A quick announcement here. Joel Christopher is coming to Singapore again this month (Nov 2007) to speak at the Asia Internet Congress. As such, we are holding a networking session with Joel again for anyone who might wanna come. The details are:

Date: 27th Nov 2007
Time: 7.15pm to 10.00pm
Venue: Kaplan City Campus, 51 Cuppage Road, #02-01, StarHub Centre, Singapore 229469, Room 305, Level 3.
Admission: FREE (No cost)

At the last session, many great ideas were exchanged and business networks were built. The session lasted way over our stipulated time because of the many discussions that had to be concluded and the energy was great! We believe this upcoming session will be equally as wonderful. Please let us know if you’d like to join us. You can leave me a comment on my “contact me” page.

For now, here is a slideshow of the pictures we took at the last session. Enjoy!

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When he arrived in Singapore, he appeared wearing Bermudas and T-Shirt. A warm welcome, a quick hug and we were off to his hotel to help him get settled into Singapore and prepared for our evening networking session. Details of the networking session you can get from Martin, Sam and Jag. The objective of my post is to share with you the things that others don’t get to know about Joel.

Through the journey, we chat about “stuff”, business and social, had a few gossips and a few good laughs. Later into the journey, I realized something strange about the man. He doesn’t flaunt his wealth, did not wear any ‘branded’ goods, doesn’t wear jewelry, doesn’t wear a watch and Oh My! Doesn’t carry his cell phone??? Not a Prima Donna kind of speaker? He flies economy class but when he’s with his family, he flies first class because he wants to give them the best? At this stage, the busy / kiasu Singaporean in me starts to wonder, is this how a successful business person carries himself? Cos the interpretation I have of successful people look like Donald Trump and Oprah Winfrey. So what then is this kind of successful person? Is it the kind that is reflected in “The Millionaire Next Door”? Let’s find out.

As a mentor and a teacher, he’s serious, precise and professional. He sticks to his word and delivers what he promises. In fact, he over-delivers and maintains an ‘open door’ policy where students are free to ask him questions whenever they need to. Many participants of his Funshop in Singapore gave testimony to how approachable he was and how they were “blown away” by the rich content that he provided. No hype, just real internet business building instructions in a “tell all” fashion. Some of these testimonial can be found on youtube.com under the user id “tanliangseng”.
Why doesn’t he wear a watch?

Interestingly, I found out that he didn’t wear a watch because the watch was a symbol of a bondage to time pressures. The wristwatch, although a great tool, has subconsciously made us slaves to time pressures and deadlines. Through the week, I realized that I was more uptight about time than he was, period. However, he still delivered what he wanted to deliver.

Another story about this time thingy is when we were late by 15 minutes to catch our bus back from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to Singapore. We were caught up in traffic and honestly, there really wasn’t anything we could do if the bus decided to leave without us. Along the way to the bus station, Joel was still laughing and chatting, while I got a tension headache from worrying about being late. In the end, we got there 10 minutes later but the bus was still there. In fact, there were 3 other passengers who were later than us. Did I worry in vain?

Since then, we have termed the wristwatch, “The Handcuff of Chronos”. You see my friend, I tried taking my watch off for 3 days as an experiment and guess what? I felt a lot lighter and liberated. Well I was late for about 10 to 15mins for appointments but Boy! Was I stress free! Maybe you should try it someday. Since then, I’ve stopped wearing my watch but appointments still get met and life still carries on… a little stress free of course.

Sharpening the Mind

Another thing I would like to share about Joel is that his mind has been fine tuned to stay focused in the moment. There is a time for business and a time for pleasure. On the way up from Singapore to Kuala Lumpur, we had a mastermind meeting and it had to be cut short because we had arrived in KL. We agreed to continue the meeting on our journey back. During our stay in KL, it was all fun and no talk about business and we had a ball of a time again, eating Lor Mee, Bak Kut Teh, Fried Wantons etc… etc… We could really eat! We even visited the Petronas Twin Towers and went to Genting Highlands.

On our journey back, I was expecting a mastermind meeting but Joel suggested that we took a nap first before our meeting. We agreed and then rested… Here’s the interesting part. It was one moment of reminiscing about the enjoyment in KL, next moment of “nap suggestion” and in 10 seconds… He was going… going… GONE to Slumberland! Shawn and myself were like thinking… what’s this…. So Fast? And not just that, he slept like a baby! Peaceful and Deep sleep! Shawn and I with our very active minds that usually suffer from insomnia couldn’t believe what we were seeing. This guy could switch between business and social mode in an instant. When he woke up and we finally continued with our mastermind meeting, it was focused and decisive, with concrete action plans that gave clarity and direction.

Conclusion

There is really something about Joel Christopher. There is a down-to-earth attitude with a certain kind of “peace of mind” that he has. There is also a kind of carefree-ness about him, able to live in the moment and enjoy life to its fullest. He’s free from the bondage of money, free from the bondage of materialism, free from the bondage of a time pressures and sleeps like a worry-free baby and I bet he knows the formula of how one can build oneself to achieve that kind of carefree lifestyle.

Over and above the formula, I know that he cares enough to help willing souls reach to their desired goals in life. Whatever it is about him, I’m sure glad he’s my mentor, guiding and nurturing me to achieve my heart’s desires and realize my true potential and destiny, becoming a person of value. He is truly one humble, nurturing Millionaire Next Door.

Would you like to get to know him too? He’s coming to Singapore again on 27th November 2007 for another networking session. Let me know if you’d like to join us. Enter your name and email on the top right corner of this page and I’ll send you updates about the networking session.

One of the tools you can use is autoresponse plus which requires more creativity. This way, you get your prospects to opt-in again and then add them to one list. When you do have masterlisttools, it will automatically arrange your lists for you.

With regard to an affiliate product, you can also do something else. If you will be promoting somebody else’s product then you will do your business good if you offer a bonus along with it. And in order for them to claim that bonus, prepare a form for them to fill up. This puts them on buyer list and out of prospect list.

In the business, it is best to really have a very selected group of joint venture partners to promote products with. Classify your JV’s as A-listor B-list, and adjust your conversions accordingly. Make the B-list go to the don’t buyers and the A-list to buyers.

Your ways of selecting what conversion techniques fit your particular joint venture partners will help you build your internet marketing business. The rule of thumb in deciding whether your joint venture partners are worth the A-list quality or the B-list quality depends on how much you believe their products.

Once the 30-day period has ended and some customers still did not buy from you, followup for them may be done in a less frequent manner. While your persistence may be rewarding to some, there are also times that you have to tame down your plugging because some customers are just not made to buy from you.

A good technique to have anchors to your follow up is to offer free five lesson course or things that will require continuity. For example, you could give a free five lesson course deliverable via email.

Once you do give the free lesson, you can do a followup which contains statements such as: “Hey, remember in lesson one how we talked about…” This will give you instant recognition. But make sure you do this shortly after you give out the lesson so that they will not forget that you or the lessons.

One of the best examples of effective internet marketing strategy is that of Dell products. They are always changing and yet they continue to create a sense of urgency by changing the premium offers that they have on it on a cycle of bonus offers for their prospects.

So you can do the same thing with offering somebody else’s product. You produce the same sense of urgency by providing bonuses with a 72-hour period or so that will be hard to pass up or refuse. This way, you get them to instantly buy from you and make the conversion turnouts faster and passive income greater.

This article is written by Joel Christopher, best-selling author, speaker and mentor, known worldwide as The Masterlistbuilder. To find out more on how you can triple your leads, sales and profits. Go to http://www.Masterlistbuilder.com

Taking Agora as a perfect example, they use direct mails, postcards, banner ads, pay per click, and search engines in order to be able to convert effectively and build traffic. Now, using direct mail, postcards or banner ads usually requires a big lump sum investment of money.

Unless you are really good and seasoned enough, you want to have the opportunity to test both your ads as well as to see if your landing page actually converts. This way, you get to maximize your profits.

As for search engines, it can be quite tricky. Everybody likes free traffic but it is tedious and does not happen immediately. Even with the case of affiliate deals, people are not going to promote you if you cannot convert.

This is where pay per click easily comes in. Simply put, pay per click is immediate. For a time span as short as 15 to 20 minutes one could have an ad campaign of driving targeted traffic to his or her website to see if that website will convert.

Experts such as John Barker strongly recommend internet marketers to start with pay per click and then move to other things once conversion is firmly established as part of your business. The need to convert is inherent in the success of any online business.

One of the best techniques is to run a variety of ads to see what people respond to and you can get that going right away. Now if you rely on search engine traffic, it may take you several months. In pay per click you can do it immediately with less distraction.

On the other side of the page here is conversion and basically traffic is being driven towards a landing page or squeeze page. The thank you page is a good way to harness conversion. Instead of saying thank you for subscribing, you can take opportunity to present a sales letter.

Still, you can always direct your traffic to different thank you pages. It could be somebody else’s product, somebody else’s letter and then you segment off your list. If somebody buys, they move to a customer list. Also, you must have followup automated messages to ensure that the sales stick and that will enable you to promote advanced materials.

Now if in case they don’t buy, they go on a prospect list and for about the first 30 days and this is going to depend on the products that you are selling. At this period, you must continue trying to sell that product but I’ve found that 95 percent of actual buyers buy within the first 30 days.

Once the 30 day period has elapsed, related offers on other products or other people’s products come in. Joint ventures’ opportunities fit snugly in this diagram after you have exhausted all means to sell and the customer still refuses to buy them.

This article is written by Joel Christopher, best-selling author, speaker and mentor, known worldwide as The Masterlistbuilder. To find out more on how you can triple your leads, sales and profits. Go to http://www.Masterlistbuilder.com

Effective Marketing and Promoting: Creating an Outrageous Demand

A guru is not necessarily the most excellent in the field, but he or she is the one who is best able to market and promote his services. They just have this knack for creating an outrageous demand to customers, and strange enough, they garner so much popularity on the field they have chosen to specialize in. More and more people just consult them once they have established that outrageous demand.

Writing articles

Writing articles is another thing that most gurus have in common. You will find that the likes of Dr. Phil are often found to be an author of numerous articles on the subject matter. More and more people are being exposed to the guru’s expertise due to these articles. It is, in a way, some sort of bait for new readers to subscribe to his or her content. A winning article not just gains a lot of hits, but it also leads the readers to follow the guru’s other writings, events and whathaveyous.

Concept of Micro-Branding

You may find it difficult to be a guru in a very wide aspect. The large scope of Internet marketing is too difficult to claim to be a guru for. Micro-branding is being like a mini-guru. You just take a portion of the big industry and choose to specialize in it. Sometimes it employs the “first come, first served” basis. You find an empty niche and you fill it in.

Maintaining Guru Status: Reinvention

Gurus do not get their status forever. They have the tendency to be dethroned if they do not shape up or meet the new demands of their target industry. Reinvention is necessary to be able to keep up and stay in their pedestal. Guru status is imputed by customers. And by the minute, the concept of a guru is being reshaped by these people who placed them there. More and more people are also added in the roster of those seeking advice in a certain field, and there is a need to update one’s self in accordance with added customers in the target niche.

This article is written by Joel Christopher, best-selling author, speaker and mentor, known worldwide as The Masterlistbuilder. To find out more on how you can triple your leads, sales and profits. Go to http://www.Masterlistbuilder.com

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Becoming a regular member of a giveaway is a great way to build a very powerful list of joint venture partners. And I’m going to tell you how to build a list of joint venture partners by going to a giveaway. Most people don’t use giveaways the way they’re supposed to. They go there to get stuff.

When you do subscribe, you aim to get a list of joint venture partners. All of these JV partners that have signed up to give things away have 2 things in common. They all have a list so you would know they have a group of people that you want to get on to your list and they all want to add more people to their list.

Having viewed that, you will see that it makes them a prime candidate for wanting to, possibly, participate in your giveaway because they still want to add even more members to their list. This is what you are going to use for your full benefit.

Now, a lot people who go to a giveaway would be inclined to give a bogus email address so they don’t have to contend with all the emails that they’re going to start getting when they join all of these people’s lists. This is a bad practice you need to work around with so you get genuine email addresses where you can sell.

Now, download as many products as you can because many of them come with resell rights and one of the things you have to realize is that when people go to these giveaways they would say “Why would I want to sell something that people are giving away?”

Many people don’t see these giveaways. The individuals who use these products and sell them is very little. They just don’t take advantage of the opportunity that they’re given to resell products with resell rights that you get because a lot of them come in the giveaways with resell rights.

So there’s not that much competition if you want to go out and develop some of these products and I think you’ll find that a lot of them are coming with private label rights. You can actually do things with them and change them and make them your own product too.

Canned Spam Act requires that all commercial emails have the name and mailing address of the person sending the email. So now, if you have no other way to contact this person, you can also send them a letter or postcard, something to try to get some kind of contact information. Begin by asking them a catchy question.

When you save your capture pages or any of the other pages that you go to on their site, look for contact information because you want to put this in their spreadsheet so you can contact them. Use the URL lookup on whois.com to try to find contact information.

Contact these people and get them when you have your giveaway ready that you can have people all ready to sign-up as JV partners into your giveaway because you don’t have to have any list at all to start this particular strategy. You’re going to build, first, your JV partner list by going to another giveaway.

Also, go to as many newsletter directories or Ezine directories as you can go to. In there, they have contact information and you can also present your JV proposal to these people. They also want to build their lists because they’re publishers and they want more people on their lists too.

Don’t just contact a few Ezines because you only get about a 10% response back from these people. It may take you a month or two to do this but you can build a pretty sizeable list depending on how hard you want to work.

This article is written by Joel Christopher, best-selling author, speaker and mentor, known worldwide as The Masterlistbuilder. To find out more on how you can triple your leads, sales and profits. Go to http://www.Masterlistbuilder.com

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He is also a guru who has produced many internationally successful students.

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The mastery mindset is what will really bring in the profits for you. This is also what will help you make best use of whatever available resources you have. If you have already established yourself that you intend to do this internet marketing business for the long term, you need to be able to do three things.

Number One: Master the System.

Mastery of the system will help you really excel with what you do. Your system, no matter how sophisticated or filled with benefits for your business, will not be used effectively if you do not have mastery of the system. The system will work best for you if you knew all its nooks and crannies.

As much as you possibly can, take every opportunity to get to know your system more. Should you feel inclined to introduce changes that will help you in your system, familiarize yourself with everything: the changes, the existing setup and all the other elements.

You can clearly say that you have mastered the system completely when you are already able to do the nuances of the system without having to consult a manual to do so. Become a guru of your own system and make sure that you are able to keep updating and upgrading yourself.

Number Two: Work on the Master List of Buyers.

Ideally, you must convert all your subscribers into buyers. But this does not always happen. If you work on your master list of buyers first, you will be able to make the best and productive use of your time effectively. The master list of buyers consists of those who are going to be able to buy more from you instantly.

How do you know who are your master list of buyers? Well, you have to test each of your leads or prospects who opt-in for your list. The master list of buyers comprises of those who have the monetary capacity, the willingness to purchase from you and increased buying frequency. The more recent your buyer, the better.

Number Three: Be a Systems’ Thinker.

Think in system because the whole universe is a system. Even the very last atom in our body is systematized. And that is how nature works. If you are able to think in terms of systems, you will not be left behind by the rest of the universe. You need to understand where you are to anchor your business.

The mastery mindset does not come overnight, but it is something that you can do over time with much determination and drive. Harnessing the power of the system is very important in order for you to achieve the mastery mindset.

With mastery mindset, you can expect increased productivity and effectivity, more profits or income, as well as increased likelihood for sustainability.

This article is written by Joel Christopher, best-selling author, speaker and mentor, known worldwide as The Masterlistbuilder. To find out more on how you can triple your leads, sales and profits. Go to http://www.Masterlistbuilder.com

Connections

This is the first important key to a good launch. If you want your launch to come out fabuously, you need to link up with other people in the target market of your choice. Connectivity will give your launch event more exposure and significance. If you manage to get the approval of the bigwigs in your market and they view your launch as something worth customers’ time, it will be a big winner.

Maximization of Profits

The mazimization of profits is another important aspect of the launch. The thing is, you will have to spend a considerable amount in order for you to be able to gain much from the launch. But you must be able to do this in such a way that you will gain more favorable returns than the initial amount you had to invest or shell out for the completion of the launch itself.

Loud and Proud

A launch will not be a launch if it is not loud enough and soaring high. Rockets do not get launched at slow speeds. They are designed to break barriers in the atmosphere. In the same manner, your own business product launch must be like that as well. Make it loud and proud so that it will make waves and get attention.

Proper Planning

You cannot have a good launch if you did not have a good plan to back it up. Proper planning will not erase simultaneous problems that may arise when you actually go through the launch, but it will save you time and give you more foresight with what to expect. This is very important. Also, if you are in the planning stage of your launch, you must get other people’s opinion or feedbacks.

Good Mechanics, if applicable

If your launch has an embedded contest in it, make sure that the mechanics are clear and easy to understand for your target market prospects. Also, the mechanics of the game must be simple and not hard to incorporate. If there is a time frame involved, emphasize it. And give out good prizes for the game.

Thinking Beyond the Launch

Ultimately, you cannot really expect that the launch will bring you to sustained fame. Think beyond the launch and be sure that you have follow up projects at bay after you create that grand launch. Remember, you cannot just exhaust all of your energies to the launch and not have something to sustain it with.

The launch is an important aspect in the initial stages of your business as an internet marketer. However, this is just one small piece in the big puzzle that will contribute to your overall success. If you really want to be able to succeed in this thing, you need to be able to put all these together as consistently and passionately as possible.

This article is written by Joel Christopher, best-selling author, speaker and mentor, known worldwide as The Masterlistbuilder. To find out more on how you can triple your leads, sales and profits. Go to http://www.Masterlistbuilder.com

Over time, you will find steady earnings that will really propel you some in your internet marketing business. While your situation becomes more favorable, you must continue to aim for expansion and be excellent in what you have chosen to undertake as an affiliate.

But the best thing is really having your own affiliate program or joint venture program. This is not about being an affiliate for somebody else. This is now having your own affiliate force.

The good thing about having an affiliate program is that it’s virtually risk free because it’s a pay per sale or pay per performance. You only pay for results. No sale and it won’t cost you anything. There are lots of sales and commissions paid out. The more commissions you pay, the more income you get.

One thing you have to decide in this step is do you want a two tier or one tier model? From a distance or in theory, it really looks like two tier is better because there’s a bit of a viral effect there.

However, there are instant challenges to two tier. The first is from the standpoint of the software. And the second is from the payment-processing standpoint. You need to always ask yourself: Is that the business model you want? Is that the kind of lifestyle you want? So you must go back to the foundations of your business.

If you are using Paypal as a Payment processor, don’t go two tier. Of course, you have to notify Paypal. Now they don’t assign an account manager until you do about 10 to 15 thousand. So, if you’re just starting out, you have nothing to worry about, but you’ll grow out of that point and experience the hassles then.

You have lots of options. You can do pay per click, pay per sale, pay per action or pay per lead. Another thing to decide is which software, system or script you are going to use. These are also very important as you form your affiliate force.

Another thing to consider in an affiliate program is how are you going to keep you people or your affiliates excited or continually promoting your product. You can have special affiliate promotions, contests, special deals.

Having your own affiliate program really brings in pool of benefits for you that being an affiliate for other businesses will not give you. The fact that you manage to monopolize your earnings because it is you who call the shots is a major benefit in itself.

When you do have your own affiliate force, there will be adjustments to make with regard to how you do your business. You will take sole responsibility for how your business turns out.

This article is written by Joel Christopher, best-selling author, speaker and mentor, known worldwide as The Masterlistbuilder. To find out more on how you can triple your leads, sales and profits. Go to http://www.Masterlistbuilder.com