Most marketing gurus have wacky giveaways to their top affiliates and in the past, Russell gave away a Hummer! Of course, it was won by Mike Filsaime so it would take a small sized miracle for a newb to beat out old Mikey.

This time Russell has called his contest the $100 Million contest and his goal is to help YOU make money. Now, we’re not as daft as we may seem. Obviously if you are an affiliate of Russell’s, you driving traffic to his products makes you money while making HIM money. Nothing wrong with that…I just wanted you to be aware.

The system looks pretty cool. Russell has videos, quizzes and assignments so you can follow along and keep track of where you are. What’s even more cool is that he’s got “unlock codes” so you can work on the videos and assignments and then do the quizzes and save your spot to come back to later.

So Russell is giving away a sweet ride (a new corvette) and is going to teach you how to build an online business. For once, the contest is geared toward the beginner and not to the big gurus who will slaughter you for sure.

Get your butt over there and get signed up, it’s free and I’m there. That should be reason enough!

http://contest.dotcomsecrets.com/foolsfortune <—Yes that’s an affiliate link. I get a whole dollar and now that I have TWO babies and not just one, I need that $1. Just go do it man!

Mike

Anyway, I’ll give you a few days worth of Russell’s desktop mentoring to catch us up a bit.

Day 7 – Call (800) 272-6871 xt. 123 for your free coaching call.

Day 8 – Getting your site online
- Domain name is $8-10/year
- Get one that’s easy to remember
- Get a .com (no .net etc.)
- No hyphens

Day 9 – Setting up your website
There are 3 types of websites:
- Squeezepage
- Salesletter
- Blog

Homework – Go get a minisite designed

There you have it. Pretty basic stuff I guess but at least he’s taking us step by step. I do still feel that he has omitted a couple very serious steps. Namely they are selecting a niche and researching the niche for market interest.

I know he had the Ask campaign deal, but if you picked a dud the first time, really you would be stuck at that phase re-doing your Ask campaign over and over until you found a niche with some serious interest.

Be back tomorrow-ish with days 10-12.

If you’ve ordered Russell Brunson’s Dot Com Secrets Wealth Building Portfolio, drop me a line to let me know how you’re getting on with it. If I don’t get any feedback about this sucker soon, I’m just going to dump the updates and forge on myself.

Thanks
Mike

Some people just hate these Internet Marketing Gurus. I find it hard to hate anyone, but some do annoy me. That said, I do find the Gurus very interesting. I mean, sure it could all be smoke and mirrors and they could be full of shit about the amounts of money that they make, but some of them seem to have a VERY good story if that’s the case and they really are broke.

While Russell and Stu McLaren were talking away, I was thinking about what I’ve learned in my short Internet Marketing career and what differs from us unknowns in the trenches and the Guru’s. We unknowns are writing ebooks, doing graphics, affiliate marketing, writing articles, flipping websites, writing scripts, doing SEO for other marketers etc. and is that what the Guru’s are doing?

If we want to make the kind of money that the Guru’s profess to be making, shouldn’t we be taking a look at what is is they are doing and see if we can’t model it? They say success leaves traces right?

Mike

In the day five video, Russell shows a couple of books and then shows the exact same books recorded on CD. If you know Russell’s background, this may not seem like a big deal as he is a self-professed marketing material junkie, but I can attest to it first hand that different packaging sells.

I recently picked up an e-book called The Four Hour Workweek by Tim Ferriss. It was handy to read the book at work on my lunch, but then I got busy and didn’t have time to read so I got the audio version. When I was at home, I didn’t want to sit around and listen to the audio file so went out and bought the actual printed book version. No wonder Ferriss only works for hours a week…people like me are paying his bills!

So the point of Russell’s lesson for the day was that you can release a book (or an e-book), you can record an audio file of yourself reading the book, you can make a video about the book, or you could even hold a seminar teaching the book’s contents.

Speaking of books, I know of some great books and cruising. You work hard and you deserve a vacation… the best value for your money when vacationing is cruising. Don’t be a chump and pay too much for your cruise…go buy my books and save money, time and aggravation on your cruise vacation

Mike

I think there’s one major flaw in this so far… what if someone has no niche chosen nor do they have any idea what niche to choose?

I haven’t been participating myself at this point, as I’ve been doing a little research into keyword research and niche selection.

Before we continue on to day five and six, let’s go back and recap the days we’ve covered so far:
Day 1 – watch welcome video, download desktop mentor, join 90 day challenge, study content.
Day 2 – monetize your ideas
Day 3 – 3 rules: always ask first, create an outline, what’s your big idea?
Day 4 – collect questions and write an outline

Well, there it is so far. Stay tuned for day five and we’ll see where that takes us!

Mike

Now as if it wasn’t bad enough that everyone is promoting the same thing right now :ahem: stompernet :ahem: but our friend Russell has even thrown us a curveball. He’s released his wealth building portfolio, and then promptly kicked it to the curb and switched his attention to his Affiliate Evolution. Who am I to argue with Russell? He’s raking in the fat cash and must know something.

Are you in affiliate marketer? If so, it might be worth $10 for you to look into Russell’s Affiliate Evolution. He claims to know how to get better than 300% commissions.

If you’re going to order it anyway you might as all use this link

OK, my inbox is filling up while I type this. Let’s move on to day 4.

Mike

Day three homework: as stated above; join forums and post away!

Pretty easy day three. Guess what’s next? You know it man! Day four.

Mike

Day 2 – Monetize your ideas

Russell referred to a book called Don’t dig for gold by Sam Breman. Sam was California’s first millionaire who bought all of the shovels in town when everyone else was panning for gold. Where do you think they went when they needed shovels to dig up their treasures? You got it…Sam Breman’s shop.

3 Rules

1- Always ask first…what do people want?
2 – Create an outline from Ask campaign questions.
3- What is your big idea? What’s unique about it?

Day 2 Apprentice homework: read the resources, Make an Ask campaign, make a squeeze page in Wheeby or another HTML program.

That’s all for now…see you on day three.

Mike
http://www.cruisevacationparadise.com

For the 30 challenge, we’re supposed to :
1) List our goals
2) Create a vision board
3) Create a mission statement

We’re also supposed to take before photos of what we’d like to change (broken old crappy car, more time with family, leave job etc.) and then we work the materials Russell provides for 90 days.

Then we take an after photo, and write a 1000 word essay of how we have changed internally in the past 90 days. Next we submit our website(s) and proof of income during the last 90 days. After this, a winnder and 5 finalists will be chosen.

So far, it doesn’t look as structured as it was made out to be but there is definitely TONS of good info here and if it does nothing but keep people moving forward taking action…then it’s well worth the price of shipping if you ask me!

When you first setup desktop mentor it asks you to pick a time to receive your next module. Mine is set for 9:00pm so we’ll see what happens tomorrow. For now, I’ve got 41 pdf’s to read….better get at it.

Mike
http://www.cruisevacationparadise.com

I left a message and a guy named “Rome” called me back today as promised. Rome asked a few questions about my business, my websites, and my goals and said he’d get the checklists and CD sent right out to me.

I mentioned that I had no username or password yet but Brent Coppietiers knew about it. He said i could also contact customerhelpdesk.org and submit a ticket. We’ll see if Brent get’s back to me first. He was just off for a few days with Russell at Big Seminar.

So far so good. The idea is to get logged in so you can use the desktop mentor and start applying the learnings.

I’ll throw a ticket in for good measure and see what happens.

Mike