New Faculty at Stompernet (Impressive)

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Brad Fallon just sent out the following email:

Welcome New StomperNet Faculty Members...

Anne Holland, founder of Marketing Sherpa and WhichTestWon.com. Anne's has been conducting tests and research into what works best in marketing for more than 20 years. As Founder and Past President of MarketingSherpa Inc., Holland published pragmatic research studies such as annual Search Marketing and Email Marketing Benchmark Guides and the bestselling Landing Page Handbook. 237,000 professional marketers in corporate America read her newsletters featuring exclusive Case Studies and fresh data every week. Holland has been a featured speaker, and often keynote, at more than 100 industry conferences including Email Summit, Business-to-Business Lead Generation Summits, eTail shows, Affiliate Summit, Direct Marketing Association events, Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conferences, and Ad-Tech conferences (for which she is also a former Advisory Board Member.) She has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, DMNews, Entrepreneur.com, Fast Company and Business 2.0 among others. An award-winning marketer herself, since 1992 she has served as a Judge for many industry awards including the Viral Marketing Hall of Fame, the Ad-Tech Awards, the Electronic Retailing Association Awards, MarketingSherpa's Email Awards, and the Interactive PR & Marketing Nettie Awards.

Dave Taylor, of AskDaveTaylor.com fame and Intuitive Systems. He's baaacck! As one of our exceptionally popular original faculty members, Dave is back from his StomperNet Faculty hiatus. Dave is an absolute expert at helping your company learn how to grow through savvy use of business blogging and associated social networks and new media, business or technical topics, leading a class of adult learners, or writing a business or technical book for neophytes, my central focus remains the same: to explain complex concepts and technologies in a way that lets you gain insight into the subject. His most recent books are The Complete Idiot's Guide to Growing Your Business with Google (Penguin/Alpha) (widely hailed as a must-read by business experts), Teach Yourself Unix System Administration in 24 Hours (Sams/Macmillan) (which focuses on three operating systems: Red Hat Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X), Solaris 9 for Dummies (Wiley), Learning Unix for Mac OS X Panther (O'Reilly), Wicked Cool Shell Scripts (NoStarch), and Creating Cool Web Sites (Wiley).


Erik Stafford - Described by Ross Goldberg as "...the best person I know when it comes to helping newbies, guiding them into a business model that works, and teaching the basics of internet business in a way that can be understood." Erik formed Stafford Marketing, LLC in late 2006, launched The Faster Webmaster in early 2007, and has been helping people get started building online businesses ever since. He looks forward to conducting site reviews for Stompers, especially focusing on copy, design, and sales funnel (magic offer) strategies.

Alan Be chtold - Alan's been in publishing for over 30 years and been online since before the real "internet" existed with online bulletin boards. He's a self-described " A jack of all trades and a master of info-publishing and marketing." His primary focus in StomperNet will be teaching creative writing for content, info product creation, and copywriting.
Melanie Benson Strick - Melanie's a brilliant marketer specializing in business growth, team building, and breaking through the 6 figure area into 7, 8, and beyond. Melanie really knows her stuff. She's known as The Million Dollar Lifestyle Business Coach because she knows first-hand how to build a successful, thriving, freedom-based company with her secret weapon -- LEVERAGE. With over 12 years in corporate America and eight years as a business owner, Melanie works exclusively with entrepreneurs who are ready for a "sustainable" lifestyle business. Melanie's clients, who are typically coaches, consultants, authors, speakers, trainers, service professionals and information marketers, average a 172% revenue increase while creating more time for living their dream lifestyle.


Vin Montello - Vin's the brilliant copywriter behind some of the greatest successes on Clickbank. His copy is some of the best we've ever seen. And he's excited to help Stompers make their copy some of the best their customer's have ever seen.
David Wilkinson - Finally, we'd love to introduce a faculty member who can only be described as a "phenom." He's a 15-year-old super affiliate from the U.K. who makes five figures per month and he's still in high school. (Think you might be able to learn something about affiliate marketing from him.)

David Wilkinson - Finally, we'd love to introduce a faculty member who can only be described as a "phenom." He's a 15-year-old super affiliate from the U.K. who makes five figures per month and he's still in high school. (Think you might be able to learn something about affiliate marketing from him.)
#faculty #impressive #stompernet
  • Profile picture of the author Nathan Hangen
    Surprised they hired David considering his immaturity as evidenced on this forum. Should be interesting to see how brad guides the new snet.

    Any word on what Andy is doing now?
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  • Profile picture of the author James Schramko
    I think Andy is hanging out in San Diego
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  • Profile picture of the author Floyd Fisher
    Sounds like Stompernet is evolving into something much bigger than before.

    Will be interesting to see if they can pull this off.
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    • Profile picture of the author psresearch
      Originally Posted by davebo View Post

      I'm not extremely impressed with any of the faculty adds here, but I guess it's good to have a lot of faculty members cause maybe they speak to someone. Jerry West (SEO/Affiliate Marketing), Andy Edmunds (Analytics/testing), Dan Thies (SEO/PPC), Andy Jenkins(Video/Ecommerce/Everything), Leslie Rohde (SEO), and Brad Fallon (Building a business)....to me...are stompernet. Everybody else they brought in will have some occasional nice tidbits, but doesn't bring the level of expertise/clarity that those guys bring.
      I hear you. But how many people of Jerry West's and Andy Jenkins' level could they realistically bring on board?

      I see this more as a "staying the course" move.
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    • Profile picture of the author Lance K
      Originally Posted by davebo View Post

      You're a good addition too James.
      I couldn't agree more!


      Originally Posted by davebo View Post

      The problem is that for every James Schramko, they add a few <SNIP>.
      Come on, man. Was it really necessary to make your point that way?
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        • Profile picture of the author Black Hat Cat
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          Wonder if these newcomers know about Stompernet struggling to pay it's employees? And a 15 year old kid? Is this a joke, lol? Is anyone here really buying that shtick?
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          • Profile picture of the author Scott Ames
            Originally Posted by Black Hat Cat View Post

            Wonder if these newcomers know about Stompernet struggling to pay it's employees? And a 15 year old kid? Is this a joke, lol? Is anyone here really buying that shtick?
            How do you know?
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          • Profile picture of the author Jason Moffatt
            Originally Posted by Black Hat Cat View Post

            Wonder if these newcomers know about Stompernet struggling to pay it's employees? And a 15 year old kid? Is this a joke, lol? Is anyone here really buying that shtick?
            That 15 year old kid is no slouch. I'd have him on my team any day. He was brilliant even when he was 13.
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              • Profile picture of the author tradermike2008
                Originally Posted by davebo View Post

                I doubt Stompernet would really go under. Their overhead or salaries can't really be that high. They have steady cash flow coming in from membership fees (even at 500 members, that's $400k/month) and from Net Effect. And steady bursts of cash from their gigantic email lists and stompernet product launches. Even if they are at break-even on the actual membership site/conferences, that still produces a ton of content they can repackage and sell to the public for a one-time cost.

                I've always thought they should do tiered memberships. They justify their membership costs by saying they have 20 faculty members, 4 conferences, office hours, private coaching, etc. Most people don't want all that crap though, even if they think people need it. There isn't enough time in the day.
                According to a leaked court document Andy Jenkins had to put some of his own money into the company to keep it afloat around the beginning of the year.

                They desperately need a successful launch in September. For one thing doing so will let everyone know that the departure of Jenkins isn't slowing things down and maintain their hold over affiliates, employees. And it will replenish the coffers - or make them overfill if they already are.

                They will succeed they won't go out of business. Over the years they have been instrumental in many people's success. Hopefully that continues, but there is change happening for sure. Time will tell how it works out. They have already lost two really quality people.
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  • Profile picture of the author Mark Riddle
    David Wilkerson has to be the most impressive 15 yo on the planet.

    Has to do homework before he gets to build his biz...

    Good guy for sure

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