Stu McLaren:

Great video Jim!

The diagram at the end is extremely powerful.

Knowing what to focus on is powerful but there was a bigger lesson hidden in that diagram for me.

Knowing what to focus on AND, more importantly, at what stage of our business to focus on it was the “aha”.

Great stuff.

All the best.

Stu

Daryl Patterson from Tasmania (inOz):

G’day Jim,

Your comments on the 4 Magic Questions are right on the money.

I’ve been sucked in with courses,newsletters,etc,etc but since buying some of your products and recently MiniSite V2,I have cancelled all the other stuff and am concentrating on building a real business and ignoring the latest Hype.

Thank heaven for someone with morals and integrity and congrats on telling it like it is.

Your friend (well, I feel like that anyway)
Daryl

aj:

Hah! Hey Jim…

Funny shit man, but seriously TRUE!
Luv your work, keep it pumping dude…

- aj

Charles Heineke:

Thank you, Jim, for providing this excellent, foundational understanding for building any business on the net. It’s so easy to miss seeing the forest for all of the trees that get in the way. You’ve really put things into perspective in this short but very powerful and insightful presentation. And thank you for bringing “people” back into the online marketing equation. Marketers with only dollar signs in their eyes rarely see their prospects as people they can help, to their own detriment. You’ve made that abundantly clear here. And you’ve also greatly enhanced your own credibility with the information you’ve provided.

Rick Rakauskas:

Thank you Jim.

Once again another succinct and very helpful video. Now to go and “do the do” …

Live long. Live well.

Glenn:

Jim, thanks for your straight-shooting insight. I hope some other marketers are red-faced after listening to this, and this helps the industry overall. My biggest kudos are for your emphasis on thinking about *helping people.* Thanks for helping all of us.

John Deck:

Gee Jim tell us how you really feel.

A couple of months back I commented somewhere that this was becoming completely ridiculous. I too have started unsubscribing. I do not need the same flogging from multiple sources. Especially when they have nothing of value to add, or provide at other times. You know that another launch is coming because their emails start up again.

Jim, I had taken note that you and only a couple of others had not joined in on the flog-ommania that has gone on. And for that reason when you do speak up, I take the time to listen.

Thanks for your comments. I have purchased a number of your products and have always received high value.

John

Clair Atwell:

Now I fully understand why I am losing faith and trust in some Gurus and I have been requesting REMOVAL from their data bases. Jim, stick with your convictions. I respect honesty and being trust worthy above all else. I don’t even want to know how much money I have spent on “The End Of All Products That I Will Ever Need”, that never produced as promised. (I’ll bet my wife would like to KNOW”.) My father left me with a valuable in-site, and that I should always deliver 10% more than was expected of me and that has benefited me more than that initial 10% of over delivering. Jim, your presentation was just what needed to be said.

Clair Atwell, Ormond Beach, Florida

Joyce McKee:

There are so many people that need to hear you speak. Thank you for this white board presentation. I plan to direct some of my colleagues to it, so they can join the fan club. Jim, I repect you and your work. Pleae keep leading the way for us!!

Brendon G:

Spot On – on all counts.

Ellis:

Hi Jim,

Great stuff! I’ve never heard niche marketing put this way, not only for the web but for any business. Ironic how the obvious can be completely overlooked.

As I watched the video, I came up with a new website and services (I’m in the audio video design / install business) in my mind that I think will change everything. I’ve been trying to sell my service, instead of explaining how I am helping the customer if they would use what I have to offer. You are exactly right. I never buy the “thing” but the benefit (whatever that means to me as the buyer) I expect to get from it.

As far as the internet marking hype, I recently got “tricked” into buying a subscription to a POS myself with some clever “the screen went by before you have a chance to read it” marketing. By agreeing to pay a small price for the downloadable “goodies”, you are unknowningly signed up or some piece of crap subscription for $29 per month. It hit my credit card twice before I caught it. Once I got that fixed, I unsubscribed to not only that junk seller, but every name I could find assoicated with him. And it’s like you said, this was supposed to be some market wizard. I won’t put up the name for obvious reasons, but he’s all over the internet. From now on, I’ll never see this person or any organization he’s associated with as anything more than a scam artist. That is unfortunate for me and him, because he might really have something good to offer. But he will never have another chance to offer it to me because of this last pathetic marking technique. He must have run out of ideas and is in a cash crunch to pay the bills.

I’ve also grown tired of the “price is changing tomorrow” or “only 15 copies left” and similar “emergency – need to act right now” ploys. Please. Do these people really think I’m that stupid? Those get black listed, blocked, and the fabulous delete key works wonders.

But your stuff is a keeper!

Thanks again for all of the work you are sharing with us.

Kevin Halloran:

Classic, Kick-Butt, Spot On Rant, circa 2003 Jim Edwards’ beginnings, right-on-the-money SMACK DOWN! Ooooh Yeah! Diggit! “tell the truth brother, tell the truth…”

As a former colleague used to quip, “Kevin, you can shear a sheep many, many times… but,
you can only skin it (read “fleece”) it once!”

The only good business is a value for value exchange. No, Jim, you aren’t wrong, you are Spot On, as I’ve personally found you to always be in every product I’ve purchased from you. I’ve NEVER felt that I didn’t get my money’s worth and then a “good deal more” from you. I cannot say that for anyone else in the internet market guru arena.

Those IMG’s that have applied the “True Believers, Get Their Last Cent” version of direct marketing concepts using the “Social Pressure Promotions” formulas vs. the “Social Proof” aspects as actually taught by Dr. Cialdini, will soon run thru their “herds of their marks” and be without a real customer base for the long haul.

I’ve said it before, still stand by it & will say it again… “Pound for pound, dollar for dollar, the money I’ve invested in Jim Edwards’ products has been the best investment in my own education that I’ve ever made.”

And yes, I have made money on the internet following Jim’s exact formulas.

Keep kickin’ it, and keep rantin’ it, Bro.

Roger:

Jim, I like the description of what a niche market is. It’s no wonder my site doesn’t work I did not use the right plan.

Roger

Robert:

Jim, Your 4 magic questions video is really clear and understandable and to the point. Thanks, Robert

Dianne Kneller:

Hello Jim, Great Video..

I thoroughly enjoyed your rant.. am going to go check out the smackdown ones shortly.. Have to now! Loved it..

You are so very right.. Thanks for telling it Exactly how it is! Certainly refreshing, and I’m glad I wasn’t in the room hearing the gurus talking like that.. I would have had a few choice words to say..

That is just SO Wrong, I agree, and it will come back to bite them eventually… Karma & All…

My first year & a half online was a nightmare actually.. listening to all the so called gurus, falling for all the hype, getting sucked into all the sales copy.. it was ridiculous.. and a very expensive lesson..

I now know better & choose who I listen too, and what I do buy now and have noticed the ones who may actually care, now give away a lot more free info, that they normally would have charged an arm & a leg for not so long ago!

Something you have been doing for a lot longer than most, your “Work from Home” ebook, with the key was one of the first ones I read online, should have listened to you, back then more than likely would not have had to go through what I did.. All good now though!

And consumers are wising up big time, which is great!

There are still a couple of them, that will do full reviews before promoting to their list, but very few & far between these days, and have lost respect for quite a few along the way, & when you see them all promoting each others stuff.. (I realise that’s what JV’s are all about) but Pleeeez, some are shockingly obvious, and even their emails are copied & pasted.. & that’s supposedly from “professional marketers” (so called gurus) LOL..

I would not want to be a newbie all over again that’s for sure.. although it is a lot easier getting started now, it is more about finding who you Can Trust & who you Can’t & as quickly as possible

So you hit the nail right on the head with your rant…
Thanks for sharing, “You are one of the good guys”
that much I do know!

And your explaination of niche marketing was brilliant especially for those just getting started….

Cheers, Dianne in NZ
“Have a great, 2008″

Matt Haslem:

Loving the video Jim, watching it right now.

Alot of launches really do come across like flogging stolen goods out of the back of a van.

I do ofcourse like watching what marketing they’re using though, aswell as yours. It’s good practice to decipher the persuasion triggers…

-Matt Haslem

Viv Deighton:

Hi Jim

How true. Personally I have been sucked into spending money on huge loads of #%@!. Frankly, I am sick of it, I have started deleting those hype loaded emails and opting out of everything.

Truly something should be done about it though. Perhaps a ‘Fair Trading’ covenant needs to be formed to stop some of those vultures out there that feed off both the experienced and the inexperienced. Perhaps a site where names/products are named!! giving fair warning to the innocent masses.

Hopefully, others feel the same and are interested in doing something real and honest. Let me know if you do, cause I’m in.

Cheers
Viv

Yvon-Pierre:

Finally someone that brings the question of morality back into the equation! Boy I’m glad I’ve found you! I’ve wasted good money on worthless products promoted by respected “gurus”. Needless to say that I’ve unsubscribed from these lists! Thanks for exposing this greed problem and for showing the way to success in any niche: focusing on people and their needs.

Hubert:

Jim

Quick question?

What font were you using in this video white board?

Thanks

Hubert

PS. Great Rant

Jacqui:

Hi Jim
You’re the best!!!
You tell it like it is, cut out all the bull dust..just the way I like it.
I feel like I got more value out of this than all the downloaded rubbish I’ve got on my hard drive.
You’ve helped me fine-tune my approach to the people in my niche…I will now redo my salesletter.
I always feel good after I’ve listened to you, like it’s not so hard after all and you crack me up!
I’d have to say you’re pretty close to being “the best” online teacher of “how to” on the net (and it’s free)
Thanks Jim
Kind regards
Jacqui in Oz
P.S. Is your mini-site creator a stand alone software & how much is it??

Bill Taylor:

Thanks for saying what I am sure is on the mind of many of us. It’s still good to hear it though – like a breath of spring – lots of green grass but watch where you step.

The white board works great – I am going to try it myself. Your analysis of the 4 questions being the foundation is also very good too as was the skyscraper a good analogy.

Keep the good stuff coming Jim; I and many others appreciate it a lot more than the guru BS we keep hearing on the product launches.

Bill

Chris:

Rantastic as usual Jim. You may be missing the point on internet marketing launches though – it’s virtually never about the product, it’s about wish fulfilment. No marketer ever really ‘needs’ the products being sold because there are any number of books and bits of software out there that already do the jobs needed. No, they’re about ‘desire’ and ‘living the dream’, hence all the hype.

Having said that, I agree with you totally. One very, very recent launch – where some second hand psychology gained from reading a few very well known (and cheap) books has resulted in a very expensive product – is an excellent case in point. It really is all out there already. There really are no ’secrets’, just simple techniques to be deployed. Unfortunately, as all the launches that hype ‘lazy’ demonstrate, work is perhaps not what many internet marketers are actually interested in.

Sean Usher:

Hey Jim, Love your rant and am going to unsubscribe to many of the “gurus” mail lists because what you say is right, most do not give you any value.
All the well known gurus must laugh at us mere specks, as they sit around at these big conferences or jump on the phone (or off) and discuss amongst each other, which one of them they will promote from within their circle. All they are concerned about is getting as many hard earned dollars off us “specks” as they can.
I am deeply dissapointed with the lack of value and the lack of care these guys have for people starting out.
But let us not forget that these guys are clever marketers, whose job it is to extract the juice from us with every written word. Its not our fault that we are sucked in by emotional words and promises, after all we are human.They are in a circle where most are concerned with taking money off you and in most cases, giving you rehashed marketing information and no value.
Sean UK

AngryDude:

I think you’re talking bullshit. You are trying to profit from ranting about all others and builing you business while damaging the reputation of others. That’s more evil than not testing a product before selling it.

First you talk bad about Dan Kennedy and others (mainly the whole market) and the you go straight to selling your own product. You’re just using a different approach to marketing. Doesn’t mean all others aren’t right. It’s what Frank Kern calls “Us vs. Them” or “I will protect you from the bad gurus”. Doesn’t matter how you do it but you always use a selling technique. And most people on the lists of the internet marketing gurus know already how the game is being played. I buy marketing stuff myself and have no problem with hype and selling.

This is something that wasn’t invented by the internet gurus – it’ nothing new. Do you think that a car dealer tests every car himself or the people at the supermarket or the guys on teleshopping? This thing is called economy.

Right now I’m thinking about unsubscribing from your list. Anyway thanks for the 4 Magic Questions.

What is your Mantra:

Hi Jim Readers n Posters … excellent view on the internet business model well done Jim with your rant … funny but very true marketing online as we all soon come to understand is a big no no difference to any off-line business model … there simply is no new fundamentals when it comes to starting any business on or off-line … Customers needs 1st Product 2nd Money back, customer satisfaction guarantee! 3rd Enjoy what your promoting 4th

All my best to you and your success!
Phillip Skinner

Terry Fennell:

Hi Jim
Most interesting video and spot on info.
I agree entirely with your rants. You can see from the subject line what to expect before opening the email.
They come in floods so you know which ones to unsubscribe from and which ones are worth staying with
Keep up the good work Jim

Regards

Terry Fennell

Mike Herberts:

Back in 2005 when I was thinking about starting a site I found mini site creator and bought it.

Since then I’ve followed just about everything you’ve done and said. I have used other people for mentoring and bought other resources but have managed to keep well away from the ‘gurus’ of the type you mention.

Jim….you should’ve named and shamed them. Sure they’d scream back but I think you have built enough credibility over the last few years to not have to worry about it.

I think I’m kinda trying to say thanks for what you did with your training. You have no idea who I am I’m sure but I would attribute most of my (considerable) online success to you personally. Just shows what a great job you did with msc as it has been out for ages now and no-one (and I mean no-one) has even come close to producing anything like it. Well done Jim and thanks again

Marcia Ming:

Way to go Jim. I hope the internet marketers you described are saving their money, because it may have to last a long time. Those of us who have been burned won’t forget. There’s a key marketing lesson they overlook. Unhappy customers are a lot more likely to tell someone than happy customers. So eventually, no one will be interested in buying their sub-standard fare.

I recently bought your mini-site creations product and I am happily working my way through it. Thanks for your insight and great information.

Deb:

Hey Jim,

This is so true. But unfortunately I believe that the confusion is part of the game plan. These Gurus sell a dream and if they keep the dream alive and their customers confused and always looking for the next best thing it works right into their game plan.

Bob Davidson:

Thanks Jim,

For the four Niche Market questions – straight and to the point, the way I like them! Easy to understand – good job!

Bob D.

Dale:

I’ve too been amazed at the number of “big launches” and the suspect techniques like “forced continuity” and have thought if the IM biz doesn’t clean up it’s act, there will be a congressional inquiry not unlike the baseball steroid business not too long ago.

There is another guy who speaks of niches differently than most “gurus” and he’s Travis Sago. He put out a pdf of niche factors that never fail for free, which I thought was pretty good ( talking also about the people and not the product)

And Jim are you the guy that was trying to lose weight? If so how’s it going?

Kim:

Sorry, I’m a little slow; I guess I should have read ALL the posts first!

But now the burning question is where is “Angry Dude’s” web site? Especially since he’s all for buying marketing stuff tested and untested, and FREE ENTERPRISE etc.

I’d like to see it!

Lori Arriaga:

Thanks Jim for a great video and I especially appreciated your rant. If only everyone online would make it a point to provide only great value and have integrity in their business dealings.

I always wondered why hardly anyone talks about the initial research phase of starting anything online when it is as critical as it is for success.

Blessings,
Lori

Paula:

Hi Jim
I always take time out to check out the things you teach. I have been on your list for a long time and have never been dissapointed with what you teach and the way you teach us. You never fail to make me laugh with your antics, but most of all I love your passion for telling it as it is.

You always make suggestions to others and follow through on those suggestions yourself. How many ‘Guru’s can you say that about? Not many, if any!!

I have bought several of your products and have always been bowled over by your extremely fair prices have always received more in value than I ever expected to get.

You are one person I will NEVER unsubscibe to. Tomorrow I am going to go through my emails and remove myself from those who do nothing else for me except sell me stuff, which often I am stupid enough to buy.

Thanks for all the fantastic things you teach and for being such a fantastically unique person who gives a damn.

Paula

Richard:

Hi Jim,

What a great video. It was nice to actually hear about a well known marketer (i.e Yourself) actually going through the pain of buying something on recommendation of a GOO ROO and the product ending up crap, it shows that we are all at risk of this.

The only thing i would like to have seen you do is actually have the B—s to have named this person, that would have been fun.

I am certainly going to write about this video on my blog and i’ll let some people know about it.

Good luck

Richard

Honey Wesley:

No Jim, you’re not the only one who feels it’s morally wrong for the so-called “gurus” to use the underhanded tactics some of them use. You’re not the only one who thinks it’s wrong for any human being to be so callous to the plight of other human beings that they don’t give a damn what happens to them, as long as their credit card goes through first. The difference is when the rest of us feel like ranting, nobody listens.

The only point on which I disagree, Jim, has to do with what Ruth said. Why should these people get away with continuing to do business in such a cold hearted, manipulative, I-don’t-really-give-a-shit-about-you attitude? It can’t be considered slander or libel if it’s true! I’ve gathered quotes from emails I’ve received and quotes off the sales pages of some of these black-hearted bastards that are mistruths, half truths and outright lies.

Why don’t the people who are doing business with them, and the people who might one day do business with them, have a right to know the truth about the lies they’re being told? Don’t they deserve to know how they’re talked about behind closed doors? Don’t they deserve to know the underhanded tactics some of the ‘gurus’ use?

There’s no federal regulation (that I know of) for business standards and ethics relating to internet commerce. And if they’re no longer even being compassionate human beings with a conscience, and we KNOW who they are…why can’t we make it known? I’m still going ahead with my plans to release a free ebook that names names…the good, the bad and the ugly.

I’m just too sick and tired of seeing hard working, sincere, and even desperate people pinning their hopes and dreams on misleading ads, empty promises and deceitful lies, while two-faced hypocrites go around spouting ‘build a relationship with your list’, when the only relationship they care about is the one between them and your credit card. I’ve just had enough and if we, the people funding their million dollar campaigns, don’t put a stop to it, who will?

As for you, Jim, I wish I’d run into you and your products back when I first started. Maybe I wouldn’t have become so angry and cynical. Maybe I would have been even more successful without having to spend as much time, effort, energy and money as I have.

Please don’t ever change.

Warmest regards,
Honey (yes, it’s my real name) Wesley

P.S. And you thought YOU could rant! LOL!

George White:

You’ve always been the “Real Deal!” I always appreciate your honesty and sincerity. When we were speaking before the webinar today you were talking about trying to help people “Get out of their own way.” I’ve done alot of writing and thinking about that one. They leave those seminars and bootcamps or what ever they call them now, so charged up and then the “Fizzle Factor” creeps back up on them. Sometimes the people with the least amount of tools find there way out of the dark better than the person with the flashlight. Intellect and thinking about it can really get in the way sometimes. My old man used to say just pick up the damned hammer and hit the @#*!ing nail. I got one up one my wall that says “It’s not so much IQ….as it is “Want TO!” I’d love to talk more with you about it some time.

Andrew Cavanagh:

Absolutely brilliant videos Jim especially the last 3.

I’ve worked with many clients as both a copywriter and helping other internet marketers sell their services to local businesses.

The biggest key to creating a great product, writing great copy and in selling your services is always gaining an intimate knowledge of your clients and being genuinely interested in helping them to solve THEIR problems.

If you take the time to really get to know your prospects and if you genuinely care about helping them creating products that sell is very easy.

And the by product is you’re going to feel a whole lot better about yourself because you’ll be doing real people a real service.

Kindest regards,
Andrew Cavanagh

P.S. For the people reading this blog I think I purchased my first product from Jim Edwards waaay back in 2001.

The product was excellent and Jim really does practice what he’s preaching in these videos.

He goes way beyond the call of duty to provide real value to his prospects and clients.

Denis Van Loan DDS:

Jim…great job on blasting the selfish, money grabbing attitude that has infected the internet. I am thankful for those like you who believe in integrity, over-delivery and in helping people. Morality today is not only deficient, but not even in some vocabularies!

Your products have helped me probably more than any other single marketer. I especially found the original Mini-site Creator an excellent help in understanding the complexities of websites and how to put them together. I also very much liked your interview on headlines with David Garfinkle.

You have always over-delivered.
I have spent thousands of dollars on courses, ebooks and subscriptions. Unfortunately I have wasted a lot of time and money on products that were not yours…thanks much for careing for us who are not gurus… Denis Van Loan

cl:

a breath of freh air, jims vid, on a playing field that is rotten, rotting and the stench is unbearable.

in fact, me thinks it’s due for a spontaneous combustion, this filthy niche- internet marketing. and it won’t ever be soon enough for me.

thank God for some sensibility, compassion and ethics. and all in one person… jim has always been top notch in my book, and i’ve been with him for over 5 years now.

Blessings to you always jim,
cheryl

Kosotie:

Hi Jim.

As usual, another great and very inspiring video!
Now that I’m all fired up, I just wonder (as a beginner), HOW do I ask these questions, WHERE do I find the people to ask, and, WHAT is the best way get the questions to the people?
Yes, and of course, WHEN are you going to make a video about these 3 questions?

Keep up the great job you are doing!!!
/Kosotie

filippo arcidiacono:

Hi Jim,

I have been so focused on doing the webpage and affiliates that I felt that my mindset so far off the mark. After seeing the skyscraper I am still at the foundation part and not getting the feel for the people of the niche and so I stall. Now I can focus on what is the correct action so I can build a great business on the internet.

Thank you

Filippo

Arthur Wesley:

Hey Jim,

Thanks for taking the time to respond–and fast! I appreciate your concern. I will do as you suggest… and keep an eye on your blog. Yes, there is always a way…

I had a chance here to read my original email. I did not mean to sound harsh. I was up all night without sleep and in some pain. I usually check my copy before I hit send. (Watching your videos, and taking notes, taught me a few new tricks and licks I had not considered previously.) Your content is solid. I agree with your take on so-called “Gurus!” You have raised the bar! I doubt the others will follow suit… and may I mention names–I wish–but I do not want to start a stink. It is not hard to spot the scum, since shit floats and makes a big stink–not hard to spot and avoid.

To your continued success,

Art

Sandy Clendenen:

Hi Jim, thanks for this. Very helpful. Very timely too. I had just gotten one of these hyped JV offers from what I thought was a respectable source. But it just didn’t feel right. Thanks for the clarity. Also, I am really enjoying the mini-site course. Lots of value here. Thanks again. Sandy

Mike:

Great Stuff! I am more than fed up with the “product du jour” marketing among the internet marketing crowd. Dozens of glowing recommendations from affiliates parroting the promoters ad copy makes it fairly clear they have no idea what the product is about or who should buy it.

As to your building blocks, it is interesting that those blocks apply to all businesses – delivering “value to customers” is the cornerstone of sustainable businesses that grow and succeed.

Marcia Avalon:

Jim,

Thanks for being the truth-teller. I am sick of being treated like a circus seal in training by gurus who send an emergency email promoting a high-priced product that is “sold out” the next morning. Their message is ‘Jump when I say jump. Buy when I say buy.’

I unsubscribed to the world famous guru’s list when I heard him justifying, no make that bragging, about taking people’s last dollar to pursue the dream he spun for them. And I returned the ‘must-have’ course he sold me at the ’special price’ of $267 which was nothing but poorly made copies of handwritten notes from his lecture.

Yes, it is time for a Socially Responsible & Ethical Marketing group–who names names and warns newbies about the snake oil salesmen. If we do not keep our industry ethical some outside group will volunteer to come do it for us.

The 4 Questions are great content–Thanks!! I have heard a similar presentation, but the reason given for getting into the heads of your target market was to be able to sell them anything at anytime.

I truly appreciate the respect that you always show to the people who listen to you and learn from you.

Marcia Avalon
Portland OR

Jim Ferguson:

Just to underscore how easy it is to lose a customer if you get a bad feeling about thier behavior…

I bought the book “Inspired Marketing” by Joe Vitale and another author. It is all about marketing “from the heart” that “you can feel good about”.

I got on Joe’s mailing list.
One day I get an email from him about a great product, a “Stem Cell Activator” that really made some of Joe’s health issues improve. So he “did the research” and is offering it to all his readers – they will be downline of him as it is a MLM marketing structure.

I was curious – what is this stuff? In ten minutes I found that it was blue green algae, that it really does have great health benefits, and that in a ten minute search, (if you had really searched) you would know that the MLM charge of 99 cents per pill that Joe was promoting was disheartening compared to the 27 cents per pill (EXACT same ingredients and source)you could get it from an established business from.
So I sent an email about the above to Joe asking him about it, how what he was saying in his book and what he was actually DOING didn’t seem to line up – could he clarify?

I got No answer. I have No trust in him anymore. He has lost a customer – for good.
So there really are consequences for B.S.

Manny:

Hey Jim as all ways you try to set the correct moral standard in this seemingly cut throat sales industry. The amount of emails being sent out with the sort of tactics you described in the video are sickening. People that use those kind of tactics I feel bring bad karma into their lives and businesses.

Keep up the great work of getting this kind of informative content out to the folks who really need it.

Thanks Jim!

Mark:

Jim

You are the only marketer that has my personal e-mail and the rest have fallen in my eyes, even ones you have been interviewed by. You actually do what you say you are going to do. So far so good with the products I’ve purchased from you and the results have not been million dollars weeks but well worth the money weeks. Anyways, I have been thinking what you have been thinking for awhile now and I’m glad it has been validated by some one I TRUST and I will continue to consider your products. Your about it for now.

Arthur:

Awesome Jim!

Thanks for saying exactly what I’ve been feeling (in your rant). Of course, the difference is that you actually have an audience to say it to…

It needed to be said, since I truly believe the essence of what we’re supposed to do as marketers has been lost.

Also, thanks for reminding me of the 4 questions. We all get so caught up in the “numbers”, we forget what this is really supposed to be about.

May you become even better & stronger within our community & your businesses.

Arthur

John Hillage:

Cool video Jim – love the skyscraper analogy.

Cheers

John Hillage

Steve:

Couldn’t agree more with you and most off the comments above. I must confess I bought your Mini-site Creator course an number of years ago, and like so many, worked most of the way through it and then forgot about it when the next big thing came about untill I gave up on this whole IM thing.
I’m now seriously starting on this road to IM again, so I’m going to haul it out of the back of the cupboard and start from fresh as most of the other hyped products are either to advanced or incomplete or inconsistant to be of use to us newbies. The video’s skyscraper analogy really gives the starting point in a nutshell

Keep on doing a great job.

Steve

Michael:

Hope vs. Expectancy….
I appreciate the clarification. I walk around with great HOPE, but expecting that things will go is a different feeling. Great videos and thanks for sharing.