Thor Schrock

Well the first week of January is almost gone and I am already behind my new year's Internet marketing goals. I managed to create just over 68 pages of new content in the form of 17 new spyware removal tutorials. I could say I am listing them below for your benefit, but we all know I just want to get them indexed ;-)

• Remove the FilesSecure Spyware Infection (Pages 2, 3, 4)
• Remove the Anti Virus Gold Spyware Infection (Pages 2, 3,
  & 4)
• Remove the PSGuard Spyware Infection (Pages 2, 3,
  & 4)
• Remove the Search Maid Spyware Infection (Pages 2, 3,
  & 4)
• Remove the Virtual Maid Spyware Infection (Pages 2, 3,
  & 4)
• Remove the Security IGuard Spyware Infection (Pages 2, 3,
  & 4)
• Remove the Security Toolbar Spyware Infection (Pages 2, 3,
  & 4)
• Remove the WinHound Spyware Infection (Pages 2, 3,
  & 4)
• Remove the MalwareCrush Spyware Infection (Pages 2, 3,
  & 4)
• Remove the MalwarePro Spyware Infection (Pages 2, 3,
  & 4)
• Remove the IEDefender Spyware Infection (Pages 2, 3,
  & 4)
• Remove the VirusProtect and Virus Protect Pro Spyware Infection (Pages 2, 3,
  & 4)
• Remove the AntiSpy and AntiSpyPro Spyware Infection (Pages 2, 3,
  & 4)
• Remove the AntiSpyGuard Spyware Infection (Pages 2, 3,
  & 4)
• Remove the VirusRay Spyware Infection (Pages 2, 3,
  & 4)
• Remove the AntiVirGear Spyware Infection (Pages 2, 3,
  & 4)
• Remove the XPAntiVirus Spyware Infection (Pages 2, 3,
  & 4)

My goal was to have 150 new pages of content by the end of the day tomorrow, but that is looking a little tough to these eyes tonight. I will make a more detailed post tomorrow after the final week one stats are in, but so far Google hasn't made a pass over those yet so they are not earning at the moment...

I just turned 31 last November, and while that is certainly not an elderly age, some of life's wear and tear is starting to show on my body.

The latest example is the vision in my right eye. I was having trouble reading street signs at night unless I closed my right eye. I went in to have my eyes checked, and they found my right eye was a bit off.

I am going to be spending a LOT of time in front of a computer screen this week, and the last thing I need is a headache from my eyes. I went to my local WalMart Vision Center and spent some time scoping out some new specs. I bought a pair, but which one do you think it was?

Third prize of the Acer Wide Screen Display is Andy

The Second prize is a free copy of Joel Comm's Secret Classroom DVD Set and it is going out to Eliza!

The $1,000 in CASH is going to Queen Bee

Congratulations to everyone who won! Andy and Eliza, please email me your postal address so I can get your prizes out to you. My email address is tschrock AT schrockinnovations.com.

Queen Bee, I need you to fill out an 1099 IRS form before I can PayPal you the money. You can email me the form at the above address. You can find the form online here. Let me know if you have any questions, and happy new year everyone!

There is only 1 day to enter to win over $1,800 in cash and prizes in the Thor Schrock Secret Classroom Blog Contest!

Check out the entry requirements here.

I will be drawing the three winners at 11:59 PM on December 31st. The first winner will receive the $1,000 CASH prize, the second winner will receive the $500 Secret Classroom DVD Set, and the third winner will receive the Acer LCD Wide Screen Display!

With less than 50 people in the competition with just under 200 total chances to win, your odds of winning are pretty darn good if you enter today!

If you have already entered, be sure to check out the last minute bonuses you can use to boost your chances to win!

This morning my wife sent me to the gas station to grab a couple bags of ice for the throng of family we will be entertaining over the next couple days.

I pulled my 16-month old son Jacob away from the ton of toys he unwrapped that morning, bundled him up and headed off to accomplish our Christmas Eve mission.

We pulled up at the gas station a few minutes later when a woman tapped on the passenger-side window of the minivan. She was dressed in a heavy coat that was well worn and her hair was a mess. I rolled the window down a couple inches to see what she needed.

"Sir," she said, "please help me. My car ran out of gas on 16th Street and I only have $1.00. I have to get to my family's place for Christmas. Do you have any money you can spare for gas? Anything will help."

My B.S. meter immediately spiked, but it was Christmas Eve, and what if she was telling the truth? There have been a couple of times in my life when the kindness of a stranger has made all of the difference in the world to me. I only had $6.00 cash, which would have bought 2 gallons of gas at best. The First Noel started playing over my XM radio, and Jacob was alternating between my face and the face of this strange woman with great interest.

I decided what the heck. It's $6.00 on Christmas Eve, and if she is telling the truth and she gets home to her family maybe she will look back on this moment and help someone else in their time of need.

I pulled the $6.00 out of my wallet and handed it through the 2" opening. She thanked me, turned away and started walking toward the corner of the building.

I thought that the direction she was walking was a bit odd, because there were no streets there that led back to 16th Street. Part of me wondered if I should have offered her a ride back to her car.

Just as I finished that thought, a rusty,multi-colored, four door compact car that might have been a Honda at one time in its life, pulled away from around the corner with the "out of gas" girl in the passenger's seat.

Maybe her friend gave her a ride, I thought... But then they went to the corner and turned away from 16th Street. Part of me was put off that I had fallen for the old, "my car is out of gas" line, but another part of me looked back at my son and hoped that he would be trusting enough to fall for the same line someday.

As I bought my $4.00 of ice on a credit card, I thought there will always be people that want to scam the system, steal from others, click on their own ads, or whatever makes a quick buck.

I just hope there is always someone who is willing to trust one more time because maybe... just maybe... that girl was taking the long way back to 16th Street.

Merry Christmas, and I hope you have a wonderful holiday with those you care about.

From time to time people ask me if its is absolutely necessary that a URL contain keywords that users will likely search for.

The answer is no, they are not absolutely critical. However keywords in your URL can give you a huge and immediate boost into the search results for your desired search term.

Here is an example. When I was competing in Joel Comm's affiliate program to move copies of his Secret Classroom product, I reserved two domains - nextinternetmillionairedvd.com and secretclassroomoffer.com.

I updated the nextinternetmillionairedvd website daily and generated a TON of backlinks all over the web to ensure a high search engine placement. As of today, it is ranked #2 for the term Secret Classroom in Google (right behind www.secretclassroom.com).

While the other website was updated at times as well, far less effort was put into building backlinks and tweaking its meta content. The URL obviously has the keywords Secret Classroom in it, and look where that caused the search engine rankings to end up:

www.secretclassroomoffer.com

This URL is ranked #6 in the results for secret classroom (it went as high as #4). This site is mostly images and has very little machine readable content. It is there mostly because it has keywords in its URL.

www.secretclassroom.nextinternetmillionairedvd.com

While the root domain nextinternetmillionairedvd.com is ranked second, I established a subdomain on that URL called secretclassroom. The content on the subdomain is EXACTLY THE SAME as the content in the root domain, yet it comes in at #9 in the search results!

A REALLY Long URL

Coming in at #19 is secretclassroom.nextinternetmillionairedvd.com/ secretclassroom_kris_jones.php. Boy that's a mouthful!

Note the repeated words secret classroom in the URL. I have now placed three times in the top 20 search results with three pages from a site that only has 14 total pages. The content on two of these pages is identical, and the third was a content scrape from an online bio of Kris Jones from PepperjamSearch.

Admittedly, # 9 and #19 are not exactly stellar search results. But imagine if I would have put the same backlink effort into www.secretclassroomoffer.com as I did into the nextinternetmillionairedvd.com website. Having those keywords might have even been enough to elevate me up over the real Secret Classroom website by Joel Comm!

The moral of the story is that while you can achieve stellar results without having keywords in your URLs, adding keywords can give you an instant edge that your competition will have to work hard to overcome.

If you are about to reserve a URL, I suggest you find a way to include your keywords if at all possible.

If you already have a URL with content and search engine results you don't want to abandon, add keywords to the names of your future pages and add a subdomain that contains your keywords as well if possible.

A lot of you supported me on the Next Internet Millionaire reality show, and even though I was the second runner up I had an awesome opportunity to learn from some amazing internet marketing gurus in the Secret Classroom.

And I was a VERY good student.  So good in fact that I am taking two of my former guru instructors, Marlon Sanders and Armand Morin to the woodshed in Joel Comm’s Secret Classroom Affiliate Program!

Here is what I learned and how I am beating some of the best internet marketers in the world.

Be a Marketing Ninja, not a Marketing Thug.

Marlon Sanders taught me the theory behind something I have instinctively known in the past.  He said that every strength has an accompanying weakness. If you are up against a superior competitor, you should not attack their strength. You want to attack the weakness that accompanies their strength.

For example, is you are going up against Best Buy trying to sell computers, don’t open a super store staffed with a moderately skilled sales and support staff and a massive selection of PCs.

Instead sell high quality computers that are custom designed for the user’s needs and provide an award-winning service and support plan to back it up. By attacking the weakness within their strength, you negate Best Buy’s competitive advantage.

The More Broke You are the Better Your Image Needs to Be

Sites like Amazon, or Google, or YouTube are multi-million dollar websites with logos that are recognized by visitors and people have come to trust them.

Armand Morin explained to me that there is no accident in the fact you can probably visualize the logos of each of the above companies in your mind right now.

Consequently when one of these websites wants you to take an action, whether it is buying a book or uploading a video, you are more likely to take that action because you trust you trust the name and the logo.

The greatest cost you incur in business is getting a customer for the first time.  Secondary sales to the same customer should be a cakewalk if you have branded properly and your customer recognizes you the next time you come knocking.

If a Picture is 1,000 Words, What’s a Video Worth?

Using a video to drive traffic to your website is an art form, and if you master it you will have an extremely effective tool that most people overlook.

Anyone can post a backlink in a couple seconds.  It’s no biggie to get into Google Search.  But making a video takes some time and some talent.  Most people don’t know how to drive traffic with videos, so they don’t mess with it at all.

Mike Koenigs Mike taught me how to produce a video, get it in front of eyeballs, and then get those eyeballs to a website. He taught me how to use videos to drive traffic just like a search engine does, and this was a huge component that propelled me above the other guru marketers.

He explained that people will tolerate bad video to a point, but if your audio is bad, you won’t get past the first 2 seconds. If you are going to spend money on equipment, buy a good microphone first, and then get a good camera.

Then there was the $30 must-have lighting rig you can make from stuff at Home Depot that will light up your whole video set.  More awesome knowledge that will make your videos look awesome and give you an edge over the few others who throw some videos online.

The Long Tail is a Blogger's Best Traffic Friend

Dave Taylor explained that if you properly construct a post with content people want, you will reap a small amount of traffic on that post indefinitely into the future as people seek out what they want.
Eventually the long tail approach to blogging will generate lots of small traffic pulls that add up to one powerful web presence. 

You can search for just about anything online and find one of Dave Taylor’s pages somewhere in the results.

A Symphony of Guru Butt-Kicking

Rather than taking one guru’s system exclusively, I combined multiple methods from the Secret Classroom to make a marketing machine that was more powerful than any of my instructors by themselves.
I started with three websites all designed to promote the same product. More sites means more opportunities to claim spots in the top 10 search results and force other sites downward.

I moved fast to get my sites indexed before the pre-launch, and www.nextinternetmillionairedvd.com was my flagship website.

Following Marlon’s advice, I needed to attack a weakness in the Secret Classroom juggernaut. Rather than playing the same “I set a cookie on your PC” referral game, I attacked the Secret Classroom on price by offering a rebate.

Joel is offering a $200 affiliate commission for every Secret Classroom set I sell, so I offered a $100 rebate for anyone who buys through my websites. I mean seriously, if you were planning on buying the set anyway, why not save the $100, right?

As soon as I learned that the name of the DVD set would be the Secret Classroom, I used the basic SEO/SEM techniques to grab a #2 spot in Google for my nextinternetmillionairedvd.com website.

Next I hired a coder to make me an email submission form that allowed me to collect names and email addresses on the websites and store them in a database. I managed to collect over 170 leads of people who were interested in the discount offer.

I then produced 12 Secret Classroom sample videos (1 for each instructor) made from video screen captures and audio from Next Internet Millionaire episodes. I used Mike’s techniques to write titles, descriptions, URLs and bottom third messages that would perform. I uploaded those to every single video sharing site on planet earth.

I then held almost all of the top spots in Google, Yahoo, and YouTube video searches for the term secret classroom. Next, it was time to attack Blog Search.

I started posting on my blog multiple times a day using Dave Taylor’s long tail advice. While my competition was playing cookie wars driving traffic through their affiliate links, I was collecting email addresses and building relationships.

Then on December 5 Joel pulled the trigger. I email blasted my list, published a blog post, placed a Google AdWords ad, and uploaded my post-launch landing pages.

When the dust settled, I was Joel’s #1 affiliate after day 1, and I held that spot all the way to the end of his affiliate contest on day 7. I was way out ahead of Marlon Sanders as well as Armand Morin – the very gurus who educated me in the Secret Classroom.

So many people try internet marketing and fail because they are looking for a system that works 100% of the time in a turn-key style. The truth is that while all of the gurus that instructed me had AWESOME techniques, those techniques are simply tools. Like any tool, these tactics are suited for various environments and tasks. Mastering multiple tools and then selecting the right tool at the right time is what makes all the difference.

It's no secret that video can transform what would otherwise be a bland sales letter, web page, or blog into a dynamic and entertaining communication tool.

But have you ever considered that your online videos can actually drive traffic to your website rather than just acting as added value content?

By labeling your videos with a bottom third, carefully wording your video titles, and tweaking your descriptions a bit, YouTube and other video sharing sites can become traffic magnets that send targeted leads to your website who WANT to convert into clicks and/or sales.

The question is with so many people posting videos for the most competitive search terms, how can you get your video to rank high enough for anyone to notice your message?

The answer is MUCH easier than you think!

Why You Want Your Video
Ranked in YouTube

Well for one thing, you put time into shooting the video, producing it, and uploading it. If no one is watching it you have wasted your time.

If people search for a term and find your video it is much more likely that the person who did the search can be transformed into a targeted lead.

The Magic of the Bottom Third

When you produce your video, use your video editing software to place a URL or other message across the bottom 1/3 of your video.

You have a mere 2 seconds to capture a person's attention, so make sure your bottom third starts right away and there is no boring title screen that preceeds the video. Get right to it and be enertaining in the first 2 seconds.

After the first 2 seconds, you have to recaptue the viewers attention again every ten seconds at a minimum. Try to keep your video under 2 minutes if possible, but never more than 3.

The longer you can keep your viewer's eyes plastered to their computer screen, the longer they will be exposed to your bottom third message as well. Feel free to keep things interesting by changing the bottom third from time to time throughut the video, but the main concept or message should always remain the same.

How to Write Effective
Titles, Descriptions, and Tags

The easiest way to ensure people watch your video is to get it ranked for the terms you expect people to be searching for. If you are making a video about Netflix for example, you should have the word Netflix in your title, description, and your video tags.

You should try to make the first 2 words of your title be your primary keyword or words. For two videos that YouTube would normally rank identically, the title "Netflix is the Service I Love" will always beat "I Love the Netflix Sevice".

If your goal is to drive traffic to your website from your video, make the first line of your description a URL.

For example, write your description like this:

http://www.myurl.com
I really love getting my videos ranked on YouTube because I get a ton of traffic from it. Watch to see why.

When people are watching your video on YouTube, they can click on the URL and have a look at your website as long as you use the http://www link structure.

Make sure that the ONE keyword that is most important to your video (the ONE word that people will be searching for) is the very first word in your Title and your tags. This is important and will help push your video up over the top of a similar video even if it has more views.

Make More Than One Video

When you are trying to get your point across with video, I recommend having one flagship video that will get all of the attention when you link to it from blogs, websites, etc.

Then while you are in your video editing software, make use of some of your extra clips to make different movies that deliver the same message.

Go online and find other videos that are within your niche that are getting views, and upload your video as a video response. Typically the owner of the video you are responding to will have the ability to accept or reject your video response.

Keep in mind that you can only use each mini-video as a response to one other video, so choose your target wisely. Your video response will then appear in a thumbnail just below the original video that is already popular. You are in effect piggybacking on someone else's popularity - if they will let you.

One last word of advice... As popular as YouTube is, it is not the ONLY video sharing website on the net. Before you put all of your eggs in the YouTube basket, do a video search in the three major search engines to see what video websites are indexed frequently for your niche.

Upload your video to those sites at least. As a general rule, the more places you upload your video to, the more attention it will get. Attention means traffic, and if you are doing your job, you should be able to convert that traffic into sales.

I just found out today that I am the top affiliate in Joel sComm's Secret Classroom affiliate program!

I want to absolutely STORM the search engines and show Joel that he should have chosen me over Jamie Luchuck and Charles Trippy to be the Next Internet Millionaire.

But I'm going to need your help, and I am willing to pay for it. I have $1,800 in cash and prizes that I am going to give away to my readers just in time for those holiday credit card bills. Does this motivate you to enter?

The Prizes!

1st Prize - $1,000 value (duh)
$1,000 USD CASH via PayPal

Need I say more? Use the cash to buy a copy of the Secret Classroom, pay off your holiday bills, or just go nuts at the mall. Its your money - if you win.

2nd Prize - $497 Value!
A Copy of Joel Comm's Secret Classroom DVD Set

This DVD set contains all of the instruction that I received while on the Next Internet Millionaire. This month alone the secrets that these gurus taught me have generated more than $14,000 in revenue. If you are into internet marketing or just want to start making money online, this set is a must-have. Trust me on this one.

3rd Prize - $300 Value
A 22" Wide screen Acer LCD Computer Display

If you are using a square monitor right now or something smaller that 22", winning this display is a no brainer. Here are the technical specs for the connoisseurs among us:

Acer X221WSD 22" Wide screen LCD Monitor
5ms, 1000:1, WSXGA+ 1680x1050, VGA, Color: Silver

How to Enter:

Entering is as easy or as complex as you want it to be. You MUST do three things to qualify for any of the prizes.

1. Add a link to your blogroll called Secret Classroom that links to http://www.nextinternetmillionairedvd.com. When we pick our winners that link MUST be in your blogroll. If you do not have a blogroll on your blog, please the link somewhere where it will appear on each page of your blog (as a blogroll would). This link MUST NOT have a nofollow tag or it will be disqualified.

   A note to MySpace bloggers: You don't have the option to do a blogroll. Instead of the blogroll requirement, add me as a friend and repost my bulletin about the contest in your MySpace account

2. Make a post on your blog Stating that you are entering Thor Schrock's Secret Classroom Blog Contest. The words Thor Schrock must be linked to http://www.thorschrock.com, the words secret classroom must be linked to http://www.nextinternetmillionairedvd.com, and the words Blog Contest must be linked to this post (http://www.thorschrock.com/2007/12/06/secret-classroom-blog-contest-with-1800-in-prizes-up-for-grabs-enter-now/). You don't have to write anything additional if you don't want to.

   At a minimum, this is how your post should look:

   I am entering Thor Schrock's Secret Classroom Blog Contest

   If you are unsure how to make this post, I have provided sample code below that you can copy and paste into your blog:

   I am entering <a target="blank" href="http://www.thorschrock.com">Thor Schrock’s</a> <a target="blank" href="http://www.nextinternetmillionairedvd.com" title="Secret Classroom">Secret Classroom</a> <a target="blank" href="http://www.thorschrock.com/2007/12/06/secret-classroom-blog-contest-with-1800-in-prizes-up-for-grabs-enter-now/" title="blog contest">Blog Contest</a>

3. Post a comment on any article on my blog EXCEPT this one. Make sure you use your accurate email address, your real FIRST NAME, and the URL of the blog that has a link in the blogroll when you make your post. This is how I will verify your entry and contact you if you win a prize, so don't mess this one up!

   I also ask that your comment be something of substance. Please don't comment spam me, as spammy comments will be deleted, and that will invalidate your contest entry. For the effort of writing an original sentence, I have installed the Do Follow plugin so you will get a backlink for posting a comment.

Get 28 Extra Entries!

With over $1,800 up for grabs the thought occurred to me that you might want to enter more than once, or do a little extra work to increase your odds of winning.

For completing the three steps above, you get one entry. Here are some ways you can get additional contest entries and boost your chances of winning one of the three prizes!

1. Enter with Multiple Blogs

   If you have more than one blog, you can perform the same three steps above on each of your blogs and get one extra contest entry each time you do

2. Subscribe to my Feedburner Feed - 3 Extra Entries

   Subscribe to my Feedburner RSS feed and get 3 extra entries in the contest. Please remember that you MUST perform the three steps mentioned above to enter as well. simply subscribing to my feed WILL NOT qualify you to win unless you perform the three steps above.

3. Write a substantive blog post on your entry.

   While you are only required to perform the three steps mentioned above to enter, if you choose to write a substantive post about what the Secret Classroom is and why you want a copy, I will give you 10 additional entries.

   You may make one substantive post per blog you enter into the contest. A substantive post is defined as a thought-out, grammatically correct post of 200 words or more. Your post may contain links to this blog or to http://www.nextinternetmillionairedvd.com within its content, but you MAY NOT link directly to Joel Comm's Secret Classroom website.

4. Make a Post in a Forum

   Make a post in a forum with a link to http://www.nextinternetmillionairedvd.com with the anchor text Secret Classroom.

   After you have posted in the forum, make a comment on this blog below (again use your real email address and first name, and your blog URL) that contains a link to the forum post you made. Don't spam forums where your posts are not welcome, because if they are removed, they will not count.

   You will receive 5 additional entries for each forum post you submit.

5. Add Garry Conn to Your Blog Roll

   Add Garry Conn to your blogroll and link to http://www.garryconn.com for 3 additional entries.

6. Add Douglas Karr to Your Blogroll

   Add Douglas Karr to your blogroll and link to http://www.douglaskarr.com for three additional entries

7. Add John Cow to Your Blog Roll

   Add John Cow to your blogroll and link to http://www.johncow.com with the anchor text "Making Money On the Internet" for 3 additional entries.

8. Subscribe to my YouTube channel

   Get 2 additional entries for clicking the subscribe button on my YouTube channel. If you subscribe, please leave a comment below with your YouTube user ID so I can credit you your entries.

9. Add Me to Your MySpace Friends

   Add me to your MySpace friends for 1 additional entry.

Contest Deadlines and Rules

I will be assigning each entry in the contest a random number and then use a PHP function to randomly select a number.

I will check the website that corresponds with the selected number and ensure all contest guidelines are met.

If the blog is not in compliance, it will not win a prize and a second entry will be selected. This process will be repeated for each prize.

The drawing will happen on December 31, 2007 at 8:00 PM CST. to qualify to win, your entry must be submitted by that time. Late entries will not qualify.

Want to Get in on the Action?

If you have a blog with a large following, we can add you to the bonus entry section like we have with John Cow, Garry Conn and Douglas Karr.

All I ask in return is that you write a post for your readers and ask them to participate in the contest. If you are accepted and added to the bonus entries section, you will not be eligible to win a prize in the contest, but you will get a TON of backlinks.

If you want to get involved, please contact tschrock AT schrockinnovations.com.

Joel launched the Secret Classroom website 20 minutes early this morning and I was just informed thet I referred the VERY FIRST sale to Joel!

These opportunities don't come along every day. Listen to why I believe the Secret Classroom DVD set can change your life! Audio Interview

The Secret Classroom DVD Set just launched a few seconds ago and it will probably sell out today from what I have been hearing behind the scenes.

I have an awesome offer for those of you who really want a copy of this 15-dvd set, but are a little tight with your cash this time of year.

If you order from my affiliate link, I will give you 50% of my commission back. That means you will get a $100 dscount just for ordering right here, right now.

Don't miss this opportunity. Once these DVDs are sold out they could be gone forever - that's how the info-product lifecycle works.

Oh, and did I mention you will also get over $8,000 in bonuses for ordering RIGHT NOW?

** NOTE: The bonus offers that Joel is offering DO NOT total $8,000. That was my mistake and I aplogize for any confusion **

Just do it. Order the DVD set and after you watch it if you think I was a tool for recommending it, I will buy it back from you. Seriously, this DVD set is the real-deal, no sales pitching, hot new internet marketing gold mine!

If you only buy one marketing aid to carry you into 2008, this is the one you need.

If you're in a hurry, please go take a look at this:

The Real Marketing Deal

You've purchased ebooks, you've downloaded software tools, perhaps you've even invested in seminars.

And yet, you still feel like something is... missing.

You've tried to apply what you have learned, but it seems like there are just too many pieces for you to put together.

You want to succeed with your Internet business, but so far nothing is happening.

That all changes today!

What you are about to see is quite possibly the world's "magnum opus" on Internet marketing-- the greatest education ever offered.

Let me explain...

This fall, Joel Comm made history by producing the world's very first competitive reality show, "The Next Internet Millionaire".

This groundbreaking show took Internet marketing to a whole new level with it's high production values and top-notch content.

During the show, the twelve contestants were privileged to learn from Internet millionaires such as Mark Joyner, Armand Morin, Jeff Walker, Marlon Sanders, Mike Filsaime, Perry Marshall, Brad Fallon and Rich Schefren.

If you watched the show, you only got to see a FEW MINUTES of each of the twelve teachers. The nuggets from the show have inspired people in their businesses, but most viewers have been asking to see more of the real secrets revealed.

That's why I am very excited to tell you how Joel wants to help you with your internet business so that you can get on the road to being the next Internet millionaire!

For the first time ever, Joel is making the COMPLETE teaching from The Next Internet Millionaire available in a home-study course that contains everything you need to know to truly succeed online!

It's called "The Secret Classroom", and you are invited to enter!

Secret Classroom Back Stage Pass

The material in this course has changed the lives of all twelve contestants, with several of them already having successful five-figure product launches!

In the past, there have been several "seminar-based" products available from various marketers, but none of them can compare to the Secret Classroom.

Never before have so many superstars of Internet marketing been assembled teach their greatest secrets and strategies PURELY so others can succeed online. There was absolutely NO pitching or selling during these sessions.

You won't find this kind of teaching anywhere else, so I encourage you to check it out at:

The Secret Classroom

After taking a look at what is in The Secret Classroom, I have no doubt that this will go down in history as THE definitive course on Internet marketing.

I suspect that these will sell out quickly and the price will go up over the next few days, so I recommend that you hurry and grab your copy of The Secret Classroom right away!

**EVIL WARNING** If you don't like dabbling in the grey area of marketing, don't read this post.

Anyone who is my friend on MySpace (feel free to add me) knows that I need to get in there more often and keep up with all of the comments, bulletins, friend requests and spam.

I went looking for a product that would help me maintain the three MySpace presences I am involved with without having to manually do everything. I came across a product called MySpace FriendBlasterPro by www.addnewfriends.com.

It really wasn't when I was looking for, but I immediately saw a ton of features that could give me a marketing boost within MySpace as well as in the lesser search engines (Yahoo & MSN) that eat MySpace content up.

Free Trial Was Awesome!

The cool thing is that the program offers you a free trial, so I installed it (spyware free BTW), created a MySpace profile and sent out 50 friend requests. Within a few hours, I had 12 new friends on my fake profile. I thought WOW and I bought the program for a mere $65 (seriously, that is less than what a good dinner for two would cost at Red Lobster and it is going to make me TONS money). Let me show you how.

A friend of mine once said just focus on generating traffic. Once you have the traffic there will be tons of ways to monetize it. So the approach I took with FriendBlasterPro was, how can I use MySpace profiles packed with friends to generate traffic for my websites?

Why Do People Add Mysterious
MySpace Friends to their Profiles?

MySpace is addictive for some users. People are enticed by the idea that others are interested in them and what is going on in their lives. The people who WANT a lot of friends for whatever reason are the ones that will approve mass friend requests.

Don't worry about the people who do not accept your friend request. These are probably people who would not respond well to future advertising messages anyway unless they were catered directly to them. You don't have time for that on a mass scale, so the best thing you can hope for is that they don't mark your request as spam.

Why do You Want a Profile With a Ton of Friends?

There is no real value to having MySpace friends in an of themselves unless you are one of the compulsive people I mentioned above. What IS valuable is the marketing messages you can place in front of your new-found friends once they have accepted you into their fold.

You can use the standard tried and true bulletin posting and/or commenting (both are supported in Friend Blaster Pro for automated use). Or you can get a bit more creative and watch your earnings balloon!

Create Dynamic MySpace Comments

The fastest way for some to mark you as an evil spammer on MySpace is to start posting big 'ol graphic ads as comments. So most marketers try to keep in good graces by posting much less effective text based comments that have a little promo message in them of some sort.

But what if you could not only post comments WITH graphics in people's MySpace profiles but also get a backlink each time AND change the image whenever you want?

It's easy! Just upload a 1 px by 1px transparent image to your server and then add that image to your MySpace comment. Make the image a link with a border of 0 to get a freebie backlink that will boost your rankings in MSN and Yahoo (but usually not Google).

Almost everyone will approve your benign, add-free comment. Then, at a moment of your choice, simply change the image on your server from the transparent little dot to an image of your choice. Then when their MySpace pages load, they will suddenly start pulling your ad image and the users can delete your comment if they want, but it is much more difficult to mark a comment as spam after it has been approved.

Some Pointers When Using FriendBlasterPro

As easy as FriendBlasterPro makes social networking, there is a constant battle between your marketing efforts and the MySpace spam police. (Seriously, let's face it. If you are doing this you are spamming MySpace)

If you are not careful with how you do things, you will get your account banned lose all of the friends, comments, blog posts, or anything else you put into it - especially your time.

Here are a few tips on avoiding the MySpace Spam cops and keeping your accounts in good standing.

1. Less is more. Rather than blasting one of your fake profiles out to 400 people a day, create a bunch of profiles and then use friend Blaster Pro's request chaining feature to send NO MORE THAN 50 friend requests from each account per day.

   Even sending 55 requests a day can get you banned. 50 is the magic number as of right now. Don't get greedy or you will lose it all.

2. Spend some time on your profiles. The content of your profile is directly related to how many people will add you as a friend when you ask. Don't just create a blank profile with no pictures and no content and expect success.

   I don't like making Myspace profiles because it is so time consuming. There are tons of people in online marketplaces or forums who will build these profiles for you. MySpace doesn't really care about the IP address e new accounts come from, so don't sweat that.

   I would suggest you have at least three pictures in your profile (all of the same person), stick with a female profile (they are far more successful than male profiles), make a blog post or two, and set a mood icon.

   Doing these things on every profile you create will help convince people that your profile is real, and second, it will instantly eliminate the people who make profiles online with automated software. You want hand-made profiles if you can get them. I paid $80 for 30 hand-made Myspace profiles. It's not that expensive.

3. Check for people who want to add your fake profile. It might amaze you to find that as you gain more friends, other real people online will start sending your fake profile friend requests! Friend Blaster Pro has an "accept all" feature and I would suggest you use it.
4. THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT TIP! When you use FriendBlasterPro to harvest profiles from Myspace to send friend requests to you will get 3,000 results. Don't start sending friend requests yet because you are wasting your time!

   Over 40% of the profiles you harvest are bogus in themselves. These people will not check or approve comments, will not answer friend requests in many cases, and if they do, they usually flub up and get banned by MySpace anyway.

   After you harvest a new list of 3000 profiles, let it age between 24-48 hours. FriendBlasterPro will save the list if you exit the program so you can use it later. This gives the MySpace cops time to weed out the idiots, catch some of the more slick people, and best of all, increase your odds of only sending requests to real people.

   This reduces the number of requests you will send which lowers your spammer profile. You will actually get more, and better quality friends by aging your list. I know, it doesn't make sense to get more by not doing anything for 2 days, but trust me on this one.

The bottom line is that if you are patient and steady you can add over 20,000 friends in a single week. Then what you do with them is your business, but the method I mentioned above is an awesome way to push a site you are promoting to the top of MSN and Yahoo search. Granted, they are only 30% of all search traffic, but that 30% can be some very easy money.

Check out the free trial if nothing else and add a few new friends to one of your existing MySpace profiles.

I am finally giving up on the old dig theme as a base for my blog. Between the components that do not accurately render across multiple browsers to the cumbersome sidebar interface - its time for the Old Digg theme to go.

I am planning on switching to the Cutline 3-column theme with some heavy modification. If you are a regular reader, please stick with me through the conversion.

Friend Blaster Pro Review and Techniques

I have some great content coming up! I just wrapped up an evaluation of a MySpace bot program called Friend Blaster Pro. I will tell you EXACTLY how far you can push it before tripping the MySpace security troopers. Of course, this review is not to be used for spamming - just maintaining the 100-some MySpace accounts you already have and manually update ;-)

Freebie Friday Giveaway

My Buddy Wes Wyatt suggested I review some hardware items and then give them away on the blog to build traffic. I have two video product reviews filmed, and I will be editing those shortly. I am thinking about calling it Freebie Friday, so guess when you should check back for that!

Advertising Opportunities

I will be adding a little bit of direct-buy banner advertising (not affiliate ads) as well as ScratchBack and of course the obligatory AdSense. Don't worry though - the main reason I write this blog is to generate good content and entertain. I make about $2 a day from it right now, so let's just say I have a way to go before I can buy McDonalds every morning from my blog revenue.

Of course, none of this makes a lick of difference if you can't navigate my busted up Digg Theme that won't work in Safari, looks like crap in FireFox, and gets blown up by a long category name in IE7. More to come guys!

If you have not heard by now, Joel Comm is opening up the Next Internet Millionaire Secret Classroom. The Secret Classroom is a 12 DVD set that contains all of the Next Internet Millionaire episodes, but more importantly, the COMPLETE teacher sessions.

I was in that classroom for two weeks and I can tell you that there was SOOO much information in there that has helped me transform my online businesses and presence. Throughout the weekly Next Internet Millionaire episodes you can see a small sampling of each of the teachers and the topics they discussed.

If you haven't been following the episodes, I have organized an UNAUTHORIZED Next Internet Millionaire Secret Classroom where you can see each of the teachers and some of what they had to say while I was on the show.

If you are planning on purchasing the Secret Classroom DVD Set ($497) DON'T BUY IT YET!!!

Go to my UNAUTHORIZED Secret Classroom and sign up for an email alert by entering your name and email address in the form. I will let you know the SECOND the Secret Classroom is released. Not only that, but I will also GIVE you $100 out of my own pocket if you buy from the UNAUTHORIZED Secret Classroom email alert. Think of it kind of like a rebate.

This is the ONLY place on the web you will be able to get the Secret Classroom at a discount, and from what I have heard behind the scenes there may not be enough copies of the DVD set to go around when the launch happens. It's VITAL that you get in quick when Joel pulls the trigger, and why not save $100 in the process?

Here's a video I cut for the UNAUTHORIZED Secret Classroom that explains it all.

What are you waiting for? Head on over to the UNAUTHORIZED Secret Classroom and check out more than 1 HOUR of guru instruction for FREE!

Ok, so three days of Shoemoney is a lot - especially when he is talking to/about me. But what he is really known for is making money online - LOTS OF MONEY.

I recently had the opportunity to preview a manuscript of "The Shoemoney Playbook." There is a lot you don't know about Shoemoney like the fact that he made $12 million IN PROFIT online over the past 5 years.

I can't give up all of the nuggets in his upcoming book, but what I can tell you is that he was willing to give some of them up in an interview I conducted with him about how his Viral Relationships have transformed his business and his life.

In the interview, Shoe talks about how to approach bloggers of status, and how not to approach them. He talks about some of the key people and moments in his online career. If you want to see a behind the scenes success story that you can emiulate, you need to watch this interview.

To watch the interview, please visit www.viralrelationships.com and enter your name and email address. A link will be emailed to you to take you to the page with the interview. You can watch it online or download it to your media center to watch later in HD.