “Done For You” Marketing – a system of letters, templates and campaigns to generate and convert prospects to clients, to maintain clients and generate referral business. $1000 upfront plus $99 per month.
Small Box Gym Affiliate University – a 3-5 day boot camp laying out all of the operational, business and marketing systems one needs to effectively and profitably start and affiliate gym. $3-5,000 per head.
Small Box Gym Owner Mastermind – ongoing coaching/mastermind group to perfect the art of building, running and marketing a small box gym. $2500 membership, $500 per month ongoing.
Small Box Gym Software – a database such as Infusion’s, designed to handle the billing and EFT, attendance tracking, workout progress, vital statistics and MOST IMPORTANTLY ongoing marketing. Campaigns would be pre-loaded, making this a complete turn key system. $5000 upfront plus $300 monthly.
This product list is far from comprehensive but for the sake of brevity in a blog comment I will leave these as excellent examples of the potential.
Uncaptured Profits:
Done For You Marketing – Year 1 – 50 clients – $110,000
Affiliate University – Year 1 – 2 events, 20 attendees, $3500 each – $70,000
Mastermind – Year 1 – 1 group, 10 members – $85,000
Software – Year 1 – 10 clients – $86,000.
Gross Income Potential, Year 1 – $351,000
Other than the software, there is little to no development cost outside of my time so net should exceed $200k. With the potential market of facility owners doubling annually, there will be over 1000 potential clients in 2 years. I fully expect over 2500 facilities to open within 5-7 years.
The easier I can make it to open and grow a profitable facility, the more the market grows, the more my clientele and income increase. Just focusing on this tight niche, I expect to be able to gross in excess of $1m annually within 5 years.
Yanik, I’ve got the fuse, go ahead and light the match. I just took over an affiliate that was owned and operated by two excellent trainers. Despite their excellence they have only grown from 5 to 25 clients in the same two years that others grew beyond 300. I have the lab to build and perfect the systems. I am trained in copywriting by Bill Glazer (and the books of Caples, Ogilvy, Collier, Hopkins and Kennedy). I have been a GKIC Gold member for over 4 years. I am an experienced database marketer currently mastering ManagePro by Infusion. My background includes running a mortgage operation that sent over 1 million pieces of mail a month. All the pieces are in place.
Please don’t waste your products on someone lacking the tools to implement them successfully. I eagerly await your judgment on the 24th.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:06 am
Hi Yanik,
I am part of category #2
If you haven’t already started or are just dabbling selling information products let me know WHY you think selling information is the best business to be in, HOW you’ll use the information in the package and WHAT you’ll be doing with it.
WHY you think selling information is the best business to be in…
I think that information marketing is the best business to be in because I can create and control markets. What I mean by this is…
If I want to take my information product and give it away for free to generate leads, I can. I can also use it to sell directly to the end user, sell the rights to it, sell the master rights to it, the private rights, and even put it into a print book format (hardcover or paperback). I can even turn it into a full home study course or paid workshop or seminar. In other words, it’s a business where I can not only be passionate about the subject matter, but also package it in any way that I want.
Plus I know that if I offer it as an ebook, audio, or downloadable video that there are no shipping costs invloced. So it costs less to get started as compared to any other kind of general brick-n-mortat business.
I also know that with some consistent work and effort, with the right plan, it can give me the time freedom as well as financial freedom. I can control my own income. If I want to make a high six-figure income, I can work a little more to produce more information products. If I want to be an affiliate and be lazy, I can do that too
Or if I’m happy with only making $90,000 a year, I can do that too and have more relaxation time in my “work” week.
Those are a few of the reason I like the information business and why I think it’s the best business in the world. Plus, it opend the doors for so many opportunities. Liek to speek at events in my industry as a leading expert, or to get joint venture partners that I can work with to leverage our resources and make more money or even create our own products together.
HOW you’ll use the information in the package/WHAT you’ll be doing with it…
I’ll be using the infroamtion in the package to give me a step-by-step game plan as to how to get started and continue to grow my own information business. I plan on going into making my own magic dvd’s where I reveal close-up card routines that I’ve actually used to freak people out performing in bars and night clubs. And other close-up effects. I will also use to get together with other magicians that I have met and continue to have contact with who have their own unique originanl effects that I would like to sell on dvd but who ave not made a name fo themselves as far as selling their effects to other magicians goes.
I would also like to develop that into an even bigger business where I sell my own lecture notes ot magicians and my own lecture dvds. A lecture is where you lecture about something specific to do with magic and share your philosophies of magic or actual real life experiences with other magicians.
And that’s just the beginning. I plan on using this information for the next 20 years of my life at least. That’s how much of a pssions I have for magic and starting and profiting from my own informaiont marketing business.
Sincerely,
Anthony Smith
September 20th, 2007 at 6:52 am
Hi Yanik,
I am definitely a part of category #2.
I’ve been marketing my service business on the web for almost 12 years now. I am (was) a solopreneur in the careers industry, and with the Internet I was able to break six figures very quickly – somewhere around my third year in business. It is a profitable business and I have been able to work at home, raising my daughter (a high-school senior this year), supporting us with a comfortable lifestyle, and living a life that many have told me they envy.
But, there was a huge problem with all of this. I have been running a SERVICE business – one that required me to work with every single individual client. This was extremely inefficient use of my time. The more I worked, the more I got paid. But, if I didn’t work, I didn’t get paid. It was that simple. Week after week after week I was working 70 and 80 hour work weeks. I was exhausted, miserable, and by last year at this time, I had taken all I could stand. I had truly reached a breaking point!
When I simply couldn’t take it any longer, the first thing I did was to completely restructure my business. It was one of the scariest things I have ever done – shaking up such a secure and profitable business like that. But, today, I have a virtual team working for and with me – all independent contractors. Some are doing admin work and others are working one-on-one with clients. I am still making money and for the first time in nearly 12 years, I am FREE to focus on other things and to grow my business in new directions.
But, I learned my lesson! It is incredibly important to leverage my time wisely. I’ll NEVER put myself in the situation I was in, having to work myself bone-weary for every single penny!
It was this realization that drove me to create my first two information products. I released the first one (an audio CD and workbook combo) in April and the second (a low-priced downloadable e-book) in June.
I am just so EXCITED about the potential that I see here!! I don’t really know how to market them yet – I’ve just put links on my website – but even so, since releasing them, they have paid my car payment every single month since day one. I did the work ONCE, released the products, and they have been PAYING MY CAR PAYMENT ever since.
I know it probably seems like a small thing to someone like yourself, but what an INCREDIBLE revelation to me. If I can create the money – the passive income – to pay for a new SUV, what could I do if I created more products??? What would actually be achievable if I learned how to market my products effectively??? Just realizing the potential has made me feel like the world has suddenly opened up to me.
So, that is my goal. I am embarking on a new phase of my life. I am young – not even quite 40 yet – but I see myself transforming my business into an engine for passive income that will allow me to pursue many of my other dreams in life. And now I find myself looking for guidance – a mentor and coach who can help me take this to the next level. I feel like I have SO MUCH to learn still – and you have SO MUCH knowledge and experience for me to soak up. THANKS for the opportunity!
Sincerely,
Michelle
September 20th, 2007 at 7:50 am
I think information is the greatest product to be selling because you are providing
1) High value information to individuals at a cost that is affordable to them.
2) No distribution problem, a plus if you don’t drive.
3) I have just started google adwords programme and have started to see some results with this programme.
4) I am looking to provide greater content, increase exposure to my products, and quadraple my income.
September 20th, 2007 at 8:26 am
Hi Yanik!
Before I begin, let me thank you for all your wonderful advice over these past months. You are truly an inspiration to all of us out there who love internet marketing and are trying to use it as a vehicle to escape the rat race.
Firstly, I’d like to discuss why selling information products is BY FAR the best business to be in—especially for me.
1) I am an English and Dramatic Arts high school teacher, so with selling information products I get to use my creative writing skills! I love helping people and giving advice (probably why I chose teaching) so I’m following my passion and am writing in a particular niche of the “Self-help” category. Right now I’m writing my first product and an up sell for it.
2) Selling information products is a flexible business that gives you the freedom to work from home. I enjoy teaching, but it is an “all-consuming” profession that takes all my energy during the day so there’s little left for my family in the evening. Also, this will allow me to actually raise my kids myself (instead of a caregiver doing it), and take care of my household (homemade dinners instead of take out!). I want to be at home, but I’m the type of person that needs to work. Working from home while my kids are at school is my ultimate dream in life. I can drive them to school, work during the day, pick them up from school, and still have energy to enjoy my evenings with my family.
3) There is no limit to how much money you can make as long as you see every set back not as a “failure” but as a learning experience and a building block toward your success.
4) It is a business where you can create multiple streams of income that keep paying you long after you’ve done the work.
5) In selling information products, I can be my own publisher without the costs of shipping, of brick and mortar, and of employees.
6) This business allows me to follow my passion in life, and wake up in the morning feeling like I have something meaningful to share with the rest of the world.
Secondly, I’ll tell you how I’m going to use the information in your package. I know exactly what niche on which I want to focus, as I’ve already started the products. However, there are many “gaps” in my learning where, without your package, I’d either simply be guessing or it would postpone my business altogether as I struggle to find the information I’m looking for. More specifically, I’d use this package to take me step by step through the process of selling information products so I can finally get out of the learning stage and into the “doing” stage!
Thirdly, this is what I’ll be doing with what I learn from you. I have a very specific business plan and I’ve already started to use the mind mapping that I learned from one of your videos (that you so kindly gave us for free!). My husband is behind me 100% and has been from the start—it is our dream to work at home together as I imagine you and Missy do. We’ve carved out Saturday mornings in such a way that I’ll have a chunk of time to pursue my IM business. I’ll use your products during that time to guide me in everything I do. I’ve always believed that to run a successful business you need systems and I know that you believe the same thing. I’ve listened to your teachings carefully and have therefore developed a “hook” that sets my work apart from the competitors in my niche, about which I’m extremely excited! I’ve been learning about internet marketing and information products for about 8 months now and I’m ready to take it to the next level—I strongly believe that my passion and drive, coupled with the information and guidance you provide in your package will lead me to the lifestyle I’ve always wanted for me and my family.
Thanks for listening, Yanik! I hope to be sending you my success story some time soon.
Sincerely,
Marnie
September 20th, 2007 at 10:12 am
Yanik,
Thank you for offering to give away your “Ultimate A-TO-Z Information Marketing Brain-in-a-Box” product to newbies and wealth seekers. I have a great interest in what you are revealing in your write ups on the internet. I have watched several of your web videos from a couple of workshops and have found that you have a wealth of knowledge in creating internet businesses.
I have been out of the workforce for about 16 years homeschooling my children and just recently started working to acquire my Real Estate License. I have a great desire to sell and invest and to teach others how to sell and invest as well. In addition, my children have already written several childrens books that can go online as e-books. I have several ideas for e-books as well. One idea involves children’s education and comes from my years as a teacher with my own children, especially with the educational system in our country being so weak. For example, Did you know that children are capable of learning all their MATH FACTS by the time they start school at 6 years old. THEY CAN! I know it sounds hard to believe that a small four or five year old child can learn how to ADD, SUBTRACT, MULTIPLY AND DIVIDE, BEFORE THEY EVEN ENTER 1ST GRADE! AND, Get this, they can also LEARN HOW TO READ IN 20 MINUTES A DAY, BEFORE THEY EVEN START SCHOOL AT 6 YEARS OLD, WITH MOST BEING ABLE TO READ AT ABOUT 3RD GRADE LEVEL! In addition, Did you know that children can learn things easier when they are put to silly rhymes? THEY CAN!
Another idea is from wisdom gleaned over the years in spiritual and emotional healing. Do you know that a lot of health issues have to do with emotional trauma or hurts in our lives when we were young? I’VE LEARNED THAT THE ENZYMES AND HORMONES IN THE BODY HAVE A LOT TO DO WITH PHYSICAL HEALTH AND WELL BEING, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, THE MENTAL VISION OF ONE’S SELF WORTH. Also, Did you know that your thoughts about these events in your past, KEEP YOU FROM BEING SUCCESSFUL IN YOUR FUTURE??? THOUGHTS CAN AND DO!
I know your product would help launch my businesses and hope you consider me and my ideas worthy of winning the “Ultimate A-TO-Z Information Marketing Brain-in-a-Box” course. I look forward to hearing from you.
Respectfully Submitted,
Wendy Harkins
September 20th, 2007 at 10:23 am
Hi Yanik! I have been a fan of your for quite a long time and am finally ready to go into the information selling business. I still fall into the 2nd category (Winner #2) you described above. I think that selling information is the best business because it is precisely what people want. Providing quality information that someone can use immediately is an awesome service. You can’t go down to your local Walmart and pick up proven sales letters for your business. But you sure can download them in an instant!
I have an idea that is almost ready to launch. It is information, but not internet marketing information. I can say that it isn’t a brand new niche, but I think I have found a way to appeal to more people and give them that instant gratification and assistance with their problem. I will be using the information in your package to add on to my original launch. My niche has a million ways I could expand with high priced products, but I definitely need your expertise and life experiences to help me. You have become such a great mentor for me through your products and I’m sure this one will be the best of all!!! I can’t wait to see it.
Once I get (hopefully win
the package, I am first going to read the Information Marketing Players workshop. My primary goal is to offer the BEST value to my customer, so I am very interested in putting to use your ideas for offering value as well as ideas you will give on marketing my product to get the biggest audience I can. Because I want to be able to provide high value to my customers, I am confident I can use your ideas to double or triple my competitors and still make my customers VERY VERY satisfied!!
Thanks, Yanik for all your work. You have helped me tremendously already. One day, I will definitely send you a testimonial. I’d love also to be a success story and testimonial for the “Ultimate A-TO-Z Information Marketing Brain-in-a-Box”!!!!!!!!!!!!
September 20th, 2007 at 11:03 am
I just launched my first information membership business. Information Marketing is one of the greatest businesses to be in because you can literally put in the hard work once and then set it on 95% autopilot and collect the cash flow. I would be willing to say that it is one of the few businesses that allows you to either be as involved as your want or as ghostly as your want to be.
Information Marketing as a business is also great because there are so many small niche markets that you can target and make almost a full time income. Few other businesses can really do that. I also like the vertical or horizontal shifts you can make with your market and create a whole new business for them.
The reason can go on and on and I plan on building many different information marketing businesses in many different markets. When it comes to your information, I know I don’t need it to succeed…
…but I also know that it would help me succeed that much faster. In this case my “succeed” is go get into the 7 figure level as fast as possible. I would use this information to take my business to the next level by increasing profit margins by making prices higher or creating products that can hold the higher price.
I would use this information across all of my business and see how much innovation can be done utilizing this and my own ideas.
Thanks Yanik keep bringing those videos… they are great!
September 20th, 2007 at 11:37 am
Hello Yanik,
1. Yes, after watching your videos and reading your blog posts, I strongly believe that your course will catapult me to the life style I am longing for.
2. The reason I am sure of my success is that your methods are proven over a period of time and have produced great results time and again.
September 20th, 2007 at 11:40 am
Well I’m just getting ready to start. I’m a sponge, absorbing all the info I can get my hands on. I read on the bike at the YMCA every morning and listen to audios during the day.
I want to sell info products because;
make them for free or very low cost
make a larger profit
sell it over and over
no storage of product
no shipping-send it out digitally
run the business on auto pilot even while on vacation
make changes easily
can resell in different formats
and can keep doing it over and over with new ideas
September 20th, 2007 at 11:41 am
Hello Yanik
I Have been trying to get started on the net for a while but have not found the huge success I had envisioned. I have several affiliate programs that I’ve tried to promote,but I guess I’m missing some rather important pieces
and I need help to put the pieces together to form a cohesive plan.
I would also like to create some products of my own to further capitalize on the branding part of the business.
Thank You
Edward
September 20th, 2007 at 11:44 am
Hi There Yanik
Firstly this is a truely awesome promotion, I’ve been a loyal reader of your newsletter now since purchasing 33 days to online profits some time ago.
I have tried affiliate marketing and the like, and from all of the information I have read to date, it seems like creating my own information product is the way to go. I am however definitely in category two of your competition here.
With that in mind, I have started to write a book (not sure if I will make it an ebook or publish it yet) that will be a 10 week “Rags to Riches” “how to” publication on the ins and outs of the Network Marketing industry. This is an industry that I have spent alot of time in and find that the system that I have in place is awesome except for one thing… it hinges entirely on a lead company’s ability to produce leads for my team… as my team has grown, they have not.
I was inspired somewhat by Mike Dillard, Tim and Tom with Mike’s “Magnetic Sponsoring” course and with their combined “MLM Traffic Formula” Course. Over the next few months there are several stages of what I will do with your invaluable information.
Stage 1
Finnish a 10 week FREE “Fast Start” guide to Network Marketing which will be used to give out on my lead capture page. This will be in the form of a daily newsletter (including links to relevant affiliate products of course.)
Stage 2
Market the life out of the Stage 1, developing a loyal client base & a recurring lead source for my Networking Marketing Team. (I will set up a Advertising co-op.)
Stage 3
Create the epicentre of Network Marketing. A Complete Guide from day 1 newbie to millionaire in {will insert timeframe once I have worked it out}. This Information product will contain as much as humanly possible about all facets of Netork Marketing.
Everything from Mindset, Goalsetting, etc right through to copywriting (I’m going to talk to you about a JV involving you Copywriting Book – or maybe even this now) and the countless forms of free and paid marketing, and even on to affiliate programs and the like.
Stage 4
Launch Stage 3 in a massive way. JVs, CPMs, e-mailing my by then rather reputable list, etc.
I do have a large learning curve to travel through over the next several months – it might even take me a year or more to finnish stage 4, but once stage 4 is finnished, there may be a stage 5, or by then I may be in a position where I can hire enough people and I’ve developed enough leaders in my network marketing business to take a holiday for a while.
However it works out from there on is insignificant… The main reason that I have taken the time to write this to you is because I know that the tools and resources… not to mention the invaluable content that you will provide in this course will reduce the time I will need to spend researching for the answers by a factor of at leat 20, perhaps even up to 100.
I really appreciate the opportunity that you have offered us here Yanik, and of course a testimonial in any for you would like it (mail, audio, video) would be forthcoming. (As there is no questioning that the quality of your product will be worth spending a month completing quality testimonials for.
Best Wishes
Dave
September 20th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Dear Yanik,
I have been saving your e-mails for years though I have never sold anything over the Internet. Been looking for something “real” that had some value to it. My son on the other hand has sold $2.5 million worth of product working out of his garage each year. I am very proud of him.
As most people do, I get 50 plus e-mails a day, trying to sell something. Most have little interest to me. There is the pattern though that leads to high value occasionally. Free teleseminar, half day free seminar and then a two day seminar or CD set that leads to the full blown deal. And some of these appear to have the ability to change ones life.
I would love to make that leap into a life that is both fulfilling and adds value to those I work with. I suppose the fear of failure keeps me back. Shortening the learning curve and avoiding at least some of the mistakes that are bound to happen.
Would your course and my hard work translate into another success story? Only one way to find out. Let’s go for it!
Sincerely yours,
Ken Guy
September 20th, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Yanik, I first started using your advise and bought “Instant Sales Letters” in 2004. I am studying the Glazer-Kennedy Insiders Circle of marketing also. That has helped my direct mail business tremendously. Now I want to really get into the info marketing business online. I read your emails and followed your work for the past 3 years, but I haven’t submitted to spending the money for your seminars. Now I am committed to doing whatever it takes to market online. I need help; I have been an info junky too long. I want to do and not sit idle while others grasp this marketing endeavour. I have lots of niches to choose from but haven’t a clue about marketing them online. Hope you can help me see the light. I spoke with you very briefly at the Glazer-Kennedy wealth creation and training seminar in Los Angeles, December 2006. I’ve been to a Glazer-Kennedy mastermind group meeting in Orlando, Fla. January 2007. They gave me so much info that I have changed my business model for the better. Now I want to master the art of marketing online and to make a 7 figure income. A 6 figure income was easy, how can I get to 7 figures in 2008?
Dedicated to my profitability, best regards,
Hal Hoadley
September 20th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
I have been dreaming of this for a long time. Tired of all the scams, I am now convinced of this. I now look forward to making a mark in my family.
By the way thanks for you 33 days to on-line profit course. Only in the 4th day though, but I have read and done a lot. I cant wait to finish and see what it will be like. No one will remain the same if you follow the instructions in this. Cheers mate
September 20th, 2007 at 12:22 pm
Hey Yanik,
Thanks for a chance to win your stuff! Been a client since your 30th Birthday Bash. Gave you the photo with Al Gore.
Really want to thank you for all the past help, and all the help to come. Share the wealth!
Best Regards,
Ray
September 20th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Hi,
After being active in international trade for many years I have been working as a business consultant since the fall of so called socialism in Hungary. As hundreds of thousands of people lost their jobs they were forced to be enterpreneurs without the necessary knowledge, experience, and capital. The result was predictable: most of them failed. Even now, some 17 years after introducing a market economy there is a huge demand to assist small- and medium sized enterprizes (SME) in their development.
I started to concentrate on business development and franchising and became an expert in these issues. I published several books and hundreds of articles, and studies, and lectured on several universities and high schools.
Unfortunately the methods were not too effective till internet was created and widely spread. I diligently read the sites, newsletters, and blogs of American experts on online marketing and tried to learn from them. Last year I started a new website called “franchise solutions” and sent weekly newsletters with expert articles to my readers which helped me to position myself as a number one expert to hundreds of companies which I would have been unable to have contact with. Some months ago I created CD-s on how to grow and develop a company which were distributed as cross-marketing with other sites having lists of SME-s.
In the meantime I created a series of info-products. They cover the whole life of a business: how to identify the success elements, how to develop a strategy, how to develop a franchise system, how to manage a franchise relationship, how to use the net for creating a business model etc. Now I’m going to launch the first one but I’d like to learn how to market them as a pro. Since these products are practically unavailable to us due to their high price this contest seems to be the only way to get a copy. That’s why I hope to be among the winners!
Michael
September 20th, 2007 at 12:27 pm
I have big products, coaching programs and a bootcamp (admission is a few grand) that gets great reviews and provides a decent ROI. But, I suck at marketing, promoting and packaging.
The attendance to the bootcamps are good but could be HUGE due to the topic (great niche with tons of people with money and the churn level is high). I also suck at building relationships with my herd. Let me keep this short. Yanik, no bones about it. I need your help.
I have the staff, money and resources to implement your system. And will personally commit to the implementation within 120 days or I’ll send the free course back. Who else will guarantee the application of your system?
I’m the guy you’re looking for because I’ll get it done.
September 20th, 2007 at 12:31 pm
Yanik, thanks for this generous offer. We appreciate your heart for helping others even as you continue to grow your successful business.
I’m new to creating my own website, but have worked FOR entrepreneurs over the past 2 years who created a very successful website with autoresponders. So I have the big picture of how it works and have seen all the pieces and now it’s time to do it for myself as they’re getting ready to sell their company and move on to other things.
I love the internet and how it can be used to sell information because it streamlines the way we can create useful information and sell it to an ever growing list of people.
No other brick n’ mortar business lets you duplicate yourself in this way. Plus I definitely understand that residual income is the key to financial freedom.
I’ve been soaking up the information from you and Jim Edwards in 33 Days, plus a few other key products and this course will complete the picture.
I’m only days away from finishing my e-book and have the pages to my website almost complete so this is perfect timing! I will use this course to expand and solidify the whole concept of information marketing.
Of course my big incentive is that I want to prove to my son that I can do it. My husband and daughter are great support, but my son says “Just get an 8-5 job mom and give up trying to start a business”. I say “NEVER”. I can do this.
Thanks again.
Kristy
September 20th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
Dear Yanik,
While there are a number of things, long term, I hope to do as ecommerce and internet businesses my ‘battle plan’ says that two primary goals must be reached before consideration is given to anything else. To get off the mark and into the game I want to do affiliate marketing. It will get me familiar with the mechanics of the business and how to offer items effectively. Second, I have an initial goal of net income of $3,500 per month. Until this goal is reached I will keep working with products and refining my site (or sites) until it is reached. I don’t know that I have seen anything by any of the gurus about concentrating on “getting the monkey off of one’s back.” I don’t know how one can effectively do anything until the financial monkey is taken care of. The economics of ecommerce from all aspects makes more sense than any other approach I have seen. Furthermore, it stands to reason that the better job I can do at marketing high priced items the better my chances are of reaching the financial goals set and at an earlier date. You have done an outstanding job of marketing high priced items so I am going to the best for my information. I assume that “How to Sell Super High Priced Information Products and Services” will show me how to do this. If it should take me another direction that produces the same end – so be it. If I should win it, it will be put to work – PRONTO!
Sincerely, John Fish
Sincerely, John Fish
September 20th, 2007 at 12:33 pm
I have been daunted by the ‘how’ for 2 years now. Learning an on-line system to earn a $3,000.00 monthly base would be a miracle I look forward to becoming a reality for me. Although an exceptional relationship coach, I have been overwhelmed with sifting through the marketing deluge of information to utilize a system that would create the on-line freedom I seek. With this knowledge, I would be financially rested and be able to focus more fully to guide my clients to reach their dreams. Thank you in advance for considering me.
September 20th, 2007 at 12:34 pm
hey Yanik.
I am a number 2 guy.
I have built a successful offline window and eavestrough cleaning business from nothing (literally, NOTHING, ZIP, ZERO) to up to $30,000+ per month within 4 years, PART-TIME. I now have 1 employee, and one vehicle.
And I did it all by myself. No free rides. No clients handed to me on a silver platter, and no ‘inside leads’. Hard work, and, more importantly, smart work. And I am doing it in a local market with literally hundreds of competitors vying for clients attention.
I know there are thousands of ‘little’ guys out there running their window cleaning businesses just like me, with very little idea of how to supercharge their results by implementing tried and proven marketing tips and methods.
My info-product will be a paid monthly membership website for these people, loaded with valuable, real-world, insider information, not the same old, boring, OBVIOUS stuff that so-called similar courses out there are offering people right now.
I’d love to make this happen, and I’m anxious to get going. Can you hook me up with your package?
September 20th, 2007 at 12:36 pm
Hi Yanik,
Selling information or “infopreneuring” is by far the most appealing and potentially profitable business in the world, in my humble opinion.
After being educated traditionally at the Harvard Business School, I now know the power of the material you are sharing. I also know that many Harvard MBAs would love to get their hands on it to create massive success. For one, I know I couldn’t put the material down when I first read your 33 Days to Online Profits ebook.
A few of the reasons why I believe information marketing is the best business include:
-Low start-up costs
-Little to no overhead costs
-Ability to sell globally
-Eliminates the time-for-money paradigm we live with
-Provides a great source for achieving financial freedom
-Creates passive revenue streams
-Allows for working from anywhere in the world
-Can leverage the direct response model effectively and more efficiently
-Enables the creation of multiple income streams of income for infopreneurs and companies
-Supplements offline sales effectively
…and the list goes on and on…
What I plan to use the information on is simple. I will use it to kickstart my existing information product busienesses in the graduate education market by introducing higher ticket items and events.
Additionally, I plan on using it to launch Xycology.com. This company, which is all about using eXtreme Psychology to achieve massive success, will leverage all the tools and techniques you are teaching and will reach $3M in sales by year 3. It’ll turn on the “oil wells” and bypass the traditional marketing funnel like you have not seen done before. I will take your concepts to the extreme…wait and see…
Best,
R Salinas
Xycology.com
The Cambridge Media Corporation
September 20th, 2007 at 12:40 pm
Dear Yanik,
As per your email, I am posting this to be entered as a participant for your free course seminar.
While I am a “newbie” to Internet marketing, I believe that the Internet is still in its infancy and recognize the tremendous opportunity it presents for an entrepreneur.
With your success and reputation, I believe your course could act as a mentor in guiding me towards success. I anticipate it could be valuable in helping me to start a new life somewhere else (anywhere else). Because most of the country has experienced “Katrina fatigue”, I won’t bore you with any details of my experiences (quite frankly, most people outside New Orleans/the Gulf Coast states find it hard to believe how bad the situation is even after 2 years).
Thanks for the continued tips offered in your regular emails,
David Thorn
September 20th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
Dear Yanik,
This is my first week full time in information marketing.
It has been my dream for at least fifteen years.
I spent the last ten years becoming a leader in my field and the last three to four years creating and polishing my products.
They include 10 DVDs, 13 CDs, 10 manuals and 9 books.
This week I have earnt $1,814.12 and I simply cannot BELIEVE how easy and enjoyable it was to do that!
AND it only took two or three hours a day so I can do TONS of studying on internet marketing and product development in the evenings.
THIS IS MY DREAM AND I AM LIVING IT!!!!
Why was I so full of fear and procrastination for so long! (And no I dont think it was the PEBs [Procrastinator Escape Benefits] of watching CSI and eating a tub of ice cream every day!)
Now I am simply BURSTING WITH EXCITEMENT and cannot wait to take this to the next level – Yanik’s ‘Ultimate A-Z Information Marketing Brain-In-A-Box’ will definitely help me get to this next level fast.
September 20th, 2007 at 12:44 pm
I have been in the information publishing business for quite a while, but it has always been to very tight niches. Let me explain.
I was a professional magician and mentalist for over 30 years. I was taught by the best and performed all over the country in schools, clubs, and private parties.
the info marketing bug took hold in the 1980′s when a friend of mine started producing info-products for magicians and asked me to participate. I took part in producing cassettes and then videos with my friend. He made money, I got every new product he produced.
I kept performing.
It wasn’t until 2002 that I started selling my expertise via magic dealers and Ebay. I had SOME success and then went on helping local businesses with some of their marketing needs.
Flash forward to August 16, 2007.
I started selling my stuff on Ebay again and was QUITE taken aback at the response! In no time at all I was making an extra $500 a week or more in sales. I started checking and tweeking things and realized that maybe I should just start selling via MY own website. Based on the comments I have been getting, I am selling way too low.
My experience in marketing my act is worth more than some products to entertainers.
This experience can be adapted for ANYONE who is selling a service. My ebay ids are wizardmg58 and backyardgazette.
Your videos opened my eyes to real possibilities to creating HIGHER priced products as well as just creating long-term income for a few hours work.
But let’s face facts.
My experience doesn’t count for a hill of beans if I cannot get the word out and get people interested. (Find a starving crowd) I am starting to develop a list on two fronts; one, with the Apple Macintosh users (wrote an ebook) and the performing community…. see http://www.millardgrubb.com
I’m on my way.
Your courses would not only allow me to create a massive income stream, but saw me countless hours trying to reinvent the wheel.
Just one more thing, I am getting ready to put out a TEST piece on Ebay to sell a very inexpensive product to the narrow niche of magicians. Hoping that I can get a good response and develop a list, I’ll then sell my NEW package, and THEN tell other Ebayers how they can do it too.
There may very well be a lot of money to be made, one way or another.
Warmly,
Millard Grubb
September 20th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
You could take the history of my internet marketing education right out of the memory of almost any internet marketers experiences.
I purchased and tried it all!
This business in not a get rich quick business, nor is it a business that you can get into and stay without a ton of hard work and long hours. The greatest benefits of internet marketing… especially information marketing… is that after all the hard work, it does pay off! And you can put the business on auto-pilot for a time and go on vacation, still making money.
It took several tries for me to find my niche, which was sitting right in front of my face. In my past life, I was a decorative mural and faux finish painter. I learned over the years many tricks for making the processes easy, cheap and fun. Now I am sharing my wealth of experience in video format.
It took someone else to slap me on the head to find this niche. It really is a no-brainier, but since I was and still am so new to internet marketing…. I couldn’t see the perfect niche.
The ability to focus is the hardest learned lesson. Anyone who is interested in learning about the business end of information marketing must pick just one mentor or membership or course. You must follow every instruction given in that course… to the end. Huge amounts of time are wasted by trying to follow too many gurus.
The beauty of following one mentor is that you get the benefit and full education based on their successful experiences. After the entire course of action is complete then… you can find and follow another mentor program. Using that information to change or tweak what you have already accomplished.
This business is all about keeping your self educated. You must be aware of all changes in the the internet works and how to keep you own business in the forefront… right in front of every potential customers eyes.
September 20th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Hi Yanik,
Iam just about the lowest of the low on the totem pole. I’m a complete newbie lost in the world of all these high powered people wondering wherever to begin. I did suss out quite a long time ago that information
marketing was the way to go but I don’t know how to get started. I have bought various packages which all start off telling me it’s as easy as pie and costs next to nothing but when I delve a little further into them I find it is not as easy as pie and the costs can be higher than I had been led to believe. If I could only get started then I could duplicate and hopefully I would finally be up and running.I really need someone or something which would lead me by the hand through the maze of getting started and then
continuing to learn and acquire more skills.Things which are cristal clear to
other people because they know all about it are difficult to me because of my lack of knowledge. I’m not boneheaded stupid but if you have never
been taught something it isn’t easy.I’m sure I’m not likely to be one of yourchoices but there must be more people out there who are just like me
and dearly want to get started but cannot. I would love to join your exciting
world but without training I can’t do it. Won’t take up any more of your time.Barbara
September 20th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
Greetings Yanik:
Thanks so much for the videos. You are the only one out of all the Internet Gurus that have made sense to me. I am new to Internet marketing.
My products are well researched and I have made them easy to understand and use. My products educate people in the fields of personal energy and psychology. I am passionate about my products because of the profound effect on my life right now. I use them.
My main focus is propelling as many individuals as I can to a life they desire, be it a successful business, a loving relationship, good health, fun, a new home, a new car, whatever….
For myself, my intention is to create a business to support my focus and make money. It’s as simple as that!
I have been dabbling in marketing and learning from everyone.
Thank you for the opportunity to win what I presently need.
Marie
September 20th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
Dear Yanik,
I need “Ultimate A-TO-Z Information Marketing Brain-in-a-Box”, beacuse I want to be like you.
And when I am reach that position then $18K will be small cookies for me to pay you back.
Whatdoyasay?
Cheers
Alan Seletkovic
September 20th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
I guess I could use this course more than anyone else. It’s impossible to make more money per time spent by doing what I’m doing now and I NEED to do it in order to help cover the massive medical expenses.
So far this year, my wife has had to have one eye removed, she had her back vertibre knocked 50% out of place in an auto accident and she got breast cancer. On top of that, I can barely stand up and need a back operation myself. Talk about a year in hell.
I’m sure this course will cost more than I can afford, so my only chance is to win it. I guess 1 out of 40-50 odds isn’t too bad.
Regards,
Don
September 20th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
Hi Yanik,
I’d like to share a story with you that happened to me a few years ago. I was inspired by you Yanik.
I had just purchased the Public Domain Riches product, went through it and was simply amazed by the public domain.
Around the same time I saw a set of videos on how to create directories. After watching those videos and just completing Yaniks public domain course I had an a-h-a moment.
Now, with all do respect Yaniks Public Domain course is awesome but I noticed it was missing an important element.
With my knowledge of the public domain and my new knowledge of directory creation I sprang into action.
I hired a few researchers at Elance to look for hard to find public domain sources online. I then put together a directory of hundreds of places you can find public domain material.
This information product was sold on ClickBank and this was my very first experience with information products. Needless to say it held the #1 spot on ClickBank in the publishing category for quite a while – beating out Jim Edwards’ How To Write An Ebook in 7 Days.
In the first few weeks my very first information product generated over $18,000… Wow, what a ride.
Oh, and I had nothing to start with, no JV partners setup, no advice other than what I mentioned and I luckily put out one ad that drove affiliates to my product. I managed to get over 200 affiliates from CB.
So, instead of advertising the product I sold the affiliate program. Smart move even though I didn’t have a clue what I was doing. It was all luck but I’m sure with Yaniks new product (I’m trying to win) you won’t be left alone and you’ll definitely have the information you need to guide you.
Thanks Yanik
Mike Hill
September 20th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Dear Yanik,
To tell you alittle about myself…i am 27 years old. I have been through my life with not much success as far as having a good job and so forth. I’ve always struggled with trying to figure out what i want to do with my life so this left me with attending college on and off for years. I really never had a desire to be a business type person after first graduating high school in 1998…but after trial and tribulation i have found that i do want to become an internet enterpreneur. I have found from my research that many ordinary people are making lots of money from internet businesses. I have always been the type of person that doesnt get caught up in the corporate hype of a work 9-5 and make someone else benefit. I am not lazy but ive always been the type of person that is always trying to find the best way to do something and make it easier and less time consuming. A automated internet business is the best way of doing this in my opinion. Doing something once and getting payed over and over agian is a very lovely concept. To be honest im not sure exactly what i will be doing to get started…i was hoping the course would help me figure that out. I know from watching your videos that i need to fix people problems and do things for them since most people are lazy. I have a vast knowledge on exercise and nutriotion so maybe i could lean that way, or maybe start an affiliate website to get some cash coming in. I am a complete beginner and would love to win your courses because from my research i havent found one negative thing written or said about you and you are one of the best in the industry. I feel that your courses will be laid out with much info, with great detail on how to become a success story myself. Since i am a beginner i feel that i would benefit 100 fold since i only have alittle knowledge of what i need to do to go about starting on online business. Thanks again for this awsome opportunity to win something that sounds amazing.
Sincerly,
Casey Williams
September 20th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Yanik,
I think selling information products is the best business to be in because as individuals we just can’t be the expert in everything. However, it may be true that we all know a little bit about many things and if this is a valid observation, then we welcome the great new industry of info products and internet marketing. Also, many people may benefit from this, new goldmine, if a true effort is made. For example, I have read many stories/testimonials about people going from broke to 6 and 7 figure incomes within a short period of time and it all started by sharing some simple, how to, info about specific topics to a specific group of people. WOW! No how cool is that? Well, I love it and I too will one day share my story. Further, I started reading material about internet marketing 8 months ago, starting with some of Mike Dillards products, Brad Wienman, Tim Erway, Tom Bell and , of course, now following the infamous Yanik Silver. In Addition, it is my goal to pursue a life of on-going study by utilizing your information products in a continuous effort to practice, study and teach. However, I will place strong emphasis on copywriting techniques. Also, I plan to market a simple, $5.00 ebook, via re-sale rights, just to get my feet wet. Doing this will allow me an opportunity to apply the information I will learn from your products, to my marketing and will ensure me a successful journey along the way.
Yanik, I appreciate you and all that you do to contribute to the success of others.
Thanking You In Advance,
Elise Blake.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Hi Yanik,
I just started dabbling in selling information products. At this point I am working with a web developer/programmer to build the site and pages I require for my project.
First of all the reason why I personally feel Information is the best business to be in is because it is UNLIMITED in almost every way. It is truly an open up your mind and CREATE business! Unlimited in Creativity, Business Models, Marketing, Niches, Wealth…Not just financial Wealth but leveraging your time and efforts and producing the Wealth of making Choices of where to allocate your time. Spending time with my 2 year old daughter and my wife is a HUGE Wealth that the Information Business will provide for me. I guess I should just ultimately sum it up with your words “Internet Lifestyle”. The Information Business is the best business in the WORLD because it can leverage you into the Internet Lifestyle!
Secondly…HOW and WHAT will I use the information in the package for… The first project I am working on I have partnered with a very successful Offline entity. He is a Trainer/Performance Coach/Health Guru that has been sought after and has been rendering his services to well known Corporations for years. PERFECT for the masses and deserves to be brought to the masses of Entrepreneurs that are out there on the Internet. He has UNLIMTED Content and UNLIMITED abilities to provide across UNLIMITED niches. The project will not only produce information products, but it will also produce continuity programs and High Priced Ticket Items such as seminars and LifeStyle Bootcamps. As you can see what I am looking for are things associated with the word UNLIMITED! Right now is PERFECT timing for me to implement every viable marketing idea, tool and/or tip that can be integrated successfully into my project from the Players WorkShop. The same goes for How to Sell Super High Priced Info Products and Services. Not only do I want to take advantage of selling lower end information products…I will promote products that go all the way up to High Priced Ticket Items that give Unique Value. How To Sell Super High Priced Ticket Items and The Players WorkShop will be the perfect companion for Implementing into my first project.
Needless to say Yanik….your programs would be used extensively, appreciatively and immediately!
Thank you for the Opportunity,
Ken Eller
P.S. I was a very active competitive 2 man volleyball player through my 20’s. I am now 34 years old and I would love to get back into it. The Internet Lifestyle will let me do that!!! Soon I will be ready for some pick up games…DC is not too far away from where I Live!
September 20th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Its funny because i can remember back in 95 everybody started to scream the internet the internet..like basic direct-marking fundimentals no-longer applied-Being a student of old school create a hard product marketing i should have know better.. Gary halbert bill myers type create a product out of thin air systems has not changed..i’m mad at myself because i got caught up in the hype..i have need of your info..its time for me to pull those products i have sitting on the selve and Go-fishing as you say Pick me And i will make you proud!!!!
Laurence
September 20th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Hi Yanik,
Thank you for this generous offer. Here is a little introduction.
I started out working on my blog site in May 2007 right after the World Internet Summit, the event got me inspired and wondered why am I not selling information products?
I would think selling information is the best business to be in because, most people are online for practically for 2 reasons: 1) to look for information, and 2) to be ready to make purchases.
And for personal reason, is simply because I want to create financial freedom, and help others solve their issues with my information, knowledge and strength.
As a web system developer, I truly understand the potential of the information business, because people look for solutions to solve their problems, to learn more about their interest and hobby, etc.
And setting up a website is not a problem for me. But what to sell and how to sell it is a challenge to me.
So right after May and early June, I started off with a little research and wrote a blog on self improvement and affiliating Anthony Robbin’s Unlimited Power Seminar, which was staging in Sept 07. I understand that it was a tough challenge for me, as I have limited budget for traffic driving, in fact close to none. Most of the traffic driven were from free traffic, from blogs and forums.
The event has just ended and got me a result of 2k of earning from the event, and ranked within the first page in the 3 major search engines, and generating an average of 100 unique visitors a day. These are things that I never have expected in the past.
I understand the fact that the results I have, may not be extremely fascinating to others, but this is definitely a great increase as I have nothing more than belief and commitment, and basically started everything from scratch. And I wrote an ebook just the end of last month, and will be selling it.
With a business background, I also understand to treat this as a business and not a venture, hence business should be on strategically and not opportunistic or tactically.
And your package came at the right time, because I was frowning on how to sell my ebook product called “Unleashed Your Power Within: Traits of Success”, and what price should I set, how to go about selling it, include free bonus or otherwise.
I believe the package is able to bring me to the next level of selling my ebook product at a much higher pricing, getting people to commit for the value of my offer. As well as to clear my doubt and obstacle in identifying the best possible way to sell super high priced information products. And instead of generating 2k, the information is more than enough to be able to bring in at least 20k, and sustainable income, which is what I am currently lacking off.
If I were to win, I will digest the materials and take action, and work towards the goal. And I hope to write you, my success case study, on the implementation with no craps.
Thanks again for the kind offer.
Regards,
Joyce Leong
September 20th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
Hello Yanik,
Within the next year, I intend to earn in excess of $250K via internet marketing and write a book on what I’ve learned about growing up poor and becoming successful. Already, I’m about half-way through writing the book, and I have a specific interest in publishing and selling information products (downloadable affiliate products, online search services, educational e-books, etc.). With your help (or not), I expect no “insurmountable” problems in earning the income.
I’m a university professor by trade, but I left a couple teaching positions a few years ago, and have been working at home (like you) online! I’ve already earned a lot more than I ever earned while teaching, and have gotten used to the idea of working for myself.
In another month, I’ll incorporate my own company (first ever) and I’ve already spent a great deal of money on educational materials (post-doc, so to speak), but with the help of your materials — I expect to be well on my way to earning $2 – $4 million within another couple years. I plan to retire in December, 2012.
For once in my life, I am at peace with myself and with my work. I have come to believe in myself and in my ability to create and provide useful services to others . . . which (as you know) will be the key to my success. I would try to “best” your other users above, all vying for one of your info systems. But, I am quite busy at present and can not/ will not drop everything I’m doing to devote the required time and effort into writing an article . . . no disrespect intended, I just need to keep my head focused on where I’m at. I hope you’ll understand.
So, I’ll get back to my work at hand.
I would very much love to be one of the two people you choose to get a free copy of your work!
Thank you for your time and thought.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
I am new to online marketing as of the middle of Aug. I purchased a couple of your products to help me understand the internet business. With out that and the help from the email coaching I would not have a website or an idea of how to get the word out that i’m online. So with the info you have has helped me and what I plan on doing with the info and knowledge that I receive from you I also want to help others out. To me that is the “most” important thing. The more you help the more I help the more everyone will make. So in closing I want to say “THANKS”.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Having not yet started except registering some domain names and purchasing other people’s products, I am really looking forward to starting my business. I have tons of ideas for products. The concept of creating a product just once and then being able to sell it over and over again amazes me. Plus, with all the software that’s out in today’s market, one can offer e-books in many different languages- WOW!.
To me, building an information marketing library is what I plan on doing. I plan to be a major source of niche products that people want and need. My website will be at the top of everyone’s list, saved and bookmarked!
Being a successful info-marketer means I will have more quality time to be able to spend with the family. Some of my kids are already catching the “enthusiasm bug” from me. I don’t know, it must be contagious, or better yet- viral- like I’m planning my products to be!
September 20th, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Well, after 7 months of research and picking out the cream from the soured milk in the information marketing guru field, im now putting together my own information product family.
Im still learning from the cream of the crop : Fred Gleeck, Dan Kennedy, Jeff Paul , Jay Abraham, the late great Gary Halbert and all the other names. Of course, your own reputation places you in that premier grouping and the four hour round trip I make to gain access to your internet copywriting course is higlight of my month.
As a seior IT exec I know two things : theirs no money ( margin ) in hard product and their is monstrous money in soft product. ( software ). I know anytime I create something for a hungry market, i am in effect printing money.
So, now I am working on my Copywriting skills – for me the true critical peice of the information riches puzzle – and researching my skills/experience market opportunity.
oh, and as a senior exec in IT I am also working on our e-commerce strategy ( or lack of – catalogue selling is not a strategy ) and creating a niche 2 step sales page-order process for our product offerings to prove the process. *My bet is that this will be the next battle ground for ecommerce – where a company wishes to exploit its competative value advantage rather than commit to a commoditie approach price war.
I am looking forward to your new course, and hope to be well placed to leverage both my business and that of my employer ( in the short term at any rate ).
Best Wishes to You and yours.
September 20th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
and what will it mean to me and mine ?
never sweating over a downturn in my industry or a nasty shock at christmas.
Being made redundant twice, both times in a downturn has me set on creating an independant income to match my corporate reward.
Not to mention teaching my children how to create their own wealth before they leave school will be my legacy.
Best Wishes
September 20th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
Hola Yanik,
This is my before/after success story – on a very small scale.
The Before: I’m 22 and graduated college 8 months ago. All through college I read every book I could on Internet marketing and entrepreneurship that my credit cards would allow.
I made every excuse possible under the sun for why I couldn’t get started, until I read an email by Stephen Pierce that smacked me right on the forehead – I had become an information addict.
I will never know it all. So, I got off my butt and took action 2 months ago. I originally had bought your Public Domain Gold Mine Version 5 for $497 in the summer of 2005. I didn’t do anything with it until now.
What I Did Finally: I dusted off the Public Domain and chose a book to sell.
I hired a graphics designer for $100 from Malaysia to make a minisite, book cover, and CD cover.
I used your Instant Sales Letters, as my mini-swipe file to generate ideas to create my own copy.
I bought a $10.00 microphone from Radio Shack, spent 3 days recording and editing the book into the audio program. I used Audacity, a free audio program to do the editing and recording.
I edited the book a little to bring some of the language up to date. I took another public domain book and created 5 bonus reports out of it to go along with the main product. I recorded those also in audio format with my $10 dollar microphone.
I then created another salesletter offering Master Resell Rights for the whole package..
As a test, I sent it out to a list of 1500 people, 27 people looked at the salesletter and two people actually bought the rights to it for a grand total of $144.00 within one week of the test promotion. I know this is not a whole lot of money, but that’s a huge step for me – getting off the fence and crossing to the line of doers. That was the easiest and hardest money I have ever made.
My next step: Joint Ventures. For three years I feared the wrath of the horrible monster known as Rejection. Just 3 days ago I decided to battle Rejection – I figured what was I waiting for? I had wasted enough time.
I approached 23 people asking if they would promote the master resell rights to their lists. I “cold emailed” the list owners. 9 people responded, 7 said yes, they will review a copy of the book before promoting it to their lists.
Two people said thanks, but no thanks. Even when they said no they gave me some sound advice. For 3 years I let Rejection beat me up and, finally, after 1 day’s worth of work and a little research, I realized this was the easiest and simplest way to expand a business. Tim Ferris said it best in his book – “Get used to doing uncomfortable things and they will become comfortable.” Something down that line.
I have another website in a totally different niche. I’m selling the entire website along with all of its contents where another JV partner has agreed to promote it to his list for $3000 and we split the profits.
Summary: I stopped being lazy/fearful, took action and within 2 months I’m seeing results, regardless of how small they are. I am now leveraging other people’s resources and putting all the material I acquired over the last three years to work. I’m not dabbling any longer. I now have a business, not a hobby, and the subject matter has nothing to do with Internet marketing either. .
How would your home study course take me to the next level? I would like to take a $27 dollar ebook and turn it into its own full fledge home study course that can sell for $297 to $997. I know the best way to learn how to do this is to model after someone who has already done it and is successful. Your home study course would be a solid blueprint for doing this.
Thank you.
Matt Santi
September 20th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
If you looked on my sight, you would see what I do, but also that I am very much a beginner in on line marketing…. but with great ambitions to be one of the greats! I have studied many of you guys and your sights over the last 7 months, dabbled and tried but just can’t seem to get the hang of it. While doing all this “studdying” I have got information overload and it seems no knowledge!! But in all this I have discovered that you are one I wish to learn from! Please let me win!
Thanks
Dan
September 20th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Hello Yanik, Missy, Zak & Zoe,
Gotta be a #2 before you’re a #1. I’m just discovering this freedom lifestyle and I am hooked already. Left the J.O.B. 5 months ago and dived into Network Marketing. Very limited success but that’s another story and possible idea.
So down to the WHY, HOW & WHAT:
Not to get too esoteric here, but our BEING would cease to exist without information. We are hardwired as information seekers and no matter what the input mechanism is we need, want & desire more. We’re all giving, selling, buying, trading, bartering & producing information everyday. So the answer is simple: Produce information that I perceive as valuable, so I can provide it to those who seek. Internet Marketing is the best way to reach the masses and at the same time provide a lifestyle of freedom.
Imagine that you have been given a flying machine, one that can lift off the ground and fly in the sky to distant places, please you, and accommodate your every need comfortably while in flight. Now, also imagine that by mistake you have been given an operator’s manual for a different non-flying machine and that your manual is useless for figuring out how to get your “super” machine airborne. You can engage the machine to carry out simple maneuvers–to move forward, backward, in circles, slow down, speed up; you just can’t get it to fly. So with this minimal understanding of its capability, you use it for limited travel–to transport you to the supermarket, to haul garbage to the dump, and so on. But you never experience the range of possibilities of your actual machine. Not only that, in the process of handling it the way you do, you misuse the machine. You misread the indicators which provide the information necessary to operate it efficiently. You mistreat it with your insensitive handling of it; you cause it to malfunction. In sum, you diminish its value. Eventually, you wind up with a used machine that you could have done wonderful things with if only you had not been ignorant of how to use it as it was designed.
Let me ask you a question Yanik: DO you know where such a manual can be found?
I want to DO wonderful things!
The List (So Far):
1. Introduce the world to man who is truly incredible but not present in our world today. (We worked on a book before he passed on but never published)
2. Introduce the world to the most talented glass-blower I have ever seen. (Her Harley sculpture is priced at $150,000)
3. A charity project involving chimpanzees.
4. A charity project involving animal rescue.
So there you have it the WHY, HOW & WHAT.
In Gratitude
Bob Sanders
My Favorite Quote:
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.”
Albert Einstein
Out of My Later Years
P.S.- For a sneak preview of the book I mentioned in item 1 of the list, just email me for some Normal Insanity:
Chapter One is a story about the mind. Its time of origin is between the 6th century B.C. and the first part of the 3rd century B.C. During this period, a view of the world, and how the mind works to make sense of it, emerged out of the thinking of the great Greek philosophers–Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides, and others. In flashes of brilliance that marked this “golden age” in our civilization, the minds of these great thinkers became a medium through which human consciousness was enlightened. But this enlightenment was highly selective among the people of the period and was far too brief. The brilliant vision of “how-it-all-works-together” was lost by the end of Plato’s lifetime (a time of great synthesis).
When we finally learn how to use purpose
to create meaning in our lives,
then our minds become “driven”
by what we value fully,
rather than by
what we “figure out” incompletely.
September 20th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
Hi Yanic.
I fit very neatly in to no 2. I live in London UK.
I just started into the internet marketing world this time last year. Well what a learning curve journey since starting I can tell you and i feel i have only just scratched the surface.
I have got web site on line via someone who had promoted building web sites for a specific niche as an affilliate. (which was pretty inexpensive) i Think that was his funnell entry product. But of coarse i have not learnt the in and outs of putting it together, but its a great way to experiment with google and all the other teckie stuff.
I have now got my own hosting account and able to play around with my site now that i have all the files for it.
Much of what i have done has taken a lot of time while making mistakes and learning. My background is that i was on the road as a roadie and tour manager for many years with rock bands, and when i came off the road at 32 years old, i married and started my own buisiness. First in transport and then Furniture shops and then in direct sales managment and training
Well all through those days were no mobile phones or computers so any bussiness that had to be done would have to wait untill getting back to hotels. Any way sinse coming out of sales i lokked at internet marketing 5 years ago, but then started in MLM, and came back to the internet as having looked a little deeper and found that only a fraction of the worlds homes were on line, it looked like a fantastic oppertunity that was only going up and up. Even if it took me a couple of years to get on top of it i felt i would not have missed the boat.
In between all of this past history i found myself as an actor and presenter which i get a great deal of creative satifaction from doing but no money, so even tho I love new and fresh challenges in at the deep end so to speak, i am an entrepenure and capitalist at heart. I dont mind how hard i work, i have always belived that if you work hard at something you enjoy then money at some level will follow providing you don’t give up.
I liked your oil rig analergy much sense indeed. I recently started your 33 days coarse untill my computer went down big time and lost everything. Another lesson learned. I have bought myself a lap top and just got reorganised at a higher level and restarted again.
Well that is about me. I work very well if i am able to follow a plan and that is what i feel your coarse will do for me in a structure which i like as an A TO Z of learning. In my short time exposed to this buisiness I have heard a great deal about yourself and your knowledge, which attracted me to writing on this blog. I do get an averlanche of emails and have to decide what to respond to and your track history is something i would like the oppertunity to learn from. So good luck to the lucky winners. Thanks for the chance to win.
Beric Wickens
September 20th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
I have had my accounting practise for 18 years and never have made a lot of money. I have worked a lot of hours. I started looking into internetmarking about a year ago. I looked at what Drew Miles was doing and found out he was telling people the things I already knew and had been telling some of my clients. I decided that I could do proactive tax planning for people on the internet. I know my tax laws, but I am having trouble putting together the whole marketing picture and learning the copywriting. I have listened to some people who got training from you and Dan Kennedy. I decided I would go to master instead keep listening to the students.
September 20th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
Why selling information products is the best business to be in.
Since 1996 “Information Product Gurus” have used my fulfillment service to distribute their Information products. Millions and Millions of dollars of them!
The price points of these products ranged from a few dollars to USD$85,000 for a full business system. All for paper, ink and recordable media such as CD’s and DVD’s.
It is the best business to be in because as your business grows the price you get for the same information expands at an exponential rate.
I’ve seen InfoProduct marketers start at a few dollars a product but once they reach USD$1000 for each product, they are comfortable doing so, it is difficult to go back to selling e-Books for USD$20.
And USD$1000 is not the ceiling here. Over the past few years I have seen boxes weighing 24 kilograms or 60 pounds, containing manuals, CD’s & DVD’s leave our warehouse after the purchaser has handed over USD$49,900 for the satisfaction of opening the box. Now of course there is a lot of coaching and mentoring and resale rights and private label rights attached to the USD$50,000 product, but at the end of the day it is just a box of “books.” Cost of production would be under USD$2000.
One of the marketers we had shipping out of our warehouse had product price points for information products that ranged from USD$2000 to USD$50,000. The products between USD$2000 and USD$15,000 were seldom focused on as it took nearly as much effort to sell a product at USD$50,000 as it took to sell one at USD$2000.
The person who said this best was Ted Nicholas …
“When I first started in the direct marketing business I was very fortunate in that I was extremely successful from the get-go. I started out with my first book, How to Form Your Own Corporation without a Lawyer for Under USD$75, was a raging success right from the beginning with the little small ads and then graduating to larger ads and direct mail pieces.
They were selling tens of thousands and then later hundreds of thousands of items at USD$20 apiece. And I brought out my second book and the same pattern happened. I brought out several books. And at that time, if you told me that I could sell Larger Ticket Items, I would say to you, especially if you told me I could sell Large Ticket Items just as easily as I could Small Ticket Items, I would say, “No, I think you’re telling me a story, because how could that be?”
. See, my belief system was if I had an item USD$20 to up to USD$70 it would be easy to sell and that’s what I would specialize in.
Well, lo and behold what I began doing is testing, after about a year and a half, two years, I started testing items at higher prices, USD$97, USD$197, USD$497, USD$997 up until the time I started doing seminars when I started out with a USD$7,500 seminar and I was shocked to find; but it’s just as easy to sell the Big Ticket Items as it is to sell the Small Ticket Items. But the beauty of selling Big Ticket Items is you can sell a lot fewer of them and make much more money”
What a great business to be in.
How I will use the information in the package
I’ll follow what is written, not take shortcuts or modify what I am being taught,
What I’ll be doing with it? To make the most of it I need to put the time to totally focus on implementation. So the answer to the question is I will be implementing the learnings, process and systems.
September 20th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Hi there Yanik,
I discovered your talent and experience just three months ago, and have purchased your instant sales letters and your advanced internet profits course.
Boy have I learned a lifetime of lessons in the past three months! My first info product is nearly complete, and with that – and your instant sales letters template – the sales letter will write itself!
My story, quickly, is that I have been working for an internet startup business, doing support, and it’s been floundering for the three years that I have worked there. We usually get half paychecks, and sometimes no paychecks at all.
I decided to look into starting my own ecommerce business after looking at my paycheck stub in July – my gross income for this year was only $12,500. And last week, my family and I hit rock bottom. We had $41 in the bank – yes, $41.00 – no savings, and less than a $1000 credit left on our credit cards, and our $1700 mortgage was due this past weekend.
Last night I took your knowledge and built myself a website (using templates), and this afternoon, I went down to city hall and applied for a business license. I want your Brain-In-A-Box package so badly because for me, there is no other choice.
I have a dozen ideas for hot ebooks that I’d love to share with you offline, and information for a 6-week online course that is guaranteed to turn you into a psychic. (There are schools for that sort of thing.)
Whether or not I win the package, I want to truly thank you for all the priceless information you’ve shared with me through your informational products. I’m starting with one small ebook, then replicating from there. With your shared secrets, I see myself living the internet lifestyle a year from now.
Many blessings,
Tammy Kabell
September 20th, 2007 at 3:25 pm
An accident has left me deskbound. 28 years as a general contractor came to an end and I am looking for a way to make a living that doesn’t involve my legs (I am still good from the waist up). I thought information marketing sounded perfect to me but so far I have not been able to make it work for me. Are you the answer?
September 20th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
I want to live the “Internet lifestyle”, because it will allow me to spend a lot more time with my two young sons. Also, I will be able to enjoy some of the other things in life that I am currently missing, because I am spending so much time at work. Internet selling is the wave of the future, that is currently here now !
September 20th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
Hello Yanik,
the lightbulb went off for me about 3 months ago. I was at a networking event and a friend of mine mentioned Dan Kennedy to me for probably the 5th time. So we’re talking, and he mentioned this talk in Stamford CT that he was attending. And one of the speakers was a GKIC member (Ted Lanzaro, CPA). Well, for one of my businesses (currently have 2, but none in the info-marketing arena, yet…) CPAs are the BEST contact, so I go online and research, and find out what GKIC is, etc. Order 4 of Dan’s books, become a Gold Member, etc. And that’s how I found out about you.
Well, that brings me to info marketing (you didn’t mention a word limit, did you? Haha). Anyway, my two businesses do alright, but alright isn’t good enough. And I can’t trade away more hours for dollars… that’s not going to work. There’s not enough of me to go around. So last year I began reading a bit about affiliate programs, internet marketing, etc., and bought a couple of e-books which were OK, except I felt like key chapters were missing from them. After reading and re-reading, I realized that it wasn’t possible to implement what they were describing. How can you run an affiliate program without your own site? But there they were, saying it was possible. Know what I mean?
So, after finally discovering you (and IMC) I came to the realization that an info-business could: 1) complement my existing businesses. I’ve developed an INSIDER’S REPORT for one of my businesses (merchant processing) that I’m using to create some Magnetic Marketing, i.e. create differentiation. But it could also STAND ALONE. I’m in the process of setting up a website where I offer the booklet (as an e-book or audio CD) for sale. The info in there can save business owners hundreds (and sometimes thousands) per year. And even if the people who order don’t become clients of mine (i.e. I’m not doing their processing), still I can make money from the sale of this info. So this particular info product is BOTH product and marketing tool. The processing serves as a kind of “back end” service.
Then, in reading more stuff on your site (and IMC), I came up with another business idea that would be based on membership, etc. I don’t want to give away the details yet (I know you said you want details, etc.), but it ties into my background as a high school math teacher. So my former career (haven’t taught in roughly 4 years) and passion has given me an idea to create this business opportunity as well. In this case, the info and delivery of info is the product as well, for a low membership fee. Testing the idea out with friends, etc., it seems that there’s a huge demand for this service. But the greatest challenge to me is my lack of technical ability (not a techie) and the need for SYSTEMS OF AUTOMATION. This particular business needs to be scalable, because I can see that membership of 10,000 is not improbable at all.
I feel your course is just the info I need to launch these 2 ventures (not to mention others to follow). Look, you probably here this all the time, but being a business owner has been good for my family and I, but not great. I need more flexibility and time for my family, especially as we’re expecting our 2nd child in April. So trading more time for dollars is NOT going to work anymore. With your “tookit” I’ll have the INFO I NEED to launch my own INFO business, where my effort can be set on auto-pilot (with only routine maintenance on my part).
I’m not sure if I’ve answered your 3 questions exactly, but I do believe I’ve covered the overall gist of it. I know people are making money this way. I know a SYSTEM is required to do it properly. My attempts in the past, though ultimately unsuccessful, proved useful in giving me some preliminary background knowledge needed to establish a “business without borders.” That’s ultimately what I’m looking for, and with your help I’ll get there. Thanks again for the offer.
September 20th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
YANIK, I WOULD LOVE TO WIN YOUR NEW COURSE BECAUSE I DESPERATELY NEED IT FOR FINANCIAL REASONS.I ONLY LIVE ON 623.00 A MONTH, DISABILITY. THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS.I JUST WANT A REAL CHANCE AT CHANGING MY ENTIRE LIFE FOREVER.
September 20th, 2007 at 4:01 pm
Dear Yanik,
Is it possible for a post-menopausal 50 year old women to chart an online money making destiny that yields millions? The answer better be “YES” because that’s exactly what I’ve decided to do.
Aye, here’s the rub; just how do you do that?
I’ve decided to jump in the internet swimming hole Yanik but am a bit naked without all the information. Remember those days?
I am an ex insurance specialist who has already written a book (information product) on a specialty line of insurance. It targets the U.S. boomers and since I used to work in this line know that it’s a real niche. I’m going to sell my “ultimate consumer buying guide” but would probably sell it a lot faster and make for a great testimony with help from your tutoring and package.
I can see it now (with my binoculars) off in the distant – my first oil well. Drilled, drilling and then striking pay dirt with cash coming out the top! Yeh-Haw! Right next to my big oil well are my little continuity wells – this one, that one and then the next one.
Yanik, should you choose to accept your mission – the mission of gifting an aging yet visionary wildcatter the goods – then I promise I will eat your material, digest every morsel and then commit to each step so as to create lasting success for myself and a glowing testimony for you. Just the thought of it leaves me rippled with excitement.
Enthusiastically yours, Lisa the Nevada Gal
September 20th, 2007 at 4:22 pm
Yanik,
Did you know that
“3 in 10 women are abused?” (BlueShield Foundation)
“The highest rates of intimate violence affects women ages 16 to 24?” (Bureau of Justice) and that “A child’s exposure to the father abusing the mother is the strongest risk factor for transmitting violent behavior from one generation to the next?” (American Psychological Association)
Yanik, did you know that time and time again, the media reports that the victims such as Tynesha Stewart (Texas A & M Freshman, strangled, dismembered, and bar-be-qued on pits on former boyfriend’s balcony porch, March, 2007, Houston, Texas) were not empowered to know the red warning flags.
I wish you could have been there when I talked with her elderly, frail, adopted grandmother in her wheelchair shortly after the murder. Normally vibrant and vivacious, Genevieve Jones was sad all over. All because her adopted granddaughter did not know some red warning flags?
I have written two books – one for the Christian market (More Than 1,000 Questions Every Couple Should Ask Before They Get Married – available at lulu.com) and one for the secular market (Date A Hero, Not A Zero – not at the printer’s, yet) that have major red warning flags and much more. These books open the door of communication and help someone really get to understand what makes their Cinderella or their Prince Charming tick. Many will find out they are dating the wicked step-sister or the toad and will be empowered to get out of that relationship and to find their true Cinderella or Prince Charming.
The need – to get that information out where every high school and college student and those that are not in school can have access to it, regardless of social-economic level. The internet reaches 24/7 around the world with no time nor geographical limitations.
From reading intently the information you describe and listening to the videos you have so graciously put up and send out gratis, I believe your program would supply the tools to be used to reach young people. Everyone can refuse to volunteer to be a victim and can actually go from being an abuser, if they are one, to a hero.
Yanik, who knows, perhaps this information may directly affect the live or lives of someone who know and love. Or somebody’s somebody.
September 20th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
“A sincere thanks for ringing the bell.”
It’s the bell that goes off in the head that is rung by the “little voice” that talks to you in your private thoughts.
I have been self employed for the past 25 years. Sept 11th and the anthrax scare decimated my whole industry; 23% have had to go out of business, a fate that I also had to succumb to this year.
With a frightening, uncertain future not being the only difficulty to deal with (when it rains it pours), it feels like I am staying in the house of “murphy’s law” (what can go wrong will go wrong at the worst possible time).
Through serendipity I happen to hear a non-recent recording of a Yanik Silver phone interview. Well, my inner voice was listening as well and “rang the bell”.
The two and two that came together is that I could take the over 20 years of direct mail printing and advertising experience and apply Yanik Silver’s techniques with informtion marketing. The opportunities are plentiful with a terrific risk/reward. A bright spot in an otherwise gloomy picture. With your help, Yanik, which I would be very grateful for, I can make it happen and create a success from the present ashes.
September 20th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
It’s getting along way down the comments box now, so hopefully this will get read.
I live in a small Aussie outback town, which unfortunately is suffering from nearly 10 years of drought, so things aren’t looking great. My husbands’ job is secure for now, but I have worked as a casual for the last 12 years in various industries so I could be at home with the children more, but those jobs are not available anymore, even a fulltime job is hard to find.
So I have being selling seriously on ebay for the past 2yrs, for myself and occasionally for other people. The things I sell are one of a kind, so need to have an individual listing written, which is time consuming and I find that I am now spending 10+ hours a day doing all the work associated with it.
So my stay at home internet lifestyle is taking more time than a job…. that’s not what I want.
I know I need to create an info product that I then can resell repeatedly, working passively in the background earning money, without me sitting constantly at the computer, typing up auction listing, packing or taking photos. Look, I really enjoy what I do, it’s exciting when the auction finishes, but I don’t want to be a slave to it.
I have looked at the Public Domain and other info type books. Looked at other peoples sites who are selling info products, but I don’t really know what to do or how to do it, and let’s face it, I’m scared, what if I get it wrong, I need help, I need a mentor or the next best thing, I need their Brain-In-A-Box so I can refer to it, or pick their brain, (couldn’t resist the pun, sorry) when needed.
The Internet is “happening”. It’s ideal, it doesn’t matter where you are, it doesn’t discriminate on where you live and it is not dependent on the weather.
September 20th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Yanik,
I really appreciate the opportunity not only for myself, but for all others who are seeking a better life. Your attitude of helping others is no doubt a big part of your success and a great example to all.
I have looked into, tested, tried, and failed (given up) at several other business ventures over the past 3 or 4 years. They were not the right fit; I just wasn’t that passionate about them. My life is pretty good, but I am looking for more freedom for my family. I work out of my home now, but want to get away from being dependent on a pay check and working so many hours (12-14 on a regular basis including regular job and side projects). It would be nice to have some financial relief and not worry so much about later years. I don’t think I will ever “retire,” but the work I do now does not have a “retirement” plan (401k, pension, etc.). This is not a complaint, just a fact. Truthfully, I do not want a job with a retirement plan.
Also, I want to be able to help others. I see many people, young and old, just barely getting by. Some of them simply need to take charge and do more to help themselves. Others, however, cannot do better or do not know how. Please allow me to give you three examples. First, there is a widow (Mary) we know who has very little because she is living on a government check. There are things she needs, but cannot afford. We have helped her some, but not nearly what we would like to. Second, we have a connection with many people in the Philippines who are desperately poor. Some need money for medicine and medical procedures, others need money to send their children to school—lower grades as well as higher education. At times there is an acute need to help them buy food if a drought or typhoon hits. We give as our finances allow, and while it does help, we would like to give more. Third, there is a friend of ours whose mother (Delma) is in her sixties and still holds a job just to get by (divorced and lives alone). It is somewhat wearisome to her. I would like to hire her to work for me—where she could do it from her home on her schedule (basically a virtual assistant) and make substantially more. There are some others I could write about, but fear it will come across as phony and a blatant emotional play. None of this is. I am simply trying to give you details and let you know the resulting good your help can do for me and others.
Now to the actual business side of things.
In the past few months I have researched the information marketing field. It seems like the near perfect business model. I love the idea of doing something once and being paid for it multiple times and making money while I sleep, ski, tour a museum, or whatever. Another aspect that absolutely thrills me is that multiple streams of income can be developed from a particular niche (membership site, ebooks, audio/video products, seminars, books, etc.). The ability to leverage information products to an almost limitless degree is very powerful and, to me, extremely intelligent. The time freedom is also a huge plus. To be able to work from anywhere in the world is alluring. I would like to take my children to see the world while not neglecting my business at the same time. Information marketing fits this just right. Finally, I can only think of one thing more valuable than information and that is time. By providing people high-quality information, it will not only help them with a problem, it will also save them time because they do not have to do the research themselves. To help people in this way would be rewarding.
The information in your package will help me start a membership site that will lead to others. In the next month or so I plan to launch a paid membership site focused on families. I want to direct it at those raising children to help them counter-act the poor examples and bad influences with which they are bombarded every day. I also want to give information about the values on which this nation was founded that they can pass on to their children. Along with other information such as articles, interviews, check lists, etc., one thing I really want to do is develop lessons parents can teach their children at bedtime. I don’t care to give too much away, but they will be practical and useable.
As a part of the family site, and leading into my second one, I want to have information on home based businesses. It is a dream of mine to help mothers and fathers earn an income without being tied to a job. I want others to spend time with their children, go to their school and sporting events…to see them grow up. Essentially, I want to teach people what I have learned and experienced to give them a head start on their own business. Hence, I want to do the family site first, get it reasonably successful, then the home-based business site with quality, no-hype information.
The third membership site I want to start is for pre-teens and teens. I have in mind a social-networking site that is clean; one that parents can trust their children can visit without being exposed to trash.
There are several other ideas I have that will come after I get these going.
Yanik, your package will help me greatly in these pursuits. As a newbie, I need to learn how to best build an information business (products, prices, marketing, etc.), the pitfalls to avoid, and the best way to serve my customers. In short, I believe your information and experience can help me build an information product/service empire.
Again, thanks for the opportunity.
Steven Deaton
September 20th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Sure I want all the rewards of being a successful Internet marketer. I also must be part of this opportunity and history of the web. Without systems, software, drivers, traffic and the ability to create a buzz and a sale, there is no opportunity for someone to have the internet lifestyle (IL). Sharing, partnering, and passing on knowledge is the funnel that gives out the IL opportunity, does create the buzz, traffic and is life to the internet. Nothing happens without a sale, a sale=commerce, a sale=life. Being in sales is the noblest job in the world. Doing it on the internet, well I think we’re living history. This is the best thing that has happened for the little guy since we colonized this country. Think about it, one example; write an ebook, test it for a few hundred dollars on adwords, if it tests everything else is there to make six figures in no time. The barriers to entrance are so low, it once again truly offers the Mom and Pop Shop new life and hope. To me achieving some success and then giving back is a win, win for the promoter and the buyer, not to mention a win for the web and the future of this opportunity. I strive to be one of these drivers, someone that creates unique contributions to the development of marketing, the life and history of the web, and the opportunity for the IL in general. These are the good old days. Just like in the post industrial revolution the leading sales and marketers had books and history written about them. I believe this to be the era for internet marketers, history will write about. Will this be you? O yea… Buy Now! Call! Pick me!…
September 20th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
Yanik,
You once said that you don’t have to be the best at something, only the first, so let me be the first to say this:
I WANT YOUR “…BRAIN-IN-A-BOX” MATERIALS IN ORDER TO MAKE YOU MORE MONEY!
You see, it’s really very simple … I’m a genius at making other people money (and will give you some examples below). Therefore, I will be able to use your materials to make you more money by:
1) Proving that your systems really do work
Thereby providing them with the opportunity to give you great testimonials
Thereby creating a need for them to join your high-end coaching programs
2) Thereby making a boatload of money myself
3) Thereby enabling me to give you great testimonials
4) Thereby providing me with the money to attend your high-priced programs
5) Thereby creating the desire in me to join your high-end coaching programs
6) Thereby promoting your materials to my own clients
7) Thereby enabling them to make boatloads of money
9) Thereby creating a desire in them to attend your high-priced programs
9) Thereby causing them to tell their own clients about you and your programs
And so on, and so on, and so on!
So let me share some statistics with you, that I recently uncovered as I was thinking about rebranding 1/2 of my coaching business:
MY TRACK RECORD INCLUDES …
∑ Taking a position as the producer of a non-rated morning drive radio talk show in Los Angeles and bringing that show up to the #2 slot in the LA market in 9 months.
∑ Working as a marketing specialist for a non-profit performing group, and generating more than $1,000,000 in ticket sales (at an average ticket price of $7.00 per person) over an 18-month period.
∑ Creating and outlining two (2) product ideas for a Fortune 500 company. The licenses for those two products were issued in 2000 and the products were launched in 2001. To date, sales revenues have exceeded more that $450 million dollars.
∑ Accepting a position as an assistant at one of the top boutique talent agencies in Los Angeles and being appointed as the Head of the Television department one month later. (The average length of time for this kind of promotion is 7 to 9 years).
∑ Viewing the first season of the television show, Survivor, recommending to the head of the talent agency that we get involved in the reality television market and being told I could not pursue this avenue because “the genre will not last.” To date there have been more than 70 reality shows on television, with one company alone, exceeding $1 billion dollars in revenue.
∑ Recommending that our talent agency consider representing a young, relatively unknown, actor in 2001, knowing that he was going to be a star. That idea was rejected by the head of the talent agency and in 2002, that actor was named as one of People magazines “50 Most Beautiful People,” and has been nominated for 10 acting awards, including 5 wins!
∑ Suggesting that we cast an up and coming television actor in the lead role of a movie that was written by one of our literary clients in 2003, knowing that this young actor had huge star potential. That idea was rejected by the movie’s director, who instead chose to cast a Broadway actor in the role. When the movie began shooting in 2004 the television actor was named as one of People magazine’s “50 Most Beautiful People;” was named as one of People magazine’s “Sexiest Men” in 2006, and was also handpicked by director Steven Speilberg to star in one of his movies.
So what does all of this have to do with making you more money? Just one thing: my instincts are right on the money and I have great intuition when it comes to developing ideas and creating products. I’ve spent years doing it for other people, and now I’m ready to do it for myself.
Right now I’m working on a membership website for actors that is unlike anything in the marketplace. I also have ideas for two other membership sites, along with 30+ books (again, nothing out there like them in the marketplace) and three (3) step-by-step blueprint products.
You see, the truth of the matter is this: the ideas I have and the things I’m creating are being done without templates. And I’m tired! And, I’m also ready to let someone else lead the way for a while, and that’s where you, and your Brain-in-the-Box comes in.
I have absolutely no doubt that your materials will work for me, and help me take my business to the next level. And I’m ready to let them. I’m tired of being the trail blazer and reinventing a wheel that has already been invented by someone like yourself. I’m ready to let you lead for a while, and follow your step-by-step instructions to begin making the same kind of money for myself that I have produced for others.
And when that happens, you, in turn, will begin seeing that money in your own pocket, because now I will have the resources to attend your live trainings and high-end coaching programs in person, instead of bookmarking the pages for future reference!
Once again, it’s very simple: Your materials will enable me to make you more money – And that’s always a good thing!
Thanks,
Sharon
September 20th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
Hi Yanik,
Thanks for having this contest. It will definitely be a great help to any internet marketer starting out.
I’ve been seeing information products and squeeze pages on the internet since I was back in college. I always thought they were scams because most of them didn’t include their company names or contact info. And they talked about how much money I can make if I bought their product.
But a couple of months ago, a good friend of mine went to a Internet Marketing Workshop put on by Matt Bacak. When he came back he gave me a crash course on what he learned. After that I was hooked on the concept of affiliate marketing, email list building and info products.
I know the info product business is a big money making industry and I want to get in on it. It puts you in control, allowing you to build a business around what you are good at and have experience in. It frees your time, and your mind. No more worrying about bills, boss, commute, etc. It all depends on you. You decide how much you want to “work”. What products to sell and how much money to make.
I have a baby boy that will turn 1 in a month. And I have a goal to have a home based business, working 4 hours a day, 4 days a week. I plan to achieve this in 4 years…. just in time for him to start school. Information products will take me there.
I already have an info product in the works. I’d say it is 75% done. The ebook is already written; and I have the minisite template. I need to do some more editing and create a sales letter. However, I want to make it more of a “fish product”, instead of just a regular ebook. I know your knowledge will help me do it.
The content will help me learn more about list building, relationship building, product launchs, JV’s, and much more.
Good Luck to whoever wins this contest!
-Arthur Cundy
September 20th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
Hi YANIK,
Thanks for the Free Videos Online.
Very Thought & Idea Provoking.
Put Me Under the Winner #2 category
[A] “WHY” I think Selling Information is the Best
Business to Be In. Where else can a guy with a TINY
Bankroll, And a GIGANTIC Dream turn his life around,
I ask.
[B] “HOW” I’ll not only Read , Listen, and Experience
the Full Information, I’ll go one crazy step further and
actually APPLY what I’ve Learned from You.
Knowledge + Belief + Implementation = Success
[C] “WHAT” I’ll be doing with the information is to
build step by step the Best Thai Tours business from
mental reality in imagination to physical real world
reality. And in the process, offer the greatest value
and good to the greatest number to those desiring
World-Class travel to the Land of Smiles, Thailand.
(whether for Adventure Travel, Tropical Beach
Paradises, Golfing, Sailing, Thai Massage and Spas,
Medical Tourism, Fun Shopping, or even finding a Life
Mate.) The Best is a Possibility.
YANIK, Thanks for the Opportunity. I Salute You, Sir.
September 20th, 2007 at 7:14 pm
Hello Yanik,
Information business is the best business to be in because, its the kind of business that allows you to build a money machine that can run on auto pilot. And even more important, you can make a difference in this world. Offcourse depending what information you are going to provide. In my case its positive information that will effects peoples live. I am allready positively affecting peoples live but on a much too small scale.
I will use the information to transfer my ideas into information products and reach the biggest market share possible, by generating loads of traffic to my sites and providing the right information on the site.
Your training and teachings are for me the missing link. I am and always was an information freak. I just could not stop learning, and still can’t stop learning. I have lots of ideas all the time, and can generate even more if nescessary. The point is, what to do with all these ideas. Sell them? Write it down and leave it like that.
Finally I can do something with it, tranfer it into an information products and sell it big time. I came to this conlusion based on your free online videos. Especially when you came up with the “silly” examples. That motivates me to continue.
I have quite a list of products ideas. Maybe to much to just do by myself. I invented a new tv concept for hotels. I have it running in two hotels now, and its a success. I am planning to use this tourist tv concept, to generate traffic to my future websites. In other words I am going to reach people on the best moment, when they are on vacation. And trough smart advertising they will just have to go and look on the web.
I could write an e-book about this subject and sell it to hotel owners, because this channel indirectly increases occupancy of the hotel too.
I have at least 20 more ideas including domain name ideas. What is missing is what to do next with it.
I expect to find that in your seminars.
I would like to be more specific but that would make this comment too long. But later on I would be happy to share some of the other ideas with you.
Greetings,
Ricky
Dominican Republic
September 20th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
Hi Yanik,
I just want to thank you* for helping me double my sales online each year since 2001.
You probably don’t remember but back in 2001 I bought your 33 Days to Online Profits which, at the time, came with a free sales page critique.
Well, I sent you a sales page I just finished for my own product and you quickly sent back a wonderful critique with lots of great ideas on how to make it convert better!
Well, at the time I was $60,000 in personal debt (which you didn’t know). The critique you sent really helped give me confidence. It was just that little bit of confidence you gave me that helped pull me out of debt prison and on to real online profits…
What happened? My sales have DOUBLED EVERY YEAR since then and last year I made $513,000+
My next goal, once again with your help, would be to double my sales again to $1 Million a year, and your product is what will do it for me. I believe it will take me to the next level.
But … let me tell you what I would do if you did give me the courses for free and I meet my goal.
I will donate 10% of the $1 Million I make in the next year to YOUR favorite charity – so at least $100,000 would go to whatever charity you favor.
Marketing, what we do, is not all about the money, it’s about helping people. In fact, that’s the only way to make money for yourself.
As Zig used to say, “Help enough people get what they want, and you’ll get what you want”.
Best wishes for your success always Yanik,
- Dave
PS: * My wife and 4 kids thank you too.
September 20th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
Dear Yanik
For 4 years I have listened, learnt, and spent to no avail, it was half hearted nothing grabbed my interest. During this time I found I was spending a lot of time helping out family members, in an area I really enjoyed. I thought that is it, I would really enjoy doing that full time, this can be my niche product. I am prepared to put in the hours however, I find rather daunting not only the constructing of an ecommerce site, but
the SEO’s, and the right shopping cart etc. Yours are the only Video’s that actually play on download, the ‘Fish’ is my favourite. I am 68, retrenched, and I intend providing myself with a comfortable lifestyle for the next 20
years. To win the “Ultimate A-Z Information Marketing brain-In-A-Box would be fantastic.
Regards
Mary
September 20th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
Hello Yanik,
I am VP of a family owned business that constucts new custom homes and has it’s own Mortgage Company and Real Estate Company. I have been attending seminars and buying home study courses for years for the Mortgage and Real Estate Industries. I have been a member of the National Association of Home Builders as well as my local chapters and to date have not seen anyone with any type of substantial information products, especially any home study products.
My passion is to bring information products to the small to mid sized contractors. I have witnessed so many talented tradesmen attempt to become independant contractors only to fail badly. These failures mostly stem from the fact that these people are very good trademen but have little or no knowledge of how to run a business or how to advertise or even how to sell their services.
I believe your courses will arm me with the knowlege that I need to develope the products to help a great many number of these contractors in many facets of the buisness world.
The reason I think that information business is the best to be in: Quite simply, It’s the most profitable business dollar for dollar to be in. Where else can you create a products for so little and sell it for a huge profit over and over and over again.
Thank you Yanik for the great products and services you provide for each and every one of us.
September 20th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
Yanik,
First off I am happy and grateful for this exciting and awesome opportunity. Thank you.
I admire your attitude and philosophy. You have been an inspiration to me. As I see it your passion is your family and living life to it’s fullest. That is the motivation for your internet success. Your attitude shines through in your emails, your info products, your seminars and workshops. Keep up the good work.
Info products is the best business in the world because:
An idea can quickly become something of value.
It is simple.
No need for huge amounts of start up capital.
It can be worked from anywhere in the world as long as you have an internet connection.
It is conducive to viral and word of mouth marketing.
Info products can keep giving to the purchasers. It is not consumed, the customer can read or watch it again and again which gives it added value.
If you produce quality info products the customer is waiting for your next creation or recommendation.
No need for a big warehouse or office complex.
It is wide open to any and all niches.
How will I use the info in “Brain-in-a-Box”?
I will digest all the info you provide.
I will provide you with an awesome success testimonial.
I will use it for inspiration.
I will use it to take my business to the next level.
I will use it to succeed with info product business even while living in Thailand.
I will use it to create income to support my lifestyle.
I will use it to motivate others I come in contact with as it have motivated and inspired me.
I will use it to make the most of an awesome opportunity.
I will use it to move from dabbler to serious info product marketer producer.
I will use it to learn and grow.
I will use it to promote “thinking big”.
September 20th, 2007 at 9:26 pm
Hi Yanik, been following you for a few years and all this time I have lived off state benefit, about a month ago I had a brainwave at about 2 in the morning.
Since then I have been in the Information Technology business and have sold everyday on Ebay, your oil well video was a great incentive to me so thank you for that.
I would like to win your disc because I would like to leave my children an empire whenm I die.
September 20th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
Hi Yanik,
) and am in prelaunch with plansandpatents.com a site selling do-it-yourself plans and patents by category (aircraft, vehicles, guns, etc) for research purposes etc..
First thanks for this opportunity and please bear with me as I am going to step outside the box just slightly.
I stumbled upon your information via your reputation some years ago. I have seen you expand not just your profits, but your generosity both monetary and knowledge. I only recently realized you have a blog. It’s been very inspiring, knowledgable, and even humorous to read.
Anyway. When I read about you giving away “brain in a box”, I thought I would write to you why I should receive it and what I would do.
However, last night as I was about to write you, I decided to scratch it, rip it up.
A condensed paragraph about myself first, then the why I changed my mind about your free course.
Normal childhood, low income. Divorced parents. My mother struggled (I only realized how much as I became an adult) 2 hour drive to private school, junker cars, frozen pipes, and having to deal with my brother and I playing rough and visiting the hospital frequently from injuries. (lawn darts are not a good substitute for a baseball)
Skip ahead a couple decades. (I’m now 38) I cannot obtain enough knowledge, I thirst for it. I’m licensed and experienced in dozens of fields, and nearly self taught in every one. However as the years have passed I have strived to work smarter and make money using my mind more then my hands. I am a self taught web developer (not what I do for a living, just for myself and friends) and have Genericwebdomains.com (generic domain sales – I love domains
Anyway, that is where I’m at. Now the reason I decided not to “pitch” the reason why I should have your training materials, is that the person who needs it the most, the one person I would take a backseat for, would be my mother Pat Vandenberg. Not allot has changed in her life over the last 20 years. It’s been a constant struggle to make ends meet, and my brother and I do our best to help her, but I think she needs more, she wants more. She writes a very popular newspaper column, but it does not pay much at all. (literally a weeks worth of starbucks). She can be very stubborn and some weeks will not even tell us she has no money for groceries or gas.
Lately she has been asking me about what she could do online, how she could make some extra money. I have been tossing the idea, and I think your materials could provide her the knowledge and inspiration to feel confident enough to go online and make and create something for herself, that she enjoys doing. The exact product I do not know. You could teach her far better than I ever could. I still have plenty to learn to reach your level of knowledge regarding an online business.
I know your basic rules asked for someone to write this themselves, however your deadline is only a few days away and I don’t think my mother understood what I was trying to have her do here on this blog, (truthfully, she doesnt really know what a blog is) so I am writing for her, and requesting for her, even though she is not quite aware of it.
Writing email, or on a blog can often be very impersonal and lacks the emotion and understanding that speaking in person relays, so I will just say to you straight, this is not a plea of poverty, or oh the poor women. I simply believe Pat Vandenberg (mom) would have more to gain from this than I. Not just monetary, but it would be emotionally uplifting as well.
I am flexible and can stand on my own two feet, mom could use what your materials could provide more so than I.
This info is easily verifiable and I will give you her email if you request. I do not wish to post it publicly.
Thanks Yanik for your time.
David
September 20th, 2007 at 9:38 pm
I have no experience in internet marketing which I was introduced to recently by an affiliate. I am planning to create some mini-websites. I am planning to do the sites related to my passion which is health education marketing and health products.
My passion is diabetes education related to diabetes prevention. I can make e-books on the real effects of statin drugs, 12 steps to preventing diabetes, the enzyme solution. The importance of quality sleep, etc. My e-books will help many seeking answers to find real solutions to their health issues.
I am very grateful to you and your affiliates for your help and for sharing your expertise. I look forward sharing my expertise on the web.
Agnes in Chicago
September 20th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
I have a blog on happiness – htttp://www.HappinessStrategies.com/blog – and l’m developing products on happiness and coaching.
Your package looks fantastic. I’d love to pick your ‘Brain-in-a-Box’ as I work my own material!
September 20th, 2007 at 9:51 pm
Hi Yanik,
I will use the information to finishing developing all the awesome Public Domain Information that I have found at antique book stores and from estate sales that I found since purchasing your home study program on “Public Domain Riches”.
When I make some big bucks from that I will finish the “best” and most successful, complete phonics program available anywhere in the world to teach reading in English to children as young as 2 years old all the way to anyone at any age… complete literacy…fun and easy too (that is one of my goals that I have a passion for and talent to deliver!)
I will also fund my wood working expert to make the sets of birch hardwood boxes to hold the phonograms in various categories…in such a way that anyone could use it as a “fish” product to teach reading perfectly just by going in the sequence already built for them. ***I will also do the same thing for the four operations in math, with boxes, cards, etc. and make children happy to learn!
I will also pay the publishers in Hong Kong the second half of the money I owe to finish the children’s book that I wrote and had illustrated.
I will use my newly acquired copywriting skills to republish my serious book that I wrote and self published through Authorhouse under the pen name of “Victoria People” (change the title to a hot Headline)
I will have the second children’s book that I wrote illustrated and published too.
I would love to give Frank McKinney $10,000 to build 2 houses in Haiti. I would love to attend his event in November…if I could put up a landing page with some of my public domain treasures…launch it… and see what miracles could manifest immediately!
I love what you do and your style of allowing your customers to get to know you. Your children are adorable!
Thank you, Adella andpugh27@hotmail.com
September 20th, 2007 at 10:59 pm
Yanik:
I would love to win your “Ultimate A-TO-Z Information Marketing Brain-in-a-Box” course.
First a little background. I helped start a tugboat business. My ex husband and I built it up from nothing. The business was started with a $50,000.00 tug. In the beginning we had jobs where the refrigerator broke away from the wall and tried to attack the deckhand. We kept on tugging. One job involved towing a ferry that was to be scrapped. A good customer recommended the company that hired us. While the tug was underway the customer insisted on riding the dead ferry. They tried to scuttle the ferry during the tow. What a mess that was. This business became a fleet of tugs and made good money. The one mistake we made was letting the company become all-consuming. It consumed my marriage when my husband fell into a home wrecking hores hole. Sorry about the language.
After the tugboat business I started a wedding favors site. The site is aweddingfavorite.com. The wedding favors problem is that you have no repeat business. The profit margin is low. It relies on volume. My Next project is a weight loss pill. I am having the diet pills manufactured and need to learn how to drive low cost traffic that converts.
I would like to branch out into hungry niches that have problems. I want to provide value and over deliver. I would love to use your course to help me start an information business. Your course would bring me up to the next level of business. I want to develop backend products, and membership sites. I will develop a lot of oil wells; I aspire to the Aston Martin club and the Internet lifestyle. I have only been on the Internet a year and I would love to be guided by the best. Please be my mentor.
All the best to you, your lovely wife Missy, your children and family
Thanks and pick me
Cathy
September 20th, 2007 at 11:25 pm
Hi Yanik,
I`m not so good at writing but I guess I would give It a try.
First I like to thank you for opening my eyes to something I did not know.
I`m a member of a team that markets information for $5,000. and I just could not believe that people pay that kind of money for information.But now since I have watch your little intro movie I don`t care If I don`t win because the value I see In your course I feel bless to be able to give you what you want for the course.My real reason for really writing to you is to tell you THANK YOU SO MUCH for making this information available to me and others who are in the internet marketing business. Keep up the good work Yankie Silver.
GOD BLESS YOU !
ERIC CROSS
September 21st, 2007 at 1:01 am
Hi Yanik,
I have been working 14 to 16 hours a day to get an internet business up and running. I know that the Internet Lifestyle Course would be very instrumental in getting my business online quickly.
I like the idea of thinking outside the box and getting ahead by using the simple and effective ways taught in your courses.
I think its very vital to advance my knowledge in marketing and selling online. The example of the oil wells for instance…Great metaphor.
I believe that with your content and the information in your course would enable me to build a internet business that would enable me to give back monies to those who are in need around the world.
I
September 21st, 2007 at 1:03 am
First off, Congratulations Yanik on throwing together one of the best contests that I can remember in the last several years!
I would like to start with a bit of a back story to myself. I am 24, engaged to my girlfriend of 8 years, and hoping for a baby in the next year or so.
I got my information marketing start a few years back when I ran across Yanik’s Underground Seminar, and I read everything I could that he put out, to the point that my girlfriend said I had a ‘man crush’ on Yanik. Not funny >=(! Anyways, I started applying bits and pieces of each course I could get my hands on to whatever project I was working on at the time.
For example, when I tried to sell my old used Ford Escort that had well over 150,000 miles on it and had only one working gear in the transmission, I turned to Yanik and his techniques for copywriting. I followed step by step one of the examples he had put together on how to write copy that basically forced people to pay attention to what you had to say, and I was not only successful at selling my car, I got $300 more than I was asking for it! When I asked the gentleman who purchased it what made him buy it, he said that the ad was just so entertaining he couldn’t help but contact me. I asked for further details and he explained that while he had seen cars for a lot less than mine, the ads all seemed ‘robotic’, and seemed to lack personality. He said that my ad had both personality, and was so descriptive that he didn’t even need the pictures I had included in the ad.
I later took these same techniques over to eBay to sell off some of my old courses, and was able to pull in over $1000 in 4 days with 5 auctions, at a time when I was making less than 700 every two weeks at my stereo sales job. All of this was due to writing exceptional copy, and without Yanik’s help it would not have been possible.
I later went to apply the same copywriting techniques to a product launch I had spent the better part of two years planning, and made the leap to launch it without a list or partners. I managed to get over several thousand hits within days of it being up through my copy, but only one person bought it. Why? Lack of knowledge. I know my copy was great, but hey, without a list your a fish without water!
I have went through several jobs in the last several years, and always have to look at myself in the mirror after I lost each one. Even when I got my last job at one of the major retailers well known throughout the world, and thought I was doing great, I was told I was going to be let go in a week and there wasn’t a chance for improvement, no matter how hard I tried. I stayed at work for over a hour sitting in my car after finding out that information, just thinking of a way to tell my future wife that yet again, I had failed.
I left there and went to a sales job, and could absolutely NOT rip people off. We charged well over the retail price on everything, and when someone asked for a deal I gave them one. It wasn’t to rip off my company; since we were allowed to offer discounts. On the contrary, it was to boost sales since I had been one of those customers before. I’m sure even someone like Yanik has been there before he got successful : Looking for just enough money to get that one thing that you just have to have. My bosses hated the idea, and I realized that if you over charged and ripped people off, it was rewarded better than if you were recognized by your customers for your hard work and dedication to helping them get exactly what they needed.
After losing that job, I was back to ebay. Sadly, this time I had to sell off everything just so we had a place to stay for another week. I ended up selling off my old Jay Abraham books, my old one of a kind rare books that I had been saving for my future children that I had purchased years ago, and everything else that meant anything to me.
I honestly hit rock bottom and couldn’t find a job during that time either. I was depressed daily, and hated even waking up anymore and was just miserable with everything. I couldn’t even look Michelle (my girlfriend) in the eye anymore because I was ashamed that I was no longer the provider and couldn’t even get us money anymore. Then our car was involved in a accident, and we took it back to the place we got it to get it fixed. Since it was a repair they had screwed up on, we figured it was covered. It wasn’t; they blamed it on us and said they weren’t paying, and when we went back to get our car we were treated horribly.
Most people have the luxury of being able to trade their car in, but I don’t. I owe 8,000 on a car that is going to end up costing me 19000, and it is blue booked at $6000. How did this happen?
When I was 17, I moved to Colorado to be around Michelle and due to the change in climate and not being used to cold weather (I am in Arizona), I got very sick. I ended up with bronchitus and a severe pneumonia, and almost died since fluid was filling my lungs. Needless to say, my hospital bills hit me since I was 18 at the time, and I had no way to pay them. I have been cursed with over $5000 in bad credit, and due to nothing more than being sick. It prevents me from getting a car, a house, or anything else. It really sucks, to be honest.
I honestly think that info marketing is the best line of business to be in because of the time you get, both to yourself and your loved ones. You pick your hours, and you answer to yourself. If you have kids, you can still pull in a huge windfall using this method of business. If you were involved in any kind of accident, or can no longer work, the same is also true. Heck, if you just want to be able to show that you are very knowledgeable in any given field, info marketing will give you the ability to be an expert (Seriously, Yanik is known as one of the best copywriters, and there are many others who are well known for different things, and its all due to info marketing products!) I look at people like Yanik who are able to generate millions a year, or Jeff Walker, and realize that their kids will always have the best life by their dads’ being great at what they do, and they will never go without anything in life. I want to be able to do that for my kids, and I firmly believe that info marketing would allow that.
Lets say that Yanik’s course arrived on my doorstep on the 24th; how could I use it to get out of my current problems, and start building the methods to wake up to hundreds of dollars in my bank account EVERYY day?
Well, for starters, Yanik doesn’t write ‘fluff’, he writes genuine material that works. If he didn’t, people wouldn’t keep lining up to buy his stuff. Everything I have ever used from him produces results, and that is so hard to find in this information age. My first course of action would be to take my phone off the hook for a few days, close the blinds, and digest all of the information TWICE, a second time just to make sure I got every tidbit of info I could muster.
Then I would put my knowledge to work on day 7, and monitor my results. I have seen and done this before with Yanik’s older stuff…Given 5 days I, or anyone else, can use any of his methods and pull in twice their normal income. Thats just with ONE method in most cases!
What would I do with a new cash flow? For one, pay off rent and move to a new house, not an apartment. I do not want to raise a family in a apartment, but a house. Kids need a house to come home to, and I would love to watch my kids grow up in a safe house, rather than the crime infested apartments I’m at currently.
Secondly, I would pay off my car which is in horrible shape, and buy a current year car, which was ranked high on the safety ratings and could hold my children. I seriously plan that far ahead! I currently have a Pontiac Grand Am, and it is NOT a family oriented car. And judging by the fact that a headlight fell off and blew my tire out, I highly doubt a car hitting it wouldn’t cause horrendous damage to anyone inside!
Third, I would set up a fund with my bank so every month I could deposit half of my money towards my kids school funds. I have been planning their future for the last several years, and just haven’t been able to do anything to achieve the goals I had planned. With this, I believe I would be able to.
I would also finally get married, something that I have wanted for the last 4 years, but never had the money for. And lastly, I would go back to high school and get my GED and take a college course I have had my eye on for the last 2 years. I want my future wife and my kids to be able to see their dad as a well educated person, something that I don’t see myself as and, sadly to say, think everyone else don’t see me as either.
But heres the main question : How would I use this information?
I have three ideas that I have briefly mentioned to a few ‘well known’ marketers, and have heard great feedback about them, since none of these ideas has ever been seen put to action, and every one can pull in 6-7 figure paydays, both for myself and my affiliates. I would put those to action using these techniques. Also, I would write courses for those areas out there that I believe truly need help.
For example, I know of one electronics area that has yet to have any quality materials written for it, and it pulls in well over 1 million dollars a day on ebay. Oddly enough, I know more about this than anything else and would build my how to video course using Yaniks techniques within days of getting his courses.
Then I would use his methods for generating a list and market it, and his methods for scarcity so that I sold out within a day of launching. How do I know this course would do that good? Because I have did years of research and know that I have a winner in my head, and once this cats out of the bag, its going to be big
Lastly, I would write a course for all of those people out there in the same boat as me; broke and wanting to achieve more, and be a hero in their kids eyes. I would make a easy to follow ‘recipe book’ with techniques mostly meant for stay at home parents, but usable by anyone, to generate money within a short period of time.
And you know what? Regardless of whether I win courses or not, when I launch this product I will send Yanik a copy of each one since I owe him that for all his methods have did for me in the past! I truly believe that this course will benefit whoever wins it, and with either one of these courses the winner will be able to generate a lifetime income using the methods listed inside. Good luck to everyone, and Yanik; thanks again for making another golden nugget in this age of useless information. It looks like you have another guaranteed winner on your hands!
September 21st, 2007 at 1:20 am
Hi Yanik
Firstly thank you for the opportunity to win the ultimate prize.
I have been learning internet marketing for the last 9 mths and it has been a roller coaster ride. Fortunately I met a very nice American who has taken me under his wing and become a mentor in what I have found to be a very crazy niche.
I have had an idea from the beginning which is to create a place where women can source internet marketing information in a ‘non hype’ non threatening and completely friendly approachable environment.
I love the internet and there is alot of very smart and talented woman who have decided they want to have ‘lifestyle’ choices. They want to be their own boss and they want to spend time with their family and I believe Information Internet Marketing is a niche that affords women this luxury.
I noticed Barbara Brooke’s response above…
I am just about the lowest of the low on the totem pole. I’m a complete newbie lost in the world of all these high powered people wondering wherever to begin. I did suss out quite a long time ago that information
marketing was the way to go but I don’t know how to get started.
I want to be the person who creates the safe, honest, trusting learning environment for women like Barbara who really want to have a go but find the whole ‘getting started’ process completely overwhelming.
I come from a training background and I have noticed whilst learning internet marketing that there are some very, very smart internet marketers out there but some really really bad ‘teachers’. People just can’t help but talk lingo, or create thousands and thousands of one page product websites promising millions overnight. They have forgotten what it was like when they were first starting out and that some of their target audience have no idea what they are talking about.
I want to make learning how to create info products, selling them, marketing them so easy that people really have fun doing it. I love internet marketing. I find it very challenging and yes I have had some success and some slow patches but helping others to achieve the same passion and learn how to be successful in this business would be really rewarding. So I am now in the process of turning that dream into a reality.
People may say that the ‘newbie’ market is over saturated. But it just takes someone to put a different slant on this niche to be successful and I know I have the skills, drive, mindset and resources and passion to be that person.
I also believe Yanik that your products would help me to assist those who want to fufil their dreams of owning their own info product internet marketing business, which is why I am entering this competition.
Being successful is not just about learning but also helping others to be the best that they can be. I would like to use your fantastic prize to accomplish both.
Wish me luck.
Thanks so much for the opportunity Yanik. You make internet marketing a lot of fun and are one of the very few honestly successful people who have learnt the gift of tutoring others.
May you continue to be successful and share your knowledge and gift for this business with others.
Take care.
Pam
September 21st, 2007 at 2:00 am
Hello, Yanik I have followed your success for some time now. I do not have much education to speak of but i was a journeyman plumber. Six years ago i took a bad fall that left me two bad knees. A few bad discs to top it all off the found carpal tunnel. Know cry babies here… A computer, what is that…. with know income in over two years, know education, insurance adjusters, lawyers and S.S. nobody knows the fears of a mortgage , a family, and a ton of bills. What is a man to do……Well, get a used computer, What, i learned first, was…. i can still type….. The internet ..WOW!!! What a bunch of crooks. Everyone wants blood and water. I just need a little help. some one anyone. But, i want the best. I tried writing e-books, promoting other web sites, and bought e-books myself. But, was always disappointed. they would promise one thing and try and sell you something else. I read some of the hype , other were writing about what they would do if they had your program. I have tried shawn casey, robert allen ect. they all want more and more but i never learn the market. I believe, you have one of the greatest programs provided. I need to make money, my life and family depend on it. What, more could anyone person say. is that “information is the future” But, without the “right” information you will just be hitting a brick wall over and over again. So, send me this free program.. and i will promote this info. and share my thanks to others god bless Michael
September 21st, 2007 at 2:08 am
Yanik,
I have very much enjoyed watching your videos regarding high priced product sales. I have listened to you for years, and have been on conference calls years ago with you. You are one of the most credible gurus out there. I was in Jay Abrahams mastermind course, I was a member of Dan Kennedy’s insiders group, and have been following Dave Dee and Kevin Thompson’s course on selling information. I know there is a ton of information out there that could be researched and packaged. And having your own product on Clickbank is a home run, or selling it as an intro into mastermind groups. The money is in doing the boot camps and making people feel they will increase sales 500%, like Eben Pagan is able to do. As I understand it, much of the information is already out there. It can be located on the internet. The Secret (Law of Attraction) is really one of Brian Tracy’s 12 laws of achievement. I could have packaged that. I have taught it to my anger management group several years. If someone wants information on Black Mold, they can find it, yet they may well pay big bucks to get the information all packaged and sent to them.
I was on a radio station today with a few million listeners. I talked about longevity and health. It would be great to be able to package a product that the 79 million baby boomers could have access to regarding how to increase their longevity. I could even make it interactive — they could be on group calls at $10 a month. That should be worth a million a month.
I have already put together a book on Anger Management which can easily be expanded to Secrets of Getting All the Sex You Want– Even with your Spouse. The Angry Couples would benefit greatly. If I just titled it Anger Management Manual, no one would buy it. Half of the sells would be because of the title and cover. Most of the couples dont even know the different levels of communication– cliche, facts, ideas and opinions, feelings, and empathy. They dont understand that what they dont fix in their generation gets passed on to their children. And they probably wont look it up. Instead, they get into fights and divorces. An information product that would reach these people from the comfort of their cars in CD form would help many kids have fathers to go home to. Did you know that 80% of the kids that get into trouble have absent fathers? So, health, longevity, anger, sex, seems like we should be able to work something out, Yes? What if we throw in information about Food, Time, and Love, the other things we cant live without. Even A specific niche market like How to Properly Start a Nitro Car would make money if done properly.
My 13 yo son did all the work on the website aside from the blog. I would like for him to be able to go to an Ivy League school if he wants to. Of Course, there is a good chance he will get a scholarship anyway.
Thanks for this opportunity. And Keep Up the High Quality Work. I am proud to be on your list.
September 21st, 2007 at 2:34 am
WHY I think selling information is the best business to be in,
- It has the highest profit margins
- Lowest start up costs
- A sweat equity investment and very little capital investment is rewarded with real cash
- It is a cash pipeline, rather than carrying buckets. Build it once and let the cash flow.
- It can be set up from anywhere in the world with a net connection
- It runs itself on autopilot, if it’s done correctly
- Very long product life cycle so minimal continual investment in an already created product
- Everyone wants to improve their life, so by receiving information on how to do so, they can change the condition of their lives. Me and my customers. If you can do it, then I can do it.
HOW I’ll use the information in the package
I have no experience in information marketing or online business. But, today, September 20, I used Mindjet for the first time and developed a Mind Map for the business. I created an impressive masterplan for an e-empire (I mean, I was impressed!). The BIG idea based around self development and healing. I know it’s the right set of products at the right time in the evolution of humanity. I have identified what value we provide, how we are unique in the market, as well as an extensive product roadmap:
Oil Well #1 – 7 Products, 13 free reports
Oil Well #2 – 7 Products, 13 free reports
Oil Well #3 – 4 Products, 4 free reports
Oil Well #4 – 3 Products
Oil Well #5 – 4 Products
Oil Well #6 – 2 Products
Oil Well #7 – 1 Recurring high value Product
Oil Well #8 – Offer these products to those who cannot afford them. The oil from this well is spiritual.
I will use the information in your course to help me accelerate launching these products to the market. Time to market is critical. I don’t want to reinvent the wheel and if your A-Z course is truly as extensive as I believe it to be, then I would use it to help me save time in finding the answers to these questions on my own. I need to know how to:
- Set up a business structure and where to locate the company for best tax jurisdictions
- Identify the most effective Affiliates and JVs, develop relationships with them to drive traffic to my sites and generate prospect and customer lists
- Understand and implement an effective SEO methodology
- Implement payment and collection systems
- Implement systems to develop, maintain/manage and grow my mail lists while obeying all the spam rules and regulations
- Identify the best tools to develop the e-books, audios and videos
- Implement a piracy prevention system
- How to trademark, copyright and protect our products,
- Have a dazzling launch strategy/plan (or do I have buy Jeff Walker’s products too??)
- Have an effective pricing strategy
- Have an outstanding promotion plan
- Create a strategy to take advantage of social networking sites
- Have an integrated and exceptional brand strategy
- Automate as much of the business as possible and know who are the sub-contractors you recommend who can do the job – like product fulfillment, list management etc.
- Do these and other things I don’t even know I need to do at this time and which you will have predicted from your experience.
If I discover that it does not answer ALL my questions, then I’ll be emailing you for those answers!
WHAT I’ll be doing with it.
I will be changing the world, one person at a time. From the inside out. Microcosm = Macrocosm. Humanity is close to annihilating itself and other species on the planet. What inner turmoil are we experiencing that we inflict such pain, abuse and violence not only on ourselves but also on the people around us? We are at a crossroads in our history and I want to stack the odds in favour of life rather than extinction. Healing the inner turmoil from its core. Changing negative patterns. Transforming mind, body and emotion and thus behaviour. I know I create my own reality. If I am at peace, the world around me will be at peace. Eventually, the 100th Monkey effect will kick in. My information marketing business will wake up and transform humanity. One person at a time.
You’re A-Z Course will help me accelerate this process.
In addition, I’ll receive a great income for the rest of my life to live, rather than exist, and fulfill my duty to expand beyond my potential. And help others do so too.
Gracias.
Omar
September 21st, 2007 at 3:06 am
Yanik,
“If you don’t ask then the answer is NO!” So here goes.
Please please please pick me!!!
I heard your name through the Learning Annex about 5 years ago and since then have heard of you through Dan Kennedy. I really like your down to earth approach to the internet, copywriting, and business. I have enjoyed your emails, blogs, and video training.
I currently have a mobile painting business in which we go to car dealerships and do their minor paint repair for them on-site. As I was talking to a young salesman he said ‘It’s hard to find a good mentor to teach you sales’. As I was thinking about this I developed, in my head, a 2 day training program to teach car sales people a better, out-of-the-box way of converting leads into sales and then keeping them as a customer for life (most dealerships sell you a car and that’s the end). The internet department buys leads for $20 each, but the same lead is sold to 6-8 other same brand dealerships, one of the managers told me they only close about 1.5 out of 10 leads, I am sure with your system it would be easy to increase these numbers.
The front end of my system would be the 2 day instruction with a month or two of follow up calls.
The back end would be, each sales person could be part of our ‘Auto Pilot – Stay In There Face’ program. Here is where we would provide a service of a monthly or bimonthly email with car care tips, specials in the service drive (discount on oil change), coupons for the parts department. This not only keeps the sales persons name in front of the customer but it keeps the customer coming back to the dealership. At the customers one year anniversary of the purchase of their car we would send them an anniversary card with a photo of them and their car from a year ago.
When you consider how many dealerships there are and how many sales people there are, it would be easy to see how this could be profitable.
I know there are a lot of ways to tweak this but I can’t do this on my own, I need YOUR HELP.
I hope that you can see my vision and pick me as the recipient of the Ultimate A-to-Z Information Marketing Brain-in-a-Box.
Thanks,
Steve
September 21st, 2007 at 5:05 am
Selling Information Products is the best business to be in because it’s the Ulimate Dream Job.
Let me put it bluntly…information sells like crazy! It’s the hottest growth-industry in America.
It doesn’t matter which market you choose, or if it’s online or offline…the easiest and hottest selling commodities are at their very core, information based.
To me, information marketing is the Ultimate Dream Job because:
Your income has no cap and is based solely on your own efforts.
You can’t get laid off or fired; in other words, you can make yourself….your family….and your finances immune to unexpected setbacks like job loss, accidents, or illnesses.
The field is open to everyone regardless of race, sex, education, personal appearance, or financial background.
You don’t need a license or anyone’s permission.
There’s no face-to-face selling or pestering your relatives and friends.
It’s a business where it’s possible to succeed without having to do anything you’re uncomfortable doing, or may not have the time to do.
It’s ideal for folks on a limited budget and perfect for those who want to supplement their income.
There’s no background check, and no credit check.
You can start in your “free time” in the comfort and convenience of your own home.
There’s no meetings to attend.
It’s a business that’s easier to get into, and cheaper to start than any other.
You have no boss to answer to, or get permission from.
You don’t have to play “petty” office politics.
You don’t have to commute to work.
You can start and collapse this business as you see fit.
How unless you do something really stupid, you will have very little invested in this business–no office or store overhead, special equipment, inventories of product piled up in your basement or garage, or employee payroll.
Your chief gamble in this business is the time and effort you invest, and not cold, hard, cash.
You can work it at any age, of even if you’re disabled.
You do the job once, and after that you simply work marketing your products until you reach the level of comfort you desire.
You’re providing a public service.
It may be the only way left for the “little guy” to get rich.
You see, a job alone simply won’t cut it! If you’re like most people, you’re only a couple of paychecks away from financial nightmares. Even if you’re a doctor, lawyer or CPA…You must “work” your butt off to make money. And did you know that most doctors, lawyers and CPA’s are not truly wealthy? They might have a bigger paycheck than most…BUT…They still live from paycheck to paycheck like most people.
That’s because when you have a job, your wealth depends on how much you work. And there are only so many hours in the day you can physically work…But your financial life, however, goes on 24 hours every day. But having your own “Information Product Soldiers” who can work 24/7 is a whole ‘nother’ ball game!
But, it’s not so much the money, but the lifestyle that money permits you to live. See, when you have money, you don’t need a job. You don’t have to work for anyone else. And not having to show up for work every day frees up a lot of your time….time you choose how to use.
Most people would quit their job in a heartbeat, if they could. They dream of staying home every day. They desperately want more time with their family and friends….and this is exactly the lifestyle you can have in this business. You don’t have to live like most people:
Want more time with your family? Great! Take It!
Want to travel and see the country? Great! Do It!
Want to move to some other city? Do It!
And you know what else?…You’ll be the best boss you’ve ever worked for!
I’m totally convinced that you can be sitting in a one bedroom, roach infested basement apartment right now…but as soon as you craft the right letter, selling the right info-product, to the right people, for the right price, at the right time in his or her life…you can be in possession of some intellectual property worth over $100 Million! Seriously. And if I were to win, that HOW I’d use the information in this package…target a market, create a product, craft the right letter, and sale the product at the right price.
I read somewhere on Janet Switzer’s web site http://www.publishingprogram.com that there were 52 different kinds of information products or income streams…from ebooks, single audio cassettes, video, audio books, books, home study courses, coaching programs, etc. I’d like to eventually get involved in creating infoproducts in each of these categories or streams. That’s WHAT I’d be using the information in the package to do.
Robert Allen talks about an “information funnel” or concentric circles…you bring your prospect in at the outer circle or less expensive level and gradually move them through to buying more expensive product. I’d start with a free special report, “ramp” my prospects up to customers if they buy a product, and keep “ramping up”. I’d start with selling niche ebooks. I’d like to have about seven functioning “oils wells” on the Net. Then I’d start with audio, video, etc.
And that’s my story, and I’m sticking with it.
Sincerely,
Idaline Hall
September 21st, 2007 at 5:07 am
Hi Yanick,
First, I am a big fan of all of the material you have written for Dan Kennedy’s Gold Members, as well as all of the current material you have available.
Currently I have a Martial arts website that has a few products and a Member’s on line section as well. It always generates a few dollars a month but never seems to really crank in the numbers. I have several new ideas for info products but could absolutely use some help to really ramp them to new levels.
Thanks for all the information you provide.
Steve
September 21st, 2007 at 5:57 am
I have been selling some golf ebooks and related affiliate books.
Yes, I have made a few thousand dollars, but I don’t know how to get my business to the next level of providing me with an independent income to live from.
If I were to win the Brain in a Box , I would follow each step precisely and give you a week-by-week report of work done and the successes or failures I have had with the steps.
best regards
Carolyn
September 21st, 2007 at 6:35 am
I am new to internet marketing and I need to know a profitable way to market my e-book I recently wrote. The search engine approach is costly and I have seen little or no traffic at my site
help!!!!!!!!
September 21st, 2007 at 6:38 am
Yanik
As always your ahead of the curve.
Count me in.
Ed
September 21st, 2007 at 6:44 am
Yanik
Our society learns from information.
There is no lack of libraries or book stores. So why should the internet be any different.
I have only been dabbling with selling information on the internet but with a proven plan and system I am sure anyone can suceed.
I plan in enriching peoples lives, this is what life is about.
By leaving the world a better place to be helps us all, this is what my life goal has always been. Quality information and people desire to learn more what better marriage can this be.
Ed
September 21st, 2007 at 7:33 am
Hi Yanik
Winning the “Ultimate “A to Z” information marketing Brain-in-a-box
would enable me to go to the next stage of my dream and having the lifestyle
and freedom it would give me. By having the free time it would allow me to help other people fulfill their dreams.
September 21st, 2007 at 9:55 am
Yanik,
How will I use your new products should I be a winner?
I’m going to have a blast doing exactly what I want to do in life, while making a pile of money.
I’m mainly interested at this point in following the Jim Edwards “build an empire one mini site at a time” method, then connect the dots of these separate profit centers with your “oil well” model.
I’d love to use your “How to Sell Super High Priced Information Products and Services” product to take one or more of those concepts to new, maybe to me previously unthinkable levels
Where am I coming from?
I’m a senior airline captain flying great international routes (Hawaii, all over Europe, South America) and I love what I do. I’m at the top of my career, enjoying the hell out of working with lots of great people, flying big jets and seeing the world.
But several years ago I got turned on to copywriting and marketing, and now I’m completely hooked. The whole subject blows me away more than just about anything else I could name.
I’ve learned a huge amount about the mechanics of how it all works in that time…autoresponders, affiliate programs, PPC, copywriting, Adsense, etc. I’ve spent hundreds (thousands?) of hours trying to understand it all…
I know for sure it is absolutely what I will be involved with in a major way long after I’ve set the parking brakes at the gate for the last time, 6 or 8 years from now.
The biggest thing I’ve figured out though is that just like flying, I’ll always be a student of the subject, and will always love being engaged in it.
What could be better and more fulfilling than that?
And did I mention…
* It’s dynamic, exciting and satisfying…I hate boredom and I get turned on by the “the chase” almost as much as by the potential reward of any interesting project.
* It’s potentially more lucrative than almost anything else I could spend my time doing
* It rewards effort with passive ongoing income, even better!
* It engages me on a bunch of different levels
To date I’ve had limited success with some PPC affiliate products and a few mini sites I’ve built. But with your help I’m ready to push the info publishing envelope.
Help make this my second best September ever (I got married 24 years ago this month) and announce me as one of your winners!
September 21st, 2007 at 10:10 am
Hi Yanik. Thank you for the opportunity to participate in your giveaway. I can’t say enough about how inspired I’ve been in the last few weeks, watching your videos and understanding the method to all this marketing madness.
I live in New Orleans, Louisiana and have lived there all my life. I’m 33 years old. Yes, this is my Jesus year and wow, lots of changes are happening. I moved away for college (read…learn how to be an employee…), and graduated moving to the East Coast in 1995. I moved to New Orleans to help family. My grandmother was really ill and my mother was the sole caretaker. Also, by this time, I was bankrupt. I tried to free myself from the corporate job I had, but realized I had no plan. And eventually, I was in debt up to my ears just trying to make it in Philadelphia.
Fast forward to 2005. Planning only to stay in New Orleans for a little while, I looked up and found myself still working as an employee….7 years later. I began to create a little wealth, investing in a 401k, trying to get ahead buying a couple of rental properties…..but I still didn’t have any money that would get me out of the rat race.
During this time, I also began pursuing my music again while working full time. I am a songwriter/performer. I always seemed to pick the hard careers (LOL). I love my music and I love making it. Making a living at it, without some serious marketing or performing on the road every night, just wasn’t getting it. I needed something else stable….so I looked at real estate appraising. To make a long story short, it’s a club that has many requirements including a sponsor who you’re totally dependent on for 2 years. Wow….sounds like trouble, right?
And then on August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit. Living in the Gentilly section of New Orleans, I lost everything. You can see the pictures of the house I was living in and some of the photos my brother took who’s a police officer here
My life has changed forever since Hurricane Katrina. I moved back to New Orleans to rebuild the house near the airport I owned. If I didn’t have it, I wouldn’t be able to live in the city right now because the cost of living has drastically increased. I even wrote a song about it I quit my job after the storm. I took the first step – burned the bridge. I couldn’t go back to a place I was so unhappy at.
Since that time, I have been slowly trying to fight my way back. The real estate market is slow (read…I’m not making any money). Money is sporadic and I’m currently living off of my savings. I have just enough time to make some things happen. I have been studying (not implementing) affiliate marketing for the last few months and writing down all my e-book, membership site ideas. And then I heard about you 2 weeks ago. Wow….I feel like everything I had questions about, you just handed to me on a platter. Thank you for that.
My success story, in and of itself, would be a tremendous thing. With just a few more tools, I know I can build successful Oil Wells and help improve the lives of others while providing great value. The internet lifestyle/a lifestyle build around doing what you love and having enough to provide for your family – is what I crave I’m willing to work for it and I will definitely be a great testimony for your mentorship and products.
I’m excited about the present and the future to come, finally.
1. Here’s how I will use your courses I win a copy:
2. Empower parts of our community that don’t even realize that there is a world beyond the grind of a job we hate (like I did for many years)
3. Incite a revolution – folks need to see that we are the change we create and our economic well-being is about more than just making it from pay check to pay check. We can be happy, whole, prosperous, and do good. My market segment includes artists who have no idea how to turn their ideas into gold and survive in spite of the depreciation of art to most, women entrepreneurs, African Americans, and the LGBT community.
Thanks for your time Yanik. Image what we can do together, change lives, inspire, and assist people in their self-actualization. We are each just one person, but we can do amazing things together. I look forward to hearing from you.
September 21st, 2007 at 10:21 am
I have a good idea but am a little lost – not real sure where to start. So, if you would like to have a newbie do what you say, track the results, show that the porgram will work, then I am your Guy. I will show the world that you are the real deal.
Terry
September 21st, 2007 at 10:33 am
Hi Yanik,
I have been a retail offline-online business owner for the last 16 years. Have been successful but also been looking for new methodologies to boost my sales. I thought of information marketing, but yet to find any course that teach me how to implement information marketing in my business.
From all the courses and books I read, it sounded as Information marketing is a stand alone business, which I believe it is, but I also believe it can also be used with other different marketing to increase the sales of whatever the person selling.
It’s just as I said, nothing out there stress this point. From what I read about your course and since I have known your name since the very first you started in internet marketing, I trust that your course will be the key to open the closed doors of information mastery.
Thank you and as always wish you the best success in your life and business.
Ahmed.
September 21st, 2007 at 10:35 am
In both the paper world and on the Internet, data is plentiful. What the World lacks is information, which is not the same. As a bibliophile, I have gained n appreciation for this distinction. Readers hunger for useful information and the Internet is a wonderful equalizing mechanism for distribution. I have only dabbled thus far and am in need of some coaching to hone my plans.
September 21st, 2007 at 10:36 am
I am not successful yet, but would love to emulate your success. After watching the Secret, and reading about how Jack Canfield says you are one of the most successful online businessmen because of the LOA, I believe that what you teach can take me to the next level.
After two years of floundering around on the internet, and researching every avenue of online success, I’ve found that information marketing is what I’m most passionate about.
I would love for this opportunity to learn from you! If I won this package, I would put my heart and soul into applying each step. I will be successful online, but with your package it could be sooner rather than later!
September 21st, 2007 at 10:36 am
If you haven’t already started or are just dabbling selling information products let me know WHY you think selling information is the best business to be in, HOW you’ll use the information in the package and WHAT you’ll be doing with it.
I think selling information products is the best business to be in because it is the easiest to produce. You are providing something that everyone needs and wants. If done correctly it can be a very profitable adventure.
I have sold some products online with limited success, but enough success to want to learn more and provide more.
Your products have always been some of the best online. If I had access to them I would be able to fine tune my online marketing and become a force to be reckoned with.
Thanks for the opportunity,
Will
p.s. If you are reading this and an absolute newbie. I recommend you click on my name above to learn where to start.
September 21st, 2007 at 10:38 am
Hey Yanik,
The “A-Z” pacakge looks great and I would love to create my first information product.
Brett
September 21st, 2007 at 10:39 am
Winning ULTIMATE A to Z would be a dream for me. I have to do everything myself, Web Design, Build Site, Research etc. etc. It all takes time and effort. I don’t want to change my lifestyle too much, just enough to make a few dollars more. I see the ULTIMATE A to Z as more than a help towards this.
Selling INFO PRODUCTS is a great business – if you get it right. Opening up this world to others is also a great and satisfying business.
IF YOU WANT TO SELL INFORMATION YOU NEED TO HAVE INFORMATION.
I hope I’m lucky.
Many thanks for the opportunity.
September 21st, 2007 at 10:42 am
• Three Emmy Awards for Writing on “Bill Nye the Science Guy.”
• Two wonderful children.
• And overcoming a brain tumor.
Former TV comedy writer with a very positive/humorous look at life is trying to transition into the internet full-time. I have several websites, some of which pull down upwards of .35 cents per day via Adsense.
Lucky me.
I could definitely put your tools to excellent use, but need to quit my current J.O.B. to focus everything on it.
Thanks for listening.
September 21st, 2007 at 10:43 am
Hello Yanik,
Why is it best to sell information products? Because it’s a system that can be totally automated from A to Z and generate passive income at any time once the proper infrastructure is in place. It’s also a career path that allows one to actually enjoy life and business pursuits, rather than watching the world pass by through the pane of an office window.
How would I use Yanik’s new course? Literally, by devouring the information from start to finish. I am a voracious reader and very dedicated to continued education. After fully comprehending Yanik’s course, I will apply what I’ve learned.
What will I do with the newly acquired information? I will act, act, act on it to build the web-based infrastructure, products, and traffic needed for a campaign to be successful and automated. Then, I will repeat the process again and again. I’ve been in the business of selling information online for exactly 24 days, so I’m very new to the business but absolutely dedicated to making it work.
Pick me, Yanik!!!
My 24 day old website: http://www.TheInjuryAdvisor.com
September 21st, 2007 at 10:43 am
I am the volunteer treasurer of the Children’s Skin Disease Foundation a small non-profit that funds a medically staffed summer camp for children with serious and fatal skin disease http://www.csdf.org). The camp was started by my daughter who has a skin disease and has survived (in spite of the doctors telling us twice that she would die with days). Due to the limit funding that we can raise, we cannot accept all the children who need camp. Some pass on before they attend. In a society focused on beauty, at camp, the children can feel loved and “normal”. For many, camp is their final fun activity before they die and pass to a place without pain.
I have been studing the internet as a method to expand the foundation. This summer we sent e-thank you cards to several supporters and they were very appreciative. I want to use your products to create something to send to pediatricians and pediatric dermatologist to expand the message. I hope that by creating some type of audio product with the stories of the children I could increase public awareness of the camp and the physical and emotional pain these children suffer.
The children comment each year that one of the best things at camp is that no one stared at them or made hurtful comments. An info product could raise public awareness of the challenges faced by children with skin disease much as public awareness of AIDs and breast cancer raised awareness and removed much of the stigma. I even thought of a title: “Please Don’t Stare”
If I win, you will get a “Thank You” from Camp Wonder 2008 and some very sick children will experience a week of fun before they die.
September 21st, 2007 at 10:46 am
I’ve been successful in a network / mlm business for the past 18 years. I found myself needing some new challenges, and really did some self-evaluation about what I’m good at! Hmmm….writing, training, coaching people – all came to the top of the list.
After hearing some of the success stories (like yours! – yep, that was a brown-nosing comment) – at the GKIC Info Summit and Superconference, I decided to take the plunge. Starting this weekend,
First, I put together a private coaching program. Two weeks ago I attended a meeting where 8 women in mlm businesses were gathered. When I presented the information, two people grabbed spots immediately!! (I was seriously amazed!!).
Because I don’t want to become extremely dependent on money for time, I’m limiting the number of private coaching spots, and launching a monthly newsletter / teleseminar or CD club this weekend through my new website, which is a one-page site sales letter.
I’m offering an affiliate program (40%!) so right now I’m working out the mechanics of making that work properly.
I have lots of additional plans to add some “big paydays” down the road, but right now I’m in the herd building stages.
I am also writing an e-book that I’m launching in a week (can you see I’ve been really busy) – titled “How to Make a 6-figure MLM Income in 12 Hours Per Week Without Chasing People at Cocktail Parties or Alienating Your Relatives.” I’ll keep you posted!
Here are my top ten reasons why I think I’m the perfect candidate to receive your course:
I promise I’ll study the course and take action immediately!!
10) since I’m right at the launch stage, it will help me prevent some costly errors and builld my business bigger, faster, and stronger.
9) I’ve been reading your columns in the No BS Marketing letter for years – you didn’t know I’m such a big fan, did you!!
7) I’ll even volunteer to start the “Yanik Silver” fan club
6) When I value something, I tell all of my friends!!
5) I’ll even keep a blog describing what I implement and what the results are!!
4) I don’t know Oprah personally, but if I did, I’d recommend you for her show.
3) My townhouse got hit by a tornado last night (actually, we did – fortunately no one was hurt – but check it out at wcco.com – the whole neighborhood is loaded with repair trucks, contractors soliciting work and insurance adjusters)
2) I will be truly grateful to you forever more!!
1) I will tell everyone I meet – “Yanik Rocks!!”
September 21st, 2007 at 10:47 am
You sold me Dan Kennedy’s Copywriting seminar a couple years ago, and my mind and career have done a 180. After reading everything I could get my hands on, I have made it my mission to change the basic business mindset of everyone I come in contact with.
Unfortunately, changing the MBA business school mentality is a challenge. But let’s just say that results speak louder than words.
My first step in using this program if I win, is creating a high end training course for marketing retail based businesses in the niches I serve – ala Bill Glazer and Dan Kennedy Magnetic Marketing – but in the mindset of these niches. The retail businesses that sell our products need business marketing skills that they are sorely lacking. As our products have a low selling price (about $40 each), it makes sense to develop a training program that will get them to open their wallets. This will strengthen my company’s image as experts, strengthen our relationship with these businesses, create additional demand for our core products – AND MAKE ME THE HERO FOR DOING IT ALL.
Unfortunately I am teathered to a corporate entity. Family needs (food and clothing) have required that I keep a day job. But my Goal in life is to leave that behind for a home-based business selling these same niche-based business marketing improvement packages – establishing myself as the marketing guru in specific niches that I have experience working with.
And this business will branch into other areas of interest, where the need for information products seem to have not been explored. With the right tools, like your “Ultimate A to Z” information package, I can dedicate myself to this. It will bring security to my family (7 adopted kids and 2 fosters at the moment), and start me on the way to living the good life.
Thanks for the opprotunity.
September 21st, 2007 at 10:50 am
Hi Yanik,
I’ve followed your progress for quite a while now, being one of the young guns you always seem to be ahead of the ball game.
But one thing that really impresses me, its how you never forget the basic direct response principles when it would have been easier to go down the ‘image’ route that seems more popular.
Following your principles to achieve the success you rightly deserve means that EVERYONE who takes the time to listen to you, is a winner.
So there may be TWO tangible winners, but there are hundreds more who invest their time with you.
Nigel
September 21st, 2007 at 10:51 am
A friend of mine was recently afflicted by ALS.I never realized what a dreadful disease this is.I am currently unemployed.(dont feel bad I sold a brick &mortar business)I have been studying how to market new products on the web–reading as much as I can.I am new to this and I need to improve my learning curve.This course would make this process faster and more efficient.I want to learn how to inform the public about this dreaded illness and create a mechanism to solicit donations to a non- profit organization that will combat and hopefully cure ALS.Thanks for the chance.John
September 21st, 2007 at 10:51 am
Hi Yannick
My name is James or as my copywriting friend, John M likes to call me…Jethro. I spent 20 years working in the hotel security industry. With my love of marital arts, I found Matt Furey on the web. Started my own martial arts website, which quite frankly sits in no man’s land on the internet. I’ve always loved to write, so I followed Matt’s advice and took the AWAI course. Pretty basic, so I took John’s advice and hired a coach. The absolutely amazing Shaune Clarke. With Shaune’s help and direction, I went into copywriting full time. I love it but have always had a big interest in helping other people.
I decided to write ebooks. One ebook will be my story of how I went from a total introvert…who could not shake hands, unplugged my phone because I didn’t want to talk–to a confident person running my own home based business.
Besides the ebooks, I will be selling my public domain material. I have about 20 public domain books on martial arts and a few self-help.
My website for this material is going to take me about two weeks to set up because I will be using sitesell and building the site myself.
Yannick, even though site-sell helps with SEO, I feel that in order to be successful with this site and to help others as well as my self…I need marketing help. That is where your tools come into play.
So although to choose a winner will be a tough choice, I am hoping that you will see a win-win situation in choosing me for your Ultimate “A to Z” Brain in a box. I know that you like to help people and so do I.
James or you can call me Jethro
p.s. once I get my site up and running, I want to be an affiliate of your surefiremarketing.
September 21st, 2007 at 10:52 am
this could enable me to escape the rat-race and start enjoying life to the full, as life should be
September 21st, 2007 at 10:52 am
Back in my “career days” I would often need to interview people prior to hiring them. A question frequently asked was “what percentile were you in your graduating class?” On one occasion the applicant stated that he had graduated in the upper 2/3′s of his class…he got the job and ended up his career as VP sales.
I would be in the top 5% in the age group of the people you have invited to seek this information….this tells you three things (1) we have the desire to implement your programs (2) we have the time to commit to your program (3) we have the equipment in place and anxious to get started.
September 21st, 2007 at 10:54 am
Yanik,
First of all let me thank you for giving me the opportunity to win your program “Ultimate A-to-Z Information Marketing Brain-in-a-Box”.
I’ll keep this as short as I possible.
1. How would I use the information in the package?
By Doing It!
I’ve been a business owner for quite some time and after reading the great book “The 4-Hour Workweek” by Timothy Ferris I am convicted that the best way I can accomplish my dream of not living the “deferred lifestyle” is through the web with information marketing.
About two weeks ago I purchased your Public Domain Riches course and it has completely opened my mind to the possibilities. In fact I am now working on my first site that will be up and running very soon.
This course would give me all the info I need to build the revenue streams necessary to accomplish my goals.
At some point I WILL purchase this course, unfortunately I am not able to do so due to my financial situation. I am not saying this to get any sympathy we are all where we are because of the way we think and act. I am the first to admit that, that is why this course is so important to me. Bottom line by receiving it as a gift it will shorten the time it will take me to accomplish my goals. I WILL achieve my goal whether it’s now, due to receiving this gift, or a little later down the road when I will purchase this information.
2. How will I be using the information in the package?
I will be diving into the package implementing each step as soon as I receive it.
3. What will I be doing with it?
I will following your steps and knowledge provided in the package. I WILL ACT! I’m a firm believer that you can’t steer a parked car. Let me assure you Yanik, I will be in gear with the pedal to the floor as soon as I receive the information. In fact it’s to the floor now. This information would make the perfect roadmap.
In closing I have to ask myself the question; why would Yanik Silver be giving this information away?
Obviously it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that this is a great way to raise the excitement/interest level for a product release. Very smart businesses practice as far as I’m concerned.
Also it’s a way for you to do what most great entrepreneurs do, that is to “always give some back” as Dan Kennedy would say 4-2 does not equal 2 when you give back it can equal even more possible 42.
Lastly maybe you’re looking for a startup infopreneur (don’t even know if that’s a word) to take this info, implement it, build a great online business that will later be a great testimony of your information.
Let me assure you I am that person,
I WILL ACT, IMPLEMENT AND SUCCEED! I WILL BE A GREAT TESTIMONY FOR YOUR PRODUCT!
Thanks again for the opportunity.
Leo
September 21st, 2007 at 10:55 am
Hi Yanik,
Well, my wife and I have been moving around alot for the past few years, we lived in Canada, USA and now we are in Israel.
This kind of life didn’t allow us to settle down and really plant roots.
I truly believe that the info marketing business is perfect for us, since it doesn’t matter where you live you can always make sales and it will allow us to move back to our favourite place which is Vancouver, BC.
If I will win the package I plan to dive right in and start studying the material and implement it as soon as I finish.
To be perfectly honest, I am doing this just to have the lifestyle I always dreamed of, lots of golf, nice cars, nice home, traveling and the ability to retire as soon as I can.
Allen
September 21st, 2007 at 11:04 am
Hi Yannik
I have Information Marketing experience… but certainly don’t rate myself in your league. Does that make me experienced or a beginner.?.?.
Compared to you I AM a kindergarten beginner… who is willing to learn and APPLY.
This is what I have done in South Africa. I produced a monthly Information Report purchased by 8000 monthly subscribers. I have compiled +- 10 years of life/business-related inspirational content, written from a local perspective.
This morphed into a high-profile business network forum for local business owners with over 6000 eye-ball to eye-ball connections moved through the process… and growing.
I have produced many, many articles and a few e-books – the best potential being one entitled ‘Confessions of a SERIAL Entrepreneur’ which may well have global potential with the right advice.
What makes Information Marketing so exciting to me is that one’s original production can be spun out in a myriad of different product formats leading to wide-ranging residual-income opportunities. I have tasted this… but not yet to the global level that you have achieved.
At 52-years of age I struggle harder than most to continually grasp the pletora and warp-speed of new developments on the web and how they can be applied to take one from local to global distribution. Thank goodness for the youngsters around me…
I am, however, a stickler at persistently driving through the challenges to give new applications a chance to succeed.
I suspect that your program will provide steps/recommendations to follow that will allow me to take the next giant leap forward. I will happily provide progress reports of each SPECIFIC step being followed as a case study of your programs effect on globalizing an African Information Marketing entrepreneur.
Many thanks for the incredible opportunity to apply for one of your sets on offer. I’m sure that the winner/s will be truly blessed. Good luck all…
Regards
Trevor Nel
http://businessconfessions.blogspot.com
September 21st, 2007 at 11:05 am
I haven’t been able to grasp how to even get started on the internet. So far everything I have ventured into has been a complete failure. Maybe this would get my heaqd where it needs to be.
Thank you Yanic for this opportunity.
Ted
September 21st, 2007 at 11:08 am
Hi Yanik,
For me, the whole dream of running an information marketing business is the lifestyle it can offer.
As a student of Andrew Reynolds over here in the U.K, I’ve been slowly but surely setting up my new marketing business throughout 2007 (I also run another business which has a $30 Million turnover so that keeps me kinda busy too! [ http://www.forecourtfuels.com ]).
The new business is called “Direct Response Marketing Ltd” (couldn’t believe that name was available!) and we currently have three product websites marketing eBay and Texas Hold Em products:-
http://www.Auction-Interviews.com
http://www.Online-Auction-Income.co.uk
http://www.TexasHoldEm-Massacre.com (my favourite!!)
We’ve only just started having taken a while to find a reliable web designer at sensible rates that understood the kinda site we needed.
I also attended the Underground Seminar Beginners Day in London a year ago and bought Tim Ferriss’ book “The 4 Hour Work Week” on your recommendation and found it very enlightening.
My short to medium term plans are to reduce my involvement in the fuel business as it will be difficult to achieve my desired lifestyle whilst being as involved as I am which in turn will allow me more time to commit to Direct Response Marketing Ltd and the information marketing game. I also intend to start a “Health & Wellness” business as I’ve seen how this can also bring great rewards without sacrificing lifestyle.
I have 3 boys aged 4 to 10 and I want to be able to spend more time with them whilst they’re still kids as you only get one chance to do that in life.
Your “Players Workshop” course looks and sounds amazing and I would love the opportunity to view the information and put it’s contents into practice in conjunction with my new businesses. I’m happy to pay the shipping costs to the UK too in case that puts you off picking my entry!
Thanks once again Yanik for this opportunity and I’ll keep my fingers crossed that I’m the “Chosen One”!!
Best Regards
Nick Staples
P.S I created an e-book like no other last year! I’ve sold a few copies on eBay and was thinking maybe I ought to launch it into the worldwide marketplace. It’s entitled “How To Fart on Demand” and I have a domain reserved for it – http://www.ImpressYourMates.com !! If you fancy a copy, let me know and I’ll gladly e-mail you a copy gratis!
September 21st, 2007 at 11:08 am
Hi Yanik,
For more than 10 years now I’ve been using my brainpower to make my bosses and their companies rich. I’ve always come up with clever ideas that eventually ended up making a system or department run smoother or faster and while they brought in more customers and made more money, all I’d get for the effort is maybe a mention during a monthly meeting.
I am now ready to use my brain to power my own system of making money. I’ve spent time and money building up my education and information banks, reading, listening and attending courses and seminars, but now I’m just ready to do it and do it right.
I want to start off with an information product first. I think this is the best business to be in because people are hungry for it, there are Internet sites and groups dedicated to different info categories so you know what people are looking/hungry for when creating your product. You can create a quality product quickly and cheaply because of the modern technology available. AND you can set your own hours, work from practically anywhere, set your prices, make money and provide a service, all at the same time!
I have a few good info product ideas, but I was wondering how do I price the product so I don’t lose money and guess what? When I win your package (fingers crossed!) I’ll know that I can work my way up from a small fish in a large pond to a true competitor in the marketplace that will not only stand out because of my premium prices, but as a provider of incredible premium products and services.
You asked what I’ll be doing with the package if I win it. Well, I know I’ll create more profits with less hassle, increase product value, find and keep better customers, price my products in a way that my higher-end customers will not think my products are cheap and my regular customers don’t think is too expensive for its value, create large paydays, and going from just having an “in” in the marketplace to eventually owning the marketplace.
I know that winning your product would give me the boost of confidence I need to making my dream goal of working for myself and creating a better lifestyle for myself, my family and my customers come true.
Thank you,
LauraF.
September 21st, 2007 at 11:12 am
Hi Yanik,
I tried to sell information products before but just don’t have clue why it was not success. I usually get small returns after I start promotion. I learn to sell information products just by learning autodidak, I have no coach, just search arround, read, learn & applied some gems I read from what I find searching mostly from search engines.
So I ever think myself “If many people like me, searching for information…that’s IT, people want good information, that’s why people searching on quality information as much quality as they can found”. So I began to realize that they’re huge number of people hungry for “the right” information, that’s WHY information is the best business to be in…just give them what they want.
I’m very lucky to found that I have a chance to win free copy of Yanik’s “Ultimate A-TO-Z Information Marketing Brain-in-a-Box”, because I think the information in the package is the answer for what I’m looking for, showing me the rope HOW to sell information products. Surely I will learn it step by step, and applied what is tell, ask Yanik something if I’m not clear on each steps that I’ll implement. I think since this info product of “how to sell info products” will be big, I MUST concentrate ONLY on this one and learn A – Z that Yanik recommend me to do, I won’t deviate no more, since I get “the ultimate” of how to sell info products.
The info products inside will surely give me assurance of it, since people attend Yanik’s seminar and pay expensive to get into his seminar. With so many people attend, and FOLLOW his steps through SUCCESS, that ‘s WHAT I’ll do after picked to win the free copy: just FOLLOW and APPLY all the steps needed to sell Information Products just like Big Players like Yanik. With millions of prospects looking for information products, I just can wait winning a FREE copy of Yanik’s “Ultimate A-TO-Z Information Marketing Brain-in-a-Box” to implement it, just like having a chance to get all free money on the table!
Thank you for this wonderful opportunity Yanik…
Sincerely yours,
Kusuma Widjaja
September 21st, 2007 at 11:29 am
I am a realtor, making very good money, until the market tanked this year. After subcribing to your newsletters and purchasing several of your marketing materials, I decided there had to be a way to make money again without killing my self with 80 hours a week.
Fortunately, I have a marketable skill that is greatly needed in the community, that I used to give away for free. Forget that! This past week I developed a new website, which is still a little rough but at least it functions. Thanks to what I’m learning in your marketing materials, I’m on the Yanik path to success. By the way, there is sooooo much information, that I will be old and gray before I can read and implement all of it.
I am now teaching a parenting of problem teens class that I originally developed while working for our local police department. There was a huge need to teach hurting parents how to deal with their out of control kids, instead of calling the police department to haul their kid to jail.
When you talked about addressing the pain and providing the cure, it became pretty obvious how I should structure the class. I’ve dusted off the old presentation and implemented Power Point with lots of “10 ways to …” and “How to get…” info. This is about empowering the parents to take back control of the family, address their style of parenting and trying a new way. I give them a new backbone when they understand they have the God given right and responsiblity to be in authority.
This is what you have done for me: empower me to not only change the presentation, but also how to develop a compelling website and direct mail letters to businesses which are in a position to send me clients.
Thanks to you, or “Yanix”, my letter to family law attorneys compelled one attorney and her assistant to sign up for the class the first minute they open the letter. I’ve already contacted a videographer, or whatever you would call him, to video my next class. I’m preparing my upsale materials for purchase during the class breaks, and I’m working on affiliate sales.
This is totally cool! I work on my parenting stuff at home and work the real estate market during the day. It’s amazing how much I can mesh the two businesses. For instance, I wrote a “somewhat” killer letter to a divorce attorney, attached a million dollar bill to a lumpy letter, soliciting his business for referrals of clients who must sell their homes. These same clients are also prime candidate for the parenting class. Directing clients to me for help makes him a hero to his clients.
I would have never thought about all of this without stumbling onto your program. I’ve gone back to class participants from several years ago and solicited testimonials. I listen and re-listen to the CDs while I’m traveling, as they are so loaded with good ideas that I can’t absorb all of it the first time.
Because I was a foster parent for 8 years to probation and parolee kids (to age 21), I still have contact with them. This week I visited one of my favorite kids, now 31 years old, in county jail. Instead of making it just a visit, I turned it into an interview that I can use in my class. I’m also going to have a videotaped interview with the sheriff next week that I can incorporate into my class and materials.
Yes, I will eventually put this all together in a marketing package on my website. I anticipate it will continue to evolve and improve as I learn more from the marketing guru, YOU! I’ve learned how valuable my information is to parents who have taken the classes in the past. Now I’m learning how to make it also profitable for me.
You keep my mind spinning with ideas. I used to live with post it notes, now I buy yellow tablets by the dozen. I love the mind mapping concept. I even used it with a counseling client last week, helping her focus on all her options, giving her a clearer picture of what she can do to improve her home situation. It was totally thrilling how that mapping process can be applied in so many ways.
Because the real estate market is difficult right now, I constantly try to bring these marketing concepts to the business. Compelling follow up letters to potential new clients is already working.
Perhaps I’m running a the mouth, so ’nuff said. Listening to your CDs and watching the DVDs has made me feel like I’m somewhat acquainted with you and Missy. Love your humor, but best of all, the timely information that is reshaping how I work!
On to Millionaire Status,
Jan Duke
Re/Max Gold
Parenting of Problem Teens
Yuba City, CA
September 21st, 2007 at 11:32 am
The reason I believe information marketing is so relevant is that everyone is looking for informtion of some type, whether it is what to buy or where to buy from, how to find quality and or quanity, and “how to’s” run the entire gamut of the alphabet. We all need a source and this type of info delivery (e-books, etc) makes information available to everyone for a very nominal fee or absolutely free.
I’ve been a subscriber of yours for some time now and have learned a great deal from you but have so much more to learn that your course, I believe, would give me a huge jump around the learning curve.
At the risk of having my story sound like a repeat of so many others, I guess that is what confirms the credibility, I have purchased so many things, courses, e-books, etc., in effort to make the learning curve, that I’m about maxed out as far as finances are concerned . As to what I would do with it, after getting my business up and running I would like to be able to do as you are and help others in my same position get their business and life up and running. Thank you for this opportunity and for all the help you have already offered. Carole
September 21st, 2007 at 11:33 am
I am a novice in Internet Marketing. Any professional help you can offer to help me succeed will be greatly appreciated. I have tried selling professional investment advice on the internet once sometime ago without success and I am very sure with your professional course I will be able to make it this time. Would you not help a new comer like me to succeed? Your generousity will be greatly appreciated. I am a man with little words. I do not know how to write long letters, so I leave it to you. May God bless you, your business and your family. Thank you
September 21st, 2007 at 11:33 am
Here’s the story: I’m a 21 year old on the cusp of graduating from a top 10 business school. I listen to my professors telling me that I should go work for Proctor and Gamble as a “brand manager” and honestly, it makes me want to puke.
Sitting behind a desk for 9 hours a day, only to come home to a house that’s practically empty because I don’t have the money for the stuff I really want (yeah, I’ve got BIG eyes and love to have me some fun stuff) or a good girl, because I’m too busy at work – or thinking about work – to find her and give her the attention she needs and deserves.
In the course of my lifetime I have solved many ‘problems’ – like any other human being I’ve been confronted with challenges, and I’ve had the good fortune of rising up and being able to ‘figure stuff out’ in almost every situation.
The power of selling information products is twofold, and relevant to what I’ve written above. First, It would allow me to live the life I want to live. To read the great books I want to read. To study philosophy, religion and language. To travel the world and meet people from Australia to Croatia. From Hong Kong to London. There’s so much I want to do and so little time…IF, I’m forced into the “working world.
Secondly, I consider myself to be a natural born teacher. I love to share what I’ve learned and in fact, I think this is my greatest gift as a person. Just the passion of sharing whatever it is that I might know that I think others will benefit from. As I mentioned before, I’ve figured out a whole bunch in my 21 years on this earth and I’m just getting started. To be able to share this information and uplift those around me, while freeing myself from the chains of the corporate world would be a dream come true.
Sorry it’s not too specific, but my guess is that if you’ve read this far then you probably understand my situation pretty well.
Cheers!
September 21st, 2007 at 11:36 am
Yanik -
Thank you so much for the opportunity to participate in your program as a winner. I have heard a great deal about you through Jim Edwards and Chris Zavadowski, so having this opportunity will cap the training that I have taken from them.
I have taken training from Jim and Chris and have been developing my own info products over the last couple months, however, my attempts at marketing my info products have been difficult to say the least. Struggle is a mild word compared to what I have been experiencing. Unfortunately, I have spent so much money learning how to develop my own information products, that I did not leave much to spend on the marketing aspect of them. I did not have the foresight to realize that the product itself is not the end goal. Effective marketing is.
I am hoping that by winning your program, that I can complete my projects that I started with Jim and Chris and be the success that I have always dreamed of and that Jim and Chris taught me to be.
You come highly recommended and I would be absolutely delighted to learn your techniques. I know that Jim and Chris have learned from you and developed their businesses from your teachings. I believe that I could not go wrong by following in their foot steps.
Again, thank you for this opportunity.
Blessings,
Paula Wills
September 21st, 2007 at 11:36 am
Dear Yanik:
What a great idea to promote your new product. I am new to this aspect of business and find the concept very exciting. I am not a wordsmith type person, but I attempt to put the best detailed information forward.
I am a commercial real estate person struggling to find a the right niche. I find that the majority of the other agents, tenants and potential investors have no clue about the detailed information needed to complete their anticipated transactions.
Most are using outdated procedures including using the same forms with the same erros in them from 2 to 5 years ago.
In the recent past, I have decided to become a focal point of obtaining and providing different informational products to our industry. What a hard row to hoe. And what a limited about of good information that is available.
Our industry has very little in the way of on going training available regarding business development to secure new clients, or how to prepare a good brochure, or how to follow through after the transaction is completed.
I would be honored to take advantage of your offer for the free material and put it to good use in developing my new information product business lines.
This may open up a whole new business aspect for you and me.
Thank you.
September 21st, 2007 at 11:38 am
Yanik — I am an attorney who is looking for a better way. I know that way is Internet Marketing. Although I have tried to educate myself on the steps I need to take to get going, I still feel like I am missing something. I am now clear on the niche I want to pursue and am only missing the A-Z steps to get there — and that’s where you come in — I am the perfect candidate to win your Ultimate A-Z marketing course because I am ready, willing and (with your course) able to start and make my internet marketing career a success. As an attorney I am driven to be successful — the same drive I will utilize in my internet marketing career. All I need are the steps to follow. My success after winning your course and launching my website will make a great success story/testimonial for you. I can see it now — “Successful Attorney Uses Yanik’s Ultimate A-Z marketing course to replace high six-figure income and have better lifestyle! Warm regards, Diane
September 21st, 2007 at 11:43 am
Mr. Silver, thank you for the opportunity to win one of your products. I have been in the restaurant industry my entire life and am used to working 50-70 hours a week, and quite frankly i’m tired!
I was directed to you’re products by a very dear friend of mine who is a very successful entrepreneur in her own right. So I went to your website and got on your email list. I always get excited when i see one of your emails come in because I know it’s going to be valuable information that I can use right away.
I have my first website and have purchased many books on how to optimize it for the search engines. WOW! I never thought I was capable of learning so much in such a short time. Amazon is making a small fortune off of me right now! (I need to buy a new book case for all of my new information)I also purchased your “Public Domain Riches” and I am soaking that in as well.
One of the very first things I remember everyday that you taught me was “You can never have too much information & there is always something new to learn”. How boring would life be if you didn’t learn something new everyday?
So I guess my answer to the question is: Selling information is the best business to be in because i get the chance to make someone’s life exciting!
I will use the information to expand my business and learn how to market it and maybe someday join you on one of your “Maverick Business Adventures”! That in itself is great motivation!
I really appreciate what you do, I’ve purchased other packages from different infomarketers but it always seems to just tell you what you “CAN” do and not “HOW” to actually do it. That doesn’t really teach me anything, I can find that information for free on the internet.
Mr. Silver, Thank You for being a teacher and sharing your wealth of knowledge!
September 21st, 2007 at 11:43 am
Like everyone new to this ‘game’..I am suffering from ‘info paralysis’..but, its amazing that there are so many opportunities on emarketing. Problem is ‘where do I start?’..’How?’ etc
I like the idea of info marketing because its probably a good one to start off with and also it ‘offer helps’; in products -sense to others..so, at least, one can acquire a better life while helping others to improve theirs, too..
I have and am spending too much money that I have not got buying various products only the find it too difficult to follow or not too interesting.
So, your ‘Ultimate A-Z Information Marketing Brain- in- a -Box ‘ most certainly will help me and be what I need. I have heard so much said and written about you that I don’t need any reasons to doubt that.
Perhaps, with all the many professional like you, Yanik..may have been helped by someone to get started and now would like to help others do the same..and so, maybe I will be that person who will be lucky to benifit from such ‘help’ and then, when I am able to help others I will definitely do so…thats a PROMISE!
Well, until the day you name the LUCKY person..I wish them all the BEST..
Cheers
Mike
September 21st, 2007 at 11:45 am
I am new and in the process of setting up my first website and blog. I have chosen my domain name, which is ultimatehealthylifestyle.com. I have prepared a free report and named it “Seven Golden Keys to the Ultimate Healthy Lifestyle.”
I am retired and on a fixed income which is not really enought to live on except for basic necessities. This business is my effort to raise my wife’s and my living standard.
Needless to say I need all the help I can get. To win a copy of your program would be a godsend. It would drastically shorten my learning curve and place me forever in your debt.
We are experienciing a virtual explosion in society’s quest for knowledge. It stands to reason that information products are the wave of the future. I have almost 30 years in the field of health and wellness. This has allowed me to accumulate a great deal of knowledge which can help people improve the quality of their lives. Help them to be healthier, happier and able to expierence more joy. I want to share this knowledge.
As to how I will use the material, It will be my roadmap to success. I will faithfully follow the advice given and use it to fulfill my life long quest to help people become aware of life’s unlimited potential and instill the belief that they can live the life they dream of.
Thank you for this oportunity,
Edward
September 21st, 2007 at 11:48 am
Yanik,
“WHY you think selling information is the best business to be in”: Just to begin, people love information (I include myself here…
). People love to know more about stuff they like, or to stay ahead of the curve about any subject related to their needs (personal or professional). All of this, in a general way, is information. So, selling business is the best business because: 1) it’s a HUGE market; 2) due to being a HUGE market, it has enough room to NICHE it enough and not to compete face to face against the “big dogs”(companies); 3) as good as reason 1: information can be delivered through lots of different media (e-books, websites, audio, video, etc.) and most of them are easy and cheap enough for anyone; 4) low-cost media and valuable enough info means high profits.
“HOW you’ll use the information in the package”: I intend to use its strategies as long as I read them and learn them. I mean, I believe it’s better to learn and implement the most basic ones ASAP than read everything and only then implement something. I have 2 reasons for this way of thinking: 1) Time: as soon as I can implement a strategy, as basic as it may be, you really begin to learn it, experience it, test it, change it if needed and, of course, earning some money sooner…
; 2) Information Overload: I’ve been checking internet marketing websites, forums and offers for some time and almost everywhere there are complaints about information overload (myself included) – loads of different (sometimes contradictory) information from everywhere and people simply don’t know what to do, who they’ll follow or which info is correct. The result: they do nothing due to fear of doing the wrong thing and/or spending a lot of money for pitiful results. So, if I read everything and only then test everything, I may even forget what I’ve read at Chapter 1 and lose the step-by-step process. The rule is not to put the chart ahead of the horses… 
“WHAT you’ll be doing with it”: I have 2 websites about MLM (Multilevel Marketing). Actually, they are 2 domains which forward to 2 affiliate links of extremely interesting e-books with different (actually, “Renegade”) MLM strategies, which I bought myself. The websites are http://www.YourMultilevelMarketingEmpire.com and http://www.YourMLMEmpire.com. Besides, I’ve just bought another domain (www.BuildYourMLMOpportunity.com) which will be a small website created to sell an e-book I’m almost finishing, about basics and action tips to help MLM beginners succeed (MLM beginners will be my niche, for now). In the future I intend to create a portal about MLM and its strategies. These websites are my targets, on which I want to implement your course’s strategies (e-mail marketing, search engines optimization, building lists, directories/articles submission, etc.).
Last, but not least, I’d like to thank you for this opportunity and I wish you great success.
Fabio.
September 21st, 2007 at 11:52 am
Good Morning Yanik,
Over my life, I have started, run successfully and sold three “brick & mortar” businesses. During those times, I have never worked harder in my life…or had more fun!
It was enough to put two beautiful daughters through college, who now have five degrees between the two of them. I wanted to be like them! They both met men in college, married and didn’t come back home. So four years ago, I packed up everything and surprised them when I showed up with my vehicle attached to the back of a 24′ moving truck.
(As a cruel joke, I told them they had to decide who I lived with!)
Within days, with more help than I ever received from them, I had my own home and a “job”. How sad I was. Bored to tears and no outlet for creativity, at 42 years old, I wanted my college degree. This spring my children, their spouses and yes, my first grandchild saw me graduate with honors with my bachelors in marketing; 46 years old, $40K in debt and a future that I can make my own.
My first class had us writing a marketing plan. I figured if I was going to spend $40K over the next four years, I had better make it real! I made a ridiculous list of “Gayle’s perfect world”…can I work in my bathrobe? never miss an episode of Days of Our Lives? travel home to see my sister for a month and still make money? You get the idea.
My solution was the Internet. Going to school and developing my business in real-time was fabulous. It took me longer but helped me to do it right. I started with catalogue and mail order and worked into a complete website that I am very proud of. I have spun off some wholesale business locally, aside from the on-line retail. It’s doing well, but not enough to pay the bills that my desired lifestyle will create!
BUT, here’s where I am at, (and finally getting to the point), I need to create more; diversify with my own network of links all making money and contributing to “Gayle’s perfect world”.
I am reviewing a couple other Internet retail opportunities, but had idea’s for an information business. In between my own businesses I suffered “prison terms” (employment by other companies). I worked in health insurance. People are denied care everyday that if they only knew, with a carefully written letter, and what is required for various procedures…they can have them! This is information that can make a huge difference in peoples lives. There is no 100%, but this valuable information can raise the possibility of approval of certain procedures to almost 90%. Providing access to this information to people is very important to me.
I broke my neck six years ago. The driver that hit me had no insurance, of course! My medical care has cost almost a half million dollars since then. Much covered by insurance, but my 20% portion has devistated me. I still pay $300 per month just in prescription co-pays to be able to function at a managable level of chronic pain. I will live like this the rest of my life. One year ago I had to leave my job because of it. I pray everyday for strides to be made in curing severe nerve damage.
This is why I need to succeed, with my existing business and my future plans of my “Internet conglomerate”, and help people that need this information to lead better lives.
Yanik, you are providing a great opportunity for two people to win your program. There are many of us that in our wildest dreams would not be able to afford it out of pocket. I wish everyone success in their endeavors!
September 21st, 2007 at 11:54 am
Hi Yanik,
I don’t need to win your product – I attended the Information Marketing Seminar the product is based on, and found it to be excellent. The How To Sell High Priced Information Products course sounds interesting, but I am so busy implementing a number of your other ideas (such as video testimonials that work great!) for outside clients and our own companies, that I haven’t had time to work on my own product. I do write content for a few lucrative niche markets, and my pages rank number one on Google, but I haven’t converted them into any product – YET.
The real reason for this post is to say thank you for not sending me constant spam like most others in the Internet Marketing space. I have been successfully marketing companies on the Web since 1999, and it is very difficult to find something I haven’t already tried, implemented or immediately discarded (without reading) as crap from people who don’t know what they are taling about.
BUT – I always find a few gold nuggets I can use to benefit our clients in your bi-monthly Secret Society Publication. Thank you for that.
Keep up the great work!
George Williams
SEO and (Practical) Internet Marketing Specialist
September 21st, 2007 at 11:55 am
Yanik
I bought many duffers all claiming to be the next big thing and i’m near to giving this lot up as a big joke. The joke being on me for buying the garbage that’s out there, so I’m not going to beg for anything because normally for guys like me everything I’m either giving or attain is simply based on merit.
I buy something I study it, I put it into to practice, but i seem to be losing a lot of money so the proposition is that you prove to me that this stuff Intenret marketing is still working and pick me to run this program and then guide me through emails if i get stuck, failing that I won’t be buying the product as to many BIG launches only seem to work for to few people and only for those that have a truck load of cash to throw at it.
I’ve spent 20 grand on IM and to date zilch so my reluctance to max my card anymore and I’m one of the lucky ones who was able to pay off my debts.
the difference between me and others is that I give it full attention so If i’m picked you can gaurantee I will work on it, if I’m not picked well at least i tried and I’ll go an find another line of work.
Constantine
September 21st, 2007 at 11:58 am
Hi Yanik,
This contest is a either a “win win of lose lose” situation. With so many people interested in receiving your courses it seems virtually impossible to be the lucky # 1 or 2 but being the optimist that I am there’s no doubt that I’ll be 1 of them.
I’ve been an internet and network marketer for over 6 years now. Most of that time as an affiliate marketer and have sold info products belonging to others and received the commissions from those sales. During this period I’ve seen over and over again the thirst for knowledge that most people have. The info market supplies this thirst and in most cases at very reasonable prices so that the average individual can afford to buy again and again.
Over a year ago I sold my business (restaurant) and now work full time from the comfort of my home. I am still selling info products as an affiliate but recently started working on a line of info products of my own. A very good friend of mine and myself are preparing a series of info products for a very specific niche and are expecting it to be a great success. I am not interested in revealing the niche but it has to do with Judaism and I believe that it will be a great success with the proper foundations and marketing processes.
Being a seasoned marketer of other peoples products I need all the help I can get in creating the proper launch for our soon to be released series of info products. I believe that from all I’ve seen in your videos and all the emails I’ve received from you that your course will be the catalyst for the success of our series.
I think that the above covers the how, what and why you wanted and all that is needed now is to be one of the 2 winners.
All the best,
Peter
September 21st, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Read How A MIDDLE AGED COBBLER Told Off His Boss, QUIT HIS JOB And Started His Own Successful INFORMATION BUSINESS On The Internet…
And MADE MORE MONEY While Spending More TIME With His Family!
Dear Yanik,
Let me tell you a true story you might personally identify with…
Jim Olsen was a successful Cobbler, working in a very busy Shoe-repair Shop (most people don’t even realize that Cobblers still exist, but his work was good enough that people shipped him work from other states!). But doing good work day after day, while someone else (the Boss) made the REAL MONEY was Depressing! He spent HOURS away from his wife and kids while taking home a measly paycheck!
So one day when the Boss was “going off” unfairly and leaning on him particularly hard (you know what they say about crap rolling down hill!), Jim decided not to take the humiliation any longer and finally said… “You know what! You have no right to treat me this way… I’m too good for this, I Quit!” And he walked out… right then and there!
Sitting at home that evening he discussed the situation with his wife (she was actually glad he left as the STRESS from his job had been KILLING the Family).
What was there best option to start a business where what you earned was only limited to the Learning and Work YOU PUT INTO IT?
What Business could you start with LITTLE OR NO MONEY?
What Opportunity provided the GREATEST POTENTIAL?
How could he spend MORE FREE TIME with his Family?
How could he feel the FREEDOM of making his own hours and doing the work HE FELT IMPORTANT?
They decided that Cobbling was out (Even though Jim was a Quality Craftsman with Great Attention to Detail, Shoe Repair was Going the way of the Horse and Buggy) and after a lot of prayer and discussion decided to look into Internet Information Marketing.
YANIK SILVER was the name that clearly stood out at the HEAD OF THE PACK of Internet marketing Gurus. Upon further examination, Jim was impressed by what was a well laid out system to Creating and Running a SUCCESSFUL INTERNET BUSINESS.
He ordered Several of Yanick’s Courses (Many of which are priced to be affordable to ANYONE just starting out), and for the last couple months has been working hard to learn to create and market high quality products using “33 Days to Online Profit”, “Public Domain Riches” and the “Six Week Advanced Instant Internet Profits” courses.
He definitely still falls in Group #2 (the “If you haven’t already started or are just dabbling selling information products”) as even though he is picking up the “Craft” and “Art” of the business, he has sooooo much to learn and much confidence to gain! Just beginning is certainly the hardest part!
Hope to win this course so I can show the world it can be done, and to teach my kids that anything is possible for the person who is determined to make it happen!
Thanks for your time, the teaching you provide to us “normal Joes” , and for the chance to reach a dream. Even if I don’t win this course, I’ll make it somehow, and you are one of the many I will have to thank.
Jim Olsen
September 21st, 2007 at 12:02 pm
Hey Yanik,
I’m sure many peolpe can relate when I say that when you have a child your whole world changes. Well 7 months ago my world changed when my wife and I welcomed our first born, Justin! Well I knew that women would have a hard time re-adjusting to work after taking maternity leave for 3 months, but I have to admit that I had a hard time getting back to my job. It didn’t help that the people at my job were crazy, but every day that I drop my son off at that day care center, I will look back at him and I would start to well up {just a little bit, I’m a man!
}.
So my ‘WHY?’ was sitting in day care everyday…!
But i still wasn’t sure ‘How?’. A co-worker had the 4-Hour Work Week book. I had heard about it because I saw someone mention it on a Real Estate forum i was on. So i asked her could i take a look. I finished the book in about 2 days, and at that point decided that I had to get into a business that was ‘automated’.
Well, the universe works in funny ways, and I was led to info-products and purchased your ’33 Days’ and ‘Public Domain’ courses. I am now in the process of creating an ebook for Landlords, as well as gathering a few Public Domain ebooks to put together for sale, and I will also have them translated and sold in Brazil!
I’m not there yet, but I am on my way!
So to answer your questions…
1. WHY you think selling information is the best business to be in?
Over 10 years ago I read the book POWERSHIFT and the author talked about how the world was changing and that the ‘Power’ was in INFORMATION. He spoke of the Fast and the Slow. Well, i guess i was part of the ‘Slow’ because it took me a while to finally ‘get it’. Everyone is seeking Information on something! And if I can ‘control’ (put it into a book) the information, and that information is something that can help people profit, then it is only natural that I too will profit. The best thing is, the information online means that there doesn’t have to be any physical duplication process, and in these times of ‘going green’, what better way of going green and saving our world by saving thousands of trees!!!
2. HOW you’ll use the information in the package?
The information in this package will help me to tremendously step my business up! I am creating products that will sell for between $24.95 and $49.95, and I know that they will do very well for me. But why stop there?!? If I can learn to create higher end products for those higher end customers, then I will use the products to help me do just that. It’s like in Real Estate, you can make nice cash flow by purchasing 10-20 single family houses and renting them out. But you can make BIGGER money by purchasing 1 or 2 apartment buildings, and have MUCH LESS WORK. Well, The Ultimate A-Z Information Marketing Brain In A Box will help me buy that ‘apartment building’ online.
3.WHAT you’ll be doing with it?
I will not only be creating a better business, I will be creating an opportunity for myself to enjoy life! I will be able to spend time with my family, do the things that I love to do, and provide thousands of other people with information that they can truly utilize!
Thanks!
September 21st, 2007 at 12:05 pm
Hey Yanik,
Let me cut the bs and go straight to the point…
My goal is to be an internet millionaire like you! I have bought some stuff from your buddies – Jim and Ryan – and they were saying that you are the go-to guy for internet marketing.
As you are a well-known name in the ‘Good Old Boys’ Club, I am 100% sure that I can learn a few killer secrets and tips that I apply to my soon-to-be launched membership site.
I started my internet marketing journey when I met Matt Bacak a couple of months ago in Singapore at one of his seminars. He was raving like an excited kid about the beauty of info-products…
“You only need to create a product once, and you make money by selling it over and over again! And basically anyone can create his very own info-product with a shoe-string budget!”
From that day onwards, I am been eating and sleeping internet marketing. I bought product after product and have invested a considerable amount of time implementing some of these strategies. I had my fair share of little victories and failures, and have realised that……
It ain’t easy starting out from scratch.
Self-doubt is always there, along with several other obstacles that keep me from finding my Online Oil-Well. My best chance of success is to leverage from the experiences of people who have already walked the path. Will you help support my goal of starting my online business?
P.S. This may sound kind of odd, but I really hope to give you my testimonial, saying “Yanik’s incredible product helped me achieve my lst major breakthrough in internet marketing. Thanks a million for making my dream come true!”
Edison
September 21st, 2007 at 12:07 pm
Yanick, I never win anything! I did start my own Home based business but was not sucessful with it. It depended on others to enter my sporting club and even though there were entries, there were never enough to push it over the edge. I do have a good job and I enjoy what I’m doing but I believe I can do more for my family than just live day to day.
September 21st, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Yanik:
I think selling information is the best business to be in because knowledge can, will and is making a positive change in the world. People are changing the course of their lives quickly and positively because information can be had at lightening speeds. It’s now much more difficult for the con artist to scam people due to the benefits of information on sale. And only the surface of this great invention has been scratched.
Additionally, it is good business to sell the information because people usually don’t respect or value the information that comes without a price tag. They too easily disregard it if they don’t pay for it. In fact, having worked for a couple of leading consulting firms, I witnessed firms paying tens of thousands of dollars for information printed in book for sale for under $25.00. The difference was they implemented the advice when they paid such a fee.
Of course providing a portion as a sample or teaser can be vital, thus I do have great FREE reports that are used to obtain names etc. for our lists.
I will use the information to very actively promote hard to find vary valuable data such as:
* Discovering the truth about Reverse mortgages, mutual funds, 401k’s, home equity etc.
* How to reverse heart disease, lose weight have more energy etc. without medical intervention.
* How to turn your home into an energy conservation unit and do your part to end global warming and reduce our dependence on foreign oil.
I have great information from my active research and experience and have co ventured with a savvy Internet person who is in turn connected to a well known internet expert. He handles the Internet, and I devote my time to the research.
We intend to align the purpose of helping people, our society and nation with earning appropriate sums of money. If there is a better more fair formula, I’d love to know about it.
September 21st, 2007 at 12:10 pm
YANIK !!!!
I want the whole “honkin” thing man!! lol
Here’s why…
I recently got started in the information marketing business because i do agree with you about it being easily one of the best business models to be in for a few reasons.
First there’s the leverage that all the tools available with this model like the web, auto-responders, shopping carts, drop shipping, affiliates and more gives us. I mean you can run with one person a comparable traditional business that would take a 100 people to function properly. …I know, I’m still in traditional business right now.
Secondly selling information has got to be one of the most rewarding businesses to be in. People are created with the primary desire to be “appreciated” and loved. We understand and use that in marketing but on the other end…i think all people should have this fulfilled somewhat in their vocation. I think not having this is one of the biggest problem most people face. They would be so much more fulfilled if they did.
In the information business you literally get to share and serve others with exactly what “you’re” truly interested in. How rewarding is that?.. and how much appreciating will you get back when you serve from your heart and not just your head.
It’s not that you have to earn 10 million dollars per yr (although that’s cool too) but rather that a person now gets to offer what excites and interest them the most in the form of an information product. When done in that manner and not with just the intent of making money returns a gift monetarily immeasurable in the form of satisfaction and fulfillment.
…How will I use the info from your product? I will take massive action with what i learn and put it to use immediately. I working on other products but do not yet have “high funnel” products in the loop and that is what makes the BIG difference. It increases the back end and the value per customer allowing me to do so much more. I will listen closely and learn from one of my mentors whom I trust. Thanks man!
…and thanks for the copywritting course, I’m getting much better!
It’s all about improvement.
Signing off..
~ Fired Up Phil
September 21st, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Hello Yanik,
I wrote my first e-book, created my sales page and mini-site to sell it, set up a click bank account, and have had a slow but sure growing interest in my work. This was started one year ago.
Since then, I do the article submission work, (1 article a week), 3 blogs, just wrote a bonus for some one else’s ebook, will write an article next week about a product launch that the author asked me to do, and study internet marketing over at Pat O’Bryan’s Your Portable Empire.
In fact, with the launching of Pat’s book, Your Portable Empire: How To make Money Anywhere While Doing What You Love, his subscribers all meet over at The Portable Empire Island at Second Life, originally started as a book promotion stradegy–now has evolved into a real meeting of the minds.
This has been quite exciting. We meet over there, discuss our projects, offer suggestions, give support, and then the ideas keep pouring in.
I keep a note book with me at all times to record all the ideas I want to implement!!!!
Last week, we had our first Master Mind meeting with 3 other very interested internet marketers. We met at another island that another member purchased–Virtual Real Estate!!!
Today I started a brand new blog for dog lovers about a massage technique I do every day for my dogs!! This is a little known therapy–and I feel passionate about disseminating this information to the world!!!!!
Soon I will write an electronic book about it with a DVD showing people how do do it–on my dogs, ofcourse!!!
Should be a total blast!!
Well, enough from me!!
Kate Loving Shenk
September 21st, 2007 at 12:38 pm
Hi Yanik;
Internet business is in essence ‘Information Business’,
better yet, providing Information.
If the answers people receive provide the information that will
help them to solve their problem, THEY WILL BUY!
As somebody once said, trying to sell electric drills, the choices
are manifold.
What people want, is information on how to drill a hole!
They will then buy from the source they feel, gives them the
best product to drill that hole.
The market I want to explore, and succed in, is providing
INFORMATION on HOW to drill that hole.
To that end, I need all the help I can find.
Kind regards,
Werner Kindor
San Pedro, Ca
September 21st, 2007 at 12:43 pm
Yanik,
Look at all the post above mine and most likely below too. All of us have something in common, We need change in our life! We are all seeking something more, something like what you have, some tid bit of information that is going to change our life as it did yours. If I was to sit and count them all up it would be a speck of the individuals that are out there seeking the same thing we are, Information that will get us to where we want to go. I for one am seeking something, some information that will be my epiphany to get me started in an internet venture that will allow me to have the freedom that I desire in my life. In other words I don’t always wanna work for the man. I know that their are many people out there that desire this and if I can help them and help my family then we got ourselfves a BINGO!
September 21st, 2007 at 12:45 pm
I have been doing some serious info product marketing in roughly the past year and a half. That’s the way I made my first sale online, I made a webpage myself (which was very non professional at the time) and started marketing it.
I didn’t do much myself except for forum and article marketing and I made some sales via click bank and affiliates.
I tested the product as high as $49.99 USD and was surprised when I made the sale for that amount because it was in the sports niche and didn’t think that the price adjusted well in the market place but it did and that’s when I found out that selling info products were a nice way to make money online with.
You don’t have to sell it through bookstores and pay large fees, you can make it yourself and sell it right from your website and keep 100% of the profits excluding transaction fees and affiliate sales. I then sold the product on eBay and tested the price several times.
The max I sold it for on eBay was around $27 USD which was still a surprise to me because info products on eBay for the most part don’t sell very well, but can work great as lead generation. So, I went back through marketing and figured that since it was selling I would keep milking it until I could no longer.
The after result was I generated a pretty good amount of income online with and was able to finance certain aspects for my business so that it could grow bigger and mature.
I think this information will help me out because with selling high priced items I don’t believe people won’t flock over large sums of cash online or less the marketer have outstanding credibility and can make a big claim and also back it up. Since I had some recent interest in selling high priced items I thought about before I got into internet marketing and when I used to be a sales representative for a company that sold high quality cutlery products.
The biggest sets were a little over 1 K and making sales were not something uncommon. What I have believed until then was that selling high priced items generally had a higher conversion rate offline compared to that of online because it’s a more personal form of selling. To sell high priced items online takes a lot of credibility and also lots of joint ventures that have large lists.
But there again, I never tried it, the highest I sold an information product for was for $97 USD, but that was just an eBook and not a physical course so I feel that there is a lot for me to learn with selling high pried information products.
I usually sell info products on the low end and then concentrate hard on selling a higher priced product or service on the backend. To sell a high priced item on the front end is something that I can learn a lot from and will implement because I never give it that’s why I’m still in the internet game. If someone never gives up then their success is practically guaranteed.
September 21st, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Hi Yanik,
I have just started in IM. I have to tell you the truth about this internet thing.
When I found a good product to promote I got really excited at first then I looked at my competitors and searched keywords I ended up being frustrated. Why? Products that I want to promote already have whole bunch of people promoting on them.
Take supplement business as an example since I am interested in it and have some knowledge with it. Any supplement I searched in Google has over 1 million other sites competing with me. How can I stand out from the crowd?
Most “gurus” promote their products teaching people in selling niche products targeting internet marketing. Therefore, the internet is always flooded with similar IM products. As a newbie I was drought in the ocean of such info products and wasted a lot of money and time to try this and test that with no result.
I an frustrated with IM products I bought from certain gurus who taught the methods only estabilshed marketers can do. Nobody really reveals to you any of their secrets or show you a real website that make them money.
I have been struggled with IM for quite sometime. I keep telling myself not to give up because i need to make money to pay my tuition. And, comparing to other type of business, internet business offers a lot of flexibility and ready made products.
I envy those movie stars not because they are famous and rich but because they have more opportunities to make friends with the most talented people in the world. This is what I hope I can do in IM.
Thanks for the opportunity you offer here for people like me.
September 21st, 2007 at 1:04 pm
Hi Yanik,
Thank you for the chance to win your entire honking “Info Marketing Players” workshop and “How to Sell High Priced Information Products and Services” workshop courses. This is very cool !
I KNOW selling information is the best business to be in because information is always unique. Unique because it’s a creation born in your mind. It can be based on your own experience or something you’ve learned from another’s experience. It can even be information other people have, and the excitement starts when you learn to create a unique way of sharing it.
Here’s why I NEED your “Information Marketing Players” workshop. I’ve been successfully investing in real estate most of my life. I made a decision 7 years ago that I could give back by coaching student investors. I coached students of the most well known Real Estate Guru for over 3 years, though I had quickly learned it wasn’t about giving back there. It was a J-O-B and I was a lowly cog in some giant marketing wheels. I learned the organization went against everything I personally believed and valued.
I left and was able to continue my own investing. I began thinking about how I could work with students again, but in a different way—without it being a J-O-B that prevented me from doing anything else I loved to do, by really helping people get the information they needed and by doing it with integrity.
I’ve searched out, worked with, and gone through, 4 different companies over the last 4 years; and I’ve only learned I’ve gone to the bottom of the barrel for a solution. I’ve been coaching students I’ve gotten from marketing companies that are working off leads from online and offline gurus, and my experience with them would be laughable if it wasn’t so pathetic!
One company collected $8-10,000 from each student for materials and coaching, but paid me $300 to work with one-on-one with the student for 12 weeks. What’s worse is, I agreed to it! I did not realize the value of the unique information I have to share. I stopped working with them when they bounced a check for $300 on me. It became obvious that lots of $10,000’s were going up a particular protruding part of their faces.
Another company seemed a better option because they were a publicly traded corporation selling packages to students that included written materials, access to a membership website and my personal coaching. But they sometimes couldn’t be bothered to put the materials in a box and mail them to the student or send an email with the password for the website, never answered their phones or returned students’ calls, so they ended up on the “Ripoff Report”. I actually called the office and screamed, “How hard is it to take some stuff off a shelf, throw it in a box, slap a label on it and get it out for $10 grand?!!!” I was obviously losing it!
The end came when I was in the middle of a webinar with our students and guest students of other gurus (introductory gift), and the classroom screen went blank because, one of the customer service girls told me, they didn’t pay the bill for the webinar service.
The latest one didn’t seem to be putting anything up their noses, AND they actually sent the materials the students paid for! What a concept! But they did something 4 weeks ago that told me I had to stop the insanity. They’d been selling a particular package for $4000, and I got a call telling me they’d made a “big sale” and I should give this student “the VIP” treatment. I asked what that meant, and they said “just pay special attention to him and make sure you’re available ANY time he needs you”. That pissed me off, but it was nothing compared to what I felt when I learned why this happened. The owner of the company told me he rented a larger office that week, needed money for the deposit and this student and the next two were going to pay $10,000. No change in the products, no change in my knowledge or coaching ability, but $6000 for his rent from these 3 students. I was sick, and I was done.
Here’s why I NEED your “How to Sell High Priced Information Products and Services Workshop” course. I want to learn to sell information at different price points so that everyone can get what they need at the stage they’re in and, for those that want “the entire honking” mindmeld of my knowledge in this area, I need to be able to sell the high priced information myself—I don’t want to rely on drug addicts, flakes, liars and thieves. But I don’t have the information I need to be able to do it myself.
I feel exactly like my students tell me they feel. I need to get past my limiting belief that it takes twist-your-arm-on-the-phone-ex-con-telemarketers to Sell High Priced Information Products and Services. The experience and information I have to share with people who want to learn to invest in real estate is valuable to them. They’ve shared with me that it has helped them reach their goals and accomplish what they didn’t believe they could do. My most successful student lives in New York City and profited $1.2 million dollars during the 12 weeks we worked together. He sent me a note on Thanksgiving, a year later, to tell me again what it meant to him and his family and how it had changed their lives. So the rewards are absolutely there for me.
As to the WHY, the most important gift I got from your recent videos I’ve received was an insight into your philosophy: Like you, I believe I HAVE to give my students a return that’s 10 to 100 times their investment in my unique creation. I believe I can have control over whether that happens when I learn the HOW.
So WHEN I WIN your entire honking courses, I will offer my unique creation of information, backed up by experience, knowledge and integrity, because you shared yours with me!
Don’t you need my home address for UPS? Hee hee
And thank you again, Chris
September 21st, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Hi Yanik
I’ve always loved information products and from the time when I was in
elementary school and wanted to hypnotiaze my classmates,all the way
through highschool , to sending off for the Lazy Man’s Way to Richee mail-
order classic. I am a fan. But now I am realizing that I have the ability
to add to the mix. So a year or so ago I put together a video with my
younger brother to do a How to– Fix-it-yourself book on fixing the holesi
your walls (Not a Hungry Market ?) But I am ready to learn from one who h
has real answers. So I am writing this.
Most sincerely,
Darwin (Darby) Gunn
Austin Texas.
September 21st, 2007 at 1:06 pm
I am entering the contest as Winner #2. Our info products will launch by the end of the year.
What is great about being in the information business>
In a prior corporate life, I managed a market research division for Dataquest. We packaged and sold information about the Personal computer software business to vendors, venture capital firms, and wallstreet.
Why the information business is the best business to be in.
It was OK to have competitors. As a matter of fact I love having competitors. this means someone is buying information about your subject. The great thing about information products. Your customers will buy more than one product. If they want to know about a subject, they buy multiple products. It’s not like buying a stove..where one stove is all you get.
You can charge a price the customers have the ability to pay. In my prior life, start ups paid significantly less than customers with significant revenues. In the B to B rules, this is a legal method to price your products.
You can create a recurring revenue stream by positioning/providing your product on a monthly subscription basis.
It is easy to upsell your customers to other products. Seminars. Automated software processes.
The capital cost is mininal. It will cost you less to fail in this business than in any other business.
I LOVE THE INFORMATION BUSINESS. OF ALL THE JOBS I HAVE EVER HAD–INCLUDING BEING A CEO–THE INFORMATION BUSINESS WAS MY FAVORITE. WHICH IS WHY I AM NOT RETIRED–BUT CREATING AN EXCITING NEW INFORMATION BUSINESS.
kathy lane
half moon bay, ca
September 21st, 2007 at 1:07 pm
As the winner in category #2
I’d use my prize to emulate Yanik’s success, and work smarter and shorter hours for better results.
There’s a huge market out there looking for quality information.
I should know!
I’m always looking for marketing related information for my clients and colleagues in the sales, retail and leisure industries.
Specifics on file if requested. I’m already working smarter!
September 21st, 2007 at 1:09 pm
Yanik,
Please help me promote My Classified Marketing Secrets product.
This product contains actual scipts, methods, and generators to
gain profit using adsense, traffic, web2.0 etc…
It is NOT an e book, manuscript, or anything cheap and even comes with
PRIVATE LABEL rights! It is in my estimation the BIGGEST and BEST underdog product on Clickbank. It pales to comparison to the other products on the marketplace right this very minute!
Here is the product:
http://www.gurupal.com/ex-internetguru.html
Thanks,
Anthony Tomei
Master Marketer
http://www.anthonytomei.com
September 21st, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Last year I came accross Yannik’s name and did’nt have a clue as to who he was. I had spent thousands of dollars trying to make money online. So far I have not made one dime. So naturally I quit. Middle of this year desperation set in as a reallity and I saw myself as having no options but to return where I once failed and to pick myself up and empower myself in making it happen. I bought an ebook on “how to write an ebook” and again Yannik’s name showed up in there. I still haven’t made a dime but I became an affiliate of Yannik and I am sticking to Him. I cannot even affgrd to purchase the tools that I am trying to sell others so that they can be successfull. But I refuse to give up again. I WILL SUCCEED, I MUST SUCCEED THANKS YANNIK
September 21st, 2007 at 1:15 pm
It’s funny How I read alot of comments and they make alot of sense to win this contest. But I would sure give it a go.
Now before anything, I would like to say that I am a 21 year old start-up internet marketer. I have been in the game for the past 6 months and have not been making the results that I am after.
I realized that with everything I do, I am a slow learner. I need the big picture and every sport that I excelled in I spent tons and tons of time learning and listening.
However, teaching and learning from people who have been there and done it have changed everything for me. They’ve lessened my learning curve by half and allowed me to stay in the game for a very long time.
I am a writer.
I am also a marketer who has a lot of ideas swimming in my mind, the only problem is, without the big picture and people guiding me I cannot focus my efforts to produce maximum results, so if I get this package.
I will sit in my office and read (and watch) everything from top to bottom. I will mindmap the information I need and create a step-by-step action plan with everything in place and set a timeline for the work to be done.
To make sure I make it happen and Yanik does not get disappointed with me. And slowly implement each of the steps in the brain in a box and implement it.
Albeit, many times. Work through the mistakes and master the system.
After all is said and done (takes around 3 months to a year, realistically) to get results. Report to yanik how his product has changed my life and provide a great testimonial as a tribute to one of the legends.
I know Yanik never sells trash and rarely comes up with new products nowadays, so I’m sure this one is pure gold. Well that’s all. Marketing is all about the big picture and if I get the correct information I will know what to sell and learn and implement how to sell it.
Thanks for reading,
Francis
September 21st, 2007 at 1:26 pm
Another entry for category #2, Yanik.
I’m still in the thinking phase and feel a bit like the Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz. If I only had a brain . . . . “Brain in a Box” sound like just the ticket!
What would I do if I won your packages? First, I would immerse myself in your wisdom and expertise. Then I would know which of my dozens of possible info products to work on first, how to price them, and (probably most important) how to market them successfully.
I’m ready for a lot of learning, a little hard work, more not-so-hard work, and a not-so-passive income stream that would keep the information products pouring out.
If marketable information products are actually how-to and advice, I’m ready to take all of your advice in order to offer my own. From gardening and cooking, reading and writing, to B2B consulting; there are enough pieces of my mind to share with the world.
My dogs just heard about Kate Shenk’s blog (above) and want me to search for it. She’s got one customer already! They want a massage. (Does it go without saying that I’d love to win so the playing field won’t be all uphill?)
Thank you, Yanik, for the information you share with all of us on a regular basis. And thank you for giving the world an opportunity to get the most and the best as a gift from you.
Respectfully (and I don’t use that word every day),
JudyB (Yeah, that’s how most people and businesses know me! [It comes with a story you don't have to endure.])
September 21st, 2007 at 1:26 pm
Hi Yanik,
Thanks for the opportunity to win a copy of your course. I fall into category #2 as I HAVEN’T started — YET!
Basically, I am a total ‘newbie’ who is fed up with the rat race and I just recently started researching starting an online business.
As you’re well aware, there’s a TON of information out there (and even in my early stages of research, I’ve found there’s also a ton of MIS-information as well), and everyone wants to offer you a *small* piece of the puzzle with an ebook, report, CD or DVD, home study courses, etc.
If you’re a newbie (like me) just starting out, it can be quite overwhelming simply because of INFORMATION OVERLOAD.
I do have a budget for my business, but with so many competing (and often conflicting) products out there … where do you begin?
So, I’m researching and up pops this guys name “Yanik Silver” and I begin clicking on links and that’s how I originally ended up on your Internet Lifestyle blog, and I start thinking “Yes, that’s the lifestyle I want!”
I read on and found this contest … just after this morning when I checked my email and got my ‘quote of the day’ which was the old adage “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear”. Could it be? I THINK SO!
As I said, I’m new at this, but I do have some ideas — I just need the proverbial ‘kick in the butt’ to show me what to do.
I will take the information and implement it and strive to become the next Yanik Silver SUCCESS STORY for you to use in all your future advertisements.
I don’t want your information and then never use it. I want to be held accountable for it, and I will provide weekly (or daily) progress reports to show that I am actually using the material and putting it to use. In essence, I plan to make you proud for putting it in my hands.
Ultimately, when I reach a level of success, I want to give back to others as well — just like you.
I could go on and on and write a book about what I would do with the material, but I think you get the idea, but the bottom line is I WOULD PUT YOUR TEACHINGS INTO ACTION!
Teacher … I’M READY!
George
September 21st, 2007 at 1:28 pm
Yanik,
Since I was very young, I had been groomed and mentored to shoot for the stars and think about ways to help other people and make a big impact on the world and how people live in it.
For almost all of my life, up until now, I followed the “rules” and played the game much like Robert Kiyosaki delivers in his message to the masses.
I went to school…I continued to go to school. I earned a doctoral degree – and it never stopped. After the doctorate, you need more practice, after the practice, you need to get licensed. After you get licensed, you go to work and have a job – a job that is well short (financially) of the investment I have personally made in my education – through time and student loans.
While my education is valuable, I also have to consider how I will support my wife and 2 kids. I think there is nothing wrong with giving back to the world – and making a living while doing so ethically, morally, and with values.
And that’s who I am.
I want to make a difference in the world. I want to give people valuable information. I have so much to share – and have a steep learning curve ahead of me on how to “unlearn” what I was taught in school and to then learn how I can make an impact – a real impact.
Right now I am starting out in the Internet Marketing community. I see myself involved in 2 niches. One niche helps my peers and colleagues in the helping profession to grow their practices and to create opportunities beyond their wildest dreams – beyond what they imagined possible.
My second niche is putting into practice what I learned in school. Heck, even before I was in school, I had a platform on one very common and firghtening health topic, and my platform is wildly different than the masses (while still very grounded and real). It takes all of my knowledge, expertise, and training in the healthcare world and turns something very mainstream upside down. This niche is broad, and I am currently trying to enter it with a very focused sub-niche. Previous clients have seen profound differences in a short time.
All I can say:
I have the message. I have the information. I have the know-how, and desire to make a difference. I have the perseverance and drive to make it happen – as well as the freedom and flexibility to see it through. My main goal is to support others and make a dramatic difference to people around the world.
Your product would fill in the gaps and in essence, you Yanik would be integral in helping me deliver a message to the masses that just might change how people see themselves, one another, and the world at large.
That’s exactly how your information product will help me. I have the platform and the branding – I need the help with the marketing and the processes to deliver that message.
There is NO greater way than by being in the information business to deliver this message. People want it, people need it, and people are starving for it.
I just want the chance to give them this information in a way that is reasonable and available to as many people as possible.
I so very badly want to make a difference that I am jumping out of my skin trying to figure out how I can share my message, my mission, my vision, and my one true calling.
If you select me for Winner #2 – I will not let you down.
I know I have left out some details about the particulars, but I would gladly share them with you if given the chance to learn how to make this impact and share this message.
Everything is there Yanik… I just need a way to get it to people.
September 21st, 2007 at 1:32 pm
Good morning Yanik:
Your contest is so timely for me, and I am excited to be in a position to enter. I think selling information is the best business to be in since I have been doing it for most of my professional life. As a former program administrator and then grant writer in the public sector, that is what my day-to-day work life was all about. I sold concepts in writing that could then be implemented in real life. I used to tell people that I loved writing funding proposals because it was a lot like scriptwriting. The only difference was that the actors were communities of people attempting to address critical issues.
I became acquainted with the online information products community in 1999, and since that time I’ve purchased a lot of products, and certainly from you, Yanik. The information has helped me with my off-line freelance writing endeavors, but I haven’t made a penny as an online marketer – yet. I’ve even had a nonrevenue generating web site since 2000. You see, in the beginning, I just couldn’t wrap my head around the affiliate product marketing concept that continues to dominate the online marketplace. That is partly because 500,000 other people were promoting the same products. And you know what else? I observed that 99.5% of new information products released from all the knowledge these new affiliates had gained, were about how to market online. Yes, I grasped the concept of the importance of niche-crafting (and practice this off-line), but I found very few examples of how to do this successfully and truly profit from it online.
Yanik, everything changed for me a few weeks ago. A friend who knew I’d always wanted to try an online auction business introduced me to someone who had a garage full of store closeout items. (Their garage is still full after taking all the items I knew I could comfortably market). Suddenly everything clicked into place. I had tangible products that I could offer, which gave me an opening to create new information products – about these items. Finally, I could put all those online marketing concepts to work alongside the products I would be offering for sale!
How I will use your “Ultimate A-to- Z Information Marketing Brain In-A-Box” is to first off all, treat it reverently and study every word, after which (and perhaps during) I will put your expert advice into practice. What I will specifically be doing with the course is launching my auction business with a twist. The twist is where you come in. I trust that your course will enhance my current knowledge of pre-selling my potential customers, and over-delivering to them with quality information products alongside quality tangible products. I want them to turn to me as a trusted resource and vendor for years to come – much like you are to me and many others, Yanik. I have no clue what is in your package, but I do know that it will contain a blueprint that will help me catapult my services into the stratosphere in the months and years ahead!
With many thanks,
Marie
September 21st, 2007 at 1:36 pm
My wife and I are blessed with a wonderful family and great friends. We are in our sixties and thank God we are still healthy and have creative minds. Several months ago we made a commitment to each other that instead of retiring into the sunset we should contribute our remaining years toward harnessing the ever firtile minds of our family and friends by establishing a “Knowledge Tree”. This idea was culminated due to our newfound love of the Internet medium. We have offered ourselves to pursue all viable ideas germinated via this alliance and create new streams of wealth by employing the amazing venue of the internet. Our mission is to form a for-benifit foundation to not only secure resources for us, but also serve society at large. We have ample time and lots of energy, though we have very limited financial resources. We are not seeking funding of any kind, however, my wife and I feel that such a generous gift of knowledge from you may be the seed we need to grow our “Knowledge Tree” into an ever growing fruitful tree and boost our dream.
September 21st, 2007 at 1:39 pm
Yanik,
I just want to add to my previous post, that regardless what you decide,
I feel I can sell a TON of your product. I have several websites, and am working with Andrew Fox to sell loads of information products as an affiliate. I look forward to doing the same for you.
Thanks and Cheers.
KenJ
September 21st, 2007 at 1:43 pm
I believe that it’s very important to know how to market information. I am a chiropractor and people NEED health information. There are lots of sites out there that are presenting incomplete or incorrect information and charging lots of money for the privilege.
My mission is to provide everyone who will listen the complete knowledge to have perfect, optimal health and the tools to accomplish that for life. The packages that Yanik is offering would enable me to build a wonderful, self-sustaining business from which I could expand my teachings and offerings on a regular basis.
In summation, I will use Yanik’s information to increase the health and wellbeing of everyone who is open and willing. Healthy people are more able to contribute positively to our society and to the world. Healthy people are better able to raise loving, healthy children. Healthy people are more patient and kind. Healthy people are CREATIVE, FULL OF LIFE, LIGHT and LOVE.
Thank you for joining me on my mission of healing the world.
September 21st, 2007 at 1:44 pm
Yanik,
I made my first stab at information marketing in 1987 — and I didn’t even know then that it was information marketing. We started UCS PRESS with publication of WHO’S RAISING WHOM? A parent’s guide to effective child discipline. We sold over 20,000 books in a bit over 18 months just at back-table sales at Dr. Waldman’s speaking engagements and seminars; and this was with very little promo outside of Dr. Waldman’s actual appearances.
We’re re-releasing WHO’S RAISING WHOM? in time for Dr. Waldman’s return to the national speaker’s circuit October 12, 2007. I can only imagine the sales we can achieve using the principles in your “Ultimate” Informationa Marketing program.
During the next few months we will be updating and also releasing Dr. Waldman’s other titles, including Coping with your Adolescent / How come I love him, but can’t live with him? / and Blended Families: They’re All Mixed Up.
Through Dr. Waldman’s books, we’ll be putting out substantial, easy-to-read, easy-to-understand information that, if applied, really does help parents become better, more effective parents — and this includes the arena of being parents to teens. Dr. Waldman’s work always has been cutting-edge as he step-by-step explains why children and teens misbehave, and then step-by-step tells the parent how to deal with and change those misbehaviors.
In his marriage book, How come I love him, but can’t live with him?, Dr. Waldman uses his unique blend of insightful wisdom and humor to help couples better understand each other, ultimately leading to a closer, more loving, and understanding relationship.
We’ll also soon be releasing Arresting the Great Mind Robber: Commonsense approaches to Alzheimer’s, which is a major, break-through discussion of how to reverse Alzheimer’s in its early stages, and how to slow down its advance in later stages so that the victims and the loved ones of those victims can all enjoy an improved quality of life.
After several years of being out of the publishing arena due to health challenges, I’m more motivated than ever to achieve substantial success with the five titles mentioned in this blog submission. An added motive is that I want to succed substantially so that my wife can have the option of not working outside of our home. She wants to work with me — and not someone else. She deserves to have that option, and I believe your “Ultimate” program will enable her to realize her dream.
I believe all five of these titles will do very well in eBook format. We will continue to produce trade paperback editions; however, using the information in your program, I know we can greatly expand sales via the Internet in both eBook and trade paperback formats.
Thank you, Yanik, for your consideration.
Jim Dobkins
Arizona
September 21st, 2007 at 1:45 pm
Hi Yanik –
Thank you so much for this wonderful opportunity. I am most definitely a newbie and so am eligible to be winner #2.
I have been studying this chameleon, Internet Marketing, for nine months now and have discovered that: 1) there is a big learning curve; 2) there’s a lot of information on the web, some good and some very bad; and 3) there is the potential for great success. I have purchased seven products that promised me that if I followed their program I would be successful on the Internet. I followed their programs as best I could, (being a newbie), and while I did learn something from each of them, none measured up to their claims because they only showed me just one or two pieces of the puzzle. I have learned a lot during the past nine months, but I need a complete program that teaches the entire process from start to finish so that I can achieve success in this field – a program just like “Ultimate A-TO-Z Information Marketing Brain-in-a-Box”.
Selling information on the Internet is the best business to be in because it offers unlimited income potential, great personal freedom, the opportunity to delve into a wide variety of topics, the chance to help others and enrich their lives and its fun!
With the “Ultimate A-TO-Z Information Marketing Brain-in-a-Box”, I will finally have the tools I need to learn every aspect of selling information products. I will watch each DVD, listen to every word, study each technique and bring it all together to launch myself into great success on the Internet.
My goal has always been to create multiple streams of income so that I can achieve financial and geographical freedom for my family and myself. My first website, An Easier Life, will be devoted to seeking out ways to make life easier. Specifically, it will concentrate on the areas of Food & Cooking, Health, Fitness & Lifestyle and Home Décor & Crafts. It will offer product reviews, household tips, recipes, e-books and other products, and solutions to common everyday problems. My second idea is to create an information product(s) for the average Internet user – the average Joe’s Web 2.0. Lastly, my husband’s agency offers personal and commercial insurance and merchant services. I would like to help him educate the consumer and establish him and his agency as an authority in these fields. And this is just the beginning!
I am so excited to have the opportunity to participate in the business of Internet Marketing and just know that I will achieve all of my dreams and goals because of it.
Thank you again.
My Best,
Corinne
September 21st, 2007 at 2:05 pm
I’m in process of getting a site and ezine to send to the boomers. I take care of hundreds of baby boomers who are constantly asking me the same questions about health, longevity and living better. So what better way to give them the information than create an info product and ezine to market it. Still working on the basics so I’ll take whatever help you are willing to offer as a successful information marketer. Always willing to learn from the best.
September 21st, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Hey Yanik,
Here’s my entry for the winner #2.
I am currently beginning with Information products and I have purchased your Public Domain Goldmine and I’ve been reading your Secret Society information for the past year.
“WHY you think selling information is the best business to be in?”
Selling information that’s useful is an awesome feeling. It’s the chance for a complete nobody-to go from waiting tables to internet stardom and having the freedom and lifestyle and money to go with it.
Simply put, I love giving people “the fish”… However, How to give them “the fish” is the hard part. Learning to give it to them and make money at the same time is the difficult part. I don’t want to keep giving away the store. I have all the right pieces in place but putting it all together to be effective has been difficult.
I keep spending money I don’t have to try and put the pieces in a complete information package. I need help trying to figure out my bigger picture. I feel this information would help 100%.
“HOW you’ll use the information in the package and WHAT you’ll be doing with it.”
I would be putting together an information distributorship package for the MLM/Network Marketing community to help not only to help train new distributors but also a way to help them make money up front in a free affiliate program and help them with effective list building in an all in one complete membership site community.
September 21st, 2007 at 2:11 pm
Hey Yanik!
I just started getting into selling info on the net this summer. I started for a couple reasons – I want off disability and also because of what I’ve learned from being disabled.
I never knew how much I asked my co-workers about stuff until I had several strokes, became homebound and had to move back to my parent’s farm. The only place left for answers was the internet.
I found so many gaps out there that it got me thinking. I can fill in some of those gaps! Even with my stroke zapped brain I can do it. :]
So, I’ve been taking the knowledge I have from being a wildlife scientist, and being owned by 13 cats and putting it to use! I like Bum Marketing so I write articles, find ebooks to sell and I recently got ahold of a software program and I’ve been designing and selling my own software! That’s my favourite, so far.
The toughest part has been getting ahold of really good materials to teach myself the business, that I can afford on disability (a whopping $642/month). I hang out at various blogs and learn new stuff. I get in on free seminars, like the totally awesome one with Cameron Johnson (I love his book.) and Todd Gross’ excellent freebies he has, particularly with Rudy Ortiz, plus great deals on ebooks he offers.
Anyway, for now my goal is selling things really cheap and some for free to build my list, with the aim of getting into more expensive stuff so I can boost my income. My medical costs are pretty high, so I have to be able to create a super good income to cover it all if I’m ever going to be independent again.
Thing is, I don’t really have a clue how to go that step and have it work. So, when I saw what you were offering in the contest I jumped in because I think it will help me be able to focus in a practical step-by-step way toward my goal of being free. Basically, that’s it! If I win, it’s going straight to work so I can get my independence back.
Thanks for the opportunity and all the cool stuff you do for us!
Yo
September 21st, 2007 at 2:11 pm
Hi Yanik,
First I want to tell you I live in the Netherlands so it`s a little hard for me to write in English. I tried to make money on the internet for over a year now. I make some but it`s very little. I have made a website did affiliate programs and bought a lot of information. The worst thing I did was paid a American compagnie to help me build a website. Now I have made some blogs http://www.peterjonesweb.com/acnescarsfade, peterjonesweb.com/orthopedicdogbed. I keep on trying and searching and learning. I know selling information is the best way to make money on the internet because everyone wants information about a kind of niche. But the hard way ( for me ) is to find a hot niche and when you find it the traffic. Whit out traffic you don`t make money. My goal is to make enough money so i can quit my job and spent more time whit my wife and children.
ps: Hope that you understand what I wrote, like I already said write in English is a little hard for me because I live in the Netherlands. I hope you give me this big change to changes my live, my kids will always remember.
Thanks
arian and my kids
September 21st, 2007 at 2:12 pm
Here’s my suck-up story, Yanik!
So it’s November 2006. I’m 12 at the time, slugging it out blogging for different blogs, building backlinks, getting traffic and surviving on AdSense clicks. Sure, it paid the… Well. No bills – McDonalds tabs, however and it kept me going. I chose and bought some products carefully and took action on what I’d read (and watched, in one case).
Three months down the line and I’d managed to pull in over $1,500 in a single day. (Sorry – I’ve not scraped a 7 figure success story out of oblivion to grab your attention…)
Today? I’m typing this at my computer – my pride and joy. $4000 worth of state of the art equipment, sucking a tropicana original (would ‘ave loved to say something classy like a cocktail – but I’m not into alcohol). Why? I worked my butt off and took action.
I finished school and ran home. Call me a freak, but Internet Marketing aint’ just profitable, it’s fun AND addictive. Maybe not so good for young minds, but what the hell. Today I’m making a nice steady ‘income’ from my IM activites online and am buddies with some guys, who only a year ago, I had no idea even existed.
I’m interviewing experts for a package I’m building. Guys like Mark Joyner, Michel Fortin and Michael Cheney… It’s not rags to riches, I didn’t have anything to lose, in a sense. Before though – I was just your regular schoolkid. Now?
I’d like to think of myself as a success. How many other kids can say they’re paying their parents bills?
The one ‘n’ only big-headed super-affiliate kid, signing out!
- David Wilkinson
September 21st, 2007 at 2:16 pm
Hi, Yanik:
When it comes to all this Internet marketing, I’m a total novice. I am a published writer, but I’m beginning to understand the potential of the e-book market and online marketing. I despirately need the help your resources could give me!
To be honest, if your resources can help me succeed, they could help anybody! So, if I win “Brain-in-a-Box,” my success will be the ultimate endorsement for your products!
Thanks for the opportunity,
Lynne
September 21st, 2007 at 2:24 pm
I’m just at the start of my internet publishing career . . . just finished writing my first e-book, just in the process of creating my first website, just finding out how this all works!
Although it’s my first e-book, it’s not my first book. I’m a published author – but it’s hard work. You have to find a publisher and then you have to trust them to do the best they can with your book. It doesn’t always happen.
I write non-fiction . . . I don’t write to entertain but to inform. I want the people for whom that information will be useful to be able to access it easily. When I talked to my agent about my idea for a book on common illnesses (causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment both orthodox and complementary), she said “it’s an ‘every home should have one’ book”. And although she found me a (well-known) publisher without difficulty, my editor left the firm before the book was published so that there was no longer anyone in-house to push for adequate publicity or for actually getting the books into the shops. As a result, few shops stocked it and it died the death. What really infuriated me was that I received letters from people who had managed to get a copy, saying what an excellent and useful book it was. But getting it to the audience was out of my hands. Not so with internet publishing!
I’ve also been a bookseller (used books and antiquarian books) and found this frustrating too. I love books because of what’s inside them – because of the information they contain. Nowadays, books seem to be collected as “objects” – a book with a small stain on the cover and no dustwrapper can be worth a fraction of the value of the same book without the stain and with the dustwrapper – but it’s the same book, with the same contents.
For me, books are about information. And, if one is making a career in books (whichever aspect of them), they’re also about earning a living. Not easy if few people have the opportunity to buy what one has written. And getting harder and harder in the world of used and antiquarian books.
So I’ve given up bookselling and I’ve decided to write e-books, where I’m in charge and whether a book is successful or not is down to me – the quality of the writing, the value of the information and, of course, my ability to market it.
And I don’t mind admitting that, as far as the marketing is concerned, I need all the help I can get! I was privileged to attend a wonderful seminar in Bournemouth a few months ago, run by Andrew Reynolds and with Yanik as one of the speakers. I bought the package on publishing stuff that’s in the public domain. If it’s an e-book, there’s no longer a problem with stains on the cover or an absence of dustwrappers – you can concentrate on the information rather than on its packaging.
I came away from the conference inspired and excited and ready to make a go of it.
But, like anything else, if you’re going to make a success of internet publishing, you have to know what you’re doing. As a writer, I know I can produce the sort of information packages that people will be willing to pay good money for. But what I don’t have at my fingertips is all the accumulated knowledge and experience of someone like Yanik. Which is why “How to Sell Super High Priced Information Products and Services” would be so valuable to me.
So, in a nutshell, WHY is selling information is the best business to be in? It’s because I’ll be doing what I do best (writing good informative packages) but, this time, I’ll be in charge! And HOW will I use the information in the package? I’ll use it to hone my marketing skills to sell a variety of information packages that I’ve written myself (quite a few on medical themes, since that’s my speciality) and others that are taken from literature that’s in the public domain (making good, useful stuff accessible to people who might otherwise never find it).
Thanks for giving me the opportunity to enter this competition!
September 21st, 2007 at 2:25 pm
Thank you Yanik, it is a great chance to get come closer to you and learn from the best of the best and your best products. I have already start in internet marketing, and believe that follow you, making big money is no longer awaited because selling information you’ll teach on cutting-edge high values. Just flowing easily with mindmapping to the main stream and focus on a huge money making online and enjoy my own life style.
September 21st, 2007 at 2:41 pm
I have spent a ton of money trying to figure out how to make my living online. Cory Rudl.s Internet marketing course, God bless his soul. Dave Valliere has been very helpful. Joe Vitale, Matt Gill, Dirk Dupon and many others have been in instrumental in my learning process. I still don’t understand a lot of things about the entire process. I am looking forward to any help I can get.
September 21st, 2007 at 2:50 pm
I have been studying a lot of internet marketers over the last couple of years and dabbling a bit. But I have finally decided to make space for my passion of writing by sharing insights and inspiration with others about living a fantastic life. I believe I can share it the quickest with the most people and thus get the momentum going best by an internet presence.
Part of my step-by-step business plan to get there involves teaming with experts in areas I am weak in, especially the whole area of internet marketing. Maximizing pages for sales conversions, various ways of driving traffic, sales copywriting, joint ventures, audio & video, social networking, automating systems – these are a few things I know I need to master or get help on.
I have learned about the sales funnel effect. I know it is important to attract people with free valuable information and get them in your funnel to start the ball rolling. From there the products become more valuable and higher priced. Thus, getting techniques and ideas to go from free to tens of thousands of dollars in products and services, especially with the guidance of a mastor mentor would be AWESOME! Also, having information about an automated system and/or software to make much of this happen would be ideal. Actually it would be FANTASTIC!
PLEASE CHOOSE ME as a grateful recipient of this valuable and timely information you have put together!
Knowing the value you have always offered in the past, Yanik, and your pristine reputation, I can only imagine that the information you are offering will be of the utmost value in launching an information and inspiration empire of my dreams, so that many others can be blessed in all areas of their lives as well!
Blessings on you and thanks for the help you have been to many of us already!
Lois
September 21st, 2007 at 3:01 pm
Hi Yanik,
Thanks for offering to give your vital information. I qualify as the #2 winner. I purchased your “Selling Your Book Online eClass” to help me get the good word out about how women can stay healthy with breast implants.
So many women get sick and the doctors don’t know how to help them. I was sick too, and I figured out how to get well and be vital again. I teach women how to enjoy their implants and keep their health and how to spot the first hint of toxicity, and what to do about it.
Almost everyone knows someone with implants, and now I am looking for people to help me by sending out my book announcement to their email list. Internet marketing is the best way to reach people.
Since you have been my mentor, I have had big ideas about doing an audio book and an audio-visual webinar, inviting experts to talk and answer the ladies questions. I also want to learn the way to market a big ticket month-long retreat with me here in Hawaii where I can coach ladies while they do my special detox program and get well while they are pampered in paradise.
I love learning from you, and I need your info, so I hope I win. By choosing me you will be helping women everywhere.
Thanks, Yanik
Love, Diana Leighland
diana@siliconesurvivors.com
http://www.siliconesurvivors.com
September 21st, 2007 at 3:17 pm
How much are people willing to pay for info products. At one time I thought $97 was a lot
September 21st, 2007 at 3:19 pm
Thanks for this opportunity!
Frank
September 21st, 2007 at 3:21 pm
H. I’m a trained, overeducated journalist, well-recognized in my field, who co-wrote an award-winning book on internet research 10 years ago that’s still in print. So far, so good, you might think. BUT: after years of publisher hassles, accounting mistakes and fights w/ the co-author about how to update and target specific readership populations (I had a career in broadcast TV, where all this is commonplace; the co-author doesn’t and still doesn’t get what I’m talking about, and neither does the publisher), I’m in the process of repossessing my content. Then I can slice and dice it the right way: update it for specific populations and their specific needs, included CDs and DVD how-to’s so they can learn at their own pace, w/ optional manuals, etc. People learn at different paces in different ways.
Oh, and take oversight control over the accounting w/o having to go to court to get my earnings, lol!
I’ve done it the old-fashioned way, and it just plain does not work at any level: for the consumer, for the info provider who wants to deliver the goods in a helpful way, and on the financial end. As soon as I get control over my intellectual property (within the next several months; it’s being negotiated), I’ll re-write, re-format and re-deliver the modern way: in the more personalized delivery methods that internet info marketing provides. I’ll be a newbie at the techno level but I’ve been lurking, studying up and doing my homework, and have some forward-facing ideas regarding new delivery and interface formats, so I’ll be an interesting case study.
The value of information, and the techniques needed to generate such information, haven’t changed. The delivery methods and formats have. There’s a reason newspapers, magazines and broadcasters everywhere have been slumping in their core businesses: those cores haven’t embraced new technologies and need more fully. Credibility still counts, I believe. And so does fundamental experience. The books I’ve written so far prove that. The success of this particular book does, too. But they’re just the beginning, not an end unto themselves. I’m raring to put my experience to work here, with no fuss, muss and murky accountability. Also, the idea of instantaneous updates and continuous response to continuous feedback is exciting! Here’s a chance to rapidly increase the speed of the info delivery/use/response cycle. Can’t wait!
September 21st, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Hey Yanik,
Love your stuff! I’ll buy the dang program, just tell me where I can find a website developement tool that has an easy editor and a built in membership site. That’s the missing link for me.
As far as my BIG IDEA – I’d like to develop a JOINT VENTURE forum online where people can connect for JV’s. It would require an application and a monthly membership.
Ya, ya, we’ll probably be seeing “Yanik’s JV Forum” soon – thanks for the idea Colin. Hey – maybe we should JV on this idea.
You can send me a note if you like the idea.
Colin
September 21st, 2007 at 4:08 pm
I’m also interested in learning the threshold folks are willing to go to pay for information over the net. I’m launching a business advising people on how to position their credit to purchase real estate.
September 21st, 2007 at 4:11 pm
They’ll Laugh When You Pick Me, But When They See The Results…
YANIK, WHY SUFFER ANY LONGER
Are you like the countless others who suffer needlessly? Are you loosing sleep because you’ve got a very difficult decision to make in choosing only two people to win your “Ultimate A-TO-Z Information Marketing Brain-in-a-Box”?
IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE THAT WAY
Yanik, for a limited time only, I can be the solution to at least half of your problem.
That’s right; I’m offering you a simple, painless, and ultimately fulfilling way of solving at least half of your problem. How? By simply asking you “Yanik, will you pick me as one of the winners, because I need to have your course.”
All you have to do to take advantage of this incredible off is say – Yes Rob, I would love to have you solve half of my problem painlessly. It’s that simple!
IS THIS GUY FOR REAL?
Yanik, right now you’re probably asking yourself, “who is this guy?” and “why is he qualified to be one of my winners?
Well, I’ve been involved with sales and marketing for more than 20 years now in the offline business world. Along the way, I was exposed to and became a devoted fan of Dan Kennedy and some of the other great names in direct response marketing.
I used the skills I learned through these masters to help launch and grow substantial revenue for two different companies. Unfortunately, they were not my companies and although I was responsible for much success it was still a J.O.B., and my rewards were less than desired.
That however is just a little background — my story, or should I say my life, really began late in the afternoon on a warm summer day several years ago.
I was at a classic car show watching people ooh and ah over the beautiful cars displayed there. The sun was just setting and a cool breeze drifted in off the lake, I was lost in reverie admiring a particularly sweet 1957 Chevy with a glossy black finish and black, red, and silver interior. The vivid colors of the late summer sunset reflecting in the bottomless gloss of the inky black finish were hypnotic.
Gradually, a tapping on my arm brought me back to reality and I discovered an older gentleman with sad eyes looking up at me.
“Beautiful isn’t it?” He asked as he motioned to the car in front of us. “I’ve always wanted one of those, ever since I was a young man”
I was instantly intrigued by the melancholy look of him and impressed by his obvious love of the car.
“What kept you from getting one?” I asked.
He though about it for a few seconds and answered saying: “I don’t really know, at first I guess I was always to broke to afford it, and then later when I could I was scared I wouldn’t be able to handle the restoration work.”
“I’m sorry to hear that” I answered him as we stood admiring the car again.
Suddenly, after several quiet moments, he placed his hand on my arm and said “son, whatever you do in life don’t ever let your fear keep you from the things you want to do!” He winked, let go of my arm, and then turned slowly and walked away.
I stood there for a few more minutes watching as he disappeared into the crowd and pondering what he said. The next day I determined to change for the better.
I TOOK IMMEDIATE ACTION
Shortly after that I left the company I worked for and bought a house to remodel and sell to bring in a little money and started up a mortgage brokerage with a friend who had been in that business for a few years.
I used all my direct response knowledge and techniques and saw the business really take off, but realized that I didn’t like the mortgage business,
I WANTED MORE
At this point I had been reading your column in Dan Kennedy’s newsletter and began to dabble in developing an online internet based business. I recently met a like minded person here in my city that has been successful in several online ventures, and we have partnered to develop and launch two new businesses.
One is an affiliate sales model for FOREX trading system that we are running while we develop our own product. The other involves selling distributorship licenses for a Dial-up internet service we will deliver that will bring in recurring revenue to the company. Both of these involve products that are both physical, and information based, and both are priced over $5,000.00 USD.
Yanik, you are widely recognized as the undisputed master of creating and growing online information based businesses. I realize that I can likely achieve some nice results just using what I know already, but if I really want to see my business supercharged I need to be schooled in your powerful insights and techniques.
YOU’LL BE IN GREAT COMPANY
Yanik, don’t take my word for it. Here’s what others have to say:
“He’s a great guy and I always new he would do great things!” –My Mom
“He’s definitely got what it takes, I just wish he’d take the trash out when it gets full without having to be asked” – My wife
“Are you serious? Don’t pick him he’s an insect!” –My Sister
IT COULDN’T BE EASIER
So, if you really want to solve that nasty problem and be the envy of your friends and respected even more by your colleagues you can pick me simply by responding to the email address I’ve provided. This offer is limited and cannot be transferred or sold, so take advantage of it today and rest easier knowing you made the right choice!
I’M SO SURE OF SUCCESS, I’M OFFERING A LIFETIME GUARANTEE
In fact I feel so strongly that I can be the solution to at least half of your problem that I’m including this generous “I hope I don’t wake up one night and regret choosing this guy to be a winner” double your money back lifetime guarantee!
That’s right Yanik, if you’re not completely satisfied with your choice EVER for any reason I’ll promptly return the course materials and refund you twice what I paid for it.
Now, how can you go wrong with a guarantee like that? The answer is you can’t. I believe you’ll be so satisfied I’m willing to make this generous NO RISK guarantee.
I KNOW YOU’RE NO DUMMY
Look, the reality is you can choose anybody you want. And based on your track record, I’m sure it will be a great choice. However, I also know that given the opportunity, I will be an awesome choice who will go on to become one of your star pupils. So give a guy a break and pick me please.
To our mutual success!
Warmest regards,
Binky Doyle
p.s. The old man at the car show was right – action beats inaction hands down – and I often wish I could meet him again to say thanks. I’m looking forward to taking massive action with your course.
September 21st, 2007 at 4:14 pm
For the contest and number two qualifier:
I constantly seek new avenues of wealth and success. Not only for me but for my customers, both individuals and businesses. I have been in the business world for over 40 years having trained early in a traditional manufacturing business. The internet business is where it’s at nowadays and the informational business is the type of business that can be run “lean” on the balance sheets and “clean” on the profit / loss sheets. As a tax accountant and general business consultant with a Master’s degree I see this business as potentially having the most impact by the right motivated and knowledgeable individual that is considering the jump to being self employed. With the many tools to be found in this type of package, a modicum of investment and a bushel of committment how could anyone not succeed? There are so many other tools and knowledge bases abound in the Internet, some better than others. If this package is a true A to Z program as it comes across, allow me to “guinea pig” it to it’s fullest potential. Let me drive it to success along with other mentoring techniques that can add to it’s timeline of success. Integrated with the inspiration that leads my traditional service practice to a regular standard of living, my team and I can propel it to the success it deserves. Attestations of its success will be its own rewards!
Looking forward to swallowing it whole and implementing it with the attention it deserves…Gary Shapiro, Arizona
September 21st, 2007 at 4:18 pm
Hi Yanik,
I am in need,Yes.I don’t keep track of what I spent to Find the “blue bird of paradise”.
It would just take the wind out of my sails.Don’t need that.
I normally wouldn’t give something like this a second thought to give an opinion by submitting a comment on line .Ah, what the he__!.
Really though,I feel when the student is ready the teacher will appear.You,be Him.
My main reason is to actually get this in the hands of a newbie named Leslie Nic____.
She still seems to be bright eyed and bushy tailed.No scars.
My main reason is for her.Nothing better than to get the right info and not just the $29 ebook way.
It would be a great feeling knowing that I actually gave someone the gift of expert knowledge
Afterall, isn’t this a biz of helping enough people to get what they want?
Thanks for the chance to win,
Nick Femiak
September 21st, 2007 at 4:25 pm
I entered the information products business in June of 2002 when I bought reprint rights to 4 audio products from Corey Rudl. I spent $3200 for the licenses and another $4000 on high-speed tape duplicating equipment.
I lost my shirt mostly because I hadn’t done any market research and because I had no clue how to do targeted marketing at the time.
In October of that year, I applied for acceptance into Yanik’s mentoring program and was rejected, since I brought very little to the table, compared to the other applicants.
While still “recovering” from my rejection, I started getting emails announcing a series of teleseminars promoting the first Big Seminar that was to be held January 31, February 1&2, 2003. I quickly realized that a seminar like that would teach me what I needed to know to get started in the information products business.
I attended the seminar and arranged for mentoring with one of the speakers. When I whined that I didn’t have any products, it was suggested that I duplicate and fulfill other people’s information products, since I already had a substantial investment in tape duplication equipment and could produce 200 cassettes per hour.
So http://www.tapeduplicatorman.com was born and my business took off. However, in less than a year, the demand for information products on audio cassettes all but disappeared, so I started duplicating CDs and DVDs.
Since I no longer wanted to be branded as The Tape Duplicator Man, I re-branded myself Doctor Duplicator and http://doctorduplicator.com was born. I started with a autoloading (robotic) DVD duplicating machine that could hold 25 discs, but within a few short months, even two such machines couldn’t keep up with the demand, so I bought a machine that held 100, then another, then a pair of machines that held 150, but business was increasing faster than I was buying additional equipment.
Soon, I bought a pair of machines that each held 600 discs and that held me for a few months. Now, I mainly use machines that hold nearly 1000 discs each and I can duplicate up to 5000 discs per day.
I have never advertised the service. The business has grown from word of mouth and personal networking. The key to my meteoric rise has been that I provide a very high level of service. I have the only duplication service I know of where someone actually listens to the audio and views the video material to eliminate defects and mistakes. I find flaws in virtually every master I receive, ranging from spelling errors on the label to garbled audio to missing segments to incorrect format.
The result is that I now earn more money from information products than I do from my full-time medical practice.
I now have 50 web sites offering information products. Examples on just one of my sites include http://doctorduplicator.com/ycmylo and http://doctorduplicator.com/pls and http://doctorduplicator.com/unstuck.
I expect that the content of Yanik’s “Ultimate A-TO-Z Information Marketing Brain-in-a-Box” will allow me to take my business to the next level focusing on developing passive income streams.
September 21st, 2007 at 4:26 pm
I am an information junkie and thrive on learning. “Need more input” as Johnnie Five said. The bigger fun is finding ways to share what I am learning with others who can put it to use.
The key is not knowing a lot, it is knowing who wants to know what I know. That involves really understanding the social and information needs of contacts in my networks so that I can figure out what they want to know and how to present it in the most consumable manner. It has been fun, too, to train my kids to be aware of information streams blowing past them, and how to pick out the nuggets that have use to them or me or others in our networks. The high-achievers in our networks need shorter bytes of content, with links to get more. Those people behind on the achievement curve need more personal attention, with longer emails or phone calls or personal visits to communicate the same core. And, some people do not read, and they will only respond to a personal or media-driven presentation. Fun is sharing with those who will pass it on. Jon
September 21st, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Hi Yanik,
This doesn’t have anything to do with the contest, but I was wondering … is there anyway you could give us a “sneak peak” at the sales page before it goes live?
I understand you may want to keep some things secret (price point, bonuses, etc.) but I’ve grown wary of the ones where they want you to be the first to order, but you don’t get a chance to look over the site before clicking the order button.
Thanks for your consideration …
Terry
September 21st, 2007 at 4:38 pm
I am a raw beginner and very happy to be taught how to profit from marketing on the internet and what really works and what does not.
So far I have not made a penny, because I am still learning the very important things that I should be doing. It will take some to show me what needs to be done and how to do what is necessary to be done to make my website a success. I would like to do a joint venture with someone who as far more knowledge on profit marketing on the internet than myself. I wait in anticipation for that moment.
September 21st, 2007 at 4:40 pm
I started learning how to sell on ebay and did very well with my Mexican and Canadian coins. This was a big accomplishment for me. I’m 55 and not very computer literate. My next venture was selling ebooks with digital download. It was hard but I continue to learn and read and listen to teleseminars. I love writing and have many hobbies so I wrote one of the ebooks. But I don’t know how to put a cover on it and how to do a really effective sales letter. I’m ready to write my next ebook but I must get more skills and that is where your package would help me expand and sell more of my own ebooks and make it a real business. Informational products generate money which is why I decided to go in that direction and do get a thrill each time I sell but Yanik,to turn this into a business I need more education from you. I mentioned I’m 55 and this is money to live on since I only get disability from the attack at work. So I need to take charge and really build my ebook business. I am doing it on ebay and had a store for awhile but did not know how to drive traffic there other than a discounted ebook. As you can see I am missing some key factors but I got the guts to do it inspite of having limited computer skills. I am going to get help in that. I’m eager to win and implement your system.
September 21st, 2007 at 4:40 pm
wow
September 21st, 2007 at 4:42 pm
Hey Yanik,
I am just dabbling selling information products. Here are my 2 cents.
1. WHY you think selling information is the best business to be in
Selling information is the best business to be in because it gives you the lifestyle that the internet has to offer. Anybody with a computer and internet connection at home can start a business selling information so there is virtually no barrier of entry into this business. Information product can be easily developed (can be in different shapes and forms such as text, audio, video, etc), sold online (or offline for that matter), and easily shipped (instant download, for example). There is virtually no limit to what kind of information you can sell, and you may develop information products ranging in different prices from $1 to $1,000′s.
A huge advantage of the information business is that the people in the internet marketing community has been “trained” to market as affiliates. Many ebooks, coaching, mentoring programs have been developed to teach people how to make money selling OTHER people’s stuff. This means that if you own an information product, you can find affiliates to sell for you – you are on the top of the food chain.
2. HOW you’ll use the information in the package
I will consume it and take action to apply the teachings in the package to my fledging information product business.
3. WHAT you’ll be doing with it.
When I have mastered and developed the business process of selling information online, I would also like to teach it to others who need the same help as I do to start their own business selling information and really provide the internet lifestyle they are looking for.
Thank you,
Steve
September 21st, 2007 at 4:52 pm
I don’t have an ‘empty pockets to million dollar house’ story, but what i do have is story of the last 5 years that I have been struggling to “make it” on the internet. I have spent, in some cases wasted money on many ebooks, audios, even videos that claim to teach you how to make millions on the internet, but they do not give you the specifics as to HOW one can go about implementing the so called strategies.
Maybe what I need, is someone to take my hand and show me step by step, on not just What i need to do, but HOW to do it. I already have an ebook at http://www.conquering-stress.com and I have another website called InfoBulb.com but so far I am still in the red with bith these sites, mainly because I do not know how to monetize content.
Yanik Silver’s course WILL help me because he is someone who has done it and he repeats the process day in and day out. I guess everybody who has posted comments about their endeavours deserves the course one way or another, but I really hope that I win the course, because I know that I will help others when I am successful myself. PEACE!
September 21st, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Hello Yanik, I hope you are doing very well!
I have only sold infoproducts as an affiliate for the past few years, but am looking into selling my own infoproducts as well within the next 6-12 months, both dealing with Internet marketing and in other topics (such as electronics, computers, health, reviewing infoproducts, reviewing computer hardware and software, article writing, article marketing, etc.)
I believe selling information is the best business to be in because, simply, “information sells.” More specifically, there is always a demand for information; people log onto the Internet for information on whatever topic they are searching for. Therefore, the demand will likely never die, no matter how far into the future we go. In addition, there are new technologies and subjects that are being created everyday, which leads to a virtually unlimited demand for information as people want more usable information on these developing technologies and subjects. Those that can provide that information can satisfy the needs of those prospects and make a nice profit in the process.
Selling information online has the added benefit of automation, where one can set up a system that will allow him/her to capture the prospect’s name and email address, supply helpful information to the prospect and follow-up with him/her via autoresponders, be able to take the order from that prospect, giving them access to the product and placing the funds in one’s bank account or PayPal account, all with minimal intervention on one’s part once one has set up the system.
I want to use the information in your package to learn exactly how to research potential markets and what information they want in the most efficient manner possible, how to go about providing that information in an efficient, but satisfying manner, learn any new methods and techniques to satisfy my past customers on products and/or services I’ve sold in the past, like editing, article writing, and product reviews, as well as new products and/or services I offer in the future, and to learn from one of the best infomarketers on how I can provide better value for my past and future customers.
I want to use that information to build my reputation as a person who people can go to to get the information they want on a variety of topics; my personal interests include Internet marketing, computer hardware and software, proofreading/editing, product reviews, and article writing/marketing. My website, http://www.joechengery.com, already provides quality proofreading/editing and article writing services to many, including well-respected Internet marketers John Delavera, Gabor Olah, Burak Tuyan, and Bryan Wongsopawiro, among others. I was one of the original beta-testers for David Vallieres’ RatingsHub.com, the first site to provide honest feedback on Internet marketing products, as I often will test out Internet marketing products and software to see how much value they actually provide and report back my findings. I want to be able to provide quality products and services in the fields of Internet marketing, product reviews, editing, and article writing/marketing so that when they need information on one of these topics or service in one of these areas , I am the first person they think of and I am able to provide that product or service that fulfills their needs.
I appreciate this opportunity to win your “Info Marketing Players” workshop and your “How to Sell High Priced Information Products & Services” workshop and I appreciate the time and consideration you give my entry. I wish you much luck and success with the launch of your two-workshop package.
Take care, keep up the great work, and have a good day!
Sincerely,
Joseph Chengery
September 21st, 2007 at 4:59 pm
When I started http://www.goodphotographyinfo.com I designed the free lessons to be monitized using Adsense and ebooks from Clickbank. While that is starting to get traction, I finally realized that I’m leaving a lot of money on the table by not offering optional paid photography lessons on advanced topics.
Discovering how to price and sell high-priced photography lessons, seminars and Webinars would go a long way to making my plans to more than replace my day job income a reality much sooner than it now seems I’ll be able to do.
Knowing Yanik’s tendency to greatly overdeliver on what he promises, I am certain this will be a fantastic program.
Steve Thomas
San Jose, CA
September 21st, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Hello Yanik
I fall into the #2 category, with knowledge and ideas, but haven’t got the web business fully up and running yet.
I see your past expereicne and knowledge as a way for me to not re-invent the wheel, and use your system to market online to a wider audience than I would through tradtitional markets.
Being an herbalist and spiritual seeker for many years, there is a burgeoning market for people in the world today looking for alternatives to what is being stuffed down peoples’ throats today as the only choice, not only for health and wellness but also, the way we think and live, on a day to day basis.
My ideas for books and courses include a complete program of natural health. This would include learning how to use all aspects of natural health for personal wellness, the best herbs and supplements to use and how to use them, in a strategic manner, not this ‘herb for that disease’ which is a very reductionistic way to look at health. My idea for this health system is not out there and is unique. This idea is more targeted foe people who want be vibrant and alive for their whole lives, and be Master of their own Health (Maybe that’s a possible title for the Program “Master Your Health” system?
Anyway, with my having a broad base of naturopathic knowledge, focusing on herbs I want to give mercola.com a run for his money.
I have ideas for many books: One is the nature of the spiritual journey of awakening. The one I have consciously journeyed on for 34 of my 45 years. The thruths I’ve learned can be applied to anyone on the path of life.
Other books would relate to health and healing, especially using herbs to prevent disease and enjoy the full lifepsan of your life more with the use of tonic herbs and super-nutrients, and once I get more spiritual info downloaded from the higher realms, I will be writing a book or two which will be information (for the benefit of All) from Jesus (we all know who he is) and Black Elk (a Lakota Native American – who lived alongside, Crazy Horse, and witnessed, and was part of the last stand of the Native American in recent history.
I am chomping at the bit and excited to get this info out there but need the help and means to implement the MARKETING SYSTEM to make this a reality. I have already bought your Internet Marketing Players Course but would for sure LOVE the opportunity to apply your other course HOW TO SELL SUPER HIGH PRICED INFO COURSES, as a means to not only make a heap of dough, but to pass heaps back to some worthwhile projects like Native support, land purchases to get whole communities worldwide more back into living in harmony with the cycles of nature, whie at the same time including the best of high technology (zero-point energy units, hydrogen, hemp etc.
Your courses will no doubt help me launch this process.
Looking forward to your choice as me as winner of this amazing offer.
Best Regards
Gord Cooper, Toronto
Herbalist
September 21st, 2007 at 5:04 pm
Being a very elderly gentleman retired from the building and construction industery for many years, gives me hope when all the experts say that they can teach anyone, whether they like the internet or not. So if anyone really wants a challenge they need not look any further than here, because I will surely be a tough challenge for any expert to take on?
September 21st, 2007 at 5:11 pm
I desire to be considered as a candidate for your “Ultimate A to Z Information Marketing Brain-in-the-Box” contest. I am submitting my entry under Category #2 – Haven’t already started.
It is not that I do not have a product, niche, or plan. I haven’t started because I had to dig out of Information Marketing quagmire I found myself in. Unfortunately, I have spent an embarassing amount of money on information that always had the missing link included and the only thing that wasn’t missing was the link to my bank account.
Information Marketing is truly the answer to so many needs. I see it as a way for me to gainfully support myself and family as I continue to serve my community.
The Internet has given so many people the opportunity to live the life of their dreams by equalizing the playing field. If my customers knew my skin color, physical condition, economic background, beauty status, education, etc. all of that could and would affect me financially. Usually negatively because I have a few things that wouldn’t allow me to qualify in some circles.
Information Marketing is truly the Grand Equalizer!
I have moved from an economically lucrative part of the country to a poor rural community. Because of the experience I gained living elsewhere, I am able to serve on several boards and volunteer for as many causes. I consider myself a “backward” philanthropist – I contibute to the causes that I am passionate about but I do not have the money or status. In too many cases, I couldn ‘t charge because very few could pay.
I would utilize the information in your package to help myself as well as others, because I can sell information that so many organizations need in a honest and beneficial environment. So many nonprofits lose money because they are running on outdated and irrelevant information.
Your package would allow me to serve both ends of the spectrum, the successful and the start-up nonprofit organizations, with innovative and sustainable opportunities.
This is just one of the niches my expertise can allow me to serve, but the one that is closest to my heart.
What I desire to do with your package is to develop a company that I can work from anywhere with and create an income for my family. As well, to have the freedom I need to continue to help others.
You are considered to be the best in the Information Marketing industry and an ongoing relationship with you will allow me to become the best in mine.
Thank you for you consideration of this request.
Be encouraged. Please continue the amazing work you do.
Greer
September 21st, 2007 at 5:19 pm
Hi Yanik,
I lived in your state, Maryland, many years. Went to high
school in Baltimore. Married and had my son in there.
As time went on my J.O.B. sent me to Florida. I spent
20 plus years there. I asked for and got a transfer to
North Carolina in 1995. I wanted to be near my aging
parents.
Then “life happened”… My daughter was born in 1998. Our
blessing to me and my second wife. Her first child at 45 yrs. old.
Dad died in 2002. Our daughter was his blessing too.
Later in 2002 after 30 yrs in the biz, I was downsized. Canned!
2003 diagnose with an incurable disease. O.K. stop the violins.
Selling information on the internet is the way to go. I want to
learn from the best. I have limited funds (disability pay) but
lots of time and ideas.
I’ll use public domain material and redo it. Along with the information taught in your courses.
While I ain’t pretty. I want to be your poster child, success story.
In the words of Arnold Horshack (Welcome Back Kotter)…
oooh oooh oooh PICK ME.
Enjoyed “talking to you,
Chuck
September 21st, 2007 at 5:35 pm
Yanik,
I cant wait to dive into the incredible information you are offering. While attending the World Internet Marketing Main Event in San Francisco, I heard so many heavy hitters praising your system. It will be my distinct pleasure to pick every portion of your money making creative brainwork.
September 21st, 2007 at 5:39 pm
I have been learning about copywriting for some time now and got pretty much a course of some kind from some major Guru on almost any subject, …. Yanik Silver, Perry Marshell, Matt Bacak, Matt Hill, Matt Furey, Joe Vitale, Dr. Vince and several others.
What I have learned is everyone has a specialty even if it is in the same field. I find new things in each course and have to say they are all good.
What I am doing is testing each of these niches using their tactics and using its results to come up with a summary of what is taught.
I want to create a master informational book that will use part of every one of these gurus’ ideas and tricks so they can get the full package… of course there will be referrals I will be passing on and recommending when talking about that desired topic.
I am also going to write about how to think, act, train, be like these master gurus (interviewed some) and live life to the fullest. I am also learning about how to keep your body, mind in physical and mentally healthy. (Also interviewed, learned, and trained from several gurus on this subject).
There will be steps on how to manage your time when it seems like you don’t have any, how to create multiple streams of income, and even how to write off your business the proper way.
I know Yanik’s information will greatly improve my idea and vision greatly since I have read some of his that is a major topic in my course, book, dvd set I want to create.
In fact I would soon like to partner with these master gurus since I know they would be a great asset to what my vision is on a business that has the complete package and referral system to other master gurus on certain subjects.
I want to learn everything on these major subjects I can from those who has proven it can be done and done so.
When finished I will be sending a rough copy to all the Gurus that helped me with my course on their own courses that I got from them and learned from.
September 21st, 2007 at 5:42 pm
Hallo Yanik,
I need “Ultimate A-TO-Z Information Marketing Brain-in-a-Box”, because I have been trying to get started on the net for a while but have not found the huge success I had envisioned. I have several affiliate programs that I’ve tried to promote, but I guess I’m missing some rather important pieces and I need help to put the pieces together to form a safe platform. I would also like to create some products on my own, for giving away to get a list. I look forward to your next email for more information.
September 21st, 2007 at 5:47 pm
I am not a beginner to selling info products but as I sell more of them, I am starting to see how lucrative this business can be. I have created one of those $7 script reports and it took me several days to create but once it was done I didn’t have to do anything else other than promote it.
I also wrote a salesletter and outsourced a retirement report that I now sell on one of my sites. It’s great to check my email and see a “You made a sale” email.
Selling information is the best business to be in because you can create money out of thin air. You write a report, make an audio report, or create a video and you can do it all for free and start selling it for free too using PayPal. Your return is infinite. Other than the time you invested. No where else can you get these kinds of ROI.
How will I use the info in your courses? That’s easy. I will use them to get over the hump that I’m in. I work hard trying to create products and sell them but my results are not what I expected. Using your courses I can get the edge I need to successfully sell more and more high quality products.
Thanks,
Adam Tijerina
September 21st, 2007 at 5:53 pm
I’ve been dabbling in Internet Marketing for years! I’ve become successful enough to leave the cubical. . . even though I took a $15,000 paycut to do it. But I believe my freedom is worth even more than $15,000.
However, the wife is a little upset so I know by using this HUGE package of Internet Marketing material, I will be able to read each book, listen to each audio while taking notes that will help me build that ‘next level’ empire.
I read a lot and most of what I read is on success, business and mindset. There is a common thread that I see. That common thread has to do with the next level mindset. I’ve also noticed that you (Yanik) seem to believe that there is something to the ‘next level’ mindset. This is where someone, like me, has had minimal to moderate success and uses necessary tools, available resources and other people’s experiences to get to that ‘next level’.
When I win your “Ultimate A-to-Z Information Marketing Brain-In-A-Box” that’s exactly what I will do. As I watch the videos, soak up the audios and devour every book, I will be taking massive notes and implementing what I find – the tools, resources and your experience, Yanik.
You don’t know it yet, but you’re partly responsible for even the moderate success I’ve had. Think about the ‘next level’ success you’ll be responsible for when I use my contest winnings to boost my own experiences.
Hey… I’m not real bright sometimes. But I do know this business – and business in general – has a success formula built in. The way you use or abuse that formula has a direct impact on your success. The formula is basically ‘help others in a massive way and you’ll be rewarded far beyond your wildest dreams’. Sure that seems simple and, even stupid simple when you say it out loud. But part of that mindset I was talking about a minute ago means we have to really own that statement.
Sometimes we put the cart before the horse and try to take, take, take. Maybe that’s a human characteristic. But catching ourself in the midst of this ‘characteristic’ and changing our mindset to give, give, give is, I believe, the first step to a major breakthrough.
No. I’m not perfect. And I have to thump myself occasionally. But I do believe I have come to realize what this first step means. I have come to own it. Now, coupled with this additional resource (and your experience that help develop it) we’ll be on our way and my wife will be happy again.
Not only will you be partly and largely responsible for my ‘next level’ success in business, but you’ll also be largely responsible for my happy marriage.
Appreciate you, Yanik!
September 21st, 2007 at 5:59 pm
Hi Yanik i am new to online biz,but not entirely new to information biz being a pastor with a background in journalism. The power of information to transmit knowledge can never be over-emphasized in our 21st century.Information is power.Information brings transformation.the Holy book said [in the beginning was the Word] this Word was communicated to mankind in flesh in the person of Jesus Christ.With the righ information I can see man overcoming the twin evils of terrorism and poverty raveging mankind.Looking at how I wil put your program to use,I am writing from Nigeria.The mator problem facing my country is the twin evils of corruption and poverty.I hope to fight poverty through sharing the right information, especialy the benefit of internet as a veritable tool to figh poverty among our un employed youth.Also I want to join in spreading the good news that there are good uses to which we can put the internet outside writing scam letters and pornography.
September 21st, 2007 at 6:02 pm
Having been an astute student of marketing, persuasion and their application to the creation and sale of information products for over 30 years, I can honestly say that this contest is a brilliant strategy for getting potential customers to sell themselves thoroughly on acquiring the course, since the odds of winning a copy will obviously be low.
Yanik, you’ve always done an exemplary job on each of your product launches and this is certainly no exception.
Kudos on another job well done.
Cheers!
September 21st, 2007 at 6:12 pm
Dear Yanik,
Good day,
I would hope to be your winner#2…
1. Why I think selling information is the best business to be in?
People are hungry for informations, and it’s always best to learn from the experts who have actually ” been there and done that “…..who ever wants to be succesful in info-product marketing biz, it’s best that they come to you because you ” have been there and one that ” right?
2. HOW you’ll use the information in the package and WHAT you’ll be doing with it.
I would study your course several times over and over, to learn what it takes to be successful in info-product marketing biz.
Then I would like to explore the market of
” Translating Existing U.S.’s Business Info-Products to Chinese to be marketed in China ”
…….by testing, testing, testing and develop a ” successful model ” where any or most kinds of Business info-products can be successfully translated to Chinese & marketed in China using this ” successful model “.
As China continues to integrate into the global economy, Chinese are hungry for informations & professional training for themselves to stay competitive. Since the United States’ business system has a solid reputation in China, U.S.’s Business Info-Product & training services are in a strong position to fulfill China’s training needs.
Short-term training programs or workshops in specialized fields or business education are particularly sought after.
According to some market surveys, Chinese consumers revealed that they would spend 10 percent of their savings on learning, meaning that the education & learning market from a consumer perspective is worth at least ” 80 Billion U.S. dollars “.
U.S.’s Business Info-Products(translated in Chinese) would give them an advantage in China’s increasingly competitive marketplace. Chinese professionals are also attending classes and using e-learning to upgrade their skills to increase their earning power.
Many experts believe that e-learning is ideal for China because it solves much of China’s education needs.
China’s population of 1.3 Billion is approximately 23%, close to 1/4 of the world’s total population. China’s integration into the global economy is fueling accelerated change in many markets and global economic growth. It is likely that China will continue to grow at a rapid pace for some time.
In my own opinion, Info-Product market in the U.S. might be a bit ” saturated “, but Info-Product market in China of 1.3 Billion People are yet to be explored, I think that’s where the ” opportunities ” are…
Thank you very much and have a great day/weekend.
Sincerely,
Calvin Lee
September 21st, 2007 at 6:15 pm
I think the information marketing business is hands-down the greatest opportunity for the average person to create wealth that exists. Just a couple of short years ago, I was working the radio broadcasting business. After hours, I would surf looking at (and often buying) information products online.
I was struck by how poorly many of the sales letters were written, and I started offering my services as a copywriter (something I had become good at while in radio). BAM! My six-figure copywriting was born practically overnight.
I promptly quit the radio gig.
Then I figured out that I was making good money writing copy, but the real money was in being the guy selling the information! I went to your seminar in DC, bought your course, and that’s when things really started to rock.
I’ve rolled out several info-products since then. One is my “Web Copywriting Explained” course, which made me over $100,000 this year. That course also indirectly led to another $57,000 in copywriting fees, by the way.
Just recently I sold a 4-module information product to 101 people at $297 each (that’s $29,997)… all born from an idea generated in a single afternoon. That product will conservatively make me an ongoing $89,991 per year from now on…. without any additional work from me.
In the last 48 hours, I made $1,485 in sales automatically. Without sending an email or making a phone call.
Do I love this business? You bet I do!
I’ve got two more products in production right now.
More than any other reason, I posted this here as a way to say to anyone who is skeptical: get off the fence, get in the game, and prove to yourself that this business “works”!
I can’t believe I can make this kind of money for doing what I love to do!
As far as your new course is concerned… I’m sure it will be a winner.
And anyone who doubts whether all this is for real should carefully read the comments on this blog. The proof is right in front of you.