You don’t need a website – you need an audience!
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You are being lied to!
Did you know that building a website is probably THE WRONG WAY to start your online success?
It’s such a shame that many people get fooled into starting at that point though. Listen to this short recording to find out the proper order of things. It’s about 10 minutes long and will be some of the best big picture advice I can possibly give you.
This is some foundational stuff I’m giving you today. It’s like a reset button for your brain if you find yourself a bit overwhelmed. Maybe you feel new to all of this and you are heading in a bad direction, or you’ve been around awhile and you’ve forgotten what the ground rules are for success online. Either way let me know what you think – I’m trying to keep it simple with my advice.
Some links I mention in the audio:
Aweber.com – the “autoresponder” or “buld email management” tool that all Internet Marketers need to learn to use
SilentSalesMachine.com – the book that is foundational to my concepts.
And finally – the “report card” site that ranks me at the TOP of all current Internet Marketing Experts! Wow – I’m honored!
Please leave me a comment or any feedback by using the comment button below – also if you use twitter click the green retweet button above and let other know about this free info!
UPDATE: I’ve added ‘Part II’ based on the comments left below. Here’s a link to the update click here
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I am a baby boomer in need of an income (with 2 kids). Am slowly learning all this computerish stuff and have joined your facebook friends. I will be signing up for aweber and starting a mailing list–and sell tons of stuff that has accumulated over the years.
Thanks for helping us newbies and congratulations on your ranking! Great Work!
Hi Jim,
Great info as always. I have gotten a little side-tracked into organic search so nice to be reminded about building a list.
Congratulations Jim – couldn’t happen to a nicer guy!
You make it sound so simple which for a non-tech guy like me is helpful
Thanks
Hi Jim,
I have a question about offlinebiz.com.
Do I have to go to the offline business and say something like “I can help you make money, it will cost you $2000 you can give me $1000 now and the rest later”?.
Can you give me an idea of how this works?
Thanks.
Ana-Maria.
[reply from Jim]: Money does not come up in the conversation like that typically although it might. The money comes easy though once your credibility is established. Join the free forums of offlinebiz.com and read the free report. It will make sense.
Hello again Jim,
You definitely break this concept down into simple terms, as well as reversing traditional thinking. Everyone is always saying that a person needs a website first to establish credibilty. However, I am a member of Offline Biz as well, and I am about ready to talk to my first potential client WITHOUT having a website. I just recently signed up with Aweber. I’m still learning it. Is Aweber truly all I need to get started other than the ability to talk to a business owner and build rapport and trust? I’ll probably post this question on that website’s forum as well. Thanks for all you do to educate everyone with your honesty and integrity.
Jim,
I have been a follower of yours for a long time and truly appreciate all the great information you pass along. I can’t thank you enough for this timely audio. I desperately want and need to earn my living online. I am so overwhelmed with information and I go back and forth reading this and reading that and I just don’t really know where to start. Listening to your audio made be realize that I need to focus on building a list. Please keep the great stuff coming and thanks again for everything!
Teresa Hearld
Hi Jim,
One thing I like about you is that you call the spade a spade and tell the truth. And thats so rare because in this industry most people are trying to paddle junk.
I was one of the lucky ones who have the good fortune to read your Silent Sales Machine when it first came out. I still remember vividly, how excited I was about the concept. During that time, I was selling on eBay but struggling. When I discover the idea that I can build a list and start selling to that list over and over again from my own website was so powerful that it blew my mind away.
After reading your book, I focused on building my list and never regreted. My business and my life changed forever. Within 6 months i went from a struggiling eBay seller to finincially free person.
Your book also helped me become successful on online marketing in general when I decided to venture out.
The only mistake I made was that I didn’t realized the value of building relationship with your list initially. But your newsletter took care of that. While following your newsletter, I quickly realized that its not about sale, sale all the time..I read your newsletter for the valuable content and the great product suggestion you make on your newsletter. It all ckiked when I build a relationship with my list.
Sometimes, I look back and wonder what a difference your little book made to my life.
Thanks Jim.
Hi, Jim:
During the past couple of years, I have been wondering exactly what is the best way for me to market my ideas and concepts. Frankly, I have been overwhelmed by all the conflicting ideas by various experts, partly by the volume of material, partly because I am not technically oriented, and partly because I have a limited budget for getting started. This overwhelm has, I believe, contributed to preventing me from starting because I couldn’t really grasp the best way to start (even after all that info). I just knew in my heart that I wanted to be successful by concentrating on developing my programs, without having to get in over my head with the technical end of marketing.
After listening to your audio, I feel that you are sincere in wanting to help people and that you are bringing a wealth of experience to the table. I am inspired to look more deeply into your ideas and will do so.
Thank you so much for such down to earth advice.
Calvin
Hi Jim,
I really enjoyed your audio. I can relate to wasting my time on the wrong things. When I first learned about internet marketing I attempted to set up my own website, got a domain and set up 2 years of web hosting. LOL Then I ended up spending so much time trying to “create” this website I ended up frustrated and discouraged that I hadn’t made any progress.
Thanks, Heidi
Great audio!! I have joined many newsletters over the last few years and yours is one of the few I still read and learn from.
The Salesletters I have dropped. Thanx for being a great person.
PS Love the auction idea. How do you think of these things? You’re creativity is inspiring.
Congrats on the ranking!!
In my opnion your success comes from your Philosophy Of Life. I can tell you are a great person with a wonderfull heart.
Keep your heart pure and you will keep growing (every way). Congrats!!!
Great article Jim, and very solid advice. My wife and I have been trying for some time to make a go of it on the internet, but keep getting bombarded by so-called “gurus” regarding the best direction to follow. It is nice to listen to an expert who cares for others and gives very simple and clear advice.
Keep up the great work!!!!
Thanks Jim for sending home THE answers. I have developed a somewhat unique golf method and am planning the marketing. Frankly, I have been talking to a web developer. I knew that I wanted to grow a list but was also concerned with SEO. Your words have definitely redirected my efforts.
THANKS———Glenn
Thanks for the audio ..great info…
Hi Jim,
Great Audio. I think for too long I have been trying to fathom out website building. I should have been concentrating on my list building with aweber a whole lot more.
Well from here on in it’s all systems go. As a member of mysilentteam I admit that I haven’t logged in anywhere near as much as I should have, all to my own cost and lost time.
I absolutely urge others’ to now join and learn from the number one marketer.
Dave Robus.
http://www.daverobus.com
Another good bit of advice, Jim. You always bring me down to earth, saving me from all those shiny new objects.. keep these audios and videos coming!
Pierre
Where were you when I started? Maybe you were there and I was too dumb to follow your advice although I followed the siren song of hundreds of con men over the years and paid and paid and paid for things that didn’t work. I put everything into my web sites and through a strange combo of circumstances I’ve lost them…(viruses, Microsoft’s changing support system,etc, totally incompetent servers)but I consider it a blessing. I’m learning what I should have been doing.
Congratulations on your ranking and thanks for being honest with people who don’t find much honesty in our strange new computerized world. I’m a newbie again, so to speak, and this time, I want to do it right. I’d be pleased to be one of your facebook friends.
Jim just want to say that i am one of those
people that was trying all of information
and getting no where.
I like the audio and would like to videos also if you are putting them out.
I am a newbie and looking for best information to get me started.Just wished
i had sense enough to follow you a long time
ago.
vernon
Hello Jim:Thanks for all the great information.I feel that you are absolutly right! I have be headed in the wrong direction an am know shifting gears.Thanks an god bless.Chance
it was Chris Guillebeau who put me onto you. I’m hoping this audio is the beginning of new understanding for me.
Pleae accept my thanks for your help and honesty–it’s refreshing1
Thanks Jim, Your info have given me great relief, because I have learnt from a seminar that building a website and domain name is the way to create online business, you are so right about growing the audience not website
Jim, thank you so much for your insight and inspiration. I bought your book a couple of years ago and it truly was a great help. I love your newsletters. You have sound advice from the heart and this is just another piece of info that truly will help.
Blessings
Sherry
Very interesting 10 minutes or so. Has got me thinking! I have ab “old version” of The Silent Sales Machine (about 2-3 years ago) and want to know if there are any updates to it?
I also promote this & your eMail list on http://www.dianton.net.
[reply from Jim]: the latest version of Silent Sales Machine is dated 2008.
Thanks for the great info! It is a gem and truly true ! Hope to learn more great concepts for marketing on-line..
Once again you are the man! Thanks Jim for the reminders to keep things simple and in perspective. We sometimes still go off in left field and need to be brought back. So cool to be able to trust what you say!
~Christina
Hey Jim, I am a newbie on the computer,(about two years now)I want to get something started on eBay selling. I know it will be awhile to learn it all. But, I’m thinking about down the road. I’m 55 now and I know I’ll need something to supplement my income when its time to retire. I was reading something about eBay classified ads. It sounds good to me. Do you have a blue print on how this is done, start to finish? Thanks, Rick
This is just another great post by a great mentor!
Jim,
Do you have a list of information marketing
media that you sell?
Please put me on your mailing list.
Darel
reply from jim: You can join my mailing list at SilentJim.com (get great free advice and info just for signing up) or take the plunge as thousands of others have and join my membership site at MySilentTeam.com or OfflineBiz.com depending on which appeals to you.
Hi. Thanks for the info. You gave me a lot to think about. I recently purchased Anthony Morrison’s Advertising Profits from Home package. It seems OK. But, like all the rest, when they start adding other parts to the program, they want more money. I am wondering how I can make an income on the internet without having to pay more money just to make money. Thanks for reading this and thanks for your time and advice. God Bless! Beatrice
[reply from Jim]:Thanks Beatrice -you really should check out MySilentTeam.com. That site is where my advice and product and the products I endorse all go and you get monthly value without ever having to go after all the continual offers that flood your inbox.
What can I say that hasn’t already been said! I just want to say thank you for sharing your knowledge. I bought you Silent Sales Machine ebook years ago and had lots of success on Ebay as well. Now I am going to follow your advice on growing an audience, I know with your help, I can’t lose! I truly appreciate your expertise!
Hey Jim,
Leah here, I had purchased your book and LOVE LOVE LOVE it! I refer to it all the time. You always give excellent & easy to understand advice and I so appreciate it. You had called me but I didn’t get the message for a long time and then it was erased before I got to get a callback number (if there was one). Anyway I think your great and you have helped me tremendously so Thanks. I hope to talk to ya one day.
Leah
I’ll have my coaching team get in contact with you. Thanks for the feedback!