Today Joel Comm has launched a new product called The Secret Classroom. It is the home study version of The Next Internet Millionaire internet reality show.
If you've been following this blog for a while you'll know that here at World Wide Web Gurus we are big fans of Mark Joyner and his simpleology courses. You will also know that we are attempting to demonstrate how to earn money on the internet without spending any first. This launch presents us with an opportunity to try and combine these two passions of ours. We are affiliates of Joel, and can therefore earn money by selling his products. In addition Mark Joyner was the first real life internet millionaire to appear on the show. He was teaching the 12 contestants how to use the techniques he teaches in simpleology to organize their time better and so become vastly more productive.
Now normally for a big launch like this we'd buy some pay per click advertising, but that is against the rules for this project. We'll see if we can find out what is possible without paying for any clicks, or any other form of advertising come to that.
Watch this space!
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It is less than an hour since I clicked the "Publish" button for my post about the Secret Classroom. We are already at number 7 in Google US for the query "joel comm" "secret classroom" "next internet millionaire" "mark joyner" simpleology. Now it is very unlikely that anyone will actually type all that into their Google search box. It does however illustrate how quickly it is possible to get into the Google natural search results these days.
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We've now got SEO Elite configured to check what progress we have made in the Google natural search results for a variety of keyphrases. Yesterday we just wanted to know if we'd been indexed, which happened very quickly. Today we want to know where we stand for keyphrases that people might actually type into their Google toolbars when trying to find out more about the Secret Classroom course.
Things can change very quickly this early in a campaign, but at the moment on a search for "Joel Comm Secret Classroom" (without the quotes) Google ranks us at number 29 out of 9,930. A search for "Secret Classroom" (again without the quotes) puts us at 108 out of 798,000. Total sales (that I am currently aware of) stand at $0!
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Earlier today I received an email which included a link to some early Xmas gifts from Joel Comm. One in particular caught my eye. Only $1 for a 14 day trial subscription to Traffic Geyser which is the latest brainchild of Michael Koenigs, one of the experts featured in the Secret Classroom.
It sounds like the answer to our prayers. Loads of traffic and a front page Google listing "in a matter of hours". Now I know that I'm biased, but personally I don't think we're doing too badly in terms of getting on the front page of Google. We are certainly lacking traffic just at the moment though. Apparently the Traffic Geyser service makes it really easy to create videos then upload them to a series of Web 2.0 sites. It's the latest thing in traffic generation. Lots of people get to see your video, which generates huge quantities of traffic and you zoom up the Google natural search rankings in no time.
It sounds like just what we need and we're desperate to try it out but there is one small problem. We still haven't made a sale. We are determined not to put any money down, not even one measly dollar, until we can do so out of profits generated from this business
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We urgently need to get one dollar or more into our currently empty PayPal account. We're going to try to do that by selling at least one copy of a very low cost product from one of the experts from the Secret Classroom. A quick bit of research revealed the ideal ebook – Joel Comm's Adsense Traffic Secrets.
To discover this little gem I headed over to 7dollaroffers.com and browsed around. As luck would have it a couple of products from Joel Comm himself are on sale at $7 dollars a pop. The advantage of 7dollaroffers.com in our current predicament is that 75% of all sales we make are paid directly into our PayPal account, which is just perfect. The disadvantage is that this is a statistical thing. On average we get 3/4 of all sales, but the first sale might go straight to the PayPal account of the owner of 7dollaroffers, and we'd still have nothing to pay for our 14 day Traffic Geyser trial. If that happened we'd have to wait for the second sale, and there's no telling how long that might take, because we're still only getting a trickle of traffic.
Is there any kind soul out there who could do us and our experiment a tremendous favour and buy Adsense Traffic Secrets or one of the other $7 products from us? Alternatively if you happen to know Michael Koenigs' phone number please give him a call and ask him if he could make us an irresistible offer that we cannot possibly refuse, even in our currently dire financial state.
Thanks very much in advance.
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It's now just over an hour since I posted the article about Traffic Geyser, and I've set SEO Elite off to do it's thing again. Where do we stand on the natural search rankings now? Well we are moving up for all sorts of keyphrases on a variety of search engines. Now I know that I have a weird sense of humour, but it for some strange reason it causes me great amusement to discover that we are currently ranked 17 on AltaVista for "blogger gurus" (without the quotes) and 21 on AllTheWeb for "adsense gurus" (again without the quotes). This is hugely entertaining, but is not really very likely to put bread on the table.
I have a feeling that it will be ultimately more relevant that my recent post is now ranked by Google at 16 out of 796 on a search for traffic geyser michael koenigs. Interestingly this is a few places ahead of Joel Comm's own YouTube review of Traffic Geyser. We are also in position 101 out of 238,000 for just traffic geyser. To round things off we have also inched up to 104 at Google on a search for Secret Classroom.
On the traffic front Google Analytics reports that we got a few clicks on the natural search results yesterday, a lot of which were undoubtedly just us testing things. We also got 13 referrals from the Warrior Forum. A tiny trickle of traffic is a whole lot better than nothing at all!
To the best of my knowledge total sales still stand at $0.
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Our very first video, tentatively entitled "Traffic Geyser Heaven" is now in production!
We still have made no sales, so it looks like we've missed out on the $1 trial for Traffic Geyser. I wish I knew what Frank Kern had to do to get his absolutely 100% free trial of the service, and therefore some extra free publicity for the relaunch of his Mass Control marketing system. Not being in possession of Frank's contacts it looks like we'll have to make our own video, and promote it any way we can that costs $0 or less.
We waited for the weather to improve yesterday, and by late afternoon at least the rain had stopped so we shot about half an hour of footage. As you will see in a day or two conditions were against us, so we have a lot of editing to do. In the meantime I just recorded a screen capture video courtesy of the free version 3 of Camtasia. We are now sandwiched between Eric Holmlund and Joel Comm in the Google natural search rankings! Take a look here.
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Monday dawned much brighter than the afternoon before. Unfortunately there was no way to reshoot the "Secret Headquarters" episode of Traffic Heaven (we've decided to drop the Geyser from the title) because I had to jump on a plane to Amsterdam, the capital of Holland. I took my trusty Sony Handycam with me, and you will find below the edited highlights of my journey from Bristol to Schiphol Airport.
Many thanks to Tom and Lauren for letting us include the conversation we had about the internet and viral marketing on the video, and to Dawn for operating the Handycam for one sequence..
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I arrived in Amsterdam with the mini DV tape in my Sony Handycam full of exciting stuff, only to discover that I couldn't get the footage off the tape and on to a computer! Here is a YouTube video entitled "Windmills from Amsterdam" which shows you our adventures whilst trying to get hold of the correct sort of firewire cable.
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Kasia and I had an astonishing time on Tuesday night when we went to talk with sound shaman Raven Dreamdancer but also got to experience her amazing talent first hand as well. Then on Wednesday we took a trip to the Dorestad museum at Wijk bij Duurstede near Utrecht. We were going to look at an exhibition about the Dutch slave trade (automatic translation) in Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles created by Rita Maasdamme In fact Rita drove us over there from Amsterdam herself. Take a look at this video to see what we discovered on our travels.
P.S. There is no such thing as a mini DVD tape. I meant mini DV tape! 
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