Everyone this it probably my biggest accomplishment to date with this blog.  I can’t tell you exactly when I 1st started listening to business interviews, podcast and audio books but I am a huge fan of audio and listening to people teach and tell their story.  You can really learn so much from listening to real people, telling real stories about real experiences. 

One of the things that really appealed to me on Yaro Stark’s site was his podcast and interviews.  I started going thought all of his podcast about 9 months ago I said I to myself I can do that.  So last month I made goal to do to my 1st interview.   Doug Dillard – Making Money Online Interview  After I did that I also made it goal to make this a habit.  So from here on out I will strive to do one quality interview per month. 

Please after you listen to this let me know what you think as I really plan to more of this and could learn a lot from your feedback.

 

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Internet Marketing Success Story

 So here is what I got a for everyone I landed the 1st ever phone interview of Keller Hawthorne of fresheventure.com.  In addition to this being her 1st Interview and Podcast this was also my 1st time doing a real recorded call.  No worries everyone somehow we pulled this off and ended up with almost an hour of quality tips, advice and real stories that EVERYONE can learn something from.  This is a fine example of going out and taking ideas from blogs that you like and then figuring out how to do them on your own blog. 

If you haven’t hear visited her blog before you should I must say I was instantly impressed by the content and just how well everything is organized, laid out and delivered.   Great things are coming for this one no doubt.

I thank Keller for spending the time with me and giving me this opportunity learn something new. I can’t tell you the value that you get when you can get inside the head of someone that has been running business online for over 4 years.  

Here is a few quick things you should know about Keller Hawthorne.

• She is 26
• She works for herself fulltime
• She run’s 2 E-Comm website’s Theme Kitchen & Theme Bathroom
• She run’s a Marketing Firm KBH Web Marketing
• Her blog is fresheventure.com (Great Blog Page Rank 6)
• She got a Page Rank of 3 in 3 weeks!
• She knows SEO

I can already tell you 2 weeks after reading and using tactic’s from her free e-book my organic traffic starting to grow!

What’s in the interview.  A lot. I can’t even begin to tell you all that we covered.  So your going to listen to it but some of the key things are.

• Her turning point yes she struggled for a while.
• The Importance of Keyword and organic traffic
• How to deal with crap and information overload
• Make sure you do your work then move on to learning
• How she connected with John Chow, Yaro Stark, and Gilden Shalwick
• Here experience with Blog Mastermind and Become a Blogger Student,
• The importance of learning so you can grow your business.
• What she would do if she only had 10 hours a week to spend on her business
• What’s going on with fresheventure.com and here Best Wordpress Design 2009 contest

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If you enjoyed this please let myself and Keller know by commenting here.  I am pretty sure if I get enough positive feedback I can arrange another one of these calls. 

Also if you could take a minute and bookmark or tweet this I really think this is a story that really needs to be shared!

As I kid I grew up watching Tony Robbins late at night on TV preaching motivation and self belief.  Probably part of the reason I am how I am today.  Now he has recently began to do some interview with the leaders of internet marketing.  If your looking for a internet marketing how to for internet marketing newbies.  It is alway good to catch a few great stories to get you really thinking.

Here John and Tony talk about the record day he had when he was 100k in debt and then was the 1st to do a million dollar launch while living with his parents.  If you taken any time to see the video’s that Tony Robbins has been doing over the last month with many leading internet marketers but take some time as each one of this is very motivating. 

Here is the latest.

John Reese and Tony Robbins discus 1 million dollars in less then 24 hours

Here is the one with Frank Kern, John Reese, and Anthony Robbins.

The 2nd video is all about following thought again I most say that if you haven’t checked this videos out you must!  Here you have Anthony Robbins talking with the best of the best internet marketing gurus.  He is trying to learn from them.  I am going to keep this post short as I really want you to watch the videos no sell here just great free internet marketing guru content.

Internet Marketing Newbies

If you study internet marketing you must like these types of stories.  Do you like these types of sucess stories?  Have you figured out your own success story in your head yet.

Some day I will tell my own similar story story.   I have a 3 year goal to do a 500k launch which I really think is possible based on so many of these stories.

Any body else have some big dreams and goals like myself I would love to here them.  If you listen to Tony it all starts with a vision!

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!