The Joint Venture Broker Certification course sessions
will  be each Monday night for 4 weeks. At the conclusion
of the course, attendees will take a test to confirm that
they fully understand how to orchestrate highly profitable
joint  ventures.

Those passing the joint venture broker certification test,
will be certified Joint Venture Brokers by Willie Crawford,
Executive Director of The International Association of
Joint Venture Brokers.

More details on the joint venture certification course
can be found at:  http://WillieCrawford.com/JVBROKER/

Sometimes we wonder if all of the bad news that we hear
is just the media manipulating public opinion… for some
reason unbeknownst to us.

Yesterday, I had driven home to me just how bad the
recession actually IS in my part of the U.S., and also how I
could actually help out.

I’m retired U.S. Air Force, so I’ve earned a pension.

That means that after having served 20 years in the military,
I DO have a guaranteed income for the rest of my life.
Combine that with the web business that I’ve built and I
honestly DON’T notice most of the economic ups and downs.

Yesterday, I drove to a nearby air force base to get a
haircut by my favorite barber. It was a 1-hour drive each
way, but since I always LOVE the job that this barber
does, it was worth the drive. At the same time, I listened
to marketing CD’s both ways, so I “worked” while I drove.

When I got to the barber shop, Bonnie, my favorite barber,
was working on another customer. There were two other
barbers in the shop, both just standing around.  I had an
appointment with Bonnie and patiently waited for her. I
KNEW that she’d do a great job, and I didn’t KNOW that about
the other two barbers.

Bonnie had run this shop for many years, and has cut my
hair steadily since 1998. In some areas of my life, I don’t
like change.

My turn came, and Bonnie did her usual fabulous job. While
I was in the chair, two patrons came in. One had an
appointment with Bonnie, and the other one went with Bob.

While getting my haircut, the third barber told Bonnie and
Bob that she’d had enough fun for the day, and was going
home. She had already planned out her next 30 days, and
since there were NO customers, she was “going to go do
something more productive.”

As I chatted with Bonnie, careful not to distract her too
much, she shared that business was at maybe 25% of the
normal level. Many soldiers who normally got haircuts every
week, not stretched things to every 2-3 weeks.  Many
retirees, who use to get haircuts every 2-4 weeks, now
dropped by once every 1-2 months!

As we talked more, she pointed out that many family members
of soldiers, whose incomes normally supplemented the
household incomes, had been laid off from their jobs (often
in the service industries).  She point out that there are
many THOUSANDS of out-of-work people in our local area.

Next Bonnie ask me how my business was doing.

Embarrassingly, I told her that it was doing great and that
I really hadn’t felt the recession. I explained to her that
I sell a variety of product online, and that I have a knack
for choosing product that lots of people want.

Bob perked up and came over to join the conversation between
Bonnie and myself.   After all, there was not another customer
in site.

I explained to both of them exactly what I do online. I also
shared how they, and their families and friends, could still
do well using the power of the Internet.

I observed that right now two things are happening…

1) People are thinking about the upcoming holiday season and
wondering if they’ll have enough money to afford nice
presents.

2) More people are searching harder for bargains.

Both of those things suggested to me that Ebay is the place to
be as a seller, AND Ebay is the place to do your shopping. Ebay
is the place where untold millions go EVERY DAY looking for
bargains.

I pointed Bonnie to an ebook, and audio course called
“$100 Per Day - The Ebay Way.”   I recommended that she get it
and she and the other barbers load the MP3’s onto a portable
player, and listen to them during lulls at work.

I pointed them to  http://SageMarketer.com/Ebay/

Bonnie, Bob and the other barber are different in many ways
from the “average American.” Since they are exposed to soldier
every day who are taught to “find a way” they understand that
they don’t need to be a victim of this current economic
recessions.

In every economic upturn or downturn, some people do VERY well.

The key is to find the opportunities.

It made perfect sense to them, and to me, that Ebay is the
place to be if that’s where so many people are forced to turn
as they tighten their belts.

Bonnie and I also discussed that in times like these, often just
$100 - $200 per month could make the difference between “making
ends meet” and having the car repossessed.

I shared with Bonnie and Bob that there are literally
THOUSANDS of honest ways to make that extra $100 - $200 in a
DAY online, and that they can do it in just 1 or 2 hours of
spare time.

I couldn’t resist sharing with Bonnie and Bob that I co-authored
an ebook called “20 Ways To Make $100 Per Day Online.”  I did
that partly because I know that anytime you tell someone offline
that you are an author, that impresses them

I pointed out that Ebay is one of the most popular websites on
the face of the planet, and therefore a great place to build
a business. They actually get more searches than Google does!

I also acknowledged that Ebay is not for everyone. Hence, they
should also get a copy of “20 Ways” and read it.

Bonnie asked where, and I told her that that was easy. Just go
to http://20Ways.org

I suggested that she get a copy of the ebook, print it out, and
stick it in a 3-ring binder where she could really study it. I
also promised that if she had it in the barbershop on my next
visit, that I’d autograph it

As I finished up my visit to the barber shop, Bob joked that
if I saw anyone needing a haircut, I should send them their way.

So, yes, some of us really are feeling the current economic
downturn.  None of us have to “take it lying down” though!

Ebay is HUGE, and all of the holiday decorations being put up
in my hometown tell me that the shoppers are being reminded that
it’s “time to shop.”

It really is that simple

Willie

In online marketing it is critical that you keep up with what is
going on in your industry. You do need to know  who is doing
what - and why they are doing it.  You do  need to take the
time to  research potential joint venture partners, products,
and competing businesses.

Here are four excellent tools and how to use them.

1) Internet Archive - Also known as “The Way Back Machine”
at http://Archive.org

There are actually many facets to this amazing site but the
feature  that I use most is the ability to look at  a historical
snapshot of  a website/domain.

There is a box on the site where you can enter any url, and it
will  show you “snapshots” taken of that website over time.

For example, if your were to enter my domain
“williecrawford.com”  you’d see be able to sift through actual
archived pages from my website between December 1998 and today.
Every week or two a new  snapshot of the site was taken and
stored in the Archive.org database.

That lets you confirm how long a website has been online
(provided it was archived), lets you see how a business evolved
over time, and  will even reveal to you things a marketer may
have been testing that perhaps didn’t work out.

I use this tool to confirm how long a site/person has been in
business.  I also use it to confirm how long a person has
actually been in a particular niche or discipline.  I use it in
deciding who to actually form business relationships with.

If you discover practices contrary to your own standards, or
that a potential business partner hasn’t been totally honest
with you, then  you  certainly want to proceed with caution…
or look deeper.

2) Google Alerts - At http://www.google.com/alerts/

You can set an alert to have Google notify you via email any
time that it finds a new occurrence of a term online (on a
webpage, blog, etc.)

I set alerts for my name, my product names, my urls, and
competitors’ names/products/urls.

Any time the system finds someone “talking about” the target
term, it  will send you an email (at whatever frequency you
specify)  notifying  you of the new finds.

Once a day, I get emails notifying me of where my target terms
has just  been discovered. This points you to places where you
are being blogged  about, mentioned in articles, discussed on
forums,  etc.

It could alert you to positive or negative publicity that you
want to  be aware of.

3) Tweet Beeps - Similar To Google Alerts, Only On Twitter.com

Found at http://tweetbeep.com/ I use Tweet Beeps the same way
that I use Google Alerts. Any time that my target phrases are
found in ANY Twitter posts, I get a notification.

That will point out to you discussions that you may want to join
for various reasons, to include “damage control,” thanking them
for a nice compliment, to answer questions about your product,
etc.

One creative way to use Tweet Beeps would be to ask those
“tweeting”  positive things about your product for testimonials,
or to become your affiliates.

4) International Association Of Joint Venture Brokers

Found at http://IAJVB.ORG, The International Association of
Joint Venture Brokers is a collection of joint venture brokers,
super affiliates,  product owners, publishers, and webmasters
who use the site to keep track of product launches.

The site is a database of upcoming and ongoing product launches,
live events, tele-events, and even free giveaways.

Members of the site enter their events into the database as an
easy way to  recruit new affiliates AND to let other members know
that they are “claiming” a given launch date.

Savvy affiliates search through the database looking for product
launches in  their niche.  They understand that when you know
about an upcoming launch a  month or more in advance, you can do
things to gain a tremendous advantage in  the search engines before
most other affiliates EVER hear rumors of the launch.

During many product launches, your potential customers often go
to the search  engines to see what reviewers have to say about a
given product.

Affiliates  who knew about, and obtained a review copy of a product
a month in advance,  will have their reviews listed at the top of
the search engines, getting sales  from people who are not even on
their lists… or have ever previously visited their websites.

Members pull up the listings of other launches planned in their
niche and use  that information to plan when they will do their own
launch.  This keeps them  from going “head-to-head” with big
launches that would otherwise drown out their own.

This also shows them launches that they could perhaps piggyback on.

They can  often get mention of their product INCLUDED in an upcoming
product, or they can plan on releasing their product just as the
commotion from a big  launch is dying down.

Perhaps your product does the same thing as product with a huge
launch planned,  but your product is cheaper. You could time your
launch to catch potential customers who have a heightened awareness
of the problem that your product solves, but who couldn’t afford
the other product.  You can sell to a lot of customers who actually
feel POWERFUL resentful towards the product that they wanted but
couldn’t afford.

As you can see good intelligence is extremely valuable. You
absolutely must  know what is going on in your niche. Fortunately,
with the above four tools, it’s  very easy.

——————-

Willie Crawford is an internationally-acclaimed speaker, author,
seminar and radio show host, and leading Internet marketing
expert. When not out fishing in the Gulf of Mexico, Willie can
be found sharing his 12 years of online marketing experience
with members of The Internet Marketing Inner Circle.
Join them at: http://TheInternetMarketingInnerCircle.com

This is an updated version of PLF 2.0 so if you
purchased 2.0 you don’t need to buy it because Jeff is
giving you the upgrade for free.

Here’s only offering a maximum of 500 copies, so if you
are interested, you should check it out now. Chance are
that it will be closed tomorrow.

Product Launch Formula is where I learned many of the
tactics that I use in mapping out a product launch for
clients.  I charge $20,000 to plan/broker a launch.

I’ve known Jeff since 2003, and been watching him for that
long

A few people have asked me if I’m offering a bonus if they
get Product Launch Formula 2.1+ through me.

Yes, and it’s the best bonus that I can think of…

I just finished up 12 hours of recorded coaching where
I talked many clients through actually planning product
launches… some of which you’ll see in the next few weeks.

They each paid $697 to be on those calls.

You can read about that teleseminar series at:
http://williecrawford.com/JVTeleseminar/

I’ll offer you the recordings to those calls (in PDF and MP3)
plus supplemental materials I gave them..

PLUS a 1 year GOLD membership in The International Association
Of Joint Venture Brokers. You can read about IAJVB at
http://IAJVB.ORG

The Gold Membership allows you to list ALL of your launches,
events, etc., in the database where all of our members can
easily find YOU!

Fully 90% of the failed, or really poor, product launches that
I’ve observed in the past year happened for 2 related reasons:

A) Really poor timing. They were often at the same time as
another MAJOR launch.  IAJVB has a searchable database of
planned product launches designed to prevent that from
happening.

Our members enter their planned product launches into the
database and that puts many others on notice that they’ve
claimed those dates.

B) Not enough high-powered joint venture partners.

IAJVB is designed to solve that problem too by being a
place where our members, many super-affiliates, can search
for upcoming launches in their niches.

Ideally, IAJVB members find out about product launches as
much as 2 months in advance… and are able to plan way
ahead of their competitors.

So, check out Product Launch Formula 2.1+ and if it seems
right for you, order though my link, and then contact me
here:  http://WillieCrawford.com/helpdesk/

Just paste your receipt into a help ticket letting me know
that you want my bonus, and we’ll set you up with immediate
access to the bonuses.

My affiliate link is http://P-L-Formula.com
Willie

An old wise cat came upon a young cat chasing his tail
furiously in an alley

When the old cat stopped him and asked him why he was
running around stupidly in circles like that, the young cat
said, “You know I’ve recently graduated from Harvard and
discovered from my brilliant teachers that happiness and
all its secrets are in the tip of my tail. And it’s so
exciting all I want to do is chase it and get it every day
all day.

The old cat replied, “You know son, I haven’t been to
university like you or done anything particularly educational
but I too have discovered that happiness is in the tip of my tail.
But I stopped chasing it a long time ago and here’s what I know
that you apparently don’t.

Once you discvover that happiness is in your tail, you then know
where to look and you can stop chasing it forever because what
you eventually understand is that the tip of your your tail is not
only always with you but it has no choice but to follow you
everywhere, every day, all day long!”

If you haven’t found your happiness and online success yet, stop
chasing your tail and join The Internet Marketing Inner Circle
http://TheInternetMarketingInnerCircle.com

She teaches that you should do this even if you never
plan on becoming a professional speaker.

Felicia delivered her message with such conviction
and passion that it even caused the transcriptionist
to comment on how great it was.

You can download that interview as a free PDF here:

http://WillieCrawford.com/FeliciaSlatteryOnIncreasingCredibility.pdf

It’s really great stuff!

Willie

One of them was a guy who sells 10,000 - 12,000 ebooks
per month, EVERY month, on Clickbank.  This guy also has
a mailing list of 320,000 subscribers.

As you can imagine, marketers like me practically tripped
over ourselves to get to the bottom of who and what Rob
knew. Rob suddenly had a LOT of new friends

I just finished listening to the interview of that
Clickbank merchant again.  He’s also an affiliate for
many other Clickbank products.

That interview is bonus #3 in this new product Rob just
released:  http://WillieCrawford.com/RobCanyon/

Willie

It’s not bad though. In preparation, I did gather and
inspect/test: my backup generator, bottled water, non-perishable
foods, plywood to cover windows and doors, and my wireless
internet connection. The cars are all full of gas, and I filled
several  10-gallon gas cans… so I could refill the generator.

I’ve had previous hurricanes leave us without electricity for
over a week

Twice in the past 24 hours I’ve had people  contact me and tell
me that they just “saw my face on CNN.”

What they actually saw was CNN anchorman Rick Sanchez showing
his Twitter page as he reported the news. Rick is one of almost
2000 people that follow me on Twitter.

I’m one of 5700 people following Rick.

If you’re not on Twitter, you should be.  It puts you in touch
with so many people… in real-time. As you can see, it even got
my  face on CNN… twice.

Please follow me on Twitter at:
http://Twitter.com/WillieCrawford/

If you’ve never used Twitter, I do have to warn you. It can be
addictive.  You can see someone like my friend John Reese…
post about his travels through Greece or Egypt, and when you
respond, it immediately appears on his Twitter profile, where he
and all of his followers can see it. It’s very powerful!

The storm will keep me inside today, so I plan on creating and
uploading 5 or 6 videos to YouTube and 30 or so other video
sharing sites.   I’m getting a lot of traffic from my videos in
some niches.

The secret to success in business, online or offline, is to keep
doing what works, and to stop doing what’s not working.  So,
I’ll keep making and uploading simple videos using the automated
submission service at  http://EasyPushbuttonTraffic.info

This is actually what I’d planned on doing anyway.  It’s fun,
and drives a lot of business my way.

Check it out.  If you’d like to see a video of me using the
system, you’ll find that here:
https://williec001.s3.amazonaws.com/EasyPushbuttonTraffic.htm

Notice that video is actually coming off Amazon.com’s server.
There’s a story behind that too. I’ll share that with you in the
next issue.

If you do use a service like Easy Pushbutton Traffic to post
your videos to YouTube, I have a free PDF report on how to get
MORE visitors to watch your videos. You’ll find the link to that
free PDF at: http://WillieCrawford.com/blog2/

Feel free to share that report with you friends. They’ll really
appreciate it.

Ok, time to check on the storm again, and then upload some
videos.

Stay dry
Willie

My friend, Bill Bartmann, did just that.  Now keep in mind that
this group of 1,125 people includes people who had major help
along the way:  Many were born with it, inherited it, or had
every advantage while growing up.

In the history of billionaires, Bill Bartmann stands alone.
He’s the ONLY former homeless person and gang member ever to
have made a billion dollars.  That’s right, Bill went from
eating out of dumpsters and living under a bridge viaduct, to
having after-tax, take-home pay in a single year of more than
$100 million and being listed as the 25th richest person in
America.

Here’s where it gets extremely interesting:  Bill is willing to
coach YOU on how to succeed in business.

After all, what can you learn from someone whose daddy died and
left him a billion?  But it’s totally different with Bill
Bartmann:  He worked in a slaughterhouse.  He was an alcoholic
at age 17.  And at one point Bill was paralyzed from the waist
down.  Yet Bill discovered a DIFFERENT way of thinking and
acting that enabled him to overcome all of that, and become a
self-made billionaire.

After scaling the highest peaks in the business world and
getting his fill of toys like $25 million aircraft, what’s Bill
up to now?  He has one current passion:  Showing others his
special techniques for overcoming any challenge and being as
successful as they want to be.

Do you think Bill might know a few things YOU could use to
overcome your own challenges?  What if you could get his
thoughts on dozens of business topics?

Now you can.  Bill is launching a one-of-a-kind online service,
called his “Billionaire Business System”.  This is not some
one-size-fits-all deal.  Instead, Bill has built a mentoring
tool that provides you with laser-targeted advice on many
individual topics.

Are you already running a business but not sure what’s the best
way to secure financing for your next stage of growth?  Bill
covers that topic.  Not even sure if business is right for you?
Bill has a video session just about that.

In fact, the Billionaire Business System currently has almost
two dozen topics, and is constantly growing.

I strongly recommend that you take a look at Bill’s system and
see for yourself how it can remove whatever roadblocks are in
your way to greater business success.  You can find it by going
to: http://MeetAnActualBillionaire.com
Name me anywhere else on the planet that you can get specific,
useful, and comprehensive business-building advice from a
self-made billionaire?  That’s OK, I can’t think of any, either.

The sooner you have Bill Bartmann in your corner, advising you
on business success, the sooner you can sit back and bask in
your own dreams coming true.

To Your Success,

Willie Crawford

P.S.  The chances are really good that whatever challenges you
have, Bill’s been there, and found a way to overcome them.  Let
Bill show you how, by taking the easy step of going to
http://MeetAnActualBillionaire.com

“A unique language understood only by those in the cult,
“guru” figures of whom many blindly follow, and bizarre
rites and rituals.”

Let’s see….

- Unique language: squeeze pages, optin rate, conversion
rate, PPC, CPM, CPA
- Guru figures: enough said!
- Bizarre rites and rituals: launching new websites at the
drop of a hat, constantly searching for better tools (which
spring up every day), working at all hours of the day or
night.

While Joyner’s comparison may in some sense be accurate,
there’s another word that better describes this collection
of eclectic individuals we know as “internet marketers”.

Family.

Skeptical?

Think about it: in what other business arena do the major
players:

- Freely share their biggest “secrets”?
- Promote each others’ products and services?
- Sell to each other, and to each other’s customers?

I can’t think of any other business endeavor where
successful business owners are so open and transparent with
their colleagues and potential competitors (”newbies”).

And Joel Comm has now taken this transparency to a whole
new level.

You may know Joel as the guy who figured out how to make
Google’s Adsense a money-pumping hands-free oil well and
then turned around and wrote a book about what he learned…

In the New York Times Best Seller The Adsense Code, he
pulled back the curtain so others can duplicate what he
did.

Joel’s new book -the one with the foreword by Mark
Joyner-documents the history of the internet marketing
“family”…

Click Here to Order: Stories of the World’s Most Successful
Internet Marketing Entrepreneurs is the most complete
background of Internet marketing that exists today.

Joel retells story after story of dozens of today’s
internet marketers: how they got started and the paths they
took to become successful.

Once you finish reading this book, you will never look at
Internet Marketing in the same way. Not only do you get an
inside look at marketers including:

- Marlon Sanders
- John Carlton
- Michel Fortin
- Willie Crawford
- Armand Morin

Plus many others, often in their own words…

You also get the little “nuggets” of practical and
strategic wisdom that Joel has deftly included too.
So the book is part family history, part marketing
education, and part inspiration.

You might already be part of the family, if you:

- Know what a squeeze  page is
- Spend time obsessing over your “opt-in rate”
- Check your Clickbank or Paypal account twenty times a day
- Continually search for better-performing keywords
- Hang out with your online friends more than with your “offline” buddies

…then congratulations!  You are already a member of the “family”.

If not, the fastest way to join this family is to read the book!

Click Here to Order, go this website right now:

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Sincerely,

Willie Crawford

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