Archive for March, 2008

Discover The Horizontal Helix

Monday, March 10th, 2008

After a longer delay than I was expecting, Jeff Walker has released his next video for the launch of Product Launch Formula 2.

In this video he tells the story of how the horizontal helix (it’s like climbing a series of revenue steps which get higher and higher) turned a herb educational game into a $100k a year product.

Jeff has been sneaky, half the video is available for free (no sign up - just press play) which tells the story of the launch up to about $3k per month but for the remaining 23 to 24 minutes you have to trade your email address.

Personally I don’t regard this as a problem because you can always opt out of the emails later.

I recommend that you don’t bother with the first video because its contents is repeated in the second, so don’t make it difficult for yourself. Just give up your email address and watch the fascinating video. 

Where is it? Nearly forgot. This is the video for the horizontal helix launch

Nitro Blueprint System Review Step 3

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

 Creating Your Front End Product

This is step 3 in the Nitro Blueprint System for creating an online business with the focus on creating your front end product.

While this is primarily aimed at people wanting to develop Information product businesses online, it is also worth remembering that information products can also be a great way to develop the relationship with a customer for real world, physical products.

For example my parents have just had a new kitchen and it has all gone very smoothly but it did bring back memories of how overwhelmed I felt when we were looking to choose a new kitchen. There were so many different styles, units, handles, work surfaces, accessories. This list seemed endless and we did need to be gently led through the process and that could have been done by an information product like “How To Choose The Kitchen Of Your Dreams.”

Anyway back to Step 3 of the Nitro course and the importance of having the right front end product.

While you should make most of your money of back end products with happy customers, if you fail to tempt enough people into beginning the relationship with you, then your business is destined to struggle.

It is just like this blog. I want people to maintain the relationship by subscribing to the RSS feed but I know that you won’t have any temptation to do that if I fail to deliver pertinent comments, assessments and advice.

The Nitro system provides good solid advice in how to make this front end attractive which I am obviously not going to repeat. That wouldn’t be fair to Kevin Wilke and the Nitro team, especially when the Nitro Blueprint System is available at such a bargain price.

Remember your information product could be a written report or e-book (or even the option of a properly bound book like Nikki Pilkington’s 299 Steps To Website Heaven).

One of the dilemmas for new marketers is the conflicting desire - to go where all the customers are while avoiding your competitors. That is some challenge and while it would obviously be nice to find some keyword phrases with lots of requests but no matches, you are likely to have to decide between a trade-off.

Popularity v little competition.

I have recently blogged about the problems of choosing a niche and the difficulty in deciding whether to be a generalist or specialist on my Business Coaching blog.

My belief for Internet marketers is that you have to find your own special focus where you can stand out and get to the top of the search engines but then  to develop a series of products which will appeal to the same customers and which can cross-promote each other.

One tip that isn’t mentioned in the Nitro Blueprint but I have head my idol, Jay Abraham mention is the Amazon school of marketing.

Just pop along to Amazon.com or your local Amazon site and look at the top selling books in your area. Where is their focus, what type of titles do they use? Then have a look at the reviews and you should see people writing 5 stars reviews explaining what they like and people on the 1 & 2 star reviews saying what they don’t like.

Another idea I really like, and I can’t remember where I picked it up, is to get other people to effectively write your product for you.

The example I heard I think was about recipes for quiches but I had been planning to use the same principle with a prospective client I had in the Carribean food industry. I thought that I could create a blog and get people to tell me their recipes for a mention in the book along with interesting twists in recipes.

I wonder if it could work with profit tips?

I am still very impressed with the Nitro Blueprint System for developing Internet businesses and I recommend that you take a look at the sales letter and videos to learn more.

New Product Introduction with the Product Launch Formula

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Jeff Walker, the man behind many of the biggest Internet launches in history withdrew his very successful program, Product Launch Formula in mid February for one very good reason.

The new Product Launch Formula is being released.

This is a way of building up interest in a product launch so that when the new product is released, customers are desperate to buy.

 Jeff is very keen to point out, the techniques work for real world products just as well as those released by the Internet marketing superstars.

I can’t tell you how good Product Launch Formula 2.0 is because it is not yet released and I haven’t had a chance to evaluate it but I can tell you that people rave about the original version of Product Launch Formula.

Rich Schefren, one of my personal heroes, introduced Jeff Walker at his Main Event conference in July 2007 by saying Jeff was responsible for “the most powerful marketing strategy I’ve ever come across.”

If you are thinking about launching a new product or even launching a new business (because they have  many of the same characteristics), I urge you to watch the launch the very carefully. Just click here, watch the video and sign up on the email list.

The point is not whether you buy the Product Launch Formula 2.0 but that you learn from the process.

This is your chance to watch the man recognised as the leading expert in small business/Internet product launches, launch his own new product. You should be able to learn so much from just watching how Jeff goes through the process.

I don’t think anything will beat watching Jeff Walker take you through the process one step at a time so do get involved.

Analyse the videos, look at the way the case studies are organised, watch how he builds up the momentum to his launch and perhaps you will feel your own interest and excitement growing.

This is good because you are really experiencing the launch and you will learn what emotions you need to create in your prospective buyers.

You don’t have to buy the product. You still have your own free will.

Just watch the master at work and learn by starting with the video