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If you’ve been searching for a way to get going online, there’s something starting tomorrow that may be exactly the help you need right now.

If you’re feeling stuck or lost, you’re not alone… don’t get down on yourself.

(In a hurry? Go to: http://www.maverickmarketer.com/helpme)

Recently I was a guest at a mastermind where a small group of wonderful women were brainstorming business ideas they could truly be passionate about.

They were artists, healers, therapists, consultants, and even a writer… but NONE were ‘Internet marketers’ or had built a website before.

It was an inspired event. Each of these women had solid business ideas by the end. (I’ll tell you the rest of that story another time…)

Here’s my point today…

Most of their ideas involved doing something online… and because I was the only Internet marketer there I got to answer a lot of questions

It was fun… but I also quickly realized each one of them needed someone like me to help them implement their beautiful, inspired new ventures.

Problem is, I’m not accepting clients anymore, much as I would have loved to help each and every one of them.

As soon as they realized they needed a website, the doubts and confusion flood in.

- How do I build a website?

- What is sales copy?

- How do I get people to visit my site anyway?

- How do I set up my Shoppingcart?

Oh boy.

I can almost hear your sigh of complete and total overwhelm as I bring up that stuff.

That’s how I felt back in 1998 when I got started.

There are not enough people with Internet marketing experience who can actually walk with you every step from idea to implementation.

Here’s the further irony…

The steps one must take to get their business online are like anything else… confusing at first but once someone shows you how, it’s no big deal.

People who can both teach marketing AND the technical stuff involved are pretty rare.

Which is why I’m writing you today to introduce you to one such gem.

He’s one of the people I turn to often and he also happens to be one of my best friends and mastermind partners.

He’s a rare find.

You may know Bill Hibbler as the co-author of the best seller, ‘Meet and Grow Rich’ with Joe Vitale, but the fact is, he’s been successfully operating online for over 7 years.

He’s a marketer…

He understands the website stuff…

He’s a patient teacher with a ton of savvy and experience on tap…

So if you want a proven, step by step way to get going online and want someone to walk you through the process I’ve got good news.

Bill is starting one of his rare small group classes tomorrow.

Yes, it starts TOMORROW.

He’s done this class a couple times before and the people who got to attend RAVE about him.

You can see their testimonials here…

http://www.maverickmarketer.com/helpme

I could go on and on about Bill or his class but you can get the whole story on his site.

What I want to say here in closing is this:

You can come up with the best idea for a website for your business and if you are unable to put the pieces together no one will ever see it.

Not knowing what to do or how to do it is the number one reason you’re stuck.

You don’t have to do it alone.

Once you’ve successfully done this process once you’ll never look back.

I’m very selective in what I’ll recommend to you, but as you’ll see from the glowing, heart felt testimonials on his site, Bill’s class is the real thing.

Find out if this is what you’ve been looking for.

If you are not sure… just look at what other folks who were starting out have to say about this class.

http://www.maverickmarketer.com/helpme

If this sounds like something for you right now, go for it…

The class starts tomorrow so check it out now while you think about it.

All the best,

Craig Perrine

P.S. My book comes out next week at long last… stay tuned for March 25th!

I gotta tell you about a guy I met tonight who is currently working security at a hotel in San Antonio, Texas.

He’s literally sitting on a gold mine if he follows my advice… I gotta tell you about this because I suspect YOU may be sitting on just such a goldmine, too.

See, I drove down from Austin for my good friend Pat OBryan’s Unseminar Elite workshop to get out of my office (I get some of my best ideas when I travel).

After dinner I decided to go have a cigar on the 22nd floor and look over the city and I met this security guy having a cigar with another guest of the hotel.

The security guy’s name is Bruce it turns out and he mentioned that he was thinking of starting a website about his passion, Indy Car racing.

As I listened he talked about all sorts of fascinating history and current news about open wheel race cars… and I decided to interupt their conversation and suggest that he start a blog instead of a website.

We got to talking and it turns out he’s been posting videos on YouTube for a while and is active in the forums in his niche.

Get this… he’s got a bit of a following on the message boards and there is a lively community of folks who go online and talk about all things to do with these races.

Then… get this… he tells me that his YouTube videos have been viewed over 630,000 times in the last year.

Needless to say, I was stunned at the incredible opportunity Bruce is sitting on and didn’t know it.

Of course, he’s not really aware of the whole ‘Internet Marketing thing’ you and I are so wrapped up in, so this was all new to him.

But I asked him, ‘What if you received just TEN CENTS for each person who watched your videos…. that’s over $60,000 potentially’.

Fact is, he could do more or less than that depending on what he does… but the point is I wanted him to start thinking of those viewers as a potential source of income.

I wanted to change his perception of his ‘hobby’ so he could start to recognize the opportunity he had right in front of his nose.

I told him that the latest trend online (in fact it’s really always been this way) is to gather in ‘communities’, whether that is in a forum, message board, blog, or through FaceBook doesn’t really matter.

All Bruce has to do is start a blog and link his YouTube videos and forum posts back to it and he’ll start getting traffic… perhaps a lot of traffic.

Then he can convert that traffic into income with something as simple as Google’s Adsense program… or any number of other ways, like affiliate programs, or his own products.

What goldmine are YOU sitting on?

If you take a step back and realize that over the last 50 years in the US alone the local ‘community’ has practically vanished and our culture is much more into ‘virtual communities’ where they visit with people all around the country and the world through their PC (or MAC… if you’re into that, lol).

People are HUNGRY for connection and they are satisfying that hunger online today as much or more than in the ‘real world’.

As I left I told Bruce that if he didn’t follow the steps I suggested and put up a blog I’d drive back down to San Antonio and kick his ass

I want to see this guy do something with what he’s got here.

All he wants to do is follow the racing scene and get more into his passion for the sport… and now he has a way to do that.

YOU also probably have something you are passionate about that others are into and I bet there is a community of folks online searching for more ways to be involved.

Heck, even if Bruce doesn’t do a darn thing with what I told him tonight, I was inspired to blog more actively and share more information with you about how to do this kind of stuff.

It’s funny how life works like this…

Last night I was being interviewed on a teleseminar by my friend Jillian Coleman (YourInternetCashMachine.com) and she asked me for my advice on how someone could get started building their list.

I said, go in forums in your niche and post, get involved in that community and have your posts link back to your site… it’s a classic and very simple strategy that is as old as Internet Marketing.

Here I am meeting someone who needs to hear just that advice not 24 hours later.

As I said last time… Internet Marketing does not have to be hard… it can be simple.

You may be too close to your own situation to see it (like the forest and the trees), but you are sitting on a goldmine in this crazy thing we call the Internet.

Don’t let all the product launches and info overload make you forget that or discourage you.

Keep it simple… and get started today.

Craig

New to Internet marketing?

Then I’m sure you can relate to this great question I got this morning.

I hear this all the time so I thought I would post it for everyone to benefit from the answer.

"Craig…
I am so much a newbie to internet marketing that I can not follow anything. Are you telling me this launch of Armand’s can turn me into an internet market..teer? at least, a functioning one? I really am only 10% computer literate. Please respond : so , that I might be comfortable investing in this launch.
thanks"

Thank you for the great question.

The concern that is unspoken in this question is ‘how to pick the right information’ from all the choices out there.

If you’ve been learning Internet marketing you’ve no doubt come across a ZILLION different ebooks, audios, courses, seminars, and membership sites that all promise to show you the path to riches. And hey, there is a new ‘gotta have it’ product launch every other week, so believe me, I know what the challenge is you are facing.

Who and what do you pay attention to??? I’m sure you don’t have an unlimited budget to invest in your Internet marketing education, so I’d like to help you select the right resources. You sure don’t have unlimited TIME, so you have to choose carefully.

Since I’ve been in direct marketing since the late eighties and online since 2002 I can give you a pretty good perspective.

The reason I told you about Armand’s ebook ‘An Obvious Truth’ in the first place was because I endorse him and his material.

If you’ve been on my list for a while or have gone through my free ecourse, you know I’m not a guy who pimps every launch and product out there.

Heck, I broke 6 months of silence on this blog to tell you about this because I feel strongly that it is the most comprehensive course out there on Internet marketing… (that’s not to say nothing else was any good during that time, but this I had to tell you about).

Listen, as I said the other day, I continually invest in education. And I encourage you to do so SELECTIVELY, too.

That means, don’t buy something just because it is launching with a lot of fan fare… but because it meets a need in your business or you are ready to update your knowledge.

Buying everything that comes at you is a HUGE mistake that people make… so the question remains. How do you decide?

Well, I see it as one of my ways I can be of service to you is to give you my perspective and filter out stuff I know is junk or hype and that’s why I only tell you about a select few things anyway.

Let me give you my perspective…

I own a pre-release version of Armand’s new course, Internet Marketing Explained and as a veteran marketer I can tell you it’s been an invaluable resource to me. The measurement I use with this is if I learn just ONE thing that makes me more money in my business, then the course was worth it.

And in Armand’s case… that’s a complete no brainer.

If I were starting out today and it was within my budget to get Armand’s new course, I would absolutely get it… and like I said, even if you are not just starting out, there is something for you in this course that will make you more money.

How do I know that?

Because Armand doesn’t hold anything back… he teaches what works… and he started from scratch and built a company that generated $15 MILLION last year online.

That’s why I choose to learn from Armand… he has proven himself and is a straight shooter.

It’s like this… if you met Armand at a seminar and found out he makes $15,000,000 a year online, you KNOW you’d be PRAYING he’d talk to you for as long as possible and give you some secret to his success.

Well, Armand did just that… he put 56 hours of content into well organized, detailed, step by step break down of exactly how he markets online TODAY (not stuff that used to work that doesn’t anymore) and is handing it to you on a silver platter.

You can go through it from start to finish… or use it as a instant answer resource to answer whatever question you have today and just go to the relevant section.

Either way… the way I look at it we’ve all got an advantage over Armand when he started because this kind of information wasn’t available back in 1996 when he began.

Fact is… this is all just my opinion based on my first hand experience with Armand as a friend and mentor over many years.

To me, it’s a no brainer. But it really doesn’t matter what I think… this is about YOU.

Will his course help YOU?

There is a real simple way for you to find out if this is for you or not at this time.

Click HERE and opt in if you haven’t already because Armand has put up 12 FREE videos you can watch.

(First, you’ll watch his Relaunch Video, which is cool… but after you opt in you’ll be redirected to the training videos.)

He is giving away SOLID content that you can use in your business today… and at the same time you get a sample of how Armand teaches.

If you get value out of that, imagine how good the whole course is!

If you don’t, then move on.

It’s that easy

Like I said the other day, Internet marketing can be easy… see if this is what you’re looking for to help you in your business.

Go check it out and let me know what you think.

Craig