Here’s one of the testimonials for my recent Keyword Hospital Seminar from Mike Philbin (thanks Mike!)…

To see the rest, go and take a look at the Keyword Hospital website.

An exclusive seminar for all business owners that want to get more out of their online marketing…

The Art of Blogging For Business

Presented by Ken McCarthy and Mark Attwood
November 16th, Cheshire, England

Back in 1994, Ken McCarthy held the world’s first Internet Marketing Seminar in San Francisco. You can see it on YouTube here:

Ken was the first person to recognize that the internet is a direct response medium. His students have gone on to make billions online over the past decade and a half.

Since 2003 he has run the world’s most highly respected internet marketing seminar, The System, in Chicago every year.

I had the privilege of speaking at Ken’s System UK Intensive in London in September this year.

I also gave Ken, a New Yorker, his first taste of the North of England by showing him around my home town of Manchester.

If you have no idea who I am, this is a clip of me speaking at the British Library in London in the summer of ’09. It was a 90 minute talk at Rachel Elnaugh’s “Marketing Magicians” event, and this is me talking about the long tail opportunity:

There’s more info on me here, here and here. (If the pages change, don’t worry, that’s just me split testing them).

Anyway – Ken was so taken with it, and so intrigued by the way I use blogs to generate income, that he suggested we hold a one-off, one day seminar on the subject in Manchester on November 16th. BTW: this is NOT about affiliate marketing or “Flogs” (fake blogs) or any of that stuff.

It’s about how real business owners can use readily available software and, mixed with the right strategy, can harness that power to generate more online reputation, seo power, traffic, indirect income and much, much more. Take a look around the testimonials on this site to get an insight into the non-Guru, non-BS approach I take to marketing education.

Then take a look at where this blog ranks for the term “internet marketing expert” on the UK Google server (this pic taken at 12.05pm on Saturday 17th October, click to enlarge):

This was achieved in a matter of a few months, almost accidentally, with no on-page SEO initially, with a blog that I only started in February, with much lower PR than other pages in the same niche and with less links than much of the competition.

It’s just one of scores of quality blogs I operate pulling in serious traffic and long term business growth.

If you want to find out more, sign up to get on the list right away. We’re keeping the location secret and the numbers low, so sign up below NOW to find out more:

Please note: This is not a “get rich quick” thing – this is serious minded stuff from serious minded (although with a heavy dose of humour) people. When you sign up you’ll get direct access details to me and my team and you’ll be able to call me directly with any questions which we’ll happily answer.

Do You want to set your online sales alight?

For the last time this year, I am holding a special two day Internet Marketing Clinic on 5th and 6th November in Manchester.

There are only six spots available, and it’s first-come, first served.

I am giving a special £1000 discount to members of the Inner Circle, and £500 off to attendees of Ken McCarthy’s System UK Intensive (if you’re not a member of the Inner Circle).

To apply, please use THIS FORM BELOW only. To get full details on what one of my clinics can do for your business and to see a ton of video testimonials, go to my Internet Marketing Course page (but don’t sign up there, sign up below):

I’ll be closing the doors to this as soon as it’s full. If you miss out, you’ll have to go on the waiting list (although we don’t know when we’ll have time to do another at the moment). I can promise you that we will be having some special guests at this clinic, and the promise of a big bonfire complete with sticky toffee apples!

How happy does it make us when we get emailed a video testimonial from one of our Inner Circle friends?

When it’s as good as this one from actors headshots specialist, Nik Gregan, very happy indeed :-)

In fact, this video deserves our prestigious “The Shiz” Award for best customer testimonial. Thanks Nick!

P.S. If you’re wondering what all the fuss is about, head over to the Inner Circle page.

On Youtube:

You can download the DVD quality video here

I just got my copy of the DVD of Rachel Elnaugh’s Marketing Magicians event at the British Library in June.

Take a look at it:

It’s a fantastic package crammed full of super-useful information from a diverse bunch of speakers, including me!

Royston Guest – a really useful and inspiring speech about how important referrals are in your business. I guarantee you are not doing everything Royston recommends, and you are losing sales because of it.

Thomas Mahon – a remarkable story of a tailor and his blog. Thomas was inspired to “start a conversation” on a blog. He did this – by blogging about what goes into making his Saville Row suits. He’s got a full international order book because of it. A superb lesson on how powerful blogging really is.

Me – I give away Waaaay Too Much Information in my talk. One attendee told me the other day that he’d halved his PPC budget and quadrupled his hits just from the adwords info I give on here.

Alan Forest Smith – from hairdresser to powerhouse direct marketer, Alan is a remarkable speaker.

Sue Stone – an inspirational talk from officially “the happiest woman in Britain”. Seriously, Sue has clients from all over the place and she teaches them to be happy applying the law of attraction and positive thinking.

Rachel Elnaugh – The First Lady of Dragons Den has been there and bought the T-shirt. Red Letter Days was an amazing achievement. The fact that it went down was heartbreaking, but Rachel’s fighting fit and gives an impressive talk here on branding that will inspire you. A true testament to the fact that being a successful entrepreneur is as much about how many times you can pick yourself up off the floor as anything else. Go and read Rachel’s book: “Business Nightmares”

Here’s a clip of me speaking at the event. There’s 1 hour and 20 minutes of me on the DVD.

There are some more clips in my Members Area, but if you want the whole shebang, I suggest you buy it today:

You’ll get a copy in the post within 14 days of us receiving the order. There is only a limited stock, so I’d get this valuable piece of business education as soon as you can. When you’ve watched it, feel free to come back and leave some comments here.

The Members Area is coming along at a pace. We are covering all aspects of Internet Marketing in there with videos explaining the simple stuff like “How to Set Up Your Adwords Account In Your Favour, Not Google’s” and “How to Set Up A Simple WordPress Blog On a Keyword Targeted Domain” and “How To Use Facebook Marketing To Generate Low Cost Leads” and much, much more.

Here’s a sample video, you will have seen more if you have been to one of my Internet Marketing Clinics) discussing and illustrating how to re-write articles for SEO Article Marketing for maximum link juice…

You are welcome to join my Inner Circle, or at least test it out for a fiver: it’s ridiculously cheap (but not for long), so check it out by clicking here.

I just got this in from Wayne Connors. Wayne runs a national cabling installation company, heard me on the Rachel Elnaugh webinar last week and then grabbed my free internet marketing DVD offer. This is what he has to say about it:

“Hi Mark

I must get out more Mark? I started to view the DVD on Sunday, after
viewing it twice intermingled with me going to my PC to try and see if I
could emulate what I had see, it became apparent that I needed help. My
dad always said a little knowledge is dangerous. The DVD is packed with
an a lot of common sense information and structur. It highlighted to me,
that when we decided to tender the build of our site we put the cart
before the horse looking at the window front and not the structure or
content. I hope that by attending one of your clinics, we are able to
turn our site from a information tool into a revenue generation tool.

Thanks for opening my eyes.

Regards

Wayne”

Wayne is now booked to attend my Internet Marketing Clinic on June 12th and 13th. Are you coming?

This amazed me this morning. I was doogling (doodling on google) whilst the kids were running around screaming at each other. A typical Saturday morning. Then I decided to see what the competition was like for the keyword “Internet Marketing Expert”. To my amazement, I’m listed at Number 6 out of 18,500,000 results!

What makes this even more incredible is:

1. I don’t have the keyword “Internet Marketing Expert” in the title or anywhere else on my site
2. I’ve only been blogging on here since February
3. The site only has a PR (Page Rank) of 2 at the moment.

Here’s the proof (click to enlarge – make sure you’re browsing with Firefox):

A couple of other SEO results you may or may not know about (I’ve got hundreds). This one shows how we’ve dominated the skip hire market for nearly two years now:

and this one shows how my cookery course (HowToCookLikeAPro.com) is higher than Delia Smith on amazon.com for the keyword “How to Cook” !!! (with 75 million results!)

This kind of SEO success can be profound for your business. Utterly profound. Want to know how to do it? Then come to one of my Internet Marketing Clinics.