Thread: Is anyone here (aside from MJ) an information marketer?

Working on it. A lot of marketing(link in sig), not much sales. LOL

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Originally Posted by Rain

Is anyone here (aside from MJ) an information marketer?

Ooooh, I'm an information marketer? I didn't know that!

Originally Posted by Rain

Just wondering.

If so, I have a few potentially personal questions, if that's cool.

(Don't worry, we're anonymous here, unless you used your real name as your username...)

Yes, we have an information product on the market right now and are developing another.

Originally Posted by MJDeMarco

Ooooh, I'm an information marketer? I didn't know that!

I would agree that any author outside of fiction books is an information marketer, albeit probably not in the same light of what this TS perceives it to mean.

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, MJ (yes, I know your track record, lol - not insulting your intelligence). But I guess just about all of your online marketing revolves around your book, or selling ads on the forum, so maybe it was a mistake including you in this for the most part.

For anyone who considers themselves to be heavily involved in the industry, have you heard of Brendan Burchard, and if so, what are your thoughts on him?

Originally Posted by Rain

For anyone who considers themselves to be heavily involved in the industry, have you heard of Brendan Burchard, and if so, what are your thoughts on him?

Tony Robbins in a much smaller package. Very Rah-Rah go gettem. Personally I don't care for that.

I plan on doing some IM eventually, when I have something of real, actual value to offer, and the free time to create an awesome product. That's kinda where I started out my entrepreneurial journey, got burnt out, and started looking for some real meat, rather than the IM fluff that circulates around the online marketing forums.

It seems like everyone and their grandma is trying to sell information products on how to make money online. 99% of these people have not had any success making money online other than trying to scam people with information products.

Originally Posted by Rain

For anyone who considers themselves to be heavily involved in the industry, have you heard of Brendan Burchard, and if so, what are your thoughts on him?

Yes. I went through the total product blueprint program which provided a great framework for creating your own products. It was this training that helped us create our own product (which by the way is not in the IM niche). Like healthstatus mentioned, he is very rah rah and it can get on your nerves after awhile.

Agreed, the rah-rah super-positive-borderline-hype attitude does get annoying pretty quickly, but he does make money. If I remember correctly, he earned around $10 million last year, which is very impressive.

With that in mind, though, he is the founder of the Experts Academy, essentially making himself the "expert's guru" - not exactly a niche that anyone can replicate. I was basically wondering if anyone had success using his [relatively vague] 7-figure-per-year formula. Not necessarily reaching 7 figures, but even 6 figures, or multiple 6 figures.

Originally Posted by Rain

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit, MJ

Sorry bro, just consider myself an entrepreneur first, an author second. An "internet marketer" sounds like a typical money chaser reselling and repackaging shit that's already been sold 1000 times.

Originally Posted by Rain

he earned around $10 million last year

Be weary of anyone who says shit like this. From such a figure, you have no clue how much PROFIT that person actual clears.

A lot of these gurus toss out GROSS figures and neglect to really say how much they TOOK HOME.

I can easily sell $20 million dollars of product that has an effective market value of $30 million.

I lose $10 million but now I can say "I've sold over $20 million dollars in product!"

I see a lot of eCommerce "gurus" do this -- "how I earn over $50,000/mo selling XYZ!" -- yea? What are you cost of goods sold? $49,000?

Technically, I did a million dollars plus in sales last month.

I sold a million dollars worth of (someone else's) merchandise to Best Buy in June... the net of which barely covered my operating expenses for the month.

Originally Posted by healthstatus

Tony Robbins in a much smaller package. Very Rah-Rah go gettem. Personally I don't care for that.

lol, this is spot on... on yeah and he just rubs me the wrong way. Something just feels off about that guy, anyone else with me on that?

No idea who you're talking about.

I'm on the third draft of an informational product I've been working on for about a year now, pretty much since I joined this forum.

I've used Robert Bly's How to Write & Sell Simple Information For Fun and Profit and Robert Skrob's The Official Get Rich Guide to Information Marketing as guidance.

I'm about a month or two behind schedule, but I should have this done and on the market before Q4.

I'll keep you posted!