Stephanie Mulac, in conjunction with Rodger Hyatt and Gary Simpson (a-la-me!), is proud to welcome you to her 4th Self Improvement Giveaway. The giveaway opened for contributors on Friday 11th December 2009 and will stay open right up until the 5th January 2010 when the site officially welcomes members (ie people who will be invited to browse the event looking at all the gifts on offer). In many respects the event is like a giant electronic trade fair where exhibitors (contributors) get to show their wares to the public (invited members from ezines, newsletters and other lists). Thousands of members are expected to flood the site and they will all be eager to see what’s on offer for them.

EARLY INDICATORS:

In just the first 3 days of Self Improvement 4 (SI4) 554 contributors have already signed on to offer their personal development and internet marketing products for others to sample. And this number is rising steadily every hour.

OPEN TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC:

The public side of SI4 (ie when it opens to members of the public) will run from 5th January 2010 until 19th January 2010.

THE BIGGEST SELF IMPROVEMENT GIVEAWAY EVENT EVER:

SI4 is – WITHOUT DOUBT – the biggest self improvement giveaway event that has ever been staged on the internet. It’s also the most highly customized. Already contributors have expressed a lot of compliments over what they are seeing. The most common comments seem to use the word “unique” which is good because that was what was being strived for right from the start.

It doesn’t matter WHAT business you are in, what you are really in is a marketing business. You see, you can have the MOST WONDERFUL product in the world but if you don’t advertize it or market it properly then how successful are you going to be?

How often have you seen a really ORDINARY product sell 100’s and 1,000’s and even hundreds of thousands of units? And you wonder why! Look BEHIND the product and examine the marketing of it.

Remember those useless pet rocks? What about cabbage patch dolls? What about all that Tamagotchi junk? There are dozens of examples. But the marketing SOLD them through the roof!

So, how does that apply to you – the Internet Marketer? Here’s how…

… the GREATEST skill you will ever learn is HOW to market whatever it is that you are selling (or even if you are giving something away)! And that means advertizing – either word of mouth or by using a “script” in video or in audio production or in print (either on paper – ie newspapers, flyers, brochures etc) or electronically here on the Internet.

See that word “script” above? They are the WORDS that you use. Words are the method we use to convince somebody else to buy our wares. It’s how we fundamentally communicate with each other. And using those words in a compelling manner is called copy. Hence copywriting.

Hello fellow Internet Marketer!

Well, here I am again (surprise! surprise!) at the TEMPLE with yet another Internet Marketing tip. Now… despite my frivolous nature in this short 43 second video this really is a SERIOUS Internet Marketing tip. It’s something that I avoided doing for a long time. But now I’m on the job – just like I was on assignment there in Viva Las Vegas.

I was told to do this years and years before I finally understood the importance of it all. Duh me! For somebody who is supposed to be reasonably clever I was SO dumb with this. But I don’t want YOU to fall into the same dumb trap.

This could actually be the best Internet Marketing tip you will ever get. Don’t waste even another day missing out on this – coz every day you waste is just another day you will NEVER get back.

So, what is this wonderful Internet Marketing tip? Lights! Camera! ACTION! Roll that video!

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Hi there,

Well today marks a milestone for this lil ole blog of mine. You see www.motivationselfesteem.com/talk is officially ONE YEAR OLD today! Yep, I started it up on the 27th of November 2008 after signing up to Alex Jeffreys’ Internet Marketing Course.

Since then I have turned this site into a POWERHOUSE of Internet Marketing information – most of which is FREE. Here are just some of the highlights along the way…

1 – Back then I was getting approximately 50 to 75 visitors a day. Today I regularly get 600 to 800 per day and have had many days over 900 and even 1,000. The biggest visitor number was last week at 1,310 visitors for the 24 hour period. That is high traffic!

2 – I went from having ZERO followers on Twitter to having some 27,000 followers now,

3 – My Alexa Ranking has gone from 5,179,210 on the 27th November 2008 right down to being in the top 100,000 websites in the world with a present popularity rank of 92,216 (and still falling like a stone) – and that is a significant achievement to be ranked 92,216th in the WORLD out of about 50,000,000 (50 million) websites!

4 – I have added content almost every week – this has drawn 3,573 comments in the 12 month period.

5 – I have also added many informational e-books to the blog to help people understand the concepts of copywriting, time management, adswapping, list-building, Giveaway events, motivation, inspiration, Twitter AND there are more to come!

In my continuing series of Internet Marketing tips (brought to you from Las Vegas) I am offering you something pretty simple today. And yes, we are all GUILTY of doing this!

What is it? Roll the video and find out…

So tell me – are YOU guilty of that? And, please, if anyone knows what that bloody monstrosity in the background is then please tell me. I went in it but I still have NO IDEA what it is called. Help!

I hope you are enjoying this series of videos on Internet Marketing featuring various locations in and around Las Vegas. Gimme some feedback. (Coz if you like ‘em… there’s MORE!)

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Today I want to talk to you about another Internet Marketing concept – that of the Joint Venture Giveaway, or more commonly just referred to as JV Giveaways.

WHAT IS A JV GIVEAWAY?

Basically, a JV Giveaway is a script that allows a marketer to invite a lot of other marketers to a web page to share their products in an event whereby the contributors (ie marketers) can offer their wares (e-books, reports, scripts, memberships etc) free to members (“customers”) in exchange for a person’s name and email address.

The marketer gains the subscriber and adds his or her name and email address to his list. The member gets whatever items they like the look of and can learn from for free. It’s a two-way exchange.

ONLINE JV GIVEAWAYS ARE LIKE REAL WORLD TRADE EXHIBITIONS:

Here’s a good way to conceptualize it if you are still wondering…

In essence, online JV Giveaways are like those big offline (real world) trade fairs we see from time to time where exhibitors put up their stalls and members of the public (and other exhibitors) get to wander around looking for items of interest.

WHAT’S THE BEST WAY OF GETTING STARTED IN JV GIVEAWAYS?

If you are new to Internet Marketing then the best way to understand them is to start out as a member and just go and have a look at how they work. There are a lot of details that I could add but it would probably only serve to confuse you. So, I encourage you to check a few out.