This book is probably one of the most important books I have ever read about marketing and sales. The concepts that Robert Cialdini explains in is book are mind-blowing.
This book will tweeze your mind so much you won’t know if you’re actually in control of your own decisions.
If you’re in sales or marketing then you have to read this book.
Recently due to a change in my full-time job as a programmer I have started working from 6am to 3pm.
It changed everything for me.
Getting off work 2 hours earlier than before, and having the apartment to myself for that time to work on starting businesses has been spectacular. In the two weeks that I have had this time available I have written a short book and report which I will start selling hopefully sometime this weekend.
One of the things that I’m looking forward to is recording more videos. I’m working on becoming comfortable in front of the camera so that I can start producing more stuff for youtube. It’ll be great to build up more of an online presence there and test some marketing concepts.
It may just be 2 hours a day, but that time can really add up very quickly. If I can continue this pace then it won’t be long before HalOtis is making some serious coinage.
My recent experience trying to get set up as a publisher on clickbank inspired me to create a video about it. Stay tuned for that.
I was never the type of person to read growing up. All through high school and university I probrobably read 5 books cover to cover… including the assigned reading. I was the type of person who would read the first chapter and then give up.
These days however, I’m always reading books. My library is growing and I have a stack of books that are just itching to be cracked open.
This guy has made a huge impact on my life about 5 years ago. Eben Pagan is an internet marketer like none other. He has built a $20 million empire selling information products. The most high profile of which is the “Double your Dating” brand where he operates under the pen name David DeAngelo.
I learned about the Double your Dating program before I was really into the internet marketing stuff. I’ll admit that his program sucked me in as a university student and it was probably the first thing I had ever bought online.
David DeAngelo introduced me to many new concepts in the series of products that I bought from him. His depth and breadth of knowledge about, not only dating, but also psychology, health, and some more esoteric things like hypnosis, and NLP had me hooked to learn more from this guy.
Recently he’s started to open up into the world of Internet Marketing. And will soon be launching a new program called the Guru Mastermind.
I highly recommend that you sign up for the email list, and watch some of the videos that he’s doing to promote his new program. Check out the always interesting and always well dressed Eben Pagan at Guru Mastermind
I’m getting myself streamlined to produce and publish video content. The Apple computer with built in webcam, a good quality microphone, ScreenFlow for screen capture, and now Amazon S3 to distribute the content.
S3 is Amazon’s Simple Storage Service. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a scalable storage solution that you pay a per use. You can leverage Amazon’s vast computer architecture and efficiencies of scale for yourself. It is a very cheap way to distribute content on the internet, especially larger files like videos.
Signing up for the service was really painless. It costs nothing to set up and if you already have an Amazon.com account it takes less than 2 minutes before you’re ready to upload and serve out some content.
Want to check it out in more detail? here’s the link to Amazon S3.
Expect some more video content on this site in the future.
Jeff Johnson has an excellent outline on his site that is pretty close to the process I use to make money online. If you’ve never heard of Jeff Johnson, he really knows what he’s doing.
Jeff also gives away a version of the Wordpress software that is optimized for the search engines. If you build websites around a blog you should take a look at Jeff’s version of Wordpress.
Check out his traffic getting jumpstart
For those of you that haven’t heard of Stomper Net, it’s probably one of the most exclusive (and expensive) internet marketing membership sites around. They’re getting ready to re-open it for new members and so as part of this re-launch they’re producing some free content.
Not only is Andy Jenkins a really good marketer, he’s also amazing at putting together videos. This first video is quite amazing. There’s lots of really good ideas about how to best do google adwords.
Check out the video: http://www.stompernet.net/goingnatural3/
Just posted a how to video for some software that I wrote last year. The software allows you to create branded urls that hide affiliate IDs and collect a click count to see how much traffic you’re getting.
The video was a tutorial for how to use the url-redirection software that I wrote ago.
You can watch the video in full HD at http://www.halotis.com/videos/go.mov
Here’s the youtube version:
You can download the software here
Here it is.
I’ve put together an email mini-course that steps through the process of making money online with internet marketing.
It contains information about doing market research, testing, creating you own product, list building, how to become and expert in one afternoon, autoresponders, copywriting, and many more tips and techniques I’ve learned from some of the best internet marketing gurus like Ed Dale, Frank Kern and Jeff Walker.
You know, we’re probably a lot alike. I want to live life on my terms, not be chained to a desk working to make someone else rich. I want to be able to decide when and where I take my vacations
I’ve been up late at night for the past few days putting the finishing touches on my Free Make Money Online Plan of Attack email mini-course.
At noon EST on Friday April 18th. I’ll make it available right here on HalOtis.com
