LESSON #1: Introduction to Eric’s Tips
Welcome to Eric’s Tips!
If you want to start an online business, or if you want to make your current online business more profitable, you’ve come to the right place.
Please watch the following video:
Main points:
UPDATE: The series will be 100 lessons, not 120.
Action steps:
1) White list this email address: tips@ericstips.com (put me on your “safe list” to make sure you receive the lessons). For detailed instructions, please see:
Whitelist instructions (someone else’s website)
2) Make a folder to save all the emails you receive from me.
3) Commit to following each lesson.
As always, you are welcome to post your questions and comments below.
Have a great day!
Hi Eric,
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and putting this program together. God will Bless you and your family.
Yes…I agree! Eric is extremely talented and has a natural gift with communicating and helping others understand online business!
We Give You 120 Individual Turnkey Websites With Your Paypal ID On Each
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Thanks for introducing me into this business. I plead to let me know more about it cause I’m a fresher i.e. the newest person you will be lecturing about the business. And I will want to know all it takes to be a online business man and what the benefits are. Thanks and your effort is really appreciated.
It is refreshing to learn about earning money without all the hype. I wanted to thank you for putting this together for us.
http://www.noien.com
Online Market Research
hmmm… all this job searching has made me want to start my own internet business- looks like I am joining in at just the right time.
Hey sis- nice to have you on board
I need some help. I have the “overload” symptom. I know I am trying too hard.
To Success,
Lakedoctor
Ok great first lesson. Keep on going this way. Yes, also in the Netherlands we are following your lessons!!
Hey Eric,
Great first lesson. But it’s already after 5:00 pm the day after you launched and I never actually got an email sent to me about this post. Let me know if I was supposed to have.
Just to be safe, I’ve followed your advice and added you to my safe list -just in case the trouble is with my spam filter trying to stop your tips!
Oh, and I just wanted to say that you come across as such a down-to-earth “real” kind of guy…who knew that you were secretly so RICH??
Sabrina
Thanks Sabrina
The reason the email hasn’t gone out yet is because Aweber is still in the process of resetting all my subscribers back to the first followup message. I think it will go out tonight.
Thanks Eric,
You are a blessing! I’m looking forward to your leadership, I’ve been trying to get started but yes, got bogged way down in confusion by gathering more information than I can ever even read, let alone make sense of. (missed my startup goal a few months ago) Keep up your good works.
Also, thanks to Sabrina for asking her question, I was anticipating the next email too.
Eric,
Great start to your 120 lessons. Looking forward to all your lessons. Especially the advanced lessons.
Best,
Fermin Suero
http://www.ferminsuero.com
Thanks for all the great tips Eric…even though I’m not a newbie, your newsletter really helps alot in adding boost to my online ventures.
I have been looking forward to your coaching since i received news that you’ll be guiding through newbies like me on how to start internet marketing! Great job!
Hi, Eric,
I agree with you about “information overloaded”. It happen to me now. So I’m looking forward to received your next lession.
Thanks
LOL…Yes, Information Overload! It’s happen to the besy of us. Good luck with your online ventures!
HI EVERY THAIME I AM GO TO DONLOAD I NEVER RECEIVE NOTHING I PAID FOR THAT. I NOT HAPPY
Hi JOSE- I am not sure which product you are referring to, but if it is one of mine, please open at ticket at my helpdesk and give us the details so we can assist you.
Hi Eric I’m a newbie at this. Not sure were to start yet. I’m still doing a lot of reading to get started. I appreciate your first tip and looking forward to many more Thank you. The product I’m using is by Mackenzie Lee’s Home Cash Course. I’m looking on how to get traffic to my site.
Hey Jose and Eric,
SallyG here new to the site and all it is offering.
This is how I got here too, the whole Mackenzie Lee’s cash course sent me into info overload big time. It is important to see others that have taken the exact same pathway.
I am not so happy with the reselling of a product that just sells reselling opportunity $$ so I am changing tactics and going into affiliate marketing with products I love and believe in, that way I stay true to myself and I think the whole process will come together with faith in my self and following the wonderful guidance of our Host Eric. Thank you Eric
I got here through the Home Cash Course as well. I would also rather be involved with products I believe in. I’m looking forward to the next lessons which will guide me in this since it’s all new to me! Thanks!
Hi Jose,
I’ve just joined too, and it seems that to get any traffic to your website you will need to join Traffic Machines ($49.95)
Tim
http//www.yourfreewebsitesystem.com/wentworth8
Very confused.. Seems every where I turn I see the same form letter with yet another person’s name attached. Feeling that I have been scammed. I click on items to “get starte” and I go no where. I have now wasted hours chasing my tail. So here I am. Are you a scam too? Hmmm I wonder.
Nope… I’m definitely not a scam.
What you are referring to is what I consider to be a deceptive marketing tactic. I do not use it, nor do I teach it.
Hi! Eric,
I have just head the Lesson# 01 of yours.
I have been receiving and going through your e-mails.
You are doing a great job Eric. You are really a Real Life Internet marketier.
God bess you for these noble services, this is because I am very very new in this business and have paid to get nothing out of it from the “GURUS”.
Dear Eric, I am living in PAKISTAN ( South East Asia) can I still be successful in this business or must I quit this.
Regards/Iftekhar Hussain
Iftekhar- Yes you can run an internet business from Pakistan. You will face some obstacles, but you can do it. Please read this article about Ladan Lashkari who became a successful internet marketer as a girl living in Iran: Ladan Lashkari article
This will show you that it is definitely possible if you have the determination.
Deer Sir
creating my website
Eric
I’m glad you’ll be sharing your best techniques & strategies with us…free
You are great, God bless you
Regards
Dola
Hi Eric,
You seem to be very down to earth and exactly what many of us have been searching for, for ages and ages….Am looking forward to your tutorials and at long last feel that the info overload I am experiencing will eventually slot in to place. NO more missing pieces and wondering where did I go wrong!!
In anticipation of a great learning curve.
Thanks
Carol
Thank You Eric,
Great job and great help.
I do appreciate very much the big effort you do to help people succeed online.
I sugest that everyone to Dig these Great lessons.
Success,
hi eric, thanks for kindness, your information worth $2000 seriously. Honestly somebody out there charging their coaching for four sessions about this amount!! but Eric you are giving it away for f.ree. As a long time subscribers, I both love reading from you and Joel I think you guys are just awesome. Anyway keep up the good work.
and can I propose an ad swap with you?
I know my list size is not as big as yours but I think my subscribers will be benefited from your tutorials and saving them big bucks on buying unnecessarily products. So what I will do is promote your free tips forever in my autoresponder (I will write the email and seek your approval first) and you just send once of my ad to your list?
How’s that sound? Eric if you are interested please directly contact me through email
thanks
Proson
Hi Proson- thanks for the offer. I am not doing any ad swaps currently, but there might be an opportunity in the future. I appreciate any publicity, and feel free to post a small ad for your site at the end of your comments when you comment on my blog.
Hi Eric
Is it possible to release the lessons in PDF format?
I live in South Africa and bandwidth is very expensive here so watching videos online is a no no.
Francois
http://www.tavs.co.za
Hi Francois- unfortunately I think making a PDF for each lesson would slow me down too much. But I will post the main points and action steps below each video. Also I will likely release the entire series on DVD when it is complete. I hate to make you wait 4-5 months for that, but it seems like it may be an option.
Eric: Enjoyed your first Lesson. I am so graceful that someone on the web is taking a truly honest approach of provide IM information for the newbies. Yes, you’re absolutely correct- there are a lot of noise of there on the web about Information Overload.
Just one question: How do I create a Gmail FOLDER.
I thought I created one on the lower left hand column where it reads EDIT LABEL section. I created a NAME and MOVE the email into it, But after that I deleted the INBOX mails and then the EDIT LABEL folder emails are GONE???
Please advice, I couldn’t locate any other folder section in GMAIL Account.
Thank you,
Jim Lee
Hi Jim- apparently Gmail uses labels instead of folders. Here’s the info:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=10708
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=6560
Hi Eric
Your sincerity and openness is greatly appreciated. Although I’ve been in internet marketing for over a year, I still have lots to learn. Thank you for taking the time and effort to put together this step-by-step roadmap for us.
Blessings,
Clarence
Hi Eric:
Can’t believe you are actually just giving this to us when everyone else charges $200. to a $1000. for their info. WOW!!!
Question; How do you make a page that uploads the product itself for others to download? Not the click here page, but the actual download page.
Thank You for your kindness and generosity.
Hi Ira- I will be covering how to create a download page somewhere around lesson #41.
Hi Eric,
I’ve really been looking forward to learning from you. Glad it’s begun!
My experience with generating online revenue has been extremely limited. About two years ago I posted about 30 old articles that I’d written on various business topics, slapped on some AdSense code, and pretty much forgot about the site. Since then, Google has paid just over $200. Now I’m ready to learn how to really do things right.
Thank you for doing this. God bless!
There is so much information out there. Just like you say in lesson #1 I have to just put it all together thanks Eric.
Great initiative Eric! I’m established with several websites and different consepts and a couple of franchises. But I pay more than I earn at the moment. I’m tired of all the million dollar launches and stuff. I just want to earn some money to make a living. I’ve been a subscriber for a long time and I really appreciate your straight forward clean and simple christian profile and I share the life in Christ. I want to thank you and am looking forward to participate in this massive project.
Greetings from Norway,
Tormod
Hi Eric, thank you for providing the training series, I am looking foreward to it. I am a 75 year old pensioner, but despite having paid for 4 training courses and completing them, as far as I could I cannot get past first base. I have 4 websites, including a resale hosting site and two fully stocked eBook stores and no traffc, getting traffic seems to be very difficult.
More power to your pen.
Thanks, regards
Leslie
Hi Leslie,
Have you ever tried articles submissions to the websites that support your niche? I’ve found that article submission is a great way to get free traffic and also get links to your site. Another good way is pay per click but be careful…if your not sure what your doing it could be very expensive!
I’m going to take a liberty here, and elaborate a little further on what Gary said.
Being that you’re a pensioner Leslie, I’m sure that you have a very limited amount of disposable income, like me. So Pay-Per-Click might not be your best option now. I’m using a concept called “bum marketing”, which is simply using all of the free marketing tools that are available. Free advertising, and social networking, posting blogs, and article submission, directory submission.
Social networking sites like twitter, facebook, myspace, squiddo (which google really seems to like), and Sales Spider are good places to start. There are plenty of how to articles available that will teach you how to use these resources effectively.
If you can build a small income stream from free classified sites, you may be able to take some of that income and use it to reinvest in your busines to pay for some Pay-Per-Click ads.
Outbound and inbound linking to your site will also help with your search engine rankings, and I don’t think a lot of marketers take enough time to do serious analysis, and selection for keywords for their sites. And then of course there are Eric’s lessons which if properly applied, may produce some dramatic results.
Eric,
First, thank you for sharing about Pray Way. That really solidified your standing in my eyes. I like the idea that you have a bigger boss than yourself. I appreciate your living out your faith in the real world.
Second, thank you for your willingness to share your wisdom. I have been looking at online marketing for years, but never actually implemented anything. I want to do that now. I have purchased a good amount of products and subscribe to lots of sites, but still am on the sidelines trying to get into the game.
I look forward to learning from you.
Larry
Hey,
perhaps this is an obvious question - maybe even a FAQ?
How long will this be going on for?
120 lessons - is that 120 days? weeks? hours?
I am estimating 5 months. If I released a lesson every day, it would take 4 months. But I know there will be some gaps, so that’s why I’m estimating 5 months.
Eric, thanks for the sharing from the heart!
Although this first lesson is very basic and an introduction of yourself, the way you are sharing this…well, it’s not just information, there’s a heart beat behind it! God bless you!
I also encourage you to continue with the basic education of making “files” or “folders” and how we can best organize our business on our computers. I’ve got stuff all over the place in no real order! Basic, but will help us in the long run I’m sure.
Thanks again,
Ernie Vila
Hi Eric,
How true, “When the student is ready the Teacher appears.” I was just thinking this week how I should probably really unsubscribe to half my incoming emails and really focus and apply all the info I’m taking in. Help with putting the pieces of this Internet Marketing puzzle together is greatly appreciated.
So, while I will unsubscribe to many a lists, yours will definitely be a keeper!
Thanks! Looking forward to the next 120.
Always Grateful,
Andrea
I was told by a few computer pros that it is safer in the long run to delete unwanted emails rather than unsubscribe. When you unsubscribe you are confirming that your email is live and reachable. I delete some and send others to my spam folder (Yahoo). Yahoo learns who you consider spam and quits loading them to the Inbox. I skim my spam box almost every day just to look for things sent there by mistake and delete them and my trash box.
I am here through Home Cash. I hope to learn a lot!
Hey thanks great video. Really inspiring to see how down to earth you are and your great results.
Cheers
Rich Muir
http://www.companiesnow.com.au
making registering your company easy
Thanks Eric,
Finally someone that is going to “spoon-feed” us not so new “newbies” who have been trying to win at this game for far too long. I have followed your tips for some time now and find them refreshing and never hyped up.
I appreciate your integrity and determination not to promote something you are not convinced will be worth the investment in time and money.
I am making a commitment to be with you every step of the way in this training.
http://www.AsNeededVA.com
Hi Eric, this is a great idea and I look forward to hearing from you. However, I must admit that I don’t like videos (I’m probably in the minority here)and would prefer to read. I started watching Lesson 1 and after 10 minutes it stopped and wouldn’t start again. It’s like starting a book and having the last page ripped out. Any chance of being able to read your following lessons?
Thanks,
Kay
Hi Kay- I’m afraid it will slow me down too much if I do a full written version of each lesson. But I will be posting the main points and action steps below each video. Also, I am going to *try* to keep most of the lessons down to around 10 minutes.
Hello Kay,
I must say, you are a member of a dying breed, which is a sad social commentary. Like you I also value the written word, and have used it to educate myself far beyond anything I ever got out of the public educational system. BUT…what this is about, is marketing strategies, and we all have to use the best marketing tool at out disposal…VIDEO!
Thank you Eric
Blesingss,
Gabriel
Eric, thank you for this gift, may God bless you.
I am inviting as many people as I can to participate.
Hi Eric,
Thank to share your first lesson of internet
marketing and knowledge with us, i will follow up your next lesson.
Keep up your good works.
Hi Eric - just found you. Your first lesson is very inspiring in a non-hype “peaceful” way. Thank you. Very much looking forward to following along.
Glen Crosier
Brighton
UK
Hi,Eric,
Thank to share with your knowledge of internet marketing,i will follow up your next lesson.
Keep up your good works.
I’ve been anticipating the start of your series since your announcement of your FreeLine.
I have also read Chris Anderson’s article that you mentioned earlier. Chris mentioned something that I have not been paying attention for some time - reputation economy.
A relative starter in this iMktg area (compare to most folks), I get overwhelmed with massive informations out there. That’s what internet is about anyway, information. I believe, the key is having an objective so that the information you need and get, will be used to attain that objective or goal.
A lot of times, we’re caught with gurus ‘teaching’ or ’selling’ information instead of trying to figure out what we want to achieve first. Then most people end up drifting in the sea of information which in itself could be useful but is not necessary to achieve their objective. I’m one of those ‘drifters’ too, but has found something to hold on now.
I’m looking forward to your series as I am also at a point of figuring my freeline that I can offer. Just need to solidify my business model.
You have put this very well…these are the same feelings most of us have felt one time or another. At least it helps us seperate what works and doesn’t work…sounds like your on the right path…Good Luck!
YES! That’s one of my pet peeves. is that these so called ‘marketing gurus’ have an agenda that is relentless, with their endless barrage of auto-responder emails. They don’t bother to take the time to listen to the people they’re trying to recruit, and that’s a big mistake on their part.
After groping my way around internet marketing for a long time, I came across Eric through the Instant Adsense Templates. This was the first time/product that I was shown how to do something which I needed to do to make money, and I have been very greatful to Eric since then. I feel I have a long way to go still, but I appreciate that Eric continues to help all of us, because he surely does not have to. Thank you Eric!
Thanks for the first lesson. I’m looking for time freedom and I’m sure you can help me.
Thanks again.
Thanks Eric,
I’ve been on your list for awhile and I’m just getting started. You are one of the few people that I’ve consistently listened to, and I believe in what you’re doing.
Keep the good vibes flowin’.
Hi Eric,
Looks like an interesting journey and I am looking forward to it. I have read your stuff for some time now and have purchased products. You are a straight up dude.
Thanks a bunch!
Phil.
Thanks Eric,
I went to both of those places too - Im looking at Nues… stien castle and I think I know the other place, wonderful Europe.
Good lesson too ! Thanks
KF
Eric,
Thanks for creating your series of lessons. Sorting through all the information that is available on the internet has been my biggest challenge.
Even though I have owned my own business and been in marketing for many years, your tips and lessons will be truly helpful in growing my internet business.
Knowing who to trust is probably the second most difficult challenge. Thanks for being honest and down to earth. Also, I appreciate your desire to provide relevant and useful information.
I look forward to future lessons.
Have a Great Day!
Ron
Thanks Eric,
It sure is refreshing to see one of the Gurus give back for a change.
Regards
Richard
Eric,
who said this…
(excerpt)
“The size of your vision will dictate the size of the result.
In order to set your vision higher, you need to see YOURSELF as a person of worth. You need to know that YOU are a valuable resource, and you hold the potential for great things.
If you are young (like me), this should be obvious. Your life is an unwritten book. You can make it what you want it to be.
If you are old, this still applies. You are a fountain of wisdom and experience. You hold great value, and many of the world’s greatest accomplishments have occurred in the latter years of people’s lives.”
Eric did back on Nov. 21st, 2006!
http://www.ericstips.com/tips/vision-part-3-lift-your-vision-higher/
Thought that revisiting this complete post of yours would be a great place to everyone to at least visit now, at the very beginning of these lessons in order to get a very honest and real focus toward what can and will turn out to be something great. Hope you agree.
You see, we’ve been with you a long time now and I’m glad to see you taking the lead, or at least following the lead to “getting back to Fre.e.”
The whole “giving” aspect has been highly overlooked by many of the most successful people out there for far to long. If “they” only knew what can become from giving.
By doing so it opens up so many additional avenues for others to give… it can end up causing a chain reaction of good in many many ways. Your a smart man and remind me of me with your giving spirit. I always have believed that the more you give, the more you will receive;)
We will start over with you and try to chime in and add support to any and all who sail to success with the rest of us!
David S.
Chief Editor
Net Business Ventures
thanks David
I totally agree, in fact I’m planning on talking about this somewhere around lesson #13.
Hello David,
From my own observance, I’m seeing the global emergence of a social networking phenomenon the likes of which the world has never seen before.
There is more benefit when people work together to help each other, than there is when they compete. The elite truly see us as nothing more than ‘exploitable resources’, with only the people at the top benefitting at the expense of those at the bottom.
This is a predatory system that has worn itself out, and it’s time to abandon that system in favor of one that benefits all, through a spirit of cooperation. You cannot change the world except through changing yourself.
Too many people look for a leader, when they should take the initiative, and become a leader. I come not looking for a leader, but partners.
Hi Eric,
I use both GMail and Yahoo but I’ve never been able to figure out why I can’t use Outlook and/or Outlook Express. Every time I come to a site which has an email link that uses Outlook I try to send the email but it never goes anywhere. I’ve attempted to delete the program and download again from Microsoft’s site but as you spoke about in your first lesson there must be some kind of disconnect of information where I’ve missed a step.I hope maybe you cover this or maybe one of your readers has solved this problem and can help.
I’ve purchased some of your products and you are what you say you are.I look forward to learning from you in this step by step method and want to thank you for so generously
giving your time to help people who probably have spent a ton of money but have not been able to connect the dots to make money online. I am one of them!
Sincerely,
Ray
hi Ray- if you’re unable to use Outlook, then Gmail would me my next choice. I have a lot of friends that actually prefer it. But here is some info about setting up OE Express:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6/using/oe/default.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/ie6/using/howto/oe/setup.mspx
Outlook/ Outlook Express are mail client programs where if you’ve your domain name with web/ mail hosting, you can configure them to get your emails.
However if you plan to get emails from your Yahoo and Gmail account into Outlook/ Outlook Express, the following tips from websites below will show you how:
- How to access your Yahoo account with Outlook Express
http://email.about.com/od/outlookexpresstips/qt/et041606.htm
- How to access your Gmail account with Outlook Express
http://email.about.com/od/outlookexpresstips/qt/et090605.htm
Rgds
Sunny from ‘Sunny Malaysia’
Thank You.
Thanks Sunny….I was wondering how to do this myself. Thank you for the links,they are very helpful!
Yes Ray, bothe Outlook Express amd Oulook have to be configured to receive and send email in connection with yahoo and gmail. Although both provide tutorials to configure, here’s a little trick, if you don’t want to bother with that.
Simply click on the email, when your Outlook, or Outlook Express launches, the email address will appear in the send to box. Simply copy/paste the email address, and enter it into your favorite email client, and then close the program.
Thanks Eric,
Greetings from Down Under (Australia). Like others have already said, ‘information overload’ and being bombarded by ‘gurus’ often diverts aspiring internet business owners from building their businesses. Thanks for producing this series of lessons. God bless you Eric.
Kind regards
Andrew
Installed the latest flash player. Couldn’t get the video to work. Could you give us written instructions so that we can print them and refer to them when needed? Thanks. Betty
Hi Betty- I’ll continue to put the main points and action points below each lesson, and I will probably put all the lessons onto DVD when the series is done. But in the mean time, maybe you could get some help getting the video to play on your computer.
This forum could be a good place to ask:
http://www.geekstogo.com/forum/forums.html
Hello Betty, I don’t know for sure if this will work, but you can download a copy of Real Player version 11.0 or later. This version has a built-in video downloader. Make sure you do a custom download to be sure you get the download manager. After you’ve installed it, the way it works is you mouse over the video screen of the video you want to download, and a little pop-up window will appear. Just click on that little pop-up window to start your download.
This will work on embedded videos as well,as long as they’re not protected by DRM technology. (For instance some google videos don’t show a download button, which means they’re embedded)
One last thing. Real Player has a tendency to insinuate itself on your system in ways that you may not like. To prevent this you can download a FREE version of WinPatrol. It’s a handy little security utility program that keeps unauthorized things from running on your machine.
Great first lesson Eric! I am really looking forward to learning lots from you. I, too, suffer from information overload but I try to keep everything organized with folders in my e-mail and on my computer. I also keep separate notes in MS Office and in a separate notebook with links and sites I find useful, etc.
Looking forward to Lesson #2!
Hi Eric,
You’re just absolutly right. I hate to admit that but i do experienced that synthom- overload by multitechnic from those gurus ( i cant blaim them anyway ).
And i thank i have to agree with sabrina that you are just very passionate and sincere in delivering your experience to others especially little person like me. Actually am about to surrender but your great tips saved me. Thanks a lot. Am waiting for the next lesson.
Hey Eric,
Thanks for the start up. Looks like you have things well planned, and it will be great to watch how this goes for you, and your subscribers.
Though I have been building an online business for a bit, I know these tips will help me fine tune what needs to be done!
Keep up the great work!
Paul
Thank you Eric…this will be so very helpful to clarify all the information that has been an overload for me as it has for many others. God Bless You.
Joe
Eric, you put in to words exactly how I’ve been feeling about the marketing info I get in my in-box everyday. The info I have is a bunch of disconnected knowledge. I do feel overwhelmed and not sure what direction to move. So, thank you for perceiving this need and providing a solution.
Hi Eric - Are all the lessons going to be videos? I’m the oddball that prefers the written word and uses the videos only for backup (sound and I don’t get along too well). Will the written points convey the main ideas?
Thanks.
I know, it’s a tough choice for me… because I love to write… but I’ve decided to focus on the videos for now. I will try to make sure the written points convey the main points, and perhaps you can be selective in your video watching, depending on whether you want to get further details about a particular lesson.
Hi Eric,I was really happy when I heard you speak. You are the type of person I think people can trust,because I have been led astray many time in the internet business.You sound like a real Christian that will help we need your help.Thanks Eric.
Hi Erik
This is great. I hope i can follow you lesson till finish.
And thank you very much.
And God Bless You!!
Herison.
Thank you Eric. I am at a point in my life where I must make internet marketing work for me. I am unemployed and frankly do not want to go back to the rat race. Owning my own business is a dream that I am quickly making into a reality. With your help it will be that much more profitable. Waiting for the next email soon…. Kathleen
Hi Eric!
Good first impression. And an important question right off the mark: Are you planning to make an MP3 or a transcript version of your lessons available?
I’d already kept previous emails from you, and I’m planning to retain those that follow as well, but I’d also like to be able to retain the lessons themselves. Personally I’m partial to ‘text’ materiel, but I’ve also got a pretty solid selection of stuff on MP3 to listen to while walking or snow shovelling (!).
Until next lesson!
Noel
Hi Noel- probably not MP3, because after the introductory lessons, most of them are going to be more like “show and tell” where I actually demonstrate how to do stuff on screen, which wouldn’t work as well as an audio recording. However, for my videos which are FLV (some are SWF and the long ones will be FLV), there is currently a tool which will allow you to rip an MP3 of the audio directly from my video. I’m not going to get into the details of how to do it, and I hesitate to mention it because I don’t want people ripping off my content, but for my subscribers who want to grab a copy of a lesson for their personal use only, you can experiment with this web based tool:
http://vixy.net/
Hi Eric,
Your email summed me up pretty well. I am very overwhelmed by all the guru’s and I do not know where to start.
I appreciate your help and time in teaching us how to get our sites going.
Best Regards
Kathy
Eric,
Does saving the email download the video also?
Will the information be archived in case emails are missed, lost, etc?
Thanks,
Kevin
Hi Kevin- saving the email does not download the video, but I am planning on leaving the videos online permanently.
Eric, thanks for that little tid-bit, I might not be able to get to your stuff right away, and I wouldn’t want to lose out
Good, comfortable pace. Well done, Eric!
Eric,
Great Intro lesson. Thanks for sharing a little about who you are and about you’re family. I have been getting your newsletter for some time now and I don’t know how I got this intro letter, but it was just what I needed at this point in my online experience. I am overloaded and in need of a mentor. Thanks for willing to share so much.
This year has seen a lot of the gurus put out a training programme. Although a lot of the basics are the same it is the little individual parts throughout a course of personal knowledge and experience which are included that makes the difference. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Thanks Friend !
Hi,
I am not having speakers to my computer. So I am unable to get your lessons. Pl also provide text material. Thanks.
Kulkarni.
Hi Kulkarni,
I highly reccomend that you get a pair of speakers as it’s vital to the learning process. You should be able to pick up a pair on sale as low as $15 or $20 at places like Frys Electronics, PC Mall or Best Buy. They won’t be of the best sound quality but they would do the job for now!
Most computers have a place to plug in a headset which might even cost less than speakers. A headset takes up less room on the desk as well.
Hi Eric,
Great Start.
Awaiting for youe lessons.
Thanks for sharing.
Best Wishes,
Kannan Viswagandhi
http://www.growing-self.blogspot.com
Hi Eric,
Noe i have found what i’m looking for. I have a bunch of e-book,salespages and software on my desktop that i can start a busines with, but the problem is i dov’t kwow where to start.
I’m sure that when i finished this 120 lessonns i have a business up and running.
Thanks for your help.
Hi Eric,
I just watched your fist video and it was nice to hear that you’re from Fort Collins. I was in Breck for a couple of months last winter (snowboarder) and loved it…and in April I moved to Denver! Though I hear the summers get seriously hot out here, I love the mountains and I’m looking forward to all the area has to offer.
Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge. I have the highest respect for any internet marketer who is tired of contributing to the hype machine, reduces their promotions and in-your-face pitches and who doesn’t charge $1,000+ to teach even the basics of starting an online business.
Thanks for contributing to the “greater good”
I have a rule of thumb that I apply in cases where someone is recruiting me to do affiliate marketing for them.
They have to be willing to supply a website, tools, training, and support FREE of charge. After all I’m providing my time and labor, and I’m not getting paid for that unless I succeed
They should be satisfied with the money they’ll make from your time and effort, on the products and services you sell.
There are some exceptions to that, but they are far and few between.
With that, I’m going to leave before I wear out my welcome
Hi Erics
Thank you for your a lessonn1.A very good introduction. Your predictions are really smart and marked that was your experienced.
When we are too overhelmed with so lots of intructions, we at last do not know what to do.
Totally confused. Let take for example before that. The idea of Adwords and the Adsense. Both are Google. One is -ve Clicks and the other is +ve Click.
If we follow the right track the -ve will turn to +ve and the +ve will might change to -ve.
That is the real world of the Internet Marketing. So very thankful to Erics for his sincere invitation for us to share his experiences and ideas. And hope we get something from here, so that we could acquire a little bit confidence to tour the land of never endings. Be happy always with your beloved family & may God bless you. Thank you.
Eric, I want to sincerely thank you for your gesture of goodwill. Not many people would do what you are and will be doing. I am inspired by your success story and, particularly, by your belief in your lifestyle.
One question - How do you cater for those people in countries who do not have fast internet access, people who still have slow internet access? What I am saying is that with your use of camtasia, would that make viewing your lesson on a slow internet access a problem?
Hi Roland- it is possible that it could be a problem for people with slow internet connections, but unfortunately I can’t cater 100% to everyone. But I will also provide the written main points, and also I will try to keep the video file sizes minimal so they load more quickly.
It is so refreshing to see someone produce videos with a heart to really help others. There is nothing wrong with people offering videos with the expectation of buying their product. But for you to be committed to mentoring so many on your list with 120 lessons without pitching a product after each one says a lot about your giving spirit. The essence of a Christian who is walking close to the Lord is to be a giver and a servant of all. Thank you for being a mentor and being an example to all of us to take what we learn and pass it on to others that we can help.
Daniel Rydstedt
Thanks, Eric
Appreciate you sharing your expertise and helping the rest of us.
The Lord bless you.. lots!
@Kulkarni, you can get a headset to plug into your computer to listen to the audio; cheap ones are about $15.
Eric,
Thanks for doing this. I have the adesense templates and have had a few frustrations getting them online properly. This course is like a dream come true. I have a few websites and as I have explored internet marketing I have had the exact experience you describe.
Thank you!!!
By the way, Kulkarni, you can pick up speakers for a very reasonable price. I don’t know where you are, but in the US you can get speakers for $14-$20. It’s a good investment in your business and yourself since I suspect Eric will be using a lot of video screens that you will want the audio for.
I am developing my first website from the mix of info I have learned on the Internet over the last 6mos. You are so “ON” with your comment of being overwhelmed when you are a newbie (such as I). I would like to view your lessons at a quicker pace than every other day. Can I get them somehow so I may view them at my own pace? I will recommemd this site to everyone I know that wants to become an Internet Marketer.
PS. Thank you for creating these lessons. Had you not done this, I was going to create a simmilar series after learning what to do so the next Internet Marketer would not have to go through this learning curve.
Hi Paul- at the moment I haven’t created the rest of the lessons yet. It actually takes quite a bit of time to record the video, convert it, upload it, etc. So I doubt I will be able to do more than one per day. I anticipate releasing 5-6 new videos per week.
Eric,
Thank You for the quick response. I understand and will just have to wait.
If there is anything I can do to for You, please send me an email and it will be done.
Paul
Wow, a real trailer salesman! I too worked sales in the manufactured housing industry almost 8 years. In-home demos selling kitchens too. We seem to have similar backgrounds.
Thanks for sharing so much about yourself it’s truly refreshing. I’m looking forward to following along.
Len- yes, you know exactly what I mean when I say the MH industry was very “interesting”
Great!!
Your diagnostic went right to the point. It hit more than 90% of the brave new starting online entrepreneurs down there.
Information overload, yet having nothing to show because things don’t seem to get themselves together by their own.
And you know what?
Most of that sitting or sleeping information, didn’t come for free.
So Eric, ready to go. Ready for the cure.
Lession 1 was easy to swallow, let’s see what’s next.
Braveheart
I just want to say thank you so much for this opportunity to learn from someone that knows the ropes.
Again thank you
Gary
In process
Eric,
I have been getting emails from you for some time, but I am very excited about your lessons.
For some time I have been “investing” in all kinds of CD’s, DVD’s, e-books and the list goes on. My husband says I have sucker written on my forhead; we’ll see if he still believes that in the near future. I want to launch an online business or businessed to help put money into retirement for my husband and I, plus I have a wonderful church that I would like to be able to give money to help in different areas such as missions. I was sooooo excited to learn you are a born-again Christian; I suspected as much as soon as you started talking about not bragging about your income and I believe the Holy Spirit revealed it to me just before you started talking about your prayer website. I am in information overload at present, plus as you stated, I have pieces of the puzzle but no cohesiveness to put everything together. I really need step-by-step instructions as to what to do to get started. Thank you so much for giving back what you have been blessed with.
Vicki
This is an excellent idea in helping noobies to get their feet wet in IM. How often are you going to post each lesson? I know it would be an enormous task, but one lesson a day would be fantastic. That would take everyone to a greater level in about four months! Keep up the great work!
hi Alex- I’m going to try to post 5-6 lessons per week.
Thank you for this endeavor. I have many attempts and
look forward to your STEP BY STEP lessons. I hope that
they are just that. I have a blog but not many results yet.
I have tried to build a list and it has been very slow going.
I think I know the basic but still it goes very slow.
Thanks for your efforts and I look forward to the next lesson.
Lonnie
Hi Lonnie,
Just hang in there…once it all clicks it will become a lot easier. I’m not exactly a newbie but I’m looking forward to learning a lot here as well. Best of luck to you!
Thanks for helping. I will surely have many questions.Personally, I am flooded with information, but I do not know how to start.I receive a lot of information, but nobody shows you how to start, if at least the first steps ….
Thanks again Eric
Thanks Eric!
You really hit the nail on the head when you said people get bogged down in the details and end up spinning their wheels going no where (paraphrased).
I have to admit I am guilty of just that - I currently have 20+ projects partially started, only