I just got this email from a member of my Inner Circle…
“Hi Mark,
Since we joined the Inner Circle in September 2009, we’ve put into practice a number of your recommendations and we now rank first in Google for several of our chosen keywords. As a result, our monthly turnover has risen in the intervening 5 months by 24%. We have just recorded our best month’s trading since we started the business over 3 years ago and next month looks as though it will be even better.
We’ve spent a lot of time and money in promoting the business over the years but our subscription to the Inner Circle is without doubt the best marketing investment we have made.
Pia Muir
Proclean Domestic Cleaning”
What can I say to that!?
Thank you Pia – long may you continue to succeed. A 24% improvement in this economy is extraordinary but totally realistic for any business. If you’re not a member yet, take the trial here.
“The Art of Blogging for Business” seminar was held by me and Ken McCarthy in Manchester on 16th November. These are some of the testimonials we received…
Here’s what master internet marketer and martial arts guru Lloyd Irvin, Jnr. thought to the gig:
Here’s Chris Ruane:
Here’s Darryl Cygler:
Here’s Dave Muskett:
Here’s Frank Camacho
Out of interest, Frank won a place on the seminar in a competition set by Lloyd Irvin. This is the video that won him the place (glad I didn’t upset him on the day :-)…
This is weird. Since I started talking about Internet Marketing I’ve moved into this strange world where people I’ve never met are contacting me, asking me questions, and generally being very nice. It’s mainly down to the fact that I’m now in people’s homes on DVD. It’s truly humbling to be able to publish this video testimonial on my work from 19-year old entrepreneur Glenn Bridges. Glenn has set up a charity dedicated to helping teenagers called InnerFlame.org.uk. It’s stated mission is “INSPIRING YOUNG PEOPLE TO REACH THEIR POTENTIAL”. This young man has all of the elements for success in business: tenacity, vision, intelligence and, well, see for yourself…
Thank you for your kind words, Glenn.
You can get the DVD Glenn’s referring to from here.
I’m opening the doors for just 5 people to join my Business Edge Internet Marketing Elite Club.
What’s this? It’s a subscription based service that includes full access to our Internet Marketing Training Area, full access to my newsletter and a full hour’s telephone consultation with me every month to make sure you’re ahead of the game in terms of your internet marketing strategy. Instead of me banging on about it, here’s a call I just got from William Haseldine, Managing Director of acne treatment specialists, SkinGenesis.co.uk…
I can only accept five members to this because I’m running a bunch of businesses here and the speaking schedule is filling up fast! If you want to get in, you’ll need to subscribe. It’s £297 per month. There are no contracts – you can jump ship at any time, and if you don’t think the information you get is worth this money, I’ll happily refund you – guaranteed! I’ll also schedule calls around YOU, not ME.
(Leave me your contact details and comments about what you want to achieve when you pay. If it fills up too quickly, I’ll just refund you and keep you on the list for when and if anyone else drops out. Ta!)
I’m in the middle of teaching today, but I just got this audio testimonial emailed to me from my audiogenerator account (click the play button):
I’ve been using audiogenerator for about three years now, and although I talk about it on my internet marketing course, I just realised I hardly ever talk about it on here.
It’s a brilliant way of getting customers to leave you messages which you then simply cut and paste from the audiogenerator site to your own site. I’ve always said that a video testimonial is better than an audio testimonial which is better than a written testimonial which is better than no testimonial.
See how we use it on our skip hire site (click the link).
It’s not always possible to get a video testimonial. especially if the horse has bolted (in my case, this means customers that are not nearby). Audio is the next best thing – as with video, people can instantly tell whether it’s genuine or not.
There’s nothing to stop you recording something, then putting it online as an mp3, I just like the ease and convenience of the audiogenerator service.
In fact, if you ever feel compelled to leave me an audio testimonial, just call 0207 6694 304, choose Option 1 and use code 9396 – use my contact form to tell me if you have a problem with it at all.
Just got this email from Martin Holling, who came to my Internet Marketing Course on June 12th/13th:
“Subject: Your Marketing Clinic has worked a treat already!
Dear Mark,
Just to let you know that following your Internet marketing Clinic we have already had significant improvements within 10 days!
Even though I had put lots of effort in writing a page on the resort of Almerimar in Spain, loaded it with keywords and updated it regularly the google bot just ignored it, with a bit of your magic and link from your blog it appeared within 3 days and with a few more enhancements it has now arrived on page 1 I never thought we would see anything like that so soon its incredible!
We have written a few squidoos and got a few directory links going and are implementing lots of the things we learned over the weekend, Google seems to be taking more notice of our site and even more good news the only page that remained unindexed by google has also today been indexed! YES!
Just the sort of thing to keep our enthusiasm levels up and incentive to carry on internet marketing (good name for one of your DVD’s?)!
Can’t stop now I’ve just seen some anchor text……
Thank you once again!
Kind regards,
Martin K Holling
Director
Travel Empire Ltd. Disneyland Paris Specialists”
It’s just the beginning Martin….(and thanks for the kind words)
I had a great time at my June Internet Marketing Clinic in a very sunny Manchester.
We had all sorts of people at this event, from Terry Edwards who owns a southport restaurant Casa Italia (amongst other businesses), to Steve Charlesworth and Martin Holling who run a travel agency that specialises in almerimar holidays and other dynamically generated package holidays to Spain, the Canaries and Disneyland Paris, to Wayne Connors who runs one of the UK’s biggest network cabling companies, ACCL Ltd., to Rachel Elnaugh herself – one of the UK’s most well-known female entrepreneurs, to Chris Peck – a specialist in acquisitions and formerly of British Agricultural Foods, to 19 year old Vicky – just starting out on her business and internet marketing journey with UK kitchen sinks specialist Sinks.co.uk.
The first day was the usual super-intensive brain blowing content I’ve been delivering since I started these clinics in October 08. I started with the question “What is Internet Marketing?” and then unveiled all the techniques I’ve been using to maximise traffic and conversions since 2003 over the next 8 hours.
Intensive internet marketing clinic with Mark Attwood driving the mac (click to enlarge)
Day two was completely different in that we took everyone’s online activities to pieces and reassembled them with low-cost, actionable plans to achieve maximum long term success in the shortest time possible. From keyword research, to reassembling web pages with on-page SEO, to getting under the hood of people’s adwords account to enhance their performance, to rewriting copy on the page to increase conversions at the same time as optimising them for long tail keywords.
I was ably assisted by my SEO cohort Steve Wild. Thanks guys for helping make it such a good weekend.
One part of the feedback we got was from people being surprised at how laid back the whole event was. We even took everyone out for dinner and drinks on the Friday night – it’s that kind of event! (I find a lot of the most useful marketing ideas come over a bottle of wine outside of the classroom).
If you want to book for my next Internet Marketing Clinic – click on the link to find out when it is.
