Hi Jim,

For those of us who go ahead and buy Version 1 of the Mini-site package because we need to go ahead and get started, will there be a special deal on the new Version 2 when it comes out?

All the best,
John

Jim
I really can’t take it anymore.
I mean I regret not buying your first version of mini site creator.

Now I have lose money waiting for version 2 to arrive.

I need it and got to have it …
Big Ed

Gosh, what crap. These mini-sites in your directory sell get rich quick junk and MLM crap to other saps hoping to get rich quick. I’ll issue my standard challenge. Show me ONE nationally known, reputable company using mini-sites and I’ll STFU. The only people using these are get-rich-quick, work at home, sell-you-a-package-of-common-sence-info-that-you-can-find-for-free-and-won’t-make-you-rich types. Not REAL companies, with REAL profits, selling REAL products, with REAL value. Shame on all of you for hyping this crap and rasing the hopes and taking the money from gullable people who just want to get ahead once in their lives.

Hi Bob,

Interesting comment - I don’t agree, but very interesting.

Jim

Hi Bob,

I think you’ve beaten yourself in your internet endeavor.
Yet to see success yourself. You need to stay focus and
reveal what went wrong in your practice.

Jin Tee

I think mini sites are great.

Say you have a problem - for example, today I have to write back cover copy for a book. So I’m going to search for that subject online.

In this case, all I need is an article, but if I was going to start a business writing back cover copy for books I would be THRILLED to hit a one page sales letter that quickly outlined what they were offering (which would likely include exactly what I was looking for), set me up with some cool bonuses and allow me to download the lot at the touch of a button.

Just because mini sites may not be offering what “Bob” wants to buy doesn’t mean they’re not a viable shopping tool for millions of people.

I’d take Bob more seriously if he could spell “sense”, “raising” and gullible” correctly. Tim

The mini site is a great tool, however you can use it for good or for bad so Bob shoul search his mind — does he want to use it for good or for bad? He seems to be confused in his own thoughts.

This is my own opinion: maybe Bob has no idea what Jim Edwards’ mini sites are or he does not want (or can’t) invest in one! Who knows what his gripe is all about?????

He needs help.

How can we help him ???

Maybe send him the course free???

May you and all of your loved ones have a great day!

Jerry V

Jim,

As far as the MiniSite Creater is concerned, I think it is GREAT!!

It is just what I’ve needed for some time. Visit my site www.CBRebateclub.com and see.

Dr. vK

I gotta tell you that I do not agree one bit. I am a very senior senior and getting help with this newfangled stuff is not easy. But with Jim’s patient teaching I learned to put up mini sites. I expect to be doing something really concrete with it soon. I think young Jim is the cat’s meow! I am not a gullible person and if I never make a dime with my mini sites,(although I expect to) I have the satisfaction of learning how to do it. Bob sounds like a sour lemon to me.
Betty

Oi vey, Bob. i think you got it all wrong. Dead wrong. Mini Sites are the coolest thing around. They bring focused information to people who are keen to get more info/products/whatever.

Maybe you should create one of your own?

Dear Jim,

I got your email today, so here is my response.

I bought your mini-site creator course so three years ago maybe (sorry, don’t remember already). I have to tell you and this Bob-guy that I use these “technics” in many ways with great success.
I could quit from my formal job, I am an independent internet entrepreneur now, and all this started with the mini sites (almost:) ).

I know that the Hungarian language is very strange for all who are not Hungarian, but you can check two of my sites which I started at 2005 with the stuff you taught me.
These are:

http://www.potencia.co.hu
http://www.szepmell.hu

These two sites create me a full time income! So I am a real person, with real income from internet marketing, with great enthusiasm for this type of business and I have a “micro-company”.

So I think that you have to teach what you taught moreover further because I know that there are a lot of people who are looking for such information and can use it for their own success.

Best regards,

Peter Horvath

JIM,
Because of YOU, and Meeting you, I have found your products and a breath of fresh air.
Your products, and specifically your
“MINI SITE CREATOR” course(s) are the reason that I have a site up, sites just about to come up, and a REAL opportunity to make a living that my family can get out of the SLAVE MARKET.
Not only do I thank you for what you have worked to provide me, but I am impatiently awaiting the next step in the MINI SITE product evolution you will offer us. Get with it!!
Don’t be sidetracked with the letter this fellow sent. We are all well beyond that. “Our needs” are no different than his needs may be…..that being we need more (not less), simple, lead-by-the-hand, intelligent, products that will take us where our dreams are.
Go to work and keep helping us get there. (0: J Rogers 1Stopdoctor.com

Hi,

I have “Version 1 of the Mini-Site package”…

Before this first version, I was a newbie…
This first version is VERY GOOD ! Now, I can build
mini-sites for others…

I’ll purchase the version 2. Why ? Because JIM is a GREAT coach !

Didier from France !

He needs some cheese with that wining! He’s probably mad because he didn’t think of it first.

Bob and Jim,
Don’t let this bitter person keep you (or your customers) from continuing to provide such quality products. I struggled and struggled to figure out how to create webpages so I could have a good webpage for my church (doing this for my minister) where people could find out about what was going on and then what each teleseminar we provided was about - and then I found your course on mini-sites. I was so upset because they are NOT just mini-sites, you can create a really functional “webpage” using each “mini-site” and “links” - once I took your course, I was rolling out gangbusters putting up information and audio files for my minister. That is not “out to make money” - it was providing a service to people who were not able to get to church or were not in the same geographic location. Your mini-site creator course saved me hundreds of hours and I can’t thank you enough.
Terrie

Monday Feb 25, 08 10AM

Jim:

I joined, paid, had two strokes, pc burned while in rehabilitation home.
I’m back where I started except I am half blind now from the strokes.
What does a guy like me do? I want to get started but feel afraid, and feel too that the way I am now, I’m a falure before trying.
I’d appreciate an answer
Johns
dokteur@gmail.com

Can Bob point us in the direction of his REAL company with REAL etc etc. He’s REALLY not to be taken seriously, Jim.

You do a great service for all of us who are working from home without an IT department’s support and we all trade at our own level and in the areas that interest us or are passionate about.

I never get that Monday morning feeling ‘cos I love my work!

Keep going and when is V2 being released?

Anne

This is a free enterprise system. People do business with whom they choose for whatever reason. If a person can offer a reasonable alternative to something he disagrees with, that would seem valid. But mean-spirited attacks serve no useful purpose. They really do not merit a reply.

Which Other Technical Engineering Manager, Supervisor or Engineering Personel (After they get kicked from work after 18 years of service) wants to learn ABC about Money Making Websites And Figure Out All The Key Elements like:
1… How to register a domain name and where?
2… Which Hosting to use?
3… What is FTP and how to upload Websites?
4… What are the key elements of Sales letter?
5… What is Autoresponder and How to set it up?
6… How to set up download links?
7… How to set up at Click Bank?
8… How to set up your own Blog?
9… How to set up Autoresponder system?
10.. And More And More And Much Much More

Guys, Jim didn’t pay me a penny to write all about it. I bought from him and Mike Stewart Mini Site - Platinum and Web site Vide Course - 1 and bought Professional Microphone and systems. Jim’s straight forward to the point cut and dry approach and Knowledge gave me step by step coaching and I am greatful to him. He is my coach and mentor.
If you want to create your own products and wants to earn money then it’s your choice to learn from Mini Site Creator Package and kick start your own wealth creation cycle.

Hi Jim,

Your course and all the adjuncts are great!! You provide the tools and encouragement to produce the “bones” of ourselling but we need to provide the “flesh” to put on the bones to create the figure. Some figures are better than others but that is down to us. A big thank you for all you have given us.

Chris

Hi Jim,

Now, I gotta tell you. I am 73 years old and a couple of years ago all I could do with a computer was to turn it on.

Lucky for me the first site I found was your course on “How to Create Your Own Real Money-Making Mini-Sites”.
You not only taught me how to create mini sites but how to use them, how to find a host, how to use an autoresponder, and so much more.

Not only that but on the many occasions when I asked for help you always answered me quickly and in great detail.

Thank You so much Jim,

Bette Carmer

No need for explanation. Every man and his dog know he’s wrong!

Hi Bob,

Interesting that all you could see in Jim’s mini-site directory is what you consider to be get-rich-quick type businesses that are no more than snake-oil salesman. I wonder how deeply you looked into the many websites listed in that directory.

I also find it interesting that you apparently believe that the only credible way to sell online could not possibly include the use of mini-sites, since it appears you believe that only “nationally known, reputable” companies know how to sell quality products that truly serve their customers’ needs online. (Hmm…what was the dot com bust all about anyway??)

IMHO, it kind of all speaks to your mindset. What you look for is what you will see and attract. Unfortunately, we’ve probably all been duped by an online scammer at one time or another. That can be a valuable learning experience that teacheds us (hopefully) discernment. It’s a valuable lesson to learn, given the world we live in. However, it clearly (from where I sit anyway) isn’t reality to believe that everyone who is running an online business is a con artist either. But if that’s what you expect, that’s all you’ll see and attract to yourself.

On the oppisite end of the spectrum, however, I am an advid student of Jim’s teachings and quite honestly find him to be THE online marketing “guru” who is of high integrity and far more concerned with people actually taking action and benefiting from what he is teaching (because he knows that it does in fact works) than he is about cleaning out his students’ bank accounts to line his own pockets. In case you don’t know his story or current business situation, he doesn’t need to work another day in his life if he doesn’t want to. He’s in that situation because of the value he constantly provides, Not from a hit-and-run scam training.

But of course, it is far easier to be critical and impute a “wicked” motive, since that means you don’t have to do anything to acually find success. You can just moan and groan in a scarcity mindset and do or contribute nothing of value to yourself and others. Of course, by spreading that negative and self-defeating mindset to others, you actually discourage them from actually taking action and reaching their goals. Maybe a second look at your assumptions is warrented here?

Though I honestly don’t have the time at the moment (since I am booked solid in my own business, thanks to using Jim’s techniques and using mini-sites as the core of my high-quality, legitimate service-based business) to search for some “nationally known, reputable company using mini-sites” to satisfy your perceived standard of what is credible, I will invite you to check out my website, since I used Jim’s methods and my own business is exploding this year because of it. I also welcome any feedback that demonstrates that I have I fallen into the snake oil category, since I have never heard any such feedback (not even once) from any of my clients.

Please be willing to take a second look and challenge your own beliefs about what mini-sites are all about. You may be delighted at what you find and how it could really turn your own online experience around for the better!

Wishing you much success online!

Hi Jim,

It must be very frustrating for you to get comments from the likes of ‘Bob’. When genuine people like you go out of their way to help others who are desperately trying to make a better life for themselves and their families. OK so you make a few bucks in the process, we all have to eat. I know that I have learned a lot from you.

There are people who are incapable of being taught, and I rather think that ‘Bob’ might well be one of them. It is NEVER their fault, and the only response they can give is to accuse the teacher of failing.

Take a deep breath and remember:-
There always has been, and always will be “Idiots out there”

Kind Regards,

Frank (Bowden)

Hi Jim,

I have had my site up for several years. I can’t say that it made me a million dollars, but it has been there for customers to find me and for my company to have an Internet presence. I built it when I couldn’t afford to pay anyone to do it for me, and to give me an opportunity to learn how to build web sites. I’m not sure if you are aware, but I built another one as well using Mini Site Creator and you can find it at http://www.greattranscriptions.com/resources.htm. I put it up as my resource page for my transcription services web site.

If the information in the Mini Site Creator did nothing else for me, it showed me “how” a web site is created so that I understood the basics and could go from there. I love the product and highly recommend it. It’s an easy way for anyone to build an Internet presence and to build an Internet business.

Bob,

If you’ve come up with a better course, by all means let us know

However…

If you’re not interested in making money on the internet then please don’t discourage people who are trying to learn from people who have actually done it.

-Shark

As long as Bob keeps focusing on what Bob doesn’t like the world will keep showing Bob more of what Bob doesn’t like!

Fact is mini sites and long sales letter copy is responsible for billions of dollars not just to small one man shows like myself but to HUGE multi national companies like:

Guthy-Renker
American Express
and 100 other companies you know and love.

Hell MOST large well know companies (Household names) use some form of direct response marketing to sell their goods and services. Sure they may not have a mini site up on the web but they send out millions of letter in the mail.

All a mini site is, is a “house” for your direct response sales letter… Bob is missing the point big time. If Bob would spend some time studying copy writing and the psychology behind it he would understand how and why mini sites are so effective.

Not everyone lies and not everyone sells get rich quick schemes…

Bob should do better research before he gets his soap box out. Bob said “Show me ONE nationally known, reputable company using mini-sites and I’ll STFU.

Now that I have shown Bob two nationally known companies who use “The spirit of mini sites” to sell their goods maybe he will keep his word and STFU!

Love ya Jim,

Although we have never met or spoken, your products and information have helped me become free!

Andy

P.S. Hope this makes you laugh! I have personally found, when I stopped focusing on all the things I did not like and started taking action on becoming what I wanted to be like, live became really fun! ;o)

I am more then happy with Jim Edwards Mini site creator.As for your comments I’m sorry Bob but your all wet. I make real money everyday.Last week over $5000.00. Please go see a mini site that WORKS! www.fauxstain.com

Thank You Jim

Gosh what crap spelling!
This moron cant even write ‘proper’ - so I’m going to set up a ‘Spell Your Way To Happiness’ mini site just for him!

PS I was one of those traditional web muppets who spent $15,000 on their damned web site with a clueless web developer who knows nothing about marketing.
WHAT A WASTE!
I am getting so much more targeted response from my sites now that they are mini.

All the best with your spelling, pal!

I bought your product and found lots of things I didn’t know about setting up web sites. I thought I had a pretty good handle on things but we can all learn from other’s experience.

I think Bob is one of those people who has bought cheap junk that is out there online. I have in the past and was really disappointed with my purchase. When you find something that truly gives value it is a great experience and shows you there are honest people online with great products.

Bob really needs to go look in the mirror and change his way of poverty thinking. He needs to educate himself and decide if he really wants to be his own boss or work for and make someone else rich.

Jim, thanks for the great products and keep up the great work.

Hi Jim,

I gotta tell you that guy is full of crap.

The guy can look at the following Mini-Sites and read
a couple of articles. There are more Mini-Sites out there but I think this gets the point across.

Milwaukee’s Best Light
http://www.milbestlight.com

Volkswagan for their Passat.
http://www.vw.con/passat/in/us

Cable TV, Comcastic
http://www.comcastic.com

A New York Times article under Technology
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/19/technology/19google.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Google Program Enlists Mini-Sites As Selling Tool For Advertisers, published September 19,2007

Yahoo Shows Brand Advertising Muscle with New Mini-Sites
By Kate Kaye, The ClickZ Network, Dec 1, 2006

Direct response ad king Google may be hinting at creating more viable options for big brand advertisers, but Yahoo is already there. The company’s latest plan to build online environments dedicated to entertainment brands is no exception. Recognizing users often convene around TV shows, films and games, the portal has begun building content hubs centered on the most popular among them.

The publisher is shaking up the traditional branded entertainment model, however: It hasn’t solicited a cent from these companies to create its “brand universes.”

The first of a proposed hundred such mini-sites connects several disparate Yahoo properties and applications. Yahoo Games visitors will stumble upon a branded locale focused on all things Nintendo Wii, including a buyer’s guide, store locater, Ebay auctions, a message board and Wii-related Yahoo Answers posts.

I think the mini-site creator product is excellent and it was the product that was the catalyst to me actually being able to get past the barrier of putting a basic website up. So for me, it was a timely product and I regularly use it as a reference when I need assistance.

Hi Bob,

Interesting comments you made there. I can understand you feeling that way, if you’ve experienced scams online. I have to. But in any sector there are going to be people who operate without honesty or integrity.

Mini-sites DO work!

I’m not sure about anyone else, who has commented on this blog, but for me, mini-sites has meant the difference between me paying my bills, winning customers and having a sustainable business and going broke. Period!

Jim, is one of many guys and gals who have been sharing the benefit of their online wisdom. Yes they’ve made money from it, but that’s what enterprise is all about. I’ve made money from their expertise and I jolly well hope they continue.

Are mini-sites crap? nope! Is there still a market for them? Yep! Can people with a good business idea benefit from mini-sites? Yes! Are there going to be Nah-Sayers, who have been burnt before and weren’t willing or able to put the time in, to make their online business work? You bethcha!

Bob, if you have an idea, and you feel there’s a market for it. Then test it with a mini-site, then test it with a fully blown website and see what results you get. You’ll get the answer, on whether mini-sites work.

I just hope you don’t maximise on your poverty, by dismissing a vehical (in the right hands) which can create, prosperity and abundance, for all that use it.

John :o)

PS Like the other contributors, Mini-Site Creator helped me understand the geeky side of online marketing. In fact… I got into it SO heavily and created SO many mini-sites, the sectors I operate in… have been contacting me on how I can help them do exactly what I do.

It’s created a whole new revenue stream for me. Jim, I can’t wait for MSC v2.0

Jim,

I am hoping Jim provides a price break for mini site creator v1.0 owners who wish to upgrade to 2.0. How about it, Jim?

Sounds like Bob enjoys generalisms. “All politicians are crooks”, “All religious people are hypocrites”, “All doctors are alcoholics”. Of course, some of these people ARE these things, but many are not. I can see that there is a real niche for ‘Mini-Sites’ (can we just call them single-issue websites?), and that they fulfil a useful function in focusing the customer’s attention on that single issue or product. I accept that there are, of course, those who use these vehicles to sell us public domain stuff that is relatively worthless. (Or is there actually a value when someone else takes the time to get information together from different sources, and then organise it for the consumer, so he doesn’t have to?) And there are those, who have good-value/useful products, where a single-issue website is probably THE most cost-effective way of marketing.

And, by the way, I’ve enjoyed learning from Jim’s Mini-Site Creator package, and find his comments helpful. Keep it up Jim, we love you - even over the pond in Blighty!

I agree with Clint and others that the Mini-Site program is what gave me the genuine knowledge on how to build sites from scratch.
I now regularly made 1k a month online and am prepared to kick up to make the money my friend makes, which is in the thousands weekly. So I understand the skepticism because of what goes on with the Internet but you can’t hide your head in the sand. I don’t believe there is a better opportunity anywhere better than online.

One question to Jim though: Do we get the upgrade to the new version from the original? I’d love to see the improvments!

Peace!

Bob is waaayyyyyyy off base. I am a senior citizen who is taking care of an invalid father and semi-invalid wife, so I am lucky to find 1 or 2 hours/week to devote to internet stuff.

Jim’s “Mini-Site Creator” taught me everything I need to know to get a site up and selling products. Am I a “National Company”??? NO! I’m INTERNATIONAL — been selling my product all over the world.

Is my product any good? Yep, according to many testimonials, and less than 1% refunds.

Am I getting rich?? Not yet — but I’m making several hundred $$/week which is pretty damned good on 1 or 2 hrs/week.

As soon as I can devote say 10-20 hrs/week, I fully expect to be making big bucks quickly.

Will I tell you my site?? Nope! One, it wouldn’t be appreciated by a skeptic such as Bob, who would rather curse the darkness than light a candle; nor would he learn anything.

Two, and more importantly, I’m starting to become a “bigger dog” in a small niche, and don’t won’t any more competition. As soon as I ramp it up, which hopefully will be in the next 6 months or so, I’ll shout it to the world, skeptics or not!!

So, Jim: KEEP ON TEACHIN’ !!!!!!!!!

I use mini site creator and all of your other ideas and I have always taken them very seriously. I like the no BS approach. It is true that big corporates and some companies do not use mini sites. However their purpose for having a site is different to you or I. They fall for the charm and glitz of their creative types. They do not use the site for a specific purpose, it is more often about having ‘a presence’.

I have built sites for other people and half the battle is getting them to understand that it does not matter how much flash they have, or how pretty it is from the customers point of view it is useless if it does not serve their purpose.

It is true that some of the ‘marketing’ copy that is online looks like a ransom note and many sites look very samey.

The key things that I have learned from you are:
How to actually write sites
How to focus the purpose of the site. ( too much choice causes inaction)
The nuts and bolts of all the processes that lead to being paid.
How to integrate video and audio.

You have never hidden anything as far as I can tell and in fact have probably gone beyond the call of duty on occasion. Do not stop whilst you have something to say. I for one would miss your presence.

Sometimes the basic graft is not sexy. BUT IT WORKS!
There are some new things that I could suggest but I will save them for a later date.
Keep being Mr Bolchy! Take care Jim

As to what bob say’s i don’t believe him

I will know more when i get my site built,right noww i’m still having trouble with my computer,i may have to send it back to HP again let you know how it works out,Bob Baker

Hi Jim,
I purchased my mini site creator in 2006. I had a hard time
with it, but it was exactly what I needed.I at least trippled my knowledge of my computor and the internet in general.

I guess you could say it woke me up because I’m still learning.

Darrel

I completely disagree…I took the mini-site course some time ago and the techniques I learned gave me a great start in my online business. I was not a quick start…I was more comfortable in the learning phase…but that certainly wasn’t Jims’ fault…fast forward to today and…I now make a great income doing what I love to do….thank you Jim…keep doing what your doing…There are scams out there but you are not included in that bunch.

Deb from your first Jimboat cruise

Hey Jim:
I purchased your mini-site course and was able to learn a lot about putting together websites, if you look at my site it is rather ruddimentary but up and operational. I was hoping that you were going to give us updates as the course was rather expensive and I’m sure that you have new ways of doing things which would be helpful as updates.
Thanks,
Allen

Jim, as they say in latin “illegitimi non carbarendum” (my latin spelling is poor)(rough translation “don’t let the b*stards get you down”) I purchased your v.1 course two years ago due to winding down of a multinational business I was general counsel for I did not have time to really start work on the course until recently. I hope to have the first of several sites up over the next few months, these are providing do it yourself help on asset protection, immigration, contracts and legal forms for small businesses and some other legal related site. Rather than charging $300 + per hour, I believe people will be interested in getting information from a successful atty w/20+ yrs experience for a fraction of the costs. These sites will put information that normally costs thousands into the hands of entrepreneurs and small businesses for under $100- forms and info they can do themselves and then have a local atty review for an hour’s worth of time, versus having them draft everything from scratch and costing thousands. As an attorney, can only work so many hours per day. By selling a useful information product at a lower price allows me to duplicate my knowledge through the information product.

Your course and information have saved me hundreds of hours of trying to figure it out myself - well worth the investment and also the inpiration for my legal products.

Thank you for a great product. I have purchased books and online info from others trying to find good practical information and yours is the only one that actually provides the nuts and bolts and not just hype. Bob - not me! - should move on and get an hourly job with benefits as he obviously lacks the entrepreneurial spirit.

Keep up the great work - your newsletters are also very helpful and serve as a great reminder to keep at it!

Thanks, Bob (not the complaining one!)

Jim,

Before your mini-site course I didn’t have a clue where to start. Now, I feel very comfortable setting up profitable mini-sites. I’ve got one down and many more to go. Thanks for your help and for being a “teacher” who really cares. It would have taken me a much longer time to figure it all out on my own.

Ryan Thompson
www.studentloansexposed.com

I guess, there are people who are skeptical about almost anything. I bought the first version of Jims website creator and like others out there I also, didn’t know how to create any kind of website. I will look into buying version 2.

Jim, keep up the good work! You have given us some really good resource and the mini site creator course is just one of them.

There are always a few who just like to complain. So, be it!

I bought mini site creator course…back in 2004. So, as for the “Bob” above. Dont knock it …till you try it and if you dont like it go somewhere else.

Hey Bob - With a negative mindset like yours - there’s NO WAY you’ll find any type of success online. (Oh - btw - you want to see big companies using mini-sites…check out ebay.com. EVERY listing is a mini-site page. That big enough for you?)

John

PS - Bob, I think McDonalds and Burger King are hiring. And you’ll be happy to know, you don’t need a mini-site to make money upselling people fries there!

PPS - Can we all PLEASE get back to the original topic of commenting on the big directory Jim posted? I do believe that’s what this post was about. (Screw Bob - he’s obviously the only one who thinks like that here.)

Bob, I do NOT consider myself a “sap” and personally decline your unflattering definition of strangers.

1. I agree with Tim on the spelling issues.
2. I guess it depends on how one defines success and the effectiveness of mini sites. They are not an end-all, be-all to success. I use them in conjunction with overall marketing tools.
3. Getting rich quick happens only to certain lucky souls at certain lucky times. The rest of us WORK for our success, sometimes over long periods.
4. Are you NOT familiar with Jim Edwards? I think he and his reputable INternationally known companies are successful. You may need to broaden your search of successful people using mini sites if you think others do not exist.
5. I work from home, just like millions of other Internet businesses that got fed up with corporate games. Besides, it’s just much more challenging and Fun for enterprising entrepreneurs.
6. Being a REAL company with a worldwide client base, you’d have to ask my clients if I provide REAL products and services. I have NEVER had a single product returned, so I guess my customers have found REAL value.
7. As for profits, my company helps my 9-member virtual staff to support their families. For me, that defines success.
8. Yes, people are looking for ways to improve their lives and income and, yes, taking a chance on the unknown is always risky business – a company, a product, someone else’s word. Some are new to Internet business, with little knowledge and little money to invest, but big dreams. I have faith that people find their way to their dreams. Isn’t Hope what it’s all about?
9. Bob, is this a JOKE? You Can’t be Serious!

I think Bob is a sour, unpleasant person who has to knock everyone else down because he hasn’t managed to ‘make it’ himself. I have nothing but praise for Jim’s help and training for building mini sites, though through my own lack of action entirely I have not actually set one up. I watched your video at least 2 years ago Jim, and admire the positive and clear way you present the information. Keep on inspiring people to get out there and DO something! and let’s not let the Bob’s of this world pull us down!

I think your teaching is great as I haven’t done much with it
however keep up the good work.

BOB just doesn’t get it! A “mini-site” is the key to uncluttered simplified profitable internet commerce. They are pure marketing genius. (I have a marketing MBA and have for many years been in top F500 marketing management..I’m no novice.)I don’t care whether you are selling information products (many of which, incidentally, are based on real-life experience and NOT available on line) or physical product. Tell them the benefits of what you are selling, tell them why they need it to solve whatever problem they have, create urgency and make it easy for them to buy it. KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID…..KISS……monster hundred-plus page websites may be fine for huge enterprises with a zillion products, but for the home-based entrepreneur focusing only on one item at a time there is no better way to get rich helping others than mini-sites. Sounds like sour grapes from a jealous and frustrated guy who either has more money than he knows what to do with, has no money and enjoys poverty, or hasn’t got the persistence to join the tens of thousands who make a great living helping others solve their problems and fill their needs. Wake up Bob! Try it…you’ll like it!

Deep pockets don’t think “mini.” That’s one of the primary reasons that large corporations (what I assume “Bob” thinks of as “real”) don’t use mini-sites. They are more willing to spend their money (e.g. their stockholders’ money!) to do “image advertising”, then they are to spend the time in learning to create mini-sites.

As entrepreneurs we are interested in results. Therefore we use mini-sites. Large corporations are more interested in what people think of them than they are in actually selling a product.

If they were primarily interested in selling a product, they would spend the time and effort it takes to learn to create mini-sites. But they dont’ write compelling copy - they hire ad agencies to create a campaign for them, based on magazine and TV advertising. If they took the same amount of money and invested it in mini-sites - they would rock their world. And there’s too much invested in the status quo to do that.

Many of us who are now entrepreneurs were once a part of the “real” world. We know about the corner office image, the power suit and all of the other accoutrements that go into the image. It’s for those very reasons that our corner offices now overlook our own backyards and our power suits don’t require dry cleaning. And all of this - thanks to mini-sites.

If you don’t have your own suite of mini-sites, get them today! And you won’t find a better means of doing that than through Jim’s Mini-Site Creator course. Thousands of people have earned their freedom from the “real” world using those tools.

Jeanette

Bob is full of crap himself Jim — by writing about things he only heard about or experienced in a negative way — and you and your teachings HAVE NOTHING TO DO with it. You are a mentor and a giving man for hundreds and thousands of people; please keep doing what you’re doing. …I just wonder, what is Bob big accomplishment in life, crapping around the block, forgive my french?

I think where this guy is coming from is the mass amount of alleged internet marketing guru’s who are out touting their expertise. These are probably the only sites the guy is seeing or looking at.

If a “crappy” site is selling “How to pour a concrete sidewalk” can money who am I to argue? If you had a $10 ebook on the site and sold 5 a month that’s $50 a month. God knows pouring concrete has not changed in 100 years so the book will never go out of style. Do I care how pretty the site is? No I want to know how to pour a concrete sidewalk. If I lived in Timbuk Two and there is no Home Depot or Lowes nearby to help me the an ebook on a minisite might be just the ticket. The $10 book does the job. The site might look like crap but I don’t care, it solves my problem.

I think it goes back to the content you have and you are selling. This guy obviously is looking at sites hyping crap but they problem even make money.

I do agree there are lots of mini-sites which sell internet marketing crap. I know, I have bought enough of the $5 ebooks I could “resell” and trashed them due to how bad they were.

I am someone who likes to see real numbers. Call me anal retentive.

I would like to know of the sites on Jim’s list, what the monthly revenue is, how many names they added, etc, etc. I don’t need to know which site is doing what, but maybe catorgize them and then give me numbers. I would love to have a idea of which categories of mini-sites do better than others.

Hi Jim,
That Bob is a wacko, must be mad about something,
In any case I strongly disagre with him.

To Bob “The Mini-Site Basher” & Big Jim,

Bob, you made the comment “Show me ONE nationally known, reputable company using mini-sites and I’ll STFU.”

I’m not sure if you’ve ever heard of The Motley Fool, but they’re a pretty large, multi-million dollar, nationally known company and they use mini-sites.

Here’s one you can check out: http://www.fool.com/shop/newsletters/18/index.htm

They have quite a few others as well.

Keep in mind, Jim’s course is designed for newbies so obviously, the sites they end up building out aren’t going to look nearly as slick as The Motley Fool’s one page mini-site but the same key elements are there:

Attention grabbing headline, product shot (info product by the way), testimonials from happy clients, a free or low cost trial, bonuses, strong call-to-action, and a lot of the other things that Jim’s course can teach you.

As far as what topics folks chose to build THEIR mini-sites around, I think you’d agree…it’s not Jim’s fault they chose topics that offended you.

Anyway, I hope that helps you Bob.

And Big Jim, personally I vote you keep up the great work and continue to teaching!

Side note to Big Jim: I still use the FSBO book I licensed from you all those years ago…people love it!

I only have about 50 or so mini web sites that address the specific uses for the products I market. Since I only sell quality products that actually do what they are advertised to do and I back that with a 100% money back guaranteed.

BOB certainly fits into the group of people who I do not want for a customer.

Mini Sites work period.

Hey Jim,

I bought the Mini-Site Creator in 2004. I didn’t open it for six maonths because I wanted something I could just do right away and not create something. I told myself I was too busy for that. I finally got around to using your techniques and was kicking my self for waiting. I lost six months of profits I believe I would have made using your advise. But Jim, I gotta tell ya, I’m waiting again. I want the newest version and any upgrades and I’m too busy again to look it up myself. Please send me anything that will enhance what I bought in 2004. BTW - Bob sounds like he wants something like “Done for You” and for that I recommend he go to Ken McCarthy’s system Seminar and get educated about the internet.
Thanks for all your advise, it works,
Hal

From what I can tell, minisites are doing well. A market is a market - if there’s demand, go for it. I think “Bob” is one of these whiners that will never do anything. Excuses are easy - anyone can justify being lazy that way.

I’ll bet Bob was cashing his benefits cheque, when he thought that up!

I got Mini-Site Creator three or four years ago and have used it to create several different sites. I gotta tell you, Bob, not everyone uses the program to sell stuff. Nor are the sites necessarily small, as you’ll see if you check mine out a www.phoenixladysnest.com.

I expect to add sections to the site that may earn me some money, but my primary reason for developing the site was to share the things I’ve done and see if anyone likes them, perhaps enough to buy them (e.g. my novels), or to contract with me to design an earth-sheltered home, etc.

What’s your excuse for not using Mini-Site Creator?

Jim tell Bob and his cry baby ass to go somewhere else and whine we have better things to do then lower ourselves down to his level!
Why would everyone waste there time on Bob.Take a hike Bob!

Hey Jim,

Long time no speak at ‘ya! Forget this goofball. I bought this course in May 05, saw it wasn’t the ‘magic button’ I “needed”, and promptly went on to spend literally thousands more on stuff I didn’t need. ONLY to find I had almost every thing I needed in your course to ‘get started’. Hey Bob, just go thru these comments…the proofs here. Jim’s the Real Deal. (I’m thinking you actually bought the course and stuck it on a shelf like I did, only to bash it instead of actually go through it;) Heck, when I was desperate for a nifty header for ANOTHER site I haven’t finished, I found a very cool header generator …. in Jim’s course, (duh to me!) 3 Things are certain about Jim and this course:
1) Jim goes to great lengths to explain EVERYTHING in this course. If it involves getting a SELLING minisite, it’s in here.
2) Jim genuinely wants to see his customers succeed. That’s obvious if you just listen to his no nonsense advice.
3) Jim’s a great person to learn from because (I think I mentioned this) he doesn’t skip anything and reminds you of things he’s said or taught earlier when it’s important to get a reminder, and Bonus Point #4:

Jim is funny as h*ll most of the time. Bob, get a life!

PS: many of these comment’s are great, thanks everyone. (I just love those ‘Motley Fools’), and I think Lani’s explanation should just about cover it. Perfect example of a mini-site to boot too Lani (http://www.skincareessence.com/)

I think “Bob” hasn’t tried a mini-site. I love them! They’re quick, easy and effective. You just don’t have to fill a website with tons of pages anymore — and if “Bob” is looking at just the big guys, he’s not listening to his own voice and finding what works for him. That’s the real test.

Thanks, Jim!

Hi Jim,

I have just read the comment left on your blog about what this guy thought about what you are teaching about mini sites.
jim I really appreciate what you are teaching in your course, I’ve learnt so much from your teaching about the right way to create a site that pulls in the cash.

I can only assume that he knows nothing about your course or he is mistaking you for somebody else.I strongly disagree with this guys’ comments

Bottom line, keep on doing what you are doing, and i’m really looking forward to version 2. Keep up the good work.

To your continued success

Leroy.

I think that mini-sites work, and since I’m a rank beginner, I’m not going to use myself as an example, or any of Jim’s sites either. That’s because I think a stronger point is made by showing someone else who’s successfully using the technique.

Instead Go to bly.com which is Bob Bly’s master site (he’s a well known author - 70 books) and copywriter. On his site, he also has the links to his various individual products which are set up as mini sites, so if you know Bob Bly’s name and want to see his products you can start there, or if your searching for a particular topic, you’ll hit the mini-site directly.

Bill Huddleston
Annandale, Virginia

Well “Bob”,

I’don’t know if Jim’s going to let this appear exactly as I write it, but here goes my response:

1) I have a real issue with anyone who won’t use their full real name when posting a “Critique” of the sort you have. Why are you hiding? Do you need to hide?

2) Just exactly what are your credentials? Your experience? Your Successes to qualify You to comment? Why on earth should anyone pay attention to You? My guess is you have exactly NONE. Care to put up an answer or “STFU” now?

3)Your words: “These mini-sites in your directory sell get rich quick junk and MLM crap to other saps hoping to get rich quick.” You obviously did NOT look at my site, nor a number of others. I am not MLM or “get rich quick” though I would not be the least surprised if you had great difficulty comprehending the technical nature of the materials I provide to my clients.

4)Your next statement: “The only people using these are get-rich-quick, work at home, sell-you-a-package-of-common-sence(sic)-info-that-you-can-find-for-free-and-won’t-make-you-rich types.” Really? Please show me and the world, “Bob” how YOU can provide the technical information and experience I offer via my minisite that is ranked # 1 on Google and Yahoo in its category and up against multi-million dollar international consultancies at that. PROVE IT “BOB” - see I Know YOU Can’t Partner. YOU don’t dare to come out in the open because YOU will be completely exposed and YOU know it!

5)Next: ” Not REAL companies, with REAL profits, selling REAL products, with REAL value. Shame on all of you for hyping this crap and rasing the hopes and taking the money from gullable people who just want to get ahead once in their lives.” OK, “BOB,” if you’re still with me that is, so I take ‘money from gullable (sic) people who just want to get ahead once in their lives,’ I doubt very much “BOB” that the top executives of a $ 7 Billion - yeah, you read that right, “BOB” that is a “B,” international firm with operations in over 50 countries that I used the exact techniques, information and experiences that I offer on my minisite to win 5 out 5 for them in the toughest venue on the planet - New York City - would associate themselves with your description under any imaginable circumstances.

6) I’m fairly certain, “BOB,” that what you really are up to is whining and wailing because you haven’t done DIDDLY, NADA, ZIP, ZERO, NOTHING!! Yourself, and you resent anyone else who does. SHOW US YOUR KILLER SITE “BOB” - Come On, Do It! I bet you don’t even have one…

7) Oh, and “Bob” before I forget, that $7 Billion a year firm had a minisite for one of its divisions that I worked for. Now, it was done before Jim released MSC, but it was a minisite just the same.

And “BOB,” I offer a 100% Money Back Guarantee for a Full Year on my products. DO YOU?

9) Now I’m challenging You “BOB” - PUT UP or SHUT UP NOW!
‘I’ll be your huckleberry… say when…’

My utmost apologies to my fellow TNR and I Gotta Tell You Subscribers for my rant. In all fairness though, “BOB” did drop fifty cents in the Kevin Rant Machine. I have no tolerance for whining wannabe’s that offer nothing of constructive value to our efforts. Further, I could care less what the “Bob’s” of the world think or opine, and neither should you! These individuals ultimately prove to be woefully unqualified to render opinions on the subjects they pontificate about, and frankly I consider them to be nothing more than “Cardinals of Grandilequent Bombast.” (Go look it up “Bob”.) Keep Kickin’ It Gang! Kevin

Jim I think Bob is full of sh>>. You do a great job
teaching the Mini-Site. You are the only person I have
seen that wants to help us and does not gouge. I can’t
do the new v2.0 right now but if I get threw this
operation at (Johns Hopkins) on my head for trimers
I am going to try to do it.
Buddy R. Age

Good move Jim! I don’t believe for a moment that you would give up teaching because of some jerky comment. It comes with the territory - I think you taught me that! But just in case it did cross your mind, DON’T YOU DARE give up teaching. ‘Cos frankly, You Rock!

Sue

All I can say is Bob is full of crap. First he needs to try it himself and get a site up. Even if he does not make a lot of money, at the very least he gets valuable experience of site creation.

All I can say to Bob is get back to watching your Porn,mate. You probably won’t be able to do anything better on the internet, until you have Desire to really want to start an online business. That is the first ingredient. Then you need knowledge and thats where Jim comes in.

Keep up the good work, Jim

Bob, you miss the point - we are all *small* business owners, not national companies with deep pockets. Mini-sites level the playing field and, most all, allow for SPEED of implementation, which can be the difference between success or failure.

With Jim’s excellent guidance, I have built 14 mini-sites over the years (which generated half a million in ‘07).

The internet is a medium (although a more dynamic one than any other - but still just a medium). How do marketers use media? We use them to communicate a marketing message. A mini-site is like a classified ad as compared to a full website which is like a display ad…it’s just more space to tell more of the story…but both are designed to SELL (if not, you’re simply not a marketer).

The website I have listed above in my name/link began as a mini-site. It is still on a min-site platform. But it has blossomed into a full website. So another advantage is scalability. Start with one page, grow to 150 or more. The most important thing is to GET IN THE GAME. Mini-sites let anyone play, right away.

Last thing. You picked the wrong man to bash. I’ve followed Jim Edwards since 2001. I’ve never met the man, never spoken to him, but make no mistake, I know his reputation and have bought many products from him.

By ANY standard, Jim Edwards is a Prince. He is one of the real good guys in the internet marketing space. He consistently over-delivers and gives so much back to this market, this community.

Eric

This poor sucker talks like a bob and for all we know behaves like a bob, blown all his brains away. Get a life son. Mini sites work and Jim’s Mini Site Creator is the most meticulous tutorial about the subject anywhere. It does everying claimed and much, much more …

Mini-Site Creator was exactly what I need to fill in all the blanks of knowledge to get my sites up and running.
I now have several up and running and some are just for fun.

Hi Jim,

Why is it that we all react to a negative, completely out of proportion?

If you give a speech, get 99 comments that it is excellent, and 1, which is negative, it is always the 1 that we worry about instead of valuing the positive feed back of the 99?

It is thanks to you Jim that I learned the basics of site building and with incredibly patient help from your team, set up my first Mini site, which is profitable (selling my E Book on Overcoming the Fear of Public Speaking)

www.feartofame.com

I have total respect and admiration for Jim and his team, being amongst the first to purchase Mini site Creator and a founding member of TNR.

So Bob, if you wanted to stir which I think seems to be your motive, then you have stirred an enormous amount of support for Jim Edwards, which he truly deserves.
(Probably not your intention?)

Regards

Roger Bourne

Melbourne
Australia

I have used mini-sites for building multiple lists for many different products that are not related to MLM or Internet Marketing. Until you actually do it, it is hard to say that it doesn’t work. If you follow what Jim shows you, it is hard to mess this up. I got his first edition of his training and even though I was very experienced, I learned a lot of new approaches.

Using mini-sites IS the fastest way to promotion of any product or service that I know as well as for building targeted lists that you can continue to develop for years to come.

The mini-site is just a tool… like a brochure or mailer piece. The fact that all these tools may be used to promote crap doesn’t mean that the tools themselves are crap. Technology is content-neutral. Bob, it’s up to you to come up with a worthy purpose for a mini-site.

Hi, Jim (Edwards)

I’m not going to attack “Bob” who is entitled to his opinion, hopelessly uninformed though it may be. Instead I wish to add my praise to those of others above for your excellent home study courses of all which I am a privileged owner and wouldn’t part with any of them (on eBay) for all the tea in China!

But for your Mini Site Creator course, I would not have had the first idea how to put a site together successfully - goodness knows I tried for months on end with the “aid” of what turned out to be incomplete information from con artists, before I had the good fortune to come across your own Mini Site and sales copy for your home study courses.

My first site (built with the step-by-step guide given by you) was not a Mini Site but a vast portal of 60 or more pages designed for absolute beginners. It occupies No 1 position on Google out of 18 million sites! It’s a free information and resource site. Since then I have built a couple of mini sites and I am now working on another portal from which links will take visitors to at least 50 Mini Sites each for specialist products.

Whilst I have not, yet, made a fortune (early days), I hope to do so, soon, not because I can put up mini sites at will but because I’m prepared to work at it since I do not believe anything worthwhile can be achieved without some sustained effort on my part.

So I am most grateful to you, Jim, for your brilliantly clear, concise and at times amusing delivery of your tutorials which inspire, teach and help those of us who want to make a career as online entrepreneurs. Far from being ashamed of yourself (how dare anyone suggest that, anyway), I take off my hat to you for your generosity in sharing your considerable knowledge with those of us who are new to online business.

Keep up the good work and ignore those who clearly do not know what your courses are about.

Kind regards.

James

I agree with the earlier comment - I find it difficult to take someone seriously who can’t spell. Jim’s mini site creator product is GREAT - I learned so much from it that goes beyond just a mini site. Mini sites are like everything else on the web - there are ones with good info and others with bad info. But you can’t deny that Jim and others have made good money from them, and certainly Jim’s products are valuable. I don’t regret a single dollar I’ve spent with him. However, in my field I know there are mini sites selling e books and the information is TERRIBLE and in some cases actually dangerous. So, as with everything on the web - do your homework before buying, but if it’s got J. E.s name on it, you know it’s good stuff.

“Gosh, what crap. These mini-sites in your directory sell get rich quick junk and MLM crap to other saps hoping to get rich quick.”

Bob, sounds like one of those guys that’s duped, jaded, and scammed 37 times!

It must be tough looking through life with a cynical view. Bob, read the Power of Your Subconscious Mind by Joseph Murphy. It’ll help.

…and by the way, Jim’s course doesn’t teach how to create content, it only teaches the technical aspects of creating a website…I think you’re confused buddy.

Corrisa
P.S. Thanks Jim…you would not believe how much you’ve helped me!!

Bob,
I read your post and didn’t know whether to laugh of cry. I don’t think mini sites will ever work for you, so don’t waste your money and time. Also, don’t waste Jim’s time. Your attitude is so negative and combative that you’ll never learn anything about marketing. You should get a nice job with the Teamsters, or digging ditches. You don’t belong in any business that requires tact, persuasive abilities, or contact with the public.

In other words, Bob. You’re full of it and obviously thick headed. Just move on and let people who understand handle things.

Good luck digging ditches,(however, I’m sure there are some very nice ditch diggers.)
Pam Magnuson

Hi Jim,

I think your mini site creator is GREAT! Very clear audio, video, and written instructions.

Easy to follow…and if I miss or forget something, I can always go back and review things.

The mini site creator has helped me to create many mini pages very quickly.

My site is not the greatest but it must be interesting to some people, because it is really moving up in the Alexa rankings.

I just keep adding more pages with good content that people are searching for.

Thank you for creating this program. It has helped me to learn basic skills as well as advanced techniques that would have taken me so much longer to figure out if I didn’t have this program.

Most of all, you are teaching people the skills needed and giving them the encouragement to “just get started.”

Thanks again.

Warm Regards,

Ben
www.amazingonlineprofits4u.com

I will certainly admit there is a lot of hype out there. However, the mini-site concept has really helped me. It has given me a way to make a plan for early retirement from a corporate job. I don’t expect to get rich quick. I expect to work and work hard to learn what I need to know. Then I expect to be able to enjoy what I do online and reap the benefits of that work. Well, BOB, if you are railing at all the hype, I understand your frustration: however, I would hate for you to miss out on a good chance to share something you are passionate about and benefit both yourself and other at the same time.

I have always heard “If it’s too good to be true, it probably isn’t true” But what I understand Jim to say with the MINI SITE Creator is that if you work hard, apply what you learn and be patient…it will work…

I believe this is true. Grab your mini-site and make it a success.

Hi Jim

I only use minisites to sell delegate places to my conferences - upto £497+vat that’s over $1000 US.

They are ugly site - just like I learned from your course. I now add squeeze pages - should have done it earlier.

My events are in UK & You have an open invitation to present at The UK Entreprenur Convention or The UK Internet Entrepreneur Conference April 18-20th 2008. I’d love to hear from you anyway - we have some people-in-common in UK.

You can see my event on real estate (property as we say) at the above site. Single column, red headlines - you know how it goes…. you taught me.

As a fellow Hawiain Shirt wearer keep on keeping on - Has your blinkered critic tried your method? - I doubt it.

As they say in Latin
‘Nil illegitemate carburundum’ -
Don’t let the bastards grind you down

warm regards

Steve Foley
Greater Manchester UK