We’re having a great time at the Wayside Inn Bed & Breakfast in Maryland, where we’re about to start Day Two of the IM Success Workshop.

Breakfast is almost ready, but before we enjoy some Grand Marnier French Toast and fruit, I thought you’d like to know how things are going.

The first day the lessons learned by each member of the workshop were…

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Are you brand new to building an online business? Or do you feel like you should go back to the starting gate and try again?

Are you still a bit confused about how to put all the pieces together, like List Building. Squeeze Pages. Auto Responders. E-Books. Payments. Conversions.

Everyone makes it all sound so easy, but when you are just getting started they may as well be speaking a different language…

DNS. HTML. FTP.

When you add in the "alphabet soup" of building websites it’s all just too much!

Here is the answer for if you are just getting started (or feel like starting over):

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Affiliate marketing is one of the most important pieces to a successful online business.

In truth, it’s used by offline businesses, too, but it’s a bit disguised with promo swaps, discount coupons, etc.

Anyway, the trouble is most people who try affiliate marketing are getting it all wrong. You may be in this category (although you won’t be for long!).

See the usual affiliate marketing training guide tells you to go find a niche where a lot of people are buying stuff, pick up an affiliate link, and spread your links far and wide. 

Or they tell you to buy a bunch of pay-per-click ads (maybe they even give you "profit-pulling, time-tested" ads to run), and hope you make more in commissions than you pay out to our friends at Google. 

Now I don’t have anything against PPC (although it did cost me $4000 in 2005-06), but the trouble is this way of teaching is all about making money, and not about building an online business.

You’ll always be chasing new customers that way.

Instead, I want to encourage you to develop a relationship with the people who are going to be buying your recommended affiliate products.

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If you promote a network marketing business, or you’re open to the idea of understanding the concept that *some* legitimate network marketing companies are powerful affiliate programs, then this post is for you.

My Michigander friend, James Grandstaff is one of those quiet leaders in internet marketing who has successfully bridged the gap between IM and MLM.  For many, MLM is a four-letter word because of their experiences in getting hassled by friends and family or feeling like that’s the only way to share network marketing opportunities.

I don’t claim to be an expert in network marketing, but I do get bill-paying residual checks every month from a couple. And part of my (albeit limited) success is due to automation strategies I learned from James. Plus, I learned when I first got started in network marketing a long time ago that generating your own leads instead of paying for them from someone else was the only real way to build a profitable organization and customer base.

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This past week marked the 2nd anniversary of the release of my first product, Free Ad Report. So I thought it appropriate to take a quick jaunt down memory lane at the last 2 years since then.

On Friday, I’m holding a customer appreciation sale.  It’s 8/8/08, and this look at the products I’ve created should put in perspective the quality of training and experience you’ll have access to if you choose to take part in the Crazy 888 Sale.

I’ll have 3 different packages available, ranging in value and amount of access to training products I’ve already created and will be releasing over the next year. All details will be revealed throughout the week to you if you claim your free VIP Access Pass at Crazy888Sale.com. (use signup code 1dayonly)

So here’s a look at the training and special sites I’ve created during my own journey as an online business trainer (and date of release in parentheses). I’ve also included a few important events that played a major role in my business.

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As a current subscriber and client of mine, you should be among the first to know about a huge one day, customer appreciation sale I’m having on Friday.

See, it’s 8/8/08, and that’s special enough.

But also, it’s back to school season, and although I feel a tinge of loss at not having to go back to the classroom for a
second year in a row, it’s because of the support of you and all my other customers that I’m able to pursue my preferred form of teaching: online business strategies.

So I’m holding what I’m calling the Crazy 8-8-8 Sale.

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