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		<title>MLM Zing by Andrew Murray and Marie Torres &#8211; In Depth Review</title>
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		<dc:creator>Adam Holland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MLM Zing is a new internet marketing/mlm product by Andrew Murray and Marie Torres.Â  I&#8217;ll be breaking down this product piece by piece so you&#8217;ll know what you&#8217;re getting and my opinions on each module.
First, let me just say &#8211; if you don&#8217;t already know me &#8211; I&#8217;m Adam Holland and I&#8217;ve been working full [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://adamhollandrecommends.com/mlmzing" target="_blank">MLM Zing</a> is a new internet marketing/mlm product by Andrew Murray and Marie Torres.Â  I&#8217;ll be breaking down this product piece by piece so you&#8217;ll know what you&#8217;re getting and my opinions on each module.</p>
<p>First, let me just say &#8211; if you don&#8217;t already know me &#8211; I&#8217;m <a href="http://www.adam-holland.com/">Adam Holland</a> and I&#8217;ve been working full time from home for the past 2 years.Â  I&#8217;ve created 2 separate businesses online: my affiliate marketing business, and my direct sales/mlm business.Â  <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>BOTH of these full time incomes are as a direct result of learning MARKETING.</em></span> And THAT is what Andrew and Marie focus on in this training.</p>
<p>Understand that when you learn how to market, it almost doesn&#8217;t matter what business you&#8217;re in.Â  Why?Â  Because every business requires new leads and prospects to survive.Â  And <strong>when you can command a flood of new visitors to your website (and thus more leads) you can grow virtually ANY business</strong>.</p>
<p>With that in mind, here&#8217;s what&#8217;s included in MLM Zing:<span id="more-159"></span></p>
<ol>
<li>Your Lead Funnel</li>
<li>Keyword Research</li>
<li>SEO</li>
<li>PPC</li>
<li>Video Marketing</li>
<li>Article Marketing</li>
<li>Press Releases/Special Reports</li>
<li>Social Media</li>
<li>Advanced Link Building</li>
</ol>
<p>Now, understand that you can literally take any one of these forms of marketing and grow a 6 figure business if done right and done on a large scale.</p>
<p>For instance, I create most of my traffic through SEO (blogs, articles, etc.).Â  I MASTERED it and now even have several outsourced-workers working for me right now.Â  I could do this because I learned it down to a SCIENCE.</p>
<p>Then there&#8217;s <a href="http://explode-my-business.com/blog/mlm-leader-reviews/jonathan-budd-review/" target="_blank">Jonathan Budd</a> and Mark Hoverson &#8211; both of these guys primarily built their 7 figure business on PPC and video.</p>
<p>My point: there&#8217;s a freakin&#8217; TON of info in MLM Zing, and you do NOT want to take it lightly &#8211; OR get overwhelmed trying to learn it all at once.Â  So read through the rest of this review, module by module, and decide what 1-2 forms of marketing you will focus on.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Your Lead Funnel</strong></span> &#8211; this is mandatory.Â  No funnel, no money.Â  Pretty simple.Â  Without a sales process in place, you&#8217;re just guessing.Â  You &#8220;hope&#8221; to get people to your website and &#8220;hope&#8221; that someone eventually buys.Â  That just doesn&#8217;t cut it.Â  This first module shows you how to set this up and how to make it as effective as possible.</p>
<p><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Keyword Research</span></strong> &#8211; this is the difference between getting NO traffic and getting THOUSANDS of targeted visitors to your site.Â  In this module MLM Zing goes over how to properly use different tools to find keywords that are getting a good amount of searches, but aren&#8217;t so competitive that you can&#8217;t get the traffic from them.Â  One of the tools that I use to do this is <a href="http://adamhollandrecommends.com/internet-marketing-tools/micro-niche-finder" target="_blank">Micro Niche Finder</a>, although most of their trainings involve another program called Market Samurai.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>SEO</strong></span> &#8211; this module goes over search engine optimization.Â  This is basically the process of getting your content to the top of the search engines for the purpose of creating traffic to your website.Â  This module, in my opinion, is a great crash course on SEO but to fully understand every aspect of it I suggest getting <a href="http://adamhollandrecommends.com/seonetworker" target="_blank">SEO Networker</a>.Â  If the $1300 for that program is out of your reach, stick w/ this training.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>PPC</strong></span> &#8211; great module on pay-per-click advertising.Â  Now, of course I&#8217;ve bought PPC courses from $500 and up &#8211; and they&#8217;ve got some crazy tactics, but this program is MORE than enough to get a PPC campaign up and running for a newbie.Â  It talks about everything from analyzing competition to the difference between the search/content network, and a bunch more.Â  It does touch on some advanced and intermediate techniques, but mostly this is a &#8220;cliff&#8217;s notes&#8221; to PPC.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Video Marketing</strong></span> &#8211; again, some basic strategies as well as some new ones that I didn&#8217;t even know about.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Article Marketing</strong></span> &#8211; GREAT module.Â  I personally love article marketing.Â  When I first started online I was recently unemployed and I had all the time in the world to market my business, I just had NO BUDGET.Â  So I took to article marketing.Â  The cool thing about this is you can learn the stuff in this module and apply it on basically no budget, and then use some of their other paid methods to help turn your article marketing in to overdrive.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>PR/reports</strong></span> &#8211; great stuff, I&#8217;ve just don&#8217;t personally think that you can build a business on Press Releases.Â  It&#8217;s great to get a wave of traffic at one time, but I prefer to build my business on more long-term strategies.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Social Media</strong></span> &#8211; this is just one of those strategies that I don&#8217;t use, and that&#8217;s probably a BAD idea.Â  I&#8217;ve got a maxed out Facebook friends list and a Twitter following of 2800 people.Â  And I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ve made some money from my Facebook list, but social media in general isn&#8217;t something I&#8217;ve spent a bunch of time on.Â  There&#8217;s some great tactics in this module, so if you do want to build your list quickly and for dirt-cheap, social media may be the way to go.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Link Building</strong></span> &#8211; between this and SEO, I&#8217;ve been able to get a crazy amount of traffic across several niches.Â  And when I browsed through this module, I&#8217;ve got to admit I was pretty p*ssed off.Â  Why?Â  Well, because Andrew and Marie are giving away some secrets in this module that I only shared with people on my business team.Â  THAT is how powerful this module is when used with SEO, articles, and other forms of content.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>MY REVIEW ON THE ENTIRE PROGRAM AS A WHOLE</strong></span>:</p>
<p>All of these tactics are very relevant to today&#8217;s internet marketing world.Â  This is the perfect introduction to internet marketing for mlmers because it gives a great overview of all of these strategies &#8211; from understanding the basic terms, to how to use research tools, and the thought-process behind everything.</p>
<p>The only drawback that I see is a lack of case studies and VERY specific examples.</p>
<p>What I mean by this is it&#8217;s one thing to tell someone to write an article and even give them some examples of titles.Â  But show people from start-to-finish how you go from keyword research, to using those keywords in an article, to increasing your CTR on your author bio box&#8230;Â  A to Z.</p>
<p>Just simply mentioning something doesn&#8217;t mean that the viewer will know what you&#8217;re talking about.Â  So this high level of depth is missing from this course.Â  But this is why it&#8217;s also dirt cheap for an internet marketing course as in depth as it is.Â Â  I know that sounds contradictory, but let me explain.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve purchased thousands of dollars in courses that go through this same information.Â  Problem is, I spend THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS to learn this same information!Â  For a measly $297 (less than the cost a 1 credit hour at any of the 6 colleges in my area) you can get your hands on a TON of info to get your online mlm business off the ground.</p>
<p>As you start to learn these forms of marketing, you&#8217;ll start to gravitate to one or 2 strategies that you prefer.Â  Then you can branch out to other more expensive courses that teach you even MORE about those strategies.</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong though &#8211; there IS a bunch of stuff in this course that is intermediate.Â  And this course DOES include everything that you&#8217;ll need to go from zero to 6 figures in my opinion.Â  But as you focus on these different areas you&#8217;ll understand how you want to &#8220;fill in the gaps&#8221; in the &#8220;cliffs notes&#8221; that is this course.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><strong>I give MLM Zing an 8/10 and a MUST BUY if you&#8217;re a total newbie to internet marketing.</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://adamhollandrecommends.com/mlmzing/" target="_blank">To get MLM Zing go here&#8230;</a></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:54:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:53:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Holland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a quick story about what happened to me at the beginning of this summer.Â  This is a &#8220;tragic&#8221; yet inspirational story that is VERY personal to me.Â  I&#8217;m going to be telling you some very &#8220;personal&#8221; and emotional information about my private life that not many people are privy to.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a quick story about what happened to me at the beginning of this summer.Â  This is a &#8220;tragic&#8221; yet inspirational story that is VERY personal to me.Â  I&#8217;m going to be telling you some very &#8220;personal&#8221; and emotional information about my private life that not many people are privy to.</p>
<p>With that being said, let me tell you the backdrop of the story:</p>
<p>Just about every penny I made in the<br />
last 2 years I sunk back into my business in<br />
one form or another.</p>
<p>And most of that money went right down the<br />
toilet.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve spent so much on training, ebooks, courses,<br />
software&#8230; you name it, I&#8217;ve tried it.</p>
<p>I was looking back at how much I&#8217;ve spent &#8220;trying<br />
out&#8221; different bus&#8217;ness opportunities, marketing<br />
programs, and other tools to help me grow my<br />
business.</p>
<p>And the shocking thing is this year alone<br />
I&#8217;ve spent in excess of $10,000 just &#8220;messing<br />
around&#8221;.. (oops!)</p>
<p>But that tells you a LOT about success in the<br />
business world.Â  I could&#8217;ve dumped that in<br />
to some fancy car so I could shoot a video<br />
and try to hype you up.. then try and &#8220;sell<br />
you&#8221; on getting in to my business.</p>
<p><strong>That is NOT what I believe success to be.</strong></p>
<p>But in order to get to this kind of level<br />
in business you need to learn to:</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>DELAY GRATIFICATION!</strong></span></p>
<p>Put off buying the big expensive toys and<br />
stuff, and focus on growing your business.</p>
<p>This was NOT my &#8216;number 1 goal&#8217; this past<br />
year.. It was my <span style="text-decoration: underline;">ONLY</span> goal.</p>
<p>** So, why am I telling you this?? **</p>
<p>I told you that so I could tell you<br />
the &#8220;tragic&#8221; part.</p>
<p>In early July (right before I had my first<br />
$20k+ month) it was getting warmer out<br />
and I wanted to throw on a pair of shorts..</p>
<p>I got dressed and did one of those &#8220;double takes&#8221;.</p>
<p>I looked at my jean shorts and thought to<br />
myself, &#8220;I think my mom bought these for me<br />
while I was still in high school &#8211; like 10 years<br />
ago..&#8221;</p>
<p>I asked my wife (we&#8217;ve been together since<br />
high school so SHE&#8217;D KNOW TOO) and she confirmed<br />
my suspicion.Â  It was a nerdy, tattered, late 90s<br />
pair of jean shorts.Â  UGH!</p>
<p>So my wife and I hopped in the car to go buy<br />
me some new summer clothes for the first time<br />
in a long time&#8230;</p>
<p>No &#8211; I didn&#8217;t go to some &#8220;ritzy&#8221; expensive store.</p>
<p>I went to Old Navy for god&#8217;s sake.Â  And there<br />
was even a sale, so yea &#8211; I was still being a<br />
&#8220;tad cheap&#8221;.</p>
<p>But you&#8217;ve got to realize the mental breakdown<br />
I was having at this point.Â  I had sunk EVERYTHING<br />
in to growing my business.Â  And not just for the<br />
last 2 years or so.Â  I&#8217;m talking about the last 5<br />
years, most of which was brutal failure, rejection,<br />
sleepless nights, and heart ache.</p>
<p>Seriously &#8211; I couldn&#8217;t look myself in the mirror<br />
2 years ago when I got fired.  I felt like a total<br />
failure.  And all I wanted to do was beat myself<br />
into submission.</p>
<p>My self esteem was all but gone.  I considered<br />
myself &#8220;the victim&#8221;.  But I still wanted MORE.<br />
And I wasn&#8217;t going to stop working until I<br />
figured it out.</p>
<p>And I didn&#8217;t stop working for such a long<br />
time, I forgot how to &#8220;not be stressed!&#8221;</p>
<p>I was literally *afraid* to enjoy myself because<br />
I had been the &#8220;victim&#8221; for so long.</p>
<p>And now here I am, afraid to spend any money<br />
on myself, standing in a clothing store wondering<br />
if I should even be there.</p>
<p>Luckily my wife was there to guide me with my<br />
shopping experience &#8211; haha.</p>
<p>So I approached the cashier, she tallied up the<br />
pile of clothes, and it came out to just over $100.</p>
<p>I went to hand over the credit card to pay and<br />
I just couldn&#8217;t.  My hand holding the card was<br />
literally trembling.</p>
<p>*I felt like I was giving her one of my kidneys&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>I was ready to break down and cry right there<br />
in the middle of the clothing store.</p>
<p>And you might be thinking, &#8220;Big deal.  I have a<br />
pair of pants/shoes that cost over $100, and you just<br />
bought a new *summer wardrobe* for that..<br />
what&#8217;s the big deal!?&#8221;</p>
<p>The big deal was I felt like I had had the first<br />
real &#8220;victory&#8221; in a long time.  I felt like Rudy -<br />
you know the football movie, right?  Where<br />
the kid fights his whole life to play just ONCE<br />
for the Notre Dame college football team.</p>
<p>All the of pain, rejection, failure, and self defeat<br />
accumulated into one moment, and the next<br />
moment I was free from it.  I was no longer<br />
going to hold myself back.  I was no longer<br />
going to get in my own way.</p>
<p>==&gt; I was thinking the other day: all us guys<br />
want to be the &#8220;knight in shining armor.&#8221;  We<br />
want to be the warrior who slays a dragon<br />
to win over the damsel in distress.</p>
<p>We want to be gladiators.</p>
<p>Now, we might not be able to pickup a sword<br />
and shield and fight to victory.</p>
<p>But I feel that every time I sponsor a new<br />
person, every time I coach my business partners,<br />
and every time I do a training webinar or create<br />
a training product&#8230;  I feel like I&#8217;m wielding a sword.</p>
<p>That may sound corny.  But I feel like I&#8217;m fighting<br />
for my freedom every day, and that&#8217;s as close as<br />
I can describe it.</p>
<p>I feel like a hero.  And I never felt like that working<br />
for someone else before.  I think it&#8217;s a feeling<br />
that you can only get when you work on<br />
your own business.</p>
<p>==&gt; Please leave your comments and thoughts below!</p>
<p>Adam Holland</p>
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		<title>Blastoff Network &#8211; Another Scam or the Real Deal?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Holland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not one to write long and drawn out reviews on the latest network marketing companies, so I&#8217;ll keep my review on Blastoff Network as brief as possible.
First, let me just say that this is NOTHING new!Â  Amway/Quixtar has had this same &#8220;universal online shopping mall with multi-level payouts&#8221; concept for a while.Â  Then other [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m not one to write long and drawn out reviews on the latest <a href="http://explode-my-business.com/blog/mlm-company-reviews/" target="_blank">network marketing companies</a>, so I&#8217;ll keep my review on Blastoff Network as brief as possible.</p>
<p>First, let me just say that this is NOTHING new!Â  Amway/Quixtar has had this same &#8220;universal online shopping mall with multi-level payouts&#8221; concept for a while.Â  Then other companies such as &#8220;My Power Mall&#8221; and &#8220;(crap there was another one, but I can&#8217;t remember..&#8221;) rolled out their versions.Â  It&#8217;s a great concept too: &#8220;If I&#8217;m going to spend the money anyway, might as well get paid a bonus back on it, right!?&#8221;</p>
<p>And then comes the realization: if you&#8217;re going to purchase from the 3rd party story (Best Buy, Target, etc) through the shopping &#8220;gateway&#8221; (in this case Blastoff) there isn&#8217;t going to be much of a margin that you save.Â  Usually payouts to &#8220;regular&#8221; online affiliates is 1-3%.Â  Not bad, better than nothing right?!Â  But now split that with 20 people in a downline?? Everyone&#8217;s fighting over 2 cents!?</p>
<p>Cutting to the chase &#8211; buying stuff from the 3rd party companies is NOT worth it.Â  Instead of having the product when you need it (NOW), you&#8217;re paying extra for shipping (some of the time it&#8217;ll be free) only to get 2 cents back on the product.Â  THAT is a waste.</p>
<p>Most companies that work this way have to have their own product line (Amway&#8217;s energy drinks, toilet paper, soap, laundry detergent, etc&#8230;) with a bigger profit margin so you can make more money.Â  Now instead of cutting up 1-3% into small little bits, you&#8217;ve got more like 10-30% to work with &#8211; depending on the company/product/etc.Â  But now you&#8217;ve got to get people to stop buying Crest and start buying &#8220;Blastoff toothpaste&#8221; or whatever.Â  Again, good concept &#8211; but it&#8217;s not as easy as they describe.</p>
<p>The worst thing with these companies is you need to recruit a small country in order to make any REAL money with it.Â  And it takes you between 5-20 years to do it ( :: cough -JOB- cough:: ).</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong: I&#8217;m NOT against MLM!Â  I&#8217;m not against Blastoff or Amway or whatever company.Â  But you&#8217;ve got to understand that the fortunes are being made in more Direct Sales (or what many people call &#8220;GPT: Get Paid Today&#8221;)-type comp plans where you&#8217;re paid MUCH more early on in your business.</p>
<p>Example: when someone joins <a href="http://grnwealthplan.com" target="_blank">my primary business opportunity</a>, I get paid $1000.Â  And when they sponsor someone I get paid $1000.Â  Do the math.Â  How many people do I need to sponsor to make $5k/mo, and how big does your mlm business need to be to make that?Â  Usually it&#8217;s the difference between 5 people and 150 people.Â  Make sense?</p>
<p>Either way, I&#8217;m not here to sell you on a business &#8211; Blastoff Network or otherwise.Â  What you 100% need to realize is that without LEADS, your mlm business is going nowhere.</p>
<p>To find out how I&#8217;ve sponsored as many as 81 people in 4 months and made over $22k in a single month &#8211; all on AUTOPILOT &#8211; check out my free training resource: <a href="http://explode-my-business.com" target="_blank">Explode My Business FREE 7 Day Bootcamp</a>.Â  Enjoy!</p>
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		<title>SEO Networker Bonus (SEO Networker Review site is LIVE)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:40:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Holland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey there, Adam Holland here&#8230; and I am flat-out-EXCITED to let you know about the pre-launch of SEO Networker.Â  Why?Â  Because this ONE TRAINING PROGRAM has set the foundation for my entire business this year.Â  I&#8217;m going to tell you about this more in detail in one moment, but the first thing you absolutely MUST [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey there, Adam Holland here&#8230; and I am flat-out-EXCITED to let you know about the pre-launch of <a href="http://seonetworkerjvs.com/affiliate/scripts/click.php?a_aid=aholland&amp;a_bid=adamsblog" target="_blank">SEO Networker</a>.Â  Why?Â  Because this ONE TRAINING PROGRAM has set the foundation for my entire business this year.Â  I&#8217;m going to tell you about this more in detail in one moment, but the first thing you absolutely MUST know about is the bonus I&#8217;m giving away to people who buy this course through my affiliate link.</p>
<h2 style="text-align: center;">For complete details on the $1299 in FREE bonuses I&#8217;m giving away to MY SEO Networker customers, visit my review blog here: <a href="http://www.getseonetworker.com/seo-networker-bonus/" target="_blank">SEO Networker Bonus</a>.</h2>
<p>These bonuses include FREE coaching and my ENTIRE online mlm training suite.Â  No joke, between Ferny and Ray&#8217;s training, and MY training &#8211; you will have no excuse but to be the next online mlm guru &#8211; or at least &#8216;guru in training&#8217; <img src='http://www.adam-holland.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' />  &#8230;</p>
<p>With that being said, you&#8217;ve got to know just how important SEO Networker was and IS in my business right now.Â  I had a TON of training from other online gurus, mlm experts, and more&#8230;Â  I&#8217;ve purchased a TON of programs, ebooks, courses, and coaching programs.Â  I learned alot, applied alot, and I got some decent results.</p>
<p>After about a year online, I still wasn&#8217;t making the kind of money I &#8217;should have&#8217; been making.Â  Sure, I had already pretty much &#8220;replaced&#8221; my income &#8211; I was unemployed so ANY income was acceptable at that point.. haha!Â  But here&#8217;s the problem I had: many of those courses gave very generic info, and seemed to leave out BIG pieces of the puzzle.</p>
<p>Conceptually, I thought I knew what I was doing&#8230;Â  But because I didn&#8217;t understand the BIG PICTURE and how everything works as a whole, I wasn&#8217;t maximizing my profits.Â  In fact, I was working as much as 16 hours a day, 6 days a week (sometimes more) to make this full time income.Â  Not exactly what I had in mind when I thought of &#8220;working from home full time&#8221;, right!?</p>
<p>Long story short, SEO Networker totally blindsided me!Â  It was a total wake up call to my business.Â  I &#8220;thought&#8221; I had already learned the basics of backlinks, on-page optimization, social media, and more.Â  I knew what they were and I &#8220;thought&#8221; I knew how to implement them.Â  But I was at the first-grade-level compared to Ferny and Ray.</p>
<p>So as they went through everything, I listened very carefully.Â  I went through the slides and presentations.Â  I took notes, even on topics I thought I already knew&#8230;Â  And when I truly became a STUDENT of their program, and applied what I learned things REALLY took off.</p>
<p>And the cool part was, many of those things that may have worked in all of those other ebooks and courses that I spent THOUSANDS of dollars on before&#8230;Â  I actually went back and could understand them better.Â  OR I could actually connect the dots on the things that were left out because of what I learned in <a href="http://getseonetworker.com" target="_blank">SEO Networker</a>.</p>
<p>Less than 3 months into the program, I had created ONE blog that has made me as much as $7500+ in one single month.Â  Sure, that&#8217;s REALLY exciting when you go from a &#8220;dripping faucet&#8221; worth of traffic, leads, and sales&#8230; to a freaking FIRE HOSE!Â  But the thing that REALLY got me excited was that I could apply this to MULTIPLE other projects and programs I&#8217;ve been working on!</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve now hired my first full time employee and we&#8217;re in the works on about TWELVE different blogs.Â  All of them in different niches with different income streams.Â  And let&#8217;s put it this way: that first blog is based around a keyword phrase that only gets 100-300 searches per month.Â  These new blogs will be going after keyword terms that go from 1000-50,000 searches per month (and some that are even MORE).</p>
<p>SEO Networker isn&#8217;t just a training that will get you free leads from google and help you build your business on autopilot&#8230;Â  It&#8217;s a training that is so in-depth and goes over the REAL fundamentals of owning an online business &#8211; you can apply it to MULTIPLE businesses and MULTIPLE products.Â  The possibilities are truly ENDLESS.</p>
<p>So, why the heck are you still reading!?Â  <a href="http://seonetworkerjvs.com/affiliate/scripts/click.php?a_aid=aholland&amp;a_bid=adamsblog" target="_blank">Get your copy of SEO Networker here</a>, and to find out how to get your bonuses visit here: <a href="http://www.getseonetworker.com/seo-networker-bonus/" target="_blank">SEO Networker Bonus</a>.</p>
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		<title>How My Wife&#8217;s &#8220;Bun in the Oven&#8221; Lit a Fire Under My Butt!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:13:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Holland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t heard, my wife and I are expecting our first child in February (it&#8217;s a boy by the way!) &#8211; and I&#8217;ve been a total MANIAC working on my business so that we could BOTH work from home (check!), we could enjoy ourselves a little before the baby comes (check!), and we could [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p><em>If you haven&#8217;t heard, my wife and I are expecting our first child in February (it&#8217;s a boy by the way!) &#8211; and I&#8217;ve been a total MANIAC working on my business so that we could BOTH work from home (check!), we could enjoy ourselves a little before the baby comes (check!), and we could buy our first home shortly after the birth (getting there!!)&#8230;</em></p>
<p><em>This quick story is going to show you exactly how in less than 2 years I went from an unemployed loser living off of his savings to a top producer in several programs and a leader and trainer in the online mlm world making a full time income from home&#8230;</em></p></blockquote>
<p>I&#8217;m sure if you&#8217;re reading this right now, friend, you&#8217;re already in an mlm business.Â  You&#8217;re probably working diligently to grow that business and create the life-style you want in life.</p>
<p>First of all ==&gt; KEEP GOING!</p>
<p>Don&#8217;t let anyone deter you from your business.. BUT &#8211; It&#8217;s time you learned the absolute MOST effective way to build an income from home.Â  ((notice I didn&#8217;t say &#8216;grow your m1m company&#8217;.. these are 2 totally different things!!))</p>
<p>You see, I&#8217;ve been there.Â  <strong>I&#8217;ve wandered around the malls and college campuses for hours at a time trying to get someone&#8217;s phone number to add to my list of &#8220;prospects.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>I wasted ENORMOUS amounts of time going to hotel meetings, trying to coach people that just should NOT have been<span id="more-139"></span> in my business, and buying WAY too many products I couldn&#8217;t afford.</p>
<p>(It&#8217;s interesting the crazy stuff we do, no matter how much *it doesn&#8217;t make sense* just because we think we&#8217;re building our future.. but that&#8217;s besides the point..)</p>
<p>So, fast forward 2 years and I&#8217;m a top producer in several programs, I&#8217;ve got a BLANKET of content online, not toÂ  mention some of the absolute *BEST* training products available to our great industry.Â  (of course that&#8217;s just my opinion <img src='http://www.adam-holland.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>Now, if you just read that and were like &#8220;yea, right.. whatever.Â  BLAH BLAH BLAH&#8230;&#8221;Â  I totally understand.Â  I got a bunch of messages from my 25-year-old mentor when he had his first $50k+ month.Â  I made like $2k that month, I didn&#8217;t want to hear it.. haha.Â  But in the next paragraph, I&#8217;m going to lay out my &#8220;blueprint&#8221; to my entire business so you know how this is even possible.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">First, here are most of my different income streams</span>:<br />
1.) <a href="http://www.grnwealthplan.com/" target="_blank">Global Resorts Network</a> ($1,000 per sale profits)<br />
2.) <a href="http://www.adamswealthplan.com" target="_blank">123 Power System</a> (about $165 NET per sale plus other incomes)<br />
3.) Affiliate Marketing (selling other people&#8217;s products and services).</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Examples of affiliate marketing products</span>:<br />
3a.) Jonathan Budd&#8217;s <a href="http://explode-my-business.com/mastermind.html" target="_blank">product suite</a> (TONS of mlm products and systems)<br />
3b.) <a href="http://adamholland.magneticsponsoringonline.com" target="_blank">Mike Dillard</a>&#8217;s products<br />
3c.) <a href="http://getresponse.com/index/kingadam81" target="_blank">Getresponse</a> and Aweber (email marketing systems)<br />
3d.) various clickbank.com products<br />
3e.) many other referral programs</p>
<p>NOW I&#8217;ve added another TWO businesses into my portfolio, in addition to <a href="http://www.adam-holland.com/mentorship-program/" target="_blank">coaching</a> individual clients and my team members.</p>
<p>ONE of these businesses is in a BOOMING industry right now: the credit repairÂ  industry.Â  With 80 million Americans<br />
losing their homes and/or their jobs, needless to say they&#8217;re in DIRE need of this product to repair theirÂ  credit.</p>
<p>==&gt; Hint: don&#8217;t get into a business because &#8216;you like their vitamins&#8217; or whatever they sell.Â  Position yourself in front<br />
of GROWING industries &#8211; industries that are EXPLODING right now, and you can profit beyond belief.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve got a free report on that business here:</p>
<p><a href="http://thefastcreditscoresystem.com/" target="_blank">http://thefastcreditscoresystem.com/</a></p>
<p>= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =<br />
And the 2nd business I&#8217;ve started just in the past 2 weeks is positioned to TAKE OVER a large portion of the market that companies like Tahitian Noni and Monavie helped build.</p>
<p>And the crazy thing is, I used to say I&#8217;d NEVER get involved with another mlm business.Â  But this is just going to<br />
blow the doors off the industry.</p>
<p>Why?Â  Tons of reasons, but I&#8217;m not here to try and sell you on this company.Â  Just know this: a SELECT FEW of us have<br />
been given the opportunity to be the ONLY group of people to grow this business using ONLY the internet.</p>
<p>And with that means that we&#8217;ll be the ONLY &#8216;online system&#8217; this company uses.Â  And I want to let YOU know about it<br />
first.</p>
<p><strong>You see, everyone is saying that mlm and the internet is the next &#8220;Gold Rush&#8221;&#8230; Which is GREAT&#8230;Â  But I&#8217;ve got BAD news for you:<br />
</strong><br />
==&gt; Most people that fled to the west in search of gold went home with empty pockets flat BROKE&#8230;</p>
<p>But you know who made money either way?Â  The people that sold the pickets and mallets&#8230; the EQUIPMENT.</p>
<p>And I equate this to the &#8220;training&#8221; in the mlm industry.</p>
<p>**Think to yourself: who makes the most money in your mlm company?Â  Isn&#8217;t it the people that have created their<br />
own &#8220;systems&#8221; and training products?**</p>
<p>And if you&#8217;re not in business to make money on BOTH the products and the training, you&#8217;re throwing away serious<br />
money.</p>
<p>Now, you&#8217;ve probably heard a hundred times and gotten a bunch of &#8220;spam&#8221; in your inbox about biz opps that<br />
are just starting out and that you need to &#8220;get in on the ground floor&#8221;..Â  And that&#8217;s all well and good.</p>
<p><strong>But what about being a founding member of BOTH the mlm company AND the main online training system that that company will be using!?Â  HOLY CRAP, right!?</strong></p>
<p>If that peaks your interest, I hate to tell you I can&#8217;t post anything specific yet as we&#8217;re still creating the training videos and more&#8230;</p>
<p>But if you&#8217;re totally excited about this, drop what you&#8217;re doing and give me a call on my office phone:</p>
<p><strong>518 772 2291</strong></p>
<p>If I don&#8217;t pick up, just leave a message and I&#8217;ll give you a call back ASAP.</p>
<p>Now, stay tuned for another message in the next few days because I&#8217;ve got some REALLY crazy stuff brewing to help you build your business BIG this year.</p>
<p>And YES &#8211; I said &#8220;this year&#8221;.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m already starting to hear people talk about getting &#8216;free&#8217; in 2010.Â  And that is BS.Â  Sorry about the language, but it is.<br />
When you see what I&#8217;m talking about in this next message, you&#8217;ll see how you could replace your income in the next 90 days.Â  No joke..</p>
<p>To Your Success,</p>
<p>Adam Holland</p>
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		<title>MLM Sucks &#8211; The REAL MLM Scheme</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Holland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Multi-level Marketing (MLM) as an industry has been debated over for several decades now.  Some say MLM sucks, some say mlm is a scheme.  Others say it&#8217;s a great way for the average Joe to make money&#8230;
And we could go over all of the stats about how 98%-99% of all people that signup [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Multi-level Marketing (MLM) as an industry has been debated over for several decades now.  Some say MLM sucks, some say mlm is a scheme.  Others say it&#8217;s a great way for the average Joe to make money&#8230;</p>
<p>And we could go over all of the stats about how 98%-99% of all people that signup in an MLM will never make money.  We could talk about the Amway tools ripoff or how Monavie sells overpriced bottles of juice (neither of these things are my opinion, by the way&#8230; It&#8217;s just the crap all over the internet that gets debated).</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s put all of that stuff to the side for a moment and hone in on this one personal experience of mine that totally sums up MY &#8220;truth about MLM&#8221;&#8230;  I&#8217;m talking about the secret that all of the big pins and heavy hitters won&#8217;t talk about.</p>
<p>One of my mentors mentioned this to me as to why he STOPPED growing his MLM business all together and started focusing on Direct Sales/GPT/Get-Paid-Today opportunities and passive income streams.</p>
<p>He said it was because he got tired of &#8220;babysitting adult children&#8221;.</p>
<p>Woah!  That phrase hit me upside the head like a two-by-four.  Babysitting adult children?</p>
<p>But he was right.  You see, I didn&#8217;t believe him until I started growing a downline of several hundred people.  Instead of spending most of your time golfing and on the beach like they show you in the lifestyle videos, you&#8217;re spending 8-10 hours a day coaching people, doing 3-way calls, training webinars, creating your own systems, and MANAGING all of it.  It just becomes a better paying J-O-B, and you get the opportunity to call yourself a &#8220;business owner&#8221;&#8230;  woopidy-doo!</p>
<p>You see, when the &#8220;price of entry&#8221; into your business is $50-$200, you&#8217;re going to sponsor a BUNCH of broke people with broke mentalities.  That&#8217;s not to say you&#8217;ll get some sharp people too.  But MLMs stay in business not because of the 100 leaders buying the products.  The stay in business off of the thousands of SHEEP attending their hotel meetings, quarterly functions, and team meetings.  Yea, I said it: SHEEP.</p>
<p>I know &#8211; I was one of them.</p>
<p>I was herded around for YEARS because I really didn&#8217;t have the GUTS to take the actions to build my business.  See, I&#8217;m honest  <img src='http://www.adam-holland.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' />     I was an &#8220;adult child&#8221;.  A big baby.</p>
<p>The REAL problem, though, was that I just had no want to take those actions.  I didn&#8217;t want to face that REJECTION that I got when I tried to get a phone number from someone I had just met at the mall so I could pitch them on my business later.  I wasted SOOO much time &#8220;pretending&#8221; to build my business because I just hated talking to total strangers and get them excited about my business opportunity.  Especially because they just weren&#8217;t the people I should have been talking to anyways.</p>
<p><b>Then, something happened.  <a href="http://www.explode-my-business.com/">I came across some information that totally changed my life</a>.</b></p>
<p>I figured out how people were actually getting calls from people that they had never met, and these people were BEGGING to become part of a business opportunity.</p>
<p>Yep, instead of wasting time at the malls you can actually attract people TO YOU.</p>
<p>In the last few months alone, I&#8217;ve been able to create over 700 leads for my business without leaving my house.  In addition to that, my leads have PAID ME to be my leads!  I&#8217;ve grown my business and created over $20,000 in profits over the past 2 months.  This is WAY different than MLM.</p>
<p>To see my recruiting secrets go to <a href="http://www.explode-my-business.com">Explode-My-Business.com</a> &#8230; just be careful &#8211; you may make a TON of money and have to go tell your upline that &#8220;MLM sucks&#8221;&#8230;  <img src='http://www.adam-holland.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';-)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>College Was a Total Waste of Time and Money &#8211; Seriously</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 01:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Holland</dc:creator>
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This is courtesy John De Rosier from The Times Union (my local newspaper).
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This is courtesy <a href="http://blogs.timesunion.com/derosier/" target="_blank">John De Rosier from The Times Union</a> (my local newspaper).</p>
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		<title>World Ventures Buys Out Success University?</title>
		<link>http://www.adam-holland.com/blog/2009/04/29/world-ventures-buys-out-success-university/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Holland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excuse me, but what the hell?  When I got registered with Success University it was because I valued the product and appreciated the concept of their business plan.
And now SU has &#8220;merged&#8221; with World Ventures?  Now, it seems by Matt Morris&#8217; letter to the company that it seems like SU was being bought [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excuse me, but what the hell?  When I got registered with Success University it was because I valued the product and appreciated the concept of their business plan.</p>
<p>And now SU has &#8220;merged&#8221; with World Ventures?  Now, it seems by Matt Morris&#8217; letter to the company that it seems like SU was being bought out by World Ventures.  They&#8217;re &#8220;merging&#8221; the compensation plans, and everyone who started with SU won&#8217;t see any additional monthly fees.</p>
<p>So I guess there&#8217;s one plus&#8230;  And making more money is certainly a plus&#8230; HOWEVER&#8230;</p>
<p>Matt Morris states in his letter that the travel industry is the LARGEST industry in the world.  Well, Matt I totally agree with you&#8230;  But World Ventures may not have been the best company to choose.</p>
<p>You see, I shared Matt&#8217;s same excitement for the travel industry.  I looked over several companies and decided which one to go with.  And it was NOT World Ventures.  Sorry.  And definitely NOT YTB either.</p>
<p>(Good thing because YTB&#8217;s in some legal trouble in California w/ the Attorney General right now.. hmmm.)</p>
<p>So, now the company I thought I was promoting as a personal development company is losing the branding I was associating myself with, and I&#8217;d be in direct competition with my <a href="http://www.grnwealthplan.com/">Global Resorts Network</a> business.</p>
<p>This may be good news for SU reps, but not really good news for me..</p>
<p>Thoughts?</p>
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		<title>1-2-3 Power System Review &#8211; Scam? Is Brad Weinman for Real?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:58:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Holland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m an avid internet marketer, and I&#8217;ve seen probably 100 &#8220;programs&#8221; in the past year&#8230;  And when I saw the 1-2-3 Power System I simply passed right on over it and &#8220;threw it on the pile&#8221; of the other home based business opportunities I&#8217;d checked out.
And boy did that come back to bite me [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m an avid internet marketer, and I&#8217;ve seen probably 100 &#8220;programs&#8221; in the past year&#8230;  And when I saw the 1-2-3 Power System I simply passed right on over it and &#8220;threw it on the pile&#8221; of the other home based business opportunities I&#8217;d checked out.</p>
<p>And boy did that come back to bite me in the (you know what)!</p>
<p>I started looking in to the system more when I heard about the direct mail training.  You see, I know pretty much all there is to know when it comes to internet marketing &#8211; and what I don&#8217;t know I can just pay someone else to do for me, no big deal.  (Heck &#8211; I even have my own <a href="http://www.explode-my-business.com/">online network marketing bootcamp</a> and course for God&#8217;s sake!)</p>
<p>But when it comes to offline marketing, I&#8217;m a clean slate.</p>
<p>Then I started getting feedback from other people on their postcard mailing campaigns.  Put simply, they&#8217;re basically doubling whatever they spend on their ads.  You spend $200 on postcards, you&#8217;ll get $400 back in orders.  You spend $2000, you&#8217;ll get back $4000.  Of course, like with any marketing, there are no guarantees&#8230;  Could me more, could be a bit less.  But hearing from several sources, they&#8217;ve all never lost money on their direct mail ads.  Period.</p>
<p>Hmmm.  I was intrigued.</p>
<p>So, I bought the system.  I should be getting it in the mail in the next week or so.  When I do, I&#8217;ll give you more detailing info on what&#8217;s included.</p>
<p>In the meantime, I logged in to the back office to check out more info on direct mail and other marketing techniques their team is using.  And that&#8217;s when I noticed Brad Weinman&#8217;s name.  Now, I don&#8217;t know if this is specific to just his team (which I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m on if I got access) or the entire 1-2-3 Power System Team&#8230; but Brad knows his stuff.</p>
<p>He&#8217;s been an internet marketer and &#8220;attraction marketing&#8221; guru for quite a while.  I trust his choice in programs, so I know I picked a good one.</p>
<p>As I start my own marketing, I&#8217;ll bring you up to date on what works&#8230; what doesn&#8217;t&#8230; And what&#8217;s going on behind the scenes with the 1-2-3 Power System.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.123powersystemreview.net/"><strong>To Get Updates Go To My Official 1-2-3 Power System Site Here</strong></a>.</p>
<p>UPDATE: WATCH THIS IMPORTANT VIDEO!<br />
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