There are some updates and clarifications that need to be shared.

1) Unfortunately, Kenneth and Laura didn’t make it to Zimbabwe in the end. They were flying to Zimbabwe by way of Thailand. But Visa transit issues at Thailand forced them back to Malaysia again. Apparently Thailand law required Laura to apply for a transit visa. So they were not allowed aboard their flight from Bangkok to Zimbabwe and had to return to Malaysia.

The good news is that they’re attempting another trip in December to settle things.

2) The $10k Kenneth made was not cash in hand. Twitter is not the best tool for affiliate marketing and immediate cash. It’s the ultimate tool for leads and finding JV partners. The $10K was the value of JV and consultancy offers Kenneth accumulated in the months to come.

3) The dowry is still far from being paid. The ritual is complicated and involves a whole series of steps. Moreover, depending on negotiations, it can go from 5 cows to cell phones, cars and even small houses. Kenneth can only determine the exact things and amount of money involved once he arrives there, but for now, the value of the dowry is a rough estimation. Phew! Marrying someone in Zimbabwe is tough. Where’s a Vegas drive-through chapel when you need one?

We wish the best of luck to Kenneth and Laura. Once the wedding happens, we might share a picture or two with you here!

There are some updates and clarifications that need to be shared.

1) Unfortunately, Kenneth and Laura didn’t make it to Zimbabwe in the end. They were flying to Zimbabwe by way of Thailand. But Visa transit issues at Thailand forced them back to Malaysia again. Apparently Thailand law required Laura to apply for a transit visa. So they were not allowed aboard their flight from Bangkok to Zimbabwe and had to return to Malaysia.

The good news is that they’re attempting another trip in December to settle things.

2) The $10k Kenneth made was not cash in hand. Twitter is not the best tool for affiliate marketing and immediate cash. It’s the ultimate tool for leads and finding JV partners. The $10K was the value of JV and consultancy offers Kenneth accumulated in the months to come.

3) The dowry is still far from being paid. The ritual is complicated and involves a whole series of steps. Moreover, depending on negotiations, it can go from 5 cows to cell phones, cars and even small houses. Kenneth can only determine the exact things and amount of money involved once he arrives there, but for now, the value of the dowry is a rough estimation. Phew! Marrying someone in Zimbabwe is tough. Where’s a Vegas drive-through chapel when you need one?

We wish the best of luck to Kenneth and Laura. Once the wedding happens, we might share a picture or two with you here!

Click the link below to download an excellent article by Clayton Makepeace

• Are You a Direct Response Gazillionaire-In-Waiting?

This article was first published in The Total Package. To sign-up to receive your own FREE subscription to The Total Package and claim four FREE money making e-books go to www.makepeacetotalpackage.com.

Here’s what happened during this time.

Our very own Kenneth Yu needed to raise $10K for a 5-cow dowry to wed Laura, his beautiful Zimbabwean bride.

The dowry is an important tradition where Laura comes from.

Now, to come up with the money, Kenneth successfully managed to pull a cool stunt that revealed to us the true potential of Twitter as a powerful networking and money-making tool.

We’ve always known that Twitter is neat, but not THIS neat.

You’re About to Witness a Phenomenal Social Media Marketing Love Story – So Powerful, You Might Shed a Tear or Two!

Watch the two videos below to learn how Kenneth Twittered his way into raising $10,000 for the 5-cow dowry he badly needed to wed his Zimbabwean bride.

How K Twittered $10K for His 5 Cow Dowry (Part 1 of 2)

How K Twittered $10K for His 5 Cow Dowry (Part 2 of 2)

How did you like the videos? Please leave us your comments and feedback.

PS – Good luck raising money for your own dowry!

For more social media marketing tips, make sure you subscribe to our list.

Here’s what happened during this time.

Our very own Kenneth Yu needed to raise $10K for a 5-cow dowry to wed Laura, his beautiful Zimbabwean bride.

The dowry is an important tradition where Laura comes from.

Now, to come up with the money, Kenneth successfully managed to pull a cool stunt that revealed to us the true potential of Twitter as a powerful networking and money-making tool.

We’ve always known that Twitter is neat, but not THIS neat.

You’re About to Witness a Phenomenal Social Media Marketing Love Story – So Powerful, You Might Shed a Tear or Two!

Watch the two videos below to learn how Kenneth Twittered his way into raising $10,000 for the 5-cow dowry he badly needed to wed his Zimbabwean bride.

How K Twittered $10K for His 5 Cow Dowry (Part 1 of 2)

How K Twittered $10K for His 5 Cow Dowry (Part 2 of 2)

How did you like the videos? Please leave us your comments and feedback.

PS – Good luck raising money for your own dowry!

For more social media marketing tips, make sure you subscribe to our list.

WARNING:

Twitter can be evil.

Some less-than-scrupulous people can easily take advantage it and wield frightening influence over poor innocent subjects.

On the other hand, use it with responsibility and you perhaps have the most powerful relation-building medium online today.

Why? That’s because Twitter is currently the closest app on Earth that replicates the actual thought patterns of the human mind. You see, the human mind does not really think in blog and article form. It does not think in huge chunks of information.

Instead, it thinks in a stream of consciousness way, random disjointed thought layered upon random disjointed thought.

That is why when you use Twitter, your mind is “tricked” into further receptivity than it normally should have, because it’s now in its most natural environment.

It’s almost like you are communicating telepathically with other people, because you’re able to uncover a 100 different thoughts that are contained in a 100 different tweets.

After all, what’s more intimate than the whispering voices in your head?

If you know how to take advantage of that state of mind, your microblogging can make you rich.

After a few months of testing and tracking what works, I have discovered 3 ways that Twitter can impact your business unlike any other site on Earth. Once you understand the Twitter user’s borderline hypnotic state of mind, these 3 covert techniques can pre-sell prospects on warp speed.

1) Psychic Market Research

Marketers often talk about the Robert Collier concept of entering the conversations in your prospect’s mind. Information marketing genius Porter Stansberry says that our marketing should start where they are.

In other words, the closer you can align yourself to their top-of-the-mind thoughts, the more receptive to your marketing message they become.

However, the problem is that more often than not, you don’t know what they’re really preoccupied with.

What’s worse, you sometimes make harmful guesses and assumptions. The end result is a bomb in your promotions and a dent in your sales, because your offer is not in tandem with what the prospect is thinking and feeling in the first place.

Good news. The whole interface of Twitter is one big web conversation taking place in a meeting of minds.

You see prospects exchanging rapid-fire thoughts, opinions, and random finds. In just one screen, you can read the hopes, dreams, interests, fears and dominant emotions of your niche.

To do this, just use http://search.twitter.com and Monitter, put in your niche keywords and boom–you’ll instantly be transported to the heart of the conversation.

Start your marketing there and see the difference in your response.

2) Network Like a Viking

Vikings have a brutally effective way of making friends, and meeting potential mates.

They sail to random villagers and within minutes, they kill all the inhabitants, pillage all the houses and capture all the maidens.

Why are they so successful?

It’s because they catch people by surprise, and there’s little in the way of resistance.

And in the nearly spam-free waters of Twitter-ville, prospects are more often than not caught by surprise, and there’s really very little resistance and a whole lot of receptivity.

For one, Twitter requires very little investment in expanding the social circle, because you can securely follow and unfollow people at will. As a result, it’s easier to access the market leaders on Twitter because well, other than the investment of clicking a button, they won’t really lose their privacy by accepting you as a friend–unlike email or mobile.

Furthermore, since you’re confined to only 140 characters for your Twitter message, the effort for them to reply back to you is only a sentence and a click away. No relatively complex email writing process.

And because one-liners are lot less threatening than blocks of text, so people instinctively resist the messages less.

Plus, if they do get annoyed, the BLOCK button is only a push away.

Making connections has never been easier, and as long as you’re not blatant with your promotions, you can make friends and influence people literally at the click of a mouse.

So do the Vikings and plunder prospect’s wallets away.

3) Establish Your Place on the Mountain

Gary Vaynerchuk said this in his most recent keynote address for Web 2.0 Expo, “If you give good shit, people will follow”.

This rings true especially for Twitter, because if you can share good stuff on a regular rate, you’ll be perceived as a guru in record speed.

It’s because the Twitter user’s frame of mind is a very conducive one for making yourself larger than life.

Prospects get on Twitter to find out the latest gossip, to chat with their friends, and more importantly–to seek out important summarized information and short inspiration and revelation quotes.

Once you do that, it’s like you are setting off flares in the middle of the night, and your prospects will notice.

As you know, getting prospects through the sales funnel is always a numbers game. The more good content you get out there attached with your name, the more chances you have at converting prospects to customers.

Because Twitter’s push-button easy way of delivering messages instantly with a low investment of 140 characters, you can keep sending out quality stuff over and over again. Indeed, there’s unprecedented opportunities for something to snag or hook the consumer and keep them for life.

And with that newfound authority, you can use it to sell more stuff and make more money from your now pre-sold audience.

So the conclusion?

Twitter is subversive territory.

When you understand how a prospect uses Twitter, getting your marketing message across has never been this unfairly simple.

It is software built on the base of NLP programming. So even if you have not gone for a day of training in your life, Twitter makes the mind easy pickings because it leaves the mind in a vulnerable state.

So use these 3 secrets and profit from them. In fact, let me know if you’ve used them and seen results.

Because I have. Amazing breakthroughs have been happening since I hopped on to the micro-blogging bandwagon.

To see these controversial techniques and other secrets I will not reveal here in action, feel free to follow me on Twitter: Email Copywriter

Watch me closely, emulate me, and apply them to boost response rates in your marketing.

Again, here’s the link to follow me on twitter:Â email copywriting

Why is Everyone Searching For AdWords Miracle?

I was just using the AdWords Keyword Suggestion tool to find out the most popular search queries for the month for June 2008 and I was surprised to see that apparently over 90,000 people entered the keyword phrase "AdWords miracle." 

The top 4 search queries for "AdWords" are:
* AdWords – 1,220,000
* AdWords Tips – 135,000
* AdWords Miracle – 90,500
* AdSense AdWords – 60,500
* AdWords Keyword – 60,500

That made me suspicious and so I entered the keyword phrase "AdWords Miracle" into Google and sure enough, there at the very top I found a link to to www.AdWordsMiracle.com. 

As it turns out, this looks like another one of those "Get Rich Quick" type of products that ClickBank is famous for.  However, what I found shocking is that more people are searching for "AdWords Miracle" than for more common keyword phrases such as "AdWords Keyword." That in itself is a miracle.

If any of you have checked out The AdWords Miracle, then please let me know your thoughts on the product.  I just wonder how they got so much momentum… perhaps Frank Kern is behind it with another massive product launch that I must have missed. 

Here is the key thing that I learned from this:

The Keyword Tool from Google AdWords rocks! The tool got a lot better now that it includes the actual search query volume.  It is a great way to quickly identify hot new keyword phrases and target them either via SEO or PPC. 

If you are into AdWords, you can also check out:

* www.TheComingAdWordsWar.com  – a Free AdWords Report
* www.AdWordsSystemExposed – Free AdWords FAQ

It was a crazy 5 days of non-stop work, with the seminar was great and finishing at 10pm each day. There was no time to go out or even see the city…and it was AWESOME. His first session was Guerilla Wealth Tactics, in which he taught several ways of thinking to get rich faster.

1. Results Lead To Strategy

The lesson here: don’t think conventionally. Think outside the box. For example, if you are a cab driver, and you earn 1000 per month on an 8-hour shift, if you want to double your salary, you could work 16-hour shifts everyday to achieve your goal. If you wanted to triple your salary, you could– by working 24 hours a day. But if you wanted to quadruple your income, it would be almost impossible.

Don’t limit your capacity by thinking in terms of using your resources, but set a goal and then find ways to achieve it.

2. Business Is As Simple As To ‘K.I.S.S.’

Business, according to Harv Eker, is as easy as KISS.

In other words, Keep It Short & Simple. You can break it down into 3 components:

1. produce/buy/create (content/product)
2. sell
3. operations/admin

How much time do you spend on each of these things – how much time do you spend on what brings results? The ideal breakdown of your resource and time allocation should be:

• create – 20%
• sell – 60%
• admin – 20%

If you are not selling, you won’t make money. If this means that you have to reduce your operations, or outsource, then you should because you only get paid when you sell, not before.

3. The Rich Are Experts

Like Chet Holmes and Joel Roberts have said, find one area of specialty and focus on it. Find one thing and become really good at it. For example, not every project manager should have to spend time figuring out the site structure, setting up an email auto responder, and writing copy. You should professionals for each area of expertise. This way, your company can get more done, in a shorter time, with better quality.

Many of the richest and most successful people started out by making it big in one industry or by becoming an expert in one area, and after their success, they branch out.

4. Create High Price Ticket Items

Let me give an example. Take John and Peter, who are in the same industry. John has 100 customers per day, he makes 30 sales per day, and he has a 30% conversion rate. Peter, on the other hand, has 10 customers per day; Peter makes 2 sales per day, and his conversion rate is 20%.

Yet, Peter is richer and happier than John. Why? Because Peter has chosen to supply good to a market with low competition and more money. If John is selling a standard iPod, and Peter is selling a diamond-plated iPod shuffle, then Peter has a far better deal because even if he sells very little to a few people, he still makes enough to

What expensive products are you selling? You can give an exclusive seminar or a personal coaching program, and use these as your high price ticket items.

5. Piggy Backing Concept

Find someone in your field (or in a similar field) who is willing to buy a large volume of your product at one time, minimizing your marketing efforts and maximizing your income in a short time. They can sell your product in large volumes, for example, if they sell yours complementary with theirs. You can ask them to give away your free samples, and when these customers visit your site, you can upsell them on the back end.

6. Sell Them Before They Buy

By building a list of interested people, you have higher negotiation power when looking for partners/affiliates. It also means that you can move faster because you can go straight into creating a squeeze page for your already existent and interested list. This is similar to Bob Serling’s Tollgate Method and uses similar advanced JV tactics. By connecting your list to the products they are interested in, you act as a broker.

Harv Eker, for example, offers and charges for seminars a year in advance – a form of ‘selling’ without products, and using the revenue to create/fund products.

7. Focus vs. Scatter

Focus on completing one task at a time. This is not rocket science, but you’ll find that successful and rich people focus on completing one task at a time, then expanding and moving on to the next project. Idea evaluation is very important because without it, opportunities can become obstacles. Every morning, choose to accomplish 3 main goals that will contribute most to your revenue.

8. Processes and Automation

Systemize things and emphasize on processes and automation. Find all the repetitive tasks that take up your time and find a way to automate or outsource them. The definition of a successful business is one that can run without you.

It was a crazy 5 days of non-stop work, with the seminar was great and finishing at 10pm each day. There was no time to go out or even see the city…and it was AWESOME. His first session was Guerilla Wealth Tactics, in which he taught several ways of thinking to get rich faster.

1. Results Lead To Strategy

The lesson here: don’t think conventionally. Think outside the box. For example, if you are a cab driver, and you earn 1000 per month on an 8-hour shift, if you want to double your salary, you could work 16-hour shifts everyday to achieve your goal. If you wanted to triple your salary, you could– by working 24 hours a day. But if you wanted to quadruple your income, it would be almost impossible.

Don’t limit your capacity by thinking in terms of using your resources, but set a goal and then find ways to achieve it.

2. Business Is As Simple As To ‘K.I.S.S.’

Business, according to Harv Eker, is as easy as KISS.

In other words, Keep It Short & Simple. You can break it down into 3 components:

1. produce/buy/create (content/product)
2. sell
3. operations/admin

How much time do you spend on each of these things – how much time do you spend on what brings results? The ideal breakdown of your resource and time allocation should be:

• create – 20%
• sell – 60%
• admin – 20%

If you are not selling, you won’t make money. If this means that you have to reduce your operations, or outsource, then you should because you only get paid when you sell, not before.

3. The Rich Are Experts

Like Chet Holmes and Joel Roberts have said, find one area of specialty and focus on it. Find one thing and become really good at it. For example, not every project manager should have to spend time figuring out the site structure, setting up an email auto responder, and writing copy. You should professionals for each area of expertise. This way, your company can get more done, in a shorter time, with better quality.

Many of the richest and most successful people started out by making it big in one industry or by becoming an expert in one area, and after their success, they branch out.

4. Create High Price Ticket Items

Let me give an example. Take John and Peter, who are in the same industry. John has 100 customers per day, he makes 30 sales per day, and he has a 30% conversion rate. Peter, on the other hand, has 10 customers per day; Peter makes 2 sales per day, and his conversion rate is 20%.

Yet, Peter is richer and happier than John. Why? Because Peter has chosen to supply good to a market with low competition and more money. If John is selling a standard iPod, and Peter is selling a diamond-plated iPod shuffle, then Peter has a far better deal because even if he sells very little to a few people, he still makes enough to

What expensive products are you selling? You can give an exclusive seminar or a personal coaching program, and use these as your high price ticket items.

5. Piggy Backing Concept

Find someone in your field (or in a similar field) who is willing to buy a large volume of your product at one time, minimizing your marketing efforts and maximizing your income in a short time. They can sell your product in large volumes, for example, if they sell yours complementary with theirs. You can ask them to give away your free samples, and when these customers visit your site, you can upsell them on the back end.

6. Sell Them Before They Buy

By building a list of interested people, you have higher negotiation power when looking for partners/affiliates. It also means that you can move faster because you can go straight into creating a squeeze page for your already existent and interested list. This is similar to Bob Serling’s Tollgate Method and uses similar advanced JV tactics. By connecting your list to the products they are interested in, you act as a broker.

Harv Eker, for example, offers and charges for seminars a year in advance – a form of ‘selling’ without products, and using the revenue to create/fund products.

7. Focus vs. Scatter

Focus on completing one task at a time. This is not rocket science, but you’ll find that successful and rich people focus on completing one task at a time, then expanding and moving on to the next project. Idea evaluation is very important because without it, opportunities can become obstacles. Every morning, choose to accomplish 3 main goals that will contribute most to your revenue.

8. Processes and Automation

Systemize things and emphasize on processes and automation. Find all the repetitive tasks that take up your time and find a way to automate or outsource them. The definition of a successful business is one that can run without you.

Don’t talk about the solution until you have talked about the problem. Here’s one more secret on how to get attention from the media.

There’s a huge struggle in this area because as a business owner, you have to grow rich in your niche. But, to get mass media attention, you have to broadcast for a reason. That means your message is broadcast to a lot more people than those in your niche. This is where most people get it completely wrong, and here Joel Roberts gave a very interesting example.

“If you have a problem that tackles illiteracy and helps people learn how to read, how do you get on a radio show?” he asked. Nobody in the audience had a clue as to how to answer that question.

Frame It in A Bigger Perspective

The mass market has to pay attention. Joel Roberts’ suggestion was to find research that shows that illiteracy is related to crime.

• The more illiterate people, the higher the crime rate.
• Show that illiteracy is related to income – namely, the class divide.
• Show that it’s also related to taxes because people that are illiterate generally don’t produce a lot of income, therefore they don’t produce much in taxes for your community.

I found this information useful because I had certainly never looked at it that way.

This Gets People’s Attention

You can go on radio and talk about crime. You can then talk about fighting crime by fighting illiteracy. People will listen because everybody cares about crime. If you don’t make those connections, you’re never going to get on the radio; you’re not going to get publicity from any mass media.

No matter what your niche is, you have to figure out a way to frame it so that the masses will listen. If you can grab their attention for an instant, you can then go into the details. But, if you start with the details and the solution, you won’t get anywhere with the mass media.