Hey guys,

you may remember me posting about Jeff Johnson’s free software to drive more traffic to your website.

I did install it myself on a fresh domain (i.e. still sitting in the sandbox) and then simply left it to its own devices. Today I had a quick look and was astonished to say the least to see this:

without doing *anything* at all (just installed it in May on the domain http://www.smallbusinessgrowthblog.com/), last month over 1200 people visited the blog (and viewed nearly 2.5 pages per visit!!!) and in the first 2 days of this month, I’ve already had close to 200 visitors (see the red circle at the top!)

Without doing anything! Just imagine I’d done *any* the things Jeff suggests in his free videos (come with the free software) — what level of traffic I’d have then.

There is a case-study of someone going from 0 to $70k in just a week when doing just the free things mentioned in the instruction videos that come with the free videos. If you’re only remotely interested in driving *lots* more traffic to your website (without doing hardly anything), you should go and check it out!

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PS: you’ll note that I don’t even have any banner ads or similar to drive the traffic from the smallbizblog to my main site — if you’re interested, let me know and I’ll show you how’s its done using OpenX.

I got an interesting email from Frank Kern yesterday, here is what he wrote:

We need to talk.

This is going to sound weird and you might not believe
me …but I’m doing this for PURELY SELFISH REASONS.

Here’s the deal.

ANYBODY who buys Traffic Secrets from ANY link
tomorrow is getting amazing free stuff from me.

I don’t care *who’s* link you get it through …if you get it
from ANYONE tomorrow, I’m sending you two DVDs
of some of my best stuff.

(I’ll tell you what’s on the DVDs in a sec. Notice there’s
no link in this email at all.)

And I know, you’re probably like …

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WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING?
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Before I answer that, let me get this straight with you.

I don’t have a “side deal” with John Reese or anything.

I didn’t help with this launch (you’d be able to tell if I did
because it would have been a lot more obnoxious.)

John’s not paying me a DIME.

Plus, he’s already a great REAL friend of mine …so I’m
not trying to “get in good” with him or any of that crap.

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HERE’S THE UGLY TRUTH
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I’m no psychic, but I’m pretty sure that if you *use*
what you learn in Traffic Secrets 2.0, you’ll make
more money.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure this one
out, you know?

Traffic Secrets = More Traffic

…and More Traffic = More Money.

DUH.

And that’s why I want you to get it. I think
you’ll make more money as a result.

(Again …just my opinion. I’m not psychic.)

Anyway …here’s the part where I have to make a
confession to you.

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The More Money You Make, The More Stuff You’ll
be able to BUY FROM ME!
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See? I told you I was a selfish bastard. At least I’m honest
about it.

But seriously.

The fact is, if you make money with Traffic Secrets, you’ll
have more money to spend with good ol’ Frank when the time
comes.

Plus, you can probably tell by this email that I ACTUALLY
GIVE A DAMN about your success.

Partially because the more successful you are, the more likely
you’ll be to buy advanced stuff from me.

And because I’m a pretty nice guy.

Did you know I’m teaching a seminar this weekend and 100% of every dime
we make goes to charity? I just raised a little more than $100,000 doing this
…all for charity. Being a nice guy is pretty fun.

And you can still make a fortune and be the nicest person in the world.

The two states of being are not mutually exclusive.

But I’m rambling and that’s beside the point.

YOU NEED TO GET JOHN’S STUFF. HERE’S
MY BRIBE:

If you buy it from anyone on the planet tomorrow, I’ll send you two DVDs
in the mail.

(Actually - John’s fulfillment company will send it them. I think it would
be a privacy violation if John sent me the customer list.)

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HERE’S WHAT YOU GET
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DVD #1: Core Influence (approx 2 hours).

This is the most important content I can possibly give you.
MORE important that *any* marketing stuff, sales stuff, or anything
else. Period.

On this DVD, I show you the most powerful exercise I’ve ever
done (by pure chance, by the way.)

This one exercise is responsible for me living in a multi-million dollar
home at the beach and living a life I honestly thought was reserved
for celebrities and world leaders exclusively.

No kidding.

Plus, out of all the stuff I’ve put out for almost 10 straight years, this
has been the most raved about and well recieved by EVERYONE
who’s seen it.

The best part is, I show you every step of the process so it’s easy.

Trust me. It’s big. REALLY BIG.

DVD #2: Mass Control Does Denver (approx. 2 hours)

This is exclusive footage from a sold out $5,000.00 per person
workshop that Jeff Walker hosted.

I attended that workshop …and decided to speak at the last minute
(as in 20 minutes before I walked on stage.)

During that (now infamous) speech, I laid the entire groundwork
for what would later become MASS CONTROL.

In fact, this DVD is the reason I released Mass Control. The feedback
and response was so great that I knew it would be a huge hit (which
it was).

So there you have it.

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YOU CAN JUST FLAT OUT *HAVE* THIS STUFF
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All you gotta do is get Traffic Secrets *tomorrow*.

The cut-off time for this is midnight tomorrow, July 16th.

The reason I’m being strict on the time is because:

1. Time Scarcity WORKS.

2. I don’t want to deal with keeping track of this stuff forever.

Enjoy Traffic Secrets,

Frank

P.S. Feel free to tell anyone you want about this.

P.P.S. There really is NO catch. Just get it from ANYONE
tomorrow and I’ll hook you up.

P.P.P.S. There’s a *huge* marketing lesson in the reason why I’m doing this.

I’ve got to put my girls to bed so I’ll try and be brief:

PIGS GET FAT, HOGS GET SLAUGHTERED.

Learned that from a guy named Bud Armstrong.
Lemme try to explain it.

It’s stupid for me to try and “nickle and dime” you on
promotions like this. That’s what a HOG would do.

I mean hell, Traffic Secrets 2.0 is only $395 anyway. So I’d make
what …two hundred bucks if you bought through my link?

To hell with that.

It’s not worth it for me to try to “out do” everyone else for
a lousy $200.

Instead, I’ll simply be cool to EVERYONE and rise *way* above the
noise by doing the EXACT OPPOSITE of what my competition
is doing.

And by giving my bonus to everyone, I accomplish a lot more than
a few commissions.

IT’S CALLED GOOD WILL.

And the good will this generates will be priceless (how do you think I sell so much
stuff anyway?).

It’s like I’m planting an acorn that will grow into a mighty oak.

Plus, I’m also doing this because …well … BECAUSE I CAN.

A little extra good karma never hurt a soul.

Pay it forward.

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So, with Frank being so frank, let me be frank with you: yes, of course I’d love you to buy through my link. It always baffles me when people cut out someone else’s affiliate link, despite the fact that it makes no difference to them. Apart from of course the fact that those who make a living using affiliate promotions can spend less time finding great free content to give away…. but that’s a different story.

If you think you will eventually get Traffic Secrets (and if you have any online-side to your business, you probably should. At least check out their investement guarantee — either you make your investment back in 45 days or less (and they’re confident that you will) or your money back), then I encourage you to

1. buy it through my link (and I’ll be very grateful to you for doing so) and
2. buy it today (so you get Frank’s bonus)

either way, good luck with or without Traffic Secrets (and Frank’s DVDs)

Ah yes, my link is:

http://www.trafficsecrets.com/eleuth

and if you want to cut out the middle-man, simply remove the the ‘eleuth’ from the end.

Master coach Otto Siegel explains

1. WHY you must discover your inner Genius if you want to thrive under all conditions
2. HOW to discover your core strengths (and with that Your Genius!)
3. WHY we are holding ourselves back in business and in life (and HOW to overcome it!)
4. The top reasons WHY so many of us feel stuck in our small businesses (and what to do about it)
5. HOW specifically to use your new genius to thrive in a competitive market (or a recession)
6. WHAT you will gain personally as a result of discovering and unleashing your personal strengths
7. HOW to master time
8. HOW to be persistent the right way (whether it’s in your small business or in life)

Here is a quick high-level overview:

The full call is here:

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Picture this….

… there you are in the laundry room of the Student Union waiting for the tumble-drier to finish shredding your socks and T-shirts. When suddenly you are approached by a random stranger who strikes up a conversation, probably around the speed at which the tumble-drier eats your coins faster than it dries your clothing.

Everything goes fine … and then the stranger hits you with

“… so, what are you doing on Sunday?”

(uh, could be good, heck, I’m a computer scientist, so being asked out is not something that happens very often)

“… a few friends and I are getting together to XXXX ”

for the purpose of this example, it doesn’t matter what XXXX is (no, it wasn’t about drinking cheap Australian beer) — basically what happened, I was being sold to and I didn’t like it. And I didn’t care about the rest of the message and left ….

Sound familiar? Of course it does. Nobody really likes being sold to.

And, unfortunately, it also means that you are hurting your profits.

Here’s why:

Everytime you shut yourself off to “being sold to”, you stop learning. And that’s a big mistake. Instead, what you could consider doing (if you really wanted to improve your sales skills, and you do, don’t you?), is to fully engage and take note of everthing they do!

Learn how they do it, what sales techniques they are using, how they build rapport instantly (the laundry person had me from the start, and only blew it when he hit on XXXX which wasn’t my cup of tea — at all. Had they asked me how I felt about XXXX, the outcome could have been very different)

Try to figure out WHY they are using certain techniques, WHEN they’re using them and HOW they’re applying them.

Yes, you could argue that you don’t really want to learn from someone who clearly tried to “sell (to) you”. But, remember: there will be plenty of people who do want to hear that exact same message.

So, if you bump into an exquisit sales-person, whether they are selling to you or not (if they’re not, then that’s just you thinking they’re not, because you are actually interested in what they have to offer, see paragraph above), pay attention, take notes and learn.

If you are interested in learning from outstanding sales-people (watch out, are you being sold to right now?…;-), check out Christopher Howard

http://www.christopherhoward.com/

They do a free 3 day seminar where you learn how to break through ’stuff’ that is holding you back.

And of course, as the whole thing is for free, they will offer you the opportunity to purchase some of their products. Btw, I am only suggesting you check it out for 2 reasons: I have been to their seminars (and spent lots and lots of money with them afterwards, and yes, it’s all been very worthwhile), so I’m happy recommending them and b) their sales pitch is exquisit!

So, If you want to learn about selling, go check them out (and don’t blame me for becoming an exquisit sales person yourself). The best thing is that they are very upfront about it, they tell you at the start that they are giving you great free content and that they can do it because they will sell something to those who are interested.

going back to the laundry, yes, even that little pitch in the laundry room cost me. I left in a hurry. Including leaving at least one lonely sock behind… If only all lessons in life only cost a single sock….

Veit

This coming Thursday, July 3 at 12:00pm Pacific/3:00pm Eastern

Master Certified Coach Otto Siegel who has decades of business, leadership and personal coaching experience has agreed to do a special call on how to

1. overcome obstacles,
2. find hidden opportunities in every setback and
3. discover your hidden genius.

The call details are:

EVENT: Otto Siegel: Discover Your Inner Genius
DATE & TIME: Thursday, July 3rd at 12:00pm Pacific/3:00pm Eastern
FORMAT: Simulcast! (Attend via Phone or Webcast — it’s your choice)
TO ATTEND THIS EVENT, CLICK THIS LINK NOW…
http://instantTeleseminar.com/?eventid=3434790

This interview will be driven by your questions! Let us know *before* the interview what is holding you back in your business, where you’d like to go.

And by ‘holding you back’, we mean what’s obvious to you (hey, I just don’t have the business skills, marketing skills, expertise, …) but also the not so obvious. The things where you tell yourself, “I’m no good at XYZ….”. An example would be “I just don’t have any ideas of how to make my marketing exciting” (although you all should after listening to Margo’s call!).

So, have a quick think and let us know!

looking forward to having you on the call