If you haven’t heard this by now trusted blog and internet marketing guru Yaro Starak has opened his Membership Site MasterMind program for the last time this year.  If you looking to build a membership site this is the program for you.  You can learn from one of the best in the business.  This is only open till Friday.

I received about 20-30 e-mails on this from all the top internet marketing list that I am on.  I have also read at least 5 or 6 blog post on it also.  I not going to be buying this program as I don’t have the time or money for it right now but you might want to check out it if your interested in creation a membership site as they are really profitable.  A lot of internet marketers make tons of money from building membership sites.  If you looking to learn from someone with a solid track record and has had a lot of success doing this then Yaro is your man.

Even if you don’t have the money for this you still should check out a few things related to this launch.  Yaro’s has put together a great free report where you can learn more about this program.  You can download it here.  I have read this and it is excellent and well worth your time.

In addition to that he has put together some nice videos that are also worth you time.  If you want to here a real life success story of someone that launched a 10,000 per month membership site following this program then check out this link.  Here Yaro interviews Diniel Scocco and they break down how he launched his program.

Each month I take time to review my site before the next month begins.

Since this is a monthly post I figured I would put some structure around it so it will be easy to update each month.  Let me know what you think of my template.  I still need to tweet this but it will work for now.

Lessons learned from last month that still hold true.

Consistent Action = Results

Regular Posting = More Traffic   

Regular Commenting = Builds Traffic

Re-occurring sales are cool! Still cool!

Starting to really learn and understand SEO (Keyword Case Study this month)

 

Lesson learned

TIP – ALWAYS LEARN AND TRYING NEW STUFF EACH MONTH

1. Social and Peer Networking – Love this stuff 
2. STILL NEED TO WORK ON THIS! – Develop a better routine
3. Social Bookmarking – This helps traffic stumble everything
4. Blog Engage – Submit all you posts  – Traffic increase
5. Enter Contest = Helps Traffic & Builds Relationships
   Making Money Online -Comment Contest -Free Custom Banners
   FreshEVenture – Best Wordpress Design 2009 –Keller’s site rock’s
6. Still lot’s of plug’s think I might have standard list. 
7. Every time Doug@ Making Money Online post a link to me I have a jump in traffic.
8. People like interviews – Still need someone for this month!I know their is stuff still learning a lot and this is really fun!

State of Mind

Still Very good.  Feel like I am getting in to a routine.  Still trying to figure out a 10 hour work week.  That is the goal averaging much more than that.  My confidence level is pretty high and good feel like I am heading in the right direction and have a pretty good idea of what I need to do.  I started to connect with a lot of cool people and that is always a good thing!

I have 2 pretty sure slam dunk deals for web design now I need to figure out what to charge and where to fit in the time but both should be a nice payday.  Need to make sure it doesn’t effect or hurt what I have going on here.  I am pretty sure it will only help.

Month End totals

Blogging Dashboard	May	June	July	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
Twitter Followers	300	2000	2500	2800
Opt – In		start	low	low
Visitors Best Day Month Total		start	37 283	26 471
Sales	0	0	46	46	*46	*46	*46	*46
Expenses	0	40	19	19	19	19	19	19

*accounts for recurring sales (memberships affiliate sites)

Above table is a work in progress but figure I would start working on a format.

Goals for next month.

• Top 10 Best Word Press Design 2009 – PLEASE I need your vote.
• Continue with regular posting, commenting and bookmarking.
• Learn more about seo complete keyword case study.
• Stumble and twitter more.
• Submit everything to blogengage
• More marketing, podcast’s video posting.
• 1st Mastermind meeting
• Start working on Sales Page and Offer.

Thanks everyone for your support, help and comments

I wish you all more traffic and a great month!

One of the things I wanted to start doing this month and every month moving forward is interview up and coming people in the blogging and make money online world.  I figured what better person to start with then Doug Dillard from Making Money Online Dot Com.

Doug Dillard and Mark Smith have partnered together to run Making Money Online Dot Com which is a blog about these two “Guru Wannabes” and their Journey to Online Fame & Fortune.  I strongly suggest you check out their site and become a regular reader if you haven’t yet.  They have a lot to offer along with a very nice little community of active bloggers that voice their opinions regularly via comments.

I can’t exactly remember how I 1st came across Doug but I am pretty sure it was via comments some where.  Since then Doug and I have started to build a nice little relationship.  I also found myself attracted to his site and enjoy his content as I myself am a Internet Marketing Guru wannabe.  In this interview I ask Doug a couple question about Guru’s and then we go on to some questions about his site.

Thanks again Doug for taking the time to do this and being the 1st Interview on this site!

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QUESTIONS ABOUT GURU’s

Jared: In your eyes what defines a Guru?

Doug: Someone who is very successful in their particular niche and that people look to for advice… would be the short answer.

 

Jared: Who is your favorite Guru and why do you like them?

Doug: There are a ton of them, but if I had to pick one I would probably say Frank Kern as he makes a ton of money and seems to me like he is having the most fun. I am not sure if that is true, but that’s the feeling I get. I was big into surfing growing up and Frank seems like he is still living the lifestyle, but with no worries about money.

 

Jared: If you could have lunch with any 5 Gurus, who would it be and why?

Doug: Hmmm… that’s a tough one. These are just off the top of my head and I will probably miss someone obvious; Frank Kern, Marlon Sanders, Jim Edwards, Yanik Silver, Dan Kennedy, Tim Ferriss, Darren Rowse, John Chow and David Risley. I know there was more than five, but I started with Internet Marketers, and then remembered some bloggers I wanted to meet… Sorry!

 

Jared: Why do you think people are so much more attracted to Gurus?

Doug:  People are just attracted to successful people, just like people are attracted to movie stars, rock stars, and sports figures. It’s built into our DNA. Internet Gurus are the rock stars of their particular online niches.

 

Jared: At what point would you say you are no longer a Guru Wannabe?

Doug:  I don’t know if I will ever get to that point where I would call myself a Guru. I do hope that we (me and my business partner Mark) get to a point where people will look to us as very knowledgeable in our field and search us out for advice… but that will be for our readers to decide.

 

QUESTIONS ABOUT YOUR SITE

 

Jared: Your site seems to be taking off, why do think readers are so involved?

Doug: I hope it’s because we provide interesting and informative content, but there are probably many factors. I have read many books and courses on the subject of blogging, as well as read hundreds (if not thousands) of posts on blogging and we try to implement as many strategies as we can in building our website.

 

Jared: What’s going on with all the commenting?

Doug: If you are referring to me commenting on other sites, there are a couple of reasons I do a lot of that. From a marketing standpoint it is one of the best ways we have found to get people to our site, as well as getting people to comment on our posts. Most bloggers (at least the smart ones), especially the ones just starting out usually visit the sites of the bloggers that comment on their site. If they find the posts interesting, they often return the favor and leave comments on their posts as well.

Now to go one step further, it is even smarter to read all the comments in each post and follow the links back to the “commenter’s” (I know that is not a real word, but it should be) website and see what their blog is about. If you feel that their blog fits well with your particular niche, you should leave comments on the posts that interest you on that site as well. This could go on and on if you like. It just depends how much time you want to spend commenting.

The second reason is I like to continually learn. So visiting as many blogs as I can and leaving comments and getting involved in the post is a great way to learn new things every day.

Jared: How much time do you spend commenting?

Doug: I probably spend at least a good hour everyday commenting on other sites, as well as replying to comments on our site. Some days maybe more, some days maybe less.

 

Jared: Where do you comment?

Doug: Well the first thing I do everyday is work my way down the list of people who comment on our site and see if they posted anything new that day, and if I find it interesting and think I can add some value to the post I will leave a comment. I do feel bad sometimes as there are some people that leave several comments on our site, where I would like to reciprocate and leave a comment on one of their posts, but can’t for some reason. It is usually because when I go to their site they write about stuff I don’t understand (maybe too technical), or it’s about stuff that does not interest me, or perhaps it’s a blog about a certain brand that I don’t use and there is nothing I can really comment about.

After that, if I have the time I will start looking for other sites in our niche or perhaps do a search for a blog on a subject that I am interested in that day. Even if the blog isn’t related to our niche, if I find the post interesting there is a good chance I will comment there as well.

Jared: How much traffic to you think commenting drives?

Doug: Looking at the stats, this month about 38% of our traffic comes from other blogs, which I would assume most of that would be from commenting, but not all.

 

Jared: Any tips or thoughts for breaking outside the same commenting circles?

Doug: Just keep visiting more and more blogs that relate to your niche, as well as other blogs that you think their readers might be interested in what you are writing about. The more you get your name out there, the better chance you have of building your network of loyal readers and friends.

 

Jared: What’s next?

Doug: We have lots of plans for the upcoming months… but you will have to wait and see 

Jared: Looks like you will have visit Making Money Online Dot Com to see what’s next but I am sure it will be some good and helpful stuff!

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Once again I want to thank Doug and wish him and Mark the best of luck on their journey to become Guru’s at Making Money Online Dot Com. If you skimmed this post I suggest you go back and read the section on commenting at the very least Doug reveals some golden nugget’s here that can really help your site!

 

As you know Doug and I both love comments so take a minute and tell me what you think about this interview and Doug’s responses.  I am also looking to do more of this so if your interested let me know and and I will see if your a good fit!