The Internet Marketing Kickstart Course - Is it Good? November 8, 2008
Posted by Riley West in : The Making of an Internet Marketer , 1 comment so farThis is A Review of the Internet Marketing Kickstart Course.
Hello again:
I hope to give you some reasons to consider signing up for what may be the best Internet Marketing Course.
This course, to me, looks like “The One” that, if only I’d had this a couple of years ago I would be a LOT further along and better off for it.
I expected this. Sara Brown and Tony Shepherd have impressed me to the point that I have purchased almost all of their work and have been applying it assiduously since.
What it is that I like about them..and maybe as it applies to following their instructions…is that they are very clear in their explanations and instructions.
And, I have to tell you, that, is a breath of fresh air.
If you are reading this post you want to know “Why them? Why KickStart? Why should I devote myself to their course of lessons when there are alternatives?”
Let me tell you what happened to me at first, through the winter of ‘06. I was totally unexposed to this world.
I got hung up in the pitch pages and kept leaping from plan to plan savoring the sales page and not doing much with the content, when there was some.
I did that for a while and spent a couple thousand dollars before you’d know it and I had 50 ebooks, a whole bunch of Internet Marketing trivia in my head and no way to put it to work.
I wanted to sell something. I have been in sales and marketing for 35 years and this is sales and marketing…only with a big twist. And I didn’t know how to do it.
In 2007 I ran across Ken McCarthy. I thought his writing and products were the very thing that would get me to making money and I still think maybe they are.
But it’s expensive, high end, and not for everybody. That’s where I learned all about Autoresponders, Domain Names, Hosting, Market Research, Copy writing, E mail marketing, and lots of other things…not the least of which was Google Adwords.
So when I came out of there I really had a head full. And I was down another 3 or 4 thousand bucks. Really. I bought one CD set for $1000 exact and others and…well…it adds up fast!
Now I still didn’t know what to do. But my interest is in sales and marketing and now I wanted to apply my Internet skills to leverage that marketing knowledge to make money.
Right then I decided to sort of “Fake” my way through building a business! I got a domain name and Hosting on Yahoo. I was calling my business “The Official Internet Income Guide” There are still vestiges of it floating around. No money though.
I slapped together a bunch of articles (about 30) and hand submitted them to about 6 directories - all the best…Like Ezinearticles and GoArticles…etc.
Wham! I had traffic. Oops…I’d better get a string of emails put together and I put affiliate links in there…products I had used and thought were good.
It was all a little off. I was dismayed that I was selling nothing. I was building a list but they weren’t buying. I guess I didn’t know how to offer it to them.
Before I had time to get this sorted out I’d spent another 2 thousand bucks and was starting to feel…well…stupid. Or at least like I had gone down the road wrong and should have seen it sooner.
Then I ran across a gig doing Google Adwords for a bricks and mortar store in my little town in Oregon. Wow! That worked! I made back ten times what I’d lost on the previous venture and I just sort of forgot about the website and the list.
The adwords job is locked down and ongoing and by now almost no work. Cool!
But that’s not why I came here. I came here to build an Internet Marketing Business and I am on my way.
I ran across Sara Brown and Tony Shepherd and something clicked. It helped that I had some experience prior but when I saw what they had to offer and how they offered it I decided right there that I was going to emulate them and that’s what I’ve been doing for some time now.
They’re who I want to be when I grow up! I feel like I’m on the right track.
So when they came out with their course “KickStart” (which sounds good to an old motorcycle freak) I decided to jump right into it and to chronicle my progress through the course right here in the blog.
I can tell you this so far.
The material is excellent and thorough AND fun to read. That’s the hallmark of excellence if you ask me.
Oh, and so far, The right content for bringing newcomers along from the start.
I’ll cover more about the content in the next post.
Thank you - and, as always, comments welcome.
Riley West - An Oregon pioneer making his way in the trade.
