Friday, September 21, 2007

Are You the Creative Marketing Concept Your Business Needs?

Creative marketers rule the web. . .
"Change how you think about business and succeed"
"Fail to change and fail. . . it's that simple"







This is bad and good news for most mere mortals like you and me. . . "good news you say?"

It's bad because coming up with creative marketing concepts is not easy for those who don't understand the medium of business on the Internet.

Not understanding is understandable though, because many people try to do business on the Internet thinking that if they get enough nameless faceless "people" to their "web page" some of them are sure to buy - right?

Probably not, hits to a web page don't mean diddly squat. You are the Creative Marketing Concept your business needs to succeed.

Please understand this. . . If you are promoting a replicated page, or simply trying to drive traffic to some page with banners on it to get people to convert. . . you're helping someone but you're not helping yourself.

Banners and replicated pages are used by affiliate programs to brand a company, not you.

Ultimately a prospect will see that replicated page enough times and act. . . 9999 times out of 10000 - they won't buy from you - because they don't care.

I'm sure you've heard it takes somewhere between 7 and 12 exposures to an ad or sales message for a customer to respond right? This is the reason getting email addresses is so important. . . so you can repeatedly "expose" your potential prospect to your sales massage and goad them into taking action (but I digress).

Amazingly, this is all good for you, because you can be different. . . coming up with creative concepts to drive your marketing isn't as difficult as you may think. . .

Just small changes in how you think and then act in relation to your business will decide the difference between your success or your failure.

Understanding that the Internet is a medium to communicate, and your words are your ally will put you ahead of 98% of the other struggling Internet marketers out there.

Is writing for the web difficult? No. Does it happen overnight. No.

It is a skill you can learn. If you really want to succeed on the Internet you will learn this lesson. . . when you do there will be no stopping you.

Sunday, September 16, 2007

Where is Your Creative Marketing Idea?

We all start somewhere in our marketing - I for one started at the bottom - I knew nothing. But then I didn't even know that. I thought it would be easy.

I thought the Internet would prove itself to be my magic pill to immediate financial success. . .

That if I believed just hard enough all my dreams would come true overnight. Now with the gift of reflection, I'm glad I have had to work for success. It's been a rough road, but as they say "success is not a destination."

Sometimes when I talk to folks whom are just starting in their Internet careers they ask me: "how quickly can I make money with this?" To be honest, I hate that question more than any other, because I know what they want me to say, "oh you can make money right away" because in theory they can, but that wouldn't be the truth.

I don't say this of course, I'm very up front about the fact that "earning" money on the Internet isn't like going to a job, you don't earn a wage. . . in my experience it's an accumulation of skills up until the point where your personal knowledge hits a critical mass where everything "just makes sense".

Understand you must add value to the Internet to expect a reward from it. . . It's a slow process and the Search Engines (the lifeblood of all Internet Business) are getting better and better at weeding out those who don't add value to them. Every time Google's algorithms dance many of those who try to scrape by through SEO tricks, and low value site gets scoured from mother Google's pages.

People need to start writing well to really reap the rewards that Google and the other Search Engines have to bestow upon them. It took me a long time to realize this, but once I did I was off to the races.


Go forward and let your creative marketing ideas shine.
All best,
Jesse Boland
Owner
1920's fashion and music: How To Start your Own Fashion Home Based Business

Monday, June 25, 2007

What The 1920's Mean To Me

I have always been fascinated by the 1920's.
I don't really know why, I think my first experience with the 20's was watching The Godfather Part II.
I really liked seeing Little Italy and I enjoyed the grime of the streets.

I liked picturing myself walking through some of the open air markets, hearing the accents of the grocers.
To me the 1920's seemed like a more simple time when people were a little bit more awed by the power of the human mind and things still seemed fresh with optimism for the future.

I get sick of the constant pessimism of our present.
It makes me sad to think that in less than a century we may have done irreparable harm to our environment and the moral attitude of our world.
Before the 1920's World War 1 made us feel insignificant with the amount of death and destruction it ravaged upon the citizens of the world. The flapper generation and the "roaring twenties" resulted out of the destruction.

The Twenties, to me, seem like the last gasp and hurrah of a society that had finally figured out how to destroy itself. It was a decade of excess and devil may care attitudes, but it also shows the power of the human mind in a way that gives hope to us all that we may be able to think our way out of the mess we have created through intelligent thinking and a vision for the future.

The twenties gave us many entrepreneurs who forged their way into the consciousness of the world with their vision for a better and easier life. They did this through hard work and good old elbow grease.
It is time for our generation to help repair the damage done by our forefathers, through hard work, intelligent thinking, and cooperation.


The 1920's to me gives us all hope that we can change our world if we only have the vision to change. Please check out my website at 1920's Fashion and Music to see how the vision and vitality of the 1920's changed the world of fashion and music forever. You can also check out how I've turned my love of the 1920's into a full time business venture: here

Friday, March 16, 2007

Why Is E-commerce Better Than Network and Multi-Level Marketing?

When people ask me what business I'm in I think the get confused when I tell them I own my own website.

I get responses like: "Yeah but your website promotes network marketing, what network marketing company are you in?"

For me, network marketing or MLM and I don't mix. Why?

  1. I think that 99.9% of network marketers are just there for a Get Rich Quick scheme and don't expect to work.
  2. The "teams" tend to be completely disfunctional people made up of people that I wouldn't want cooking my breakfast, much less trying to train me to make money.
  3. There is no creativity, it's kind of like to be successful in MLM you have to drink the Kool-Aide first, sell your soul to the company, and live and breath diet drinks, or Pre-paid legal services or whatever.

Check out this video, I think you'll find it's pretty funny:



I apologize if this offends you, but for me I need creativity. I need to feel like the business I've built is mine and no matter what I believe in what I am selling.

I felt being a Rep. for Herbalife, and Pre-paid Legal was about as fun as chewing razorblades. I felt like Emerald Passport was completely unethical in the way they market their "wealth products"

It's too bad that these companies can't figure out that people want something with substance, something of value, and something that, when you follow the guidelines, WILL work as it is promoted. SBI! is everything I hoped when I bought it and 10,000 times more. It IS the best valued product I have ever bought--and I haven't drank the SBI! Kool-aide.

Monday, March 12, 2007

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Friday, March 09, 2007

My Success System: Click This To Take Advantage Of My Free Affiliate Master's Course

Dear Internet Marketer,

Give me 5 minutes of your time and I will change your life.

My name is Jesse Boland, I have been marketing on the Internet for just over 2 years now.

I'm not going to pitch you with another load of hype and sales copy that you may or may not believe.

All I can say is that I spent 2 years trying to put the pieces of the Internet marketing puzzle together, and I have finally succeeded.

Part of my success was that I learned enough to know that people will either buy from you or not buy from you, based on whether or not they trust you or think you're full of crap; the other part of the puzzle is we need to stay focused on our goals and find a market on the web that we can actually contribute value to (if you don't feel like the product you are selling is the best thing since your first real kiss, you're selling the wrong product)

If you are struggling to make money on the Internet (like I was), I hope you spend the time to watch this short movie. It has changed me, the way I do business, and the way I live my life:





I can't stress to you how much I believe in this product, the way the company does business and the freedom you will feel building something that is truly yours.

I have always been a Free-Spirit, cynical to the core especially of anything that sounds too good to be true, but I have always had a belief in myself that I had something to contribute to this world and I have found that in SBI! If you have something to offer this small universe we live in please contact me, and you will find the same freedom I have--I promise.

Thank you,
Jesse Boland
(208) 267-5127 PST

Sunday, March 04, 2007

Why Are You Struggling To Get Visitors and Earn Enough Money With Your Business?

If you are struggling in YOUR business, you could really benefit from reading this.

I promise not to pitch you on my deal, or my products.

You're probably asking, "Then why am I advertising on Trafficswarm?"

  • I know that whatever business you are promoting: they probably recommended advertising your business on Trafficswarm, to pitch your business to other people who are pitching their businesses on Trafficswarm. (Does this make sense to you?) Do you really expect to make any money this way? I even see people advertising Trafficswarm ON TRAFFICSWARM!!!!! People are obviously confused.

  • So are you serious about making money from your business? If you are, do you have a gameplan? Or do you feel like you are walking around in the dark? If you don't have a gameplan do you know where you're going to get one that works?

  • I want you to have a gameplan and the ability to use tools like Trafficswarm to help build your business. It will help you, if you use it right, but not by pitching your business.

Here are three Free tools for you to use:

#1: Your Free Link To What Is Equivilant to a Master's Course In Ecommerce, this will help you begin to make sales of whatever business you are promoting, please read this at Your Own Pace and pay attention: Your Free E-commerce Masters Course

#2: Post Your Ad To 12 million sites for Free, Here. I use this tool to create over 300+ opt in leads for my business every day! I have used this advertising tool to build my organization over 1000% in the last 8 months, you can too if you do it right.

#3: If you are confused how to put the marketing pieces together, please sign up for my free newsletter The Octopod: I do a ton of my organization's ecommerce training through this newsletter.

#4 As an added bonus you will receive a copy of my Marketing E-Book "Scalpel" Marketing which will teach you the fastest way to begin making sales to people who like and respect you, how to cut your competition apart in a week or less, and how you can learn all the Search Engine Optimization you ever need to know in 15 minutes or less.


If you have taken all of these steps and are still confused on how to make sales of YOUR product, you can contact me for a free 15 minute business consultation: Leave you nake and number and the best time to reach you and I'll return your call personally.

Expect no less than success,

Jesse Boland

(208) 267-5127

marketingpredator@veretekk.com

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Thursday, February 22, 2007

I Promise You This Will Change Your Life

Dear Internet Marketer,

My name is Jesse Boland and I'm sure you are tired of all the hype and noise that you are bombarded with every day while you try to put the puzzle pieces together to try and build a sustainable business on the web.

My purpose here is not to sell you anything. It is to get you to think. Please, watch these two videos below. It will take 15 minutes. But, I think it may be 15 minutes that changes your life forever. It might save you thousands of dollars as well. I have built an amazing business that I am proud of using the tools that I am giving you below. I have also committed myself to helping anyone who needs help building a "REAL" business on the web.


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Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Why Is Your MLM or Network Marketing Business System Failing? And What Can YOU Do About It RIGHT NOW!



Why is YOUR business failing? It's a queston that nearly every home business owner has asked themselves at one time or another.

I have asked myself this question a time or two. There are many reasons that I could address here, but since you are actively searching for the reason your business is failing it really boils down to one very simple answer.


What if I told you your upline doesn't really want to see you succeed, would you believe me? WHy do you think they recommend buying crappy leads from leads brokers rather than teaching you how to generate your own high-quality leads?

Your business is failing because you don't have enough good quality prospects to talk to and join you in business. And as long as you follow the system your MLM or Network Marketing company has laid out for you: YOU WILL FAIL!

Does it ever seem like you're beating your head against a brick wall, trying to convince people, who have actually expressed interest in making money from home, to join you in business?

Does it seem like you're always talking to prospects who want YOU to MAKE THEM them successful and rich in your business?!?!?!?!

How do you answer this? These people are not the right type of prospects to spend your time, energy, or money on. But these are exactly the type of people you will talk to if you buy leads from lead companies.

I promise you, we have all stuggled to find quality prospects who are qualified and ready to join us in business.

What if there is only one thing standing between where you are now and where you have unlimited quality prospects, phone calls coming into your office all day from people who want to partner with you?

This is am absolute possibility and I will give you the keys to this kind of success for NOTHING.

Just enter your First name and email and I will deliver everything you need to know to have an endless stream of prospects and business partners beating down your door.

Also, this form allows you express the problem you are having in your business so I can answer it directly, usually within 48 hours.

When you submit you will receive a confermation screen and I will rush out everything you need to know in order to become amazingly successful running your own business.

Friday, February 16, 2007

There Two Ways To Run Your Home Business: The Right Way and The Wrong Way






Dear Fellow E-Marketer,

There are two reasons why you are reading this right now.

1. Because you accidently bounced onto this site, and are going to continue surfing the web . . . in which case goodbye.

2. Because you are looking to earn an income from the comfort of your own home.

If you are still reading it is because you are looking to earn more income in which case you have come to the right place.

I am an honest guy, so I'm not going to sit here and blow smoke up your ass. I was a wildland firefighter for 10 years and I have seen and done some pretty gnarly stuff, and I don't want to waste any of my time or yours okay.

I began my home business 14 months ago expecting to get rich within a month or two. I remember when I made the decision to "get rich" that tears actually rolled down my face. Boy there have been more tears since that day, and for over three months I never saw a red cent from my home business. Finally, in my forth month I began making money. Slowly at first and then quicker as my "circle of influence" grew. I am still not wealthy, by my own standards, but I do earn a very decent profit every month.

I have looked at every scam, scam artist, "program", money scheme, Multi level, network marketing, company out there and I have dismissed most of them as bullsh*t.

Many of the people are liars and scammers, and the ones who are truly good people are lying to you in order to recruit you. There is a level of failure in the home based business arena that is staggering.

There are two good companies I have come across that I completely trust, and I believe they are both absolute "values". Meaning you get more from the company than what you pay. These companies both value you as an individual, and they allow you the creative freedom you need in order to be successful.

I know that when I started on the Internet I was representing a product that I thought was a scam, which I guess made me a scammer. I didn't know better, I hadn't done my research on what was important before making a decision to get involved with a specific company.

If you are confused about whether or not your company is the "real deal" or you need help earning a profit from your business I CAN and will help you.

I can only take on 3 students per month so you need to contact me soon in order to become one of my students for March.

You will learn this proven business process in 10 Simple steps, generally about 6 months:



  1. Proper Mindset-Thoughts Become Things (Understand?)




  2. What is special about you? (Know Yourself)




  3. What do you love? (Hobbies, sports, paper airplanes)




  4. Set Goals (You can't hit your targets if you have none)




  5. Determine target market (Who do you want to do business with?)




  6. Market Research (How to attract your customers to you)




  7. Starting-Phase I of your marketing (put the wheels in motion)




  8. Building-Phase II (Begin seeing results)




  9. Expanding-Phase III (Maintain and grow your business)




  10. Automation-Phase IV (Autopilot-test and tweak)


At this point it is up to you. Do you want to continue to just test and tweak one part of your business or do you want to add another stream of income to your business? I run 5 streams of income and by the time I retire in 7 years my goal is to have 10 streams running on autopilot.

If you are committed to earning a true and honest living on the Internet please look at my Foundation companies here: If you want you can sign up for a Free system from Veretekk also look at SBI! Site Build It!



To join both of these companies it will cost you less than $500. I know $500 sounds like a ton of money, but let me promise you that these companies will never upsell you, and you will never have to pay for marketing other than your subscription costs of less than $41 a month. 41 bucks a month is nothing when it comes to marketing online believe me! When you have done these two simple things feel free to contact me.


If you have question about whether or not it's worth $500 bucks let me tell you this, the next website you look at might be the one that convinces you to buy because of slick ad copy or promise of "big" and fast money, but there is a 98% chance that whoever owns that site is lying about how much they have made or how quickly you can make money too.


I have told you the truth, and I am offering you the key to the e-marketing lock right now, without them you will continue to struggle, with them you will begin to undertand. Here's to your success.

Jesse "the octopus" Boland
(208) 267-5127

P.S. When you become my student I believe I work for you so it is your obligation to tell me what you need from me as far as guidance--we all start in different spots so please be honest, tell me where you are at as far as your marketing goes.

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Stick A Fork In Your Eye!!!!




"Stick a Fork In Your Eye, Right Now ! ! !"

If You Are Trying To Make Money on the Internet . . .
but Before You Do, Just Give Me A Minute . . .





Everything you have learned about Internet marketing is wrong. You're asking yourself these exact questions right now. What is this schmuck trying to sell me? He doesn't know me, and who is this guy anyway? It's okay, there are a lot of schmucks on the web and to you, right now, I'm just one more. Let me change your mind and perhaps save you from plunging an eating utensil into your eye.

The Reasons I know you are marketing the wrong way are simple and obvious:

There is a 95% to 97% (depending on who crunches your numbers) failure rate in the home based business industry.

Because, in My Experience and In the Experience of All My Business Partners (highly successful Network and Affiliate Marketers), Almost NOTHING on the Internet is Exactly What People Say It Is.

Because You're Spending More Money on Leads and Marketing Than You're Putting In Your Bank Account. Because Your Doing It The Wrong Way.


The EASY "Automated System" that you bought into turns out to be a lot of expensive, confusing and monotonous non-easy non-automated" work.


Because people will often tell their customers what they want to hear in order to make money. Even When It's An Outright Lie!

Let me ask you this. If you could go back and make the decision whether or not to start your own home based business again. Would You? Or do you feel like you have thrown your money and time away?

What do you think of the person who brought you into your business? Have they helped you make any money? The numbers say they haven't.

Wait . . . Don't reach for that silverware drawer quite yet.

All is not lost, I promise, 12 short months ago I felt just like you. I had just spent $8000 on a program that promised me I'd be rich by the next month, but after several months of marketing I had made no money, I was deeply in debt, my sponsor was nowhere to be found , I had no job, and I felt deserted, lost, and scared.

I wanted to give up.

When I could sleep I'd wake up feeling like the entire weight of the Earth was sitting on my chest, I didn't know how I was going to earn money on the Internet.

All the signs pointed out that I would fail:

Marketing on the Internet Is Impossible. Right?

There's a 95% Failure Rate. Only 5% of Home Business Owners Actually Ever Make a Profit.

I had nearly resigned my life to my career as a firefighter and $10,000 of credit card debt. Until (Here it comes You're saying--The Dreaded Sales Pitch) . . . I read a 54 page book that pointed out that what I was going through wasn't all that uncommon (the name of the book doesn't matter, there are hundreds of books out there that can help you) .

Unless they are an Internet Marketing Whiz, have an unlimited advertising budget, or you're Really Really Really Lucky, almost every new business owner struggles when they start an online business. You Are Not Alone, Believe Me.

There are legitimate businesses out there, you just have to do your homework first.

Right now, promise me you'll do your homework first, or you will learn a very expensive lesson, I promise you.

The #1 rule of business is that your business does not always succeed just because you want it to. You must learn to make your business succeed. Those who succeed online are those who have learned and applied the most.

If you think you can simply throw money into your business and expect to see a return you are dead wrong.

You have to learn to talk to people, offer people something of value without the expectation you will get something back, and the most important thing is you need to create solid trusting relationships between you and your prospects.

Step #1 to making YOUR home business successful: Join Veretekk: Click Here

The way I have made my business work is through the knowledge and skills that Veretekk gives to everyone of it's affiliates. Veretekk offers f*ee marketing tools, 24X7 f*ee live training, and all the support you need to build your business. Sign up for a F*ee system here, there is no obligation, check it out, I promise you'll be glad you did. I have never seen a better value offered on the Internet. If you need help logging in, or you need business mentoring or advice you can contact me. If I don't answer, leave a message and I will return you call personally.

Helping You Avoid The Silverware Drawer At All Costs,

Live Well,

Jesse Boland

Jaguar Marketing System

Office Direct: (208) 267-5127