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So Many Product Launches…Where To Begin?

Today (Tuesday) I had no less than 5 emails land in my inbox all promoting different new products (and it’s only 5:30pm at the time of writing this!). It’s a little bit over whelming to be honest with you, so much so I barely know where to begin. I think I’m going to make a blog post about each product that’s being launched, just to be on the safe side.

But as a side note, with so many product launches, how do you stand out from the crowd? I have products from the likes of Gary Ambrose, Joel Comm, Russel Brunson, Willie Crawford…to name but a few :)

So how do you decide?! Eek, it’s overwhelming!

5th October Internet Marketing News Roundup

There are a few things going on today that need some attention so I thought I’d do another news roundup.

$20,000 in 20 Days Challenge
I decided to buy this course and have written a review about it earlier this week. In a nutshell I think it’s a good course but it’s slightly too expensive for what it is. I’m also not convinced you will manage $20k in 20 days (and as someone has pointed out, after expenses and commissions, it’s going to probably look more like $10k if you did manage it in 20 days).

To be honest, I’ve not seen many marketers jump in on this one. It’s a high ticket product and that usually generates a lot of interest, but apart from Kevin Wilke and Michael Savoie I haven’t seen any one else pushing it. Read in to that what you will.

The course is still available here.

Optin Voodoo
This is a new product from Keith Wellman the list building expert. I’m 99% sure he didn’t have anything to do with the product but someone approached him and said “hey I’ve got a cool little script, wanna JV?”. Anyway, Keith released a couple of videos, not sure if I am allowed to post them, but what they hey, they are promoting his products so he can’t complain:

http://fxmarketing.articulate-online.com/6489101474
http://fxmarketing.articulate-online.com/6489119725

In these videos he says that traditional squeeze pages are dead, but bear in mind that he’s trying to promote a new list building product so it’s in his best interests to talk down other methods while bigging up his own.

Optin Voodoo is just a little script you place on your salespage that pops up when the visitor is reading it and offers them a coupon if they subscribe to your list. When the person has subscribed it reveals the coupon. That’s essentially all it is. More than anything I’d say it’s a cool little tool rather than a ground breaking revolutionary list building tool.

Optin Voodoo costs $37 and can be found here. There’s a ‘platinum’ upgrade too but I couldn’t work out what it does.

Next Internet Millionaire
The latest episode of Joel Comm’s Next Internet Millionaire (which I’ve already pointed out, they don’t become millionaires…call it creative marketing) is available on NextInternetMillionaire.com.

I’m sure if you have 30 minutes to spare it’s something that you will watch, but I’ve never been in the frame of mind to sit down and watch an episode from start to finish yet.

X-Factor Traffic
This product is now live and taking orders. I talked about it in a previous post where I tried to second guess the methods they were going to mention in the ebook. The e-Book is only $27 so it could be worth a try - and there’s a 365 day money back guarantee.

X-Factor Traffic is available to buy here.

The Next Internet Millionaire

Not sure if you’ve seen this yet, but it’s a internet reality show which takes aspiring entrepreneurs and eliminates them each week until one is left to be crowned the next internet millionaire. Check it out at NextInternetMillionaire.com

The show is the brainchild of Joel Comm (he of AdSense fame). He’s pulling in quite a lot of favours to get some big name marketers on board to be the teachers.

Each week the contestants have to complete a series of challenges. If you’ve seen Apprentice, then you get the idea.

Joel acts as the host…a role I don’t think he’s really suited to because he looks way too geeky and dorkish - sorry Joel! Just a personal opinion :)

I think it’s great that Joel is making a show like this and goes to prove that anything is possible using the internet.

Incidently, the name of the show is slightly misleading. The winning contestant wins $25,000, not $1m. The other $975,000 is made up from joint ventures which will happen after the show has finished. Still, you wouldn’t say no, would you!

Episode 6 is now out and can be viewed here.

Internet Marketing Roundup

There have been a few product launches in the past couple of days. Some you would have known about, others probably flew so low they passed under your radar. Here’s a quick look at some of the products launched this week.

PPC Classroom
Yep, the PPC Affiliate Classroom finally launched, with a hefty price tag of $497 (see my previous post where I predicted the price of it). Apparently some people didn’t want you to have this product because at the time of the launch the site came under a DDoS attack which took the server down for a few hours. Read the sales letter here.

New ‘Dime’ Sale From George Pluss
George Pluss has released another ‘dime’ sale where he sells products for a dime. But the catch is the price goes up every second so you have to act quick. This dime sale is pushing a product that claims to be ‘ethically blackhat’ (however that works - probably just creative marketing) and is a magnet for search engines.

It’s aimed at people wanting to grow rich from virtual real estate (or in other words, adsense sites). I saw something similar before from George but wasn’t entirely impressed.

You can check it out for yourself here. The squeeze page is of course designed to get you on to his list :)

Guru Millions
Guru Millions from Jeff Paul and Jim Fleck, the self confessed ‘inventors of the niche marketing model’ is a free teleseminar to teach people how to make money from niche marketing. This product promotion landed in my inbox from Gary Ambrose. The teleseminar appears to be free and they are only allowing 500 people on the line.

I can’t tell you if there is a a one time offer or an upsell for the ‘deluxe’ package, but since Gary is promoting it with an affiliate link, one would assume that there is some sort of paid option along the line.

If you are interested in Niche Marketing then it’s probably a good idea to get in on the teleseminar because if these guys are half as good as they claim, it could potentially be worth it’s weight in gold.

Find out more about Guru Millions here.

That’s about all I have for my news and round up. I do want to mention a new project that I’m starting called the List Building Project. I have created a blog for it here, but it will be password protected and open to members only very soon.