I have been pretty successful in my on line Network Marketing ventures. After studying Traffic Formula with Mike Dillard some 4 years ago, I put it all to work and refined it with material from Armand Morin’s Internet Marketing Explained a year later. These are still the best two trainings I have purchased my whole time on line! In recent years, most of my income has originated in on line activity, but I am always looking to keep up to date with the latest and trial new things!

These last few months I have put enormous effort following some of the new superstars on the block. This included Rik Katz and his “MLM Mastermind”, Ryan Deiss’s “Video Sales Letter”, Daegan Smith’s “Maximum Leverage”, and most recently Jonathon Budd’s “MLM Launch Formula”. All together, when you include all the extras they recommend, there is well over $1,000 spent. I don’t think I am a complete idiot, but I thought I would document my results thus far.

First, I am not a quitter. I realize we live in changing times. A couple of years ago, it was much easier. You didn’t have so many people listening to gurus, copying everything they said, and then becoming a clone! I have seen this before in the New Age movement back in the 1980s. The gurus make heaps of money pioneering new territory, then they make promises that simply don’t happen for just about everybody, while maximizing their income. Eventually everyone is “trained” to run their own operation, and there is no one left who wants to learn! When I would suggest this sort of idea, I would be branded as someone who had bad thinking, or believed in scarcity.

I Am Not A Quitter.

Interestingly enough, my PPC campaigns still bring me new prospects every day, my blogs are pulling over 500 unique visitors a day, and according to Google, I am getting great exposure for some of the high ranked keywords in my niches. People contact me after viewing my youtube videos or reading articles they find all over the net. My following is steadily growing – but it’s not from the new stuff!

So here we go. In the next few paragraphs, I will provide some detail on what happened with MLM launch formula. In future weeks, I will discuss some of the other programs, what I did, and the results. I would love you to leave comments with your experience so that future readers will get a more balanced opinion that that of my individual journey with this.

The Learning Phase.

I listened to all 6 webinars. Much of it made sense. There was so much information, that I started to feel even more overwhelmed than usual. This course has enormous content. I was prepared to try it all out.

I had started a new MLM, one which complements my marketing efforts. I believe in video, so Talk Fusion seemed a sensible option. It is now paying me a monthly income, adding an additional stream to my portfolio, and I love the video emails. If you are on my list, you will get one about this article! I thought this would be a great product to do a launch on, so I plunged into it.

I Set Up My MLM Launch

I took all the emails they stressed would work, and modified them to reflect my personal information. I have a great story, so that was fine. I was uneasy about the direct approach, which is a little uncomfortable for me, but I did it anyway.

I put my webinar together, using Ryan Deiss’s Video Sales Letter format combined with ideas from Jonathon Budd. I think it looks pretty cool. I even set up a perpetual launch formula version which I have scheduled every Wednesday. Again, it seems like a pretty cool idea.

I contacted the people who I met on the launch formula and told them about it, plus I initiated the email sequence to a list of 280 people. Most of these were fairly fresh leads. Now all I had to do was wait for the registrations!

The Results

Well, 5 new people registered for the webinars. There was one enquiry from a fellow MLM launch student, and a couple of onlookers who are already in my organization. Of those, none turned up on the night, and I haven’t heard from them since. That means no matter how good the webinar was, with no one watching it, there was no possibility of getting any business! So there I am after many hours spent on this project, that I could have put into other known ways to build my business, with nothing to show for my efforts!

I am only one person, and I would very much appreciate any comments or suggestions as to why this didn’t work. Perhaps you have tried this too. Perhaps you can shed some light on some of the other guru projects out there. You may be thinking I am hopeless, or my mindset is wrong, or whatever. Maybe so, but I have done pretty well over the years. I don’t think you get $15,000 in a single month in commission if you are useless!

Lessons Learnt

I am not very fond of BS. That is why I only exposed this to a small list. I am going back to being honest with my contacts, of telling my story, warts and all, just like this article. That way you know that when I shout my successes, they are genuine. By following me, you will get my experience, and hopefully add yours, to help others navigate their way through the hype and fancy copywriting to a place where they can put their heart and soul into projects knowing that you can get real results! I know we live in tough times. One has to be more discerning these days. The challenge is that if you throw your money at some fancy scheme and it doesn’t produce, you are left in an even more vulnerable position and may be forced to go back to a JOB instead of creating a life of freedom for your family!

Thanks for taking the time to read all of this.

John Gaydon

Here is the old way of sending a video email.

1. Shoot the email n your webcam and store it on your hard drive.
2. Convert the file into flv to reduce the file size
3. Load it onto a server such as Amazon S3.
4. Create a video player using easy video player or flowplayer.
5. Load this onto a web page using an HTML editor.
6. Upload the page to a web site you own using ftp.
7. Create an email with a link to the web page.
8. Send it to your list

How long do you think this all takes?

For me it took 30 minutes to an hour to get a single video email out and then it didn’t have a nice thumbnail to click on, just one of those nasty looking text links everyone uses.

Now let’s do the same thing using talk fusion.

Watch the video below and learn!

If you are impressed and can see the power of this type of marketing, click on the link below and get started, or email me at john@pems.com.au

www.talkfusion.com/1270061

If you would like us to keep you up to date with information as it comes to hand, fill in the form below.

Imagine how much better your internet marketing efforts will be, and how many others you can show this to who will jump at it!

Having fun with Talk Fusion,

John