Super Easy $500 Contest. Jay Truman wins.

[Jason Moffatt]

Warriors, can I ask your help here for a second? I'll put your name into a random drawing and kick in $50 cash, and access to ALL of my marketing materials (which are valued way over $500). I'll award it to one random person that takes a few seconds to answer a question I have.

This will be cool for everyone here as well because you'll get to see what people really want. (Or at least what they say they want)

All you have to do is help me out by answering the question below. I'll pick a random winner. If you participate, and follow directions you're eligible to win.

I'm a bit stuck, and I know many of you can provide a bit of clarity for me. I teach a variety of things in the internet marketing space. In fact, maybe too many things.

Since hundreds of your are my customers, it's obvious many of you are my likely target audience. And one thing I've learned is, it's much easier to just ask your target market what is important to them.

So would you mind if I asked you which of these skills is the most important for your business?

1. Advanced sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting
2. Easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks
3. How to befriend big gurus in your niche & get them to say yes to your offers
4. Internet marketing basics for newbies
5. Social Media marketing


Specifically I'd like to know in order of 1 to 5 which ones are the most important for you to learn or which do you think would be the most helpful? For instance, you can reply....

5
2
1
3
4

And I'd like to know "WHY" the number one thing is important, and why the number 5 thing is the least important? Such as...

I find #5 Social Media marketing the most important because it's all the rage and I don't want to get left behind.

and...

I find #4 internet marketing for newbies the least important because I've already been marketing for 2 years already.


Pretty easy. I'd love to know how you personally felt so I don't have to just make a wild guess.

[Tom Brite]

1. Advanced sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting
2. How to befriend big gurus in your niche & get them to say yes to your offers
3. Easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks
4. Social Media marketing
5. Internet marketing basics for newbies

I have chosen the top thing as being 'Advanced sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting' Simply because that is where most of the money seem's to lie in IM! It is something i am very very interested in and have already spent alot of money on researching and am currently implimenting it to great sucess and profits!

I have also chosen 'Internet marketing basics for newbies' as the least important for me simply because there are so many other ebooks out there on this... everyone seems to cover the basics but basicly! They never go into much detail and leave it open and questions un-answered! Now im well past the newbie change but still there is a gap to make a kinda perfect newbie ebook, i feel anyway!

Oh and i would like to touch on social media marketing... i hate it... it sucks and soon enough will go out of fashion and not yield as many results as it did before! Twitter has already become a spam haven and facebook groups are having more and more links and promotion in them too!

Thanks and im glad to help even if i don't win

Tom Brite

[Jason Moffatt]

Thx Tom. That's exactly the kind of feedback I was hoping to hear. The more opinionated the better!

[Jason_V]

Jason,

My order would be:

5
2
1
3
4

I think 5 is important because it's the "newest" and it's hard to keep up with. Also, because traffic is key to anyone's success.

I think 2 is important for the same reasons above.

1 is very important, but not as important as traffic. Once you start to get traffic then you need to know how to write more persuasively whether it's for your own products, or pre-selling affiliate products.

After you have a handle on the above tactics you can create your own product. When you have traffic and great copy, then you should try to attract a guru to help make you even more profitable.

Newbie marketing last, because I just don't need "basics" also, there's a lot of other basics programs out there, why re-invent the wheel if you don't have to.

[Tom Brite]

Originally Posted by Jason Moffatt

Thx Tom. That's exactly the kind of feedback I was hoping to hear. The more opinionated the better!

Out of interest when are you going to draw this??

Thanks

Tom Brite

[yommys01]

1. Internet marketing basics for newbies : As a Newbie, I want to know the basics as the basics is the foundation of any journey. Knowing what is important and how to do that which is important is key to success in my opinion.

2. Advance Sales, Persuasion Tactics and copywriting : I personally believe no one will be able to make a dime online if he or she is not able to convice his or her prospects. Besides as a newbie I don't think it is wise to hire a copy writer and pay such big amount of money that is always the case with copy writers when I can just learn it and do it for others.

3. Social Media marketing : Content is king but traffic is money. A king, money and influence can not be seperated. I would want to know how to generate free traffic and blacklinks through the power of social media marketing and save myself some cool cash.

4. Easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks : This should be joint third. The same reason applies as with social media marketing.

5. Easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks : OKAY, this will come last for me because I need to know the basics, need to learn how to prepare the ground for my prospects through, get those prospects and then know the who is who after knowing everything I need to know. This one is important because no one is a newbie forever and it is just a matter of time before I also start teaching and know and having a strong connection with the gurus means I can easily be respected and accepted meaning I can easily rake in more cash peggybacking or leveraging on someone's success or profile.

[Ken Strong]

2. Easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks
1. Advanced sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting
5. Social Media marketing
3. How to befriend big gurus in your niche & get them to say yes to your offers
4. Internet marketing basics for newbies


I put #2 first, because "easy, yet wildly profitable" is always good in my book -- and video is the way to go these days, so anything I can learn in that area is good.

Advanced sales and persuasion is a close 2nd just because I like learning that stuff.

I put newbie info last because I think there are a ton of products available already that cover that from many different angles, or I can just create my own stuff.

[Jason Moffatt]

Originally Posted by Tom Brite

Out of interest when are you going to draw this??

Thanks

Tom Brite

Oh I dunno, probably sometime tomorrow. Maybe let it run for a weekday. I'll pick at random too, and not necessarily who writes the best essay. I just wanna know how people feel, and anyone who gives a valid attempt will be put into random drawing.

[Michael Oksa]

Hi Jason,

I hope it's okay that I explained my reasoning for EACH item on the list.

1. Advanced sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting - Because EVERYTHING else revolves around these principles and techniques. Video and social media are useless if you don't know how to be persuasive.

3. How to befriend big gurus in your niche & get them to say yes to your offers. - There is power in numbers. Their is power in who you know.

2. Easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks - To be honest, I don't use video, BUT I may consider it if there was a really easy and non-techie way to do it.

4. Internet marketing basics for newbies - While some may not consider me a "newbie", it's interesting to see what other top marketers think new people should know. And, yes, there may be a lot of other guides, but I don't the market for HIGH-QUALITY newbie guides is even close to saturated.

5. Social Media marketing - I put this last because it relies too heavily on the TOS and whims of third parties.

All the best,
Michael

[Freeman77]

3. How to befriend big gurus in your niche & get them to say yes to your offers
1. Advanced sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting
4. Internet marketing basics for newbies
5. Social Media marketing
2. Easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks

#3 is first because I've had some success getting gurus in my niche to market my stuff, but I've had some rejections (or more specifically, no response) from a couple of gurus as well.

#2 is last because I prefer to stay off camera, and I think the power of text will remain constant, despite the increasing popularity of video.

Hope that Helps!

- Mike

[rhondaklewis]

4)Internet marketing for newbies. If you don 't know the basics then you can't really be successful with numbers 2,3,4 and 5.
5)Social media marketing-you need traffic. No traffic, who is going to see your sales page?
1)Advanced sales-It's like a car accident on the side of the road. If your sales copy is good then your traffic will stop to read it.
3) Easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks-this is like icing on the cake. Anything wildly profitable is a good thing.
2)I don't really pay attention to what gurus have to say about a product. To me it is no different then a celeb endorsing a product. But it won't hurt to use them. It just does not seem to be that important.

[Hackbridge]

1. Advanced sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting
2. Easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks
3. How to befriend big gurus in your niche & get them to say yes to your offers
4. Internet marketing basics for newbies
5. Social Media marketing

1.
3.
5.
2.
4.

In that order

Brian

[Kelly Verge]

1
3
2
5
4

Advanced sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting is my #1 because I continue to see how it can be the most profitable skill - both on my own sites to increase conversions and when doing it as contract work.

Internet marketing basics for newbies is #5 because I've been doing this all for a while and these courses tend to be too basic.

[LilBlackDress]

1. Advanced sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting - Definitely #1 ....This is essential to get the sale.

2. Social Media marketing - A nice plus, great way to make connections and customers.

3. Internet marketing basics for newbies - There are still some basics I need to fully understand why I am doing them like pinging for example.

4. Easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks - I will watch this but I would rather read about it.

5. How to befriend big gurus in your niche & get them to say yes to your offers - Not at all important to me as it does not relate to my niches.

[Jay Truman]

Originally Posted by Jason Moffatt

1. Advanced sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting
2. Easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks
3. How to befriend big gurus in your niche & get them to say yes to your offers
4. Internet marketing basics for newbies
5. Social Media marketing

1. Advanced sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting
2. How to befriend big gurus in your niche & get them to say yes to your offers
3. Easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks
4. Social Media marketing
5. Internet marketing basics for newbies

1. I picked sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting because part of the "core" of marketing is about communication. Secondly, these tactics can increase #2,#3, and #4. If #1 can increase conversions for #2, traffic has become easier.

2. Probably the best/easiest/quickest way to increase traffic and get sales is from theguru endorsements. If you have a business, #1 and #2 is probably the quickest way to get more sales. Increase conversions and traffic.

3. Easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks is number 3 because it is a segment of sales,persuasion, and copywriting. i guess it depends on the context of these "video tricks"?

4. Social media marketing is also good and important, but not my fav. in list as far as making money. good for pr and getting traffic. You don't need smm to make money.

5. The basics is too basic for me

[ecoverartist]

1 How to befriend big gurus in your niche & get them to say yes to your offers
2. Social Media marketing3 Advanced sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting
4 Easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks
5. Internet marketing basics for newbies

Of course copywriting is important to me... it's what I DO full time. But if I were to buy a course on any of these subjects, the most important would be to get the attention of gurus in my particular niche. Why do I feel that's important? Because you can go SOOOO much farther with a well-known name attached to yours. Entire IM careers have been built on the backs of gurus. But they're inundated with stuff so I'd personally like to know how to stand out and get noticed above all the "Puh-leeeze JV with me!!!111" stuff.

IM for Newbies is least important to me because there is already a glut of videos and how-to's out there for beginners. Heck, just search this forum and you can find a heap of stuff for free.

Hope that helps answer your questions

[spicer]

1. Advanced sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting
2. Easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks
3. How to befriend big gurus in your niche & get them to say yes to your offers
4. Internet marketing basics for newbies
5. Social Media marketing

As far as skills need or most useful to running my business Advanced sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting would have to be my first choice.

Easy profitable video tricks is next as if I can add something to my tool box that is easy and profitable i always like that.

Next would be getting in with the gurus, but if I have not done my homework I would think I would be wasting their time and I would not get as much out of it until I am truly ready.

Next would be marketing basics for newbies even though I have been learning for some time I am still more a newbie than a full fledged marketer. Never the less you can almost always get something of value form training even if it is geared to someone completely new to the biz. Either something is given from another perspective or something basic used in a unusual way I never thought of are just a few examples.

I put social media last as it interests me the least. I am getting better and I do use it, but I just do not prefer it.

Thanks for the interesting thought provoking questions. I am looking forward to seeing what becomes of this. It should be great.

[Adway]

1. Advanced Sales, Persuasion Tactics, and copywritting
5. Social Media Marketing
2. Easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks
3. How to befriend big gurus in your niche & get them to say yes to your offers
4. Internet Marketing basics for newbies


I think that #1 is the most important to me because I feel this would most benifit me in the CPA market or any market for that matter. First of all, persuasion tactics are key to any successful business. Gaining the ability to get someone to buy your product or take your service. This is the most important to me. Also copywriting goes hand in hand with Persuasion tactics. Since the internet consists of the use of words to complete a sale, copywriting is a must.

I feel that Internet Marketing basics for newbies, is always important at first. You implement them everyday, and every time you go about launching a new venture. Without the basics, you can't move on to the complex methods/tactics. But, the "basics" are still the basics --- meaning you can only get so far with them. You need to get in deep to be successful and start using tactics that get you ahead of your competition/get you more eyes towards your products, etc...

[Jesus Perez]

1. Easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks
2. Advanced sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting
3. How to befriend big gurus in your niche & get them to say yes to your offers
4. Social Media marketing
5. Internet marketing basics for newbies

1. Video is going to only get bigger. Learning from your crazy ass would be very insightful. What goes through your mind when you're in the brainstorming sessions for the vids? Is it raw, spontaneous creavitivity? Or meticulously planned?

5. If it's the same "basics" then I think the topic has been covered. However, if you stand behind your own "basics", I may just make this #1.

[Les Tatum]

1
2
5
3
4

I picked Advanced sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting for number one because these are the things that will get people to buy. I have been studying copywriting and persuasion tactics and this is something that can cary over to pretty much all parts of my business.

I picked Internet marketing basics for newbies last because I have been marketing online for years in one form or another and already know the basics for the most part.

Thanks Jason!

[Gail Sober]

3. How to befriend big gurus in your niche & get them to say yes to your offers
2. Easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks
1. Advanced sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting
5. Social Media marketing
4. Internet marketing basics for newbies

#3 would be the most important for me because it's one of the only things here that isn't outsourceable and you actually want to do yourself regardless of what level of success you achieve.

#4 would be the least important because I've been doing this for years and years.

#2 & #5 would be more important if they were wrapped up in a "getting traffic" package or lumped in with #4 because you can't ever have too much traffic.

#1 is just one of those things I think that you either have it or you don't. Picasso might have ran an art class but some level of natural talent is required to really prosper from the teachings.

[Doug]

1 - because this type of information, used properly, makes money in any environment.
5
2
3
4 - because there is plenty of this information abundantly available everywhere.

[sbucciarel]

1. Advanced sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting - Persuasion and copywriting is usually the first chance to make an impression on a prospective customer

2. Social Media marketing- I get a lot of traffic and search engine ranking from this. The more I know the better.

4. Easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks - don't use this much. I'm on hughes.net satellite which limits daily bandwidth, so video is not i my arsenal

4. How to befriend big gurus in your niche & get them to say yes to your offers - just not something I do. Wouldn't they be kind of a hard sell since they already know every trick in the book?

5. Internet marketing basics for newbies - haven't been a newbie for a long time

[Jason Moffatt]

It's interesting to see the trend that #1 is a bit more desired from the rest. At least that is what people say.

I say it's interesting because in my experience, and most of those I know, selling copywriting and advanced sales stuff has always converted the worst against the other options. I'm not sure why, especially when people willingly admit it's importance. However, In dozens of situations I've been saddened by the dismal results when selling this sort of stuff. (Even when selling some of the copywriting masters too)

Also, keep in mind that when I say... "befriend a guru in your niche" ... I'm not always referring to the group of IM Bigwigs we all know, love, or hate. I'm referring to the top dog in that niche. For instance, if you were in the home remodeling business and you wanted to hook up with Bob Villa.

I don't want the silly word "guru" to skew the results. Think of it more as, connecting with the top dog, or biggest celebrity, or most successful entrepreneur in your niche.

Great stuff so far. I really appreciate it.

[tuldok]

4 5 1 2 3

this is my process if i will establish my business, because everything in advance came from basics.

[SKWeaver]

2
1
3
4
5

I rate #2 (video tricks) as most important because it has the potential of increasing my conversion rates.
I rate #5 (social media marketing) as least important because it's ineffective. with but maybe one or two exceptions, social media can't deliver targeted traffic

[Dan C. Rinnert]

Originally Posted by Jason Moffatt

So would you mind if I asked you which of these skills is the most important for your business?

1. Advanced sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting
2. Easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks
3. How to befriend big gurus in your niche & get them to say yes to your offers
4. Internet marketing basics for newbies
5. Social Media marketing

3.
5.
1.
2.
4.

The top two were a toss-up. I went with #3 because I feel I have a pretty good edge already on #5, but it was still a close second because there are always new things you can learn in that area as it is somewhat of a moving target at times. Still #3 is a biggie. I've gotten some valuable help in that regard from other Warriors, but still it's something I'd be interested in learning more on.

And I put #4 last because I have a forthcoming product in that field and I don't know want the competition. ;-) Plus, once you teach me #3, then I'll know how to get you to say "yes" to my JV offer. Ha-ha! ;-)

[Lance K]

Originally Posted by Jason Moffatt

So would you mind if I asked you which of these skills is the most important for your business?

1. Advanced sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting
2. Easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks
3. How to befriend big gurus in your niche & get them to say yes to your offers
4. Internet marketing basics for newbies
5. Social Media marketing


Specifically I'd like to know in order of 1 to 5 which ones are the most important for you to learn or which do you think would be the most helpful?

3 - Because it's not what you know, but who you know (or who knows you)

2 - Video is here to stay. Any tactic that's easy to employ and results in a profit spike is worth learning.

5 - I'm a social media dunce by chosen ignorance. Someday I'll see the forest through the trees

1 - I pretty familiar with this one. And while I'm always eager to learn more, it still comes in 4th on this list for me.

4 - Wouldn't get much good out of this one



I hope this helps, J-Mo. But I don't want your money. Give it to your local Boys & Girls club if you draw my name.

[mmurtha]

Hi Jason,

First off, thanks for doing this in the forum where we can all gather info.

Secondly, here is my answer:

1. Advanced sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting
2. How to befriend big gurus in your niche & get them to say yes to your offers
3. Easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks
4. Social Media marketing
5. Internet marketing basics for newbies


The reason why I picked Advanced sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting as #1 on the list is because I stink at persuasion tactics and copywriting, and I believe that getting better at persuasion and advanced sales tactics will improve my chances of fulfilling my #2 pick (How to befriend big gurus in your niche & get them to say yes to your offers).

I picked Internet marketing basics for newbies for the #5 slot because I have a few years experience in marketing online.


Mary

[GarrieWilson]

3. How to befriend big gurus in your niche & get them to say yes to your offers - because with their power, you can accomplish much more, faster.

1. Advanced sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting - Email copywriting to be specific. I outsource everything else and just dont like to wait for an email promo to be written.

5. Social Media marketing - I know this stuff but "action plans" would be nice as I tend to get distracted on all social marketing.

2. Easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks - I dont like video. I should but I don't.

4. Internet marketing basics for newbies - well, I've been at it forever.


If you happen to pick me, give the cash to a single mom buying groceries.

[xc-mikey]

Hi Jason,

I've heard the way to make money is to ask a thirsty audience what they would like to drink, then give it to them.

1. Advanced sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting
3. How to befriend big gurus in your niche & get them to say yes to your offers
2. Easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks
4. Internet marketing basics for newbies
5. Social Media marketing

Advanced sales, because most if the intro stuff I've found is nothing more than actually reading the guides on websites. Copywriting and persuasion are great because I get those guru emails all the time and you feel compelled to buy them right there. As long as you don't cross over into manipulation, this is one to learn.
Videos are up there as well, since a good video can really do wonders from a viral standpoint. You don't see this about letters or many articles going viral.

On the low side with social media, it's seems like it's all spammy now. You really only need a few good outlets in order for something to spread and somehow writing an article seems easier. I'm on so many different sites that I've lost track of memberships and why I joined them in the first place.

[matthewd]

My order is:
3. How to befriend big gurus in your niche & get them to say yes to your offers

1. Advanced sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting

2. Easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks

5. Social Media marketing

4. Internet marketing basics for newbies

The reason I put "3. How to befriend big gurus in your niche & get them to say yes to your offers" as number one is because relationships have been the key to my success thus far and I think being able to build relationships with successful people is a HUGE shortcut to success.

The only reason "4. Internet marketing basics for newbies" is at the bottom is because personally I am beyond that and would not benefit as much from that as the others.

[Mr Money Maker]

Can you post this here?....just asking sounds like advertising to me

[Lyn Woodring]

1. Advanced sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting
2. Easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks
3. How to befriend big gurus in your niche & get them to say yes to your offers
4. Internet marketing basics for newbies
5. Social Media marketing

Mine would be
4. It would be nice to have one simple roadmap to start with that explains in everday terms what to do in what order. When I say simple I really mean simple like ftp, hosting, domains, blogs website design and add ons. Then basic marketing. In video please. I know enough to be dangerous now.
5. It seems that that if done correctly it would lead to bascially free traffic at least in terms of money spent.
1. Persuasion is at heart of everything you do online or otherwise.
2. Profitable and easy go together like mom and apple pie. And video is here to stay.
3. The others needs to be in place before busy people will listen to your pitches.

-Lyn

[Lance K]

Originally Posted by Mr Money Maker

Can you post this here?....just asking sounds like advertising to me

I must have missed the offer.

[Jason Moffatt]

Originally Posted by Mr Money Maker

Can you post this here?....just asking sounds like advertising to me

I guess you could flag me, or write up one of those infraction things on me, and if enough people feel like you do, then the entire page will vanish.

Then nobody benefits very much from the info on the page. (Unless they are smart enough to save it every now and then.)

Am I advertising?

Aren't we all in some weird way?

[Dan C. Rinnert]

Originally Posted by Jason Moffatt

(Unless they are smart enough to save it every now and then.)

Thanks for the reminder.

[Christian Fox]

1. Advanced sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting
2. Easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks
3. How to befriend big gurus in your niche & get them to say yes to your offers
4. Internet marketing basics for newbies
5. Social Media marketing

Oh here are mine and why;

3- One JV with a big name and you are already off to a HUGE head start in a lot of different aspects. (credibility and list building are 2 BIG ones) One blast of any decent offer on some of these guys lists would be a HUGE PAYDAY!

2- Video is the next big thing, YouTube is still exploding and already gets more searches than Yahoo or MSN, or so I am told. Also Google bought it nuff said. Conversion rates for video are many times that of even great sales copy it's proven stuff yet still waaaay underused. Oh yeah and bandwidth will continue to get cheaper and speeds will increase tenfold. Dont have to be a psychic to know what that means.

1- Copywriting, you HAVE to know it to succeed. Anything ADVANCED would give me an edge. Talk to me about advanced psychological tactics and how to get into peoples heads and I'll listen big time. All of this could be used with video marketing as well so it would make me better at that. I have read/studied all of David Deangelos stuff, it's all about the dating arena but wow does it work...Dating is psychological warfare, so is marketing.

5- Twitter and the like are still growing amazingly right now but I think these are becoming rapidly saturated with spammers. I personally think it is going to become harder to market to them. Still very useful but I think the bubble will burst soon. Flashing banners and click the monkey worked great at first too. People HATE spam.

4- Newbie Information is available everywhere already. There might be a big market for it with the rapid influx of internet newbies but since your asking me I did this a few years ago.

[Christian Fox]

Originally Posted by Mr Money Maker

Can you post this here?....just asking sounds like advertising to me

He's OBVIOUSLY doing marketing research here and not advertising. I am sure he's wanting to know what people like us are interested in and why so he can 'feed the hungry'.

I see nothing wrong with it rather clever actually...personally I could use the info and the 50 bucks so whatev, I'd do the same. It's not like he's going to drag this out for 3 months.

This thread does give some educational insight regardless of what he gets out of it IMO.

[Hackbridge]

Originally Posted by Mr Money Maker

Can you post this here?....just asking sounds like advertising to me

You will read on the forum occasionally that a Warrior will be asking things like "What do newbies struggle with online/offline?" What they are actually doing is compiling the next WSO or a ebook entitled "What Newbies Struggle With Online/Offline".

I can't think why you think that this is advertising. These are a set of questions if I'm not mistaken. They might lead to the creation of a product but right now, Jason wants to know of them you think is the most important?

Brian

[crystalq]

2. Easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks
-Cause I know how easy it is to get traffic & money from videos.

1. Advanced sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting
-I totally suck at copy/creating buzz, this I would pay money for.

3. How to befriend big gurus in your niche & get them to say yes to your offers.
-Be good to know how to do if I ever needed to in the future.

5. Social Media marketing.
Social Media marketing is basic and you should be doing this anyway.

4. Internet marketing basics for newbies.
-Newbies have a million guides out there already available for them, why keep feeding them stuff they can find for free online?

Those are mine

[The Skint IM]

4. Internet marketing basics for newbies
1. Advanced sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting
5. Social Media marketing
2. Easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks
3. How to befriend big gurus in your niche & get them to say yes to your offers

Firstly I think you need to get the basics before you move on to the rest. Failing to get the
fundamental building blocks of your IM business correct will result in the rest of your efforts going to waste.

The next step is to add "the extra bite" to your basics where you advance on what you built in the beginning.

Social Media is currently the "in thing" amongst non IM'ers (can I call them normal people) and if you can add good value to your social marketing and target the right people - this can be a gold mine. Doing it correctly is the key.

Video marketing would be the method to use when you have built up your confidence and feel like
your taking your business to the next level. Using video marketing before your ready and before you
have built up your confidence can result is some terrible video to watch. (croaky voice, bad sound, bad script, bad footage etc..)

Get your self established and then befriend the guru's - doing this too early and you risk blowing it with the guru's.

Thats my view from a newbie perspective - Hope it helps

[dave147]

1. Advanced sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting
2. Easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks
3. How to befriend big gurus in your niche & get them to say yes to your offers
4. Internet marketing basics for newbies
5. Social Media marketing

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[Tam Chancellor]

1. Advanced sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting
2. Easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks
3. How to befriend big gurus in your niche & get them to say yes to your offers
4. Internet marketing basics for newbies
5. Social Media marketing

My order is:

2--easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks.
5--Social Media Marketing
1--Advanced sales, persuasion tactics and copywriting
3--How to befriend big gurus in your niche and get them to say yes to your offers
4--Internet marketing basics for newbies

#2 is my first choice and #5 was a close second for one reason: Traffic!
It was a toss up between #3 and #4 for last place. I'm already doing joint ventures with people of influence in my field (offline). There is enough info on internet marketing basics for anyone online. You just have to know how to do some basic research on the WF and Google.

Tam

[mywebwork]

Originally Posted by Mr Money Maker

Can you post this here?....just asking sounds like advertising to me

Actually it's NOT advertising - it's market research. Jason is trying to focus his creative efforts on the area where it will be most beneficial, for both himself and his subscribers. By doing it in this thread (as opposed to sending an e-mail questionairre to his list) he is also sharing the research with the rest of us.

I'm happy to provide my responses to the survey:

1 - How to befriend big gurus in your niche & get them to say yes to your offers
2 - Advanced sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting
3 - Easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks
4 - Social Media marketing
5 - Internet marketing basics for newbies

My situation (and thus the reason for my response) is this:

I've been developing an online application for Internet Marketers, it's actually a project I started in 2005 and have recently focused all my efforts on. I'm at the stage where I'm starting to recruit beta testers and hope to launch within a couple of months.

While I've been working with Internet Marketing since 2004 my primary skill is as a software developer. I don't have the reputation or big list that the gurus have, but I do have a unique and exclusive product. So connecting with gurus and creating effective sales copy is information I could really use right now.

I placed Social Media Marketing and Newbie training at the end. For one thing I really don't need the Newbie training, but also I think those subjects are already saturated with training material.

Hope this helps!

Bill

[Shaun Lee]

My order of importance would be:

2. Easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks
1. Advanced sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting
3. How to befriend big gurus in your niche & get them to say yes to your offers
5. Social Media marketing
4. Internet marketing basics for newbies

Here's what I think:

Easy yet profitable video tricks that can draw a massive amount of traffic would be the most important for me. I am struggling to get even 5 uniques per day, so I'd like more traffic. If it's easy to make these videos, then it's even better.

Next up is advanced sales, persuasion tactics and copywriting. If I have a huge traffic but it doesn't convert, then what good is the traffic?

Befriending big gurus are out of my league, but I think with their help I may achieve success that much faster.

Social media marketing is for the backlinks only, in my opinion. It's rather easy to do with SocialBot, and is there ONLY for the backlinks. So it's ranked at the 4th position.

Last are internet marketing basics. I think I have covered most, if not all, of the basics I need to succeed.

If I can win this thing, I can finally get a domain name, a web hosting account and an Autoresponder service!

[Echnaton69]

Free Money? How can I resist? ;-)

I think there is no "right answer" because it depends where you are right now in your IM-career. So if you would be a newbie you would rank #4 first. If you consider yourself as one-step-away-from-guruness you would choose #3 on top. So my ranking is:

1. Advanced sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting
Lets face it: it's all about sell something. You should never stop learning on that one. I would generally appreciate a more scientific approach to this. More often than not I read something like: "By accident I discovered blah blah - tested it and got insane Conversion-Rates".

5. Social Media marketing
If this really delivers and bring some structure and insight in the *real* possibilites with social media marketing I'm in for that.

3. How to befriend big gurus in your niche & get them to say yes to your offers
Sounds interesting for JV - but I'm not into that (for now).

2. Easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks
"Video Tricks" sounds to me like 3 - 4 "tweaks" on my videos. And they may work today but will fail tomorrow

4. Internet marketing basics for newbies
I'm just tired to read the same old "buy-my-stuff-find-a-niche-write-articles-get-rich"-stuff over and over again.

[Karen Connell]

1. Easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks
2. Advanced sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting
3. Internet marketing basics for newbies
4. How to befriend big gurus in your niche & get them to say yes to your offers
5. Social Media marketing

I picked video for #1 because it's still a mystery to me and it seems to be the norm to include a video these days.
Advanced sales etc. if you don't have great copy to persuade you won't make sales.
IM basics for newbies - the very basic stuff is all over the place for free...but, there is a lot of stuff that is omitted from 'basic' so maybe the next step up from that would be good.

Karen

[rapidscc]

Hi JMo,

5. Social Media Marketing
1. Advanced Sales, persuasion tactics, and copywriting
2. easy, yet wildly profitable video tricks
4. Internet marketing basics for newbies
3. how to befriend big gurus in your niche & get them to say yes to your offers

#5 is first because social media is the hottest thing right now.
#1 is second because even with all the best traffic strategies in the world content is still the king. It's the content that sells
#2 is third because if you look at youtube, some of the videos get millions of views, imagine if you have one like that.
#4 is fourth because it seems that a lot of people actually don't know what to do. It's almost everyday that we see questions here that asks "what do I do?"
#3 is last because I think relationships intended for JV's should only be entered into when one has already gained good grounding in IM

That's my .02

Raul Omar Diaz

[kimothy777]

1. Easy and profitable video tricks
2. Social media
3. Advanced sales, persuasion and copywriting tactics
4. How to befriend gurus
5. IM bascis

Reaons video tricks is first: I already use traffic geyser but don't see the results that I could be seeing, so I obviously need to learn a few more things. I'm looking for just those few things to tweak that will make a difference!

IM basics is last because I am not a newbie. I have been studying for 24 months now, have spent $10,000 of various courses and know the basics pretty well (I seem to get hung up on the technical things - I know, don't be the soldier in the trenches)

socail media is second because it encompases SO much. I have been busy doing many things and haven't had the time to do it justice. But it is time for me to take notice of it (I just joined Twitter. Are you proud of me?)