Ever Feel Overwhelmed by Marketing Advice?

image of a blueprint

So I’ve created something brand new, and it occurred to me it would be pretty silly if I didn’t let you know about it.

I put it together in response to a lot of frustration I was hearing about overwhelm. We’ve got hundreds of great resources. All kinds of good advice about this big, complicated problem of marketing.

But it’s like trying to drink from a firehose. There’s too much, it’s coming too fast, and it can be impossible to get your bearings so you can actually take action and move forward.

I thought it would be useful to put together my own take on a marketing blueprint, a step-by-step process on how to do “our kind” of marketing. (That’s marketing that rests on delivering exceptional value, communicating total respect for our customers, and creating remarkable relationships.)

It’s not just for bloggers, but bloggers find the tools particularly easy to adopt.

If that sounds like something you might find valuable, I hope you’ll check out the details for the Remarkable Marketing Blueprint.

The blueprint is a step-by-step marketing course, and it’s available at an extremely attractive price, but only until 5 p.m. (Mountain Time) on Monday, December 7, when I’m planning on closing the course to new students. When we re-open in 2010, the price will be bumped up to something more reasonable.

Click here to check it out before the charter pricing goes away.

Article Marketing For Beginners

Jeff Herring has to be one of the most likable guys in the Internet Marketing space. He’s down to earth, super nice, a great sport (lol)… and one of the best teachers on the topic of content development.

I had the pleasure of working alongside Jeff at the NAMS Workshop in Atlanta twice this year, and both times his workshops were the most simple and the most productive of the entire weekend.

He’s known as “The Article Marketing Guy”, but he teaches much more than just writing & submitting articles. He has a method for kick-starting a major traffic flow that builds lists and makes sales. This is one of those things that you do upfront, and reap major long-term profits – over and over again…

“Article Marketing is the absolute best resource for generating unlimited amounts of free traffic. And the traffic is evergreen – it keeps coming year after year” -Alex Mandossian

At this point you’re probably thinking that you already know everything out there on the topic of Article Marketing. Yup, me too. But read on because I have a shocking confession for you and I’m betting you’re in the same boat…

Let me back up. Jeff just launched a brand new 12 week course on Article Marketing. The course is specifically for beginners, but I decided to review it. I’ll go ahead and tell you now – I just completed the first lesson, and I’d easily say this is great stuff for any online marketer on practically any level.

Even if you think you know article marketing inside and out, you’ll probably learn a thing or two from THE article marketing expert. For me, a simple task and checklist, with a timeline, is super helpful for accountability and progress.

Knowing how to do something, and actually taking action on that knowledge are two different things. Case in point… (here comes my shocking confession!) While reading the first lesson, I logged into EzineArticles, and it said:

Last login was 2 years, 74 days, 13 hours, 28 minutes ago

LOL – so there ya go. Knowing how to do it, and doing it – not one and the same!

I’m in major ACTION mode lately, so this course is perfect timing to put me on track for a 12-week content marketing hyper-productivity streak. Sometimes we just need that – no matter what our experience level – period.

I like the idea of having Jeff Herring in my inbox every week, telling me “hey, go use this stuff!” (GUTS). It actually works on me. While I was reading the first lesson in Jeff’s new course, I followed the steps and wrote & submitted my first article… in over 2 years. Was that worth $37? ALL DAY LONG. And that was only the first lesson for the month!

Here are the details: the course is called Article Marketing For Beginners. It’s a 12-week course, and it’s $37 per month. It’s not an ongoing recurring cost. Just $37 for month 1, month 2 and month 3 – and you’re done. There are weekly trainings with easy assignments, monthly bonuses, and several surprise bonuses built in – all designed to help you succeed at using articles to drive traffic, build lists and make sales.

The lessons are short, very easy to follow, and come with actionable guides to walk you through every step.

Of course, I ‘cheated’ and used this method

All said and done, Jeff was right – it truly was painless.

This course comes at the best possible timing. This is a great time to use Ezine Articles for backlinks, indirect top 10 Google rankings, and targeted content marketing campaigns. This last quarter is the biggest online shopping season of the year. Plus, you’ll be setting yourself up for an incredible year of traffic for 2010.

The timing just couldn’t be better to jump on board and take the challenge.