Check these you tube videos
Today's 'Adventure in the Biz Opp Jungle'
'In which Charlie goes square-eyed watching
online television, and uncovers some fantastic
clips that should help you make money -
revealing the newspaper advert that made
$200,000 a month'
Hi,
I've been ill this week.
I thought it was mere "manful" on Sunday, but it
turned into proper flu... and that was that. I was in
bed until I crawled out to write Wednesday's short
email.
As you know, I royally screwed up last Sunday's
issue of the Biz Opp Jungle, but it's up now on my
website at http://www.bizoppjungle.com
I've been catching up on emails today, so haven't
time to send the review I had planned. But my
experience stuck in front of the laptop in bed
reminded me of some advice I offered over a year
ago.
So if you remember this email, then sorry for
repeating myself, but there's some good stuff here....
Nuggets of gold on You Tube
I've been watching lots of TV recently. Not the old-
fashioned television, run by networks.... but the
"new" television, created by ordinary people at
home.... where you pick and choose what you see.
Yes, I've been glued to YouTube
(http://www.youtube.com)
Apart from roller-skating monkeys, wonky pirate
videos of rock gigs, and drunk students screaming
into cameras, there are things of worth on there. You
need some patience however.
A lot of patience, as I've found.
See, for the past few days I've been trying to locate
some free sources of money making advice and
information for you. And I've come up trumps, I
reckon. In a moment I'll show you a few fantastic
clips I've found that should help you move your
projects forward.
First...
Why I'm going square-eyed on your behalf
I'm aware that I've been quite negative about a lot of
biz opps recently, and quite rightly so - I don't regret
a word!
Of course, it's easy to slag things off from my ivory
tower in East London.
(Not that I live in an actual ivory tower... it's more of
a castle built from elaborate networks of elephant
tusks, and laminated in gold - you should come and
see it.)
Look on any forum and you'll see "reviews" and
"comments" from millions of misery guts who love to
spout their ill-informed views and revel in their
cynicism.
They have no experience making money. Neither do
they get off their backsides. But oh, how clever it is
to criticise absolutely everything. How intelligent they
are.
Wow. Give them a banana.
It's much harder to actually go out and do
something, try something, push yourself to make
some money that can change your life.
It's not so easy to come up with positive ideas and
new angles. Far trickier to think: "Okay, if these
rubbish paid services aren't delivering what they
promise, where else can we find useful tips and
inspiration?"
You could go on Google, of course. But it's so vast,
it's like flying into the galaxy to look for a lost
satellite. Or like watching Channel 5 for a year in an
attempt to find a decent telly programme.
Fact is, there's a lot of information out there.
...And 95% of it is utter tosh
Same goes for YouTube.
The biggest problem is that lots of entrepreneurs are
cottoning onto the money-making potential of
YouTube.
So you get a lot of the free videos are nothing more
than sales pitches for subscription newsletters,
courses and books.
That's fine, of course. More than fine, actually....
I should really get something up there myself, as it
seems like a great tool for finding new readers and
biz opp enthusiasts.
Perhaps I could make a shaky mobile phone video
of me having a race with a rollerskating monkey?
But for an ordinary person who wants to find specific
tips and ideas on YouTube, it's difficult. What you
get is either boring nonsense from publicity seekers,
or "hard sell" American-style advertising.
However, in my online travels I found this....
Tips from a Crook
If you're trying to sell anything - including Ebay
products, newsletters, MLM opportunities,
information products, imported items, and even
yourself or your own services - you need to know
how to catch as many pairs of eyes as possible.
Here are two great clips of a seminar by a guy called
Trevor Crook (unfortunate surname in this kind of
business!)
I've not heard of him before. He appears to be an
Australian copywriter. But having done a lot of
internet marketing myself, his advice is right on the
money.
He tells you how to knock up a headline... how to get
a 300% increase on a classified, Google or online
advert... how to drive people to a website... how to
make a good Yellow Pages Advert and how one
letter can change response. And it's all for free, with
no upsell or other shenanigans.
Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhSqyuPKZU4
And here's the second one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_ukCOuVkOU&feature=related
While looking at Crook's stuff, I was led to some
YouTube clips of Ted Nicholas...
Inspiration from a marketing legend
Ted Nicholas started out in his father's homemade
ice cream business, cleaning floors. He then began
selling vacuum cleaners door to door.
At 21 years old, he was $96,000 in debt.
So he started his own ice cream business called
"Peterson's House Of Fudge"
There he began to realise that the choice of words
he used in his signs, print advertising and direct mail
pieces made a massive difference to his profits.
By developing his own advertising, he soon
expanded to 30 retail franchises. Using his
experience, he wrote "How To Form Your Own
Corporation Without a Lawyer for Under $50". It was
a no-brainer. People could fill a series of forms in the
book and start their own company without paying for
all the legal fees. It became the best-selling
business books in history.
Nicholas then created the "Enterprise Publishing
Company", publishing 14 more business books and
retired in 1991, extraordinarily wealthy.
After that, demands for his consultancy and
copywriting services grew to stupid levels, and Ted
started doing seminars and presentations around
the world. For lots of money, obviously.
Back in 2001, I went to one of his UK seminars. Yes,
yours Truly. Second row back. Absorbing everything.
I took piles of notes and came back with one of my
favourite biz opp books, called 'Magic Words', and
ideas I still use today in my own website. So I
encourage you to check out these YouTube videos,
where Ted Nicholas offers his worldly advice right
into the camera.
Again, you can watch this and walk away without
paying or signing up for anything.
Here's Ted on why it's important to have dreams:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lumF2qznq1E&feature=related
And I thought you might find this interesting. While
it's a "copywriting" conference, he's actually talking
about the joys of entrepreneurialism and how to sell.
He even explains how he turned one simple advert
into $200,000 a month:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQn2SbtS8UU
Hope all this gets your juices going. I'll have more on
Wednesday. And, of course, there's plenty of
information on my website.
If you're looking for info on any new opp, this should
be your first stop: http://www.bizoppjungle.com
Later Alligator,
Charlie Wright
www.bizoppjungle.com