Mike Filsaime and Lee McIntyre Workshops – the same but not-Part 2.
Recently they both recycled two workshops. Mike Filsaimes 7 figure secrets, and Lee McIntyre -The Inside out – Upside Down workshop.
Both use standard Internet marketing tactics to re-sell their old seminars. Both Seminars are done. Over. They have the money and the results. Now to further promote themselves and continuity programs they ‘give-away’ the DVDs of their workshops (True value products). Then if you back out of the ‘funnel’ because of shipping, they both offer direct downloads for $1.
In Internet Marketing once you have a’ product’ re-use it as many ways a possible. Mike Filsaime is a master at this, and Lee McIntyre duplicates in true form.
So they know their stuff.
But where are you , or me in this? Getting started, fumbling through the morass of information and techniques and watching the ‘gurus’ pile on the money and almost newbies like McIntyre generate $100,000 a month, with the same apparently slick techniques.
Mike Filsaime started back when the Internet was still steam powered. When the market was still virginal and naive and you could spam yourself a customer or two. Mike Filsaime grew up at the same time that “Internet Marketing’ grew up. He caught the wave.
2010 is not 1999. The audience is sophisticated. There is no spam. Your emails are full of ‘mass control’ headlines and pitches. Your email box is FULL of your opt-in responses and you cant remember which is which, as most are the same, and they want you to spend anywhere from $9.99 lifetime buy in, to only a mere $699 a month.And the pitches are endless. How are You ever going to make it?
Niche marketing is…well what niche hasn’t been explored, mined, trawled, over and over. SEO is no longer the wonder it was, as Google always stays ahead. And the days of PPC average costs of .15c a click are so far away its like another universe.
But so what.
Everything changes.
Theres always the ones who get in ‘at the right time’.
Remember for every Mike Filsaime, John Reese, Eban Pagan and Frank Kern, there are hundred who didnt make it.Who started when times were ‘good’. When things were ‘easier’. When the time was ‘right’.
But they didnt make it. They failed?
They quit
Then there is Lee McIntyre, his business is barely 2 years old. So he started when the bloom was certainly off the rose.
For every new marketer that comes along there are thousands of new prospects flooding the internet. The customer/prospect base is increasing far beyond the capture possibilities of the few ‘gurus’ out there.
Thus Lee McIntyre.
And watch Lee McIntyre enter his small meeting room on his first day. His opening. He is nervous. He hadn’t slept the night before, or the night before that. A month before he was worried sick no-one would pay to come hear Lee McIntyre. Why would they?
Then he was worried sick they would all cancel. Why wouldnt they?
Then he was worried no-one would come, even after they had paid. Why would they?
Then he was worried sick no-one would respond to his ‘information’ and they would all leave. Of course they will.Its just lee McIntyre – not someone, well ,important.
But here’s the thing. He went ahead. He booked the little meeting room in Manchester. He didnt want to. He wanted to run away. He wanted to cancel. He was terrified. We’re all terrified of moving forward. But he went there anyway. He walked into the room anyway. He started to speak anyway. He went through with it anyway.
The biggest challenge, especially with Internet marketing where your at home with this ‘thing’ on the screen,nothing “Real’. Why bother? This thing isn’t really a website. You dont have all the advantages. It will never work.
So you walk away. Why not? Whats the point?
You dont ‘pull the trigger’, because if you dont ‘act’ you can dream. But if you act – then you have to deal with reality.
And it maybe failure.
This time
Remember.
Only this time.
Do it again
Watch Lee McIntyre, he is Mike Filsaime et al way back. Nervous frightened, terrified his dreams will shatter.
But he goes ahead anyway. And hes not great that first day. Nervous, not a good speaker, uncertain. Hesitant.
But by the second day, hes relaxed, hes believing a little in himself, and he has great information to share.
As we all do.
As we all do.
But we have to pull the trigger. We have to allow our dreams to shatter and deal with reality .
You cant move on if you you dont move. A parked car cannot be steered.
As John Reese always says – whatever you do now, is the worst its going to be because you will learn to fix your mistakes.
But if you dont act. If you dont leap. How can you move?
Leap.
Now – when its not right, when its not perfect, when it might not work.
Because next time, it will work better.
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Hi
Nice article, is this your own writing or part of Lee’s copy & paste promotion?
Anyway I found this when looking for Lee on twitter, and if you’re going to his newcastle event Thursday night / Friday say hello to me.
Andrew
doesnt look like a lee copy and paste – thought both 1& 2 were good – new look at old ideas
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nope no copy and paste guys – all me own stuff
mg