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Carbon Copy Pro Master Marketing Events – How They Can Catapult Your Business

Carbon Copy Pro 3.0 Is A Major Breakthrough In Internet Marketing Education And Community. True Leaders Are Actively Coaching, Training, And Mentoring New Entrepreneurs To Become The Next True Leaders.


Want to know what Carbon Copy Pro is all about? Then watch the video below.  I attended the Master Marketing Event in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the Paris Hotel and was absolutely blown away by the quality of the speakers, the relevancy of the content, and the openness of the community. One of the top producers spent over an hour with me personally to review my marketing strategy since he knew I was producing great results and was at a stage in my business where I was ready for some advanced fine tuning, so to speak. I have been in network marketing for over a decade and never had a leader pull me aside for an hour to get me to the next level. Have you? Watch the video below – it will open your eyes to something better, something I discovered just 6 months ago that has completely changed my life.



For most network marketing companies, my stuttering problem was a death sentence to my business because they trained on phone calls, and home parties, and all the other garbage that I simply could not do and was lousy at.  Carbon Copy Pro is a marketing education company teaching you how to sell anything to anyone anywhere in the world, a true incubator for entrepreneurs. Don’t already have a business, product or service? Not a problem. They will teach you how to market the elite financial education products from Wealth Masters International with the highest profit margins in the industry. Like me and want to market their products as well as a business you are already running? You can do that too.

I run a real estate investing company with 2 other partners and a staff of over 10 real estate professionals. I found one of my partners and over half of my staff in just the last 4-5 months alone, using internet marketing techniques and strategies taught my Carbon Copy Pro, including personal branding, social media, video marketing, press releases, article marketing, blogging, pay-per-click, and on and on. We are closing short sale transactions with an average of over $20k net profit per transaction. I could have never done that without the team I have in place. Combine that with the thousands per month I earn marketing WMI products through Carbon Copy Pro training, I am living my dream and getting out of debt rapidly, allowing my family life to be a lot more fun and less stressful, especially since I learned my wife is pregnant with our third child. Before Carbon Copy Pro, that news would have been devastating in a very negative way. Now, that news is joyous and thankful. That is a much better way to live.

Come join me at the next Master Marketing Event.  Your life will never be the same again. Take care and God bless.



To Your Success!

Jasper Silvis
M2 Master Consultant &
Internet Marketing Success Coach
http://YourWealthAdvantage.com
http://Twitter.com/jaspersilvis

Why Wait To Start A Home Based Business?

Young Or Old, Everyone At Least Once In Their Lives Dreams Of Owning Their Own Business, The “Real” American Dream, The True Vehicle For Financial Freedom. Since You Are Reading This, The Thought Of Starting A Home Based Business Is Swirling Around In Your Head. So I Have A Few Questions For You…

Is it too late for you to start a home business? Too early? What exactly is the time you should focus on to start a home based business and become an entrepreneur and live the ideal that founded this great country?





The answer? Now! Right now!

In fact, I would love for there to be a rule that required all politicians to run a business on the side so they can finally experience first hand how their policies affect the rest of us living the unsheltered life in real America.

Honestly, it is time for you to start a home business when you are ready to work long hours over 3 to 6 months learning the most important skill you will ever need – marketing. In particular? Internet marketing. Even more specific? Personal branding and attraction marketing through social media then exploding your exposure through pay per click advertising.

Sound complicated? It really isn’t. For less than a semester in some community college on business, you only have to learn this one thing. It only seems complicated because it is new to you. Maybe computers and the internet are new for you as well. But does it matter? Are you really going to sit there watching this video or reading this article, even if you are in your 70s, and think to yourself that you have nothing more to learn? That you can’t do this? That you don’t deserve this? Or that your opportunity to be financially independent has come and gone?

Bull! Read this carefully: You master internet marketing and you write your ticket to financial freedom. Now what is it worth to you to learn something new? Something you can actually see. Marketing anything to anyone anywhere in the world.

I know this seems like the fire hose treatment so take baby steps. Start with understanding simple internet marketing concepts by taking my free social media marketing course. This is just your first step on your path to truly mastering internet marketing. I say it is a first step because I cover in my course a small but necessary piece to the puzzle called personal branding.

If you understand the importance of internet marketing, then give serious thought to working with me and my team. We don’t pitch lotions, potions, and pills. We are not MLM with multple levels of a tree or matrix structure. We are a direct sales company with internet marketing education and financial education and serious training as our products. You truly learn as you earn. We are an active community of coaches with over 20 training calls per week on very specific marketing topics, including pay-per-click, personal branding, article marketing, video marketing, leadership, sponsoring, search engine optimization, guerrilla marketing on a budget techniques, Twitter and other social media, press releases, and so much more.

We teach you to market anything to anyone anywhere in the world. Our members span 162 different countries to date. You can market our internet marketing training and our separate financial education courses (investing, asset protection, tax strategies, incorporation, and so on), OR you can do what I did when I first started, which is to use the internet marketing training to help you better promote a business you are already running. My other business is real estate investing through my company, Target Home Solutions.

You only have this one life. Never think for one single instant that when you “retire” from your job, you “retire” from learning new skills, or worse, that you “retire” from life. You are worth more to your community than you think. Prove it to yourself. After you go through my free Social Media Marketing Guide course, click on the “Work With Jasper” header link at the top of the page or click here. Plug into the system and learn more about me, your coach, who will guide you every step of the way, but only if you are a person of action.

Every American should be running some sort of home based business. It’s time you started yours. And start it already positioned for success. I look forward to working with you through my free social marketing training or personally through my internet business.



To Your Success!

Jasper Silvis
M2 Master Consultant &
Internet Marketing Success Coach
http://YourWealthAdvantage.com
http://Twitter.com/jaspersilvis

What Are My Realistic Costs To Running A Home Based Business?

When Running A Home Based Business That Requires Sponsoring Members, A Common Question Your Prospects Will Ask You Is “How Much Money Will I Realistically Have To Spend To Run This Business?” Do You Have An Answer?

Most prospects looking for a lucrative home based business are trying to find the easy way out: Spending little AND working little while hoping for great results (you know, tire kickers). Sometimes, a real prospect comes along that recognizes that without a lot of marketing capital, a lot of marketing WORK is needed if true success (5-figures monthly at least) is desired.





The amount of money you spend on marketing your home based business is inversely proportional to the amount of marketing tasks you would like to automate. A little too technical? Just follow along. You only spend money on the services and applications you use to market and promote your message while you are not around. Doing everything yourself? Then you pay either nothing or nominal fees. More on that later.

We cannot talk about marketing costs without talking about the most effective forms of marketing per cost. The king of all internet marketing, of course, is Google AdWords. But unless you excel at keyword research and have separate domain names with focused targeted relevant content per AdGroup, your cost per click will be too high costing you thousands more than you bring in.

Therefore, if you are just getting started, the most effective form of marketing for you, based on cost per lead is none other than attraction marketing with videos and articles, and videos embedded in your articles, such as with Hubpages and Squidoo. Then, of course, you will be posting tweets about your articles and videos in your Twitter account, updating your Facebook status with your videos, submitting press releases based on your articles and videos, and adding posts to your blog with both article and embedded videos, like the one embedded in this blog post.

I know it sounds like a lot, but I think I owe you some honesty. If you do not have a lot of money to fund your Google AdWords campaign properly, which is at least $200 – $500 per day, then your first 3 months marketing your home based business will be spent generating at least 50 articles, 50 videos, 50 press releases, and building thousands of social media friends and following.

Now we both know there is not a lot of time in the day. So there are going to be some things you MUST decide to outsource, and the remaining tasks you MUST create a system for with a daily action plan. Let’s take care of both right now by focusing first on the most effective of all the forms of attraction marketing I mentioned above, and that’s videos. Yes, YouTube is the king of all video submission sites, but there are a lot more, including some of your article submission sites and your blog sites that accept embedded video.

You need a single place to submit your video once and it will be sent to:

  • over 20 popular video submission sites,
  • any blog site you own and register,
  • lots of social bookmarking sites, and
  • lots of podcast sites using audio that is automatically stripped from your video.

The one place that does all this is Traffic Geyser. Their cost is $99 per month with a $1 first month trial period. Worth every penny!

They also have a custom video player you can embed in your other pages, so prospects viewing your videos on your landing page won’t click away to your YouTube account before capturing their information. If you only had $100 per month to spend on marketing, then I would strongly suggest $99 of that go to Traffic Geyser. No kidding. I don’t even care if you do not use my affiliate link. Just get an account and thank me later for all the time you are saving and exposure you are getting.

Remember I mentioned having a daily action plan? Try to follow along with this train of thought then tweak it to fit your needs.

  1. Write the script to your video first.
  2. Then film your video, making updates to your script as you tweak the wording.
  3. Then submit your video to Traffic Geyser.
  4. In the blog setup section, add the transcript, making sure you set links to some of the content (like your Twitter account, and linking every mention of your name to an About Me page).

    Complete the video setup, making sure your video description is less than 250 characters to pass the rules of some of the other video submission sites.

    After Traffic Geyser submits the video to YouTube (usually the first one to get it since the blog sites link to YouTube), edit the description and add lots more relevant content and keyword tags, since YouTube does not have a 250 character description limit.

  5. Then take your video script, and tweak the wording to make a unique article, submitting it to many sites like EvanCarmichael, Hubpages, EzineArticles, Amazines, GoArticles, Squidoo, and so on, embedding your video wherever possible.
  6. Then take the general content of your video script and turn it into a short press release, submitting it to WebWire, 24-7PressRelease, Free-Press-Release, PRWeb, PRLog, and so on.

You generally do not have to worry about posting it to Twitter or Facebook. When you submit the article form to Hubpages, they provide a couple buttons to have the article automatically post to both your Twitter and Facebook accounts.

Now, at this time, I would have also stated that you would go to Social Oomph and add a link to your blog post in their automated recurring tweet section, but just this past week, Twitter tightened the rules, and Social Oomph is no longer allowed to offer that feature because Twitter does not want duplicate tweets. But there is a way around that. Go to my Social Media Marketing Guide video series and watch the Enhanced Twitter Setup videos, especially the one where I talk about setting up your automated feeds using TwitterFeed and HootSuite (there are others out there as well).

I know I say in the video not to append any links to keep from spamming. That was just referring to your sales page. If your video and article content closely matches the general content of a feed source, then go ahead and append a shortened link to it using the method shown in the training video. Because of the new Twitter policy affecting Social Oomph, I will take some time this week and film an update to the training course showing how to do this. But don’t wait for me. Take action and figure it out and get ahead of the game. I know I am going to start looking for 5 more feed sites, that’s for sure.

Also, Social Oomph can be configured to send recurring posts to your ping.fm account, which can be configured to sent to all your social media accounts, like Twitter and Facebook. So you definitely still want to set up automated tweets to your new video or blog with embedded video. Cost for all this? Social Oomph is about $30 per month.

Ok, let’s get back on track. You have a plan and you have an awesome video submission source that will soon be able to submit your article content as well. Not kidding. Traffic Geyser expanding their service offerings as I speak. The only non-obvious piece to the puzzle is your own list account, like AWeber or ConstantContact. I prefer AWeber since it plugs right in to my main internet business system’s autoresponder campaigns, and I can use it as well for my real estate business. One account, many lists. Profiting in internet marketing comes when you both own a list and monetize it.

So to sum things up, if you add up Traffic Geyser, AWeber, web hosting, and your merchant account, you should be able to effectively run your business for under $200 per month outside your monthly business membership dues. I suggest you knock out the daily action plan as I described until you have 50 videos, 50 articles, and 50 press releases. At that time, you should be generating enough revenue to fund your Google AdWords campaigns. Then you will watch your business take off like crazy.

I hope this information has been helpful to you. I know the video is a little long. Lots to digest but I know you can handle it. Take care and I look forward to meeting you at one of our events, like next month’s master marketing event in Las Vegas. I’ll be there and I hope to see you there as well.



To Your Success!

Jasper Silvis
M2 Master Consultant &
Internet Marketing Success Coach
http://YourWealthAdvantage.com
http://Twitter.com/jaspersilvis

Responding To The Google Slap With Personal Branding

The Google Slap: Nightmare Of Internet Marketing Newbies And Experts Alike Who Make Their Living Spending Lots Of Money On Pay-Per-Click Campaigns To Get Tons Of Exposure To Their Message. Is There A Way To Minimize The Risk So Your Domain Does Not Get Shut Down?

When was the last time you were slapped? Didn’t feel good, did it? Ever been Google slapped? I guarantee a professional internet marketer would much rather be slapped for saying something stupid than getting Google slapped.





Over the Summer months of 2009, the FCC has really cracked down on internet marketing by affiliate programs and business opportunities with mansions and sports cars on their replicated web sites and exorbitant income claims.

Instead of the FCC taking care of things themselves, they came down hard on Google, Yahoo, Bing, and all the mega advertisers to clean up their act. Now, even top 6-figure monthly earners I know are waking up in the morning, logging into their Google AdWords account, and finding all their ad campaigns dead in the water. These top dogs are being slapped, too.

Worse than that, the real pain behind being Google slapped, is that your domain is dead, so you have to create a new domain before starting your Adwords campaign again. And if you simply replace your old domain with a new one without making changes to your campaigns, keywords, and sales funnel content, then you get slapped again, and each time, the pain is worse. As repeat offenders have reported to me and my team, not only have their domain names been banned, but their entire Google AdWords account has been shut down. And if you want to start up a new one, you need to sign in from a different IP address (like a public library) and even use a different credit card for your new Google AdWords account. Ouch.

So, want to avoid the Google slap? Well, I can give you some sound advice, but since Google is changing their algorithms by the minute these days it seems, I’m going to limit this discussion to the biggest change that will definitely help you according to Google themselves. And that is Personal Branding.

That’s the first thing you need to do … brand yourself and not your product, service, or business opportunity. Focus on you as an entrepreneur. You can even focus further by sticking to a niche market. For instance, my niche market includes new and seasoned entrepreneurs needing a coach to get their business off the ground or would like to become a coach themselves to better support their clients and downline.

Time to put the big boy pants on and start marketing yourself. Put yourself out there. You cannot hide if you want to be a leader. Google rewards unique content, and there is nothing more unique than YOU, marketed properly.

Next, you need a hub, some location where “You, Inc.” can flourish. It is where all your Google AdWords, Twitter, Facebook, articles, and videos point to. 9 times out of 10, that is a custom blog. CUSTOM BLOG. Remember, Google wants to see uniqueness, which also means web site design as well. Get a domain like YourName.com or MeetYourName.com then set it up as a WordPress blog by going to WordPress.org and following their installation and setup directions.

Some domain hosts like mine, StartLogic, has a convenient push button WordPress installation and setup to any folder in your domain right from their control panel. Take the time to set this up and get it out there. It doesn’t have to be perfect.

A video to your product, service, or business opportunity can easily be embedded directly in your hub page with a lead capture form, or links to a purchase page for a product. It’s really easy to do. You can look at mine as an example and see how I embedded a video and signin form directly to my page.

Personally, I do not like embedding YouTube videos into my pages. YouTube embed code turns my video into a big link back to my YouTube account, and I don’t want anyone interested in my content clicking away from my web page. Do you? This is one of the reasons why I love Traffic Geyser. They provide a custom player for both normal and high definition aspect ratios. It looks more professional and contains no link-backs to anything. Nice.

Now you want to fill your hub page with articles and videos, content that shows you using your product or discussing benefits of a service, or general tips for entrepreneurs like goal setting, mindset, and marketing strategies. Remember, people buy from those they KNOW, LIKE, and TRUST. Marketing your personally branded hub page is the key to keeping your Google AdWords account running smoothly day in and day out, attracting prospects to your story, your message.

One more thing, there is not a single top earner on the internet NOT heavily involved in personal branding. Google is changing. Internet marketing is evolving. Be impervious to this change by effective branding. For more information about personal branding using social media marketing, go to TheSocialMediaMarketingGuide.com. Happy marketing.



To Your Success!

Jasper Silvis
M2 Master Consultant &
Internet Marketing Success Coach
http://YourWealthAdvantage.com
http://Twitter.com/jaspersilvis

Is Your Business Model Mature Enough To Market Internationally? Is Your Business System Set Up To Handle International Clients To Your Service, Customers To Your Products, And Members To Your Business Opportunity?

Many home based business entrepreneurs that have expressed concern to me about effective marketing internationally, they seem to stumble when I probe into their business model and support system and its ability to manage international clients, customers, and members. Is personal branding and attraction marketing ineffective for international prospects? Or is the issue in the system chosen to run as a home based business?





Recently, I have been approached through Twitter DMs, Facebook messages, and even some Skype messaging from international entrepreneur minded people, wondering if personal branding and social marketing is relevant to them. If this sounds like you, or if you are an American involved in an international business system like mine, then pay attention.

The simple answer is yes. Personal branding and social media marketing are simply strategies based on attraction marketing as opposed to prospecting, like in classified ads and direct mail. If also referring to attraction marketing as a core strategy, then we can ad pay-per-click as well, since the ads are keyword dependent and act in a way that pulls prospects to your message as they see your ad copy as matching their desired search terms. In short, this entire form of marketing is borderless.

Anyone can create a Twitter, Facebook, or YouTube account and post messages that establish your credibility in your market and develop relationships with your prospects and like minded entrepreneurs. Anyone can create a WordPress blog-like hub page that contains all your value-added content and custom landing pages less susceptible to a Google slap. Anyone can write keyword rich articles, produce relevant videos and publish them on media submission sites.

What I am trying to say is that attraction marketing itself is not the issue when talking about marketing internationally. The main issues are with:

  • the business system,
  • product delivery system, and
  • methods of communication.

Method of communication is the easiest to address since Skype is free to sign up and free to communicate around the world with other Skype users. I would suspect that any international entrepreneur doing business in America has a Skype account. Over 90% of all my international team members already had a Skype account before joining my team.

I am only bringing up product delivery system in the case of physical products that must be shipped. That may cause a problem with unforeseen costs, return hassles, and possible export regulations depending on the product. If you are serious about marketing products to international customers, then I strongly suggest that you stick to electronic media, where after purchase, your customer receives a secure link to download an eBook or course or some software.

As far as a business system goes, many of them are even created and managed from different countries. Most Multi-Level Marketing or MLM business structures offer an electronic media of some sort as a product to stay legal and operate just fine as long as anyone can use PayPal or a standard merchant account. Similarly, internet direct sales businesses, such as my main business model, offer a mixture of both electronic and physical media, so the customer has an electronic copy right away while awaiting the shipment of their purchase.

In my case, my customers receive complete access to their back office and pages containing all the information in their physical product, so they can review everything while awaiting their shipment. I personally prefer this type of process since the customer really feels cared for by the simple receipt of a physical package instead of a simple eBook.

The only drawback to supporting international customers is with marketing events or gatherings. If your business is not mature enough to offer such events, then I suggest you create virtual events that you can host where everyone is in front of a webcam. Seeing and talking with each other is a great way to mastermind and will absolutely catapult your business.

My business, for instance, holds 2 Master Marketing events annually in different locations within the United States and a special annual elite marketing event at an international location, the last elite marketing event was held earlier this Summer in the Dominican Republic with the one last year in Paris. Back to the US based Master Marketer events, we had one earlier this year in Lake Tahoe. And on November 15th, I will be flying out to Las Vegas for a week of both financial and internet marketing education and networking with other entrepreneurs. Want to join me?





This is not a flippant question. If you are serious about marketing internationally then you need a business that is set up to handle it. We have members in 162 countries. What other internet direct sales business can say that? International? You bet. We take our business seriously with only high 5-figure and 6-figure monthly earners teaching our more than 20 weekly training calls and webinars.

We hold 2 master marketing events throughout the United States and 1 international elite marketing event every year. We even have a major 6-figure monthly earner holding a 15 minute wake-up call at 10:30am EST every morning with fresh leadership perspectives to get you started on the right track first thing in the morning or whatever time of the day it is for you. Who else is taking your success seriously?

The main point is that if you are struggling attracting international prospects to your business then maybe the issue is not your marketing but your business. Take my free Social Media Marketing Guide course then run through my other videos. If you are doing most of what I and most other top earners are doing and you are still seeing poor results internationally, then it is time to reassess your home based business. Let me know if you need assistance.



To Your Success!

Jasper Silvis
M2 Master Consultant &
Internet Marketing Success Coach
http://YourWealthAdvantage.com
http://Twitter.com/jaspersilvis