StomperNet Live 8 starts tomorrow at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta. The entire Stompernet team will be there along with an incredible line up of speakers that includes, Rich Schefren, Russell Brunson, and Jeff Johnson just to name a few.
Here is the cool part. I just got an invite from a friend of mine who has a free ticket that I can have. He also mentioned that he and "some friends" would be going over to Brad Fallen's one night. I took that to imply that I could join them. Pretty awesome huh?
Well, here is the really crappy part. There is no way in hell that I will be able to make it. Even though my Mother and my children from my previous marrige, (both in there twenties), live in Atlanta. I just took a 2 week vacation a month ago, so getting time off from my job is not an option.
The drive from West Palm is about 10 – 11 hours. If I left after work on Friday I would roll into ATL at about 3 or 4 in the morning. I would probably sleep through most of Stompernet on Saturday. Likewise, I have to be at work early Monday morning so that pretty much shoots Sunday in the foot.
A plane ticket on this short notice was $650. I have just spent a huge sum of money on bribes and travel expenses to assure that my wife gets her passport in time to make her flight out of Venezuela this coming Monday. There for a while it looked like she was going to be stranded down there for a while. Nothing happens fast in South America of it's own accord.
Luckily, (if you can call it that after wasting $2000), you can always get what you want in South America with the proper some of money and a few insider connections. My wife will be getting a provisional passport that will at least let her leave the country on the 10th and make her original flight. I will be glad when this entire fiasco is finished. We really take a lot of things for granted living in a modern country like the United States.
Any how, the good thing is that the wife and kids will be home Monday and there are always plenty of Internet Marketing seminars to go to. You see before I got the invite and free ticket offer to Stompernet, I had just found out about the World Internet Summit which is also going to be held in Atlanta the 20th-23rd.
I have enough time to make some plans on this one and can probably arrange an early exit on Friday or maybe even a day off. If I miss a day or so of the event it's no big deal. The real reason I am going is to network. Sure there will probably be some very good content presented. I am sure of it. But 99% of it will be things that I already know. The real benefit of these events is to make connections and JV partners.
I would have never had the opportunity to go to Stompernet for free if I had not gone to Alex Jeffreys workshop in Vegas. I can honestly say that I have made around $1500 as a direct result of that trip to Vegas and that is only the beginning. Going to these types of events and meeting your fellow internet marketers will open doors that lead to places that you can only imagine.
It's too late for me to make Stompernet but I will be at the World Internet Summit. I urge you to do the same. Getting out and making the JV's is what will make or break your online business in the end. Beleive me I know it isn't easy, especially if going to the event requires you to take an airplane and pay for a hotel. It is in fact a business expense and can be written off on your taxes.
At some point in time you will realize that making money online is just like any other business in that you have to make an investment in order to see a return. Now if you can't make then you can't make it. I would start a little fund and make it a goal to go to one of these events in the near future. For now, I have found something that will help you to make some connections without leaving your office.
Charles Mullaney has started a joint venture networking site at http://www.jvme.com. It's free to join and there are already a number of big name marketers who have joined. Joel Comm, Jason James, Harris Fellmen, just to name a few. I have already set up 5 adswaps with people I met inside the members area.
This would be a good place to start branding your name. Click on the link and go ahead and get signed up now. Once your inside, get your profile set up and start making friends. Make sure you check out the "Groups" link in the navigation bar. What ever you are into, there is probably a group that will interest you. If there isn't you can start one!
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I have been using JV Giveaways to build my list ever since I first downloaded the Profit Pulling Platform that Alex Jeffreys gave all his students back in December of 2008. The ebook that came with it, "List Building With Alex", is all about how Alex used JV Giveaways to build his list when he first started out.
I have been using giveaways ever since and added 2000 subscribers to my list since then. There have been a few developements on the JV Giveaway scene that have caused more and more people to use JV Giveaways. There are also a lot of people who are hosting there own giveaways then before.
That is good news for me and you because we have more list building opportunities. I myself am going to host my own giveaway the end of this month and also have one in the works with some of my fellow students that we are going to co-host.
Hosting my own giveaway event should make my list swell up considerably. What I have found is that now that I actually have a list of sorts, I have an asset that I can use as levereage to add even more subscribers to my list. I use my list to send traffic to other people and get paid for it.
Now I can actually get paid cash, (already had a couple offers) but I would rather get paid in subscribers. What I am talking about is ad swaps. This is where I send your email to my list and you send my email to your list. Very simple, but very effective. This is something that you don't here the guru's talk about much but it is going on in the background all the time.
When I was at Alex's workshop in Vegas, I met Jit Uppal and Lance Tamashiro. Both of them were telling me about how they were having great success using ad awaps to build there list. They told me about a site called IMadswaps where you can find other internet marketers who are looking for ad swap partners.
This is a great way to diversify your list building strategy and to meet other Internet marketers. Making contact and doing a successful ad swap can open the door to many other joint venture partnership possibilities.
One thing I have seen is that the internet marketers, that are making big paydays, are doing it with traffic from JV partners. They are not submitting articles, using traffic exchanges, safelists, press relaeases and social media. Ok, well they are in the pre launch phases to cause a buzz but the server crushing traffic on launch day is coming from joint venture partners mailing to their lists.
That is why you keep hearing over and over and over again, "the money is in the list". My mentor Alex Jeffreys told me that if I only had one thing that I must do, it is build a list. List building takes precedent over all the other things in my online business right now.
Your email list is not only your greatest asset, it is the same as having currency that you can leverage with other Internet marketers. Another thing that Alex told me, "look for ways to leverage everything you do".
So if you aren't building your list yet, then get off your ass and start doing it now! If you don't know how, download my ebook, read it and start using JV Giveaways. That is by far the easiest way for a beginner to start building your list. Once you have a list of a couple hundred, you can start doing adswaps with other people and your list will grow even faster.
If you have any questions please leave a comment and I will respond. I would love to hear your thoughts on this subject and I am always open to new ideas. If you leave a comment I will respond within a day so be patient. I don't do this full time yet so I am at work 8 hours a day.
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I just got back to my room after the first day of Alex Jeffreys workshop in Vegas. Man, I am so glad that I did everything I could to make it here! Aside from getting some killer content from Alex (some cool videos to follow in a few days), I am making some great partnerships with my fellow students.
I met a couple guys that are making a big splash in the Internet marketing pool lately. You have probably heard of them.
Jit Uppal and Lance Tamashiro are a couple fellow marketers that are also building their lists with JV Giveaways but are taking their list building to a new level. Both have agreed to do interviews with me and we will talk about some of the techniques that they are using to build their list.
I am not going to reveal anything here but I will say it is some very good stuff and I guarantee you are gonna love it. Looks like I am going to achieve another one of my goals her in "sin city". I think I will call it "win city" from here on out.
Why?
Because not only am I meeting some awesome joint venture partners, I have been able to secure a link to a program that might just be a "game changer" for you. Today, Alex was telling us about a new Internet marketer that has been taking the IM niche by storm. In only about 8 months time, he is already making almost $100,000 per month!
That is amazing for someone so new to Internet marketing where the learning curve can be quite large. Alex said that he is a "natural". He is just one of those people who "gets it". He has authorized me to give you this free gift so you can learn a little bit about what he is doing.
http://www.oventures.net/freegift.html
I really think you will like this. Go check it out and then come back tomorrow for another live report from Vegas. I am going to go down and have some dinner and a few coldies.
Maybe even make a few more deals 
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