I have a quick story and an important announcement for you.
Story first, announcement at the end.
I was on the phone yesterday with Peter. He’s a BigMoneyFreeTime Society member, and he owns a mortage office.
I was conducting a private 1on1 strategy session with him. A strategy session in an intense 35-50 minute analysis of what’s working and what’s missing in a business owner’s gameplan, and it always ends with a course of immediate action.
We spoke candidly about marketing, and he said that it was ok to share the broad strokes of the conversation with you. The biggest obvious hole in Peter’s company was how much business he was losing to the competition in his market because of the internet.
Peter has a website. He had it built in 2003. It hasn’t been updated since 2004.
He had zero online marketing. His agents pound the ground the old fashion way. Fliers. Bus shelter ads.
Bench signs. Cold calling. Chambers of Commerce style events.
I asked Peter how much pain he was in.
Agent mortality was approaching 100% per year. The handwriting was on the wall as far as he was concerned.
I asked Peter what he was losing to the competition because of the web.
He estimated he was losing $150,000 in business a year because he was so far behind.
I helped Peter take 3 immediate action steps to fix his problem.
You could practically hear his relief over the phone.
I asked him if I could share those strategies with you. He said no problem.
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I’m organizing and hosting an exclusive Business Owners Tele-training for May 22nd.
Do you own a business?
Do you want some fresh ideas to help you grow your profits?
I have a limited number of lines, and it will be completey booked.
Here is a question that I received last week from Andrew Winger, one of the members of BigMoneyFreeTime. Andrew owns a real estate office.
“Dear David, thanks for the info on how to create low cost dvd’s in last week’s module. We’ve had a high turnover rate in the past year (who hasn’t?) for new agents. Many aren’t lasting six months. I’ve always felt that training makes a huge difference. Any tips on making dvds for our own internal use for training agents?”
Andrew, awesome question.
There are two types of training. There is skill-set training. And then there is belief-system training.
What do I mean?
A rookie always wants to ask the six-figure earner “what do I say and how do I say it?”.
The six figure earner wants to ask the seven figure earner, “how do I need to change my thinking?”.
Both types of training are critical. Typically a rookie can come flying out of the gate fueled by pure enthusiasm and out-produce veterans if they have a high self image. A rookie with a weak self image will deliberately self sabotage and not make a move until they “know everything about everything”.
When you see agents bogged down in too much training it’s usually an inner protection mechanism to guard against fear of failure, fear of rejection or fear of success.
The best kind of belief-system training is getting small, early victories. Build training programs that get the new agent to experience wins, no matter how small. The first quick paycheck can ignite a chain reaction of belief system changes that can transform a timid rookie into a monster producer.
I know you can easily create “what to say and how to say it” dvds based on your background. Also remember to get your top people in an interview-style training where they talk about adversity, overcoming obstacles, dealing with rejection and climbing the mountain of success. Your rookies need to hear stories about the realities of the business as well as its lucrative potential. Your best crop of new agents will get toughened up by actually taking action…just make sure the rookies get to play in an environment where they can get some early confidence.
Andrew, kudos on a great question! If you would like to ask a question that I can share with the readership send it to david@@bigmoneyfreetime.com
He’s a bad dude. Judo, jiu-jistu and even
some kickboxing. Don’t get him mad.
His name is Marc-Andre. He lives in
Winnipeg, but don’t make fun of him.
He’s a valued member of the BigMoneyFreeTime
Society. Marc’s sent in a great tip
for my new book coming out in June.
The reason I wanted you to meet Marc is
because he owns what I think is a
brilliant business.
He’s the driver of an internet company
that owns an online community called http://www.CagePlay.com
With Marc’s background in martial arts,
a website about martial arts made a lot
of sense. The sport is exploding in
popularity, especially on TV.
Marc’s site Cageplay is an online
community for mixed martial arts fans.
What sets it apart is the fantasy gaming
component.
Much like fantasy baseball or football
sites, Cageplay gives it’s members pretend
money to gamble with. Each time there is
a major MMA event, the members can predict
the winners of matches and the manner
in which the fight will be won.
This league tracks the members and their
prognostication prowess by event and over
the course of the season.
He’s added both a written blog and a
video blog in recent weeks. You can see
him live at the UFC weigh-ins from
Montreal on the main site right now!
His site is growing nicely, and has an
advertising component. As the free
membership grows, so does the value of
his business. Between the blog and the
membership, I predict that it would be
a great business to sell to a large
corporation within the next 2-3 years
for a fat cash payday.
Marc is in my private coaching program
in addition to BigMoneyFreeTime so
I get the cool job of advising him on
tactics to grow it bigger and faster.
Head on over to Cageplay.com and become
a member for free. Make a few bets on
the next MMA card. Poke around his
community and watch his moves. See how
he has both private and public groups
and how he recognizes his new members.
Think about potential joint ventures
that you could do with him…they’re
always looking for sponsors for prizes
for the winners.
I’ll give you more profiles of BMFT
members in the weeks to come. Stay
tuned for more examples!
David
p.s. last night I decided to take on
an all-you-can eat shrimp challenge
at the buffet at Green Valley Ranch
just south of Vegas.
I blacked out I think around shrimp
number 240…I remember trying to
dial 912 on my cell phone!
It’s barely above freezing back in
Toronto, but its a balmy 85 degrees
in Sin City.
I’m heading down to Las Vegas tomorrow
for a week. What do you think of Vegas?
It’s sure not difficult to get a big meal there,
right?
Even though it’s part holiday (my folks live
there, so Falia and I are visiting them) it’s also
part marketing research project.
Surely we can learn a thing or two about marketing
in the world’s most competitive marketing city?
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WHAT’S THE ‘REAL DEAL’ ABOUT SELLING STUFF
IN LAS VEGAS?
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Let me tell you a story. A couple of years ago I
was in Vegas at the Bellagio playing in the FIVE
DIAMOND poker tournament. I had won a $300
satellite and got a seat in the $1500 No-Limit
Tournament.
Everyone that you see on TV was there. Scotty
Nguyen, Phil Hellmuth, T.J Cloutier, Doyle Brunson,
and even Celine Dion’s husband Rene were in the
tournament.
I played my skinny tuckuss off that day, and found
myself with a medium stack sitting next to infamous
eighties infomercial guru Tom Vu. You might
remember Tom as a young immigrant who made his
fortune in real estate. In his infomercial he
would sit in a hottub surrounded by bikini babes,
exotic cars and a private jet.
He’d point at the camera and in broken English
he would berate the viewer. “I come to ‘dis country
and wash deesh-iz with nawthin’! Now look at me!
I’m a millionaire, and you’re a loooza! It’s 2 am
why you watch me? ‘Cause you want to be
rich too! Come to my free semin-ah!”
There were just a dozen players left in the
tournament. Tom was to my left. I peeked down
and saw ace queen suited. No one had opened the
pot. I put in a raise that was 3 times the big
blind.
Tom looked down at his cards, and announced raise.
He thought for a second, and bet double what I
had bet. He shoveled his chips into the pot with
one hand.
Everyone folded back around to me. I thought for
a second about what he might have. I was in bad
shape to aces, kings and ace-king. His stack was
about the same size as mine. I stared at him
for a second. His face was expressionless.
Would he fold if I pushed? I shoved my entire
stack forward and growled, “All in!”
The legendary infomercial giant thought for less
than a second, shrugged, and flipped over his
pocket sixes. “Call!”.
A horse race. A coin flip. I was surprised he
called with a mid-pair for his entire tournament.
I guess he was getting tired and had a little
gamble in him.
The flop didn’t help me…rainbow and no paint.
The turn and river didn’t improve things. I was
out in 12th place. I smiled, shook Tom’s
hand, waved to everyone and called it a day.
I turned my $300 satellite into $3100. And then
I went and played cash games and took another
$2200 off tourists who had an hour or two to
kill before they had to catch a flight.
I had such a good time at the Bellagio that
weekend that we’ve been going back 2-3 times
a year ever since.
What’s the marketing secret that can be learned
from such a competitive market as Vegas?
It’s all about the CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE. Our
memories create feelings. Our feelings create
belief systems. Our belief systems create
habits and behaviors.
Think I’m a loyal Bellagio customer? You had
better believe it!
Watch for some fun situational videos next
week from Sin City!
David Ledoux
BigMoneyFreeTime.com
p.s. I heard a rumor from Sara in our Customer
Support Team that there might be 2 spots opening
up later this month for potential new members.
As you know, BigMoneyFreeTime has been sold out
since March 25th. If you would like to be on
the short list for possible membership consideration
I would highly advise putting your name on the SPECIAL LIST.
I have some news. When you sign up tomorrow for Big Money Free Time, you get bonus access to the same techniques I used to build a sales force producing over $1 million per month!
Here’s the full story:
Before the age of twenty-nine I created a direct sales force of over 25,168 independent reps in 6 countries while working from my kitchen table.
Because of my successes, I got to coach men and women around the world that combined did over $400 MILLION PER YEAR IN PRODUCTION!
As a Big Money Free Time member, you’ll get INSTANT ACCESS to a very special video that I have never released to the general public.
In it I take apart the brain of a top earner and literally download the mental programming that separates millionaires from broke people.
This video lays out a step-by-step road map that I used to go from broke, destitute and on welfare to millionaire in 5 short years.
You get the 4 mechanism by which the human brain can be trained to change. Some think humans can’t change. Some think they can but don’t know how. I let you behind the curtain and walk you through exactly how super achievers think.
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HERE’S WHAT THIS MEANS TO YOU
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The biggest “missing link” in terms of making your business a HUGE success is… …wait for it….YOU!
You. Period.
So first we need a strategy to enable you to GROW and develop into a STAR.
And second…you need a business model to find the right people for your team!
If you have ever hated your employees, then it’s simple…you found the wrong ones!
Once you have the formula to find the right staff, you MUST have a tactic to help them grow into SUPER STARS.
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ONLY THE FIRST 50 ARE GUARANTEED TO GET THIS!
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As it stand, only the first 50 who join as BMFT members are assured of receiving this “MISSING LINK VIDEO”.
If you’re in this first group of 50, you’ll get the complete blueprint for becoming a star, finding stars, and transforming them into SUPER STARS.
You don’t need me to explain how valuable this information is. The numbers speak for themselves. We’re talking about a methodology that has created over $400 MILLION PER YEAR IN SALES!
This exclusive bonus is nearly two hours of the kind of information that will give you writer’s cramp from taking so many notes.
You get to hear and see examples taken from backstage at top secret marketing meetings, large group events with thousands of attendees, and tactics gleaned from opening up entire new countries.
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NOBODY ELSE WILL HAVE THIS
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You’ll essentially have the equivalent of a BFG when it comes to your competition.
(that’s BIG FREAKIN’ GUN!)
You’ll be able to get inside the head of your competitors top staff, and know how to lure them to your team…if you want to.
What I mean by that is you’ll have knowledge that no one else in your market has…and it’s so powerful that you can literally wipe
out your rivals and make your prospective customers love only YOU.
For all intents and purposes your competition becomes INVISIBLE…
And you’ll be getting tested and proven methods that have only been revealed to a tiny group of high-paying insiders (think $1500 per hour!) until now.
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HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO DO NEXT
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The Big Money Free Time Society will be “live” at NOON, Tuesday March 25th.
(That’s tomorrow!)
The official page where it will go on sale is here:
In order to guarantee this exclusive bonus, you need to be one of the first 50 people to order.
There are currently 14,744 people on the main waiting list, and we’re pretty sure it will sell out in a hurry.
Talk soon,
David Ledoux
p.s. talk about gas on a fire…as if things weren’t crazy enough, we just found out that Daniel Levis is promoting BMFT as well. This means it will SELL OUT MUCH FASTER than we thought.
Daniel’s marketing chops are impressive, and he doesn’t mess around. He’s already sent 319 new visitors to the blog this morning.
BUT THAT DOESN’T CHANGE A THING!
We’re still planning to stick with the 190 spots, even though he has increased the demand.
As much as we’d love to take 9 billion members, I’m going to lay it safe, protect our servers, serve our members, and only take on a small group.
I’ve consulted with my mastermind, and I’ve decided NOT to raise the price of the membership, and to keep it well below the $3900 mark. And we’ll have a payment plan if you’re budget conscious. One of my advisors thinks it’s a big mistake. I see his point, considering the insanely high demand for the BigMoneyFreeTime system.
Anyway - we’re going to keep the price low because we already said we would.
So please don’t worry about that.
Just make sure this is right for you. I suggest watching the videos again on the blog and studying some of the questions and comments. Be ready at noon eastern tomorrow here:
I did a cross-promotion for a good friend of mine, Howie Schwartz. He’s a brilliant internet marketer, and is holding a $2500 per ticket workshop in his home next month. I grabbed 5 of the last remaining tickets for the BigMoneyFreeTime launch. The first 5 business owners who join BMFT get a complimentary ticket to the event! Yup…that’s an extra $2500 in bonuses just for getting up a little early on Tuesday!
Before I get the the “weird” part, let me give you two quick updates:
First, the final case study video has been up since Tuesday.
Second, I have a tutorial screen cam video for you based on burning questions from the blog about BigMoneyFreeTime.com
…it’s ready…I think you’ll like it!
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NOW FOR THE WEIRD PART!
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For the first time in my working life people are actually writing to me and are screeching, “WOULD YOU PLEASE HURRY UP AND SELL ME SOMETHING ALREADY?”
And that’s a wee bit odd…because generally it’s the other way around, right?
Listen….usually you have to send 2 million hype-laden emails bombing them and bashing them over the head.
I have always done well by doing the opposite of what the masses of marketers are doing. Sure, I took a bit of a gamble “giving away the farm” like I’ve been doing. I know I could have charged a lot of money for the podcasts and videos instead of releasing them.
Did the gamble work?
Maybe a little TOO well! There are over 13,167 people on my main list, a few thousand more on the Early Bird list, and we’re getting an increase of 749 visits per day just from “word of mouth” or “word of click”.
Never did I expect this to get so big so fast!
But hey - no one’s complaining (except for that odd fella on the blog from Slovakia!)
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MY SMALL CONFESSION
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A few days ago I spilled the beans and told you that I was going to actually sell something ( OMG!)
Ever since I’ve been flooded with relentless requests from entrepreneurs who’re basically demanding a sales page
and an order link!
Here’s the scoop:
I’ve been quietly testing everything with a small group of beta-testers. We had to make sure that all the delivery mechanisms were in place before we mentioned anything.
Everything has gone smoothly…and without a hitch!
Originally I had thought of teaching this to a small handful of business owners, perhaps 8 in a class. It’s been a lot of work to ready it in a form to take care of the needs of the demand.
So now that we are confident that we can teach this system to a large group, we’re nearly ready to start accepting new clients.
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BUT NOT SO FAST!
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I want to get a few things crystal clear before we open the virtual doors to this thing.
1. THIS WILL NOT COST $10,000.00
For some reason, I’ve had a hundred people post to the blog or email us and ask if this is going to be a $10,000.00 bootcamp or seminar.
Sure, it has a value of way over $10,000.00. What if you just learned 10 new ways to get 1 customer per month? What if each of those 10 new customers per month were taught how to each bring you 3 new referrals? At the end of a year you’d have at least 350 new loyal customers. What the heck is THAT worth to you over the next 3-5 years?
2. SPACE IS LIMITED
I’m pretty confident I can handle more, but I am going to limit the initial membership to under 200 serious entrepreneurs. With over 13,167 on the main list, this will sell out in a hurry when we open it up.
3. THERE IS A CATCH (there’s always a catch)
Here it is. When we first go “live” and take on the first round of official members, they will be the only ones to get the “SPECIAL PRICE”.
If we decide to reopen it again at a later date to let in a few stragglers, they will pay at least a 40% higher price.
If you’re only of the lucky ones who gets in, the only thing we ask is that you actually USE at least 10% of what I teach you. Over the course of a year, with 52 modules being taught, that means at least 10-12 of them you’ll apply to your business and bring in tons of new customers.
This is one of the reasons why you’re getting so much material in advance…so you know what this is all about BEFORE you make
any type of decision to join us.
So if that sounds good to you, check out today’s video and stay tuned for more information.
p.s. I forgot to tell you when we plan to make this available for the first group of members.
As it sits now, we plan to go “live” on March 25th.
p.p.s If you’ve seen the videos and have any questions, we’ve set up a special email address you can send them to.
It is:
david@bigmoneyfreetime.com
Either I, one of my staff, or one of our beta-testing volunteers will answer you directly.
NOTE: THIS IS A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED OFFER.
We’ll reply to your questions in the order we receive them, OK?
Please know that there are 13,167 on the main list and that we’ll be getting a ton of questions.
…But we’re serious about getting them answered as fast as we can, and in order as they come in.
As far as I know, nobody in the “guru world” has ever actually asked people to email them with questions.
I’m not sure why, really. Seems to me that if you help people and show that you’re “a real dude” they’ll be more likely to do business with you.
Seriously, here’s where you can reach us with your questions:
Here’s the video I was telling you about yesterday. I’m trying to sound calm and collected in the video but in reality, I was totally pumped. You’ll see why here.
This video does a great job PROVING that any entrepreneur with a bit of imagination and ambition can take a local business and TRANSFORM it into a planetary one.
UPDATE: Carolyne got her first customer from Texas 44 hours later. She was so excited - thanks Google Crush Method! Her second DVD project is already in the works.
I’ve been marketing on the internet since 1996. 12 long human years, and it feels like a century in web years.
That means I’m old…real old. I can pull my green checkered pants up high on my chest, tighten my white leather belt, adjust my bifocals and yell at you kids to get off my lawn!
Back in 1996, we didn’t have Adobe Acrobat. In my opinion the ability to create a digital product that no one could mess with changed the game forever. Before we had Adobe, we would email rich text files to people. Or Microsoft 2.0 Word Files. Or Old Wordperfect files.
And screw jobs would edit them, steal them and mess with them. Piracy was rampant. People would steal your ebooks along with the dancing baby and spinning earth widgets on your website!
Everyone zoomed along with 2800 baud modems. But a few of us had vision. I remember in early 1996 I interviewed several millionaires on the telephone on a huge conference call. I had the audio cassettes transcribed by a local girl (there was no Elance in those days!) and then given away on one of my earliest sites. More than 12,000 people downloaded that transcript in ‘96. Those were record numbers back then!
And then I broke new ground. A young upstart company called Real Audio had a program to convert a sound file into an audio file that could be streamed over the “information super highway”. That’s what we called the Interweb back in my day.
We had skinny little tubes that pushed data into people’s computers. And Rob Glazer had figured out a way to do it with sound. By the middle of ‘97 I had several hours of streaming audio on my site. I was a pioneer!
It was easy to rank high on Alta Vista. That’s what we used to call Google back in the day. Then that Wang kid started Yahoo. I phoned him in early ‘96 I think to get my site listed.
When a 14 year old John Reese invented the “automatic emailer program” back in ‘96 we used it to send email newsletters to our friends. This autoresponder-thingy gained steam when my friend Tom launched Aweber. I was one of their first 99 customers. I’ve been getting royalty checks from them for a decade!
The cool thing about email back in ‘96 was everyone read your stuff. People got so few emails back them, we’d get like a 99% open and read rate. People would actually thank you for emailing them! Maybe it was the steady diet of awesome TV like Friends, Seinfeld and The Simpsons.
Ah, the good old days. Internet marketing was simpler back then. We walked to school 3 miles each way, barefoot uphill in snow, and we liked it! None of this fancy flash stuff, no YouTube, no wireless, no highspeed, voice-over-Magnum-PI, pay-per-tick, mumbo-jumbo. We made our money the old fashioned way online. We made 3 page static websites and sold them for five grand a pop….
Like any goldrush, the web back in 1996 was insane. There was a lot of money to be made selling donkeys, rope, pans, eggs, picks and shovels. Back then we’d sell the map to the gold mine and hungry marketers would pay us top dollar. Today these lazy Red Bull drinking kids want the map for free, the shovel for free, and someone to dig up the gold for them for free while they sit on their ever-widening behind playing Donkey Kong on their Wii!
You young interweb whipper-snappers listen up! Anytime you feel like complaining, remember this old coots words…”You ain’t got no clue how easy it is getting rich on the internet today! Now get off my lawn….”
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David Ledoux is a lifelong entrepreneur, author, speaker and trainer. He is the author of the best-selling books The Road To Gold, How I Went From Welfare To Millionaire Without Winning The Lottery, and The Ultimate MLM Blueprint. His popular training programs include How To Make A Whole Lot More Than $100,000 Per Year On The Internet, A Dream Come True, and Million Dollar Secrets.
He has been featured on video, radio and has traveled globally speaking to tens of thousands of entrepreneurs on the merits of the Free Enterprise System. He was named the #1 Trainer In The World in 2000 by MLMInsider Magazine.
David retired in 2005 at the age of 37 with his wife Falia to pursue adventures in mixed martial arts, travel, writing and coaching other entrepreneurs.